Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1943 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1943

LEWIS’ STRATEGIC RETREAT

HE coal miners will go back to work Monday, not in obedience to the order from the president and commander in chief, but by direction of their union’s policy committee (meaning John L. Lewis), which acted at the request of Secretary Ickes. The fundamental issue in two coal strikes, which have cost the country more than a week’s production of an indispensable war material, has not been settled. hae That issue is whether Lewis shall observe the wartime rules accepted by other national labor leaders for the peaceable adjustment of industrial disputes. ] i His new tirade against the national war labor board shows that he has not altered his determination to compel the government to surrender on his terms. What he Says is, of course, absurdly false. # » ” AR from: being “jealous” or “vindictive” or “malicious,” the board has strained itself to help: the miners obtain the most substantial wage increases it can approve under its instructions from the president. It has insisted only— and rightly—that it cannot recognize a “bargain” made while a strike is in progress. hh J ~ And it has said, with entire truth, that “throughout the course of this dispute, the mine workers, under Mr. Lewis’ leadership, have defied the orderly processes of the government of the United States and the national no-strike agreement to which they pledged themselves.”

Lewis, plainly, still expects Mr. Ickes to help him obtain greater concessions than the board stands ready to ratify. The president, however, has said that when the miners return to work the disposition of their dispute with the operators will proceed “under the jurisdiction of the war labor board and in accordance with the customary and established procedures governing all cases of this sort.” So, we think, the final, inevitable showdown has merely been postponed by the calling off of the strike. ‘And if the president does permit Lewis and the mine workers to bypass the war labor board, we believe we will find it impossible to prevent other labor leaders and other unions from doing the same. ' ” » » UT the board’s position may be greatly strengthened as a result of action yesterday in the house of representatives. Heretofore, Mr. Roosevelt has insisted that "congress shapld not interfere with 'Ki¥. midagement ‘of | labor relations. =He created the war labor board by an executive order—a fact which provides the excuse for Lewis’ sneering implication that the board, unlike Secretary Ickes, is not “a duly constituted agent of the government.” ) Some sections of the anti-strike bill passed by the house, and sent to conference with the senate, may be unnecessary or unwise. But the section giving the war labor board statutory authority with power to subpeng witnesses: should by all means become law. And so should those requiring all unions to register with the government, to file accurate financial statements, and to refrain from making political contributions. Ek

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ARGENTINE COUP

HE revolutionary junta in Argentina may or may not be as pro-allied as first hopeful reports indicate, but it can hardly be as friendly to the axis as the overthrown Castillo regime. Almost any. change would be for the better in terms of the war. President Castillo and Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu had persisted in sabotaging hemisphere solidarity and helping Hitler in defiance of Argentine interests and public opinion. Though nominally neutral, the fallen government had winked at subversive activities of German and Italian minorities and the espionage ring of axis agents. There was pretty good evidence that U-boats were getting Argentine supplies. : : ; ; Backed by reactionary elements, Castillo perpetuated party dictatorship by election irregularities and a device

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called the “stage of seige.” The latter enabled him to gag press criticism of his pro-axis policy, and at the same time

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

SAN FRANCISCO, June 5— Australian labor has been strongly organized for many years and the unions run the country now by telephoned orders to Prime Minister Curtin but our people have only a vague notion of the power of the Australian unioneer, That the longshoremen of a country so clese under the guns of the Jap, which is crying to Americans to help stand off the conquest, would refuse to unload American military cargo because of rain or quibble over jurisdictional union questions. is almost incredible but true, nevertheless. . : For proof of this let us not take the word of any enemy of labor, pro-Nazi or appeaser. Let us, instead, refer to two American union publications, the Voice, the official organ of the Marine Cooks and Stewards, and the Pilot, which expresses the personality and pro-Communist politics of Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, Both belong to the C. I. O.

Refused to Work in the Rain

IT WOULD be well for more Americans to read

,more of the union papers. They are, to be sure, abu-

sive, often illiterate, always untruthful and, in many cases, rackets, but they do convey, unwittingly, in-

formation which cannot be found elsewhere. In the Voice of last Dec. 9, one comes upon a small item published with great satisfaction by the cooks and stewards because it compliments the union crew of an American vessel, and particularly the chief steward, for helping in the discharge of cargo. It consists of a letter from an American major in Australia to the captain of an American merchant ship and says: “I desire to express my deep appreciation of the very excellent co-operation of yourself, your officers and crew in connection with the employment 6f military personnel in discharging your vessel, in order to avoid the otherwise dangerous delay which would have been occasioned by the refusal of civilian longshoremen to work during the recent heavy rains. This assistance rendered by Chief Steward Deering in arranging to feed a large number of soldiers on short notice and that of the bos'n in acting as winchdriver, is particularly commendable. It is teamwork like this that will help our country to win the war. Yours very truly, H. R, Hernung, Major, Aus. Ats.”

Delay Might Have Cost Lives

BUT COULD it be that a lot of husky Australian longshoremen would refuse to handle a military shipment because of a rainfall that American kids were able to endure? : ; : That what the item says, and in a C. I. O. publication. “In order to avoid the otherwise dangerous delay which would have been occasioned by the refusal eof civilian longshoremen to work during the recent heavy rains.” That might mean that they refused to work for a considerable time during the rainy season but we know they. did this time, anyway, and that a “dangerous delay” might have resulted. The delay might have cost Australian and American lives. It might have cost the lives of Australian women and children, For verification of that let us consult a letter from T. Healy, secretary of the Australian Waterside Workers federation, published in the Pilot. a Mr. Healy says labor conditions in Australia do not “materially” prolong the turn-around of vessels and blames inefficient loading, faulty planning and the lack of heavy gear on the piers and quays, for which latter he scolds the employers. Mr. Healy says: go pe 1 w only .108t which can be attributed to a rh 5 hat 10s¢ for smoke-ohs or breaks because of rain. It is not the practice to work during the heavy rain unless covers and protection are provided. Employers have hesitated to do this in the past because of the cost involved.” Smoke-ohs apparently afe smoking periods and Mr. Healy says the day workers take a half hour and. the night workers a full hour for this purpose and thinks this improves efficiency. :

Yankee Soldiers Practice’

“ATTEMPTS HAVE been made by American people here to use American soldiers and, in two cases, we agreed to a number of soldiers receiving training on the wharf prior to their proceeding to the battle area.” We might read that again, too. The Australian dockers’ union kindly let American soldiers practice on their docks so that they could handle cargo in the fighting zone where the union longshoremen won't be going. But Mr. Healy says it has been necessary “to take ‘a firm stand against the employment of soldier Jat on American vessels to the exclusion of civilian abor.”

“Gen. MacArthur has agreed with the union's

contention and has given assurances in the matter but there are some junior officers: (labor baiters, no doubt) who are still desirous of putting this policy into operation and we hive to be constantly alert to prevent .the use of American forces.”

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By Ruth Millett

THE SOCIETY page of a large city newspaper the other day carried an item about a woman who wanted to help the war effort so badly that she gave up her two

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“INDIANA POLL TAX SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED” By Carl L. Humphries, 312 E. St. Clair st. "Yes, Mr. Meitzler, you are absolutely right—the poll tax should

be extended to the entire United States. However, it should be as it is in the seven southern states which now have it. I have lived in several of these states and remember this, you do not have to pay this poll tax unless you wish to voig# You can pay all of your other taxes without paying the poll taxes No, if there is a state in the union that needs its poll tax situation investigated, then it is Indiana. Our system is absolutely robbery. They call it poll tax; -yet you pay it before you can even get a driver's license, 1s0- I suggest that if our politicians insist on calling this financial scheme poll tax then they pass another law giving only owners and drivers of automobiles and other citizens who are forced to pay this tax the right to vote. ® 4 8 “PASTORS NEED COURAGE TO ‘STICK NECKS OUT” By the Rev. Frederick R. Ranes, minister of the Assembly of God, Koleen A few weeks ago a self-supporting missionary or rather a God-support-ed missionary called at my study asking for a list of names of people who might be interested in character building literature for children, fe. Today ‘an alcohol-poisoned mind which cannot distinguish between

"a missionary and an ordinary sales-

man demands: to know why the missionary came to the church and why I gave him the list of names. If my offended friends will labor until he.inspires one of his alcoholsoaked friends. to attend prayer meeting regularly, he will have a Just as people who have the feast need of prayer are most likely to attend prayer meetings, so are peo-

still just as pregnant with evil and

And let me say: further that “Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” You must be saved from so-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in’ these columns, religious con-

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Our Hoosiers * By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, - June 5.—One f the most curious speeches ever eard in the senate was read there during the reciprocal trade agreement debates by Indiana’s Repube lican Senator Raymond E. Willis, * The speech began with a high ‘tariff talk worthy of former Sene ator James E. Watson, who des lighted in such efforts as G. O, P, floor leader and was instrumental in building the high tariff wall

which immediately preceded the great depression, .

This part of the Willis speech was followed by

some paragraphs about the present war, which seemed: §

to fix the blame for it on President Roosevelt. The junior senator said afterward that he did not mean to make it appear so. . : In fact he had been turned away from the

‘text by questions from Senator Scott Lucas (D. Ill),

who wrung from Willis the admission that he did support: Wendell L. Willkie as the Repunlican presi dential . nominee and even might do so again. The latter was more suggested than expressed, however, After this colloquy, there was a historical essay showing by chapter and verse what presidents had or had not exceeded their constitutional authority in the opinion of the writer.’ Also there was a plea for world trade.

Cites Election Results

“DURING MY CAMPAIGN for the United States senate, I took throughout the state of Indiana exhibits of commodities imported into this country by per~ mission of these trade treaties—commodities which

were in direct competition with goods which had been ’

“Into a city where a shoe factory was closed down I took shoes made in Czechoslovakia. Into a to whose textile mills were closed down I took, fabrics made. in Japan. Into cities whose steel hearths were cold I took metal products from Belgium, . ,. “In all these communities I found impressive cone tributions to our huge roll of unemployed. I (found many on WPA, who. formerly had earned good ‘wages on the farm or in the factories. : “I was convinced by the election returns in those communities that the people were opposed to these trade agreements.” \ He asserted that the American people are “sitk and tired of the fantastic theories of the New Deal that we can spend ourselves rich, and that deficit financing is a sure way to universal happiness and prosperity.”

‘People Must Take Care'

IN THE PART dealing with alleged presidential usurpation, this paragraph appeared: “Just as the people were rudely awakened from their naive thought that the congressional prerogative for declaring war would always be a deliberative safeguard rather; thar® a mere post facto formality, so must the people now take care lest the same executive habit of keeping the conduct of foreign relations exclusively in its own hands leave the people with even less to say about the peace than they had to say about the war”: wy ; During the reading of the speech Senator Willis was badgered by Senator Lucas of Illinois about the 1940 campaign, and at one point he blurted out: . “I believe Mr. Willkie and Mr. Roosevelt both

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troversies excluded. Because promised we would be kept out of war, but—"

cialist slavery! And you, my friends, had better listen to me when I warn you again to “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravenous wolves” preaching not the gospel of love, mercy, forgiveness and conciliation between men and nations but the murderous theme of Karl Marx— hatred, vengeance, slaughter, materialism, immorality, revolution and international socialism—world slavery! Do you hear me, friends? “You are not wood, you are not .stone, but men”—and women! We, the people of the United States, are the sovereign power, and we must make some mighty important decisions concerning our own and our children’s future destiny!

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ple in the least need of help in training children most likely to be interested in good literature for children. The more unfortunate a man is in matters of education, the better he is satisfied with himself. You should follow this missionary and watch the sort of examples parents set for their children when they are “not interested.” All of us ministers know that evil exists and that it wants to be left alone. That characteristic cry of the unclean spirit, “Let us alone” is just as real today as when it was recorded by St. Luke. Today it is

ignorance. 5 The question that we pastors are : You can’t side-step the oe felcompelled to answer is plain. Must |l0W Americans—you are individually

we take the side of the missionaryfesponsible to the best of your or must we seek to protect our ability to either help preserve, proheathen from the missionary? What| tect and defend our constitutional is the use for us to sacrificé to send Tights and liberties or to passively missionaries to heathen Japan, and do nothing and lose them! Your then seek to protect our heathen at liberty is on the way out BOW..s oy

home from missionaries? Or-shall|30d don’t forget it! : we just be lukewarm? «es, we are being enmeshed in a

If our child line of defense fails, |Straitjacket of socialist totalitarianall of our other victories are in vain, |iSm! Did you hear me? I said soIf we are to build a child line of de-|Cialist totalitarianism! I care not

He didn’t finish, for Senator Iicas pinned him down to admitting “that Japan would have stabbed. us in the back some time in 1941 whether Roosevelt had been president or Willkie had been president.” “I agree that is probably true,” Senator Willig said and later added: “I have no desire to argue with the senator from Illinois about the merits of Mr. Willkie, or the voice of the people, but I suggest that he call the roll of representatives and senators of 1940 and 1943, and he will see the answer of the American people at the bar of public opinion.”

In Washington

By Peter Edson :

. WASHINGTON, June 5.—TIt ia recognized doctrine and practice of organized labor to make gains while business is good. Employers can’t be expected to shell out while business is in the red or dangerously near to it. But when ~ business is ‘in the black, then is _ the time to ask for increases with every expectation of getting ree ; sults and keeping them. . That has happened in évery major industry during this war period—in steel, autos; aircraft or what have you. It is happening right now in coal. I$ stands a good chance of happening in railroads.

fense .that will hold 20 years from now, we ministers will have to find the courage to “stick our necks out” for democracy now, » ” “WHAT DO FREE AMERICANS WANT?” By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th st.

“A prophet is not without honor, savein his own country and in his own city and in his own house.”

whether it is a copy of Hitler's brand of national - sotialism, or Stalin’s brand of international socialism, for socialism’ it is, and will be! Is that what free Americans want? Is that what our army and navy and air forces are fighting for; or is that what we think we are

fighting against? I want to talk plain and find out the whole truth about this New Deal objective before we get completely regimented!

Age there any of you free Ameri-

In the case of the Akron rubber workers, howe

ever, it is perhaps permissible to raise the ques. > tion of whether labor can’t be too smart for its own *

‘good. ’ To relieve depression

work year.

From 1934 t0,.1937. employment in the industry was - between 37,000 and 39,000, all working on the basic six« :

1936 and 1937 were pretty fair years, ! Carrying out this idea that labor makes its greatest .

hour day.

advances in good times, those were the years that *

unemployment distress. in Akron, a share-the-work’™ program was instituted > in 1930. It included provision for a six-hour day's and at one plant—Goadrich—a maximum 1800-hour ~

cans so base as to sell your American birthright for a mess of

silence political opposition and social revolt. ® x : 2 x = UNSIGN ED posters appearing on the streets in connection with the coup seem to promise a change in foreign policy, and that is the initial interpretation of diplomatic and other observers there. Nevertheless, the first official proclamation by the junta was limited to local issues. The rebel leaders are all generals, including Ramirez, who was minister of war in the pro-axis regime and only a few hours before the revolt reaffirmed his. support of Castillo policy.

The United States government of course has scrupu-.

luosly refrained from interference in Argentine internal affairs. But Argentina more and more has been cut off from economic and other benefits enjoyed by her united pro-ally neighbors. : : Meanwhile Brazil has replaced her as the dominant military power in that area. And the axis, which the ruling Argentine minority backed so sympathetically, is now clearly headed for defeat. So even some of the Argentine reactionaries have been looking for a graceful method of getting off a loser and on a winner. ; Since Argentina’s isolation from the united American _ republics was her doing, she can end that isolation by her own acts. But until she does break with the axis, and provide unstinted co-operation in hemisphere security to offset some of the damage she has, done, this coup is apt to be discounted as just another palace revolt of generals. _ If the Argentine people themselves have any say in

adopted children so that she could join the WAACs—who won't accept a woman with children under 14 years. That is just anothér instance of a mistake many women are making. The mistake is in thinking that in wartime it is all right, and even noble, to throw up or neglect woman’s natural Job of bringing up children to take on a man’s work. .”

What becomes of the generation that is in its

childhood today depends on whether of not we women recognize -how great a mistake that is. If we do, then mothers will stick to the job of homemaking—unless they are needed so desperately in other jobs that the. government finds it has to draft even mothers of small children,

Not Patriotic

THERE IS nothing patriotic, or smart, or commendable- about a woman's deciding that Uncle Sam needs her worse than her children do. When Uncle Sam does—he’ll say so. Until then, the women who neglect their children in order to ‘serve their country” belong in one of

three classes. , Either they are the victims of faulty | | thinking, or they are using the war as an excuse for |

getting out of their natural job in life, or they are slaves of fashion who are unable to resist doing what the other women are doing. :

To the Point— SCIENTISTS AGREE that a bee can't see red. But they have a way of making humans seeing it.

AMERICANS ARE getting behind their work to get ahead and using their heads to keep from getting behind. G Dai : :

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" ” ® “HARD ENOUGH TO SLEEP WITHOUT DOGS BARKING”. By Three War Workers, Indianapolis. We thought the city \ stration was going to do something about the droves of dogs that trample victory gardens and flowers out of existence and. are put out

| {at 8 a. mn. to howl and bark at ev-

erything that passes or even bark just to be making a noise to keep us war workers awake most of the day. It’s hard enough to sleep these hot days without* having a pack of two-bit dogs yelping at the top of their voices. We believe there. must be a dozen dogs in the 1200 block of N. Chester. And they are surely a public nuisance. If you-can help any it will

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DAILY THOUGHTS I would seek unto God, and

unto God would I commit my cause.—Job 5:8.

THE ONLY faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of convien mor-

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of -experience.—Lowell.

marked the rise of the C. I. O. United Rubber Workers, *

Started Decentralization

SUCCESS OF the union had an unusual effect on the industry. Wanting to insure a more continuous flow of production, not wanting all their rubber eggs ‘in the Akron basket where labor bances were upsetting the basket too often, of the rubber companies began a decentralization of their industry, Employment dropped to around 26,000. But the six-hour day and the five-day week, mean ing the 30-hour work week, hung on. It was nos *

until war demands really took hold that the industry -

was able to move away from: the short week. At Goodrich, it was raised from 30 to 36 hours, - fipally to 40 hours, but time and a half is paid for

all work over 36 hours a week, and the average work

k is still under 45 hours. At other plants, the in 1 He is 40 hours, overtime beginning after the 40th hour, with an average 48-hour week. Following the accepted labor dogma of making gains while business is good, however, Akron rubber workers put in their demands for further increases in basic wage rates. But take a look at the long range implications of these demands. ; The 3 cents an hour wage increase which the war labor board recently authorized® brings the average

straight time earnipgs to between $1.18 and $1.33

an hour. Actually, by the setting of new. rates for new operations, the average has been raiséd from

$1.28 to $1.33 an hour, though the war labor board

does not recognize such increases as being a factor, : Nor does the board consider as a factor the average $1.55. ta $1.60. an hour, including overtime. a ETA wi

~ But even the lower figures are from 30c to 330+ an hour higher than wages paid tire and tube worker: outside the Akron area. Faced by that

petitive cost, rubber manufacturers are“ ning to think about the decen tion

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