Evening star., 1949-07-10
Predicts AII-Out Effort
To Defeat Senator Taft
Believes Victory in Ohio Would Lead
to Choice as President
By Frank r. Kent

By Frank r. Kent
| Unless every sign fails the President will
| veto the modified Taft-Hartley labor law.
| just as he did the original in 1947. Unlike
! the 1947 action, this veto will be sustained
and the unamended Taft-Hartley Act thus
left upon the statute books. This will mark
the climax, though not the end, Of one OF
the most degraded periods in the whole his
tory of the Democratic Party.
So far as Mr.. Truman is concerned, there
is nothing else for him to do Years ago his
predecessor, for purely political reasons, de-
livered the Democratic Party to the labor
bosses of the CIO. 1t has been servile and
subservient to them ever since. This has
been measurably true also Of the AFL.
! though the latter never achieved the per-
sonal White House influence and intimacy Of
the CIO. After Mr.. Truman became Presi-
dent carrying out the Roosevelt policies for
| exactly the same political reasons he con-
| tinued the alliance and increased the SUBJ
| Servience AS a result, he has become so
deeply committed and obligated to the labor
bosses that he has no freedom Of action at
ALL is unable to consider any labor problem
on its merits.
Taft-Hartley veto he (or his message writer)
actually adopted the violent and denuncia-
tory language of Lee Pressman, then general
counsel of the CIO but since thrown out
of the organization because Of his Com
munistic affiliations and tendencies. From
that time on administration Spokesmen
echoed the sheer distortion Of truth and
vicious Misrepresentation put out by the
CIO and AFL propaganda machines. Taft
Hartley repeal became the No. l plank in
the 1948 Democratic platform and Mr..
Truman's No. personal pledge throughout
his campaign.
Now following the Democratic victory and
after applying the full White House weight.
he and his labor allies have ingloriously
failed to put through the repeal. The degree
| to which Mr.. Truman and the party man
| agement are hooked leaves nothing to do
save follow up his veto with another violently
denunciatory aft-Hartley campaign
next year in the hope of strengthening the
pro-labor forces in Congress. The profess
sional labor-liberal publicists are already
screaming that the lines are drawn" and
the 1850 elections will determine whether
the forces OF evil" are to have their way or
the heaven-sent Roosevelt policies of labor
union domination and dictation are to con-
tinue. They profess confidence that once
the issue (Taft-Hartley repeaD Is taken to
the people. the action of the Slst
Congress will be repudiated, Mr.. Truman
vindicated and all those who failed to vote
right Ohat is, for repeaD will be thrust
into political oblivion. To this end, the CIO
and AFL are collecting a huge political
fund and promising an unprecedented cam
paign to get out the vote
There are several things to interfere with
| 80 -; Ava ~
course, is that 1t will be very stale stuff. The
same agencies-CIO. AFL and the admins
tration-had tremendous anti-Taft- Hartley
campaign last year. They literally went the
limit It simply Is not possible to be more
| violent, vituperative and vicious than they
were then. The best they possibly can do Is
to equal their previous record. Another Is that
the results of the 1948 election on this issue
were not such as to justify optimism from
the angle Of the labor union bosses for next
[ year. In that year. though Mr.. Truman was
pulled through by the farmers the CIO-AFL
showing was very poor. They had proclaimed
their purpose to drive out Of public life"
every man who had voted for the Taft
| Hartley bill. With exceedingly few exceptions
these were renominated and reelected. Still
another is that the absurd pretension that
the last election was q mandate" from the
| people IOT 1a1L.f1dItley IcPcdA Willie 6tu1
mouthed by the unctuous Mr.. Murray and .
few others, is generally recognized now as
completely phony. The real reason for failure
of the repeal fight is that public sentiment
did not favor repeal. The signs are all the
other way.
However, the same raucous pretensions
| that the labor bosses speak for the people
will be made. There will be vast beating Of
the labor drums and an unprecedented pour
| ing out Of labor dollars in the campaign.
In brief, everything they have will be put
| into the hght-particularly in Ohio, For even
the most obtuse among them realize that If
! Senator Taft, with prestige enhanced by his
recent Senate victory and strengthened by
| the refusal Of Gov. Lausche to run against
him, is reelected in Ohio next year the
chances are that in 1852 we will have the
| first President in the White House In 20
years not shackled to the labor bosses.
while the license was procured. Johnson
left in search of a Baptist minister and
| marital happiness. He is well-to-do plant
er. and says he has been looking for a wife
for over 20 years. He thinks he has found
his affinity at last. We want to get mar
ried by o'clock at any rate he said, and
then we'll knock about the city for a little
while The parents OF the girl did not