| Show I Inside Labor Communists Opposing War Effort By Victor Itic Riesel cl PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH Brother Brother ll its it's cold outs outside de But inside the red hots are keeping things red hot mostly politically Behind closed hotel room doors in city after c city ty a special flying squad of expertly trained proCommunist pro fanatical fana ical labor agitator- agitator propagandists have been verbally verbally verbally ver ver- bally machine gunning this intense Intense in intense In- In tense sorrow we mu must t twice Ina in ina ina a decade call the war var effort These red hots have paid me methe methe methe the personal attention involved in snapping a n sneak picture of me on a speakers speaker's platform and I have pasted the up touched-up profile pro pro- file me on thousands of oC ungracious leaflets spread over these war- war secret jammed cities In turn I thought Id I'd pay them some personal attention So Ive I've followed followed followed fol fol- lowed them into inlo these e cill cities after some of their closed strategy strategy strategy strat strat- egy sessions Ive I've found that these pro pro- Commie labor chiefs knock our war bond drives es sneer at al our need for weapons weapon and say the war is for Wall Vall Street Old Technique Their technique is always the same Only the faces arc nrc different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent and I have seen their faces wide faces wide ol open cn They are the leaders of the notorious United Electrical Workers which the atomic energy commission says is persona non-grata non in atom plants plant Heres Here's the wa way they Uley worked it in Pittsburgh ju just justas t tas as they did in Pittsfield and Lynn Mass l several Jersey cities and in Brooklyn halls halls halls- wherever there is a concentration concentration tion of vital ital electronic plants In a large room at the Fort Pitt hotel on Jan 21 they called their hard core together for briefing briefing- There e were the usual speeches against war millionaires against speeding speeding- up war production against working with our war boards But the climax came when speakers told their lieutenants that the sale of war bonds should be slowed up The listeners listen listen- ers were told to say that such sucha a sale would create depression Operate Freely And do you know that these men and their aids operate freely freely freely free free- ly here in such plants as the Westinghouse Air Brakes Union Switch and Signal and the Westinghouse Westinghouse West Vest Corp where where some of the most vital war work worle and atomic experiments soon will bein bein be bein in full swing These U. U E. E people just walk into plants issue cards for membership in their outfit and its it's all legal Apparently they are under orders to revive the Party line days of the Soviet-Nazi Soviet pact when that great lover of humanity humanity humanity human human- ity Herr Molotov said Nazism is a matter of taste There is for example a genial little U. U E. E leader called Jim I MacLeish whose idea of public relations is to use the unprintable unprintable unprintable able Saxon Anglo-Saxon on 20 reporters report report- ers at one time I recall Jim being so winsome that he was taken through the great Sampson Samp Samp- son Naval base in the last war put up as the guest of the commodore and shown most of its secrets Changed Tune Well VeIl hes he's still operating He Heran Heran Heran ran one of these lefty briefing sessions in Elizabeth N. N J J. J on the n night i g g- gh h t of Jan 30 There e attacked the kind of war he once praised so fulsomely fulsomely fulsomely ful- ful up at Sampson when we were on the side of the Russians Last Tuesday night he said that pushcart peddlers became millionaires millionaires millionaires mil mil- during that last war when we helped Stalin save him him- self And he added that the workers should not stand forwar forwar for forwar war again He shouted to key cy men there that they must go out and resist all speeded up production Two days later in New York City at U. U E. E headquarters Fifth Firth ave to be exact The Brain himself spoke to spike the sentiment for defending decency decency decency de de- de- de throughout ut the world I refer to lanky and brooding Jim Matles veteran of 30 years of trained Party line operations More tore subtle than the others Matles told his men just how to complain about increasing military expenditures And how the workers were to be guided into not taking it Big Show Feb 11 It was no whim that put Matles and his agents on the jet radar jet r radar dar atomic circuit circuit this wintry weather They went put on their pro pro Commie Chautauqua qua to train their people for a abig abig abig big show show scheduled scheduled on Feb 11 in New York There those who have been briefed at the closed sessions on the pro-iron- pro curtain circuit will know just how to rise and shout that theres there's no bread just bullets It all should sound like a national national national na protest from the American Ameri Ameri- can people And if IC it doesn't the Moscow radio will make if its ii so when it reports this upheaval to the Chinese Very clever people the So So- Cop Copyright 1951 Post-Hall Post S Syndicate Inc 1 |
