Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1943 — Page 18
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1043
BADOGLIO FLOPS AGAIN IVE Badozlio credit at least for consistency in his betrayal of Italy. When he and the king took over power, alter the Fascist grand council kicked out Mussohri, Badogliv promptly announced that he wowid continue the war and the Hitler alliance. And yesterday in his broadcast on the Sicilian defeat he defiantly gave no hint of the change ‘in policy which the people demand. Only news that Badoglio might speak for peace caused a pause in the popular demonstrations. For days, according to frontier reports, the people have been milling in the streets in defiance of martial law and troops. They have been shouting: “Peace! Down with Badoglio and the king!” Sometimes the troops shot into the crowds; sometimes the troops refused to fre. iy Either way the demonstrations have gone on. They stopped for a mement to give Badoglio another chance. lie gave them nothing. The reaction is bound to be bitter. 2 ” » o » » . THE time has come when it probably matters very little what Badoglio does or says. If he should suddenly change, the people probably would never trust nim. And if he should cffer unconditional surrender today to the allies, he probably could not deliver—though the allies wish lhe would and could. At first he could have delivered but he chose to help Hitler instead, as Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters announced in ending the bombing breathing-spell. But now that he has conspired with Hitler for Nazi occupation of the Po line and northern Italy, Badoglio is virtually powerl:ss. He could not get rid of his German reinforcements even if he wanted to, now. It is doubtfui that he is even master in Rome, which has been reported surrcunded by German troops for several days. Now that he and the Germans are destroying roads and bridges in southern Italy, and the Germans ar» reported | withdrawing northward tirough the Rome bottleneck, even | the capital itself soon may be of little military value to Hitler except for delaying action. Well, Badoglio is not the first petty dictator to make a deal with the Nazis to his own destruction. But he should be the last. Even the stupid know that allied victory is coming. :
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MORE TEETH AGAINST STRIKES
HINGS were rolling John L. Lewis’ way, until yesterday, despite his blatant repudiation of the no-strike pledge and his nose-thumbing at the Little Steel formula. The war labor board had just decided to allow Secretary Ickes, as custodian of the coal mines, to raise the miners’ work week from 42 hours to 48—at time-and-a-half for the extra hours, of course, just.as they were already ‘getting time-and-a-half for the seven hours worked in ex- - cess of their contractual 35. ¢ That meant a further, and very substantial, fattening of the miners’ pay envelopes—and a rise in the price of coal. But now comes Mr. Roosevelt, with a chip on his ghoulder and a club in his hand. His new ' executive order provides, among other things, that where the government takes over operation of a plant, mine or facility because of 4 labor union’s refusal to comply with a war labor board order, the government is to deny this union (pending compliance) any “benefits, privileges or rights accruing to it under the terms or conditions of employment in effect when possession was taken.” Those union benefits include, in the case of the United Mine Workers, the check-off—the deduction of union dues from the workers’ pay by the employer. : So Ickes will have to stop acting as bill-collector for Lewis if the latter jumps the traces again, : ” » #” » " ” 8 HE president also directs the war manpower commission
to modify or cancel the draft deferments and employ- |.
ment privileges of non-cemplying individuals. These new weapons, added to the penal provision of the Connally-Smith war labor disputes act—under which 30 U. M. W. members are to be’tried a fortnight hence at Pittsburgh for inciting outlaw strikes against governmentoperated mines—will enable the war labor board to talk tough, if need be, against recalcitrant unionists. Sometimes the only way to stop a war-industry strike {is for the government to take over the plant—and until recently this procedure, while unfairly penalizing the employer, did the strikers no damage at all. : ; Under the new dispensation, although the plants of {aw-abiding employers may still have to be commandeered by the government when strikes occur, at least those responsible for the stoppages will also face a crackdown. If Mr. Lewis is as clever as we think, he will find ways of avoiding a test of the board's new powers after Oct. 31, * which he has said is the last day his miners will work under
their existing truce.
ANOTHER FREEDOM THE Atlantic charter does not proclaim nor does-our bill "of rights guarantee this freedom, yet we have retained
44 intact because, in our most pessimistic moments, we have faith that nobody bred in democracy will choose anything Ise. It is freedom to lizten to the other fellow’s arguments. ‘It must shock authoritarians to read that in the midst the Sicilian campaign our soldiers and ‘sailors listened freely to German and Italian propaganda programs. Can ou imagine any German, Japanese or Italian newspaper
ng, as a regular feature, a list of enemy shortwave with their megacycle position irs when
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Fair Enough a
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Paul V. McNutt's latest war manpower order is as dishonest and as political as thbse which went before, consisting, in large part, of an attempt to drive. more thousands of unwilling civilians into the clutches of rapacious, dictatorial, brutal grafters and exploiters of the nation’s peril. It is a devious attempt to ; tend the military draft to civilian occupations without any authority from congress and contrary to the intent of congress and the understanding and the rights of the people. It is a further approach to the scheme hatched at an interesting Sunday evening discussion in the White House more than a year ago, following which,
a day or two later, Mrs. Roosevelt, in her commercial |:
outlet for the sale of information obtained through her participation in the presidency, disclosed the theme of the conversation and personally proposed that “all of us,” men and women, and with no staged age limit or exception, be told what to do by the government. Now there may be and probably is a shortage of human energy and skill in the industries. The feather-bedding and mock-work rules of the unions which, in some cases, are enforced by the national government and which were upheld by the supreme court in an opinion by James Byrnes, one of the
very men now engaged in terrorizing heads of fame |
ilies with uncertainty and worry, would account for much of this. But there is no honest ground for a resort to the conscription of civilian labor, which is the intention of the McNutt orders, until every alternative’ has been tried. The alternatives have not been exhausted.
More Recent Moves
~ On the contrary, a recent dispatch reported that in New Mexico the war labor board had ordered a copper company to fire 160 miners in this vital industry on the demand of a union permeated by communist influences because the men had refused to pay union dues. . On the contrary, in Cleveland a few months ago, a group of 300 half-shift workers in a war plant, white-collar men putting in four hours a night for no other purpose than to help in the war effort, were given their choice of joining the union, which had done and could do nothing for them, or subtracting themselves from the manpower of the nation. - Out of patriotism, most of the victims of this extortion of money and violations of right, yielded their money and waived their principle. In another case, not exceptional but strictly routine, an agent of the department of labor sent blank forms to the employees of a war-essential mine, soliciting grievances against the company in the manner of the shyster who goes about fomenting litigation for what there is in it.
Principle at Stake >
There is a principle at stake in all this as important to the free citizens of the United States as any of those which have been written in the heavens as the purposes of the united nations in fighting the military enemies in this war. McNutt, however, and the ingratiating but acquiescent Byrnes have undertaken to defeat this principle by force of the emergency and of powers assumed through cunning extension of the draft act, but never created by congress. Regardless of their own ideas on compulsory unionism, and they have never committed themselves to this belief, they are promoting the evil conspiracy of the union bosses and the New Deal party to establish union. mehership as a prerequisite to lawful employment in every occupation and job throughout the land and to deliver the entire people into the control of utterly irresponsible organizations and of men who are, in many cases, scoundrels of the most violent and cynical type. There would be some hope for the citizens in a nation-wide, concerted refusal to pay dues—the sitdown in reverse, directed against the unions, If enough workers were to refuse to pay, the union power could be broken and the government's conspiracy against the people defeated. But the people are not organized and this tempting break for freedom would be beaten back in detail by McNutt and the draft boards through the punishment.of individual rebels. Nevertheless, the principle, although shackled, mocked and spat upon in the very city where the rights of citizens should find their most conscientious defenders, is not yet abandoned to death. If it ever does die, night will fall on the free republic of the United States.
Wegthe People
By Ruth Millett
“NEW YORK’S' hospitality to visiting servicemen has been extended to their wives as well,” says a recent news item. The story goes on to explain that the Y. M. C. A. in New York has opened a club aimed at making life more comfortable for the wives who join their husbands in the city, not only by planning en-
tertainment for thém but also by |
helping to solve their employment and housing problems. Every other town filled with servicemen ought to have an organization of this sort. For it is the duty of civilians to see that servicemen are well treated when they are away from camp, it also is their duty to treat wives of those men with courtesy, consideration, and a helping hand.
Have Housing Problem
.. MOST WIVES make as great a sacrifice as do their husbands when the men go off to war. Life seldom is easy for them if they follow their husbands, and it is lonely for them if they don’t. If there are children, they become the wife's sole responsibility—and if she tries to follow her husband there is certain to be a housing problem, since so ‘many landlords turn thumbs down on children, even the children of men in uniform. HET But the main reason why civilians owe service wives so much is because the wives of men in uniform face the possibility of having to go through life alone. They stand a chance to lose their husbands, and their children to lose their fathers out of this war. Yet for the most part, little has been done for the wives. All too often they are looked on as a nuisance by a‘'community because they add to crowded conditions, help to use ‘up scarce supplies, and are here today and gone tomorrow. ! “We're quick to try to make the lot of the service‘men better, for there is a glamour attached to his uniform. But we have been pitifully slow to recognize that the serviceman’s wife should be well treated too, even though she wears no uniform.
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EVEN WHEN streetcar riders are
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; » | The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“RUSH TO A DOCTOR ... MAYBE YOU NEED HIM” By J. B., Indianapolis
If you will read August issue of Readers Digest—"“America Is Being Made Over”——page 39, and “We Aren't Going to Have Enough to Eat”—page 111, and still are in
doubt, please rush to some good
doctor’s office and ask for an examination at once, or, you may pecome serious. 8 x » . “WARING PREACHES HATE . ++ WHAT A SHAME!” By C. M. K., Indianapolis
I was never so surprised in my life as I read the statement made by Roane Waring regarding the Italian people. He, as commander of the American Legion, above all things, preaches hate for our enemies. He states their leaders could not have done what they did had they not the backing of the Italian people. Did Simon Legree have the backing of the colored people of the Old South? No. And so with the Italian people had the German people, as a whole. Mussolini was back of the Italian people with a gun in each hand and a gestapo to back it up, the same as in Germany. What a shame to have a man like that at the Legion head.
“THIS AUDIENCE COULD
| LAUGH AT HEROES’ GRAVES”
By Mary Studebaker, 22 E. 22d st.
No bigger surprise have I had for many years than the surprise I received Sunday aftérnoon with the audience reaction to the picture “Bataan.” I saw this dramatic war picture at our neighborhood theater. Little of the picture could be heard, however, due to the continuous murmuring, commotion, talking, visiting, and cracking of jokes by the surrounding audience. It was general, not isolated, and created by men and women and middle-aged and young alike. They joked over the action! They actually laughed at each and every grave made, one by one, for the desperate 13 men who made history there on Bataan by their delayed action of 90 days against the enemy hordes! ; And this audience could laugh at the digging of the lonely, heroic graves for this group of 13 doomed men! I was ashamed. And I wondered
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what any service man who may have been in the theater that afternoon was thinking of such civilians as these! : 28 N “HAS DEMOCRATIC RULE GONE TO SEED?” By Guy D. Sallee, 5801 Woodside dr. Over a period of months, the commodity credit corporation has released from U,- S. warehouses
grain purchased with the taxpayers’ money to the local millers and outof -state manufacturers. It was mutually agreed that, upon acceptance of = the government grain, “it was to be ground, processed and sold to feeders.” The big out-of-state millers shipped their feed to local merchants in “registered trade labeled” sacks. Sewed to each sack was a guaranteed analysis tag issued. by the state chemist. In Indianapolis on June 5, 1943, a joint meeting was held by Purdue agricultural department, OPA, AAA and the Indiana Millers association. Purdue proposed a substitute for animal protein and cod liver oil being processed into feeds manufactured by the big millers. They proposed the Indiana millers should grind grain and use a supplement containing vegetable protein and oils. The agricultural chemist’s guaranteed-analysis tags on the substitute feed were misleading. After this joint meeting, the millers and manufacturers’ agents got to-
.gether and refused to sell the feeds
containing cod liver oil and a high content of animal protein that was shipped inter-state to anyone but a select group of customers. Some of the feed merchants printed the prices of feed on hand bills, and circulated them. When a feeder placed an order by phone, between the time of hanging up the receiver and going to their place of business, the prices would be kited 15 to 20 cents per cwt. If the customer feeder protested because of price kiting, commodity control and
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restricted sales, the merchants then refused to sell him feed of any kind, thereby boycotting and blacklisting him, and OPA gave its hearty approval. y
Some of these merchants control the community feed business, through a delivery service, thereby making it unprofitable to competitors. If the blacklisted feeder lived in their controlled delivery district, he was then forced to travel five to 15 miles in to another community to buy feed where monopoly is not completely bottled up. The millers report the rationing board of OPA granted extra gasoline and tires because of their delivery service— while the blacklisted customer is now forced to do what the miller gave as the reason for additional rationing. ~
. This complaint was reported to OPA in Indianapolis. The legal counsel, Douglas Brown, decreed “that even though the feed was manufactured within the *boundaries of a state, and shipped across state lines, when it became the property of millers and resident agents in their state, they could police their customers and sell or refuse to sell, it was now their feed, d OPA had no further interest in it.” > On Sunday, Aug. 3, in a national radio broadcast by Announcer
Ernest Lindley and Paul A. Porter,!
the “key personality,” this question was asked by a United States citizen: Does OPA approve of a butcher who refused to sell me meat? Porter replied, “Yes!” He. can choose his own customers, thereby operating his own business. So this is Washington's bureaucracy issuing decrees favoring a special class on the home front, which becomes evidence that democratic rule and rights of man has gone to seed. While our American soldiers are fighting and dying on foreign soil to suppress a like condition “over there”!
Ge JRE “THEY CAN'T TAKE THEIR HOMES WITH THEM” By A Constant Reader, Indianapelis
Referring to your article, “Landlords Insult You If You Have Tots,” Mrs. White, I agree with you 100 per cent. Especially so do I find it true in this- city and I have lived in larger and smaller cities. But we are very proud of our two youngsters and we take it or leave it. If our children can’t be treated as human beings what on earth are we coming to? Behold, what a grand let-down these ‘landlords will have after peace is won. The families will migrate, they who rented far above what one should, they who refused the children a heme and made the parents suffer will no doubt suffer themselves. There’s one thing sure, they can't take their homes with them when they depart from this earth. 2 8 =» “CRITICIZE SOMETHING THAT NEEDS CRITICIZING” By Mrs. William Howard, Noblesville In regard to the article written
by J. Halford Broyles, 632 N. West|
st., I'd like to say this: I'm very sure that quite a number of people
paigning | the Ball-Burton-Hi lution providing for U. 8, partielpation in a world peace police system, Rep. Charles M, LaFollette, . Evansville. . Republican, condemns an “international WPA.” According to his speeches re“leased here, he says on that point: : “1 do. not advocate, nor do 1 think the. American people cons template, a world WPA. : a “As a matter of fact, if the peaple of the United States, through their elected representatives, are
| permitted a full opportunity to participate in shaping the peace which
is to come and the world order which is to come, it is my conviction that they will support such a peace and such an order which will afford to the peoples of the world the opportunities to develop into competent, industrious, frugal people by their own efforts and consistent with the dignity of man. They want nothing else.” Senate resolution 114, which would provide a world juridical system with enforcement, is the answer, Mr. LaFollette believes, of
Affords an Opportunity yr “IT IS my belief,” he contends, “that senate resolution 114 affords this opportunity for the people's representatives to develop such a peace and such a world. order, from which I conclude that those who seriously advocate a world WPA are missing the temper of the people. Likewise, those who do mn seriously urge such a world order are professing to see the fear of the same in any international world order solely for the purpose of drawing a red herring across the path of an enlightened international development. . . . ol “A substantial majority of the people of the United States recognize the necessity for a new world order and America’s participation therein. What the people want now is the development of a specific policy as an initial step to the further necessary one of the development of the machinery by which that American policy shall be carried out. . . . “Senate resolution 114 is designed primarily to declare a foreign policy for the United States which
| is entirely consistent with not only the language, but
the spirit, of the constitutional provisions which declare the duties ¢f the president and of the senate
in the development of an American foreign policy.
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Participate and Initiate
“IT 1S my positive opinion that under the constitu?”
tion, the senate of the United States must not only participate in the formation of an American foreign policy, but that the language of the instrument definitely indicates that it should initiate the policy, or certainly it must participate in the initiation of the policy. . Ea «I realize that I am taking a position which is opposite to that advanced recently by an officer of our state department. . . . “I am convinced that it is the purpose of thi resolution to avoid the tragic disunity between the executive and the senate which followed the last war. 1 am convinced that it is the purpose of this resolution to obtain’s pre-statement by the senate of the United States of America’s foreign policy, if and when the resolution is adopted, for the benefit not only of the president of the United States, not only for the people of the United States, but for the governing bodies of the nations of the world. ; “The resolution sets out the minimum requirements for an intelligent American foreign policy.”
In Washington
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — Nothing that Secretary of the In-
a long time has been so miscon= strued, according to his public relations department, as his: recent speech before the Sales Executive club in New York. This was the speech’ titled “Taking a Look at the Oddities,” in which the secretary tried to conduct his audience * on a 30-minute tour of the capital so as to get the proper perspective on the loyal, underpaid civil servants whom the public has taken to maligning as bureaucrats. Ys But according to the secretary's public relations department, “some of the newspapers and press associations plucked certain pages out of context in such a way as to make it appear that he was blasting busisessmen.”
Well, there gan be no doubt about, that. National $-
Association ,0f Manufacturers has just compiled a broadside labeled “what editors think ahout ICKES and businessmen,” on which are ‘reproduced abouf six square feet of clippings of .editorials, all of which take Ickes to task for his alleged remarks. . In short, this speech bounced, and the secretary would like to get it back or correct whatever false impression it may have given, '
Look at the Text
TO BE perfectly fair about these things, all you) have to do is go back and look at the text to see win Mr. Ickes reaily said. Following are two of the paragraphs on which he was so unjustly panned: : “It isn't the New Dealers who have been running this war, If I know anything about Washington it is that the dollar-a-year men have been running the war—men like Knudsen, Nelson, Stettinius, and ‘man others whom I might mention, A “1 would remind you that as an indication of intentions to convert (the government to war) as quickly and as noiselessly as possible, the president did not turn the job of conversion over to a New - er ‘bureaucrat’ such as myself, He summoned to Wash) - ington some of the greatest names in industry put the owners of them to work. I have sometimes ventured to think—all by myself, of course—that this sudden and great. influx of men who, while highly competent in their own fields, were inexperienced and untrajned in and with govern=ment procedures, was not as well-advised as it appeared to be.” ’ Well, there's the evidence. And who should aat whose words?—the editors or Mr. Ickes?
Secretary's Sarcasm Backfires ; BUT WHY all the anxiety to suck back om
would not appreciate his crack at| speech
Joe Louis’ quotation, “We’ll win be-
- | cause we're on God's side.” If this | quotation should become a much-
quoted American. classic, so what?
‘| Apparently Mr. Broyles .
Negro??? ism, Mr. Broyles?
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