The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-28

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Texas senator likewise has q
scheme, which a good many com.
mentators believe would prove in
effective, for protection of dough-
boys and sailors against immoral
lty temptations.
The talk Of anti-strike and anti
sabotage laws also is deprecated in
labor circles, at least unless careful
provision is made against the
slightest abuse Of such statutes.
Naturally Senator Sheppard. as
the author OF the Eighteenth
amendment. was the appropriate
solon initially to urge a ban on
drinks for selectees and enlistees.
Directors to this notion find no
fault with the idea Of keeping
saloons at a distance from camps
and warships' landing places. That
certainly could be done, they say,
but they're of the opinion that a
uniformed man, on leave and row.
ing around on the loose, couldn't
imaginably be prevented from OBJ
tanning liquid refreshments up to
the limit of his capacity. The argu-
ment is that, even should the bar
tender turn down his application,
the nearest civilian bystander
would be absolutely sure to buy his
dram for him.
Parenthetically, advocates of
prohibition for everybody are be-
ginning to perk up again. They
haven't registered very formidably
yet, but they evidently are hopeful,
If we continue long with our pres
ent defensive activities.
Vice Another Problem
Segregating vice far from our
military centers and patrolling its
precincts against our soldier boys
entrance into them is program to
which less objection is raised than
to Senator Sheppard's anti-alcohol
proposition. Nevertheless, there are
observers Of the problem who con-
tend that attempts at vices forci-
bic segregation tehd to scatter it
rather than to keep it segregated,
making it even more difficult TO
control than II It isn't so strictly
regulated.
AS to anti-strike legislation, la
boris thesis is that a worker who
chooses to quit his Job can't posi-
bly, be denied the right to do so IN
der a free government.
Phil Murray, C. I. O.'s head, has
gone into this subject very fully.
His version is that the anti-strike
campaign was launched by en-
ployerdom, in an effort to hogtie
their employees. incidentally he as
serts nat there have been fewer
strikes lately than before the de-
fensive program was initiated;
they simply have been more widely
advertised.
President William Green Of A. F.
Of L., who doesn't agree with the
c. I. o. chieftain on much else, in
dorses what the latter says rela-
tive to the workers right to strike.
He does, indeed, concede that there
have been a few more strikes re-
Gently than previously. But that,
he reasons, is because industry has
expanded so fast since we started
arming and supplying arms to
Britain. He denies that strikes have
multiplied in proportion to the in
dustrial expansion. And those that
we've had, he maintains, have been
fully justified. the big industrialists
having seized on the emergency in
an attempt to gain advantages
over labor.
Then Green takes up the issue Of
anti-sabotage laws.
Everybody believes in punish
ing defense saboteurs," he acqui-
esces. But
He thinks the plan to do it, as
outlined, would lend itself to the
gravest injustices.
LaGuardia Backs 1t
II was put forward by the Ma
tional Conference Of Mayors, head
ed by Mayor Fiorello II. LaGuar-
dia Of New York. II calls, not for
federal law. but for state laws.
Green's story is that 1t would