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Friday, Oct. 19, 1945

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Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

STUDY IT, MR. PRESIDENT ‘A T his news conference yesterday President Truman was * asked whether he thought passage of the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill would help the labor situation, * He said that ‘He was not familiar enough with the bill to answer the

question. . { Well, the bill, which was introduced in the senale last June, is not very long. We think it's fairly easy to understand. But many people apparently aren't familiar with it, i And quite a few of them, unlike Mr, Truman, are only too willing to sound off about it, For instance, it is often griticized by persons who think, or at least say, that it would abolish tire right to strike and would compel arbitration of all labor management disputes—which is not true. * Here's what the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill does propose: i It would replace the national labor relations board With a new federal labor relations hoard. The board would administer procedure designed for peaceful settlement of labor-management controversies in the federal field. i Controversies over representation of employees would handled much as they are now, The board would inVestigate, hold secret elections if necessary, and certify the Minion desired by a majority of the workers concerned, 5

» ” » " ~ ” {CONTROVERSIES ahout the meaning of union-employer . ™ agreéments—disputes over the figuring of wage payments, discipline and other grievances—would be referred fo bipartisan adjustment boards. Awards by these hoards ‘would be subject to federal court review and enforcement. + Controversies over the making and maintendnce of agreements would be subject to several settlement steps. Negotiation, That failing, mediation, That failing, volunfary arbitration. While these steps are being taken, and for 30 days after they had all failed, strikes or lockouts would be forbidden, though individual employees would be free to quit their jobs at any time. : If voluntary mediation were refused, the board would ~ decide whether the controversy threatened so serious an Interruption of commerce as to require further delay of ptrike or lockout, pending investigation and report by a special fact-finding commission. i. If the fact-finding commission report failed to settle a pontroversy, then $he board might order a temporary setRlement by compulsory arbitration.

. » tJ ~ 2 ® » » UT IT could do that only where a strike or lockout would cause severe public hardship, as for instance hy paralyzessential public utilities or cutting off supplies of food ¢ fuel. In other words, there would be compulsory arbion only for a small segment of industry on which the

. public welfare is directly dependent,

The bill would also create a new unfair labor practices Kribunal to force prohibitions against defined unfair prac-| : by employers or employees (instead of by employers uly, as under present law). : i. This, of course, is not a complete analysis of the HatchBurton bill, but only a brief discussion of its salient nts. os We hope Mr. Truman and many others will study this We believe they would find it—while open to conctive criticism and subject to improvement—by no the dangerous measure some opponents call it.

E WAR TRIAL PRECEDENT

E ROR THE first time in history men are‘to be tried for the

i international

i (of civilized

£7 crime of aggressive war. The 24 Nazi leaders indicted before the four power allied tribunal in Berlin yesterday ‘were charged not only with mass atrocities but also with 'eausing World War 1L ; : So the issue goes far beyond the guilt or fate of these men, If the prosecution's contention is upheld by the ‘eourt, it will establish a precedent which can be applied to government officials of all aggressor nations now and in ‘the future, ¢ "So international lawyers and others challenge this, They say there has been no recognized international law making ‘such war a crime in the legal sense, They think the Nazi chiefs should be disposed of, if at all, on grounds of military expediency and without trying to “dress up the proceedings ‘Juridically,” It is true, perhaps, that an allied tribunal cannot hear gases against an enemy with the same degree of objectivity as a conventional court. But there can be no theoretically non-partisan court now because the aggressors destroyed ‘international machinery by war and forced virtually the entire world into defensive combat. So today there is no hon-allied body capable of enforcing international law, : But is there any international law on the subject? Those who say there is not, stress the fact that there is no precedent for those trials, They ignore the other fact ‘that law ig a living, growing thing—or nothing. Of course the creation of new precedent cannot be arbitrary and ‘capricious; it must command the respect and allegiance society. / » » = un» IN this case there is international law. which applies - directly, It is not as precise as a body of national law,

| {and never can be until international organization is com- * plete, But the principal nations had officially outlawed war

‘before the Nui attacks, ; The gue of Nations had branded aggression an crime, The Kellogg-Briand pact had outlawed aggression as “legally” as the signature of sovereign nations can do so, ; \The lack was not In formal commitments but in the ement of them. ; To declare aggressive war in international erime fis futile unless those who make it are treated as international riminals. That is the basis of the allied indictment of se Nazi culprits. It goes to the heart of the twin oblems of war responsibility and war prevention. ~The United States contributed mightily to military ctory. It is leading in creation of a United Nations Organfor world security. We are proud that our governthe support of the American people,

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WALZER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ,

OUR TOWN—""

Spider Webs » \® By Anton Scherrer - |

50 long, has lately shown ane sure sign of a return of spirit. I refer, of course, to the revival of ambition on the part of spiders, the latest instance of which was the bhehavior of the precocious beast out at Floyd 8. Hubbard's home, 615 E. 30th st. Somewhat behind in my reading, I have just caught up with Donna Mikels’ account of the Hub. bard spider, It appeared on the front page of The Indianapolis Times on Oct, 5. Goodness only knows how I'll ever catch up with the newspapers. Donna reports that the Hubbard spider publishes daily bulletins, . One night he writes his message and _ leaves it there all the next day. That night he destroys the stale news. He spends the next day strengthening his web and at night starts weaving again for the next day's bulletin. Thus far, apologizes Donna, “his messages haven't made much sense, but that doesn't dampen the enthusiasm of his readers.” 3

This Spider Could Spell

ALL RIGHT-now let me tell one. It's about a less scatter-brained spider who practiced around here in 1908, That was the year William Jennings Bryan ran against Willlam Howard Taft for President; the

had ‘a contract for some work in the vicinity of Northwestern ave, and 27th st,

before the election when a colored man, who was watching the operation to see that the Hoosier Con~ struction Co, was fulfilling the terms of its contract, turned to Stanley Bowen, a checker on the job, and asked whether he had observed the educated spider in the vacant lot across the street. The colored man amplified his easual statement a moment later hy saying. that the spider was weaving its web and spinning the name of Willlam J. Bryan inte it. Mr. Bowen, intent on his own work, teld th colored man to run along and mind his owp business; whereupon the colored man got good and sore and bet Mr. Bowen a 10 cent cigar that he was telling the truth, By this time, Frank Matthews, the foreman on the job, got mixed up in the controversy, too.

Stopped Work te Watch

WHEN Bowen, Matthews and the colored man went to investigate, they found the spider—a big yellow arachnig-—feverighly at work on the letter “r.” All the letters up fo that place were plain as daylight and so they stuck around to see how the thing would end. To hell with the contract. In a little while, the spider was done. There it was plain as the nose of your face: W-i-l-1-i-a-m J. B-r-a-n. Something had gone wrong, of course. With such a big audience watching him, the spider, apparently, got excited and forgot to include the letter “vy.” Mr. Bowen took advantage of the technicaflty and claimed his cigar. Mr, Matthews, a stanch Republican, backed up Mr. Bowens * And that’s the way matté¥s stood until later that same day when the water-boy on the job approached Mr. Matthews and told him he ought to see what the spider was up to now. The water-boy said it might interest Mr. Bowen to have a look, too, « Well, when Mr. Matthews and Mr. Bowen went to have a second look, they discovered the spider in the act of constructing a caret between the letters “¢" and “a.” They stuck around to see what would happen next. Believe it or not, when the spider finished weaving the caret, he spun the letter *y” over it.

Declared Affiliation

THERE WAS no mistaking the fact that the spider had declared his political aMiliation. Indeed, there was a well-founded belief at the time that the spider might prove tO be a prophet, even if he was a Democrat. By that time, Mr. Bowen was more than ready fo settle with the colored man who saw the spider in the first place. But he wasn't anywhere around. The last anybody saw of him was when he left the scene that morning, muttering to himself that a couple of white Republicans—the meanest he had ever known ~had taken advantage of a technicality to beat him out of a gigar. The way things turned out, the Democrat-spider of 1908 didn't prove to be a prophet. When the returns came in, B.r-(¥).s-n got only 163 electoral votes as against 321 for Mr. Taft,

WORLD AFFAIRS—

U.N.O. Stimulant

By Carl D. Groat

LONDON, Oct. 19.—United Nations leaders, un~ daunted by increasing Russian obstacles in the international field, are viewing the December plenary session as a stimulant to more workable efforts for world co-operation, Some are even so optimistic as to speculate on the possibility that the recent impasse developed by the foreign ministers’ meeting may be overcome, or adjusted, ; Agreement is general that machinery provided by the United Nations organisation is a more feasible medium for solving present difficulties than recent diplomatic efforts,

Time and Patience

THE FLIGHT of Edward R. Stettinius, U. 8. chief representative in the United Nations organization, to New York for a gall bladder operation has not dis turbed the timetable for the plenary session. Nor has Soviet delegate Gromyko's quick trip to Wash: ington, : An authority intimate with the United Nations development told this correspondent that despite.current obstacles Russia's co-operation has improved to a point approaching the earliest days of lend-lease, UNO framers operate on the basis of agreeing on points, keeping patiently on their course where ideological and other dificulties, including Russian seit interests, prevent agreement. Like the American delegation to ithe foreign ministers’ council, these United Nations representatives say that time and patience probably will be the essentials of a healing formula, if anything will,

So They Say—

IT 18 not possible for the United States to be prosperous if the rest of the world is in depression. It is not possible for other countries to maintain economic balance if industry in the United States is not producing at high levels.—~Wendell Berge, assistant attorney general,

BY THE time the Christmas rush is at its height, we . . + should be in a position to supply our dealers with enough merchandise to meet the most urgent of the anticipated radio demand.-Faul L. Chamberlain, executive,

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JUST AS our law makes monopoly an’ illegal out the payment of sub-stahdard

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, THIS TOWN, which has drooped

same year, too, that the Hoosier Construction Co. | |

As near as I recall, it, was just about a month |

means of stifling competition, so should the law rule | | wages which cause

| By Charles T. Lucey

“GET RID OF FORMER CROOKS ON YOUR POLICE FORCE" By Laster F. Cox, R. R. 6, Box 19, Crawfordaville Just what is your police department made up of? I realize there has been a man shortage and most all the good cops had to go to war. But don’t you good people of Indianapolis think there are enough honest men back from the service to take the places of such men that would take a bribe? A man of that type who wéuld stoop so low as to accept a bribe has no place on the people's payroll, Why play with these shakers” and “bribe accepters?” Fire them, and get someone K who can enforce law and order. I am a former resident of your city, I lived there for 13 years before entering the army. That was in 1042. I came back this past March. It certainly wasn't the old town I left so I moved my family away. And I thank God for that. Wake up, good citizens, Get rid of the former crooks and hootleggers that are on your police force or they and the other crooks shall take your fair city, ® 2 x

“HAD FOOD FOR ALL UNDER OPA HELP” By Harry J. Gasper, 903 E. 11th ot: In these nasty ole times of OPA and other war-time regulations, it's always sorta amusing to read the sorta prattle put out by Mr, C. D. C., Indianapolis, Now I don't know what C. D. C. stands for, but 1 think we all know what OPA stands for, Mr. C. D, C. ; The fact that you, Mr. OC. D. OC, admit you are in the production and distribution of food is reason enough to understand your tirade against OPA, Just take a rattle away from a spoiled baby and just listen to him cry. I don't understand how you, Mr. C DD, CO, can speak of the hardships OPA regulations when you say your business takes you out of this country quite often, have all you want to eat at hotels and .all of this with OPA. Brother, you weren't hurt any. : You say the different countries you were in (even the most of them were not at war) had an abundance of food. Why didn't you go into the food production business in one of those countries. No OPA, no customers and no money to buy--just the spot for you, Mr. C. D. C. You know, Mr. C. D. C,, I remember when there was an abundance of food here also and no OPA.

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But all we had fo do was pull the belt in another notch, lick our chops and try to figure out how we could get down to the auditor's office you spehk of to get a slab of jowl. And, brother, this was all under the good ole solid Republican administration. And you learned to stand on your own feet under Grover Cleveland. You're lucky, Mr. C. D. C. There were a lot of people who didn’t have enough strength to stand on their feet under Hoover, with our OPA and‘ an abundance of food. How do you account for that, Mr. C.D C? I'll agree with you, Mr. C. D. C.J it probably was the businessmen's taxes that gave us jobe when we were hungry. We never got a hreak like that under the ole deal. So thank God for the New Deal, Just one more thing, Mr. C.D. C., where {s that New Deal newspaper you speak of? If it's in Indianapolis I would like to subscribe to it. ’

» ~ » “LET'S NOT BUY LICENSES UNTIL WE CAN GET SHELLS By F. M. 8, Indianapolis I wonder what the average hunter thinks of the shotgun shell situation, The clubs have plenty. You must belong to a club or you must know ‘Joe’ in a stord to get a box, Now then, who is paying hunting licenses? ‘They are begging people to buy licenses. Let's not buy any until we can get some shells, Also, the clubs have the good gravel pits and you must belong or you can't fish there, The conservation depart ment seems to do nothing for the common hunter or fisherman about this, I am a World War I veteran but I-have been buying my licenses until last year and I couldn't buy any shells, so I am getting free per-

mits from now on, My neighbor-

{hood stores have shells, but I can't buy any,

Side Glances —By Galbraith

“RELIGION IS PERSON'S OWN PERSONAL AFFAIR”

By R. Sprunger, Indianapolis “Consistency thou art a jewel."

In one breath A. McKinnon defends the pro-Fascist Gerald L. K,

Smith and then pleads to make America safe for democracy. Just what are you interested in, democratic, social and economic justice or forcing your religious views on another person? I think religion is a person’s own personal affair and has no place in affairs of state. Mixing .church and state leads to disaster as has been proven in the past. Either you are pro-democracy or pro-Fascist, ‘you can not be first one and then the other and say you actually believe in democracy, Just what did we in the armed forces, enter into combat with the forces of fascism. for? To allow such a pro-Fascist to proceed to tear down what freedom we have or to advance the cause of democratic jutsice? Just where does this “most” Reverend Gerald L, K. Smith get his finances? : » ” » “GIVE BOY A BREAK AND LET HIM STAY AT HOME”

By Eva Harting, Indisnapelis As an interested reader of the Hoosier Forum I would like to express my feelings of sending boys under 21 to the armed forces. These hoys are nothing but children and why should they do a man's job? I am sure teen-age boys never started this war or they would have been taken to a juvenile court and it could have been straightened out. ‘With so many lives lost and the great expense, why send boys away from home just when they need the advice of their mothers and fathers the most? Boys of this age are coming into manhood and should be kept clean, I know they are told all the dangers of disease but wouldn't it be better for a father to raise his boy until he is old enough to take care of himself? Boys who have been raised in good Christian homes, who never tasted liquor, or played pool in gambling dumps certainly can do it in the army camp, Boys at home are .not allowed in these places because they are not old enough. So why send them where, it is? ~

POLITICS —

Streamlining §

19.—Pro-

WASHINGTON, Oct. posals for modernizing congressional machinery soon will head | into a battle over wiping out a lot of plush committee chairmanships, : prized for prestige and patronage reasons. Senator LaFollette (Prog. Wis.) and Rep. Monroney (D. Okla.) are chairmen of a joint senate-house group studying the overhauling. Hearings have been held and the committee is expected to meet soon and distill some~ thing. Their proposals may go into such matters as bet. ter staffing of congressional committees, abler technical advice, congressional pay and a retirement plan. But the real test comes on abolishing committees which duplicate and overlap. No reorganization is worth anything if it doesn't overhaul the committee system, Mr. Monroney says. y Senator LaFollette is author of a proposal whigh would cut the number of senate committees from 33 to 13. Rep. Wadsworth (R. N, Y.) has proposed that the 48 committees in the house be pared to 17.

Can Senators Be Sold? MR. LA FOLLETTE proposes, for example, organ= izing one major senate committee on interior, natural resources and public works which would cover legislative ground now held by nine committees; Commerce, Indian affairs, interocean canals, irrigation and reclamation, mines and mining, postoffices and post roads, public buildings and grounds, public lands and surveys, and territories and insular affairs, But that means one chairmanship instead of nine. It would wipe out chairmanships now held by Democratic Senators Bailey (N. C.), O'Mahoney (Wyo.), Stewart (Tenn.,), Bankhead (Ala.), Guffey (Pa.), McKellar (Tenn.) Andrews (Fla) Hatch (N. M.) and Tidings (Md.). ¢ The question is: Can senators who stand to lose chairmanships be convinced of the greater goed in reorganization? Virtually everyone agrees that reorganization is necessary, and thet the work load on senators hy reason of membership on so many committees often makes a good job impossible,

See Lots of Battling SENATOR O'MAHONEY is listed as serving on 10 committees, Senators Meade and Lucas on nine, Senator Barkley and many others on seven, Senator LaFollette also proposes merging the sen~ate’s military affairs and naval affairs committees into a single armed forces committee. Rep. Wadsworth would chart the same course for the house. But chairmanships carry prestige gnd power, In a merger, someone would have to givej way. One proposal is to allow the chairmanship to go to the chairman having the greatest seniority in congress. There is another proposal to rotate all chair« manships regularly every six years. Opinions is that it will take a lot of battling to get a real reorganization bill through congress, But, says Mr. Monroney: “With a high bookkeeper's tool, a civil war ledger -and a quill pen, we're trying ta serve as the board of directors of the world’s greatest concern—100 times bigger than General Motors, Ford, American Telephone and Telegraph, and “the Pennsylvania Railroad.” Another proposal is to provide executive assistants who could do much of the “errand boy” work now forced on congressmen representing constituents in the executive departments. :

RECONVERSION—

New England!

By Thomas L. Stokes

BOSTON, Oct. 19. — New England is weathering the shocks of reconversion very well thus far, due partly to certain favorable basic circumstances, including the type and diversity of her industry, This region should emerge in better shape perhaps than some other areas. : However, this forecast must be conditioned upon two factors: odes i One is: how well the six New England states are able to absorb the big rush of returning servicemen.- This, of course, is also a problem everywhere else. : The other is whether New England succeeds in breaking away from her traditional tendency toward regional isolation, whether she “joins the Union, so to speak. ; New England is especially favored by the circumstance that -she has had comparatively few temporary war industries. Existing industries were utilized for all sorts of war needs. Reconversion consequently Jneans mostly turning these hack into production of peacetime goods. This is going on rapidly now, :

Are Basic Industries FOR EXAMPLE, textile mills were diverted to making uniforms, tents, tire cord, parachutes, sweaters and the like. Thirty per cert of all texjile andapparel war production was concentrated in New England. Shoe factories poured out army shoes. Both of these are basic industries, They will provide a good bedrock for months and years to come because of great need for civilian goods in these

lines. They are only two examples of the use of existing industries. . There are many more, A few big plugs were pulled out of business with the surrender of Japan, chiefly shipbuilding, air-

This is # man’s job more than a child's. Even if the fight is over. Men with children have more to | protect against war than boys do, Men who have heen home should have enough money saved to keep their families while they go away for a year or two. A wife doesn't miss her husband any more than some poor, old gray-headed mother with odds against them in years. They may not live to see the boy come home again, Older men have, lived some of their lives. They have lived to marry and have a child or two, Bo give the teen-age boy a break and let him stay home with the other kids until he can do likewise. Of course some people will say boys of that age went to fight. Yes, that is so, and some will never come

planes and ordnance. Three large privately operated shipyards, once booming now have only a bare skeleton of work forces. These are New England Ship+ building Corp. at South Portland, Me, Walsh-Kaiser at Providence and Bethlehem-Hingham near this city. The Bethlehem Fore river yard is holding up well with continuing contracts and repairs and so’ are the navy yards at Portsmouth and Boston. Closing down of the three private ship yards and reductions at the others did not leave much of an unemployment problem locally. Most of the work ers pulled up stakes and got out in a hurry, though they may turn up elsewhere to add to the unemploy:

Other States Fare Worse IT 18 worse in the other three states, particularly

Between the Japanese surrender and Sept. 20, a of 193,000 workers in the New England states

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