Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

WAYS AND MEANS HOLDS THE LINE HE house ways and means committtee has sustained the senate's preference for the George formula of uneniployment compensation, as against the generous but reckless Murray-Kilgore plan. The committee also rejected the compromise proposal of War Mobilization Director Byrnes, who had suggested a $20-a-week top payment to the jobless, for as much as 26 weeks, with the federal government making up the difference for states now paying less. ' (Senators Murray and

states, 75 cents a month; | |

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& indorsement of Franklin D. velt for a fourth term: state convention of the New York Federation of Labor is an priate act of homage and ciation by an organization infested with public enemies, its patron and protector. Ti at the same time, a fe, if unintentional, compliment t¢ Tom Dewey who; in his career as a prosecutor in New York, sent to prison a number of prime dignitaries of this licensed racket. Any other action would have been a shocking violation of the underworld code, and an undeserved smear against a man, who, like Roosevelt, well knows the criminal characters and methods of predatory unionism but, unlike Roosevelt, and to his honor, has never joined in their oppression of the worker or their outrages against the whole public interest, ~ =

‘Helpful Partner in Appaliing Brutalities'

TO IGNORE or try to-dignify the fact that, for 12 years the administration has been a helpful partner in the ‘appalling brutalities operated by the American Federation of Labor, is to serve the public ill. The relationship has been shown in the plainest Qetail and, from early indignation and denial, all parties to the conspiracy have turned to defiant acknowledgement. . The fact that the presidency of the last relatively

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Kilgore had asked a top of $35 a week.) A fight is anticipated on the house floor when the reconversion bill, of which the unemployment-insurance legislation is a part, comes up next week. The C. L O. Political Action Committee may be expected to be active in | favor of larger payments. The imminence of the election will tempt some members to be more open-handed than their |

judgment might otherwise dictate. But there appears to

senate. In that case the respoffsibility for improving the scales of unemployment-insurance payments will be passed on to the states—where it belongs, unless the whole unemploy-ment-insurance system as now constituted is to be revolutionized. Under the George formula, states which might otherwise feel unable to enlarge their present payments to the jobless are given an opportunity to borrow from the federal government, without interest, such money as is needed to make receipts balance with outlays.

P. A. C. SHAKEDOWN . "THE bagmen for Sidney Hillman’s Political Action Committee see nothing illegal or even unethical in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union’s shakedown of employers for its campaign money chest.

union, not only defends the solicitation of money frem firms having contracts with the union, but asserts he would not be surprised if other meetings to further the collection of funds were to be held “throughout the nation” between now and November. = Mr. Blumberg’s bland assurance that “no high-pressure methods were used” is one of the most cynical statements vet made in the Hillman campaign to create a fund large enough to buy the election. In bright contrast to Amalgamated'’s activities, it should be pointed out that other unions, notably the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, have long recognized that the collection of funds by a union from its employers, even for charitable purposes, comes dangerously close to blackmail. In fact, David Dubinsky’s union establishes this principle in a strict constitutional provision absolutely prohibiting any such solicitation or collection. And Mr. Dubinsky, himself, made a noteworthy example of one union official whom he suspended for four weeks for having sold an employer tickets to a benefit in which the union was interested. If there were any question about the threat of democracy embodied in the huge election fund the P. A. C. is taxing out of its own membership—and now out of the employers—the latest revelations of Amalgamated's shakedown and its threat of further shakedowns should answer it.

NOT POLITICAL, EH?

McCloy rules that President—beg pardon, Commander-in-chief—Roosevelt's address from Bremerton, Wash., after his trip to Honolulu and the Adeutians, was ‘not political.” It was instead a “report.” And so deciding, Mr. McCloy reverses a six-hour-old army ruling that the law permitted the Socialist party equal radio time for broadcast to soldiers overseas, Okay, let's take Mr. McCloy's word for it. Now ihe thing to do to make everything fair and square is for the navy to provide a warship and escort for Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, to take a junket to our outposts and come back and make his “non-political” report. Then provide the sane conveniences and setting for Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate. Con:irade Browder, having dissolved his Communist party and joined the New Deal, will need no special reservation this year.

NINTH AIR FORCE AND THE PRESS HERE is no official confirmation at the Pentagon in Washington that the American 9th air force, in banishing irom France three newspaper correspondents and a newspaper artist, was animated solely by the reluctance of the four men to spend most of their time covering the activities of the 9th. But colleagues of theirs have intimated in indignant cables that this was the case, and some of the papers involved have protested to the ariny. There is more than one side to this problem. When a correspondent is accredited to a specific military which feeds and houses and transports him, and supplies officers and men to look after his wants, it would be unnatural if this unit did not expect the reporter to write a good deal about his hosts. On the other hand, any newspaperman worth his salt who found himself in France, with tremendous stories about infantry and other outfits popping all around him, would seek to cover the most interesting incidents available. And he might conceivably figure that after all it was his readers—the taxpayers back home— who were really his hosts in France. ; Whatever the ethics of the situation, the summary action of the 9th air force in canceling the credentials of the four men seems ill advised. War correspondents can be very clannish at the same time that they are being. cut-

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be a very good chance that the sobering prospect of post-war | budgetary difficulties will restrain the house as it did the |

Hyman S. Blumberg, vice president of the Hillman |

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throat competitors of each other. It.will be remarkable if | requests by correspondents. for accreditation to the 9th air Le bi force do not fail off now. And that, in view of the treneribution. of this powerful unit to our gains in would be a pity. Especially in view of the need Coverage in such crises as the recent.

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free great nation on earth is involved in this business cannot be remedied by a popular, refusal to believe it. To be sure, decent citizens, including millions of workers whom Roosevelt has elivered over bodily to his crocked partners, do wish ip their hearts that the highest office within their gift/ had not been so debased. But the remedy is not to fry lese majeste at the very truth, itself, but to throw/out of office the regime which has so debauched free government.

‘Right to Bear False Witness’

ROOSEVELT'S SUPREME COURT has had the cynical effrontery to hold, in sonorous language, that his’ cohorts in these rackets have a right te bear false witness, that is to slander. and injure by deliberate lies, innocent members of the community. It has held that highway robbery is a special right of his partners in the exploitation of the people. His department of justice has violated its trust by its tolerance of a national system of loot, operated in many ways and in all communities and his shameless flunkeys on Capitol Hill, by tricky strategems in committees, have frustrated all proposals to abate the menace. The rogue’s gallerv of criminals exposed by private effort and initiative, mainly that of American journal. ism, contains the portraits of our presidents of na-

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John Knox in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.

tional unions of the American Federation of Labor and of one member of its executive council, the na- | tional governing body. It contains pictures of two | national treasurers and of innumerable regional and | local criminals, Its general counsel, Joseph Padway, | the guide and intimate friend of William Green, the president, while posturing before congress and state legislatures as a friend of labor, has taken the money of union crooks so foul that not even administration patronage could save them from prison. And Roosevelt, nevertheless, sent Padway to England a year ago as a spokesman of American labor, a gesture deliberately insulting to American and British labor.

'Dictatorships Have Arisen'

THE BASIC wrong, the most defiant and tragic offense against the freedom of the American worker { has been Roosevelt's protection of the system which | makes it possible for union racketeers to shake down | both workers for jobs and employers for protection against strikes called, not by any vote of the workers, but by order of the criminals. Dictatorships have arisen, notably in the Pacific Northwest where the Teamsters’ union, one of Roosevelt's favorites, established a working model of the Hitlerian scourge and men have been beaten and killed, terrorized and starved, all for the lack of a few fundamentally decent laws to restrict the powers of the goons. That the New York state organization of this vicious system indorsed for a fourth term the one man who stands between it and the public interest, therefore, is not so much news as scandal.

‘We The People

| By Ruth Millett

EVEN MORE important, perhaps, than the problem of juvenile delinquency is the problem of getting high school kids to stay in school, instead of quitting to take jobs. Since 1940 high schools have suffered an enrollment drop of 1,000,000 students. Some of those | students who left school to go to * work have already managed to J get info enough trouble to be listed as juvenile delinquents. Others, because they have more money in their pockets than kids their age should have, and be- | cause they think they needn't listen to parental | advice if they are independent wage earners, will probably get into difficulties of one kind or another. | But, others won't find out that leaving school | before they received high school diplomas was a mistake until the war- boom is over and they find themselves unable, because of their lack of education, to compete successfully for jobs.

Parents Must Co-Operate

PARENTS OWE it to their high school children to do everything possible to keep them in the class room during the school months. The country needs their part-time help—their working after school, on Saturdays and during vacation, if they can manage it without neglecting their health or their studies. But first of all it needs them in the classroom, where they are being prepared for adult life. The high school kid who won't listen to his parents’ “stay in school” advice should be taken to talk | to an understanding educator, to a successful man in the field he plans to enter, and to some man or woman who has learned the value of an education by having had to make his way without one. There is going to be a national “Go to School” drive this autumn, It won't get far unless parents co-operate by doing everything in their power to make their kids see why it is important for them not to quit school for jobs, even though the jobs, pay all out of proportion to the students’ worth,

To The Point—

| { VICTORY OVER Japan without invasion is pos- .| sible, says Nimitz. If we land hard enough on the | Japs-we won't need to land on their country. ot .

THE FACT that accidents will happen may account for a lot of the ‘differént salads concocted this summer. .

one big fanifly—except that fussing and arguing interfere with business. v « *

the peace, that will. at least solve the problem for the Irish. .

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without reservations. 4 . . ; . + AN OHIO couple recently celebrated their wedding anniversary. That's quite a ‘lot of we

IT'S NICE for people in an office to be just like

IF WE have an international police force to keep unemployment

THE AMFRICAN INDIANS are taking such an | active-sgle in the war it may be said they are’ fighting

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The Hoosier Forum

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

KEEP THEM IN THEIR OWN HOMES" By a Worker, Indianapolis, After reading many letters printed in this column regarding the problem of children, I agree with many of the complainants wholeheartedly. I, too, wonder why mothers take children on the streetcars during the rush hours and into the crowded restaurants to take up space so badly needed by workers during the busy luncheon hours, Also, T am wondering why parents crowd into apartments not intended for children and then expect neighbors to enjoy the noise and confusion caused by junior and his visitors. Home is intended as a place of rest and relaxation but how can a worker get that rest with junior and his friends playing cops-and-robbers through the halls and on the lawns? Children are all right in their right places but those places are not in crowded restaurants, streetcars, theaters, or in apartments which are intended for occupancy by discriminating people. Keep them in their own homes and yards where other people do not have to be annoyed. Oh, you can't afford that? Then how can you afford to raise a family? ” “AN ENTION

PREVENTION” By J. R. B,, Indianapolis.

In regard to L. A. Allen's aversion to the American Legion's advocating a compulsory military training law, evidently Mr. Allen does not understand the intentions of the Legion are to introduce military training to American youth as a preventive measure to insure peace rather than to establish training courses in preparation for future conflicts. Many immigrants came to this country to escape compulsory military training for their sons. They have escaped the training, but have they escaped wars? Thousands of young men have been rejected by the army and navy because of their physical unfitness. The majority of these defects could have been corrected had they been in training while still in their teens. Military

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ness, the ability to get along with others, and to think. Until the war, with few exceptions, only sons of the well-to-do attended military preparatory schools, Surely we cannot say the present public school system with its lack of military training has been satisfactory. The R. O. T. C. was a step in the right direction, bu it was not enough. The majority of boys emerging from a year’s

be far better prepared to complete their educations or to enter the business world than those who have passed slipshod through school, exposed only to. classroom procedure. Peace has been preached in our schools since the last war. The result of such a blind outlook caught us almost entirely unprepared for this war. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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“YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE EDUCATED”

By Harve Parker and E. Westinghouse, Indianapolis

86 you're not surprised that President Roosevelt is still the people's choice, Cato? You were not surprised because, according to you, the majority of voters are either too young or too ignorant. We can easily see how you would arrive at such a brilliant conclusion, A Roosevelt-hater can convince himself of anything. Youre not in

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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taxes, high prices or anything— sometimes | think he's in a rut!"

pulsory military training would By Another War Wife and Mother, Bridge- 3

gamble you weren't in favor of even a first term. According to Cato, the way to judge a man is to ask him what he thinks of the Presi dent. If pro-Roosevelt, he’s ignorant; if anti-Roosevelt, he's educated. You don't have to be educated to have a good memory, nor be very

old to remember ti 12 or 14 years ago. Any v g or old, educated or uneducated, can re-

member seeing veterans of the first war selling apples on the streets, hungry people in soup lines, vacant houses while families lived in “Hoovervilles,” wages for common work

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 38.— There is a good deal of to-do in

returning old jobs back. ; At Chicago, remarks by Presis dent Philip Murray of the C. L. O,, - before the Veterans of Fareign Wars, indicated that he thought

priority” on jobs gard to seniority built up by workers who have stayed at their benches during the war. 4 To which Col, Paul H. Griffith of the selective service retorted: “Under the law, the veteran is enw titled to his job back, period. It doesn't make any difference if the veteran replaces a man with greater seniority. He gets his old job back withouj refere ence to any union agreement, or fo union members ship.” To refresh our memory, we consulted a senate

‘| document elaborately entitled “Manual Explanatory

of the Privileges, Rights and Benefits for All Persons Who Are, or Have Been, Members of the Armed Forces of the United States and of Those Dependent Upon Them” (Senate Document No. 152, Government Printing Office, 1944). ’

Official Definition of Job Rights

HERE ARE the words of the official document: “Any person inducted into the land or naval forces under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, who, in order to perform training and service, has left or leaves a position, other than a temporary position, in the employ of any employer . « ..and who, having satisfactorily completed his pee riod of training and service, receives a certificate to that effect and is still qualified to perform the duties of such position and makes application for re-eme ployment within 40 days after he is relieved from such training and service, is granted certain re-eme ployment privileges or benefits , . .

of the United States government, its territories or possessions, or the District of Columbia, he is ene titled to be restored to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay; if such position was in the employ of a private employer, such employer is required to restore such person to the position or a position of like seniority, status, and pay unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so; and if such position was in the employ of any state or political subdivision thereof, it is declared to be the sense of the congress that such person should be restored to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay.

Considered to Have Been on Furlough

“ANY PERSON who is restored to a position Ia accordance with the foregoing provisions is conside ered to have been on furlough or leave of absence . , and must be restored without loss of seniority and is entitled to participate in insurance or other benefits offered by the employer pursuant to established rules and practices relating to employees on furlough or leave of absence in‘effect at the time such person was inducted into the armed forces. “Furthermore, such person may not be discharged from such position without cause within one year after such restoration. “In case any private employer fails or refuses to comply with the law granting such re-employment benefits, he may be required to do so through court proceedings and to compensate such person for any loss of wages or benefits suffered by reason of such unlawful action , , .” , We see nothing in the above to encourage Phil

of from six to ten dollars a week, while 25 millions, even less fortunate, had no jobs at all. There is, however, a definite class of people who are for Roosevelt, consisting of voters of all ages and degrees of education, and they have one thing in common-—good memories.

same corners where business flourishes today, men with American Legion buttons in their lapels and apples in their hands stood three terms ago. ” = 2

“THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO AN OPINION”

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lumbus. Are you serious? I'm not referring to the first part, just the last paragraph. Maybe you didn't

you shoot your gun.” How do you know he hasn't already shot his gun and plenty of times or chances are he will soon. Don’t you realize soldiers are buying bonds, too? You didn't sound like it when you said, “We are buying your ammunition.” What would we do if we didn't have the soldiers !to shoot that ammunition Yes, and lit seems they are doing a pretty igood job of shooting their guns, too. I don’t know this particular sol{dier from Adam, but I'm talking for all of them when I say I think they jhave had enough of this “You shoot your gun” attitude, They still have a right to an opinion. To all who want good reading, try Ruth Millett Ernie Pyle and Old Inside. They're good. While I'm at it, here's to Mrs, Bracken. You sound like a good mother, so you have my best wishes. I agree with you and children are fun. “Sometimes children are a pain in the Ineck when theyre around but a pain in the heart if they're not.” I don't know who wrote it but isn't it the truth? | ‘sy F | “HE IS TOO BUSY PLAYING POLITICS” By L. H., Indianapolis. If I were in Mr, Roosevelt's place I don’t think I would refer to the “immature and inexperienced” opposition so much and ask the people to leave it to those who saw the danger and met it head oan. Who met it head on? Not Mr. Roosevelt, to be sure. He was warned, not once, but many times, and what iid he do? He ignored all warnings and thousands of our boys lost their lives, Nothing “our wonderful com-mander-in-chief did saved us from a licking at Pearl Harbor. He is too busy playing politics and he still thinks we are too dumb to know fit.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Behold therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cute off.—Romans NE fas Lo THE CREST and -crown of all

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Ammunition,” Mr. Murray of Co- |&

realize how it sounded: “Soldier,

{Murray in a belief that workers who have stayed at !work, accumulating senjority, should be given job i preference over former employees who have been | fighting the war.

Ships "On Ice’

By Marshall McNeil

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28-—-A plan to put a large part of our navy and several hundred mere chant ships “on ice” during the post-war period, so they will cone stitute a weapon for defense and a warning to possible enemies, is being discussed by congresss men and high navy officials. The plan starts with the ase sumption—which, in the face of congressional sentiment seems a . safe one—that this time we will not scrap any of our fighting ships. After the war, according to Rep. Albert Thomas (D. Tex), ranking majority member of the naval appropriations subcommittee, we will have to keep la large number of vessels afloat. But there will be | others, running into several thousand, ranging from small boats to battleships, that can be laid up. The plan, as now discussed, calls for these te be laid up, kept in first-class condition, and perhaps modernized as sea-fighting techniques improve,

Based on Three Propositions

THE NECESSITY for the laying up of these ships is based, Rep. Thomas said, on three propositions. . . First, when and if the next war comes, we won'd have two and one-half years to prepare, as we had this time. . Second, the availability of these thousands of ships will not only be a great asset to us as the leading maritime nation, but may well ward off that “next war.” In the third place, Mr. Thomas said, navy men assure him that it is feasible to hold ships “on ice” for as long as 50 years. } “They cite a classic example,” the Texas cone gressman went on, “in the battleship Arkansas. The scrapping of the Arkansas was seriously discussed more than 20 years ago. But on D-day in France, the Arkansas, modernized but still the old Arkansas, was lying off the. Normandy beaches helping pour in the murderous gunfire that prepared the way for our landings. “The navy says that ships can be laid up, kept oiled, painted and maintained over a long period at a reasonable cost.”

700 to 800 Merchant Ships Involved

THIS SAME PLAN applies to a portion of our merchant marine, Rep. Thomas says it involves the laying up of 700 to 800 of our wartime cargo carriers, This would require- legislation by congress, to make the laying up of these vessels a permanent thing, and ‘to dispel any fears of the private shipe building industry that one day these vessels would be sold by the government. ; “We rushed these merchant ships to completion in this war,” Thomas said, “but that doesn’t mean

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with engines, turbines and gears that do not produce the speed our private-owned merchant marine will need in peacetime business. : “To my way of thinking, such laying up of a portion of our navy and enough merchant ships to ‘supply it, will be the greatest insurance against war this country could make out,” Thomas said.

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CHARLES JACK! Rites for Charl Carrollton ave., lif resident who diec home, were to bx today at the Moo ary with burial i An employee of more than 50 ye tirement four yes man was born he Survivors are h & son, William L., two daughters, M man and Mrs. G of Indianapolis; of Seattle, Wash. Cora Gebhart a Wolters, both of 1 grandchild,

MISS EDNA BUF Rites for Miss I died Saturday at Hamilton ave. w p. m. tomorrow Moore Peace Ch Smith of Frankli burial will be at Miss Burke, w lifelong resident had operated a City market 20 ) member of Eas! church. Surviving are 2 G. Shull, and twa uel A. Stephens Shull, all of Indi

JAMES E. FISHE Puneral servic Fisher, Children todian, who die St. Vincent's ho held at 2 p. m. t hart funeral ho with burial then Born in 1868, M

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MRS. CLARA 8 Services for M lett, ‘who died home of her da Pruett, 2947 Hil held at 1:30 p. the Bethel Chri burial at Bethel. Born at Orang! came here seven a member of th church near Orl Besides Mrs. } vived by anoth

William R. Gibb MRS. KATHER Last rites fo Scanlon, who die home, 832 Churc {liness, will be a. m. Wednesd funeral home a St. John’s Cath Bernard Sherida buril will be at . Mrs. Scanlon, a life resident o a member of St. She is surviy Patrolman Dan Indianapolis poli Thomas Scanlon. Margaret Laytos apolis.

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