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ge AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMSERS OP - Dear Mombera of the House of Representatives, rr re 7 7 oon and Members of the Senate: . Mae a Loa f1: Tn re: Th@Mtyranny of thé Labor Movement. an on February 22nd, 1944, George Washingten's 3irthgay, Hon. Clare Hoffman, of Michigan, stated that Sidney Hillman, the head of taiPoltttoal Aotion Committee of the Concressa for Industrial Organization, introduced ‘to one of his conventions called to promote the movement for a fourth term for President Roossvelt, 2 mop who. said, in port, we . . "Wa want the labor movement te attain physioal control, and ideological domination of this country. By physical control, we mean the governing power, the powur to make decisions and to enforce them, the power to di- reot’and govern, the power to contro] industry, the power to say who’ ‘shell be in jail, and who shall be out.® I asked Mr. Hoffman who this speaker was. and he informed me that it was Robert Minor, one of the founders of the Commun int Party in. the” United States. A reviow of pertinent facts from the inauguration of Roosevelt in 1933 until the present will show that muoh of this objective has been already obtained, and that the prospect 1s bright to secure those features now lacking. If the Labor leaders continue as active as they are, and the other citizens as apathotio as they have been and ore, Robert Minor, Earl growder, and Sidney Hillman will rejoice im the full fruition of thcir hopos for Russianistic revelution, Let us call some informed witnesses and hoar their testimony:+ Former Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, testifying before the house judielary comiittes, seid: "No other group in our society sould ¢ do the things that are being done by labor wmions, They are guilty of: 1, Exploitation of farmers, 2. Undemocratic procedure, - "ino luding packing ite nesborship to insura’ clectionses', 3. Impeding transportation. : 4. Making it "impossible to get cheap, mass production of housing.?! - Foresineg businessmen te employ 'u seless! }abor ve oreing anessten TO oipacy iaoore 6. Restricting "efficient use of men and maochines.'" gute John C, Knox, Senior J. 5. District Judge, Southern District, N, ¥., in published by Industrial a foreword to "Americals Labor Biotatsrs by Louis Kirshbaum, Forum Publications, 26 Clinton Place, New York, N* Ye, writes: "The foroas of capital end labor are “kn constant oonflict....Capital, in many instances, being mean, avaricious and grosdy, is bent upon its ascendensy. Some leaders.of labor, upon the other hand, oro truculent, arbitrary, unreasonable and hopeful that, controlling workingmen as though they were vassals, they oan give dictation to capital and enforces improper demands “upon ‘the government. ; "6, Labor talks loudly of the necessity of preserving demograsy, 3ut so long as many labor leaders are eutoerata and act without restraint, the democratisation of labor is an impossibility. if a member of a labor union dares criticize a labor leader...he is a merkod man from that day on. Upon one pretense or another suspen~ sion or cxpulsion fran the union is likely to be his portion, hon this ocours, the workor will bo deprived of his job and provented from getting another. Indced, luck will be his if he is not subjected to mayhem and torture. And yet, whatever happons to the worker, he 1s, from a practical standpoint, without the slightest chance of redress, Repreased in thoir utterances, dominated in their actions, the lot of many of our workers is ne better than it would be under Hitler or Stalin. ne ~ mance SA Lo. tien a la it not possitis that we should have bor courts that will be open +6 any union, to any organ‘tzation of capital, and to any workingman who, having a g¢ricvance, Iny obtain the justico to which he or it is rightfully ontitled? and, when that gourt rendors its decision, let that decision have tha support of constituted author~ an a!