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Senators 6 Shadows, Uprising in the Senate for one of the briefest speeches of his loquacious career, California's venerable Hiram Johnson cried: ''The most ominous thing in our national economic life today is the Sit-Down strike. It is bad for the Government and in the long run it is worse for Labor. If the Sit-Down strike is carried on with the connivance or the sympathy of the public authorities, then warning signals are out, and down that road lurks DICTATORSHIP...
Appointment of a parson and a rabbi to help Rev. Frederic Siedenberg. executive dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last...
That the harassed Governor well realized he was becoming the Kerensky of the Sit-Down appeared when, to a 20-man Committee on Law & Order which he had summoned to consider Michigan's labor troubles, he declared: "When the authority of governmental agencies is continually flouted or defied, confidence in government is impaired, and outraged citizens prepare to take the law into their own hands; democratic rule is endangered, and the way is prepared for the rule of mobs or dictators; worst of all, labor movements and organizations are discredited, faith in liberal democratic government is permanently impaired...
...C.I.O. call for a general strike of all ex cept food and drug stores closed a total of 95 of the city's 1,400 stores. A gen eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store...
...wire Lowell referred to the sit-down strikes as "making a monkey out of constitutional government." The wire was sent to Vice-President Garner, it was determined, in the vacation absence of President Roosevelt...