Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1941 — Page 10

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Give Light ang the People Win rnd Theic Own Woy

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THE BIG PROBLEM UNSOLVE JT was no great concession that John

L. Lewis made. He allowed it to be rescued by President Roosevelt. That is the simplefact. ©. . ann TL _ The public intergst, to be sure, is well served by the ending of a coal strike for which there never was any real excuse. But it was quite as much to the interest of Mr. Lewis to accept binding arbitration of his closed-ghop controversy with the steel company-owned coal mines. A prolonged strike, working havoc with national de-

fense, would have ended in disaster for the upion. By arbi-

tration, however, Mr. Lewis may win everything he has demanded, and he can lost nothing that is really essential to the union. oh PL : Lo At most, final settlement of the closed-shop issue would merely be deferred until the national emergency ends, all rights of the miners,and their union meanwhile being protected by the Wagner Act and other guarantees. : s = ® » & HE issue, of course, never was important enough to justify the defiant course followed by Mr. Lewis until Sat-

urday. The union never was actually endangered by the.

fact that five per cent of the steel companies’ miners hadn’t joined it. tag Hee 2dloTy The three strikes in the captive mines since September, the loss of tens of thousands of tons of steel production, the shootings and other violence of last week could ~ all have been avoided if John L. Lewis had béen a wiser man. And many citizens will feel that he doesn’t deserve the. easy escape that has been permitted. The fatal mistake would be to assume, now, that anything more than an immediate problem has been solved. ~The great basic problem, out of which the coal strike grew, has not even been touched: That is the lack of a firm, consistent Government policy on labor’s duty under the de- ~ fense program. : #8 5 8 : 2 5 8 MPROVISED remedies, hastily devised when particular : situations threaten to get completely out of hand, are ~ not an as substitute. The President, for one thing, certainly is too busy to be personally intervening in an endless series of! strikes. : } Labor has been warned repeatedly by officials, from _ the President down, that strikes for the closed shop, strikes Es > over jurisdictional rows between unions, strikes called for any reason without giving mediation machinery full opportunity to arrange a settlement, must not: obstruct national defense. ey pI The warning will be disregarded in the future, as it . has been in the past, until it is given the force of law. The urgent need for action by Congress was made. clear by the Lewis coal strike, and although that strike has been called off the need, remains.

FIVE WARSHIPS IN A WEEK

THE U. 8. Naval building program was begun, fortunately, before the general defense program was - launched shortly after the fall -of France. : The reward of that foresight is now being reaped. Five warships, destroyers and submarines, all from three to five months ghead of schedule; are taking the water in a single week, including the launching of the battleship ~ Indiana, : ; x; | Two-ocean naval protection on the scale planned is still a long way ahead, but the United States now has unquestionably the greatest Navy in the world. True it is not perhaps the greatest considering the divided tasks it faces in Atlantic and Pacific, yet the speed with which new ships are being launched gives good hope that the goal will be achieved considerably ahead of the time set. It can’t be too soon.. .;

DEADLOCKED JAPAN THE United States-Japanese negotiations are deadlocked.

Reliable Washington sources indicate that no progress whatever has been made. The Tokio Nichi Nichi, which

is close to the Government, now predicts failure of the con-

ference in an apparent effort to prepare the Japanese public for the worst. Tr §

' Despite these straws in an ill wind, however, the mere

Bact that conversations are continuing should be encour-:

aging, Particularly, because neither party wants war. . Japanese demands for blank check aggression without American interference, as stated almost that bluntly by Premier Tojo to the Diet, and the American demands for cessation of Japanese aggression, including military withdrawal’ from China and renunciation of the Axis pact, obviously cannot be reconciled by any diplomatice sleightand. Only a major Japanese concession can produce ase lement, or even a truce. Japan may yet retreat, provided the United States in a will provide two basic essentials—one being Japanese ess to raw materials and trade outlets, and the other me face-saving device so important to the Oriental mind. e best'sign that Tokyo has not closed the way to treat is that she did not break off negotiations on receipt

he stiff American terms. And by insisting that she has

erritorial designs on China she has kept open a bridge r withdrawal there. 8 a President Roosevelt in his recent statement putting h into the Atlantic charter—“all states, great or small, or or vanquished, must have access, on equal terms; to trade and to the raw materials of the world which are ed for their economic prosperity”—has made possible acceptance of any just Japanese economic demands. As for face-saving, the able Japan Nomura, should not find the wise ng in such matters if Japan sincerely seeks a graceexit from aggression. 5 - Sar Japan has everything to gain from friendship with the i States and China, and everything to lose from

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| had asked for military force, ’

had put his union on a bad spot, from which he has |:

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ret here the other day that in June, 1922, John L. Lewis ad-

rival union “in the same light any other common strijkebreak“and that within ‘48 hours ~this message was posted places in Herrin,

in bestia

lected for murder,

The, tithe Lewis

"~The Sheriff had the final say in the situation and

lenge the murderers.

shovel operators which Lewis, in his telegram, described and condemned as an “outlaw’organization” because it-had been suspended from the A. F. of L. However, the steam shovel men occupied the same status with relation to, the A. F. of L. that Lewis’ miners occupy today. That is to ‘say, the miners are outside the A. F'. of L. and are therefore “outlaws.”

Following the idea Through— . i BY THE SAME PROCESS of reasoning that has operated in all the explanations and condonations of Justified in slaughtering all C. I. O. men on sight in any jurisdictional dispute.

These explanations were not set forth by Lewis, but by various of his J

eral cffect, that when one private organization, even work, any other group of workers or any other indie

out rights as human beings or citizens. Lewis did not admit that his telegram could have ouched off the massacre. On the contrary, he for-' mally “deplored” it and insinuated that the killing had bem instigated by “sinister influences,” adding that ranks of the strikers are infested with .tHousands of detectives and secret service operators ‘whose employment by coal companies ‘depends ‘upon their ability tranquility.” .

No Questions of Wages af Stake

IF HE HAD LEGAL, PROOF of his suspicions, Lewis never made good to clear the name of his-own

and, on the contrary, the boss of the Lewis union in Illinois assured all the indicted members that they would have capable legal service. None.of them ever was convicted and no man ever was punished. The conditions in that case were more aggravated than those which exist in today’s effort of the Lewis political movement, disguised as a labor union, to drive free workmen into his fold, an. attempt which even President Roosevelt has described as Hitlerish. The Herrin miners actually were on strike oves questions of wages and the shovel men were “outsiders.” But Lewis, himself, claims the right to employ “oute siders” these days to enforce the terror of the C. 1. O. picket lines on the local or “native” workmen who refuse to join, so the fact that the shovel men were imported from Chicago to Herrin is of little value. In Lewis’ strike today, no question of wages or hours is at stake. Lewis demands the .closed shop or, in other words, that non-members ‘be compelled to join his union and pay dues into a treasury which he has employed for political purposes, and submit to decisions in which they would have no choice. No question of national defense should be allowed to obscure the present case, although President Roosevelt, seeking the favor of the GC. I. O. bosses has placed the controvery on that basis, ’

This and That

By Pet

er Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Any Government employee of any importance who ever worked for a ~ firm which now has contracts to furnish more than ‘a million dollars worth of defense materials is going to have his record looked into by Sendtor Harry 8S. Truman’s special committee investigating national defense, : Public hearings on this subject; if any, will not be held until after the first of the year. It will take that long for the committee counsel, Hugh A. Fulton and Charles Patrick Clark, and their investigators to go over all the data from the defense agencies and prepare the case. But letters have already gone out to all Government departments and defense agencies, asking them to submit revised lists of all their consultants, lawyers, accountants and assorted experts, together with their past and present corporate connections and their Government pay. alli ; There may be an inclination to conclude that this investigation presages a showdown between the New Dealers and the special fee men who are grouped under. the broad classification of dollar-a-year boys. Men from big business have come. in by the score and departed by the dozen. The number was nearly 300 once, but a recent register listed 86 dollar-a-year men and 34 more who worked for nothing. these dollar-a-year men were inclined to feel sore at being “Investigated” again, pack up their bags and go home for good, they might be justified. Before one of these experts from business can be appointed, he is investigated by the FBI to make sure he has no criminal record, and then by the Treasury to make certain he and his firm are on the up-and-up as far as income and ‘corporation. tax records are concerned. :

Washington Initial News

© WPA runs a nursery school for the children of officers and enlisted men at Jefferson Barr , Mo, . «+ C. I O, now has state councils in 33 s vies PBA (Public ‘Buildings Administration) has h an interior decorator to see that defense housing is done up in good taste. .. . OPC. (Office of Petroleum Coordinator) has its program for tripling aviation gasoline production stepped up to 20 new plants. . . ,

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breakers to vote in labor beard elections. . , , BM, Bureau of Mines, reports hard coal production this - year will reach 56 million tons, highest since 1934. «+» « BR (Bureau of Reclamation) has 28 power plants on 17 reclamation projects with nearly a million kiloals Seas, and is doubling this capacity by the end o :

So They Say— It is impossible for morality and patriotism to thrive in a free democracy when religion ig neg ~Most Rev. John Mark Gannon

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the heavier loads seem to realize that ‘cautious.—Superintendent Henry W. J City traffic police. L :

that women are g into every other kind of occupas= tion Ing I voy Jer Amey Watson,

ok dE ee] Sn * . Ag don't dee why we have ta morals—Mary Jane Carpenter, soro the University of Washington, fang

let Hitler upset our

ttaria; not far short of Germany—~—A. Bever-’ ly Baxter, ‘member of Parliament. ; " ET re

The Roosevelt covets is not that of

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NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—It ‘was |

. rin, Ill, to view the workmen of |

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when the mob advanced theré was no force to ¢hals | 2% The victims were members of a union of steam | |

jo. provoke violence and disturb public | |

organization. - No such conspiracy was ever revealed |

tates ‘me more than to “hear

i NLRB. is on the pan from unions for permitting strike~

, Bishop of Jctlecten. 1

The man with a few drinks feels cocky. Those with |] they must be , Kansas | }'

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With the consent and enthusiasm of the British | the democratic country of Great Britain, with press and free Parliament, has achieved ai.

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the Herrin massacre, the A. F. of L. today would be | #1

ournalistic ‘ coatholdérs. and-| 2 pleaders known as “liberals,” who have held, in gen-

though it be a political group, lays claim to cettain | ¥ viduals who essay to work the jobs are “scabs” with-: | . [gE

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* "mctual war experience eh serve is “in some sort of home défense organization. - ‘The effort is givens fi HEL De ae fact practically everybody has to for air raids on defenseless communities—tha fenseless except so far as civilian org ions can On this model we, too, are setting up, with What little surplus equipment we have, a pretty widespread civilian organization. We have blackouts and alarms, and there is a good deal of demand for such equipment of a military deferisive nature as There has been. considerable listlessness

good many of our people toward this effort, This .column has spoken before ‘of the suggestion of some

population. My ject ‘Just a little further,

| Our Spanish-American Experience:

~ MANY OF US ARE old enough to remember that, - during the Spanish-American War, for & little while the Spanish Atlantic fieet was m une process of bottling itself up in Santiago harbor. But most people on the Atlantic seaboard didn’t believe that, There ‘were demands from practically every sea-coast city to. detach a battleship from our Atlantic Fleet to guard

| that city. ‘That would have been duck soup for tt3 them in detail.

| Spanfards, who could have destfoyed

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

‘MUSIC LOVER STEPS OVER BOUNDS OF TOLERANCE’ By Mariam Williams, Plainfield J

I would ‘like to answer the letter against. swinging symphonic masterpieces by the person who is signed as “A Music Lover.” I -adore good music myself and there is never anything that irrie

abused. However, I think the person who signed as “A: ‘Musie Lover” is ‘over stepping all bounds of tolerance, because I don’t think we should try to influence other people's opinions to such a point as he recommends. You know you are always able to turn off your radio or turn to ane other station if you don’t care for such forms of music, After all, everything material on this earth is subject to change, and I think we should be broadminded enough to accept ; such circumstances, as we. will learn Sooner or later that we are not the only one residing on old mother earth. ® = = ; ‘CAPITAL AND LABOR CAN NEVER GET TOGETHER’

By C. 0. T. East Chicago

together; it is mathematically impossible. Not under our system of capitalism at least. Capital in*this sense is money that breeds money, and strictly speaking there is no struggle betw capital and labor at all; the struggle is between the owners of money (capitalists) and workers. For the capitalist class to make a profit, and their capital to “work while they sleep” labor must be exploited, or more frankly speak-, ing, robbed of a part of their wage. Edward Bellamy in “Looking Backward” and Sinclair Lewis in} “Brass Check” explain it very logically. Karl H. Marx explained it a hundred years ago, but then it takes longer to build a house than to bum it down and longer

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Capital and labor. can never get (©

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to grow a man than to murder h

of “America First” and its analagous Fifth Columnists abroad have eased and furthered the triumphs of Hitler. Expose these Hitlerites here at home and you integrate and sustain the forces against him here and everywhere, * de WE. Mi ‘STANDARDIZED CLOTHING - WILL HELP FEMALES’ - By Mary F. Wright, 120 Miley Ave. In Wednesday's Times Mr. Baruch’s standard plan, is a long step in this

So let's hape it) will ail come out new order like the season the

0, k. in the long run. And by the way, that is -thé> way democracy works best anyway—in the long run, nd ® 0» : ‘AMERICA FIRS1T' WANTS : TO SEE HITLER WIN’ By Clyde P. Miller, 13. B. 17, Box 251 How long. are ve fo be pestered by this “America First” outfit, whose only object is to hornswoggle us into trading our American birthright for a mess of Nazi pottage? Don’t talk to me about. subversive influences,— German bunds, Jommunists, ete. and leave out of consideration the most shameful, deceitful, traitorous and dangerous bund of all—“America First”; dangerous oecause it is camed by American citizenship; traitorous because it would deliver us as vassels to Hitler; deceitful because it waves the American flag and wears a swastika inside fits sleeve; shameful hecause it insults the intelligence, the honor and the virility of real Amercans, No, I am no: opposing free speech. Let them falk, but for America’s sake le; everyone know what are their notives and their meaning. No, I am not conceding any sincerity .to them. The only thing sincere about them is their desire to see Hitler win this war over any nation he may choose to attack, including tie U. 8. A. ‘The backbone of “America First” fs mendacity and its intestinal sus-

It is a sad commentary on American ‘lite today ; I.

secretary, Council on Household Employment. - |} 3

Side Glances ~By Galbraith ; as i

| {et us alo | {Ang im ntl wie our pe are

clothing of ‘mankind is changed to our comfort. Now shortage of ma-

terial will shape a new order. It will in a great degree help ‘the

famale more than the male, for as

la woman and a dressmaker of the

early .1900’s, I know styles of clothing. Hats and shoes are not for health and comfort only, mostly to get all of oir money. that really does not give the most service, In 25 years from now we may all

meh, ‘eto. Mankind must learn material of this earth is: for one purpose only, comfort and health. All waste is a loss to each of us regardless of how mitich wealth we have, . » : : i Necessity is a great. power and ought to be used to ever improve conditions for all humanity. . . « : Lr ‘FUR TRAPPING MEANS. CONCENTRATED. CRUELTY’

By P. W. Douglas, M. H. Jo

Indiana Anti-Steel Trap League,

diana ; ; Again the fur trapping season is on, and again we face two months of casual and concentrated cruelty. We assert that if the average woman could see her fur coat or fur hat in its inciplency, gnawing its foot off, perchance to escape the clutches of the steel trap, she could 0 roduct that ie forefront

secretaries,

med” or “Humanely Trapped.” Let us hope that the day is not

| {tar distant when Indiana can point the legislation of the|

with

ne frap, 82 Soacted by fe Kentucky Legislature - adop by. the trappers of

__CHORIC SONG . 1.is the dark-blue sky,

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alone: Time ‘driveth onward

| The Navy stood firm and finally

‘| ments abroad

be recognized by our .clothing as! THE the police, soldiers, service station 3

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lly caught and destroyed the Spanish Fleet outside of Santiago. =~ > But the scare was wide-spredd. It resulted ina string of almost useléss coastal fortificdtion on our Atlantic coast, and absor) a lot of money from our

| scant military appropriations which might much bet.

ter have,gone elsewhere, ~~. : Can’ you imagine the multiplication of this hysteria, helped considerably hy. civilain defense propaganda? If Hitler should drop a few bombs on Philadelphia, New York, or even Minneapolis or Kane sas City? There would be a demand by every town in the country for air raid shelters, and from: every congressional district for at least a regiment of anti-aire craft troops and a squadron of pursuit planes for every village, Thousands of tons of essential materials. would be anchered to the ground, : Guns, ammunition and planes would be pinned down pointlessly, Ship.and to our Army would be reduced to a ‘trickle. ‘ “

Four Very Big Reasons =

I THINK THERE'S a fair military conclusion that it would be utterly imposible for the Nazis to mount

and execute a raid that would have any military significance whatever. But that isn’t the point here. . There are four reasons for aerial bombing. One is to destroy industrial or communication systems. Another is to prepare the way for ground troops. A third is to paralyze the civilian population and make it sue for peace. Not one of these is tely within - Hitler's power. This he knows as well as anybody, But there is a fourth—-with a very few planes, to cause such concefn among civilians that military weapons might be diverted from their true purpose, . It is of this that I am speaking, 2 i The best education that could be given our peapls on this subject is that gen raid by strategy, guile or stealth could ever be Flrong enodgh to do enough . harm to warrant them in demanding detachments from our great organizations for military and naval . defense. Sn A dirinh

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson | a” HOMECOMING, WHEN OLD

is a wild event for universities and colleges. It’s a wonder they live through it. ra & ' For the-ald grads it is 8 period A Faget hy Joy is

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Progress, with her blue pencil, ‘we wanted w emain, forever and ov es Besides, 1 terribly tc much packed into one place. Buoyaht, erlery gscent, violent, tender youth—jammed- into a 1 dum, pas radirig on the fleld between halves, holding hands under autumn -trees, cooing ayer cokes in corner drug stores—these scenes are etched sharply on the vision of the individual who once studied and played snd loved in the same surroundings. - ~~ = =

i! They Put On a Grand Act

- THE OLD GRADS, themselves, put on a ‘They enjoy meeting friends from whom 1 been separated; nothing can mar the I of those brief moments of greeting. But most © seem a bit blue around the gills, if : when they think no ore is looking. There's of awkwardness, even a constraint in the ‘ments, and a hint of panic in their eyes. For we al! make the mistake of thinking aps this time we can recapture some of th

rsuade us of its futility. Even last year's stile Pe marked by some intangible differerice. Life te that, darn it! You're either in school or out, and don’t try to cross the chasm which separates one group from another. It can't be done. at’ t

ever

One is plagued by these little thoughts only odd moments, When : the ‘game starts a = unity is attained. Then we all go crazy er. scream and stamp and roar in am orgy of noise whi must be a throwback to some | existence, : What 8 Diy nations can't settle their differences on the, footba sub :

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