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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.
This seems to be the case today
but instead of a foreign government
threatening us we thus far are sit
ting in apparent complacency while
one man is proving to be bigger and
more powerful than the greatest Ra
tion on earth. We stand today as a
nation officially at war, with pow
ers delegated to our President as
though actually fighting. In our ef
forts to reconvert our country from
war to peace I feel that it is just
as essential for our Chief Executive
to exert the powers given to him by
Congress in behalf of preventing a
national disaster such as threatens
us now as he did when we were in
actual war.
I further feel that if this is not
done, we as Members of Congress,
should from this minute on cease de
liberation on other matters and pur
sue an effective course of legislation
that will be fair and sane, in effect
upon the miners, who should have
adequate compensation and good
working conditione but should not be
allowed to bring about and cause a
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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. Lewis, together with the
then Governor of Michigan, Frank
Murphy, under the leadership of a
person now dead, refused to uphold
the Constitution, refused to uphold
and obey the courts, treacherously
failed and refused to call out the
State police or the militia to pro
tect the public and private property
from the hold-up and highway rob
bery in the Flint automobile factory
sit-down strike. The evil men do
lives after them.
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