Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1936 — Page 13

- Liberal Side!

_ into the courts

by =. HARRY ELMER BARNES

(Substituting for Heywood Broun)

NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—We hear much talk | about the desirability of reliance upon | peaceful methods and sweet reasonableness | in labor disputes. ° It is suggested that labor |

should rely more upon the courts and less

upon bricks and stones. It should put its trust in wise and honorable judges rather than in pickets, : We may readily agree that it is in the interest of

all concerned to have industrial Justice brought about with the least possible violence and bloodshed. But until our courts offer some slight Prospect of equal justice for labor, labor unions can hardly be blamed for their reluctance to rely upon the courts for even a semblance of a square deal. : An instance is afforded by. the strike of workers at the RemingtonRand plant in Syracuse which I

have, been able to observe rather | closely. It is an event of state-wide, |

even nation-wide significance.

Dr. Barnes since May 26.

It is alleged that Remington-Rand

desired to break off relations with its union laborers, | The |

and it declared a forced vacation on May 21, strike came as an answer to this.

The striking workers maintained a high degree of | forces, and preserved | The strike | So Remington<Rand went |

morale and discipline in their peace and order with unusual seemed likely to succeed.

success,

to secure an injunction which would limit the operations of the strikers. The injunction was granted by Judge Edward L. Robertson July 18.

Before his recent elevation to the bench Judge Robert- |

son had been a member of the law firm of George H.

Bond, who represented Remington-Rand in the motion |

-for an injunction.

~ n 2 Precedent Has Been Set

T= special significance of the case lies in the fact that a vigorous effort was made in this state to abate the injunction nuisance in labor disputes and to give labor some prospects of a fair deal, On April 25, 1935, a new: statute went inte effect severely and stringently limiting the conditions under which inJunctions in labor cases may be issued. If the letter and spirit of the law were lived up to by judges, labor could ask for little more. But the Remington-Rand case raises grave apprehension if it is allowed to stand as a leading precedent in the interpretation of the law by our courts. The workers realized the importance of all this and took an appeal from the injunction granted by Judge Robertson. Gov. Lehman called a special term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to hear the appeal. The American Civil Liberties Union recognized the importance of the case and engaged Warren Winkelstein to prepare a brief to be presented in favor of overruling the injunction issued by Judge Robertson. : : ” EJ = Brief Protests Action N an extremely able and moderate brief, Mr. Winkelstein demonstrated that the facts in no way warranted the issuance of the injunction under the terms of the 1935 statute. The violence was amazingly slight. Fourteen hundred workers were on strike, but

hot a drop of blood was spilled, not an eye was black-

ened and not even a lip was split. ~ There was no property damage. all necessary protection. - When the strike was first called 80 policemen had been detailed for duty there. but by the time of the injunction order the number had dwindled to an average of six on duty. Mayor Marvin. certainly not

a8 man unduly sympathetic with union labor, testified

as to the peace and good order maintained during the strike and to the adequacy of police prgtection. The judges of the Appellate Division unanimously decided to uphold Judge Robertson's injunction. But their decision evaded either an intelligent interpretation of the 1935 statute or a painstaking examination of the facts submitted in Mr. Winkelstein’s brief. If our courts ignore both facts and law, what can we expect of labor unions? :

My Day

: . BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT | LBANY, N. Y, Monday.—Every one is familiar with the numerous details that keep one busy settling a house, so today I think it might amuse thosa who read this column to know of some of the strange

situations in which I have been obliged to write it.

One day stands out vividly in my minds The Presi- |

dent was opening Shenandoah Park and we left Washington early in the morning. Mrs. i brought her portable typewriter and came along in White House cars that was going back in the afternoon. a We were busy all morning. We picnicked for lunch and the President made his speech about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I had told him beforehand that as soon as he had finished speaking I would dash for the other car and the typewriter, and would he please wait for me before proceeding to Richmond. . He was most reassuring ‘and said that it always took him quite a while to get out and there would be 8 number of people to whom he wanted to talk. I made my way to the car, feeling somewhat rude because several people tried to stop me and talk when I had no time for conversation. Mrs. Scheider was there with the typewriter already opened on the little seat in front of her. We no sooner began to work than people came up to the windows of the car to say: : “I just wanted to shake hands, Mrs. Roosevelt,” or “My little girl would be so happy if I could have your autograph.” In desperation I beckoned to the chauffeur and, one of the Secret Service men standing near, and begged them to stand on either side of the car until I was

—finished.

The workers in the RemingtonRand plant have been out on strike

The police were able to provide |

-one of the |

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: Second Section

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936

QUINS” WORK IS NEVER DO

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delayed viands. Maybe that that Cecile, Emilie, Annette,

There are labor difficulties at Callander, sharpen their appetites with setting-up exercises, Annette (right) apparently await their noon lunch. tiny laborers— Annette, Marie, Yvonne,

it appears. Cecile

bottom scene

While Marie and Yvonne and Emilie (at left) and

A few moments later, and all the Emilie and Cecile—appear concerned about the portrays a sitdown strike in protest, except

Marie and Yvonne seem to be having fun.

Rusy-Cheeked, They Get F un From Everyday Chores’

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All work and no play will never make the quintuplets dull. girls, because they know how to mix business with pleasure, the old saying to the contrary. ‘A happy smile, framed in tousled curls, reveals that Yvonne finds just as much enjoyment in her work as does Annette, shown contentedly puttering in her garden.

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8. JOBS?

In about one minute Mr. McIntyre, the President's | secretary, came along and put his head inside one of |

the windows. My heart sank. : ; “Oh, is the President ready so soon?” I asked. To which he responded:,

“Oh, no. He is talking to the Governor and is en- | tirely happy, having already announced that, having a |

wife who is a columnist, he has to wait for her

occasionally. work.”

Observation never adds to one's speed, but the first |

draft was finally completed. ; (Copyright, 1836, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc)

New Books

. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— - N autobiography in the guise of fable” is Thomas Mann's STORIES OF THREE DECADES (Knopf; $3), which collects in a single volume all of the great German novelist's short stories. The casual reader with a taste for an excellent tale will find hours of absorbing diversion: the serious student will have an opportunity for the study of Mann's many-faceted genius. The book includes that little masterpiece of sinister beauty and perfect technique, “Death in Venice,” which pounds into the brain the force of its tragic implications; “Tonio Kruger,” picturing the author as creative artist; “The Hungry,” only six short pages, . but in reality the key passage to an insight into Mann's work, and “Mario and the Magician,” a “tale of political implications characterized as an allegory - of fascism of devastating and prophetic quality.

" » = HE book, RED NECK (Random House: $2) receives its title from “red-necked” miners whose struggles for economic independence are related in the Pages of this novel. . The authors, McAlister Coleman and Stephen Raushenbush, know miners, and understand their bitter desperation when they see the sign “No work tomorrow,” and their resentment against. “Bluenose” Hilton, who, as operator, holds their lives in his

I just thought I would like to see you | . = i

AT THE recent convention of

ers Association, Frank L. Rowland,

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

BY DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

OUR SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, PARENTS AND EDUCAJORS OVERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE

| the Eastern Commercial Teach- |

@ VES ORNO ea

2 1S MAN THE

ONLY ANINALL

«AND DON'T PLAY il WITH THAT BOY ON i THE Top FLOOR!

DR HENRY LINK, PEYCHOLOGIST SAYS IT 1S MORE IMPORTANT To TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE

THAN SEX-EDUCATION DO You BREED YES ORNO

I AGREE, although Dr. Link does not mean that we should

d | ion of the secretary of the Life Office Man- | 2bandon all sex etucatio

agement Association pointed out (as|¥oung. What he argues in his now

reprinted in Think) that there are|

right now 500,000 students in high school shorthand classes, 200,000 in | business colleges and 600,000 study{ing bookkeeping, whereas in the] United States not over 50,000 jobs | will be available for them, leaving | [at least 1,250,000 who are bound to {be disappointed. This, he thinks, | {and so do I, should give parents and | young people pause and turn their thoughts from “white collar” to “overall” jobs. He believes, too, that the overall jobs, for: the coming vears will offer a higher standard of living than white collar jobs and more happiness.

LON IN A fascinating : little" book, “Why We See Liké Human Beings,” by the Better Vision Institute of New York, the authors point out that the eyes of water animals are always moist from the water but when these animals evolved into land animals, their eyes dried and they were in danger lof perishing from blindness. But nature then evolved the tear ducts so that the animal could draw moisture from its own body. Animals, therefore, can and do shed but man is

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famous book, “The Return to Religion,” is that the basis of all sex happiness is good manners—and good manners are the outward expression of inner tolerance, unselfishness, sociability and refinement —in short personality and character. Without these no sex-education will do much good or insure marital happiness.

~ NEXT—Do women share blame as readily as men?

‘Cold Shoulder’

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Allionce WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—PWA officials have rej a plan of the Lorain County ( 0) commissioners to obtain a million~dollar Federal grant for a new bridge through the services of a paid “lobbyist.” Informed that the commissioners recently employed one Harlan Curtis of Lorain at $500 a month to “push through” the bridge allocation, Deputy PWA Administrator Horatio B. Hackett said that when Curtis arrived in Washington he probably oa find no one in PWA receptive

Johnson Defines Economic Royalists

as Those O

BY HUGH JOHNSON EW YORK, Sept. 8—What is an “economic royalist”? - The President used that term some time ago and his opponents have been clamoring for a definition ever since, Jim Reed charged that Mr. Roosevelt must be an economic royalist because his family owns some General Electric stock. : The definition seems quite simple. The test is not what a man has, but what he believes. A royalist is a believer in the right of kings against the pretension of parliaments to regulate them in the public interest. An economic royalist is a believer in the right of business against the pretensions of Congress to regulate it. The followers of Charles I in his fight against Parliament were the first to be classified as “royalists.” The first American economic royalist was Alexander Hamilton. He regarded popular rule as the greatest danger to the republic on the ground that the people are too ignorant and too volatile to govern. He called them “a great beast.” He openly asserted that if the new constitutional government had no au-

tocracy bound to it by ties of overwhelming interest it would fall into popular hands and fail.

2 =” = A MToua idea of establishing an autocracy by birth, he gave that up as impracticable. Deliberately he then set out to create an autocracy by wealth by using every available power of the Federal government to create strong private privileged groups of wealth and economic power at the expense of the less privileged.

he. toyed with thel:

He did this disinterestedly, as an article of zealous political faith. He honestly thought it was the only way to develop quickly a country of raw resources. He was convinced that wealth

| thus more quickly created and more

broadly and powerfully active would more quickly seep to the workers in higher pay and increased jobs, and to the farmers in increased land values, although he frankly realized ‘that his practical instrument— the tariff—is a direct subsidy levied against agriculture for the benefit of infant American Indusury, = = HAT Hamilton faith never has died. It grew into a belief that American prosperity depends on the complete freedom of the economic force from any interference =

to protect the general welfare. That is almost a religion with many able, patriotic, unselfish people— both those who have property and those who have not.

It is economic royalism. There is nothing derogatory or obscene about that term. It is by no means certain that Mr. Hamilton's plan was not the very best that could have been devised to develop a wilderness. Those who don’t believe in it now, say that in its original form it has outrun its usefulness and needs some modification. They think’ that it has created a country of vast economic principalities, responsible to no popular control,

which exercise more power over. the

daily living of all people than any absolute monarchy that ‘ever existed on earth. They point’to the destructible balance between a few highly organized industrial provinces and

GRIN AND BEAR IT

pposing Business Regulation

agriculture ‘composed of -6,000,000 unorganized individual enterprises. 2 #2 TT insist that the: very presence of fair industrial recovery coupled with the unemployment and destitution of 10,000,000 breadwinners for 40,000,000 Americans There is the ‘real issue of this election. Any thought of political and popular government in economic fields is as poison to a Hamiltonian as the thought of thes long Parliament was to a cavalier in the days of Charles I. If that isn’t economic royalism, what is it? indicates that the unchecked operation of private economic government, independent of political government, needs modification and that, since it is a national problem, national government must give impetus to an attempt to improve it.

(Copyright. 1936. hy United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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by Lichty

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Fair Lnougl :

WESTBROOK PEGLER

{ monly to be seen at football games,

NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—The colleges which have decided to peddle the radio rights.

to their football games are a little sancti=

monious in their stipulation that firms in the: liquor trade shall be ineligible to bid. To be quite realistic about it, whisky and gin have been for some years an important item in the diet of the football customers, as you can learn from any. boss-janitor of a big stadium, including Yale's, who has had the duty of coll ting the bottles and carrying out livious ¥ patrons in the dark after the big ; games. In fact, the Yale drunk has become a tradition of Eastern football, an utterly abandoned figure in a raccoon coat who breaks loose and climbs over the barrier onto the field between halves to chase a squir--rel among the evolutions of the band or score a touchdown for himself in solemn pantomime, using his traditional Yale iron hat for a footkall. I have seen this dignitary several times and there were some Yale-Harvard occasions when his performance was all that saved the { day from total monotony. ] Let it not be thought, however, that the practice of consuming intoxicants is local to Yale or to any section of the country. It is part of the football scene and the cleaners will gather up as many empties and as many head-df limp and soggy pass-outs; abandoned to the darkness by their friends, in California, Georgia or Texas as in the Yankee Stadium after an ArmyNotre Dame game, x

” = It Isn’t the Weather

I; might be thought that the autumn weather is the explanation for this, but the weather varies greatly and I am inclined to believe that football crowds drink for the same reason that baseball crowds eat hot dogs. They just like to. This leads to the be lief that young people drink harder than persons of more experience who have learned

Mr. Pegler

sion that there will always be more. Of course it is customary to say that the ola grads of middle age are the ones who do the heavy drinking on ‘the football trains and in the stadia, but if you will take mental note in a football crowd this fall you will see that the old grad behaves hime self pretty well and seems to be out of the fun. Ine cidentally, the girls deserve credit for full CO-0Operae tion and the most spectacular performance I have ever seen at a football game, next to the spontaneous triumphs of the Yale drunk, was that of a determined young female who determined to kiss a Cop one aft« ernoon at the conclusion of an Army-Notre Dame game, :

: 2 2 » Custom Peculiar to Football

A LTOGETHER, the football crowds are the drinke

ingest crowds we have in sport in this country, the Kentucky Derby, the football people

‘with the possible exception of and it seems a little snide of to snub the source of the crowd inspiration in this blunt way. The World Series is a proletarian fete, attended by some drinking to be sure, but they simply would not stand for the pestiferous, mauling, stumb= ling inebriates at a” World Series who are coms

-busitiess, ‘too, which enjoys a rather. sordid reputaition by comparison with football, the favorite game of the flower of American youth, is remarkably fastidious about the conduct of its customers. Not often does one see a plastered spectator at a prize fight. I am no defender of the old demon who is always able to fight his own battles and win most of them, but fair is fair and the football promoters shouldn’t

do a pal of theirs that way. The old demon has

made a place for himself in football. If the loses the customers Toad up to forget and if it they load up to celebrate, loaded.

Merry-Go-Roun BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

ASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Bill Lemke has been advised by North Dakota friends that if he ‘wants to retain his seat in the House he had betier cut short his third party presidential electioneering and devote himself to patching up his political fences at home. Otherwise, -they are warning him, he is likely to be the most defeated man in the country—Ilosing out both nationally and in his district. : Lemke is running for a third term in Congress as a Republican indorsed by the Nonpartisan League, which is potent in North Dakota. The indorsement was voted before he was taken into camp by Father Soughiin and became the priest's presidential white ope. - : This dual role has not gone down well with the Nonpartisan League rank and file. ; They are accusing Lemke of “betraying” and "running out” on the organization and have grown increasingly resentful as he dashed about the coune try paying no attention to the North Dakota situation. A significant indication of how the boys at homie feel about the matter is the action of Senator Gerald Nye in refusing to make a declaration for Lemke while stumping for Rep. Usher L. Burdick, another fellow Nonpartisan Leaguer. : 2

But, win or lose, they get

= ” = # CO IDENTIAL dispatches received by State Dew partment from Spain tell a sad tale of trials and tribulations that the foreign diplomats are under« going in the strife-torn country. When the revolt began, the foreign diplomats were summering at. San Sebastian on the shores of the Bay of Biscay. United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers had a villa at the neighboring town of Fuenterrabia.

Reports of violence in Madrid convinced them

that the capital was a good place to keep away from, So the diplomats remained ‘at safe distance and leg subordinates run their embassies. Then things began to get hot on the Bay of Biscay, Ambassadors hastily picked up and moved across the Prench border. J : That created a new problem. Diplomatic protocol says that an embassy mission is. The embassies in Spain must be in Spain,

not in France. 5 The ambassadors solved their problem by’ y renting a little shack on the Spanish 3 on uy rock pile that indicated the boundary. They paid daily visits to the hut, reporting to their governments that they had “headquarters” in Spain. Ambassador Bowers, however, took no part in this ttle subterfuge. He openly lodged himself in Hene on the French side. This leaves the State Dew

ay a. Madrid » the United States embassy is ably maintained by 31-year-old Third Eric C. Wendelin, who is in daily contact ‘with State Department. :

» » = C2neos CAMPBELL, Chilean is a correspondence course agement. His object is to improve his country. : : ‘ =

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[something about timing and generalship and also reached the conclu=

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is wherever the head of the