The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1950, Page 3

HAWALL- THE BOYS KNOW ME OUT HERE‘ WATCH & HELL ONLY SMILE WHEN HE RECOGNIZES MES 2 0 basic [doms—the freedom of — to work or not to work, The question is this—who is responsible for a strike that has not. been ordered by officials of a union? Some sav the responsibility in this case lies with the individual miners. Their walkout has been a _| protest ,ageinst John L. Lewis’ ~T brought Wait, Fate — THEY WOULD HAVE, IF DOWN IN THE CABIN, THE we HAON’T COME NOSIN SHADOW OF THE MACHINE ¢ ROUND! 60, I FIGGER GUN HAD DROPPED FROM THE TREASURE OUGHT AN ALERT POSITION, BUT TO GO ‘ AT DICKIES NEXT WORD, \T SNAPS UP AGAIN! Asking For It setnasn er ithsanetinier atin GEE GOLLY! IT’ BE WONDERFUL FO: SEE DADDY. AND SIS AGAINA/ , [facts are. these: erday week that Lewis:should, assume, respon-,.. sibility: for a ike: bec ; order for’' the’ wday Week about’ indveasing dis: gruntlement among the miners—;, and consequently their ultimate walkout from the fields. { But our legal procedure deals try to prove their case. To state) things as briefly as possible, the The walkout in the soft coal mines had been off and on for many weeks. But it started in full force on February 6, after mine chief Lewis rejected a seventy-, day peace proposal from Presi- dent Truman, Virtually all the coal diggers stayed away from their jobs at the beginning of the new work week, But—and we must note this: fact—the walkout was ‘not officially ordered by John .L- Lewis. Officials of the. union’ calli de it a demonstration of “spon- taneous resentment” and an ex- tension of the wildeat strikes, President ‘Truman ‘later invok- ed the Taft-Hartley law. - fact- finding board sat in o) tiation for bes week pgs terial for a report to the Pre: dent. The fact finders made their i repeat on the following Saturday, blaming both sides. And Presi- dent Truman directed the federal court to issue an. injunction, to, order the miners back to work. One part of that injunction was that Lewis was to ask. his men to return to the pits. He did so, ap- parently somewhat -reluctantly. And the men disobeyed. Lewis issued another plea to the men last week—this time somewhat more in earnest. But the men re- } mained defiant. They still stayed away. Yesterday was the day uhion attorneys appeared before Fed- eral Judge Richmond. Keech to answer for the miners’ defiance of the federal orders. It was a preliminary hearing. After hearing the union’s argu- ment, Judge Keech refused to Soprano ‘Traubel isn’t. just vo- calizing, “Proudly—and a little \nervously—we present’ 4 six patt draymah of the High Cs, author- ed by the. Metropolitan Opera prima donna. It is the first time Miss Traubel has crashed into \print as a full-fledged author. | This chilling novel of mayhem was conceived strictly from hun- ger. On a recent tour Miss Trau- bel discovered she had already tead every published detective story, She was forced to write her own in order to while away the boring butk-stage wait be- tween opera scenes. Bing!—or rather Bang!—1 "The Ptomaine, Canary” is the result, heroine. Brunhiide Wegner is @ Reluctant Giant sicgreprica: cnaracter, you - 270 tight. Miss Traubel has let ine Seat out of the bag so far a: to | Pose f.t our photo illustrations. we denies, however, that she ever mickey-finned anyone. She else adds that she has no plans to abandon Wagner, shield and helmet in favor of typewriter and assorted lethal instruments, Not yet, anyway. | tihuing the. idleness in the coal “another argument in an atterhp' to veinforce the union’s case. | “Obvidusty the point, the. union In the event you suspect that... drop ithe contempt. charges, and ordered: a. trialfor Monday. First, of all, the attorneys de- \ Union was responsible for con- mires. “They marshaled: up. their facts, ‘Théy told how Lewis had ordered the men back to work in comp! ance with the court injunction— and how. the men had not obeyed. ‘One’ of the attorneys put it this why—in: ver'v legal language. The union, he.said, has not done any act to cause, induce, engage in, permit or encourage an. alleged strike or. its alleged continuance. -And@ that same attorney added it o. He claim tary, servitude” and therefore un- constitutional, strike i8 the result of” individual is going ‘to “stress* is that the action’ by: the ‘soft: coal | divgers. And, under,. the constitution, those. individual _ miners; don’t: have to. work if they don’t .want to, | Twice before: the-mine work- erg-union has come up for. con- tempt proceedings. And each: of those times the court has de- clared the union guiltv and lev- ied. big. fines, But ‘on. those prev- ious oceisions the union could ont point, as it ‘can now, to Lewis's urgent pleas to, the miners:to comply with the fed- eral ‘orders. The other times there was little doubt about where the responsibility lay. This time’ the court is going to find. it much: more difficult to direct the accusing finger. Se dad te hate tet bo Paani nclindin din inl titan linn nl Olinda “t's Murder!” Sereamed Helen: THE PTOMAINE CANARY The Serial Starting Monday In This Newspaper ‘of Atkansas, Arki 54 yeu! 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