Summit County Labor News, 1944-06-02

Primary election results from coast to coast reveal that labor is fast becoming conscious of its strength in th political life of the nation. - Southern workfcrs, long held down by inaction and repression, are beginning to assert 'themselves. Spearheading the drive to defeat the worst of the defeatists, they secured the defeat of Rep. Joe Starnes, Dies Committee member from Alabama, and former Sen. Rush Holt, making a try for governorship of West Virginia, Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama and Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, both staunch administration supporters, won out, with labor backing, over the worst prejudice campaign they have ever faced. Rep. Martin Dies, labor's worst foe in Congress, has seen the handwriting on the wall (CIO delegates are-fn contlf^of the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic party in his home district in Texas) and says bis throat will nof hold up under a strenuous campaign. Repf John M. Costello of California became the third Dies Com Committee - mittee Committee member to bite the dust when tlhited«Jttt>or, s&nt him to defeat on May 16. In the same primary Sen. Shepidtm Downey,, an FDR man, was renominated by a sweeping majority over his Roosevelt Roosevelthating - hating Roosevelthating opponent. 1 » :< « In Ohio Mayor'Frank J. Lausche won overwhelming support in defeating his opponents by an unprecedented margin. CIO indorsed William G. Pickerel, winner in tbe race for nomination as Senator, is ready to give Taft the fight of his life. Ed Rowe, the worst Con Congressman - gressman Congressman now seated in tlr^Holise of Representatives* is in fqr a real fight to beat the Democratic nominee, George Huber. In this most crucial election labor is doing its share to put into office people who will follow the President in his program of inters national cooperation and post-war full employment on the home front. . -I1 - V'v . * i. i ' -' .

I' V.-ft - V',1 ; Hr isC:: P: '-- P p' - r h %'5'\ p ||; ||;Mp'- - Mp' Mp'v - v Mp'v It fu appropriate that the OK) Po Political - litical Political Action Committe should meet in Chicago to announce its formal en endorsement - dorsement endorsement of a fourth term for FOR. For here, thanks to the brutal tfthejCbtcago Tribune, T»im^SK®§*l'^M^IefitiSSa"«re §ees in sharpest outline. In the: one camp are a powerfully -.entrenched minority of wealthy and ^callous exploiters, with their motley cireiw of campfollowera, (hard-shelled , lories,-American Fireters, pro-Fasclsts gnd the like. 'Their program sets warfare against labor and the iNew Deal ahead of war against the Axis. It calls for g post postwar - war postwar return to Hoover "normalcy," With unbridled profiteering and the 4evil take the hindmost. ft* so-called isolationism is camou camouflaged - flaged camouflaged for a new American imperial imperialism, - ism, imperialism, directed against our present al allies - lies allies and spreading the seeds of an another - other another wir. ; 1 In. the other camp are the great majority of the people of Chicago, who ^ave a lusty hatred of the Tribune's jpoUdles; who regularly reject its ad advice - vice advice on election day; who want nation national - al national unity tor speedy victory, and post postwar - war postwar international cooperation for peacp and greater prosperity for the common man. ' . in Chicago, the people nail the name of FOR to their masthead, while the Tribune crowd would nail him to the . Everybody there understands CIO's ptgftd for FDR. They couldn't have Understood any other stand.

Socrates said, Whom, then, do I call educated? First, those who control circumstances instead of being mastered by them ; those who meet all occasions manfully and act in accordance with intelli intelligent - gent intelligent thinking; those who are honorable in all dealings, who treat good-naturedly persons and things that are disagreeable; and fur furthermose, - thermose, furthermose, those who hold their pleasures under control and are not overc^pie by misfortune; finally those who are not spoiled by suc success. - cess. success. That is the true education. If we could put it into effect in the world we could solve ithe problems that have so long troubled man mankind. - kind. mankind. If we could learn to control circumstances, and a^t intelli intelligently, - gently, intelligently, we could bring our accumulated knowledge to the solution of our problems. If we could be honorable in all our dealings with men of all classes, creed or color, and treat with common sense those individuals with^whom ive disagree as individuals, there could be 110 dissension or grohp hatreds to stir up the lunatic fringe, no pre prejudices - judices prejudices to hamper justice. / 'Only as we educate tpjvard this ideal the youth of our nation, the youth of the world, can we bring peace to earth and establish the principles in which we in our heart of hearts* believe these principles of freedom and fair play for all people. UNLESS we do this we will remain a prey to war and to the ambitions of. self-seeking de despots - spots despots who will arise frpm the ashes of bitter strife.

wives and daughters of CIO men In politics will be launched next week by the Public Affairs Committee of Akron Industrial Union Council. ,t The local drive is port of a nation nationwide - wide nationwide campaign sponsored by national officers of the CfflO. tl is pointed out that a high percentage of the voters now are women and that an effective political campaig n on the part of Labor will depend largely on the sup support - port support given to it by women voters. Mrs. Louise MctLaran, field repre representative - sentative representative of Women's Division, Na National - tional National Political Action Committee, will be In Akron Tuesday and Wednesday, Paul M. Fessenden, chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of Akron In Industrial - dustrial Industrial Union Council, is endeavoring to arrange one or two .public meetings where she may address both men and women voters. Stressing the part .women will plair in the coming political campaign Is only one phase of work now being done by the Public Affairs Committee. The campaign to register new voters already has been started by the com committee - mittee committee in order to get out a record* (Continued on Page Four)

Sometimes vve are so busy talking about the value of educa education, - tion, education, that we don't stop to consider that education is a two-edged sword. It can be used both F.OR and AGAINST. sRead any of this season's crop of books about Germany and you will see that however much their authors disagree on conclusions and reconutiendations, they all agree on one thing - that the Nazis educated Germany for this war. . v That is how all dictatorships succeed - they educate against. The first object of all education is to train citizens. If these citizens can be molded into a tight mass by ingraining false ideas, by teach teaching - ing teaching hatredjnstead of .friendships, by showing only one side of a pic picture, - ture, picture, they become so cohesive that they can be swayed and used as one ac the beck and call of the creator of their minds. ' In democracy it is the other way. We take the stand of dis disrupting - rupting disrupting all facts until they can be proven by ..the individual. Our children learn to think for themslves - which is' excellent if they have some standard by which to measure the value of their own thoughts.

<£- v Cbiacog baa also made another con contribution - tribution contribution to clartfyllng the Issues for 1M4, in the person of 'Sewell Avery of Montgomery, Ward. * . Everybody has seen the picture, of this arrogant big-shot being carried but of hia .plant. He wanted it that way. He did everything possible to provoke the government, so he could get the most spectacular publicity. , jyvery, the Chicago Tribune and much of the ibtg'huaineaa pres think this picture wiil owing votes against fUL iBut they think wrong. For every union-halting boss whose opposition to FTDR win be strength strengthened - ened strengthened by it, there are thousands of workers and other plain "folks who ap applaud - plaud applaud this visual demonstration that no man, no matter how wealthy, is jigger than the United States. Every patriotic and democratic American believes that no amount of riches and power should shield the man who deliberately defies wartime regulations for the preservation of In Industrial - dustrial Industrial peace, and who thinks his hat hatred - red hatred of labor 1b more Important than OOP victory.

The Tribune has never concealed Its hatred for American labor, and for all measures that would better the lot of the common people. During the Hoover depression, when veterans were selling apples at every corner in the (Loop,. and the whole city groaned with the misery of the unemployed,. the Tribune adopted a - consistent policy of referring con con- - - con- temptuously to the jobless as "idlers." If fought every New Deal measure to aid the unemployed and to promote recovery, it became hysterical in its venomous hatred of the CKO, when the WsMiers began flocking to its ranks to better their conditions. The war made no change in the Tribune's hatreds for labor, President Roosevelt and social progress. Combined with the paper's isolation isolationism." - ism." isolationism." they became weapons to disrupt national unity, undermine confidence in -the Commander-In-Chief and pro pro: - : pro: mote dissension among the United Nations. There Is still hardly an Issue of the Chicago Tribune that does not pro provide - vide provide choice propaganda material for Hitler's purposes. " - ft ft *