Milford chronicle., 1948-10-08

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tz.?S..s Sss$ which has a turnov4
PECIER er Of about one bill
lion dollars a year
IN the city of New York alone. has
never been stood in the Lineup as
1t deserved to be on the basis Of a
sordid record Of corruption. greed
and brutality. This was published
IN the volumes Of the old Dies com.
mlttee and never went any farther
but the leaders Of the industry do
not need to be told about it. They
know.
And to anyone who offers the
old platitude that the methods Of
the Dies committee were not
judicial, have to reply that the
head men Of the fur industry
would rather let the testimony go
unchallenged than take IL to
formal trial where il would be
proved beyond doubt.
Another thing that I would say is
that the hearings Of the labor rela.
tions board during a time parallel
with the life Of the Dies committee
were outrageous Kangaroo courts
in which the judges were not only
prosecutors but complaining parties
as well.
NEVER HEARD A SQUAWK
FROM ELEANOR THE GREAT OR
ANY OF HER CULT ABOUT THE
INJUSTICE OF THAT.
Without preliminary, we can con-
cede that the fur industry is more
or less a. unit politically and very
much more so than less. It is, in all
but the most formal sense, a lodge
Of the New Deal as you might pic
ture post in the American Legion
organized to contain veterans in a
given locality and with a common
daily interest.
Pl0gued For years and
years, since Arnold
Oy Rothstein rented out
! T0n7n,,1nieFo goons to beat up the
adversaries Of his
clients in the fur industry with a
detached, professional vigor worthy
Of attorneys at law, this industry
and this district have been plagued
by the Communists.
Everybody knows that.
Ben Gold, the boss Of the union
and of the industry itself, is a men,
ber Of the executive committee OF
the Communist party. Irving Potash,
the manager Of the New York Joint
council Of the furriers' union, now
up for deportation, was identified
by the Daily Worker as a member
Of the politburo Of the Communist
party.
Some Of the employers have com.
planned before recent sessions Of the
house committee on labor that the
workers have been absolute slaves
to a few Communists in the higher
positions.
Only in the city Of New York
and only in areas heavily inhab-
tied by COlOniZed Porto Ricans
and by Baltic, Russian and Ru.
manian immigrants and their
children, are Communist candi-
dates for public Office consistent.
ly successful. At any rate, the
union is a Communist front ana
an agency Of Communist politics
and propaganda. Most impOr.
tant, IL dominates the industry.
This is a reversal of the old in.
equality in which the bosses got con-
troll Of the unions. They were called
company unions. Many Of the fur.
companies, on the other hand, are
union companies. They are Com.
muniSt companies to the extent that
they have to obey a union run by
agents Of a power hostile to the
United States.
By the extension of their insidious
influence, by inchihg, inching re.
lentlessly, these European unions.
In garments as well as furS, can
take over the industries themselves.
THEY CAN ACCOMMODATE MAN.
UFACTURERS WHO ARE HARD
UP WITH LOANS OR WITH LA.
BOR CONCESSIONS TO HELP
THEM THROUGH TROUBLES.
MofiU0fed They also have the
power to drive a
by company to the wall
L0rrenv and enable some
fortunate cousin Of
some union boss to pick up the Mori-
bund business at a panic price. But
that is just a commonplace Of union
racketeering as given to the crooks
Of the great national corruption by
Moosejaw I, and may be done with
motives of the purest larceny un-
tainted by Communism
However. it is plain that the same
trick can be worked to confscate
q business from a nonconformer and
turn it over to a fellow who viii
reliably toe the Communist party