Milford chronicle., 1948-04-09

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proved case Of The
government which
went to naught in
the Supreme court.
In that case Bridges
deportation seemed to be the gov
ernments purpose. but wasn't.
The ace in the hole was the su-
preme court. Il was q fOregOne
conclusion that Bridges would be
saved from deportation BY the
court. That conclusion was veri-
fled by the fantastic iabber Of
Justice William o. Douglas, who
did the majority opinion, and BY
the juvenile nonsense indited By
Frank Murphy in an independent
assent.
The decision and the names Of
the judges on each side Of the split
were correctly announced on the
air by an old confidant and political
booster Of Murphy well in advance
Of the official announcement. The
late Chief Justice Stone later said
he was profoundly disturbed by
the leak. He said, moreover, that
it was the second, not the first
known leak, in recent times. He
suspected one Of his brethren, the
same one that / suspected, and /
strongly surmised from certain
swinish conduct of this panoplied
shyster on a social occasion later,
that the chief justice got them to-
gether in chambers and gave them
flannel-mouth rebuke.
The lie a k, however,
Leak was mere LaGniappe.
Was It was the sort Of thing
E1Docted to be expected from a
court most Of whose
members were selected not to adorn
the bench but to make the court
contemplate and assuage the rancor
Of a failure who never could get
a law degree himself. BY q turn
of evil fate, Roosevelt acquired the
power to express his own innate
crookedness and vulgarity through
his appointments, and did.
No jury Of American citizens ever
got a chance to decide the Bridges
deportation case. It was a habeas
corpus job all the way and although
Attorney General Biddle won in
three courts and gave his own de.
cision against Bridges, he was
smart enough, in the cynical way Of
Washington, to know that he could
shoot the works and still not harm
the CLOS boss brutalitarian Of
the western shores and valleys. THE
SUPREME COURT WOULD SAVE
HIM. 1T DID.
Now, however. we find the C.Lo.,
a strictly political union, related to
labor only for its income and the
prestige Of labor's name. cOercing
Bridges in his own politics.
Bridges, naturally, pumped for
Henry Wallace, the candidate Of the
Communists and the logical candi.
date. Of anyone with his record. The
dominant political faction Of the
C.IO., the bald mahatma, Phil Muir.
ray, and Walter Reuther Of the
United Auto Workers have found it
expedient to oppose the Communists
in the union and in the national
politics at this time and for q spe.
cific purpose. Therefore they Op.
posed Wallace and his third party.
There can be no pretense Of
principle or patriotic preference
here because these bosses ana the
CLIO. as q whole have been no
tOriOusly cordial 20 Communists
Of the most traitOrous kind ever
since the CLIO. began amid riots
and insurrectiOn In the lsSOs.
The Michigan riots
COOnS which created the auto
Did workers, and the c. !.
Plotting o. as well, were de
rected by expert street.
fighters and terrorists. Many reels
Of private movies taken hon fac
tory windows still exist 70 prove the
murderous and efficient determine.
tion Of the goons. They wore uniform
fore-and-aft caps for Identification
to their own comrades. They fought
in disciplined squads, platoms and
companies. They had mobile com.
mand cars with radio communica-
ton. And they had headquarters with
shock-tFoops in reserve for dispatch
to appropriate points Of conflict. e
was Communistic rehearsal Of the
ultimate insurrection.
Yet, now. the clio. Is trying 70
intimidate Bridges BY removing
him from an unimpOrtant ap-
pOintive job because the clio.
realizes that q vote for wallace
is actually 3 vote for the Repub-
lican candidate and against Tru-
man. The Communists, bf course,
have no preference between the
Republican, WhOmsoever, and Mr..
Truman. The Republican natural
~ win be anti Communist and HEr.
Truman has been trying 70 aeIOuse
his party and administration BY
picking on q few conspicuous and
very unpopular foreigners.
and poultry will be well above the