The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
AS Pegler Sees 1t
BY WESTRROOK PEGLER
copyright, 1947, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

Copyright, 1947, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-1 shall ever
thank Dan Tobin for a perfect all-purpose
example of the stupidity OF the unlonlsm
that was imposed upon the American by
the late Roosevelt who, to do him justice,
probably did not know the whole meaning
of his acts.
Mr.. Tobins union, the teamsters of the
A. F. of L., bars not only communists but
partial communists who believe selectlve-
! ly in parts of communism, and all MEM
bers of all "other subverslve crganNa-
| tions.
Tobin yields to none in his reverence for
The Memory and few of his brethern would
DENY that he is qualified to go forth and
humble the masters word. His finest hour
came the night when he stood host to
Franklin in the Statler in the fall OF "a
while moosejaw cackled about his dog, and
venerable tosspots at the board busted
glasses for emphasis
The teasters union is an ideal reserva-
ton for the loose confinement of million
head of Little People, according to Mr..
Bigs ideas. He indicated his approval OF
old Dams work many times usually IN mis-
chievous compliments to old fathead the
first, purposely made extravagant TOR lu-
Q1crOuS eI1ect. II d1iiuSeu Hu!i W P!oSoAe
Tobin's vanity and he was always tossing
the old Walrus q herring or a mullet to
make him flap his flippers on his tub.
Although they are now split into many
sects, the entire fold of the late new deal
are still united in their faith in their late
vrophet. heresies, ambitions and errors dl-
vide them but they still conquer in the
sign of the double cross. That is how 1t
comes that Mr.. Tobin and Mrs. Helen Ga
hagan Douglas, of Hollywood, may dis
j agree on communists and still drop knee
at the same shrine.
Recently, while the pretty lady's fellow
cultists from Hollywood were shrilling
against the Thomas committees treatment
of the bolsheviks, l turned for amusement
of an evening to Dams editorial out,
let This Journal called The international
Teamster, lovingly combines the musical
prose and Captain Billys whizzbang with
the judicial conscience of Hitler'a beo-
| bachter.
| The Hollywood hams Who came down to
protest said they personally rejected COM
munism but were fastidious liberals and
scared lest even the vilest bolshevik suffer
denial of some phantom of a constitutional
right.It was a great mistake even to tell
Hollywood about the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights in the first place. Until 1894,
iHollywood's whole intellectual world was
bounded by sex and salary. Then some
Then some fool dropped into Chasen's one
night with this book where it says about the
Supreme Court and freedom of religion, and
if you want to know the real trouble with
the movies ever since, that is it,
The standard arguments about CEN
sorship, freedom of speech and such topics
available in little ten-cent books put out
by the communists. The glamorous crea-
lures memorized them all and sailed into
our nations capital hamming their recita-
tions like six-year-old with curls squaWk-
ing The Wreck of the Hesperus. They
! thought the committee was fixing to send
some of their mischievous neighbors to
prison for being communists. Actually, by
a comic paradox, we have refused our
selves a law to permit that. But the COM
mittee was asserting its congressional right
to ask questions and demand answers. Re-
| fusal to answer is contempt of Congress,
punishable by year in Jail and fine of
$1,000.
It is true of course, that few real COM
munists were about to be squeezed out of
their voluptuous Hollywood jobs, but no en-
teligent liberal in the ruthless Roosevelt
political tradition could object to that. For
years, Tobinsa union had been pledged to
throw Americans out on the merest SuS-
picion and thousands of infidels had been
ostracized from Hollywood and Washington
jobs, gypped of old contracts, knitted in the
dark and whispered out of business by the
new deal.
1 remind you that it was favorite union
! of the late Roosevelt which did this. with
| jurisdiction over million citizens, its con-
stitution provided first for trial by the exec
utive board of the defendants local, who
might be ignorant alcoholic, malicious
enemies and-or racketeers. Thereafter
the victim could appeal up to the unions
own court of last resort, the national con-
vention, holden every fourth, fifth or sixth
year. Meanwhile, however, he was forbid
den to take his trouble to the public courts,
which refuse to accept jurisdiction until all
'"remedies within the union have
been "exh us t e d." Meanwhile, also
teanster with hungry family goes with
out work or pay and when he finally does
/ arrive at the public courts he finds the
door barred because the unions process
has dragged on so long that the statute of
limitations has outlawed the case
This wasn't sufficient for fathead
the first however, so in the recent national
convention in San Francisco the consti-
tuition was amended to termlnatethe ap-
ical advisers, the executive council No
lbfger may. the ill-used highway freighter
appeal to the convention, but the final de-
cision may still be delayed Just as long
because Tobin ct al don't have to give a
decision until they are pleased to. More
over, membership in "other subversive or
ganizatlons" was now forbidden, without
definition
1t took seven years of trials costing hun
dreds OF thousands to determine 4 to in
the Supreme Court that Harry Bridges
was not a communist. To1oin's union car
: 40 ~ petWeen drinks of beard And vet
: we near the old bull believing out of the
same san oook with Gahagan and baby Ba-
fam taa,,, ana ae having wonderful time, all OF