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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
fhursday; February 28, 1957
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EsUbUthrd 1900
July 4. 18*9 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS
Jane IS. 1955
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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.
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.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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