Show Inside Labor Police State Red Cry Irks Scribe By Victor Riesel V WASHINGTON Nothing burns me so 80 much as tho the treasonable treasonable treasonable trea trea- things I heard lefties spread on the west coast coat a few days ago when their slickest Hollywood propagandists were telling the confused crowds which still listen to them that this nation s a police state gripped by war hysteria You try finding that secret police and war hysteria in Washington ton I Instead I found behind the scenes of the strategic agencies which will run this nation if an unwanted conflict flares out of ot the crisis abroad an unhurried preparation for trouble trouble per per pervaded by a sharp sensitivity to the feelings and rights of all sorts of people There is for example the super wartime home front advisory advisory advisory ad ad- agency The national security resources board which is the skeleton for the many agencies that would mushroom if sudden fighting started No Noh h hysteria there Not even super secrecy Not Much Yet Much Yet This board which would automatically automatically auto auto- shift into the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's number one spot if war started in Berlin has done little yet Not until mid-January mid will willit willit willit it introduce itself to the country's country's country's coun coun- try's top labor men Phil men Phil Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray Bill Green the railway chiefs and I suppose John JohnLewis I Lewis Lewis to to tell teIl them in general about our the boards board's work and to discuss the war man manpower manpower manpower power problems I was told here There are new weapons and new types of weapons theres there's a difference and these call for new skills So therell there'll be a bull session closed to the press but not to the left wing labor leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers who took such a drubbing from Phil Murray at last weeks week's C CIO I 0 convention Last month the board met with industrialists so so the la labor labor labor la- la bor people are next And since there are lefties still BUll tolerated inside labor the security re resources resources resources re- re sources board wont won't set itself up up- as any lord high executioner Gentle GenUe Pressure Aside from these parleys the board has done little but gently try to pressure some of the war warp p pia plants l a n t s Into decentralizing spreading out into the country country- side But theres there's been resistance and the needling has about stopped Call that war hysteria hysteria hysteria hys hys- teria Now for the police pollee state charge which is making the rounds of European labor circles as well as the Hollywood cliques which pipe it there That should be the justice de departments department's departments department's departments department's de- de t territory err i tor y From friends there I learn that in addition addition addition ad ad- to the 66 alien Communist Communist Communist un union ion leaders already booked for deportation as undesirables undesIrables undesirables unde unde- about another 60 are slated to be arrested What's happened to the 66 men and women They're under undera a simple bond of 1000 each They're still in union positions still running labor outfits still making speeches and still or or- or None of their rights rights- nor those of the 60 yet to be picked up have up-have have been curtailed although their attacks on this government have been brutal Where There Is It Furthermore although the justice department has evidence of actual plotting against the government by some domestic brand union chiefs they're not being molested either Wheres Where's that police poUce state The only agency that's gotten tough is the Atomic Energy commission whIch commission which has through contracts with the U. U S S. S companies working working working work work- ing for it from the Belgian Congo to atoll atoU in the Pacific Each of these has been investigated some actually have been traced back to the time they were kids The commissions commission's commissions commission's commissions commission's com com- missions mission's toughness consists of attempts to prohibit the proCommunist proCommunist proCommunist pro- pro Communist C CIO I 0 Electrical Workers Yorkers U. U E. E and United Public Workers from covering atomic anywhere And if any other C CIO I 0 left wing outfit tries to organize inthis in inthis inthis this field it too will be barred Yet the U. U E E. has gone into court to lift the Atomic Energy Energy Energy En En- ergy commission ban The leftists leftists' leftists leftists' leftists leftists' left left- case is getting every judicial judicial judicial judi judi- cial treatment Wheres Where's all the hysteria Copyright New York Post |