Abstract

Washington Weekly

The U.S. Senate committee investigating civil-liberties violations, including labor espionage, has performed two feats in the last few days that deserve the widest possible publicity. In the first of these Senator La Follette's committee has cast doubt on the good faith of General Motors Corp.' peace pact with organized labor, and in the second it has come close to furnishing proof of John L. Lewis's charge that the nation's largest corporations have joined together in an active, organized united-front campaign to violate the Wagner Act and smash or prevent unionization of their workers. The record of the week shows, in fact, that General Motors today is still very much like the General Motors Corp. of 1934, when U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's bogus peace plan and the Wolman board that it created were foisted on the automobile workers.