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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
| AM AN AMERICAN DAY
1913.

President Spojenych Statu
jiz osm rokd oznacuje vzdy ire
tt nedeli kvetnu "a 81 AM AN
AMERICAN DAY.. Tohoto ro-
ku pTipadne tento svatek na
16. kvetna. Jde o den, zasve-
ceny pocte dvou skupin novych
obcanG - tech novackG mnoha
narodnosti, ras a nabozenskych
vyzvan1, kterf Sc teprve nedav-
no stall obcany naturalisaci, a
tech rodilych Americana, ktefi
teprve pred kratkym casem do
spell volebn1ho veku.
Ma pocest svych novoobcan1
uct1va narod obcanstvl samo, q
prave z toho dGvodu pohliz1 So
dnes ma II AM AN AMERICAN
DAY" jake ma den vsech Anne
rican1 v1bec. Oslav 1castn1 Sc
proto mnoho lid, ktef1 81 snad
neuvedomujf, re pdvod techto
oslav datuje sc z dolby mnohem
starsi nezli z roku 1910, kdy
byl 81 AM AN AMERICAN
DAY" slaven We Spojenych Sta
tech poprve.
V dobe, kdy sc do Spojenych
|Statd valily pine proudly pfiste-
hovalc1, jimz tehdy nebyly kla-
deny v cestu zadne restrikce
zakona, byvalo z1skavanf anne
rickeho obcanstvi zhusta uda-
Iosti, ktera zanechavala v dust
pristehovalce zmatek, a snad no
Ii pTipravovala O nektere iluse.
|Preplnene naturalisacni soudy
byly v mnoha pffpadech jake
mlyny, ktere pristehovalce
"zpracovavaly We velkem".
Tim zpnsobem snizovaly nejen
vyznam obcanstv1, ale i vnitrn1
hodnotu kazdeho jednotlivce,
ktery Sc prave vzdaval sv6 rod
ne zeme, ably Sc stall pf1slusn1-
KEN zeme adoptovane. AZ ko-
necne 81 jednoho dine vefejnost
federalni 1Tedn1ci a soudcove
uvedomili, re takovato situace
je zavrzenihodna, a re udelo-
vani obcanstvf ma byti udalostl,
jez zanecha v dust pristeho-
valce hlubsi DOZEN, udalost1, v
n1z Sc lepe projev1 pravy Ouch
Spojenych StatG.
Cd tie dolby stale vice soud-
Gu trvalo ma procedure, ktera
byla d1stojnym vyvrcholenlm
misunderstanding postupu = ma
pTisaze vernosti - a ktere ma
|sledkem toho uct1vala i ty,
kdoz zahajovali novy zivot ia
kozto obcane Spojenych Stat1.
V tonic SVEN 1sil1 nachazeli
|soudcove mnoho pf1vrzencu.
Vlastenecke, obcanske, osveto-
We i podpdrne organisace, ia
koz i cetnf jednotlivci pofadali
mnohe mistnf slavnosti, ozna-
covane rd6zne jake Dry obcan-
stvf, Dry novych obcan6, Dry
obcanskeho uznan1 a pod. Sc
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
DAY" PROVED

a slavnostnf obrady budou Sc
konati tuto nedeli We 2 hodiny
odpol. PrGvod v nemz Dude
ash $4,000 1castn1kd vyrazf z
Broadway a Bank ulic pc Bal
timore k Lakewood, Patterson
Parkem ma athleticke hr1ste.
Ash 1000 novych clen1 Dude
prijato do American Legion.
Dale budou rozdavany ceny
hasicskym setninam, bubenic-
kym cetam a praporovym stra-
Tim. Vecer v Z hodin Dude
tanec V Armory. Vytezek z
lance Dude venovan ku zakou-
penf Televisn1ch setG pro mist
nj veteranske nemocnice.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
Krasny a 1chvatny film "X.
Vsesokolsky Slet " Praze" Dude
ukazovan " SokolovnG
rob Cav a Preston ul.

Vzdelavatele Sok. Jednoty
"Blesk" a BALTIC. Jednoty Soko-
lie zvou veskere clenstvo ma prf-
stf stTedu 10. kvetna, kde Sc bu-
de pTedvad6ti film "X. Vseso-
kolskeho Sletu v Praze". Film
lie kompletnf a ie to skvela u
kazka sokolskeho rozkvetu.
Mate iedinecnou pTflezitost spa
tTiti neikrasnejs1 divadlo sv6-
ia: x. Vsesokolsky Slet! "a
catek presne V 8 hodin vecer.
Vstup volny a iak pravime kaz-
dT lie ivan a Dude v1tan.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
MiStnl ZpraVy.
Radostna udalost.

Mladym manzelGm p. Josefu
a Charlotte Kiselewich, 1910
Juneway narodil Sc minulou
sobotu, 8. kv6tna v nemocnici
Bon Secour zdravy chlapecek
a vail 5 ID. 8 or.
Maminka a robatko jsou
zdrave. Mlada maminka je
dcerou znamych krajanu prav-
nika p. Charles a pr. Carrie
Novak.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
Sokolka " u. S. Zavodni OIym-
nicke Telocvicne Cete.

DOzvfdame Sc, re V rOZfadO-
vacfch zavodech United States
Women's Olympic Gymnastic
Team cestn6 sc umistila sokoli-
20 ses. Laddie Bakanic, clenka
Sokolic New York, zupa W.
cohdnf. Ses. Bakanic je dee
ron ze zname sokolske rodiny
Karla Hnize. starosty T. j. S.
New York. Sestfe Ladince Ba-
kanicov6 sokolsk@ zdar!
A n
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
Re SOKOLA
PHILADELPHIA. PA.

Well, yidel jsem vsecko kdyz
isem byl prftomen A. A. u. O.
lympiclFm vyrazovac1m zavo-
dim mule soboty v Temple
Univ E. Soudcovanf ma po-
sledI Sok. Sletu v Chicago
nebyls &c ma vysi, ale soudco-.
|vani K Vyberu Scheme Getty
zen k representovani u. S. v.
Londyn6 bylo primo fraskou.
Je to skoda, re pri tax dGlezi-
tenn vyberu rozhodovaly u soud
cG pfedsudky a osobni INA
most vice nez-li vykony "a
vodnic.
Bee ohledu ma soudcovani
|vykony zavodnic byly bajecne
a must Sc Jim vzdati pine UNA
nj "a jejich krasne proveden1
ktere vyzadovalo mnoho ma
mahavych hodin nacviku. sko-
da, re Sokol nemel vetsiho "a
stoupenf pri teto praci.
Nase Amer. Sok. Organisace
NIUE byti hrda ma skutecnost,
re Sokolka ses. Laddie Hniz-
Bakanic z New Yorku dosahla
6. mfsta v Olympicke Cete "a O.
ma Dude pouze zastupovati A
mericke Sokolstvo Londyne.
Povzbuzovali jsme il a preje-
me il pT1jemnou cestu a mno-
no zdaru v zavodech.
Pr pravidelnem Spolecen-
skem Vec1rku konanem v nasi
Sokolovne minulou sobotu, 8.
kvetna oslavovali jsme take
Matek-Sokolek". Tuto
aferu NELL ma starosti cvicenky
a cvicfcf. Skoda, re byla mala
navsteva. Obcerstvenf obsta-
rail- bri. A. Tunkl E. Jaros, N.
Pastore a ses. r. Jaros a v.
JaroS. Reditelem hubby byl
Good Morning" br. Jar. Tun-
XII. Kvetinova Zahradka byla
predana nejstarsf pfftomne
matce ses. Mari Kasfkove.
V patek, FL. kvetna vecer
Dude Sc konati v MAST Sokolov-
ne pri pravidelne schGzi "Open
House" a vsichni pTatele Soko-
la Philadelphia jsou srdecne a
DO sokolsku zvani k ~navsteve.
Pc kratke schulz Dude nasle-
dovati "Movies" a Tanec. Use
zdarma!
Byli jsme pTfjemne pTekva-
peni povolanim University of
Pennsylvania v Akademii Hud-
by 28. kvetna. kde Jednota OBJ
drzf "Award Of Merit" "a
predveden1 Rytmickych FROST
nych pfi KultGrni Olympiade.
Nase skupina, ktera Sc z1cast-
Mia tohoto vystoupenf m1ze
byti hrda "a tuto poctu!
Nasi cvic1cf Sc pine pripra-
vujf ma vystoupeni v Belcamr
a Annapolis.
Opravdove a vfele doufam
re budeme moci letos vyslat
nase zastupce ma Kurs zupy
Vychodni, abych mohl predat
vedenf cvicenf mlads1m vedou.
elm tax, jak to ma byti!
Ma Zdar!
! Even Prostrednik
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14


vodni usneseni pTedsednictva.
Zakrok prot pomluvam a proti
Adolfu Kacerovi.
V nedeli, 2. kvetna konala Sc
v Chicago schdze pfedsednic-
iva Americke sokolske obce Sc
zastupci zup v AOS sdruze-
nych. Byla svolana, ably pro-
jednala jak dGlezite vnitfn1 "a
lezitosti AOS, tax i postoj anne
rickeho sokolstva k sokolstvu
We stare vlasti.
SchGze z1castnili sc vsichni
clenove pTedsednictva AOS i
nahradn1ci, a re zastupc1 zup
byli pT1tomni: "a zupu Vychod-
nj br. Josef Sazama z New Yor-
ku, "a zupu Severovychodnf br.
Jan ITCHY z Clevelandu, "a zu-
pu StTedni m1stostarostka ses.
MaTka Radvanovska, "a zupu
Severn1 br. Josef Pavl1cek re
st. Paul, Mimi, "a zupu Ia
padni br. Simon Rokdsek z O.
mahy, Neb., a "a zupu JIM
br. Ben PTevratil z Dallas, Tex.
Jake hoste byli pT1tomni zupnl
vzdelavatele br. V. Zizka z Gle
velandu a br. Josef VoboTil z
New Yorku; dale sestra Anna
FaltOva a vZd6lavatel zupy
Strednl br. Ed. Halik.
Sch1zi v nedeli o 9. iodine
rann1 zahajil a Tfdil starosta
ASO br. Karel M. Prchal. Pc
projednani podruznejsfch v6c1
byly pTecteny informace a do
pisy, tykajfcf Sc rozhodnutf A
mericke sokolske obce nez1-
castniti Sc oficielne XI. vseso-
kolskeho sletu v Praze. = Pc
bedlivem a pozornem projed-
mani teto zalezitosti,
vsichni pT1tomn1 znovu schva
lii drfvejsf rozhodnutf pred
sednictva. Hlasovali pro to-
to rozhodnuti jak vsichni Gle
move pTedsednictva, tax i pr1-
tomnf zastupci zup. Ia zu-
pu Pacifickou, ktera zastoO-
pena nebyla, postal jejf sta
rosta br. Kohoutek re San
Franciska p1semny souhlas s
dr1vejs1m usnesen1m ASO.
Vsichni pTftomn1 vyslovili pTa.
nj, ably jejich jmena byla i've.
dena ma dGkaz souhlasu S roz.
hodnut1m pfedsednictva Anne.
lricke sokolske obce, re oficiel
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
Vefejne Vystoupeni Vsech So
kolskych Jednot z Vychodni
zupy v nedeli, dine 20. cervna
" Belcampu.

ZuDV v A1C0NAA3 0AAC EOs CCK NkE0
Belcampu.
'Pratel6!
Dalsf informace ohledne bu-
sdi do Belcampu u ses. Rosalie
'Legro, 41O8 Montana Ave. CO.
Tel. CT. 2236 a br. A. Cihlare,
v "Telegrafu'. Byli ustanove-
nj prijimati pfihlasky ma busy
pro tento zajezd.
Laskave prihlaste Sc nejdele
do 10. cervna, abyste NELL "a
iist6na mista. Okruzni costa
S1.25, ktera must byti zaplace-
ma pTedem.
Jelikoz jest to celodennf W.
let busy vyjedou cd skoly Au-
gustina Hermana, Ashland a
Glover ulic presn6 v 9 hodin
rano a v 10 hodin.
Ma Belcampsk6m cvicisti Sc
poTada Volley Ball. Soutez
vsech sokolskych Jednot a kaz-
dy Dude dObre pObaVen.
Ob6dy budou ~pripraveny ma
SINH dobrymi kuchafkami z
Baltimore a Curtis Bay, tax
mate ma CO Sc tesit.
Odpoledne We 2 hodiny WI
de prGvod vsech cvicencG, sta
rostI a starostek, clen1 a Glen
kyn v kroji. Nezapomente 81
wit sokolsk6 capky. Pc prG-
vodu ma cvicisti zacne Timed
vefejne vystoupenf We zvlast-
Mich cfslech vsech Jednot v
prostnych a ma narad1.
Laskav6 Sc pTihlaste ma busy
lined.
Josef Pokorny, Okrs. Nacelnik.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
DAIRY.

K uctenf pamatky zemrele
krajanky p1. Marie Kosinove
mfsto kvetin darovali ma Ces.
Svob. Skolu Aug. Herman:
%. a pf. Josef Prochazka $500
%. a pf. Bernard Marek 500
70. En-. Kliment 500
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
Krajan "

Dozvidame Sc, re znamy kra-
jan a byvaly obchodnfk p. John
F. CihlaT, 524 N. Milton Ave.
naleza Sc V lekaTskem osetro-
vanf v Mercy nemocnici. Zlo-
mil 81 obratel.
Prejemu mt brzkeho uzdra-
Ven1.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14
Sokolska Hlidka.

Odvolani sokolskeho zajezdu
Znovu potvrZenO.
Zastupci zup a pTedsednictvo
ASO jednomyslne schvalili pG-
vodni usneseni pTedsednictva.
Zakrok prot pomluvam a proti
Adolfu Kacerovi.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1948-05-14

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The Nome nugget., 1948-12-08
Bartlett Confident Of Statehood
 For Alaska in l949

Continued from Page One) CT, that the Senate hearings on the bill will be short and that it can be enacted quickly"
 The Delegate said more people in the Territory favor Statehood now than in 1946, when they voted for it in a referendum.
 The Delegate said he also will introduce on the opening day a bill to abolish fish traps in the Territory. A recent referendum there was ten to one in favor of such legislation.
 The bill would abolish the traps gradually, over ten year period.
 Federal control of our fisher ies," he said, "has been a ghastly failure and it is high time that the people of Alaska who get their livelihood from fishing have something to say about how our fisheries are handled"
 Bartlett said he expected the fish and wildlife service to ap- prove the measure since the refer endum was so overwhelmingly for abolishing the traps.
 He said he also will make an
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-08
CHRISTMAS TREE COMMITTEES APPOINTED

Plans were made last Sunday for the annual Christmas Tree eel ebration at meeting called by Frank Love at the City Hall.
 Gordon Osborne was elected chairman for this year with the following assistants.
 Mrs. Luther Dunbar will be in charge of the school program with which the community program is incorporated.
 Olaf Halvorsen is in charge of decorations.
 Frank Love has charge of if nanceS.
 Mrs. Elmo Miller will handle the welfare.
 A. Polet is secretary.
 Mrs. Ken Rank is in charge of having the stockings made.
 w. w. Laws will see that the stockings are filled.
 The committee heads will meet again Thursday evening at 500 at the City Hall to further discuss the program as outlined.
 Members of the Home Arts Club and volunteers will make the stockings Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Robert Long.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-08
Roxy Skobelska,
 Displaced Person Reaches Anchorage

EVERETT, (P)-Roxolana Sko- belSka, 24, the first person to come to Alaska under the displaced per sons admittance act, paused here briefly Monday on her way to Anchorage.
 The attractive 24-year-old Pol ;h Ukrainian left Monday night by Alaska Airlines plane for the Alas ka city.
 Miss Skobelska, born in Vienna, said that she and her parents were living 1T eastern Poland when that country was partitioned in 1889 between Russia and Germany. Her father was a priest of the Greek Catholic church. After the parti- tion they moved to western Po- land. Shortly afterWard her father died and they returned to Vienna.
 Miss Skobelska said she would decide after her arrival in Anchor age whether to go in for vegetable growing or dairying. She said she had a decided preference for dairying. There's a reason. She never was able to satisfy her crav- ing for milk during the war years.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-08
INSURANCE AVAILABLE
 TO WORLD WAR II VETS

Most World War II veterans may still take out National Service Life Insurance even though they did not hold a policy while in the service, the Veterans AdminiStra- ton reports.
 Under G. l. insurance regula- tionS, any veteran who served honorably between October 8, l940, and September ?, l945, may apply to the VA for new insurance if none was held while in the armed forces. These veterans must pass an insurance physical exam nation and pay one monthly pre- mium to put the insurance in force.
 Veteans who previously held c. I. term insurance but have allow ed it to lapse for more than three months also must take a physical examination and pay two monthly premiums in order to reinstate their policies. The physicals may effort to get more road funds for Alaska, describing the need as tremendous" Particu arly in Southeastern Alaska, which is mostly national forest, he said, the government should construct roads where they are badly need ed.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-08

be obtained free of charge at any VA hospital or clinic or at the veterans own expense from a pri- vate physician
 The VA reminds veterans that they are eligible for any amount of G.I. insurance from $l,OOO to $lO,- 0O0-in multiples of S500-under either the low-coSt term plan or one or a combination of six perm anent types.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-01

A popular combination wherever row crops
ore srown: Formal H with Prov cuIfivofor.
Other cUltivoting equipment for the H and
N; 4 and Grow beet and beon c~uIfivotors;
fertilizing attachments for side dressing;
reor sweep o~ttoehmenfsi rotary weeders
and shieldsi weeder attachments; spring.
tooth attachments; disk hillersi ond Arrow
cvlfiYotors for Formal M.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-18

Commenting on some of the
silly things certain Congress
men have done lately, Rev.
A. Powell Davies of Washing
tons All Souls u n TIA r a n
church told his congregation
May % that there ought to be
a Congressional Committee
on Unintelligent Activities"
Too cumbersome, Reverend.
Congress would have to dis
solve itself into a Committee
of the Whole to handle the
tremendous backlog.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-18

write off that improvements
specific properties these include
repair street paving, (by district
installation of all other assessable utilities.
Mr.. Gregg also pointed that had not quoted many
figures This is true but did advdy
the figure quotes later in the series
first to out the respective positions
of all shades of opinion without compcatng
with maze of muitmlion dollar figures have been the
opinion that those who understand
first the relative phases of the issue they will be better
equipped to learn the figures that go issue.
1t also called my attention by Mr. Gregg that
had not discussed the Hudson differ with Mr.
Gregg the Hudson Case issue this extent believe
Hudson Case Bonds have lost their identity general obga
ton bonds and have become part parcel
debt bonds Possibly should explain what Hudson Case bonds
Several years ago petition circulated in Ohio and
referendum was held amendment the State Con-
suton which provided that operation evies for the
County, CITY, township, and schools is limited to 10 mills in
stead of 15 mills had previously been provided This left
many communities in the embarrassing position having gen
era obligation bonds outstanding with legal
them off The Village of Hudson Ohio of these
munites 1t took the to and went all the
the State Supreme Court The by method
side debt although the people had voted for the eve
write it off This has become known Hudson Case Dept
Toledo has about million dollars still outstanding in
this type of debt can't light of the Supreme Court
decision Hudson Case Bonds any
other way than integral of the total outside
Since the main difference of opinion the proposed
amendment is whether is best for the City Of Toledo to
the barrel head for contemplated public
of both methods.
AS stated before both sides have logical reasoning
for their positions There will be five million in surplus
by the time the ordinance expires this applied to the
outside debt real estate tax will be decreased for period of
four to five in the amount of miage would require
for the write off of those
All of these bonds full maturity bonds not callabe
therefore interest will be saved in writing them off 1t will
however the credit rating the City make
bonds really gilt edged goods The only possible
interest these bonds could be would be to request
the holders sell them back the city at at discount
Most them for investment and
who would need of ready
mood to lqudate have quarell with the
bond and buyers but don't believe that exist
merely to furnish premium goods for their particular
market.
personally of the other school of thought this
matter am convinced that will have to have public
improvements to keep in the competitive running
and to provide employment at times of slack
employment industry. If have the cash to finance
all any part of such should 1T without
buying and paying interest for the of money Every
dollar this will another dollar of interest
Every mill of is taken off the
for retirement will back the bond
issues to finance the public improvement program.
Next week will continue this discussion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-18

There was fine irony last week in the an.
nouncement by the reactonary National Asso.
citation of Real Estate Boards that "home-build.
lng will soon outperform the automobile indus.
try" The same newspapers that carried this
announcement reported that three families in
Chicago were arrested for living in their auto
mobiles In Washington President Edward E
Brown, of the Federal Reserve Board Advisory
Council, told Congress that war veterans
would be better off" living in "tar shack for
a year or two" instead of paying $11 900 for
house that should cost $4,000. This advice
was given impressive emphasis in Buffalo,
N. Y, where woman was arrested for cruelty
to animals because she kept her chickens in
an unheated tarpaper chicken coop. Her de-
tense was that the coop had just been vacated
by veteran and his two children and they had
never complained.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-18
Our Responsibility
BY Ruth TAYLOR

There is river in Macedon, and there is
also moreover a river at Monmouth-and
there is salmons in both"
When Will, the country boy who went to
the city to write plays, penned that line, he
probably was thinking with nostalgia of the
days when whether the fish were biting was
more important to him than wealthy spon-
sor coming to watch his actors strut the
boards. But he could not have stated more
clearly one of the important truths upon which
the fate of the world hangs today.
Too often in every phase of life we think
only of Monmouth and forget Macedon. We
see only our own side of the picture And we
resent the other fellow seeing just his. n.
We have made this mistake in our own
unions - witness the jurisdictional disputes;
we have made this mistake in our own nation
witness the Taft-Hartley Act and other class
legislation we have made this mistake in our
own world-witness the mess into which our
overlooking of our brothers problems has led
us-with wars and rumors of war everywhere.
No longer are calm judgment, a sense of
perspective, clear thinking, tolerance of the
other fellows viewpoint, merely the character
istics that mark the man who has reaped the
rewards of education Sin self-discipline and
self-containment. They have become a matter
of life and death.
We cannot shrk responsibility. We cannot
say 1HlS WANT IOT me ana HlLne. we Cdu-
not consider only the people who live by the
river at Monmouth-and ignore the fate of
those who live by the river in Macedon
There is no group in the country VII
whom greater responsibility lies than the IL |
movement. Because the whole principle back
of organized labor is the betterment of con-
ditions-not for one small group, not for one
union. but for all who work
Ideals are the only real security. 1t is the
ideal back of the labor movement that made
it win through years of adversely. It is only
recognition of these ideals that can make it
win through in the trying days ahead.
There is no longer time for selfishness or
self-nterest We must close ranks and re-
member not merely our lost rights but our
personal responsibilities toward our fellow
workers everywhere.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-06-18
Ball>iStiCS
by Oliver Hoyem

made In March by the Con-
1ressional watchdog commit
tee" that the Taft Hartley Act
had reduced strikes.
Many workers resented the
idea that keeping people at
work against their will is more
desirable than maintaining the
right to strike. There are no
strikes in Russial
Now we find that Senator
Balls committee juggled some
unrelated statistics in order to
try to make the Act look good.
Ball claimed the act had re-
duced strikes because there
were fewer strikes in the last
half of 1947 than in the first
half. He didn't mention that
this had happened every year
since 1927, that this annual
trend had nothing to do with
the TIL Act. Balls statistics!
Now that the strike figures
are available for the first quar-
ter of 1948, we learn about the
7,730,000 man-days of idleness
because of work stoppages
which occurred in that quar-
ter. If we compare 1t with the
$4,000 man-days of idleness
in the first quarter of l947
"a fair comparison), we get a
complete reversal of the story
Ball issued for public con-
sumption. Strikes have In
creased. The coal dispute may
bring about more man-days of
idleness.
Do not assume, however,
that the fact of more strikes
will persuade the TIL boys
that this could be the fault of
the law. No! Their answer, as
indicated by Ball, is more of
the same sort of law-strike re-
strictions, abolition of all types
of union security, compulsory
arbitration, applying the anti
trust law principle of breaking
up the concentration of power
on both sides of the bargain
ing table," new labor courts,
and banning of industry-wide
bargaining.
Congress will make no
changes before the November
elections. Unfinished business
will continue to pile up in the
National Labor Relations
Board and delay union organ
ization. The Supreme Courts S
long summer vacation will de-
Law the issuance of vital de-
clsions. Suits, injunctions, and
civil penalties against unions
await a more favorable "polit-
ical climate"
Employers who want a fight
will get a fight. Unions which
may be assessed heavy fines
will move to get those fines
paid back with interest In the
form of increased wages. In
the long run, human beings will
win out - even if they must
resort to their votes.
A much smarter way is thai
of employers who continue tc
get along with the unions de-
spite the Taft Hartley law. Co
operation works better than CO.
ercion.