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Show ., .. . " ! iVi"-1",! ;;.'n 1Y U'eslbrook Peglcr Released by WNU Feature THE DISMISSAL of Harry Bridges from the appointive position oi regional director of the C.I.O. in northern California proves that the political unionism created by Roosevelt Roose-velt and Robert F. Wagner was designed de-signed to put down political, intellectual intel-lectual and even religious freedom. Recently, the ex-wife of Bridges testified before a legislative committee com-mittee of the state of Washington that he was, during their exciting T :miv'. x I married life, a card-carrying card-carrying Communist. Commu-nist. She gave other evidence tending to confirm the well-proved well-proved case of the government which went to naught in the Supreme court. In that case Bridges' deportation seemed to be the government gov-ernment s purpose, but wasn't. The ace in the hole was the Supreme Su-preme court. It was a foregone conclusion that Bridges would be saved from deportation by the court. That conclusion was verified veri-fied by the fantastic jabber of Justice William O. Douglas, who did the majority opinion, and by the juvenile nonsense indited by Frank Murphy in an independent assent. The decision and the names of the judges on each side of the split were correctly announced on the air by an old confidant and political booster of Murphy well in advance of the official announcement. The late Chief Justice Stone later said he was "profoundly disturbed" by the leak. He said, moreover, that it was the second, not the first known leak, in recent times. He suspected one of his brethren, the same one that I suspected, and I strongly surmised from certain swinish conduct of this panoplied shyster on a social occasion later, that the chief justice got them together to-gether in chambers and gave them llannel-mouth rebuke. The leak, however, Leak was mere LaGniappe. Was I was 'ne sort of thing Expected to be e3tPected from a court most of whose members were selected not to adorn the bench but to make the court contemptible and assuage the rancor of a failure who never could get a law degree himself. By a turn of evil fate, Roosevelt acquired the power to express his own innate crookedness and vulgarity through his appointments, and did. No jury of American citizens ever got a chance to decide the Bridges deportation case. It was a habeas corpus job all the way and although Attorney General Biddle won in three courts and gave his own decision de-cision against Bridges, he was smart enough, in the cynical way of Washington, to know that he could shoot the works and still not harm the C.I.O.'s boss brutalitarian of the western shores and valleys. THE SUPREME COURT WOULD SAVE HIM. IT DID. Now, however, we find the C.I.O., .a strictly political union, related to labor only for its income and the prestige of labor's name, coercing Bridges in his own politics. Bridges, naturally, plumped for Henry Wallace, the candidate of the Communists and the logical candidate candi-date of anyone with his record. The dominant political . faction of the C.I.O. , the bald mahatma, Phil Murray, Mur-ray, and Waller Reuther of the United Auto Workers have found it expedient to oppose the Communists in the union and in the national politics at this time and for a specific spe-cific purpose. Therefore they opposed op-posed Wallace and his third party. There can be no pretense of principle or patriotic preference here because these bosses and the C.I.O. as a whole have been notoriously no-toriously cordial to Communists of the most traitorous kind ever since the C.I.O. began amid riots md insurrection in the 1930s. The Michigan riots Coons which created the auto Did workers, and the C. 1. Plotlirt! - as weI1- were di" rected by expert street-fighters street-fighters and terrorists. Many reels of private movies taken from factory fac-tory windows still exist to prove the murderous and efficient determination determina-tion of the goons. They wore uniform fore-and-aft caps for identification to their own comrades. They fought in disciplined squads, platoons and companies. They had mobile command com-mand cars with radio communication. communica-tion. And they had headquarters with shock-troops in reserve for dispatch to appropriate points of conflict. It was a Communistic rehearsal of the ultimate insurrection. Yet, now, the C.I.O. Is trying to Intimidate Bridges by removing bim from an unimportant appointive ap-pointive job because the C.I.O. realizes that a vote for Wallace is actually a vote for the Republican Repub-lican candidate and against Tra-man. Tra-man. The Commnnists, of course, have no preference between the Republican, whomsoever, and Mr. Truman. The Republioan naturally natural-ly will be anti-Communist and Mr. Truman has been trying to deloase his party and administration by picking on a few conspicnooe and very unpopular foreigners. |