The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-27
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREAD OF
r THE POISON OF RADICALISM?

THE POISON OF RADICALISM?
S.Undemocratic and vicious" is what The
Asheville Citizen calls the special legisla-
ton proposed by the Central Labor Union
of. that city, which would set up political
boards in that city and county to control
labor and to license workers.
Those who proposed the legislation say
that it's purpose is to prevent the employ
nSent in Asheville and Buncombe county
of outside labor The effect OF the pro-
pbsal if enacted into law, according to the
views of The Citizen, would be to "estab-
lish a tyrannical control over the oppor-
t,fnities of men and women, whether non
residents or not, to make living in Ashe-
VILE and Buncombe county,
iUnder this legislation no one could work
and earn living in Asheville and Bun
cdmbe county unless they had first OBJ
tanned a license to work from politically
established board.
THE Asheville Citizen is severe in its
condemnation of this, proposal and it GER
tainly merits condemnation. However, it
iswell to remember that the poison OF rad
icalism has spread throughout this country
and our own heretofore conservative and
Democratic South has not by any means
escaped the contagion.
Responsibility for this condition no doubt
shbuld be looked for much higher up IN
Asheville than the leadership of the Gen.
trail Labor Union; and in the country as
whole much of the responsibility for such
outbreaks definitely rests upon the present
national administration.
For the purpose of lining up political
support and getting votes, the working
people of the country have been piled with
propaganda and have been fed on false
promises. False hopes have been raised
among them until millions have been made
to,believe that by political manipulation,
by, government favors and aid, as we'll as
byIspecial legislation favoring the workers
at the expense of other classes of citizens,
Just about any political, economic or social
absurdity proposed by the radicals in the
ranks of the workers could be made the
policy of the country.
Therefore, it is more than probable that
much of the responsibility for the move Of
the Asheville Central Labor Union rest:
upon the Democratic political leaders o.
that city.
The workers-especially those of radi
cal views-have been made by the pol
ticians to believe that now is the accepted
time to turn this country into something
fashioned along Soviet Russian lines, witt
freedom and liberty for all classes as out
NODDED policies, and with all power LODGED
in the organized workers and subserVl
emf national government. a-2
The workers have been encouraged .
adopt and hold these views and have pee
encouraged to believe that anything de
manded by them, no matter how absurd
mikht be, could be secured on labors de
mands. They have been made to beiieV
that all that the most radical labor leader
ask for would be obtained, because Their
is IN power in Washington labor govern
ment and one ready to do the bidding
tho John Lewises of the country.
All of this was playing politics, OF course
but the workers and their leaders wer
tod supplemented and trusting not to b
fooled by it. Of course, in so far as tn
political debt to the workers can be PAL
with the country's tax money, the obligs
tioh will no doubt be met; but at man
points the workers are going to be gross
ly hna bitterly disappointed The taani