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THE ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945
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Published Every Friday
S. E. TILTON, ------------------------------Editor and Publisher
MRS. S. E. TILTON-----------------------------Associate Editor
Entered May 22, 1941, as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office
it Mercedes, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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BEYOND THE LAW
Something has happened on the
labor front that goes beyond employ-
er-employe controversies. Its effect
on reconversion is of minor import-
ance compared to the long-range pos-
sibilities. That something is the re-
sort to lawlessness by nationwide
organizations calling themselves lab-
or unions:, on a scale that endangers
law and order as well as the econom-
ic system itself. A startling example
comes to light in a telegram from
Standard Oil Company (Indiana) to
the Secretary of Labor, Washington,
©. C. It says in part:
"About three o’clock this moring
many groups of men (not our em-
ployes) who proclaimed themselves
to be CIO pickets, began appearing
in the city of Whiting, Indiana, and
setting up road blocks on all the
streets and highways leading to the
Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
refinery. They established lines of
parked and locked cars across the
streets and highways with lines of
men in front of them. Officials of
the company and executives of the
plant who tried to reach the plant
were stopped and threatened with
violence if they tried to get through
the blocks. Employes arriving for
the day shift were told that they
could not go to the plant and were
given to understand that .they would
be physically assaulted if they at-
tempted to do so. Some actual
physical violence has occurred.
Trucks were prevented from either
approaching or leaving the plant and
a blockade of locked automobiles
was thrown across the railway-
tracks on which tank cars move in
and,out.
"Standard: Oil Company (Indiana)
has a contract with the Standard
Oil Employes Association, Inc., and
with the Research and Engineering
Professional Employes Association
and with no other in the Whiting
refinery. Neither of these unions is
on strike. They have advised us
that they intend to live up to the no-
©trike clause in their contract. An
orderly arbitration of the Standard
Oil Employes Association’s demand
for a 30 per cent increase in wages
and of the counter-offer of 15 per
cent by the company is now in pro-
gress. Likewise an orderly arbitra-
tion of the demand of the Research
and Engineering Professional Em-
ployes Association for substantial
increase in salary rates is underway.
In each case the arbitration proceed-
ings are in the hands of an arbi-
trator appointed by the Conciliation
Division of your department and
Division of your department and
AMERICA BETRAYED
At the end of a war which cost
the nations of the world tens ’of
millions of lives, unspeakable suf-
fering, material losses beyond human
calculation, and w-hich closed with
the discovery of a weapon so de-
vastating that the destruction of
human life on earth can conceivably
be accomplished at the press of a
button—to repeat, at the end of this
cosmic catastrophe, what do we find?
The natural expectancy would be to
find humility and thankfulness for
peace in the heart of every map;
a devout determination to strengthen
the religious, governmental, in-
dustrial and scientific institutions
which have grown slowly through
centuries of trial and error, and
which have reached a peak here in
our own United States, giving all of
our people, as individuals, a stature
and dignity never before known.
But do we find theese things here?
The most obvious fact in the
United States today is that business
men, laborers, farmers, politicians_ -________
ill of us are trying to escape the na- j Commerce Commission
sets, those who are digging their
own business graves through ill
tratment of consumers, will be the
loudest critics of tomorrow’s suc-
cessful merchants. The old charges
of monopoly and unfair trade prac-
tices will fly thick and fast. Legisla-
tures and the halls of congress will
ring with demands for laws to curb
enterprising firms whose only of-
fense is serving the public too well
for inefficient competitors.
Perhaps when that time comes,
the public will remember what it
endured during the war boom. It
will remember the indifferent mana-
gement, and the surly clerks who
took their cue from managements.
In the end, it may be more skeptical
than ever before of measures to curb
efficient low-cost distribution. It
may have had its fill of mediocrity.
tory structure. It has under the
Interstate Commerce Commission—
a fact which the public has grasped
with unusual understanding.
REALITY
INSTEAD
HOPE
OF PIOUS
CONSISTENT, CLEAR, PRACTICAL
Support for the Bulwinkle Bill
now before Congress has grown to
impressive proportions. This bill
is designed to clarify the responsi-
bilities of the railroads and the In-
terstate Commerce Commission on
the question of rate regulation, and
to remove the impossible condition
now imposed upon the railroads of
being subjected to anti-trust suits
for acting in accordance with the
directions of the ICC. As the New
York Times states, “If the nation is
to have efficient railroad transporta-
tion in the postwar period, during
which it is inevitable there will be
many adjustments in the economic
life of the country, the enactment
of the Bulwinke Bill or some such
clarifying legislation is necessary.’’1
A solid phalanx of shippers,
public service commissions, cham-
bers of commerce, agricultural or-
ganizations, state legislatures,
business groups and the press has
urged passage of the bill. Typical of
the coment is that from the North
Dakota Stockmen’s Association:
"We have complete confidence in the
_ manner in which the carriers have
\ been regulated by the Interstate!
It is ob-
The Pacific Northwest, with miles
of timbered forest land stretching in
every direction, is faced with a
fuel famine. Strikes have disrupted
the lumber industry. Wood and saw-
dust are nearly non-existent in
larger cities. The warning has gone,
out to home owners to switch to
coal. How often the coal industry
has heard tliose words in recent
year®! And in some manner enough
coal to keep people from freezing is
gotten out of the ground.
Of course beating homes is but a
part of the task of coal. It runs
trains and furnishes most of the
power and light in the country as
well. The production records set by
the coal industry throughout the
war, in spite of strikes, manpower
and equipment shortage, are some-
thing for the history book®.
One of the reasons why the coal
industry has succeeded in meeting
the most exacting emergencies is
found in the nature of the industry
itself. Coal mining is a competitive
enterprise. Competition has pushed
the individual companies ahead over
an admittedly rocky road at times.
But the result has been beneficial to
coal and to the nation. The in-
dustry i® extensively mechanized.
American miners work in greater
safety and comfort and at high-
er wages than any other miners in
the world. Production efficiency
has soared to bights that would have
been unbelievable a few years ago.
In fact, our coal industry has
actually accomplished tlie objectives
of enlgihtened operation which
government controlled or owned in-
dustries of other nations merely talk
about in an atmosphere of pious
hope.
ends of the earth shall see the salva-
tion of our God” (Isaiah 52:10).
The Lesson-Sermon also includes
the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, “Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip-
tures’’ by Mary Baker Eddy: “Je®us
aided in reconciling man to God by
giving man a truer sense of Love, the
divine Principle of Jesus’ teachings,
and this truer sense of Love redeems
man from the Law of matter, sin,
and death by the law of Spirit, -
the law of divine Love’’ (page 19).
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From where I sit... iy Joe Marsh
rWe have only just begun
to fight"
ance-whether it’s intolerance of
a man’s political beliefs, or of his
right to choose between a glass
of beer or buttermilk.”
From where I sit, the Judge is
absolutely right. Peace means
continued vigilance — continued
struggle against all the forces of
intolerance that caused the last
war, and can sow the seeds of
future conflict. Maybe we should
paraphrase the slogan of a Revo»
lutionary hero: “We have only
just begun to fight.”
tural consequences of a long and I vious that the railroads cannot follow
terrible war. But this i® not so ) the mandates of one government
strange perhaps as the fact that in agency, if in doing so they make
trying to escape these consequences,
Ave are willing to scrap our nation’s
financial integrity, our form of
government, and just about every
heiitage of mankind that this coun-
try possesses. The accent is on
phony material security, even at the
price of personal liberty. Many
public officials are more concerned
with measurers that are politically
themselves liable to prosecution by
another government agency.” And
the Texarkana, Texas, Gazette says,
“The issue is not whether the
government is going to regulate the
railroads—they ha\Te been regulated
for 58 years—but which government
agency is going to do the regulat-
ing.”
The country must have strong
popular at the moment, than with ! railroa(ls, but in order to have strong
justice or political integrity. We
are shouting for easy living, despite
the fact that we are faced with ruin
if we do not work very hard.
Labor has served notice that it in-
tends to increase its social gains with
less work and more pay. Again,
the accent is on personal profit above
everything else. Our nation rode’
to the financial crest of a war boom
over the bodies of a milion men who
gave all they had in mortal conflict
for the sake of the spiritual treasures
of civilization, and now it proposes
to stay on that easy living crest by
hook or crook.
This spectacle should bring fear
to the hearts of the thoughtful_
fear for all mankind.
railroads it must have a consistent,
Christian Science
Services
“Doctrine of Atonement” is the
subject of the Lesson-Sermon which
will be read in all Churches of
Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, October
21.
The Golden Text is: "The Son of
man came not to be ministered unto,
Put to minister, and to give his life
a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
Among the citations which com-
prise the Lesson-Sermon is the fol-
lowing from the Bible; “The Lord
hath made bare his holy arm in the
clearly defined and practical regula- eyes of all the nations; and all the
MAKING HAY
“Making hay while the sun
shines/’ is an old saying that ap-
plies in almost every walk of life
today. Especially is it true of re-
both sides are bound by contract to !'ail distributors. Now, while cus-
abide by his decision. tomers are plentiful is the time to
The- unions and employes in the make fnends’ And the best way to
. _ makp friendo is + i---a___
Whiting refinery have manifested to
the management their desire to con-
tinue work if they can. It is im-
possible for men to enter the plant.”
The strong-arm gang disappeared
when the governor ordered troop®
“alerted.’’ Congressmen have been
threatened with reprisal by pressure
gangs if they do not vote “right.”
This is not honest unionism. It
cannot be tolerated if we preserve
self government.
make friends is to give the best pos-
sible service even though swamped
with business. Tomorrow’s suc-
cessful retailers are busy storing up
good will to draw on in time® of
adversity. Tomorrow’s failures are
busy rir^ng up sale® and making
enemies by discourteous, inefficient
treatment of customers who tolerate
such conduct because they have no
choice at the moment.
And as sure as the sun risees and
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TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT
fan ‘Peacef
Telephone factories are getting into the swing of
peacetime production.
Thousands of menand women in these factories have
turned from making radar and gun directors to the com-
plex job of making telephone equipment once again.
It’s a change that pleases everyone. As more and
more telephone equipment comes from the factories, it
means that telephone people here can make faster and
faster progress in caring for the 246,000 waiting for
telephone service.
Such a big job takes time. Equipment is complicated.
Making switchboards and dial equipment requires
thousands of precision parts, thousands of intricate
connections. And thousands more are needed to con-
nect them as working parts of the telephone system.
But the good news is that we’re on our way. We are
working as hard as we can toward the day when anyone
who wants a telephone can get it when he wants dt.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.
We were sitting around Bill
Webster’s fire the other night,
enjoying a mellow glass of beer,
and talking-now that the war is
over-about what Peace really
means.
“I can tell you one thing it
doesn’t mean,” says Bill. “It
doesn’t mean that we can all re-
lax—and take things easy—and
figure we’re living in Utopia.”
“You’re right,” Judge Cun-
ningham agrees. “Peace means,
among other things, eternal vigi-
lance. Free men are still at war
with hatred, prejudice, intoler-
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Tilton, S. E. The Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, October 19, 1945, newspaper, October 19, 1945; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074116/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.