The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-14
TERRIFYING SOCIAL CRISIS" CON-
FRONTS THE NATION

The Times-News is not an alarmist, and
is not seeking to nduly alarm readers, but
we believe no greater service can be rem
dered by the press at this time than that
of keeping readers truthfully informed OF
the course of events in this country and,
especially in the South, putting forth a Wig
orous effort to stir the people to some COM
prehension of what is going on and the
meaning and probable end of events.
That is the attitude of every honest,
fearless newspaper in the country, and this
is the only reason we think it necessary to
assign for giving space to editorial COM
ment on the labor uprisings in other sec
tons of the United States.
1t is some distance from North Carolina
to Michigan, Illinois and Ohio and it seems
that a large number of Carolinians are in
different and unconcerned in the face of
rapidly moving events in those States; but
that area is part of the Union and condi-
tons as they exist today in those States are
a matter of vital concern to the Carolinas
and all the southern States.
The Charlotte Observer is not newspa-
per alarmist, but is one of the most con-
servative as well as one of the leading
newspapers of the South. From day to
day The Observer has been covering events
on the labor instruction front and COM
menting editorially for the information OF
it's readers. Last Saturday more than
column of editorial comment was present.
ed: and The Times-News regrets lack OF
space does not permit quoting the entire
article; but the Charlotte newspapers pre-
sentation of conditions on the labor revo-
luton front, which is summed up in the
following paragraphs, is matter we believe
it worthwhile to- reprint: .
The American people are at this hour face to
face with social crisis terrifying in its as
poets as was the economic crisis which little
while ago all but threatened the extinction OF
their material civilization.
Their national peace and the dignity and au-
thorfty of their constitutional government are
being rudely and ruthlessly challenged by lawless
leaders of the C. l. O.. legions of organized labor
Life and property have been put in peril.
Blood of human beings daily flows as guns
bark and bayonets stab and bombs roar. ...
Here and there over the country, the pent-up
and insane furieS OF madmen nave oeen released
in brazen defiance of the laws of the state and
to satisfy their venom in saturnala of revenge
full orgies.
The disorder has rapidly run far beyond the
mere point of sittng-down and stopping machIn-
cry and picketing at the gates of industrial
plants. ..- ....
1t has now driven itself to the extreme OF
practcing rapne and plumber, of bullets and
bombs and bloodshed-of civil war.
BY no means uncommon has it come to be for
flames Of riot and Instruction to rise as hot
Industrial property to the injury of the public
welfare. I'd. 600.
Such is utter sediton.
Here, mail trucks have been blocked from car
rying their essential services to faithful workers
who have sought to continue in employment in
peace. -.T' .--.,. H..raG
Such is tantamount to treason. '' ~.
There, infuriated strikers have cut power lines
to wreak disaster not only upon employers and
loyaI employees, but to the serious detriment and
damage of an innocent and unofending public.
Such is an outrageous rayishment of the SIM
pie rights of freemen.
Thus. far and WIDE the passions of a segment
of the masses among our people have exploded
in the form of vicious and brutal crime.
The rule and the reign of the jungle have
been called into play. .. 49,. -.
The civilization of the tooth and the claw has
been returned into the Twentieth Century life
of the most advanced and peace-loving people on
The face of the earth. .f,r .y5 ~ y
There is but one name in our national tongue