Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1943 — Page 12

(CHARGES made by the’ bipartisan senatorial war committee, on the basis of its world tour of investigation, are too serious to ignore. The senators praise our military effort, our troops, weapons and equipment. They criticize certain Russian and British policies and our government's failure to protect American interests. In the interest of continued allied co-operation, which is so essential to winning the war and the peace, President Roosevelt and Prime ~ Minister Churchill should begin settling some of these growing conflicts. : § The British are said to use our oil while they save their ~ own, and to place British labels on our lend-lease goods. But the most disturbing charge concerns airfields, bases and ' communications. Apparently we have obtained no postwar rights outside this hemisphere to the global chain of airfields we have built at great cost, and no equality in cable and radio communications. In some Pacific islands, a British official moves in and plants the British flag’ as fast as our forces take over, it is said. The British government is unwilling for us to acquire full post-war possession of Atlantic and Pacific bases necessary for Ameri- “ There is also a challenge of British, Russian and Amerfean military strategy. Senator Lodge says many American lives could be saved if Russia would fight Japan. Senator thinks the British could do more in the Far East, and that Washington should give Gen. MacArthur more support. But it is obviously impossible for civilians to answer questions of global strategy—to say whether Russia is strong enough for offensives against Germany and Japan at the same time, or whether the MacArthur plan is better than that of the Anglo-American combined chiefs

An 'Apologist of Criminals’ HE IS AN associate and defender of and of criminals and notoriously guilty but unpunished

held by the president of the United States and all agencies having to do with labor relations and he is now, by reason of this government support, one of the most powerful men in the United States. It is a familiar criticism of those who expose and oppose criminality in unionism, directed at them by members of the New Deal-Fascist-Communist-Under-world axis, that the crimes of a few scoundrels have been exaggerated to the injury of unionism and the

complished from the inside which the dismissal of Willlam Green and of Joseph Padway, general counsel for the A.

L. and for seversl of the most brutal and organizations within the fold. For

‘Justice and Faith Mocked'

IT INSULTS the intelligence of all union workers, whether voluntary and enthusiastic joiners or

The Hoosier Forum . 1 wholly . disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

bitter and dejected victims of coercion and extortion in many forms, to say that they have the power to

“THERE SEEM TO BE

(Times readers are invited

land warned America

against “double-crossing” his beloved Rus-

“I AM NOT going, here and now, to try to account

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: for this lopsided bureauctatic growth, except to say

that in my opinion the blame does not rest any

“A courageous-and daring president, perhaps overly

| willing - to assume responsibilities, too often found | willing to surrender its responsi |

congress cravenly bilities to him.

“Too often I have hegrd members of congress say {

thoughtlessly: ‘If he wants to stick out his him do it.’ : : Sach, “Only ‘recently congress, without his asking it, voted the executive the most sweeping powers to seize manufacturing plants and write labor contracts. I doubt whether any totalitarian ruler in any

has broader powers over industry than have been. |

voluntarily conferred by congress on the president of the United States.” ;

During the New Deal era, 1933 through 1043, con=

gress passed 4304 Jaws and the president issued 3505 -

executive orders, thus giving congress the slight lead of 739 for the decade, Mr. Ludlow showed.

People Prefer Asking, Not Ordering

“THE TIME WAS when an executive order was a rarity and the. issuance of such an order was something to be talked about,” Mr. Ludlow concluded,

- “Only on the most infrequent occasions”and for

very special purposes in those days did presidents ex--efcise thé authority to issue executive orders. . , . _ “These orders mainly-originate in the bureaus and

are expressions of bureaucratic minds. They often

embody the whims of bureau chiefs. They have the

effect of laws. : “Thus we havé an anomalous situation where the

bureaus are enacting nearly as many laws 4s con- |

gress,

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“The Americn people are a pariotic and co-opera~ tive people. They are united in support of the war - and they want to do their part. one, thing tha grates on their sensibilities is that théy are so ordered instead of being asked.”

TWO PROBLEMS” By A Times Reader, Indianapolis “Disgusted” should keep his shirt on. He is getting all excited, and he might break a stitch. After all, how can a person tell these days whether it's a man or woman with so many of our weaker sex running around in pants? By now there seems to be no doubt about the fact both “Disgusted”

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eliminate crooks through democratic prbcesses when it is known that the men at the top are in league with notorious exploiters of labor. It mocks justice and faith of these workers in the integrity of popular government to realize that the national government of their country supports Green and has selected Padway as an official representative of American labor on a complimentary mission to labor in the British Isles. . o Nevertheless, although years have passed since reen’s collaboration with such vermin and Padway's |’ i acceptance of their money in the role of counsel were 2d I dove Sous, Shough Jou poi People _and others no. better continug. to. enjoy the. leven more than. I thought possible, |. status of leaders and spokesmen for millions of Amer- [q¢ first. We agree that dogs should lcan workers and the status of sovereigns. Most of (be on a leash, and I suggest that the press continues to speak of them as “leaders” of they be on a leash of be muzzled. “labor” when they are in fact, not leaders, but bosses Everyone will agree that if our dog and not of “labor,” but of organizations which hold pound is a “torture house,” somelabor in chains, thing should be done about the

Denounced as Attack on Labor matter. :

In other words, there seem to be | THE NATIONAL government, through Green, Who |qoc: ‘be rept mustied or ona. Teast once appointed a notorious underworld racketeer to4and second, can dogs be assured a Committee to “Investigate” rack , has entered [reasonably fair treatment after they into &_ straight political alliance with the criminal [aT Picked up? Perhaps “Disgusted” underworld of the old prohibition and kidnaping eras San sugrest 3 method oF heinging for the purpose of subjugatng and labor of os ya not only its money, but its freedom lately, in : Srecping faatuon. of Ja right \o.vols a} ‘She pubile

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sia. Not only has America not double-crossed Russia, buf we built a railroad clear across ancient Persian lands to get our butter, canned goods, ammunition, guns, tanks and airplanes to the Russians with which they are driving the hated Germans off Russian soil, and doing a good job, for which we honor them. ! 181 : But a good many Americans have fears that when Russia has driven

; OX THIS much the senators are agreed: “ “The need for a clear national policy is strikingly apparent. With such a policy should go.an American representation board in which our military, diplomatic and business personnel work as a team, with appropriate international rank. We owe this to ourselves and to the world.” There is the rub. Our allies are protecting their national interests, and we are not. Why should we blame the- British -for protecting their. post-war position. at’ our expense, if we are too naive and stupid to look after our dwn interests? We should be thankful that there is at least one English-speaking nation practical enough to look ahead. 3 Of course it would be much better for us, and for the ~ future peace of the world, if our government could bargain as well as the British. For, unless Washington controls some of the global airfields built by American money, and unless Britain agrees to full American possession of the necessary Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific bases, the Ameriean people are not apt to support close Anglo-American collaboration after the war.

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Newsreel Buildup By James Thrasher > 5 WASHINGTON, Oct. 12~The a8 he laid aside the morning pa~

pers and took a sip of his second cup of coffee.

months ago Stalin and Hitler were bloody buddies in robbing Poland, while the Communists and their American buddies were sabotaging our defense preparations. It just happens tp be our good luck that Russia is temporarily fighting on our side; and it happens to be actual national salvation for Russia that we are on her side “lin a mliitatry sense, for otherwise Russia: would have been undér the heels of Hitler right now. Informed Americans remember that we have

sonic temple wh conferred. Mrs Wright is worthy den Wright, wor

a story during the film that classes Japs and Republicans as common enemies. What a buildup. Terrific! “And the other paper has done even better)” continued enthusiastically. “They sent clear to Australia for a picture cf Mrs. Roosevelt in a grass skist,

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"WE CAN'T LET THEM DOWN THE national war fund campaign, in which the country is asked to contribute $125,000,000, is rather awkwardly timed, coming so soon after the third war loan and right on top of the treasury’s stiff tax proposals. > But there it is. The money must be raised. . It is prineipally for the benefit of soldiers, sailors and marines, merchant seamen, and prisoners of war, with a portion also earmarked for relief work among the Russians, Chinese an others of the united nations. h The largest part of the money will go to the United Service Organizations (USO), whose hundreds of clubs for service men have a total attendance estimated currently at 25,000,000 a month. We can’t let those men down. k And we can't let the merchant seamen down—those i men who have seen so many of their comrades lost at sea, . and who have bravely gone back to risk their lives time and again. . Above all, no matter how thin our purses may be after ‘buying war bonds, and no matter how grim the tax prospects, we cannot turn our backs when the call is made for: funds to supply necessities and comforts to Americans who |!

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None of this is ever denied, but mention of all such perfidy is constantly denounced as an attack on labor and unionism. This is the Fascist phase of the New Deal-Fascist-Communist-Underworld axis it was Just so that Mussolini denounced as trai seeking to destroy Italy all who exposed the racketeering of the Black Shirt. And, just as the unions of both great houses today are levying on their subjects to promote the fourth term, empowered and upheld by the New Deal, 50 the Fascist party in Italy dipped into the union treasuries to build up its power and reduce the workers to the condition of fearful, faceless men. .

We the People By Ruth Millett

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“SEND UNDESIRABLE PEOPLE TO DOG POUND”

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of the dog-haters also, and like you,| = I would’ rather “DEVILS NOT INTERESTED . IN STOPPING REVOLUTION”

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THE MANAGER, a veteran showman, had Mrs. Roosevelt's newsreel in the choice next-to-closing spot on the bill. That which went before was calmly designed to Increase one’s impatience for the feature attraction and to make that attraction look doubly good by comparison. :

ported to have recently said: “The social revolution is the way and

After all, the bonds we bought represented no gift on our part, but the soundest kind of investment. And as for taxes, the Lord knows they will be with us always. The ‘national war fund is different; it will be a composite gift fon the American people to the men who do their fighting

properly ‘accompanied by action in congress to ie allowances paid to the wives, children and other of men in the service.