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PACE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA ^ ... ■■ ■.■ — ■ ■ 1 O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. CLOSED SHOP CHALLENGED In support of constitutional states' rights, Attorney General Watson of the State of Flor ida has filed suit against two corporations oper ating under closed shop agreements, to test the legality of the closed shop contract in a nation founded upon principles of justice and equality. In commenting on the suits. Mr. Watson says: "In both cases we have proven that to employ a worker the employer must first send him to the business agent of the union. This business agent classifies the employee to the union which he is required to join. An initiation fee is fixed by the union—these fees in two cases in ques tion ranging all the way from $10 to $125 per initiation. It was proven also that the business agent could and did in cases arbitrarily refuse to certify the name of the proposed employee either to the union or to the employer; that, also, even after certification to the union under application for membership, the union’s mem bership committee arbitrarily refused tc admit him, in which case he became immediately dis qualified, and if he had gone to work upon a temporary permit from the business agent, his employment was immediately terminated be cause of the union’s refusal to accept him as a member. We also proved instances where men seeking employment, accepted membership by the union, after paying their initiation fee, were shortly thereafter terminated from such employ ment without cause and solely upon the union's dictum. We also proved that persons were terminated by the union’s dictum in their em ployment for failure to pay union dues, and in several instances where controversies have ar isen among union members in the same em ployment, the union would take the side of one against the other and terminate the membership .... of the one acted against, and thereby bring about his immediate discharge from his closed shop employment." These labor excesses have been practiced with the approval and encouragement of the Federal government. That is one of the rea sons why the coal mines have been sociali2ed temporarily, why legitimate unionism may suf fer injury, and why, when our men come back from war, they may find that before they can get a job they must pay tribute to a labor dic tatorship just as deadly to freedom as the European military dictatorships. It is not too late to restore constitutional gov ernment. Courageous men like Attorney Gen eral Watson are leading the way and deserve public encouragement and support. A-l RECORDS IN WAR WORK The fact that no electric utility Kas yet been awarded the Army-Navy E, despite outstanding participation in the war effort, prompted Elec trical World to say editorially: "From many a factory there proudly floats the Army-Navy E. They are the civilian coun terparts of citations on the field of action for extra effort by members of our armed forces. "These awards, however, have been given only to manuacturing organizations. No elec tric utility has been given an Army-Navy E. Yet no manufacturing concern was better prepared for the demands of war, has delayed war pro duction less or has shown so little labor disturb ance since the war began. "Why has there been no recornition? It would almost appear as though the Army and Navy were conscious of the fact that electricity utility employes have inbred in them the fixed belief that, regardless of anything else, service must be maintained and that no incentive is needed to encourage them to do their best. Like our fighting men, they give no thought to themselves when there is a battle to be won. “It would be difficult to single out utilities for such honors, because all of them are doing A-1 jobs. They produce the only universal raw ma terial of war production, without which every factory making war goods would have to stop. They make a raw material that cannot be stock ed, yet must be instantaneously available wher ever and whenever and in whatever quantity wanted. Their men have been drafted, their requests for additional facilities more and more limited, yet they never have defaulted on the job. "^Tiere has been no power shortage. "Recognition or no recognition, no one can take away from the electric utilities the know ledge that they have done a good job.” FRIDAY. JUNE 25, 1943 BEANS AND MORE BEANS AS CANNERY GOES FULL BLAST From The Johnston Herald. Beans, Beans, Beans I Nobody in Johnston ever saw so many beans in all his or her previous life, has been coming into town in long trailer-trucks while the Ritter cannery stepped up to full-time production. Passing over long white rubber belts, the product of hundreds of acres of South Carolina snap beans inspires a mathematically-inclined worker to do some real figuring. Travelling at a speed of 30-feet per minute continuously for a 16-hour day, the belt moves some 2 1 tons of beans. Averaging the “load" at 10 inches wide and two inches deep, enough beans have already been canned in Johnston to pave a ten-by-two inch path from here to Chic ago, by way of New York, according to our mathematician. On entering the plant, the beans are introduc ed to the "snipers.” These machines lop off both ends, just as if they are to be cooked for dinner. But many of the sniped beans never get to the end of the inspection belts. On both sides of this belt are lines of keen-eyed, nimble fingered women who pick out all imperfect beans, so that when they reach the stainless steel cutting machines, only the perfect speci mens have been left. Then they travel through a long flume, baf fled every two and a half feet, which creates a continuous ripple and gives the beans a thorough washing, even before they reach the real wash ing vat, from which they are removed by' the wire wove nbleaching belt, and travel at the rate of 1 6 feet a minute for a distance of 90 feet in a live steam bath. The next stage of the journey takes them into the filler^, where through live steam, they enter the cans, which are individually salted and auto matically sealed. The sealed cans are placed in large metal bas kets, which carry 1500 of them, and are lowered into the vast pressure cookers, and are processed at 240 degrees. Trolley hoists lift the 1500 cans, swing them slowly through the long cooling tank and on into the second story warehouse, where they are stacked in neat piles and allowed to remain until all danger of “swelling is past. Afterwards, the cans are passed through the labeling machines and packed into standard ship ping cases. In explaining the bean canning process. Man ager Boyd M. Hall took occasion to remark upon the high type of the help the cannery has been able to assemble here. He spoke of the loyalty and intelligence of the workers saying they are much above the average he has found in various sections during his twenty years’ experience in the canning business. Mr. Hall is confident that, under normal con ditions, the farmer of this section will see the lo cation of the cannery here as a distinct asset, and will make full use of it as a market for new mon ey crops from year to year. FOR HONOR AND FOR HER ' Somewhere, a woman, thrusting fear away. Faces the future bravely for your sake. Toils on from dawn ’til dark; from day to day; Fights back her tears, nor heeds the bitter ache, She loves you, trusts you, breathes in prayer your name; Soil not her faith in you, by sin or shame. Somewhere a woman—mother, sweetheart, wife, Waits betwixt hopes and fears for your return; Her kiss, her words, will cheer you in strife. When death itself confronts you, grim and stern; But let her image all your reverence claim. When base temptations scorch you with their flame. Somewhere a woman watches—filled with pride; Shrined in heart, you shaie a place with none You stand together when the battle's done. She toils, she waits, she prays, till side by side O, keep for her dear sake a stainless name! Bring back to her a manhood free from shame! Will Found In Jam Jar A jam jar washed up on the New South Wales coast, contained a letter revealing the tortures of hunger and thirst suffered by three lost in a launch at sea, and the letter ended with tke will of the launch owner, a hotel manager at Port Kembla. The will was witnessed by his two companions. A navy division usually consists of two or more vessels or aircraft of the same type. A single British night raid of 1,000 bombers over the Rhineland cost close to $14,000,000, the largest single item being the cost of the planes that were lost. Parents are less liable to death from cancer , than other people. Connie Mack has managed forty-nine seasons all told, with nine flag winners and thirteen eighth placers. ^ THE POWER OF HARRY HOPKINS (By Owen L. Scott) The President is finding th*5.i he must delegate to others more of the responsibility for running the civilian side of the war. This delegation of power is made necessary by the growing volume of strictly war and postwar problems that now must be delt with. Mr. Roosevelt has chosen two men to act for him on many domestic issues. Those two men are Justice James F. Byrnes, as head of the new Office of War Mobilization, and Judge Fred Vinson, as head of the Office of Economic Stabi- lizatioh. The job of Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Vinson is to keep the various war agency “czars” in line on matters of policy. Some of these “czars,” however, are noting what the regard as strange signs. They find that important national policies are being decided, in which they have a very direst interest, without consultation with them. In other words, an offi cial who must execute a program under great difficulties discovers that he simply is told that this program is decided upon without being given a chance to give his opinion concerning whether that program is feasible or desirable, or even possible. Then the “czars,” who have very direct rela tions with Justice Byrnes, have discovered that he was simply carrying out orders in announcing, a- mong other things, a price rollback on meats and butter, or a broad program of food-price subsidies without consulting with the men who must finance and execute those difficult policies. Pursuing the matter further, some of the “czars" now have concluded that the real power in do mestic-policy matters is traceable to Harry Hop kins and to a little -group of officials associated with him at the White House. Mr. Hopkins, as the most intimate aide to the President and as a result of his many years of experience at the White House, is better able than Justice Byrnes to know exactly what it is that the President wants. Then Mr. Hopkins has very close ties, directly and through his as sociates, that range all through the government, while Justice Byrnes and Judge Vinson have very small organizations. BEN COHEN, who is right hand man to Jus tice Byrnes, has been a co-worker of Mr. Hopkins for many years. JUDGE SAMUEL ROSEN- MAN, who handles matters of government or ganization, writing orders that shift powers from one official to another, also is closely associated with Mr. Hopkins. Then there are many law yers and other officials in key positions all thru the government who were selected by JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER and who maintain their contract at the White House. Among them is Edward Prichard, who is to be right hand man to Judge Vinson as Economic Stabilizer. Then, Mr. Hopkins keeps a close eye on the war production and he works with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Probably no person in the Gov ernment, not even the President, is so intimately acquainted right now with the functioning of the civilian war machinery thru the various "czars” and their agencies. Harry Hopkins and the group of top officials around him are taking a direct interest in several situations. It is a group that has most to do with policies designed to combat inflation. Some of the de cisions of greatest importance were made with out any consultation either with the czars who must carry out those decisions or with the indus tries affected by them. Matters of wage policy and of farm price policy also are determined by this group, with Justice Byrnes then acting to carry out the policies. Likewise, Mr. Hopkins and the group he heads make the major decisions affecting the division of materials between civilians and the military. When there is a clash of interests that calls for decision by the White House instead of by Don ald Nelson’s War Production Board the decision is shaped often by Mr. Hopkins or his associates. The Army and Navy have been pleased by the trend of White House decisions in this regard. More and more of Harry Hopkins' attention now is turning to fourth term problems. It now is from this group that the things are being drop ped that Henry Wallace will not be second man on the 1944 Democratic ticket and that the field is open to other hopeful candidates. The pur pose of this maneuver can be to win back support of some party politicians who have been straying but who are willing to come back if there is hope of reward. The President himself never has in dicated that he would seek a different running mate in the event of a fourth-term candacy. The Hopkins group at the White House i» be ing severly criticized at this time by many old- line New Dealers who have not been among those in the most exclusive inner circle. That criticism grows from the fact that the White House has been willing to sacrifice New Deal of ficials without standing back of them. Very ma ny New Dealers hfave been forced out of office lately under the fire of Congress. Members of the Hopkins group explain, how ever, that war is not a time in which the White House can be expected to fight for individual of ficials who are not able to look out for themselves It is a time too when new reforms have to be sa crificed in order to concentrate attention on strictly war issues. They point out that New Dealers now being forced out may have their turn again when peace comes back. Justice Byrnes, with no big organization of his own, is expected to direct the civilian side of war. The men who must do the actual operat ing of civilian programs doubt that he can do that except in cooperation with Harry Hopkins, who has the organization and the contacts.