Evening star., 1946-05-20

If the trend is to be permanently arrested the
disorders corrected, the powers conferred under
it restored to constitutional premise and legal
hands; If, IN short, complete calamity is to be
averted and public welfare placed beyond the
reach of private tyranny, it can be done only by
enactment of law to meet this challenge. Con-
gress is aware of that, and the nation is de-
manding it.
Nashville, Tenn, Banner, May 6
1t is high time that Congress stopped babying
and coddlng Lewis and other graspng and ruth
less labor leaders by enacting Legislation to
regulate labor unions.
Cleveland, Ohio, Ploin DeoIer, April IT
...needed legislation to make unions responsible
for their actions has been repeatedly blocked.
Saltwater, okIo., Press, April 70
On this issue there should be no compromise and
Congress would show evidence of sense of re-
sponsibiity to the public if it should ban rackets
of this type.
Charleston, S. C., Post, April 23
To save the country from large-scale extortion,
Congress should act at once
Philadelphia, Po., Inquirer, April 80
The Senate will fail the American people if, hav-
ing decided at last to egislate on labor it lets the
lmpudent Lewis truce persuade it that the need
has disappeared, that one small break in the
clouds means the storm is over. The Senate will
fail the people if it passes some hasty, sketchy,
makeshift law and calls it duty done. This coun-
try has seen only the beginning of its troubles
unless the Senate now acts carefully and thor
oughly to correct the laws and policies which
have created abors power to defeat its own best
interests by trampllng public II ghts and stran-
CLING the economy.
New York WoYld-T Tell Mnv n
This probability of less goods at higher and
higher prices will become a certainty in all lines
OF industry II steps are not taken to curb the
monopolistlc power Of the modern labor union.
Beuver FoIis, Po., News-Tribune, April 26
We believe that many Americans are fast reach
ing the point where seeing that justice is done
will not be as important as ending strikes of all
kinds at any cost and in any manner that will
do the job. That isn't the American way, but
that's what Americans are getting around to-
fast.
sheIbyviIle, Ind, Democrat, April Is
Unless the Administration and Congress recog-
nlZe the way in which their policies encourage
and promote strikes we shall find ourselves in
perpetual labor crisis.
Waterloo, Ind, Press, April IS
from the New York Times)
III VI llS ldleSI Idlup ron mas
found that 60 per cent of the American people
favor legislation outlawng strikes in public
service industries. :. Public opinion is also
reported heavily in favor of laws that would
curb labor unions means of reducing the
frequency of strikes.
Red Bluff, coIif., News, April IS
The government has long attacked monopolies
Of goods when those monopolies have been to
gouge the public and to limit the goods to which
the public is entitled. A monopoly of labor such
as that in Mr.. Lewis hands, is equally against
the public interest.
PIoinfieId, N. j., covrier-News, April 26
American industry and the national economy
have already suffered enough, and the time for
action is now.
Memphis, Tenn, Commercial Appeal, April rs
But this obligation to bargain collectively should
be imposed upon labor by law, as it has been upon
management.
New York, N. r., Journal Of Commerce, April 80