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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
We Need Curb on Strikes.
But Rights Must Prevail
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON

strike against It's will is tyranny,
and the protection of the rights
of minorities is an essential of
democratic government.
In trade Union practice a
minority often compels major
ity TO strike.
Leaders who make demands
on management without previ-
Gus consultation with the rank
and file can and do produce
situations of deadlock where
mere face saving for the union
officials seems TO demand a
strike.
Strike votes are taken vive
voce, and union officials have
many ways of compelling work
ers 10 support their policies.
All strike votes and all cleo
lions should be taken by secret
ballot and in supervised cleo
tons and after a cooling-off
period, in which the issues can
really be discussed by the rank
and file.
And all workers should be
protected against intimidation
of any kind.
Tribunals should be estab-
lished in every industry, in
Guiding representatives of the
public, before which workers can
seek protection against undue
pressure, whether eXerted by
employers or union officials.
And any officials guilty of
using terror should be dismissed.
MO PERSON should be
~ allowed to be a union Off
clal who Is not a citizen of the
United States, or who has ever
been sentenced for a crime.
Nor should trade unions be
allowed 10 establish monopolies
by the excluding of qualified
workers from Their ranks, or by
charging eXorbintant fees or
dues, and regular accounting of
their funds should be COM
pulSory
Sabotage by members of one
union of the work of compel.
ing union should be prohibited.
Nor should unions be per-
mitted to compel irrational prac-
tees resulting in decreased
production or TO deprive work.
ers Of the exercise of their skills,
by prohibiting them. for in
stance, from doing more than
one kind of work.
Nor should unions be per-
mitted TO burden production
with unnecessary workers or TO
compel pay for work that is not
required or even done as the
stage hands and musicians
unions regularly do.
If trade unions are TO have
great power, they must be firmly
Saddled with responsibility for
the efficiency of work. and
charged to protect production
against lazy, shiftless. undis-
ciplined, and ca'canny workers.
IN THE long run, if any class
cquires disproportionate
power by means of organized
pressure and uses that power
against the public veal, then all
the other classes will gang up
against it. as the experiences of
Italy, Germany and France have
shown.
Certainly the duty of govern
ment is 10 protect society from
the irrational or exorbitant prac-
tees of labor chieftains. II
should try, however, to frame
legislation which is not directed
TO the peculiar defense crisis but
is established on principle and is
therefore valid in war or peace,
in normal or abnormal times.
fpy tNs ZEN svndtests fne
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28

lad the President been will
IL ing to crack down" on the
coal miners, he probably could
have added 30 votes for the
modification of the Neutrality
Act. But he was probably re-
Numbering the observation OF
Plato that the creation of the
world is the victory of persua-
sion over force.
The President by his own con-
duct showed labor how 10 act
He himself Kept on negotiating
and succeeded. He remem-
bered that what he was working
for was unity, and that unity is
seldom achieved by the employ
ment of armed men.
NEVERTHELESS Con G ress
~ must still consider legisla-
ton to prevent recurrent set
backs to production.
But in considering labor leg
islation Congress will do well TO
build from principle rather than
hasten into emergency de-
creeS.
A basic principle of democ-
racy is that every right entails
a reciprocal duty. The object
of labor legislation should not
be to make labor less powerful
but TO give il the responsibility
commensurate with its power.
For power without responsibility
corrupts. and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
TIIE closed shop gives trade
i unions immense power. 1t
makes union membership COM
pulsory. and inasmuch as it is
invariably combined with the
check-off system under which
dues are collected for the union
by management. out of the
workers pay envelopes, 1t in
wolves compulsory taxation.
Fins GIVES the union Organiza-
ton an immense club over the
workers.
One thing Is obvious, if we
are arguing from principle and
not from prejudice: No closed
shops should be allowed except
where the responsibilities of
trade unions are regulated by
law, for no private organizations
should be allowed TO exercise
that much power except in con-
formity with a code of fair prac-
tiCeS.
Ne groups that arc above the
law and above the community
can be tolerated in the country.
The very fact of the growing
power of unions demands that
they accept social disciplines.
TO COMPEL any person TO
L work against his will is
slavery, and legislation prohibit
ing the right to strike should be
avoided even for a period of
emergency.
But TO compel a minority to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
GIN TIME We hired one ei

LIME we hired one e
4 ploye, then another, WY
joined the Go. The ak fell when
we opened the butcher shop un-
der the Go banner. The ALL
union picketed us, demanding
that we fire our butcher and
hire an AFL man.
After terrific pleading with
the Go | got permission to place
an AFL card in the meat shop.
Then the AF'L union refused 10
take off their pickets unless the
whole store went AFL. The Go
refused, SO for four months the
two unions made our place a
battle-ground.
Our family went through hell.
Beng in an isolated spot. where
only vehicle traffic passes. the
pockets could commit every kind
OF dastardly act of torment.
They threw two stencil bombs.
SCATTERING the windows, strewing
glass and mayonnaise all over.
r tlae-beffb- missed my husband
by a hair, In fact, some of the
glass cut him.
They inundated and bow
cotted us day and night. They
frightened jobbers into taking
their merchandise off oar
shelves. We had TO travel hun.
dreds OF miles daily TO get sun
Plies. Meat. 90 miles round trim
MilH. 70 miles, etc. Business fell
from Sl50 a day TO sic. We lost
hundreds Of dollars worth of
perlshable merchandise. meats,
vegetables, cheese. etc.
They would picket IN horse.
Dack' lead dogs. carry radios
lhey threw carpet tacks and
roofing nails on our place and in
the public roads. They threw two
rocks through our living room
window. endangcring the life of
my husbands elderly mother.
Ihey terrorized personal friends.
following them for miles.
They sandbagged one frieN
and while one man held him an
other kicked him in the face.
breaking his jaw. Several people
could have Identified the thugs.
But would they? We traced the
car to the central labor head
quarters. II was registered in the
organizations name. The cops
said their hands were tied.
IT GOT so nobody would de-
L liver anything such as laun-
ffrorue. ne boycott
prosecuted our family in their
pursuit Of private citizens.
Finally our pleas struck note
in our appeal that our employees
were CIO and that we had a
closed shop, Go.
Then the court issued the be-
lief that where a closed shop
exists another union cannot mo-
lest the employees, so we have an
injunction against pickets, but
that does not prevent the boy
colt through union periodicals or
spreading nails on our premises
to give us endless trouble.
The Go will not give relief.
They say any help given would
be aiding an employer.
With years Of work already
lost and heavy debts, what is TO
become of an American family
who finds itself in the predica-
ment of being between two
unions? How did this country
ever get into such a mess? All
principles of right are forgotten.
when unions are given the
right TO picket or boycott for
any reason other than actual
labor dispute by the employees
involved, this country's asser.
tions of freedom for all and the
right to pursue ones happiness
becomes the biggest mockery Of
the ages"
This American mother ow
these vicious prosecutions to the
policies of President Roosevelt
and of the Congress Of the
United States, who have lacked
the patriotic manhood to pro-
tect innocent citizens from such
uantop torment
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
MRS. WILLIAM q. NATHO
1888 Second avenue.
TO TIE EDITOR:

- A~a~@ = ~ 49,
MRS. BANCZAK wants 10
WI know why Hank Green
berg should be promoted te-the-
rank of sergeant in the United
States Army, and other soldiers
that are everyday Woodworking
men are still privates.
| don't question the fact that
there are many Woodworking
men in the army that are pri-
Yates, but all the men cannot be
corporalS or sergeants.
The superior officer over
Hank Greenberg had a reason
for promoting him to the rank
of sergeant not because he Is a
famous baseball player, but be-
cause he had the ability TO be-
come a sergeant and carry out
successfully the duties lof that
rank.
u. l.. HOWARD JR.
12129 Monica avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
Need Real Investigation

A SWEEPING; investigation of the conduct of the
"A county board of auditors and of certain county
departments should be made at once. But it should
not be made, planned by the Wayne County
Board of Supervisors
The supervisors have too many political ties to
the 10 be investigated.
For example Henry S Sweeny chairman of the
board of supervisors, admits he close friend OF the
auditors and that his law office handles the legal affairs
of Auditor Ray D. Schneider; also that Auditor Ed
ward H Williams frequently boosted Sweeny during
his councilmanic campaign.
Would the board of supervisors, under Sweeny, go
all out in investigating the auditors
Other county employees are similarly linked to the
board Of supervisors. Friends will be investigating
friends The board of supervisors will be investigating
itself
THE investigation should be made by the prosecutors
office If the prosecutors office unearths enough
evidence warrant it, grand jury should be called
That is the only way 10 eliminate the abuses which are
costing county taxpayers thousands of dollars annually
The charges too many and too varied, to risk
having them drowned in white wash. County employees
have taking excessive sick leave and unwarraned
vacations they have been campaigning for politicians
county time; they have been carrying on outside
business while drawing county pay and they have been
doing many other things that would have brought their
prompt discharge if they were in private industry
s FOR the auditors themselves, John C. Cowan is
a accused of approving the discharge of an employee
mainly because he refused to campaign for of
Cowans friends Ray D. Schneider is said to be absent
so much from his $4,000 year job that his salary is
employees discharged for alleged misconduct ap-
pointees of Edward H. Williams.
Even where outright misconduct is not charged,
there is the suspicion that county employees have looked
after their affairs to the detrment of their county
work, to say the least
For example Deputy County Clerk James D. Friel
has been receiving 500 week receiver for De-
trot company while drawing salary of $4,730
from the county
Only after newspapers exposed the abuses in some
county departments did Friel take leave of absence
from his county work.
COUNTY CLERK CASPAR ]. LINGEMAN said ne
- nothing wrong with Friel holding the two jobs
and drawing two salaries. Why did Frie suddenly
decide to take a leave of absence?
- We wonder how many other county employees
holding outside jobs. We wonder how many other
county employees being paid good salaries and then
spending considerable part of their working day
on their affairs.
Only thorough investigation by the prosecutors
office will show this. The abuses in county govern
must end County salaries paid for work done.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
NoU. rs, 1916

The American steamship Che
mung is torpedoed and sunk near
Cape de Gaia, Spain; crew Of the
stricken liner are saved and land
at Valencia.
Rumania's cabinet leaves
Bucharest and moves its head
quarters to Jassy, about 30 miles
from the capital.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
lie tt ers TO
HE Editor

TO THE EDITOR
4 S INDIVIDUALS. we may or
"A may not like President
Roosevelt, but / think that he
has done one thing with Con-
gress that we as nation should
consider seriously.
He has set aside December ID
as a national holiday, designated
as Bill of Rights Day.
What makes our country such
a pleasant place in which TO live
if not this Bill of Rights? Other
nations are oppressed at every
turn by the dietators who di-
rect the every thought and
movement of the people under
them. We, on the other hand,
are free 10 think and do as we
wish. because the Bill of Rights
permits us that freedom.
We have our radios, our news
papers. our schools and Libraries
where We can get whatever type
of literature we wish. We are
Tree 10 assemble 10 discuss any
subject which we desire. We are
free TO attend whatever church
we choose. Are not these the
very things which every democ-
racy the world over is now so
fiercely fighting TO save?
In this country we personify
all that is good as compared 10
the evils of the dictator-con-
troHed countries. Praise be that
we are given the chance 10
express our appreciation of this
bill,
II is my hope that all or
CARNATIONS will make an effort
to celebrate this day in some
spectacular way that will be
broadcast over the world and
especially to the dictators.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
NoU. rs, 1910

Nazis claim they set fire to
Liverpool after their bombers
dropped tons of bombs on the
city
Nazi storm troopers march
into Rumania TO guard its cap
ital. Bucharest. as the blood
purge continues.
Raj planes bomb Cologne.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28

If automobiles average 3 feet
longer than they did 10 years
ago. additional road space re-
quired for all of the registered
motor cars would take up about
half of the al ,000-mile gain in
United States roadways in the
decade between 1880 and 1910,
according TO the census.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28

A PART from these later re-
"A marks, the organization of
either a war party or a peace
party is not consistent with the
true principles of our form of
government. There is room
enough within the old parties
for the people to register their
determination.
Regardless of recent apparent
developments 10 the contrary,
still do not believe that any
administration can force this
country into outright war With
out the approval of Congress,
and 1.-The CnnGFess-etfr11ot tbe per-
suaded or compelled TO give that
approval in the absence of the
approval Of most Of our citizens.
II is true that we are in a
period of hysteria and emo
tionalism that has resulted in
some of the most fantastic &C.
tion ever taken by a nation
especially in the appropriation
OF more money than we can
ever repay, with scarcely a con-
sidered thought to its most
effective use.
But between this and a de-
liberate decision TO engage us
in commitment TO bloody
military conquest on land, in
Europe or Asia or both. is
step so far that. in my opinion.
even hysteria and emotion will
not carry US.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
3AERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
VOLTS u Grandma
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

After seeing the gasoline shortage evaporate transit
and the coal STRIFE wither the vine I've sneaking
pebscie that I've embezzled out of aluminium pot
all drive my motor my wifes viii
power. prepared to shver through cold Winter
But those things been Strengthened out like shirt sleeves
IN steam laundry.
II would be good idea if the lads in Washington
stepped playing Little Red Riding Hood in The
they do it the wolf turns out to be your grandma
by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
America First
Third Party
Idea Scored
johnson Doubts Move
Will Be Attempted
By HUGH S. JOHNSON

THERE have been a good
l. many rumors and reports
and. recently, a widely syndi-
Gated gossip column to the
effect that leaders of the
America First Committee have
been planning or preparing the
organization Of new or anti
war third party.
/ hesitate to believe this, be-
cause, while my name is still
on the letterheads of that COM
mittee, / have disavoWed the
doctrines and statements of
several of its spokesman, and
no longer receive any communi-
cations from it, nor am l con-
sidered in its councils.
My reasons for this have been
sufficiently stated. But / r.n''a-,
have heard of any purpose
within that committee 10 start
a new political party. In fact,
/ always have understood that
its objects were entirely nom
partisan.
Any other course would be
almost lunacy.. II we do not go
to outright war. there would be
no reason for an anti-war party
because the decision for non
-beiiigefeney- wettid be registrar
ton of majority opinion in the
two old parties.
IL we do 60 TO outright war,
an anti-war party could not be
tolerated because of the neees-
sity for national unity in war.
IN THIS intermediate period.
L it is a right, as well as a
duty, to discuss headlong action
in the direction of involvement
of our country unthriftily and
unwisely in military operations
beyond the scope OF our national
interests
Even if war approaches much
closer or actually engulfs US,
il would be a dangerous state Of
affairs if laundering and i'm
proper military and naval epef-
ations were not subject 10
criticism here as they are in
England.
Along these lines there is a
sufficient scope for the activities
of the America First Com
mittee and for independent COM
mentatorS. a distinction should
be made between the two, how
ever. -
Independent personal analyses
on the writer's own RESPONSE
bility are proper function
of newspaperman in a free
press, even in time -of-Mar.
The organization Of popular
groups swayed by oratory and
emotional appeal stands on a
slightly different footing, espe-
cially in time of war.
Because / did not recognize
this difference soon enough, !
thoughtlessly allowed my name
10 be used in connection with
America First Because / recog-
. nize IL now, l am taking my
present position.
That is a consideration. how
ever, which applies with equal
force 10 organized groups 10 get
US into war as well as 10 or
gained groups to keep us out Of
war, and in my opinion. the for
mer have been even less dis
Greet and objective than the
latter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28


TRUTH is the British tanks
L ran into surprise in Libya.
The German general Rommel is
known as the best tank man in
the world. He proved it again
by contriving a defense plan to
be put into effect automatically
in case of attack. The main
principle was the concentration
of his out-numbered tanks at
one spot, around German head
quarters south of Rezegh.
No one here lost heart, how
ever. They were confident SUI
perior British reserves of men
and material would tell the tale
in the long run.
The British held greatly supe-
rior air power only for the first
few days. The Nazis then flew
in fighters from Crete, Greece
and Italy to bring the air scales
near even after the third day.
But the broad British controlled
reaches of the Mediterranean
should prevent Nazi re-enforce-
ments in any other line.
THE way the British handle
i their defense strike troubles
is freshly disclosed in a report
by the commerce department.
Under the Emergency Powers
Defense Act of Parliament, the
British government has issued
an order preventing strikes and
lncknutS-uAtA II 2 2 after the
labor ministry has been notified
of the dispute. In these three
weeks the ministry may sub
nit the issue TO national arbi-
tration tribunal Only if il fails
10 act can strike occur. In
effect this outlaws strikes I'M
less the labor ministry allows
them.
4 NEWSWOMAN whose first
"A name is Lily was convers-
ing with the civilian defense
maestro, Mayor LaGuardia-IEe-
observed that She was named
for a flower. and remarked that
his surname OF Fiorello had also
designated him as a Little
Flower. -
"You may" said Lily, "be
flower to others, but YOU are
just toadstOol to me-"
LaGuardia liked il and is tell
ing the story.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
Roosevelt
Bidding for
CIO Favor
Asks Murray TO Farley
at White House
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2S.-Mr.
w Roosevelt has been stealth
lily trying 10 get the Go lead
ers who walked out on him, back
into the fold.
Without immediate announce
ment he wrote letters 10 Go
President Phil Murray and other
Lewis men who dashed holly out
of their defense jobs on the ma
tional defense mediation board
during the captive mine contre-
Nefsy.=The letters invited them
to return and let bygoneS be by
cones.
With equal benignity and SINH
lar quletude, the President has
invited Murray to come in to see
him upon his return from Warm
Springs the latter part of next
week, accompanied by-of all
people-AFL President William
Green. If Murray accepts, it
will be the first time these two
labor adversaries have been to
the White House together.
OStenslbly, the President wants
TO discuss labor legislation. If
he does, he will find AFL and
Go united for once. Both are
against all legislation so far sug-
gested.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-28

THE Chinese wrathfully
L snorted in quiet state de-
partment corners against British
influence upon the Hull-kurusu
dickering. They claimed Church
Ill sprang every possible inside
pressure upon Washington to
cause some kind of Japanese
American agreement. The Brit
ish desired to- avoid a Pacific
war, they said, at any necessary
cost.
Mr.. Churchill, presumably,
wanted as much of the Ameri-
can fleet as he could get into
the North Atlantic. Also he
realized hostilities in the Pacific
would divert attention from
Ifend-lease to a physical defense
of this country.
One agreement proposal was
attributed directly to Churchill
by the Chinese. 1t appeasingly
provided: withdrawal of Japan
from Indo-China, a public re-
nunciation of Japanese ambi-
tons in Dutc h East Indies,
S b ri a the Philippines and
Indo-China. For which Japan
would get: Unfreezing of their
money in the United States and
access to Indo-China raw ma
terialS.
The Chinese let every official
around here know they consid-
cred this sell-out PROPOSAL.