Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-06-04 | Page 6 | Senseless Sit-down Strike

f Senseless Sit Down Strike i j j of the most senseless sit sit down down f BACKGROUND JO strike to go iri in the history books Remington- Remington j 1 Rand Inc has strike on its hands in 1936 fack factories fac- fac k S 5 tories close reopen with hundreds of new workmen workmen workmen work- work men N L R B takes up matter rules old workers S who struck must be taken back and given available available available avail avail- able jobs ruling taken before supreme court for S review court refuses to hear case petition for forS S rehearing again thrown out by cour court sustaining labor boards board's ruling S S About workers who went on strike in inS S 1936 entitled to return to work under boards board's S decision That's the law like it or not The court ourt says it is constitutional is not concerned with policy involved Congress as the policymaking policymaking policy- policy making body established the policy S So resenting the ruling Tuesday of the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's highest court of the company's em em- at Syracuse went on a sit-down sit strike Wednesday in protest They remained on strike an hour and ten minutes until their leaders and plant officials persuaded them t to to- togo go back to work They announce their intention to make a aS S final effort through the company's legal department departS department depart depart- S ment to hold their jobs not yield yield them them to the ther r strikers who the labor board upheld by the ther r court says are entitled to them vi f- f It would take a thick book to do justice to all the comedy and tragedy bound up in this situation from beginning to end We have no noS mind to write the book For a last short chapter S we suggest this outline S When the time comes for the courts of the theland theland theland land from the least to the highest to listen to and nd heed the demands of shouting mobs the whole structure of law and order in the United States will ill disappear labor and capital and whoever whoever whoever who who- ever all and sundry are ground between those S millstones will lose every means of obtaining justice and the protection of their rights through orderly processes That is why the Syracuse st strike ike was utterly senseless S