Show ITS IT'S THE LAW Anti U. S. S Strikers Forfeit Pay PayAs PayAs PayAs As Well as Jobs Official Rules WASHINGTON May 21 A who strike against the I government forfeit not only their Jobs but their right to undelivered pay for work done before they walk out Comptroller General Lindsay C. C Warren ruled Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day His decision on c came me in a ft a case in involving th m. three union carp carpenters who were employed by the veterans administration administration ad ad- ministration in in remodeling Its iu W yaco Waco co Texas center Warren notified notified- Gen Omar Bradley V. V A. A chief that the V. V Ahad A. A had been right in not only removing ing the thc men from its pay roll roU but also refusing to deliver salary checks covering work before eore the strike The ruling constituted an interpretAtion Interpretation Inter inter- of the law passed by congress last Jast year forbidding payment pay pay- ment of wages or salaries to anyone anyone any any- one striking ag against the government government government govern govern- ment or holding membership In an organization of claimIng claiming claiming claim claim- ing a a. right to strike against it Warren held that it is 15 imma whether an zm undelivered c check cieck eck covers services service rendered prior or subsequent to the actual period of the strike Bradley in asking Warren for fora a ruling said Bald the men stopped work on instructions from the business busi bust ness neu agent of their union Carpenters Carpenters' Carpenters Carpenters' Carpen Carpen- tera lo local 1266 of ot Austin Tex b b because aus nonunion painters were employed on the remodeling Job He said the tho men were told by bya a V. V A. A officer that they were vi vio violating vIolating lating th the terms of their employment employ employ- m ment t and an affidavit they had bad given about not o striking The Tho men he added replied that they were very willing to work but the agent had told them they would be fined 50 for ea each day they did so He Ho said laid they further contended they would be blackballed blackballed blackballed black black- balled from further employment In Austin as carpenters Bradley identified the men in his hii letter to Warren as Roy E. E and James R. R Hudson and Russell H. H S Salmon He did not name the business bustness bust busi ness neu agent nor was wu the unions union affiliation cited |