The Detroit Tribune

More of the Devil in Labor-
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of a local meeting; we also were not allowed a strike
vote; in fact, we were told there would be no vote to go
back to work and that was against the wishes of Mr.
Matthew Smith, national financial secretary of the MESA.
This union dictator has run our local with an IRON
FIST, employing the help of two organizers, one an
EX-CONVICT: the other SUSPECTED by members of being
a COMMUNIST. Mr. Smith has been in this country
for more than 25 years and as yet has not even taken out
his citizenship papers; yet this alien has complete power
over the rights of 2,200 employees to earn an honest living.
I believe it is time the government, in fairness of both
company and employees, forced unions to live up to their
contracts. We have lost 5 1/2 months work during the last
14 months due to strikes.
Instead of investigating the Square D strike, they
should investigate the MESA strike at Nash-Kelvinator.
Nash-Kelvinator Employee.

The foregoing strike was settled October 6 . . ..

"Radio Drops Beer Ads"—
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Charles L. Harris, vice-president and general man-
ager, said, "We had been thinking of it for some time. We
carry quite a lot of religion on our station, and it was just
not consistent to carry beer or wine advertising. When
the Baptists came along and sponsored our afternoon base-
ball, we just decided to drop alcoholic advertising alto-
gether."

Hewit Slack, who handles publicity and promotion
for the Long Run Association of Baptists, said the move
makes the station the second major-network affiliate in
the country to drop beer commercials. The association has
a five-year option on the program.

The arrangement this summer replaced the previous
beer commercials with plugs for churchgoing and living
Christian lives. Baseball fans were taken aback at first
by hearing an announcer talking about the power of
prayer instead of the lightness and dryness of a certain
brew. But shortly after Baptist sponsorship began, the
station and the association began to get mail from all over
the country applauding the idea.

And the Baptists got their message on the air with-
out cost, according to the Rev. Ben Mitchell, superinten-
dent of missions. This was done by reselling the six games
a week to "unobjectionable" sponsors-an automobile
dealer, a house builder, and a title company.