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Show THE Who SEARCHLIGHT Is Patriotic Now? Do You Remember When Doug and his yes-men were smearing honorable union men back in 1940? Do you recall that when the National Defense program was getting well under way in 1940, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Brooks, we convict a hundred million in this war? Will the Deseret News be tarnished halo? We able to re-polish await the answers Doug’s to these questions with intense interest. Copper Up to the hour we go to press the Deseret stooges were calling bona fide unionists ‘‘ Fifth Columnists’’? They advanced the flimsy pretext that the unions were interfering with production. Now the tables are turned. Damron, Brooks, et al, are talking ‘‘strike vote’’—If Doug lets them go that far. ‘The A. F. of L., Rail, and News has failed to print AFL-CIO statements on the Copper flare-up. That Copper house organ has carefully refrained from discussing the status of the Copper Snipe Hunt. What’s the matter, Dave? Can’t you and Bert Bowen cook up something out of the mess that will reflect adversely on legitimate labor unions? The Tribune and the Telegram have made belated amends for their earlier lapses by returning again to impartial news reporting. Can’t the News rise to a comparable plane? Mr. Damron, and their associated CIO unions stick on the job and announce they will reeruit men marionettes. to take the places of Doug’s Who are the actual ‘‘Fifth Columnists’’ now? Reed Damron should discourse on that in Doug’s ‘*Spotlght’’. And what about strikes? We seem to reeall that Doug’s Snipe Hunt didn’t believe in strikes. All during the defense and war proerams when a few impatient union men in distant places were goaded into outlaw walk-outs, Brooks, Damron, and other Moffat stooges pointed to such episodes as horrible products of ‘‘unpatriotic’’ unionism, the essence of AFL-CIO collective bargaining. Virtual treason, the ‘‘Spothght’’ shouted. But what a difference now!! Brooks, Damron, and other Moffat henchmen in the Snipe Hunt are actually proposing to strike against a tribunal of the United States Government!! And in time of actual war!! Meanwhile the CIO-AFL organizations are preparing to recruit men to take the places of the strikers. Who is Patriotic Now??? And this swelled up guy Moffat, actual Kingfish of the Snipe Hunt lodge—the man behind who moves his Snipe Hunt pawns around on the Copper chess board. What of him? What about his snarling response to the earnest plea of a patient Government Official to avert a slowup in Copper production? Will the Kennecott-Jackling-Stannard millions—yes, hundreds of millions—save Doug from ignominy and public execration? Can Extra!!! Extra !! The Snipe Hunt is breaking up. Internal dissension racks the serawny bird. Damron and Brooks have parted company. Brooks is said to have aspired to the position of Doug’s top Snipe Hunt gauleiter. Damron won’t stand for it. He has taken over completely. Poor Charlie is a has-been. The ‘‘Spotlight’’ is looking for anew editor. Aldrich and Chilly Charlie Parsons, assertedly, are to act as temporary stand-ins. The show must go on! The break in relations between Damron has been smouldering Brooks and for three or four months. It is said to have been brought to a climax when most of the Association Sack Holders* wanted Damron to insist on a dollara-day increase instead of the famous Jackling two-bits. (Moffat and Jackling always think in terms of two-bits where their employees are concerned). Damron had to accept the two-bit idea. He didn’t dare suggest to Doug that a dollar would be more appropriate, and in line with recent increases in the mining and smelter industry. The Sack Holders resented that stand. It contributed to the ill feeling between Damron and Brooks. The Bust-up is on! , *Lay Workers” Hunt. members are the of the Sack “Independent Holders in Association Doug Moffat’s of Mill Snipe |