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Volume 2, Number 162 20 pfg„ 20 gr„ 3 fr* I d Wednesday, June 12, 1946 President Vetoes Anti-Strike Bill Jackson Says Black 'Bullied9 Court Says Decree Would Force Cites Black9s kFeud9Shocks Men to Work Role in Coal Capital; iVew WASHINGTON, June 11 (AP) —President Truman vetoed the Dispute Decision Case Labor Disputes Bill today because he said it would compel By IRVING DILLIARD WASHINGTON, June 11 (AP) men to work for private em- Staff Writer —The nation's capital was ployers in a peacetime democ- NURNBERG, June 11—In a shocked today by the disclosure racy. public statement to Congress, of of a dispute between two jus- In a message to Congress an- a character without precedent in tices of the Supreme Court— nouncing his veto of the contro- the U. S. Supreme Court's his- Justice Robert H. Jackson, versial measure, the President tory, Justice Robert H. Jackson American chief prosecutor at the Nurnberg trial, and Justice Hugo L. said that "strikes against private em- has brought the so-called "feud" Black. ployers cannot be ended by legis- on the high tribunal into the open Meanwhile the court upheld con- lative decree. Men cannot be forced with an amazingly frank attack on viction of three major tobacco in a democracy to work for a private the "judicial judgment" of one of companies on charges of violating employer under compulsion." his colleagues, Justice Hugo L. Black, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. President Truman coupled the veto The case involved the R. J. Rey- senior member of the court. nolds Tobacco Co., Liggett and with a renewed plea for his own After releasing his criticism of Myers Tobacco Co., and the Amer- emergency strike control plan for Black in a six-page typewritten ican Tobacco Co. They were fired Congressional study of the whole statement late last night, Jackson, a total of $255,000 in the U. S. field of labor relations and for enact- who is chief U. S. Prosecutor at the District Court in Lexington, Ky., ment of his long stalemated domestic International Military Tribunal, left and the Sixth Federal Circuit Court legislative program. The measure his office today on a trip to Oslo upheld the conviction. and Stockholm, which had been now comes up for review in Congress Hugo L. Black Justice Harold H. Burton delivered planned for some time. Robert H. Jackson the 6-0 decision. Justices Stanley which must, repass the bill with a Jackson's statement, which con- . Conduct Under Fire .. Letter Shocks Capital F. Reed and Jackson did not two-thirds majority to over-ride the tained such bare-handed terms as participate. Presidential veto. "bullying" (referring to Black), the Supreme Court, Jackson said sponsible committees of Congress Burton said the companies "have Explains Decision "declaration of war" (quoting Black) that he was making his statement are entitled to the facts." been found to have conspired to because "it is important that the Jackson's statement opened the The President said he tried to and "the weapons of the open establish a monopoly and also to reach his decision objectively "free warrior, not those of the stealthy magnitude and nature of the task closed door of the justices' unpub- have power and intent to establish which faces him shall not be licized conference, at which cases are from emotional strains of the times assassin" (Jackson's own words), and maintain a monopoly. To hold and free from every consideration was issued just four days after minimized." threshed out, and allowed the public that they do not come within the Two other purposes in issuing the to have a look at their supreme except the welfare of our nation President Truman nominated Secre- prohibition of the Sherman Act and of the world which is so tary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson statement, Jackson said, were "that judicial officers when tempers were would destroy the act's force." the attacks upon me- during my running high. dependent upon our recovery to a to be the 13th Chief Justice of the The Department of Justice full peacetime economy. United States. absence cannot in fairness to my He waited until a successor to the contended that its case against the future work on the Court be left late Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone "I have not considered it from a Describing Vinson as "upright, companies showed there was standpoint of whether it favors or fearless and well qualified" to head unanswered" and "that the re- (Continued on Page 8) exclusion of competitors. harms management." Using dispassionate language, the Chief Executive conceded Congress passed the bill "in sincere belief it Tojo Will Assume would remedy certain existing con- Gouin, French Cabinet Resign ditions which cause labor strife and Responsibility for produce domestic turmoil." But, he added, "I cannot agree" with that War, Lawyer Says view. Step Will Permit He called the bill a "false start" Straight Air Lanes Granted TOKYO, June 11 (AP)—Gen. Hideki on permanent legislation and said it New Government Tojo's lawyer said today that the (Continued on Page S) j former premier would assume full _ Under MRP For U.S. Planes in Red Zone responsibility for starting the Pacific VIENNA, June 11 (AP)—Gen. Mark war when he comes before the Al- W. Clark, commander of U. S. forces lied Military Tribunal. Revision Seen PARIS, June 11 (AP)—Socialist He added that Tojo would argue President Felix Gouin today ten- in Austria, reported to the joint Late Bulletins chiefs of staff in Washington today that international custom gives dered his resignation, along with his Emperor Hirohito immunity, since n,o In Army Rules cabinet, in a constitutional step that Russian authorities have agreed WASHINGTON, June 11 (AP)— to the establishment of straight air sovereign in history has ever been WASHINGTON, June 11 (UP)— designed to pave the way for the James F. Byrnes, Secretary of indicted. lanes over Soviet-controlled territory Changes in Army regulations, based formation of a new government as State, said today that the United The attorney said Tojo and 25 upon findings in Lt. Gen. James S. the new Constituent Assembly met between Vienna, Linz, Budapest and States is preparing to discuss with others who will be tried with him, Doolittle's committee report on the for the first time. Prague, eliminating some of the fly- Great Britain what military forces would contend they were exempt so-called caste system, will be an- "The resigning government will ing difficulties which resulted in the America might make available to from that portion of the Potsdam nounced soon by Robert P. Patter- assure, according to custom, the buzzing of American planes by Rus- maintain order in Palestine during declaration against those who misled son, Secretary of War. reliables handling of current affairs," Gouin sian fighter pilots. the increased Jewish immigration. their people into embarking "on a sources said here today. The Russians still have not granted world conquest." said in his letter to Communist (Byrnes also told the press today Patterson has been studying Doo- freedom to the air requested by "Tojo always has said the war was little's recommendations for rem- Deputy Marcel Cachin, 76, who by American authorities and flights over another failure at Paris would one of defense and not one of con- edying abuses resulting from the virtue of being the oldest legis- Soviet territory must be made within mean a defeat for mankind, the quest," the attorney explained. "Of Army structure since last May 20. lator presided over the new legis- narrow prescribed lanes. In flying United Press reported.) course, the Japanese government has He was said to have considered lature's first session. from Vienna to Berlin it is still * * * acknowledged that it was an aggres- most of the committee's suggestions Meantime, the MRP Party pledged necessary to fly via Frankfurt and sive war. The opinion of the defense as sound and to have agreed that itself today to a policy of limited the flight to Belgrade is equally WASHINGTON, June 11 (INS)— is different from that of the govern- there were inadequacies in the wage increases for French workers circuitous. The House passed today and sent ment." Army system which could be if its candidate for president of the Clark reported that the new to the Senate a bill granting ter- remedied. new government, Foreign Minister straight line routes granted by the Patterson has emphasized that he Russians would "greatly facilitate air minal leave pay for some 15,000,000 Woman Killed Where King Died will not take any action that would Georges Bidault, is elected. communications." servicemen of World War II. LONDON, June 11 (AP) —A lead to a breakdown of Army dis- The party's parliamentary group Clark in his monthly report also The measure, estimated to cost woman walking in Whitehall with cipline, or would threaten it. today endorsed Bidault's candidacy, cited the reduction in occupation $3,000,000,000 would grant terminal her two children last night was which was voted last night by the costs for the Austrian government as pay at the rate of two and one killed by a falling piece of roof party's directorate. one of the significant accomplish- half days pay for each month ser- coping on the spot where Charles France Gets Europa To assure each Frenchmen "a ments.