European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes sunday december 14,1986 William f. Buckley Heston under fire for supporting right to work another former president of the screen actors Guild is in trouble though not for sending Aid to the contras in Nicaragua. Charlton Huston s crime was 10 endorse a referendum held in Idaho in november. The Issue our old Friend the right to work Issue. I say our old Friend because after the elections of 958, when right to work was killed in five out of six contests it was widely thought that the idea was dying from Lack of support rather like school prayer but then Little by Little the situation began to Lurn around one stale yesterday a second stale today so that when the Idaho referendum came up the question before the country was whether a 11 St state would have right to work. Public sentiment for such a Law Crystal Lii cd Over an event in 1982. At that time a Silver mine in Idaho called Bunker Hill was Boul to close lie Price of Silver had made it a sub marginal operation. The entrepreneurs turned to their miners and said to them would Vou agree to a wage Cul because if you do we will keep the mine open. There was a Vole. The local voted overwhelmingly yes they would agree to the wage Cul. But Union regulations required that the local so licit the consent of the Al Cio. And the verdict of Headquarters no. So two things happened the Bunker Hill Silver mine closed putting 2,000 people Oul of work and the legislature in Idaho passed a right to work Law. Such a Law permitted those who elected to Settle for the lesser wage to continue to work. The Law was slated for a vote by referendum in november and heavy forces came into play. Jim Fain perhaps the heaviest of these was the statement by Jim Kerns president of the Idaho Al Cio who announcing his opposition to Row about two years ago spoke rather bluntly at the Idaho Al Cio convention. He said organized labor s prob lems with the legislature will continue until we have a series of serious accidents and kill a Bunch of these  a couple of Days later or. Kerns under some pressure from fraternal advisers and for All one knows amnesty International Freedom House the United nations commission on human rights and inc Fri said really he was making a joke. Thereafter one of his Brothers merely referred to the support of the Row Law by Charlton Heston As despicable and  Heston s position was All along rather simple but no All that easy to reconcile with labor Union Dogma. There was no doubting that he was a Union Man having enlisted in his career in three unions becoming president of one and founding a fourth. Bui he said he had always been guided by Samuel Gompers dictum that membership in a Union should be voluntary. In the furious polemics before the vote the authenticity of Gompers statement was challenged and Charlton Heston had to come up with in. Gompers full statement had been there May be Here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us docs not join Union of labor. This is his right no matter How morally wrong he May be. It is his Legal right and Noone can dare question his exercise of that Legal  Gompers gave a one sentence version of this on the Day he died no lasting gain has Ever come from  it in t All that hard to ferret out the authenticity of that statement since in is engraved on the base of Gompers statue in washing ton . Well things got very hoi. Attacks on Heston grew very heated. The idea arose of screen actors who arc notoriously underemployed utilizing what variety Magazine called Buckley  this traces to a lawsuit Between me and the Ameri can federation of radio and television artists that stretched out Over a period of seven years and was settled when the Union and the courts agreed that a Union can Levy charges against a worker for his share of bargaining expenses but no More. This applied in Bunker Hill would have meant that the miners would have contributed a few dollars a week to the local for its bargaining services but proceeded to work or not As they chose. That alternative is being widely considered by Many screen actors. In the tumultuous election in Idaho More healed than any in memory right to work Over whelmed the Union monopolists by 10 percent sweeping Back into the Senate Steve Symms who beat the popular and theretofore unbeaten gov John v. Evans who had twice vetoed Row Laws. Last month the screen actors Guild passed a vote of censure against Heston for so Long their popular president. Well at Leasi or. Kerns has t shot him. Kun Nivarel Prist Syndicate could underlings really keep Casey in the dark so now Cia director William Casey says he was just As much in the dark about the Contra arms Deal As was Weller. His Boss president Reagan. No matter that the Cia was airlifting weapons to Iran and funnelling the loot through its Swiss Bank accounts. Themos hands on Cia chief since Allen Dulles was blindfolded by his underlings. A Man who devoted six years to reviving the Agency s Covert action division was kept totally in the dark about arms sup ply to a War he had largely  first he knew he told a House committee was when an old client called to say some canadians who had put up front Money for the Deal had l been paid and were going to file a suit that would blow the cover. If you can believe thai Sania will fill your blocking with the horse manure Reagan likes to cite As evidence of a Pony Bui it s not the Central Issue. We focus too much on who knew what at Given moment. Quite aside from All those Rube Goldberg machinations to enrich arms dealers and Siphon a few hand grenades to Honduras whal s Al ready Public about this whole mess is Damn ing  Early sold Reagan on Covert operations As the Ideal Way to run foreign policy. With them you avoid the demo cratic inconveniences of Public debate and having to Deal with Congress. Mean while he hired 2,000 people to beef up the Agency s dirty tricks  every major foreign Milia not since has been handled under the table. Aid for afghan and angolan rebels for cambodians fighting the vietnamese and for the nicaraguan contras. None is really secret. They re too big to hide. But they go through Clandestine channels so there s no Public  Cia professionals Are aghast. They know who ultimately will Lake the lumps. Two deputies resigned in Succes Sion adm. Bobby Inman and John Mcmahon. Bolh reputedly had opposed Large scale Covert operations that were Likely to become Public. Bui Casey is an old Oss spy master from world War ii he likes the James Bond approach. Tkins we arise time to tinier to is in control so does his fellow romantic in the while House. Together they lived the dream. When they got to Iran and Reagan became obsessed with trying to free the hostages they overlooked one key fact they were cooking up a policy thai the american people wanted no part  is no constituency for arming the Ayatollah and very link for ran soming Houges. Reagan is such a charming old proof that he had us Prelly Well zippered by then. We d forgive him almost anything. Bui part of his Charm was the impression he gave of honestly. Maybe he was a lad indifferent to what Day it was and care less about minding he store but Al least he was up front. He d told us Over and Over he would t Deal with terrorists that ran soming hostages was a bad thing. When it turned Oul he was lying that was hard to take la also left us with egg on our face throughout the world especially with Egypt and Jordan who had blood by us in the Middle  Contra Deal is important mainly for the contempt it revealed Loward the Law and constitutional process but iraqis where Ronald Reagan betrayed the people who trusted him most. If he and Casey want to pin the Contra scam on underlings to be it. They re simply saying thai on matters possibly criminal they d rather be teen As fools than knaves. In Iran they were both. Pc coi  Borvch