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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy ir

MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1943

CHURCHILL'S SPEECH HE CONTRAST between the Hitler and Churchill - speeches yesterday reflects the waning hopes of Nazidom against the growing confidence in allied victory.. The interest in Hitler was not in what he said, but in the mere ~ fact that he was able physically and mentally to speak at all. ' Churchill was again the world's best orator. His was the clarity, the sincerity, the sheer power of a great cause. While he was able to announce the start of the decisive battle of Tunisia and General Montgomery’s report of initial progress, the prime minister with customary caution warned against hopes of an early end of the war.

= ® Rn s ” 2 N THIS mood of restrained optimism, he made the most significant statement of British world policy since he joined in the Atlantic Charter. Here it is: 1. Tentative allied discussion now of post-war organigation, but postponement of details and frontier decisions until Hitler's defeat. This is a change from a year ago, when Britain and Russia contemplated advance territorial agreements which the United States then thought should be left open. American policy has tended toward an opposite . reversal, being now closer to the original Churchill theory that it is easier to get allied agreement while Hitler is still a common menace than after he is defeated—particularly in eastern Europe, where Russia will be dominant. 2. A world organization of the united nations, and eventually of all nations; which would include a council of Europe and a council of Asia, having a high court and armed force— national, international, or both. Under the European council might be regional groups or confederations. Participation by British, Russia and the United States would be essential,

he said. . ® un 8 » os 8

HOUGH most Americans welcome the general idea of world organization along regional lines, many will challenge direct United States participation in the Europcan council and in its i olitical problems and military mericans assume there will be continuing - United States leadership in the Western hemisphere, and also the major part in any Pacific organization. But many ‘would limit our responsibilities in a European council to cooperation, rather than complete involvement. Meanwhile, Americans will be disturbed by the prime minister’s apparent concentration on Europe to-the neglect

. of the Pacific. - We say “apparent,” because we hope it was

unintentional. All of his emphasis was on winning the war in Europe, and starting a four-year reconstruction plan in England as soon as Hitler is finished. There was only brief reference to defeating Japan after Germany. And he indicated that much of Brit_ain’s strength would not be needed in the Pacific war, but could be diverted immediately after Hitler's fall to Briish reconstruction. : ; We prefer the Churchill pledge of November 29, 1942, that—if Hitler is licked first—Britain at once will throw all of her forces to the aid of America, the dominions and - China against Japan. That is the basis on which so much American strength today is diverted to England, Africa and Russia, when it is desperately needed by our under-manned and under-armed forces in the Pacific. Japan cannot be defeated as an after-thought with one hand.

CABBAGE IS KING

HY didn’t J. P. Morgan's death cause more than a ripple in Wall street? Mr. Morgan’s name was synonymous with money, and Wall street once was the money center of the nation. In world war I it was the money center of the world. But money has lost its prestige. “How much money have you in the bank?” : A more pertinent question today is: “How many hams have you in your smokehouse ? m Or better still: “How many white-faced cattle have you in your pasture?” : We are thinking in terms of food, not money, today. And when we think of money it is no longer Wall street that enters the mind. The money capital moved to Washington many long months ago. : But money went to Washington only to be dethroned. T°... The magic of big money was its power. : . But today bureaus are more powerful than banks, A bank can lend you money to build, but you have to go to the bureaus for the priorities you need. It can lend you money for a limousine but how are you- going to get even a new Ford? Time was when the death of a Morgan would. have shaken the nation. That day is past—at least for the time being. ; The dethronement of Leon Henderson was bigger news in the streets of Washington and Wahoo than the death of John Pierpont Morgan—despite the millions he may leave in inheritance taxes. It even costs to die these daye—buit when’ it comes to

living, a victory garden is more important than either the

‘money of the financiers or the power of the bureau heads. Morgan could raise millions with the wave of a ‘hand, ut today cabbage is king—and sauerkraut is Rotter than money you can’t eat. :

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ROOK YN HOUSEWIFE

ME government press agent is to be comttieded for the

eT and effective way in which he has dramatized w important it is for housewives to save fats. Mrs, Mae Hambel of Brooklyn turned in 55 pou vaged drippings—enough to make glycerine for a 2000.

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By Westbrook Pegler

‘KANSAS CITY, March 22.—It should be noticed that in Washington the American Federation of Labor, which used to give orders to the United States congress and the attorney general, has now turned to ccmpromise and pleading in the pending matter of the Hobbs bill, the purpose of which is to revoke the special privilege of union criminals to engage in highway robbery, atroclous assault, extortion and kindred pranks which Justice Felix Frankfurter and certain of his colleagues have ruled to be legitimate union practice under existing laws. This is an important development signifying that. certain unioneers now realize that their graft has been thoroughly exposed and that the people have communicated to their lawmakers a determination to be relieved of a vicious system imposed on the community for the benefit of a predatory and disreputable few. Long disguised as the ‘operations of an honest labor movement and, indeed, sanctified as such by the supreme court in two shocking opinions, the criminal customs of certain unioneers are now plainly understood to be just that and the old arrogance has vanished from the demeanor of most of the official bulldozers in Washington.

Exhausted Popular Patience

LIKE THE POLITICAL terrorists of the AntSaloon league during prohibition, they have at last exhausted popular patience and congress, sensitive to changes in public sentiment, is about to slap He

down, In this connection, I should like to call attention

| to the true status of Joseph Padway, the general

counsel of the A. F. of L. and of seven or eight of its component unions, including the Browne-Bioff racket which is still a racket notwithstanding the conviction of those two eminent vermin. Padway also represents as attorney in particular cases many other A. F. of L. unions and about a year ago a Cincinnati judge awarded him a fee of $5000 payable by the workers for a few days’ service in a case in which a group of union teamsters had made serious allegations against a dictator who had reigned as he pleased for about 20 years by appointment from the union’s main office in Indianapolis.

‘Success in Intimidating’

PADWAY'S COMPROMISE stipulated that the complaining workmen must withdraw and promise not to attempt to prove by trial or otherwise their charges against the dictator. He came into the case: by way of the main office of the teamsters’ union,

which is one of his most profitable clients, and he is an intimate friend of Daniel Tobin, the president. Many times Padway has had success in intimidat-

ing congress and in one historic instance he got

away with it on the department of justice. Appearing before committees to oppose various measures intended to disarm corruptioneers of their guns, blackjacks and sawed-off pool cues, Padway has affected a roaring and officious presence and thus it was that the A. F. of L. was enabled to dictate to Homer Cummings when he was attorney general those alterations of the Copeland anti-rack-eteering bill several years ago, which last year were construed by a justice, in the majority supreme court opinion, as congressional approval of ‘highway robbery provided the brigands pretend to represent labor. Cummings wrote a *memorandum back to congress embodying the ideas of Will Green, the president of the A. F. of L. and of Padway and congress made this the law of the American people.

Represented Browne-Bioff Union

PADWAY WAS BORN in England and struck pay dirt in thé union business in Milwaukee, where he was appointed to the bench in the guise of a labor leader which he was not and never has been. Actually, Padway has no more right or warrant to speak for labor because he is a lawyer specializing in the lucrative field of union law than the janitor who sweeps out a union hall or any other employee hired to perform certain services for a union. If any legislator, state or federal, cares to challenge Padway when next he has the presumption to appear in the role of spokesman for labor, it will be necessary only to ask him to show his union card and state his official position. It will be found that if he does carry a card it will be strictly honorary and his membership fictitious.

In Washington:

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, March 22— Before anyone gets the cockeyed idea that this C. I. O. versus A. F. of L. dispute over which union should be bargaining agent for some 80,000 employees of three ‘Kaiser shipyards in Oregon is an isolated case, a situation peculiar to this industry alone, it is well to consult the national labor relations board records and determine how frequent jurisdictional labor

‘| rows really are. There are about 80 such cases every

month, and this has been the trend for the last year

‘and a half.

NLRB spokesmen insist that all disputes between unions are not jurisdictional disputes. A jurisdictional

dispute, according to NLRB definition, is a question |: over what union laborers are to do a certain job, as, |;

for instance, should ships be built by boilermakers, plumbers, or sheet metal workers, or should welders and rivereters form a union of their own to do the job.

A dispute such as that now centered in the Kaiser |.

yards, in which the C. L O. has petitioned the NLRB

to set aside Kaiser contracts with the A, F. of L., 50 | that an election may be held to determine which | group should bargain for the workers, is called by the |: NLRB a “representation case,” not a jurisdictional |. case. : i

10,977 New Cases in Year

WHATEVER YOU CALL this Kaiser case now be- | | fore NLRB, it is in no way unique. There are 18 such |i} cases in shipyards alone. There are literally hundreds |! of such union vs. union contests in other war indus- |. There have been close to 2000 such disputes i

since war production effort began.

The NLRB seventh annual report for the fiscal

year ending June 30. 1942, reveals that 10,977 new cases were filed with the board during .the year. In round numbers, 5000 cases were charges that employers had indulged in unfair labor practices as defined by the Wagner act, while 6000 cases were representation cases. Of these 6000 representation cases, 1079 were con-

‘| tests between rival unions over which should be the

bargaining agent, the others being cases in which the

union petitioning for an election to determine bar-|.

gaining agent was not opposed to another union. A. PF. of L. unions started 234 of these contests against C. I. O. unions and won 47 per cent of the elections, involving 80,000 workers. A. F of L. unions started 118 contests against unaffiliated unions and won 59 per cent of the elections, involving 37.000 workers. . C. IL O. untons started 371 contests against A. PF.

‘of.L. unions and Won §6 per cent uf the elections, in- : i J gga?

ANVTHING, i WAN rs!

The Hoosier Forum

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

“SO LITTLE TO WHAT HE IS GIVING UP” By a Soldier, Indianapolis.

Although it is too late to help this boy out, it may help some other soldier. S/Sergt. Melvin F. Wilder was issued papers from army officers to go to the ration board in his home town for all the gasoline he needed while home to complete his business. . . . He was refused by the board in Rushville, saying it was orders from the Indianapolis board. As it seems small—a few gallons of gas to help him get around a little faster to get everything attended to—it is so little to what he is giving up for his country and ours. He would like this printed so it may help some

other soldier. . . .

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| RICKENBACKER’S CREED

IS TOPS, BUT— By J. N. Kelly, Knightstown My hope of these words being published is very small, but like millions of fellow Americans, I do have the desire that my opinion should become public property. For weeks I have been reading in the Hoosier Forum of Eddie Rickena) So much of the publicity he been getting is belittling to the character and popularity of a man of his social and industrial standing, especially in industrial centers. John Whitcomb’s letter published on the 17th of March echoes a large part of the industrial plants producing for our great effort to win victory over the axis powers. A great part of us are certain that the concerns whom we are working for are contracted with the federal government to produce on a basis of 40 hours plus time and one-half and double time for Sunday. Until we, the workers, are sure that there has been a renegotiation of contracts with the government to exclude this overtime in contracts as well as payrolls we are going to clamor for our just and right share. I, who was accustomed to working at a skilled trade in my own com-

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

munity, am driving 60 miles each

day to a job in a defense factory

where my skill is ignored and at the same time I am transporting five others besides myself who are equally skilled and ignored as to their capabilities. ’ ! Rickenbacker is clamoring for more hours; yet our plant, ohe of the largest in Indiana, is working many of the men only five days a week and seldom seven because of the necessity of paying premium time for Sunday. All six of us who are riding 60 miles a day to work are more than willing to work each and every day but we must be paid in comparison to those working in plants that are working seven days a week in order to keep our families living at a standard with theirs. Although our whole United States is at war and there is a clamor for skilled labor, there are still many plants that seem to have a sufficient supply end are completely independent in relation to labor supply and pay. Rickenbacker’s creed is tops but until manufacturing concerns stop

trying to commercialize upon it, it

will be a curse. 2 ” 8 “THEY LOVE TO SPEND WORKING-MAN’S MONEY” By Mrs. H. M. W., Indianapolis

I would certainly like to know why |

our secretary of staté needs a $7500 a year salary and why such an outrageous price be paid for a home for the governor. After all, they are only people the same as you and me. . . . Gee, they sure lpve to spend the hard-working man’s money. Taxes are necessary, yes, but the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

poor fellow should get something out of it. I've lived here for 20 years and I can’t get the city to do a thing for this part of town. Dumps

and alleys full of ashes, tin cans|

and trash of all kinds everywhere you look and rats by the droves. I pay high taxes (according to this location) and instead of doing something for us, they raise the secretary’s salary another $1000 and pay thousands more for the governor's home. The only time they think of a $2000 a year man is to raise his taxes. They certainly could use ithe tax money to far better advantage if they took time enough to think straight. Where would guys like that be if it weren't for the little

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# # “YOU'LL HEAR MORE FROM EQUAL RIGHTS WOMEN” «

By Mary C. Bennedy, 535 Kossuth st., Lafayette

I noticed in The Times the article about the League of Women’s stand against the equal rights amendment, but I regret to say I have not seen anything in The Times recently— in fact for a long time—in favor of the amendment, except Mr: Ludlow’s action. I understand there is to be a vote on the amendment in the senate judiciary committee. . . . I hope in the future you will keep in touch with this movement and give us the latest and the full details about it, for after all it is one of the very most important movements in this matter of freedoms, human rights and liberties since the- signing of the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the U. S. Hon. Frederick Van Nuys and Raymond Springer have voted for the measure. .. . There is strong support... in the state both by men and women, in spite of the stand of the League of Women Voters. . . . It is worthy of note that many of its members in Indiana and the U. 8S. are actively supporting the E. R. amendment. The National and State Federation of Business and Professional Women is working for the passage of the amendment. . . . You will hear more from the equal

rights women who are working in| §

the state and we all shall appreciate up-to-the-minute news on the subject. 4 ® 8 “YOU SHQULD REPRODUCE FARM EDITORIAL” : By H. M. Chadwick, R. RB. 6, Madison

The leaciing editorial in your issue of March , . . is the best editorial I have read in many a day. The writer shows that he understands both the farm problem and economics. Please reproduce his second paragraph: “To get food from farms it is necessary that farmers have labor, tools and a reasonable hope of profit.” Indeed I think that about once each month you should reproduce the whole of that fine editorial. I suggest that the writer . . . read the article, “The Law of Supply and Demand,” in the ninth edition of the En Britannica. He could then add to the editorial a few quotations from that article.

DAILY THOUGHT

The: God of my rock; in Him will I trust; He.is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour; Ls me from violence.—~

‘1 | Thou savest ? At Samus BG

“of rest!

Like the beloved John 'To lay his

|Post-War By Helen Kirkpatrick

LONDON, March 22-Discuse sion of the post-war political

retary Anthony Eden’s visit to the United States, has brought people to serious consideration of the re= lations between Britain, the United. States and Russia. - . In Britain the discussion has primarily taken the form of pris

pean security the only real attempt to present the matter publicly. Britishers of all political opinions are unanimous in the belief that not only European but world secur= ity can best be established by the close partnership of Britain, the United States, Russia and China. The Times’ editorial referred to the “joint responsibility of Britain and Russia for post-war security in Europe” and saw the task of British foreign policy that of -

European security to the United States.”

Uncertain Over U. S. Outlook

BUT UNDERLYING all discussion here is a thread of uncertainty as to the. United States’ post-war out

nomic imperialism, expressed primarily in the desire for American domination of the world’s airlines. Concern that the United States may retire again into isolationism, or adopt some form of unco-operae tive interventionism, is’ greater than the fear of the extreme left hére that the United States is basically. conservative, almost to the point of being reactionary. While the unanimous desire is for a four-power

recognized that Russia will be the strongest power on

negotiated peace leaves Germany strong, too, All elements reject completely both a negotiated peace and the proposition that Germany should be allowed to be militarily strong. ¢

See Evidence of Co-operation

THE NEXT CONSIDERATION is, logically, the ex« tent to which Russia wishes to participate in any

[ form of collective security and the means by which

Russian suspicion of British motives can be dispelled. The Anglo-Russian 20-year treaty is accepted by some as evidence that Moscow is prepared to co-opere ate in Europe. Within that framework, many believe, knotty problems such as Poland's boundaries, the status of the Baltic states, and Russian influence in the Slav states, can be settled after the war.

between those most inclined to support right-wing groups like the original French North African admine istration, and those who are convinced that Anglo~ American traffic with reactionary elements in Europe will only lead Moscow to encourage and support none Russian Communists.

What London Americans Think

THE MAJORITY here hope it will not ever be neeessary for Britain to choose between coligboration with Russia or with the United States. Opinion is divided as to what the British people’s decision would be, Most political figures profess to believe that the

Americans here believe it would be Russia.

held by many average Britons: 1. Doubt as to the course United States foreign policy may take. 2. American conservatism ‘in the social and eco= - nomic sphere. 3. Admiration of Russia which goes beyond respect ~ for the Red army’s achievements. The average Briton basically understands neithep =the Americans nor the Russians. Too few Britishers —leaders and rank-and-file alike, who have been in the United States—have any real undérstanding of American mentality or political thought.

Censorship Explained

counts for the type of censorship which before Pearl Harbor made it difficult for American correspondents to write accurately of the quantity and quality of

the fact that The Times’ editorial on European secure

being sent to the United States (as distinct from the American censors’ instructions which prevented:

French North African situation from reaching here). If such understanding as Eden reaches with

communicated to the British and American peoples

made. None of these considerations, or discussions, can be said to concern or to affect, in any fundamental way, the remarkable degree of unity which has been achieved in the conduct of the war. i

By Ruth Millett

IT IS GOING to bs like getting

ends for husbands and wives who have had their homes: broken:up

tion. For some, “remarritige” will be

a ‘while.

living as single rather than as married pe Pers haps one, or even both will have come to lke certain. aspects of living alone—being able to come and go’ as they please during time off, not having fo any questions, not having to be responsib. for ane other’s happiness.

It may be hard for a man who has been away from children for a long period of time to get used to their demands, their noise, and the necessity for putting their welfare first,

Recognize the Problem!

‘gone mamma had ‘absolute control over the children,

thority start telling them What Ww do and perhapd) reversing her decisions. An) mamme's ew {ndspendetict HAYS tirely pleasing to ‘papa. It won't { woman who has had to @ ntir

fall back into the fole of

world, heightened by Foreign Secs

vate or unpublicized talk, with a - London Times editorial on Euro. |

“interpreting this common Anglo-Russian interest in

look. This supersedes the fears of some quarters that - the United States may embark on a new type of ecos

partnership, many Britons are examining alternatives should such an arrangement not materialize. It is =

the European continent at the war's end, unless a.

Those who believe that Russia is interested in promoting communism in Europe can roughly be divided

choice would be the United States, but the bulk of The Americans base their belief on three Po

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THIS, PROBABLY more than anything else, acAmerican planes and other war equipment, Also for . ity was originally prevented by the censorship from American reaction in November and December to the

United States officials on post-war aims can be

in concrete language, considerable progress may be We the Women *

married over again when the war ¥ and are living apart for the dura 2

easy and natural.- For others, = there is sure to be tough going for Sg That is because both: husbénd: + and wife will have grown used 0

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And children are likely to complicate’ the’ pleats. 3

ON THE OTHER HAND; while papa has been

It may be a little hard for her to have another ats.