| Show OPINIONS OPINIONS' ELSEWHERE RE Sp S. S t p Fi First st Anniversary The Hollywood studio A F FL L strike marked its first anniversary on an n September 26 In the last year yeat it has established all aU sorts of ot local records for length injury cost and violence An estimate estimate esti esti- mate places lost man hours of work at and lost wages around The loss to the motion picture industry i is Ia greater Merchants have lost sales The taxpayer taxpayer taxpayer tax tax- payer has lost a considerable sum in Innumerable Innumerable in innumerable In- In numerable cases case before beor the i 1 national labor relations relation board in the 1300 persons arrested the costs of police poUce court trials hospital treatment Even u union lon treasuries arc de dc- de- de This This' week the Rich strike act act- adopted last spring by the legislature legislature legis legis- lature became effective The act empowers anyone Injured by a a jur jurisdictional strike to bring suit and rec recover vcr damages s from the fhe he elements clements fomenting the strike Recovery of ot damages damage In one ona such su suit t. t would crack th the strike wide open Bu But no no one of f the thousands thousands thou thou- sands ot of person injured by the strike has made a move to avail himself of ot the law They do not dare The union leaders have donned the skins skins' and horns of of voodoo witch doctors and have established t taboos taboo which none of ot the parties dares to violate These Thes taboos arc are not laws they are not written written- but t they ey are arc thor thoroughly understood and feared by all concerned Management at the studios long ago lost lest cOl control tr l of Its Ibs workmen by con continued appeasement ap ap- to the union leadership which I is irresponsible Contractors will not go into court be because ause thereafter they they must must attempt to t d do business with the offended medicine men en A A. union member certainly knows that such a move by him will bring reprisal permanent loss of ot otla la a job perhaps p ph physical si l Injury jury or even en death Thus the Hollywood strike which is outside th the law Jaw goes o on a and d on in the apparent security of t labor union ml m Los Angeles Times Question of Whose Friendship i Senator Glen H. H Taylor of ot Idaho tells s his Boise constituents that Americas America's to foreign reign policy has hu lost los u us every cry friend we have Inthe in int inthe t the e world among the hc common people As s' s Senator Taylor doubtless knows the keystone of United States foreign policy sInce since June has been the Marshall plan plait Thu Thus Thu to follow his argument it must be bethe bethe bethe the Marshall plan which has lost us Us' every friend Ve e have in the world among the common common cornmon com com- corn com mon people Cople If he is against our present to foreign reign polIcy polIcy policy pol pol- pol- pol icy Senator Taylor must inevitably be against the Marshall plan But the 16 nations which went in ta on the Ute Marsh Marshall Marsh li il plan are not against it to the extent that they have asked for mo in aid in response to it Whom do these thes 16 nations represent if they dont don't represent a Ii substantial number of common people Senator Taylor might say they represent the families of France or the of ot Amsterdam and so ao on But from all alt weve we've been able to gather the plain common comm com coin m mon m people all over western Europe are looking looking- with hope and faith to the Marshall plan for tor food warmth and the tools of ot production production production pro pro- they need to tAJ pet get back on their feet What Senator Taylor should have said is that our foreign policy has lost us the friendship of ot only some of ot the common people of ot the world world to wit the communists If our foreign policy has lost their friendship friend friend- ship ship and and Senator Taylors Taylor's friendship It it appears to be quite unavoidable San una San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Chronicle |
