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Show This, That And The Other BY LES DAVIDSON Labor has nothing to fear from the anti-strike 1 egistrattyn fco long as it obeys the laws of the land. The only persons who will have the fear of the Lord sent up their backs are the leaders --we almost wrote leeches who fatten their pocketbooks and their bank balances at the expense of those whom they profess to serve. It is the concensus of public opinion that this legislation would never have passed had not the mastermind master-mind of the UMW, John L. Lewis, that arch traitor to every American Amer-ican precept, defied LRB and called the miners out in the middle mid-dle of a war to preserve democracy, democ-racy, it is true that the miners are entitled to redress, larger pay and better working conditions, but Lewis' method of trying to intimidate intim-idate the government and set himself him-self up as a little God, wa3 not the right way to gain the public's pub-lic's support for his cause. Even Wm. Green and Phil Murray, though they tried, and succeeded, to get the president to veto the antistrike bill, have cooled down by this time and decided that as long as the law is obeyed they have nothing to fear. John L. Lewis, in his dictum, is like a baseball batter whom the umpire has called out on strike es, turning on the umpire and telling tell-ing that he is the one who is out not the batter. Obey the rules and have nothing to fear. SO SORRY Last week we made a grevious error-not intentional but because the girls nowadays are more and more taking to the wearing of I men's apper-al when (we said that C. D. Flagg, the wood carver was one of the feminine gender, He is a young man whose heart is in his work carving. He depicts de-picts western scenes and believes In dressing the part. Well, we apologize, take the blame, that's that. I The Kentucky press association has given its unqualified support I to the Bankhead Senate Bill requiring re-quiring all the requests of the ! government to be paid for instead 1 of the present method, in other i words, all announcements by the government should be paid for, ithus placing the national govern-'ment govern-'ment in the class of paid advertisers. adver-tisers. We strongly urge every state association to join , in this movement, no matter what Elmer Davis says. He is not in the publishing pub-lishing game, anyway, is simply: a stooge for the New Deal. He is one of those who would like to see all news controlled by the I authorities at Washington. Food Director, Chester C. Davis after three months of ardous lab-1 or, resigned his post, the president then appointed Marvin Jones, a St. Louis, Mo., banker, to see if he could make the wheels of the food control system mesh. Davis flatly told the president that the present set-up would not work and was impractical. A case of too many cooks trying to make broth. That the F. B. I. is on the job, day and night, was proved (his week by the arrest of an erstwhile erst-while New York air warden, Kd-ward Kd-ward Lehmits, 57, on a charge of espionage. He has taken out naturalization papers was supposedly sup-posedly a citizen of the U. S., but w-as arrested, confessed he had been furnishing Germany with vital information regarding war movements. The next day, E. H. De Spitter, 53, a consulting Engineer En-gineer in one of the vital airplane factories, was placed under arrest and confessed that he had furnished furn-ished Lehmitz with plans and information in-formation inimical to this country. coun-try. They face trial with sentences senten-ces either death as spies or 30 years incarceration. Representative Engel after a 44-day tour through the defense plants, asks why a cobbler should get $55 a week to fix shoes a $50 a month soldier wears? Why a Springfield rifle should cost S60 to make, while other rifles are being produced so much cheaper. He goes on and asks a lot of em-barrasing em-barrasing questions which will make some brass-hats in Washington Wash-ington scratch their heads. |