Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1941 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1941

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~~ we are going into a war. Our Navy already is in an undeclared war in the Atlantic. The President put us in,

of ratifying the accomplished fact. So history. is repeating,

against a ruthlessly aggressive Germany. |

\ Potentially we are the mightiest nation on earth. But our fundamental weakness is that we don’t know what we want. We insist on the im sible of eating o our cake and

having it. : eally go ot going in the last war.

That is why we never r That is why we lost the peace 23 years ago. That is why we are now halfway into another war without adequate | preparedness, without even a definite policy. We want to go into the water, but we don’t want toy get wet. We want victory without paying the price of vic- | tory. We want all-out preparedness, but without sacrificing | business as usual, strikes as usual, comforts as usual. We want no inflation, but don’t want the Fesiratiis that would prevent it, | FI Br ® uu E want to give our defense production fo Britain, Russia, China, and others, but at the same time we want Ito give those guns and tanks and planes id our own undermanned forces. So we make many boasts and threats to cover our con- . fusion. We organize and reorganize, and co-ordinate the _ co-ordinators, to make up for the indecision. : The President is not alone to blame. Nor Congress. They only reflect the childish irresponsibility which sometimes afflicts us as a people. Until we Americans are mature enough and honest enotigh tc face the fact that we ‘cannot have peace and war at the same time, that we ; cannot have security without sacrifice, that we cannot wield world power: without accepting | ‘commensurate responsi--bilities, our official policies will continue as confused as: they are ineffective.

PUTING DEFENSE FIRST HE best news this country has had in many months thine last night from the National Defense Mediation

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By a 9-to-2 vote the board recodunented against John 1. Lewis’ demand for a closed-shop provision in a: United : Workers’ contract with coal mined by steel companies. The majority included all three public representatives, all four representatives of industry’ and both A. F. of L. “members. Only the C. L O. members, Philip Murray and lomas Kennedy, both officials of the Lewis. union, ented. This overwhelming verdict In means, we believe, that the Jovernment, through the Mediation Board, has at last ydopted a firm policy against use of its power to compel membership in unions. » ” 2 . 8 2 8 HAT is the only sound and safe policy. If it had been X laid down long ago, much trouble might have been avoided. The right of men and women to’ join a union if they wish should be, and is, guaranteed by the Government.’ But unionism made compulsory by Government r citizens who do not wish to join would be unjust and a violation of minority rights.

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on Wrecking his union, as well as his own influence, he’ will pt it. v «ol os ® » ® ® 8 HERE was other good news yesterday. The Navy asserted its determination to see that work proceeded on e $35,000,000 defense construction program at San Diego, ich had been halted by a general strike of A. F. of L. ilding-trades unions. The international presidents of | the seven unions involved ordered their San| Diego locals. stop that strike. Daniel Tobin, president (of the A. F. L. Teamsters, decided to accede to President Roosevelt's

nced that he would let his jurisdictional battle ‘with the F. of L. railway clerks be adjusted by the’ Railway Labor Act. It all adds up to a pretty clear indi overnment has finally determined to require, re labor, and that at least some leaders: have found: that out. the President and Congress pow proceed to substitute | and for unsound labor policies, all along the line, that will more to speed the defense program than could be done 7 appropriating many more billions of dollars. “And, since organized labor cannot - hope to escape | ic restrictions unless it does accept responsibility, pnest union isi m will be one of the chief beneficiaries. :

ERE Yous R TAX MONEY GOES

VE your automobile 12,000 miles a year, and if you make 15 miles to the gallon of gasoline, at 114 cents a nay a Federal excise total of $12 (state tax nment might use your $12 fo. buy three

shoes. payments mig be soplied toward the

plus $1.65 an hour for peted, Plus! 25 cots 5. yard for. ry would buy about hough v

and Congress by the delivery-and-convoy vote is in process

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WENTY-THREE years ago we came out of a war. Today.

at least to the extent of drawing us into the shooting:

Mr. Lewis, naturally, does not like the recommendation, : and no law requires him to accept it. But unless he is bent |

uest, called off the express strike in Detroit and an- |

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By Westbrook Pegler

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NEW YORE ‘Nov. ny ‘have t had an interesting chat with.

1 +4 eph Padway, the coun-

i wne-Bioff union. + 1 telephoned Mr. Padway, who.

a “labor” judge in Mil-

racket, OT He asked me where I. got that report, I said it was no report but an obvious quesiton in view of the conviction of the two gorillas on charges of extorting money from the movie companies which are not auch better, if any, than the rackves.

At that Mr. Padway said I had done him wrong in him the mouthpiece for this band of thieves.

calling | He said he wasn’t their mouthpiece but represented

the membership of the union. So I asked him if he

constituting the membership from the criminals, and he said it wasn’t his prerogative to initiate ' actions. He is a lawyer

conscionable racket infested with obvious crooks did. not affect tis shape as a union. 1 insisted that Bioff ,

a he ing as: mouthpiece for these crooks, ‘but Be. wouldn't <have it that way. po

'| Asked How Much He Got"

A YEAR AGO JUNE. Padway went inter the con vention in Louisville ‘and delivered what I called a eulogy ‘of Browne. way. wouldn't agree that this. ' was a eulogy, so I will split the difference and settle

| for the fact that he ‘certainly did’ sing Browne's’

. At this very time, Bioff was in the Chicago | Bridewell serving six months for acting as business agent for a string of streetwalkers and Browne had | already announced his determination to retain Bioff ias bargaining agent for the movie industry but Padway nevertheless praised Browne highly and told how {he had sat in on negotiations in Hollywood with Bioff.

I asked him why he hadn’t taken occasion to say a word to the delegates against a criminal so foul as {Willie and he said such comment would have -been lout of line because his remarks were of a .legal character. I asked him how much dough he was getting ‘out

that I would print it. I said I certainly would

uncomplimentary ‘meaning: and wouldn't tell. However, he did say that other lawyers representing the locals around the country. were getting four or five times as much as he and I will admit ’this could be so. The unions are easy pickings’ for a ‘lot of lawyers

sniffed the big dough that the unions extort ‘from the working saps and| like buzzards they have got wind of the rottenness of the unioneering racket and are flocking to get theirs. :

He Says He Didn't

I WANT TO TELL you something else Padway said. He said he never did sign any petition for a Fresidential pardon for George Scalise. I said, “Well, you told me you did,” and he said he. only told me that he told a Federal agent that if Scalise had’ gone straight all those years he ought to be let up. But he had served Scalise’s union, the building service , workers, * ‘as special counsel and knew Scalise personally,” and I say anyone who knew anything at all about Scalise should have known he was still a crook and a mémber of a famous old mob of the dirtiest criminals in the country. Padway is no boy. He can tell a racketeer. Moreover, I insist that Padway, himself, did tell me that he did indorse Scalise’s petition and there we split on a matter of personal veracity or recollection. . But what difference would that make, anway? He beefed, too, because I said he got $1000 from the Scalise union for drawing up a new constitution and that the existing constitution was some very puerile. He said he got only $650 for the constitu--tion and the remaining $350 for two other legal jobs and that the present .constitution wasn’t his work be-" cause he had never delivered his new constitution. I said, “Well, why didn’t you tell me that?” He said he did but I'say the hell he did and he didn't. I leave you the fact that Padway was general counsel for the Browne-Bioff racket, the most vicious thing that ever happened in the labor movement in the United States.and that even after Bioff had gone to jail and Browne had announced his determination fo retain him in power, Padway not only stayed on as counsel for this racket masquerading as a union pe hove up in Heeling 1 and praised or eulogized wne.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

Far East Truce? By William Philip -Simms

WASHINGTON, Nov. ‘11. — At first widely discounted as just another Japanese gesture, or stall for time, the conviction is growing among those who know the Far East that Saburo Kurusu’s visit to Washington may prove one: of the turning points of the second: World War. At! the State Department. no one will hazard a guess as: to what Kurusu may have in his dispatch case. “This,” said one octal, as no time for ‘guessing. We might guess

OD vets feel that some sort of truce or. understanding between the United States and Japan is possible. The chief of these is that events themIves prove the folly of a Pacific war at this time— both parties. At one stage of the game it looked as if the British, ch and Dutch empires. were about to blow up d tose the Far Eastern and Pacific pieces into JaDP. At another stage, Russia seemed about to collapse,

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formerly was a judge and was | ask if he intended fo | | ir with the Browne-Bioff :

ever had initiated any action to profect the Workers :

“g client, to wit, the union, | |= and the fact that the union very plainly’ was an un- |

of this union and he refused to tell me on the ground |

print . it and wanted it for publication or not at all, but he | seemed to think the amount could be given some |.

these days. Like the racketeers; a lot of lawyers. have |

The Hoosier Form

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the desth your righ 0] say it.—Voltaire.

‘MY, MY! MRS. ROOSEVELT CATCHES ON FAST! By Mary ‘Zirkle, Bloomington. My, my it seems that Mrs. Roosevelt has found out about thrift and is urging us to keep on saving those little “dabs of beans and potatoes and that cold fried egg, regardless of how much the ice box will hold.

She has found out, too, that farm “animals” will eat the table scraps from the White House. (Apparently they: don’t know about hash on Pennsylvania Ave) She catches on fast. Any day now she’ll discover what animal it is, besides the taxpayer, that grunts and squeals and is glad to get leftovers,

‘WHY DO NOT MOTHERS REALLY PRAY

By A Mother, Indianapolis Lie We are all realizing today that {we are very near to war and all the awful consequences. People talk endlessly about it, predicting and opinionating. They go on and on laying the blame here and there, and all this does not help one bit. We often have come away sick at! heart over the utter futility of it all. But why have not Christian people (so called) learned to pray (really earnestly pray)? : Why do not the mothers of the soldier boys go to the church in groups and spend time in prayer, really praying, not just bowing their heads and repeating a few words, singing a few songs and then going. out to the endless talk again... "And “Prayer changes things.” cove

» Fe i ‘AT A POINT DEMANDING POSITIVE COMMITMENT

By Raymond H. Stone, 531 E. 56th St. Your editorial in the issue of Nov. 6th was read with deep interest. We have reached a point of public policy execution that demands a positive commitment. The wiser course for the United States to follow is an absolute ban on an A. E. PF. to either the continent of Europe, or Asia. The positive side of such a course is the: absolute determination to

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and drive out, bag and bagage, She merchant and naval’ hips of

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master two areas of the Seven seas,

Side Glarces=-by Galbraith

ey imes readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters. short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

tons tiring on any hip n thors wo areas. Those two areas are as follows: In the Atlantic bounded by the coast lines of North and South America and a meridian Shrough

Iceland.

‘In the" Padific ‘bounded by the coast ‘lines “of North. and South America and (lines from base coast lines to Hawaii, This is no time for bombastic rivalry between ‘soldiers’ and sailors for front seats in a big parade of strutting. . Honest and fearless disciplirie of armed forces basic policy is the call of the republic to every man from President down to the most humble citizen.

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|‘'TODAY MY SON GOES

OFF TO WAR —' By Frank H. Auble, 738 Orange ‘St. Today, my son goes tp war--not with any flag-waving sense of Da-

triotism; not with any love for war.

He hates war with every. fiber of his being, : ,. : : He goes, to battle for ‘all the things which true . “hol dear—freedom, peace | ‘and security: against greed and. hate; 5 ‘In retrospect, I see ‘another day, friends and neighbors leaving to “battle for the I see their efiorts and those who died, apparently not dying in vain, and the entire world filled with hope. for a peace. I see the: author of this hope returning, carrying . it. back to a war-weary America. I see his dream of peace wrecked by a sinful | few in the

‘United States. Senate, who, wrged|

hy their hate of ‘one man, Woodrow Wilson, took advantage of our weariness, to pour their venom into the hearts and minds of Ameri-

ca, and through their efforts plunge

-|the entire world ints a rage of ame

leaving its maritime provinces, if not all eastern Siberia, at Japan's mercy. China, deprived of : Suppers .of her friends, would have to make And the U. 8. confronted by the Atlantic would have to pull most of its warships ouf Pacific. Everything seemed moving Japan's wa,

British, Dutch Gaining Strength

BUT INSTEAD OF blowing up, the British and: Dutch empires, at least, are g strength: daily. - Russia now shows signs of fighting on indefinitely.

stay on the eastern front. Now is mo time, therefore, for Japan to strike.” Her reserves of war stocks are already low. hope of success would depend upon & lightning vic tory—something not in the cards.

against the United States, Britain, ‘the Nether d Bussia~—her fingoes So’ tie sonirary pot:

Millions of Nazi troops seem destined for a very long: :

es pa 2 Cts what tion ath i now-not a major war in which she would be pitted |}

{ing for this awful holocaust which

we are now seeing. Today, we are witnessing a “few sons of hate and greed” running amuck in this country spreading their posion in the hearts of a heart-broken people. ¢ ° We see the “butcher, the baker,

|the milkman, the landlord”—we see

greedy capital as well as racketeering labor leaders quarreling over “war profits.” All of this, as my son goes to war —goes to war, for what? To make this country safe for them to carry on in their greed and hate? Or for

what you and I hold dear, peace

and freedom?

ahd now 1 Altes. 46 my son}

and all the sons who are making ready to do battle for our peace and freedom,—in God’s name, is

there not some way to close the|

Nazi mouths of the Lindberghs and his ilk, some way to compel greedy capital to be fair to labor, some way to compel labor to rid {itself of its racketeering leaders, some way to compel both of them to be fair to

the American peorle, that our sons| :

who prepure for war today may have an all-out support of America, that if some must die, they shall not die in vain, that affer this war, we shall not allow any Senator Lodges to nullify what our sons will do in ‘this coming battle. - 0% 8 ‘YOUR POLICE NEED A LESSON IN COURTESY’ By A. W. R., Shelbyville ‘Your police department needs a lesson in courtesy. I ‘was in Indianapolis Saturday and because I did not make'sa left turn fast enough to suit a pot-bellied officer, I was given a profane bawling-out I will long remember,

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of your city. . ... : i 8 2 ‘CRIMINAL WAY ATTACKS ON WOMEN CONTINUE By T. A. C., Indianapolis It is criminal the way these attacks on women by footpads and

sluggers continues. We have a police]

force of hundreds of men. What are they doing? , . .. : I think it is high time we had some chance of walking on a street|

jab: night withows being afrald of

your life. .... ¢ # ‘Why talk about. Germany when

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mouth clean of the ra states. Hitler's face turned East but the mage. of hypocrisy

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| democracy which we had helped to. ii | ‘the autocracy of the Czar. 1b resulted in

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these thin a re oo ot aid” To one Go raes and agalast the dictators ant age: BE OS A a ts: omy, tia Goer mocracy In this field) to stop fAghting Russis which.isfie of ho greatest Hy Ye he wi.

oa point of all this to me is not oiblestich 0 mili=.. tary aid to Russia which T think is to

into which the method of rendering re for example the President's “felicitat ol “fe birthday of the. Bolshevist re That was the revolution that

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Yolen of terror in history. Ft ; e in which the Russian plan rid I! attempted to infiltrate every Sountey. ix own, with trojan horses and fifth nists throw: their governments,

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SINCE THEN THE RUSSIAN . penetrated and absorbed every country has our own unions, government and | tions well with people af: lea

effort and done great harm in other direc Let’s not forget for.g moment, x was a. and accessory of f Hitler's in te land apart and starting this war on exactly Hitler methods, If he hadn't been, Hitler probably would never have turned his face from east to west an Western Europe would still be free. Caen It isn’t nice to talk this way “but 1t 1s’ the truth. If we don’t keep it constantly in mind, the first thing we know, blatant Communist’ agents here. whe Lave : already crawled out of their dog houses &re going be literally basking in: Soverimental favor: i What Shey can asconplish is simost beyond ean~ conw jecture—especially with & Fillion’ dollars to spend. No=. body wants to see Hitler conquer Burobe_ but I Sut. J hope. nobody wants to see Stalin conquer aims are about ig same as Hitler's Ei ho sould ra,

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The ideal a would be and the calico cat who both ( ate each other up.

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Business Men's: Internal tional - recently in ‘Philadel lowed by thelr goves ‘ $10 for spending money; Tt makes: : one shudder for ‘the Tuture of cons Oi

ventions! Supnose,_ should become a Hh

Bil IRE the matter of convention a hE We gst out the flags aod. cal s to give a Tousing ‘welcome Be ‘cause-—an ease pardon. our vemazy, these people. bring mone ¥ fo town...

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