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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

PUTTING THE PUBLIC FIRST WE are for the proposed federal industrial relations act. Yet we concedé, of course, that détails of the HatchBurtonsBall bill now before the senate may be subject to valid criticism and improvement. Some labor leaders condemn the whole bill because they were not consulted by its drafters. That is not valid criticism. It is an absurd attack on one of the proposal’s © greatest merits. It is true that the senators and citizens who drew up the bill consulted neither labor nor management organizations. But this fact is not, as charged by William Green of the A. F. of L., an evidence of anti-democratic and antilabor bias. It is just the opposite. : On their records, Senators Hatch, Burton and Ball are fair-minded friends of labor. They believe that government must protect all the essential rights of workers and employers. They represent the public and they believe thak the paramount right is the public's right to domestic peace. And-usdsg have undertaken;~for once, to draft industrial-relations legislation primarily from the public viewpoint. ; : Theirs is the truly democratic way. The anti-demo-cratic way is the one so often followed in past legislation, when employer spokesmen or union officers were consulted first and the public interest was considered last, if at all. That way long produced laws that favored management. Then it produced laws that favored organized labor. It has not led to industrial peace. It has led through constant civil warfare to vast unnecessary loss for the American people, workers and employers included. “Surely,” says Mr. Green, “those principally affected by a radically new legislative proposal should be given opportunity to present their viewpoint.” Surely! Nobody has sought to deny labor or management that opportunity. They will have it when the senate labor committee holds public hearings on the Hatch-Burton-Ball bill. If Mr. Green and other labor leaders really want to discuss the bill fairly on its merits or what they may consider its demerits, instead of attacking it with intem‘perate appeals to prejudice, they should join us in urging the committee to hold those hearings soon.

POLISH TRIAL IN MOSCOW Now that the one-sided Soviet “trial” of 16 kidnaped Polish underground leaders is over, the public knows little more than when it started. Of the 16 accused of subversive activities behind Red army lines, 12 were given prison sentences of from four months to 10 years, three were acquitted and the trial of another postponed. Certainly the sentences are light if the men are guilty of the worst crimes charged. That they were guilty of being Polish patriots was proudly confessed. But that they were guilty of terrorist activities—of the kind all too common on the part of both Russians and Poles in the disrupted territory—is not clear. The chief defendant, Gen. Okuliciki, commander of the Polish home army, in denying that he was guilty of any crime, testified: . “I consider myself guilty of not giving orders to hand over radios, guns and ammunition to the Red army . . . (and) of forming the new political-military organization, of maintaining communication with London and of carrying out propaganda against the Soviet Union and Red army, but I am not guilty of carrying out terror, espionage, and acts of diversion . . . this is a political trial . . . you accuse the home army—the Polish people.” The Soviet prosecutor said: “Of course the four principals did not kill anyone. But they had instructions from the emigre government to carry out terror and diversion in the Red army's rear . . . it (the Polish government in London) bears the main guilt. It tried to create a Poland in opposition to the Soviet Union.” But that the Polish governmént, officially recognized by virtually all the allies except Russia, should continue to claim its territory against Soviet seizure is not remarkable. It has better credentials than the Red puppet regime in Warsaw. We can only hope this unhappy conflict will end with a new and representative provisional government as provided in the Yalta Big Three agreement.

REFLECTIONS— Hot Town By Peter Edson i

WASHINGTON, June 23.-—The midsummer heat and humidity in your 'nation’s capital is so ne plus ultra that it well deserves at least one tribute a year, like cherry blossoms and Tom Connally’s curls. The principal thing to do about this well-known h, ‘and h. is to try and beat it. All supreme court justices and the smarter, higher I. Q. congresses do this by walking off and leaving it. . oo ; President Trumang=giving another demonstration of the common sense which it is now de rigeur_to credit hiny with, is showing signs of lumping it for a month, departing for such salubrious spots as San Francisco, Olympia, Wash, maybe Mackinac Island and Berlin. Even Independence, Mo., wherz the thermometer sometimes hits a dry 100 or better, holds no terrors for anyone who has spent a summer in Washington, where the humidity begins at 90 and then does tricks, hovering like a helicopter at around 100, which is tops and terrible,” for days at a time.

Do Nothing and Stay Cool BUT FOR the luckless natives and carpet-baggers who have to stay here and like it, this Washington weather offers opportunity and challenge to show that mind can triumph over matter. The best system for doing this seems to be doing nothing at all. ‘While this may seem defeatist and too much in keeping with Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance, it is really the most constructive approach. When the mere raising of an already soggy handkerchief to mop the brow—when the mere raising of a brow itself causes increased sweat, then glorious inaction becomes the course of wisdom. It is all right for congressmen and other government officials who operate in offices and halls of air-conditioned splendor to get exercised, hot and | bothered about issues and things, but when they |: leave these comfortable council chambers and join the common herd in crowded bus or apartment where 3 every confined space becomes a Finnish steam bath

a. m.. then dull and heavy questiaps of state must | 3 raise them. : - : ; While doing nothing in this manner about the Washington heat, it is entirely possible to employ one’s time profitably and pleasantly. For instance, the time can be spent in not working crossword puzzles. The joys of not working crossword puzzles in hot weather are infinitely greater than the troubles of working them. » Not listening‘ to the blare and bray of the radio news .analysts is equally soothing for heat-frayed nerves.

Smith-Ignoring Recommended PAYING NO attention to Gerald L. K. Smith is another good way to keep cool. This Smith character went out to San Francisco intending to get everybody het up, but when one and all concentrated on paying no attention to him, the result was miraculous. Smith went to Los Angeles and that was that. In fact, so effective was this treatment that if Adolf Hitler is still alive and looking for a perfect hideout and disguise, all he has to do is come to the United States and tell everyone he is Gerald L. K. Smith. Nobody would know he was here. . | Buying important books and not reading them is another good way to put in a Washington summer without fear of prostration. There are a lot of these tomes being published now, every page filled with words of worry over the future of the world in large or small chunks. As a sedative to quiet the finger on the heat-throbbed public pulse, not reading such books before next fall and winter is better than two weeks at the shore. By neat little tricks like these it is possible to beat the gentle rap of Washington summer. Gentle rap, your eye.. When the heat bounces off the sidewalks along. Pennsylvania ave, it’s like brass knuckles and lead pipe. Gangway for another stretcher case.

“WORLD AFFAIRS—

Polish Test

By Wm. Philip Simms

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23. An amnesty for the 12 Polish underground leaders tried and sentenced this week in. Moscow, would have -an effect on this conference, and possibly on its future, out of all proportion to the act itself. Never more than now, as the delegates prepare to leave for home, has it been so evident that the shape of the whole post-war world depends on the Big Three: and what happens to Poland and to the Polish people now and in ‘the next six months will go far toward revealing their intentions. In conference circles there is a good deal of talk about this. People -are asking whether countries as ditferent as Britain and America on the one hand, and Russia on the other can ever really understand each other well. Poland will be the test.

Little Nations Are Worried THE LITTLE nations know this and are worried. They are painfully aware that their future, individually and collectively, is largely in the hal of Russia, Britain and the United States. Not one of them is satisfied with the veto powers of the Big Five. They admit they yielded to “this vicious principle,” as Australia’s Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt called it, only because it was the price they had to pay for unity. No veto, no charter, and no charter no world organization. It is against this background that United Nations envoys here view what is going on in Europe. Relations among the Big Five, but more especially the Big Three, assume Supreme importance. Every straw in the wind is anxiously watched for direction, Hence the enormous interest in the case of the 16 Poles. As for the trial itself, it was not a trial as western

WE LIKE BUTTER, BUT— :

BUTTER MAKERS, say The Wall Street Journal, are pre--

paring to fight to recapture the civilian market they have lost because of the war. Their plans include the making of better butter, easier to spread and of finer flavor, by improved methods that will lower production costs. Splendid.

The butter makers would do well, we think, tb sell their product on its own great merits. They ought to fight for butter, but they ought to stop fighting against margarine ‘with the unfair weapons—exorbitant, punitive taxes and unreasonable federal and state restrictions—which have Even during the war, when butter has been so scarce in the stores, the butter people

been used for many years.

have refused to surrender these weapons.

Margarine is a healthful, nutritious food and an excelYet the price of margarine has been made artificially high, and the use of it unneces- ~ sarily troublesome, by laws which have no other excuse than

lent replacement for butter.

to give butter an unfair competitive advantage. +

Most butter makers, for example, add yellow coloring matter to their product at certain seasons. But the federal

tax on sale of pre-colored margarine is prohibitively high

want yellow

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and so it just isn’t sold. Instead, when you buy a carton of white margarine you find in it a little package of the same sort of coloring matter used in butter, and if you margarine you have to work the color in at

We like butter, but if the butter folks don’t stop makArgarine nee y expensive -and difficult to use, we won't be just mad and independent eriough to

democracies understand the term. To them, it was a dramatie, well-staged spectacle for political purposes. This purpose achieved, it came to an abrupt end. Apparently witnesses for the defense were not Introduced. Bad weather, it was announced, had grounded the plane in which they were travelling so the pro-

ceedings were halted and the prisoners found gullty |

without waiting. Evidence Wasn't Convincing

but conviction. The published “confessions,” for the most part, seemed. more the admissions of Poles who were loyal to Poland just as Russians love, and are loyal to, Russia. Apparently the Russian judges were struck by this, too, for the maximum sentence was 10 years, At British Foreign Minister Eden's last press conference here, he spoke earnestly on the subject of Poland and the arrested leaders, then being held incommunicado. He stressed the work of the underground and emphasized that the missihg men included nearly all the leading figures of the movement. They were, he said, of the type of men who should be consulted about -the new Polish governmént as agreed on

of Yalta.” Release of the Poles now would be hailed as an-

each other,

afford to take the lead. :

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be let lie because it requires too much exertion to |

TO MANY here, the testimony carried anything |

at Yalta. And, he added, “we stand on the decision

other straw in the wind and a most welcome one. Aftér all that has happened between Russia and Poland since her partition in 1939, it is‘ observed, it is too much to expect the two peoples exactly to love

That, however, is no longer the point—not if they are Wise. What is needed is a new start in the direction of better Soviet-Polish relations. And the Russians, who are incomparably the stronger, can well

As for the other, two members of the Big Three

“l wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Hoosier Forum

“WOMEN AT WORK MAY BRING POST-WAR COLLAPSE” By An American Woman, Indianapolis. In analyzing the economic situa-

tion of today compared with the future, we must study ourselves and | our needs more diligently than =

“«JAPS CAN SAVE SELVES FROM GERMANS’ FATE” By E. R. Egan, 701 Markwood ave. If the German people, freed from their military despots, cannot form a democratic government that will take hold of the popular will, then they differ greatly from the citizens of German descent we have in this

country who are found in every political activity, both local and national. It is evident too much is expected of a people who have been infected with the militaristic views

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions’ set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way

fore, in order to prevent the greatest depression and catastrophe ever in America. This is possible to prevent and otherwise it is sure. Women and single girls working in men’s positions are swallowing up

opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi bility for the return of manu-

POLITICAL SCENE—

OWI Battle is

By Daniel M: Kidney

WASHINGTON, June 23. — Whether the U, 8S. goyernment should finance a multi-million dolfar setup to preach “made in the U. S. A” propaganda throughout Ta the world will come in for full-dress debate in the senate next week. : : Opening guns were fired Thursday afternoon. Sen ator Morse (R. Ore) launched the debate by de= livering a prepared address defending the office ‘of war information's new European propaganda activie ties. ; These would be abandoned, according to OWI Di rector Davis, if the house reduction of OWI funds to $18,000,000 were sustained. But the senate appropriations committee, following what has come to be a regular pattern, restored OWI fands to $3%.670,215. OWI wanted $52,000,000. Senator Morse said OWI

should have it to “tell the American story.”

He was repeatedly interrupted by both advocates

~and opponents of the plan.

Need Food, Not Ideology SENATOR CHANDLER (D. Ky.), who has traveled more than most senators around the wartorn world as a member of the senate military affairs committee, said he thought it “silly” to engage in pattles of

propaganda just because some other countries do so.

“I do not think that we should spend millions to bombard people with propaganda when it will only make them even more confused,” he sald. “They want food and education and not ideologies. Maybe some money should be spent to tell the American story, but we must not get.in the position of trying to force democracy on other countries. “1 object to other countries trying to inflict Come munism or any other ideology or form of government on us if we do not want it. “But certainly if we spend millions to export dee mocracy to other countries, we cannot object if other countries spend money to import Communism here.” . Senator Capehart (R. Ind.), who recently returned from a senatorial trip to Europe and Africa, said he was unable to discover what OWT really does abroad.

. » The Arabs Don't Listen “AS A MEMBER of the senate interstate tome merce subcommittee studying communications, we visited the OWI radio station in Algiers,” Senator Capehart explained. x “It is true that OWI has a first-class station there, But who hears their programs? Certainly not the Arabs. They haven't enough to eat, let alone bathe rooms or radio sets. “I think the job is an impossible one and will only waste funds.” As an example of OWI accomplishments, Senator Morse said that in southern France the part America played in winning the war was not being told. In stead the French Communists were claiming that their underground, combined with the Russian ofe fensive in the East, had won the war. OWI was able to send men to that section and give the true pice ture, he asserted. “Enlightened self-interest should caube us to cone tinue to do so,” Senator Morse said.

IN WASHINGTON—

Annual Pay

of the “master race” without the slightest obligation on their part, indeed the least idea or what such a role would imply, and now find

the “slack inthe chain,” as our situation changes. This, of course, is

i ty. dreadful and is only humanity |“SERVICEMEN OVER 38

Woman, or girl, as well as man, SHOULD BE DISCHARGED”

te 2a} their cities, war-making industries wants to work and make their bit; BY Juteresten Serviceman's Wife, in rubble at,.their feet, and their | Indianapolis - ’

nevertheless, many men who have | I read an interesting article in | ideologies, which were forced upon wives and children are already the Hoosier Forum, written by a |them by the most ruthless tyrants faced with unemployment. What serviceman’s wife, regarding a let- in history, likewise. will become of these poor homes|ter she received from her husband That hey are Sapalle > great ; if " : who is 38 and still overseas. In it |achievemeni—as also the Japanese, BE Sau uy he expressed his views on how let- who find themselves in the same rent, insurance, and doctor bills? {down these older men feel, having predicament, is beyond dispute and What will daddy say? Can het Stay in service while the other has been proven again and again check on his savings always? No, men of their age and more younger | Tne Japanese could save vot If offered work, can he accept it|2r® considered too old for military [homeland the same fate by the

as 1ov 25.8 single girl OF married | duty: This letter made me realize surrender of their fleet as a token man? No. cortalnly no. If so,|iat since these men overseas are of sincerity and We immediate what would he feed sonny, daugh- handicapped to help themselves, evacuation of al javased berrtiory, ter and wife on? Another depres- maybe we wives could help them. | the overthrow of thelr military sion, of course. We have been very patient, try-|S4U®, the OS CCS CIC TL : : : t " ¢ ew — g Many /men even here in Indian- | ing to work (at times when we were Hirohito.. ‘This would form: the background for,

apolis already have had to compete | NOt able) to keep our homes tomore comprehensive term, a classical democracy “inasmuch as it

with such. How disgusting it is for Ether, Sune ur nature Buse , who were younger and muc must be founded upon liberty, equality and justice, and the literal

an employer to say, “I am sorry, | sir, I have nothing more to offer | better physically fit than our husmachinery set up for. the administration of such a government.

you because I can hire a girl or | bands, were allowed to stay home As Russia is not at war with

scripts and cannot enter cor-

implies agreement with those respondence regarding them.) |

woman for that and you with a and enjoy its comforts, along with family could not live on that.” yrawing a big salary, while our husDuring the peak of our crisis in | bands spent several years overseas, production for the war it was nec- living in fox holes, eating K-rations essary that women help out but and longing to be home with us. not always. Women workers, when | Now, I do not wish that kind of life laid off, please, for humanity's sake on anyone, but I do think that now | : and preservation, study yourself that they are starting to discharge | 4} neighbors, and China, once she diligently, and ask yourself, “Do I|men, that the. ones over 38 should is freed from the invader, from all need a job more than some father be among the first to get their disdoes who has children to feed and charge. Why -not give them a support?” This, of course, does not {break they rightfully have coming reflect against servicemen's wives to them. Just because they have | 4° eh or orphans, but stands exactly con- fought for us, perhaps several years, | gad all wi trary for housekeepers, mothers, | is no reason why they should stay | Practice be in the same category, daughters, and school girls and |In service when other men over 38 boys who should be at home or at aren't taken into service, and I school. To be patriotic for your |don't think they should be. When | country and future, let's wake up|a man reaches that age, he cannot | {and study ourselves diligently. ‘If (keep up with the younger men, and |dad supported me (or us) before | I know my husband tried very hard the war, let's pave a future for him to but just couldn't do it. and our returning servicemen, let's | Why not we wives of the older not compete with him and cause men write to our congressmen and hardships upon ourselves at the | senators, and let them know how | same time. Make your home and we feel about the situation. Per- | children what they ought to be, haps it will speed up the discharge | train them in the best institution of our loved ones. Let's do it right lot the world, the home, away.

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power to cut tariffs an additio 50 per cent.) :

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Japan, the objection to a Russian | {hegemony would offer no obstacle such as being dominated by power-

invaders which might be said she has not been within the present memory of man, must be regarded international ward, as inweak nations would in

It is imperative that a bureau of educators and statesmen must be in collaboration with local adherents of democracy that [these countries are guaranteed immunity from a new set of military

To this end the San Francisco confernce must be committed for its

It must have been very embarrassing for The Times when their Senator Capehart, whom they supported for the senate in last year’s

election, voted against giving the President authority to reduce tar- “However, the experience to date, even under the

uary rates when negotiating trade agreements with other nations. The voters remember that just recently The Times published an editorial demanding that the senate vote to reduce tariffs 50 per cent, and they

ernors Indiana ever had, and that he was well qualified to become a supported Capehart. The voters of the state will be watching The Times’ comment on this incident, but maybe The Times will whitewash the mat-

the Republican party in Indiana. The independent voters, who age readers of The Times, have become fully convinced that The Times is no longer an independent paper,

(Editor's Note: Sen. Capehart voted FOR the reciprocal trafe agreements bill giving the President

his father and mother, and cleave

By Allan L. Swim

WASHINGTON, June 23.—The guaranteed annual wage is now being treated by the American Federae tion of Labor as a “major collective bargaining obe jective,” Boris Shishkin, A. F. of L. economist, said today. “A number of our organizations are pressing fof it very hard,” he said.

members now work under contracts that provide yearly wage guarantees. employed in flour mills, laundries and printing plants or are engaged in maintenance and repair work. William Green, A. F. of L. president, says it would be impossible to design a “master plan” for applying the guaranteed annual wage to American industry. “There is no simple, single formula which could be applied indiscriminately in any employment situa=tion,” he said.

Plan Must Fit Realities

- YAN EFFECTIVE annual wage plan must fit the operating realities of a particular firm or a particular industry. * It must not be a device to lower the estab lished wage standard or workers brought under the plan. “Nor is an annual wage plan satisfactory if it provides stable income to one group of workers at the risk of decreased stability of employment and income of the rest of the employees in the same establish ment. ; “In a plant employing a thousand workers, for example, the management may attempt to give added stability to the employment of 600 workers by making the employment of the other 400 less stable. “By turning these 400 employees into casual work ers such a plan would force them to underwrite af their expense the stability of employment of the other 600 employees. “To make an annual wage plan acceptable to all workers, and to justify its adoption, the plan mus be an outgrowth of a mutual agreement between the employees and the management, dictated by the practical experience of both.”

Problem of Seasonal Jobs MR. GREEN says the guaranteed annual wage cannot be applied satisfactorily to the construction industry and “highly seasonal plants” such as those processing perishable products, - “The guaranteed annual wage is often urged. as a means of increasing the annual income of building workers, with a reduction in their hourly rates,” he says. “If the annual wage in building could be unie versally applied throughout the country, it would be a boon to construction mechanics and laborers, whose work is always intermittent and whose annual income is much lower than that of workers'in many of our major industries.

most favorable conditions on large-scale government« sponsored projects, has demonstrated that this cannot be done. In privately financed construction the ape plication of such a plan is even less feasible. “We must not look upon the annua] wage as & magic formula. - It is not applicable in all situations, Nor does it lend itself to general application by gove .| ernment. mandate.”

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So They Say—

WAR PREPAREDNESS in the future will not be a matter of storing up vast stocks of war supplies To be properly prepared we will have to maintain a nigh stage of development in the design of all types ut war r| material —Maj.-Gen. Levin H, Campbell Jr., chiet of ordnance. » * * » ONE OF the most interesting manifestations of their (German civillans) sentiments is the way they laugh at us and make the equivalent of American wisecracks about what they consider our ridiculous lack of military pomp and fanfare.—Lt. Gordon W, Seims of Chicago at Hamborn, Germany, . . *

' ALTHOUGH our air offensive is sull only in its early phases, the. citizen of Tokyo or Nagoya has

destructiveness of modern war. In the not-too-distant future he will be impressed with its full meaning— A. A. F. Gen, Henry H. Arnold : . . .

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