The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-12-14
STRIKING BACK AT STRIKES
nv j. IL. Jones


Washington, ID. c., December 10
The Management and Labor Confer
ence in Washington got nowhere in
arguments on the main issue of fact
finding" which problem had been
passed on to them by President Tru'
man. Meantime, the automobile labor
union carried on high-handed
strike, and supplemented it with
pickets.
President Truman must be given
credit for having suggested number
of ways and methods to stop the ex-
listing strike-wave. Finally he did his
plain duty in appealing to the auto
mobile and steel unions to go back to
work. The President has done all
that possibly could be expected in his
efforts to drive sense into the heads
of all TIE bull headed labor union
bosses. But, one might suppose from
the blasts issued by President Philip
Murray of the CLIO, that he knows
more about the way to run the Amer
lean Government than everybody
COHCcl ilC
and the Congress of the United
States. OF course nobody believes
Murray's assertion that the Presi-
dents proposal for special legislative
action sis to weaken and ultimately
destroy labor union organizations,
or that the Presidents action could
be construed by any sensible man or
woman as 1.-The first step for even
more savage repression"
If Congress has got tie CUTS that
the People of this country have u
right to expect from that body, it
will back up nationwide demands by
the President for legislation that will
put an end to these monstrous strikes
that have become nothing less than
revolutionary attacks upon the Gov
eminent of the United States.
1t seems to be perfectly evident in
Washington that Congress has no
idea of passing so-called price fixing
policies at pre-war levels, while at
he same time supporting wage
boosts for strikers who have tied up
The Nations factories.
AS unbelievable as it may seem the
attacks of the Clio United Auto
Workers Unions are now launched
against the Government of the Uni
ted States, which is anxious to have
the administrative and legislative de-
partments stop these strikes that
lave already partially wrecked re
diversion, and inflated imitation
which is kere.
One of the ablest students and
writer's covering the National Capital
s Mark Sullivan. He has told us this
week:
"The agency President Truman
proposes will make finding of facts
bout wages. :. In the free enterprise
ystem as it exists in America, and
the attitude of Government toward
t, it is assumed that prices in ordi-
larry industry will be controlled, not
~ law or by any Government agen-
", but by competition. Only when
ompetition is suspended does the
Government intrude." That's what
he Department of Justice, the Fed
,ral Trade Commission and other es-
ablished parts of TIE Government
ire maintained for.
AS this personal analysis of the
question by the correspondent of this
newspaper goes out from Washing
on, l predict that the Government
will pass new laws, and strengthen
he old ones, and make it definitely
Understood that Government by the
people and for the people must be
air to all classes of people. That
means that the labor unions are go
ng to get it in the neck. They have
brought it on themselves.
OF Course We Have Initiation
All the politicians in America seem
% agree that there has been what
hey called IAN .upsurge in prices"
Ind then initiated the parrots who
insisted that they ARE afraid of in
iation and must avoid it." You may
stuff official statistics and political
baloney into every channel of infor-
nation, from rag-time radio to high
political authority, and you can't
make the general public believe that
imitation" is anywhere, except pre-
sent" They know that they are pay
ing twice as much for their cost Of
living than before the war.
s*&a
Investigations
The investigation going on on
Capitol Hill shows that Executive
heads of the Government had not
only days, but weeks of warnings, be-
ore the attack ON Pearl Harbor.
Even Army and Navy top hats" in
Hawaii kad plenty of notice. You
know the rest of the story as well as
anybody else. The blame is so wide
,pread that it will fade into: Give
er up, give 'er up"
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