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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1943

EDSEL FORD

JE, PSEL FORD was born 49 years ago in a house that stood in what is now downtown Detroit. His father was a $30-a-week employee in a power-plant engine room, and in "his spare hours had just completed building his first horseless carriage. Forty years ago the Ford Motor Co. was incorporated, with paid-in capital of $28,000, of which Henry Ford put up one-fourth. The latest official estimate (December, 1941) of the value of the Ford company stock was $719,000,000, most of it held in the Ford family. By the time Edsel Ford finished his public-school and college training and started work in his father’s factory, the Ford company was building 180,000 automobiles a year. It grew, while Edsel was president and executive head of the company, to a production of 2,000,000 cars in a single year. In all it produced 30,000,000 automobiles and trucks up to the time it converted its facilities to handle a $4,500, 000,000 war program. Edsel Ford died yesterday. His father, now nearing 80, cannot be expected to resume active management. Other men will have to manage the Ford enterprises until Edsel’s three sons return from the war and receive the training required for executive leadership. ® = ® * ” w® HERE is an old Marxian theory that no man can be enriched without the impoverishment of others. But the vast enrichment of the Ford family has not brought poverty to others. Rather the pioneering in the mass production of motor vehicles has created opportunities for millions, in the stimulation of the oil industry, the development of a nation-wide highway system, the rebuilding of communities. The government, which for decades has derived great revenues from the expanding enterprises of the motor age, will now take the lion’s share of whatever estate Edsel Ford leaves. Eventually it will do likewise with Henry Ford's estate. That is as it should be. The nation will continue to benefit by what the Ford family has built—in war the tanks and planes we need for victory, and in the peace to follow, more jobs and opportunities. America has not lost by what the Fords have gained. The saga of the private enterprise of Henry Ford and his family is one that could not have been written in any other country, or under any other economic system. Nothing like that could have happened, for instance, under a governmental philosophy which gave primary emphasis to “social security from the cradle to the grave.” The prin- , cipal kind of security under which the Ford enterprise flourished was the “security of opportunity.”

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Fair Enough

‘By Westbrook Pegler

LOS ANGELES, May 27.-Joe Fay, a vice president of the International Union of Operating Engineers, and a New Jersey politician of the corrupt Hague-New Deal dictatorship, has been indicted in New York with James Bova, a vice president of the foul racket known as the Hod Carriers and Common Laborers’ union. Both of these gangs have extorted incalculable sums of money from toilers in the war program and on other public and private works with the encouragement of the Roosevelt administration. In the present case, Fay and Bova are charged in a state indictment with extorting $703,000 from contractors on the $300,000,000 Delaware aqueduct and other public works. They could be indicted by the federal government, which, of course, has wider jurisdiction, and the fact that they have not been bothered may speak for itself. The operations of both shakedowns, infested by common underworld criminals, extend from coast to coast and from Canada to the gulf, and the forbearance of the department of justice toward both mobs is as evil as anything that was charged against the same department during the tenure of the late ‘Harry Daugherty, in the Harding regime. Indeed, it is more despicable and subversive because this revolting condition has been suffered to exist by a national government which has had the sanctimonious and cynical effrontery to represent that all this represents a gain for labor.

Sketching Some Background

THIS DISPATCH will not presume to pass upon the merits of the present indictments, although I have made some investigation and have an opinion. But I may, with propriety, sketch some background. The president of the operating engineers is a Chicago union gangster named William E. Maloney, who owns a racing stable, an enormous farm with fine buildings and a large dwelling in Illinois and a wintering place on Miami Beach. Fay owns two large homes, one in Newark and one on Long Island and a winter place at Sarasota, Fla. Fay is a contractor in construction work as well as a ruthless unioneer and he was once thrown out of the union for working both sides of the street. On May 20, 1930, Arthur Huddell, then the president, was shot near the heart in a restaurant in Washington. Ten days later he died of his wound. Another official of the union was wounded. A third member of the party, John Possehl, a vice president, was not hit and the executive board of the mob appointed him president. He held the job until he died, in September, 1940, whereupon Maloney moved in. It was during Possehl’s presidency that Fay was kicked out. Possehl feared Fay but had Maloney's backing and Fay was not readmitted until he made his peace with Maloney.

Goons Given Protection

MALONEY, OPERATING in Chicago, got his start when Huddeli ordered local 569 to combine with local 42. The members refused, so Huddell, exercising arbitrary powers, named Maloney to supersede the elected officers of 569. The membership then voted Maloney out of the union and Huddell gave him a charter for a new local, 150. Into this Maloney absorbed local 464 and many groups of workers subject to the terror of'the goons under the passive, but effece tive, protection of the corrupt Kelly-New Deal machine in Chicdgo. In February, 1933, Dennis Bruce Ziegler, a worker with a large family, was murdered in Chicago four days after William Green had rejected his final letter of protest against Maloney’s brutal racketeering at the expense of the members of 569. Ziegler told Green that the ' working members were slaves of gangsters and pleaded for help but Green coldly replied that Ziegler was not seeking redress for genuine grievances but was using a subterfuge to “denounce the officers of the labor movement, myself included” and thus dismissed him. In a little over a year, Maloney’s local 150 “absorbed” Ziegler's local.

Eulogized by Green

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

That Vaunted Jap Toe-Hold in the Aleutians

The Hoosier Forum

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

“MOST INTERESTED IN WHAT SONS ARE DOING”

By Mrs. Luther Hoagland, 328 N. Keystone ave. The last three papers have carried information of what the R. A. F. and Russia are doing to win the war. That is fine, but why can’t we parents here in the U. S. A. read of what our sons are doing? That is one way we could hear from them and what we are most interested in. ” = 2 «CONFUSION WRONG WHERE LIGHT MAY BE HAD”

By Ira E. Cramer, 1827 Ohio ave., Connersville

This is to tell Mr. Edward Maddox he is going too far with his absurd assertions about socialism. Whether he knows it or not and whatever his purpose, where the average man is already vastly confused as to the actual meaning of such words as socialism he is taking advantage of their confusion to increase it. He either does not himself know what it really means or| else he does not want to know nor want anybody else to know.

One of Hitler's vile tactics to gain political power for his party was fighting the mere words “socialism” | and “communism,” misconstruing them to make them scarecrow words. It is dangerous in any country for people not to really understand such | words. The reason people in general do not better understand the actual meaning of such words is because

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a system of government. Much less does the word socialism mean a political party, for it does not even] mean a form of government but a domestic plan or economy which| can be applied by and under any known form of government, as can also capitalism and communism. . . . Much of socialism is being applied under all governments at present. All public-owned buildings and property, public parks, highways, court houses, postoffices, schools, roads, streets, bridges, dams, canals, electric light plants, water workers, etc., are all socialism pure and simple. But notice I said “public owned” not government owned. Socialism as such is a much better plan or economy than capitalism. But in practice, to whatever | degree it curbs human selfishness more than the majority are willing their selfishness be curbed, to that degree it is impractical and can-

columnists, the Tukhachevskys, Bukarinites, Radeks and others. It should be pointed out that there are others who undoubtedly share Mr. Lyons’ lamentations concerning the fate of these traitors. Herr Hitler is not the least among them. It was with the indispensable role of the fifth column in France that the Hitlerites succeeded in occupying that country. Yes, Herr Hitler would undoubtedly agree with Mr. Lyons that Marshal Tukhachevsky “was the great military genius of his country.” The fate of Tukhachevsky, Radek and the rest unquestionably was a blow to the objectives set forth in “Mein Kampf.” Our country, as part of the United Nations, can speak confidently of victory over the axis powers because one of its great allies, the Soviet Union, smashed Hitler's fifth column in their country. All Americans are inspired by the heroism of the Red army and the Soviet people, united behind their government and Premier Joseph Stalin, ry » 8 “HOW ABOUT EVENING THINGS UP, OPA?”

BY are: B. A. McMasters, R. R. 20, Box

To Mrs. C. W. P.;

not be enforced by the consent of the governed if the majority rule. It can only be enforced by a strong dictatorial government of whatever form it be.

Although I'm in just the opposite | position from you as to size of family—ours being a family of eight —I can readily understand your

pressure groups everywhere do not| So when he defines “socialism” let plight.

THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1043

Air Surprise By Major Al Williams

Le NEW YORK, May 27.—Those who have not seen the overall preparations for American atrpow= er, the thousands and thousands of planes in the air day and night, the unbelievable numbers of young pilots in training, and the net= work of gigantic airports through= out the land, have a reassuring surprise coming to them. The scope of the plans and the plants of the air corps has caused me to pinch myself to make sure it isn't a dream. When one enters the busy life of an air corps post, hard realism permeates the entire day and night. What can you do in a cockpit? That's the yard= stick of values in the air corps. All the rest is dis= missed as counterfeit.

Sober and Serious Men

HUNDREDS OF gleaming metal planes stand carefully aligned on the mile-long concrete apron. All these machines look as if they were brand-new in spite of the fact that they have been operating day after day and night. They are kept gleaming and fi} for instant flight by the hands of earnest, realistic young Americans. ' Every artificial gesture of peacetime aviation has been removed, and engines, planes and radio are serviced and repaired and maintained on the “line” outside of hangars under conditions as similar as possible to those which may be encountered on an air combat front. A These lads seem more sober and serious than the young pilots and mechanics of world war I—and naturally, I suppose, because the technical knowledge and information to be assimilated is far more volumie nous and intricate.

Just Mention the Navy!

THE MECHANICS, God bless 'em, are the homemade philosophers. They know the relative standing of every airman on the post, and the tricks of every plane in operation. Standing on the “line” the other day I heard some air corps mechanics priming the pilot of a fast single= seater fighter, They wanted him to “shoot” up the field. Did they ask him to put on a few “buzzing” mae neuvers? No, indeed, that’s too crude, and beneath the technique of a seasoned “line” mechanic of at least 18 months’ service. They simply told the air corps fighter pilot—by talking among themselves loud enough to be heard in the next town—about the aerial exploits of a navy single-seater fighter pilot who dived and barrel-rolled his plane the full length of the field the other day.

In Washington By Pete

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WASHINGTON, May 27.—There is much more than meets the eye in John L. Lewis’ application to take the United Mine Workers back into the. American Federa=' tion of Labor, and perhaps the only man in the country who really sees all the implications is John L. himself, who hasn't missed a trick in the last three months of his intricate play for the highest of stakes. Informed labor: politicians who keep close track of the involved ins-and-outs of the labor movement see in this latest Lewis move the boldest bid for power, the most spectacular card ever thrown on the table in the last 10 or a dozen years. The’ obvious items of significance have already been pointed out: It is a play to strengthen the hand of John -L. Lewis. It is a move to make the A. PF. of L. the dominant

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labor movement in the country. It offers an opportunity for the retirement of William Green as president of the American Federa= tion of Labor. An attempt has heen made to build up a case

want folks to correctly understand | Mr. Maddox stop defining it as them, In that kind of soil Hitler any selfish so-called socialistic PO-|qo.¢ meat an butler: bub. ceTiarey wormed his crooked way to power. |litical party on earth of any kind | 4 10 the: extent of Wo anh Bite. The task of overcoming such im-|whatsoever as he likes, I will make half pounds each a week. Every posters as Hitler is the penalty this no defense for any of them, neith-| : i

MALONEY HAS been indicted repeatedly” but We have six children and they all

never convicted. Once he was indicted as a member of the notorious TNT mob which “organized” the teaming contractors of Chicago into a “union.” His co-defendants included a number of the most notor-

JOHN L. AND INFLATION WIN HE great 1943 battle between John L. Lewis and the

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government of the United States seems to be approach- | ing its final stages, with substantial victory in sight for Mr. Lewis. The national war labor board has denied the direct $2-a-day wage increase demanded for soft coal miners, and thus can say it has prevented destruction of the “Little Steel” formula. But it has ordered some upward “adjustments” of pay and given advance blessing to much larger upward “adjustments,” inviting Mr. Lewis to obtain them by collective bargaining, and even promising to help him if the mine operators don’t come through promptly. The board also may have saved its own life for a while. That is, Mr. Lewis may now be willing to accept the board’s approval of a final settlement of the wage dispute. If there is any gratitude in his breast—which we have sometimes had occasion to doubt—he should con-

ious criminals in Chicago gang history, They were

| acquitted.

Once, again, Thurman Arnold indicted him and Mike Carrozzo, under the anti-trust law for excluding ready-mixed concrete from paving jobs in Chicago. Carrozzo owned an interest in a company manufacturing another kind of paving material and he and Maloney co-operated in many matters. Under the New Deal supreme court decision of Felix Frankfurter in the carpenters’ case, the indictments were thrown out. In August, 1941, after Maloney had become national president of the union and Fay had resumed his racketeering in the East, William Green adorned a “testimonial dinner” for Maloney in Chicago, attended by many of the most vicious characters in the racket. In an official greeting, as president of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. Green said: “Bill Maloney is a highly efficient administrator, an executive of great talent, and more than that, though there is no need to tell you people here tonight, who know Bill, a loyal, intelligent, honest, courageous

descend to that extent. However, we think the facts are that the “Little

Steel” formula is being detoured, that the board has let |

itself in for much future trouble, and that the menace of | wartime inflation has been considerably advanced. The | president’s famous line may not have been smashed, but’

it has a whale of a dent in it.

leader of organized labor.”

We the Peo

By Ruth Millett

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Whatever is added to the cost of producing coal by |

upward wage “adjustments” will be passed on to the public in higher prices for coal. And, since Mr. Lewis has demonstrated that its pays to get tough with the government, other labor leaders will certainly demand—and the board will hardly find it possible to refuse—“adjustments” for their unions fully as generous as those now on the way for the coal miners.

PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX COMPROMISE

TO get any kind of pay-as-you-go tax legislation at all, the senate and house conferees decided they had to - sacrifice principle to administration politics. President Roosevelt had served notice that he would not approve the tax bill congress had worked out, treating all taxpayers alike. So the conferees evolved a compromise that gives preferred treatment to a group of lower bracket taxpayers, hoping the president will be satisfied with the “victory” and sign the measure. Aside from this petty political discrimination, the com- . promise is a good measure. It will produce from four to six billion dollars more revenue than the present tax law, without any basic change in tax rates. It will get rid of income . tax debt; put the income tax system on a pay-as-you-go basis; make it possible to collect most of the income.taxes at the source through a withholding tax on wages and salaries, beginning July 1; lay special assessments on bonanza wartime incomes greatly in excess of pre-war average.

~ More important, it will away the underbrush

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WOMEN WHO get upset over reports of increasing juvenile delinquency, especially in war industry communities, should take to heart a phrase used in a recent address by Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, president of the American Legion auxiliary. Condemning mothers of children under 14 years of age who take up war work in factories and shipyards, she described it as a form of “adult delinquency” which bodes ill for the growing generation. In a nation-wide tour of war plants she saw young children sleeping in locked cars in factory parking lots while their mothers worked, children roaming on the loose, playing slot machines, going to the movies.

Check 'Adult Delinquency’ MRS. MATHEBAT aptly describes a truly bad condition to which manpower authorities and civic minded employers should give serious consideration. I doubt if our manpower shortage is so acute at present that we can afford to gamble with the well-being and characters of our citizens of the near future. In individual cases there may be good reason or necessity for mothers of young children working. But in many instances, the motivation is desire for the fat wages of war industry or the mistaken patriotism of women who want to “do something to help the war effort.” So when you blame “the war” for juvenile delinquency in your community, you might investigate and see how much of it really is “adult delinquency.”

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socialism, if you did not know bet-

earth must now pay for allowing] indefinite definitions too long tol remain in the public mind, if not] deliberately planting them there. | The way Mr. Maddox talks about

ter you would think it was a political party or movement. Which, of course, it is not. Every political | party on earth of any worth-while size advocates some socialism, just as no political party is capitalism. Such words as democracy, monarchialism, republicanism, belong to political economy and refer to different systems of government or diverse methods of relating people to their rulers. But such words as capitalism, socialism, communism, belong to domestic economy and refer to different systems of ownership or diverse methods of relating a people to their money or property. Mr. Maddox knows the word “democracy” itself does not mean a po-

litical party, although it does mean

er do I belong to any. But mingled here and there in| all these matters there are real] principles involved, some vitally| right, some vitally wrong. I try to|

uphold the right and condemn the| wrong regardless of where it may be. Confusion is wrong where light | may be had and will be so much

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By Elmer Johnsen, 401 Board of Trade bldg.

What is it that motivates The Indianapolis Times to display so prominently a series of articles written by Eugene Lyons attacking the film “Mission to Moscow”? Eugene Lyons howls about the film's “distortion of facts”! He doesn’t know whether to “laugh or weep” because the film justifies the Moscow trials by condemning to death the self-

day to maintain maximum health, but again not in near the amount that a working adult does. I too have a lot of meat points left at the end of the period and if OPA would permit it IT would certainly be glad to give them to a couple who run short. How about evening things up, OPA.?

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I By A Times Reader, Indianapelis

Everything that is suggested to help win this war I'm trying to do. I'm willing to paint my legs, wear 15-cent anklets, but here is my complaint—I'm speaking for a lot of women. I know there are lots of our sex that get tips on how to obtain several pairs of nylons. Who gets these when they reach the buying public? . , . I asked one person where she

confessed Hitlerite spies and fifth

Side Glances—By Galbraith

bought her three pairs of nylons. The answer was, “I can’t tell you, it's a secret. Sh-h, black market.” So, why can’t nylons be rationed? Stamp ‘786 gets a pair of nylons! Girls are you with me? ” ” “QUIT PICKING ON THE BABIES” By Mrs. B. H. Stickles, Oaklandon. In answer to the item, “Why Meat Stamps for Bapies,” I am going to give you my hd@est opinion. A baby has . .. just as much right to things in this war-torn world as anyone, including meat ration stamps. . .

ones that have always had as much or more than they could eat and some left over for Fido. I suppose they will be wanting meat stamps for their dogs next. People can get along just as well and be just as healthy on less meat as those that have meat three times a day. My dad used to work in a coal mine and believe you me that’s work. And all he took in his lunch lots of times was a quart of beans and cold corn bread. He got just as much work done and worked just as hard as his buddy who had all meat sandwiches. As for babies, they are too small to express their opinions, so quit picking on them.

DAILY THOUGHTS

celleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. — Ecclesiastes 2:13.

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of political significance from this move, by concluding that Lewis, opposing Roosevelt, might try to swing the A. F. of L. into the Republican lineup. Some A. F. of L. labor leaders lean that way now, through their opposition to the Wagner act and the belief that the C. I. O. has been given more administration support. But Lewis tried to lead the C. I. O. into the G. O. P. camp in 1940. He failed, and it is doubtful if he would try to Moses a second flight of his children into an unknown promised land of politics,

Opportunity to Clean House

THE REAL significance of the Lewis move back into the A. F. of L. is twofold: 1. This marks the renewal of warfare between { Lewis and the C. 1. O. 2. It presents the opportunity to clean house and | get rid of the fringe of racketeering labor leaders | who have cluttered up the A. F. of L. directcrate | for years. | With regard to this second point, it has beew generally forgotten that the tremendously strong machinists’ union has signified its desire to withdraw from the A. F. of L. and is now conducting a poll of its membership on this question. The poll will be completed within the next few weeks, While the result is problematical, the underlying reason for the machinists’ ‘desire to withdraw has | been dissatisfaction with the leadership in other | A. F. of L. unions and the questionable policies which they have countenanced and encouraged. . New blood in the A. F. of L. executive committee and a dominant leadership such as Mr. Lewis might contribute, could go far in strengthening the loose organization from which the United Mine Workers withdrew back in 1935, starting the original split in the U. S. labor movement,

Many Loyal to Lewis

WARFARE BETWEEN Lewis—with the A. F. of L,, at his back—and the C. I. O. may become extremely | bitter. | What is not generally known, however, is that within the C. I. O. leadership there is a strong element which is still loyal to John L. Lewis, the man who founded their movement and set them up in business. The older leaders in the U. A. W, have not forgotten that it was Lewis who won them their original big gains. Loyal C. I. O. leaders fear and hate Lewis, and denounce him bitterly. But if other of the original C. I. O. unions should decide to follow Lewis and the Mine Workers back into the A. F. of L, C. I. O. might be seriously weakened. It might cone ceivably develop that the A. F. of L. would emerge with a membership of some 10,000,000 members, giving it dominance. That way also might lie eventual labor organic unity and peace. With a throne at the top reserved for “peacemaker” John L. Lewis, of course,

To the Point—

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