Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1947 — Page 14

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R INDUSTRIAL PEACE t labor-management field have d significance to the future of labor relations tes. : : eo oD States. cling President Truman's veto, made e Taft-Hartley labor bill, and the U. S. supreme the so-called anti-Petrillo law. e events marked, we think, the end of a long era | which organized labor, pampered, protected and made rful by an indulgent government, has had the upper and has behaved with far too’little consideration for ic welfare and its own best interests. They marked, we hope, the beginning of a new and

ora. union leaders who are breathing fire and threatstrikes and other defiance of the new Taft-Hartley would do well to pause, and think, and ask themselves : er it is not time to change the tactics that brought about the inevitable passage-of this law. bn If they want a timely example of the lack of wisdom in tactics, there is James C. Petrillo, boss of the musis' union. He is an outstanding symbol of arrogance, dictatorial methods, of restrictive practices, of abuse of ower. Labor lawyers advised him to defy a law intended curb his activities. The supreme court, they said, would ver let congress do that to him. | But the supreme court spoke for itself, Mr. Petrillo. pow must face trial, and the authority of congress is sushw That’s thought food for the union attorneys who _~~just as the Liberty League's 58 famous lawyers did with the Wagner act in’ 1985—are taking it upon themselves ‘declare the Taft-Hartley act unconstitutional.

- " ss 8 \MPLOYERS, t00, would do well to think soberly today. There should be no gloating over the enactment of this law. Above all, there should be no effort to take undue tage of its provisions. Any who try to use it as ing instrument will learn quickly that the Amerpeople—strongly as they demanded corrective labor tion—will rally with equal strength in defense of s essential rights and demand new restraints on the Dywer of predatory managements. . : § Congress must be vigilant in watching the operation of

: law, and prompt to correct defects, injustices and wrongs if they appear. The promise has been made that i gible, conscientious unionism is not to be hurt or weakened. That promise must be kept. i |! Upon President Truman, who found no good in it and "who called it unworkable, falls chief responsibility for enforcement and administration of this law. He could insure its failure, if he were so disposed. We trust and believe \" hé will seek to givé it a fair trial and a fair opportunity to | ed in its asserted purposes. . {If management, labor and government accept in good th the proclaimed intention of the law, it can be made to as a program for industrial peace and sound, continu- : national prosperity. > s = =» s = = OTH ‘Hoosier senators voted to override the presidential T veto. Senator Homer E. Capehart, commenting on the senate’s action, asserted that if any portion of the law proves unworkable or unfair either to labor or to manage- _ ment, he would work to eliminate inequities. Senator William E. Jenner decried the President’s tactics in opposing e measure. a ! “President Truman and many labor union leaders have : grossly misrepresented its provisions,” said Indiana’s junior senator. “They have done a disservice to the country by niisleading many people.” Geek g { House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, of Indiana, sounded a timely warning to the administration when he sdid the new law; must not be sabotaged by improper administration. He promised that congress would keep an | eye on this important possibility. [

3 : TIME TO DECIDE, CONGRESS WIATIONAL defense planning is being delayed while the '¥ ‘house expenditures committee prolongs its hearings on the army-navy unification bill—and this congress session nears its end. = ! Enough expert testimony has gone into the record for the members of congress to understand the legislation. They should make up their minds. It is time to vote.

i We believe the country’s best interest requires the

approval of the unification bill. But it is of paramount

ahd soon. Meanwhile, the services must mark time. g Congress does not legislate for the army, or the navy, ' or the air force, but for all of the people. Each individual | officer who has an opinion about the pending legislation cannot be heard, if there is to be action on the bill in the present session. There is no reason why every officer should have this privilege. Laws can’t be written to satisfy . everybody, and national defense should not be jeopardized ~ by a filibuster of the back-seat drivers. Experience in the recent war demonstrated the need __ for centralized direction of our armed services. But if we must go along on the old divided-command basis, the sooner that is known the sooner we can begin to plan accordingly. | tial defense measures will be delayed until the present emate is broken. A decision should be made before adjourns.

GITY COUNCIL CAN GO AHEAD HE city council has been taking the position that it did ' not have the authority to take steps recommended by lety Board President William H. Remy to curb the 000,000 lottery racket in Indianapolis. Mr. Remy would have the council pass an ordinance manufacture, sale or possession of lottery or basetickets, which would be a crippling blow at the council s didn’t believe it had the authority.

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errors. . We have long felt the need of a city suditorium. Many of us regret the passing of the English theater which has contributed so much vic and intellectual life

By Anonymous Female, City I open letter to Mr. Robert C. Ruark: It has always been men’s main objective to keep women in “their place”—a place made by men to bolster their ego. (Men must have a very bad inferiority complex.) To keep women in “that place” men have resorted to all sorts of petty actions. Evidently men are growing more and more afraid of their “control over women.” Almost every day there appears some article in newspaper or magazine quoting a psychologist, a college president, a columnist or some other learned man. The quotation will go something like this: “Women are losing their appeal for men, women are losing their beauty, women are complete flops.” The articles should read: “Women are losing interest in men, men have very little to offer a woman, ‘especially with the selfish, conceited attitude they still hold toward women and marriage; men are shaking in their boots.” As far as the “lacy handkerchief” goes, ‘the fact is that a woman has no time to carry such an article only on special-occasions. Neither does she have time to wait for a man to pick it up if she did carry one. Women usually consider the wants of men first. The result: men take advantage and no “lacy handkeré¢hief” is picked up. (The

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By Lula B. Hoss, 4040 N. Illinois, City It is the responsibility of our city to decide what building shall Club, 308 Indiana ave., and charged replace the English hotel. Whatever is put there will do much to de-|with a misdemeanor. The officers the character of our Monument Circle for many years to cOme.| making the arrests were not memShy and shold have 4 Ue beauty wna digaity

i price asked by men for picking up ‘a handkerchief is quite high. One of these days the ladies are going to be able to choose how their lives shall be with as much freedom as men. Women are not cowards. Look at all the people ground you. If women were cowards the population would be much less. However, men take all the credit for this. Women are willing to die if necessary for what they believe. The question is, in the case of the Geman women on trial, are they being tried for their own beliefs and actions or are they being treated as property of men. - L I “WRONG TO SAY ‘HERE COMES LAW’ ABOUT POLICE” By Mrs. Walter ‘Haggerty, Indianapolis The education of 30 per cent of our policemen tests below the beginning of the fourth grade, yet these men are allowed to carry a gun and not only act as executor but as judge and jury. Our judges spend nearly 20 years of their lives that they may better serve the public but they fail in their duty to the public if they do not instruct these policemen of peoples rights. Isn't it a mis-statement when one sees a policeman coming to remark: “Here

men ‘are permitted to settle it on the spot and sometimes shoot an unarmed person, because in their judgment these unfortunate citizens are resisting an officer. The officials of Indianapolis have been very lenient on policemen found guilty of bribery, only suspending them from the force for awhile and later being reinstated. It is our duty as sensitive citizens, for our own protection to elect good men to these important positions. Good judges and a good safely board will instruct these policemen of “the peoples right.” It is the duty of every citizen to elect a good man for mayor of our city. The right man for the job is Al Feeney.

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“POLICE HAVEN'T RIGHT TO MAKE ILLEGAL ENTRY” By Del Mundo, Indianapolis Recently 43 persons were arrested at the Indianapolis Ideal Social

bers of the club, they were not invited guests, they had no arrest

t the great majority of us want a beautiful and even warrant for any person at that . An easy way to get it is to appoint a committee that i306 and they had no ‘war character and appearance of all building. Human na-| ant for the place. This was a very ture resents being regulated. The American way is for all of us to carry

clear case of illegal entry. When this case was brought before the muncipal court «Chief Deputy John Carson moved to dismiss the cases on the grounds that the arresting offices were guilty of illegal entry. The decision to dismiss was right and proper. If a police officer has the right to enter a private club, not being a member, not being an invited guest, not having an arrest warrant and not having a search warrant then he would also have the same right to enter any private home, without being an invited guest, not having an arrest warrant and not having a search warrant and prowl around so much as he may please so long as he found the door unlocked. If this were permitted then we would indeed have a police state. I am not trying to uphold the gambling racketeers of Indianapolis who rob a gullible public of millions of dollars each year. I am merely pointing out that the police should procede legally and within the law. Each and every usurpation of authority on the part of the executive branch of government is a step toward the establishment of a dictatorship. And the most humble police officer is a part of the executive branch of government. According to Deputy Prosecutor Carson the officers making the above mentioned arrests were guilty of illegal entry. These officers had no more right to make an illegal entry than any other citizen and therefore they should be tried before a court of law for illegal entry. One of the functional pillars for defending the rights of free men undcr a free government is that it is the duty of those who enforce the law must themselves stay within the law. f » » » “TIME HAS ARRIVED TO CUT OUT FARM SUBSIDY? By City Consumer

was hitting an all-time high, and right below that was an item about a probable increase in the spring pig crop. As a city dweller who fully appreciates the farmers’ problems — I was born on a Boone {county farm and lived there until (I was 17-1 want to protest against (the subsidies farmers are receiving {from the government, which means from you and me. There was'a

| derwriting to help him out of finan{cial difficulties or to spur production. That time has passed. Let's

4 |cut out those subsidies and get back

to a really American system of living, without a benevolent Uncle Sam passing out. the taxpayers’ dough. I liked your editorial on farm co-ops, too. They should pay their share of the government through taxes the same as any other business. ' » nce “GIRLS WOULDN'T HAVE A MAN CHOSEN BLINDLY” By Mrs. R/ Q. E., Indianapolis I think the “Grouchy Spinster” of Speedway who resents the French (18irl who is out to get a man has something. I fully -agree on sending fher and others back’ where they came from. : | And, of course, a man is a sap for marrying her, he should have his head examined. But we should worry, we wouldn't have a man like that anyway.

‘DAILY THOUGHT

And. He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went

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Mark 6:6, ii Obsequiousness = begets friends; truth, hatred. —Terence..

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OF ALL THE WORKMEN who came to ofir home around housecleaning time when I was a boy, I remember Henry Avels best. He did our :Mr, Avels knew his trade from the. bottom up. At any rate, I distinctly recall that he always began with making his own paste. That's y how competent he was. And he had command of all the other details of his profession, too. However, it always struck me that his pride of workmanship asserted itself most when it came to matching the pattern .of the paper. : Sixty years ago when I was a kid, wallpapers weren't the anemic things they are today. They were replete with incident, even to the point of telling a complete story. Usually it was a tale about shepherds and nymphs playing around a love temple or the like, and I distinctly recall that Mr. Avels always took infinite pains to preserve the plot of the story, . Indeed, Mr. Avels had such pronounced views on the subject that I remember his saying, on one occa sion, that prolonged periods of convalescence could, 2s a rule, be traced to wallpapers that hadn't been matched the way they should have been.

|He Knew Most Everybody

MR. AVELS WAS FULL of similar sagacious observations, a talent which made him one of the best talkers I ever knew. The thing that enhanced his conversations more than anything else, however, was his profound knowledge of relationships around here. Mr. Avels knew how everybody in Indianapolis, ‘was related to everybody else. 4 I don't know whether it has ever been brought to your attention that genealogy is more or less like studying an iceberg. An iceberg has seven-eighths of its bulk hidden under water, and that's the way it is with relationships, too. The casual observer sees only the part above water. Well, Mr. Avels knew all about the submerged part of family relationships, and you

IN WASHINGTON . . . Bj

WASHINGTON, June 25.—In sending the TaftHartley labor bill to the White House, the Republicans in congress were in effect saying to Mr. Truman: Heads I win, tails you lose. From the point of view of 1948 politics, they stood to gain whether the bill became law or -whether it was rejected. There was hardly a chance that the result for the Truman administration would be anything but a red entry in the political balance sheet.

Krug Strong for Veto

ONE OF THE MOST persuasive arguments for a veto came from Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug. In’ a letter to the President, he analyzed the labor bill in relation to the coal situation—and since coal means John L. Lewis, Mr. Krug undertooR to measure the effects of the legislation against his guess as to Mr. Lewis’ intentions. The strong possibility, as Mr. Krug outlined it to the President, is for a coal strike. It may not come next week, when Mr. Krug surrenders the coal mines to private ownership. The northern operators may settle with the United Mihe Workers’ chieftain, leaving him free to crack down en the southern operators. . But Mr. Lewis is almost certain to throw his weight around shortly after the June 30 deadline,

WASHINGTON, June 25.—President Truman: is having appointment embarrassment again. This time it's over a federal communications commission job, which is being kicked around something awful. It was all a mistake, apparently, when the President sent to the senate the name of Republican Ray C. Wakefield of California to succeed himself for*another seven-year term on FCC. The President hadn't meant to do it that way. So he pulled back the Wakefield appointment without consulting that gentleman, who learned that he had been stabbed when he read it in the papers.

Seek Bona Fide Party Members

WHEN THE WAKEFIELD NOMINATION was first sent to the senate, Republican leaders got busy. They had too many complaints on file about the way FCC was being run. There were beefs that Wakefield, though he called himself a Republican, had been co-operating too much with the Democratic majority on FCC. Top leadership in the G. O. P. took a hand in the case—Vandenberg, Taft, Speaker Joe Martin. This was to be a test of whether the Republicans could have regular, all-out Republicans on their jobs, or whether they had to take people who just called themselves, or whom the Président called Republicans. Because of the general griping about FCC policies, even Democrats in congress were taken in cahoots— House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, Senators Stewart and McKellar of Tennessee. The last two in particular had a peeve against FCC because it had refused to grant licenses to a couple of their Nashville supporters. Upshot was that Republican leaders offered, the job to youngest Ohio congressman, Robert F. Jones of Lima. The FCC job pays only $10,000 a year, while congressmen get $12,500 a year plus $2500 expenses. Truman was prevailed upon to withdraw the nomination of Wakefield and substitute Jones. Jones figures this will be a chance to get some good experience in administrative law. He is only 40, though he has been in congress since 1939. He wants

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have no: ides how this knowledge flavored his conversations. awa 8 That's why I so distinctly recall a Spring morning of 60 years ago when Mr, Avels handed me a strangelooking letter addressed to him by a firm of lawyers operating in London, England. I it, I remember, while he was in the act of compounding his paste.

The letter told about an influential family with an

impressive title who, for reasons which I have forgot-

. ten, had to leave Spain in 1600 in such a hurry that

the family fortune had to be left behind. ‘The size of the fortune was fabulously big and ran, as I recall, into seven enormous figures which the London lawyers had taken the pains to translate into English pounds sterling, thence by way of parentheses into American dollars. ; The family got to Holland, the letter went on to say, after which all trace of it was lost—~of the fortune, too. After all these yearsi.however, the resourcefulness of the London lawyers had accounted for the long-lost fortune--what's more, for all the legitimate descendants of the long-lost family.

Paid Big-Hearted Lawyers

THE BEST PART of the letter was contained in the last paragraph in the course of which Mr. Avels learned, for the first time in his life, that he was a descendant of the long-lost family and, as such, entitled to a big slice of the hidden gold. Of course, it would take a lot of money'to pry the hidden gold loose from its. present unlawful owners, sald the London lawyers, but if Mr, Avels could see his way clear to come across with his share of the expenses, he wouldn't have to do another lick of work the rest of his life. ; Well, the letter was so convincing that Mr. Avels sent a good part of his savings to the bighearted London lawyers. Apparently, something went wrong after that because Mr. Avels went right on working, Indeed, he worked up to the day of his death, His death distressed us greatly—especially mother, who was put to an awful lot of trouble to find a competent paperhanger with the conversational talent of Mr. Avels,

Marquis Childs

President Was Loser Either Way

Under the terms of the bill passed by congress, the President could get an injunction on the ground that a coal strike would constitute as national emergency. This would serve to delay a strike for from 60 to 80 days. But the law could mot prevent Mr. Lewis from striking in the fall coal strike is possible under the Taft-Hartley bill if it comes in the fall the timing will be far more advantageous for the U.M. W. boss. In the face of such a situation, if the law is finally on the statute books, the President can say that there is nothing in the law to stop a coal strike.

G. O.P. Would_Have Comeback

THE REPUBLICANS, however, will have a political comeback Senator Taft probably will say that obviously the President never wanted the law to work. Didn't he veto it? A great many variations can be played on that theme. The kicker at the end is obvious—why the only way to get labor peace is to elect a Republican president who will honestly and sincerely try to enforce the law pagsed by a Republican congress. . If those kind of speeches are made against the background of a prolonged coal shutdown, with all of its dire" consequences at home and abroad, the effect in my opinion would be devastating.

REFLECTIONS c.vo By Peter Edson G.O.P.. Wants to Move in on Jobs

to live in Washington, doesn't like to campaign. In the present session of congress Jones has dise tinguished himself as chairman of a subcommittee on appropriations, handling department of interior money. He wielded the economy axe so heavily that he had western congressmen from both parties screaming. ; There has been gossip that Republican and Democratic leaders may have picked Jones for the FCC’ job to get him out of congress. But equally as important is the fact that he is a 100-per-cent regular. Commissioner Wakefield, who has been given the heave-ho to make a place for Jones, is of the quiet, hard-working but umspectacular type. He has specialized in telegraphic communications and handled the Postal-Western Union merger and rate cases. He was appointed to the commission by President Roosevelt in 1940. He was enough of a Republican that the Democratic members of the California public service commission ganged up on him to get rid of him and persuaded Democratic Senator Sheridan Downey to recommend him to Roosevelt. At Republican party headquarters, Wakefield was ticketed as too much of a Democratic collaborator. His defense against that would be that he had subordinated party politics.

Militant National Policy

WHEN THE Republican national committee met in Washington last December, however, G. O. P. Chairman Carroll Reece made a speech in which he called for a purge of phony Republicans serving on government regulatory agencies. Reece claimed that all these agencies are servants of congress, not of the President. Since the Republicans were then coming into control of congress, Reece said it was only fair that the political character of the agencies be changed accordingly. This may be it. The G. O. P. is taking over. FCC now has three Democrats, two Republicans and two independents of no party affiliation. Bubstituting Jones for Wakefield won't given the G. O. P. a bigger delegation, but a tougher one.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Phil Simms

‘Halt Allied Bickering, Build Europe’

LONDON, June 25.—Foreign Secretary Bevin has informed commons that the British government has plans to meet Secretary of State Marshall's European reconstruction proposals, ' Mr. Bevin did not elaborate, but the plans are believed to be something like this; . First—Creation of a central] European authority or agency on which all participating countries will be represented. :

Second--The setting up of special subcommis-

sions under this new agency to evolve and report,

regional and other projects designed to serve Europe, or large sections of the continent as a whole. For the most part, these subcommissions would be made up of engineers and other specialists.

Must Agree on Methods

THE CENTRAL AUTHORITY would dixide its labors into two categories: Europe's immediate requirements and the long-range program. - Food, fuel, power and steel are the most pressing needs. And while a lasting remedy would take years, the present situation could be improved within a few months if Russia and western Europe only could ge gether. Coal for instance could be had now in considerably increased quantities both in Germany and Poland. ‘The Ruhr’s: coal "output has been halved, thus almost entirely accounting for the drop in continental production from 46 million tons monthly before the. war to{about 37 million tons at present. Less allied squabbling and more food for the miners would mend this situation almost overnight. * ‘Similarly, if a customs currency and kindred prob-

and raw materials could be exchanged, and so on. If eastern and western Europe can agree on methods,. plus American co-operation, solution of these vital and immediate problems could make more progress in the next two months than in the past two years. Nor would long-range plans offer real difficulties. , Two or three strategically located TVA projects in Europe would go a long way toward solving the food, fuel and power problems. So say some of Britain's foremost authorities. According to “British figures,~Europe’s food production has dwindled dangerously. From 11 million tons of meat annually, it dropped to six and a half million tons. Dairy products dropped from 94 million tons to 64 million; fats and oils from four to three million and sugar from seven to five. . But Europe has never been able 10 feed itself. Too many people exist on too little land. If Europe fought less and worked more, and united instead of Balkanizing itself, it could come pretty close to it.

Now a Dying Continent THAT'S WHERE the special subcommissions un- ; der the central agency would come in. Ninety mil-_ lion people in central and southeastern Europe for example, all within the Danubian watershed, could eat better, d better and live longer and more peaceful lives if the great powers could agree on a Danube valley authority. Similar transformations are possible elsewhere on the continent. ot : Cheap power for industry, lights for homes, irrigation for farms, waterways for transport, nitrog fertilizers,

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