Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1946 — Page 12
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U. S. Lacks Program For Producing Coal If Strike Continues
No Steps Beyond Court Case Discussed In Capital; Strip Mines Seen Possible Help
By JOHN W. LOVE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The missing vital element in Washington's handling of the coal strike is any plan for producing coal if the miners fail to go back to work. A legal victory for the government would not nec essarily or mine it in time enough. If the government lost its contempt case Mm court and pursued no other line of legal effort, an agreement would have to be made or miners persuaded to] work without one. Either probably would take time, Coal production
mine coal,
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is not solely or enon, 0n- Labor Laws ions of law, but one would | Joa think so (rom! Senator Urges Cities practically every- | . ; thing he heard] Keep Enforcement and saw in Wash- | ington the last| By FRED W. PERKINS few days. Further Seripps-Howard Saft. Wriler " steps beyond the WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U, P).~— Mr. Love court case are not Nearly 200 city attorneys, meeting
yet being discussed with the single [are against the background of the exception of a railroad embargo on nonessential freight. The government has no known program beyond the legal and the of enforcing law in industrial disoperators have none. For the pres- turbances largely is in their hands ent the operators are united only| qt should said in the hope they will get back their sph Ball OF. Minn), mines and in the willingness to do nothing until a court decision is efforts to revise the national labor reached on the contempt citation of 1aWs. He told the national institute John L. Lewis and the United Mine of municipal law officers that fedWorkers. eral efforts to bring a peaceful bal- . ance between management anid unDivisions Among Operators ions should limited against enCyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland finan- a hment stale and. local cier, and two or three others have i rity suggested negotiations but they run, wypjess local officials do the job,” into the operators’ unanimous re= ciiq- the senator, “well have one fusal to discuss an agreement until or two evils: vigilantes will be trythe court action is disposed of. ing to take over law enforcement Operators who are here believe , {he federal government will be that will be soon. They &ls0 sa¥ creating a national police force in the coal supply will last longer than 5,,ther bad example of centralizmost people think. ing authority in Washington. Edward R. Burke, president of the Southern Coal Producers assoclation. proposed that negotiations be started but his idea has been repudiated - by 10 directors of his organization, There are broad and deep divisions among the operators. Some of the southern opera'ors believegy they will be able again lo operate non-unidn. The central group of northern producers have no intention of going non-union. Some of
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Says People Are ‘Fed Up’ The American people, he said, “are fed up with this succession of strikes. So are the great majority of rank-and-file union members, who are solid citizens and would keep their ugions on an even keel if they had a chance.” Senator Ball also gave his prescription for ending Communist domination of some unions — “mavbe the only way, although it is the most drastic way, is to destroy these
) them have been hoping for BY onions and give the rood Anteri-a-reement with the unicn by which
cans in them a change to stall new
thay could resume private cpera-
tions, but they say thy are stopped The rity attornevs apnlauded th for the present by the legel foot- and also apparently favored work, and may be stcpped by ‘the tm Ball's plan to introduce a vnion’s refuseal to make anything Li the next congress.outiawing but- a national agreement.
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c.osed shop—"berause there is nothStrip Mine Possibility ing” he said, “more. destruciive of Divisions among the operators in- individual frecdom than for a man clude an old quarrel over freight wanting to work to be denied the rates. Aware of the many differ- rvicht throu~h lack of member hip ences, the operators are unwilling in a labor union. The union that to consider even tentative inquiries deserves a full membership in an,
plant should be good enough to seli itself voluntarily to all the employ= ees.”
as to what terms Mr. Lewis might offer for private operation, despite a report he would provose a much milder agreement than the demands said to have been laid before the government Southern cperators have refused to accept the terms in the government's agreement, One important pessibilitv of coal production during the strike lies in the strip mines, but mine operators say it would take time to get them going, and that if these are to be used, preparations ought to start
Cites 3 Labor Problems Senator Ball placed three tvpes of labor problems before the municipal officers for city or attention ONE: Sirikes end lcckouts in nubic utilities. “These belong logically in the states. Most utilities are local monopolies, with their rates f by state regulatory agencies; This is one field where compulsory arbi tion is justified.”
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200 Cars Per Day Answers
Will it Run?’
Ability to Compete Is Still a Question
By JAMES THRASHER NEA Staff Writer DETROIT, Dec. 3.—Henry
Kaiser and Joseph Frazer got more than they bargained for when they leased Willow Run from the government to make automohiles. Besides acquiring more than 80 acres of facspace, they heir to the which
fell
cloud over. the *§ huge building during most of its
five years of existence. When I first visited Willow Run, nearly four ~ years ago, the Mr. Thrasher
Ford Motor Co. had not yet hit its tride in producing B-24 bombers. People had rechristened the plant with a doubtful, punning question: “Will it run?” The question was stil] being asked when, with a group of brokers’ representatives, financial writers and other newspapermen, I returned to Willow Run to look over the plant after one year of its op-
I would
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try's -third largest dealer setup— announced a low-price, front arive | 146 distributors and some 4200 deal- |car that would bear his-name.” In| fers, with a separate sales organiza- April he said that the first front- | tion for its farm equipment, besides drive Kaisers would be in dealers’ distributors in 80 foreign sales areas hands by July 15. The next month throughout the world. {brought announcement of the pres- | The corporation's sale of 3,500,« lent conventional Kaiser. 000 shares of stock seems to answer I October Production 2193 | the earlier and often-heard question In August Edgar Kaiser, Henry's of whether Henry Kaiser could op- sen and K-F vice president and {erate a- business” without access t0 general manager, announced a goal | the easy and abundant source Of of 9000 cars for the month of Octo- |
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government money. ber. Still in Red 2193. | As for the cons, there is first of When the first issue of Kaiser= | all the fact that Kaiser-Frazer is Frazer stock was offered, in Sep-
still in. the red.
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Top. Price Hogs Strongest Truman Message Bring $25 Here -
Steers and Heifers Sell Actively Strong
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To Ask Labor Legislation
. 0. P., Democrats Seek Details of Laws That Would Get White House Approval
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The post-war record of labor and mane=
Top price | agement today showed little agreement between them on fundamentals
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except the opposition of both sides to compulsory arbitration and
Steers and heifers sold actively! presidential fact finding boards.
A statement for tember, 1945, the partners said that strong with cows gaining 25 cents.
President Truman now is reported by a White House caller to be
[the first four months of 1946 showed they expected six months to pass yealers remained steady while fat| planning to send to congress “the strongest message he knows ‘how to a net loss of more than $3,500,000, before “prdduction of any size” was jambs sold 50 cents lower.
Some outsiddrs predict that. this attained. How “sizable” is producwill growao $15,000,000 by the end tion after 14 months? \ .of the year. Well, it -isn't much compared The partners: ddh't seem par- with Ford's 3500 a day. But there ticularly worried, however. They really is no basis for comparison. point out that much of the net Automobile manufacturers who!
loss is due to the writing off of started from scratch and have surall development and engineering ex- vived began years ago and under penses, and the amortization of decidedly different conditions. Even tools and dies, which is already Chrysler, youngest of the big three, begun. had the old Maxwell factory at its Mr. Frazer told the press party disposal when it turned out 32,000 that he hoped production volume cars in 1924, its first year, | soon be at a point where Ford Impressed . the: public could buy the company's’ It is significant, however, that products at about the present Henry Ford II is reported to be wholesale price. (Current f{. o. b. impressed by Kaiser-Frazer's ace prices are $1645 for the Kaiser complishments, and to have told a the Frazer. visitor that any company which It remains to be seen whether K-F is turning out 200 cars a day at will be able to get volume up and the end of its first year is a comprices down before competitors’ petitive force to be reckoned with. production has somewhat satisfied It is also significant that everythe country's car hunger and made body at Kaiser-Frazer, from the buyers more selective, bosses to the help, seem sold on
An ‘Iffy’ Question the cars they are making and sure Some doubt has been expressed that they can hold their own | that Kaiser, who is new to the against established competition,
automotive “industry, and Frazer, The corporation is putting out whose 34 years in the business have roots into thg soil of a 370-acre been mostly in sales and financing, plot nearby, where work is under on 1750 permanent, well-built
eration by Kaiser-Frazer, ; : le panies’ greater engineering and houses which will form the new More Than Coincidence manufacturing experiénce. community of West Willow. It may be more than coincidence ~ That is an iffy question. But After-a quick look -at .all these that the same question was asked (here is evidence, in Kaiser-Frazer's things, I brought away the impres-
about both manufacturing ventures. In each a production genius was entering a new field People wondered if Henry Ford, pioneer of automobile mass production, could apply the same technique | to aircraft. They wondered whether | Henry Kaiser could build cars at] a tempo comparable to the amazing | speed with which his yards turned | out Liberty ships |
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Probably the public was oversold on both Henrys. They ex-! pected miracles, and the publicity
that accompanied both ventures did little to tone down those expecta-
tions. They Knew little. and cared less about the difficulties involved. They wanted bombers and auto-
mobiles pulled out of a silk hat, Public Impatient When the trick didn't come off, | the public grew impatient. Doubts | nd . questions replaced the early, | intemperate enthusiasm. Rumors | began flying. In the case of Kaiser end Frazer, there were some unfulfilled prophecies by both partners which didn't increase the pub-
lic's confidence It all added up to the pun with the serious overtones “Will it run?” Tie first anniversary tour provided some affirmative answers. The factory is running, with 8800 workers on two shifts turning out “omer and Kaiser: Special sedans at a steadily increasing rate--pres-ently around 220, cars a’ day, Aim at 159 a Day A second “body-in-white” line trnmeinted bodics) has just been taried to match the growing speed of final assembly Two complete nrodvckion lines are expected to be in operation bv Jan. 1, with a pontial capacity of 1570 cars a day Twenty-one huge’ hody presscs are bein? installed to supplement the
prief history, of some confusion and sion that Henry Kaiser and Joe over-optinism, Frazer expect’ to stay at Willow Last January, for example, Kaiser Run—and make it run.
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| prepare” asking for labor legisla- |
tion. - Republicans are thinking reached agreement on some general along the same lines. principles, including opposition to But neither Republicans nor compulsory arbitration.
Democrats. have come up yet with details of legislation which could
But the conference was unable to suggest how work stoppage might
obtain the support of both the pe avoided when the usual settles White House and a congressional ment procedures had failed. In poy | majority. | lite language, Mr. Truman told cone
|gress one year ago today that the conference, therefore, had been a I bust, He then came up with his own plan for fact finding boards with |the power to subpena individuals land records—company or labor books, for instance. He proposed a cooling-off period of 30 days before
Mr. Truman's first shot at the labor problem missed the target a year ago last week. His manage- | ment-labor conference adjourned | ‘here, a failure. The delegates
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soon. TWO: A growing tendency of mu- six now ‘in operation So far as Industry sources are .ricipal employees to go on The factory's product is running aware, the government has made “If garbage collectors can strike po- too, and very nicelv. ‘The cor— no inquiries how these mines could lice and fire departments can strike. basically the same for both autobe started and expanded in output When men elect to go into govern- mobiles. except for the Frezor's beyona their normal production, rent service they assume an obli- more expensive upholstery, extra which is about 15 to 20 per cent of gation to uphold the laws apnointments, and optional overthe country’s requirements. THREE: Maintenance of law and drive. It is attractive. spe~dv. comNot Largely Organized order in strikes and lockouls, “The fortable and roomy, handles easily The strip mines are open Tits tawiessness that started:in the 1940's; and sticks to the road Tike a leech . where coal is quarried with power © down strikes and the like, was én-. The big question is whether x 1 shovels. They are not largelv or- couraged by previous lawlessness of Kaiser-Frazer will be ‘able to stand 1 ganized by the United Mine Work- employers. But two wrongs do not up to the.powerful comnetition of 4 ers but they close when the under- make a right Just be ause court General Motors, Ford and Chrysler 4 ground mines are struck When | Injunctions were abused “for years in There is no nresent answer to that union members are on strike fhey behalf of emplovers is no ason of course. But here are a few pros H see to it the shovels don't run. why they should not be used now and, cons which may help anvone The« mines and their employees '0 enforce the law who cares to make book on the 4 might require army protection, und possibilities re | if the government decided to de- | LOCAL ISSUES Solved Problems 1 velop their output to fill a large | — Among ‘the pros are the hurdles J share of the nation's need, shovels|. Nomihal quotations furnished by Indi- that *Kaiser-Frazer ha already d . anapolls securities dealer ? y : RS a 'Tcacy and operators would have to be | STOCKS cleared. The new corporation has “brought in from other industries or Bid A faced most of the post-war probfrom the army, [Agent Fin Corp com lems which afflicted established gents Fin Corp pfd - . 19 1 ay W BUT A U —————— | American States pid 1 aut nu ture an 1 | American States 3 . nto manufacturers, and without Ayres 413% pid | the latter's organization and exeath as Deer Rs yr perience | Relt R Stk Yds pfd 80 It “has solved the majority of . « i C Bobbs-Merrill 4; fd Ends Life as ow Bobbs-Merrill com » them with the energy and deteren ral raoyh. Sol 2 : i mination to. get things done that (Continued From Page One) | Gomwlth Loan D i is characteristic of both partners onsolic ed Ing trie com 1 y » - : y Be ot Bl om : + When Kalser-Frazer couldn't get visitors, Stories about him appeared Comoe oor rt Joli 7 y teel, it leased ‘a blast fun oF wa ‘ i o Delta Flectric ym ¢ 5 | s A first in Outdoor Indiana, éonserva-| Electronic Lab com . bought an interest in a steel mill w & Ja 1 RR LT 9a + tion department publication I ryarie & J RE ‘ ys | Tis repre tives, set out to scour x Hook Drug Co ) N 0 ot 1a! 1 ( When ‘the park closed this fall Hoe I n Ke Co 2 pld \ Word jer mate et 3 v ¢ ) \ } thi { Timothy, who would have nothing Ina 4 Mich Fee 4), pl 108 110 nN h as copper in the : v 8 / cor “2 , \ 115, 1 Mat ta do with other deer because he Mdpls P & L 4. pf "og 1 H hd zine in Siam had grown up with cows, was placed [ndianapelis W ate Jd ~ 106 ; . Se Prater has been able to ¢n the Weddle farm. He was nappy ''4p's Railways com 1 * Swap some of these commodities for a Y | Jel Nat Life co 1 ther material , q . with a herd of cattle on the farm.|Kingan & Co com on ro Taieras, hesives wing them Friday Mr. Weddle heard a shot! [ign & Co pfd a I Hoy Ru incol t ie pid an + Ti of cout \ » } fired in the pasture on his farm. Marmon-Herrington com "8 : 4 Irs, as been in. 2d He ran to discover VanNorman try-! “ascii: Kophall” ls pid 101 ition to the tremendous job of oring to drag the body of the dead N*|! Homes com vy ¥'s ganization, tooling and plant engi- # fawn into a car, VanNorman fled. | *N Ind Pub sere oon 1037 lub Deering thai had to be done ‘from P R Mallory com : 21h 3 itch before a car could come off Companion Exonerated Die pa setaich, So, look for the BIG, RED OVALS T : ug Berv of Ind com 42 44 { i 0 prove conclusively that Van- pup sey o; Ind 13s ple $$ 4 Labor Relations Good and get this BIG TWIN-LOAF of Norman was the guilty hunter, the 801 a Ar & Tool con 30 « Labor lation i K f o Ind G & EF 4 pie ¥ = relations a ajser-F two game wardens removed shot- sioiely.v n Camp r a ate 1 are excellent. with only i ~ | fave gun pellets from what was left of Stokely Van Cuinp ; urisdictional dissul ae : ’ C e ‘1eable 50s irisaictional lisputes t 1 Timothy's head, measured boot- U 8 Machine com TE TRF ROR _ en Sister prints and tiretracks at the slaying | Union Title coms » agement's e(forts oT 2 He a. 3 8 el Lg along 1S line 18 «scene and presented the evidence BONDS the setting aside of $5 for eacl to Judge Rogers. American Loan 4'.s 60 a car made t wa | { : each i ” a } Aa 4 ar ade toward 1 r AnA companion of VanNorman was Buhne Feriiier 5 oo ot rua diskrioution ap ne oy A exonerated when he explained that Gf of Com Bidg 4's oi 95 Ja digirdwion among eiipiie.emhet | Citizens Ind Tel 4,5 61 103 ployee: : had been unsuccessful in at- Columbia Club 11.8 os 58 It is expected that next vear tl Consol Fin 8s 66 a7 . d Xt vear HS Ampng to disuade VanNorman iymilion Mig Co Bx 56 a bonus will equal three of four weeks killing ‘the animal, Hoosier Croyn 3a 36 07 Pay to each recipient Wipls’ Brass & Alum 8s 36.81 'Y 10 each reciplen ) Rogers, in leveling one of nd pia P&L 4's 0 1050, 107 Kaiser-Frazer took over the c4sgaviest hunting fines of the! GP Rellways Co {5 80 | iributio ste Sirah dis aon NanNor j od o Tel Co 101 ribution tem of Graham-«Paige, ¥ liscated nvestora nk 4 & ov bigs N Ian's Kutter Par 26 to which it is joined by.an intricate EL N Ind Puh 8c 15 107 corporate arrangeme raze ; shootiig one of “the Ti) £v of Ing Eval vi | oe ie ArTangement. (Frazer 1s " he h f h Bh Te) 4 : 100 nresident and chairman of Grahamwei * ne ne . ad ever eard, v Mam n Ind 8 3, BD » Fale as well as president of Kuler“Ex ~dividend, : Frazer.) This gives K-F the indus- v -
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