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W f Paj?e Poor THE CLINTON CHRONICLE fhursday; February 28, 1957 Hi}? (Clinton (Hljrontrlp EsUbUthrd 1900 July 4. 18*9 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS Jane IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Adviance) ... One Year $3.00, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poat Office at Clinton, S. C. t uhder Act of.Corvgresa March 3, 1879 i The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all 'times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters' of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association ' • National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ..._( New York, Cnicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. FEBR1ARY 28. 1957 An Expensive Lesson, But Eminently Worthwhile A fine of $315,000 has been imposed on the Communication Workers of America nion—and has been paid, according to com pany reports—for physical damage inflicted on Southern Bell Telephone Company facili ties during the 1955 strike. Payment by the union was the outgrowth of a damage suit filed in 1955 by the com- prtny. An agreement to this eifect was reached by the company and attorneys’ for the union, it has been stated by telephone officials. ’ „ In the suit filed May 21, 1955, in the David son County, Tenn., (Nashville) circuit court. Southern Bell charged the union with "a pat tern of violence" designed to destroy tele phone.facilities a,nd interfere with communi cation service to the public in Alabama, Flor ida. Georgia, Kentucky. Louisiana.*Mississip pi. North Carolina. South Carolina and Ten nessee. , The suit, seeking $5,000,000 for punitive | as well as actual damages, alleged that the I union, its members and others joined an."un lawful combination and conspiracy” to danf- { age property. The suit,said the lihion “em- barkeii oiv a program of wanton, willful and malicious fisconduct and property damage." ! including the use of dynamite, fire arms and ! cable cutting!?. In a separate action growing 1 out <>t strike ^ violence, the GW A recently agreed to accept ' without further hearings an* order by the National I^abor Relations Board against the i international union and 27 of its locals for 1 unfair labor practices during the 1955 stride, j By agreement of the union’s attorneys to ^ accept the imposition of the fine and to pay j it, the union admits its guilt as charged to | all allegations of the company in its indict ment. The union would have endeavored to : maneuver itself out of the position in which it placed itself had it not known that the weight of an outraged public opinion \Vas overwhelmingly against it. The union "biir . shots” knew that the acts of its agents and members during the strike were "wanton, willful and malicious.’V as the company charged. This news from the South will be received as good news by friends of law and order everywhere. We hoi>e it will be received by*unions the country over as a-warning that they cannot with _ 7mpuhtty .permit * their Iheriibers for de^ stroy property of companies with which they are in dispute or abet them in doing so. li - unions exect to have the respect of law- abiding citizens of this country they must earn it. And perpetrating acts ofhe^dhltjHsm, or condoning them, is no way to go about it. The CWA has had to part with a large sum of .money for the lesson it was forced to learn, but we think the education was timely and worthwhile.., Risky Business The President’s proposed budget wall pro vide a surplus if administration estimates prove correct. It is believed that revenues will be somewhat larger than expenditures. This is highly desirable, of course—an un balanced budget now would really spur in flation. At t'he same time, we should not for^ get that the anticipated surplus will be the /result of an extraordinary high level of busi ng/-; activity—not of any major effort to cut costs. • • ' 4 .There is a serious danger here, and Sena tor Byrd has described it in clear words: "It is'risky business to depend on an increase in revenues to balance the budget. The Presi dent-has pointed out that we have peak pros perity now and evidently the administration believes the’ business level is going even higher. We all hope it ddes. But when it comes to balancing fhe budget it would be much safer to reduce expenditures than to depend on an increase in receipts." Even a comparatively small decline, in general business activity and income, with the adverse effect that would have on the government’s tax revenues, could throw the budget far out of balance, oh the red ink bde. We are depending on a boom of vir tually unlimited dimensions — and no man can say that such a boom will g<> on indefi nitely. ■ «*--v Good times are the times in which the most determined efforts to cut government costs should be made. Future Farmers Join In Observance National FFA Week The Clinton chapter of Future Fanners of America joined with nearly a half million Future Farmers throughout the nation in observing National FFA week during the week of (February 16- 23. A. G. Smith,, teacher of voca tional agriculture, at Clinton hig’i school, and FFA adviser, said the National FFA week activities sponsored l*y the Clinton chapter, included a radio program and lo cal FFA meeting. The Clinton chapter has 20 members. The officers are: Da vid Cromer, president; Richard Everett, secretary; John Wrenn, treasurer; George Buford, report er; Sidney Bonds, sentinel. More than 7,457 farm boys in 310 chapters comprise the FFA membership in South Carolina. The national Radio Station WFBC To Feature Clinton On Friday, March 8 Clinton will be highlighted on the program, ‘'Pinpointing the Piedmont Promotion” of Radio Station WFBC in Greenville with various .Clinton personalities, groups and citizens appearing on programs throughout the day. March 8, Friday, has been tenta tively set as Clinton's day on the program and entertainers, civic groups, club and institution leaders interested in participating in the programs should contact the Clin ton Chamber of Commerce to ex press their desire to be represent ed on the feature. George Massey, Clinton Cham ber of Commerce manager, said j the WFIBC program, Poole’s Party Line, from 7 to 8:30 a. m. will fea ture Clinton city and CHnmber of ficials followed by the 9\to 10 a m. Kitchen Kapers show which will be taken over by Clinton women’s clubs. Reports show at 12:10 p. m. will have as guests according to the tentative plans, various civic groups, institution leaders and others interested in the program while the il to 3 p. m Monty on Record show will highlight teen agers, school officials and musical talent of Clinton. „ Mr. Massey said the WFBC radio program offers local citizens and leaders the opportunity to take Clinton’s progress, possibilities and invitation to many listeners in the Piedmont area and promises to be highly beneficial to the com munity and area as a result of participation by the local interest- states, h * I don min A or g a pi z ation j Dixie Jamboree and Farm has nearly 400,000 members .with | _ 8,990 chapters in the 48 Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Membership in the FFA is jt made up of farm boys who arc tj students of vocational agricu Baptist Kindergarten Leaders Attend Clinic, Mrs. Joe McDaniel and Mrs. Leroy Sanders joined other South-wide Kindergarten leaders in a clinic held each afternoon this week at the First Church, Greenville. Dr. James C. Barry, editor of week-day -materials, Baptist Sunday School Board, di rected the conference. OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. tue in high 'school. The organi zation’s activities are designed primarily to help develop rural leadership and good citizen.-mip, !■: and to stimulate the boys to bet- :1 ter achievement in their study t tj and work toward successful es- $ tablishment in farming. Future Farmers choose the week of George Washington's birthday each year for the ob servance of National FFA week. V# • « •*» • :: Clinton Lions Club SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executiv# Vice President Southern States Industrial Council Where The Blame DoesnT Belong A U. S. News & World Report feature ar ticle hears the provocative and disturbing title "Is a Buyer’s’ Strike Coming?” The article says a real strike of that kind is not believed to be imminent—but that sales of some kinds of goods are slowing, and that there is more grumbling- over prices among consumers. It also say- that "Mer chants are encountering resentment from their customers -against some of the high prices.” Human nature being what 'it is, this[ is probably inevitable. When consumer resent- Tnent-. over inflation flared shortly after World War II. merchants bore the brunt of the attack and in some cases groups actually picketed stores. This attitude, in the vast majority of eases, amounts to placing the blame where it definitely does not l>elong. Merchants are not responsible for higher prices, now or in the past,, and the profit figures prove it. Wages have been going up, in some cases sharply, and so have other, costs .borne by business oh both the manufacturing and re tailing levels. Merchants have no choice— the increases must be passed .along to the consumer. Beaver Falls’ Pa., News-Tribune: "With literary standards what they are in some cir cles today it’s difficult to know whether to wash Johnny’s mouth out with soap when he picks up had words, or to buy him a type writer.” ' UNIONIZATION IN THE SOUTH The national labor unions have always had, are having and for the foreseeable future will contin ue to have trouble organizing the workers in the Southern states. .Not that they^haven't tried hard enough. It was only a few ye’ars ago that’"Operation Dixie" was inaugurated by these unions, and one high- ranking union leader said they were determined to organize the South even if blood had to flow in the streets in order for them to gain their ends. And blood did flow in the streets in many instanc es.. thoygh that seems to be an aspect of union or ganizing that is not peculiar to the South or any other part of the country. But unionization of the South progressed very little, in fact is now perhaps receding in the South According t<> the AFL-CIO’s own estimates, they have only organized from 15 to 20 per cent of the Southerfi workers’as compared* with 40 to 50 per cent of the workers in the North and Far West. These are liberal estimates. Unionization in the South is currently losing ground mainly because of support by the national labor unions of racial integration. It has been pointed out to Southern workers that the AFL- CIO took $75,000 of the dues paid to it by its mem bers (many of whom are Southerners and opposed to integraiton) and contributed this money to the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People. ' . Some few local unions have pulled out of their national organization on account of the segrega tion question. some attempts have been made to ward organizing a Southern Federation of Labor, and many local union leaders have pointedly told the national organizations that if it comes to a showdown between affiliation with the national union and segregation, they will take segregation, of the White Citizens Councils, dedicated to pre serve segregation; even a leader of the, Knights Many Southern union members are also members of the Ku Kluz Klan is a dues-paying union mem ber. The rank and file of the union members in the South are ismply not going along with the nation al unions on the question of integration because they feel that the national unions are thereby at tempting to destroy a "Southern way of life." This same feeling, of course, applies to workers gener ally, and it has accordingly more or less istopped -—unionization in the South in its tracks. But this trouble ovei the question of integra tion is only a current and possibly a passing aspect of unionization in the South' There are other reasons Why unionization is not popular among Southern workers. Labor leaders try to blame much of their fail-1 ure in organizing the South on the taptics used by Southern employers. They say that employers in the South argue their side of the case just as vig orously as the unions argue theirs—and the labor bosses don’t seem to think this is “fair.” It is true that Southern employers generally have not “giv en in - ' to demands for unionizatibn as have those in other parts of the country—but that is all to their credit. Certainly there, is nothing “unfair"— and it is entirely legal under the Taft-Hartley Act —about each side presenting its case just as clearly as possible But underlying all this comparative failure of unionization in the South is a more fundamental reason than anything yet mentioned—the basic conservatism of the rank and file of Southern peo ple, their adherence to the principle of self-reli ance and individual freedom on which our form of government was originally based. ’ That this is definitely true is fully illusrtated by the fact that all the Southern states, with the exception of Louisiana—which has switched back and forth a cd'uple of times and will perhaps switch again—have Right to Work laws. These laifrs specify that workers shall not be denied em ployment because of membership of non-member ship in a labor union. The people of the South, as evidenced by their state laws, recognize that compulsory unionism in anyform is slavery, and a complete denial of a right inherent to a free man in a free nation. Thq, national labor leaders would destroy this right. The South will not go along. (continued from page 1) presented an award to W. C Dobbins, the presiden), for his service to the organization during the year. Also pivsent was the Laurens club, headed by its president. Jack Gratz. The Clinton club is; the parent club of both the Joan-1 na and Laurens units. ' The Clinton Business and Pro fessional Women's club was rep resented by Mrs. Leila Johnson, president; the Clinton Kiwanis club by its president. Howard Smith; the Exchange club by its president, Frank Fowler;, the Clinton Junior Chamber of Com-i merce by Lewis Bagwell, vice- president: and the Clinton Cham-1 ber of Comerce by its presi-1 dent. James E .Wolfe. Charter members who are still; affiliated with the club are I. Mac Adair. B. | H. Boyd, T. Heath Copelanct ,J. J. Cornwall. H. L. Eichelberger, Harry C. Layton, and P. S. Bailey. Each was given a charter award. Other charter members ed groups. In the event the March 8 date is confirmed for the Clinton pro gram, a complete list of partici pants will be included in The Chronicle edition of March 7. to allow local citizens to attend in person at the studtarf of WFBC certain shows in which their friends participate.. g who j« are no lonegr affiliated with the jj club inlcude A. W. Brice of. j 8 Greenwood. J B. Townsend of,; j> Anderson, John H. Davis, Gainesville, Fla, B. Frank God frey. of Columbia, L. S- McMil- lian, Jack H Davis, Jr., R. S. Ow ens. and H. D. Payne, of Clinton. of ’•* Your cancelled check (returned to you by us with,, 4 your hank statement) is a honafide receipt of pay ment that stops all arguments before they start. Just one of the many advantages you enjoy When you have a personal checking account here! 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