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...grant the right to strike for better work conditions, but great disproportion exists when an essential working force like the Transport Workers Union can flout a court order, rob the labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It is time for the union to curb its unrestrained economic appetite as well as its vituperative chief spokesman; otherwise T.W.U. may join Him at the end of the long White House leash...
...University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...
Those who plan to flout the Supreme Court's ruling are wrong for at least three reasons. The first is that the Constitution, as interpreted by the Court, is the law of the land; to disobey the Court is to disobey the law. This reason is legally convincing but morally empty; the Dred Scott decision was the law, too, yet those who disobeyed it were right...
...little green pamphlet given to each student at registration, of which paragraph 1a under the section on Recognition of Organizations specifies that the group "must submit to the Dean's Office a constitution and by-laws." In this constitution the organization may also be reasonably expected not to flout the general rules under which the College administration must operate, among which are those Fair Educational Practice provisions of the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act which forbid the College to discriminate among its students on the basis of race...
...minority which doesn't oppose the basic concept, but would like to be included. Medicare is being blocked by a doctors' lobby. Where are the forces that speak for the public? Why should it be "safer" for a Congressman to avoid the anger of organized medicine than to flout the wishes of the overwhelming majority? Simply because no one organizes, agitates, and pressures for the majority...