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...least one occasion Secretary of Labor Perkins has indicated that in her mind the legal status of the Sit-Down was not proven. President Roosevelt, a lawyer by training, is known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner...
...week Washington was still shaking its head over the sharp words of the report with which the majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shaped by seven Democratic Senators, rebuffed him and his bill. Second major Congressional grievance against the President was his failure to use his official prestige against sit-down strikes, and his acquiescence in the development of the present strike situation. Behind these were older grievances, such as his planning his legislative program without so much as a by-your-leave to his Congressional leaders...
...some quotes from John L. Lewis, William Green, and Government sources. Notable in the year's early reporting of Labor were the dispatches of Paul Gallico, former sports editor, who returned to the New York News in January to cover the human side of the General Motors sit-down strike at Flint...
William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...
...Governor Earle, whose personal share of the country's un-redistributed capital is considerable, was to hear from the chains once more. Last week in what looked like an adaptation of the Sit-Down, the chains closed hundreds of their Pennsylvania stores with a bang, After turning the key on 80 stores in & around Philadelphia, an A. & P. official announced bluntly: "The stores we have closed couldn't have operated at a profit under the tax. Those where the volume of business is such that the business will show a profit after including the tax will be kept...