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Mr. Stanley Mosk, Attorney General of California, a couple of years ago called the John Birch Society a collection of “little old ladies in tennis shoes.” Two weeks ago Mr. Mosk informed a convention of California Democrats that the GOP was in danger of being taken over by the John Birch Society. Some who heard him are wondering whether he got hit in the head by a tennis shoe, or whether he’s just scared of little old ladies.

The railway labor dispute chugs on, under another deferral of the strike deadline, this time to late August, and the Powers That Be maintain their exquisite disregard of the only reasonable proposal yet brought forward to solve such problems. It is found in S.1925, submitted to the Senate on July 22, a bill that would apply to the transportation industry the prohibitions against featherbedding and make work which already exist in the Taft-Hartley Act and in the Lea Act, which last was passed by a Democratic Congress, signed into law by Harry Truman in 1946, and upheld by the Supreme Court. The proposal, as applied to other industries, has been upheld in the courts and vindicated by experience, but it faces a far rougher test than those: for it challenges the Administration to recognize the bill’s sponsor, Senator Goldwater. As Rocky would say, only an extremist would attempt to justify something by mentioning that the Supreme Court had upheld the principle of it.

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Mr. Stanley Mosk, Attorney General of California, a couple of years ago called the John Birch Society a collection of “little old ladies in tennis shoes.” Two weeks ago Mr. Mosk informed a convention of California Democrats that the GOP was in danger of being taken over by the John Birch Society. Some who heard him are wondering whether he got hit in the head by a tennis shoe, or whether he’s just scared of little old ladies.

The railway labor dispute chugs on, under another deferral of the strike deadline, this time to late August, and the Powers That Be maintain their exquisite disregard of the only reasonable proposal yet brought forward to solve such problems. It is found in S.1925, submitted to the Senate on July 22, a bill that would apply to the transportation industry the prohibitions against featherbedding and make work which already exist in the Taft-Hartley Act and in the Lea Act, which last was passed by a Democratic Congress, signed into law by Harry Truman in 1946, and upheld by the Supreme Court. The proposal, as applied to other industries, has been upheld in the courts and vindicated by experience, but it faces a far rougher test than those: for it challenges the Administration to recognize the bill’s sponsor, Senator Goldwater. As Rocky would say, only an extremist would attempt to justify something by mentioning that the Supreme Court had upheld the principle of it.