Evening star., 1961-06-24
.AIexundriun
Fires Answer,
Rops Attacks
BY the Associated Press

The battle between rival can
didate for Lieutenant Governor
is continuing to provide the
Virginia Democratic primary
campaign its liveliest contro-
verSy as the time for voting
July 11-drawS closer.
In speeches and in state
mentS, the slugfest goes on be-
tween State Senator Mills E.
Goodwin, favorite of the Byrd
organization, and the man he
calls a foe Of Virginia's right
to-work law, State Senator
ArmiStead Boothe.
Senator Goodwin was at it
again last night, and so was
Senator Boothe.
In a statement issued while
he was in Roanoke for an ap-
pearance with his ticket-mates
Senator Goodwin charged that
Senator Boothe has a long
range plan of attack on the
right-to-work law"
The Suffolk legislator sug-
geSted that Senator Boothe and
the State AFL-CIO have
agreed" that Senator Boothe
must give lip-Service to the law
during the campaign SO he can
get elected. Afterwards, Sena-
tor Goodwin said, Senator Boothe
will be lin a better position to
quietly undermine" the law.
BOOthe Answers
Senator Boothe, meantime,
IN a speech at Front Royal, re-
peated that he favors leaving
the right-to-work law on the
statute books, and denied he
has ever advocated its repeal,
either in public ORR in private.
"Labor-management relations
have accommodated themselves
to this law and the waters of
accommodation should not be
muddied," Senator Bottle said.
The Alexandria Senator also
replied to a Goodwin claim ear
lier in the week that he
(Boothe) was "the darling of
the labor union bosses, the
NAACP and the liberals in Vir-
ginia.'
Il have no more connection
with the NAACP than Mills
Goodwin has with Mr.. Khru-
shchev," said Senator Boothe.
MY philosophy is the phi
losophy of Virginia. I get fed
up and disguSted when I hear
people try to paint us as ultra
liberals"
Senator Boothe is running
on a ticket with A. E. S. Ste
phens for Governor and T.
Munford Boyd for attorney
general. The opposing ticket
on which Senator Goodwin is
running is headed by A. S.
Harrison for Governor and in
cludeS State Senator Robert
Y. Button for attorney general.
Mr.. Harrison, Senator Cod
win and Senator Button ap-
peared in the Roanoke area
yesterday for some personalized
campaigning and, later, some
concentrated speechmaking =:
Mills Mountain Park.
Harrison Speaks
Mr.. Harrison Joined Senator
Goodwin in talking about the
right-to-work law in a portion
of his address at the park,
where a late afternoon rain cut
down the crowd for an old
fashioned barbecue to between
100 and 125.
The gubernato1fal candidate
said if outside industry ever
gets the idea the right-to-work
law is in danger of repeal, or
serious weakening, Virginia
will have destroyed our prin-
cipal asset" for industrial de-
velopment.
Industrial leaders, Mr.. Har-
riSon said, are aware of what
he called "the attitude" of
Senator Boothe on the law.
Mr.. Harrison said if he is
elected Governor he will ask
legislators and heads of State
departments to get local and
non-controversial bills out of
The way early in the LegiSla-
lures 60-day sessions. This, he
said, would clear the usual log
Jam of legislation at the end
Of the sessions and give the
aSSemblymen more time to
spend on important legislation,
such as appropriations bills.
Boyd Hits Opponents
Mr.. Boyd, campaigning in
he Norfolk area. charged that
he Harrison Goodwin : Button
tickets approach to Virginia's
public school problem is still
argely controlled by the mas
i've resistance philosophy"
"The approach of the oppo-
'ition apparently is that it will
'eSiSt anything that would ex-
end or accelerate integration,"
he attorney general aspirant
old news conference.
The approach of his own
ticket, Mr.. Boyd said, sis that
while we don't want integration
md we don't like it, we will
OAl ~ khA efa,,la,I aF .z.I