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\ —. Jone L. Lewis’ announcement ng off of the coal strike is merely another “truce” till June 20 once more demonstrates that this would-be fuchrer of American labor, who has just been fulsomely — eulogized by Hitler’s Voelbischer Beobachter, will stop 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 Lewis him- wlf, the strike brought certain com- pensasons. It interfered with war production. It allowed him to prove his loyalty to the defeatists and tw. those Republicans who support 8 negotiated peace and the appeasement of Hoover, Taft, Vandenberg, Lan- don, and Ham Fish. For Lewss must be credited with putting over the union-busting Smith-Connally bill in the House. fn addition, be weakened the fight against inflation. He seri- ¢ ously delayed efforts to get on with the war. His actions will result in the deaths of more young Americans than could be accounted for by 2 wolf-pack of Nazi submarines or a vison of Axis troops. ji Lewis has indulged ina good deal eae posturing. He has ed of his devotion to the rank- Bi NOV- 7783 and-fle miners, but his actions du , ing the mine “truce” belied his words. — He refused, with the eager collabo- ration of the mine operators, to push — for settlement of the miners’ during the period of the “truce.” Instead, he blocked negotiations, turned his back on the War Labor Board’s every effort to setrle the _ dispute equitably, while he carefully perfected plans to violate Lebor’s no- strike agreement once again, and by to 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 hill was pase’. Thereby, Lewis advanced bs plot both the CIO and AFL. Thereby, he made his “contribution”. to the Hoover-Taft scheme to throw the domestic economy into confusion, from which reaction hopes to “rey, cue” it with a negotiated peace, # sellout to the enemy. At the time of Munich, Daladier yed chorus to Chamberlain, Now 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, it can wl fe stomped inthe Senate ot, if thet fails, by mobilizing proper sup- port behind the presdential veto. _ President Roosevelt and the heads of key government agencies have ex- pressed opposition to this war-wreck- ing bil. . * ee ROT TE John L Lewis’ War of Nerves * Iason which i it t would impote on gress, in the Republican Party, — end from inside the OPA itself, The seers Lech of Sopeaber 1942. we es, Lewis has done his best to wreck "and divide. His entry into the AFL -°~ would give him noth another and greater — scuttle orgenized Is- bor. ‘The resident reseed this point when he met the labor representa- tives, and added his wish—which is everywhere—-for unity between the _ AFL and CIO. Lewis cannot mur- vive such unity, ar a a - are va et - ie pa of the ._ NiW MACSES for #5. as oA This is , clipping from