Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1941 — Page 12

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‘NOT YET TOO LATE |r REGRET the finding of the Gallup Poll—though we

ot question its essential accuracy—that 76 per people believe the Government should

we are sure that a large majority of the public has di ith our opinion on that question. And p report indicates that sentimept for outlawing ikes, predominates in all elements of the populaper cent mong farmers, 78 per cent among busi72 per cent among white-collar workers, 67 per g professional people, 64 per cent among skilled 33 per cent among the unskilled. 2 8 the right to strike has brought about this 5 public desire for repeal of the right to strike. dangerous. | Free men cannot be compelled to work smplogetsput and remain free. The strike, to work, is labor’s indispensable weapon against ind oppression. lake that away, and workers ves or are driven to become rebels.

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~ injustice § become slg ® x & | : = x = AVE said all that before. We have protested pst strikes for frivolous or unnecessary reasons because we knew where they were leading labor. We fought for passage of the Wagner Act and other legislation, believing that labor should have means of attaining its legitimate objectives without resort to the strike. When labor mistook its new liberties for special license to defy public opinion and deny labor responsibility, we urged further legislation —thoughtful, moderate legislation—to require labor responsibility. # | The so-called leaders of labor and the so-called friends “of labor in Government would not listen. Long after reckless abuse of the right to strike had become an intolerable menace to national defense, they continued to obstruct corrective legislation. They maintained the barrier behind which public anger piled up until now, as the President acknowledges, it is an almost irresistible force for unwise

and drastic legislation. :

It is very late. But it is not yet too late to do, What should have been-done long ago. The right to strike, like any other right of individuals, is not absolute. It cannot be exercised: without [regard for the right of all the people to provide for their own security. When it interferes with - that paramount right, the Government must insure continued production. All that is necessary can still be accomplished by temperate laws, but each day’s delay puts the right to strike in greater peril.

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OUR TROUBLES |IN ICELAND

J VEN more serious|than the alleged murder of an Icelander by two A. E. F. soldiers, is the reported reaction of that country to such by-products of military occupation. - The Reykjavik newspapers advise Icelanders hereafter to avoid American soldiers as much as possible. |e

There is growing resentment against our troops. This

is caused not only by isolated crimes, sex and otherwise, but |.

also by the general economic dislocation and pinch of the inhabitants resulting from overcrowding, scarcity and high prices. | It is not the fault of the American officers or men, whose conduct in general has been above reproach. Such friction is inherent and inevitable in a foreign occupation, even though the Icelandic government under British pressure “invited” an A. E.|F. No free and neutral people likes

a foreign army, and never will-—-no matter how the dose is sugar-coated. :

” 3 ; : With this increasi gly difficult problem on his hands, why does President Roosevelt multiply the problem by

allowing the British to! remain? One foreign army is too |.

much in the eyes of the Icelanders; two are a dangerous surplus. :

When are the British going to keep their bargain and

get out? Certainly they are needed elsewhere,

KENNEDY THE ICONOCLAST | De° not be surprised if you hear Congressman Martin/J. Kennedy of New York is being given the polar stare and that some of his colleagues make snooty faces or fail to speak when they pass by. / oe : He has done the unheard of. He has broken the unwritten law. His dreadful offense is one that his nerveshocked colleagues will have a hard time forgiving. i +. Thi h brash man has actually introduced a bill in Congress to pay its members on the basis of $25 per day for each day they are in session, instead of the 10,000 lettuce leaves per annum they now enjoy. He estimates this ‘would reduce their salaries to about $5000 and thereby set the nation a noble example of self-sacrifice. > ok ~ Here is where we offer to bet our best-laundered fancy. ir his colleagues refuse to be noble. i

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK. Nov. 28—atout s “ week ago I told you the success “story -of the illustrious : Frank Feeney, only recently de-

of the union composed of elevator ‘constructors, whose homely plea- ' sure was yachting and who started building yachts for himself in 1930, when millions’ of American workers were desperately poor, and . had bought three tailor-made - yachts and built a 100-foot private dock by the time of his death in 1938. These craft were not mere Kickerized skiffs or knockabouts, but .veritable yachts of the same type that gather at the ‘Newport regattas and Mr. Feeney was, in a manner of speaking, a regatta man himself, which is to say that he used to enter his boats in the big races and cruises and go along for the ride, leaving the seamanship and all to his hired crews. “i Today I present the story of another up-from-un-der boy, a Chicago unioneer, whose sporting instinct has led him to the turf. : : : Today’s success is William E. Maloney, the international president of the Union of Operating Engineers, which is about as low as any of them and includes among its adornments the notorious hoodlum, Joe Fay, who was personally offended by Dave Dubinsky’s motion, at the New Orleans convention of the A. F, of -L. last year, to eliminate racketeers and expressed his resentment with a physical protest that left Mr. Dubinsky bloody, but unbowed.

Crawling With Thieves THE OPERATING ENGINEERS’ union is crawl-

direct type and is laced into the crooked local politics of Chicago and New Jersey in close collaboration with those two great statesmen of the party of humanity, Ed Kelly and Frank Hague,

Mr, Maloney succeeded the late John Possehl as

who had heen elevated on a Hitler ballot which contained no rival names.

Mr. Maloney has been racing since 1938 and he has raced 11 head and owned others. His horses which have gone to the-post, as listed by the Illinois Racing Board, are: Her Reigh, Play Chance, Sebuico, Big Squize, Tull, Coll, Blondkin, Co-Time, Speedy Boger, Count Natural Sanfern and Sunny Thone. The records report that he has shipped to Florida and fdaine and has raced extensively on the Chicago racks. . ; ’ .

He shipped seven head to Florida in 1939. Speedy Boger, Co-Time, Play Chance and Her Reigh have

- been Brother Maloney’s best entries and Her Reigh

paid $6.60 one day recently.

‘When I'm Full Send Me Home"

BACK IN AUGUST the poor working stiffs of the union gave one of those spontaneous testimonial dinners for their great, beloved chief, Maloney, at the Chicago Towers Club, and William Green, the president of the A. F. of L., was present to lend the prestige of his high position of moral responsibility and trust. Joe Fay was toastmaster. Mr. Green’s picture was taken in the act of shaking hands with the guest of honor and various other dignitaries were photographed for the official publication of the engineers. Charles B. Gamling, one of the international trustees, is shown wearing a large button on his lapel inscribed “I'm-in the mood” in eonversation with Willlam M. Welsch, the first vice president, whose button reads “When I'm full send me home.” Another important dignitary, come to honor the devotee of the sport of king's at labor's board, was Anton J. Imhahn, who, himself, was the recipient of a similar spontaneous testimonial dinner some time earlier at which he was honored and, no doubt, surprised, by a “substantial check.” The 8tate’s Attorney, Thomas Courtney, investi-

" gated and Lieut. Charles Egan of the police detail

assigned to that office, was informed that the total pevsinis were $15,276 and the net gift to Mr, Imhahn, 959.

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Indiana Politics

By Vern Boxell

JOHN NIBLACK'S appoint-. ment may not be the last surprise

Governor Schricker has up his sleeve in clearing up the Municipal Court muddle. For ‘a long time, some of the practices. of the courts, especially in the Criminal division, have been questioned. There have been repeated - investigations and open criticism, The Governor has served warning that he intends to do something about it. In the next few weeks, the judge of the other criminal division—John McNelis—will be up for :reappointment. The unsuccessful “heat” which was turned on the Governor to secure the appointment of various candidates to the Republican: spot (Niblack’s) was terrific. But it’s a good guess that even that was mild compared to what is in store for Mr. Schricker when the Democrats go to bat for Judge McNelis. 3 : So far the Governor has given no indication of what he will do. But there are some’ other things he has been studying and he may call in the four municipal judges some day soon to talk them over.

The Good Features—And the Bad

HE HAS BEEN considering a plan of rotating the Judges in the civil and criminal- divisions. For instance, Judge Dan V. White, who has been in the civil division since the court waé created, would move from his Court House office and courtroom to the Criminal bench at the Police Station for six months of service. Theén he would serve in another court, either. civil or eriminal, -shifting each six months. The other judges would do likewise. .. While there are many favorable features in this System, there also are some objectionable ones. For instance, it would break up the continuity of cases in the civil division, where the calendars are: drawn up in adyance and many legal technicalities are | ironed :out ‘before the cases are tried. It might mean two or more judges sitting in the same case at differing intervals.

stead of judges, but this plan, too, has its flaws as well as good points. A third suggested proposal is the Jesignasion of = presiding judge to assign the cases. a judge fulfill this cti require legislative action. Sinsiion would

But one of the present judges could be named to do. the jof i Dh job at least

Still another plan requiring legislative action the creation of a special traffic court, since the probiem has been causing a large share of the courts’ ubles, | : Within the next few weeks, the Indianapolis Association is expected to report on a thorough Sar vey it has made of the Municipal Court problem. It may have some suggestions, both on personnel and procedure, which the Governor may find aL The objective is to break : house in cipal Court. would be justifi

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‘YOU SHOULD BE PROUD YOU ARE IN AMERICA’

By Clinton H. Hart, 513 N. New Jersey St. I wish to take issue with Mr. Walter Brown who says that the $1500 or $1800 a year man should be given an increase to the same as our members of Congress. Mr. Brown, you should be proud you are in America where you can work where you please and quit if you want to. You can’ strike and tie up production on defense contracts and yet you think you are an Amerfcan. .,..

I fought in the last war to save democracy and if I were able, would do the same again. I have not had a job in six years and I receive no income either from my government nor the county trustee and if I am caught begging I will be thrown in

jail. If anyone has a squawk com-|

ing then I have surely have. I do not know when I eat a meal where the next one is coming from. Now you who have so much squawk about a little tax. Think about some of us who have suffered and bled for this country. At Thanksgiving I do not know if I will have more than coffee and bread but I am thankful I am an American and am proud to salute "the flag of our country and the men who represent us in Congress. ;

‘® = = ‘PRAISE OF PEGLER IS UNDESERVED,” HE SAYS By C. 0. T.. East Chicago Praise of Pegler is undeserved. You know propaganda does not work that way. It is geometrically disproportionate, It is like - hitchhiking. Many, many good yourig people hitch-hike, especially those who are college students. But just let one hooligan hold up a kindhearted motorist or worse than that, murder him and wreck his car, then all’ the papers print it and watch the results; that is what makes it hard for the solid citizens. This is from experience because I

\|have “thumbed” in 25 states.

So is it with unions. Let one dozen unioneers show up to be the rotten apple in a barrel and the newspapers make the public think all

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unions are bad and dominated from the Kremlin. My union, the Oil Workers’ International of C. I. O, uses the same kind of parliamentary procedure in meetings as fis used in Congress, and we run our union, : ” o 2

‘SAME OLD SONG-&-DANCE AT ALL OF THEM! By J. M. H, Logansport. : : I'm maa all the time and when you are mad you have to tell somebody about it so I'm going to tell you. I'm sure that in writing this I will be speaking for many more fellows that feel the same way about it as I do. In looking for work I have noticed that you have to have a lot of experience, five or six years of experience, and recent at that. ’ Now look, isn’t that going a little too far for a fellow to get work? I'm 19 and I can’t have that much experience and they know it. I have been places that are working on defense jobs and going full blast, but still no luck. Allison, Delco Remy, Curtiss-Wright—I've been to all of them, but still the same old song and dance. Any more when I look for work I feel I'm wasting my time and theirs, too, so what should I do, just sit back and say “Oh, well, I'li get something pretty soon”? One time a factory told me to go to one of these defense schools and I took their advice. You know what happened? Well they wouldn't even let me take the schooling. , . . I asked for work out at Allison's and the position I asked for. was polisher or buffer and they asked of my experience (there’s that word again). and I told them I had none, No go, they said. Well this is a true fact, a kid could do that kind of

|about the labor situation and well

work and think nothing of it, but yet they don’t want me. ! I just want a job and try to get ahead in this world like every good American. I love my freedom, I love my country and I would love to have a job so I can make money, too, and also do my part as any good American would want to: do in this all-out defense work.

a. ow. ‘TIME WHEN FIRST MUST MEAN FIRST

By W. T., Indianapolis Defense comes first. We all say that, and the words drop easily from our tongues. If words are to have any meanings, first means first. Here’s how Webster puts it: “Preceding all others; first in time, or a series, position, or rank; fore-

vance of all others; rank, importance, or worth—" Well, how about it? Are we serious when we say defense comes first? i Does it come before ‘immediate

dues?

of whether men belonging to Union A or Union B shall drive the nails for a new cantonment? ' Does it come before the manufacture of widgets and gadgets, even if the widget-and-gadget manufacturer suffers some hardship? Does it come before the ambitions and normal expectations of two miilion young men who have had to leave those things behind them for camp and ship? Does it come before the ability to buy luxuries and to live luxuriously? 5 In other words, does defense really come first? If it does, some other things will have’ ta come second and third, and fourth. . . . The time has come when first must mean first, and not eventually. ; . 8.8 You ‘PEOPLE GETTING FED UP ON CODBLING OF LABOR’ By A Small Businessman 2 I guess now that the President has gotten himself out of the crack on the Lewis thing, hell forget all

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the country in other situations. If the President says the Government can't accept the closed shop, why, then, I guess industry has no

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\ WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—It becomes clearer every day that, if § Hitler and Naziism are to be dee stroyed, we are the bnes who are © going to have to do it. If we are going to do the job, we should face it for what it is. To destroy Hit- . lerism, we must destroy or cause the destruction of the German army, How may we do this? ~The traditional method is to ha put our army in the field and by direct action tg destroy the enemy’s army. This is plain old war, 4 Another method is so to starve the enemy’s eco8 incapable of supporting its army in the fleld, This is economic warfare. A third method is “boring from within” the enemy’s economic and military system, by the use of propaganda and subversive organizations, until it collapses, This is fifth column warfare, A fourth method is “all-out” bombing of the enemy’s civilian population and economic nerve cene ters. This is aerial warfare. SATE * Total war contemplates the co-ordinated and

‘| timely use of all of these methods, Since we are

frankly preparing for total war, we should frankly examine our chances of success in prosecuting each of these methods. : What Are the Chances?

TO PUT AN AMERICAN army into the fleld at

feat, To maintain and supply such an army at the distances it would have to operate from any prace ticable base approaches the realm of Buck Rogers and :

EN peTman, a do, if other methods fail. What are their chances of success? i If the German Army destroys the Russian Army, we may very well find it in control of Archangel, Gibraltar, Suez, Basra and Vichy Africa. An attempt to besiege and starve out a power holding all these cards might well prove to be a case of ths

besifses besieged. Fi ; ill the fifth column of the victims of Hitler's conquests blow Germany up from within? Over-ex« tension of the Gérman Army is an encouraging face tor, But, the number of troops that would be freed by the destruction of the Russian Army and the ruthless methods of mass civilian murder which Hitler has used fo suppress all revolts to date are highly discouraging. Certainly, nothing which can be done to aid and abet such a blow-up should be lef undone; but, just as certainly, we must not and cane not rely on this. .

We Must Face the Whole Job

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY nothing in the history of aerial bombing to date to warrant anyone in bee lieving that Germany can be reduced by this means alone. : : all possible aid to all possible “allies,” after we have exhausted every possible means of economic warfare, after we have done everything possible to abet the internal explosion of Germany, after we have rained every possible bomb on the heads of the German people, our Army must someday, somewhere, somehow meet the German Army in the field and destroy. it, If this is what we must do, there is very little in our present organization for so-called “defense” or in

We all must face this job now and do it. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson =

with spiritual and cultural things are again in a slough of despond. Music teachers, for example — 3 group of men and women who de- . pend for their living upon the. public desire for a certain kind -of ‘knowledge which the average American citizen has always felt he could do without. Those who hunger - and: thirst affer good music are few indeed, compared to% the millions who can - definitely let it alone. The radio has done much to promote its popularity. . Before the advent of the wireless, in many sections of the country the only things that could pass for music were the community singing schools and the lessons taught by a few women to

.| youngsters who thought of them as a distasteful chore. Painfully slow have been .the movements fo- °

ward symphonies, and concerts and operas. But not so slow that they could be unheeded. Sgr Now, once again, music teachers are discouraged, They see laborers receiving far more pay, and the ‘makers of war implements honored and rewarded,

of a people, must go unnoticed and half starved. Give 'Em a Pat on Back :

THOSE HOMELY NAMES for moral courage, spunk and grit, can best describe their behavior, for these groups never cease their efforts, They never give up. And suppose they did? Suppose the school teachers and music teachers, the social workers, the painters, architects and preachers, decided’ to turn to war work for the emergency? Does persox in his right senses believe we should benefit? = In our hearts we know that we dare not let the ancient beauties and the eternal verities escape us, no matter what material burdens we assume. I ho then, Dear Reader, you will construe these words as a plea for consideration of the several groups in your home’ town that need special ragement now. If ‘we can’t give them money, let us, at least, give them a few pats on the back. For, in a very real sense, they are the caretakers of those spiritual values without which neither America nor humanity dee serves to exist, Animas INGER

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its plans, policies or actions to indicate that we are . | going about it in any way which presages success,

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