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MORE UNION IMMUNITY ABOR unions have won another “immunity victory” in 7 the U.S. supreme court. And what a triumph, The court held, 5 to 3, that the federal kickback law can’t punish union officers who line their own pockets with money extorted from workers on government projects. The government had tried to prosecute: four union officers who, with the help of employers, collected payments of $5 a week from the wages of wartime workers on a big federal building project at Ft. Devens, Mass. The workers were told they must pay or be fired. The project being a closed shop, the union officers had power to enforce the threat. The payments were represented to be installments on union initiation fees. The government charged that the union officials pocketed the money and didn’t report its receipt to the union. Many workers, including all who left the project before paying all the installments demanded, got neither union membership nor their money back. » w " »” . J THE kickback law applies to employment on government projects. It says that “whoever” by “force, intimidation, threat of procuring dismissal from such employment, or by any other manner. whatsoever” induces any person ‘to give back any part-of the pay to which he is entitled shall be fined, imprisoned or both. But Justices Murphy, Black, Reed, Douglas and Rutledge held that congress intended this law to penalize only extortion by employers, not “evils relating to the internal management of unions.” Will congress challenge this decision. Will it act to protect the wages of workers on governemnt projects against crooked union officials as well as crooked employers? We aren't hopeful. Judging by the past, the senate if not the house also, will be too afraid of the labor lobby. For congress has done nothing about the 1941 supreme court decision which put trade-restricting, public-robbing union practices beyond reach of the federal anti-trust laws. And only the house, by passing the Hobbs bill, has tried to do anything about the 1942 decision that the federal anti-racketeering act can't punish union officers and members for using threats and violence to make employers pay * wages to “employees” who aren't needed, aren't wanted and don't do any work for the money.

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First, due to bad weather at Chicago, a number of planes landed at Indianapolis. At 3:30 p. m. they started coming in. And. by 6 p.m. it was a madhouse. The loading ramp was parked full and planes parked on taxistrips with passengers forced to take a short hike to get to the administration building. If they could have seen the ad-

BERNARD M. BARUCH gave this country sound advice about how to prevent war-time inflation. Where it was followed results were good. Where it was ignored there was, and is, trouble. So, we think, what Mr. Baruch told congress about * how to stop post-war inflation ought to get attention and bring action. His main theme was that we must get full production fast. “We must have production to save ourselves and . the world.” If we produce more wealth all can share an abundance of better things at lower prices. If we do not, wage increases will only mean more money and less buying power, Because demand now greatly exceeds supply, Mr. Baruch would keep price controls—and wage controls—for a year. He would “stop bunking the public by saying wages

ministration building first, though, I am sure they would have stayed in the plane. The lobby of the administration building is too small even for average traffic. To add to this, many people had difficulty in figuring out how to get out of the administration building to waiting cars as the only likely looking exit from the building leads to - the hangar. What do you imagine these passengers . thought of it? I heard plenty of opinions, none of them good. Many were surprised—"I thought Indianapolis was a goodsized place but apparently not,” or {I've traveled coast to coast many a time, but brother, this is the world’s worst.” Weir Cook is a busy airport, and within two months what happened

can be increased without increase ‘in price levels.” He! would abandon present methods of political favoritism and | use economic and human methods. ; J He would act on the truth that production will be | discouraged unless prompt, adequate upward price adjust- | © ments follow the wage raises already won and those made | . inevitable. He would fight profiteering but not profit and | the profit motive. For, he warned— ~~ “If a close-fisted policy squeezes every bit out of in- | dustry in order that some segment of society may appar- | ently be advantaged—the government being the sole judge | of this—we will arrive at an economy with our industries nearly ‘all nationalized without a vote of the people.” ~ ” . n » F . THIS, he added, would mean an economic and social revo- | "= lution which American labor would rue as much as any | other group. : Currency inflation; as well as excess of demand for! scarce goods, causes rising prices. Mr. Baruch would stop governmeént borrowing from balks, which increases money | supply; stop reducing taxes until the budget is balanced ; | cut costs of federal, state and local governments to the bone; postpone public works. Labor leaders may criticize his proposal that strikes | and lockouts be eliminated for at least a year, “preferably | by agreement—otherwise by law,” and that a new high | court of commerce or supreme econontic council be established to settle wage and other disputes. : But to the great majority of organized workers it must be evident that strikes already have cost them, as well a their employers and other citizens, heavy losses, | Surely both management and labor can now see the urgent | ‘meed for a year of industrial peace to attain the full pro- | duction which alone can make either wages or profits high and stable in value, j : And surely an agreement to keep working, while controversies are adjusted by some peaceable method, is not an unreasonable or impossible thing to expect as a means toward prosperity and progress rather than inflation and

BACK IN THE SWIM Ans boa "WITH the end of the war swimming on i ing W ) g once more is coming to the fore as an important Hoosier sport, The Indianapolis Athletic club meets Indiana university’s swimmers. tonight at Bloomington, after a start last Saturday night in one of the smoothest sports events which n h here recently, A number of near-record | aire Sigwn at the carnival. db ents of the local swimming teams will be | rest by the many tic] its value in building health as well as

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yesterday will happen every day. Myself, I feel embarrassed for Indianapolis. It's a ‘shame people have to get a poor opinion because of the condition of their airport. The airport can mot handle the traffic that will be coming through here by June. What I wish you people would do is get busy and try to at least get started on plans for improvement. Indianapolis is not a “hick town,” but your airport certainly gives that impression. . : ” » » “1 DON'T LIKE TO GO TO CHURCH WITHOUT HOSE” By Just & Bare-legged Grandma, Indian apolis Why is it some people get all the stockings while others get none? I have been. suffering with a heart ailment for the past two years and am unable to stand in the stocking

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By Airport Worker, Indianapelis Those who were at Weir Cook municipal airport Sunday of the seventeenth will know and understand what I mean in this open letter. It was a perfect example of an overcrowded, poorly planned, behind

I have worked at an airport in a

smaller city with very little airline business. The smaller airport could have handled the traffic that we had Sunday much better than Weir Cook did. A brief description of the activities there Sunday and the result should be enough to show you what the airport lacks.

though to say “you are crazy.” Being in the forties and a grandma, I don't like to go to church and public places bare-legged. I was told to fill out a card in a department store, which I did some time ago, but never received any stockings. If the young British brides can get them, why can't an American grandma? The last pair of hose I was able to buy was in November; they refuse to hold together any longer,

NN 4 “HOW ABOUT A BOX SCORE ON VOTE OF LEGISLATORS?” By W. KE. Carroll, Indianapolis :

As a veteran of this war, I would like for you to help us veterans out. Would you please print a daily score In a column of your paper of how the Indiana senators and representatives vote on bills that are of interest to the veterans, orphans and widows of veterdns. And please start with the record of the present Indiana Republican senators and representatives on the Patman housing bill. We all know how good old Louis Ludlow came through with his vote for the veterans. Thanks, Mr. Ludlow, and to all your colleagues, and as thanks, we will not forget your good act in trying to help us. : But on the other hand we won't forget those who did not. We know that in this state, county and city the Republicans are confused or else they just don't care about what veterans need. We, the veterans, feel they just don't give a darn. But if we can get a nonpartisan, clear record on how the Indiana senators and representatives vote on each and every bill, | the veterans and others can then be able to vote their friends and others best suited as public servants into office and not someone that is brought up by one group and then | another as the money or whim may get to them, Please do this for us so we veterans can be better able to protect the orphans and widows of veterans.

Side Glances — By Galbraith

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“CITY HAS FORGOTTEN SERVICEMEN ENTIRELY” By 8/8gt. Lindley Whitaker, Indianapolis On a drab, dark day in January, 1941, the national guard marched out of the Armory bound for Camp Shelby. En route to the station, we marched without music, and not a

cheer or greeting did we hear from the people on the streets. Many asked what the parade was all about. At the Union station, when my mother made a statement that Indianapolis was derelict in its farewell to the troops—a well dressed bystander made a slighting remark about a “year's” vacation trip.” To add to our feeling toward our home city, no public official even had the courtesy to shake our hand or bid us “Godspeed.” It was well known as we left in January, 1941, that many of us would not return. What spark of patriotism had died ‘in our citizenry that begrudged a friendly smile and a fond farewell? I returned for the first time about a week ago. I find the U. S. O. closed and no regard or thought given to those who are still in service. Indianapolis has failed her hometown units and her servicemen. Now, more than ever, the man still in service needs the U. 8. O. With an enlarged regular army in the making, the personnel of it is entitled to some consideration. When the rush and popular appeal of the war was present, our citizens spent their time willingly, but when the task becomes “boring” they stop at the most critical time. Personally, it makes no difference to me, because I am re-enlisting and going back overseas, but my plea is for the future Indianapolis soldiers and units. Not once during the war did I feel that my fellow citizens were following my unit with interest. In fact, my conversations during the past few days reveals that a very few of the citizens even recognize

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signia. : ” » . “BETTER SERVICE SHOULD PRECEDE RATE INCREASE” By John W. Sutton, 1124 Nelson st. As far as I know, there has been no organized opposition against the conversion of the Shelby line from streetcar to bus service. In spite of this fact, the railway company began taking up. the. tracks on the first working day after the change was made, which is surely no coincidence, inasmuch as the speed with which the project is progressing indicates completion sometime in 1949. If the service is satisfactory, it is strange that it is necessary to reproduce letters from some Shelby patrons, in-advertisements, to convince the remainder- of us that we are getting good servige, Admittedly the busses run oftener than the streetcars, but during the periods when the most customers are to be pleased, 75 to 90 patrons are jammed on vehicles with 41 seats, and a safe maximum of 14 standees. This is intolerable, and certainly no basis .upon which to ask for a It is almost impossible for a patron to get off the bus except at the extremes of the route, and many- persons are forced to ride several blocks too far before they can reach the door. Many of us have been forced to accept a 32 per cent increase in fare for” which we received no return, except the inconvenience of transferring, accompanied by a 10 to 15

work. 4 < If the comphny wants a rate increase, they must provide bettér service first. If the Shelby example of a purported improvement is a sample, no increase is indicated.

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IT WASN'T UNTIL this morning, so help me,

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new directory of names, It reveals a present population of 416,000 which is 29,028 more than it was five years ago. Shows that human beings are here to stay, no matter what anybody °* may say to the contrary. In support of which I cite the first directory published by Grooms, & Smith in 1855. The museum piece which is kept under lock and key by the State library people uncovers 2600 names and estimates’ that Indianapolis had

Some birthrate! In an apologetic foreword, it hazards a guess that, maybe, there were 4000 more of the citizens of West Indianapolis and other remote environs were counted in. Ovid Butler, for instance, got .in only by the skin of his teeth, The founder of North western (now Butler) university was recorded as living in “house north of city.” His home, in case you're interested, was in the neighborhood of what is now College -ave. and 13th st.

No Capitalists or Unions EXAMINATION OF the old directory reveals that those were the days when everybody was working and doing right well apparently. At any rate, there weren't any capitalists or, for that matter, any labor unions, S. J. Gorman was a woolcarder; Daniel Francis, a lastmaker; D. Elbert, a wiper; Sam Parrott, a coverlet weaver; S. G. Daily, a chandler; G. B. Hill, a daguerrean artist; A. S. Mount, a currier; Richard Ware, a spinner; Andrew Fuqua, a toll-gate keeper (the one at Washington st. and the river); and John Shay, a greaser. I'm kind o' stuck on Mr. Shay's profession. . It also appears that, back in 1855 Indianapolis had 56. streets of which 50 had names. The other six had numbers—sure, those from First to Sixth sts. And for governmental reasons, the town was divided into seven wards each of which had its own school and two professional “watchers” to safeguard us. Moreover, there were seven temperance orders, 15 hotels and just as many boarding houses. Francis Costigan, whom posterity was to proclaim a great architect, boarded at the Capitol House and Caleb Mills the teacher, at Illinois and Maryland sts.

WASHINGTON, March 27.—Appointment of the new Washington law firm of Arnold and Fortas as counsel] for the government of Puerto Rico is probably a minor item of news in itself, but behind it is a story that is something else again. : The extra attention the squib deserves stems from the past connections of the latter half of the firm of Arnold and Fortas, the Hon. Abe Fortas. Until two months ago, Abe was the bright and shining undersecretary of the interior. This was in the reign of King Harold Ickes the Honest, for whom Mr. Fortas was in charge of, among other things, Puerto Rican affairs. Shortly after Mr. Fortas resigned as undersecretary, he made a trip to Puerto Rico to visit his old and good friend, Governor Rex Tugwell,

Deal Closed Only Recently

THE DEAL for Fortas to represent Puerto Rico was apparently made while Fortas was recuperating from his four years in the interior department. Reports on the retainer vary from $12,600 a year to $40,000 a year, with the former a lot more likely than the latter, The Fortas salary in the little cabinet was $10,000 a year. So it was a nice little piece of business which the junior. partner dragged in for the senior partner, who is none other than Thurman Arnold, former head of the anti-trust division of the department of justice and former associate justice of the U. 8. court of appeals. ‘ What is particularly intriguing about this connection is that while Fortas was undersecretary of the interior, he was opposed to having any private law

NEW YORK, March 27—Barring the unexpected, there will be no immediate United Nations crisis over Iran, Russia seems to have won the first round at the security council meeting by a clever stroke of diplomatic ju-jitsu. But the showdown has only been postponed. It must come, and over Iran, if the United Nations ‘is to be a real force for world peace. Some United Nations circles are inclined to regard the reported withdrawal of Red troops from Iran as sort of first victory. But for United Nations pressure, it is said, the Russians would have taken their time.

Immediate Outlook Changed BUT NOT everyone is so optimistic. The game has hardly begun. - And if the council has won a point;-so-hag the Soviet Union. Last week she asked for a postponement until April 10. And she was promptly turned down. But over the week-end before the council was to put her on the carpet for keeping her troops in Iran, she not only announced the commencement of their withdrawal, but that she and Iran had come to a “secret” understanding. This development changed the whole immediate outlook. The council could hardly press the case if it was true, as stated, that the wrong complained of was being righted. Patently Russia would have to be given time—time in which to complete the withdrawal of her troops and to regularize her relations with her small neighbors. This means, however, that while Russia has

NEW YORK, March 27.—8ince the end of the war a very popular sport, or profession, has arisen among former servicemen whose literacy held them in soft

jobs during hostilities and graduated them to big dough after discharge. . ; This is the politically sound” dodge of speaking loud for the ex-G. L's benefit, and being perpetually aghast, in print,” over the horrors of the officer caste system and the plight of the enlisted man. This remarkable expedition into hindsight has reached proportions where the war appears to have been one long pogrom. The uproar waspgkchieved largely through the efforts of several young men: who know a good thing when they see it, and happily nominated themselves as the champion of the G. I, largely without the right ‘to term themselves average veterans, and certainly with little experience in personal persecution to lend weight to their anguished howls for retribuHot EEE iy : RY

Pleasant, Remunerative, Little Risk CHIEF among the screamiers are some people whose war experiences were pleasant, remunerative, and largely without risk. Lt. Col. Robert Neville recently wrote a magazine

a member of Gen. Jimmy Doolittle’s committee on abuse of the system, Col. Neville, who once wrote a bridge column before the war, had- three fat years on the staff of Stars and Stripes in Europe, lived considerably better than the American civilian, got around extensively at government expense, received swift promotions” ‘and worked always in a special service category in

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POLITICS . . . By Robert C. Ruark A Fishing Expedition Into Hindsight

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The old directory also places the responsibility of those pioneers whose progeny walk the streets of Indianapolis today. For example, Charles Mayer (grandfather of Mrs. Russell Ryan) operated an establishment dedicated to the sale of “groceries, fancy goods and toys” at 22 W. Washington st. If you digsinto it the way I have, it reveals that the store hasn't moved since then. He lived in “nh. TI, It turns out to be the present site of the Masonic temple, David Wallace (father of Lew) occupied the “h, corner of Mass. ave. & N. J.”; Clemens Vonnegut (ancestor of God knows how many grandehildren) had his store (“leather, hardware & groceries”) at “71 W. Wash.” and lived in “h! Del. bet. Md. and Ga.”; Louis Walk (grandfather of Carl) had his cobbler's shop in “Ky. ave. bet. Wash. & Tenn.” (The boots Henry Ward Beecher wore all the time he was in Indianapolis were made by Mr. Walk) Henry Schnull (grandfather of Mrs. John Rauch) ran a grocery at “170 E. Wash.” and lived above it. Architect Dietrich A. Bohlen (August's grandfather) had an office at 43% E. Washington st. and a home “on Fletcher's addition.” And Adolph Schellschmidt (father of Pauline) climbed a couple of flights of stairs to reach his room at “21 E. Wash.”

In Directory 71 Years

THE NAME OF JOHN C. WRIGHT was also in the first count of Indianapolis and it remained in every directory up to 1926. It's 71 years, if you care

to figure it, Mr. Wright did a lot of moving, however, |

He started in the grocery business and ended up a capitalist in the Union Trust building. By that time the evil days were right around the corner. You can pick up a lot, too, by combing the ads in the first directory of Indianapolis. H. Rosengarten’s “apothecary” proclaimed the efficiency of

“Deobstruent™ for the removal of all “viscerate ob,

structions.” And the Bates House Hair Dressing and Bathing Saloon promised to color whiskers “in a superior style.” On the other hand, the Bates House Eating Saloon. pointed the way to “venison, wild ducks, pheasants, quails, grouse and the best quality of fresh shell oysters.” Dr. F. J. Johnson spilled the news that he “inserts teeth on platina with tha continuous gum.” I looked all through the first directory for some sign of lightning rods. No luck. They didn't turn up until 1858.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson Sauce for Goose Is Not for Gander

firm represent the government. Fortas was a great believer in having the government do its own law work. He was so insistent about this elimination of private lawyers from government practice that about a year ago he wrote a letter to Governor Tugwell, turning thumbs down on a proposition made by Tugwell to hire a private lawyer to represent the island government in Washington, Fortas branded the idea as unwise and unsound, neither seemly nor appropriate.

Puzzling Change of Viewpoint OF COURSE, no one questions the character of Mr. Fortas, and the interests of Puerto Rico will no doubt be well taken care of by the firm of Arnold and Fortas, attorneys-at-law. But it is really puzzling how Barrister Fortas talked himself into taking this aceount, in view of his previous horror of such une ethical practice, : This business of a lawyer's quitting government service and then going into private practice against the government is, of course, an old story in Wash ington. It pays handsomely. Look what it did for Tommy (The Cork) Corcoran. There is a law—title V, section 99, of the U. S. code—which provides that no former officer, clerk, or employee in certain executive departments may act as attorney or agent in prosecuting a claim include ing a demand for money until two years after he has left government service. This act was passed in 1873 to check post-Civil War abuses. But no penalty was provided, and the limitationd make the law ineffective,

The whole business is open to many abuses. There!

ought to be a law. A clearer law.

WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By William Philip Simms Has Russia Won First Round on Iran?

gained time by her astute play, she has more than ever put herself on the spot and in the world spot= light, She has said; in effast: “Look! I am putting everything right.” And the world, acting through the council, has said: “Okay. Show me.” Russia has promised to be out of Iran in from five to six weeks “if nothing unforeseen occurs.” The council has taken note both of the time element and the puzzling “if.”

Was Premier a Free Agent? ANOTHER point the council will want cleared is the reported “secret” understanding between Moscow and Tehran. Not so long ago there was a Soviet= inspired uprising in the province of Azerbaijan. When Iranian troops tried to move against the rebels, they were stopped by the Red army. If the Red army is pulling out, it is asked, will rebel Azer baijan return to Iranian control or remain, as now, under the aegis of Moscow? Two weeks ago similar disturbances took place in Tehran. The Iranian parliament was prevented from meeting. When its term expired, the govern ment was left, to all intents, in the hands of one man, Premier Ghavam. Apparently it was he with whom the “secret” understanding was made. The security council will ask, therefore, was the premier a free agent at the time of the reported agreement? If one of the Big Five can get what it wants by scaring the daylights out of a small neighbor, then make it all right by presenting the council with what looks like an agreement, the United Nations may be a peace organization, but it will also be an instrument not only to whitewash, but legalize aggression.

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sioned and pnlisted personnel. Joe McCarthy, a former Boston sports writer who also agitates against the wicked brass, spent the maejority of his war in New York as managing editor of Yank magazine, occasionally taking a quick trip abroad to get the feel. Mr, McCarthy graduated to a Hearst executive job which reputedly pays him $30,000 a year, Marion Hargrove, who lectures now on the hore rors of the G. I. life, also worked on Yank and made a tidy fortune out of a book and two movies. Bill Mauldin, the bitter cartoonist, parlayed his

hatred for rank into a rich contract with a syndicate,

and never hated the caste system sincerely enough to refuse the gift of a jeep from Gen. Mark Clark or to turn down an apartment overseas.

Experience With Horrors Limited LIFE of a service correspondent was a pretty soft proposition. Enlisted man and .officer alike, they lived better than buck generals, and when they occasionally went to the front or off on a junket they didn’t have to stay long. During the war they were high-prioritied civiliane in uniform. ‘ In Naples they pushed a Fascist magistrate out of

his eight-room flat, and dwelt in a welter of crystal-

chandeliers, gold brocade, gilt mirrors and native service. $ The services can rectify abuses of rank without benefit of a cynical investigation which will prove nothing not already known. But if the investigation must be held, it seems unnecessary to include on the board Col. Neville or any other person whose first-hand experience with

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