Show comments from dixie by E A DAVIS cleveland tenn ai interesting incident occurred 14 ialyn georgia this week its a town but is known as the boie d ce beiter iter of the world and i a d oo 00 0 t 11 i headquarters of a re s ct et known as the church ow jw of tie union assembly this cap io i of the shouting hand clapping foot stomping aisle rol ling variety that seems to attract the les lesser er educated segments of society th lawten corporation a rug manufacturer employing tex tila til wo ie te s s summarily fired 28 23 I 1 lj w e T i u was done after what vt 0 as a new appl icat ion for employment form had been ck one of the questions on this form was what are your I 1 c affiliations it could hardly ie c tal that 28 23 particular people were fired the CIO textile workers union through their washington re presen dative immediately asked for a senate inquiry on the grounds these people lost their jobs apparently EO bo ely el of religious lOLs affiliate on edelman the union spokesman ted ti ft is was not an isolated incident but a case whose ions are fundamental and far ie leaching aching maybe so and maybe not if a firm wants to h re only redheaded red headed negroes with gleen eyes to stop if there s no law against it it VMS seems to me there is some chaff mixed in with the wheat here the i IG 11 nna run tun to washington wahington crying wolf because a private fum firm fu m booted 28 individuals off the job their emotional stability being what it is may to the firm have jush justi fied their dismissal if a political entity favors one religion oer oi er another or discriminates against an i dziadual because of his s religion ign a principal has been violat vo eid bill of rights but this has a differ ent aspect ati aurally rally when a corporation moves into a community and inte itself into the business and social life of that community it must accept along with the privileges afforded us is responsibility to con C to lie stability honor de tie and growth of the corn com i jo T e two go hand in hand and cannot be separated any more than you could cut the te end off a bliex and have a one ended stick perhaps has indulged in a little hot headed retaliation and by so 0 o doing shirked their ies to the community somewhat but for the life of me I 1 can t se see e any fundamental far reaching impalea eions in this incident ar apology from both sides and a p edge to give a full day s work to the firm would probably clear hi in thing up in a hurry human thought is like a mon arous pendulum it keeps swinging swing in g from one extreme to the other deligine field perhaps the far reaching imell cahim is that here we have a firm doing a profitable business in a comm rity with its life blood corn com ing f om the very principals of liberty and freedom for all which this firm has ii violated by dis disc crimin atlon against members of the corn com nui nu i y because of religious affil lation someone said you can t a ae e your cake and eat it too nei ther can we have the privileges of f eadom and exercise intolerance at the same time |