Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1948 — Page 12

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money to spend on amusements and non-essen tials, where price is no object. . . . It was as if, an insidious movement were afoot to

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“Ham what am and bacon too,” Is his slogan all day through, And the best of cuts for Miss Maloney If she falls for his “hologna.” —R. E. K, Indianapolis. * ¢

THE NEW LOOK They've disappeared, Short skirts and ladies’ knees, Aud Xn their place,

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teres 3 in the good of the union membership and are { pra in seeking the adjustment of grievances, ac to. hoo of James B. Carey, Storetary.

, rather than with a good American, he needs to be told. some of the facts of present-day political life. It is conceivable that a Communist might not. be = gressive in adjusting grievances because Communists do not want to improve working conditions under the capitalist system. They seek chaos in industry, to promote revolution. Until the revolution, they want to hold their jobs. Or until there is a war with Russia, when they would be in - 4 position to throw monkey wrenches into the ry. 3: The strike is a political and not an industrial pon ‘to the Communist. That has been demonstrated again and again in France and Italy where strikes are used to disrupt public services and slow production in order to create dissatisfaction with the existing governments. A general strike, which would paralyze an entire country, is the dream and the objective of every Communist. We do not believe there are many industrialists who prefer to deal with Communist union leaders, or who know-

ingly do so if they can help it. But Mr. Carey should be

given every opportunity to prove his charges, for if there is any basis for them the facts should be established, and _ the situation corrected. We all need a lot of education on . the subject of communism, and all sources of potential fomation Should be tapped,

What next will be The style of women's clothes! themselves

~GERTRUDE SHIELDS, Kokomo. * ® &

MY NEED

There Is so much that I would ask When at His feet I kneel, I'd ask for confidence and grace With no waning of my zeal, I would greet life, nme calm, That I meet every test— For a sense of humor I would beg To Keep me at my best, Without it life so dull could be—

~MARY R. WHITE, Indianapolis. ; S..% »

MASTER OF MY MY MONDAY FATE

Monday. Contrary .to all rules of ; Jove Side Mon Union. , Shh do not wash on Monday! take this day scanning the books I haven't time to read. I relax and sneer at the hamper of dirty clothes. I am No washing machine is going to ooss me! I can sit right beside it

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sirius of aie a —DOROTHY M. Ari a ¢ & @

SMALL-APARTMENT DWELLERS “ CAN ENJOY LIFE

Never in the history of our country have so

many people lived in small apartments. It has been my Jriyiege 1 observe two such housing units at close range. It {s amazing how much genuine living these ung folks ks Inanage in such small quarters. The wives cook ‘the most savory dishes, sew the finest of seams, entertain at a drop-leaf table in lieu of a dining room, and their every act

alla you that hops ia alive for the aay. When o

home and will be theirs, With fine young a ¢ these whom I have come know, your and and mine is in safe keeping. ~BERNICE HARNESS BPRA, Lafayette. ¢ ¢ 9 + STAR

Into a life a hope; Into the dark a star; And only God can tell Their source and why they are. But a star is a guide For men upon the sea, And one small hope can rout Despair, like sorcery! «NORA ASHMAN, Indianapolis.

West Coast shipping.

as saying:

leave-it basis. It's left.”

administration.

to the Supreme Court. Now An American Citizen

THERE JUSTICES Douglas, an American citizen. from the Communist Party line.

It was this fornia last March.

Lays Class Fight on the Line

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movement, specializing in strikes.

For, then I could not laugh at me. .

“| WE KEPT HIM . . . By Daniel M. Kidney

Bridges Still Leading U. S. Class Struggle

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—Harry Bridges, who was held to be a Communist by former Attorney General Francis Biddle but escaped deportation to his native Australia through a 5-to-3 decision of the U. 8. Supreme Court, has led another strike in

As president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, Bridges was quoted from San Francisco *

“The employers slapped down a final offer on a take-it-or-

That he himself is “Left,” in the sense of being a Communist, was a question which caused concern throughout the Roosevelt

At various times administration investigators held that Bridges was and was not a Communist, but finally he was ordered deported by Attorney General Biddle. Bridges appealed

Reed, Rutledge, Black and Murphy, all Roosevelt appointees, ruled the attorney general was wrong and that Bridges could stay. Since then he has become

Throughout the whole period he seldom, if ever, deviated Like the party, he is against the Marshall Plan and for Henry Wallace for President. stand which caused CIO President Philip Murray to discharge Bridges as CIO regional director in Northern Call-

ADDRESSING a group at the University of Washington in 1936, Bridges laid his philosophy of class warfare on the line: “We take the stand that we as workers have nothing In common with employers. We are in a class subscribe to the belief that if the employer is not in business, his products still will be necessary and we will be providing them when there is no employing class. ‘We believe that day is

Born in Kensington, Australia, July 28, 1901, Bridges spent his youth among the dockworkers and seamen along He arrived in New Orleans aboard the Barkentine Ysobel in 1020 and plunged at once into the maritime labor

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‘Abolishionist’ Wallace Receives Cold Shoulder From Southerners

| NASHVILLE, Sept. 7-—-Henry: Wallace has spent a week in the South without ence having set foot in a hotel or & public eating place. He has spent his nights either on a chartered

Pullman or at the homes of friends, Negro and

white, He has taken his vittles at these homes, in his Pullman bedroom, or along the roadside, out of Penis baskets. He has refused to speak at three cities in Alabama-—Gadsden, Birmingham and Bessemer ~because local police in each city had separated races. ‘This negative attack upon the segregation laws and customs of the South is not as subtle as it sounds.

Slap to Race-Proud South

IT'S JUST A TAUNT, a slap in the fage to race-proud Southerners who are as ined today as their grandfathers were in 1850. Then, in the face of constant torment from the abolitionists, they abandoned all pretensés of ng a “solution” to the slavery problem and reverted to a bitter aggressiveness that established slavery in the Southern mind as a sacred institution. Most Southerners today express a desire to improve the status of thé Negro, to provide better education and health facilities, to widen his economic opportunities and lift his standard of living, even to give him full suffrage. But segregation in the South is an entrenched institution, as firm a cultural pattern as family life. Thus far, but no farther, the Southern Liberal declares, adding confidently that the Negroes themselves wish to retain their “equal but separate facilities.”

Makes Southerners See Red

WHEN WALLACE comes a-preaching “Christianity and democracy,” the Southerner sees red, literally and figuratively, because the Wallace thesis is as harsh as that propounded by William Lloyd Garrison and the abolitionists a century ago. In their violent reaction to Wallace's trip, the Southerners who pelted him with eggs and tomatoes have denounced him for his Communist friends and sympathies as well as for his views against the segregation laws. Mr. Wallace feels that the anti-Communist and the racial taunts spring from the same Southern fear that “foreigners” .or “outsiders” are plotting to undermine the South's “peculiar institution” of racial segregation,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

MS 508 BY JOA Sack, MGT. 5. OO OT "Oh, Dad. | just thought of something "old and’ borrowed we could use! Can we take your car on our honeymoon?"

Clark Foreman, a Georgian who is treasurer of the Progressive Party, and who has been fighting sggregation for 20 years, says anyone who advocates the enforcement of the civil rights amendments to the Constitution (the 13th, 14th and 15th) is automatically regarded in the South as a Communist.

The tension between the United States and

- the Soviet Union has increased the anti*Com-

munist feeling ih the South, as it has in the rest of the nation. But most observers agree that the tremendous hostility to Wallace is based primarily on the racial issue.

Hated Wallace From 1944 THE SOUTH hated Wallace at the 1944 con-

vention of the Democratic party, when he made

a smashing demand that the Democrats enact an aggressive civil rights program. Mr. Wallace and his party, their suitcases filled with tomato and egg-stained clothing, wound up the .one-week Southern campaign Saturday night in Knoxville. The third candidate for President feels pretty good about his junket. Mr. Wallace probably would not go so far as Mr. Foreman, who describes this trip as “the greatest blow against slavery since the emancipation proclamation.” But he certainly believes that the ¢ivil rights issue has been dra‘matized to the nation, and that every egg and tomato, every police attempt at segregation, has helped to put his story across.

Claims to Have Gained Votes

THE WALLACE BACKERS profess to believe they have won some votes in the South. But most political observers in Dixie dismiss this claim as baseless. - The opinion of Southern liberals and middle-of-the<road observers is that Wallace has helped the Dixiecrats by inflaming a resentment that already had been deepened by President Truman's civil rights program. Mr. Wallace in his Southern radio addresses, and in public appearances where he was permitted to speak, has emphasized the role of “Wall Street” in the South, declaring that Nopinetn corporations were exploiting the reon . Whatever effect such an argument might have upon workers and small farmers in normal times certainly was lost in the atmosphere of racial tension in which Mr. Wallace spoke.

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Party line changed to all-out support of the war against Hitler did Bridges denounce striking. Today he is for it again. He moved to the West Coast and there led the general strike in San Francisco in 1934. For 10 years his deportation was being considered. James Landis, then dean of the Harvard Law School, found he wasn't

a Communist, but the FBI presented a 3000-word report to show that he was. And finally Mr, Biddle ordered him sent back to

Then Chief Justice OH ULERY Pinion ‘Biddle ruling and it was concurred in Bhi They were a minority, so Bridges stayed.

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No sooner is hg nanimously lift Berlin blockade — nanimously Ut the Berlin blockade Ami Chinese diplomacy and us is immediately foly lowed by demanding con of rd : colonies and just what OE ie plan put upon the so naive American deceptance is not quite clear yet—no will be as potent, ; I ienvible- that we as the bastion d A democracy with a historical k maintaining a shrewd diplomacy equal to the occasion have become so committed fo a show of military might that we are dependent upon that evening the score, or have we like ali civilizations begun ‘the descent. to the eubservience of a third-rate nation? Either course is equally as damning and the significant point is that instead of the so desirable peace we are hastening a war and putting ourselves at a disadvantage begin with. Have we lost all semse of preservation that we cannot hold so a regime to modern international practice through its normal trade And haven't we economic sense enough to know that allowing the economics of a dictatorship committed to barter and trade and now dome inating practically the European continent would ruin any economy based upon the prace tices of modern civilization? The next economic conference should open conference is

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a 1 Don’t Agree 1 By Richard Lee Hammer, 1558 Park Ave. I have always enjoyed | and believe in your policies, but that I must take issue with your editorial, “Mixing Public and Private Business.” To be true, the cone troversy among Republic Steel, the Kaiser Frazer Corp., and the government-owned Cleve« land blast furnace illustrates some of the diffi culties that can arise when public and private business have to be unscrambled in one plant, but I cannot accept the conclusion to which you arrived. “Transition of an entire industry from public back to individual private ownership might involve more strains than the economy of a country could stand.” Would you tell the people of Europe, the ones that have lived under the yoke of dictator ship, where the industrial occupations are all owned by the government, not to risk turning these industries back to private ownership, be~ause their countries might not be able to stand the strains involved? It is hoped that the enemies of free enterprise in Europe will not use this idea. ¢ & ¢

‘What Are Renters Going to Do?’ By a Brightwood Reader of The Times In answer to “What again” in rum: I appeal to rent control to try to in its power‘to help us. Here is our p We live In a double on Rooseve , daughter on one side of a Soule, I on the other, Now we have a 60 days' notice to. give: sion as they want to remodel the house into three-room apartments for $50 a month, Wa have each one been In this place right at 12 years now. We have to move as he wants more money. What are poor renters going to do? I am on relief and have two boys, also get help from welfare. It is my prayer that we have more power at rent controls

* o @ ‘Accepted Everything 80 Years’

By A. R. Sommer For 80 years er rier Democrats and lately the New Dealers gladly accepted everything in the way of votes that the States Righters could offer. But now when they discover the Republicans playing that game, one of our local radio comics comes up with the news that these same States Righters are horrible bigots and to play with them would be an invitation for the KKK to revive. How comé?

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Bring 'Em Down By Housewife ? I have been reading for a long time about how bountiful and cheap crops would be this fall. Well, fall is here and I amr still waiting for lower prices.

If the government would not spend our tax

cost of $125 million, at current or replacement back and revised. The Chin tions, spare parts, big guns and raw mat Now, they say, they may be forced” to to cut even deeper in order to have’ suongh money for the rifles and bullets they need above everything else Military ala to China contrasts with the gram for Latin America. material has been Soid So

money to keep prices up, we might have a lite tle easier living.

GIVE US GUNS . . . By Jim G. Lucas Chinese Hope Fades | For U.S. Arms Aid

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—Chinese hopes of equipping their hard-pressed army and air force with a $125 mil SE ee ny $125 lion American The first of a series of “availability reports” from the U Army were sent to the Chinese military mission last week. They were the result of searches started by the Army after President Truman ordered it to see which cf its own stocks were available for China or, if necessary, to place orders for new equipment for

The Chinese say their greatest need is for small arms and ammunition. Surplus ammunition sold to China in May by the Foreign Liquidation Commussion is almost exhausted. China's own munitions industry cannot supply a 200-divison army.

Paid on Replacement Value :

THE U. 8. ARMY is reported to have told the could spare several million rounds of ammunition Chinen hundred thousand rifies and small machine guns, ut charge their “replacement value.” n many cases, a Chinese source said, that price is times their original value. several market price, since replacement must come later, after prices have gone up even more. But the Chinese cannot buy on the open market in the quantities they require. Thus, they must buy, + from our Army on its terius. All availability reports have not been tlirned over to Chinese. Until the whole price list is on hand,” the Chin cannot decide what they vill buy and in what quantity, remainder of the reports have been promised next week.

Prices Cut Ability to Buy

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