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MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1943

THIS IS TAX DAY

F you haven't already paid your federal i income tax, then | by all means, for your own protection, read this: If you are single and earned as much as $500 last year, Lor if you are married and earned as much as $1200, you have ~ until midnight to send in your income tax return and pay at least one-fourth of the tax due on your last year’s insome. .. For willful failure to file a return and pay up, the treasury may impose certain costly penalties, and in addition the 4. courts may inflict punishment ranging up to $10,000 fine .-and five years in jail, ~The government does not want to fine, imprison or otherwise penalize anyone for non-payment of income taxes. All the government wants is for each of us to pay what the W requires him to pay. y Such a stiff warning has not been considered necessary in past years. But the government seems to: think it is # necessary this year because of public misunderstanding and onfusion arising out of congressional debate on pay-as-you-0 tax legislation, some form of which may be enacted in ~ the future. ~ Democratic and Republican leaders have joined in a ‘ last-minute statement that taxes due today must be paid and “no new revenue plan now before congress or that might scome before congress changes or postpones that obligation “in the slightest.

“WELCOME TO EDEN

MERICA welcomes the British foreign ‘minister. Mr. Eden is popular in this ‘country, because of his record and the impression he made on his earlier visit. + Particularly, Americans will accept his appearance in Washington at this time as evidence that the two govern«ments are seeking a more complete understanding to win ‘the war and the peace. Recent bickering over French «policy, post-war aviation, and’ other problems, has demonstrated the need for Anglo-American policy discussions. He can be assured that this country is desirous of the closest co-operation with Great Britain, and our other allies. The president should use this occasion of British negotiation to initiate a joint congressional-executive commission on post-war problems, so that congress may be prepared to perform its constitutional duties in foreign relations wisely. " » ” FAIR WARNING N the general ‘rejoicing over extension of lend-lease, foreign governments and our own executive branch should heed the senate warning against unauthorized post-war agreements, Congress, without partisanship and virtually without debate, has prolonged this essential measure to provide war aid. But congress has not given a blank check for future deals of any kind. ; As to commitments under Article VII of the master lend-lease agreements, the senate foreign relations com‘mittee in its unanithous report stated flatly : “It is not a commitment which binds either of the legislative bodies of this government. For example, Article VII does not authorize the reduction of tariffs or commit e United States to other measures which, under the constitution, must be adopted by the congress or by either branch thereof, . . . The committee believes that there is no authority in the lend-lease act to warrant any general post-war commitments, or post-war policies in agreements de under the terms of the lend-lease act.” ts 2 8 a 4 . & a NFORTUNATELY, the president in so-called master ~ lend-lease agreements has appeared to commit the nited States to certain post-war economic relations and policies, as Senator Vandenberg said, “without any consultaion or confirmation in respect to congressional authority.” - So we are drifting rapidly toward a repetition of the agic misunderstandings, regarding the good faith of merican commitments, which wrecked the Wilson peace nd poisoned our international relations for a generation. This time foreign governments and peoples are forewarned of what they well know to be the fact, that the esident can negotiate but only. congress can commit the ited States. * But that clarification of the record, otc course, does not lve the problem. It is only a negative thing, when posiaction is required. There must be post-war planning OW among the allies, unless we are to lose the peace. - Hence the imperative need of a joint congressional-

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utive commission to consider the manifold, complicated |

nomic and political questions on which the president o dy i is negotiating, and which eventually must be passed y congress under the constitution, We owe this to.our lies; we owe it even more to ourselves, y

z NEW WELFARE BOARD

4 COURT JUDGE MARK C. ‘RHOADS has done . Marion county a great service. The new board of public e which he has selected is made up. of persons who ely known and respected, who ‘have no political lions and who are interested only i in the development ‘welfare program. udge Rhoads deserves much of the credit. Few know hard he worked to get competent persons to accept 3.and how many of this community's ranking eitiId not see their way clear. “Judge Rhoads néver trying and he ‘never lowered his. sights for. an

ult speaks. for itself. the new board every success. Iti is ‘Bok an: easy in cleaning up a situation which has long been It is chall

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WASHINGTON, March 15. —

ington’ give hope that the curse . of jurisdictional labor disputes ‘can be ended for the duration of the war: + 1. The .senate’s Truman com- - mittee investigating the war effort will have before it four top labor . leaders" to testify on this problem - of inter-union warfare, particu0) : larly as it relates to inefficient use I" of manpower in war production. 2. Henry J. Kaiser, -in Washington to find some

jurisdictional row which threatens production at his ‘three Oregon shipyards, announced that he had been

/ holding conferences with the national labor relations |

board and union leaders and could report progress in his effort to have “a negotiated adjustment instead of a forced adjustment,” indicating that the case might be settled outside the NLRB complaint hearings, now recessed to March 29. 3. While NLRB officials themselves are coy on discussing any undecided case still before the board, it can be stated authoritatively that Robert B. Watts, NLRB general counsel, has been meeting with union labor leaders in “exploratory conversations” on the

realizes it has got hold of a hot spud and would like to let go if it could find some neat way,

Exposure May Speed Solution

ALL THREE OF these developments come close on the heels of exclusive NEA Service dispatches, first printed in this newspaper a few days ago, disclosing that the six top A. F. of L. and C. I. O. peace negotiators had tacked a secret paragraph onto their much-heralded unity agreement of Dec. 2, guaranteeing each side protection of its legal rights. This under-the-table agreement ‘was interpreted by the C. I. O. to be a guarantee of its rights under the Wagner act to continue membership organization drives and to refuse A. F. of L. offers to negotiate a no-raiding agreement. Bringing out into the open this secret deal of the peacemakers is now believed to have facilitated a solution of not only the Kaiser Jurisdictional battle itself, but of all similar disputes interfering with the war production effort. Kaiser sees today a real opportunity to adjust the labor situation te the war effort. He has assurances from C. I. O. President Phil ‘Murray, A. FP. of L. Metal Trades Leader John P, Frey and NLRB representatives themselves that they all want to Improve the present bad situation.

'lIt Can Be Done’ Tactics

KAISER IS approaching the problem with his typical “it can be done” attitude. He says he can report progress in these negotiations, and he wouldn't be making statements about it if he ‘did not see hope for settlement within a few weeks. Kaiser's solution for the problem of jurisdictional

disputes is to “freeze” lahor -conditions as they are at present. A step similar to this was taken at the

today is to freeze union membership as it now exists. Workmen in one union would stay in that union for the duration or as long as they kept théir present Jobs, workers not in any union would stay out, new workers would have the choice of joining whatever union they liked, or none, Such solution would undoubtedly be considered by the unions a proposal for an open shop, or substitution of maintenance of membership for the closed shop, but Kaiser makes it clear that this is not his problem, but the ‘province of the nattional war labor board and the unions themselves. All Kaiser is interested in is getting the disputants together and negotiating.

Hearings May Aid SeHloment

TRUMAN COMMITTEE hearings of the next week or so should do much to hasten a settlement. Four union leaders who will be called to testify are C. I. O. President Murray, A. F. of L. President Bill Green, A. F. of L. Metal Trades Council President Frey, and C. I. O. Marine and Shipbuilders’ Union President Johnny Green. The committee is primarily interested in getting the greatest possible production out of the existing labor force, but will tackle the sjurisdictional muddle as one of the principal causes of interference with war production. As pointed out by Truman Counsel Hugh Fulton in recent examination of Mr. Kaiser, what a union Jurisdictional fight amounts to in final analysis is determination of which union a workman must pay his dues to. As far as winning the war is concerned, that ‘wouldn't seem to make much difference.

Westbrook Pegler did not write a column today.

“Air Offensive” By Stephen Ellis

THE EVER INCREASING tempo of bombing attacks on Germany serves to make “The Air Offensive Against Germany,” by Allan A. Michie, more impressive and more timely each day. For it is Michie’s

conviction, supported by firsthand acquaintance with airpower, that we can win this war quickly by saturation block-busting. gichie, a newspaper correspondent on’ the “wrong ' of 600 air raids in England, apparently has an a with leading British air commanders. Here, briefly, is what he contends: There is a difference of opinion between the royal air force and the U. S. army air forces as to whether daylight bombings are sufficiently effective to be worth the diversion of planes = which might otherwise be concentrated on night bombing exclusively. Weather conditions rarely permit the precision bombardier to see his target; our fortresses are no longer immune from improved enemy fighters, Our air force high command is holding stubbornly to .a tactical concept; tactics should be switched so that the U. S.A. PF. F.and the R. A, P. could collaborate in a series of gigantic night raids ‘that would so weaken Germany that the allied land

forces could close in for the kill without facing another blood bath.

The British Viewpoint? * . MICHIE PULLS ho punches, either in the analysis of strategy or criticism of the performance of American airplanes. Definitely he charges that U. S. army censors have prevented the American public from obtaining a true picture, Obviously he presents the British viewpoint; obviously, too, nis book must have some sting, or was it a coincidence that the day before the book was released, Maj. Gen. Eaker, our air commander in the European theater, gave out a statement contending that daylight was worthwhile because the fortresses: and Liberators were knock down four fighters for every bomber lost and tha enemy . defenses must a day? Aside from the argument of strategy, there is plenty of satisfying reading Specially an. the sections

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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“OUR PECK OF GRIEF ISN'T VERY IMPORTANT” By Red Cross Volunteer, Indianapolis.

I inquired of an unpleasant-looking woman. “No!” came her abrupt reply, “it costs too much to live, we got taxes, and I've been poorly, After she finished I told! her I was sorry, and then I thanked her for coming to the door. I At the next house a cheery-look-ing little woman opened the door. “Won't you join the Red Cross?” I asked. Immediately came - her) enthusiastic reply, “Why £ome ‘right on in. I can’t think of any-, thing I would rather do. Oh, don’t: bother about the snow on your |

shoes..." As I left the friendly little house with its bright red seal in the window I couldn’t help comparing the two women. The first hadn't spent any money and she hadn't promised to join later either. The second woman had spent money; it was pinned to a Red Cross report sheet. : : That's simple arithmetic. The second woman was out the amount of her contribution., But wait a minute—there was something about her, I don't know just how to express it. Yet if you had seen the way her face fairly sparkled and heard the hearty way she laughed you would know that a million dol-

dom she possessed. We all have our responsibilities and misfortunes, but the majority of us, thank heaven, prevent mere misfortune from growing into stark tragedy because we have broad enough viewpoints to know that our own little peck of grief isn’t

“Won't you join the Red Cross?”|.

lars could not buy the type of wis-|

very important, when measured on a larger scale.” And we know we would not be fair to the men in service if we turned a deaf ear to the earnest plea of the Red Cross at this time, That's smiple arith-

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pound pet shop if it is ‘established. A very deciding factor, I believe, should be the fact that if this plan were feasible such a program would have been. started by other large cities years ago. It is to be hoped that the city council will not pass 1 this ordinance and thereby overpopulate our city with hundreds of mongrel and starved dogs. » ” » “THE WORKER MUST HAVE THE TRUTH” By Mrs, Carroll. Collins, Indianapolis The bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor almost admitted they were «not giving accurate figures to the workers on the increased cost of living, because they are setting up (using their own words) “A Fairer Basis for Computing the Cost of Living.” They claim a raise of slightly above 15 per cent since January, 1941, Other reputable statisticians indicate¢. the cost of living had increased not less than 21 per cent. In September, 1939, the dollar was worth 100 cents. Today. the dollar is’ worth 77.9 cents, not deducting taxes. Ten cents is taken ont of the worker's dollar for direct taxes and

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.)

«SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES IF PET SHOP 1S ESTAELISHED” By E. H. Janke, Indianapqlis « +s « I doubt if the citizens of Indianapolis are attaching encugh importance to the question at Issue before the city council tonight . of whether . . . the city should establish a pet. shop ir. conjunction with the city dog pound.

Without question, the supperfers of this movement are sincere in their altruistic intentions but I fear the potential serious consequences have not been considered}

The dog pound was created to keep stray and starving dogs off our streets and not for the purpose of breeding more stray dogs to roam our city. Let us not delude ourselves with the ‘belief that ridding our city of stray dogs will be benefitted by establishing a pet shop and

placing more mongrel dogs in the ancther 10 cents for hidden taxes, hands of irresponsible people. . . .| i 0. i vac ete. That makes your This is an ill-advised movement, |p, vino gollar worth 579 cents. particularly so at this time when =o, 14 per cent comes out of that there is a shortage of food. A dog,| gor war savings and the worker has as anyone knows, shoud have IaW| 479 cents out of the thing he calls meat regularly to remain healthy. a buying dollar. Let us be reasonable about it ahd| mp ic bureau was established prinask ourselves this question: How cipally to aid the worker, but the will this inevitable surplus crop offunion worker must have the truth dogs be properly fed with: food ra-| or their confidence will be detioning in effect, and with less table stroyed. scrap? It follows that if the city established a dog pet shop, in all probability dogs will be bred in the dog pound for the express purpose of selling the pups in an endeavor to make the pet shop pay. Every true dog lover likes to see a well-fed, well-mannered dog, but does not like to see. stray, starving dogs roaming our city, which will be the logical outgrowth of a dog

to live oa that 479 and buy the governor a mansion for thousands of dollars when there are so many more, important things to think about? Little children, half nour= ished, sick mothers and wives, small salaries for large families, old-age

are needed. What charity? Sweet Christian

Side Glances—By Galbraith

charity. Take care of the highsalaried man and for goodness sake fight labor and call yourselves honest. citizens. : x = = “THIS SHOULD NOT 3 EMBARRASS MR. WILLKIE” By George Maxweily, 450 N. Senate ave. I wonder if in his introduction of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek at Madison Square garden, Wendell Willkie

avenging angel if he had "known | |that in her speech there she was ‘| going to plead ‘against any spirit of revenge by the conquerors. Mme, Chiang left no doubt as to

said, “There must be no bitternéss | in the reconstruction world, No matter what we’ have undergone and suffered, we must try to forgive those who injured us.” : It is plein that there was no | |understanding between Mr. Willkie and Mme. Chiang on the introduction as is sometimes suspected to be the case. ‘Mr. Willkie is so used to pulling

4 embarrass | ‘him unduly.

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold I come quickly; hold |- that fast which thou hast, that ‘ho man take thy crown. ~—Revelas

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NEW YORK, March 15 ~The dangerous situation that was predicted a month ago has now ar= rived in the wage conferences here of the United Mine Workers and “the bituminous coal opera tors on “whose output the nation’s ‘ ‘effort depends. The four anys that were gained when John L. - Lewis, U, M. W. president, agreed to.move up the parley from March 14 to March 10 were lost through an unusual process which ‘Tesembles a Alibuster in the United States senate. Usually these biennial ‘wage parleys spend part of a day in presentation and discussion of the union demands. then appoint a sub-committee representing both sides to work toward a settlement. This time three full days were used by subordinate union offi cials and members in speeches backing up their international officers. The public meetings of the northern group were adjourned nis Friday until today.

Lewis’ Strategy Unexplained. .

NO PUBLIC move has been made by either group to name a subcommittee which could tackle the Job of working out an agreement. Reports in operator circles are that Mr. Lewis is not ready for that step at this time. His strategy is not explained. Equally or more ominous was the fact that open predictions or threats of a mine shutdown on April 1 (the day after present contracts expire) appeared in speeches of mine workers’ district officials and members. This followed rejection of the miners demands by both the Southern and Northern operators, Of 12 union men who addressed the Northern group, all but one included statements ‘that forecast in some degree a shutdown on April 1 unless a con-

tract containing the demanded betterments is signed %.

before that day. One of the most definite, and the most authoritative because of his position in’ the union, came from James Mark, president of the central Pennsylvania district.

'If You Don't We'll Take It'

“IF WE DON'T have a contract by March 31,” Mr, Mark said, “the miners won't go into the mines April 1, no matter what the national war labor Jboard says or does. We are out to get substantial wage ine creases and we are going to get them no matter what the consequences are.” - John Busarello, president-elect of the Pittsburgh U. M. W. district, told” the operators: “Give the mine workers. what is due them, because if you don’t, we'll take it.” John Sedden, from the same district, declared there would be. “drastic and unpredictable results” if the miners don’t win their wage and other dee mands. He and other speakers said they were “speak ing for the men back home in the local unions, not on orders from John IL. Lewis.” Mr, Lewis heard these statements and did not disavow them. He

‘made no reply to a proposal made in the Southern

conference by former Senator Edward R. Burke, Souther spokesman. Mr. Burke said: “The country is entitled to know now that the mines will remain in full operation. ' We here give that pledge without reservation of any kind. ‘ Mr, Lewis, will you join us in this assurance to the country that under no circumstances will you sanc= tion the stoppage of production for a single working day while our country is involved in war?”

No Comment From Lewis.

MR. LEWIS did not hear this challenge directly. : He did not attend the Southern meeting—thus, in effect, making a sideshow out of what had been expected to be “the second ring of the circus.” When informed later of Mr. Burke’s inquiry, Mr . Lewis said he had “no comment.” Mr. Burke also proposed to the Southern meeting of both operators and miners that present labor contracts be kept in status quo until three months after the war ends. This was quickly voted down by the miners. Events added up to opinions among observers that government intervention should not be delayed to the time when a mine shutdown might occur. Spokesmen for hoth the management and labor sides have recognized that federal intervention is likely, Signs are -seen that the intervention may come. sooner than expected.

We the Women

By Ruih Millett

WIVES WHOSE husbands have "been out of the country for long, lonely months got a thrill out of. reading. that a Massachusetts bride had hitched a ride across -the ocean by stowing away in a ferry command plane. Just as in a movie scenario, the bride was reunited with her huse band as he was getting ready te: leave for another theater of operas tions. Many a wife, who has been living for V-mail and an occasional cable has speculated on how wonderful it would be if a wife could cross an ocean, to see her warrior husband. And now one wife has accomplidiied it. It is bound to make the ocean seem a litile smaller to other wives. They'll have to wait for the war’s end to be reunited with their men. | /

Wife Role: Waiting | " BUT FOR A DAY or two they cdn think about the stowaway wife who actually got see her man . And they can think what it would be like if they could do the same. = = And then they will have to go back to. the job of patient waiting and working. Even the wife who got across the oceats ‘was separated from her husband after a short visit. And she was given a job to do. 4 “So now she is right back ‘with the other war wives whose husbands are in foreign lands. © She managed to get a brief ‘reunion—but all her daring she had to go back to the an i role of wives in wartime, the ole of worrying, wo ang waiting. *

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