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Show OPINIONS OF THE PRESS THE QUINCY (Illinois) RECORD (LABOR) THE PUBLIC WILL WIN There is a definite resentment in all branches of the National Government against the labor unions, owing to their bad behavior, be-havior, but direct action will not be taken until it is definitely understood un-derstood what the President has in mind. This is something in view of the fact that the old New Deal was father of the CIO and its Political Action Committee. The boys have been coming back . from the wars and they must be given a lot of the credit for stiffening stif-fening the backbones of our politicians, poli-ticians, if this be at all possible. It seems almost impossible to believe that streetcar and bus operators completely tied up transportation facilities in Washington Wash-ington twice in a month. President Presi-dent Truman personally issued orders that broke that strike with out any delay, proving that it can be done if our cowardly would-be misrepresentatives in Congress ever get that yellow streak washed off their backs. We are just anxious to see what will happen at the first congres- cinnal olpotinn ' xrilh thf riOVK back home from the wars unable to find a job because of strikes and being barred from their jobs by the CIO because of loss of "seniority" and no union card. The boys are surely getting a tough deal and our Congressmen and Senators, who are usually looking for the side that has the most votes, had better do some tall investigating and trying tc at least keep half of the promises made the boys when they left for the battle fronts. The CIO unions are the worst violators of promises made to the boys when they left to save the jobs for these promise-breakers, and the CIO auto union singled out the General Motors because it ranks number one as the chief American manufacturer. Naturally Natur-ally . the automobile industry made every efort to prevent the strike, because it was anxious to reconvert and resume the manufacturing manu-facturing of automobiles and other oth-er products. On the other hand, the auto workers made the most unreasonable and unintelligent demands that rebels could think of. They insisted that automobiles automo-biles should be sold at pre-war prices; and it made no difference to the CIO bandits when thousands thous-ands of automobile dealers throughout the country backed up General Motors in the declaration declar-ation that cars could not be manufactured man-ufactured on such a basis, or sold under such conditions either by the producers or the dealers. But the "brass hats" of CIO made a demand to "see the books" of Li. ...o,,ors, something some-thing they would not allow with their union books for neither love nor money. To have a look through their books might show up some curious political dealings deal-ings in the not so far distant past, and also what might be going on today. The CIO picketed General Motors Mo-tors plants, even going so far as to keep 50,000 salaried employees employ-ees out of the plants throughout the country. An official of General Gen-eral Motors charged CIO with breaking off collective bargaining bargain-ing negotiations on November 20 by a strike call. According to the General Motors Mo-tors statement the company en gaged in collective bargaining with the union in meeting covering cover-ing a period of weeks. "It was clear to us from the very begin-ing begin-ing that you were determined to have a strike in General Motors," ' the corporation told the union and added: "You know that strike (your so-called labor blockade) which you planned for many months." The company made every effort ef-fort to avert the strike, as everybody every-body knows who has followed this workers' rebellion. They offered of-fered a 10 per cent "cost-of-living" raise, and made the reasonable reason-able suggestion that the union men work a whole day instead of a short day, and thereby earn daily wages, instead of chiseling ,-norp than thev earned. Another phase of the situation showed up in the Labor-Management Conference that was in session ses-sion for a month without producing produc-ing any results except John Lewis Lew-is calling the CIO leaders everything every-thing he could think of and the CIO in turn blasting Lewis. In li daily proceedings a strong eifort was made in behalf of collective col-lective bargaining and those who took that position offered proof that collective bargaining is fundamental fun-damental for the settlement of differences between employers and workers. Everybody knows how that remedy was weakened by Presidential interference, including in-cluding boards, committees, and "brass hats" handpicked so that strikers won battles resulting from strikes. Every public poll shows that the people of the country are overwhelmingly against strikes. On 100,000 street corners this very day there are little knots of people engaged in the same kind of discussion that is going on in shops, stores and in homes, where CIO strikes are being condemned. con-demned. We might just as well admit that certain labor unions have worn out the patience of the gen- 1 eral public. In proof of this statement state-ment see what happened at the I-Iiggins plant in the South where the entire plant is closed throwing throw-ing over 3,000 men out of work permanently and prospects of I jobs for 30.000 gone glimmering; see what happened when Ford, Chrysler and other manufacturers manufactur-ers backed General Motors. The National Administration has been very patient wi,th these lawless attacks on reconversion to the American way of life, but now it seems a showdown may be on the way, the President appointing ap-pointing a fact-finding commission commis-sion to act in strikes in spile of the strenuous objections of the CIO. Now, let's sec if our cowardly cow-ardly Congress will do something for the American citizens and taxpayers or whether they will continue to soft-soap the foreign-minded foreign-minded communistic CIO clement. cle-ment. If there is to be an absolute knock-down and drag-out battle, THE PEOPLE WILL WIN, for the simple reason that the public pub-lic is supported by returning men who won the great wars. They are. against Sidney Hillman and his rackets. It also appears that the leaders of the United Mine Workers and the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor are not going to whole-heartedly support the un-American and unnecessary strikes that have reached their lowest levels in Detroit. |