The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Facing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL
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A new service station for motorists
sells gasoline and oil in quantities ac-
cording to coins inserted, at the same
time permitting free use of air, water
and repair tools.
The Bible was written over a period
of at least 1,600 years.
Because
Electricity is So
Cheap in Dallas-
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Music Upheld
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Your Electrical
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Backstage in Austin
By D. R. HARDEMAN and ALEX LOVIS
Finally, Mr. Lewis topped his pro-
posal off with the glittering but com-
pletely gratuitous offer to withdraw
himself as a candidate for any office
in the A. F. of L. How unselfish, no-
hle and touching! ’ 33
The Way to Peace
When we face the facts we see that
the labor war has been a bitter one
and the road to peace will not be an
easy one. The essential requirements
are these:
Yov He ah It
100% UNION BREWERY
Pearl Beer Distributing Co.
DIAL 7-2779 8607 MAIN ST.
dollars from a million, having never
seen either. .
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asked for the immediate chartering by
the A. F. of L. of all C, I. O. units
without audits of membership or re-
gard for jurisdictionaf conflicts with
existing A. F. of L. unions. This means
that the A. F. of L. would issne char-
ters to paper organizations with in-
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PEARL PLEASE
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The United States is the only nation
in the Western Hemisphere which now
maintains diplomatie relations with
Russia. When this country recognized
the Soviets, they promised to refrain
from Communist activities here, but
they have continuously violated that
promise.
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soon as President Roosevelt spoke
up and told the country the truth—
of the New York Appellate Division
be upheld by the New York Court of
Appeals. It is probable that unions
may more frequently utilize their or-
ganized strength to prevent their right
to live by their labor being jeopardiz-
ed through the unreasonable substi-
tution of soulless -machines for human
strength and skill.
labor from achieving the unity they
want and need. No one man can stay
n the spot and take the heat that is
being turned on Mr. Lewis and will|ment to carry on their fight against
be turned on him. . (the A. Fpof L. from within the A. F.
Even Mr. Lewis knows this. So as I of,L Wouldn't that be a fine way of
'achieving peace and unity!
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Thank you, Mr. President!
The American Federation of Labor
asked you last week to tell the Amer-
ican public the truth about the fail-
ure to resume labor peace negotia-
tions.
You responded promptly, Mr. Pres-
ident. You, told the truth. You in-
formed the public that the American
Federation of Labor had responded
favorably and unreservedly to your
anpeal for the restoration of peace
conferences. You revealed for the
first time that John L. Lewis had
spurned your pleas.
Now the public <knows the truth-
Now it is the duty of all American
workers, whether they are members
of the American Federation of Labor
or the C. I. O., to compel Mr. Lewis
to see reason or get out. No one man
can get away indefinitely with the po-
sition stubbornly held by Mr. Lewis.
No one man can prevent the hosts of
in fact the very next day—Mr. Lewis
attempted to squirm off the spot and
escape the public wrath by making a
show of offering peace. It was the
same kind phony offer Mr. Lewis has
made repeatedly in the past. Some
people, including most of his follow-
ers, were duped by the previous fake
peace proposals emanating from Mr.
Lewis. But by this time everyone is
wise to his game. That kind of phony
Peace must be real peace. It must
come from a mutual realization that
existing strife is necessary, harmful
and dangerous to labor. It must be
a lasting peace. It must be a com-
plete peace.
whose earning power is destroyed.
According to the evidence in the
.case an opera company used phono-
graph records instead of employing
musicians. The musicians used their
organizational strength in opposition
to this policy and declared a strike as
a method of protecting their jobs by
persuading the opera management to
can the canned music. Instead of
recognizing the justice of the musi-
cians’ action the opera company re-
sorted to the Injunction process- to
restrain the strikers from "interfer-
ing" with the business of the com-
pany. But the court ruled that the
musicians may not be enjoined from
using their organized strength to per-
suade the company to hire musicians
instead of supplying opera music by
phonograph records. The court is re-
ported to have held that the right of
labor in this respect is similar to that
of employers under the common law
to use new inventions for their profit.
Observers point out that judicial
sanction of limitations on the use of
labor-displacing machinery imposed
by unions to protect their employment
is relatively new. Should the ruling
flated membership and thus
Candidai
Austin. Tex.. Feb. 19.—A political
feud between members of the Texas
Liquor •Control Board flared in the
• ' open last week.
Prohibitionist chairman W. D. Brad-
field, appointee of Gov. W. Lee O’Dan-
iel. had in his possession affidavits
from former employes of the board
purporting to show improper political
activity by Administrator Bert Ford
and certain beer dealers in El Paso.
Majority members on the board, E.
W. Cruch and D. J. Decherd, ordered
an investigation. Bradfield dissented,
contending the board had no power to
subpoena witnesses and take testi-
mony in such an inquiry. The in-
vestigation nevertheless was held—
behind closed doors.
Result was that Administrator Ford
received a clean Bill of health from
the board majority. Again Bradfield
dissented. - He sent the affidavits to
the governor,, suggesting a thorough
examination "to the end that the truth
may be ascertained and that the peo-
ple may be informed of the facts."
Crquch and Decherd, who had criti-
cized Bradfield for "playing too much
politics with the govefnor," also wrote
O'Daniel a letter. Inferentially, they
challenged O’Daniel to call the Legis- .
lature for purposes of investigation. I
“Possibly, Dr. Bradfield having dis-
cussed the matter with you, thinks
that your mind is going along with
his and that he feels you might want
io call a special session of the legis-
lature for impeachment purposes. . . .
Frankly, we would welcome any in-
vestigation by or through any au-
thoritative agency," they said.
NEUTRAL: The governor sidetrack-
ed jurisdiction in the matter as ex-
pertly as a. lawyer. “I consider ay
matters pertaining to the liquor bopfd
still in the hands of its members,‘he
.wrote Decherd and Crouch. Then
I Tne survivors of a group of 14 men
who organized a “woman-haters" club
35 years ago held a reunion recently
in Salt Lake City. It was revealed
that during the intervening years
ever one of the members had been
married.
The alleged lack- of confidence of
business men in the economic condi-
tion of the country is not reflected in
current summaries of financial opera-
tions. According to the Associated
Press profits of the first 230 large
companies to report results for 1939
were nearly $500,000, or 63 per cent
greater than in 1938. A compilation
placed earnings for the group at $1,-
152.061.000, compared with $704,806,-
000 in the previous year.
ate Investigating committee. That
committee, headed by his friend, Sen.
Wilbourne Collie of Eastland, has
been inactive for more than a year
now. It ould inquire into the basis
• of the charges and make a report to
the Legislature later for further ac-
tion. But O’Daniel did not see fit to
refer the question to any such body.
SECOND TERM. The question of
O'Daniej's second term ambitions con-,
tinned as a topic of speculation this
• week. For the second consecutive
Sunday the governor mentioned let-
ters he is receiving from the general
public asking that he run for re-
election. At least he is acting like a
candidate, but no one really knows
whether or not he will seek a second
term. Lieutenant Governor Coke
Stevenson belleves O'Daniel will run
again. If not, Stevenson, has given
notice he will be a candidate for the
office.
WHISPERS: People around the
capitol are still talking about the pos-
sibility- that Former Governor Dan
Moody may run for governor this sum-
mer or else campaign for some one
else. . . Railroad Commissioner Jerry
Sadler is likely to stay out of the race,
or vice versa.
PENSIONS: Announcing receipt of
federal money with which to help pay
Texas old-age pensions, Public Wel-
fare Director Adam R. Johnson last
week warned against constant harass-
ment by federal agents. “They won’t
let us lone," he said, pointing out he
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showing English shipments of gold to prints would be compared with those
i this country, thus making billions out on file with the F. B. I., which showed
| of millions. But it wasn't important I him to be a fugitive from justice.. He
—most of us wouldn’t know a billion was sent to jail.
bar had to spend months on formulat-
ing a merit system which would have
the approval of Washington instead of
giving his attention to reinvestigation
of pensioners as required annually by
law. The result, he warned, may be
that the Texas administrative work-
ers will hot be through with reinvesti-
gallons by the July deadline.
GIFT: Attorney General Gerald
Mann last week received a portrait of
himself in oils from a group of friends
in Grimes County. A surprise por-
trait, done from photographs, it was
painted by Charles Berkeley Normann,
art director of the Texas School of
Fine Arts at Austin.
CHOSEN: Lee Brady of Mart last
week became state banking commis-
sioner by appointment of Governor
O’Danie). Fifty-one years old, Brady
is vice-president of the First National
Bank of Mart. He succeeds Fred C,
Branson of Galveston, who recently
resigned and later was named to the
University of Texas Board of Re-
gents.
(By. AFLWNS.)
A decision by the New York Appel-
late Division regarding the validity
of a strike-against phonograph music
is bound to create considerable inter-
est both among those who believe
that inventions should not be used to
victimize labor and employers who
confend that inventions should be in-
stalled solely in the interest of prof-
its regardless of the effects on work-
ers whose labor is displaced and
is willing and has been willing from
the beginning to admit all C. I. O.
un’ons and their members to the fold
without prejudice, without discrimina-
tion and without penalty. We want
them to come back. We want them to
work with us, not against us.
Therefore, it is first necessary to
have an independent audit made at
once of the paid-up membership of
both organizations.
After such an audit is made, it will
be necessary for the officials of unions
on each side with conflicting juris-
dictions to sit down and work out mu-
tually satisfactory mergers. The Am-
erican Federation of Labor cannot
have two unions fighting against each
other in the same fjeld for the right
to represent the same workers.
Finally, after the mergers have
been arranged on a voluntary basis,
all the C. I. O. unions, including those
originally chartered by the A. F. of
L, can come back at once to the house
of labor and take their rightful place
in the conventions of the American
Federation of Labor with the same
rights and privileges as the organiza-
tions which have remained faithful
throughout.
Mr. Lewis, if you will accept these
terms, you will be treated on the same
footing as any other member in good
standing. Nothing will be placed in
the way of any ambitions you may
still entertain. In fact, we invite you
to come in and offer yourself as a
candidate for any office in the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor at its next
convention. We wouldn’t think of de-
priving tyou of that opportunity.
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Through error The United States Joe Berman of Philadelphia passed
News added three ciphers to each high among applicants for a police
amount in a recent table of figures job. But he forgot that his finger-
for ulterior motives in the Lewis plan.
They stick out all over it like a porcu-
pine’s quills.
• Let us identify them for you. In
the first place, Mr. Lewis did not sub-
mit his proposal to the American Fed-
eration of Labor directly or ask that
it be submitted and considered by the
duly constituted peace committees
representing both sides. No. instead,
he blew his pretty bubble in the air
at the tail end of a speech before the
American Youth Congress in Wash-
ington. More about this Congress
later.
In the second place, Mr. Lewis
“thanking" Chairman Bradfield, he
returned the affidavits "in line with
my accustomed practice of leaving all
, state depatments free to handle their
own affairs without dictation or in-
terference.” There, for the time be-
ing. the political feud rests
That it might pop up. In the polit-
i leal campaigns this summer is a
strong . possibility. Bradfield has
aroused the drys into a crusade for
prohibition and he is counting on help
from the governor. The drys may use
whatever they can get their hands on
to outlaw the sale of liquor in Texas.
Whether they have anything damag-’
irk in the affidavit which Bradfield
holds is a question that cannot be de-
cided until the whole matter is
thrashed out by impartial investiga-
tors.
Some people are already criticizing
the governor for not looking into the
quarrel. At least, they say, he could
have referred the matter to the Sen-
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will not work any more. Mr. Lewis.
You had better think up a new one.
quickly.
Ulterior Motives
Even Mr. Lewis anticipated diffi-
culty in fooling the public this time
so he went to great lengths in insist-
ing on his own sincerity and in warn-
ing against efforts to seek flaws in his
proposal or to hunt ulterior motives I
behind it. It is not necessary to look
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