LABOR: Against Boundless Audacity

Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who is getting to be an old hand at dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps against both labor & management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down in his...

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