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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
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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.
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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.
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