The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-05-28

W wrongs DO not MAKE a
right ''- English proverb.
There has been a great deal Of
p Is end 0 n EXPRESSED on the con
t.oVersial civil-riphts bill now pend
inc in Congress. Are there any pit
falls to be avoided here? Where
some weaknesses to Be shown?
IS il entirely above board and
hanest2
we wosld d we'll TO analyze
senae Of the more questionable as
poets Of the bill before we commit
ourselves n this instance In my
crrn case | ind at least three areas
81 d~issensicn that causes me to mis-
tfisf somewhat the announced in
tentions Of the creators Of the
measure. Let us review them
@o~iefly
In the first place. the bills
authors have bad the incredible ef-
franterv to suggest that we do
away with trial by jury in certain
instances 10 be covered by this leg
is'ation, Certainly. trial by jury is
an in7lielab'e right given US in
orr B Il Of Rights and l fail com
pletely to see how we can quite
lucidly expect to gain one civil
right al the expense of one already
on the books. How arbitrary can
we get?
secondlvJ the bills authors also
went overheard when they wrote
into the bill a little-noticed pro-
sion which would enable volunteer
organizaticns-amateur shoppers If
0 will-to come to the rescue Of
the Government with their dossiers
and files compiled against people
whom they might not like, or in
stances In which they had axes to
grind This, in SHORTY could con
ceivably lay the groundwork for a
gestapo-like persecution of our citi-
zenry which would put to shame its
Marxist counterpart in Germany or
Russia.
Third, We may note that pro-
ponents Of the bill have made a
tremendous outcrY in b chal Of
mans civil rights. They have pic
tured themselves as the defender Of
the weak and the champion of the
doWntrodden. Torrents of crocodile
tears have been shed in an inspired
attempt to prove to the American
people that tl.ey had nothing but
love and affection for Joe Doakes.
Yet when a right to-work amend
mont was offered in the civil-rights
measure. the pseudo liberals folded
up like a collapsed tent.
Do these civil-righters maintain
that it is a civil right to be forced
into an involuntary association
AGAINST our wills-or we don't eat2
Such a contention is dangerous in
view of the fact that only one-fourth
q Americas 67 million workers are
ORGANIZED into unions.
Mo union propagandist has eve
explained satisfactorily why they
call the right to work law q right to
wreck measure. Actually they can
not even explain why they have
coniured up this smde term. The
right to work merely saws that no
worker can be denied a sob BY vir-
tue Of having joined. Or not having
ioined a union. That's not union
busting. In fact the right to join a
union is guaranteed, And union
membership has Increased in every
State all ID Of them-which have
already adopted right-to-work legis-
lation.
The explanation for this is really
very simple. When the union men
have the opportunity to walk out on
labor bosses who might have their
hands in the TIL o. pursue unwel-
come, arbitrary. undemocratic, and
tyranmical practices-practices Q
that Kind cease without exception.
The labor bosses are forced to run
the union ~ethically and with due
consideration for the workers in
stead Of themselves. Good practices
VIII have the end result Of tipping
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