Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1945 — Page 12
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Wednesday, June 13, 1945
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THE PLEA FOR OWI
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U. S. possessions, Canada | and Mexico, 87
cents a
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Thegr Oun Way
AS. we have said before, we bel jeve that the office of war |
information ought to be abolished, and that the house |, of representatives has been too generous in voting it 18 rin 18S. Many people, of |
million dollars for the next fiscal year. course, disagree with us about that.
the eves for every week spent in San Francisco. |
Among those who disagree are the 34 gentlemen and |
one lady who have signed a statement pr inted elsewhere on | Their names All of them have achieved |
this page as a letter to the editor. eloquence command attention.
and their |
rank and reputation as writers, book publishers or actors. people and | almost none of them has ever been a factor in the Ameri-
Few of them, however, classify as newspaper
can press association business.
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| cubes that have melted and poured out over this land-
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OUR OPINION as a newspaper which has had cons. erable experience with OWI is that whatever usefulness, any, it may have had, has been outliv ed. Its domestic netive
ties are, at best, unnecessary.
The people of the United
States do not need propaganda, and we believe they 'd rather
have just plain, uncolored facts.
| feeling they have been pushed back i under the Russian foreign policy It certainly is no longer needed to aid our war: effort |
in Europe, since there no longer is any war in Europe. And
as for its value to .our war effort in
its men into his theater of operations,
the Pacific, the com- | ; manding general of that area has just made it pretty plain | | Anything to Escape Conference
wv art of OWI, and has even refused to let | that he wants no p , to pry some of the secrets out of the silent rock | into which the We believe people both at home and abroad are going to |
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be better informed about America and about our part in| the war through the regular, unbiased news channels than |
through any propaganda agency such as OWL"
contrary opinion, we stick to ours.
TRY IT IN COURT
vespecting |
deliv= | 20 cents !
| 1000 B. C.
{ should
| Charter is just too much.
AST week the FBI arrested six petsons—including two | state department officials, a navy officer and a man | active in the American Communist movement—on charges
of conspiring to violate the espionage laws.
They were
| a column in mos
No Sex Appesl—No Gags
accused of gaining illegally possession of government ‘docu- |
ments marked ‘restr jected”
secret.”
“confidential,”
and “top
Since the arrests there has been a disposition on the part of certain elements of the press to try the case in the |
newspapers.
Counter charges have been made that the
arrests were engineered by state department authorities in | an effort to stifle criticism of the department's policy of favorify the regime. of. Generalissjgis Chiaig Kai-sliek over
And on that
allegation the freedom-of-the-press issue is raised. Here is a case that should be tried in court, and before | a jury, and soon—remembering that under our system of | nit Jaw accused persons are presumed to be innocent until |
* proved guilty.
LJ » r = »
| Polka” on Broadway,
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| scenes,
MEANWHILE, ISN'T it just a jittle silly for critics of | merely be- |
the prosecution to cry “freedom of the press”
cause three.of the defendants are engaged in magazine pub- |
lishing and writing and espouse political views contrary
to those of the state department?
the defendants were trafficking in military secrets. If
evidence supporting that charge is produced at the trial, a
‘plea of “freedom of the press” will be no defense.
There is nothing in the constitutional concept of free |
expression of opinion which gives any writer, editor, pub-
lisher, or anybody else, military secrets in wartime,
WRONG ACTOR
the right to unauthorized access to
ENATOR RAY WILLIS of Indiana was quoted the other day as saying that the OPA, instead of “holding the
price line” is “shrinking the waistline.” That isn’t a bad sumn against the price agency. of the senatorial epigram 1, which © derous side. There's Willis wasn't the right man to utter it.
ng up of the congressional case In fact, it’s a pretty neat example ccasionally is on the pon- | s only one trouble, as we see it.
Senator
The gentleman from ladiana 1s a poor advertisement of OPA’s villainous ineptitude. He has one of the least shrunk-
looking waistlines in the senate. Al
persuasiveness, So we hope the next time Mr.
sally, he will seek out some senatorial Cassius with a lean
and bungry look to deliver it. Mr. stance, could talk convincingly of could Mr. Ball of Minnesota, But Mr. W feated his purpose by his performance but the casting was all wrong.
LIFE LOOKS BRIGHTER
Willis conceives
illis may
id while his accusation may: be true, we rear that his solid presence robs it of some
a similar
DO have de-
[he script was good,
HERE are days when we come to work feeling that
editorial writers have, of ous jobs. interesting people,
have adventures and
even, if good or if the managing editor thinks they are,
all men, the most unglamorReporters, for instance, get around,
meet such
names printed above their stories. But your editorial writer
looks forward only to anonymous toil,
“we” because he feels the need for company, and to spending most of his time thinking solemn thoughts about the state of the world and the rest of it wondering whether any-
-body reads his thoughts or cares.
There are such days—and then we "pik up the paper
and see that a member of our craft, wrote editorials for a New York newspaper,
a lieutenant colonel in the army and married Jinx Falken- |
© burg,
§. BUTNONYLONS - =
A RECENT Soviet development, Marx-Lenin tradition, will,
Tex McCrary,
who has become
the eves of Americans—particularly American women, factory
manufacturing women 's |
It is pertinent that the | government's charge at the time of the arrests was that |
| ganization shall promot
Capper of Kansas, for in- | shrinking waistlines.
they're | see their |
to calling himself |
while scarcely in the! we predict, advance the popularity and enhance the attractiveness of communism in
| fundamental freedoms for all.
i retary
REFLECTIONS hi Dull Show By. Peter Edson
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, ‘Cal, June 13.—Biggest sight-seeing attraction for delegates’ and technical assistants at the United Na- # tions conference -has been the California redwood trees. When the visiting diplomats want to get away from voting formulas and trusteeships for a week-end, they come up here by the carload to gaze in reverence and awe on the oldest living thing in the park, a giant sequoia which js estimated to be 3800 vears old. The current gag on the day was convened. Of course the seven weeks, but not seem a day of the wags delegate and Francisco in age of
is that this tree was planted in the San Francisco conference
conference has been going only to many of the delegates, it does less than 3800 years. In fact, some say -that you measure the age of a the length of time he has been in San exactly the same way you measure one of the big trees—by counting the a circle and a wrinkle under
There's in the bags
' Seems Longer Than Creation STILL ANOTHER IDEA is that conference time be told in the same way they measure the | age of Mt. Shasta, which was once an active volcano erupting molten lava all over Northern California, or El Captain, Half Dome, or Cloud Rest, the milehigh promontories of granite: which were carved out by the glaciers here in the Yosemite back in the ice age some six million years ago. ? "he -eruptions of oratory, the mountains of ice cape in the past seven weeks have made it seem longer than the seven .cays of creation. The human rights’ provisions are definitely Neanderthal in their concept of cuit and education. “he voting formula is highly volatile and therefore early carboniferous. The ideas on trusteeship, inde-, pendence and self-government... were carved whole out of the Pleistocene. The small nations have a into’ the Miocene which is unquestionably glacial—large masses of ice moving down from the Polar cap to shift land masses and boundaries -about like so many terminal moraines.
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AS A MATTER OP FACT it may take a geologist strata committees and commissions of this
! POLITICAL SCENE— Two Tafts
By Thomas L Stokes
WASHINGTON, June 13. —1It
seems there are two brothers, surname of Taft.
Robert A. and Charles P.—“Bob”
and “Charlie.”
Their father was President and chiet justice. Robert A. who is in the senate, was barely nosed
Charles P., who
‘Both are Republicans—but with what a differencel
The difference between the two brothers on curs | rent vital issues symbolizes the differences within the. Republican party itself, today. The Republican party, : with its conservative and progressive wings, is almost as-much-a house divided against itself as the Demo=
cratic party, with its schism between conservatives and progressives, =
Dramatic Conflict of View
ON THE .CURRENT reciprocal tariff issue, pending before the senate; the Taft brothers are in a dramatic conflict of view. The senator, Robert A. is fighting the Truman administration proposal
out—fof the Republican presidential nomination in » | 1940 by the late Wendell L. Willkie. has been active in Cincinnati's politics, but never on a national scale, is now ‘with the state department, He is director of the office of transport and come munications policy.
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to permit another 50 per cent reduction in duties in |
bargaining with other nations for tariff cuts. P. is campaigning for the administration program. To this onlooker, it appears that the younger brother, Charles P., is taking on the tariff—as on | other issues—a broad national and international views | point, while the senator is taking the narrow, backe ward glance of the standpat G. -O. P., based
| localism and economic isolationism.
| many rank-and-file Republicans of today,
The views:-of Charles Taft certainly are those of
| of some outstanding party leaders of today and the
|
Hoosier Forum
conference have been diyided. No wonder the delegates flock to the Yosemite | to get new perspectives. Trying to reconstruct the | body and breathe the breath of life into the fossilized | handouts of progress in drafting the United Nations | Though it was announced at the outset that the "writing of ‘this charter might take two months or | more, only half that time-had passed before the conference news was off the first page of the newspapers, | driven back inside by news of new wars and rumors | of wars still to come. I Today the confer D t papers, nothiis at
ly a third or half |
all in others.
1s rating on
THE SAD TRUTH is that nobody a damn about peace, Too dull, gags. ‘Phony. Phooey. When Gen.. Omar
seems to give no sex appeal. No
Bradiey doing the “Pocatello and a Holywood rooster with a yen to be a hen rate more space than a conference which is to creaté a new world organization that will | theoretically maintain peace and security by ending wars; something is wrong. Maybe what the cotiference needs is a good press nt, The showy is dead, - Somebody will have to pass a ‘miracle. President ‘Truman's schediled appearance -for-the final curtain: may doa lov to save
stars, new lines, better lighting, secrecy, less action behind on stage—if -it is to be a popular
th | that—new | fewer blackouts of more action
. WORLD AFFAIRS—
Blackout
By Wm. Philip Simms
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.— One of the strangest and most serious features of the United Nations charter now being drafted here is its complete blackout on the first freedoms, namely, of speech. e rest of the freedoms may prove
four {freedom
ut this, all the Chapter IX, approved yesterday, says in part: “With a view to the creation of conditions bility and well-being which are nec ossary for peaceful and friendly relations SInene nations the orhigher standards of em] 0s yyment . . and -universal
[observance of, rights and
living . . vv full
respect for, and wuman
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So far as the United States 1s concer: as § of State Stettinius has emphasized, 111 season and out, the four freedoms arg the fundamentals | which encompass ‘all the other rights and freedoms. For example, he said, freedom of speech el | freedom of the.press, froaciom of information freedom of communications.
Clearly Not the View of All BUT THE American view is clearly not the view of all the United Nations. Some perntit or govern-ment-controli newspapers, govérnment-controlled [ press associ and government-controlled infor- { mation both 1n In some there 1s no [1 dom of access to news sources poi Any Kind evel ime In Washington, three of America's foremost news- | papermen-—Wilbur Forrest, Ralph McGill and Carl W Ackerman—have made a report to the American So- | ciety of Newspaper Editors, They just returned from a 40,00 tour of globe the purpose. of which was ments to permit a iree flow of news Into respective couns democracies——they In they got though some §g to
ed tions oming and outgoing. normal
in pe ace-t
have J-mile the LO 1nduce govern out of
especially in the
and thelr tries in 3} | met nowhere idea! In Italy repoi | war knowing littie’ or them Which, say most Under tota countries has becn Kept l woman of lete
others,
lip-service
encouragement ive { the Germany; the three-man from the
mission ruin of around
merge today notning of
ted. tl the world of the delegates her®, is ti litarian Jule, public opinion bound up like the old and with the same terri deformity.
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Our Imperfections Are Played Up WHAT tragic is that Francisco confere: that the same thing will not ranks of the United Nations Unscreened American news, newspapers, news-reels, movies, teachers, lecturers, artists | ordinary travelers—are refused ‘entry into the tory of some of our allies. Our high standard of living is played down and our imperfections are played up. Not only is anything like. mutual friendship and understanding frustrated by this process, but bewilderment, fear and'even hatreds are fostered. And that is the road to war—not to lasting peace which the mew charter is supposed to promote. The economic and social council which is’ dedicated to the ‘elimination of the basic causes of strife, as G. M. ‘Evans, a British delegate said, will not end war. That can only be done by “a change in’the hearts and minds. of men.” And that is not possible i nations keep the heads of Mier nations 'in a vise, i. The only hope - free speech, free ores free | exchange of news Sank ‘Ih “the: charter is now by amendment. In that way, - perhaps,’ the American if snippets of the “fundamental freedoms” ‘may
15 almost equally the San
continue
| islatures, which classif;
{10 be enacted into law performance, but the play needs’ something more |
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“BEER BARONS ENJOY SPECIAL PRIV ILEGES”
By E. D. Springville. The total number of pounds of grain, sugar and syrups used dur 1944 for the ‘manufacture of beer| {alone was 3, 707,869,236. Why permit | the use of our grain and sugar for beverage? And at the same time we are. made to do without sugar fe:
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| canrfing food.
Alcohol on an unrestricted basis|
is being manufactl whil
ured,
[ public is restricted and in need of]
these commodities. The beer barons| who have enjoyed special privileges to manufacture and sell beer with-|
| out any restrictions as to the use of|
sugar and raw materials are spon soring bills in the various state legbeer as nonintoxicating and exclude it a local option 1s Everybody knows that 3.2 beer toxicating if «a person drinks enough of it. Such legal fiction should not be ‘permitted,
s sale as!
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we wil for.
Wake up, America, or all that we have fought = a a
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| “RUSSIANS MUST | ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY”
{By The Watchman, | Now to sum up the { litical situation and ciose | gument, as far as iL cad be | First, we bave engaged ln a great {world war to halt aggression. An | aggressor is a nation ose policy i to seize and take by iorce, violence | or intimidation the territory of an-
| other nation, or to dominaté and reats or political
Indianapolis.
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dictate by force, th trickery the personnel tions’ governments, 1 litical puppets, or fellow-travelers of on the victimized nation | case of Poland. You don’t have sian to be unreservedly- al munist. Since Communism everything else, an avowed enemy of all of government, an of {of revolution, a fomen war and class hatred a brut | terminator of al | first advantage, i Black Hand Mafia of assassins, “purging” and “liqul dating” all dissenters, what, in the do
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stooges
opponents operat: g lik
or a secret!
1zation { intelligent, civilized nations accomplish by with a known fiendish enemy? No, it's not tle poor down-trod- | den, regimented, terrorized and {liticlly crucified Russian which constitutes this awful ice to civilized gover personal security If the poor suffering {people eyer expect to R ive a
expect
“cp-operat ing”
poO=people mennment and Russian lance
are
death
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to live at peace at home and with their neighbor nations, they, the
people of Russia, will have'to throw h
off the evil chains 6f war-breeding
| Communism and set up a civilized,
form of government whose policies based on justice, righteousness ind good will among men. Then we could have peace. What Hitler did to the Germans, Mussolini to the Italians and Togo the Japanese, Stalin is doing to Russians—making the‘ whole ilized world their enemies. My conclusion is that the Russi pec ople must accept the responsibility for foolish .Germans, Italians and Japanese, the Russians are-car-ried away into'a frenzy of lust for power and. pelf, they too will fire come down from heaven consume their cities and slaughter children. = u u
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“NOT WHOLLY OF °
HER OWN MAKING” By Powell Green, Indianapolis read some criticism of Wdichman's attitude toward Russia in the Hoosier Forum. 1 rarely write to the press but I have thought concerning Russia and Germany I'd like to express If my memory me Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact a short time before the Euorpean war began. In signing that agreement, Russia surely aware of its intent and purpose, Therefore, did she care about what was going to happen to Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium; France and Britain. But when Hitler later broke that pact and invaded Russia, the Soviets were obliged to fight to save Russia. By so doing we claimed her as an ally at once. Well, she still lives up to a pact with Japan—so being a socalled ally of ours was not { her own making.
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“l wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the
your right to- say it.” “I STILL SAY.
McGEE WAS RIGHT”
By Mrs. A. A, Indianapolis I read with quite a laugh in the, For um of a Gerald Brown, Indian-| tapolis, concerning, Pvt. Joe McGee | lof whom I wréte, saying “your argu-| ments dopét-make sense, Mrs. A, A., and even if they did, I wouldn't
believe in them.”
Naturally, he would not. I take| it Mr. Gerald Brown is quite sour on our American boys and may add, probably too old to be in the fighting line. He seems to side with! For instance, I won-! Gerald Brown read in The Times, June 6, of one of our boys, | Pvt. James Delmer of Fredonia, Wis., also seeing his picture on the | front page of the cruel treatment | received. Also whefe he was] starved for four months. I will! ask Gerald Brown how- would you ave liked that kind of treatment, | the soldier-weighing 70 pounds, or! ave you a son. or relative in the! armed forces to be submitted to! such treatment? I have an idea you would not] quote the Bible by saying Christ] did not teach eye for an eye, tooth! for a tooth. You see this is war | Pvt. Joe McGee, like all good In- | diandpolis people goes to church. | Dose. that, still keep us out of this | We all pray for divine guid- | ¢;. So Pvt. Joe . McGee .did| igh 100 per cent. Those Geimans | qd him a fiit thy name, He showed oo he was a good American boy, | a true soldier, one to be proud of.| I have a brother lost in action since Nov. 5, 1944. He was a pilot on a B-24, missing over Germany. As received no word, so
he
we h Mr. Brown, I wouldn't want my brother treated that way, but| ou can bet he was if he and his! crew were in one of those filthy German camps. Did you ever get it in your head | that we did not start this war or| ire you interested in the cchstey| In which you live, or our good city, Indianapolis, Ind.? Indeed you | nust be sitting on top of the world ind have plenty. That is why you| have no special regard as to the treatment of our American boys. It seems little you care how they| are treated by those miserable Germans and I still say, Pvt. Joe Mc-| Gée was right and you, Gerald | Brown are wrong, very much so, 8 8 ® . “WE ALONE HAVE TURNED OUR BACKS” anklin P. Adams: J. Donald Adams; n#% “Trusiow Adams; Frederick Lewis] len, editor, Harper's Magazine; Marshal A, Best, secretary, Viking Press; Donald C. Brace, president, areourtBrace & Co.; Van Wyck Brooks; Cecil Brown; Bennet Cerf, president, Random | House; Stuart Chase; Thos, Craven, Curtice Hitchcock, president, Reyna) & Hitchcock, Ine; Marquis James; Owen Johnson; Malcolm Johnson, vice president, V H. Van Nostrand: George S. Kanfman; Alfred A Knopf, president, | Alfred A Knopf; Joseph Wood Krutch; Christopher LaFarge; Margaret Leech; Howard Lindsay; Robert Little; John Marquand; Alfred Mcintyre, president, | Little, Brown & Co.; Christopher Morley; Henry H. Pringle; W. W, Norton, hon-| rary chairman, Council on Books In Wartime; Elmer Rice; William Shirer:| Richard Simon, Simon & Schuster; Lovell Thompson, Houghton-MIifflin; John | Vandereook; Carl VanDoren; Mark Van. Ddren, New York City,
On Friday, 138 congressmen voted | {to cut the appropriation for the| loffice of war information in half. | They voted 100 billions for the] physical weapons of war, but they| refuse to vote even one twenty-| eighth of one per cent of that—35! million—for the moral and spiritual! weapons. They accept the hard necessity of communicating ‘with our enemies by | way of bombs and bullets, but seem {to be quite unaware of the equally | vital necessity of communicating hy | war of words with our friends who must work with us to build a peaceful world if we are ever to have one. Our allies recognize fully the crucial importance of continuing their information programs. They see the information of nropaganda war. as the indispensable follow through of military victory, It seems inconcelvable that we along have turned our backs on such an obvious necessity,
DAILY THOUGHT
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immediate past, including the last three Republican
Charles -
in
as well ay -
presidential candidates—Alf M. Landon, Wendell Wille =
kie and Governor Thomas E. Senator Taft's viewpoint, gress where the party must make its record.
Which Way Is Party Hedded?
WHICH WAY is the party headed—in the Bob Taft or the Charlie Taft direction? This is an important decision, not only for the
Dewey of New York.
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however, prevails in cone °
party, but for the country. The Republican party has _
a serious responsibility.
national elections, the people have looked behind the party platform. and the candidafe's pronouncements to the party's record in congress, which was different in many respects. Those elections did not.go to Republicans. But, should the party win in a sort of process of default, in a natura] reaction agaipst another party long in power aiid against war restrictions, what sort of leadership would it exert? Will a presidential candidate's declarations for international co-operation on the economic front be nullifigd by his party in congress? That's where party responsibility to the nation is involved.
Cites Chapter and Verse
CHARLES TAFT does not think the opposition to the administration’s reciprocal tariff program by his party in congress, which includes his brother, represents the party or the traditional party position. He cites chapter and verse. He goes back far beyond his own father, who was a champion of reciprocity when President 30 years ago, back to Republican Secretary of State James G Blaine, who asked for a reciprocity provision in the tariff act of 1890. + He traces the lines through Presidents McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, his father, down to the first form of the present reciprocal tariff policy adopted by Republicans in the "20s which was expanded and broadened by Secretary of State Hull Opposition to the administration’s program, which includes ®also some senate democrats, he labels as “irresponsible opposition.” “Time,” he said, “is waiting for no man these days. Without prompt action to stabilize currencies, to finance reconstruction, and to stop the threat of spiralling tariffs, and preferences, quotas and trade barriers abroad, the chances for expansion of private trade to supply the needs and raise the standards of living in the world are slim indeed.” Is it to be the Bob Taft or the Charlie Taft way?
| IN WASHING TON—
Who's First? By Fred W. Perkins
WASHINGTON June 13.—Both the administration and congress are being pushed toward a decision on which comes first in the post-war job hunt—service - in the armed forces or membership in a labor union. Political dynamite is on both sides in the votes of nearly 15,000,000 mémbers of organized labor and wbout the same number of men who will be war veterans, The question is before thaelwar labor board in § strike that for more.than ai week has tied up the ‘Higgins industries shipyards at New Orleans, which employs 19,500 men largely in making smaller ships for the Pacific war. The strike is''the outcome of long negotiations which reached an agreement on everything but a clause insisted on by the employer—to give a veteran returning from foreign service an absolute right to a | Job without the requirement of union membership.
| Question Brought Before Congress
THE SAME question has heen introduced in cone gress by Rep. John E. Rankin (D. Miss.), chairman of the committee on veterans legislation. His bill removes any need for an honorably dise charged veteran to join any labor union or other | organization to get a job. In effect this would knock out the closed shops which have been strengthened during the war, The same question is involved in negotiations be tween automobile manufacturers and. unions. The manufacturers, led by General Motors, want to remove union restrictions on employment of veterans, This question goes beyond the original veterans controversy in which unions have been whether the selective service law means that a ree turning soldier or, sailor can “bump” a civilian eme ployee with possibly greater seniority.. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of the selective service, says the veteran can do so. Both the Amerie can Federation of Labor and the. C. I. O, have cone tested this ruling, but have refrained from seeking a court decision,
' Deals With 33-Organizations
ANOTHER PHASE of the union difficulties of Andrew J, Higgins, head of Higgins industries, is that his nearly 20,000 employees have been repre sented in collective bargaining by 33 different ore ganizations—all craft unions of the A. F. of L. metal trades department. . He charged “constant and continuous jurisdic. tiondl bickerings and contract violations,” and asked william Green, A. F. of L. president, for help in setting up a small committee that would represent all 33 crafts, This proposal, according to Mr. Higalps, was ree ceived with “no enthusiasm.” Other employers have complained of the same difficulties in attempting to deal with a dozen or more craft unions operating in the same plant, Ten days ago.thie war labor boatd's shipbuilding commission made the important finding that the . contract between the Higgins industries and the A,
PF. of L. unions had been terminated through the com | pany’s action. which Bheyuities: agreement,
Bu, it directed a. 30-day period during might cool a and come to an
of contract, the New Orleans |
involved—= _
As far as the party is cone cerned, it might be pointed out that in the last three
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