The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-12-20

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dress over WBAL, Baltimore, on
Sunday afternoon, cited the exper-
fence of the truck driver for Ha-
gerstown manufactures, who was
endeavoring to deliver merchandise
to retail stores in Pennsylvania, and
offered the case as a good reason for
supporting the Hobbs Bill, recently
passed by the House of Representa-
tives and now up for action in the
u. S. Senate.
Briefly, the Hobbs Bill provides
that trucks, whether union or nom
union operated, shall not be modest
ed on the highways of the Nation.
Speaking of the returned war vet
eran and what he finds when he
returns home, Senator Tydings said:
''What does the veteran see?
He sees many, many of our greatest
industrial plants closed down be-
cause of labor disputes. He learns
that more and more of them are
likely W NC C1OoSo OOW1A III IAlS III
ture. He learns that even though
the President of the United States
has set up an agency in many of
these major disputes to ascertain the
facts, and pending the entertainment
of the facts, has requested the
workers to return to their jobs, that
they refuse to do so.
Gas the veteran thinks on this, he
must wonder what has happened. 1t
must appear to him that we have
lost the appetite for work which has
been characteristic of our past pro-
gress. He must wonder too, why
the Government does not do some
thing about this whole confusing
mess.
"Those of us in Government feel
that the veterans criticisms are well
taken. He certainly has returned to
a different country from the one he
went forth to defend. The old pa
triotism seems to have vanished. Our
war unity has been dismembered.
CAS- one member of Congress /
want to do all in my power to rectify
the present internal difficulties. AS
we think on these matters, however,
the solution is not easy. With sew
eral hundred thousand men now on
strike and several hundred thousand
more threatening to go on strike, it
is difficult to evolve anti-strike poll
cies, or to put it differently, an anti
industrial breakdown policy. l do
not know of any law we can pass
that will compel several hundred
thousand men who do not want to go
to work, to do so unless we are will
ing to embrace the system of Hitler
or Mussolini. There are some things,
however, that can be done and ought
to be done in the light of history.
One of them, in my judgment, is to
support the Hobbs bill which has
just passed the House of Represen-
tatives and which has come to the
Senate for action. l want to ask my
listeners who belong to labor
unions and men who do not, white
collar workers, housewives, and the
like-to listen to a letter which
have just received from a constituent
in Western Maryland who relates
the following facts:
Prior to the war, he writes, it
was possible for our manufacturers
who operated their own trucks to
deliver merchandise directly to re-
tail outlets throughout the eastern
seaboard. However, at few points
serious trouble arose in that the
truck drivers were requested to join
local union before the merchandise
could be unloaded. This trouble all
disappeared when the war started.
"But within the last few weeks
we have received a number of COM
plants. As an illustration, last week
a large truck load of locally manu-
featured merchandise left one of our
factories and delivered up through
Pennsylvania At Lebanon when
the driver went to unload his mer-
chandise at local store, the union
told him that he would not be per-
mitted to unload unless he hired a
local union man at six dollars. The
dealer paid the fee and the driver
moved on to the next stop at Read
ing, Pa.
Before he reached the next retail
store, car with four men pulled up
beside him and orederd him over to
the curb. They asked to see his
union card and he told them he was
from Maryland and was not a union
driver They then took him to the
union headquarters and insisted that
he join the local union at a fee of
$3.50. The manager of the local
store in Reading called the union
headquarters and requested them to
permit the driver to unload, but they