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...Norwalk, Conn, ten months ago, 1,400 members of the A.F.L. Hatters Union struck, in support of a principle, against the Hat Corp. of America (Dobbs, Knox, Dunlap and Cavanagh hats). They insisted that no company has the right to move any of its operations to other parts of the country without an O.K. from its union. The hatters demanded a no-move clause in their contract; the company refused. The A.F.L. executive council backed up the union, decided to make the strike a test of the "runaway shop" issue...
...Connecticut Judge Elmer W. Ryan, an agreement was finally worked out. The contract contained no promise that the company would not move. But in a letter to the local (not part of the contract and not binding on the company), President Frank H. James gave his assurance that Norwalk would continue to be the company's center of operations. To the men who had trod the bricks for ten months, it was a face-saving gesture-and a costly sop. During the strike the workers lost more than $4,000,000 in wages, and the union went into debt...
...scene stealing, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Mayehoff played Jarrin' Jack Jackson, the all-American has-been. That role, now revived for television, seems a natural. Mayehoff feels that the character has been with him all his life. His father, he says, "was a successful clothing manufacturer in Norwalk, Conn. He had a plan for his son, a truly Teddy Roosevelt sort of plan. The son did not live up to the dream. The distance between the father and his son was a wide and lonely...
Your very enthusiasm for successful battle against the V.F.W. in Norwalk, Conn. seems to have a somewhat hollow ring. You should not have to write an editorial proclaiming the victory if you did not, all-be-it so slightly, doubt the outcome. . . .Nor should one assume that Norwalk is the only city or that the "subversive" reporting program of the V.F.W. is the only method or even the only organization tending to stifle controversial opinions today. . . . There have been other flagrant violations--to note, the very recent difficulty of an independent organization here in this state to find a place...
This is an illustration of the fact that despite the pressures of an undeclared war with Russia, the fundamental sense of justice of the American people can still make itself felt to prevent wholesale informing. The Norwalk fiasco should be a lesson to well-meaning groups that there are limits to subversive hunting. It should also prove to the people who fear America is moving toward Fascism that they are overstating the case. 1984 is still a long...