Show NO TRUMAN DICTATORSHIP i Faced with the demand that he keep his sellout to the b i. i labor bosses by repealing the Taft-Hartley Taft Law the Administration Administration Adminis- Adminis tr tion has hit the snag of leaving the public powerless when strikes threaten vital necessities A resort the President President President Pre Pre- has used and Mr Truman too has been a court injunction restraining the strike that threatens the blood bloodstream bloodstream stream of the nation k To get around this Mr Truman's legal adviser Attorney At- At j P torney General Clark is telling him the President has inherent inc in in- it fi c herent power to stop any strike that would freeze freeze freeze- or starve starve the nation into submission This theory of inherent power is rightly challenged by those who are devoted to government by law as distinguished from government by men A Presidents President's powers are defined by laws and he has h s sno no others except during a war Technically we are still at war and were when Mr Truman as President President ordered that railway workers be drafted to run trains under military compulsion He was stopped then from using any such power even though war technically existed The Truman dilemma in this controversy is not th the f dilemma of the nation Mr Truman's promises are not the nations nation's nor the peoples people's pledges Mr Clarks Clark's opinion cannot be permitted to make this a despotism under a Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man or or anybody else Ronceverte West Va News 6 d o 1 j J. t 1 i I |