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Professional Sit-Downers. Visiting a sit-down at Frank & Seder's department store one night, Governor Murphy recognized one of the sitters as a "man whom, when the Governor was judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court, he had sentenced to prison for forgery. Investigation disclosed that the ex-convict and ten of his companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action...
...While I have consistently counseled resort to conference and negotiation, and sought to avoid the use of force, there is obviously a limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket...
...Justice- In the pinko New Republic last week Dean Leon Green of Northwestern University Law School stepped forward as the first impartial and distinguished legalist to champion the Sit-Down's legality...
...case for sit-downers, as opposed to the Sit-Down, was stated most eloquently last week by Senator William E. Borah. Joining those observers who viewed the sit-down epidemic not as a disease but as a symptom, Senator Borah, who blames most economic evils on monopoly, declaimed: "As I look at it, they [the strikers] are fighting for what they deem to be their rights in an economic system which is dominated ... by lawlessness and largely by reason of the fact that the Government does not enforce the law. . . . The power belongs to us to restore economic justice...
...during its 17 performances. Last year the stage was remodeled, the cast enlarged to 150 and a play costing $15,000 was performed 27 times. Overseer Voliva missed only one performance, noted that collections totaled only $7,500. Last week Mr. Voliva, who had been in Florida worrying about sit-down strikes...