The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-14

CN4k4kyaAEAA AAA 444coo kSAONAAVV4N being steel and autos.
 Reason for soft-pedaling the sitsdoWn has nothing to do with . the pyrotehcnics in Congress. Be- hind the strategy are two corltroll-, ing onsiderations: t"
 First, unlike steel and autos, ownership and location of the textile industry is not centered in . relatively few hands or small area. It is a widely dispersed industry.
 The 5000 textile mills are scat tered along the eastern Seaboard from Maine to Florida and their control IS vested in over $500 iil- dependent corporations. Thus 1t is impossible for the unionites to cripple g major portion of the industry by tying up . few plants.
 Fear Violence ,>
 Second, CIO leaders fear that southern city and police officials, most of them much more trucu-; lently anti-union than northern authorities, might seize on the: Sit-doWn as an excuse to resort to- strong-arm measures to smash the union. The textile strike of 1884 was marked hy!3 widespread violeEce, in which "a znumbefi$ of wobkerS were killed and injured. The CID rulers are anxious to, avoid repe etiti0il.ws X,
 sThG hasis. of their ,strategySin textile JlniOnixAtio lis to or
 saMlzS by q infiltFatiOn. They
 prAR6Se. t0 move quietly into the misl sareas, .uniOaiize the work CTS. and then by sheer weight of
 numbers, instead of the sit-
 down blldgeOn, compel the own-
 erS to come to terms.
 Since a large portion of the. textile workers have had some union experience, in contrast to the auto hands, who had none, CIO strategists believe they can maintain sufficient discipline to put across this technique,
 Tit For Tat @.,
 Justice McReynolds is the terror of lawyers arguing before the Supreme Court. The acid -tongued TenneSsearl loves to disconcert them with heckling questions.
 But, sometimes McRenyolds gets 1t thrown back at him just as hot as he dishes it out. This hap pet1ed when he tried to haze William Barron, new chief of the appellate division of the justice department. < s.,,
 Barron was arguing the Acme Can case, involving the validity of the standard coaitainer act, when McReynolds suddenly snapped: z :: :aseD DO you mean to say, that
 aaSgFess could pass an act fix. < iaE the sixe of the pocket in sAieb ! keep two quafters?" S < MI didn't say anything of the.
 kdnd,' 7 replied Barron quietly. #'T fail to SC the relevancy of >s'tKat question: " .ittl,,. Judicial Sit.DOwn
 The fact is not supposed to: be known. but PWAt officials are putting firecrackers under the bench; of Judge John L. Glenn In the Federal District Court of South Carolina, trying to blast out g, decision on the Duke Power case. jga+,
 This case Is one of the long est delayed and most important ofjsaM suits testing the constitu- tionality of New Deal philosophy. Fifty-six colnlnuntteis have been waiting three years for decision. Upon it depends whether or not they can borrow money from PWA to build municipal power plants. \
 The power companies. wish- ing to squelch cOmpetcition, st-
 tackled the PWA loans as uncon-
 stitutional, finally took 1t to
 the Supreme Court. The Su-
 pTeme Court sent the case back
 to the district court, and there
 1t is now. =.
 Here Judge Glenn has com pletely finished the hearings, but has postponed a decision. He wants to finish another case in volying the Santee-C Cooper River PWA project first. This is a $37,000, 900 project and far more important to South Carolina than the Duke case, which directly in- wolves only a two and a half million dollar dam on the Sadula river. fe{8s < Disastrous Delay
 But to, the government, the Duke -Saluda project is infinitely. more important. It involves the question of the corstitutionaiity
 Not long, ago, Jerome Frank, PWA attorney. went to Judge Glenn and asked him to hand down sas decision, pointed out that delay lneantt he Duke case could not get back to the Supreme (lEPTHF RECORD