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deferment, now says. he will issue similar advice to local draft boards in respect. to key men in the. res! and Tadic industries. Yim .. In our opinion, ‘Gen, Hershey, you are wrong again. ~ We agree with you. that the press is an industry essen-

can’t think offhand of a single one who, if called o the colors, would be irreplaceable. : We don’t want to be put in a special daze of citizens “400 precious to fight. ” We believe—as William Green declares the American Federation of Labor believes—“that the "duty to bear arms in defense of the nation falls equally upon - all citizens and that there is no place for special privilege of any kind in administration of the selective & service laws.”

NO JOB FOR THE WEB Fie or a “HE war, labor board is angt the proper authority to decide the: issues: which come before it tomorrow. in hearings on demands by the C. LO. st 1 workers against, the little steel companies. =~. | Those issues should be decid by the. ‘government. by ongress or the President, or better, by congress and - the.president. : . ‘| They are national issues, afféc g all the people: of the United States, not merely the officials and members of the union and the officials and stockholders of the companies involved. They are: or Whether the government hall * support ‘organized

labor in an attempt to maintgin and improve its standard of living, during a period in which the general standard of living must decline for the simple| reason that war’s demands are creating shortages of civili 2. Whether the government shall compel extension of closed-shop p anciple throughout ingusizy during the emergency. RT It will be said, of course, that the war r labor toad is not undertaking to decide these issues, but only to settle a specific controversy between a union and a group of steel companies. ' But that is not true.

the war

| tf # #” 8 # » HE sad history of the national defense mediation board on proves that attempts .to settle specific controversies without establishing general precedents just can’t succeed. The WLB is up against the same kard fact that wrecked its predecessor.” Its decision in the little steel case will be regarded, by labor as a whole and by industry as a whole, as establishing a policy. If it awards $1-a-day wage increases and some form of the closed shop to the steel workers in this

that they have been unjustly treated if they don’t get them. matters. We believe the government should decide firmly

that it will not use its power to extend the closed shop and + compe! union membership as a condition of employment;

.. prices and the cost of living which all must pay.

“WHY SO MANY CARDS? Tee country is supposed to be conserving paper. Nevertheless, advance notices on sugar rationing indicate that there will have to be separate ration cards for each member of a family, with a Gescription of the individual. It will not, however, be necessary for each member of “thé family to‘present his own card in person. The mother, ' for instance, can gather them all up and buy for all. © Why not, therefore, just one card for a family, reduc- . ing the number of ‘cards toa fourth or a fifth, and reducing | the clerical worl mally? Br of wn

FLYING COMMANDERS, ; - Hv: “far the President has’ ‘revamped Army commands, since his conversion to the superior importance of air DOWEE,. is. not generally ‘vealized. His appointment of a ? flier, ‘Maj. Gen, James E. Chaney, as commander of all U. S. 4 0} “forces. in. the British Isles, is in line with the recent seldgtion of of dirnien 0 rer other branches of the service.

at erably ‘aviation experience. Nas ‘Gens. ‘Bon steel fadfeciand 5 and ‘Btickner

were aviators. in the

Lieut. Gen. masded & the new Army cor Hawaii, was. chief oro the combat command of A former ‘vhiefof the Ary Alr Co , Lieut.

Army mili, ih . ia i21 "And Wavell’s deputy forces in the holy on land and air—is : a former Sree of the. hay Air Corps, Maj. Gen,

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er . 5 ers, a and movie people as “eligible for draft Li

tial to the national interest. ‘But in our rather wide ac- th . quaintance among newspapermen around the country, we |

We believe the government must have policies on these |,

that it should insist that wages be considered in relation to |

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“tainly is one of our most substan=-

as yet. I doubt that anyone knows what the answer will be and I am: afraid it will have to be something

ant for any of us, individually.

at least. That means. retraihing - ‘assignment to war tasks and, I should think, r tribution. i .

Union Position Is & Puzzler

THE POSITION OF. the unions-in all this will be a great trial. They may seem to be in a position to

help, but I doubt that they could help much, even if

all the big unioneers were absolutely unselfish and patriotic; as comparatively few or them are. They have had no more experience in such a situation than anyone else of us, but the best of them will instinctively insist on a lot of old hard-and-fast rules and traditions, such as the closed shop, overtime rates, Jurisdictions and the regulation of apprenticeships and upgrading. Even with the best intentions hey can become a nuisance amounting to sabotage on a disastrous scale, so I don't see how we can safely give the unions more than a complimentary voice in the matter.

But, as I say, I am not trying to drdw a design,

nor have I read anywhere a plan to: meet the -enor-

“mous urgent need. ‘I think the reason why no plan

has been put forward might be that pur liberal and

. | radical leaders are afraid to say what is in their

minds, which is government compulsion, which means government regulation and eventually government absorption of the unions which, of course, means government as the bargaining The government must be the boss because, when you peel off the legal nonsense, the government. is boss ‘of the essential war industries, including agriculture,

Well, Here We Are . . .

WHEN YOU ARRIVE at that condition the ques<: tion is, “Who controls the government?” Perhaps’

{you could get a balanced combination, but by that

time the property rights of the stockholders would be. pretty well subdued, so the prospects of private owns ership are not so bright. Representatives of big industry, meaning big aggregations of little investments, with whom I have tried

"40 discuss the. future just shrug ‘off the question.

They just want fo lick the enemy. But if the private owners never get ‘the property. back that must mean the government will get it and if that doesn’t mean the government will be the employer, suppose you tell me who will be. And, in that case, do you think the government would let some private, tax-exempt organization, run by irresponsible, bossy Individuals. withhold labor from all those works Well, here we are where we started and, althgugh I don’t know what the answer is, I can profise you that there is such a question ‘as I have been fumbling with here.

U.S. Aviation

..case,.other unions will expect similar awards, and. will feel.|.

By Maj. Al Williams

“JAPAN-MUST BE BOMBED to defeat.” With what planes, you ask? With what we are building and with what we are going to build. Certainly not with-what we have built and kept ‘at home, or shipped to England, or stationed in the Philippines or Hawaii or Alaska. I hope I am dead wrong in that statement. But a vast proportion of all the best and most efficient airplanes, guns, and’ equipment for fighting this war against the axis powers has been shipped to England from America and the British colonies and dominions. England is loaded with three or four million men equipped to withstand invasion; with bombers, fighters and other aircraft to offset- any air force which must pave the way for an invasion.

I believe we shipped enough such equipment to England to have enabled us to have squashed the Jap invasion of the Philippines and to have sunk hundreds of Jap transports and the entire Jap sea fleet. It isn’t because the Japs are such world beaters as. fighting airmen that they were able to overrun the Philippines, capture Manila, “race through Malaya and box MacArthur up in Bataan. It was the pitiably deficient air oppositien sent to the Far Eastern theater of war that licked the Americans and the defenders of other gllied positions in that sector. At the outbreak ‘of this war, airmen pointed cut that all the English “afrcraft’- factories were well within ‘the range of German bombers. - Why not hurry and build aircraft factories in Canada.and Australia, we asked? But no, that wasn't the English plan. The British aircraft industry resisted that proposal for almost a year of $e. war.

Kept Spitfires at Home

ENGLISH POLITICIANS sent little er Being of first line fighters and “bombers ‘to Malaya. They

planes in Malaya could have crumpled the Jap invagion of Malaya at the outset. Ditto the Libyan and Near East front; ditto Australia. And Australia knows this, and is raising cain about it. jump on iis through Alaska, or do the unéxpetted. of deadly fogs in that region? ‘Will we

1 don't think 80.

~don’t mind I “will ust, sil this | . one around because, while it cer- |.

“tial ;problems, it: hasn't any: shape |

‘pretty drastic and not very pleas- | ; Paes. if our solution enables us .

‘and. the boss as well. |

‘kept the Spitfires at home. A few hundred of .these oy

What, about us and invasion? Wha if, the Japs [{ and have a try at us through Puget Sound during one of | those i She ylang Wwe sent’ across’ he Aflantic? 13

more than eight years ‘there has “been close to -the heart of this “admiristration~a nest of people “whom we ‘have called the ‘new " dealers. Re) = aks I a mistake to clsity them.

credit of the dems aah T

{in spending billions,

“Billions Don't. Mater

SOME, LIKE MR, HARRY HOPKINS who 18 pretty nearly tops among them; have ‘spent or given away more of other people's money than any other

5 ‘human being since the world began. .

Some indulge in this fabulous squandering because

. ‘pthey know little of its effect and feel na responsibility © J for it. Others, like A. A, Berle, perhaps the best ine | formed and most clear-heagded of the lot, boldly told | a senate committee that its effect, if not its purpose,

was, to put the great. industries of the country and,

! hy implication, all private property under such a

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your, rioht to say it.-—Voltaire.

TAKES BACK REMARKS ABOUT REP. BOEHNE By Chas. King, 1311 N. Tuxedo st. I noticed an article I sent to The Times. forum was published after Congressmen Boehne’s issue appeared in The Times stating he was bitterly opposed to the congressmen pension bill. It was unjust of me to misrepresent Congressman Boehne as one that petitioned such a. bill as that in desperate war time. It is my duty to offer an humble apology and I am truly sorry I have offended our readers, z : 8 8 =» “LINCOLN SAID ‘CAPITAL IS FRUIT OF LABOR’ ” By James R. Meitzler, Attica

Since Mr. Daacke states he was using the term’ “fabor” in its broad sense meaning all effort and not limiting it merely to union labor, there is little difference between us, Management is labor. Invested capital is saved labor. “Capital is the fruit of labor” said Lincoln in that often quoted Speech. The worker's wage,is his property to spend or.save. Saved it becomes his capital to invest. Invested and well managed he gets -a profit. Badly managed it is lost. “We as a nation have solved the problem of production,” says Mr. Daacke claiming success for 130,000,000 people. No. of ‘production - was ‘solved by ecapitalist management working sometimes “ndividually, sometimes . cooperatively. “Present chaos. and uncertainty positive evidence of complete failure,” says Daacke laying all our ills on management. Failure. is common both in nature and man. Man pretends success due to his efforts and alibis his failures on the other fellow. Conspicuous in the public eye is the glaring failure of ‘pur national administration. Another example, the management, of C.1.O.and A. F. of L. alienating public opinion in their determined and brutal encroachments on the rights of free men, wage workers, property owners, and the public. Ont the other hand good management has made this the best fed, best clothed, best housed nation in the world.

“Unjust system ‘of distribution: re-

The problem].

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sponsible for chaos and insecurity” again Daacke blames the other fellow. Our labor government's department: of commerce estimates 1941 national income at $89,425,060,000. Wages and, salaries $59,879,000,000 again over two-thirds. Wage increases in manufacturing industries 39 per cent. Dividend increase nine per cent. Labor department, average weekly earnings in all manufacturing industries since Aug. 1939 increased 33.9 per cent. Food price increase in same period 21 per. cent. Not bad, when you consider this much decided . capitalist management furnished the money, the factories, the raw materials, took all risks, met the payrolls, sold the finished products, and if in spite of the encroachments of the unions and the exactions of government it made a profit, that profit was begrudged by the men who had nothing to do but put in 40 hours and draw their pay. But to a person who blames management for all accidents and sickness and wants everything for himself, any. profit is unfair,

- » # " “WHAT ARE YOU: FOR, MR. 'PEGLER?". 5 By C. 0. T., East Chicago Pegler, you have written that you are a reactionary. You have writ+ ten that you are against Hitler but you are also against our most, successful ally, the Russians. ‘You are against the C. 1. Q. and the A. F. of L., also agdinst.Mr. Big. ~~. You do not know the difference between fascism and communism. because you wrote. that one union leader iis: a fascist-bolshevik. You do not know, apparently, that fascism and Russianism are diametrically opposed and the Russians gre doing a wonderful job of knocking hell out of Hitler. You wouldn’t make a very good teacher, you are

Side Glances—By Galbraith .

only against; What are you for?"

Ray Clapper ‘writes: “There is reason for alarm. But we are like~ ly to do much better for ourselves by trying to find out what needs to be done than by wasting too miich

| |energy in chasing scapegoats.”

Pegler, you "are a good reporter but you always swim in slime. Won’t you stand up and help us pull toward victory a little? ® a x “AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR CITY OFFICIALS” By J. G. S., Indianapolis I would like" to. have ‘this considered an open letter. to Mayor Sullivan, Chief ' Morrissey, . Juvenile Judge Bradshaw and the police department. My story goes . back to, last. sum-

mer’ when the parks were still open. |.

I live close to George Washington park in Brightwood and my children used to go there to play. One

day last August my two boys, ages|

6 and 11 years and a little 9-year-old playmate were in the park playing. A young man in a , nice big car drove up and fried tp enfice them to'go with him. . ,. They refused and he left. The boys came home . and told their mother and she called the police. They caught this man in he

park still trying to entice some child |

to go with him,

He admitted his guill to the po-|

lice. They took him to headquarters and the police told my. wife someone would be out to get a state-

ment from the children as evidence.| |

About a week: later no one had been out and I got in touch with the officers who made the arrest and they had turned the case over to

juvenile court. The last we heard|

was the man was “out on bail,” Now, why the big manhunt? If he is caught they will turn him loose again. Even when they admit, their guilt they can get out on bail. The: officers do their part all right, but: what is wrong With the courts? | Let’s hope they wake up and when

the police get this man or men|

they are hunting he is not turned loose again. : Pa “DOES JOBLESS FUND MAKE POLITICAL PIE?” By R: Sprunger, Indianapelis Gevernor Schricker says the peo~ ple of Indiana-do not want federal aid for. Unemployment ‘compensation, K* What people, Governor The political “heels, “vested’ interests” and labor “aristocrats” who. do not. as yet face ‘starvation while industry is being converted to the war

| effort.

You ‘Lave the colossal nerve to squawk: about “state rights” when

thousands are losing théir jobs and .

the federal government proposes to extend miserly unemployment benefits ‘to afford a little more relief

i tp. the unemployed.

You ‘say the state can handle

|the situation. Then why wasn’t

more done about liberalizing un-;

: | -|employment compensation. in ‘the!

B® | |last legislature if ‘more funds are

| [Feceived than paid out? What is

“hoarded” for? | . {Does it make a nice political “pie”?

this money being

The. lame excuse is made that,

| Indiana would ‘help the unemployed | |in other states with funds collected}: - | {here. Yet when aid is asked for ~{ |suffering people of another nation, ea is sad about boundary es

The political clap trap is not

| | worried about “state rights.” They '+{| |are worried that the political plams | {in this state may

“picking” for “home

bayer THOUGHT

4-which we shall soon kiss

become slim | | grown” poli- ‘| ticians, iia .

‘burden of federal obligation that the, government ‘wollld. own or at least control it all, ;. . :

sight to federal debt. The war advanced their plan

:} =if there was a plan—by leagues.

. Through mutual friendships, if not community of purpose, they are infiltrated into so many key places in the stupendous machine which the government has built up that withdrawing the whole crew over. night would be like taking the skeleton out of a chicken. It would collapse. They have failed in many of their principal purposes. t they are never daunted. If one new and untried Vaeory doesn’t work, they blithely pass on. to another.

We're Just Stuck With, ‘Em

THIS 18 ALL an old ory and what ids been sald was by way of thundering preface. For never - forget this is the real crew directing our effort in this war. If one alphabetical war ‘agency doesn’t wark, ane other is set up. A few industrialists may fit| in, but they promptly flit out if: they are not acceptable to this group, Anybody who thinks that Donald Nelson, industrialist though he is, wasn't weighed fn their balance and found not Wanting, Just doesn’t now his Washington groceries. 5 All of which brings me up to.the point of this piece, To prosecute this war without fantastic failure should

‘|'this gang go? My answer is emphatically no. In

‘the first place it is too late. They and their's are so much a part of government that.such a house-cleane ing would risk collapse and chaos. In the second place it is' impossible. “The fiumber 1 man is responsible for them and you can’t get rid of. He President, rd as it is, we must do the best we. the tools we have, . , i

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A Woman S Niewpsini By Mrs. Walter Ferguson. a

THE HOUSEWIFE will soon face her hardest thriff prcblem, i Food seems sure to be higher and > increased taxes ‘will take” a bigger . Share of the family: income: . This means we shall have to use our - heads as feminine heads have not i been used at home’ since grandma - made hominy. * °° There is a tin shioriage, and even the small ‘amount for cans / may not: be available to manufacturers. New receptacles will be ‘developed, but the keeping methods. Besides, a large part of the supply of canned goods now on .hahd may go to the soldiers. Until the new crop'is here, and the néw methods of [reservation are in running order, ’ ‘more home’ cooking must be done. I daresay few women realize how much we "have depended upon others for our conveniences, many of How many millions have fallen into the habit of calling the corner drug store daily to” rush out cokes and a ‘package of cigarets? And how many’ others have become so ace customed to having merchandise delivered that they i persecuted When asked to ary thelr stall pur. ases? L#

H's Sure a Dog's Life! rb oa

CERTAINLY WE CAN count: on more o walkiigrand perhaps our Rggtes es will be improved when we do our own errands, ther: result of the change may be a booming business for the small neighborhood grocery. As tires wear out and gas rationing begins, we shall all have to tote home our ‘own cabbage and bacon or go without, : But here is' the saddést neWs of all” The prepared dog - food output is to be drastically curtailed. While we move back: into hotse-and-buggy days, it may be back to the garbage pail for Fido and Rover —bless their sweet, pampered little hearts,

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