The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-30
WHAT is THE "SIT-DoWN" AND VIVA
MAY BE EXPECTED OF IT?

The Shutdown" strike menace intro
duced into this country by John Lewis and
his cohorts is a development which ought
to receive much more serious attention
than the public appears to have given 1t
up to this time The trouble in the motor
car industry is much more than an ordi-
nary strike. Wages and working conditions
are the usual bones of contention in strikes.
In this case there is little reference to
wages or working conditions, and so much
of this talk as is INDUCED in by Lewis and
his followers is smoke-screen, put out for
the purpose of binding the public.
The real issue in this strike is John
Lewis's inordinate ambition to become the
labor dictator of the country. In order
to achieve this end Lewis inaugurated a
movement to force all automobile and steel
workers into Lewis-controlled unions. Cap
ture of the two largest industries in the
country would send Lewis far on the way
to labor dictatorship and would also en-
able him to lick William Green and the
American Federation of Labor.
Lewis and his crowd, with view to &C
complishing their purpose to force all au-
tomobile and steel workers to pay tribute
to their unions, have introduced the "sit-
down" strike in this country. This is for
eign importation, from communistic and
anarchistic countries. AS matter of fact
it is one of the schemes proposed by Karl
Marx to be used in war on capitalism.
According to this plan a group of auto
mobile workers, estimated by no one as
being more than twenty per cent. of the
employees of General Motors, refuse to
work, refuse to leave the plants and refuse
to permit the majority of the employees to
work, unless all agree to join Lewis union
and pay tribute to it.
The strikers hold few key plants of
the automobile industry by force, while
they try to compel the owners to ransom
the property by conceding to Lewis what
ever he demands as labor car. The pusil-
Luminous course of Governor Murphy OF
Michigan supports the 'sit-downers" and
has made it possible for them to hold the
plants.
In spite of the fact that Madame Perkins
of the u. S. Labor Department says that
the Shutdown" issue has never been decid
ed in this country, the fact is that the
laws against trespass and forcible seizure
of property have not been repealed in any
State, although unquestionably RELOCATED
to inocuous desuetude in Michigan.
Madame Perkins says she does not know
whether the "sit-downers" have the RICH
to hold the seized plants or not. This at
titude is no surprise to the country, a
there has been ample demonstration b,
Madame Perkins of her ignorance OF VIVA
is morally and legally right.
OF course the Secretary Of Labor is wei
aware of the right and wrong of this issu
and! is controlled by her prejudiced ant
warped radicalism and partisanship in is
suing SHY statements designed to bolste
the Lewis program. .l''.,.'. 4.
Well, what interest does the America
public have in this issue?
The same interest that the public has
or should have-in the re-establishment
a system of free government in this cour
try, in the restoration of constitutional GOV
eminent and enforcement of the laws.
The people Of this country should be il
terested in protecting their country froI
communism and anarchy, which are liftin
their heads in, Michigan; and from coul
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