Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
With Public Approval

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THE United States government being under the COM
| pulsion of an emergency and its own necessities
therein has used armed force to end major strike and
restore the processes Of defense production.
This done with public approval and IN fact IN
compliance with public DEMAND
The country has urgent need for defense production
has alarming deficiencies in its defense establishments
and strikes in the defense industries have simply and
obviously become obstructive of national security and are
thus entirely intolerable.
The section of organized labor involved therefore,
has not merely lost strike deservedy but in consequence
Of the course pursued has lost public prestige
1t may we'll be said that labor organizations entrapped
in such situation have brought it on themselves
WHAT else could they expect of the government of
w the United States and Of the people of the United
States?
When the desperate need Of perous hour is for the
industrial production with which the nation may be
required defend itself and perhaps itself could
be reasonably expected that public opinion would remain
Indifferent to the dangers of strikes?
Labor has indeed brought this deplorabe and regret
table situation upon itself.
But labor the only culpabe group this situation
Has not the government of the United States also
reaped the bitter fruits of unwse practice and policy,
pursued over many years of vaclaon and compromise
with the very subversve elements which have caused
labor its present embarrassment and humiliation?
President Walter D. Fuller of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers raised this point most candidy in
his recent Pittsburgh address.
"A GREEING that the governments current show Of
"A frmness against recalcrant and subversive labor
leadership has been popularity received by public plenty
fed up with such strikes he offered the sharp observation
that
1.-THE United States Army had to be called in to
correct dramatically the evil of yaclatng too much
rope attitude toward labor
1.-THE United States Army is not good substitute
for sound national labor policy.
Every civil act of government, however well
intended in recent years has ENCOURAGED, not dis
couraged strikes"
1t amazing and revealing how completely the record
of past events and policies supports this charge
The communistic sit-down strikes were permitted to
their violent without effective protest by the
government.
A MENDMENT Of the one-sded Wagner Labor Rela-
a tons Act, in overwhelmingly desired by
the American people, has always been opposed by the
New Deal Administration
The prejudiced and frankly partial National Labor
Relations Board has gone far beyond the letter and spirit
of the congressional enactment creating it. has interpreted
law according to its whim and made its own
law, without restraint from the government
Subversves in the ranks of labor have always been
codded and sheltered by subversves within the govern
ment itself
Has not the government of the United States there
fore brought its present plight upon itself fully
as subyersive labor has done the same thing?
OF COURSE the government had to force in the
~ present situation and was justified in doing so.
But the government could have averted the necessity
therefor Mr. Fuller says by building up sound
tonal labor policy in the incpient stages of present
emergency
Subversive strikes largely the responsibility and
in small sense the CREATURE of government which
pampered and played politics with dangerous elements
disclosed to be the enemies of all Americans, including
labor.