The voice of labor., 1938-12-08
Sunday Times Hokum!

In our opinion. the editors OF the Cum
berland sunday Times are fine examples Of
the iilogic and naccuracy which il is ncceS-
sary to use when the anti-labor press in
dulgc, in lis TRADES Past evidences were
shown in its hysterica outbursts during the
last city election campaign
Last Sunday the Times asked cditorially
How Does Governor Nice Keep That Way
as it took issue with the chief executives
statement that serious labor troubles have
been avoided in MARYLAND in the past four
years
Mind YOU. the Governor did not say there
had not been any labor troubles. he said that
there had not been any serious labor troubles
1t comes to our mind that the Governor
meant that Maryland has had no counter
parts Of the Chicago Memorial Day Massacre
when workers were shot down in cold blood
no counterpartS of the murderous attacks
of the National Guard upon defenseless wo-
men and chilren as was witnessed in Ohio
during the little steel" strikes no bloody
Harlan County" such as plagued Kcntucky's
miners, no replica of the Shoemaker fogging
murder as in Tampa (although Crisfed came
near tiD aud GajsIarI)and cases OF. kidnapping
sluggng and maltreatment of labor organi
zers such as has been reported 10 the LaFol-
lette Committee from many parts of the
nation.
The Governor possibly had in mind that
there has been very, very little property dam
age occasioned during strikes in Maryland
in the past four wears
And, if all these things were in the Coy.
ernors mind. they are certainly matters of
record for which the common people of Mary
land feel thankful.
Governor Nice has invariably made
every effort to be fair and impartial when
labor disputes have occurred. No order
ever came from him to use the National
Guard to shoot down the workers, He has
management use the methods Of concilia-
ton. For this he has earned the love and
trust Of the workers representatives and APP
parentlv he has earned the hatred Of some
employers.
The management Of the Cumberland
Sunday Times should particularly have cause
for knowing the Governors desire for con-
ciliation because only few weeks ago ne
sent mis- Commissioner of Labor and Statis-
tics to Cumberland in an effort to aid the
local men and women who had been thrown
out of employment by the management S
action IN importing reporters and newsmen
from Vermont, Ohio. Virginia and other
nearby states That the Governors APP
pointee vas unsuccessful in having the man
agemcnt reconsider its act is regrettabe.
But is the management so small as to hold
this action of the Governor against him?
The Sunday Times editorial writer shows
his navette when he bemoans the loss OF
local employment to workers of the n. G. G.
Taylor Tinmll, the Tannery and the Celia
nese Corporation.
Can he seriously imagine that the pub
lie will fall for such hokum when the Times
and Alleganian Company has Just thrown
local people out Of their jobs and replaced
them with outsiders? (allegedly because all
the local people were members of the Cum
berland Newspaper GuildD?
No, gentlemen of the Sunday Times
you should credit the readers with better
memory and more understanding.
We wrote that the Sunday Times is
illogical and we hope that the above state.
ments have proved it.
We wrote that the Sunday Times is in,
accurate. We will be willing to withdraw
the assertion if and when they can ever pro
duce proof that the tinmi shut down wa'
"all due TO labor trouble"
Their news columns some weeks agC