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He ini Radio News Service
12/4/46
banned to others, and thus is ’class legislation.* The case, which will go to the Supreme Court on appeal, accordingly will appear before that tribunal with marked resemblance to many others in which it was not denied that Congress has the power to legislate for the objectives in view but is charged with having used an un¬ lawful method. "
Charging that Judge La Buy was put on the U. S. Bench to hold Chicago PolesRoosevelt vote, Mr. Krock writes further:
"Chicago citizens of Polish extraction are very numerous and both major parties strive constantly for their votes. Hence, in 1944, when Republicans of that city were attenuating to draw Polish votes away from the Democrats by charging that President Roosevelt had surrendered on every point to Marshal Stalin in the international war conferences, the Democrats urged conspicuous recognition of a member of that group.
"Judge La Buy particularly qualified, and the Federal Judgeship was given to him. He was confirmed by the Senate without objection on March 29, 1944, after a perfunctory hearing, which mov¬ ed Representative T. S. Gordon of Chicago to say in the House of Reoresentative s :
"’This is the first time in the history of our country that an American of Polish descent has been elevated to such a high and distinguished position. * * * All Americans of Polish descent feel that they share in this high honor as well as this recognition of ability and have received the news with a deep feeling of grati¬ tude. *
"Now Judge La Buy belongs, if not to the ages, at least to thecurrent headlines on page one. "
In addition to Mr. Krock’ s article, the New York Times had a lengthy editorial today (December 4th) which concluded:
"The simple fact of the matter is that even if the Supreme Court should reverse this finding and declare the anti-Petrillo measure constitutional, it would still be an anti-Petrillo measure, and nothing more. It would do nothing to halt the reckless career of John L. Lewis in the coal industry or to prevent racketeering and conspiracy on the part of unions disposed to employ them. Petrillo is merely a symbol a symptom of an organic weakness which has been permitted to develop in our labor laws over recent years. This will not be cured by passing laws directed at any one man, any one union or any one industry. It can only be cured by attacking the trouble at its source. This means that the Wagner Act, which, instead of "diminishing the causes of labor unrest’, has multiplied them, must be made bilateral, instead of unilateral, as it now is, and that the Government's police powers must be made applicable to union labor as well as to industry. For it is this, the basic labor law of the land, that is the breeding ground of the monopolistic power of the Petrillo s and the Lewises. "
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