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Show k k w WFSTBROOK PEGLER Commies in Fur Industry WHILE the leading characters of the fur and leather industry are on the subject of Communist union un-ion coercion and extortion, a little frankness from an observer who does not pretend. to be particularly friendly friend-ly might contribute to a good result. The reason why I am not particularly particu-larly friendly to the fur industry is I t I r K. s w '' ' ', fcN .:-.:v -. that the railroads, utilities and banks got a good tanning each in turn and the public opinion was that it served them right and did them good. I wasn't particularly par-ticularly friendly to them. The fur industry, which has a turnov- And to anyone who offers the old platitude that the methods of the Dies -committee were not Judicial, I have to reply that the head men of the fur Industry would rather let the testimony go unchallenged than take it to a formal trial where It would be proved beyond doubt. Another thing that I would say is that the hearings of the labor relations rela-tions board during a time parallel with the life of the Dies committee were outrageous Kangaroo courts in which the judges were not only prosecutors but complaining parties as well. I NEVER HEARD A SQUAWK FROM ELEANOR THE GREAT OR ANY OF HER CULT ABOUT THE INJUSTICE OF THAT. Without preliminary, we can concede con-cede that the fur industry is more or less a unit politically and very much more so than less. It is, in all but the most formal sense, a lodge of the New Deal as you might picture pic-ture a post in the American Legion organized to contain veterans ir. a given locality and with a common daily interest. PEGLEB " ' ,0Ut 0ne bil" hon dollars a year in the city of New York alone, has never been stood in the lineup as it deserved to be on the basis of a sordid record of corruption, greed and brutality. This was published in the volumes of the old Dies committee com-mittee and never went any farther but the leaders of the Industry do not need to be told about it |