Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1949 — Page 34

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Telephone RI ley 555) Give LAnAE and tha Penis Will Pind Their Dun Way : JOHN L LEWIS calied off his coal strike yesterday. Because of it Indiana coal miners have been “entirely out of work for 52 days. Before that they had been out of work two days a week for 12 weeks . . . 24 more days. A total of 76 days of no work, and no pay, for every coal miner. _ Miners’ wages run from $14 to $18 a day.

least $1064 in cash. What did he get for his $1064? He got nothing. He is ordered back to work today for exactly what he was getting when he quit, and could have been getting for the 76 days he hasn't worked. What did he hope to get out of this sacrifice by himself ~and his family? 3 . He doesn’t know. Mr. Lewis has not eyen yet said what the strike was for or on what basis coal miners could work. "He now savs there will be another strike in thrée weék¥ unlegs the coal operators meet his terms. But he has so far refused to tell them what his terms are. '

~ " . » IT MUST, by now, have occurred to a good many coal miners, as it has to the rest of us, that all this doesn’t make very good sense. ... Whether or not he agrees with it, anyone can under. ##tand a strike to back up a proposal or a demand workers : consider important to their interests. But there wasn't any ; There was no proposal . made in behalf of miners. . There was just a man saying to America® “I've got a * corner on coal. You must have coal to live. I've got all the coal supply of this whole country. What am I offered for it?”

A NUMBER of men. in. times past, have tried to get a “corner” on some ‘vital necessity . . . to get possession of all the supply of wheat, or corn or sugar or some other commodity or service without which people might starve or suffer... +80 that they could dictate their-own-terms to this country. No one ever quite succeeded, before. Those who tried usually wound up bankrupt. Usually hundreds of thousands of innocent bystanders suffered, ‘oo.

-....were enacted to forbid them. ! Perhaps because no one “then even dreamed a lébor union might ‘be misused to achieve a monopoly, labor unions were exempted from those laws, | But not exempted, it is Spperent, ‘from the. other “risks involved. :

SO FAR, this “corner on eoal” has ost every coal miner in Indiana $1064 in cash . . . around $300 millions for all the union miners altogether. : There isn't even a good guess at what it has cost the

and the abormally warm fall it could have been a national .. disaster. - ;

“apparent reason than it began:

* of control over the actions or the policies of the head of the union.

of the United States has power to protect the people against monopolies of commodities they must have. . . or starve, ...or freeze.

to the men who mine the coal . . . as any other monopoly. And just as costly. Si nmpananoh eigeigi

& Steel Strike Lesson. REPUBLIC and Jones & Laughlin, the country’s third and fourth largest steel-making companies, have now signed new agreements with Philip Murray's CIO union. ‘Bethlehem, the second largest, gave in last week. Re Steel, giant of the industry, still holds out, but ——— predict that it, too, will sign soon, and that the smaller companies will have to fall into line,

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sight. : And one lesson that should be learned from it, we think, is that a strike is an expensive way-—and a‘poor way—to ~~ bring about adoption of expansion of insurance and pension plans in a big industry. This strike, so far, has cost the country almost six weeks of steel production, will cost more before any of the plants can get back into operation, and still more before they all can start their furiaces up again.

sa fore

IT HAS forced idleness and loss of wages upon hun. dreds of thousands of workers in the steel and steel-using industries. 4 It has threatened the whole country's prosperity. President Truman's Fact-Finding Board clearly did aot

+ strike. The board said that each company, large or small,

ing that the recommendations did nat fit its particular case. That way, if followed, would have taken time. It would have required patience. But it would have permitted pro- + ‘duction to continue, at least until failure of genuine collec- © tive bargaining might have justified rpsort to the strike weapon in some ease,

AND IT could have averted the daner of forcing some companies to adopt insurance and pension systems beyond their ability to support. That danger is real, for systems ; : which prove unsound would cruelly disappoint workers who think they mean security. ; Mr, Murray probably has won quicker results by the strike, It ds far from certain that he has. won better rehas that companies which can't afford to | be in business. But it won’

be if many vr |

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nty. § cents & y 1! ug pen 100 prt RL fy Fink |

So the strike has cost each coal miner in Indiana at

‘Near Pre-War Leve!

60 per cent.

-- ¥personal-views'. carried .in.newspaper accounts.

“with some aid from the West. Now it is being |

rest of the country, in lost jobs, in lost business, in needless | © extra expenses. Except for the accident of the steel strike |

Today, at the whim of one man, it ends, for no more |

Clearly the members of this union have no ble

But the principle is well established that the government. |:

"This a is fast as NeRpe to the reope and

So the end of the great 1040 steel strike a BETH

intend its recommendations to be enforced by an immediate |

should be given opportunity to prove in collective bargain- |

. By Marais Childs Ra oF German Comeback Seen

Production in Bombed Cities 80 Per Cent of Pre-War Level

COLOGNE, Germany, Nov. 10—Four years ago last March American forces captured this industrial city on the Rhine, War correspondents who came In with the first contingent of military government found a. stinking, smoulSaring ruin, "Half the population of nearly 800,000 had across the Rhine and the other hail existed in cellars and air raid shelters, ‘ With a firie, bold prophetic sweep I wrote at that time that Germany was finished as =n industrial nation for 30 years. Viewing the shambles of what seemed a dead city, I weit on to say that 30 years was too conservative and the question was whether the Germans ever could approach their former position. That was the current view induced by te "claims made in behalf of m™ass bombing of German cities, It was seconded by the hasty estimates of Army engineers who sald on that first day st Cologne, for example, that 90 per cent “of the city's industry was destroyed. You need to take only one look at Cologne today to see, that tids prophecy was slightly inaccurate. No complicated statistics are necessary. All you nave to do is to see the lines of cars and big trucks passing over the four rebuilt bridges to get an idea of what has happened.

GERMAN production today is said to be about 80 per cent of the pre-war level. But it must be higher than that in Cologne. Tha total output of Cologne's diverse industry was recently estimated at a rate of $320

leave the still oartially ruined centra; station. Cologne's factorias are making every coneeiv- | able product—radios, refrigerators, chemicals, machine tools. Ruins are still conspicuous inthe business and residence areas. The nearly 600,000 inhabitants are desperatély short of housing although apartments are being built or repaired at the rate of 400 a month, But the extraordinary fact is the revival of German industry of which the Rhine basin is an outstanding example. That fact lies back of the irritating, incessant argument over dismantling and, to a lesser degree, over decartelization. Increasing German competition in Europe and in the world will not make French and British industrialists any happier. Significantly enough, while German production is at 80 per cent of pre-war, German, exports are only about

Complicated Job THE question of dismantling is a complicated and touchy one. Recently when American High Commissioner John J. McCloy expressed

suggesting the need to re-examine and perhaps revise the dismantling program, he stirred a hornet's nest in Great Britain.

Certainly re-examination would seem to be essential, Even the passing observer can see | that there are phases of the program for |

“Corners” in anything were obviously such a costly menace | eliminating Germany's war potential that are to the welfare of this nation that years ago stringent laws |

anomalous and absurd. For example, a plant in Berlin was stripped once by the Russians, It was built up again

dismantled on order of the Western Allies. That particular example is brought up repeatedly by both German and Allied officials. Tt so happens that the plant makes the equipment essential to keep Berlin's battered sewage and water system functioning. |

. . » Opposite Directions | AMERICAN aid through the Etonomic Co- | operation Administration is going to construct, or reconstruct, plants to refine petroleum for the German internal economy. At the same time Germany's synthetic gasoline plants are being dismantled. Granted that the tripartite control - makes | for almost insuperable difficulties. Yet again | and again within the framework of America's | own. policy, not alone in Germany bur in the | rest of Europe, ypu come up against such anomalies. Too often the right hand is making one |

motion-while-the- left hand-moves-in- the opposite

direction, This seems to me to suggest the urgent need for a co-ordinated economic policy that will stop the conflicts and thereby eliminate the waste of energy and wealth going to contrary ends, For the overwarked Americans who are doing | the day-to.day job it is almost impossible to get an over-all view of American aims as they relate to American effort in Europe. But such a view is supremely important at this halfway paint in the attempt to build a partnership, between Furope and America. ™

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“Berlin— Jared for marrying eighth made-to-order ‘count.’ ’ Gals, this tate we aré recounting You should not discount or doubt.

C ount the score that kept on mounting Till they counted Bridgitte out.

i } { | t | Count-less woes assail poor Bridgitte, | Who just counted on allure. Counting days in jail she'll fidget, For-on that court she's secure! ' * ©

That might never ARE right. TWP haps, If right makes might. B, Cl1adianapolis.

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OUR TOWN

By Anton Scherrer

Some Thrills Here 60 Years Ago

80 FAR as I know, nobody has ever taken

the pains to analyze the tingling sensations ex-

perienced by kids who had the luck to live in Indianapolis some 80 and n more e years age. thrill we kids got by watching C. F. Schmidt's brewery horses. 1 am in a position

ity for Ii saw Mr. Schmidt's stable grow from a collection of 50 horses to something like 90 specimens. Which :i3 to say that I observed brewery expand from 60,000 barrels a year to almost double that capacity. That's some beer when one considers that Indianapolis hardly had 100,000 citizens at the time the brewery was absorbed by a British syndicate. I have limited my observations to the period prior to the absorption, for immediately thereafter I lost interest in brewery horses-—prob-ably, for two reasons: (1) Because of my in-

‘capacity to grasp the sense of an absentee land-

lord; and (2) because of the timely discovery that certain" little giris of Public School 6 also had the gift of inducing tingling sensations not unlike those of Mr. Schmidt's horses.

Started in Small Way

+ MR. SCHMIDT'S establishment, I suspect, started in. a very small way, with probably nothing more than two horses. "However, it's hard for me to ‘believe “that anything so big could have. started in such--a-baby-like,. small way. Indeed, I always nursed the notion that Mr. Schmidt's brewery was a thing complete right

from .the beginning like Pallas Athene or. who-.

ever it was that emerged clad in full armor from

"the head of Zeus. 2 Be that as it may, Mr. Schmidt's stable was .

the grandest thing this town ever had or, for that matter, ever will*have. And it was gener-

. ally so conceded because when President Grover

Cleveland and his bride visited Indianapolis in 1887, everybody took it for granted that the best way to show them a good time was to haul them around in a carriage pulled by six of Mr, Schmidt's brewery horses.“To my knowledge, nothing has ever equalled —let alone, surpassed—those six horses. They

were of the Percheron type picked for size. color.

‘and gait. Their habitual pace, I remember, ap- ,. proximated the tempo-of the third movement —-imaestoso andante) of Beethoven's Opus 26.1

never saw their majestic tempo matched by any

“other six horses—let alone; ‘human beings unless, perchance, it was the dignified, metronomic‘measured tread of Judge E. B. Martindale,

The horses had to be big and powerful not

only because of President Cleveland's huge size, |

but also because of the location of Mr. Sehmidt's brewery. It was perched on the highest hill of the South Side, the: crest of which is now

designated as the interséction of McCarty and |

Alabama streets (better known today as the vast -geographical area covered by El Lilly's plant).

Except fof that hill and its ‘steep incline, we’

kids never would have appreciated the enormous pulling power of Mr. Schmidt's horses. Even so,

the hill didn’t bring out all the stuff the horses | were capable of. That was because the horses |

never had to extend themselves — no matter whether they were going up or down the hill: On the way down when the barrels were full, the gradient of the decline helped to ease the load. And on the return trip (up the hill), the barrels were empty-—see?

Toboggan Slide

BESIDES being the most dramatic place to

locate a brewery, Mr, Schmidt's hill was also the |.

best toboggan slide in Indianapolis—at any rate, on the South Side. The grade was designed just right for a bob-sled. With no effort on our part,

we kids could start at the head of Alabama St. |

and coast beyond Delaware St. a distance of

riore than a block. And given a decent wind on our backs, we-could sometimes land pretty close

to theold J. M. & I. tracks. During ithe coasting season, it was our prac-

school and stay until darkness set in. And in 2ll that time we never saw any of Mr. Schmidt's

horses traveling up and down the hill. And then | by sheer chance, and somewhat to our amaze- |

ment, we discovered that there wasn't any Mr, Schmidt,

instead; there: was: a: Mrs: Schmidt «the: |

“WW idow Schmidt” they called: her. You bet it

surprised us to learn that a woman had to tend

to all thoge 90 horses and brew a hundred thou-

“sand barrels of beer a year.

Horses Banned

“WHEN we-got-to-the bottom of-the mystery,

we learned that it was the Widow Schmidt who had issued orders that nothing was to interfere

with our winter sport. And that was why, all |

during the coasting season, her horses were forbidden to use the hill-—necessitating the longest way round to get to.and from their stables. The Widow Schmidt's beneficent habit of closing ‘the hill to horses during the coasting

ing us kids no alternative but to believe that the

foreign outfit that finally acquired her property |

was comprised entirely of money -mad men.

Hoosier Forum

| %1 do not agree with a word that Jou so but] oi dtd 15 he da you iho

‘Prejudice Takes Over’ By “Night Nurse,” Oty. Weep for democracy, all you who love the right of free speech and who still believe In the Bill of Rights and its original intentions, for right to speak one's mind is dead and poif al prejudice ant personal grudges have tak-

, en over,

We ire supposed to be establishing & United . Nations for the purpose of". propagating peace “and unity. Show me a country in this world of today more in the undertow of distress and disunity, torn by strikes and dissention on every hand, with the formerly smooth running armed forces fighting for ‘each other's throats, and “with a general over-all feeling of insecurity, than these United States of ours. What was wrong with a Navy and an Army and &- Marisa Coepa-And-an-2ir Force thal Win t wars for us-and hel out in nume! tia The dismissal of Adm. Louis E. Denfeld was timed very perfectly, after the Cone gressmen had departed. No wonder men like the late Secretary Forrestal and our beloved Cordell Hull broke their health and their hearts, They had ‘the wisdom of many years and they also had the foresight to see what was about to .. take ‘place in the armed forces. If President Truman were at all capable of

handling the job, do you think strikes would be |

so prevalent? Such things could be stopped. Why start at the very beginning and tear down our country’s first line of defense? When a country would like to settle down and, in a

small measure, try to find some peace after -

years of war and unrest, why not go along with a strong program for defense and less sound and fury from the little men in high places in

“Washington? Why launch a program that slows

, ly but surely will result in the utter disintegra-

tion of the faith and the power built up by years ‘of deeds and a valorous tradition, leaving on'y a feeling of nothing real and nothing sacred in the hearts and minds of the American people? " Those men who died in the far corners of the earth for the Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force, did so because they loved the branch .of service in which they served. They loved the rivalry of the various branches and the puns at each other, but they had a unity of purpose, spirit and thought that this country will never again know. It matters not whether a man's opinion, 1s right or wrong or whether the President or his friends approve of that opinion or not, but if the thing he says or believes in will better improve our defense, then that man speaks wisely and should be heard, and not dismissed after. wards as were Capt. Croemmlin and Adm.

Louis E. Denfeld.

malin ‘Wouldn't Save Coal’ By Jim Bartle, Greenfield, Ind.

After having heard so, much talk about the serious power ‘shortage due to the coal strike,

I can't help but put my theory before the

masses. One of the threats seems to be no night basketball games. I happen to be an ardent fan. You can therefore understand why this thought of no games is worrying me. Elimination of night ball games or, for that matter, any form of night entertainment is certainly not a practical means of saving fuel or electric power. The average person never reads with less than a 100-watt light. At high school basketball games, for example, in our town, I would say that the average crowd at games would be from 1000 to 2000 and sometimes more. Considering that each of those persons didn’t go to theegame if they sat with the family at home they would still average using about 100 watts per person for lighting purposes. I can't imagine a family of six sitting around one 100-watt bulb or ‘even all being in the same room for more than a few minutes at a time. -Assuming that 1000 persons attended a ball game and that meant that 1000 100-watt lamps would be turned off, that would mean a saving bf 100 KWH of electrical energy, which I think would very easily light up mest of our high school gymnasiums, probably even brighter than they are lighted. As to the heating problem so far as the direct

—gonsumption-of coal is concerned, it would take -

less heat to heat the gymnasium in which the games ‘are played on the nights they were

| crowded with people than would be used if they tice to arrive at Mr. Schmidt's hill right after |

were closed up-and the heat kept at a minimum. Curbing such entertainment as movies and ball games would increase the output of electrical energy and the daily con¥umption of coal rather than curb it.

What Others Say

IT requires a year for newly wedded couples i

to get used to each other. , ,, I suppose one of the .requirements of maintaining freedom. is the public washing of linen.—Herbert Hoover, om unification’ of defense forces. ee WHETHER we want to or not . to play an important role, . There is no halfway house. . . . Either India makes good (or) she just fades away.—Prime Minister Jawahar lal, Nehru of India. i ® _® o

WE live in an age of growing self-indulgence, .

of hardening materialism and of falling moral

8 ,.standards.—Britain's Princess Elizabeth. was absorbed by a British syndicate; thus Teave"| = pe gg

them work for.the cause of freedom.—Sir Oliver Franks, British ambassador to U. 8.

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UNION VOTE . .. By Fred W. Perkins

Pension Plan Loses

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10-~While many unions are trying to wring pensions from employers, one large union has Just voted

down pensions for its own employees.

‘This is the International Typographical Union (AFL ) which ‘has about 20.000 members, } The ITU's convention in Oakland, Cal, approved the pension plan but because of some opposition threatening legal action the officers decided to put it up to a referendum of the membership. Tie complete. returns now show 43,428 against the proposition

and 20808 for,

ITU members here say this heavy negative vote is not a true indication of the union's sentiment on ‘the question of pensions for the union's employees, 6f whom only 17 would benefit imThey say the two-to-onme opposition resulted largely from the inclusion of international officers under the pension ndolph, international president, would a year If he should retire or be oustad

medjately.

proposal. Wood receive «pension of from his position.

. Salary Raise Defeated IN THE same referendum the ITU meriborotuip defeated for the third time a proposal to raise the salaries of Mr. Randolph and of Secretary- “Treasurer Don Hurd trom $10,000 to $12,000

a year.

The Oakland convention directed all ITU local unions to ask all employers for pensions-for ITU members, at ages of 60 to

65 and with a qualifying amount of service.

In arguing that the ITU as an employer should also pay pensions, Vice President Larry Taylor said if the membership refused to d6 so, “we ‘will have advertised to: the world that the members of the ITU do not believe the cost of pensions is a

propit charge against the cost of doing vusiness.”

Mr. Randolph defined the question as being whether “we are Shing Ju wis Smployass AS Ns 418 SUEDE NF veyiogens Ys &

for us.”

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LEFTIST WORKERS . . . By Bruce Biossat

Le Union ‘Civil War’?

© WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—Civil war among the nation’s electrical workers is in the offing. The CIO convention in Cleveland set the stage for it by expelling the leftist United Electrical Work= ers and creating a new union to raid UEW's membership. ’ The ouster of the UEW and the Farm Equipment Workers’ Union is the most positive action yet taken by the CIO in its mounting struggle against Communist influence. The electrical group, with 450,000 workers, was the third largest unit in the CIO. The CIO convention also- cleared the way for the dismissal of 10 other left Wing unions by authorizing its executive board to throw out any affillate which declines to. follow general O10 policy. In the past these unions have often ignored policy decisions of the parent organization, But by not ousting the remaining 10 the CIO indicated its hope that. the leaders of these affiliates may mend their ways and thus stay within the fold. The CIO is understandably r»luctant to lose the numerical and financia) strength the ona

Ouster Prosoure cb Fol

IF they refuse to accept co edicts, there 1s little - Yomt that ouster will follow. President Philip Murray is now grongly committed to crushing communism in his federation. It was no easy choice to eject the electrical, union. That the convention chose to do sn» means simply that’ ar Murray is convinced that there is no way to dislodge the UEW's present red-tinged leadership. The same cap be sald for the farm tool

The decision to establish a rival electrical union is obvigualy the CIO's strategy for recouping-the money. and membership

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