The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-10
Murray md Tom Kennedy oi the United Mine Workers,
 CUTTING LABOR'B THROAT

However, Orton's defiance al. ready Is playing hob with organ. ized labor as Q whole on Capitol HI. it has elinehed the early enactment Of legislation that will curb tho right Of labor 10 strike in defense industries, Even If he wanted 10, Roosevelt now couldn't gtop it. Tho bill would Do passed overwhelmingly over hiB veto.
 Coming on top of the breach Of contract by the AFL and CI0
 maChiDists in San Francisco, tys ing up $500, 600, 900 worth of des. peFately needed shipping, and the outbreak Of ex0FbltRnt pay sbakedOwn strikes OB defense projects by AFL building trade unions, the OrtOn incident was the last straw.
 Senator George Norris, lifelong champion Of labor, Buceinetly summed up the situation with these words: "If organized la. bOr had deliberately set out to cut It's own throat, the job could not have been done mere effectively than these sO.CRlled labor leaders nave done t."
 Some members Of the Mediation Board are convinced that there iB Q central directing force behind the outbreak Of defiant leftiBt-ied strikes in key defense industries a.a tia0 F9aaifto FAaQf
 Exactly who is doing this secret fnaBter- -minding they don't know, but they believe that the situAs ton js part Of Q deliberate policy aimed at sabotaging the defense program. There are some Of tho inside facts on which they base this view;
 MESSAGES AND MEETINGS
 At the close Of the original Me- diation Board conference at which the logging strike settlement was formulated, orton walked Up to Chairman Clarence DykBtfa, warmly shook his hand, and said, "T'm very grateful to you for your kind efforts. I'm leaving for home right away and will pre- sent your terms tO our members. I'm sure everything is going to be all right"
 Several hours later Dykstra al- most fell out of his chair when an aide showed him 6 newspaper statement from Orton hotly blast ing the peace proposal and de- nouncing the Board as . "iabOr buster"
 L. c. Kitchener. left-wing Pa- cific Coast director of the CIO Auto Workers, told newSmen in Washington that the walkout at the North American Aviation Co.,, at Inglcwood. Calf, was not the result Of any action by the unions negotiators in Washington. Yet the Mediation Board has evi- dence that Q message was sent from Washington urging strike, despite an agreement by the union not to shut down the plant while negotiations were in progress. ...
 Several hours after this paes-
 sage reached InglewoOd, the
 Board says, Wyndham Morti-
 nner, left-wing organizer of the
 Auto Workers, suddenly arrived
 there and went into Q secret
 conference with the local union
 leaders. Next morning the
 plant, piled High with U. s. and
 British plane orders, was struck.
 NOTE:-scene in front of a fashionable downtown washing ton hotel: A long, gleaming li- mousine, with liveried chauffeur in the front seat and Miss Kath- ryn Lewis. daughter and secretary of John L. Lewis, in an evening gown seated all alone in the rear Miss Lewis is Q member of the executive board Of the America First Committee.
 MAYBE, AT LAST
 For years New Dealers and ai1ti- New Dealers have been clamorhln for the outster Of well-meaninn but bufnbilng Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Their wish may shortly come true--thanks to hel attempt to harpoon the potent la. Dor division of the 1pM. Miss Perkins has leng besn