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From G. G. Gurley, president of the Chemical Attraction Oil Corp., San Antonio: "When you joined the only Jew to vote against 76 Senators, that proved you were the henchman for the Jew Deal. H. H. Lehman should be deported out of this Nation to Russia, or let Germany take that 'bird' in and give him the gas like Hitler...
...Santa Fe is one of the nation's last major roads to hold out against union shop contracts, permitted under a 1951 amendment to the Railway Labor Act. Last week, in a courtroom in Amarillo, Texas, Santa Fe President Fred Gurley argued against the union shop in a suit filed by 14 Santa Fe workers. They asked that 16 A.F.L. railroad unions be permanently enjoined from enforcing proposed union shop contracts, and that the union shop be declared illegal...
...suit, like half a dozen others filed by railroad employees around the U.S., is based mainly on Texas' "right to work" act, which states that nobody can be fired for membership or nonmembership in a union. The union shop, testified Santa Fe's Gurley, "does violence to my very deep-seated beliefs in personal liberty, freedom of choice, and the rights and dignity of the individual." In answer to union arguments, which implied that benefits such as seniority rights sprang from labor contracts, Gurley pointed out that the Santa Fe has had its own provisions for seniority since...
...grandstanding from the bench. He asked: "If something like spending the rest of your life in Russia could be worked out as a substitute for prison, would that interest you at all?" The Communists fervently refused-not without some grandstanding of their own. Cried Big Red Hen Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: the suggestion was "comparable to asking a Christian if he wanted to go to heaven right away . . . We feel we would be traitors to the American people if we turned our backs on them . . ." The judge accommodated all with sentences ranging from a year and a day to three years...
...defendants in the ten-month trial were second-drawer leaders of the U.S. Communist Party, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith...