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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1955)
i 6-(Sec. 2)-Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thurs., Apr. 21, 1955 1 ACQUITTED Wave of Strikes in SoWMWK To Affect Union Future By NORMAN WALKKR Associated Press Labor Reporter WASHINGTON W The outcome : work requirements. There were of V'G wave of strikes now sweep-only a handful of union members ir3 the South is likely to have a but when they walked out. nun. prclound and lastin" effect on la- dreds of thousands of nonunion bor relations in Di::ic. If employers v.in. It will discour age the unions, .'.c- cr- of try in" they l""B to i'y? l"n l.TRely ursuccessful in o:,,-;'.-'" "suth- workers joined them. Violence flared and Ntaional Guard units were mobilized. Employers held out and broke the strike. The workers have never em workers, although they ve forsottcn it and to this day the irjde some prepress, j textile industry is the Souths If unions win. it will prime th?mtoulih!St 'or union organizers, li o a fresh d ive to win barg, in- In 1916, right after the war ii ! ri.'ihts from reluctant cmp!py-,thc CIO launched Its "Operation e s. liiilit now the unions ai'i it : Dixie" with considerable fanfare f .y ere pretty well on the ropes. aimed at organizing a million 1 -?y're still trying but they soy ; members within a year. The year t; y represent only ahout 10 p?r came and went without the million C t of th South's workers. or anything like it. The region's two most signili-l The AFL started a rival drive. c it present gfri!-ors rre those at ti e Southern Roll Telephone Co. aid the Louisville & Nashville F lilroad. The phone strike has fried about 5:,C00, the rail strike ' out 25.0'm). Kach affects a wide s:?a of the South and Southeast. Both strikes, now In their sixth V 'ek. started out as isolated labor d'sputes without too much relation to the South's over-all labor situ a ion. But the stubborn persistence of both employers and unions in the long and costly walkouts lias b'own them in the public mind ji to a sort of object lesson a test 0. strength, and a probable fore Ejariowing of what is to come in tl:e South's labor picture. It boils down to this: The unions have been taking it on the chin iiir years. For a quarter century, cnyway, they've lost strike after strike. This hasn't made them any too popular. If they can win a f-.'W big ones it will be a blow to employers, a boost to unions. A case In point Is the disastrous 1933 textile strike. An AFL union called it in protest against in- Both union groups poured millions of dollars into their campaigns. Both fell far short of their goals. Recently unions have been build ing up their organizing effort once again. A textile union officials says there is probably more organizing activity going on in the South now than there was at the height of Operation Dixie. Also, some unions are planning to follow up the rail and phone strikes with sleppcd-up organizing in their own particular fields in the same general area. Another reason for the signifi cance being attached to the pres ent strikes is that unions call "maintaining the pattern." Both the rail and phone strikes are final phases of nationwide bargain ing campaigns finished some time ago in other areas of the country. The unions want to start new na tionwide contract drives and the unlimshcd bargaining in tne bouin is hampering the start of new drives elsewhere. Most of the phone strikers, mem bers of the CIO Comunications Workers, are women switchboard operators, young girls and married ti j rot iW'J i V. M .v ' If 1 1 Says Husband Locked Her Up ALBANY That she was locked in a room and kept a prioe- bv her much younger husband is a charge contained in u l-.... filed in circuit court here by j Ida Godwin as a basis of her: plea for a divorce. Mrs. Godwin alleges that she and her husband. Ralph M. God win, were married Dec. 27, 1952, at I which time she was 62 years old and he was 29. The plaintiff also alleges that she became ill and was forced to live in a nursing home: during her absence, the complaint astirts, her husband took over operation of the rooming house they were running. After recovering sufficiently to return home, Mrs. Godwin de clares, she was placed in confine ment in her room by her husband and was denied communication with her friends. The plaintiff asks the court for an order granting her a divorce and restoration of sole title to all of her property, which she esti mates is now valued at about $20,- 000. MAJOR WELCOMED MOLALLA Mr. and Mrs. Fred Averill, Mrs. Ken Laisncr and La mont, Mrs. Pearl Mattatall and Mrs. Maude Fawcett drove to Eu gene Sunday for a family gather ing to greet Maj. Bud Mattatall and family, who have been away for some time. Major Mattatall, a flight instructor! reports next to Columbus, Ohio. A no-host dinner was given hi the home of Mrs. EUa Emile E. Larkin n i . f I..J. Demon touniy juuge I CORVALLIS m Appointment by Gov. Paul Patterson of Emile ! E. Larkin as Benton County judge iwas announced Wednesday, j Larkin, who was county assessor, will fill the vacancy left by the ' death last week of George McBee. Larkin, 60, had been employed in the assessor s office 19 years. Mattatall in Eugene, with other relatives also present. Hi in mi?m" - .jn Y 4 Hands reach In to congratulate Henry (Har.k) Grcenspun and his wife, Barbara, after he was acguitted by a Federal jury of six men and six women in Las Vegas, Nev. Grcenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, had been charged with at tempting to incite the murder or assassination of Sen. Joseph McCarthy by an article written in his paper. The verdict was greeted by cheers from courtroom spectators. (UP Tclcphoto) matrons. The rail workers, too, stay steadily employed and are generally regarded as "home folks" in their communities. When this type of worker quits and walks picket lines, and stays on strike week after week, the rest of the soulh is bound to sit up and take notice. MIKE DIDN'T CRY DALLAS, Tex. (UP)-Mike Cor kill, 6, explained to his father that he didn't cry while waiting for his shot of the new Salk anti-polio vac cine, i It was just that, like some of the other boys, he said Wednesday, his eyes got a little wet from stand ing in line. Open Friday 'Til 9:00 FAB ULOU DAY .ClsALS! Special Purchase! 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