Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1943 — Page 10

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HARMONY IN SIGHT?

REPORTS persist that Marion county Republicans have found a peace formula that may work, and that the end of the disagreement between factions within the party may be in sight. - If they are correct it will be an achievement for the party second only to victory in an election. And it may ‘have more than local importance. In the presidential campaign next year Indiana may very well be a decisive factor, and in Indiana Marion county might. quité conceivably hold the deciding vote. Obviously the party will be weakened if opposing factions within it are fighting one another—possibly even weakened to the point of defeat. The Republican trend, perhaps more properly described as an anti-New Deal trend, which was so evident here last fall, no doubt will still be running strong in 1944—but it may not be strong enough to bring victory to a divided party. Regardless of the effect on future elections, the disagreement has contributed nothing to the welfare of the city and the county governments wholly in Republican hands. . ”. ” ” ”» AYOR TYNDALL’S administration, Jatack.ed in January with the high hopes of a great majority of Indianapolis citizens, has found this factional quarrel its heaviest handicap. ‘There can be little doubt that its effect on the county government has been almost equally unfortunate. | With the entire local government in the hands of a single party, it becomes that party’s responsibility to see ‘that its elected officials do work in harmony for the welfare of the community. No doubt most of these officials, as well as most of the rank-and-file members of the party sincerely prefer such harmony. | They are in position to demand it, if they can themselves agree on key leaders acceptable to both factions who | can re-form the divided ranks into a solid and united front.’ | Otherwise the triumph of either group will leave behind it ‘a shaken and vulnerable jorganization for the crucial campaign that is approaching. :

OPEN CITY ' F Rome is made an open city in fact, nobody will be more pleased than the allies, who regret the necessity of bombing it as a military center. But much more than promises will be required. . Only words—deceptive ones at that—have come from Badoglio so far. Only when Rome has ceased to house war plants, depots, communications, and ministries; only when all its defenses and airfields have been dismantled, when all its {troops have been removed, and when its railways have ceased to have any connections with the war effort, will it be treated as an open city. According to the Italian government, “all necessary measures in conformity with international law are being taken.” What is international law? It is a combination of agreement and precedent. The agreements were mostly destroyed by Germany in the first world war; and by Germany, Japan and Italy since then. There would be no war today if the axis had not destroyed international agreements. The Hague treaty of 1907 did not mention “open” _cities, but it did prohibit attack on “undefended” - cities. Germany in the first world war said that treaty was not operative because it had not been ratified by all belligerents, and then violated it. Efforts at the Washington arms conference in 1921-22 to get such an agreement failed. fi ” 2 o 8 ” 2 JrALY in 1986 bombarded the open city of Addis Ababa, and the Japs destroyed many such cities in China. In this war Germany destroyed Rotterdam and Belgrade after they were declared open cities, and the Japs continued to bomb Manila after it was proclaimed an open city. ; Nevertheless, the allies: doubtless would not bomb . Rome after it ceased to be a military center. In any case “+ the allies would have to establish the fact before recognizing the changed status. In this case special precautions must be taken, because the Badoglio-Savoy dictatorship tricked the allies a breathing spell which it used to strengthen its own ‘and the German military position against us. The open-city declaration by the Rome regime is. just ‘a8 tricky as expected. According to the official statement, Rome declared its open-city decision through the Holy See ‘on July 81, and has been waiting to be informed “under what circumstances this tion would be accepted.” This has not been confirmed by the Vatican or the allies, Of course Badoglio’s claim that “Rome is an open city” is a plain lie. ~The American fliers on their second raid found it more heavily defended than on the first raid, and they ' pombed military objectives, including transport then in operation. Obviously there has not been time since then to ~ demilitarize it. ; ®. 8 8 28» AS a matter of fact, ‘while the trick change in status of * that city by words is very easy, its-actual demilitarization would be long and hard. To make it an actual open city would in effect mean the surrender of all southern

and central Italy, and cutting off the retreat of the Sicilian ]

Southern German armies to boot. - ‘The only real protection for Rome—as for the rest. of

ftaly—is allied victory. If the Badoglio-Savoy regime had

in the beginning, instead of helping Hitler,

could have saved Rome, Now fhat the Gesmans ets ‘By

We the People

a separate auxiliary of the boil-

This union, with sharp business acumen, had foreseen the great develuopment of the shipbuilding industry and had moved in fast to obtain a closed shop ‘whereby many thousands of future workers here were bound to join up and pay personal tribute to Harold M.

Young Franklin, & quiet operator in a small town, Kansas City, Kas, operates one of the ripest rackets in the entire nation-wide shakedown of the work+ ers in the war effort. An article of the constitution of his old man’s union compels all “regular” members to buy insurance through him and pay their premiums, which are high, along with their dues or forfeit their jobs in the war effort.

How It Works

THUS, IT will be seen that discrimination sets in right there, and with the’ support of the national government. If a white worker has the character and fortitude to refuse to pay tribute to the son of the union’s president he is fired, the nation, in its manpower emergency, loses his man-days of work and he is liable to such penalties as Paul V. McNutt and the draft boards may contrive for him. This discrimination, however, has received the sanction and confirmation of general practice. It operates in most of the war industries, although the ingenious racket which old man Franklin arranged for his kid is something rather special. Now a question has been raised whether the segregation of the colored workers constitutes discrimination. The ynion thinks not, provided Negroes are readily received into the auxiliary and having been admitted are freely permitted to work. of course such segregation is discrimination because it is expressly written that the members of the Negro auxiliary shall not be permitted to buy young Franklin's insurance and contribute to his great income derived from commissions on the compulsory premiums. The union’s constitution contains a proviso that “article XII does not apply to membership in auxiliary divisions which may hereafter be or-

who had been let out because | they refused to be segregated in|

ermakers union of the A. PF, of L. 4

Franklin, the son of J. A. Franklin, president of the y union.

ganized.”

Must Buy Insurance

THIS ARTICLE makes it necessary for “regular” members to buy insurance through the president’s son. - Furthermore, the insurance contract between the union and the Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California says that the constitution, including this exclusive provision, is made a part of this agreement, and for a clincher, the second paragraph of the group policy says in these words that “members of the Negro auxiliary division” among other auxiliaries shall not be insured under this policy. In this manner the colored brethren are denied an important social gain, to-wit, their right to enrich Harold M. Franklin, the national union treasury in Kansas City, and the Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California, which also has a very good thing running in this deal as examination of the policy and the tables has shown. Now it may be wrong or unkind of the company to enter into any such discriminatory agreement but there is. nothing in any law which forbids it and there are many union precedents which never have been disturbed by any labor agency of the New Deal.

Sub-human Auxiliaries

ON THE contrary, many unions have sub-human or robot auxiliaries made up of socially degraded workers subordinate to the aristocracy, or full membership. Such are the B-class locals and the “permit” men who are forced to pay their dues and fees but are not allowed to vote or hold office or even participate in meetings. They constitute a ‘large group in all, and their case is gloomy if not hopeless, and the only differerice between them and the members of the Negro auxiliary of the boilermakers’ union is that they are segregated for reasons other than those of race: Is racial discrimination then the only wrongful discrimination that President Roosevelt's directive takes notice of? It is. And are the directive and the committee charged with its inforcement or implementation opposed to discrimination as such? "They are not. They are indifferent to. discrimination for other causes and, in the present case, would perform a

ing the boilermakers %o admit them to “regular” membership; for in that status they would have to swell to even vaster size the rakeoff of a man whose income already represents a monumental profit from the war for ‘the freedoms everywhere in the world except only the U. S. A.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“LANDLORDS INSULT YOU IF YOU HAVE TOTS” By Mrs, F. L. White, Mooresville

Dear reader friends with children: I'm in favor of starting a club or organization of us hard-working parents, . with kiddies who know how to behave; who are up against it on the housing problem. I don’t believe there is anything in the Bible about not letting little children live. It’s too bad that so many landlords think so much of their properties, that they judge everyone with children as the same. I've cleaned up plenty of other families’ children’s “writing on the wall” and I know what they mean. But now it’s getting so you can almost expect to be insulted 'if you have a family of toddlers, Our kiddies don’t ruin homes but you'd think they were a bunch of potential criminals the way some of these “dear. house renters” act. They'd ‘rather have a poodle dog and a beribboned cat. I wouldnt live in their houses if they'd: beg me to. I'd fix up a house to really look nice and neat, even with all the kiddies under foot, but try and get a chance! I'm not afraid of hard work of inconveniences of the country, As for buying a home now one should be laden down with cash and be willing to mortgage their’ futures to even get a chance at buying. Small down payments, good intentions, and small children must be out for the duration, ss =» =» “THE TAXPAYER GETS IT IN THE NECK”

By a Times Reader, Indianapolis

financial disservice to the colored workers by forc- [every

I am glad to see you and other

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who try to remain loyal to their clerking jobs, don't see amy excess spending money, yet everybody wants super service—and the ones who do the most yelping wouldn't clerk if asked to, and many are former clerks, too. If eating places could get $2 per meal, fountains 25¢ for sandwiches, 25¢ for sodas, 50¢ for malted milks, and the like, the war wages could also be paid to the help. 8 ” » “RANK AND FILE VOTERS DON'T WANT VANNUYS” By Lioyd V. South, 3288 N. Illinois st.

A visitor from Vienna, Va. has arrived in Hoosierdom — Senator Frederick VanNuys—an infrequent sojourner in these parts—come at this time to visit “some of the larger counties on a grass roots sounding trip.” He wants to find out whether the “rank and file” voters want to return him to the senate, His attitude against presidential “third terms,” presumably, does not apply to his aspirations for a third term. The senator seems to resent the efforts of the Democratic organization to pick his successor. When elected to his second term he made the statement that it would be his

{win Because we're on God's side,”

"|that thought entered his mind in the war of existence of his own

, | blinded by his own personal succes-

{trained than his opponents?

{don’t believe in God, on God's side? | Then, there are the Chinese, who

even after he had been invited to do so. Neither did he contribute to the campaign fund of the Democratic party in Indiana in 1943, 8 # 2 “THE SAME OLD PACK OF: MARKED CARDS” By WwW. H. Edwards, Spencer Although I don’t accept the New Deal philosophy in all its phases, nor am I a Socialist or a Communist, I do see some good in the New Deal’s idealism, even as I see some worthwhile things in the socialist program of government, All forward steps in governmental philosophy were condemned by reactionary thinkers at the time of their birth. That possibly is as it should be, for it gives all the people a chance to inform themselves on the merits of new ideas of government. Those who conden all New Deal acts must certainly allign themselves with those who. were so great1y favored by the Old Deal, which hung unalterably to the Alexander Hamilton theory of an aristocratic)! form of government and refused to really make this a “government of the people, for the people, by the people;” with the result that we had a violent swing to the left and the New Deal. As the Old Deal and the New Deal are playing card ferms, let me state that a new deal by the same old pack of marked cards isn’t what the people are seeking and need in government, as evidenced by the many. people who keep saying that both the Democrat and the Republican parties have outlived their usefulness. ” J a ” “WE'LL WIN BECAUSE WE'RE ON GOD'S SIDE” By J. Halford Broyles, 638 N. West st. Joe. Louis, when asked to talk at a war rally, arose and said, “We'll

and sat down. Much quoted, it bids fair to become an American classic.

But I wonder. Yes, I wonder if ever

people with their millions of dollars invested in church properties, or

Ses Re’ seks: only ip satisfy white America. "I recall what another - in: Joe's Hine-~Napoleon-said. is on the side of the battalions.” ' Diet 90s Louis win Bepauss be was on God's side or because he was stronger, more clever and better Are the victorious Russians who

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— Senator Frederick V uys (D, Ind) cast five votes approved by the C. 1. O. and 13 not approved, Senator Raymond BE. i Ind.) cast two approved, 13. approved, was absent twice ‘ghd held a general pair once. This 18-vote summary is taken from & pambiilet issued by ©. 1.0, headquarters here entitled “Keeps ing Score to Win the War.” ' Votes for which Senator VanNuys won C. I. O.

approval were for continuing the loan powers of the 3

farm security administration, for increasing approe priation for conservation payments by $10,000,000, for appropriation of funds for the domestic

| of the office of war information, for continu

of the national youth administration and for sion of the reciprocal trade agreements, The VanNuys’ votes upon which OC. I. O. turned thumbs down included: ; For limiting the jurisdiction of the national labor relations board, for the Connally-Smith anti-strike bill, for farm labor draft deferment, for the Banke head amendment to include farm labor costs in come puting parity farm prices, against an appropriation for crop insurance, against the $525,000,000 Taf$ amendment providing for limited roll-back, for pros hibiting use of commodity credit corporation funds for roll-back of food prices, against an tor ning the national resources planning board, for-liftin $25,000 net ceiling placed on salaries by the hw for the pay-as-you-go income tax and for the dis missal of Watson, Dodd and Levett from the gove ernment service,

How Willis Voted

SENATOR WILLIS’ two votes okayed by O. Test were the crop insurance appropriation and agains dismissal of Watson, Dodd and Levett, He was abe sent when the vote was taken on the Bankhead amendment and on prohibition of the price roll~b His general pair was on passage of the Smith-Con= nally bill, but he voted to over-ride the president's veto of it. On all other measures the junior senator from Ine diana voted in a way C. I. O. didn’t Here is Jome comment about the Ha in both senate and house taken from the pamphlet containing the tabulations: “The rank and, ile Republicans are neither appease ers nor profiteers but they have gone along with the anti-Roosevelt coalition on strictly party lines, They have voted against subsidies for the Doak of prices, against the OWI and for the Smith-Connally bill. “Even many Republicans who have had a good record on foreign affairs have voted consisten against any progressive home front measure. . “The northern Democrats in the house and senate | have voted correctly, on the whole, , , ,

Plans Congress Changes

“TO CHANGE congress we must concentrate pressure on the northern Republicans, many of whom have strong labor votes in their districts. Such cone gressmen as LaFollette of Indiana, Blackney of Miche igan, Judd of Minnesota, Baldwin of New York, Bex: der of Ohio, Ellison of Maryland, are not on domestic issues and generally have had ords on foreign issues. ? “There is strong U. A. W. and other O. f oO. mem. bership in their districts, The win-the-war congresse | men among Republicans may be open to reason; labor! may be able to help convince them that the. wer cannot be won without a stable home front. “Most. congressmen are politicians and reath {to the danger of losing their jobs at the next election. Where labor has not come. out strongly at the polls, the Republican congressmen are not sympathetic or or, friendly. » + » 7 “The job to be done with the Democratia ieabgressmen in the north is to make those who have voted right to go back to congress with more | 4 in them, to be present for all important votes: to become active in committee work, . . . “A concentration point for all summer acti must be the anti-poll tax bill. The bill is now in senate judiciary committee of which VanNuys chairman, Pressure must be put on the judi committee® to report the bill out as soon as

commit himself to vote for the bill and to cloture (to close debate) if a filibuster is Minn.

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