The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-03-23
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JAMES PREsToN

Dame rumor is carrying the
word around Washington that
several of Capital officials are
quietly and privately recuperat-
ing from a bad case Of filters
occasioned by the Supreme
Courts rebuke OF the National
Labor Relations Board.
Those repeatedly on the re-
operating list are the middle
of-the-road officials who have
been credited with quoting the
liberal element of officialdom.
Reason for the filters, accord
ing to the story, is that the
Courts rule outlawing the sit
down strike so angered the lib
erals that they wanted to throw
care to the winds and brickbats
at the Court again.
The middle = of = the = readers,
remembering the public's atti-
tude toward the last Court at
tack, finally persuaded their
colleagues that another attack
would be dangerous. So it was
that heated words which almost
hit the headlines wound up only
as mutteringS that echoed them
selves out in the inner chambers.
incidentally, when the argyll
ment was at the boiling point,
one official quickly issued a
statement to the press praising
the Courts decision - to put
himself on record Gust in caSe)
and to make it all the more
difficult for the angry ones to
strike up a different tune.
When picket lines were estab-
liShed around all of Washing
tons principal hotels last week
it caused considerable embar-
raSSment for several people.
Strangely, most of the embar-
rassment boomeranged on labor
union officials instead of on
Congressman and other officials
who live in the hotels.
The Congressman were per-
turbed at first and pickets con-
fidently expected that the legis-
latOOrS would move from the
struck hotels Immediately. How
ever, very few, if any, moved.
Thus, the union officials were
embarrassed to see Congressman
setting the example for the gen.
eral public in ignoring the pick
ct lines.
The situation was particularly
tickish for one Senator. He was
one of the authors of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act, and
is a resident of one OF the no.
tells. To avoid the picket line,
he used the garage entrance OF
the hotel.
Excitement among Army and
Navy officials last week was
almost equal to the excitement
that might be expected if war
had suddenly been declared.
Cause of it all was a Joker" the
CLIO. managed to slip into the
Army's national defense bill. 1t
was in the form of an amend
ment that would have given the
CLIO. virtual dictatorial powers
to determine what companies
could participate in the nations
defense program.
The story being told around
the Capital is that the Joker"
was the CLOS price for peace
in the ranks of labor. The CLIO.
according to the story laid the
amendment before certain high
government officials with an ul-
timatum of Include it in the
defense bill or there won't be
any peace in labor" The Of
ficials supposedly placed the
amendment in the hands of a
friendly Senator and it was in
Guided when the defense meas
ure passed the Senate.
1t might be we'll for MIR and
Mrs. Citizen to brush up a bit
on personal history in the next
few months. Reason is that the
census takers will be around be-
fore long with a set of questions
that are likely to put a heavy
strain on most peoples memory.