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y McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1937 JWU <**'&vwur By Edward W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Union Court Orders Strikers Out of Chrysler Plants C ircuit judge allen camp- bell of Detroit granted an in junction restraining sit-down strik ers from continuing to occupy the nine plants of the Chrysler corpora tion in that city. He declared the strikers were in unlawful possession of the plants and gave them two days to get out. The Chrysler com pany has refused to recognize the United Automobile Workers as the sole bargaining agency for its em ployees, who number 67,000. En forcement of the law was thus again put squarely up to Gov. Frank Mur phy, and both sides i: the contro versy, as well as citizens generally, waited with intense interest for him to decide his course. Governor Murphy, returning hur riedly from Florida, was taking 'steps that he hoped would put an end to the epidemic of strikes in the state’s major industries. He arranged a series of conferences with law enforcement officers, and industrial, union and civic leaders, and appointed a commission of 20 to study the problem. Among the members are Homer Martin, presi dent of the United Automobile Work ers; Frank H. Bowen, regional di rector of the national labor rela tions board; Attorney General Ray mond Starr, and James McEvoy, president of the Detroit board of commerce. General Motors and the United Automobile Workers of America reached an agreement for the set tlement of all their disputes. It covers wages, working conditions, and recognition of the union as the bargaining agency for its members. Final acceptance of the pact by the workers’ delegates was won by un ion leaders only after a long strug gle. Progress and Plans of the C. I. O. Campaign \TICTORIES for the steel cam- » paign of the C. I. O., which is conducted by Philip Murray, were claimed in McKeesport and the Kiski valley, parts of the Pittsburgh in dustrial region that have been strongly nonunion. Eight of the twen ty-two employee rep resentatives in the Vandergrift plant of Carnegie - Illinois Steel corporation were reported to have gone over to the Lewis union. The plant employs |p m Philip Murray 3,400 workers. At the Leechburg and Bracken- ridge plants of the corporation lead ers of the union campaign made demands for recognition of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, the nucleus of Lewis’ campaign to unionize com pletely the steel industry. All but two of the fourteen em ployee representatives of the Mc Keesport Tin Plate cpmpany voted to have Lewis’ union represent them in collective bargaining. The com pany employs more than 3,500 work ers. The union of oil field, gas well and refinery workers, a C. I. O. unit that was expelled from the A. F. of L., announced that the oil land of east Texas would be invaded by its organizers very soon. One of the organizers said this was “the cheap est, chisellingest field in the world” where salaries were the worst and living conditions deplorable. Labor Relations Board Hits Remington-Rand EMINGTON RAND, INC., large manufacturer of office equip ment, was accused by the federal labor relations board of violating the Wagner-Connery act and of us ing “ruthless” methods in trying to break the strike of 6,000 workers in six of its plants. The corporation was ordered to cease alleged inter ference with union activities of its employes; to bargain collectively with a majority of its workers; to reinstate strikers without discrimi nation and tq withdraw support of so-called “company unions” in its Ilion, N. Y., and Middleton, Conn., plants. The labor board declared the cor poration “exhibited a callous, im perturbable disregard of the rights of its employes that is medieval in its assumption of power over the lives of men and shocking in its concept of the status of the modern industrial worker.” It said Remington-Rand officials deliberately provoked disorders in order to turn public sentiment against the workers and “stood will ing to sacrifice the lives of the men whom it hired to break the strike as well as those of the strikers.” Secretary of Labor Perkins al ready had entered into this affair, having summoned James H. Rand, Jr., president of the company, to a conference in her office. About the same time John P. Frey, president of the metal trades department of the A. F. of L., protested against an award of a contract to the company by the social security board, and the chairman of that board an nounced a reconsideration of the award. Dr. Elihu Thompson, Noted Inventor, Taken by Death p) R. ELIHU THOMPSON, one of ^ the country’s famous inventors* a contemporary and friend of Thomas A. Edison, died in Swamp- scott, Mass., at the age of eighty- four. His scientific discoveries and inventions were numerous, but he is perhaps best known as the discov- e»er of electric welding and the in vention of the centrifugal cream separator and the centrifuge, an in strument used in biological labora tories. Thompson was bora in Eng land and was brought to the United States when a child. im Dykstra New President of Wisconsin University pLARENCE A. DYKSTRA, who ^ has been city manager of Cin- cinnati since 1930, was offered the presidency of the University of Wis consin and accepted after a conference with the board of re- . gents. He is ex pected to assume his new duties in a few weeks. Mr Dyk- s t r a, succeeding Glen Frank who was ousted because he did not please the La Follette regime, n * w hl receive a salary C.A.Dykstra $15 000 a year and will have a residence and automo bile. His salary in Cincinnati has been $25,000. The new president is fifty-four years old and unmarried. He was educated at the University of Iowa and taught political science at the University of Chicago, Ohio State and the University of Kansas be fore he entered the field of public administration. He announced that he was returning to college work with “great enthusiasm.” He also said he agreed “down to the grass roots,” with the ideals of academic freedom which prevail at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. “That is proper and ought to be,” he said. “Under this freedom, as understood by the teaching profes sion, men do not give up opinions, ideas and responsibilities as citizens because they go into teaching.” Month in Jail and Fine for Dr. F. E. Townsend T T NLESS his appeal is successful, ^ Dr. Francis E. Townsend, head of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., will have to spend a month in jail and pay a fine of $100. This was the sentence passed on him by Judge Peyton Gordon in Wash ington for contempt of the house of representatives in walking out of a committee meeting last May. “I would do the same thing to morrow should the occasion arise,” said the elderly doctor. “The ques tion here is how long a citizen must submit to the abuse of a congres sional committee before walking out on them. I feel that it was the only honorable thing to have done. “I am more than happy to take the consequences of my defiance of the unconstitutional imposition and persecution of the pygmy-minded men who composed the majority of the Bell committee.” Naval Patrol of Spain Begun by Four Powers \X7ARSHIPS of Great Britain, * * France, Italy and Germany started the naval patrol along the coasts of Spain designed to isolate the civil war as provided for by the neutrality agreement entered into by 27 nations. The two latter na tions are guarding the government coast and the two former the Fascist shore line. Ships going to Spain are required to halt at designated ports for inspection and agents of the international committee will ei ther certify that no arms or volun teers are aboard, or will accompany the vessels to Spain. The control ports are: Gibraltar, Lisbon, Oran, Algeria; Leverdon, Cette, Cher bourg, Brest, Marseille and Bor deaux, France; Palermo, Italy, and an anchorage off southeast Eng land. The nonintervention committee chose Admiral M. H. Van Dulm, for mer commander of the Dutch East Indies fleet, to direct the neutrality program and put Admiral J. S. C. Oliver, former Dutch squadron com mander, in charge of the naval pa trol and Col. Christian Lunn of Den mark in charge of the frontier guard. Great French Arms Plant Taken by Government T HE Creusot works of the famous old Schneider armaments firm in France has been expropriated by the French government and formal possession will be taken by decree. Everything in the workshops and stores of the firm which has to do with the manufacture of arms— tools, machinery, and stocks—will be taken over. what thinks .about: Irvin S. Cobb Windsor’s Finances. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— By latest reports, the duke of Windsor must start life as a married man reduced to a per sonal estate of only about $600,- 000, plus guaranteed annual re mittances amounting to but a beggarly $100,000 more. To be sure, as the old saying is, two can live as cheaply as one—if one of the two hap pens to be a gold fish or even a ca nary—but otherwise the notion hasn’t worked out under modern conditions, wives these days being what wives are these days. Still, they do say Mrs. Simpson is pretty handy with a skillet, which, on the cook’s Thurs days off, ought to save getting in extra kitchen help; and what with there being no crown jewels to keep polished and installment houses just crying to help all young honeymoon- ers out—you furnish the bird, we furnish the nest!—Well, by scrimp ing, the couple should get by, don’t you think? • • * Washington Rumors. H OW rumors do float about—es pecially in the neighborhood of Washington. Well, Washington al ways has been kind of a windy place. First we hear a boom is to be started for Mrs. Roosevelt to suc ceed the President at the conclu sion of his term. This is promptly denied and the question arises—how is that loyal soul, Uncle Jim Farley, going to stand the strain of waiting until Sistie Dahl gets old enough to run? Uncontradicted as yet is the other report that the White House craves to revive the NRA, under another set of initials and—let us hope—with a better-looking Blue Eagle than that first one was. * * * “Sweeping” Inquiries. A FTER every major disaster which conceivably was pre ventable, we have a “sweeping in quiry” or a “searching probe”—it depends on which phrase the re porters like best—to fix the blame. Rarely does anything come of this, but it must indeed be a great con solation to the widows and the or phans of the victims. Seemingly, it never occurs to any one to make the said investigation before the tragedy occurs, with a view of searching out defective mechanism or imperfect construc tion then. We are a great people for shut ting the stable door after the horse is gone—shutting it good and tight so the probers may have leisure for their probing. • * • Defying a Glacier. TN ALASKA, the Revell family are * defying Black Rapids glacier which, without seeming provocation and after remaining perfectly calm for several million years, suddenly started coming down upon them, rumbling and roaring and acting up generally as it advances. Its icy snout is only about a mile away from their roadhouse now, but they’re still serving ye olde blue plate special—choice of jello or stewed prunes—as usual. The Revells couldn’t be New York people. In New York, everybody strives to move at least once every two years, whether there’s reason for it or not. A lady flat dweller there likes the scriptural promise of a house of many mansions because it gives her such a warm glow to think of spending eternity shifting from one mansion to another, re decorating as she goes. • • • Crime and Punishment. AT A recent trial in New York for a hideous murder, the law yer for the killer—who, incidentally, had confessed—wound up his plea with this old and reliable and beau tifully logical standby: “Putting this man in the electric chair will never bring back the woman he slew—remember that. Gentlemen of the jury.” But putting a brutal killer in the electric chair will never bring him back either, which, after all, is the main idea, isn’t it, Gentlemen of any rational jury? IRVIN S. COBB. © Western Newspaper Union. Selecting Indian Chiefs In some tribes, such as the Iro quois and some Pueblo tribes, cer tain chieftaincies were always se lected from a particular clan. While there were hereditary chieftaincies among certain other groups, as a matter of practice such offices were usually elective. It is possible that the political system of the Iroquois influenced the democratic style of government of the United States. Probably the only example in North America of a power analogous to that of a despot was to be found among the Natchez and neighbor ing tribes df the lower Mississippi. In this instance submission to the will of the chief was for the most part voluntary and based on reli gion. Washington National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. • * WASHINGTON, D. C ;rfffrrt-rr r £~ Washington.—Developments that have taken place and are taking place in the fight Sees New precipitated b y Alignment President Roose velt’s plan to re form the Supreme court of the United States show some phases not hitherto evident in political fights. One of these, I believe, portends important changes in the political alignment in this country. I have reported to you in these columns many times evidences of a growing trend toward a new political align ment and I can say now that noth ing which has taken place since Mr. Roosevelt took his New Deal into the White House has given such impetus to this coming realignment as his proposal that congress pass a law giving him authority to name six more justices for the high est court. The information coming into Washington these days shows very plainly that the Roosevelt court packing proposal is calling forth op position from both of the major po litical parties. In other words, the opposition to the President’s move is probably nonpartisan to a greater extent than any issue before the American people in the last 50 years. It will be remembered that the late President Wilson’s proposal that the United States enter the League of Nations falls within that period of time and while there was both Democratic and Republican opposition to Mr. Wilson’s program, it can not be said to have extended among the rank and file of the Dem ocratic party, then in power, to the extent that Mr. Roosevelt’s court packing project has permeated the lists of Democratic voters. I have endeavored to gain the views of many individuals respect ing the prospects of a new political alignment but few of the men whose judgment is best politically are will ing to make a guess. A consider able number of them say frankly that they are unable to guess. On the other hand, however, there was general agreement that Mr. Roose velt, by suddenly tossing his court program into the lap of congress, has given momentum to a move ment that for some months appears to have been simply marking time. There are certain facts on this phase of the court battle that appear obvious. They are influential and important as well. Take for example the fact that Mr. Roosevelt does not have the backing of the so-called solid South for his proposition. Now, the Demo cratic party for three-quarters of a century has maintained the South as a stronghold of its party. In deed, in every presidential and congressional election, Republican politicians began calculating what the Pemocratic strength could be at the maximum by conceding 13 states to the Democrats. How dif ferent is the situation, now. • * • One can go through the lists of representatives in congress from the South and find Different them rather even- Story ly divided. One will find among Mr. Roosevelt’s opponents in this battle numerous senators and rep resentatives who have supported him on every other item of legisla tion that he has recommended to congress. Now, however, the story is different. Another interesting phase of the legislative situation is that the bulk of the true and constant liberals in the senate and the house have taken a stand against the proposi tion of increasing the Supreme court from nine to fifteen members. These two points do not repre sent all of the factors opposing the President’s plan by any means, but I think it can be definitely said that if Mr. Roosevelt is defeated in his demand at this time, the two fac tors that I have named will have been the deciding influences. Having influences like those just mentioned expanding in their scope, portends, as I suggested above, a considerable shake-up in party af- filation of a lasting kind. I do not mean to say that all of the liberals who are opposing the plan and all of the Democrats who are opposing the court-packing will refrain from supporting Mr. Roosevelt on other issues in the future. I do mean to emphasize, however, that some of them will not return to the ranks of Roosevelt stalwarts. Thus it becomes rather obvious, I think, that the conservative ranks in congress will be increased to the extent that some of the defections, caused by Mr. Roosevelt’s court proposal, result in permanent ad herence to other philosophies. So it seems to me that the future holds the probability of a sharp line of demarcation between radicals and conservatives. How they will be identified and what labels they may wear is immaterial. We are due to have a conservative party and a radical party in this country and its shape and character is be ing molded under the driving fire of the controversy precipitated by Mr. Roosevelt’s demands for six more Supreme court justices. • * * In a previous article I discussed the bitterness that has permeated . the Supreme court Growing controversy. This Bitterness bitterness is grow ing and no one can tell how terrific it is going to be. Yet, while the political leaders make charges and countercharges, it seems to me to be almost pa thetic that the nine judges of the Supreme court must sit quietly by and say nothing. They can not de fend themselves against the criti cisms leveled at them by President Roosevelt and his associates. I have searched the records as far as I have been able and I have yet to find where any justice of the Supreme court of the United States ever has expressed himself publicly on any occasion when the court was assailed. It is a rule that is strictly adhered to by the nine justices whom Mr. Roosevelt has described as “the nine old men.” Therefore, we see them as the center of one of the greatest political battles in history, wholly unwilling to be smirch their dignity or their rec ords by answering back. The recent “fireside chat” by Mr. Roosevelt was replete with innuen does and inferences that the mem bers of the court are quite incapa ble of doing their job; that they are living in an age that is dead and, consequently, unable to see things as the rest of the country sees them today. Mr. Roosevelt’s speech at the victory dinner of the Demo crats was purely politics and his fireside chat in explanation of his court program was 90 per cent poli tics. But the Supreme court is not in politics. It strikes me as being almost a tragedy that these “nine old men” can not defend their honor and their record after a lifetime of service to the American people. I do not take much stock in the many tirades that have filled the air and columns upon columns of newspaper space that the present justices are incapable of doing their job. There is so much untruth, so many unwarranted conclusions in those tirades that it amounts to a gi gantic campaign that will mislead the people of the nation. Assuming that some of the justices are too old to do their job and assuming fur ther that some of them may be too conservative to deal with pres ent day problems, it yet seems to me to be an indisputable fact that there is nothing in life that can take the place of experience and the lessons thus learned. • * • While Mr. Roosevelt was taking a vacation in the warm sunshine of Georgia, the case Able in behalf of the Spokesmen court packing proposition was ably presented to the senate com mittee on the judiciary. His spokes men were Attorney General Cum mings and Assistant Attorney Gen eral Robert Jackson. They did their job well. They met some of the most vicious questions from com mittee members that I have ever heard and they met them with a smile. True, opponents of the pro gram among those senators were not satisfied at all with the explana tions advanced by the President’s spokesmen. That fact, however, does not take away from the two witnesses the credit that is due them. And thus for the first time we have what must be regarded as of ficial arguments. I mean these ar guments are to be distinguished from fireside chats and political speeches concerning the merits of the President’s plan. Likewise, for the first time we have a frank ad mission that Mr. Roosevelt’s pur pose in asking congress to give him authority for appointing six addi tional judges is to give him men on that court who will see present day problems r.s the President sees them. In view of Mr. Jackson’s state ments to the committee, we can look back upon some of the speeches made by New Deal spokes men some months ago and can realize from them and present de velopments that Mr: Roosevelt had the general purpose of packing the court in mind for some months. This circumstance seems to explain also why the President and his ad visors refused to accept the recom mendation of Prof. Raymond Moley in 1934. At that time, Professor Moley, a member, if not the num ber one man, of the Brain Trust, urgently pressed for the New Deal ers to go to the country with two constitutional amendments. He wanted the people of the country to understand that these amendments would permit enactment of certain types of laws. He thought that the congressional elections of 1934 was the time to present the questions to the voters. It must be said that Professor Moley’s proposition was one of the fairest and soundest to be made. It is a method prescribed by the Constitution itself. © Western Newspaper Union. The Choicest Man If you would choose the choicest book, select the one that’s soiled and worn; and as you finger through its leaves you’ll note how they are curled and torn. The book, by use, acquired these marks, which show on every leaf and page, as eager eyes have scanned the text to garner wis dom for the age. 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