The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-12-04
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
THE SULKING LION
. WHAT'S TO HAPPEN
. MURRAY KNOWS LEWIS
. BUT WILL HE DO TRICKS?

AS war rides along toward full tide
it will be more than interesting to OBJ
serve what happens within the CIO
under the new leadership of Philip
Murray.
Reports are-and they seem war
ranted-that Murray licked John l..
Lewis to pretty much of standstill
in the recent Detroit convention.
Lewisites, glum in their defeat, sat
mum in their seats as the votes rolled
over them. They are behaving now
in the CIO just about as they used to
behave in the A. F. of L.
This particular lion roars like all
get-out in victory, but sulks like
spanked baby in defeat.
Now Lewis and Phil Murray are
long time friends, just as was the case
with Bill Green before there came the
break between the two. They know
each other. Which means that Muir
ray knows Lewis and knows the old
bushy-brows has no friends except
those that take orders and play dead
when told to play dead.
X X X
However, there are some tests COM
ing for the CIO under the leadership
of Phil Murray, who is a square
shooter and a fine man. He doesn't
play around with pinks and reds and
saboteurs.
But he has pinks and reds and
saboteurs in the CIO. He has a grand
collection of followers of the red party
line, the inheritance of the Lewis poll
cies of the recent past.
What will happen to these gents,
now that John L. Lewis is not the
leader of the CIO? What can Phil
Murray do about them? What will
he do?
There's as pretty test coming as
ever faced a man who wants to shoot
straight with the American nation.
1t will be something to watch. And
it is important to the whole nation
Phil Murray is in tough spot and
with health none too good it is an un-
fair burden that he shoulders as a VIC
tor over Lewis.
1t is worth noting as part of the
show that Gen. Hugh Johnson-old
Crack Down Johnson, the wild bull of
the columnists and the guy who more
than any other, in the early NRA
days, took Lewis by the hand and said
"sic 'em John"-comes to the defense
Of Lewis and tells all and sundry that
Lewis is really not that bad at all
not that dangerous, not that serious
as problem child
Well, Rarin' Hugh will have his say,
as he has a right to have, but those
who have followed old Iron Pants in
recent months will know just about
now to interpret the encomiums which
he now seeks to heap upon the head
of old BEETLE Brows.
There are many who will think that
praises from Hugh are something to
be zealously guarded against.
These are things not to be over
looked, for it must be realized that,
whatever the ballots at Detroit said in
the way of giving leadership to Muir
ray, John l.. Lewis will be right in
there sniping and sharpshooting and
generally trying to make it hot for
his successor.
X X x
And Congress gets madder and
madder and some kind Of law prob
ably will come forth in the end.
1t will be law Of restraint And
for whatever restraint comes forth it
will be written in the history books of
tomorrow that John L. Lewis was the
man mainly responsible.
1t is difficult for most folks who
have been used to shooting off their
mouths at will to realize that chal-
lenge to government is rebellion and
no government can tolerate rebellion
without fight, no matter how just or
unjust the cause.
There has been something in the
direction of challenge to govern
ment and government probably will
not rest with what has already been
done about it.
There are more cards to be played
and nation girding its loins for a
war to the finish in the greatest test
of all time may not be too cool-headed
and reasonable about the course it
elects to follow in such a matter