The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-22
by Drez0 Pearson
Davis and Iewis.)


 The United Mine Workers boss, incidentally. played role in helping his friend Davis get hold of Mexican oil for the NaM Navy Describing this. the Rogge report says: A.
 "on March 1s, 1888, Mexico appropriated the oil properties of certain American, British and Dutch companies. month later, on April 18 between and 6 F. M, John L. Lewis telephoned A1ejandrO Garlic at Mexico City Ca leader of the Mexican Labor Move ment).
 "Lewis told Garlic that Davis had left New York on the P. M. plane en route to Mexico City, assured Garlic that Davis Absolutely all right, and told Garlic to tell President Cardenas that Ger many and Italy were the only countries with which it would be safe for Mexico to deal Lewis instructed N Carille to see President Cardenas that night and tell him these things without fail"
 Various other visits between Lewis and the Mex jeans are described in the Rogge report. Mexican labor leader Toledano visited Lewis in Washington later that year. following which Lewis paid return visit to Mexico City.
 with the help and support of Lewis" the Rogge report continues Davis did secure & control of ex- American and British companies was sold to the German Navy through Davis and his friend John L. Lewis
 After Davis returned from his conferences with Goering in 1899, Lewis called Adolf Berle, then Assistant Secretary of State with implied threat to turn the CI.O. (which Lewis then headed) against Roosevelt if he did not appease Hitler Regarding the Berle-Iewis conference the Rogge report says:
 Lewis mentioned generally the resolutions President and pointed out that these resolutions could just as easily have been passed in opposition to the President Lewis went on to say that the time had come for general peace"
 This was emphatically rejected by Berle.
 Davis and Lewis continued with their plans to sell oil to Germany and at this point Patrick J. Hurley former Secretary of War, entered the secret negotiations
 Davis and Lewis continued with their schemng" says the Rogge report. Tn January, 1940, the Mexican Minister of Finance, Suarez, came to the United States. He spent two days in New York copferring secretly with Harry Sinclair and his attorney Patrick Hurley. At these conferences not only had Lewis been present but also Davis. Davis had been present at these conferences at the specific request of Lewis.
 "A subsequent conference between Suarez, Harry Sinclair, and Patrick Hurley took place in Wash ington, D. c. At this conference, Lewis was again present At the subsequent conference Lewis falsely asserted that by protesting to President Roosevelt he had kept our government from sending stiff note to Mexico in 1898 with reference to expropriation"
 Later the big mine boss actually sat down with Hertset of the German Economic Ministry and prom ised to swing the coal miners away from Roosevelt Describing these conversations the Rogge report says:
 Towards the end of March, l94o according to Hertset's recollection, he, Davis, and Lewis had an evening conference at Davss home in Scarsdale, N. Y... They discussed the conference which Davis had had with Goering. Davis told Lewis that he had said to Goering that Lewis could count on the SUD- port of 100000 workers and could this support against Roosevelt Lewis agreed They discussed the coming elections, and Lewis said that he would come out against the reelection of Roosevelt.
 Thereafter, Hertslet took up the subject matter of this evening meeting with the German Embassy in Washington"
 Thus John L. Lewis pledged the votes of his miners against Roosevelt six months before the miners themselves knew anything about it. So 1t was conn., pete surprise to them when he carried out his pledge and came out for Wlie in October.
 What his miners did not know however, was that $55000 for Lewiss coast-tocoast broadcast was paid by W. R. Davis the man who had plotted this very thing in Berlin with Hermann Goering one year be- fore
 (NOTE-Another column on Nazi attempts to subvert U. S. public opinion will follow sOOn.)