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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
WE were startled by the headline that had Gen. Eisen- ¥¥ hower saying it was vicious to talk about the danger of another war. Since the general is working overtime to awaken the country and congress. to America’s urgent pécurity needs, the headline didn’t make much sense. © On checking the official text of the general's Chicago
address, we found that he had, indeed, said: “Occasionally
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war will be fought. Such talk is more than foolish: It is vicious.” But in the preceding sentence he had warned: “I cannot repeat too often—until that (United Nations) organization is a proved and functioning establishment able to guarantee international security—the United States itself must be in a position to guard well it§ own security.” And he went on to say that, if there is another war, “our entry into it will be with incredible suddenness.” x So the general had thrown in a loose paragraph about || War talk in an otherwise vigorous preparedness. plea—an [© ambiguity which became all the more contradictory when © out of context. : = . 8 @ XX 7E mention this because it seems to us that some of the ; current talk that there is no danger of another war fs—to use the general's misplaced words—"more than foolish: It is vicious.” "Wishful thinking and silence about the dangers of
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Merchant Marin
NEW YORK, June 5—If President Truman had - sweated over the matter for months, he couldn't
have flung a more enraging gauntlet at the maritime unions. than his threat to use the navy to break the shipping strike scheduled for June 15.
There is a deeply-grained enmity between navy and merchant marine that hit full maturity during the war. The thought of having a bid for more dough thwarted by the.hated “sea scouts” is enough to send the average N.M.U. duespayer into a hard convulsion,
Subversive Elements Present I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT this, by virtue of a couple of years spent as a navy gunnery officer in charge of armed guard crews aboard merchant ships. - Not much has been written about the common clashes between the military and civilian seagoing services, It was a hard feud from start to finish, There could never have been a love-match between the navy and the merchant marine. Everything was against it. The navy started off by considering the merchant sailors incapable of fighting the ships they manned, and shoved armed guard crews aboard the vessels. It might be.said that the navy was openly contemptuous of the merchant marine, and the merchant marine was both afraid of and angry at the navy. At one point navy considered taking over, completely operation of merchant vessels, and the unions and their members lived in daily dread that this might come to pass. This I know. It was a daily topic in the saloons and forecastles of the ships I was on. Some members of the merchant marine were so frightened at that possibility that they quit the sea momentarily, and sought work in war plants or risked the draft. The chief fear was economic. If the navy took over, the fat-salaried seamen were sure tobe frozen at their jobs, but at a low navy pay rate; with no long vacations between trips, no union to bargain for them. This would have been a major tragedy to the "individual, when you consider that the Chinese
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war, such as are being created by present international conflict, actually increase those dangers. Aggressors are less likely to attack a nation which is ready. The Kaiser invaded Belgium thinking that Britain would not fight.
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“1 do not agree with a word that you
will defend to the death
your right to say it." — Voltaire.
| Hitler attacked Poland thinking that Britain would not fight. Japan persuaded herself that the United States lacked the will to fight through to victory. An aggressor nation today or tomorrow must be made to understand in advance that an attack on the United | States means complete defeat of the aggressor, because we * are awake and we shall be ready. If this fact is known, it should help preserve peace.
: JOHN L.'s IN MANAGEMENT 3 'ANAGEMENTS of two big farm-equipment concerns— = Allis-Chalmers Co. of Milwaukee, and J. I. Case Co. of Racine, can be as arrogantly wrong as any union boss. g The C. 1. O. auto workers’ union is striking against both. The Case strike has been on for 161 days, the AllisChalmers strike for 24. The union charges both were brought on, and have been prolonged, by obdurate refusal of the companies to bargain in good faith. "The evidence, we believe, supports that charge. Union efforts to obtain a new contract from the Case company began in April, 1944. The Milwaukee Journal, having followed these efforts closely, comments that the strike was not called “on the spur of the moment by any hot-headed union official, but only after all other means to obtain what the union desired had been exhausted. It cult to see how any self-respecting union, unable , . . to get the company to agree to mediation, conciliation or arbitration of what the union considers its essential demands, could do anything but strike.” Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach said last week that both companies had “resisted government attempts to conciliate” the disputes. He asked both to send top officials into genuine negotiations, and added that if they refused he would recommend that the government seize the plants and negotiate a settlement with the union, If ever such action has been completely justified, we think it is in these two cases. The strikes are preventing manufacture of farm equipment desperately needed to produce food for this country and for starving people in other - countries. The attitude of the company management is chiefly responsible. i Government seizure and strike settlement can be unfair to Yeasonable employers against whom unreasonable strikes are called. But this situation is the reverse. And wise industrialists should spedk out against the Case and AllisChalmers attitude. For any public impression that such an attitude is typical of or approved by industry as a whole will bolster the labor leaders’ false argument that laws to pequire responsibility in use of labor's power would place workers at the mercy of arrogant, reactionary management.
LABOR STATESMANSHIP
THE 40,000-member A. F, of L. union of Hatters, Cap 17. and Millinery Workers is holding its annual convention in New York. Its president, Max Zaritsky, objects to the labor bills just passed by congress, but has recommended adop ion of a voluntary no-strike policy for the reconversion
:- ‘Winning the war against inflation, like winning the © war against Hitlerism, calls for unceasing ized workers, says Mr. Zaritsky, who adds: i». “1 urge this union to carry its wartime ‘no-strike’ over into the reconversion period. Uninterrupted pro148 of vital necessity today if the enormous inflation-
pressures are to be repelled.” Those seem to us sensible and statesmanlike words.
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the Communist party’s paper, Daily Worker, resents hem bits Mr, Zaritsky, The Daily Worker charges, 8 a “Social Democrat” who proposes “complacent compli-
al Democrat” or no, Mr, Zaritsky is a respected sful union leader. It's a great tragedy for the ment that so many of its other leaders, instead his wisdom, are, following a course for which organ has nothing but the most enthusiastic
"Sheriff Should Not Discharge
Deputies Just Because Democrats"
By F. P. Foulke, R. R. 20, Box 869, Indianapolis
This is an open letter to A. C.
the primary because you were “anti-machine,” and it has always been my belief that machine politics were the main fault of this country’s election system, A person gets into office, not on his merits, but because his party won; and too often the winning office holders are just plain
“henchmen.”
In twenty-nine years I have never voted a “straight” ticket:. I vote,
strictly for the person.
I see by The Times that you have on condition that you “purge” the sheriff forces of some sixteen deputies |
who have the gall and effrontery of |
Wis.—seem to be trying to prove that they being Democrats in a Republican “TIMES DOESN'T SEE administration. Now! If these dep-| LABOR SIDE OF STRIKES”
uties are let out because of proven that is alright. But, if they are let out because of the politics, that is all wrong. And if you do it, I wouldn't vote for you in the
inefficiency,
Magenheimer. I voted for you in
been appointed interim sheriff|
{By T. J. L, Bakemeyer st. | You don't see the labor side of these strikes at all.
LONDON, June 5.—Britdain will join the United
| States in cutting off reparations deliveries from Ger-
many to Russia, if at the next meeting of the foreign ministers’ council in Paris June 15 the Russians persist in their refusal to treat Germany as an economic unit. That is the unofficial opinion of persons well-placed in the British government. In brief, they say Rus-
“BOOKER T. WASHINGTON |sia will have one last chance to play ball before the
TRAINING PROGRAM SET”
By S. J. Phillips, president, Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial, Rockymount, ?
Hall of Fame among America’s im-
Dr. Jackson Davis, of the general
Washington spent his life up-build-ing the south and was an apostle of good will, and stressed the soundness of his philosophy in adapting education to needs of the people. A few days before, the plantation on which he was born was acquired
If you turned your attention to
the big owners as much as you do
by a group of people who believe strongly in his philosophy. This
fall because you would have proven ,, the unions you might know a|group organized the Booker T.
while your opponent might be pkay. . “4 #4 =» “DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME (LACKS ANY ADVANTAGES”
I most heartily agree with the farmer lady who wrote an article recently concerning this miserable so-called daylight saving time. Why change God's time when we have successfully and happily lived and worked by it through all these years and especially prior to these New Deal years! When it is 9:45 a. m., store opening time, it is actually 8:45 a. m. So why not open stores at 8:45 regular: or standard time? I have never yet been able to appreciate or even see the advantage of this change to what is generally known or called daylight saving time. I can't see the saving in it, can you? Be honest about it. ” ~ un “MONEY SPENT ON SPORTS WOULD FEED MANY PEOPLE” By Mabel Mather, 1504 Broadway If all the money from the Derby,
eastern hemisphere? Many people are very selfish and if the country had not done away with rationing much could have been accomplished, as they could not have helped but know what
Europe and Asia. We like your paper by far the best and the cartoon of the military escort with the lady of peace was wonderful,
yqu were just another politician) thing or two about it.
Whitewash the rich owners and down with the unions. Well, you are pretty good at the name-call-|ing, I see. Everybody knows The
| Republican. Weren't the Republicans always that way? Bah! I've been reading your paper for 30 years, but may decide not to { henceforth.
Editor's Note: The Times is not anti-labor, anti-union or Republican, It is pro-America and proIndianapolis; is independent In politics, » » ” “YOUNG GIRL SMOKERS DO NEED A SPANKING” By a Retired Teacher, Indianapolis The article on cigaret smoking
recently published in The Times
who is a resident of Re city. Neither do I object to women
|some method provided by which | students in both grade and high [Scheel may not be able to secure or be permited to use cigarets, Being a student and also a {member of the “older school,” I
terrible conditions existed in both|feel as if these younger people do
{need a paddling or spanking, which-lever.-may be the more pleasant and effective to these children who ap-
| pear not to have parents who con- |
trol their habits.
like you that a : on a gid
Side Glances—By Galbraith
"Thanks for the loan, Grandma! | wish Mom and Pop understood dollar doesn't make much of an
impression nowadays!" :
meets with my sincere approval. I believe it was written by a mother
smoking; it is their privilege to do so if they enjoy so doing. However, 500-mile race and Joe Louis-Billy| this nicotine habit is injurious to Conn fight were put together, how| youngsters of school age and I do many people would it feed in the hope and pray that there may be
Washington Birthplace Memorial, with headquarters at Rockymount, Va., to establish a program of service based on today’s needs and in keep{ing with ideals and teachings of
|By a Reader of The Times, Indianapolis |mimee is anti-labor, anti-union and|Mr. Washington, especially for good
i will, economic building of the south, and adapting education to needs of the people. In trying to take care of problems that arose in connection with war's emergencies, the country found that one of the greatest handicaps was lack of industrial training. Surveys made by various groups and organizations indicate there are not enough educational facilities to take care of industrial and trade training necessities, It was Mr, Washington's idea to help the “man farthest down.” There are thousands of Negro veterans and civilians who cannot meet the requirements of regularly = established high schools and colleges, but who could benefit by training adapted to their needs and capabilities. Because of this need, we are desirous of establishing an industrial training school at - the birthplace of Booker T. Washington in Franklin county, Virignia, to take care of the requirements of people of this type. He, possibly more than any other person, advocated the cause of industrial training for the masses. Those behind this program will be greatly encouraged to receive help from the public. Please address all communications to Booker T. Washing-
ton Birthplace Memorial, Inc. Rockymount, Va. ” » "
“FEED, CLOTHE, EDUCATE OUR DEFEATED ENEMIES” By M. Smith, Crawfordsville I have been shocked and horrified at the selfish and prejudiced attitudes of many readers concerning feeding Europe, but until I read F. O. Hagen's letter I could not believe such hatred and cruelty existed in the minds of American people: Those are the traits for which the Nazis are well known, and what did they gain by their atrocities? They lost the war, Are we then going to follow their example, and have our boys died In vain? For me there is only one answer. In order to preserve peace, it Is our Christian duty to feed and clothe them and educate them to a better way of living. In the 12th chapter of Romans we read: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be
evil with good.”
kindness.
DAILY THOUGHT
The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.— Jeremiah 28:9.
education board, paying tribute to he said. Mr. Washington, emphasized that|been paying reparations to Russia.”
not overcome of evil, but overcome
No, I am not a religious fanatic, just a sincere believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I have yet to see a person who did not-respond- to scription act in prder to get them into the army. This
FOR me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more
[Bish crack down.
Cannot Ignore Stalemate
Virginia | “WE HAVE BEEN PATIENT with the Russians Recently I witnessed the unveil- for a long time, so we can afford to be patient a bit ing of the bust of Booker T. Wash- longer,” said one English statesman; He added, howington in the library of New York ever, that the present situation was intolerable. university, and saw it placed in the |
“We have been dismantling German factories and shipping them to Russia while the British taxpayers
—just as the Americans were doing in their zone,” “So in effect the British and Americans have
mortals, (nave been feeding Germans thus thrown out of work
The British have hesitated to adopt an attitude which would imply that stalemate had been reached {with the Soviets. However, they admit there is little !point in longer ignoring that the stalemate has exlisted for many months. 4 Some hope is maintained, however, that the seemingly inevitable division of Europe into rival Russian rand western spheres of influence in some way can be avoided. Of course such a division exists today, to all practical purposes. It certainly exists on the Russian side of the iron curtain.
We Have to Live
WASHINGTON, June 5:President Truman, after | lambasting big labor leaders and unions involved in [the strikes which nearly paralyzed the nation retently, has begun to talk out of the other side of his
mouth. In a commencement address at Washington college in Chestertown, Md., he turned his attention to big aggregations of capital dominated by a few men— banks, insurance companies and steel.
Western Interests Lose Plant «1 HAVE SAID many times that I would much rather see a thousand insurance companies with- $4 million in assets than one insurance company with $4 billion,” he said. “I would rather see a hundred steel companies than one United States Steel Corp. I would rather see a thousand banks than one National City Bank.” About his speech there was the nostalgic yearning common to so many of us for the simple life in a small community, a retreat into a past age when all business was small and there were no great trusts such as control our economic life today. That was a long time ago. Bigness is here, and we somehow have to live with it. As a matter of fact one of the prime functions now of government, representing all the people, is to regulate such business to protect the public from too great power and influence in government. Was President Truman merely making a speech, or is he again alert to the evils of monopoly of which he showed himself so conscious as chairman of the wartime Truman senate committee which laid bare monopolistic operations? They ramify in many direc-
PARIS, June 5.—Considerable comment has been aroused by the passage of arms in the British house of commons between Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and the leader of the opposition, Winston Churenill, during a debate on Britain's policy in Egypt. Public surprise was evinced at the apparent bitterness displayed, especially since Bevin and Churchili were
known to be particularly close to each other in the wartime coalition government. In addition, the public had long noted that ever since Bevin became foreign secretary in the ‘Labor government, his former chief had been at particular pains to support his
foreign policy.
’ - Ld Timely Quarrel With Tories REAL CLUE TO this incident is to be found in an outburst of Bevin’s during the debate. Bevin had suggested that the coalition government could have reduced British troops in Cairo and Alexandria immediately after invasion of Italy, and that there were so many British civilians in Cairo escaping military service that, as wartime minister of labor, he had to persuade the cabinet to pass a con-
reference to conscription provoked Lord Winterton to interject, “What about the lord president of the council?”—Bevin's colleague, Herbert Morrison. This reference to the fact that Morrison was a pacifist
expostulations from his supporters, one of whom, named Callaghan, shouted at Winterton, “You are the rudest man in the House.” . Bevin continued, “I am very glad this has come out, because the veil of courtesy shown toward me by the opposition since I have been in office has only been very thin and I knew it would end sooner or » .
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messboy who brought me my eggs was averaging bet= ter than $500 a month, with salary, overtime and bonuses.. As a married ensign in charge of the gun crew and commanding officer of the ship in time of enemy action; I made half that much. There was agitation to remove the armed guard crews and allow the merchant seamen to handle the guns. This was blocked, for a couple of reasons. One was that after the first year of the war, when a heavy percentage ot able, professional, seamén had died or advanced to officer rating, the undisciplined complement of the average ship couldn't have been trusted to stand by their weapons, Any ex-armed guard man will verify that, and show you statistics on how many civilian seamen he was able to use as auxiliary gunners, Another reason was that the subversive elements in the merchant service were heavy enough so you couldn't know, for post-war purposes, whether an armed merchant fleet might be turned against you if the military relinquished an active, restraining hand on its gun-bearing vessels. The navy was always an unwelcome squatter aboard the cargo ships during the war, with a badly concealed contempt for some of the scrum that found its way to sea, and a muffled admiration for key mariners who somehow muddled through despite the ndivness and cynical goldbricking of much of their elp.
No Love Lost
IN TURN, NAVY WAS regarded as a sort of seagoing gestapo and a threat to the personal freedom and economic security of the lately arrived patriot who braved the deep for big pay as an alternative to the draft, This is neither a blanket indictment of the merchant fleet nor an over-all indorsement of the navy, ‘because there was sinning on both sides. But it's a sidelight on why the maritime unions are more than usually bitter at the prospect of a navy-broken strike. Fact is, the boys just don't love each other very much. ‘
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore v
Be Treated as Unit
The Russians are by no means resigned to stop- .
ping their westward push, judging from Communist propaganda current in France and Italy. Incidentally, the lengths to which the Communist parties in those countries resort in order to be both nationalist and pro-Russian is amusing. Thus in Italy the Communists campaigning for a foot in the door of the next government did not let Russia's demand for- Italian reparations embarrass them at all. They simply proposed that the United States and Britain should pay Russia the reparations for Italy, since Italy never invaded America or Britain whereas Italy did give the western allies military assistance after our invasion of Italy. Actually, recognition of the status quo in Europe wouldn't mean much more than an agreement to dis agree and reforming the present allied control commissions in Germany and Austria. It would not .of itself be of any particular political or economic consequence.
Can't Recall Deliveries ECONOMIC CONDITIONS will not be improved, but at least they will not be aggravated if we make permanent the suspension of reparations deliveries from Germany eastward. Unfortunately, deliveries already made cannot be recalled and their replacement, in order to make the axis nations self-supporting, will be at our expense or not at all. Here was a case where we delivered too much too soon, ang as a result find ourselves holding the bag.
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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes
With Bigness Now
tions. ‘There was an interesting development only a few days ago. The War Assets Corp. approved sale to the U. S. Steel Corp. for $47,500,000 the steel plant at Geneva, Utah, which cost the government $190 million. The price review board of war assets held this the best of seven offers. Another bidder was a well-established western concern, Colorado Fuel & Iron, once the property of the Rockefeller interests. For a long time the West has been interested in developing its own steel industry and was anxious for some of its own people to get this surplus war plant. But it goes to U: S. Steel, the giant which has so many ties in big industry and finance, all of which in combination previously have blocked development in the West. This is not to say that the U. 8. Steel offer for Geneva was not the best. Obviously it was. There is one recourse in this steel case. All sales of surplus property amounting to over a million dollars must be approved by the justice department. The "department is looking into this sale of the Geneva plant from the standpoint of monopoly.
Same Chance to Check Monopoly PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S REFERENCE to U. 8. Steel in his speech may, then, have some significance. He is familiar, too, with the way the big steel com=~ panies have prevented the lowering of railroad rates to points within the South and West, another example of the interlocking connéctions of railroad, steel and big New York banks. The President has the opportunity to reveal and check monopoly power just as he intervened with the labor unions.
TODAY IN EUROPE . .". By Randolph Churchill British United on Foreign Affairs
Now what did Bevin mean when he said he was “glad” that the veil of courtesy from the opposition had been torn aside? It's quite clear that what he meant was that he was glad that the Tory opposition should, at any rate over Egypt, be quarrelling with his policy. Nothing in his tenure of Britain's foreign office has embarrassed Bevin so much as the support he has received from the Conservative opposition. For it has created differences between him and leftist members of his own party. The left wing of the Labor party consists of social revolutionaries, pacifists and crypto-Communists. They have little knowledge of foreign affairs or of true, long-standing interests of Britain. But they have vehemently expressed the view that anything which the Tories did must be wrong. . Though this leftist fringe is not numerous, it is noisy and influential. It was therefore a godsend for Bevin to have the opportunity to quarrel with the Tories and thereby gain the unthinking plaudits of his own extremists. But foreigners would make a great mistake if they assumed from this lively episode in the house of commons that the underlying British unity on foreign affairs has been ruptured. And still
friendship between Winston - Churchill and Ernest Bevin, which long preceded the latter's entrance into the political field, had been severed.
Bevin Policy Supported DIFFERENCES BETWEEN the opposition and the government on Egyptian and Indian policies are very
“real and deep, : But the world may rest assured that Bevin's Euro-
pean policy “will continue to receive broad, general ,
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