Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1946 — Page 4

Work Stoppage Halts Bus Service .in Chicago. "By UNITED PRESS The government stepped up the pressure today for settlement of both the nationwide shipping tie-up and the 10-day power strike at

Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, a work stoppage halted bus service at Chicago, as the Columbus, ©., transportation tie-up apd the Hollywood movie strike continued. . ' The major developments: ONE: The goyernment considered the strategy of seeking partial settlement of the shipping strike on the East and Gulf Coasts, leaving West Coast issues to the last. TWO: The sheriff's office at Pittsburgh was alerted for sabotage in the power strike after a 22,000volt transmission line bureed out, cutting’ power to two industrial suburbs. THREE: Film stars at a mass| meeting reaffirmed their intention | of ignoring picket lines at seven) major studios. ‘ FOUR: Bus service in Chicago was disrupted when 1000 drivers and | other .employees quit work. to 'attend a “continuous” union meeting, called in lieu of a strike. Oppose Union Demands In the shipping strike the two| unions involved indicated willing-

ness to consider a partial settle-

ment on the East and Gulf coasts. |

West coast shipowners, however, | firmly opposed union security demands made by the unions—the C. I. O. marine engineers and the A. F. of L. masters, mates and pilots. Consequently, government negotiators pushed for a settlement of wage issues in the hope of completing agreements covering East coast and Gulf ports. : At San Francisco, meanwhile, ne- | gotiations between West coast waterfront employers and a third] striking union—the C. I. O. longshoremen—were broken off. Major issues had been settled, however, and the chief point of dispute was over the unloading procedure for| 16 steam schooners.

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A 17-year-old youth who was out on parole from the state boys’ school after a long record of ju- : venile crime was sentenced to serve one year on the state penal farm in criminal court today,

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£5 a a > ¥ 3 Nn y ; ¥ % : " a : Truman Says U. S. Is Trying To Halt Fall of Real Wages and not pushing for uneconomic wage increases which might pretipitate a wageé-price spiral” * TO AGRICULTURE: . “The farmers must maintain their high level of production, for an abundant supply of food at reasonable prices is the very basis of our living standards.” “TO THE CONSUMING PUBLIC: “Public resistance to higher prices; increased saving and self-denial in the cases of goods which are not yet plentiful, can be a tremendously effective weapon to keep prices in line.” . Dr. Steelman indicated : clearly that he regarded price controls as the key element in the fight against inflation and, he admitted, the administration doesn't have much in

the way of anti-inflation weapons. Business itself could take the

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the fitst in 16 years to show that the government had taken in more money in any part of a fiscal year than it had spent] ' Ease Up, Steelman Says

Dr. Steelmah’s report appealed to labor and industry to ease up on their wage and price increase demands or face a boom and bust. Dr. Steélman said in his report that real wagts of the nation’s workers have dropped about onesixth in the past year. He said a married man with thrée dependents, for example, finds that the $36 he earned in 1945 is now worth only a little more than $30 in terms of things he buys. “This downward trend in real wages should and will be reversed,”

or aw Controls “first and’ most salutary action” to Ti eaien! aid the govern- stan the threat of an economic colment is doing everything ‘it can to lupe BY Tedueine Prices y atever keep prices from going up—that is, possibly out reducing Wh everything it can possibly do with There can be no doubt,” he the tools available, Asked if he felt new price control legislation is needed, Mr. Truman replied there is no necessity for it at this time. Besides, he added, it wouldn't do a bit of good for the administration to.seek it. In his prepared statement which he read to the press conference, the President cited the sharp increases in employment, the drop in unemployment, the high rate of income and consumer spending and industrial production. | Emphasizes Warning _ | He said Dr. Steelman’s report Showed that “we are driving | steadily ahead toward peacetime prosperity.” v “Yet, I should like to emphasize the sober note of warning sounded. ’ vr in the report,” Mr. Truman said. | “We still have an important battle to win—the battle of stabiliza- | tion—before we can honestly say we have completed: successfully the | transition from war to peace. | “A difficult struggle lies before | us. We must do our utmost to) keep industrial peace, to maintain | uetion—at present-levels where | - it is high and to spur it to ‘higher | levels where it is lagging.” The President pointed out that while only two million persohs are! unemployed, almost half that num- | ber—about 900.000—are veterans. | This, he said, “is still higher than | any of us likes to see it.” He declared it is the nation’s re- | sponsibility to see that veterans get satisfactory employment at good | wages, | Mr. Steelman’s report was the {first he has made since he took over the reconversion job. He appealed to both business and labor to be more moderate in their demands. - The consuming public could help, Dr. Steelman said, if it refused to

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added, “that in some thdustries the] profit position is such that prices could be reduced and profits still be maintafhed at a satisfactory level. This will be even more true in the coming year as. volume increases’ and unit-costs come down.” “A further rapid price rise,” he warned, “might choke off demand, upset business stability-and precipitate an early and severe price collapse, with serious economic and social consequenecs.” . So far as wages were concerned, Dr, -Steelman:' warned that “a general round of Jarge wage increases now can benefit only special groups, and in general will do so at the expense of fellow-workers throughout the nation.” . Taxes, he said, would have to be continued at their ‘present ' high levels until the danger of inflation ebbs, But, Dr. Steélman added, this was up to congress. He blamed the lack of #dequate anti-inflation machinery on the “impatience” of the American people to get rid of wartime controls. This, Dr. Steelman suggested, un-

[that impelled congress to pass a lcritically weakened price control

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local officials had “interpreted” ‘action .of the pickets as violating the order, : Several pickets were arrested, Mr. Killian said, and charges filed by the county prosecutor and sherifl. , “I never heard of this way of enforcing an injunction,” Judge Baltzell remarked. ‘ The union attorneys ended the case for the C. I. O. United Elec-

~Itrical Workers with testimony by

Adj. Gen. Ben Watt. Gen, Watt testified the state guard was merely “on alert” at the plant and said street barricades had been erected “on authority bf the commander of the troops.” : First witness for the defendants was Connersville Police Chief William’ Traylor who told mounting tension- as the date for. reopening the plant neared. He - expressed doubt of his ability to cope with violence with his small police force.

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The youth, Thomas E. Riddell, 17,| puy things at hi ; ! . gher prices. Busiof 1302 Polk st, was found guilty|ness should even reduce prices by Judge William D. Bain on|gwhere it can. : charges of burglary and vehicle ory B ALY : Sees 2 Roads Open - While out on parole from a ju-| Dre Steelman,” who only a few venile court sentence, Riddell con-|Weeks ago issued an order modi{y-

fessed that he committed seven|ing wage stabilization controls in burglaries and stole an automobile. order to end a maritime strike. de- |

He said that on Jan. 18 he es-|cjared that th ' i caped from police after a wild Auto| pas € nation's economy f

ave, last May 20, and broke into six other places since then.

TRUMAN ACCUSED ‘BY GOP AT RALLY FT. WAYNE, Ind. Oct. 3 (U. P). —President Truman was accused today of “joining with Henry Wallace to. turn the period of reconversion into reconfusion.”

Senator C. Wayland Brooks (R. 1ii) speaking at a northeastern In-

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chase through Indianapolis streets. Later, he said, he burglarized the Davis Cleaners’ shop; 1902 College

diana Republican rally last night, accused the Democrats of playing | prices down wherever possible.” into the Communists’ hands by “reaching out and asking Mr. Wallace to help them out in the elec-| port

now reached a fork in the road One “highway could lead to a greater, more stable prospérity chan | ever before. If the other is chosen. | it will lead to a disastrous inflation | and economic collapse, “As the second year of peace be- | gins,” he said in the’ very first words | of his report, “the national economy | is In a position of great promise, | and of great danger.” Appeals to All TO BUSINESS, he addressed this | | appeal: t | “Business as a whole must fol{low the lead of some of the busi|nessmen who are acting to hold

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O. representatives complained that A. F. of L. Electrical Workers had imported “muscle men” to break the picket line. He dlso described the “incident” in which a company official was “pushed back away from the plant entrance” by pickets and which led to police interference with the picket line. _ Climax of the union presentation came late yesterday when Governor Gates took the stand. ; Union attorneys tried for an hour and 35 minutes yesterday to hammer out ofythe governor an admission that he sent troops to the plant Aug. 5 without sufficient investigation. They brought out as evidence letters from Connersville and Fayette county officials seeking ‘state ald in coping with the strike in an effort to show these letters were of doubtful validity. Says Officials Requested Help Attorneys. charged that a letter from Sheriff Reed Fielding had been written after the sheriff signed a blank piece of paper and that other letters were either undated or showed evidence of the date having been changed. Governor Gates countered: “I didn't base my decision to send

state police and troops to Conners-

(ville ‘on those letters thenfelves.

The. officials involved made requests for help either orally to me or to Labor Commissioner Charles Kern and it is merely my policy to ask that the requests be put in letter form, also, as a matter of record.” : The governor also pointed out that he had official requests for state assistance. under advisement for nearly two weeks before he finally acted on them, After steering around repeated crises, he said, developments of Sunday, Aug. 4, as réported by police officers and labor department representatives precipitated the final action of calling out the state guard. Feared Another ‘Athens’ Those developments, as related by the governor, were an “inflammatory” dodger being circulated by the union, use 'of .a sound truck throughout the city of Connersville to call €. I. O. veterans together, calling of a sympathy walkout in two other Connersville plants to swell the C. I. O. picket line, report

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become “another Athens, Tenn.” Repetition of questions and efforts by union attorneys tq saddle the governor with responsibility for the manner in which state police were armed for strike duty breught ree buke from Federal Judge Robert O. Baltzell who told attorney Seymour Linfield: .. “Let's stick to questions that ha some sense to them. I'm gett 3 tired of this line of questioning.” Union attorneys also called to the stand several union veterans who testified to the similarity between tactics used by three state guard

planes and a strafing attack in.

wartime. They agreed that presence of weapons and use of the planes bad “frightened” many would-be pickets away from the plant,

40-HOUR WEEK REFUSED WABASH, Ind. Oct. 3 (U, P)).— The Chamber of Commerce today turned down a suggestion that all Wabash mgrchants close shop on Monday and operate on a 40-hour week A majority of merchants voted to continue closing Wednes« day afternoong. ’

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