The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-12
BIBLE THOUGHT
"AS is WRITTEN,
THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE


It is the beginning Of TROUBLE.
In twenty General Motors plants the
workers belonging TO other unions, and
independent workers, have been sold into
slavery TO John Lewis and his union.
The great American public-millions Of
people who are not industrial workers,
workers belonging to unions affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, and
millions of non-union workers, have been
"sdsd out"
The biggest bluff that was ever worked
in the history of mankind, by the biggest
bIu4er that ever bluffed, achieved its pur-
pose. The buffer was John Lewis. Out
side of Lewis mine workers union 1t IS not
prkbable that there are fifty thousand hon
estto-goodness laboring men in the United
States who are following him. General
Motors corporation alone employs nearly
250.O 900 workers. 1t is a fact that Lewis
ranks have been augmented by the Syndi-
cafsts. |. W. WIS, Communists and other
brands of Reds, but these are not and never
hase been workers.
How did Lewis do it?
BY adopting the plans and tactics OF
Karl Marx; by perfecting military Or
gatization of his followers; by the SIT
down strike. That was the basis OF his at
tack, it is true; but Lewis would have been
licked to FRAGILE if he had possessed no
weapons but these.
The President of the United States, work
ing through his lieutenant, the Governor OF
Michigan, won a victory for John Lewis
and minute minority of the working peo-
pie and all the radicals of the country, by
using the power of national admmistra-
tiot and of the federal government to COM
peIthe General Motors Corporation to sub
mitto the labor dictatorship of Lewis.
And in doing so the President placed the
stamp of his approval upon an open insur-
rection in the State of Michigan and forced
hisllieutenant Murphy, to countenance in
Sur1ection in State in which the latter is
chbf executive and the constitution and
laws of which he is sworn to uphold and
sustain.
This is a grave charge to lay at the doors
of the President and the Governor of Mich
igan, but it is the record and facts in the
case.
John Lewis and his minions seized and
held the property of General Motors. They
held this property for ransom, surrender
ina it only when they had forced the cor
potation to ransom it at the largest ano
ost advantageous price they believed i
nossible to wiring from its rightful ane
lawful owners.
They held this property for weeks IL
defiance of the decisions of the courts ant
the duly enacted statutes of the State o
Michigan. They held it because Governo
Murphy, commander of the national guar'
of Michigan, used his power and his troop
to help, them hold this property-otherwis
the probability is that enraged maJorit
workers would have thrown the Levi
crowd out ofrthe plants-and in dong Sc
the Governor encouraged. aided and abet
ted the Lewis insurrection.
However, il is known that back OF Muir
ply stood President Roosevelt, and 1t ma
bean charged in the newspapers and neve
de1ied, that Gov Murphy acted through
OUT the strike in accordance with the plan
an{ strategy suggested by the President.
II is also known, having been state
mAy times in the newspapers, that tn
President, working through Murphy, CON
peeled the corporation TO back down fror
III position that il would not treat with