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eg oe BS - arn ee ee fa 4h tn! DNs anal i ~ Taye teen by i eoeiyeg a a6) \o Jon L, Lewis’ announcement ng of of the coal srike is merely another “truce” dill June Z0 once more demonstrates that this would-be fuehrer of American _ labor, who has just been fulsomely eulogized by Hitler’s Voelbischer Beobachter, will mop at nothing to gain his ends. There can be no com- promise with this war of nerves. Be- fore June 20, if no settlement of the differences between coal miners and operators has been reached, the gov- ernment must act to prevent any fur- ther sabotage. From the standpoint of the coun- try and the mine workers, Lewis’ second coal strike was disastrous. But from the standpoint of Lew him- self, the strike brought certain com- pensatons. Jt interfered with war production. It allowed him to prove his loyalty to the defeatists and to. aL... TT ...th.. nk those KepPubuCans who support a negotiated peace and the appeasement of Hoover, Taft, Vandenberg, Lan- don, and Ham Fish. For Lewis must be credited with putting’ over the union-busting Smith-Connally bill in the House. In addition, he weakened the fight against inflation. He seri- ously delayed efforts to get on with the war. His actions will resule in the deaths of more young Americans than could be accounted for by a wolf-pack of Nazi submarines or 7 vision of Axis troops. ‘i Lewis has indulged in a good deal be self-righteous posturing. He has ed of his devotion to the rank- ° . tispute equitably, while he carefully and-file miners, but his acoons ‘dure ing the mine “truce” beled his words. ny He refused, with the eager collabo- ration of the mine operstors, to push — for setrlement of the miners’ demands during the period of the “truce.” Instead, he blocked negotiations, turned his back on the War Labor Board’s every effort to settle the perfected plans to violate labor's no- strike agreement once again, and by so doing to endanger the security of the labor movement. : His timing is worth consideration. He ordered the second strike just as the Smith-Connally bill reached the House floor, and called off the strike the moment the bil was passed. Thereby, Lewis advanced his plot against both the CIO and AFL. Thereby, he made his “contribution”. to the Hoover-Tatt scheme to throw the domectic economy into canfusian. from which reaction hopes to “res- cue” it with a negotiated peace, a sellout to the enemy. At the time of Munich, Daladier yed chorus to t : Chamberlain. Now Lewis is Daladier to Hoover and his friends. Though the House passed the leg- islation Rep. Howard Smith has been trying to slip through for years, & can still be stopped in the Senate or, if that fails, by mobilizing praper sup- rt behind the resident Roosevelt and the heads of key government agencies have ex- pressed opposition to this war-wreck- ing ddl. _ ential veto. that the ant-inflaton program was being undermined by OPA Director Prentiss Brown’s vacillations and by the concerted attack of reactionaries | in Congress, in the Republican Party, ahd from inside the OPA itself. The refusal wo far to grant subsidies to make possible the roll-back of prices al. ... T.-. Lb. vive such nity, OF toc remiucent Irie a7. veiw This is p clipping from page 4 of the nal Ge for @0P. pl easaet