Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1945 — Page 14

Give Light ond the People Will Fina Their Own Woy

: VWHATEVER comes of it, the C. I. 0. United Auto Work- *" ers’ offer of a “company security” plan to the Ford “fotor Co. is an interesting and, we think, a hopeful developaent in the labor situation. Under this plan the union would agree to penalties “gainst its members who take part in unauthorized strikes. ~ Jorkers could be fined $3 a day each for the first such irike, $5 a day for the second. The company would de‘get the money from wages and give it to the infantile aralysis fund. Any worker instigating or leading a wild‘at strike could be fired. The company would be subject 2 penalties for lockouts, ‘ The union, naturally, makes the offer for bargaining urposes. It is demanding from Ford, as from other auto ompanies, a 30 per cent wage increase. Its obvious hope ‘3 that the prospect of “company security” will lead Ford 0 break the wage deadlock, and that General Motors and he rest will then fall into line. *

. » » » ” ” - WE BELIEVE that assurance of real protection against yildcat strikes might persuade many employers to think nore favorably of pay raises. In fact, the Ford company itself has made that point. It told the union recently that ince 1941, when it signed a contract granting union shop nd checkoff of union dues, there had beén 773 work stopages in Ford plants. And it asked the union for a plan y give the company the same degree of security as the .ompany has given the union. Richard T. Leonard, director of the union's Ford department, who now offers the union's idea of such a plan, was pretty sore when the company made that request. He called the company’s statement “a union-busting, irresponsible and strike-provoking document.” ‘We don’t know why labor leaders feel it necessary to talk like that whenever thiey first hear of any proposal to require responsible conduct by unions. But they do, and the public has pretty well learned to discount their extravagant outbursts,

. . x s » » . THAT'S WHY we think John L. Lewis didn't make much of an impression yesterday when he testified against President Truman's proposal for fact-finding boards to deal with strikes in great industries. Mr. Lewis called it “an evil, foul-smelling mess,” and “an attempt to place labor in legislative irons.” : : : ‘We're sure Mr. Truman doesn’t want to hurt labor. His evident desire is to protect the public, the innocent And . often gravely injured bystanders in every big battle between Mr; Lewis and other labor leaders seem to think that organized labor, alone, must have complete freedom from compulsion.

IRAN AND THE NEXT WAR : NHE Iranian situation is the stuff of which wars are "made. In that Middle Eastern country the old rivalry "of competing imperialisms is raging now just as though © there had been no war of liberation, no Atlantic charter, no treaties, and no international organization for justice |

stop the drift toward war in that area. Washington proposed that all foreign troops be removed by Jan. 1. Russia refused. Britain, surprisingly, failed to support the United | States. Yesterday the Iranian premier repeated this. demand. But there is little chance that it will have any éffect. Only the small American force is withdrawing. The ~ Russian and British armies are remaining—nominally

- Meanwhile Russia continues her war-breeding policy of ~ supporting a separatist rebellion in the northern province | ~ bordering the Soviet Union, and in plotting for a Moscow- . puppet regime in Tehran. All of this, of course, violates a ~ whole series of treaty pledges in which Moscow joined the | other allies in guaranteeing Iran’s independence. = i » pe THE Soviet Union, in reviving the historic czarist policy 7 of imperialism expansion in the Middle East, is playing for high stakes. By control of Iran, Moscow could— 1. Win the second largest oil resources in the world; 2. Gain a warm-water outlet in the Persian gulf; 3. Partially _ encircle Turkey, and probably dominate the Dardanelles; _ 4. Replace Britain as the major power in the Middle East; 5. Cut the British empire's lifeline to India and the Far East. ~ But the eventual price of these Russian gains probably ~ would be another world war: ; : At the Moscow conference of Big Three foreign ministers, opening next Saturday, Secretary Byrnes will try to persuade Russia to live up to her pledges of non-interfer-#nce in Iran and also to induce Britain to withdraw troops before she gets hurt. But even if Mr. Byrnes succeeds in getting a Big Three peace plan for Iran, that in itself will ~ no more be sufficient than similar solemn Big Three agreements on Iran in the past. ~~ This is a job for the United Nations Organization.

“A RUSSIAN writer has recently charged that the cam- “= paign by American and British press .services for in-

Six days before this accusation, William L. Chenery . of Collier's, speaking to the Overseas Press club in New York, had urged that a non-political organization of correspondents of all nations be formed to throw their combined weight behind a drive for free access to news through

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fish dinners to Americans ¥ sity hope to impress with Japan's culinary atcom-

THERE BEING no chairs, we sat on little mats around a polished. table six inches high and tried to dispose of our légs and numbed feet as best we could. Presently the “feast” began. The serving maids, bowing to the floor whenever they entered the room, set before us small bowls with clams soaked in a red sauce. No forks. Just chopsticks, and very difficult to nmnage with cold fingers. The clams were not so bad, either, but this was a slab of uncooked fish resembling, in texture, filet of sole. And this, in turn, was succeeded (and also uncooked) fish, the only reof which én the dish placed before us the head and tail. I was informed that the eyes were considered something of a delicacy. Mr. Vaughn, meanwhile, was devouring these dishes with apparent relish, but then, he is a long-time orientalist with considerable practice,

'Muskel Very Bad' I TRIED valiantly to be courteous and picked" gingerly at each dish but I cannot say that my Japanese hosts seemed much impressed by my taste or lack of it. The dinner came to an end and we returned to the hotel to absorb vast quantities of hot coffee, The next day, I discovered that I could move my. left leg with the greatest difficulty and most ex cruciating pain. : There being none of our own medics around, a friend of mine called in a little Japanese doctor who examined my leg gravely and sympathetically, probed each muscle and joint, and announced: “It's muskel. Muskel very bad. Cramp in muskel. You stay in bed.” He shot a hypodermic into it, took 60 yen for his services, and departed. The muscular cramps disappeared the following day, and I haven't tried to sit on a floor, Japanese fashion, since.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Big 3 Crisis By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—United Nations envoys here expect that the Big Three meeting in Moscow next Saturday will be, in some respects, 5 the most crucial yet held. At the very least it will provide some indication whether future Russian-British-American collaboration can be expected. If the answer is “no,” then hope of a

communique.

Only Hypothetical Peace : BY CONTRAST, the peace conference after world war I held its first session just 68 days after the armistice. Less than four months later—at Versailles, on May 7—the Germans were called in to receive the verdict. -They were stunned by its severity, yet on June 23, they had to sign on the dotted line without a single vital change.

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“HIGH BRASS WILL GO BACK TO TWO-BIT JOBS” By M. Sgt. Loren E. Spurgeon, Overseas. ~ After constantly reading and hearing about, and discussing the elaborate plans of our feathetbrained leaders, regarding our discharge from this army, the fact remains we are still here. Everyone knows the one and only answer; if we draftees go home and are discharged, the high brass get kicked out into the street again, and back to their former two-bit jobs they came from. =~ ~ . It is very simple to see through these excuses ‘hey offer each day, but we are pretty well fed up on this stuff. Their latest farce was about no transportation, due to an

why do they beat around the bush?

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gets the ‘vote, and then it stars to get lined up to milk the public goat. No matter if there are men whose records have been they always get it in the neck parties fix the beer. No other that ‘you can name requires such silly laws to keep the money pass-

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

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TO RECTIFY THIS SITUATION" “WE LOOK TO CONGRESS

Opl, Chas, mn, Sgt. Hornak, Ernest M, Truman, Russell Glassburn, “The Island of Despair”

This letter is “written in an ate tempt to place before you the facts of the SNAFU situation. on the is land of Okinawa pertaining to the readjustment of officers and enlisted men, To be eligible for shipment Irom this island on 10 November 1945, officers had to have 87 points and enlisted men had to have 80 points, We wish to compare this with the of Guam, Saipan and HaThese islands are now shipping and have been shipping their 60 point EM for the. past three weeks. Also, we wish to bring to

Gen. Douglas MacArthur - made sometime ago to the effect that men

priority on shipment home. Further, having in the past been stationed on at least one or more of ‘these islands, we can assure you that the living conditions on these aforementioned “rocks” are considerably better than on this one. We have no way of knowing exact total of the men on land, but our guess would tween 150,000 and 200,000. At present rate of shipment we estimate that it will take anywhere from 250 to 333 days to ship the men home. hn ’

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rectify this situation. We have not or did not complain

it does is fix the beer to suit some dumb “in-laws.” :

Carnival —By Dick Turner

until the enemy was defeated. We were chosen for a job and we did it.

“BELIEVE THAT RUSSIA WOULD BE A TRUE FRIEND” By a Reader, Indianapolis

“Russia Okays Chiang’s Rights” in The Times of Nov. 20. “This partially, or possibly I should say, proves what I told a young lady who has a brother still in the navy a few days ago. She was plenty - worried about the Russian situation and she knew that I had had considerable dealings with Russians in this ¢ountry, some citiZens and some not. I told her that they were a stolid, hard-headed race and that they were stubborn but that when you convinced them that you were trying to do the right thing by them

Martin [they were more than glad to meet P-lyou half-way and that I did not|

have any misgivings about trouble with Russia and that with proper handling they could be made a good friend and ally. . Now 1 think President Truman, ‘with unbiased advisers, should personally call on Mr. Stalin and have a heart to heart talk with him

half way. In other words, if you can’t move the mountain, go to the mountain,

could depend on. As for communism, that is continually mentioned in the

know, only suspect, it is their form

to try to change that. We would certainly be as stubborn if their press or statesmen were continually howling ours.

to strengthen the power of parties for or against future legislative

I read with interest an article, !

showing a willingness to meet him| By Charles T. Lucey

Russia I believe is rich in min- | Man with the:shy smile, National erals that we can use and could| G- O. P. Chairman Herbert Brownell

always use. machinery made in| J the good old U. 8. A. Aside from| that spot will help. determine whether the the monetary value, I believe that| National organization is to be dominated Russia would be a true friend and | reactionary old guard or.have some semblance ¢ a power on our side. One that we| the progressive force needed to meet difficult and

where the copy originates, I papers, a statement of principles to guide the

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Worst Drought in 150 Years NORTHERN FRANCE is now suffering from worst drought in 150 years. This has gravely affected hydro-electric works. Coupling this acute shortage of coal, it looks as though have a very cold and black winter. Apart discomfort and suffering that this will cause, is grave danger that the whole work of reconstruce tion will be held up. One important decision that Minister of Finance Rene Pleven must make in the fairly near future is that of devaluing the franc. The official rate is still | 50 to the dollar. When Prance decides to devalue, the franc will probably slide to at least 100, which is about what the black-market rate is now. Until they decide to take the plunge and devalue, France's ex--port trade is bound to be badly hampered. And the | longer they postpone a decision, the more uncer. | tainty will be created in the minds of the French people as to the future, My visit to Paris has greatly revived my belief in the future of France. Despite all their difficulties, there is today a unity of outlook among Frenchmen which never existed in the years between the two wars, That unity finds its expression in the political field in the almost unanimous support there is for General de Gaulle. If that unity can be preserved for at least another two or three years, France will again be a great power. ; It is highly to the interest of both Great Britain

and the United States that this should happen,

POLITICS— i :

GOP. Plan

CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—~The Repub- : lican on the spot today is the young

How. he contrives to get off .

shifting post-war problems. It comes about this way: : . ' Last week a G. O. P. congressional group issued

now and the 1946 elections. - Republican national commitfeemen

Jor being too conservative and by others bo ov the New Deal. aie a But the national committee couldn dn't give it a brushoff. So it indorsed the G. O. P. congressional manifesto as a “statesmanlike declaration”

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