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Oixan Obstrurr See It The one great rule We will serve no of composition is to group or party but will hew hard to the speak the truth. truth as we find it and the right as we —Thoreau Oixan Obstrurr see it. An Independent Liberal Weekly Newspaper 46th Year Incorporating The State Observer — The East Texas Democrat — The State Week — Austin Forum-Advocate Established 1906 DECEMBER 13, 1954 AUSTIN, TEXAS No. 35 Shepperd Urges Port Arthur Truce FIGHT IN COURTS Both Sides Red Charges Spend Heavily Don't Apply Webb County Split In Test Case Now He Says By RONNIE DUGGER AUSTIN, Dec. 13 — Attor- By One-Party Rule Editor, The Texas Observer ney General John Ben Shep- (First of a series) perd has declared that the By RAMON GARCES bond elections totaling $6,138,000. (Copyright, The Texas Observer) Laredo Correspondent Fifty percent of the county's tax Port Arthur strike situation The Texas Observer money, the League charged, went to PORT ARTHUR, Tex., Dec. has "altered" since he said it pay interest and principal on the LAREDO, Dec. 13—An organiza- 13—The tired but determined bond debt. pickets are entering their sec- appeared to be part of "a tion that claims to be non-political The League quickly brought suit Communist plot to take over and looking only for efficiency in. ond winter on the sidewalks to stop a road bond issue coming up of Port Arthur. Gulf oil ports." Settlement of local government has brought the for election. The voters approved first opposition in nearly 20 years Christmas is near, the cold the strike would be "good for the the bond issue by the usual huge state," he said. to a one-party Webb County politi- majority of 7 to 1, but the bonds lake wind whistles through cal rule, which has often been lik- were held up by the court suit. this embittered and divided "From all indications," he said, ened to the turbulent brand now The League met a set-back in the town, there is no whisper of corn- "it is now a straight labor-manage- under state investigation in Duval courts. First the 111th District boys, the bellhops, the waitresses, ment dispute." County. Court of Webb County sustained a boys, the bellhops, the waitresses In a special interview with The Webb County citizens for a long plea in abatement filed by the the dimestor, countergirls keep up Texas Observer, Shepperd said that time have had the strong suspicion County Judge and Commissioners. their vigil for union recognition and "as far as I can ascertain, the with- that their county was going broke Appealing the decision to the Court higher wages. drawal of the questionable interna- because of bad administration in- of Civil Appeals, the League again A few spokesmen of the business tional union has altered the pic- directly brought on by the one- met defeat as the Court upheld the community here say the issue is ture." Shepperd charged a year ago, on party rule, but nobody seemed to District Court's ruling. Recently communism. Some say that the —Staff Photo Nov. 25, that the strike-leading Dis- want to do anything about it. the Texas Supreme Court denied a strike began without recourse to PICKETS MAYFAIR—Mrs. Bob Last December the Webb County writ of error sought by the League, established National Labor Rela- tributive, • Processing, and Office Hughes, 20-year-old Port Arthur Workers Union, which had the full Taxpayers and Citizens League was (Continued on Page 5) tions Board procedures, and union housewife, pauses in her picket- organized by some of the county's leaders admit this was an error in backing of the national CIO, was ing of the Mayfair shop in Port engaged in "what appears to be a most prominent ranchers, bankers, the five stores over which NLRB Arthur to pose for a picture. She businessmen and attorneys, headed has accepted jurisdiction. But most Communist plot to take over the worked at the Fair store down on principal ports of the Texas Gulf by Radcliffe Gillam, a young and Shivers Says of the merchants seem to feel that Procter Street when the strike outspoken son of a Webb County the chief question is whether retail Coast." Two days later, the Port began 13 months ago. Arthur strikers formed a local CIO oil millionaire. workers should organize . union and DPO withdrew from the The League, after some probing State Costs So far as the local union leaders strike, but the next day, Nov. 28, of county officials, charged that the are concerned, the issue is- the rec- County was using road bond issues Shepperd declared: ognition of the local CIO union as Radar Road Signs "Any reorganization retaining the to finance the whole county gov- Outrun Income the sole bargaining agent for the present leadership will not be ac- ernment operation, and that since AUSTIN, Dec. 13—A prospect of 400 retail workers who are on ceptable to the people of Texas." 1945 Webb County had had fourteen new taxes or redruced state activi- strike. `Psychological' On Dec. 4, the local CIO union ties is indicated by comments of You ask a middle-aged woman was recorded by the federal gov- Governor Shivers at his press con- picketing the Goodhue Hotel what Only 17 Speed Finders ernment as "in complete compliance Vets' Land Inquiry ference last week. she's striking for and she says: with legal requirements." DPO was While the State's general revenue "Well, we want recognition first, In Use, Garrison Says dissolved early in the year and its fund will probably contain a slight and then a little bit more pay, you membership and officers entered May Take 3 Months, balance at the end of the current know." AUSTIN, Dec. 13—Many thou- the CIO retail workers' union. fiscal biennium, Shivers said, auto- A 20-year-old Port Arthur girl, sands of motorists driving around In Austin, Shepperd told The matic drains on state revenue are Nada Jean Rogers, pauses in her the state have of late been startled Texas Observer that he thinks "CIO Geppert Declares increasing. The Governor specifi- pacing to and fro in front of Wool- —perhaps even startled into cau- was sold a bill of goods by DPO- tion—by large signs on the sides of AUSTIN, Dec. 13—The three- cally mentioned expenditures on worth's on the main Port Arthur WA." the roads reading: agency investigation of the veter- the foundation school program, stem to tell you that before the "I showed them that they (DPO) welfare, and farm to market roads. ans' land dispute may take another strike started nobody made over SPEED LIMIT hadn't cleaned up, but they had "three months or more," W. V. Gep- With school population increas- $30 a week, and "the average was RADAR ENFORCED their neck out so far they had to pert, head of the taxation division ing, he said, the State may reach a about $25." What do these signs mean? How go on," Shepperd said. and director of the probe in the At- point in a few years when "general At first it seems a puzzle why a are the limits being enforced by "Settlement of any strike is good revenue will be nil." He did not say torney General's office, says here. strike involving only 19 of the more radar? for the State," Shepperd said, "but whether he will recommends new Asked if the situation looked seri- than a thousand Port Arthur retail Colonel Homer Garrison, director that applies particularly to tb,is one. taxes to the Legislature in January. ous, Mr. Geppert said' "It looks that establishments, only one out of of the Department of Public Safety, It would be very helpful to the Shivers also said he thought the way at the present time." It is a every hundred Port Arthur work- told The Texas Observer: industrial peace and tranquility of Insurance Commission should be very complex situation, he said. ers, and only one out of a thousand "Frankly, it's a psychological the State, and it would be helpful given roughly the same powers as A report will be ready for the of the State's 450,000 retail work- thing." to labor's standing with th people those of the Banking Commission, press toward the end of this week, ers has caused such statewide bit- Only seventeen radar speed- of Texas." which has more regulatory author- terness and emotion. and it will take up the issue of measuring machines are now in use Asked if a rcpresentative of the ity than the Insurance Commission. legislative investigation, he said. Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 4) Attorney Genera l's Department "No outside investigators have would attend a management-labor ben called in, nor will they be," WATCHES MOTIVES OF GROUPS conciliation session were one ar- Geppert said. "There has been some ranged in Port Arthur, Shepperd talk about it, but we decided said that he would have to "cross against it." that bridge when we come to it." "At least a dozen" investigators Texas Security Chief Warns of False Charges "It would have to be the bona for the State are in the field, Gep- fide leaders of both sides," he said. pert said, including five from the AUSTIN, Dec. 13—Texas security macy and tact, and flair for the "Keep in mind we are working The strike is not a "test case," Attorney General's office. The in- investigators have to be "particu- academic." He said that since secur- with other agencies and not only Shepperd believes, but is merely a vestigation is being conducted by larly sensitive to the presumed • al- ity work involves • "philosophies, filing cases against people.
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