The Archive · 1937

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With the miners funds organizers are hired who set to work on the various Industrial "bottle-necks." every large female Industry there tone ection-at least which though employs relatively few men 1s Ual 6 carrying on the res work In that Industry. The men in

upon vigorously and when anous the bottle-neck section are worked have been signed" up a strike fealied ana the whole industry par~ alized, Once there is a strike, definite me [dustrial warfare, recruiting for the union is much " easier, Piekets, necessary, are imported to surround the factory. The technique of the lying squad" has been developed, truckloads of aggressive strikers who joter from factory to factory to pull out" the men still working, often Iterally, Police facilities are never adequate and employers ganize their own guards to protect property and those not on strike, Ineldents ana clashes occur," The Lewis men make the most of there and protest against the ruthless in~ tUmidation of the bosses. Men who don't sign up with the union are Sseabs."" Even If the strike is un= successful and the Lewis union is not recognized as the sole bargain" ting ayoney its ranks have been in-

War the Final Threat The final threat to the tranquillity of 1937 is European war, There ix little to be said about this save that the sole object of the United States wil be to keep out of it, if It does come. Private. sympathies may be felt for one side or the other but, given the adamantine determination of Congress not to allow the country to become involved, there is no pos sibility of any practical material ald from the United States, Despite itself the Unitog! States was atler three years dragged into the Fast war and' Congressmen feel they have learned their, lesson, If the next war last six years, ton years, hone can say' what the altitude of the United States will become. But in ce far as they can do It. public opinion is being prepared to hold that no European war is any concern of the United States, that the moralities and rights of the struggle have nothing whatever to do with the matter, that all nations collectively are at fault rather than one tio.

'The sole difference of opinion in Congress is whether the new neutral-fly law which must be passed before May I, when the present one expires, Should" give some freedom of Action to the President in applying it or whether' it should' be made ronelad" and automatic,

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