The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-28
AS Pegler Sees 1t
Rv WESTBROOK PEGLER
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downright, 1947, King Features Synoica'e'
NEW YORK,-One day not long ago, re-
,narl<ed apropos of some enormlty Whlcn
had been inflicted on them by their para,
s;t;c roval class, that the teamsters seemed
to be the dumbest of our people.
The angriest protest came from m ra Local
100. of Cincinnati, signed by Otto II. froce,
the secretary treasurer. MIR. Frobe not oniy
resented my reflection on the p0.1,vai s,4 shan-
doned me to the devil because | had ae-
scribed. as more or less housebroken
pigs" the dignataries of the teamsters un-
ion who got beastly drunk, smasneo orlhh.
ing glasses and howled like animals al
the political banquet which Dan Tobln, the
oId king president, arranged for Franklin
n Roosevelt. at the Washington Statler, IN
the fall of 1914.
/ apologize to the legitimate teamstefs'
the freighters who travel the highways.
They are not necessarily dumb. Like the
GOOD Germans under Hitler, they are cap
tives of an arrogant ruthless Clique ano'
again like the good Germans, they may be
% Scattered. displaced and set upon if they
are liberated by external force and internal
rebellion, without any emergency union 10
replace the present autocracy. l also modl-
| fy my description of the swine who plgged
| it at the banquet. l have discovered no evil
dence that they were houseproKen e az an
court circular, entitled The international
| Teamster. which is largely devoted
to adulation of the old fat-head and PAID
for by his subjects, I refer you to an ar
ticle by Mr.. Frobe, under the head: Gin
cinnati Drivers Are Desperate
He writes that he represents 1000 Gin
ets and their families,
about 10000 persons in all, who are not get
ting enough to eat or wear, or enough medl-
cal care or recreation. He says the wages
| of 5000 of his subjects were frozen at 81
cents to ST an hour since l945. The con-
tracts expired on Nov 15. Erobe says that
when we signed our contract we hoped that
price controls would stick" He blames the
National Association of Manufacturers for
the abandonment of these controls and for
the decline of the living of his teamsters and
the gradual sacrifice of their war bonds and
other savings.
When any of these men falls sick or is
laid off, Mr.. Frobe says, his pay stops:
However, his own pay continues and that OF
es, including the two princes OF the royal
house Of Tobin, Fred and Frank who get
$4,000 year for sedentary patronage jobs
but never were teamsters. All the 100000
subjects in the union contribute to a poll
ea IRE or mds4 70 sssse ns
ronage jobs pay at least 500 week.
Many pay $780, The average Of the Cincin-
natl drivers seems to be little over $40
week. The pay Of teamsters elsewhere
| is not much better so these team
! sters pay more for executive salaries ex-
penses and grandeur and get less return
for their dues and assessments than any
other union group outside the unn1itigated
underworld rackets of the ALL. which are
frankly recognized as such.
Here we have the contrast Of men who
get 81 cents an hour for pushing box-cars
through traffic and over hills in icy wealth
er providing Dan Tobin $500 a week in
salary plus unlimited expenses, flunkeys
and servants and their expenses, and a
royal winter palace in Miami Beach. The
wives of these teamsters and helpers every
where should clip this and study the union
constitution and the schedule of salaries
and perquisites and ask themselves wheth-
er these vain, luxurious rulers de-
liver enough in benefits when they have
to send their children to school underfed
and underclad.
The Probes are paid to negotiate good
contracts. Now, by the most ironic coin
cidence, on the page after Probes state
ment, we find, in a black, mourning bor-
der, the announcement, "Brocky Farrell
Dies"
There was a brutal old scoundrel who
Speak not i'll of the dead, says you?
All right! Then let Otto H. Frobe speak
the eulogy for Brocky Farrell. But so that
Otto may do the old rogue justice, please
wait until tomorrow. We need room for