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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1938

: LABOR’S BALANCE SHEET ; ] ABOR DAY 1988 is in many ways a happier occasion 3 than was Labor Day 1937, although there 18 no lack of problems to try the statesmanship of labor’s leaders. A year ago the recession had just begun. Today the trend is upward. A year ago the Memorial Day massacre * at Chicago was a fresh and frightful memory; today it

’ appears, at le public opinion against antilabor coated or otherwise. A year ago the wave of sit caused the Senate and the public generally to denounce such . tactics; today we hear very little about sitdown strikes. Last year strikes of all kinds caused more than 28 million man-days of idleness. In the first five months of 1988 (later figures are not available) the loss was less than

thuggery whether bluedowns had

four million. : Within the last 10 days. one of the blackest spots in

America’s map of labor relations—Harlan County, Kentucky—has witnessed the signing of an armistice that ends . a savage era. And if the coal bourbons of Harlan can at “last read the handwriting on the wall, who can say that even Tom Girdler won't come around eventually ? ~~ A beginning has been made in the application of the . new Wage Hour Act. Unemployment insurance, under the Social Security Act, has eased the hardships of the indus- - trial slowdown. Wage-cutting has been less widespread than is usual in bad times. The temper of the public in regard to violations of civil liberties has been evidenced by the universal condemnation of Mayor Hague; one recent symp- - tom was the action of the American Bar Association in

establishing a committee to resist such infractions eof the

_ Bill of Rights, in which labor is usually the victim. Labor has made some gains in the field of party politics, though these are scattered. Certainly the American Labor Party in New York has proved its effectiveness. 8 8 8 2 8 = ON the debit side, organized labor is still racked by civil war, not only between the A. F. of L. and the C. 1. O,, but within individual unions—the bitter struggle for control ' of the United Auto. Workers, for instance. Communists “and “fellow travelers” are brewing trouble. Petty racketeering and jurisdiction strikes continue to plague em- “ ployers, even those who bargain with unions in good faith. A railroad strike is being threatened. And labor js divided - over proposals to revise the Wagner act. 4 Bleakest of all is the unemployment situation. With ~gome 10,000,000 employable persons unable to find jobs in private industry, even workers protected by strong and -peacefully functioning union agreements cannot be serene. The greatest contribution that organized workers can make _toward creating new jobs is to end dissension in their own ranks and to build up confidence on the part of those who _risk capital in starting and expanding enterprises. Most labor unions, when dealing with employers who reciprocate _ full faith, are striving in that direction. a Looking at the whole picture, it seems to us: that on this Labor Day “pointing with pride” should take precedence over “viewing with alarm.”

MORE FASCIST BARBARISM - FTALY’S expulsion from her soil of all Jews who have

entered the country since 1918 is unworthy of the civil- |

‘ization of which she claims to be a proud member. Some .10 or 15 thousand Jews, with official consent, have come to make their homes in that country since the World War. Now they have been given six months in which to clear out. : :

Where can they go? Nobody knows. Already Nazi

anti-Semitism has created a world prcblem. An international commission is desperately trying to place the victims of German injustice. Now Italy strikes another blow, thus further complicating the situation.

Are the exiles going to be allowed to convert their belongings into cash and take it out of Italy? The indications are that they will not. For, states Il Tevere in an editorial which may or may not be inspired, they “will be conducted to the frontier and they had better watch out what they take with them.” se

What a sad commentary on “civilization”!

HIS MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT LEARNED

“WE found complete agreement that the general strike (of 1926) was a salutary lesson. It is generally believed that there will be no repetition. The Government learned that drastic economic changes in policy should not be undertaken without the fullest consultation with both labor and employer organizations. Such consultation had been general throughout the war, and we were in- ~ formed that today, before: legislative or administrative action is taken that may affect labor, its continuity of employment, its wages, hours, cost of living, or working conditions, the views of labor and employers alike are invari-

‘ably sought. This Governmental recognition and utiliza-

tion of the services of these organizations is thought to have played a part in enhancing their public standing and increasing their sense of public obligation and the breadth of their viewpoint.”—From the report of the President’s Committee on Industrial Relations :in Great Britain.

ALLITERATION : “Thirty dollars every Thursday.” “Forty dollars every Friday.” “Sixty dollars every Saturday.” ~ « “Seventy dollars every Sunday.” “Million dollars on Monday.” “Two million on Tuesday.”

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler es Unimportant, Westbrook Says,

Whether Foreign Nations Like Us; |

Test Should Be, 'Do We Like Them?’

EW YORK, Sept. 5.—My foreign policy is a sharp reversal of the pathetic effort of this country and its people to buy the friendship and respect of others by pretending to be unaware of insults from abroad. SN My foreign policy is “To hell with them!” It is unimportant whether the Russians, Germans, Italians, French, British, Irish or Mexicans like us. The test should be, “Da we like them?”

To be realistic, we have no friends. However pain- |

ful the blow may be to the sentimental feelings of ‘some Americans of German or Italian origin or stock, the German and Italian Governments hate this country. The French, at heart, like us no better, and the British gave us the name of Uncle Shylock by way of proving that their friendship for their lost province bore. a price tag. “So {t is a good idea to avoid crushes and to remember that the instant any apparent friendship between this country and any other is placed under pressure of conflict of interest it cracks.

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is undignified and it creates no respect for the Americans that we are constantly making allow ances for the disturbed national state of mind of this or that foreign land in smilin g away impesitions on this country’s patience and manners, : I know of no official campaign by this country, save during the war, and then only against the enemy nations, to insult any other people before the world or create disorder within their borders. We have sent no official or confidential agents to raise cain in | Russia, Germany or Italy, but all three governments have boldly traduced us and interfered with our domestic peace by organizing Communist, Nazi and Fascist bands. ; - And it gets tiresome to be told over and over of Italy's great gifts to the United States, because the Italian immigrants who contributed so much to the material and esthetic life of this nation were not sent by the Italian nation. They were fugitives from dreadful economic and social conditions in that bee loved Italy, and the plain truth is that the steamship companies, from practical, mercenary motives, were more actively responsible for their crossing than any other agency. ® . ” 88 TALY had no intention to do the United States a good turn, and if she had thought at all in the matter it w get rid of a lot of people whom her highly civilized and cultured aristocrats regarded as cattle.

The United States has put in 20:years trying to placate other peoples by gifts of money and help and by patient allowances, and the net result is they take us for the saps that we undoubtedly are. Did any foreign country offer to dust this country off and rehabilitate the devastated South after the Civil War? Did any of them offer so much as a yard of spaghetti or an inch of liverwurst or even a kind word when our Ohio River slopped all over 10 states a couple of years ago? So I propose a special flag for our: foreign service

' to be flown above every embassy, ministry and consu-

late, with the motto, “Now You Chase Me.”

Business

By John T. Flynn

Taper Off These Relief Payments Now and You Taper Off Recovery.

NEY YORK, Sept. §—From Mississippi comes a <4 N warning which gives an ipkling of one of the public questions which is-now about to nose its way to the front of debate when Congress assembles in January, Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, says he is going to call a halt. upon Government spending. We must ‘feed the hungry, he says, but there are too many of the well-fed upon the relief rolls. It is not possible to think up a sound argument against wie, economical expenditure of the public moneys. But Senator Harrison’s criticism leaves out of the picture a powerful reason for Government spending which has nothing to do with feeding the hungry. - This is that these vast sums paid out in: relief to the poor play a vital part in producing that strange phenomenon known as recovery. One reason why the public has been so tolerant of the Government's extravagance in relief expenditure is the recovery which this expenditure creates. Not only the man out of work has been on relief, but the man in business with whom these unemployed spend their doles has also been on relief. Taper off these relief payments and you will taper off recovery. It is not possible to exaggerate the seriousness of this. It is not possible to overstate the grave consequences to which it will lead. We have elected to build our recovery upon immense expenditures of Government funds raised by means of loans. The economic system is so constructed that it requires each year a certain infuse of fresh funds. =

Usually Supplied By Business ih

Ordinarily business supplies that. Business is not doing so now and has not for nearly nine years. Sothe Government has been doing it. And the public

‘has been satisfied to have the Government do it be-

cause, while salving its own intelligence with the feeling of benevolence about feeding the hungry, it has been itself the final beneficiary of these expenditures. Having built our recovery on this artificial base, we dare not shrink the foundation because the recovery will topple over. _ a We can be wise, intelligent, economical—and perish. Or we can.be extravagant, imprudent, slovenly in administration—and flourish for a little. But in the end we will have to face the facts. In the meantime the false sense of recovery which we feel encourages us to put off dealing with the fundamental diseases in our economic system. Congress is going to ring with the cry of economy and retrepchment next winter. But will it ring with any statesmanlike plans for dealing with the emergency which economy and retrenchment will produce?

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

RIME begins at home. We've heard that one so often it has become a trite sentiment, and so

falls on deaf.ears. Now & new movie short, part of

the “Crime Doesn't Pay” series, offers us a striking reminder of the fact by giving pictured evidence against the indifferent parent, It is Mother who is usually blamed. Women have been charged with so many moral shortcomings during the centuries that a good many just let the admonitions go in one ear and out the other. But the film ought to please women, since it shows up the American father as the real accessory before the fact, > : :

There's been a good deal of education on the

question in recent years but there's still plenty of

room for improvement, for no one can deny that the’ average father has allowed himself to become so. absorbed in what he professes to believe are larger issues that he grossly neglects his children. Few men really have much of an idea of what their growing sons are up to; many would be startled if you inquired for news of them. Doesn’t that come ‘under the head of mother’s business? ‘ But ‘mothers, let us remember, are not competent to guide.adolescent boys. Anyone with half an eye can see that. ‘Male children in the teens are emerging

into a world in which their mothers have never been 8 ~where they are likely never to go.- All of a sudden; |

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The Hoosier Forum disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. |

SAYS COMMUNISM GAINS CONVERTS BY TRICKERY

By E. F. Maddox

W. M. K. says “America may need communism.” Communism is not only unconstitutional, but it is also the Devil's

favorite prescription of political poison to set men to spilling each others blood. No sensible American, who knows what communism really is and does to people, is a Communist. The. only way communism gains converts is by deceit and trickery. : Nobody has smeared the New Dealers with communism. They

have smeared themselves by. giving

encouragement to communistic To tell the truth is tactics. Socialism, com-

| munism, faselsm and nazism are all dangerous alien, revolutionary

political movements designed to destroy our constitutional rights.

ss 8 8 CLAIMS NO NATION NOW PRACTICES DEMOCRACY By A. J. M. aE A Hoosier Forum writer who signs himself “American Worker” claims the Soviet Union is a constitutional democracy, for the people, of the

people and by the people, and be-:

lieves in human rights over property rights. : : How could human rights exist when the property under your feet belongs to the state, and in the state 20 per cent of the people control by force 80 per cent. : Does “American. Worker” know that no nation on earth today is practicing democracy? Democracy has become a name, generally the opposite is in action. Even in America we only have a shadow of

democracy, and it’s becoming a very |-

light shadow at that, However it is still the best form of government in the world today. The American Constitution is a just document. It is ‘founded on human nature, and the fundamen-

tals of human nature do not

change, therefore the growth of our country and even the progress of

science ‘does not render our Con-

stitution inadequate or outmoded. . 2 8 #» : SAYS POLICIES OF NEW DEAL ALWAYS HAVE FAILED IN PAST By Voice in the Crowd Mr. R. K, Taylor's article claiming that business has been helped by the “New Deal” and should be in favor of “New Dealism” leaves one convincing yet unprinted impression, and that is that Mr. Taylor is not in business, at least not in a producing business, and that he has not had five years of worry and

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies excluded. ' Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

headache trying to make a business progress despite a new set of rules that are set up every time a certain party catches a different kind of a fish. It is quite difficult to understand Mr. Taylor's assertion that employment has been stabilized and seasonal and cycle unemployment has been reduced, unless he means that unémployment is as high as it ever was and relief expenditures are

‘higher,

No man who is in a competitive production business, who has all of the new taxes to pay and who honestly is concerned in the welfare of everyone connected with the business, can admit that the New Deal policies help business. The men who have to worry:about these things to overcome them or give up, know better. There is no reason

to blame inless you know their

problem in the same light as cons fronts them. ; The New Deal is not new. For four thousand years at various periods all of these things have been tried and. have always failed, and every time they fail the poor man who was. to be helped finds hime self poorer. If you don’t believe it, wait for

STARS By WILLIAM H. CHITWOOD

i ‘We see on the screen .~ Various roles of the “great,” A King and a Queen, A Chief Magistrate, A rich Protege, "A Ruler of Marts, But usually they Hold not the star parts.

‘And so thus it goes In this drama called “Life”; The “actor” who shows Little signs of its strife; Who, near and afar, Is proclaimed “Fortune’s Son” Is seldom a star To the All-Seeing One.

DAILY THOUGHT

He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders \in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of

" the lions.—Daniel 6:27.

g lh truly - valiant dare everything except doing any other

‘body an injury.—Sir P. Sidney.

‘| the results of both are the same.

|By A. B.C.

the tax load required to retire a 40 billion dollar debt, or the confiscation by inflation, One of these has to happen and

2 » o NATURE MUST TAKE ITS COURSE IN SLUMP, 1S VIEW

Our debt exceeds the value of the nation’s wealth. Mr. Talburt’s cartoon depicting the spenders spreading the public debt over a floor with a brush reflects the whole approach of the nation to a solution of our economic debacle, The private debt of the nation is staggering; in fact, we are drunk with private debt, so now we are

out of the public credit. It is just giving a dead drunk man more whisky to sober him up. Every depression thus far in our history was cured by letting nature take its course; by purging the debt overload through receiverships and. wholesale bankruptcy. This time we balked that remedy. Adding to the debt merely prolongs the agony. Nature will overrule our attempt to hold and add to it. : The sane thing would be to scale it down 40 per cent by agreement. National wealth never increased more than 4 per cent in a year. Debt bearing more than 4 per cent interest wrecks possibility of collecting- it. : ; a 8 =» GIVE DIES COMMITTEE FAIR CHANCE, HE ASKS By J. P. K. 3 I don’t think the newspapers and their columnists have been altogether fair to the Dies Committee. This group has impressed me as attempting to do a good job on a comparatively meager budget. Because the papers have sensationalized that part of the Committee's work dealing with the subversive activities of the radical organizations in this country, Congressman Dies and his colleagues have been called Red baiters and have been the butt of a lot of sour gags. It seems to me the chairman has been trying to keep the hearings on a high plane and has not played the part of a witch hunter, Why not withhold criticism of the Dies Committee until we see what data they unearth about the Nazi and ‘Fascist influence. Here's a fact finding body that can do much good in airing all un-American activity. It doesn’t make much sense to laugh it out of existence.

ALETS

EXPLORE YOUR MIND

& WHICH ARE MORE EAGER FOR

| fatalism for i

other people’s opinions and adjust himself well among his fellows, Many employment managers now endeavor to find out a man’s family life in deciding whether or not to give him a job,” Me

8 & » : 2 TWO Nebraska University psy chologists, J. P. and Ruth B, Guildford, gave tests of introversion —extraversion to ‘900 men and women students and found a larger percentage of the men were “indifferent to praise.” Also more women than men: said they were “eager for praise.” ro :

.® 8 =» : 3 QUITE the contrary. It means treme Suvironmente]. tieury is pure

‘dividual is help o do

adding" more debt to this overload

‘you can help yourself, The ex-|

Everything Is Nof Lovely Today For Labor Relations, Columnist Says, Pointing Out the Troubles.

BETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 5~It would be nice on Labor Day to write about- how lovely everye thing is for labor relations in this country—but it would be bunk. 3 he Labor is sadly split in its’ own house on issues and personalities which are hard to reconcile. The Wagner Labor Relations Act, which could and should have done much to end the vague unrest on this

| front, has done more to make it worse. The one ‘1 ‘hopeful sign seems to me to be the Wages-and-Hours

‘Law and the cool judicial personality of the man who has been appointed to administer it—if political and

- labor partisans will only give him a chance, .

As between labor and industry, progress has been made. The real snag there is the unwillingness of

labor organization and representation. : * From my experience—and it has been as intense as anybody’s who is not personally involved on either

industry agreed, without mental reservation, that “there can be no true labor representation or collective bargaining where the labor representative is in any way dependent on the boss for his pay or his job. 8 = = TEGOTIATORS for a company’s supply of labor should be as independent of each other as are

‘| ‘negotiators for a company’s supply of raw material

and supplies. Full recognition of this would take half the hostility out. of labor relations. . : . What is most needed is an absolutely impartial quasi-judicial Labor Relaticns Board instead of a crusading pressure bureau not only, for unionism against industry but for a particular form of unionism, It is said that the real trouble with the Labor Board is the labor law, That is only partly true. The Board gave its own interpretation of the law and ruled that it could not move in to determine the

“employer when the law says no such thing. That prolonged and intensified many a dispute. Furthermore, even if there were not ample evidence of prejus dice and partisan administration of the law from the employers’ standpoint, and it is there overwhelm= ingly, we have the complaint of half of organized labor itself that there is both prejudice and partisans

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4 li is no room in this problem for two rival labor federations. Labor as a house ' divided against itself cannot stand. Labor needs craft unionism. It also needs industrial unionism. It needs both John Lewis and William Green, but it needs them pulling together and not apart. The trouble in labor relations is the trouble in international and other domestic relations. The only limit on what you do is what you can get away with. You now lick the other fellow by whatever it takes—broken treaties, undeclared wars, political bribery and coercion with relief funds, “clever little schemes” to revolutionize government without amending the Constitution, employers hiring labor spies and thugs, and using gas and machine guns instead of arguments; coercion of labor by labor. “Peace; it's wonderful.” A national government would be a blessing if it would purge all those under its authority of all this stuff but it would have to begin by purging itself and that, just now, seems far from likely,

In the Capital By Rodney Dutcher

Certain Liberals None Too Happy Over Getting Communist Backing.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 5. “Communism” has bobbed up as an issue in various 1938 primaries and may be heard from in the fall election came paigns. : Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina once ade vised some of his colleagues: : “Get a good red scare into the campaign and you don’t have to worry about issues.” Those who supposed the old “red scare” had been worn threadbare are being fooled. Such seasoned con» servative campaigners as Senator George in Georgia, Senator Tydings in Maryland and Congressman John J. O'Connor in New York all “purge” targets, deem it good political medicine. Senator Tydings first used the Communist issue by quoting allegedly radical passages from a book written by Mauritz Hallgren, a supporter of his opponent, Congressman Davey Lewis. wi a Senator George attributes his New Deal opposition to Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen, whom he alternately describes as “Communists” and “Wall Street lawyers,” and to Eli Oliver of Labor's Non-Partisan League, whom he calls a “Communist.” : Rep. O'Connor, bracketed by Roosevelt with Tydeings as an “obstructionist” who “betrayed” the New Deal, tells voters his troubles are largely due to a Communist plot. ; Communists have taken to indorsing the most liberal candidates in sight, instead of running their own candidates. This has given certain liberals nightmares. Baltimore Communists, insignificant numeri= cally and otherwise, have just indorsed Lewis, whose

ivy.” ; ‘Screwy’ Idea Proves Worth

Various New Deal ideas which were considered sound by the Administration have turned out to be screwy. But one of the measures which has turned out best was one that Mr. Roosevelt himself, because ‘he thought it was screwy, didn’t want. : Federal deposit insurance for banks was an ime portant cushion in the 1937-38 depression and probe ably prevented panic. Only 42 banks closed the first

protected ‘against loss. As the previous depression. in the first six months of 1930, when business decline had been much less severe. * But although New Dealers usually take credit for deposit insurance, Congress actually passed the law against Roosevelt’s wishes, The President and ad-

insurance systems had collapsed, Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein

THE Importance of preventing tuberculosis in the x child: cannot be overestimated. It probably is “more important than all other diseases in its effects on society, not only because of what it does. to a child during the first infection but because of what it may mean later in life when the child becomes infected again, : . Today it is believed that most infections with tus, berculosis come from other human heings and. entrance info the human body by way of the nose; “throat, mouth and lungs. ee “The relatively high incidence of deaths from tue

idea that babies do not resist the disease ss well as . do older. children and grown-ups. It must be rememsbered, however, that the small infant in contact wi an older person who has tuberculosis.does not have the opportunity. of evading repeated and large doses of living germs coming into the body, : ~~ In determining whether or not the child has disease, certain tests are now on by physicians,

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some employers to take their hands completely off

side—much of the trouble would disappear if all

proper bargaining agency at the instigation of the

supporters call the indorsement a “wreath of poison

visers thought it unsound because all’ state deposit

berculosis among young infants has given rise to the

six months this year, with 99.7 per cent of deposits gan, 472 banks closed

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