Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1948 — Page 22

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The GM Settlement . PROSPECTS for industrial peace look brightér as a result - of General Motors’ wage-increase grant to the CIO United Auto Workers. : The 225,000 GM production employees in. that union get an immediate boost of 11 cents an hour, bringing their average hourly wage to about $1.61. They will get further

while if it starts to fall the total scale-down of wages can’t exceed a nickel an hour. And, whether living costs go up or down, they will get a 3-cent rise in May, 1049, General Motors, which estimates the settlement will cost it about $75 million a year, gets reasonable assurance of strike-free operation during the life of a two-year contract. We think it may get something else fully as important—the loyalty of workers who have reason to feel that they were given a good deal without having to fight-bitterly for it. 3 For it seems clear that this biggest of all automobile companies was in a position to drive a much harder barOne of its chief competitors, Chrysler, had been strikebound for two weeks after refusing to offer the union more __-.-than 6 cents an hour increase. The other, Ford, had pro- | posed a wage reduction. The CIO Meat Packers had just lost a long strike. U. S. Steel had refused a rise to the CIO Steel Workers, who have a no-strike contract good for another year. ) ‘ ~ And many General Motors workers obviously dreaded thé thought of striking. This week five GM union locals, including the largest—in the Buick plant at Flint—had voted against a strike, despite a plea from the UAW’s acting president. Memories of hardships and losses in the 121day GM walkout of 1935-36 are still very much alive. agreed to a settlement which the union leaders could welTT come. And Tn that, we believe, the company was wise. ~~ ~wrn.~ Whether it established a new wage pattern for other automobile companies and other industries, we don’t know. And we can't deny the inflationary danger if there is another general round of wage increases, followed by more "But that danger can be overcome by uninterrupted production and high output per man per hour—things that : strikes make impossible and things that managements can uF achieve with the help of workers who have cause to believe they are being treated fairly,

Stalin's Austrian Double-Cross “American minority taken-in- by Stalin's phony peace offensive must find it increasingly difficult to make his fair words fit his foul acts. For he goes right on breaking past agreements while talking about negotiating a new one. This is his current record in Korea, in Germany and in the United Nations. On Monday Russia in a double veto to prevent United Nations investigation of her rape of Czechoslovakia—her 24th and 25th vetoes—violated again her San Francisco pledge limiting use of the veto. The latest proof that Stalin's word is worthless is Austria. Big Four Treaty negotiations have been wrecked by Soviet insistence on getting reparations and on giving Austrian territory to Yugoslavia, a Russia satellite. In the Moscow agreement of 1943 Stalin promised unconditionally to Here is a clear case of the customary Communist “double-cross, of Stalin's cynical breach of faith. Still there are a few Americans who think there's a

two disputants could be brought together to thresh out their ~ differences face to face. It seems impossible to get across to these wishful thinkers the fact that the American and Soviet governments have been carrying on almost incessant face-to-face negotiations. since. VE-Day.....

Austrian settlement. Then Secretary of State Marshall went all the way to Moscow to talk with #talin and Molotov. Over the last three. years there have been literally hun. dreds of negotiating sessions on Austria. In the Big Four London Conference on an Austrian Treaty, which Russia has just wrecked, there were 110 meetings. . Even so, the United States has not slammed the door. It has named a special liaison officer and announced its will ingness to resume negotiations at any time on the basis of the 1943 Moscow agreement on Austrian independence. But of course Stalin is not interested in that. ’

13 | Wear a Poppy er # EXT Saturday it will be both charitable and patriotic to wear a little patch of red crepe paper on your lapel or dress. American Legion poppies, will blossom everywhere, all made with the patient hands of disabled veterans. What you give is not so important as that you do give something. We have been able to forget home front shortages, the lack of cigarets and red coupons. World Wars I and II are gathering dust in the memories of a lot of us who are going about our business as usual, making our money and spending it, seeing a movie, and trying to get our auto dealer to move us up on the new car list. But there are thousands who have World Wars I and II still very much with them. They are the cripples, the shell-

widows. They haven't forgotten the wars. Why Should we? The American Legion Auxiliagy of the 11th Indiana District comprised of Indianapolis and Marion County, will give a day on the street corners collecting funds for the rehabilitation of war victims. They'll give a whole day in the sun selling poppies. Then they'll give the rest of the year 1 = seeing that the disabled veterans get every penny collected. Mr and Mrs. John Citizen don’t have to do all this. y need do is drop a few coins in the money boxes, or

: Prices in Marion County, 8 cents a copy; des |

upward adjustments if the cost of living continues to rise, |

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restore Austria's 1937 frontiers and to exact no repara-

chante of an American-Russian “settienient” if only the |

President Truman and Stalin talked Austria at Pots- | ier Gait Seeretary--of - State Byrnes personally -tried-to-get-an-}-

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THE MURPHYS

Nations have been battling For two thousand years and more With a hundred deadly weapons Yes, that, and then a score, There have béen some mighty battles Fought through the countless wars But there never have been battles Like when the Murphys drop the bars.

Milk bottles, chinaware, the pup Go sailing through the air, The stove lids and the cuspidor A railing from the stair. When the window frames go bursting Amid the crash of broken glass And all the neighbors wondering , How long will this one last,

7 All the little Murphys Will be shouting high with gles And urging on their favorites To greater deviltry. And woe unto the stranger Who makes a snide remark For all the little Murphys Will rip him half apart.

When their life on earth has ended And they're settled up above Review again their earthly scars Then start to push and shove, ' Just who will win the rumpus In the kingdom of the stars And what will be the weapons When ths Murphys drop the bars. ~JAMES PHILIP SHERIDAN ® &* 9

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DON'T WISH IT AWAY

Everyone's guilty of this little crime. Sometime in your life you have wished away time Perhaps you were driven by some bad illusion _And wished it away in a state of confusion

sorrow Or keep it that tomorrow You'll find you will have a most terrible day Because you're determined to mike it that way

way because there's a

You long to escape from the present day strife But you may wish away the best part of your

life: And then you'll look back on those days way back when And wish you could live them all over again

Your life's growing. shorter with each fleeting

There's one consolation—for time has no master ‘You wish it away—but it just won't For in this old world there's still much to

create ; Your unwasted time will remain liké an ember And all of your life will be nice to remember ~~ CONNIE HUMMEL, 1 Intianapolis

‘One hundred dollars was found in an foe Bax Sought oi auction. The easiest way

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I know I won't be alone, Cy But somehow I'll hate to stay.

“God,” take care of mommie and daddy, And tell them I'll be good, And watch over my doggie, Laddle, He doesn't always behave like he should.

When I go to Heaven, The day, I don’t know when, But now that I am only seven, I am sure that I'll meet mommie and daddy again.

' This is the season of hop, skip and jump all over the Youngster who covers your front walk with chalk.. .- . . 5: cen A. *. at ; FATHER FLANAGAN I fear there's none can take his place, This noble friend of boys. He knew no color, creed or race, Whose old, sad countenance he replaced ~ With and trust and joys. 1 “that fell from youthful Were honest and sincere, =~ As they stood beside his bler ~LAURA THELMA OOMSTOCK — ® & One type of work that doesn't ing under the idea that the wo living.

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Will Laws

By E. #2. LEECH LAWS TO CONTROL or outlaw the Communist Party and its activities are dangerous. But failure to pass some such legislation may prove even more dangerous. i There: is no sure way of knowing what is best. America faces a brand new problem, Never before have we had to deal with an enémy within, composed of a considerable number of persons—including American citizens— who serve a foreign power. | " Nor have we had to deal with an enemy . whose chief weapons are the civil liberties which they seek to destroy.

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McKINLEY SAID

WASHINGTON, May 27—Several times I .have made references to Republican leaders who want to take the country back to the log-rolling tariff days of William McKinley. They have ganged up in the House to exténd the Reciprocal Trade Agreements for only one year and with amendments which would hamper this system of the free movement of trade across national boundaries, i Now, from a friendly cortrespondent in Iowa, I learn that I have done President McKinley an injustice. . Mr. McKinley, the creation of Mark Hanna, the white knight of Republican oratory, was actually ahead of the party of today. Or, at any rate, he was ahead of the potent GOF leaders who believe they can- sidetrack the Reciprocal Trade issue. On Sept. 5, 1901, President McKinley made a speech at the Pan-Amierican-Exposition in Buffalo. It was his last public utterance. On the following day he was shot by an assassin.

re APR WHS 8 SINGUINEYY significant tine the

history of the republic. The Spanish-American war had pushed America’s vital interests into the Far Pacific, with responsibility for the lippines. While: most Americans in that com e era were not aware of it, the days of isolation were numbered. )

A Prophetic Vision

IN THAT LAST address, Mr. McKinley talked of the new era and of American responsibilities with something like prophetic vision. On

e period of ex

rR mm: Commercial wars aré unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. If, perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be

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KINL " FIRST— It's Not the Time to Run On Europe's Get-Well Program

ubject. of rade. ML. Mek Kinle 4 ey. sald; ABER E clusiveness is past. The

Wilhelmina's dream of a great Dutch commonwealth of self governing nations to take the place of her vast colonial empire

As 80 often happens in the case of the last will and testament, however generous, some of those who stand to benefit most are holding out for more. They are blocking the wishes of what appears to be a majority, Queen Wilhelmina announced her intentions the end of the war. They became a reality—so far, at jeast, as she was concerned—in 1946. She abandoned the colonial system, called for a union comprising the Netherlands, Urinam (Dutch Guiana), Curacao and the United States of Indonesia

On that basis, Dutch and Indonésian delegations initialed The Hague recognized the republic of Indonesia as the de facto authority over Sumatra, Java and Madura. The rest of the territory, then under the Dutch, was to be absorbed gradually by the republic to form the United States. of Indonesia which, in turn, would join the great Dutch

Neutrals hailed it as a milestone in colonial history. To them it seemed eminently fair—even generous. But Indonesian extremists broke the truce., There was more bloodshed. The United Nations sent out a committee of good offices, and last January aboard the American transport Renville there was e . ‘ President Soekarno, : Republicans, it is skid, fully realize the folly of they seem helpless. Already” it is seriously

The United Nations. may have to take & rescue Indonesia's 75 Through its’ commit

‘Behind Them Shadowy Figures

BUT THINGS CONTINUE STALLED, . of innumerable committees and subcommittees. The 1046 under . standing set Jan, 1, 1949, as the deadline, and thé Rerville truce moved it up to June 1, this year-—less than a week from today. ia | But coficeivably both dates could be missed altogether, . =

Soviet Aggression Rates As Crime, Not Politics

are trying to do 1s to lay the groundwork that force and violence can be used “for the final pushover of our system, as has happened in so many other countries. Therefore, their first concern is - ! any cha “or restriction, every” . cratic civil liberty Which they can use to further and shield their work. That is why they are in such a lather about the Mundt Bill, aimed to control communism by forcing registration of its organization, by

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS By Marquis Childs

employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?” Even as he wap speaking those final words, Mr. McKinley was waiting for the Senate to act on a dozen commercial treaties providing reciprocity—treaties that were caught in the jam of political pressures. That was a major reason for the Hull TradeAgreements Act. It was intended to take such reciprocal tariff reductions out of politics and put-the whole business in the hands of an interdepartmental committee that would consider it from the point of view of the economic of the nation. ’ Now the little band of men who run the House mean to put it right back into politics,

AHA HIT tHelF ‘double Talk doés not conceal that’

fact.

Why Not Open Hearings? - -+ OPEN hearings in the Senate Finance Committee would at least give the opposition a chance to present its views. Even though the time is so short, with the present trade-agree-ments gct expiring June 12, the debate on the Benate floor promises to be hot. Co Here is an issue that gets down to whether the Republicans are capable of accepting the 20th-Century. The nations of Western Europe have followed the U, 8. lead in moving toward a world trade organization buflt around reciprocal lowering of tariffs. If that policy is now repudiated, Western Europe will feel that we have run out on the kind of program which would make a real rehabilitation and reconstruction possible. It is high time that the- Republican Party caught up with William McKinley.

IRON CURTAIN OF FAR EAST—

75 Million Trapped in Indonesian Strife

WASHINGTON, May 27—The revered and aging Queen

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: Party, seek to bring it and ts various “fronts : ge-gues “members into

organizations and open, This, admittedly, is ticklish business. It gy hard to tamper with freedom without impairing

or destroying it. : But we have seen the Communists seize ang annex a dozen countries or parts of countries,

ts. We have seen them reduce -to the status of vassal state 10 nations or Important pars of Rigmim in Europe, with a popula over ; millions, And we have seen them working hard making progress, toward doing the same sort of = in the United States. ~ is the background of the Mundt Bin,

Let's Face the Facts

WHETHER IT is a wise bill'in all its pro. visions is a matter requiring serious study, Whether it will work is a gamble. it will impair any of our liberties is a serious

risk. We might as well face these facts anq realize the dangers. This whole question of defending American freedom against the Communist fifth column is complicated by one big and basic error, It is an error which is persistent and deep-seated among some of our best, most partiotic citizens, This is the error of communism as a political belief. The American Civil Lib. erties Union—which has done much good work to safeguard individual rights—says, for ex. ample, that restrictions under the Mundt Bil would be “based solely on political opinions and associations.” Many other persons and groups believe the same thing. And they feel—quite correctly— that democracy is so far superior that it cannot fail to triumph over communism in the fres market place of political ideas. This is the traditional American. opinion. ; This is no mere political theory or movement, seeking ‘to sell itself to the American peopls in the free competition of the political stump and the ballot box.

Minority Dictatorship

COMMUNISM TODAY. is. a criminal cone spiracy, directed by Russia. It works through national branches in the various countries, under agents responsible to the Kremlin. It seeks control either at the polls—although it has never.gained victory through an election, not even in Russia—or py treachery and violence. ' ) We have had many political parties and beliefs which rose and fell in the free interplay of democratic competition. Communism is not such a party or belief—not even in Russia, It is a dictatorship by a small minority, im. posed by murder, conquest, terror and violence, It cannot be dealt with just as a political question. Its activities fall, not under election

Flaws; but under = criminal ‘laws. It is not § matter of thought control, but of criminal : controk x St Woon a

The United Steel Workers—biggest union in the CIO-=-has just faced this ugly reality. Re luctantly, but sensibly; it barred Communists from every union office, even the smallest, It did this because Communists are trying to use unions in order to destroy them. . That is the same way they try to use civil liberties. p= isda

Hopsier Forum

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

What's Wrong? By C. D. C.,, City ; . What is the matter with the United Nations? 1 think the answer can be found in at least 8 dozen similar organizations which have failed since the 16th Century. They worked only on paper. A

country should have expected it to work, There are too many races, religions and ideologies of government: to expect them to have commol peace ideas. The idea that our own U. 8. has been able to get along smoothly under one government -is>not entirely sound. We had our Civil War. And who knows what might happen it we had another depression. A hunger war? Stalin knows our history much better than the average American. He knows what some of our historians have left out, namely, that we occasionally have been in the wrong. All the historians praised us to the skies,

wn WE, Of COUTSE, should make every effort to-

ward peace. And the best place in which to start is. at home by making our capitalistic system a mode¢l for other nations to follow.

* o ¢ To Graduates Ed Edward L. DeJournett

: A thought for the eighth grade graduites of 1048: “Let's first be men and women seeking character. God help us, we pray, to find 8 place in the world. } character and intellect. Personality depends, in_part, upon. the training. that the home and. school give. “Occupation is important to pur community as well as ourselves. It may demand, at the beginning, perseverance and good judgment to find a position. We must be faithful to our

sponsibility, and the door of opportunities wilt

open for us.” .

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS ‘By William Philip Simms

Indonesian Republican leaders have seemed willing to meet the Dutch halfway. Behind them, however, shadowy figures appear to be pulling strings. There are indications that Com® munist ‘minorities among the natives may have some of the responsible leaders buffaloed. Certainly some are following Moscow tactics, playing for time and causing confusion. Avowedly some are hoping for war between East and West in the expec tation of a Red Asia and a Soviet Then, too, some are making .so)\ much money fishing in troubled waters that théy prefer things to remain as they are. Economically, this writer is informed, Indonesia has s a surpFising comeback, considering. Rubber, tin, copra, vegetable olls, quinine and other products are all in great demand on an eager world market.

Unparalleled Prosperity in Prospect BUT LACK OF communications between Dutch and Repub lican areas is delaying what otherwise might quickly become® an era of unparalieled prosperity. In«the hope of forcing political settlement, perhaps, the republic systematically refused economic co-operation. Sald one authority: “More than any possible exception of behind an iron

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