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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1938
STRIFE INSIDE THE C. L. O. - T AST January Benjamin Stolberg, a radical journalist, wrote a series of articles about the C. I. O. The articles, published in this newspaper, reviewed the C. IL Os . phenomenal rise, production industries, L. Lewis, David Dubinsky, Sidney Hillman, and other C. I. O. top men. : i ; C. I. 0.’s program of industrial unionism was described by Mr. Stolberg as “simple, progressive, historically inevitable.” But, he reported, factionalism was developing in the C. I. O., due “to the tactics of the Communist ‘party line,’ rigidly followed by its members and its sympathizers .-.: The Communists . . . have no program behind the wish to rule or ruin. It is a completely undemocratic, de- - vious, totalitarian and Machiavellian strategy, directed from afar, for reasons which have nothing to do with American
paid tribute to the leadership of John Phillip Murray
labor. The Stalinist bureaucracy wants to ‘control the
international foreign policy. The C. 1..0. is ‘in constant danger of disruption from this influence.” : For his pains in reporting C. I. O.s developments and warning of dangers ahead, Mr. Stolberg was called a “Redbaiter,” a “Trotskyist,” and other such nice names—not, to be sure, by any of C.1. O.’s responsible leaders, but by some of the second-notcher, self-appointed C. IL 0. spokesmen. » ® 8 . » 2 ».
(CURRENT news dispatches from the automobile region and from the Pacific Coast indicate that Mr. Stolberg knew what he was writing about. Troubles that were simmering when Mr. Stolberg was writing have now come to a boil. . The executive board of the United Automobile Workers bas just expelled three officers and suspended a fourth, on ‘charges of conspiring to disrupt the union “by dealing with Communists.” ~The four men thus disciplined have announced they will carry their fight to the union’s rank and file, which means that a bitter factional battle will be fought out just at a time when the automobile companies are scheduling ~ production of new models and when thousands of long-idle _ union workers are looking forward to getting back onto -- assembly lines and payrolls. : Th And on the Pacific Coast—another place where Mr. © Stolberg foretold troubles to come—four powerful C. I. O. unions (auto, rubber, garment and shoe workers) in the
Los Angeles district, have seceded from the Harry Bridges’
C. L O. industrial union council. Their principal charges are of alleged communistic sideline activities. aid 2 : 2 8 = 2 iwi
EGARDLESS of the truth, or lack thereof, in the va-
rious charges—and we are not here trying to pass on
the merits—these controversies bring into the open once more the fundamental question of why ‘labor unions are ~ organized. : The purpose of labor unionism is to improve the wages and hours and working conditions of the workers who join "the unions and pay the dues. And when the leaders of labor unions get all lathered up over a united front in Spain . or collective action with Russia against Japan, when the . “progressive” faction struggles: with the “unity” faction, when the leaders start calling each other “Stalinites” and “Trotskyites” and “Lovestoneites” — well, when those _ things are happening, the leaders of labor: don’t have much "time or energy left to do much in the way of improving the wages, hours and working conditions of the men who pay dues. 3 Cin The secessionists in Los Angeles made one statement ~ well worth repeating: ~~. ~- . ; : “We believe that any one has a right to be a. Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but in the trade union movement they must give their first loyalty to their unions and not attempt to use the unions to further the end of any political party.” ; : That may not be good grammar, but it is sound union _ doctrine.
© SALESMAN JOHN - rT HERE’S been a good deal of discussion about.what sort : of jobs are suitable for the sons of Presidents. Young men in their position must find it difficult to choose fields in which they'll get credit for succeeding “on their own.”
Two young Roosevelts have had experiences that
weren't altogether happy in this respect. James, in insurance has found people saying that the - desire of important clients to stand well with the President helped him make big sales. Elliott, in radio—regulated by ~~ the Government which his father heads—has come in for + similar comment. : * Now John is said to be going to work in the Filene de- ~:, partment store at Boston, starting “at the bottom.” We don’t. know what “at the bottom” will mean. No + doubt, there will be many who'll want to buy from him, so
they can. say they’ve been waited on by the President's
. son. John can’t help that. But nobody can suspect him of © selling his influence with his dad. And, in the long run, he'll : have a chance to go ahead on his own merits. x We congratulate John Roosevelt. He should do well in © the department store business. The Roosevelts know how to make sales, whether it’s a New Deal or a new dress.
: INTERPRET THESE ee MAYBE what this country needs is a good soothsayer. At any rate, in one day’s batch of newspaper exchanges we found mention of the following strange occur_rences, which the ancients doubtless would have regarded
: “gs portents:
L. R. Russell, fishing oft: Miami, Fla., caught’ 12:pound
_ / grouper and found in its mouth a shell on which the Lord’s Prayer had been engraved. A steam shovel working in a
heap of coal mine refuse at Mount Carmel, Pa. with the
temperature in the middle 90s, dug up a huge deposit of ice.
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its spectacular success in organizing mass-
he owned or tell when to sell his stocks.
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‘By Raymond Clapper
La Follette: Builds Spectacular ; Eo Chronicle of Violence, Spying and | Thuggery Brought by Unionization. |
ASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—It has come to be expected that the famous sons of famous crusad=.
ing fathers prefer to get rich by selling life insurance | |
on the side, but there's one around Washington who |{ =
hasn't. He is Senator Bob.La Follette.
Not since the late Senator Tom Walsh laboriousty {| =.
blasted out the Teapot Dome ofl scandal has thers been such a persistent, hard-digging job of Senatorial
investigating as is being done by La Follette the |}.
younger, who is piecing together the facts of that in-
. dustriai underworld warfare which has accom SE last few years. |
the attempt to unionize industry in the For two years, through untiring investigation, which doesn’t let up even during the sticky summer heat of Washington, La Follette has been cramming facts and testimony into a record that is assuming the monumental proportions of a five-foot ‘shelf, He is contructing a spectacular chronicle .of prolonged guerrilla warfare, expensive labor spying hiring of community leader:
lecturer. : ® 2 »
T= significance of Bob La Follette’s disclosures is
that they show the back side of those noble addresses about saving the American ‘system from Roosevelt which mighty industrialists like to deliver to conventions of manufacturers. They also show that some industrialists didn't entirely trust their lawyers to save them from the Wagner Act in the Supreme Court and the NLRB, but proceeded to take. more practical and more direct measures. La Follette’s latest disclosure concerns the famous gun pictures published nationally after the Youngstown strike a year ago.. I happened to be attending & Sendte investigation a year ago when Tom Girdler of Republic Steel, handed to the astonished Senators these photographs of guns, clubs and bombs, all de-
‘scribed and attested to as genuine, so the caption said,
by the Police Chief of Youngstown. La Follette has now dug out the photographer’s bills proving that the photographs were ordered and paid for by steel company press agents. ’
s 8 s . UCH of the photographed stuff was alleged to have been seized in the home of a Russell Gibboney, a C. I. O. strike picket. La Follette put Gib-
boney on the stand and it developed that he had |- in his house. He was a member of the American |
guns ' Rifle Association, the American Legion and the Civillans Gun Club of Struthers, O,, and his hobby was hunting and shooting. One picture showed a box of “dynamite bombs”
described as having been taken from Gibboney’s home.
La Follette produced another witness who testified that the bombs were found in his own home. Youngstown police called in a fireworks expert and the bombs were found to be not dynamite, but sulphur smoke bombs. ae « It recalls the propaganda story brought back by Oswald Schuette, when a war correspondent. Ger-. mans occupying Belgium distributed a propaganda picture of a German soldier holding & smiling Belgian child on his knee. Frénch propaganda officers redistributed it with this caption attached: “The child doesn’t know this German killed its mother.”
Business By John T. Flynn
Little Gained by Enormous. Fees . Paid Investment Trust Managers.
EW YORK, Aug. 10.—In an era of high prices there was no commodity which sold at a higher price than brass. And no brass which sold at ‘more exorbitant levels than the brass of those gentiemen who sold themselves to the country as the managers of investment trusts. In the first section of the voluminous and able report of the Securities and Exchange Commission on its study of investment trusts, this fact stands out in the figures. : : : Some 10 years ago when the management investment trusts were flourishing like the green bay tree’ 1 called attention to the exorbitant fees which the managers were collecting tor their management. At that time I pointed out that over a period of six years in 48 British investment management trusts the cost of menagement was around one-half of one per cent. In this country all sorts of fees were ‘greatly in excess of that. : But now the SEC, after an exhaustive examination of all the facts, reports that in the 10-year period from 1927 to 1936 the operating expenses of the trusts absorbed 20 per cent of the ordinary income And in this .period the salaries taken by the managers was $19,000,000. :
Investors Could Do as Well
What was all this money paid for? When I made my. criticism in 1829 the reply was that these fees were for the very special and very scarce kind
.of talent which is necessary to manage a trust or
investments of ‘any kind. Indeed this was the basis on which investment trusts were sold to the public. The average investor was told that he did not know how to manage his funds, that he did not know hew to select stocks or watch the companies whose’ stocks He needed men with brains, experience, facilities for knowing these things. And it was for these brains that the investors paid all this money. : Yet the report shows that the assets of the in-
.vestment trusts reached a high fn the fall of 1929 of |
eight billion dollars. two billion. ‘ Only last year the holdings of the investment trusts declined a billion and a half in value or 35 per cent. i : It does not, of course, take much brains to achieve a result like that for investors. The investor could close his eyes, take a pin and stick it at random in the stock column of the papers 10 times and then buy the 10 stocks thus selected and do as well as he did through the men to whom he paid over eight billion dollars to manage for him. : 2
But by 1932 ‘they had fallen to
‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson © uy
. HAT this world needs is more streamlined grandmothers,” shouts a headline. Well, it’s’ getting ’em. i
They've even organized a club in Chicago whieh | / plans to establish a National Grandmother's Day for |
, subsidizing ‘of officials, | § © ~~ B local bigwigs and of at least one labor columnist and |.
” y rE Copyright. 1938, NEA
The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLANNING FAVORED By E. J. Unruh. hen -
Edward Barker well confirmed in the Forum eélumin on Aug. 5 the gocepted fact-among informed peo-
ple that the economic and social re- | lations of man are capable of cor-
rection and regulation. The first requirement is the common will to’ do so under conditions which allow the necessary technique. The voice of the public is unani-
~ (Times readers are invited to express their views in’ ~ these columns, religious céntroversies excluded. Make your letter short, so .all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be: - withheld on request.) :
challenge of the loss of any inalien-
mously favorable to the improvement of economic and social conditions. However, I seriously doubt the existence of even a majority opinion favoring acceptance of certain imperative changes in _,the economic and political policies. There are. virtually only twe courses of pracédure for the permanent improvement and stabilization of the economic and social life of the country, viz, (1) the alternative of private initiative through | co-operation of industry, commefce,
able personal freedom if Government planning were accepted. In a democracy (government by. intelligent mass will) no right or personal freedom exists for individual gain at the expense of the national well-being, but were such allowed the - transgressor certainly would later find to himself the loss. Permanent economic’ and ‘social
therefore,
statesmanship. ‘This requires ex-
progress in the United States is, possible through mass
tensive public education which “is,
' | a change in the basic practice which in the past, under a free economy |
with a democratic theory of government, was. anarchistic in spots. ow. ANSWERS SOUGHT TO ECONOMIC QUESTIONS ; By T. W. Yeager : I wish some great economic student would answer these questions:
1. Way, with $13,024,000,000 in gold surplus, do we issue interest bearing bonds of indebtedness to the capitalists for currency? -
2. Why don’t we issue currency instead of bonds?
3. Why, if we did issue currency any more inflation than the cux-
the bonds?
out to the public this currency, as it. has repeatedly been proven that
this dole of currency we are thrown
| fect if this hew trumpet call were {| won't be. Eg
‘Senator for his pet candidate for
“of ‘our coolest, clearest,
tal forms, would it be
instead of bonds, would it create oo
rency we get from the capitalist for
4, Why do we continue te dole
as soon as the capitalist gathers in |
agriculture snd labor which obviates ' their; organization for the common purpose, and (2) the alternative of Government initiative which means economic planning and regulation. ©. . . Up to the 1930s private initiative reigned our “economic order, except in a few instances such as interstate commerce and the granting and enforcing of monopolistic prac-
circumstances. The hungry stomach
sult from personal abuse. of office
sdcial recovery and stabilization lies in national economic planning. This
however, impossible for the want of
time owing to human weakness and back into a. capitalistic depression
interest bearing bonds of indehtedness against the people? 5. How ‘long cah the producing population stand it? - These ara the questions that must
will hot wait. wom Notwithstanding :all the existing: evils of politics, most of which: re-
within the ranks of public service, America’s best bet for economic and béfore November, 1940. :
and they force the issue of more |
be answered by our political parties.
tices in our international trade. The frend is in progress although its
development of an international economic dilemma resulting from war and postwar ‘economic maladjustments within nations presents us with a domestic problem which, in my opinion, will‘ not be solved
through. private initiative, although | it is capable of solution were it the |
common will to accept certain imperative changes in structure and policy in our economic life. The latter possibility is wrecked immediately by certain individuals whose ambitions for personal gains are pressed rather than thdse of the national economy. Under a free economy the: evil mentioned above will simply not be eliminated because there: will always be people who, rather than sharing, shift upon the weaker social losses and hardships. aa vd Has International Aspects
' Because improvement of our economic life “involves national and international economic reconstruction for co-operation, I see economic planning and regulation by the
‘Government as the only possibility.
Were it nof: for political abuses in
Government administration, it is |
likely that public opinion could be quickly mobilized to accept this alternative. And there is no inherent
slowness results from the lack of
unanimity of public will and the difficulty of changing the machinery
f our economic structure; this not only needed overhauling anyway but
OUR BOY By DOROTHY BUERGER
High-water marks besmear his neck;
Fair and touseled is his hair; His hands are always dusky-like, But our Sonny doesn’t care!
The little shack he ‘call his club Is dirty, gloomy, bare, Yet he prefers this private den To home and modern fare.
But—just go or Son, as you -are— Happy and young and so gay!
Against that time, dear, all too soon,
When life steals youth away!
DAILY THOUGHT
If they obey and serve him,
they . shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in ‘pleasures.—Job 36:11,
E are born subjects, and to ¥- obey God is perfect ‘liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe,
and happy —Seneca.
ATTACKS PUBLICITY GIVEN M’NUTT’S LOOKS By a Woman Voter : aad - It is becoming tiresome to read continually boosts for Paul V. Mc-~ Nutt in which his good looks always ‘| are regarded as an asset. One begins to suspect that Paul V. and his backers intend to snare the feminine vote solely on account of those good looks. on From my point of view and that of several women I know, a8 man’s looks are no qualification for public office—especially for the Presidency. True, they often help, but we once voted for “what a President ought to look like” and were so sadly fooled we’ll never forget it. Most of us, I believe, are now quite content to reserve our adulation for male handsomeness for the movie heroes. Other qualifications are much too important in men engaged in the -serious business of life. Publicity writers who wish to do Mr. McNutt- a favor, therefore,
his handsomeness as an asset. And while I don’t wish to seem mean about it, I'd like to add that if Paul V. wants to capitalize on his looks. he would do better to join = the
movies.
the first Sunday in October. Won't that be some--Ji: g
thing? 1 hy
You can bet your life, too;" ‘that its members aren’ |
going to occupy themselves with any old-fashioned sit-in-the-chimney-corner affafts. An outline of the organization purpose proves that. First and foremost, it intends to Glorify Grandma. The nation is to be made. grandmother conscious.
After that the women will work to perpetuate the |. us
peace and liberty of their grandchildren, to improve |
radio programs, clean up thé:movies, promote better literature for juveniles, encourage ° ati facilities, study children’s diseases—but, Grandma!—not so fast. sized bunch of work on your hands. i Seriously, when a woman reaches the grandmother stage of life, she should become interested and active in § Sif saris x Suis de affairs. If she doesn’t, it’s a § g that she won't be streamlined for long. And, yet—and yet—sometim l Por Ey ed face of
‘my own grandmother to whom streamlining was unknown. How softly her eyes smiled at me from behind her spectacles! Her lap was my refuge, and the lullabys she sang still carry their soothing memories. Like velvet were her hands when they touched me, which often seemed strange since they were gnarled
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J LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND embed _By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM— A ARE rEOPLE PRONE = RS WHAT THEY CANT é£12 a
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DOES th 3 Ee MENT gn?
Your OPINION |
AN- ‘ MENT IS BETTER EN BETTER : GOVERNMENT." YOUR COINION —
ends all beli
; culties and
ttle immortality
ALL OWING to how much *in-
they haven’t, it weakens them. ' Dr. | studied the boyhood traits of 301
1 | celebrated geniuses and found this
was ore trait that marked them all «they came out strong under diffi-
‘and break them. 0% * & ® . 4 I PRESUME Lincoln meant selfgovernment, even if poor, is better than good government which | is imposed by somebody else. I think it is chie cause it is educational and transforms men from puppets into self-diresting, free beings. ‘When people prefer—as it seems the German “and Italian peoples prefer—to have a dictator tell them. whether to dig a sewer or build a school house—or not build
would (do better to omit harps on
| Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein heer &t ‘teetinal fortitude”; they have. If | | they -have plenty of this, responsi- | bility rouses their powers; but gi
point of view of health. Catherine Cox, ‘Yale -psychologist,|
es. This is |
will usually keep
flies, and garbage should be ‘manner as to keep th atmosphere
- Clean containers should be used ceivable they may get | of
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Felix Frankfurter Is Exceedingly Able and Has a Clever Mind, but Should He Be Taken From Harvard?
BrIany BEACH, Del, Aug. 10.—United Press says that Senator Norris has urged the President to appoint Prof. Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in the vacancy left by Mr. Justice Cardozo. “Urged” is a meager word for the language quoted in
‘the dispatch. The President's chance to tiame the
professor to our highest court, the Senator calls, “an
«opportunity to perform one of the greatest services
ever performed for the American. people—an opportunity that seldom comes. more than once in a life time.” : : rr These be tall words. They could well be spoken of nobody less than a Daniel come to judgment—some towering luminous national figure astride our world ‘like & colossus. Such i8 not Prof. Felix. So we look to the text for further light. “There is no man now in the public eye who so fully and truly represents the
| philosophy of government of Justice Holmes and his
sticcessor, Justice Cardozo, as does Frankfurter. He was the confidential friend and adviser of these two great justices. He has always been the admirer and partisan of these two great men.” : 2. 8 ¥
LL that is certainly to the credit of the professor, But there ere few if any | lawyers—especially
- young lawyers—who do not idolize both of those dis-
tinguished jurists. | This Norris demand-—for it is scarcely less—is sige nificant. The President wears radical Nebraska Senator on his breast as a symbol of “liberalism.” Saying that he ought to be “Senator for life” was the equivalent of an oath of fealty to what Mr. Norris stands for—and very valuable in igning - the radical wings of all parties. 16 would seriously mar that efored. It probably
Of the propriety of this kind of publicity by .a high court perbetter. nator Norris is a an object of adoration to all in the third New :Deal—and to many who are not radical at all. Therein lies the catch in this whole situation—so also is Prof. Frankfurter an idol of the extremists. He is more than that. He is their tie-in with both the executive departments and the courts. :
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haps the less said the venerable veteran and the radical extremists
I" is not easy to write on this subject. Frankfurter is
‘as learned in the law as any man in this coun‘try. He is exceedingly brilliant and able. He has one cleverest minds. But it is fair to doubt whether it is a judicial mind. If it is, it is a miracle because as a political courtier, Mr. Frankfurter is certainly one of the most astute and subtle influences that ever worked behind the scenes in this or any other time or “place. Does anybody ever possess both a judicial mind and that capacity? . He has had his finger continuously on the pulse of the New Deal's very life. At times he has exerted a greater influence on it than any man but the President. 1 > ; The professor is a genius—a regular Richelieu— but in this present sweeping away of old Governmene e “one of the greatest services ever performed for the American people” to take him away from Harvard? an
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun Frankfurter Critics Should Come Into the Open With Their Attacks.
EW YORK, Aug. 10.-—Senator Norris makes an excellent suggestion in urging the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. As the grand old gentleman from Nebraska says, Frankfurter is the logical man to carry on the tradition of Holmes and Cardozo. : . . It is entirely possible that.a sharp fight might be .waged in the Senate against the confirmation of the Harvard -professor. But ‘that is all the more reason
for sending in his name. At times the Supreme Court
has seemed to drift away froin democratic processes.
In part, that fault may have been conditioned by the fact that, unlike the other two co-ordinate branches of our Government, the Courf was held to be above criticism by press and public, Ede In the case of Frankfurter he can well afford: to
face a rock barrage. - Not only is he equipped by character and conduct to ward off the missiles, but he has had a lot of practice. Is Re . Frankfurter has collected a complete set of enemies,
and he has every reason fo point with pride to some
_of the specimens within his album. It will be their privilege and their right to come forward, if and
when his name is offered for discussion.” Indeed, there
is no reason why such a discussion should not take
on the character of a public forum. Victim of Whispering Campaign
Felix Frankfurter las been made the victim of an extremely vicious whispering ‘campaign. It is to thie credit of America that prejudice has not prevailed in the matter of Supreme Court appointments. Indeed,
it did not raise its head in the case of Cardozo, but
the fight against Brandeis did enlist among the opposition not only religious, but social and economic an= tipathies of a disgraceful nature. It would be a misstatement if I said that I fear the same sort of thing may occur in. the case of Frankfurter, because I don’t fear it at all. It should be welcomed. Let the men in little groups who talk of Moscow gold come out of their coteries and justify their twaddle if they can, or forever hold their peace. One of the ironies which rises out of what almost amounts to a national passion for inaccuracy is the notion that Felix Frankfurter is a radical. He is.by every thought, word and deed a member of the dying Order of Bison. Like. Norris of Nebraska, here is truly a liberal. To my mind, it is a political philosophy which dwindles. Indeed, I believe it deserves to.dwindle. But one should strive to keep an open mind and admit that the liberal should have his day in court.
And I know no other American available who" can
more eloquently represent the cause than Pelix-Frank-
- MERIOANS love the outdoors, and the summer (\time sénds vast numbers of us to the fields and the woods for the relaxation that comes with a.pichic. But Dicnics also have their hazards from the
The most serious are those concerned with the preparation of the food. In summer, food will spoil
“unless it is kept under proper conditions. : Food must
be kept clean and free irom contamination and, if possible, should be kept cold until the very moment when it is to be serve ey Such products as ¢ream sauces, mayonnaise, cise tards, and similar mixtures are frequently contam-
inated in their preparation and spoil promptly if kept ture. “Cooked ucts
better than those that have not been but products may be easily contaminated. :
for very long at
. In many places picnic grounds now. provide ovens
and tables. The preparation of food means, however, a prompt assembling of flies and insects of all ve, For that reason kitchens should. be: protected against of garbage. La AIO [OF pst. contamination of with human hands. If care ke possible. to avoid such: ‘contaminations, Ha v