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Politica boss Frank Hague

Was able to maintain one-
Man rule in Jersey City for 30
years (until the 1940’s) and cur-
Tupt practically every law on the

books without being brought to
justice,

Here js apartial list of Hague’s
» «Contempt for law:.

* He padded the vote rolls,
eee County’s ‘graveyard
» Padded from names in
papereties and from people who
moved elsewhere, ultima-

“ly grew into an estimated 75,000
Votes,”

a Sine Stole votes, “Opposition
ae Were -made invalid by
cca as or tearing them, More

on an opposition vote was

ne and changed, And, most
Vveniently of all, they simply

_ Were counted
Needed, > the way they were

*
He used violence, “The Hon-

oe Ballot Association sent 254
cea University students,

Gs nes an election in the 1920's,
ive “Watchers, Within an hour,
‘s Rae beaten up and sent

Ospital and all the others

Were kicked
laces. * out of the polling

*
He Sa took graft, ‘Hague kept
ety at $8,000 a year, yet
: er able to build
ae $125,000 mansion at
‘A . ew Hersey, 800 feet from
B apart fan,” He owned a lush
igent Complex on valuable
by etained arent-free dup-
ee it, donated $25,000 for an
aie © St. Aedan’s Roman Cath-

Church in Jersey City,

The death
©f a scab

To
aed to get a heavenly reward
I’ve Sib Carrying a Union card.
Tue po" 8rumbled, never struck,
Guee mixed with Union
truck,”

be o ;

(0) nm the way to win,

t Pel? St. Peter, and let me in.

espite peat Wd stroked his staff,
high office he had to laugh.

Saji 5 : :

Who ith fiery gleam in eye:

_ Pue he nding the gate, you or I?

ie °% You and your gift of

Ou’r,
ennown on earth as a strike-
aking scab.

The,
:“frefore he moved in his stature
fou
n
Pressed a b
vigil utton .upon the
id. :
he to the ump who answered

ce mee bell,
mands Scab right down to

qs
dl Satan to give him a seat
mene

fs sa &riddle up near the

Ut We;
; a Even. the devil can’t stand

Of a 3 smell
oe scab on a griddle in

‘Tew

Ould cause a devilish strike, I
Se sai

belo aoe down to the imps

0 bg :
a to Your master on earth to

That

don’t i
heli» even want a scab in

—UMW Journal.

The ‘Bosses’

_THE BOSSEs: by Ralph G. Mare.

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politics

This disregard for law and ord-
er, so well elaborated in The
Bosses, was widely known during
Hague’s rule, But nothing could
be done, This illustrates a facet
of law and order in our society,

Laws do not designate right
and wrong, They are merely a
recognition of the status quo,
The fact that there is no mass
civil disobedience simply indi-
cates that the overwhelming maj-
ority of the population accepts the
status quo.

Laws may be made for all,
But they are not interpreted for
all in the same way, The scales
of justice are weighed in favor
of free enterprise — the cap-
italist status quo,

This helps to explain Hague’s
30-year, law-breaking rule inthe
U.S, His Democratic Party ma-
chine, part of the two-party sys-
tem, represented no threat to the
status quo,

Martin doesn’t go into this
aspect of bossism in the U.S,
But he does give us the fascinat-
ing stories of Hague and five
other “bosses,” including Mark
Hanna, Ed Crump, James M,
Curley, Jordan Chambers and
John M, Bailey.

The weapons which put power
into their hands included poverty,
money, racial and national divis-
ions, illiteracy, patronage,

Martin reveals the darker,
little publicized aspects of ballot
-box rule in the U.S, He writes
not to expose the inner work-
ings of capitalism, but to sug-
gest, at least to hope, that the
day of the old political power
boss is gone,

The new “boss” will be dif-
ferent, relying more on persuas~
ion than power, The key to the
eradication of bossism is mass
“involvement” in political life.

This is Martin’s hope for the
future, :

Perhaps his studies do not
penetrate deeply enough, But I
think he has written a good book.
You may enjoy reading it,

—Stan Lynn

Playwright Arthur Miller said on.
January 3: “...who among us
knew enough to be shocked, let
alone to protest, at the photographs
of Vietnamese torturing Vietcong
prisoners which our press has pub-
lished? The Vietnamese are wearing
U.S. equipment, are paid by us, and
could not torture without us. There
is no way around this—the prisoner
crying out in agony 1s OUR
PRISONER.”

U.S. unions use coloring
books to organize workers

Adminisuansve Asyistant

Administrative Associate

Bluepriater

Clerk

make the giant strides ahead

THIS IS A

LEE

SS Senior Administratiwe Assistant

Office Appliance Operator
‘ Tabulator Operator
Typewriter Bookkeeper

Comptometer Operator

Shorthand Reporter

Telephone Operator

Stenographer

Color him in soft pastels to indieute bis passivity. A Union could wake

him up, but management will gladly supply ear plugs and bhaders to keep
him asleep. He's got a lot of brain and muscle that could be used to ad-
vantage, but in the meantime, he sleeps on while the wide-awake ones

hina — color it invisible
because the State Depart-
ment says it doesn’t exist.”

Do you recall the coloring-
book joke fad that was popular
in the United States recently?

Now it has penetrated the field.

of organizing white-collar work-
ers into unions,

A reproduction from the book —

is shown at left, More than 30,-
000 copies were issued. At the
moment it is being used in a
campaign to organize white-
collar employees of the City of
New York,

Examples from the book in-
clude the following:

Administrative Assistant—
“Color him whatever you like,
but make sure you color his
glasses rose. He needs them to
convince himself that his future
is going to be all rosy , . , He
puts great stock in prestige and
we’re not knocking them, But
the union can add better wages
to that prestige,

Senior clerk: “Color him gray,
He’s just a bit colorless be-
cause he doesn’t want to take
a stand and be part of any move-
ment,”

‘Burn’s nicht’
PETER MUNRO, VANCOUVER,
writes:

It was a real cold night as I
made my way up Capital Hill to
visit my old friend, Dougall. As
soon as I entered, I knew some-
thing was wrong; I could feel the
electricity in the air, He was
bent over an emery Stone, putting
a razor-sharp edge on a huge
claymore,

What effer will ye be doing?”
says‘I, relapsing into my native
Argyll English, He gave me a
fierce glare,

“You’re asking me what I’ll
be doing, eh? Well, I’m going to
see yon man that runs oor paper,
and I’m takin’ my goot claymore
to see to it that he tells the folk
in B,C, about that grand Burns’
Night we had on the 28rd of Janu-
ary, And moreover, I’ll defy you

or anyone else” (taking two steps

towards me) “to contradict me
when I say it was the best Burns’
Night in the whole of B,C,, and
it’s going to be even bigger and
better next year!”

‘Who was I to argue with a six-
foot Highlander, with a good clay-
more and a bottle of Cutty Sark
Scotch on the sideboard. May the
Lord have mercy on your soul,
if he finishes the rest of that
bottle just before going down to
your office,

(Ed, Note: It was indeed a real
grand “Burns’ Nicht,” and if
Dougall doesn’t impale me on
the point of his good claymore
for my omission in letting it be
known in the PT how grand it
really was, I’ll promise him to
do better in 1966.)

Letter to LBJ

JOHN TANCHE, 16124 CO-
LUMBIA AVE., WHITEROCK,
B.C., writes “An Open Letter” to
President Lyndon B, Johnson,

White House, Washington, D,C,:

Dear Mr, Johnson:

I have first hand information
on American intervention in Viet-
nam and it makes one shudder,

You have rekindled a war in that
unfortunate country that the
French had given up for lost, they
left it grudgingly as it was a
juicy plum to exploit for the
French investors who milked bil-
lions upon billions out of that
country’s economy, And they had
to leave Algeria some years
later, You see you cannot expect
to ride people perpetually who
are tired of paying toll, and who
want their independence,

You would not want to have
the Vietnamese to exploit the
American people and bomb the
United States for good measure
if the population rebelled, nor

tell you how to run your coun-.

try, That is your business, so
what are you doing in Vietnam,

five thousand miles away? Don’t ~

you think you should keep your
snout out of their potato patch?

Mr, Johnson you state you are
protecting a friendly nation from
falling into the hands of the
Communists, yet eighty percent
of the land surface and of the
population are in the hands of
those who rebel against the U,S,
intervention, who are fighting
you tooth and nail,

These people who want to be
masters in their own house, as
you do, are not Communists, they
are nationalists, the Buddhist
monks who set themselves on
fire alive in public places as an
example to rally the people to
free the nation of your military
occupation, They are not Com-
munists but are patriots of the
highest order, imbued of devo-
tion to their country,

* * *
In the United States, inthe past

when your nation represented the
Land of the Strong and the Free,
you had great patriots also, the
Lincoln, the Washingten, people
who have laid the cornerstones
of democracy, of which you boast,
Admittedly your democracy does
not breath the purity upon which
it was built and it is tinged and
discolored with the system of
profit, which is alien tothe needs
of the newly liberated countries,

Why can you not tolerate that
other countries have a right to
interpret the meaning of democ-
racy to suit their need? To them
democracy is the absence of
poverty and exploitation by any-
one, and liberation to them is
just that, they are prepared to die
so that they shall have sufficient
to eat, while you have a military
machine in forty different coun-
tries, that are posted to make
sure that your system of profit
keeps on grinding out dollars
from the population who are poy-
erty stricken,

Where are your pre-election
promises Mr, Johnson not to
escalate the war in Vietnam?
That was the factor that gave you
the presidency over your oppon-
ent Goldwater, Yet your memory
is short, you have filched your
promise away, and are prepared
to kill millions more, Hundreds
of delegations are going to see
in Vietnam what you and your
mercenaries are doing, They
come from Africa, they come
from Asia, are you‘going to be
the most hated nation on earth?

- Give it a thought Mr, Johnson,
recall your aircraft carriers
home, your military advisers,
all your paraphernalia of mad-
ness,

Develop your country a step
farther towards helping your fel-
low Americans, You’ll find plenty
to do there instead of meddling
into other people's affairs, You
will become a greater president,

February 26, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9