Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1945 — Page 2

By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent ‘* BERLIN, July 23.—A spirit of desperation. is arising rapidly _from the whimperings and complaints of hungfy Berliners.

' Ped by personal suffering but | : - utterly unassociated with

any ep sense of responsibility for ny:s ruin, the rumbles “of

impending trouble can be heard "| | whom I talked expressed or even

! hinted any feeling of guilt-or re- | sponsibility for the which Germany now finds itself.

by anyone who takes the trouble to listen for them. Bitterness over the muddled food distribu-

scramble the red tape and evolve an effective solution. To obtain a cross section -of

| opinion, I have canvassed entire

| blocks housewives, children, former wehr- |

of average Berliners—

mécht and luftwaffe men and minor city officials. The results

| are both discouraging and alarm- | ing. >

Not' ‘one of 53 Germans to

plight in

| streets. { the passerby, mumbling | essen--eat, eat.” | of

f= Pst Sis To PIU: the

tion is bound eventuallf” to .explode unless the Anglo-Anierican~ Russian military governments un-

Green Attacks Labor Bill

Long exposure to Goebbels propaganda has insulted them from |

By. WILLIAM GREEN

. | iotassor to graduate school

turn the clock back in America. The three young senators who spqn- acting pastor of Norwood Christian gor it' seem to have forgotten the century of economic oppression which church, will leave tomorrow for preceded the decade of industrial democracy the nation has enjoyed chaplain’s school at William and] Their pro-| {Mary college, Williamsburg, Va. posal would strangle that. charter of labor's freedom and return | Lt. Hanlin will be commissioned (in the navy Friday at Chicago. -

President, American Federation of Labor

WASHINGTON, July 23—The Ball-Burton- Hatch bill’ seeks

since the enactment of the National Labor Relations act.

American workers to economic

ability to see “Germany's defeat | and ruin in tHe proper \perspec-" | 3 be like this, we would never |.

tive.

But the whine of despair ‘and | | disillusionment stem from some- |

thing deéper than mere self-pity.

It is an absolute fact that the |

majority of Berlin's 3,000,000 inhabitants are acutely hungry. Old people are fainting on the

“essen,

the people mean hunger

oedema.

In the Moabit district of Char- | | what you victors are going to see.

lottenburg, a Wehrmacht veteran

Women constantly stop |

The yellow faces |

Vhimperings Of Foprereiont But

of the Russian front, said bitter- |

¥ “1f we'd known it was going

have surrendered. We would have

disobeyed ordersito lay down arms |

and kept on fighting. Anything would have' been better than this.” Leaning on a able edge, her face lined with both hatred for

the Russians and pity for herself, |

| an attractive young German girl “Those hundred mothers |

shouted : who carried their babies Moabit town hall, food, are only the beginning of

into

LEAVES BUTLER T0 As Repressive of Rights BE NAVAL CHAPLAIN

Lt. Harold F. Hanlin,’ assistant university | of religion and

in Butler

Corporal Zim i ‘Feeling Fine'

FT, WORTH, Tex, July 23 (U. P).—Cpl. Jim Newman, still cheating, spent a restful weekend and was “feeling fine,” his mother said today. Mrs. O. PF. Newman told reporters that Cpl. Jim had taken nourishment for the first time in several days and ‘that family doctor seemed encouraged despite his prediction that death hovered near.

The 25-year-old corporal, vice

the |

shouting for |

| same.

|. vive the effects of beri-beri, | berculosis and

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1945]

H oar Berlin Become L Desperate

“They told those mothers | things may be better next autumn. | Thos®# were Germans who said | that—petty little -put in there by the Russians and, left by the British, » “They're so impressed with their little. jobs and their own importance that they can only think of getting extra ration cards for their own friends and looking out for themselves,” In the Schoenberg area of the American sector the writer interviewed all the tenants of an apartment house, The story was the Lack of any sense of guilt;

office-holders

| the system of placing

tim of three years in a- Japanese prison eamp wom army doctors “brought home to die” last July 2, had “a piece of light bread with a tablespoon of ‘gravy, some squash, milk, orange juice and tea” for Sunday dinner. | Army - doctors acceded to his family's request that Jim be | brought home to die when they agreed he could not possibly sure tu-

malnutrition.

a reasonable complaint about food distribution; a feeling that leadefship Is missing. ve The universal complaint ‘is that food ration cards in five categories is unfair. The housewife is in the lowest classification becawte she does. not have to work in the rubble piles, passing bricks and debris. The Russians, who began the system and the British and Americans, who have carried it over into their sectors, underestimate the energy needed to stand in long food queues and keep up homes. There is no enthusiasm for

THIRD CONCERT

!third summer concert at 6:45 p. m.|

(Sts. Robert J. Shultz will direct,

F. O. P. AUXILIARY PARTY Ladies auxiliary, = 86,

politics. « The. five daily newspapers, now printed in ‘Berlin, not only look like the old Nazi papers in format but the reading matter suggésts old Nazi propaganda, the people complain. “We are dismayed by tite allied uncertainty about policy,” said one Jewish womhn, who somehow escaped deportation, “If the Potsdam conference does not lay down some kind of unifled policy for Berlin and all Germany, you will. have real trouble . among yourselves and outbreaks among the Germans.” All of which adds up to a few

pertinent realities:

1. Berliners, by and large, tack any feeling of guilt. is : 2. Berliners have not been told and -are not being told the rela« tion between their present sufe: fering and Germany's initial re« sponsibility. 3. Berliners are meek and ser vile in their plight but the mine ute they assume ‘minor political power, they become the same old arrogant, blustering bureaucrats. It is not a pretty picture, but it is one we have got to face promptly—and intelligently.

| Cap Cadets Get

The Shortridge high school sum- | mer school band will present ts Twelve

Indianapolis civil air patrol cadets are half-way through {their 15-day military training at

{tomorrow on the campus, north of | Stout field. [the school at 34th and Meridian The cadets

are undergoing inten|sive training similar to that of | regular troops of the A. A. PF. and

are commanded by Maj. Holland Fraternal | Legg and Lt. Col.’ Walker W. Wins-

Order of the Police, will hold a/low. The local boys at the cadet

card party at 1:30 p.'m., Thursday encampment

at Stout Field are

in the Food Craft shop. Mrs. Oren|Pvt. Francis E. Anoskey, 2631 E.

Cox is chairman.

Michigan st.; Pvt. James E. Bell,

if Herman Goering were to propose |

slavery. like the gn amendment to the United States

‘Repressive legislation, Ball-Burton-Hatch - bill, has no constitution. piace in our country. Its effect! Thys far, the chief interest diswould be to create unrest and re- played in the Ball-Burton-Hatch | sentment. Instead of promoting pj) has-been manifested by a few better industrial s == powerful newspaper publishers who relations: between have devoted large quantities’ of workers and em space to laudatory comments deployers, it would spite the shortage of newsprint and provide ammuni~- despite the fact that no immediate tion for those who BE action on this legislation is contem-

seek to convert | plated. the | The excitement of these newspa-

to ; | ke '| paper publishers over this legislaIndustrial peace {tion is marvelous to behold, but not will be attained {contagious so far as the public is in America only | concerned. That isn’t surprising, fos through organiza- Mr. G these publishers have been against tion and through r. Green |. .rything the public has voted for collective bargaining. When™I over a good many years now. : fe organization I mean organiza-' The more I study the Ball-Bur-tion of employers as well as work- | ton-Hatch - bill, line by line and ers. When and if free collective paragraph by paragraph, the more bargaining is sincerely accepted [objectionable features I discover. and applied by thoroughly organ- Lists Objections ized labor and industry, the chief But I can summarize the major causes of recurring industrial strife faults as follows: _ will disappear and stabilized indus-' yg. 14 pro compulsory artrial relations can be established. bitration. DP earners - of Fears Encroachment {America will never accept this regreatest deterrent to this striction pon fete id . | pulsory arbitration 8 a a increased government = da TE a croachment upon the field of col- sinoe . His earliest days-as. a. siep “lective bargaining, as is proposed isward involuntary servitude. We under the Ball- Burton<Hatch bill. {will not give up that fight now. The great need of the post-War Two: The blll would revive the period will be to prevail upon the nefarious practice of permitting government to surrender controls .ourts to issue injunctions against over collective bargaining—not t0 jabor, That practice was Killed by, increase them. the Norris-La Guardia act. Before attempting to analyze the] THREE: The right of contract if] provisions of the Ball-Burton- cerioysly impaired by the Bill which

Hatch bill, 1 would like to discuss would prohibit labor and Manage- yo

its professed -aims, its genesis and pent from entering into voluntary the methods being employed 10 )osed shop agreements except on ballyhoo it. ian arbitrary- and unworkable perThe big argument used to pro- cent . basis. “rambie’ this Jegistation ¥ That its Pury : public. Tin pornt ‘proteetions: of he ag challenge that claim. Its real pur- ner achiand Yimit its scope by expose is to protect employers who emysting small employers are unwilling to obey the law and pigations required of industry enwish to Sontinle ie alley Bat! gaged in interstate commerce. methods against their workers o| law which deprives. workers of their | Rights Buown Now basic rights is a protection to the Let us consider the final and very

American people. On the contrary, significant factor. Since the pasit is a threat to their democratic Sage of the Norris-LaGuardia. act

heritage. {and the National .Labor- Relations. : tes an Expert ‘act, the courts have been called Quo upon to decide and interpret the, In support of my assertions, let! yarigus provisions of these laws. me cite the impartial judgment of! 1t has been a tedious process, but Senator ‘Wayne B. Morse, of De-|jt nas resulted in establishing | gon, on this legislation. He de-| jearly the rules of the game. La-| clared it was “slanted from the em-| por ang industry know their rights ployers’ point of view." Senator|gng obligations under the law and Morse has no connection with or-| can proceed with their post-war ganized labor. In fact, he repre-| plans on a confident basis. sented the public on the National, put picture for a. moment what "War Labor board before he was gy. uid happen in the post-war peelected to the senate on the Re- rio if the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill publican party ticket. His views were enacted. A brand-new series are especially significant because ,¢ prolonged court tests would have he is an expert on labor-industrial 't, pe undergone. The constitution-

relations. ality of the measure would be chalFor further evidence, let us in- lenged.

vestigate the genesis of this legis- | lation. The research was financed by a group of employers and employer representatives. The draft-| ing of the bill was entrusted to a lawyer who has played both sides | of the economic. fence’ in pursuit] of fees rather than principles. Never| at any time before the bill was in-|

bill merit taking such risks? troduced was any qualified repre- . sentative of labor consulted or It is difficult for me to believe

asked: for advice. Yet labor is that even the sponsors of this legchiefly affected bysthe bill's pro- islation feel that it has any possiVisions. | bilities of being enacted. Thelr pur- : pose, then, must be to put organQuestion Sincerity ized labor on the defensive in the - These circumstances cause labor post-war period when vigorous acto questéeon the sincerity and good tion will be needed to establish an faith of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill.| economy of plenty-in America, with We feel just as suspicious about it|justice for all. Labor will not be as the American people would bei sidetracked from this objective,

Sees Confusion

Its effect on existing labor laws would have to be interpreted. Meanwhile, labor and industry would be thrown into confusion and uncertainty. The chances of speedy recovery in post-war America would vanish, Does the Ball-Burton-Hatch

Slain Major, a Key Nazi, Revealed as Allied Agent

By ROBERT MUSEL T'nited Press Staff Correspondent IN OCCUPIED GERMANY, July 23.—~He was killed when the allied armies were only a few miles away But Baron Major von Schlage, an

allied - agent, played to the end such a dazzling game of makebelieve that the Germans trusted pm wild one of their most vital gis is not known, although the The story {s/5till being fitted to- MY believes his disposition of gether, with some parts missing, but planes on the Chievres field may it seems to be true. In Belgium have been one method. | [ash Diescinner depres, oat | Finally Goering, getting worried point out von Schlage's grave. | during the latter days of the allied Much later in Metz, Security Of- invasion of the Low Countries, put ficer Lt. Carlos Helmer of Los An-| [two of his most trusted Gestapo, + geles, Cal., said he had investigated | men on the trail. the incident and considered it. au-| They had so little suspicion of thentic, unless some trustworthy the baron that they even identified were unaccountably lying. | themselves and confided to him as - Von Schlage, descendant of a good to why they were there, : German family with a fine mili-| - ary Eradition rose to command the rowed down to one man—the field near Chievres, Belgium, «| commander. sheer ability, This was a The gestapo men with allied, important field because from | troops only 96 hours away and with ; North ses ship used to allied fighter bombers daily strafing |

Nations at the same time he ran the big airdrome. Exactly how long he operated as an agent isn't known, but there is evidence that his activities began with the war, Gestapo Called In How he got information to the

‘the and asked for his papers, Luger Sram, his

“ The bill would nly {

from

Then the list of Suspects nar- ||

lanes, the field, entered the barons office, |

both men,

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