Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1945 — Page 20

tecting repufitions in the Roosevelt administration than

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BAW CAN PREVENT STRIKES VER since congress passed the railway labor act in 1926 we have believed that the principles of that law, widely

wded, could save this country most of the damage done

abd cost imposed by industrial warfare, There have been plenty of major labor-management fisputes on the railroads in the last 19 years. But there lave been no major strikes, and only a few minor ones. +; So we are pleased that Secretary Schwellenbach, before ihouse committee, has just praised the railway labor act & a “most satisfactory piece of legislation in the view of eryone. ¥ “Mr. Schwellenbach dropped what appears to be a inointed hint that the administration would like to see aimilar legislation recommended for all industry by the Enational Mbor-management conference now meeting in

‘Hint or no hint, it is. a sound idea. ~~ "® It is the general idea embodied in that section of the 3 : EH atch-Burton<Ball bill which proposed a method for peaceful settlement of controversies over the mpking and maintaining of agreements between unions and employers. 15 fh FP sn» IKE the railway labor act, the Hatch-Burton-Ball bill “would make it the legal duty of employers and workers fo exert every reasonable effort to agree, and to refrain from’ lockouts or strikes while carrying on the legally prescribed settlement procedures. First, the parties to a dispute would be required to negotiate. If negotiations failed, a federal labor relations board would attempt to mediate the dispute. If mediation failed, the board would try to persuade them to submit to arbitration. - If either party refused to arbitrate, the board would determine whether the controversy threatened so serious an interruption of commerce as to require the appointment of A special fact-finding commission. This commission might be appointed by the board or by the President of the. United States. : Within 80 days—or, in exceptional cases, within 60 days—the fact-finding commission would make its report and recommend terms for settlement of the controversy. Then for an additional 80-day period, providing time for public opinion to make itself felt, a strike or lockout would

be forbidden. :

In one respect, the Hatch-Burton-Ball bill goes beyond the railway labor act. It would provide temporary compulsory arbitration, as a last resort, for a limited class of cases, These would be cases in which a strike or. lockout. would cause severe public hardship, as by stopping utility services or food and milk deliveries. Ed

tir ——— = PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S order to all government em- ; ployees “to come forward voluntarily” with any Pearl % Harbor information which might aid the joint congressional 8 investigating committee is welcome. It is good states if manship, and not bad ‘polities, Too ~ A President as close to the people as Mr, Truman knows

| the public is getting fed up with the partisan political|

maneuvering and mudslinging by committeé members, In ~ this exhibition neither side is blameless, but the Democrats have cut a worse figure, :

From the day they refused to grant Republicans equal |

representation on the committee, Democratic leaders ha ~ given the impression they were more concerned with pro-

in getting at the truth, We hope they prove that impres-

“~The latest inter-committee struggle is over the right

: of “individual members to examine departmental files and

~ otherwise seek information. The Republicans claim that . right, and the Democrats deny it on the ground that the * Republicans would act as paftisan snoopers. The Demo- ~ erats seem to forget that the Republicans cainof “create ‘evidence; all they can do is find it. And that is supposed to-be the purpose of the investigation. Democratic leaders should get off the defensive and welcome all the facts from whatever source, That, if we understand it, is the purpose of the Truman order.

EXPERT TESTIMONY : h FoR a long time the chief argument against unifying the armed forces under a single cabinet officer was that . only civilian amateurs favored it. That gibe was disproved when the war department and Gen. Marshall, the chief of staff, courageously demanded the reform. ‘od Now comes proof of what had long been suspected, ~ that most of our field commanders themselves have been ~ converted by their experiences in this war, This is re- ~ vealed by belated publications of the report of the special ~ committee appointed by the joint chiefs of staff to take

| testimony in the field. Eighty ranking generals and ad-

mirals gale their views. A majority of the generals and

i half of the admirals were strongly in favor—though Ad-

_mirals Nimitz and Halsey have since reversed their posi-

tion. The vote was 3-to-1, with a lone admiral objecting.

© The special investigating committee of two generals and two admirals condemned the inefficiency and danger the present divided system, and recommehded uhification. The vote was 8-to-1, with a lone admiral objecting. fhe joint chiefs of staff could not agree, the split being iween Generals Marshall and Arnold on one side and Admirals Leahy and King on the other,

re him “Cheap John.” Even the sign outside his place of business called him that, except | that it went a bit further and added the ds |. “from Texas.’ “3 “Cheap John from Texas” ran a market x on the northeast corner of Delaware and Market Hall,

sts. long before there was any Tomlinson

a anhy 0 Sud um cing vusmess ab thal old stand when Tomlinson Hall was completed. Prom | that moment until the day of his death, Cheap John | was as much of a landmark: around here steeple on the courthouse. pod Cheap John didn't look like anything grown in| Texas, but he made up for it in other ways. Por one thing, his smile was broader than that of any other merchant, -even if it was a. little longer in coming. That was because the smile had to from behind a bushy red mustache. And the way he rubbed his hands at the start and end of & sale was & little more genuine, I thought, than that his competitors. Moreover, the way he shuffled feet helped a lot, too, for it made it appear he had alf the time in the world to give you. And speaking of time, Cheap John always carried more than one watch on his person, a fact which was not generally known,

Inventory Consisted of Notions

CHEAP JOHN'S inventory consisted for the most part of threads, pins and buttons and the hundred other mysteries that go to make up what women, for some unaccountable reason, call “notions.” Occa~ sionally, however, he also sold bustles, corsets and laces and once, I remember, he had a stunning

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stock of ostrich plumes which, because of their! * ai

.solled condition, he let go for a ridiculously -low price. Never to my knowledge did Cheap John go in for style trends, but better than anybody else around here he knew how to give you value for your money. Certainly, his was the best place in town to buy feather dusters without which it wasn't possible to run a house when I was a little poy. The feather duster was used to “flick” furniture to make it Jook more or less presentable until the annual spring ‘house cleaning orgy, at which time the intricately tufted upholstery received a more thorough treatment —usually, by way of a beating. On the side, Cheap John also sold watches. As a rule, they were very ornate affairs and unlike anything that could be bought around here. More often than not their lids were engraved with gorgeous coats of arms and crowns, the counterparts of which could be found in the Almanach de Gotha if anybody had the patience to look it up. It was said at the time that Cheap John picked up the watches in Vienna, Berlin and Budapest, in cafes frequented by impecunious noblemen and the like. I have no way of knowing whether there was any Justification for the rumor or not. This much is certain, however: Cheap John went to Europe almost every summer. And every time he went, he carried his own coffin with him. You heard me.

Coffin Size of a Shoe Box

HIS COFFIN was about the size of a shoe box and almost as light, too, for it was made of very thiff copper. It had fo be light because Cheap John in-

fooled, though, because he always had the coffin wrapped in a newspaper around which were tied a couple of yards of black and sinister-looking string, | As for the miniature size of the coffin, I can explain that, too. Cheap John had it figured out that a shoe box was just about the right size to receive his ashes. He went even further. Inside his coat | pocket he carried a letter, addressed “to whom it ma concern,” with instructions to cremate his and. to return the ashes to Indisnapolis in case anything happened to him away from home. In the sap Jattef, he pointed out that he had brought hig ‘Well, ort not, nothing whatever happened to Cheap John in all the many trips he made to Burope. - So far as I know he died right here In Indianapolis. ?

3 FOREIGN AFFAIRS— \ Red Puzzle

By William Philip Simms

uation, Instead, the effect has been the reverse. Three major factors are cited: : >

of Generalissimo Stalin from both Tuesday night's gathering pf Soviet big-wigs in the Kremlin, and Wednesday's annual parade ji Red Square. Also ‘missed were President Kalinin and Marshals Voroshilov and Zhiikov, SRE For weeks past thers have been rumors of the generalissimo’s illness. Then it was said he was only vacationing in the Black Sea ares and would return to Moscow in time to address the Kremlin gathering And review the march-past, His failure to show up has given rise to & new crop of worries, a

operation. .. Possible. successors -have-shown- signs of chip-on-the shouider isolationism,

Allies Are Criticized SECOND. The tone of Foreign Commissar Molo tov's lengthy speech, delivered in the generalissimo’ absence. It came pretty near ‘being sabre-rattling. It gave the Red army principal eredit for winning the war and sountied several warnings against Russia's allies. It hit at the United States on account of

friendship among democracies in the west. Differ on Democracy THE THIRD factor in the outlook is the significant emphasis Mr. Molotov on the difference between democracy as the Soviet Union sees eT ay Jrasticsd in 1hé Baird State Britain snd Siewhare. tis tamarind hunt that establishment of democracy as & means to lasting peace is the fundamental aim. of the 1 Nath the outlook for Big Three

True democracy, said Mr any other states, divided

don't know where he kept himself while the bufiding | { was under construction, but I distinctly recall how |

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their grip in Buffalo in upstate . | generally Republican territory: / Lge ‘in: Detroit. was significant: that labor still is hard put labor candidate. The C. L O. was: not: ab to do it with the personable Richard T. [vice of its United Autom

cago convention last year it was the big city-southern state combination that Bob Hannegan pulled together to put over Harry Truman's nome ination as vice president. This ‘is still the combination upon which Demoerats must rely in the 1948 election despite its hybrid nature, This, despite the antagonism -of the Southern politician’ to New Dealism and to the C. I O. and. despite resentment among such politicians ‘and Southern conservatives gover Mr, Truman's espousal of New

"1 wholly disagree with what but will defend to the death your right to. say it™ “SELFISHNESS SHOWS IN MANY LETTERS” By Mrs. ©. V. James, Indianapolis Being ‘a regular reader of the Hoosier Forum, I'm Beginning to be a little ashamed at the private war that is being waged between wives and mothers of service men. Most of the letters have a bit of selfish-

“PVT. EYRE SPEAKS FOR THE AMERICAN SOLDIER” By James J. McDade, Indianapolis . Hats off to Pvt. Charles F. Eyre of Camp Atterbury for his cleancut debunking of the anti-Russian Tulminations of those two pompous apostles of reaction. . . Watchman and the Voice In

(Times readers are invited

Explains Truman Actions : THE urgent necessity of keeping this “strange alliance intact explains some things that have happened here. - It explains partly, for example, why the President has tried to please’ labor--though He has sincere convictions along those lines—and why, :

The Watchman doesn't “wateh”— he is a hatchet-man for American who seek a war with

And Voice in the Crowd is not a

Of course, we all want our loved ones home. My husband was one no responsi bility for the return of manu. | scripts and cannot enter cor.: :

vent the grab the streetcar com-

this war, and his outfit has been| pany is putting over on the riding

plaque for doing a job well and ahead of schedule, : Yes, he was just a kid in his eens when he left to fight the war, home a man, hardrrors and destruc

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