Evening star., 1946-12-09
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DeadIine 81
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Ilatiop under dre trot bekh ~ M
ecutiTe and Judicial hrnnea
I0ove1nment ig 1lkely 10 e6f
Iepoci1n1 IA American lal5Qr 1o1l lt{0u6]
|ag an ~ Hritish eenetal ~
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[thAf roiintfy .ls sz
~ Hsitiah slfike cas,uV nv
{nac aent II, 15lS7 ~ tho "a
1fads 12i1ates mn I1sxle
Act lue dr1etie ttx1le q
1t "a tlls nil1 x!oborI
E1rty n 11nclse rel
|poaied 811 t1te hut With - |
return n fAr u m &k~l
|treluee 81 lahqr nil 6l,cy that
waited 81 1xitai1a IA the 1oz04 and
have ben 1azapAlit I'M tlse sunite
States Ieeeukly "
a lesaS1 81, the Hritish Iahnri
Party, hsre feW weelEs 40. com.
|meuted that ~ BEitetn1 l1o9tl
|cherished laws ara ltaWIft
Dea1Ilno Dete Sisniflcant
British l1nor knows fsin well ~
said tnst while II = no 1opgEr n me
law hoek the 1021 prohibit ttcn ri
|sympathetic strikes a. strikes -
Signed 70 coefce the government
either directly Or ~ inllicting hard
lship On the general pubic " a
force IS much 4& ever
The deadiine 6f March All 1911,
prescribed BY Mr.. Lewis. u doublyl
Significant. He said be Was calling
| on the strike until that date 10 tIael
supreme Court might have time tol
| act on his case sfrce from publicl
pressure superinduced by the hys-
terra and frenzy Of an economicl
crisis. He could have mentioned,
but did not, that during this period
also there win be ia session = new
Congress which considers Itself
charged by the voters to end the
very sort Of strike holdupS Mr.
Lewis 50 frequently has invoked.
II Congress does not move TO for
bid and effectively preventfur
ther Nation wide coal producttnnI
Estoppages before next April !, Mi-l
most Ill Washington observers Will
be greatly surprised.
There Is an almost equally strong I
consensus that there Will be B
marked diminution cf strikes gem
orally between now and Mr. Lewis'
deadline: that the other ahig shots"
OF organized labor are going to be-
very slow In sticking their necks|
out, In face Of the now three-Way
executive, Judicial and legislative
concentration Of governmental
forces against them.
Vinson fn Conferences.
Il Is particularly significant thAtl
Mr.. Lewis' surrender came imrne-
diately after his attorneys, together
with Government lawyers, had con-
ferred with the new Chief Justice Qf
the United States, Fred NJ. Vinson.
II would be iesc majesty for q
reporter even to inquire what went
on In that sacrosanct session, butt
the Lewis lawyers must have -
surned from it that the Slpremel
Court could not be safely dependedI
on to rescue their client. And Mr..
Lewis, upon hearing from his law
yerS, jumped to cover faster thani
ever before Ia az his long and color
full life.
Mr.. Lewis already had suffered
two judicial sockdolagers The ffrstl
was Federal Judge 4. Alan Go1ds-I
borougf's assessfhe1t of nnes total
ing $3.510Ooo against him and his
union, and the second when he
had to deposit this whole sum, vir-
taally III cash, to make bail pessd- II
ing appeal Of hts case.
Progress Unprecedented.
Immediately after his conviction,
Mr.. Lewis approached private bond
ing companies for terms. but the
best he got from them was al offer
to provide bail for q Zee Of us, 900,
plus deposit Of 5000 900 In neeo-
tiable collateral. It was ii lieu oil
this even harder proposition that
Mr.. Lewis decided to pay over The
whole flne to the Government .ini
escrow.
Then came the lInprecodentedlyI
swift progress Of the case 70 thel
Supreme Court. It eeennl sk1e tol
assume that Mr.. LeNis de1nced
that, unless he retreated exen f1stcr,
not only would his $s,S10O0O he lostl
fcrever, hat even worse fIisastersI
ni9ht fall on him.
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