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Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who is getting to be an old hand at dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps against both labor & management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down...
Facing him was the man who had prepared the Government's case-bouncy, 40-year-old Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison. Early in the week, Morison had persuaded Goldsborough to slap a $1,400,000 fine on Lewis' union and a $20,000 fine on Lewis himself for criminal contempt of court. Shaken by that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison...
...been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid. "When someone wants to help you," he said, "it is ridiculous to slap him in the face...
Also in "The New Student" is a slap-dash attempt to prove that American universities are in the toils of Big Business, based mostly on a quasi-review of a book which appeared two years ago. And the conclusion--that students and faculty should somehow gain control of University policies--is as breezily vague as the unqualified condemnation of America's Puerto Rican "imperialism" in the article that follows. This general tone of militant outrage, coupled with the total absence of any attempt at objectivity, makes "The New Student" more of a screeching political pamphlet than an undergraduate magazine honestly...
...that Murray did about it was to issue a perfunctory statement that raiding could never be condoned. That, of course, was meant to be a warning slap against any such shenanigans within the family. But to many a C.I.O. man it seemed more like a soft-gloved pat of encouragement for Walter Reuther...