Show r 7 e ity by westbrook pealer A 1 d b by feature A WITNESS testified in recent pro r ce edinga edings of the truman adain admin against a certain un loneer held for deportation as an alien communist that hohag he had acted as a spy against traitorous agents of the muscovite enemy he then was asked whether he knew it was a alo lation of the wagner act to pry into the the secret and more often than not nefarious far ous business c ol 01 f unions ills his answer is beside the point of this essay which which is is that licit or illicit such espionage is a public service law may say such conduct often is and in this case it was laudable on patriotic grounds ANY LAW AGAINST IT IS AGAINST THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND contemptible here we have a peculiar group ot of secret societies all ot of them private organizations acknowledging no public responsibility they claim the protection of 0 the national government for their confidential affairs even though they be criminal affairs or conspiracies against the primary purpose of our constitution they are not publio public bodies and very often membership Is compulsory rather than volun toxy tiry and selective ot of this special protection tor for unions was to strengthen the hand of the criminal and traitor for evil services to be gi vento roose belts elt party through professional rioters and subtler terrorists gratt graft ers and nondescript rogues the pretext was that the unions were weak and virtuous whereas the employers were mighty predatory corporations which hold plant sneaks in their innocent councils to betray their intentions their financial figures figurea and their confidential disputes actually in most union cases the union was Is the ruthless giant and tie the giant the employer i Plyer a worried and financially weak victim his workers hated and feared fear edthe the union but were compelled t to 0 join or he was forced to fire t them h e in and h hire I 1 re new P people eople from the union hall I 1 would recommend that the present aggression of the truman government against communists in the unions be viewed with suspicion president truman and tom dark clark his attorney general knew all about the communist strength and influence in the unions long before this elocution eloc tion year their onslaught against the dirty bolos and I 1 may say also the sudden antl anti bolshevik alarm of the mercenary radio disciples of the late roosevelt are reminiscent ini scent of Roosevel ts own stratagem in the election year of 1840 1940 when he sent earl browder to prison and ordered his wife deported but in 1912 when we had jo joined ined russia in her brave struggle against the vile aggressor roosevelt welcomed communists lack back to the government ern ment particularly to the state department browder was released from prison after a short trick done de in atlanta ills his muscovite blus covIte wife was led up to canada by the hand band turned around aud and brojir bro brought tir back as a quota immigrant eligible for citizenship and forever safe from deportation mr truman is not above any perfidy of Roosevel ts and his current demonstration against communists must bs be regarded as a clumsy ruse to get elected or at any rate nominated robert F wagner who never quite outgrew his spiritual heritage of regimentation and Ger mandom may not know exactly what his law does say it will be plain that teat takes the real reason for the off 0 brawling opposition ol of shackles klei the union gangsters to the taft hartley law is not that it clamps any chains on the wrists of the toiler but on oil the contrary that it strikes off the shackles put there by wagner the members still are forbidden to speak out against their rules even though the taft hartley law would appear to release them from the bond bondage of fear if you were a waitress with a child parked in a nursery by day would you take a chance on your freedom of speech and express your grievances to a reporter except under a solemn promise of secrecy and protection notwithstanding the bill 0 of rights there stands section bof 3 of article xa of the bylaws by laws of a typical union of the american federation of labor any member convicted do of divulging any secrets or business of this local to outsiders shall bo be fined suspended or expelled at the discretion of this union most unions have identical or similar penalties but hundreds of courageous ageous men and women dragooned into unions by roosevelt and wagner have taken their chances with the final result that the whole vicious racket has been brought into appropriate disrepute and hundreds of 0 communists have been denounced |