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col ... By Fred Ww. P erin Lewis Prepares Men for Strike

Year's Contract Goals |

Outlined for Miners

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21 While the coal industry talks about tightening its methods of bargaining with John L. Lewis, he has started his campaign by telling the miners to tighten "their belts. The head of the United Mine Workers is proceeding with his time-tried tactics to get the jump on the situation, >

Come On, You Rainbow ; Chasers

Soy bie

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but |

- will defend to the death your right fo say it."

Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved; for here the People Speak in Freedom.

Coliseum Complaint Answered By Dick Miller, General Manager, - Coliseum Corp. a

I note in the Hoosier Forum Thursday, Apr, 14, a letter addressed to the editor from a person identifying himsglf as “Disgusted, City.” A subhead was written over this letter in bold type entitled “Coliseum Acoustics Bad.” The letter itself was based on. criticiSm of the recent _presentation in the Coliseum of the radio pro-- « gram “The Original Amateur Hour,” which was ; sponsored locally by both The Times and Radio Station WISH. , Officials of the Indianapolis Coliseum Corp. ‘are cognizant of similar criticism against shows of this variety in the past. We feel we have pegged the fault where it rightfully belongs

Step No. 1 is to get the nearly half-million coal miners in _ both the bituminous and anthracite fields thinking about a Set of new demands and to prepare them for a strike if necessary. Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the miners’ union, and other spokeidmen close to Mr. Lewis have outlined this year's goals at rallies in many coal centers. v Mr. Kennedy said that hours of work “should now be readjusted to stabilize production and equalize employment.” Mr, Kennedy said that many “other equally important matters” affecting “wages, welfare, health and

_ Telephone RI ley 5551 Give 14ghs and the People Will Fina Thewr Own Way

Our Dual Position on Communism

the European arms program is submitted to Congress, Sen. William F. Knowland of California will insist that our policy-makers give the Senate an explanation of our whole approach te-the world situation—China included. :

Sen. Knowland cannot-understand why we should be.| employment” would be taken up when the with the result of at least technically eliminate APEX i Es i ism i ro union's policy committee of more than 200 meets ing the Colise management from blame, i spending so wiuch money to contain communism in Europe p ng the Lt iseum BE Toh ae Exclusive

. while completely ignoring the same menace in the larger here neat Monday.

continent of Asia. ‘Tighten Your Belts’ “Sooner or later,” he says, ‘we are going to have to A SAMPLE of the toughening-up process develop a solid policy toward the Far East. I, for one, want yas Jven bY : a Inlefnatio bal to see a chance to develop free institutions there, instead of | trict. He told the miners to “save your money giving 450 million Chinese over to the Communist way of | $1 E%en ie, ur, Polly Jt, (ier J life.” 3 preparation is widespread. The {wo-week The Sefator is not alone in this position. More than Smear, siydow in March sphears to have 100 members of Congress have publicly questioned the wis- TE a Ty mMay for dom of our course in the Far East. But even written questions submitted to the State Department have not elicited a .

a general conference with operator representatives, but it is not known yet whether he will satisfactory explanation of our conflicting positions in Europe and Asia. :

other letter recently corresponding in many respects to the one penned by “Disgusted” I feel that if this critical sentiment. is prevalent that there should be a public explanation and answer, Shows such as the Original Amateur Hour have a primary purpose of reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners through the medium ,of radio. I presume that to make such presenta tions letter-perfect, these shows should emanate from a studio designed and constructed to make the presentations free of any foreign noises that might interfere in any way with perfect radio reception. It is obviously the intent and effort of the engineers who control the conditions in the originating studio or arena wherever it might be, to eliminate sounds, echoes and any other

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try to do his main dealing -with one important group and then apply the results to the others. Under previous practice, he will not make

ns a public the terms of his demands until he meets ; Boises hat ight in aur way Inieriere wha a | Liberal Trade-in Al. cirri lo Be Wiig rw ® _.. __| the operators. Sometimes he even keeps. ihe |... | perfect preseptation.of the radio program from § = -- 4%. SECRETARY of State Acheson's recent letter on the | management men in the dark Te wii dee an engineer's viewpoint. 1 am sure you realize ! [~~ Towanes on Your subject so distorted the actual record that confidence in the | meetings begin. iia that the Coliseum in Indianapolis is a very large w -

building and that you also are familiar with the fact that it has a loud speaker system with J horns mounted on an octagon-shaped gondola 5 ’ that is located in the exact center of the building. The speaker horns both high and low pitch | are pointed. .from this gondola in various direc~ tions so that sound from them will reach all of the seats in the oval shaped building as well | as toward the floor directly beneath the gon- { dola. When a radio show is presented it is usually from a stage located at one end of the building. Seats are arranged on the floor and

State Department’s position has been further impaired, and the department's leadership in the whole field of eastern affairs is being weakened. ‘ Grave errors have been made in our relations with China. Why not admit them and try to lessen the damage they have done? No one will be deceived by attempts to misrepresent the facts. It is foolish, as well as dishonest, to pretend that we have made any serious effort to

Takes Advantage

ALWAYS Mr, Lewis has tried, usually successfully, to .play one or more groups _of operators against the others. Thus he takes: advantage of the lack of unity in the business:

A ae eames: poten ine “copie: on, | POSTAL RATES . . . By Peter Edson Railroads Dodge Mail Cost Data

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companies, which mine coal only for their steel mill or railroad owners, and the “commercial” companies which produce for the general market.

Hoover and the Feder

combat communism in China. On the contrary, our policy has done much to encourage communism there. But that is all the more reason for reversing that policy now. ~~ Our_government opposes the spread of communism in: Europe. Why shouldn't we oppose it in Asia and give some encouragement to the forces there which are resisting

communism?

Be Thankful for the FBI

A MOST any issue of the Daily Worker, Moscow's official mouthpiece in rica, is full of abuse of J. Edgar Buteau of Investigation. No name is too vicious for Commies to use when they discuss the FBI and its personnel—particularly its director. » Inevery possible way the American Communists have tried to undermine and discredit the FBI. Their most effec< tive work has been done not by themselves, but by fellowtraveler and left-wing groups who have been influenced to join the campaign. Many of these critics have been sincere idealists who somehow think it is wrong to lock your doors against possible intruders.

Director Hoover has been pictured as a publicity

seeker and the G-men as interlopers in the work of the

local police agencies. These attacks have stirred up sus-

picions and ill will which have made the work of the federal

investigators more difficult to perform.

® =» = . uN. 4 NOW AND THEN a glimpse behind the scenes shows why all this hatred and opposition exists. Such a glimpse has just been provided in New York,

_in the conspiracy trial of 11 American Communist leaders.

A Massachusetts advertising man took the stand and

~ revealed that for nine years he has served the FBI as a

member of the Communist Party. All that time he had been furnishing Mr. Hoover's bureau with inside information about what the Reds were doing. There have been other similar flashes from time to

. A majority "of operators favor taking the . Initiative by entering negotiations with a set of ° proposals instead of waiting for the union to make demands. The main difficulty about that fs to get any considerable segment of the industry to agree on the proposals. The coal contract expires June 30. If there is no agreement the miners will be expected to follow their old policy of ‘no contract, no work.” Under present law, the length: of such a stoppage would depend on how long production could be suspended without affecting the national welfare,

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

A SPRING LORELEI

There's t06 much out-of-doors these days. Most generally there is. * g

Put when the oriole comes ‘round, In those college clothes of his, My write-machine says, “Quit, quit, quit.” . ~The streams say, "Come, come, come.” It's then I'd sell my work right cheap, And be a bum, bum, bum,

Oh, fragrant woods, oh, open skies, Oh, rivers to the sea, You do not calm my wanderTist, You're amorous with me, I long to yield, to follow on, Where sun and wind outpours, I quit my write-machine—I comeg— There'stoo much out-of-doors.» ~—BARTON REES POGUE, Upland. » 4 $

SPIRITED APRIL :

Oh, I would bridle April, A wild, cantankerous April... And ride her through the rain-showers, Or prance in fitful breeze; She's 80 untamed and spirited, E'en though I'd ride her calmly . . . There's a chance she'll toss me into May— Or back to March to freeze! RUTH RICKLEFS, Crawfordsville.

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson has begun two moves to make the railroads submit to a full cost analysis before new rates of payment for hayl-

“ing the mail are determined. -

First, he has just defied the Interstate Commerce Commission. In a reply to the American

Association of Railroads’ subsidiary, the Rail-

way Mail Transportation Committee, which asks for a 35 per cent interim increase in pay on top

of a previously granted 25 per cent raise, the *

postmaster general charges that under the Railway Mail Act of 1916 the ICC is without authority te grant such interim increases before full hearings are concluded, > The grounds on which the postmaster general makes his claim are that the railroads have refused to file basic data in support of the original 25 per cent increase, though they were ordered to do so, -

Defiance of Government ARNE C. WIPRUD, special counsel for the postmaster general in this railway mail cage, goes so far as to say, that the railroads do not intend to produce this evidence. Mr. Wiprud's statement to the ICC quotes the counsel for the roads’ Committee on Railway Mall Transportation to the effect that the esfential evidence “consists of payrolls. . . and calculations based thereon at the source of information.” The implication drawn is that if the Postoffice Department and the ICC want this information, they can go to some 1200 railroad stations throughout the country and dig it out themselves. Mr. Wiprud calls this defiance of the government. , Hearings on these points before the ICC has been set for May 24. A decision by the ICC is hoped for by June 1. If the decision states that the Postoffice Department must pay a second interim intrease. there are indications-that the postmaster’ general may Teéfuse to pay them, and throw the case into the courts, = ° In the meantime, Postmaster General Donaldson has begun attack on this railway mail pay issue on a second front. In new legislation submitted to Congress, the Postoffice Department has asked for a number of revisions of the Railway Mail-Act of 1916,

One revision would require the railroads to furnish the postmaster general with such in- . formation and evidence as he may request for determining proper payment for railway mail transportation. furnished, the Postoffice Department would be authorized to withhold payment until the evi"dence is furnished. LA

Review by Court

ANOTHER proposed amendment would give the postmaster general power to file suit for ¢ourt review of any ICC decision on mail pay rates, The railroads may now ask for court review of ICC decisions, but the Postoffice Department can’t. Under present schedules—established 20 and 30 years ago—the roads charge the government , the fully-loaded rate for all mail cars returned empty. Empty express and freight cars are,

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of course, moved without charge to the shipper. .

But the U. 8S. Postoffice Department is required to-pay 52 cents per car-mile for the movement of its empties. This is double the highest comparable rate of 26 cents per car-mile charged for the movement of loaded express cars. Over the past 20 years it is estimated that this charge for the movement of empty mail cars has cost the<government about $400,000,000, The government's Generai Accounting Office has now recommended abolition of the full-rate payment of empty mail cars.

Wants Fair Rates

THIS point reduces the whole battle royal between the government and the railroads to its fundamentals—which. are rates. Postmaster General Donaldson—a career man in the Postal Service—has been working desperately on all fronts to reduce the $500 raillion a year deficit of his department. He wants fair rates for services rendered and services received—on a business basis. The railway mail pay case could be settled June 1 if the railroads would co-operate on a new cost study for its biggest and best customer, which now pays the roads over $200,000,000 a year. Instead, the railroads seem to be trying to get their 65 per cent interim increase without having to show their costs,

If such information were not.

near the stage and naturally these seats sell at the highest prices. . But we have found that these highest price seats very frequently prove to be the poorest as far as human. reception is concerned. Our investigation has disclosed that when we rent the building to an organization for the presentation of such a program and include with the rental the use of the speaker system, that the radio engineers invariably “bridge” or tie in the building speaker system microphone to their radio microphone and make the one microphone serve for both purposes—both the building speaker system’ and to carry the program out on the ether waves. Naturally they use one set of controls to control both. The main thing they do is ‘attempt to eliminate or at least tune down to a very low level the sounds that come from the horns that are directed toward the stage. : 1 can understand why persons who paid the $2.40 and occupied seats near the stage or at the stage end of the arena but still too far away to hear the voices of the performers without the aid of the amplifying system, discovered that they couldn't hear very well. This was because the volume of the horns directed toward their seats and the stage had been toned down so low that they were practically valueless. M I am sure you will find persons who sat in other sections of the building were able to hear at least fairly well. Others probably will tell you that they heard the program and were satisfied. However, the management of the build« ing is not inclined to dispute these folks who write with a disgusted tone. We, too, are at the point where we feel that it might be better to refuse to lease the building to this type program if the paying customers suffer and the building and its acoustics are to be the subject of this type criticism. I am sure you as the sponsor of the Ice-O-Rama, and as a person who has attended such _ of our productions as the Sonja Henie Ice Show, the Roy Rogers-Rodeo, etc, that you were able to hear well and enjoy these productions. These shows had no connection with radio. So it might be since this criticism invariably follows. the presentation of this type radio show, that the reasons for it are those which I have attempted to outline in the preceding para-

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time, showing that the FBI has been awake to the Communist menace for a long time. ; While Moscow was building and training a fifth column to betray America in event of war, or to overthrow our government in case of domestic crisis, one arm “af. .thefederal government was alert and on guard. : "If war came it might turn out that our first and most valuable army is right here at home—the agents of the

‘SOCIALIZED MEDICINE’... By George B. Parker

A Brake on the Hypo

* WASHINGTON, .Apr. 21 — Before Reva Bosone, Democrat, went to Congress from Utah she had been a police judge. Also a school teacher, a state legislator, an expert in juvenile delinquency and the rehabilitation of alcoholics. She was named to the Utah hall of fame for work in those fields.

"BERLIN BLOCKADE .. . By Marquis Childs SIDE GLANCES

Airlift Dipl | WASHINGTON, Apr. 21 — Out of Berlin are comipg ever broader hints that the Russians are looking for some way to

lift the blockade of the U. S.-British-French sectors of the city. Naturally, they would like to find a formula that would avoid

By Galbraith

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I. This is the force which would have to overcome Moscow's fifth column in order to prevent the sabotage and

‘betrayal of our men in the Army, Navy and Air Forces.

No wonder the Commies hate and want to destroy Director Hoover and his men. They are the biggest single obstacle to the conspiracy of American traitors to make us slaves of the Soviets, ce

Land Reform in Italy PREMIER DE GASPERI is stealing some of the thunder

“of his critics .on the’ left-by announcing a land-reform

policy for the benefit of Italy's landless peasants. The land is to come from state and community holdings and over-sized private estates. The reform will aim not only at a more equitable distribution of land but also at increasing the productivity of land in general. ri Owners of estates involved in the program will receive partial payment in cash and the remainder in state bonds. Exemptions from 250 to-750 acres will bg allowed, depending upon their degree of production and. their taxable an-

nual production. These exemptions are not unduly generous

since a great deal of the-land is mountainous. Where owners refuse to sell their surplus acreage within a reasonable time, the plan is to take the land from them.

* Cost of the program is estimated at about $174,000,000..

- assignment. ) 1. including the demonstration the other day when 12,940 tons were

public confession of failure. American policy, in my opinion, far from resisting these efforts as sometimes seems to be the case, should do everything possible to help them along. The remarkable success of the Berlin airlift check-mated the Russian move to drive out the Western. Allies. At the same time it was a tremendously effective demonstration of U. 8. air power. - } i Today there are urgent reasons-—béth practical and ideologh-cal-—why the airlift should be ended. That fs ‘another way of saying it is urgent to find ‘a mutually: satisfactory formula for lifting the bloekade. : :

More Than Enough

ON THE practical side, the Air Force has had more thah ,enough of what has long since become a burdensome routine They have proved everything they set out to prove,

carried in .24 hours, that more could be transported by air than was ever moved by rail before the blockade. ~ In spite of the remarkable safety record set by the airlift, there have been losses. These losses loom particularly large in view of the weakness of this country in’transport planes. The latter have been seriously neglected both on the commercial and the military side. ° ” i Most of. the Air Force's transport planes are on the Berlin airlift. Not long ago the Air Force allocated $39.422,000 for 23 Boeing strato-freighters to. replace some of the worn-out C-b4's that have made a total of 116,277 fights since last June 26, hauling-1,0537,725 tons. IN Under intensive maintenance the C-54's have a useful life for the airlift .of 8400 hours. Maintenance is costly in an increasing ratio as the'lift goes on. = In hauling coak for example, dust sifts into the fabric of the plane and abrasion becomes a problem. The cost is no small item. The total to Mar. 25 was $137,904,200. But as the

budgeteers figure it, considerably more than half of this would

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COPR. 1549 BY NEA SERVICE. ING. 7. M. REO. U: &. PAT. OFF,

wants to postpone buying because scientists are finding ways for them to. live longer”

te business too late, dear—everybody

She had served during the war as chairman of the WAC Civilian Advisory Committee of the Ninth Service Command,

- comprising 11 Western states,

_ Such a careér should assure more than just an ordinary, knowledge of human nature, x : Apparently Congresswoman Bosone has a hunch that a kicker in the Truman health program is thé staggering cost of hypochondria. And she affers one of the most interesting suggesfions yet trotted out onithe subject. Not as the answer, Just as an idea. Something to be considered open-mindedly—to be

“patted around,” as she puts it, to see what kind of reception it

gets. :

Deductible Principle

IN SHORT, it is to apply the $50 deductible principle to the medical. program. That provision has been developed through

~ years of actuarial experience in auto collision insurance. If you

bang your car against a telephone pole you pay up to the first $50 and the insurance pays the rest of the repair costs, if over $50. Translated into “socialized medicine,” this would mean that health bills up to $50 would be paid privately and that the government would pick up only after that. Such procedure, it seems, would eliminate the hypochondriacs

‘and the millions of other calls for the doctor for everything from

hangnails to hangovers. 1t might mean the difference between society” being able to carry the job, or failing because of sheer fiscal exhaustion. The Truman program would pay for everything, Such a story as that about one health insurance subscriber couldn't be told gnder thre $50 déductible system. A physician was summoned. After a long drive he reached the “patient's” home. Said the one who called: “Oh, there's nothing wrong with me. I just heard there was a new doctor in town and I wanted to meet

him.” 3 : = Seems ‘for Free’ :

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IN ENGLAND the ‘government pays for everything.” Any=

“un "8s ; one, whether really sick or not, ca ys - OF COURSE, the total acreage available for -distribu- have Men Spent Tor salaries, upkeep and so on it there had | pact and the administration request for arms to implement it | “for free.” And up to now the Be oe ea : ] USE THI tion is so small that it will not much more than dent Italy's | The famous Churchillian phrase about the airlift demonstrat- AE Sohmiay. we will Dex Em talk, Tae Fries nine to dawn is the realization that it is not actually | problem of over-population. Only a well-organized coloniza- ing that we could stand on our head while Russia sat in an easy | cap afford to spend. Sir ‘Stafford Cripps. exche Arace ; : | BLOCK’S, Ir . a - chair applies more than ever today. Standing on one's head for If this is coupled with what a to be U.S : . : quer chancellor of the welfare tion or immigration program could do that. And the plan | an indefinite time induces paralysis or worse. |" Russian i ur to end the aT hen ary ot tay in Bis budget speech to Commons was compelled + [. = | = Please sen is not likely to silence the Communist demand for a re- Easy for Red Charges out-maneuvered in the cold war. It.will seem to the world as | have a ae ne Sia tea we) De an : tea o Ian Having no t for rt J hiss though U, 8. policy-makers had no alternative for a divided Ger- im hike in taxe® 5 2 distribution of the.land. Having respec propery THE CASE from the ideological point of view is—if anything, | many.and a divided world. - g R and basic food prices. The medical bill, first | Name enue

estimated in millions, already had attained the imposing status

that goes only with substituting a “B” for an “M.” It's billions now. : e

rights, the Communists take everything in sight and pay nothing for it. But the De Gasperi government seems to be. going about as far as a government founded.on law can

more urgent. It is becoming farrtoo easy for Moscow to document its charge that the United States is engaged in a war: mongering campaign with the ultimate aim of aggression against

« the Soviet Union.

= The profound fear in Western Europe id of another war, another invasion, and another occupation. The influence of the U. §, thus far has rested on the belief that American policy is aimed at preventing a war and securing the peace, as-in its

| Address... ..... It blew a whole flock of =

And the unpleasant truth hurt. Laborites out. and Conservatives in when 4h"

| i | | A al monger has frightened almost no one not already immersed in |

. Pos i : go toward meeting a very real problem. © The Soviet propagandists get all-too-much assistance from | broad aspects it is. ’ - shortly after the Cripps messa Slection, same : | State. Tevanes A rR y y ALS] the kind of irresponsible raving that Rep. Clarence Cannon of If that: belief is undermined by what is done and said here, 80, maybe Congresswe o was sade public, 742 : : "Co-operation of some of the Wosld's under-populated | yi our gave forth with on the floor of the House last week. | then communism will have an opportunity it has not had thus | has got ei She asks Be 3 Poe ole {ram Shrirty Ti Year Mo areas will have to be secured before the rest of it can be | Rep. Cannon talked about pians for raining down atom bombs | far. The Communist bogey of Uncle Sam as an imperialist war. | some of her do-gooding and dont agate the horses conferees, she De a solved. The Italians have simply outgrown Italy and thou- | °F ®YT¥ WOSSER CW. 0 oe RATE \ Al | doesn’t cry, “Eureka, I've found it!” She just humbly asks that - 1 Cash J in : NS he “Moscow had to do was to broadcast what he said | Communist doctrine. Let's not give the Russians the chance to | we think it over—this idea of a $50 deductible brak the self« ’ oy ‘them ‘must find new homes. Juric pen without any additions at all. During coming weeks when the ' prove that bogey has any reality. pi : pampering impulses of the human race. sm rr IX ht Ro i: » ¥ : aan ER k = as od . el ; eee ; 2 = : 5

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