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Page 4—Refugio Timely Remarks, Thursday, Dec. 10,1953
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shook off one tackler and sped
two. Roberts was over the middle
the extra point.
The Bobcats continued to dom-zone as he tried to get off
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Texas Laws Inadequate
To Deal With Menace
Of Union Communists
copy of the proceedings of these
hearings, together with a copy of
this report to the Presidents of
Locals of these international un-
। The Commission further finds
that there is no place nor will
there be a place in Texas for such
groups or their agents to operate.
We are creating a Legal Advis-
ory Committee to assist this Com-
these and made only
down in the period.
Refugio.—The Refugio Bobcats
defeated the Weslaco Panthers 16
to 7 last Friday night at Weslaco
in a close but unexciting game.
Despite the fact that the Bob-
cats were held to a seven to seven
tie for the first half, scoring their
touchdown on a play that covered
92 yards, the game failed to cre-
ate the excited tension and thrill
as the bi-district match against Del
this over to the Legal Advisory
Committee.
The Commission is not going to
dodge this challenge and responsi-
Which car has
covered all 48 states
at an operating
tempted to organize Texas branch-
es. We further request that they
study these documents carefully
and that immediate consideration
be given tp separating themselves
from these Communist influenced
internationals.
legislation. This Committee is to
be composed of a lawyer to be
designated by organized labor, one
to be named by the President of
the State Bar of Texas, and the
Commission’s Counsel, the Attor-
nel General of Texas. ,
The Attorney General has al-
ready done considerable work and
research on proposed legislation
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Austin.—Texas laws are inade- ■
quate to deal with the menace of;
Communists in labor unions, but
legislation with teeth in it is prom-
ised.
In concluding its three-day in-
vestigation into alleged communis-
tic activities of three labor unions
in Texas, the State Industrial Com-
mission Monday said teeth would
be put into proposed legislation.
In its report the commission said
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cost as low as this?
LESS THAN ONE CENT A MIL"!
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was offsides to give
the Bobcats renewed life on the
further commends Attorney Gen-
eral John Ben Shepperd and his
aides for the orderly and dignified
back over the head of Lackey and
rolled into the end-zone. He re-
treated before the fast chargiig
Bobcat linemen and picked up the
ball deep in the end zone, only
to hit the goal post, dropping the
ball and stepping out of the end-
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There is incentive under this system for landowner
and operator (who risks his capital) to team up to hunt,
develop, and market abundant supplies of oil and gas.
The system makes possible private operation of
55 million motor vehicles and the heating of millions of
American homes. And the military defenders of our coun-
try will look to Texas for more than half of their oil
supplies in a war emergency.
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From the ground up, oil does mean much to Texas
life and security.
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The Commission further finds I
that the present laws of Texas
are inadequate to deal with this
menace. The framers of our labor
laws and subversive control laws
could not have reasonably antici-
pated the infiltration of such sub-
versive forces because their meth-
ods of operation and philosophies
are so alien to the traditions and
above-board characteristics of Tex-
The citizen of New York or Galveston or Port Arthur will
be better off when his organization is lead by law-abid ne
legitimate and patriotic people.—Austin American-S.atesma. :
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expedition, the case was well pre-
pared and showed the results of
months of intensive research, in-
vestigation, and evaluation.
V.
The Commission wishes to thank
the Department of Public Safety
which, through its Internal Secur-
ity Section, was most helpful in
serving the Commission and as- 1
sisting the Attorney General’s of-
fice.
bility. This is another field in | took the second half opening kick-
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off and marched for 65 yards and
a touchdown, even if a five-yard
offsides penalty was necessary to
give a second chance after a field-
goal effort was failed.
It was the Bobcats that limited
the Panthers to only two plays from
scrimmage for the entire third
quarter. In the fourth period there
were 43 plays executed and the
Panthers had the ball for 16 of
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derson kicked the extra point.
Early in the second quarter,
Bracken recovered a Bobcat fum-
estly urge the members of our
delegation in the Congress to give
their whole-hearted support to the
Board in the passage of such
legislation as will remedy this sit-
uation.
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Weslaco team, for the Panthers
fought all the way. Their sopho-
more sensation, Bobby Lackey,
kept the Bobcats deep in their
territory with sensational punting
during the first half. Hueland
Bracken, watch-fob size guard of
the Panthers, recovered two Bob-
cat fumbles and inspired the Wes-
laco line throughout the evening.
It must be remembered, how-
ever, that it was the Bobcats that
For in Texas, as in the rest of the United States, oil
and gas are minerals which originally belong to the land
in which they are found. Farmers, ranchers—even city lot
owners—own the minerals which came with their land
unless they dispose of them. Like houses or cows, min-
erals are private property which can be sold, left to chil-
dren or willed to a church or school. Resources here are
not parceled out by king or dictator nor confiscated by
the “state."
ble on the Refugio two-yard line inate play and were keeping the | giving the Bobcats
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top play. Buzzy Murphy faded back was good for only one yard On
pass to Serafin Vela. Vela gather- but Weslne
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three unions investigated for “their conducted. It was not” a
international organizations are eith-
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mission in its final report to the | tically everyone was expecting the
Governor and to the Legislature in, Bobcats to be the eventual winner
which we will recommend adequate and anticipating that sooner or
later they would prove themselves
masters of the game.
Nothig s to be taken from the
II. ‘‘get tough” policy toward Com-
The Commission will deliver a munism in trade unions. We earn-
it found that “present laws of
Texas are inadequate to deal with
this menace (Communism in la-
bor unions).
The investigation followed At-
torney General John Ben Shep-
perd’s recent charge that Com-
munists were infiltrating into
three Texas unions. The unions
are Distributive, Processing and
Office Workers of America; Inter-
national Fur and Leather Workers
Union and International Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers Union.
The commission reported to Gov.
Allan Shivers that they found “a
clear and present danger” in the
Texas Workers Victims
Of Red Stripe Leadership
.. The state’s crack-down on communistic leadership of two
international” unions has taken its place as one of the high-
lights of state government activity this year. It is a timely
declaration of the fact there is no place in Texas for Com-
mumsts and Communist-inspired leadership of either busi-
ness and labor or political action groups.
The Fur and Leather Workers, nailed down in records of
reputable organized labor in the United States and in federal
and state records as led by persons tied into communistic
activities, has been excluded from Texas.
Attorney General John Ben Shepperd’s aggressive investi-
gation of the leadership of the Distributive, Processing and
Office Workers International has turned up for the record
evidence that it would take a lot of explaining and proof to
overturn. It logically points to official action. Even Commun-
ists are assured the protection by American courts of what-
ever right tney have earned, and can have their day in court.
The people of Texas are entitled to the protection of the
law, too. Communist agitators demand the safeguards of
American courts to carry on their efforts to undermine and
weaken the nation; the people invoke the courts to preserve
order, to protect the rights of the public and the security of
the nation.
We fear that the victims of an invasion of radical agita-
tors and subversive leaders will be the Texas workers whom
they attempt to “organize” and lead into paths foreign to the
principles and patriotism of these Texas cities.
Federal law, designed for the safeguards and freedom of
the people, gives great latitude for advantage by these off-
color outfits. It carefully protects the latitude of choice of
the organizations to represent groups of workers, and con-
firms the right of an organization to speak for not only those
who choose its leadership but others in the same employment. ■
A few skilled agitators, fresh from association with such
figures as Harry Bridges, Paul Robeson, Francis Budenz and
Harvey Matusow, can through well-established techniques
and manipulation, get a strangle-hold on a great number of
sincere and patriotic workers, drag honorable citizens into
the orbit of their disreputable objectives.
The radical and subversive leaders get power and money
out of it ’ in the long run the rank and file of workers find
they have been taken in and used ruthlessly for the purposes
not of their choosing.
There are three or four big groups whose leadership
bears the definite stamp of communism, such as Harry
Bridges outfit, the Mine, Mill and Smelter organization. The
East Coast Longshoremen have made progress toward clean-
ing,UP the evils created by radical and crooked leadership.
there is no reason why, with the exposure of agitators
and leaders operating in defiance of every principle of Amer-
ican patriotism, the members of all such organized groups
cannot effect a house-cleaning of their own.
er Communist controlled, dominat-
ed or influenced.”
However, the commission did not
find that any member of a Texas
labor union was a Communist.
Commission members included
C. E. Fulgham, chairman, Walter
Buckner, William J. Harris, L. E.
Page and E. G. Rodman.
The committee report is printed
in full, as follows:
1.
This Commission, after hearing
the testimony, has arrived at the
conclusion that the overwhelming
preponderance of evidence present-
ed conclusively shows that these
three isolated labor unions (1) Dis-
tributive, Processing and Office
Workers of America, (2) Interna-
tional Fur and Leather Workers
Union, and (3) International Mine,
Mill, and Smelter Workers Union,
through their international organi-
zations are either Communist con-
trolled, dominated, or influenced;
that through the Communist party
and/or front organizations these
unions are linked together; that
these unions either are now oper-
ating in or attempting to enter
Texas; that there is a clear and
present danger.
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With the exception of the leaders
named in this hearing of the three
unions Under investigation, there
was no testimony that indicated
that any member of a Texas labor
union was a Communist.
one first, ening play that went for yardage
to the Weslaco 29 and a first down.
VI.
While the evidence adduced
shows the recent trend of National
Labor Relations Board policies to-
ward Communist connected unions
to be encouraging, and its coopera-
tion with State agencies to be heart-
ening, yet it also points up the
lack of statutory authority in the
Board to effectively cope with the
situation. Following the indictment
of Ben Gold, International Fur &
Leather Workers Union president,
for perjury in making false non-
Communist affidavits to the Board,
NLRB tightened its procedure by
deciding to withhold certain of its
facilities and services from unions
whose officers had been indicted
for filing false non-Communist af-
fidavits. Unfortunately, a Federal
Court has enjoined enforcement of
this policy because the Board is
“without statutory authority.” This
prevents NLRB not only from en-
forcing its newly adopted regula-
tion governing such Communist
dominated unions, but also serious-
ly hampers it in broadening its
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score and the tally came after six Murphy tossed to Bill Anderson ov- Panthers in w, . , '
minutes of time had elapsed. Lack- er the line for a play that nA ..A hns Weslaco territory. In (
ey had punted out on the Refugio first down on the Weslaco 16. On led their iperi to the Bobcat swo rk- T
eig a fterLoui Young ads p- awic pla « lawas off for ten | before losing the ball on downs
ped a previous Weslaco drive by yards and a first down. Rivas The Panthers picked up 16 S .
recovering a fumble, knocked at the liie for a yard, An- ,0 11 ! IP , Y
Jimmy Roberts failed to make derson dropped a short pass over anda. -rs oWn, by Lackey was
anything, then came the game’s the line, and a lateral to Rivas h , on a pass attempt and
top play. Buzzy Murphy faded back was good for only one yard On downed for a seven-yard loss. On
m1 - the next play the ball snapped
The Bobcats were the first to Roberts added two yards, then
bounds on the Refugio 5. Lackey
pounded over for .the score and
then kicked the extra point to knot
I the score. This concluded scoring
in the first half.
The second half opened with
Reynaldo Rivas bringing the kick-
off back 10 yards to the Refugio
35. Pat Freeman rapped tackle
for three yards, then Roberts was
at the opposite tackle for two yards
and Vela made it first down by
getting five yards at left tackle.
Roberts picked up two and Vela
three, then Murphy dropped a pass
over the line into the hands of Bill
Anderson for seven yards and a
second first down. A shovel pass
failed to gain, and Roberts picked
up a yard before Vela slipped
through the middle on a quick op-
which too much has been left to
the Federal Government. Our
recommended legislation will have
teeth and will forever prevent the
recurrence of this threat.
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION’S
REPORT TO GOVERNOR AL-
LAN SHIVERS,
December 7, 1953
C. E. Fulgham, Chairman
Walter Buckner
William J. Harris
L. E. Page •
E. G. Rodman.
IV.
This Commission finds that it
was fully within the province of
the Attorney General’s office to
initiate this investigation and the
Commission further commends the
efforts of Attorney General John
Ben Shepperd and his Assistants
in the efficient presentation of the
documentary evidence and impar-
tial questioning of witnesses, which,
in the minds of the Commission,
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The system produces a billion barrels of oil a year
in Texas—about three times the estimated output .F
U.S.S.R. & Co. Like other privately-owned commcdities,
such as cattle, wheat, grapefruit or cotton, oil and gas
are a part of the commercial bloodstream that nurtures
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