Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1949 — Page 10

“WE CANNOT afford to lose this ‘sion, “must be prepared to this fact log-rolling Senators and Representatives portunity to put the operation of the on fing rg A So help thie pet. agencies escape fearganicient basis.” i © escape iiza + 34 50 TAY ‘ave pisied & grind Job, Tat-fie soa} bests So says the Hoover Commission's final ~ done in the past.” : barely begun and only the hardest, : . report, just handed to President Truman But Congress seems determined to most persistent fighting can make the | — z and Congress. And so says almost every- make it easy, rather than difficult, for most of the great ty. © Ownes sna a ad Times Pudiisn- | body. ‘ ; amt ee wir K s = 8 Ga mal i pai Leth ni aon. NES Sarv. For the commission's two-year study lud M Out’ 3 fa ; : orion aly of the government's executive ch has, Inc u a e ut . - Sy arty, oe eek | been by far the moat thorough ever un- : ; i Sunday only. 06 Ml reed in indians dertaken. Its reorganization proposals JUsSr | Sher star 8 5. pow woos. Saints "s20 are the product of careful consideration

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. Tobin and the Laundry Strike 'N line with The Times’ policy of giving full and fair ex- | “pression to all sides on all disputed issues, we are happy . to publish in full the statement of Daniel J. Tobin, general * president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers (AFL) on the current laundry strikes here. ~ # It appears on Page One, ¢ Mr. Tobin prefaces his remarks with the . thatt : a +" “1 have not been tions.” That, we believe, the rest of his statement makes ob-

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“very well informed on local situa.

£ [Ba "8 B» “ MR. TOBIN firmly denies that the Teamsters have a policy of “raiding” other unions, or that they have done so. - - Perhaps he is not aware that Teamsters union organizers, qver a period of months, right here in Indianapolis, have tried to “organize” the members of the American Newspaper Guild (CIO), have demanded that employers abandon contracts that have successively been made with that union for more than 10 years, and are still in force, and make contracts with the Teamsters union to cover the same workers—or that they were continuing in such efforts until ordered to stop by the National Labor Relations Board on April 24, 1940—just a month ago. Ifitisnot a planned policy it is at least a common practice.

AE ss» 8 eo 8» : TOBIN insists that the laundry contract was “submitted to our (Teamster’s union) membership” and that they approved of it. . We never doubted it. Teamster’s union membership, even today, among the workers in the laundry industry in Indianapolis is less than one out of ten of the workers covered by this “contract” according to the claims of the Teamsters themselves. "Shere is not even a claim made public by the other two nk involved that they had any members ‘employed in the industry before the “contract” was signed. "Mr, Tobin himself states that “for 42 years the laundries in Yndianapolis have been almost totally unorganized with the exception of a few union drivers.” EE Yet this “contract” provides forced membership of 3000 “workers in one or another of these three unions—which these workers had not been willing to join of their own

3 gor . 8» # ss 8» ©. ¢ WE are not greatly concerned about the terms and conditions of a labor contract as long as they are openly and freely agreed upon by workers and ‘employers. | ie That ts what collective bargaining tsi tii There is no evidence that any collective bargaining

z i took place in the making of this laundry ‘eo ho E of ~The wérkéfs were given no cholce of Lalod. sober ship, or of bargaining agents, or of the terms of the agree-

‘ment by whieh they were to be bound. Nor are we at all concerned about which union workers may choose to join—-so long as they join willingly, of their own free will, and without threats or coercion. > ‘his deal—on which we sincerely hope Mr, Tobin really was “not very well informed" —is quite clearly nothing at all except “mass organizing” by coercion from employers abd unions of unwilling workmen—a bad labor practice so far out of the past that Wwe believed it had vanished enLT Far from advancing what Mr. Tobin says is the Teamsters’ objective of eliminating strikes, this one has already provoked a serious strike—as anyone might have expected it would. . » And so it becomes the concern of all employers, and all workers, and ali the people of this community. :

” J INDIANAPOLIS for years has enjoyed the best union-management-labor relations of any major industrial city in this country. ' "We have had that kind of relations because employers "and unions have been willing to co-operate and work together with fairness and understanding, and because union leadership and industrial leadership in this community have both been of the highest calibre. i" We have been free from racketeering, and we have been free from needless strikes and senseless oppression of workers. “It has paid off in our employment picture, in new industries which have chosen Indianapolis and brought new jobs here because of it, and in prosperous workers. We consider this laundry deal, and the implication it contains, the most serious threat to that situation which this city has ever confronted. ° If it is not in harmony with the policy of the union of which he is the head, we suggest that Mr. Tobin stop it.

~ Low Government Salaries i 3R. RALPH J. BUNCHE, the American Negro diplomat * “ who as Unite tions mediator brought peace to troubled Palesting, has declined an appointment as Assistant Secretary of State. . "He told President Truman he preferred to remain in his present position. He also said that, as the father of three children, he could not afford to exchange the United Nations salary and allowances of $14,000, tax-free, for a $10,000 taxable salary from the State Department. 4 'This is something for Congress and the people to think

about. bo © | We shbuld have the best possible citizens in the more responsible positions in government. Yet, unless better salaries are a choice must be made between the ently wealthy and relative mediocrity,

’ i se 8 0 “0 8 THE House of Representatives this week killed a-bill {hat would have increased salaries for the higher ranks and ides in the Armed Services, in the face of knowledge that o services are losing some of their best officers to higher ries in | industry. The excuse was that recruits

Battle to Curb Waste Still Ahead

by more able and informed minds than are ever likely to be devoted to the subject again in our times. Yet there is a grave danger that this opportunity, or most of it, will be lost because, as the commission points out— “It is natural to expect vigorous opposition to reforms from agencies and groups, each of which approves heartily of reorganizations that do not affect its own immediate interests.” s 8 EVERY government de nt and bureau recognizes the need for bet. ter organization of the whole government, to increase efficiency, to curb waste, to save taxpayers’ money, But almost eve department and bureau feels that it should be an on. And each department and bureau has friends in Congress, and supporters out over the country, who can be rallied to protect it from change or loss of size or nution of power. “Congress,” says the Hoover Commis.

MEDICINE . . . By Charles T. Lucey

More Cash for Health Argued

Public Seen Spending Too

Much for Other Things WASHINGTON, May 28—Both sides in the

* battle over a proposed compulsory health insure

ance system agree the American public is spending too much for things other than medical

care. a they're in disagreement how to remedy

Testifying before the Senate Labor and Pubs lic Welfare Committee, Dr. Louis Bauer, representing the American Medical Association, said “The American people spent only 4 per cent of their income on medical care, not because they did not have more to spend but because they preferred to spend 96 per cent for other pure

Americans, sald Dr. Bauer, have decided they can afford one and a half times as much bol for whisky and for recreation as for medicare.

‘Reactionary’ Answer

THIS has been regarded as the “reactionary” answer to administration proposals for a pay roll tax to finance pay-in-advance medical care, Why fsn’t it okay for a man to take on a few beers of a Saturday night? Or for the ladies to get their hair fixed? So went the argument of those who sald such spending was none of anybody’s business—that the fact was the U. 8. needed more medical care and that a compulsory system is the way to get it. But along comes Prof. Beymour Harris of

Harvard, represent Action in urging the Senate for the Thomas Murray « Wagner - Pepper » "Chaves - Taylor s"M¢Grath « Humphrey come Cpuisory health’ insurinde bill, “The program,” said Prof, Harris, “is one for achieving a better distribution of expenditures for medicine and an increased outlay. the country can't afford to allow private choice to determine total outlays on medicine any more than it does in education.” "

Little Regimentation

PROF. HARRIS said earlier there would be no harm in a little regimentation, For 30 years as a teacher, he said he had been subject to a kind of “regimentation” to which doctors would be asked to submit under a compulsory program. Probably no more challenging testimony will be placed in the record of the current plan hear« ings than that of Prof. Harris. He contended the old and noble virtues of saving and frugality were pretty much nonsense. Thus he saw compulsory health insurance as helping to achieve the aid he had in mind-— people wouldn't have to put aside money to take care of possible illness. Hence they could spend

committee to plump

+ » An Editorial

PARIS, May 28--The issue before the Foreign Ministers’ Conference here is whether the American taxpayer, in addition to carrying the Mar shall Plan load for 19 countries, is going to sub sidize the Soviet German zone and, indirectly, Russia. y Or, as the Germans used to say before the East-West split, “America feeds the German cow and Rugsia milks her,” Of course the diplomats here don’t put it in such understandable words. aan ing of economic unity of all Germany ch Russid wants is for the Allies to build up the Eastern Zone already stripped by Russia, and also let her fatten on the Western Zones which the Allies have restored at a great expense. The kind of economic unity the Allies want is a normal restoration of business and trade on the basis of political freedom to get Germany off the dole.

Red Zone Liabilities

THE Allies have no intention of sharing the present liabilities of the denuded Soviet Zone without at the same time making use of its potential assets. . Even if the three Western Powers were willing to accept the Russian plan—which they are not—the Soviet Zone could not be revived that way. Not only foreign aid is required but even more important are creative effort and hard work by the Germans. And the Germans will not give those essentials unless they have the responsibilities and freedoms accorded in the Western Zones. It's a difference between free labor and slave labor. The fact that the Soviet Zone is bankrupt

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while Western Germany industrial production

BIG FOUR PARLEY . . .By Ludwell Denny

Reds Seek Aid for German Zone

+. but he offered generally accepted estimates as

jumped from 34 per cent of pre-war in 1946 to the current rate of 90 per cent is not the only rub in the unification problem. There are the added barriers of Soviet owner-

ship in the Eastern Zone and Soviet reparations

demands—both huge liabilities. Russia has grabbed ownership of basic industry in her zone—while the U. 8. has been pouring more than $1 billion yearly into it. U. 8. Secretary of State Acheson could not present accurate figures because Moscow refuses to give them, . follows: Though Soviet ownership is perhaps only onethird of all industry, she has at least 90 per cent of the fuel, 100 per cent of automotive and 78 per cent of other transport and about 85 per cent of the chemicals. : =

Holding Industry as Loot

HOW can there be economic revival in the : Fastern Zone, much less unification with Western economy, with Russia holding the basic in« dustry as loot? In addition, Russia demands $10 billion in reparations at pre-war values which means more than $15 billion. She says that was promised to her at Yalta, but the Allies deny it. Anyway, she already has taken untold billions from Germany and refuses to tell how much. A year and a half ago the British estimated it at a minimum of $7 billion and the Americans thought it was nearer $10 billion. The only place Russia. could get additional billions would be from the American taxpayer in subsidies to Germany. After the billions America already has put into Western Germany to revive devastated industry there is still a $1

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but } wil defand tn tha death vour right fo say B®

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permit no deviation whatsoever, which is to destroy all religion, away individual rights, and abolish all democra principles from the face of the earth. Every investigation into Communist active ities, every confession of ex-Communists, and every record secured by the FBI has shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that the entire set-up has been and is now being engineered” from Moscow. ne Sandy will receive no criticism from the Come munist Party leaders for lieing for that is not only permissible but advocated by them. To quote Lenin's statement taken from the ABC’ of communism: “Everything is moral that serves the Communist Party.” Sandy is running true: to form. : P ar He further states; “You should study a little: bit of history and see what has happened to’ the rights of all other people after the Come munists have been deprived of theirs.” What: rights is he speaking of? The Communist Party permits no rights of the individual. But here is what happens to critics of communism in Russia Botoning to the Literary Digest of Feb. 14, “Four million persons are toiling miserably in Russian prison camps, clubbed by their’ guards, half starved, working from 16 to. 18 hours a day . .. the entire northern region is covered with camps of convicts, largely political or anti-Soviet.” Now Mr. Sandy wants to debate the question: ; Resolved, the Communist Party of Indiana is dedicated to the best interests and well being’ of the people of Indiana. : 3 How dumb does Mr. Sandy think we Hoosiers are? Answer: Still smart enough to know who: is doing the lieing. . He ® o

‘A Timely Cartoon’ pi Te By A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Dr, Woodruff Place Talburt's cartoon on the editorial page Tuesday night, “Free Scholarships for Communists,” is very timely. Indeed, since the President, the Judiciary, and high ranking mem-: bers of Congress have stated that allegiance to the Communist doctrine is treason, the car-' toon is also thought-provoking. a Just how much of the Communist doctrine is being peddled in the little red schoolhouse,” or in the brick and stone high schools and college campuses? And endowed with taxpayers’ money? Is this what we want, in the name of academic freedom? Do we want our citizens of tomorrow to be indoctrinated with treason, merely because we are too indifferent to probe into the question? sl Also, inasmuch as communism has been branded as treason, are not Communist os ents. of adolescent children guilty of contribute ing to delinquency while teaching their offspring: traitorous doctrines? And is it not time to shield these innocents from their ruthless pare ents? Or is it just too much trouble to think about these things now, before it is too late? ..

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY 0 BERLIN Communists can get good jobs n as strikebreakers Sug railroad detectives, - ® %

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OUR occupation of Germany has proven that. “to the victor belongs the spoiled.” prow ay ® ¢ ¢ : EDUCATION might save us if we just knew what to teach 314. haq the we : o . IT would be nice if the Big Four learned to' harmonize like other id ed i

* + o { CONGRESS is going to investigate lobbying. |

billion annual deficit.

If they find a lobbyist the members p he is likely to lose his Job, . Son's knaw!

TOO MANY PIGS ... . By Peter Edson

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Big Pork Headache #4

WASHINGTON, May 28-—There are too many pigs. This trite statement does not refer to the kind that hover around the Washington pork barrel, though it might. The surplus pig population is made up of the four-legged variety-—easily convertible into jowls, fat-back and pickled feet——complete from squeal to curly

In April, 1048, the Department of Agriculture asked farmers ngs by. at least 10 per cent, so as to bring more than 34,000,000 pigs to market in the fall of 1949. A continu.

SIDE GLANCES

has now been

the first real

ship: This session of Con the things that the

The question that i Ve ane Po mmediately arises is where the blame will!

While we shall hear a great many ch

CONGRESS . . . By Marquis Childs Democrats’ Failure

WASHINGTON, May

28 — What was a pretty obvious ¢ recognition by the Democratic 8 Tat gress is going to leave undone most. of: Democrats promised last all would be done. }

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litical punishment, if any, will be meted out. !

arges and counter-char answer will come in the congressional election pied

be held a year from this fall.

ing meat shortage was anticipated then. It hasn't worked out that way. So now, what is done with the surplus pig population will have to be decided by Congress before it goes home this summer, It Congress does nothing, the government will be forced to buy enough processed pork to keep the price of hogs from falling below 90 per cent of parity, This figures out to approximately $16.50 a hundred pounds. Total cost to the taxpayers may be ag much as a quarter of a billion dollars. And even then, the govern« ment won't quite know what to do with all this surplus pork, once it has it,

Year's Test Needed

ONLY alternative to this predicament now in sight is Becretary of Agriculture Charles ¥. Brannan's new farm plan. Depart. ment of Agriculture experts think it would cost something less, and do more good. They don't know this, The Brannan plan would have to be tried for a year, to make a real test on how it would : work. First government experiment in buying pigs to keep up prices, which cost $30,000,000, was back in the 1930's. Over the years, memory of this event has been pretty well distorted. It is now remembered as “Henry Wallace's plowing under of baby pigs.” But it wasn't a bit sillier than what the government would be forced to do under the present farm law, if the Department of Agriculture has to go into the market and support the price of live hogs at $16.50 a hyndredweight. There was a second purchase program from November, 193% to May, 1934. Two million pigs were bought then for another $15,000,000, All pigs weighing over 80 pounds and bought by the government were as dry salt pork apd given to the poor. The little pigs weighing under 80 pounds were too small to process. As one farm expert now recalls, “these were the little pigs that grew wings and flew right up to heaven amid howls of protest against such public slaughter.” Anyway, they ended up as 10,000 tons of grease and 5000 tons of rotein stock food.

Any Lesson Taught? ; | THE important point is whether this program did any good and whether it taught anyone a lesson applicable today. a tcold Hght of Riatorloal research on the subject, &' ese can be made that it saved corn by getting ahead of the 1034. drought. All those little pigs that were killed didn't have to be fed. The program also gave food to the needy. It reduced the pig surplus by more than 8,000,000 head and it raised hog prices received by farmers. In January, 1933, hogs were selling at $2.59 a hundred. At the start of the buying program they were $3.77. At the snd they ware $4.10. Jt aiao Taiseq the prides of pork for °

But it was the egaverting of those angelic baby pigs nto

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S528 COPR. 1940 BY NEA SEAVIOR M0. T. M REG. U. 8. PAY, OFF.)

“My wife is always threatening fo refurnish the house, but 1 tell her | don't want my home to seem just like this store!"

tankage that gave the program its black eye. That is what scares Department of Agriculture experts now, as they look ahead to the prospect of having to buy a lot of surplus pigs. Pork doesn’t keep forever, Two years is about the limit. Of course it could be given to’ Europe or China, at taxpayers’ expense. But if some of that surplus pork had to be dumped in the ocean, there would be an awful public uproar. It never got In the papers because of wartime censorship, but nearly 1,000.000 pounds of spoiled meat were dumped into the ocean in 1043. In 1042, the German U-boat attack cut off normal food shipments to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. To relieve the situation, War Food Administration bought pickled beef in ub. 2 it wasn't properly pickled. Bo it was salted in the Atlantio,

Think what a scandal that would have made, if the news of it had ever got out in those days of shortages and ration-

The failure is of a size and cons oann ‘ picuousn be . ignored nor glossed over. For example, not a okie measure will be enacted into law before adjournment sometim toward the end of July or the middle of ol

A sion of the 81st Congress may make " ugust. The second sede

for some of the pr failures. But in a campaign year that is not likely. present!

The Democrats have their answer. ; of Republicans and southern Do ey blatme:the ovalition;

GOP Preparing Case

THE Republicans are preparing their case about it, in the present stage at 5 rate, Op i Are gulng thoroughness and care than the Democrats. The goal is to present as strong a common front as possible for 1950. The picture to got over to the voters is of party moderation, willing to a change if it comes in reasonable form that does no violation Amerioan ipSiitl tons and a sound American economy. i man who is directing this shrewd algn Johnston, chairman of the National Ror Ca paign Committee. He gained his knowledge of practical politics in Wisconsin where he helped to engineer the election of Joseph R. McCarthy. He has been arranging a series ot oh the record lunches for press and radio with Senate leader at which the Republican position is explained and amplified. Exhibit A in the Republican picture of a party of moderation and reasonable change is naturally Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Mr. Taft's position is a measure of the extraordinary, change that has come about since the Democratic victory of last Noveme ber. Not long after that victory the leaders of the National As< sociation of Manufacturers were in such a state of depression that they agreed at a private meeting that employers would

simply have to resign themselves to. repeal of the Taft-Hartley

Change of Pace ;

BUT today, as Mr. Taft likes to point out with His grin, they are criticizing him for putting forward 3 Khpalboy which would seriously weaken Taft-Hartley. That is just what the NAM did in a recent issue of their own newspaper. The 28 changes in the law that Mr. Taft has agreed to actually do go a long way toward meeting the objections of organized labor. They soften the harshest provisions of Tafte Hartley and what is more the Republican amendments have & better chance of final enactment than any other changes in the present labor law now under consideration. ¥ As the symbol of a party that wants to present itself to the independent voter in the role of champion of the ground, Ben. Taft's re-election In 1050 becomes of paramount

wartime ing. Think what a scandal anything like that would be now, at today’s high prices. We, t+!

portance. No one is more keenly aware of this than the

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