Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1949 — Page 20

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Wins a Strike?

piece of legislation enacted in Indiana in the past four has been the Utilities Arbitration Act of 1947. t provides a fair and just way to settle any labor disv an Indiana public utility—such as your water, tele. electric lights, or streetcar company-—without a ~ strike, after everything else has failed. Ree the rights of labor completely. And it

protects ple of every community in this state against ; suddenly being witheut water, or electricity, or transporta- . tion——or any of the essential services without which life in most cities could not long go on.” : two years in which it has been on the statute books it has been used eight times—six times by labor unions, twice by employers. Four of the disputes have been finally settled—two by wage increases as a result of arbi tration, two by a t between unions and employers. "The other four are still in process of settlement. 5 tial strikes that have been avoided. Strikes that would have affected nearly every community in Indiana, strikes that would have cost union workers millions ¢ lost pay, and that would have cost the people of the affected communities and workers entirely outside the union engaged in the dispute, many times more.

NOW the Legislature has been asked to Tepeal that law. ~The reasons for that request boil down to about two: . ONE: It is too expensive for a union to use its ma-

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'« TWO: It denies the “right to strike.”

Neither of them is a good reason. /

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The expense involved for a union is the cost of what.

iy any “right to strike” where striking en- . e or the health of thousands of families who have nothing to do with the issue in dispute. We do not ve ight” exists to strike against the safety, or the health, or the welfare of a whole community. ESR has no more “right” to stop such essential forbidden by law to do so for.many years. And any utility strike is against the people of the community—not against _ the employer, whose rates and profits are closely regulated

- Om contrary, this law provides an orderly, just, method of settling a labor disagreement—without loss to the union, without loss to the employer, and most of all, : loss to the public. 3 : Nobody ever “won” a strike. When there is a strike "Indiana has found a sensible way to avoid such losses. Let's keep it. '

The President’s Inaugural is PRESIDENT TRUMAN in his inaugural address spoke : * to the world. His subject was that closest to the hearts |... of all peoples—peace. In the name of the republic that “elected him, he rededicated it to international leadership for that peace of justice and fuller life.

_. of these times calls for specific diagnosis and constructive action. The President offered both.

not security, but tyranny for many and fear for most. Another aggressor has arisen. ° > Mr. Truman had the choice of blurring this issue with diplomatic evasions or meeting it head on. He challenged communism as the arch criminal. He defied the Moscow conspiracy against human decency. He buried the policy of appeasement. As one who has personally experienced the trickery of Soviet agreements and the treachery of a faithless ally, he pointed to those misled by communism—“many peoples have sacrificed their “liberties only to learn to their sorrow that deceit and mock- -_ ery, poverty and tyranny, are their reward.” ~

» r » TO SAVE ourselves and others from that slavery of body, mind and soul, the President proposed a four-fold program of action in co-operation with all peaceful nations. This constructive course would, first, strengthen the United Nations. h At the same time the United Nations must be supplemented by nieasures for economic recovery, without which political stability and military security are impossible. That -meant full steam ahead for the Marshall Plan, higher production and lower trade barriers, he said. _ Because freedom-loving nations are threatened by . Boviet aggression, military preparedness is urgently re- : The President stressed: “If we can make it sufficiently clear, in advance, that any armed attack affecting aur security would be met with overwhelming force, the armed attack may never occur.” Finally, he urged a bold new program for sharing our scientific advances and industrial progress with underdeveloped areas, where more than half the world lives in poverty. In place of the old imperialist exploitation, this democratic development of the world’s human and natural resources would benefit our nation as well as the backward.

IN ouR judgment the President's ‘rounded program for meeting and defeating ‘the international Communist conspiracy represents high statésmanship. It is practical. It is in the American spirit. If Mr. Truman provides this ‘leadership and if our Allies will do their share in the great "united effort, Communist aggression cannot prevail against

ithe President had emphasized it even more: “If we are io be successful in carrying out these policies, it is clear wi prosperity in this country

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ever lawyers it wishes to hire—no Most, if not all unions have lawyers anyway, had before the law was . passed, would still have thpm without the law. Even if the cost to the union was 100 times as great as it is it would z gilie Iots to that union's metubers than the cost of & ons. It does deny

Generalities, however noble, are not enough. The crisis

After the worst war in history the fruits of victory are

In Tune With the Times ~~. Barton Rees Pogue © SCHOOL-HOUSE CONTRIBUTIONS

Old beaches shade the ragged weed-choked Black Jmbe droop under rain or sleet's cruel

The school-house door once shut clear voices in, While Sa smothered, winter floors were

cold. That desk, s0 carved and scarred, once held a

y Browned by sun and wind .'. . his searching

om Loved knowledge, and now holds truths sought

by kings; A benefactor of his fellow kind. Here a blue-eyed lass had a vision come, A dream of Nightingale, and through the door She went to live her dream--gave willingly Her life for others weeping 'midst a war . .

Wombs that give presidents could give no’

more, Than this school, lonely now, where beech limbs lower, : :

* oo 0 REBELLION "Betcha I will when T get big, Betcha, I will!

I'll wear pink, not. blue, And A great big frill,

“I'll wear laces and perfume, nad Fly curls, "Stead of plain old ginghams _ Like all of the girls, “I hanke® for picture Dats, Curly feathers a-brim, Sweeping dresses so elegant, With laces to trim, :

“Just wait till I'm grown up, , _ A picture I'll be, . I'll wear what I've chosen, Just wait, you'll see!” ~JOSEPHINE BUCK. Westfield.

YESTERDAYS

In the valley of sweet memories _ There's a little, vine-clad shack, And the roses o'er the open door Are calling, “Please, come back!” 80 along the road of yeBterdays I am going home once more, Where the Indiana sunshine Writes its welcome on the floor.

Though years have come and passed along, Down the trail of life, until \ Age has told the old, old story, Yet in fancy I see still Down the dusty lane of evening For me waits a life of ease, If 1 could turn the pages back To the vale of memories. -GORDON OLVEY, Noblesville. ® oo o :

. "ALL ABOUT | T11 set the scene to show you Where and when I like to write . . .

ugly tucked in bed,

1 terse, d if you are a friend of mine You may turn up in verse. «DOROTHY " PARKE, Indianapolis.

MAKE A START AND STICK You've got to make a start and stick, You'll never make a fortune quick— Unless rich uncle's awful sick.

‘The guy who wins? The guy who works!

And never quits like lazy jerks, No matter how temptation lurks,

Sure, change your job if it is wrong, But don’t be loafing very long, For it's the work that makes you strong ... You've got to make a start and stick, Find what makes the business tick, The book of learning’s very thick! -LUIS B WRENS, Indianapolis. 4

- ALL DONE?

A famous Doc says when a man Gets three score years and ten, He'd just as well get off the earth For he's no use here then.

Now this will do for some young folks, To them it might sound fine. But what about us fellows who Are crowding sixty nine? «FRED H. AUSTIN, Bloomington.

ONCE UPON a time, in this space, I'submitted a little piece concerning Emmett Rice (of blessed memory) and how his eyes popped the day he found the forgotten Crown Hill grave of Alexander Ralston, the surveyor who laid out the original City of Indianapolis in 1821. Today I know a little more about it—enough, indeed, to reveal the story of the removal of Mr. Ralston’s remains from Greenlawn Cemetery to Crown Ha a graveyard designed in

In March, 1878, after the question of the removal of Mr. Ralston’s remains had been over a period of several months, the agitation finally reached the council; with the result that a committee of Calvin (Cal) Darnell, Henry Gimber and Fred Battine was appointed to locate the grave of the surveyor who died wdy back in 1827, Ex':umed Wrong Skeleton ALMOST immediately after their appointment the committees accompanied by several old citizens - went to Greenlawn . They had been able to gain only vague information concerning the exact location of the grave, and acting upon such advice they exhumed a skele-

apparently, prided himself on his intimate knowledge of the bony structure of the human male) pronounced the skeleton that of a Negro. * The disinterred remains were returned to the grave with all possible reverence and the earth restored.’ Realizing that the job of finding Mr. Ralston was a lot more complicated than they had thought, the committee then went in search of clues. Finally somebody suggested that, inaybe, George Norwood, who settled here in 1819 (and who was the first wagon-maker in Indianapolis) might be able to shed some light on the subject. Chairman Damen found the aged pioneer, then 89 years old. : ; “Do I remember Aleck Ralston?” exclaimed Mr. Norwood when Mr, Darnell brought up the subject. “Why, he was one of-the best friends I ever had in all my life. While he was laying out this very town, he lived at my house and stayed with me long after he made up his mind to remain here altogether.” “Do you remember where he was buried in Greelawn Cemetery?” asked Mr. Darnell,

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“Well, why shouldn't I? I took care of his grave for more than 40 years. Why man, I never missed a Sunday, rain or shine, going to Ralston's grave except when the cold weather made me stay indoors as I got old and rheumatic. Of course, I know where Ralston’s grave is. I'll tell you just how to find it. You go up to the burying ground, walk about 40 paces southeast from the gate and behind a little hillock you will find the grave. Right at the head of the grave you will find a spice

Looked Like Human Giant

NEXT DAY by appointment the committée met at Greenlawn. Following Mr. Norwood's instruction to the letter, a grave was found and, sure enough, at its head stood an old and gnarled spice bush, : From the grave was removed a skeleton that had all the marks of a human giant, The skull, too, was unlike anything ever seen around here and, right away, there were many skeptics who believed the committee had been fooled a second time. And because skeptics are articulate as a rule, they let their doubts be known. Chairman Darnell went to see Mr, Norweod again, this time to ask whether he could remember any distinctive marks by which Mr.

“Ralston could be identified. ;

“Well, I should say so,” exclaimed the 89-

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served, for here the People Speak in Freedom. ‘No Home Loans, Why?

have given up in despair after answering the ads that state “G.I. and F.H.A. home financing,” etc. Just try to get a new home financed today. Of all the runarounds and talk and lame excuses you will hear! truth is that the loan companies, that so many have come to lean upon to help in their finaneing, do not want to make either G.I or any

that this reduction will boomerang to the w of the purchaser, The purchaser of a new home, especially today when a new home needs .&nd means so much more than just the four walls of our grandfathers’ time, is too big an undertaking for most of us without borrowing. We need many more new homes. Not only the desperate, but also the improperly housed. They must be properly financed. If the present loan

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‘A Devastating Economy’ By Clarence Love, Marshall, Ind.

were an aggrandizement of some small business, There are two schools of thought on this _ Subject. First, free individual enterprise is an economy where trained competent and experienced individuals with an hdequate amount of capital has a chance of success in business. Second, fred monopolistic enterprise is an economy where - capitalists fear the risk is too

ments to leave them alone in forming large monopolies and international , that have

the world with their boom and bust and war at regular intervals. It is economy that is robbing man all over the world of their self independence, liberty, social security and pursuit of happiness. The complacency shown by an educated people of this devastating economy that is leading to world chaos is disgusting. g

What Others Say—

THERE Is either going to be a third World War or a great era of peace. But there isn't

Now that building of new homes has slowed :

companies cannot or will not make the loans,’

Free enterprise is always referred to as if it’

great for individuals to take and ask govern-

become a cancerous growth to society all over

year-old pioneer warming up his subject. “Aleck | 8oing to be any depression because the Ameri- “Oh, of © was exactly 6 feet 1 inch tall. One shoulder | can people just won't have one. The people naturally!” I hung a little lower than the other. But what | have made up their minds and that's that. you mean?” couldn't be mistaken was the formation of his So I wore a

head. Right over the eyes the forehead bulged out, it seemed to me as much as an inch, and from that line the forehead sloped right back, slanting straight, to the crown of his head which was high”

Skeptics Shut Up THAT BETTLED it, with the result that the skeptics shut up. What's more, they never were heard from again. 2 ; As for the first grave the Council committee

+ dug up, Mr. Norwood cleared up that mystery,

too. He said it was the grave of David Mallory, a Negro who back in 1821, set up the first barber shop in Indianapolis, Aleck Ralston was one of Dave's best customers, said Mr, Norwood. : Nor does it detract from today’s story to learn that George Norwood was the great-great-grandfather of Ralph, who now presides over L. Strauss & Co., Inc,

former Congresswamat om Connecticut. IN the long run, labor can gain only as American industry itself continues: to prosper and expands. —<Charles E. Wilson, president, General Electric Co., blasting the CIO national program as being “nakedly socialiniie,” £ . & @ “

. YOU can’t hog-tie that little guy, Dan Cupid. And if he shows up in between a boy and a’ girl in a busy officé, nobody can do much abqut it. ; ~—Ruth Sachs, New York radio personality, lecturer and author. > * ¢

I THINK expenditures can be cut sufficiently 80 there would be no need to increase taxes

*| that is, if the administration has a will to do so.

Sen. Styles Bridges (R.) of New Hampshire.

DREAM OF LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins

New ‘Annual Pay’ Plan

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Labor-union forces which have been campaigning for the “annual wage” or guaranteed annual employment were surprised today by a congressional move that

may help to make-their dreams come true,

It was a bill introduced by Sens. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R; Mass.) and Brien McMahon (D. Conn.), to require government contractors to hire workers on an annual basis and guarantee them at least 1200 hours (40 30-hour weeks) in the year. This would be done by amending the Walsh-Healy Act which prescribes minimum wages, a 40-hour week, and other conditions beneficial to workers on government contracts. Sen. Lodge, one of the younger and “progressive” group of Senate Republicans, said the bill had not: been instigated by organized labof, although he pointed out that union leaders

many times had indorsed the principle. Example for Industries

IF THE bill becomes law, he said, “it will provide guaranteed annual wages for all who work for firms having contracts of more than $10,000—surely a large sons. It should set an example for other industries and thus

spread the guaranteed wage.”

The bill goes to the Senate Labor Committee, which has

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DIVIDING LINES . . . By James Thrasher

‘Middle Class’ Limits

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—8ince Nov. 2 quite a lot of peop'e have said that they voted for Mr. Truman because they knew just where he stood on every issue. ness didn't end with his victory, either. people where he stands on the subject of the middle class. We're obliged for the information, because it has always been hard to recognize the dividing lines in our classless society. We've heard a lot about the common man from Henry Wallace, But just who is he? they live and work? never found out. We've had the same difficulty with the same questions about the middle class. This term, unlike the term common man, is not largely one man's property. What it means depends on who

The President's forthright. For now he has told the

How many of him are there? Where do How much money do they make? We've

Not All the Answers WE'VE HEARD ABOUT “the great middle class” when the speaker obviously meant that it was the .slightly conservative backbone of the nation and of the private enterprise system, We've heard others use the term when they were clearly thinking of the middle class as a mass of statistical anonymity, Mr. Truman hasn't answered all the questions about this segment of our society. But at least he has put it in its economic

~—Clare Boothe Luce, author-playwright,

~ But there is one all-important qualification. We wish 1

been requested to refer it for study to the Labor Department and other agencies. The annual wage has been the subject of many previous studies, with practically unanimous agreement that it would be a good thing for everybody if it could be made to Shute generally. Eric Johnston, when he was president of the U, 8, Chamber of Commerce, was one of industry's main boosters for the plan. . The C10, particularly through its United Steelworkers and United Automobile Workers, has been actively’ the idea for several years, The AFL, while been so aggressive and has pointed qut that the plan might be hard to.apply in the building trades, which work largely on a seasonal basis. |

C 'grantee on 52 Weeks

. THE government has attempted to encourage the annual wage idea. The fair:labor standards (wage-hour) act grants a partial exemption from its overtime-pay requirements to companies entering Into agreements with unions to guarantes continuous employment for 52 weeks and linxit hours to 2080 per year. According to reports of wage-hour administrator William R. McComb, this provision has accomplished - the desired results because of “lack of flexibility.” Official estimates are that less than one per cent of all .the country’s many workers enjoy the benefits ]

117 llc : 40M, 1949 BY NEA SERVICE. IN... W, Web, 1 & FY. OW. Dn “I'm surprised at you, George, picking on a smaller boy—you get right up and come home with me this minute!”

Barbs—

It's stylish to wear a four-in-hand, says an advertisement. And not so bad to have a Jaan hungmg on your neck, eh, boys?

Too much time is spent wishing for things we could have “if we didn't spend so much Hme wishing.

What we used to apénd, but don't now, is nobody's business.

place, For where would the middle class belong except in the middle income tax bracket? Thanks to the President, we now know that the middle bracket includes those who made from $6000 to $25,000 or $30,000 a year, ? We would have guessed that the middle class income at a slightly lower figure. But that is because we are still clined to think in terms of the notstoo-distan was quite a respectable annual income, I quite a bit of that six thousand left even after the butcher, grocer and the Collector of Internal Reven 2 Why, you could even buy a pretty.

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it may seem, that in this happy tncome bracket thers is still yom skimmable cream which the tax man will go to work on, if Mr. Truman has his way. - © \ : & g

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