Show ns e e tabor Labor a or i. i Strike Crises i it i Threaten in t Next Day q S 1 By Victor Riesel r rI 1 i I want to suggest that the th theme song of the Democrat si ij national convention this thIs' sir sum sum-f mer be Stars and Strikes t- t ever For l' oever o The next days will wUI s ke the Truman administration wS with wife a series aeries of strike crises wd Which chi may cripple movie movie- movie making making Ho Hollywood lywood auto in factories In n De' De troit coast to coast to coast r railroad travel the assembling of television sets and refrigerate a and the shipping off of fOOd sod and and P perhaps munitions to Europe No one wants these strike a not the unions S S thinly not their rank and filer who remember going payless two years ago And certainly riot not the employers who now are are be ginning to compete for perms nent vent customers But the country's got into a state o of i strike Everybody's deadlocked everybody's waiting toMe What J the next fellow will do do And Aad tempers are rising with the tern tens r There is no one pattern for th the experts to point to Hollywood d is deadlocked behind the scene and Walter Valter Pidgeon Tyrone Power George Murphy and Ron Ro aid Reagan may become pl picket ket captains for several reasons The Screen Actors' Actors gu d A F FL L like other less leas C colorful unions has some postwar pro pros lems in caring for its peopled people Jobs arent aren't as plentiful So th the guild wants reasonable re c. c on all those venerable reissues re re issues which have been cluttering clutter clutter- ing up your neighborhood houses New pictures mean ii Kew jJ jobs 11 J 6 And across country in fa basic Industries things aTe are in less tense Walter Reuther Wj auto union and the General M tors Co which makes make halt n nations nation's autos are deadlock deadlocked c Strike notices have been ill fil filed Same situation in Chrysler nt at The powerful railroad engi engi- firemen and switchmen's unions which can s strike ke l legally gally at the end of the month are seriously seriously seri seri- considering tying up th the nations nation's lines In an effort to wf win new safety rules mules t tIn In most of these crises Harry Truman may be forced to UK Ut injunctions just injunctions just about the time the campaign and convention sessions get hot Lots more than collars are going to wilt Copyright 1948 N. N Y Post Corp |