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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

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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.

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ce mee bell, mands Scab right down to

qs dl Satan to give him a seat mene

fs sa &riddle up near the

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belo aoe down to the imps

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—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