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Food And Peace Occupy

Congress—

Taft Foresees 'Tough' Labor Bill

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U, P).

Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), chairman of both the senate labor committee and the Republican polfoy committee, told reporters he had “no doubt” that amendments to stiffen the senate'’s labor bill would approved. He based the prediction on results of a private Re-

‘Senator Taft brushed aside the arguments of several senators who

of a veto which could not be overridden. These senators contended it would be better to have a milder bill than none at all,

Other congressional develop-

blasted OPA for “intricate and dilatory procedures” in handling so-called hardship appeals by landlords in rent cases. The criticism was contained in a majority report explaining the committee's decision to extend rent controls until Dec. 31 with no increase in present ceilings.

Appropriations

The senate appropriations committee voted to reverse house action that would require the discharge of Director Edgar L. Warren of the U. 8. conciliation service and 100 of his assistants.

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"It did so in approving a $1,676,

operating expenses by $4,344,300 and for the national labor relations board by $841,000.

Tax Reduction The administration was accused by senate Republicans of using incorrect figures in its campaign to prevent tax reductions. Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O), charged

Secretary of the Treasury John W, Snyder with refusing to bring his figures up to date “for fear that they may show a surplus which would justify a tax cut by a Re-

publican congress.”

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Ease of Parking Bans Approved

City Trafic Engineer Frank Y, Hardy told the board the movement of trafic would not be impeded by removal of the. parking restrictions. Parking will not be allowed, however, until the city council amends an ordinance passed last year prohibiting parking in most of the mile square. ‘ In other action the board approved appointment of three men as probationary firemen, They are Paul Redmond, Robert E. Nye and Clarence Gardner. Board President William H. Remy announced the board will not meet next Tuesday “because of the primary election.”

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War Production Continues With Little for Civilians

Bitter Jests at Their Lot Are Popular, But They're Related in Whispers

That does not mean they would refuse to fight or follow their leaders. : But they are desperately anxious for peace after sacrificing 10 million dead, their best lands and factories a n d years whieh might have brought prosperity instead of hunger. In Moscow there are two bitter jests going the rounds — whis-

Mr. Denny pered, because of the secret police and the army of informers. To the greeting, “How are they treating you?” the reply is “Like Lenin— they won't feed me or bury me.”

The other jest is: A schoolteacher handéd out photos of Premier Joseph Stalin, Next day she beamingly asked how many of the pupils had hung up their pictures at home, Few hands went up in response. The astonished teacher singled out one of the culprits for explanation. “Well,” said Ivan, “I have no walls to hang the picture on. Our home, you know, is in the middle of a room.” Apart from widespread destruction of buildings in European Russia by the German invaders and the scorched-earth strategy of retreat, even normal housing construction is slowed down by crippled transport and shortage of materials, Droughts Cause Famine The food shortage is due chiefly to last season’s droughts and famine in the richest farm areas, including the Ukraine. It is Intensified by the unadmitted government policy of hoarding grain for military reserve. This policy forced new rationing cuts instead of ending the rationing of bread as the government had promised earlier. . Wages were raised about 20 per

were increased 180 per cent, and all important “supplementary” rations either were reduced or eliminated, making the real cost rise 300 to 500 per cent. The result brought such a serious decline of the workers” morale and physical fitness plus loss of production that the government frantically is trying to lift the low living standards. All co-operatives have been ordered to step up production and expand retail trade as a labor incentive and morale builder. Figures Mean Little The government says consumergoods production is up 26 per cent over & year ago but the level then was so low that the figures mean little. As a rule #t is the same as before, and the government still is sidetracking the major industrial effort from consumer goods to war and semi-war industry. The effect on the public is reflected in the present crime wave. This cannot be gauged accurately because of official secrecy on statistics. It is apparent, however, in the full courts and the severity of sentences with which the government is trying to meet the problem. An 18-year-old boy who stole a piece of rubber belting from a factory and who pleaded guilty got 18 months’ hard labor. The widow of a veteran with a 10-year-old child was given two months for failure to pay a trolley fare. . Failure to produce a police registration card allowing a person to be in a given city brought two years. - A thief linked to several holdups was given the death sentence—and the case was reported as a warning in the Soviet press, which usually:

Idle Veterans a Problem Even the problem of unemployed

Scripps-Howard Writer Ludwell Denny has Just completed a» seven-weeks assignment at the Big Four conference in Moscow. This is the second of a series describing Russian interns] conditions,

By LUDWELL DENNY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer EN ROUTE FROM RUSSIA, April 20—The Russian people today have two obsessions. One is food and shelter, The other is peace. They don’t get enough to eat, and if one can share a room with four others he is lucky. They want some of the good things of life they never have had, and which they know they never will get if they must go on producing for war and preparedness. .

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Changes His Plea To Get Out of Jail

A 38-year-old prisoner in the county jail has changed his plea from not guilty to guilty of a federal charge in order to get out ofr the county jail “as ‘soon as possible.” | : ; He is Robert M..Ingersoll, concited in 1931 of fatally shooting Owen Crickmore, Hamilton county filling station operator. A brother, Ernest J. Crickmore, is a deputy sheriff at the jail here. The defendant yesterday told Judge Robert C. Baltzell of federal court he was guilty of stealing a trunk from the Railway Express agency here. Ingersoll, who was paroled in 1943 on the shooting conviction, ‘has been in jail since he was arrested

federal, theft charge by posting a 500 bond, which was forfeited when he fled.

A decree recently was published on “the necessity of taking appropriate measures for labor placement of those demobilized persons who for a long time have not worked and who reject work offered them.”

Appropriate measures in such cases usually lead to concentration camp gangs which do so_much of Russia’s hard labor, As it was delicately put by the current issue of the authoritative Journal, Bolshevik, in warning against deplorable hangovers from capitalism existing in Russia: “Survivals of an alien ideology in daily life are also manifested in the instances of drunkenness, hooliganism, ete.” ‘No Uncertainty’

The same organ in a preceding issue explained that “the victory of socialism signifies the liquidation of the main source of crime, private capital ownership. “In the Soviet land there is no exploitation, no unemployment and uncertainty for tomorrow, “Such demoralizing factors have disappeared as the corrupting influence. of luxury at one ‘pole and poverty and desperation at the other pole. “Under Soviet conditions, cases of criminality are chiefly the remnants of capitalism in the consciousness of the people—sickly sentimentalism and general forgiveness are alien to Soviet law.” But many hungry and homeless Rise ans don’t seem to get the

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