Milford chronicle., 1949-03-04

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topic Of discussion.
The recent landlords strike. q
feeble gesture which seems to have
been organized by a few owners
of property under professional in
stigation, died Of intimidation. The
threat by one United States attOr-
ney to prosecute landlords who
should Join this strike under the laws
forbidding sedition was a symptom
Of the corruption Of the intelligence
Of men who take the tainted shilling
of the creeping facism Of Washing
ton. The same district attorney
and all others in the department Of
justice would suffer actual. in
dubitable sedition without raising
a hand if it were committed by
strikers of any of the labor unions.
In hundreds of cases they have per-
mitted such strikers TO violate fed
eral laws. And in one fagrant
case there was a fiat charge Of viO-
lent insurrection made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt against the COM
munists Of the United Auto Workers.
Violent insurrectiOn must pro-
Ceed from seditlOn, but, even
though Roosevelt made this
charge, there was no prose
cutiOn. The union In this in
suFrectiOn has since become
one Of the mightiest in the cogn-
try, inferior to only the teams
ters and the mine workers.
It has always been argued that
strikers who take to the picket lines
Sfyikays with slingshots and
ball-bearings, tire
Ask chains, bale-hoOks.
e.. clubs studded with
'U'V'S nails. and sticks
mounting razor blades in grooves
are, at worst, guilty Of disorderly
conduct, assault or involuntary
manslaughter. It has been held that
they are not entirely responsible
because they are made desperate
by their need of the boOnS for which
they are striking. These have in
cluded orange soda on the hokey-
pokey wagon in the factory in ad-
ditiOn to the cOlas and strawberry:
coconut candy-bars as wen as nOu-
/ gat; overtime on overtime and high
/ er wages.
It is not improper Of such strikers
to demand wages in excess Of the
highest scales ever paid in their
particular occupations and such de-
sires are never stigmatized as
greed. Yet such strikers, boasting
that, by concerted action through
uniOnism, they are getting as much
as $4,000 a year. are the most eager
applicants for public housing in
which a portion Of their rent must
be paid by other citizens earning
less.
Landlords who organize be-
come not a union but q lobby
and sOrdid greed is their mo
tive.
The Hon. Ralph W. Gwinn. Of
Yonkers. N. Y. by diligent study
of public housing at home and
abroad and Of the predatory rack
cts of the construction unions. mas
become the first authority on the
corruption already wrought and in-
evitably to be wrought by this evil
In order to deal honestly with the
subject a public man must under
stand in advance that he will be
abused and Slandered.
Mr.. Gwinn has often pointed out
with a gusto which easily could
Pockst have been malicious
that the truly needy,
Is meaning the penni-
HL...J less sick and old,
the utterly useless.
( the cOngenital paupers and the fam
lies Of men in prison certainly.
should be the first claimants Of
homes built at public expense to
house the poor. He has pointed
out at the same time that all such
elements Of society are as firmly
excluded as the haughtiest Wall
street tory. The minimums which
they would have to pay are out OF
their world and moreover such trash
would be undesirable tenants and
offensive to the privileged clients
of the public largess.
skilled workers. small trades
men, professional people and espec-
tally government officials and par
ty voters always manage to get a
large share Of the government
dwellings when this form Of patron
age is handed out" Gwinn said in
one of his orations into his sleeve
in congress. Unable to be heard
against indomitable apathy on the
covert badness Of a racket adorned
in the robes Of charity. Gwinn in
serts his reflections in the record
as extension Of remarks and
sometimes causes them 70 be
mailed under his frank.
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