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FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1948 A good number to remember for.,. • Tire Service • Battery Service • Washing and Lubrication • Polishing • Automotive Accessories • Household Appliances • Quaker Oil Heaters • Tractor Fuel & Fuel Oil And Of Course PURE-PEP GASOLINE ond TIOLENE MOTOR OIL C. D. Coleman Company “DEPENDABLE SERVICE 11 THE HEWBEKirr Opinion On The Coal Strike John Lewis is not doing anything | illegal. He is entirely within the i law. To make this a contest of who scowls the hardest doesn’t stoke the boiler. Lewis demands that foreman be unionized. But NLRB has just de cided that is O. K. by them. So why jump on John? Lewis is on strike. But strikes are within the law. And didn’t the ad ministration support steel and auto and other strikes that lasted much longer than the coal strike has so far? Lewis wants to levy a tax on coal to build up a huge welfare fund un der his obsolute ccntrol. But this precedent was established long ago, and the administration did nothing about it except to scold mildly when a campaign was on. Petrillo has been collecting a royalty on electri cal recordings for a long time and still does. By implication, the Pet rillo bill, recently enacted, gives it the blessing of Congress. The bill simply forbids a second tax every time the recording is played. Lewis and the operators can law fully agree to levy a private tax of 10 cents or $10 on every ton of coal, and give the money to John. The op erators have refused to do this (al though permitted to Petrillo). They are right and should be supported. Nevertheless, if Lewis can get away with his demands, as Petrillo did, there is othing in the Wagner Act or antitrust laws to stop him. Labor unions have been “exempted out’’ by the administration, Congress, and various,outrageous decisions of the Supreme Court, which the United States Senate has so far refused to do anything to correct. So, if you go without heat, or eleotricity, or have to shut down the factory, or are thrown out of work by the coal strike, be sure to hurl you dead cats at the right parties. “Please, John, be a good fellow won’t you?” is not the formula. The American people ought not to have to live by the grace of John L. Lew is or James Caesar Petrillo, or any Democratic or Republican politician, whosoever. This ought to be a government of law, and not of men. The trouble is that we have aban doned principle and substituted ex pediency for the impartial adminis tration of law. It is inconvienient for the admini stration right now, and makes us look like fools before the entire world to show that Lewis can tie this Nation^ up worse than Hitler could. But if this were a government of law ana not of politicians kept in power by a lazy public, we would no more tol erate a little man-and-wife grocery store being clubbed into paying tri bute to a teamster’s union under threat that no merchandise will be delivered, than we would tolerate a whole Nation being clubbed into sub mission by Hitlers, foreign or domes tic. Little Hitlers grow into big Hitlers. Small tyrannies grow into huge tyrannies. Mr. Truman is appealing to the miners to please dig us some coal. No doubt many would do so. But how can they? If they do, they can be kicked out of the union, and that would cost them their jobs and their wives and kids the chance to eat. So, I am not blaming the min ers. I a m blaming the administra tion which for years' has been build ing up industry-wide collective bar gaining, with the closed shop as its weapon of coercion. It is this which has put “we, the people,” including thousands of coal miners, in the wringer. Congressman Robertson, of Vir ginia, and others, propose to make private tax levies unlawful. This is all to the good. But when and it this is done, the main trouble will remain. It is that Government has put public power in private hands. This is another name for anarchy. If you have condoned it, and not voted for Congressmen who tried to correct it, don’t holler for coal. By Harold H. Earthman If we knew that on June 1 some foreign government could by means of sabotage close up all American factories, schools, hospitals, public utilities, institutions of every type and nature, a s well as bring to a complete stop agricultural activities 4 nd farrfiers, I am certain that our Resident, his Cabinet, and every Member of Congress of both Houses would spend every minute, night and day, in declaring war on that nation and would direct every legal authority toward preventing such an occasion. 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Peake’s Radio Service V>*,- ' y, ’ i' ’V . - rstv j OfUcial U. S. Navy Photograph Sub-hunter USS Stack, a destroyer of the McCall class of 1939, fought in both Atlantic and Pacific waters, operating against German and Jap submarines. The vessel participated in the Battle of Vella Gulf, the occupation of the Marshalls, and the assaults on New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, and Okinawa. national disaster, much suffering, and complete distruction of our na tional economy and at the same time absolutely innihilate all benefits that are being sought by previous legis lation. To let this go further un checked would bring about the most chaotic and desperate conditions of inflation ever known in this coun try. John L. Lewis is not more powerful than 140,000,000 people and now is the time that we should make it known to him and all others who in the future may attempt to do likewise. The people shall rule this country. By Bartel J. Jonkman According to the newspapers, Piresident Truman and his admini stration have in abject helplessness abdicated to John L. Lewis. Lewis has ursurped the powers of Govern ment, even the power of taxation by levying a tax of perhaps 10 cents a ton on all coal consumed by the pub lic. He has decreed that the people of the United States shall have no coal unless they ipay tribute to him and do what he tells them to do. The strong man dictator has come; and for the first time in our national history constitutional government ad mits inability to preserve itself and the general welfare of its people. We have sown the wind and are reaping the whirlwind. When did we sow the wind? Out standingly in 1937, when this same John L. 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