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BUFFY, the 2-year-old cocker spaniel in.the Wils

liam Silbermann family, has three favorite oecupations. They are (1) following the mailman, (2) fol« lowing the milkman and (3) relaxing after his strenuous trips through “thle North side streets. Every morning the Silbermanns,’w h o live at 5124 N, Pennsylvania, let Buffy out ‘of the house at -about 8 o'clock, If they don't let him out, he manages to find a way to leave the house by himself, At about 9 a. m. one day-he starts the rounds with Mailman Ray Landers, He goes on Ray's complete route. Sometimes he even tries to get on the streetcar with him. The next day he keeps the Polk milkman company. When the day's work is over, he comes home, lies on the porch and just relaxes. We can see why he follows Chandos Graham, the milkman, Maybe he gets a free handout. But it's the trip with the mailman that puzzles us.... The 3500 block on N. Illinois st. 1s one of the summer sight-seeing spots of the city, The attraction is two huge rose of Sharon bushes in front of the home of Augustus Saffell. Since the two shrubs have been in bloom, visitors have flocked to the Saffell yard at 3537 N. Illinois st Mrs. Jesse Peden, a next-door neighbor. says people even get out of their cars and go up on the porch to talk about the red blooms. Several florists have been among the visitors,

A New Era of Flivvers THE END of the war may bring a new era in flivvers for teen-aged kids. One of the 1930 models was out on the street the other day, It was typically decorated in pink, blue and a few other colors, Painted on the body in big letters was “Most Honorable Americans Too Good.” ..,, Many motorists who shouted with the end of gasoline rationing were weeping again todav. They all took a nice long drive Sunday. But the sad part of it is they had a blow-out. Bet the

Buffy . .. The Milkman's and

Mailman’s Friend.

Trinidad Tailspin

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad.—The great American public is going to be on world tour the next few years if we're to prevent the American soldier from becoming known as a cock-eyved liar, ’'Cause everythe G. I. goes and fraternizes a bit he winds up saying, “This is a swell place. I'm comin’ back here soon as the war's over, and bring a few friends.” All the local folks believe him and get the spare room readv for tourists I've heard this chatter from known nationality; and ‘way down in Trinidad they've even got the tourist commission out, dusted it off and are planning a building expansion that'll include several new “hotels for Port of Spain. Even the merchants have the fever. and weep because they've sold everything to our army and navy and can’t get shipments for the horde of travelers to be released soon—they hope. Our military has had Trinidad in a tailspin for several years now. ing wages well above the local Scale, rupting the old established two-class have-nots) system no little,

where

every

thereby dis(haves and

Drink Up Rum Supply OUR NAVY OFFICERS, so local well-to-do tell me, leased all the resort cottages, - thereby depriving Trinidad of recreation facilities. Our soldiers fil] the movies and have consumed so much rum that the quadity of the stuff you get now is below standard several degrees, And now, Just to add insult to injury the British government has gone “Labor” and there's a distressed apprehension among the favored few that, as one official told me, “labor will make demands and conditions won't be as they were.” Five minutes later a native of Barbados was telling me that “our sugar cartels pay even more disgraceful than the oil companies. It is an official fact, “figures quoted: on the floor of the house of commons, that one sugar corporation's plant has made at least 400 per cent annual profit over a period of years.” And then a well-educated white native of Trinidad

Aviati FROM reports, there's a move on foot to seal an appreciable volume of our current war machinery in preserving casings so that they may be stored away and ready for future emergency. Well as long as Maginot minds remain in power in this counrty we will continue to do such silly things. Practically the only weapon which has remained unchanged from the beginning of the European war to the end of the Pacific is the infantry rifle and bayonet, During this short Space of time we have seen one. type of tank, alreraft gun, and aircraft armament scrapped and replaced by a more efficient. type. As soon as the first delivery of the latest fighter is made to the combat forces. that plane has become already obsolescent, We have seen fighters equipped with rockets become possessed of the .broadside firepower of the naval cruiser, We have seén the equivalent of threeinch field pieces in the form of bazookas being transported and fired from the shoulder of an infantryman. And just about the time certain Maginot minds have decided that the war could be finished with the current machinery, along came the pilotless robombs ~—to be followed by the jet fighters.

Haven't Considered History PRESUMABLY those who would preserve the bulk of our existing war machinery haven't bothered read-

My Day =

NEW YORK, Monday.— Above everything else. today 1 want to thank the many thoughtful and kind people who since the end of the war have sent me telegrams and letters expressing their joy and their regret that my husband is not here to share this joy vith them, " I am deeply grateful ith or the many kind things they say about his work in the past, ‘hich helped to bring about this onged-for day. . Bo During the war, he always reminded me of the fact that first hings come first, and that the var must be won before we could put our major effort on anything Ise. Now, however, our major flort ‘must be placed on building eace, and for that réason I am ry to see so much pressure brought on our government officials to do away quicky with all wartime controls. Take the question of food, for instance. We are well-fed ,nation, We have not liked dealing. with ation points and not being able to buy whatever we ould pay for, as in the past. But, with very little genuity, we have managed to keep our children hd ourselves well nourished. The army is.now able hb release food which in the past they stored up for ture shipment, and that food. I hélieve, should go mediately to UNRRA. © . : There will be some protests’ fiom certain selfish ople, whose “short sightedness prevents them from. 3 TA : . » ‘oe 3 iP ru

wages

We came in here and began pay-"

Yet our calorie level is 3300 per capita.

«* . business will be good in the OPA tire rationing division. . .©. You can take a peek at the world if you

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look at two of the shapely manikins on the second floor at Block's. Their plaster face, arms and. legs

SECOND SECTION are covered with jig-saw pieces of the map of the,

.world. On one of them fe found Lithuania at her | wrist, Denmark on the calf of her leg, the Black sea WHY PHILIP MURRAY on her shin, Switzerland near one ankle and the Mediterranean at the other ankle. We couldn't find the United States. Maybe it was higden behind her curls. . . , An anxious father the other day forgot all about where he was when he saw his son in the Union station. He had been waiting around all morning for the soldier to arrive. One glimpse of the boy By PHILLIP MURRAY and the father dropped everything and yelled at the President of the C. I. O. top of his voice, “Mother, Mother, here's Skully.” He !Written for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers then ran to the boy and started crying like a baby. After a deep and earnest Women at the A. W. V. 8. bond booth were just about | > > as happy as Dad, Mom and Skully. They sat there | StUdY of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill I have come to the

and had a good cry too. End-of-the-War Payoff conclusion that it is an un'SIDELIGHTS on the Curtiss-Wright payoff Satur- workable, retrogressive measday: One ex-employee surveyed the jammed doorway | Ure. to the payoff window and said, “It’s sure a lot harder| The bill commits seven deadly to get in there than it was in '39 when I was looking |sins against the public interest: for a job.”...Another laid-off employee cashed his (1) bias, (2) tampering with estabpaycheck at a nearby tavern and said to the pbarten-|lished and-approved collective barder, “Well, this is the last one, Bill.” “What're you|gaining principles, (3) a resort to goin’ to do now?” he was asked. “I'm goin' back with|the use of anti-democratic devices Pappy,” was the answer. Wonder what Pappy does!and concepts, (4) disregard of funfor a living. ...About 3500 persons were paid off Sat- damental organizational rights of urday at the plant and only one window was open|American workers, (5) delay, (6) to hand out the checks....The Dilling Candy Co. is|compulsion, and (7) confusion. appropriately located on Chocolate st.... Mr. and Mrs. on. Howard Larsen are letting the people out in Wood-| (1) BIAS. ruff Place know that they're glad the war's over.| THIS BILL is sharply slanted in When peace was declared they hung a large American |favor of employers, as Senator flag in their doorway and strung red, white and blue Wayne Morse, a nationally recogChristmas lights on their porch, at 945 Middle dr.|pjzed expert in the field of labor They have two sons, Jack and Bill, in the navy.... relations, has ably pointed out. A One local radio announcer Sunday night renounced few instances of this one-sidedness Central war time and said, “It's six o'clock, straight |i) suffice. up.”... The reason for the return of many of the old Thus under the bill, if a union films to downtown movie houses, we hear, 1s the | requests a wage increase that reshortage of raw stock in the film industry. movie makers plan to get into the full swing of things between again soon....Maybe here's the answer to the sheet shortage. One of the clerks at women were shorts.

the parties. During the period pending the exhaustion of Block's tells us that|ihe elaborate and time-consuming buying sheets to make their husbands’ | conciliation and arbitration proces- | ses which the bill sets up the union lis forced to accept the status quo,

B J b B J] lint is, the wage rates prevailing y Jack Bell ™

the plant.

‘Status Quo Is Frozen spoke up to say, “perhaps, now that we've a labor| But when an employer imposes government in England, all the good jobs in the a wage cut or discriminatorily discolonies won't be open to Englishmen only.” -I|charges employees for union memlearned that he was bitter because he had held a|bership, it is the cut and the dis--good radio job until the government checked, found charges which become the source he wasn't English-born and dropped him, saying of the controversy and hence the “it is not our policy to permit colonials to hold this Status quo which is frozen under position.” the bill. v y Similarly, an employer is given Expect a N cu Order {the novel right to appeal to a THESE THINGS may seem a bit disjointed, but court to review 2 certification of actually they aren't, The American G. I. (I'm in-|2 labor organization by the admincluding officers, of course) has awakened interest | Strative tribunal, but the union Is and envy wherever he has gone during this war. At [denied the Tight 0 judicial ToView times he has been a bit assertive and boastful. of the failure or refusal Io certity, But his frankness and never-ending assertion that, | Again, under the i, 8h empioy. “gimme my old home town in the United States and |®' !S BIVen he right to Tecover you can have the rest of the world,” plus the fact | damages by Teason of the VION that both our government and soldiers spend more | Unfair labor practice, bus 3 union money than most people thought there is, have con-!S not awarded the right of -Tevinced everybody that we're the world's wonder ng. [Sover:s damages by reason of the tion—as indeed we are! employer’s unfair labor practices. So when the American soldier says, “I'm coming] Also, under the bil, an pHending back here on my vacations,” the Trinidadians are Yon may be denied the right W pleased no end. They too have seen and felt the aD¥ Statutory cognizance. 3, may unrest sweeping the world and know that the old | Pe put ou of business. A comparorder is gone. Theyre turning toward America— able sanction would be to put the tourists, trade and posibly invested capital from | employer out of business. Uncle Sugar. | ‘A Boon to Employers’ “We are perhaps 50 per cent literate,” a news- | Instead the bill merely provides paper editor said. [that the employer's representative “What are you going to do to improve that?” I'will be denied. statutory cognizasked. |ance. This of course is no burden “Just talking,” he replied candidly. “We talk!on the employer. about a sweeping reform for a generation, then re-| Indeed it is a tremendous boon quire .a century to put it into, effect. But now, with to employers, for simply by violata ‘new government in England and the war ended,|ing the act the employer removes Trinidad has a chance to go ahead. We're waking [himself fromi even those few ob= up.” | ligations which the bill imposed ; It all adds up to that very human desire, born upon him. Into the soul of every man; to possess and enjoy with! These .instances of one-sidedness perfect freedom the fruits of his native land. A<4should come as no surprise, for few spoke with open fear that “our old economic most of the sponsors of this bill, system is gone.” But the vast majority are saying far from being neutral or unbiased “let it go. Let us have Trinidad for those who (as claimed, are closely identified live here, on a fairer basis of distribution. with or representatives of power-

1945, bv The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Int.

2 8 = (2) TAMPERING WITH ESTABLISHED AND APPROVED COL-

B y Ma jor A l Wi l l ia ms |LECTIVE BARGAINING PRIN-

| CIPLES.

Ing history. In 1936 Leon Blum, pink Populaire THE PRINCIPLE of majority {rule is indispensable of collective

leader said: “France is safe.” At about the same! a : time Lloyd George broke into print with: “France is|Par8aining is to be workable. Lathe most powerful country in Europe. She has about|P0r authorities and experience tell five: million fully trained men.” This was the era|uS that unless the majority is emwhen the Maginot line was “impregnable.” powered to speak for all those withAnd yet this nonsense spread over the world, while [in the bargaining unit, collective the French army was utterly devoid of modern tanks, |Pargaining will simply not work. antiaircraft guns, mechanization, and an air force] Now the present bill condemns trained and equipped for modern warfare. the closed shop unless the labor From my own personal observation I decided Organization negotiating it includes that of the reputed 2000 French airplanes at that!in its membership (not merely reptime, fully 50 per cent were already obsolete, and |resents) at least 75 percent of the the rest wolud become mere book accounts—as they |employees to. be covered by the did in 1938. France had an army all right; but it|closed shop agreement. was bogged down with obsolete planes, engines, and| In other words, a closed shop aumachinery which were soon to demonstrate their tomatically becomes illegal when absolute inadequacy for modern warfare {the union involved includes in its membership less than three-quarters of the employees in the appropriate

Progress Winning Pace 'unit,

IN THE field of aeronautics alone. progress Is p at such a rapid pace that it continually is outstrip- | An Arbilrary Remedy’ ping the managerial and planning capacity of those| NOW a closed shop is a standard, responsible. And the same thing goes for all the traditional subject matter for bar-

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1945

OPPOSES ‘PROPOSED NEW LABOR LAW —

‘Against Ball-Burton-Hatch Bill’

But the|quest may give rise to a dispute.

Philip Murray . .

why the majority

termination of the sponsors that] it be made difficult to obtain. {

years of labor leadership I have never heard of a situation in which the members of a labor was imposed them their will.

upon

have simply invented an imaginary |

trary remedy to cure it. An equally drastic departure from | accepted bargaining principles is a!

pendently and without the presence of any other person. It is by now a truism that only!

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. WHEN infantile paralysis patients discover they cannot move an arm or a leg, they may become. panicky. Young children often cry incessant-

ly, while older patients exhibit "wide-eyed terror. Apparently the shock of being well just a few days ago, and of now being paralyzed, is more than most of us can stand. Patients and their relatives bei siege the attend- : ing physician, Dr. O'Brien pyrees, and technicians for definite information as to when they will recover. As this cannot be predicted except “in general way, infantile paralysis patients find it difficult to keep from getting the blues. It can be said to all patients who recover from the disease, that their paralysis will be worse in the beginning than it will be later on. Many of the muscle contractures which formerly deformed patients Gan be corrected. ~ » ”

ment, as developed by Sister Kenny, stresses the importance of using even the weak muscles in their

rest of the weapons of modern combat. gaining. There is no good reason Now just load up on this current machinery, which | will be as outmoded in the next war as most of the|

stuff with which we started this war, and then we'll! Wacs Want fo Know Status on [v Fraternizing—They Find Out

face another Pearl Harbor—again unprepared, 1 The key to maintaining air superiority is in| providing means for getting rid of the old equipment, and thus making robm for modern planes, en-

gines and machinery, WITH THE THIRD ARMY IN|

GERMANY, Aug. 21 (U. P).-—A

|WACs permitted to fraternize with | |German men?” has provoked a bliz- |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

hardship) for us may mean a far quicker recovery G. Is, many-of whom denounce the You don't ‘fraternize’ with Ameri- | bomb fell on Hiroshima. Strategic air force headquarters |

proper way, as it isn't the strength

glamor and good times, to those! whose presence seems mainly de-

vipa SRY:

in other countries—and in the end, therefore, greater WACs. [can enlisted men. So go to it, sis-|

benefit for us. . | It is impossible, of course, to cover here the ‘many | “In England it was brass you ways in which we might help the people of Europe 'wanted—not enlisted men. In and Asia to 8 more rapid recovery. If we as a na- France it was brass you wanted— tion, however, ask our congress ta allow us to make hot enlisted men. But when the the rather: small sacrifice of continuing certain dis- brass went for Parisian beauties, | comforts for ourselves for another year or two, it vou came to the enlisted men. In will mean much to peoples in ‘many parts of the Germany, too, we were forgotten. world. Congress will not dare to impose restrictions | Nobody could fraternize so back to on us unless we make known our willingness to ac-|the brass you went. cept them. | “Now that fraternization is legal, In this direction, the Girl Scouts, with a number [the brass is taking advantage of it of other youth service organizations, are sponsoring | too. You come to the enlisted men. a rally in the near future for the purpose of bringing But it's too late now. Sure, I and home to young people and their parents what the half my outfit have girls now. So food allowance for an adult or a child actually is in|just go ahead and take their fathEurope and Asia today. The difference between | ers out. We don’t care, and rememwhat they consider necessary to life and what wg |ber, no one is to blame for all this actually have is something which should give us'but yourselves.”

A typical letter said: [ter—fraternize with the Jerries.”

Enemy's Praise

P-38 Pilot Wins

MANILA, Aug. 21 (U, P.).—An unidentified Lighting fighter piolt, recently shot down, made his way back to 6th infantry division heatquarters today. He carried a note from Lt. Gen,

Tomoyuki Yamashita, the “butcher of Bataan,” which said: 5 “This man is a very good soldier. After three days of inter rogation he revealed ‘no militar

pause. Another letter said: UNRRA has lately raised its standards and hopes! to" provide 2000. calories per person,

“If the WAC sergeant is one of | Secrets.” That amount is the few who've maintained respect, | - considered ‘essential because heating facilities next who've tirelessly worked for the aid] BARGES DECLARED SURPLUS winter will probably be very much curtailed, and and comfort of the men; and whose | the people of many foreign countries will need a devotion to duty means more than | —The office of defense transporta- burned many ‘inhabitants of Na-|

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P).

helpless in employer.

ing process.

Students of labor problems recogorganiza- nize in this proposal an attempt by | tion complained that a closed shop Donald Richberg to realize a dream | against conceived in NRA days and resisted {then by labor authorities who conSenator Ball and his colleagues demned his ideas as unworkable, unsound from a collecabuse and then devised this arbi- tive bargaining standpoint is the]

Equally proposal of

problems of the tribunal

employer

collective

supply is Development compensate

tent on

greater ever before.

+ “The bill commits seven deadly sins.”

rule principle the collective bargaining representshould be abandoned in bargaining |ative can effectively deal with the for the closed shop except the de-|employer and that an individual is negotiating The present Senator Ball has suggested that permit a parasitic f this measure is designed to protect ual bargaining which would weaken uy employees in order to compel the | the union membership. In all my|and destroy the collective bargain- immediate adjustment of alleged!

the

representation dealing with unfair provision in the kill that an indi- labor practices to the mediation vidual employee or group of em- and conciliation agency which is ployeées shall have the right indi- charged with an altogether differvidually or as a group to adjust with ent type of function. management any grievance inde- | Likewise the provision permitting | petitions for lelections is inconsistent with sound bargaining

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Affected Areas Are Worst at Beginning

Infantile Paralysis Facts—No. 2

(One of a Series) lof the muscle which

| tmuch .as the way it is used. The Kenny treatment does not!to ; {bring back muscles whose nerve Strength and ability, and preventpermanently destroyed. |ing contractures, are an improve-

of for

the patient's will and ability to follow directions. Victims of infantile paralysis receive| consideration Assistance is able to all who are unable to provide it for themselves.

the lcial operations may be necessary,|infantile paralysis which can never As a general rule braces are not be settled is which method of treatworm if they can be avoided. After the effects of infantile par-| alysis have passed. no further mus- | cle paralysis occurs. Recovery fron this disease depends to a

u a

IN INFANTILE paralysis, we do not have any more effective means a

and opposed to the well established rules of the National Labor Relations Board with respect to employer petitions for elections

” ” n (3) A RESORT TO THE OF ANTI - DEMOCRATIC VICES AND CONCEPTS. I AM DEEPLY alarmed at the bold disregard in th¥ bill of values which are precious not only to labor but to all fair-minded men in the community, For ekample, few devices have been employed with more repressive effort ufon constitutional and civil rights than the injunction. The Norris-LaGuardia act finally forbade its use in connecticn with labor disputes. This «id expressly provides for the issuance of injunc-| tions and stipulates that the NorrisLaGuardia act is not to apply. The ‘Dragnet Provision’ * Likewise the bill contains a drag- | net provision, which revives out-| moded notions of conspiracy, bring-! ing within the sanctions of the bill any group or individual in the community whether or not a party to a labor dispute who supports or attempts to support any conduct of a labor organization condemned by the bill One does not need legal training to see in this catch-all provision a} threat to the ordinary legitimate] activities of citizens who dare ex-| press their support of organized la-| bor when ‘engaged in a labor con- | troversy. t Of a piece with this provision is| a provision which would make a| |labor organization an offender under the bill because it interfered] with the “functioning of an em-| with the ,1over's management organization bill would by interruption, disorganizing | orm of individ- lor delaying the performance of work |

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grievances.’ { ‘Contempt for Men's Rights’ | This provision is not merely ill- | advised and indeed vindictive, it re-| |flects a supreme contempt for the| rights of free men to engage through established and time-hon-| fored means in activities for their] transfer | ECONOMIC betterment or against from: {their economic repression. | It should be borne in mind, more- | over, that this provision as well as {others are not directed at acts of} |violence but at the ordinary tra-| ditional concerted activities of employees such as picketing, presenting |grievances, and the like.

bill to

employee - (Tomorrow 1 shall discuss points procedures |4, 5, 6 and 7.)

counts as of combatting the infection than {in the past, but present day efforts

help in restoring muscuar

to | ment. One point in the discussion of

muscle skills

loss of spe-

|ment, is best. It is impossible to [compare methods of treatment, for to do so we would have to select yl Loree groups of patients exactly alike in every respect. The first group would receive the {Kenny treatment, the second an|other treatment and the third no special treatment at all. This test would be impossible to make. Re-education of all those disabled by infantile paralysis is now possible through a special federalstate program. Those interested should apply to their state office of rehabilitation,

great expower

than avail-

today

Nagasaki Rubble Desert, Ruin Spread 10 Miles, Tokyo Says

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 (U. | hroadcast said, . “Even those who P.).—Radio Tokyo said today that were far from the

USE|

scene of the

the second atomic bomb dropped on |atomic bomb suffered scalds on exJapan turned Nagasaki into a des- | posed parts of the bodies. ert of . rubble.

but rubble could see” said.

o THE MODERN method of treat-|farmhouses 10 miles distant. A photograph of the city, published newspaper Mainichi, shows nothing |

“as the

A second picture was said to reveal “the tragic scene 10 miles from the center of the blast were|

It even crushed| “Many persons who saw the flash {of the bomb explosion foufid themthe center of|selves unable to see on.the next day | in the Tokyo because of injuries to their eyes.” The broadcast said that machin-| far as the eyes|ery in some destroyed factories ap-| enemy broadcast | peared “not damaged too greatly” {and might be usuable, Homes situated up to five miles|

away, where farm houses are either | wrecked and trees and vegetation] crushed. down or the roofs torn | were “felled,” one enemy report said.

asunder.”

an western

in the Pacific said against Nagasaki was of such im-| proved design

made

The broadcast said the | third photograbh showed a horse | ' crushed beneath a fallen house, > HANNAI . < WAC sergeant who asked the army signed for the ‘surplus pool’ for| The bomb was dropped on Naga- | {newspaper Stars and Stripes “Are serving officers’ parties and dances Saki, arsenal and naval base city | | Kyushu, by a single]

“European women have more to|Superfortress .Aug. 9 Tokyo time, | seing that a few months more of discomfort (not zard of bitter letters from American offer us than vou seem to wish to. three days after the first atomic

shima obsolete

Tokyo said a photographer who to Nagasaki after the raid found it a “dead |

rushed

city”

“All areas literally were razed to ground,” “Only a few buildings are standing conspicuously The of a factory was hurled down by the terrific blast of the bomb. “The toll of the population was great, and even the few survivors have not -escaped some kind of

the said, left, the ashes.

injury!

The enemy ported by the FFC. : | ~ Another broadcast said the “ter-| rific white heat” of the bomb blast |

higher calorie level than we do here, where we have personal pleasure or profit, I take tion has declared surplus 132 wood- gasaki to death.

warm houses and warm places in which to work. off my cap. But iu those .

{think more of pinks and perfume, to car

who 'en tank barges’ which were used j ry oil from Texas to Florida. bodies were burned pitch black,” the

‘ » -

“The exposed portions of

and power the one dropped on

the

broadcast

the bomb used

that 1t|

Hiro- |

immediately

photographer

from

steel framework

was re-

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Labor

Trouble Ahead | In WLB Stand On Salary Issue

By FRED W. PERKINS Seri, ps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug Wages rise

2] Soon both cases those who pay wages and sadaries must not raise prices of their products. This is the result of an order by the war labor board, and of a forthcoming order from the treasury department affecting salaries above $5000 a year. The first notable break in the wartime dam against inflation is raising the question: How long will the rest of the structure stand? There ist any doubt that it will be assaulted again and again by labor organizations driven by ranke and-file demands ‘for maintes nance of total wartime pay, hours will be fewer now,

are on the

salaries also will be In

= » n THE government play will be insist as long as possible on the guarantee of emplovers against price boosts. Permanence of the present policy depends on how long that requirement can be kept, and also on whether a falling demand for labor may take the profit out of s:rikes or other organized action to force wage raises.

The immediate effect of the WLB order, based on instructions from President Truman, is that it releases 16,000 wage agreements that have been stalled in the board's machinery,

Another effect 1s that the war labor board is now qualified to act under a new formula on 3000 “dispute cases” involving wages, In these cases the employers have not been willing to certify they could raise wages without raising prices, and most of them are expected to continue unwilling. n » ” LABOR members of the war lae bor board show jubilance over the new policy. Robert J. Watt, repe: resentative o. the American Federation of Labor, says the most important result is that “Amer ican workers and management now regain the right to bargain without governmental control or interference.” Van A. Bittner, representative of the C. I. O. joined in this statement and added that it is also important that “dispute cases will now be settled in accordance with the judgment of the board.” Another important step, ace cording to Mr. Watt, is “the Pres« ident’s recommendation for a na« tional labor-management confer ence. This may determine whether our industrial democracy can continue to work or whether lae« bor will be forced under restrice tive legislation such as the Hatche Ball-Burton bill.”

We, the Women Children Have Right to Their

Parents’ Time

By RUTH MILLETT “THERE is not enough living with the children on the part of many parents,” says a Georgia juvenile court judge. True or false? Well, there are thousands of young parents whose living pate tern follows that of the Junior Joneses. Their kids are never allowed to inter fere with. their lives. And they get a lot of praise from their friends for how little difference having children makes in scheme of things. Mrs. Jones is always available for any kind of committee, You'll find her name on the list of practically every club in town, It has been war work lately, but before that it was something she considered equally important, » = a HOW does she manage so much time away from home? Well, the 6 and 8-year-old children roam the neighborhood, and some seventh or eighth-grader she wouldn't think of trusting with any other job around the house looks after the baby. Or during school hours the baby can be pushed off on the cleaning woman. When the tertain, the grandma. » ” ” THE Junior Joneses aren't just n especially heartless and unsee« ing couple, either. They are faire ly typical 6f young parents toe day. They -believe in having families, But they don’t believe in letting the kids interfere with their way of living. And by pushing the kids out instead of drawing them close into the family circle, they don’t have to settle down to be« ing parents. It may be fine for the Junior Joneses, but .t is hard on the kids, AS the juvenile judge says. they just don't get enough living with their parents--which, after all, is ‘the same thing that kids, rich op poor, have a natural right to, : .

their

Joneses left

Junior Kids are

ene

with