Show time Time 5 for or Some Questions i I 1 Concerning Mob Picketing Its It's time to have a showdown on this thle business of mob picketing The nation Is now seeing a prize example of such illegal and unjustified tactics In a labor dispute at th Warner Brothers' Brothers studio in Hollywood There two rival A FL un unions have been beene e involved in a dispute involving 77 set decorators I since last Jut March Some union workers have hav been on strike while other workers have wanted to continue working e Recently tJ this is strike flared into a n major battle with hundreds of of or strikers and end sympathizers organizing mass picket lines to tot t p prevent from going to work In clashes between strikers and and between strikers and s police poUce lice several score have been injured red and hundreds have beens been t arrested Mass picketing is just mob picketing It seeks by force of 1 numbers and the open or implied threat of violence to block the entrance to an establishment It is both morally and legally I wrong It is mo morally wrong because the right of one man to work Is IB Just as great as as is the right of another man to strike Especially this js this borne out in this Warner Brothers dispute wherein th the company is not involved but rather two rival unions The mem- mem bens of one union by mob picketing seek seck to deny to members of the other union the right to work And worst of all they arc are 1 getting awa away with it desp despite tc the law despite the the courts despite the authorities S Under the law a court in Los Angeles has ruled against the mob nob picketing and limited the number of of pickets allowed ed be before ore studio gates to 18 surely surely a large enough number to satisfy picketing's P lawful objective of advising others of a strike and attempting to persuade them not to cross a ai strike picket line But despite the court order 2500 members of a picketing mob massed masse Thursday in front of the studio prevented anyone from entering entering and and nothing was done about it by the authorities The authorities authorities- did break up the mob picketing Wednesday arresting several hundred of the pickets But shortly thereafter all an those arrested were released and nd they hey returned to the picket I line in greater streng strength than re hus it can safely be said that the picket mob won out in that t test st of strength with the thc authorities What kind of government is it that cannot keep order and disperse a mob What kind of law is it that can be violated with impunity What kind of freed freedom m have we if a mans man's right to work can be so easily denied with no defense of that right by the government charged with preserving the individuals individual's freedom Its It's time tune we asked ourselves these questions because when freedom freedom and law and order can no longer be preserved by our government we are well on the way to l losing sing democracy |