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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937
THE RAILROAD OBJECT LESSON
The most amazing, inexplicable
thing about the present disturbances
in steel and automobiles is the bone
headed inability to leam, shown by
the magnates of both industries
when an object lesson is spread before
them clear across the United States.
The railroads constitute one of our
greatest industries. They employ
more than a million men. Their work
ers vary from- wholly unskilled labor
ers to craftsmen whose skill lequires
almost as severe a training as that
which is given to the members of some
learned professions.
Yet there hasn't been a strike worth
mentioning on American railroads for
10 years.
Why? There is no lack of disputes
between labor and management on the
railroads. In the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1936, for example, 203 such
disputes were serious enough to en
gage the attention of the National
Mediation Board more than 1,500 such
disputes were referred to the Railroad
Adjustment Boards and the workers
on 11 railroads took strike votes. Yet
the only strike of the year was a run
away strike on a one-horse industrial
railroad with less than 40 employes.
Again, why?
Because i*ailroad managers have
learned to obey the labor laws of the
United States, while steel managers
and auto managers seem to consider
themselves above the law. For 10
years, federal laws have provided
peaceful ways of settling railroad la
bor disputes and with amazingly few
exceptions, both railroad managers
and railroad men have complied with
the law, and adjusted their differences
according to the law. But though the
workers of steel and automobiles are
as ready for peaceful settlements as
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American determination to stay out
of European wars was reflected in the
swift and virtually unanimous pass
ing by congress of the resolution pro
hibiting arms exports to Spain. Only
one dissenting vote was cast.
The arms ban, rushed through on
the first day congress met, undoubt
edly will meet with overwhelming
approval. Sentiment for neutrality,
voiced at the last American Federa
tion of Labor convention and through
out the nation, is strong and may even
go so far as to call for automatic em
bargoes on American money and arms
to all nations at war.
Such mandatory neutrality legisla
tion was demanded by Senator Arthur
H. Vandenbqrg, of Michigan, in a
statement made just before the open
ing of congress. Urging a stand on
the old neutrality rules which subor
dinated commerce to peace, Vahden
burg said:
"The new rules must be as definite
and as'positive as possible. It will
not do to leave large neutrality de
cisions to the discretion of the presi
dent."
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
"This is no reflection on the presi
dent," the Michigan senator contin
ued. "It is a reflection of the simple
fact that the exercise of discretion
after a war has started inevitably in
vites an unneutral interpretation by
any belligerent which is curtailed or
offended by the decision."
Emphasizing what he said was the
necessity for treating all belligerents
alike if we are to stay out of war,
the senator asked for a neutrality
program which would "stop all loans
the railroad workers, the magnates
of steel and autos refuse to recognize
anything but their company unions,
blather about "labor dictatorships,
hire spies, and buy tear gas.
Will it take a sti*ike stopping two
great industries to teach these employ
ers the lesson which stares out from
every mile of railroad track in the
country?
WHAT NEXT?
A newly patented refrigeration de
vice for trucks has no ice or moving
parts. It uses anhydrous ammonia
evaporating and expanding through
finned tubes into water, thus absorb
ing heat from the truck interior and
producing a saleable byproduct, aqua
ammonia. The manufacturers say
truck drivers will stop at filling sta
tions for new charges of ammonia as
they stop for gasoline. The device, it
is expected, will eventually be used on
the railroads.
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A CONTRIBUTED EDITORIAL
It is not enough that the wheels
turn. They must carry us in the direc
tion of a greater satisfaction in life
for the average man. The deeper
purpose of democratic government is
to assist as many of its citizens as
possible-—especially those who, need it
most—to improve their conditions of
life, to retain all personal liberty
which does not adversely affect their
neighbors, and to pursue the happi
ness which comes with security and
an opportunity for recreation and
culture.
The judicial branch also is asked
by the people to do its part in mak
ing democracy successful. We do not
ask the courts to call non-existent
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City Loan:
You can get a loan in one day. pay off all you owe
and have extra cash besides. if you want it.
Best of all, you have only one payment to meet next
month... about half as big as the usual three or four.
And as you pay. your payments keep getting less and
less.. they step-down. you step ahead. Let's talk
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and credits and munitions to both
belligerents on a 'cash and carry'# ba
sis, so the risk is theirs and not ours."
The new conception of neutrality
puts peace above war profits, he said,
and added, "It may be tough on our
cash registers. But it will be far eas
ier on our sons."
A new pamphlet "The Witchcraft
Trial in Moscow," which has been pre
pared by Dr. Freidrich Adler, secre
tary of the labor and socialist inter
national, examines the trial last year
in Moscow of Zinovieff, Kammeneff
and the other defenders who were
accused of moral responsibility for
the assassination of Kiroff and of or
ganizing terrorist acts in Soviet Rus
sia. Reviewing the pamphlet, issued
by the commission of inquiry into the
conditions of political prisoners, in
dustrial News of the British Trades
Union Congress General Council, says:
"Dr. Adler justifies the telegram
of protest against the methods of the
trial which was jointly sent by the In
ternational Federation of Trade Un
ions and the labor and socialist inter
national denounces the resort to
forced confessions and fictitious
'proof,' demonstrates the falsity of
some of the 'evidence' relied upon in
convicting the accused, and attacks
the destruction of legal security which
these methods represent. The pam
phlet ends with a section dealing with
the author's personal conclusion, in
cluding his rejection of the resort to
violence against the soviet regime.
"The views and criticisms expressed
by this distinguished socialist leader
endow the pamphlet with special in
terest and authority."
powers into being, but we have a
right to expect that conceded powers
or those legitimately implied shall be
made effective instruments for the
common good.
The process of our democracy must
not be imperiled by the denial of es
sential powers of free government.
President Roosevelt in his fourth an
nual message to congress.
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WISDOM
There is an honor in business that
is the fine gold of it that reckons
with every man justly that loves
light that regards kindness and fair
ness more highly than goods or prices
or profits.—Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow.
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The Cherry
I W e e w i o u
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Well, lookit the supreme court.
Lookit!
It upheld the Hawes-Cooper act,
which says that prison-made goods
cannot be shipped into states which
have laws forbidding the sale of such
goods.
Don't get away with the idea that
this isn't important. It's goshawful,
good and plenty important.
It cuts the ground from under
a lot of high flying prison goods
contractors, who make goods that
have been going into competition
with free-made products, under
selling because prison labor costs
about as much as a look at the
lake.
But, Sister Susan, it does a whack
ing lot more than that, this decision
does.
This decision lays the legal ground
work for a considerable amount of
new law to regulate industry and give
the chiselers a headache, which nobody
of decency will regret..
The country has been stewing
around, looking for a kind of new
law that would stand a chance of get
ting past the supreme court and along
comes the said court and says, Well,
boys, here's your pattern. See what
you can do with it.
The one paramount principle sus
tained in this decision is that states
an be given authority by the federal
overnment to keep sub-standard
?oods out of their territory.
And is that something, Jeremiah?
Well, just ask Senator O'Mahoney and
see that amiable solon cut loose on
possibilities.
You can lay your bottom dollar on
the bet that this year 1937 is going
to be a sockdolager for doings.
We start with a congress meeting
under the inspiration of a presidential
declaration right in line with the
Philadelphia excoriation of economic
royalists.
Hostile papers say congress isn't
going to do what the president wants
in all things. Bosh. Congress is go
ing to carry through the administra
tion program*. AND, no bill that labor
fights can get within gunshot of pass
ing.
And, with the legislative mill at
work on music that will give some of
the Wall street gold miners St. Vitus
dance, there's the devil to pay all along
the industrial line.
There's a fever to organize. It's
everywhere.
It's in every field.
The A. F. of L. issues charters
at a new high rate. The CIO tells
a story of fast organizing. The auto
mobile field is ablaze. Steel is fid
dling with the idea of hanging onto
its company unions.
Both automobiles and steel have
immense backlogs of orders which
will become a liability, instead of a
source of strength, the minute they
have a strike on their hands.
Employers that say, "I'll shut
my plant rather than stand for
unions" are plain crazy. They
know well enough that plants
make no money if they don't run
aijd stockholders want profits,
even if they have to unionize to
get them.
The word "never" is a very big word
that employers ought not use.
"Never" is such a long, long time.
SUPREME_COURT
Sets Aside Syndicalism Case
Sentence
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
supreme court set aside the conviction
and seven-year prison sentence im
posed by an Oregon court on Dirk de
Jonge, for violation of the state crim
inal syndicalism law. De_Jonge's of
fense consisted in going to a meeting
where known communists were speak
ing, though it was not even claimed
that they advocated violence.
The court's opinion denounced
sharply the theory of the criminal
syndicalism law, that a state may pro
hibit peaceful political action. It held
unanimously that so far as applied
to de Jonge, the Oregon law is in
valid. The case goes back to the
state courts which probably will be
glad to get rid of it by dismissing the
charge.
The supreme court refused to hear
a case attacking the validity of the
social security act. Tlyat case is
pending in the federal circuit court,
however and the supreme court said
nothing to indicate what it will do
when the matter coYnes before it in
orderly progression.
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tions were halted at the Cabot Manu
facturing Company's Cotton Mill
when weavers struck in protest
against doubling of the number of
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looms per worker. The mill employs
about 900.
The weavers refused to obey a new
order that weavers' machines should
be increased from 20 to 40.
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