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Boys work has been too often neglected by many men in a poSsâ€" ition to contribute much to it. There are many proféssional men who could add so much to the interest of boys work for the boys themselves if they would only make the time. If they would forâ€" get that they are GIVING the time and consider that there.lis noâ€" thing in which they could spend their time to greater advantage both to the boys, the community and to their own feeling of wellâ€" being. . The YMCA, Sea Cadets, Boy Scouts, Air Cadets and other groups play their definite part in community life. «There are few men in kig positions in this country who cannot at once point to the fact that they had had a few of the basic principles of good clean living inscribed indelibly on their minds by the influence of some Scout, or YÂ¥MCA leader. _ After most of what the leaders have taught them has faded from their minds, the personality and the knowledge that that man sacrificed many precious hours to furâ€" ther their understanding of the world, remains. Boys do not forâ€" get good leadership nor do they lack respect for the man who has knowledge. â€"It is seldom that the men who could contribute the most will find the time to make his contribution. . Although this cannot be said of all. Emile Brunette summed it up nicely when he said the night after he was elected Chairman of the Cadets: "I like to nelp in boys work and I‘ll tell you why. I am seging my own children growing up in this town and I want them to have an opportunity to grow up in a better town than I knew. . Working in Boys Work makes me feel that I an doing something for the future, for the boys who will someday run this town." § Many bmy men have found real satisfaction in aiding direc¢tly in Boys Workâ€"â€"may their numbers ever increase. What has Sudbury got that Timmins â€"hasn‘t? â€" That is, beside a nickel mine. Either Drew is so sure that he will win this disâ€" trict to his standard that he isn‘t slathering the political gravy very thick, or he figures that he has made a big enough bid for our faâ€" vor with the flight of a Grauman Maillard and a couple of Hydro Ducks. "I am not going to talk politi¢s," said Exâ€"Mayor saunders® during his visit, "but I can say that in 15 years there will be a vast Hydro system from Manitoba to the Quebec boeundary, and from Niagara to James Bay."~ Perhaps it was only colncidental that he came just before the announced $100,000 gravy boat to Sudbury. Hints Of ‘a proposed University for the North were flying thick and fast at the Conservative meet on Monday night. Since George Drew has,hegn strangely silent on the matter ever since it was first dropped at North Bay speculation has been rampant. Would the University Campus be along the rolling slopes adjacent to Timimins or would North Bay be the site? â€" Some thcught it might be tite S0oo and others even speculated on the remote possibility that Kirkland Lake might be the location. . But it was Bishop Renison who hit the nail squarely on the héad with his usual knowledge of things pertaining to the North country. Said Bishop Renison: "The most likely spot would be, Haileybury where they now have the School of Mining." It could be that his Grace is entirely correct. The need for a university in the North is great. At first they would probkably have a junior college then later enlarge to a full university. There is no need to have huge concentrations of students in the Southern cities and it has been known for a long time that the smaller universities and colleges often give one a more complete education. . Anyway, if Mr. Drew doesn‘t come through with the university, Mr. Colin Campbell has promised that the Liberals will do so. The roads around Sudbury aren‘t any worse than they are around here,â€"â€"they (nul(ml be. Where Will The University Be These reguations are set by Ottawa as to hours and number of staff required. It may seem like an inconvenience to some citiâ€" zens, yvet they must realize that the evening train seldom arrives on schedule due to changing of engines and cars of that special train at North Bay and farther south. We were only too glad to carry put this bit of reporting as it gave us a wider knowledge of the workings of one of the most important parts of our vast comâ€" munications system. Who put the lock on the Timmins Post Office door? â€" Why it was McKenzie King, not our Mr. King who was the culprit. So many requests have been made to the editor to write an editorial regarding the early closing of the Post Office aoors that a little investigation was imâ€"order. Mr. E. H. King was most polite and helpful. After showing the editor through the maze of the behindâ€"theâ€"scenes activity of a post office, Mr. King explained carefully"why the doors were closed to the public at six o‘clock every evening. Some years ago before the war, the post office kept the doors open until seven o‘clock. During the war the pats« riotic thing to do was to save fuel and electricity, therefore the Postal Department at Ottawa sent around orders stating that the doors of the post office were to be closed at six o‘clock. â€"Some citâ€" izens believe that the doors should be kept open in order that they might get the mail which is sorted from the evening train. This mail is sometimes not completely sorted until two o‘clock in the morning, according to the postmaster. In a veritable flood of mail which lands on our desk from day to day and week to week we come across some reâ€" markable instances of the pains some of our companies are taking to tell their stories to the public. There was the anâ€" aal report of the National breweries, fullâ€" of sepia tones, pasâ€" "\ shades and Ye Olde Looke (plus a few staggering figures); ‘Das was the great black brochure recording in picture, diaâ€" Sr@aM.and map, the forty years of the F. P. Weaver Coal Co. Ltid mq there was the magnificient goldâ€"embossed, fullâ€" color PÂ¥Mnmeation announcing the fifticth anniversary of the Shawinifly water and Power Co. â€" In each case, the advertisâ€" ng agencyar publicity services were told to "shoot the works" and had to do so with originality and taste. _ We could mot help thinking, however, that this sort of thing never c0OMhs when it is most nceded, that is, in depresâ€" sion times when »qvertisers and artists and printers find time heavy on thew nands, and their purses light in their nockets. We hope that some companies With anniversaries a few years hence, wih start setting aside a little every year so that when the time comes they will be able to lay out an equally magnificient spreag. â€" The advertising agencies might well encourage them to ao soâ€"â€"just as some undertakers get people to make downâ€"payments the coffins they intend to use a little later on. wments on the Y PHONE 26 TIMMINX®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Newspaper Association Canada $2.00 Per Year Why The $100,000 For Sudbury Timmins, Ontario, Thursday, May 20th, 1948 The Borcupine Adbance Who Put The Lock On The Post Office Door: == Published every Thursday by Merton W,. Lake Importance Of Boys Work Subserintion Rates: United States; $3.00 Per CÂ¥ PC *A .l w One oldâ€"timer excelaims: "The Charâ€" y when he said the night liee were bonnie Princes, all right, Sea Cadets: "I like to nelp but it was the Georges who were the m mt hAhywn (!hfldl‘fifl lawful Kings! Two or more readers of this colâ€" umn (there really are, at that!} have, with some reason, taken exception to the idea suggested in No. 50 of this series, that there was a time when Chatles was King in Porcupine. "The Father of the Porcupine was a George â€" George Bannerman, whose stakings of claims near Porecupine Lake in 1909 started the rush into the new camp. ‘"George Jamieson was another of the oldâ€"time prospectors here. And, remember, it was the prospectors who made this country possible. "Then, again, no mere Charles was ever mayor of Timmins! But a Geoâ€" rge was â€" for five years. That was George 8. Drew, who previously serâ€" ved for years on the town council board â€" He also gave good service on the board of trade, school boards, and other public bodies. Indeed, the only time he did not serve Timmins at home was in the years of the first world war when he served this town and the rest of his country,, overâ€" seas." To all this, it may be added that George Murray was one of the early Provincial Police officers in this camp, and he won high regard for his coolness and resourcefulness durâ€" ing the trying time of the 1911 forâ€" est fire that destroyed South Porcuâ€" pine and other new communities in this area. This George was Division Court Clerk in Porcupine for some years, and later, no election would seem complete without him. Among the names of the 1914â€"1918 war honour roll were many Georges, including George Holland, George Scott, George A. St. Denis, George McGrath, George Williams, George S. Drew and others. Oldâ€"timers _ will recall _ literally seores of Georges who did their part and made their mark in business, sport, community work and other efâ€" forts. Some of the names that will come to mind are: George Preston, Geo. Lake, George Corrigan, George Wallingford, George Sheridan, G. N. Moore, George MacLean, Geo Shipâ€" pam, Geo. A. Smith, George Deckâ€" hert, George Dewar, George Jones, George Cousineau, Geo. Cole, Geo. Hamilton, Geo. Pond, George A. Howe. And it would be wrong to omit that other George, who did so much for this country, and took so keen an inâ€" terest in its development â€" George Howard Ferguson, for many years Minster of Lands, Forests and Mines, and> later Premier of Ontario and Minister of Education. The Ferguson Highway is one monument to this George. When they "let George do Robert C. Ruark Looks At Divorce A Commentary On Today‘s Manners Rcobert C. Ruark was born in Wilmington, North Carolin, D cember 29th, 1915. Graduated Uniâ€" versity North Carolina 1935. Went to sea as ordinary seaman for a few months, then worked on country weekâ€" lies in North Carolina. Started as copy bovy 1937 for The Washington Daily News and rose to Sports columâ€" sist in three months. After Pearl Harbor covered features, then general assignments and finally Capitol Hill before being commissioned as Ensign in the Navy in 1942. _ Returned" to Washâ€" ington at the end of the war to reâ€" sume his newspaper carger. Now, having not opened my trap, I have some righteous ind‘zgnation handy, and venture mildly that things have come to a pretty state if a man canâ€" not indulge in reverie, when for all the lady knows he is thinking up a plot to make a million, to keep her in luxtury. I am resting on the back ¢f my neck, indulging in some deep thoughts on weighty thirgs; like international poliâ€" tics and baseball, when Mamma says, abruptly, You belter ston that, or T‘ll sue. f That makes no nevermind, says she, I have been reading in the paper that Henry Morgan, the radio elf, is being sued .for divorce because he is not funny around the house, and also beâ€" cause he sometimes keeps quiet for days on end. Mr. Morgan‘s diserchanted bride, she says, is asking $750 a week and $28.000 worth of lawyers‘ fees and you better start amusing me. bud or I will hit you with a process or a subâ€" poena or whatever it is you hit them witlhi. If says here, Mamma says, that Mr. But Morgan suggested in one of their suabâ€" short ( bles that his life‘s; mate commit suicide, hungry and I seem to remember that vou once union a slight leap out of the dorâ€" mer when I was teasing for a new rag to wear to a party. I also remember she says, a piece you wrote about faâ€" shion, when you said, quote, If my old lady ever comes home in one of those FPreauch atrocities I will beat her to death with a baseball bat unquote. That young man, is not only a subtle psychological method of ridding yourâ€" self of me, but the second part is a direct threat on my lif>. How would you like to pick up the papers some day and read where I accused you of murâ€" der? I¢eath with a baseball bat unquote. # # $ ‘hat young man, is not only a subtle chological method of ridding yourâ€" [ ~â€"Of me, but the second part is a ect threat on my lif>. How would ; like to pick up the papers some day 1 read where I accused you of murâ€" 2 Further more, she says, Mz":s. Morgan hands off them. Well she says, we have given you the best vears of cur lives, our beauty has faded, and we are mno longer deâ€" sirable on the marital block. Cair tender souls are searred from contact with your brutal ways, and also, if you heppen to be in the chips at the time, it is a good idea to take some of those nmnewspapers which are opposed to 60â€" cialism. One British newspaper man makes the reasonable suggestion that this Royal Emmission should now call Mr. McNeil as its final witness and then adjourn, and stop wasting the public money on plans for Governâ€" chips with us, to keep other girls‘ greedy ment interference with the liberty of However, Mama the press. ine smailer auto companies, oT CAdlili}i®, the Big Three which may be crippled by the auto union. ALC ICMAiY <â€" V EiA UViL AXAJA Furthermore, industry, too, wants to aid European recovery. That‘s why, for the most part, the smaller companies alréady have been granting an averâ€" age of 10.7 cents an hour increase to hundreds of thousands of employees But the big corporations, with vast payrolls, fear aâ€"depression.sooner or later and want to swing into it wih enormous surpluses and pay envelopes no thicker than they are now. So they‘re standing pat for a while. And the showdown nobody wanted is here., POPCUPNE abvax(‘t, *ArAifti(s, ONTARIO it!" he did. + But if the Georges can show a good case to a title as King in Porcupine, the Johns have an equal, or a better, claim. Before there was any town of Timâ€" mins â€"* yes, before there was any community in the camp â€" John Powâ€" er was not only prospecting in this area, but he was also helping to cut the trails and build the pioneer roads to give gccess to the Porcupine gold camp. . Jack Munroe, famous as a boxet, miner, and gallant member of the Princess Pats Regiment, was one of the early Johns prospecting in the Porcupineé Others included J. M. Forbes, Johnnie Macleod, Jack Thomâ€" as, Jack Guthro, John McCambridge, John Jones. Well, Who WAS King in Porcupine? Among the early police chiefs of Timmins there were two Johns â€" Jack Wilson and John Clark. John Nolan was one of the town‘s earliest fire chiefs. And there was that truly beloved John â€" Dr. John A. Mcelnnis who gave a lifeâ€"time of talent and effort to <~this part of the North. Four years as town councillor, seven years as mayor, several years as medical health officer, he is remembered for the gifts and the devotion he gave to every worthy cause ‘The first ordained minister in charge of Timmins Presbyterian church was Rev. John A. Macdonald, morally and intellectuallyâ€"a credit to all his names, or to any name. Among other Johns who served in business, in council and in other ways in the early days were John Watt, John T. Easton, J. W Faithful, John Morrison,~J. K. Massie, J. H. Bacon, John Meyers. There were literally scores of the pioneer Johns who served overseas in the war of 1914â€"1918. Here are the surnames of some of them: Cade, Cretâ€" ney, Carey, Coulis, Munroe, Munro, McLellan, Desormeau, Mosso, Manâ€" ion, McCoshen, McLeod, Stack, Nicâ€" olson, Tiegs, Watt, Weldon, Whitton, Some were known as John, some as Jack, and some as Jock. John Dalton was one of the pioneers of Porcupine, even before there was a Timmins. He had the first livery stable in Timmins, and brought the first motor car to the camp. Other pioneering Johns â€" included John Newman, J H. Skelly, J. D. MacLean, John A. Walsh, Jack Gurâ€" nell, John Carnovale, J. C. Burwell, Jack Hamilton, John W. Fogg. Next, the Williams also could make out a good case for themselves, if they tried. William H. Wilson, mayor of Timâ€" mins for its first five years, might be used to start the list, with oldâ€"time prospectors and pioneers following â€" Wm. Bannerman, ‘Wm Gohr. Wm. is sayving that Henry threw some food at her once and also scattered it arâ€" ound the kitchen, and I recall a slight argument we had one time over the quality of my meat loaf, and it seems to me I‘ve got you deoad to rights. Mrs. Morgan cites cruelty in her action against Henry who I think is a very funny man, because Henry chanâ€" sed his voice on her and chased her out of the ‘»athroom by shouting in broken accent that he, Henry, had just been killed in an auto accident. I seem to remember a man pounding on the dosor of our bath, Mamma says, shouting that the house was afire and all ashore that was going ashore. Does that strike any responsive chords in your memory? she asked. However, Mamma says, do not worry too much, because I will never, never ask vou for $750 a week alimony, beâ€" cause you know the axiom about blood out of a turnin, and I do not think my lawyer will demand $28,000 for writing down the whereases and aforemenâ€" tioneds but you had better curb your tongue, old boy. I have a keen memâ€" ory, and while some of your coarser quotes over a period of 10 years may have been said in the heat of the moâ€" ment, they are engraved on my mind, and would look very unpretty on a bill cf daivorcement. Well, I said, I am never the boy to deny a lorn lady her rightful share of the loot, especially if she is an oldâ€" time workhorse like you, who deserves some severance pay for all the breakâ€" fasts she has built for her errant knight. If there are children in the deal, a dusted Mamma is entitled to every dime she can pry loose from the old man when they come arsund to part. But when love‘s idyvll has been of short duration, I said, and there are no hungry heirs resultaat from the severed union then what is there albout matâ€" nmony which makes these embittered wives figure they are worth that kind of dough? â€"What have we taken from you that is worth $750 a week until vou slin the noose on a fresh victim? It was a James (J. W. Reed) who built the first brick business block in Timmins. Others of the name inâ€" cluded Jas Geils, J. P. Bartieman, Jim Brough, Dr. J. B. McClinton, J. P. Burke, Jim Gienier, J. K. Moore, James Salmon, James McCarthy, J. T. Morton, Jas. A. Price, James Stirâ€" rat, James Heppleston, Jim Huddleâ€" »stone, etc., etc. Thomas is another name that might claim a royal record in the Porcupine. Mills, W. J. McCoy, W. Stanley, W. Rinn, W. Parcher, W. Raycroft, Wm. Faitrburn, W. H. Phillips, W. G. Smith, W H. Pritchard, W. W. White (Hydro inspector), W. M. Whyte (affectionâ€" ately known as "Dad"), W. T. Curtis, Col. W. H. Hayden, and a score of others. And, naturally, in this kingship busâ€" iness, there could easily be a "King James version." T. F. King, town councillor and president of the Timmins board of trade for many years in the early days, brought the first motion picâ€" tures to Timmins, and established the first. dryâ€"cleaning and @yeing plant hete. Tom Wilson was Timmins‘ second town clerk, also being of Justice of the Peace for the district. Tom â€" Geddes (partner of George Bannerman), Tom Middleton, Tom Benbow, Tom Strain, Tommy Jack, were among the early prospectors. Others of the same name coming to mind are Tommy Ryan, Tom Lawlor, Tom Huntley, Tom James, Tommy Nixon, T. Blackman and Thos. Dowâ€" ler, of the first principals of Timmins public school). It may be claimed that another royâ€" al name in the Porcupine was Frank. Franks who took a leading part in municipal life and business in the early days include Frank Wallingâ€" ford, Frank Stockwell, Frank Feldâ€" man, Frank Smith, F. M Burke. With memory of more recent days in mind, it may be asked, "Was there only the one Emile, and only the one Karl?" No! In earlier days there were several Emiles, including Emile Canie, â€" Emile Everard and Emile Brunctte. There were at least three Karls here as ‘early as 1916 â€" Karl Mueller, Karl Dreyer and Karl A. Eyre. Hon. Frank Cochrane at one time represented this riding in the Domâ€" inion. Parliament. Well, then, who WAS King in Porâ€" cupine? This was a democracy â€" democâ€" racy of Kings! Charles. George, William, . Thomas, Richard, Harry, Frank, Karl, Emile and nearly every other name that can be irfiagined, did royal service here in the early days. ‘The record shows that each did his part. Hector McNeil, one of the brightâ€" est and most attractive of the present British Cabinet Ministers. represented Britain at the Geneva International Conference on Freedom of Informaâ€" tion. He made a statement worth recording in letters of gold. "The British people regard restrictive press processes as Fascist, the abominable and vicious process by which a Govâ€" einment constitutes itself at once the author, the censor, the publisher, the prosecutor, the judge and jury .. . . The free expression of conflicting views is the lifeâ€"blood of British jourâ€" nalism. When the Daily Mail goes wrong it is corrected by the Daily Herald. When the Daily Herald goes wrong â€"â€" or right â€" it is cofrected by the Daily Worker. But who corâ€" rects Pravda®" says, I do not think that you ought to take the boy for his hat, spats and overcoat if yvou have contributed Lttle to the marriage and you are as pretty goins out of the courtroom as you were coming in to the church. But, Mamma says, let this build you no fa‘se security. The way things are today, a girl can get a divorce mighty easy, even if she is unmarried by comâ€" bat and ready, say, for a sixth shot at today, a girl can get a di j _ 5 4 R easy ever% if she Ig unmgr‘::cclebvmicgc}:;i If it hits before July 4 â€" and that‘s what the timetable calls for â€" sléek 3 ;. o . . locomotives will be abandoned for a while.in their yards. . Precious copper for bat and ready, say, for a sixth shot at . s + + endurire ‘bliss a construction and newâ€"fangled shooting irons won‘t be dug. Ships won‘t sail 0e N from any port. The odor characteristic of busy rubber plants will waft away. Oil won‘t be drilled in key wells, nor cracked in refinéries. Glistening reâ€" RUN O’!‘-Iâ€"'.IE MILL, rigerators won‘t come oft the line. f The latest auto models will remain wheelless and disembodied on Deâ€" (from the Fort Erie, Times Review) ftroit‘s crippled assembly linesâ€"perhaps only at Chrysler, but maybe at Genâ€" L W Â¥ °C This is a splendid statement. It is one of the finest defences of a free pross which has ever beénr offered There is nothing to fear from a Socialâ€" ist or any other kind of Government, as long as the rulers of Britaine feel this way about freedom of speech. Unfortunately, the rulers of Britain do not always seem to fee}l this way. The Government of which Mr. McNeil is a leading member has now a Royal Commission on the press, which was set up for the parti¢cular purpose of satisfying the demands of a group of left wing Socialists who felt that the Government ought to do something to control, if not punish, the British newspapers which are opposed to Soâ€" cialism. It is almost as if they thought I had Francisco Franco or the Spanish Inquisition in my back pocket. â€" Must it be that, now that much of the old Protestant rankâ€"andâ€"file mistrust and dislike of the Catholice Church have evaporated, liberals are going to take up the pointléss, divisive crusade? The great tragedy of the Civil War in Spain is that it generated so much mutual distrust between Catholics and liberals until that time Cathoâ€" lics of all degrees 6f authority. and education were the backbone of the New Deal and its great drive for human freedom, security. and justice. Then came the cleavage. Unduly harsh words, sweeping statements, crazy generalizaâ€" tions on both sides. One of the nation‘s leading "labor priésts" is Pittsburgh‘s Father Charles Owen Rice. Few nonâ€"union mén ate as close to the CIO, and its chief Phil Murray as is the outspoken Fathér Rice, who has been on Picket lines; who has been the ITron City‘s OPA rent administrator and who spends much of his time running the St. Joseph‘s House of Mospitality where any downâ€"andâ€" outer in the steel are closed to him Father Rice has been aroused by the appearance of antiâ€"Catholicism toâ€" dav in circles where it is least expected, Today I tutn the ecolumn over to him. By FATHER CHARLES OWEN RICE Pittsburg â€" As a Catholic priest interested in labor I have bumped into many great assortments of liberals and progréessives and have generally enâ€" joved their company. Howevet, 1 would be blind if 1 did not notice a fundâ€" amental mistrust on their part. This cleavage which we now have, need not be. It is not American. Much of it is a European importation _ I have been a diligent reader of.the extreme "liberal" press and magazines and notice in so much of the writing a Europâ€" ean antiâ€"clericalisnt that is out of place here. Frankly, both sides will be the losers, and the nation will lose. The Al Smith campaign which found Catholies and liberals beautifully united against bigotry lost its effect with that cursed Spanish mixup. A little tolerance on both sides can bring back some of the lost unity. l . im i tds > * + ~â€" * The bulk of the Catholic laboring masses and a good few ol the priests, bishops and writers remained loyal to the New Deal; but many were alienâ€" ated by the unanimity with which liberals happily lambasted the Church in Spain and saw orly the many faults and failures and virtually none of the extenuating cirecumstances or the great humanitarian projects which never stopped even in the darkest days. An example of what I‘m talking about: The Association of Catholic Unionists (ACTU) is an organization of Catholic union men : with priests as chaplains. Its purpose is to make aggressive, intelligent union members out of the vast mass of Catholic workers. And yet, what do we see? Liberal mistrust that is mountainous. . Exceluâ€" sion of people from posts in liberal organizations because of their contact with the ACTU Fear of it. Propaganda against it. I‘ve seen liberals opâ€" pose a particular stand, just because we were for it. Is that good? Will it help anyone? What has the ACTU done? It has built unions. It has supported just strikes. It has defended victims of tyrannous labor union bosses. It has fought Communist union dictatorship. It has caused no bigotry or division where it is active. It has supported men of all faiths, or none, without disâ€" crimination and solely on the basis of their worth to the labor movement. _. Finally, and getting away from the ACTU, liberals better realize that a man does not need to be bigoted just because he singerely believes in his reâ€" ligion. A man need not be unenlightened just because he wants to send his kids to a Catholie school, or because he believes the purpose of marriage is to have these kids and bring them up right. The ACTU is a good and necessary thing in that it can establish "liberal"" contact with people whom all the pursuasive liberals in the world would not be able to touch. It can tap resources for progress, justice, interracial harâ€" mony, labor education and so on that no one else can. There is not on record a single narrowâ€"minded or bigoted statement or action of the ACTU or any leader or active member. Let us â€"get along. «We have common eéneémies on the left and the right. We have many common beliefs: the dignity and inviolability of the human person, for one We Catholics acknowledge our faults and boners, We are not proud reaction on our recbrd and in our ranks. But. also, maybe a little more liberalism from the liberals, please! This is the preâ€"strike crisis. In the next 60 days this country faces the worst strike wave in its history. Almost complete paralysis, in fact. I say nobody wants it â€" but we‘re stumbling right into the bitterest indusâ€" trial warfare since an ancient Philadelphia shoemaker first invented the unâ€" ion dues stamp back in the days of the minuet and the lace collars. This showdown can‘t be avoided ~,of11y postponed. If it doesn‘t make some of our biggest factoties look idle as"a painted steel plant in a painted sAurh in tha naxvt twna manths It‘ll naralWiMU®¥ year. | But the laborâ€"manâ€" This showdown can‘t be avoided â€", only postponed, if it some of our biggest factoties look idle .xv‘n pamted steel plan town in the next two months it‘ll paraly }FF‘ ear. But t agement honeymoon is over. The show he s PME B OW PC W Tt helnsie h c 2 atc s eral Motors and Foxvilfi,"too. ‘Meat will be scarcer. Coal, or course, won‘t be dug, and so the blueâ€"white heat will disappear from steel blast furnaces, Sounds hysterical, you may say. It isn‘t. I can report to you that with the exception of John L Lewis, none of the union chiefs want to strike. But every one is afraid he‘ll have to. 1 can report that despite their bitterness over Big Steel‘s rejection of their wage increase bid, CIO President Phil Sounds hysterical, you may say. It isn‘t. 1 can report to yOUu inat wiln the exception of John L Lewis, none of the union chiefs want to strike. But every one is afraid he‘ll have to. 1 can report that despite their bitterness over Big Steel‘s rejection of their wage. increase bid, CIO President Phil Murray and his lieutentants are tickled that they have a noâ€"strike clause in their contract. For that pledge gives them an out â€" enables them to have face and still avoid a strike costly to themselves, the industry and the nation. ustt But the other union chiefs dbn't have any such clause. And, in the next 55 or so days, contracts expire or strike deadlines come due in the industries I‘ve mentioneéed. * Lewis is ready to strike again â€"thisâ€"time first in tne steel company "captive‘"" coal mines.Which means the shutting down of the nation‘s Pittsâ€" burghs as well as its coal fields. ‘The auto union, the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (copper), the oil workers, and all the reést are prepared to go out unless they can save face by delivering some wage increases to their 1,500,000 followers, . a@a) _A« (L999V + ++ I‘ve spoken to scores of union leaders â€"and industrialists, Oddly enough, they wish they knew what will happen. Both sides say they don‘t want stopâ€" pages â€" but think things are out of control. The union leaders say their followers don‘t really want to walk out. Strikes are costly and they don‘t want their unions bankrupt â€" They‘re still strike weary from the 1945â€"47 stoppages. They, too, believe that higher wages will bring higher prices and wipe out their gains. They‘re copcerned over the cold war with Europe and the need to produce for the Marshall Plan. At the same time some union chiefs fear a littleâ€"known gimmick in the Taftâ€"Harley law which requires a special _ballot to be taken in key industries at the end of an 80â€"day strike truce. This vote gives the rank and file a chance to accept or reject management‘s final offer,. Suppose the union membership defies its leaders and accepts the company offér, This would hurt the labor leaders and cripple their future bargaining power. On the other side, the industrialists also don‘t want labor war. They need steady production now because competition, even for automobiles, has set in. The smaller auto companies, for example, are reéady to grab off the business of the Big Three which may be crippled by the auto union. Now back to Victor Riesel â€" This is the showdown nobody wants. eteel and eoal areas knows he can get food when other places Inside Labour hy < Victorâ€" Rigsel itAY .: d0th, 1948 asses and a good few of the priests this time first in the steel company We are not proud of the