The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06
Pegler Sees 1t
Nv PEGLER
Convrieht. by King Features Syndicate, Inc

Copyright, by kLnS feAsuHcs 0J""Ie"' ~
NEW YORK, June 5.-None OF our pre-
+en+;ous Investigations of the fascist union
racket has done justice to the wicked prac-
tice Of pledging American citizens, literally
by the million, to causes on which they nave
never been consulted and which they probably
would reject.
On May "a something calling itself the
american Trade Union Council National
Committee for Labor Palestine" publlsned a
declaration entitled American LABOR oe1iiaios
a Jewish Palestine"
The American Trade Union council Ma
tional Committee for Labor Palestine ap-
GEARS to be an improved thing with no sub
~stantial existence, created for a limited pol
itical purpose. William Green and Philip Mar-
raw. the boss unioneers OF the A. +. Oh l..
and the C. /. O., respectively, are named as
honorary chairmen." This IS an OLD, Trans
parent dodge Of the propaganda business hon
orary chairmen never take the char OF any
responsibility and their names are borrowed
strictly for the prestige which they may con-
fer. The active. or non-honorary, chalrmen
here are Joseph Schlossoerg, James Breslow
and Max Zaritsy, all of New York unions.
So this is not, as the title suggests d va
tional' Council or committee for labor Pal-
estine." It is Just a local, metropolitan thing
serving the political purposes OF a lie" e&-
tremely prejudiced individuals.
me merits Oh IdlSSl AC - Avn HNAAS No~
in this piece. The point l make is that 1t Is
a lie to saw that american labor demand
p Jewish Palestine" The A. F. of L. recently
acknowledged that american Labor was MOI
.ust the membership Of the unions, put an
Americans who earn their living by work.
buy that definition, American LABOR
has never uttered any such demand. AND even
tho,,ph we limit american labor" to the
membership of the A. F. of l.. and the C.l.o.
the answer is the same. Nobody had any au-
thority to speak for all these people on thls
issue.
Green. we are told, SAID: THE 7,5Oo, ooo
members of the A. F. of L. are wholeheartedly
in favor of a Jewish homeland IN Paiestme.
If Green did say that, he behtued the
intelligence of the very people ne was 1yMs
to HELM. The American Zionists are too smart
~ believe that Green had any authority to
sneak for those $500, 900 citizens on this SUD-
;ect. They know the question never has oeen
submitted to either the A.. F.. OF l.. Or me
q T O. They know there are millions Gil
American workers who, without prejudice
consider this to be none OF their business
This is common practice in our union NV
ment or racket whose dominating powefs ire
n~"ent1v reveal an absolute contempt for truth
and for the right Of the working cltlzen 70
think for himself on issues that are not union
business. ~
The purpose Of unions is to represent the
n embers in dealings with the employers COZ
cernino wages and hours. They go beyond
their legitimate business when they meddie III
things that are the business OF the otale De-
partment. Here. Green and Murray INTERFERE
in a foreign religious dispute.
A few wears ago the New York Newspaper
Guild. under communist rule, adopted a resi-
luton opposing the draft. This occurred curing
the Hitler-Stalin alliance, which was eqnany
guilty of the invasion and conquest OF Poland
The American neWspapermen hadn't antlcl-
pated this coup and weren't on hand to pear
it by their votes. Thus they were recoroeo
as having Endorsed the Berlin-Moscow AXIS.
The whole question was no proper business OF
this guild or any other union. But the Ia"
doesn't forbid such votes on such matters.
The National Maritime Union, one OF MIS-.
Eleanor Rooseve1t's proteges, once maze a
covert threat to blockade Spanish ports oe-
cause Francois fascists had beaten the com
munists in the Civil war. This was state De-
partment business, but nevertheless a Z. l. u.
union, badly infested with communists. discus
sed a course OF action that might have brought
the United States to war with Spain. Under
law, it has a right to do this.
In New York, a worker draws his envelope
on pay night and discovers that he is So
short. Without consulting him, the bosses OF
his union have ordered the employer to turn
lis IS over to them for a fund to make a
memorial to the late Sidney Hillman. This
american detested Sidney Hillman and re
garoea him as a r%eptilian enemy of the Ameri-
I'm lorm o. government. Yet, if he opens
H ~. mouth ne may be charged with un-union-
IKE conduct and fined and : or sl1spended
Ai"S memorial might be a communist school
VI defense fund.- for communist unioneere
Ne y 'he measures proposed in Congress