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BETRAYING LABOR’S RIGHTS MEE C. L 0. through its convention, and the A. F. of L. through a statement by President William Green, have denounced the government's use of the fesleral court injunction process against John L. Lewis. The C. I. O. terms it “a clear violation of the Morris-LaGuardia act.” Lewis has rejoined the A. F. of L. and has become a bitter enemy of the C. I. 0. So, to some, the C. I. 0.'s stand may seem evidence that one big faction of unionism is generously helping a rival faction leader to defend an essential labor right. We think it is nothing of the sort. In our opinion, the C.1 0. and the A. F. of L. have joined in a foolish disservice . to the cause of all labor. ‘Congress, in the Norris-LaGuardia act, forbade use of federal injunctions against unions by private employers. But congress surely did not mean to deprive the sovereign government itself of power. The properties concerned are under government possession. And a headstrong union leader threatens irreparable damage to the whole country. On that point, Attorney General Clark's argument seems to us unanswerable. : But suppose the C. I. O. view is correct. Suppose the government has broken its own law by invoking the injunction against Lewis, and that the courts ultimately so decide. We do not believe the American people would let such a decision stand. They would insist upon having the government’s power to protect them from union tyranny made so great and plain that it could not be denied. They would demand that congress change or, if necessary, repeal the Norris-LaGuardia act. : If safeguards for the rights of labor in that and other laws are weakened or destroyed, major blame will clearly belong to union leaders who defend intolerable wrongs committed in labot’s name.

HELL-BENT FOR MISCHIEF ESPITE the general public support of our bipartisan ** foreign policy, there is real danger at the present critical juncture that this policy will be sabotaged, or even wrecked, by small-bore Republican politicians who have their sights trained on the 1948 election. There is such a threat in the plan of certain members of the senate’s national defense committee to conduct hearings in the American zone in Germany, against the sounding boards of Berlin and Frankfurt. This committee, primarily concerned with military expenditures, did some useful work during the war in exposing waste and extravagance. Now, under new leadership and stimulated by a shot in the arm from the elections, it has outgrown its breeches and wants to invade the preserves of the vastly more important foreign relations committee. There is no excuse for the projected junket. The contemplated investigation is predicated upon a report, whipped into pseudo-documentation in a few days’ time by the committee’s “general counsel,” who flew to Europe on Oct. 10, and back again on Nov. 6. The report contains nothing that could not have been obtained more easily, at much less expense, from newspaper files. Based upon that report, the scope of the inquiry would be 90 per cent foreign relations, and 10 per cent muckraking. This last would include that old faithful, the black market, the use of Negro troops in the occupational forces, and décentralization, The legislative branch of government has been directly represented in the foreign policy field by Senators Vandenberg and Connally. It would be ridiculous to assume that a committee hired hand could have discovered anything in a three-week airplane tour which responsible members of the senate already didn’t know. . The situation abroad is far too delicate and dangerous to be further aggravated now by a series of congressional fishing expeditions. This junket, if permitted, would be | only the first. The urge to travel at public expense is contagious. Every seeker of self-glorification in both houses of congress would ‘be tempted to-make his particular committee or subcommittee a miniature United Nations general assembly. : Secretary Byrnes has troubles enough without congress sending a swarm of politicians overseas to provide grist for the Soviet propaganda mill. President Truman did his bit by firing Henry Wallace. Now the Republicans should apply the brakes to their Brewsters and Fergusons.

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By Auto Driver, Indianapolis I read in your very fine paper that the authorities are taking out of the cabinet the “master plan” for reorganizing our city traffic. Well, I hope so. And I also hope that this will include some or all of these nec-

Resurface or at least patch our streets. the traffic stream; this would include the so-called “safety zones” and

Remove all obstructions from

those terribl® girders supporting overhead railroads. Change city ordinance requiring autos to pass cars which run on tracks on right side only, pending, of course, discontinuance of such cars altogether, Establish one-way times for the main streets and on many narrow streets;

streets should be allowed under any conditions or for any reason at all. Line these main streets and require each auto to stay in his lane instead of wandering all over the street as at present. Step up the speed to 35 or 40 miles per hour on these main one-way streets. If possible, arrange these automatic lights to keep traffic moving instead of at present to stop traffic at each corner. Do not spend the money needed for municipal parking spaces on parking meters; parking meters increase the traffic problem while parking places would decrease it. I do not wish to make invidious comparisons but Indianapolis traffic men could learn much from the traffic rules in the larger cities like Philadelphia and Chicago and Cincinnati and St. Louis, and other large cities where the traffic problem is so large that none of the foolishness indulged in here can be tolerated since it would so snarl up trafic as to make it impossible to move. .I may be wrong as I've not checked carefully, but I think parking meters have been installed only in small towns and even in small towns they have not been of any traffic value. My general advice would be to do nothing to make trafic slower and more expensive for the auto and to do everything to make traffic faster and cheaper. if this general rule were applied I think there would be a great improvement in traffic here. As I am not trying to get into an argument with your other letter writers, I ask you please to sign this letter, if published, as Auto Driver,

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which the klan is regarded, interpreting it as recognition of the klan's importance. As long as the klan is regarded with fear there'll always be danger of revival 1 think it would be a good idea if Indiana, once a festering place for the sheet wearers, pulled a double-cross on the buring cross. What I'd like to see is a group of tolerant, straight thinking people ‘organize and get a state charter— under the name ku-klux klan, The difference would be that the new klan would be made up of educators, members of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish churches and both Negro and white leaders. - The purpose—the encouragement of racial and religious tolerance in public meetings. The new interpretation of the k. k. k. might be just the thing needed to remove the recurrent threat that the “klan is reorganizing.” And boy, would it make the fromer klansmen burn!

” » - “YOTERS REJECTED POLICY OF BEING STOOGE TO ENGLISH” By 8. Ewen, 3044 Central ave, Soon after England recovered from its shock, resulting from our elections (rebuffing the policy of blind supporting the English imperialism) the English government demasked itself, showing its real face. In the real English style they arranged a fictitious opposition, threatening the U, 8. unless the U: 8, follows their bandwagon they will join. Russians and leave the U. 8. holding the bag. (A similarity to the English policy in Palestine.) The blackmailing of the English (as a third-rate power) against our

KU-KLUX KLAN FIERY CROSS” | oat nation would be a good reason

By B. 8. H., Washington blvd, for our policy makers to be on the After reading through some. re- alert' and to pursue an exclusive cent papers I've decided that ku-| American policy. klux klan is well on its way to be-| The English pulled us In (against coming a stereotyped “scare” word, the majority of our people) to a just as did “Communist,” “Fascist,” | policy against the Russians, They and “bureaucrat.” sent their propaganda agents over The bigots who are trying to re- here such as Attlee, Laski, Montvive the klan cash in on fear with gomery, the Churchill father and

WHATEVER its reasons, it is gratifying that the U. S. armed forces institute has decided to quit teaching G. L's from economics textbooks whose authors apparently believe that America’s historic conception of democratic capitalism is old-fashioned and should be scrapped. We regret, however, that the joint War-navy committee, which decides what the young soldier and sailor shall study, did not go all the way and specifically reject the teaching of Socialistic or Communistic doctrines in G. IL classrooms. Such a decision would have been honest and |

courageous and would have been applauded by parents of |

the young men who make up our fighting forces. Instead, the committee sought to save face, for itself and for the authors of the book in question, by including it in a list of more than 100 texts to be dropped because, it is said, the present-day soldier or sailor is not stfficiently

advanced to grasp their meaning, It made its position !

: ludicrous by pointing out that it gave “no specific consideration to the “Economics: Principles and Problems” textbook, which asserts that all land and capital should be

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son, etc., to soften up our people on their behalf. As our President's request that they let 100,000 European Jews (who suffered the most) settle in the Jewish homeland, Palestine (mandated to the English after world war I) the English flatly rejected it. Since the President, who could have compelled the Engglish to admit the suffering Jews to Palestine, failed to do so they were sure sooner or later they could dictate the U. 8, policy. I think that the 80th congress with its G. O. P. majority should bear in mind that at the polls its voters rejected the policy of being a stooge to the English imperialists, and it should pursue a policy along that line. First of all, we have t& be strong as ever before with a sufficient army and navy to be ready in any emergency, even against a Bolshevik— reddish imperialistic combination. Secondly, to help the democraticminded people everywhere, such as to recognize as soon as it will be organized the Jewish exile government of Palestine, which will be based on democratic principles as a bulwark against the Bolshevistic cheka and the English gestapo,

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By William H. Babeock, 749 Livingston I would like to state that I am in favor of unions but do not indorse their leaders. In a certain plant in Indianapolis the C. I. O. just lost an election. The OC. I. O. still have its men passing out handbills to employees entering the plant. They contend that the election was unfair. If the election had been in favor of the union, could the company have had men on the street passing out bills? No. Do most of the union men and women know what they are striking for or are they blindly following the leader. I have talked to several union members during the past year and I have yet to find one who could describe the contract that they had been on strike for. Let's be fair, folks, and. know what you're fighting for. Let's get a contract and stick with it. What is to be gained by having two or three strikes a year, I would not like to see legislation governing labor, but if the rank and file in our unions don’t soon settle down and decide to work with business, then let us have legislation, Read Mr. Manly's item in The Times. Let's have peace in the good old U. 8. A.

» ” . “HOW COME APPROVAL OF NON-HOUSING BUILDING?” By Non-Housed Veteran, City I keep reading in your paper that government officials are trying to keep non-housing to a minimum, This is hard -to believe when In the same editions I read that the civillan production - administration has approved a non-housing application for a garage or a book shop, or some other “essential” building. What's the pitch on such goings on? How do they figure these buildings are essential? “Approved—Construction of building to manufacture essential products, $25,000,” reads a report. Just what is this essential product? Liquor, maybe, who knows? Your paper preaches “Give light and the people will find their own way.” Then why don’t you give the complete facts? How can you play up the angle that “so many applications for non-housing construction were denied,” then print such things a8 were approved?

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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are withia full of dead men's bones, and of all’;uncleanness.— Matthew 23:27.

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OF ALL THE women who helped to make my childhood the thrilling adventure it was, Mrs, Kolthoft stacks up as well as any I guess, She was the woman who brought us our winter's

hoff ever permittgd me to count the number of her skirts, but because that was mother's guess when, on one occasion, my curiosity got the better of me. Nor did I ever see the farmhand do any driving, Mrs. Kolthoff always held the reins. As a matter of fact, the man didn't have anything to do—so far as I could see—until it came time to carry the potatoes into the house and bed them in the cellar. the man was doing this, mother busied herself the coffee pot. And, at this precise moment, Kolthoff automatically became an articulate mem of the family circle. At any rate, it was then that she started telling us of, everything that had happened on the farm since her last visit. In return for this mother rendered an account of all the babies that had arrived in our neighborhood since the last crop of potatoes.

Departure Most Dramatic THE GRANDEST part of Mrs. Kolthoft’s visit, and certainly the most dramatic, was her departure. To be sure, Mrs. Kolthoff’s precarious descent from the driver's seat upon her arrival was terribly exciting, but it was nothing compared to the way she gathered her seven skirts and adjusted them Jo the prevailing air currents when it was time to ascend the Studebaker. - Preliminary to her departure and just before she was ready to wave us goodby, Mrs. Kolthoft always made it a part of her ritual to dig under the driver's

Senate Meddlers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.— America’s bipartisan foreign policy faced threats from a new quarter today when it was learned that Republican members of

the senate’s national defense committee, Senators Brewster (Me.) and Ferguson (Mich.), sought to hold hearings ‘In Germany over protest of Secretary Byrnes. Mr. Byrnes is supported in his opposition to the investigation by Senators Vandenberg (R. Mich.) and Connally (D. Texas),

Seek Sensational Inquiry : THE SECRETARY OF STATE warned the committee members, at a meeting in New York last week, that publicity which would attend such an investigation could do great injury to American interests at this time. Any investigation like the one contemplated would be construed abroad as a challenge to American foreign policy, and would play directly into the hands of the Soviet bloc, Mr. Byrnes declared. “It will be believed that you disagree with what this group has been doing, and that you are going to investigate, questioning their conduct of it,” the secretary is reported to have told Senator Brewster. In reply to a question from Senator Connally, Senator Brewster admitted Senator Kilgore (D. W. Va.), acting chairman of the committee, was “very much embarrassed” by the proposed inquiry. He reminded Mr. Byrnes that the Republicans now have a “majority in congress.” The inquiry is being pushed by George Meader, general counsel for the committee, who visited Germany and Austria between Oct. 10 and Nov. 6, to obtain material upon which to base the investigation. Mr. Meader was over there only about three weeks. His report stressed complications from use of Negro troops in occupation forces and recommended

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—When the walls come tumbling down, when the barricades are raised in the streets, when the Four Horsemen ride o'er the land, I | know one guy who will achieve a sinister, secret | project. : . | Hidden away in the baby’s bassinet, he keeps a | fire ax. Some day he intends to take this ax and | smash all the juke boxes he can find, until the Cossacks ‘ride him. down and he is trodden into the asphalt. His first act of sabotage will be performed in a bar named Nick's, and if they shoot him before he gets to the Perry Como recordings, he will not have died in vain,

Ruins Barroom Intellectual Life THIS MUST BE true, for at his side will be a selfless acolyte whose initials are R. C. R,, and R, C. R. will be armed .with a scout’s hatchet. It is.a sharp little tool with a sensitivity to gurgling baritones and to female quartets which sing minor, off-keyed cacophonies, suitable only for liver pill commercials and the torture of political offenders. The juke-box, a glittering, vulgar, electrically-lit mechanical monster sired by Frankenstein's papa and mothered by a musical Medusa, is the greatest scourge to civilization since the invention of income taxes, Together with female customers, who twitter endlessly

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—The world situation being what it is, informed observers here contend, the

sooner the United States clarifies its policy on interAmerican relations the better it will be for all of us. That we in this country are far from enamored o0f Juan Peron’s regime on the river Plate is understandable. In the war, Argentina was openly pro-axis. And although she partly made amends later on, she is reported still to be harboring certain Nazis.

U.S. Shouldn't Push Matter

S80, WASHINGTON is divided on Argentine policy. President Peron already has ousted some two dozen Nazi leaders in compliance with our demands. Some American officials feel that is not enough. Others hold that since Mr. Peron has demonstrated that he wants to go along with the rest of the Americas, the

observe, President Peron was elected in what generally was hailed as a fair contest. Therefore he has now become what might be called a domestic issue. Which brings us back to the question of standardizing American practice with regard to ‘foreign gov‘ernments everywhere, and the United Nations, If we contend that Argentina was pro-Nazi, hence should: now be what, it is asked, are we going to do about the Soviet Union? She was a partner of Nazi Germany from 1030 to June, 1041, and maintained and economio relations with Tokyo

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seat (and, indeed, sometimes into the folds of her outer skirt) and pull forth a bundle or a box or a

color, they were not unlike an undersized and pe banana, about three inches long with two welldefined rows of large seeds.on the inside. It wasn't

several trips a year to George Knox's barber shop. As that time, it was right across the street. The fruit stands of Indianapolis when I was a kid were always run by Italians and unlike anything we have today. As a rule, the equipment consisted of a couple of shelves, 12 to 15 feet long, under an awn-

fully polished apples, jars of stick candy, and pack ages of figs and dates. A hissing peanut machine always stood near by. At certain times of the year, the fruit stands also carried a line of exotie things like oranges, bananas and pineapples. And once, to my amazement, I saw a basket of pawpaws. It struck me as surprisingly strange because, up until that time, I had firmly believed that a pawpaw was something Mrs. Kolthoff had thought up herself. What contributed even more to this belief was the fact that the pawpaws sold by the Italian weren’s anything like those of Mrs. Kolthoff. Hers were sticky and smeary whereas those sold on the fruit stand seemed to have undergone some sophisticated process. To this day I don’t know whether a pawpdw ought to taste the way Mrs. Koltho or whether it ought to have the flavor of the sold on the fruit stand. Il go on believing, thoug better they Habit, I've been told, is the human characteristic reveals a lack of plasticity of the mind. If be the case, let my critics make the most of i.

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Parker-La Moore

Peril Policy Abroad

that the situation be given a thorough airing.

many, might have influenced his judgment in treat. ment of the cartel problem. Meeting with committee members in New York, Senator Connally bluntly told them our bipartisan foreign policy might be destroyed by a general ine

“vestigation of petty irregularities at this time.

“While we are sitting here discussing these peace treaties with the other nations, I think it would be most unfortunate to have it blazioned to the world now that this committee is going over to Germany te investigate us, look into. us, search us,” he said.

thing the committee uncovered would be in the newspapers the next day, he said. He pointed to the established policy of discussing all major problems with members of the senate fore eign relations committee, and added that he would be glad to confer with other senators at any time. Critics of the Brewster-Ferguson project charge they are seeking to invade the jurisdiction of the foreign relations committee, since the so-called Kil gore committee, which they represent, was designed to investigate military expenditures, and not to deal with high level foreign policy questions.

Vandenberg Opposes Intrusion MOST OF THE MEADER REPORT ls devoted to foreign policy issues, including a review of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements, France's position as a member of the Big Four, and relations between American military government and civil officials in Germany. : Mr. Vandenberg told Senator Brewster that he had “violently protested” certain sections of a Meader questionnaire to the state department.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Sle | Juke Boxes: Scourge to Civilization |

while spreading a fine film of talc into the domain of honest whisky, the juke-box has conspired to ruin the intellectual life of the barroom. There was a time, now dead, when a serious man in the company of serious men might dip his snout into stout brown ale and discourse on the state of

the world without the intrusion of a mechanized floor:

show which is seldom good, but always loud. For a nickel, a mental midget: with the musical appreciation of a hog can unleash the forces which wrecked Jericho on people who are embarked .on a valuable analysis of the nation—an analysis which, though priceless beyond pearls, is lost in the amorous lowing of Sinatra. There is no telling how many thousand words of matchless philosophy have been drowned in the braying of “To Each His Own.”

Nickel Music Interrupts Peace WE DO NOT resent the presence of music in night clubs, nor do we cavil at the radio. You are privileged to avold night clubs, and you can turn off the radio. . But there is something ruthlessly obscene about the juke organ, which allowed a subversionist with a nickel to destroy the mental equilibrium of a roomful of people who ask only to be left in peace with their Scotch.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms U.S. Must Find Way to Live, Let Live

seem clearly indicated. But Russia is not only a totalitarian dictatorship which already has formed & powerful Communist bloe about her, but she is constantly reaching out for more—as far, even, as Asia and the western world. If the United States seeks world unity within the United Nations, it must find a way to collaborate with governments whose ideologies are, in fact, hostile to ours. And if we hope to get to first base with the idea of hemisphere solidarity, we've got to apply the same standards. We must find a way to live and let live. Mr. Peron’s is not the only totalitarian-inclined regime south of the Rio Grande. Some are quite as far to the left as his is to the right, As for fifth columns, Moscow's—even here, inside the Americas—make any thing Mr, Peron can muster look like the drip of a kitchen faucet by the side of Niagara falls. -

Conference Is Important FOR MORE THAN a year the 21 republics of this hemisphere have been trying to hold another interAmerican conferénce, at Rio de Janeiro, but it has not come off. Postponement has been .due largely to unwillingness on the part of the United States to sit down with Argentina, At least that was why it was

‘put off in the first instance. Of late, pressure of other

business has intervened. -- But that conference is important. Its purpose is to implement the act of Chapultepec—to formulate and seourity within the framework United Nations. But it never get we stop \ whole straining

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