Show NEWS IA I 11 I B AUL LON Released by Western We Newspaper CIO POLITICAL COMMITTEE GETS ACTIVE V ASHINGTON c Digging WASHINGTON Digging behind 1 0 most major domestic news develop ments lately you will find the CIa do doand and its political action committee I Behind the senate poll tax consideration con con- the defeat of Congressman Congress Congress- man Stares in Alabama the presentation presentation pres pres- of two new labor cases to the Supreme court actions of the War Var Labor board as well wen as the s celebrated Montgomery Ward t case is this aggressive labor movement movement t working on the one hand with its regular business and the other underhand with a political busine business l to get Mr Roosevelt elected for a fourth term and itself in the political political political cal saddle While the nation was once shocked i at John L. L Lewis Lev spending lending-spending to reelect Mr Roosevelt the second time it seems likely the CIO will spend a far greater sum if it keeps its present unprecedented scale of political pressuring all all of which must come only from th the thi workers whom it taxes with dues The man who defeated Democratic DemoI Demo Demo- f I cratic Representative Starnes in I Alabama for instance was a CIO attorney and thus on their payroll s sIn In two cases now presented to workers Mill workers Utah Utah Utah Copper Copper Cop Cop- c per and Richwood Clothespin th the s sCIO CIO is trying through the National Labor Relations board to get a re reversal reversal reversal re- re versal of union elections which it Y lost In the Montgomery Ward case it j won the election but when it loses apparently it brings the election into question before the labor board and courts in such a way as to raise doubt as to whether it can canever canever ever lose Il MORE ACTIVE THAN PARTY I Hand in hand with this wartime organizing agitation through th the government labor boards to th the Supreme court its Sidney Hillman it is far more active in political campaigning campaigning campaigning cam cam- than the Democratic national national national na na- na- na committee taking the radical radical radical radi radi- cal and communist line issuing a weekly paper with pictures showing f Mr Hillman directing negro organizers organizers organizers or or- or- or not for the union but for politics and indeed pressuring even Mr Roosevelt himself directly through Phil Murray to upset the governments government's Little Steel formula for for- 1 mula n N Never ever in all the history of this democracy has there appeared such sucha a dual business and political movement movement movement move move- ment openly seeking spending and pressuring to dominate the politics the decisions and even war eco ceo economics economics 1 of the country The wolves of Wall Vall street when they had a bite in years past were cubs by comparison By contrast also there has been F little unusual political activity and no apparent agitation from the Democratic party matters have hav 1 reached such a state that Senator Bailey of North Carolina announced rif r rif if Hillman and his CIO and communists communists communists com com- dominated the Democratic party he will resign from it Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor McKellar also has charged CIO uCla is half communist Clearly it is 1 not only in the union and political but in the soc social al reform business Practically all the leading southern southern southern south south- ern senators attributed the c current poll poIl tax discussion to pre pressure sure from Hillmans Hillman's CIOPA The group has caused the senate to waste a weeks week's time in what Democratic Leader Barkley conceded at the outset was wasa a futile argument AN OUTDATED ISSUE Indeed no one except the CIO CIa its political action and the communist I groups seem any longer interested in the poll poIl tax It is an outdated by byI bythe bythe issue made even more obsolete I the Supreme court ruling upsetting upsetting upsetting upset upset- ting the southern primary system I No one seems to want the poll tax taz anyway Apparently these groups thought t they could force the senate to fi filibuster fili filibuster buster and thus make the usual poli poli- political political hay for themselves but the southern senators decided to keep background background background back back- their winded long-winded men in the ground and Senators ConnallY and ana George George Bankhead Bailey McKellar led off the debate to argue J the case on its merits eo d t rfd rf- rf had haa P Some Republicans serve sent 1 vate notice that they might join the we Barkley cloture move if the Bellows boys were let loose but bu the the leading southerners were willing to undertake undertake under under- l take the useless argument any anyon anyway the of w on a straight basis because threat of the CIOPA ClOP A to constitutional t party a as aswell government and their well The fourth term front offered of o officially r in n his daily by Chairman Hannegan o of New York speech took no notice reform reform re re- e- e Hillman and CIOPA ClOP A or its social i form line but followed an oPPosite th the e l one Hanne Hannegan d an did not mention wj t l new deal which Mr Roosevelt personally per per- JS is has already announced ise the e t 1 w on dead but founded his case t international considerations l Thus the Roosevelt Hull th i fourth lou fou riding the Hannegan top is w while I term horse in one direction an and It t CIOPA CIO and the Hillman t the s same communists are riding way horse harder in the apposite opposite wa 1 |