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HIn a country which loves Democratic government and the rules of the game, parties to a dispute should adhere to the deci¬ sions of the Board, even though one of the parties may consider the decision wrong. Therefore in the interest of orderly government and in the interest of respecting the considered decision of the Board, I request your union to accept the directive orders of the National War Labor Board. What you regard as your loss will cer¬ tainly 'be your country 1 s gain. "
The President's statement in connection with Montgomery
Ward read:
"We cannot allow Montgomery Ward & Co. to set aside the wartime policies of the U. S. Government just because Mr. Sewall Avery does not approve of the government's procedure for handling labor disputes. Montgomery Ward & Co. , like every other corporation and every labor union in this country, has a responsibility to our fighting men. That responsibility is to see that nothing inter¬ feres with the continuity of our war production. It is because Montgomery Ward & Co. has failed to assume this obligation that I have been forced to sign an Executive Order directing the Secretary of War to take over and operate certain properties of Montgomery Ward & Company. "
In the same issue of the paper, the Star said editorially:
"Mr. Petrillo's defiance was just as willful and just as open as Mr. Avery's, yet the President did virtually nothing to bring him into line, and the memory of his methods in dealing with Mr. Petrillo will surely tend to lessen public support for his firm¬ ness in dealing with Mr. Avery. The administration has not dealt equally with the two cases, and no denunciation of Mr. Avery can con¬ ceal that fact. "
The Washington Post also took the Administration to task
saying:
"The attitude of the Administration seems to have shifted a good deal since the first Ward seizure. One factor contributing to this change of attitude was the Petrillo case. The czar of the musicians' union ooenly defied the Board, and officials conceded that there was nothing they could do about it. They agreed, in other words, that Congress did not intend to have the Government seize every business involved in defiance of the WLB.
"Attorney General Biddle now says that the President does not seize plants or stores to enforce WLB orders. Rather such action is taken only where it is essential to the war effort. If there is no threat to the war effort, as in the Petrillo case, then apparently it is all right to tell the WLB to jumo into the Potomac. "
David Lawrence, the columnist, had this to say:
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