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phone strike.

Strikes Postponed T 1S welcome news that the CIO union of communications workers has indefinitely postponed the nationwide tele-

The country could not have tolerated a strike success- _ [ful in disrupting, if not completely shutting off, local and

“long-distance telephone service.

against four key

a strike. Certainly th

ONE:

more jobs.

The diesels’

railroad systems.

They would do still better to call off all plans for such

e government's mediators should exert no pressure on railway managements to buy it off by yielding to the union's demand. For the demand-—that railroads employ two firemen on every diesel locomotive—is without merit. Labor Act fact-finding boards, one appointed by President Roosevelt in 1943, the other by President Truman in 1949, have so held after careful consideration. ®

" MR. TRUMAN can perform a valuable service by making it plain that he stands firmly on the report of his 1949 board, which said unanimously: That replacement .of steam locomotives by diesels, instead of blocking firemen out of jobs, is creating high efficiency attracts more freight to railroads and enables them to compéte more successfully with highway truckers. . © TWO: That two firemen are not needed for safety. Rates of train and crew accidents indicate that diesel operation (with one fireman to a diesel) is ‘safer than steam-

of its own fact-fi

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siderable.”

~ » ” ” SEN. McCARTHY charged that another known to be a Communist, was investigated 11 times in 18 months, but remained on the federal payroll until he resigned to take up active Communist Party wark. Finally, why doesn’t the President invite, indeed urge, the Senate Subcommittee now investigating Communist influences in the government to conduct a full examination of the present program so there can be an independent review of its adequacy? It has seemed to us that the administration did not want a real investigation of this

~ lgpcomotive operation,”

» - THE UNION cannot afford to outrage public opinion by afflicting this country with a costly railroad strike to enforce an unjustifiable demand that the roads provide “featherbed” jobs for unnecessary firemen. And the government cannot afford to make the Railway Labor“Act a feeble joke by promoting, encouraging or approving any settlement contrary to the recommendations

nding boards.

~~ What Is There to Hide?

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S spirited detense of his loyalty _ program before the Federal Bar Association would have

ncing had he answered some of Sen. Mc-

Carthy's criticisms of that program instead of dealing in * * sweeping generalities. ; “Not a single person who has been adjudged to be a Communist or otherwise disloyal remains on the government payroll today,” Mr. Truman said.

question the sincerity of that statement.

But we wish we could be sure that the President's information is complete and exact. Sen. McCarthy charges, for example, that George Wheeler was cleared for important. State Department work in Europe after he had been unani-

by the Loyalty Board. How could that

happen if we have an airtight security program? ~~

~One newspaper editor who attended -a session of this committee when Louis Budenz was on the witness stand with the opinion that a slipshod job was being done. —— :

= - - ‘. . MR. BUDENZ, he said, made an opening statement indicating what he expected to prove. That called logically for detailed development by a series of questions and

RAL

“But,” the editor added, “I waited in vain for such

questions came neither from those on the

committee who wanted to establish Budenz’' testimony as true or those who wished to destroy it. There were questions, yes, but not.the kind of questions which. develop.or.. . destroy the story of a witness. I have never seen-such a poor job of cross-examination.” If the administration and its supporters in the Senate

fear from a free, bipartisan investigation,

they should open it to full minority participation. The effort to keep the investigation under wraps. detracts from anything the President can say in defense of his loyalty program. He should let down the bars and. allow the facts to speak for themselves.

Two items on the same page of the Wall Street Journal

ttention.

One said that Ellis Arnall, head of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, was seeking loans from the government's Reconstruction Finance Corp. to assist minor movie moguls who rent facilities and hire stars

tures.

. The other, under a London dateline, said that of $10,500,000 loaned by the British government to the British film industry only $135,338 had been repaid. that “the financial position of the industry has deteriorated through decreasing revenue” and that “losses.may be con-

Our government would do well to profit by British ‘experience, stay out of the movie business and declare a taxpayers’ dividend if it ever has any money to spare.

The Railway ~

man, now

Sore Legislators Absent; Record of Others Not Known

‘WASHINGTON, Apr. 26—Dear Boss—Our Hoosier statesmen will be going home to vote in the party primaries next Tuesday. So will the Senators and Congressmen from Alabama, Florida and Ohio, Most of them will leave this week-end. Ar-

rangements have been made to have general

debate in the House and no major amendments to the $29 billion one-package appropriation bill until they return. The bill is under consideration in the House sitting as a committee of the whole. This means that whenever any increasing or decreasing amendments are offered, they are accepted or rejected without a roll call and there 1s no record of how each Congressman voted. Sometimes they don't vote at all. Last Friday when Editor Walter Leckrone of The In-

dianapolis Times dropped in to hear some of the. debate on the agricultural part of the big bill there wasn't an Indiana Congressman on the

cor ene'ThO-gOVErnment. soon. would. have been forced.to take... floor. either Republican or Democrat. = = = effective measures for protection of public health and safety. : Here's hoping it is true, as reported, that there is now good possibility that the long wage controversy between the Bell Telephone System and its unionized employees will soon be ended by a reasonable agreement, - iam ” » - LEADERS of the Locomotive Firemen's Brotherhood

also have done well to grant the government's request for a two-week postponement of the strike they had threatened

Back in Indiana - in

REPS. ANDREW JACOBS and John Walsh had gone back to Indiana where they attended the Democratic Editorial Association dinner in

Indianapolis Saturday night. Rep. Cecil Harden,

Republican National Committeéwoman from Indiana, was busy with visiting school groups. Other Congressmen were working at their office desks. . Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican and dean of all Hoosiers on Capitol Hill,

was sitting as member of the House Lobby In-.

vestigating Committee, They had permission to meet while the House was in session. When votes are taken they are either voice votes, standing count, or teller votes, Bells are rung and the Congressmen come in to be counted. 80 far the voting has been’ largely along party lines. Republicans propose and vote for cuts and the Democrats overrode them.

“There may not even be a quorum present.

Put Over Hospital Bill

SLICK operators like Rep. John Rankin (D.

Monday he put over a $237 million veterans hospital construction program which “the administration budget did not include. President Truman has opposed it hecause the Veterans Administration frankly states they have more h#spital beds now than can be adéquately

staffed.

There was no roll call and very few ‘‘noes.”

=«fuch methods -give-the great tub-thumping eco-

nomy men a chance to talk one way and vote another. : Sd This Rankin bill was reported out “unanimously” by the House Veterans Committee of which the Dixiecrat is chairman. That was back in A st 1949. Reps. James E. Noland, Bloom-

ington Democrat, and Mrs, Harden are commit- :

tee members. The latter was home and not on hand to vote for it. Other Hoosiers did so. Mr. Halleck explained that if his fight to restore the power of the House Rules Committee had been successful, such measures never would reach the floor. Mr. Rankin brought it in under the 21-day rule. This provides that after 21 days a committee chairman can call the bill to the floor, if no rule has been provided.

Backed by ‘Thrifty’

AMONG the “thrifty” who came all the way from Florida to speak and vote for it was Rep. George A. Smathers. He is back there now trying to beat Sen. Claude Pepper in the Democratic primary on the grounds that Sen. Pepper is a spender. One of the few voices raised against it was that of Rep. Willlam Wheeler (D. Ga.), who enlisted as a private in the Air Corps in World War II and r to the rank of captain. He pointed out tha VA had 3712 beds available in February, except for staffing, and at that time 98,803 veterans were hospitalized. Of this number 32,287 were hospitalized for service-con-nected disability and 6149 for non-service-con-

nected disability.

But Mr. Rankin had the clincher. He told his colleagues that this bill was “indorsed and ac-

tively supported by the American Legion, Vet. -

erans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Vet-

erans, and American Veterans of World War- FH." %

With no roll call, any Congressman, if he wants to do so, can tell these organizations that he voted their wishes. He can tell the budget balancers he didn’t. There is no record to prove which time he is truthful. And that is the way the $29 billion one-pack-

“rage spending bill is being handled here also.

CONFESSION

On mornings I must rise at six I think, how very fine If I could sleep till ten o'clock, Or even just till fine.

But wishing is a little game That plays us many tricks: On mornings I can sleep till ten ) I often rise at six. . —Myra Ahler.

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Mobilization Argued

‘WASHINGTON, Apr. 26—The Munitions Board says we don’t yet have a national industrial mobilization plan. President Truman and Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch argued about that some months ago. Mr. Baruch charged that we don’t have one. Mr. Truman said Mr. Baruch was misinformed. Dr. John Steelman, acting National Security Resources Board

WASHINGTON, Apr. 26—It's a different case now. Wisconsin Republican, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's charges of communism in government take second place to the charges of Louis F. Budenz, ex-managing editor of the Daily Worker and former Communist. Budenz has volunteered to bring before Sen. Millard Tydings’ Foreign Relations Subcommittee, within two weeks, his own list of names of Communists in the government. Budenz emphasizes that he is making no charges now. He says he wants to be careful and be sure of his own knowledge on the association of the people he names with communism. If Sen. McCarthy proves

just. one case

_of communism in the State Department, his

skin will be saved and his reputation will be made. Sen. McCarthy still has not proved conclusively his one case. But in Louis Budenz he has produced one witness who—if anybody can —will save him or make him. There has been considerable confusion between Sen. McCarthy's objectives and his tactics in the two months that he has been hurling his sensational charges about. Few people will find any fault with his announced objectives— to identify and drive out Communists.

Charges Vague WHAT there has been serious objection to is Sen. McCarthy's tactics. He has been vague and general in his charges. When efforts have been made to pin the Senator down on one set of charges, he has shifted ground and started talking about something else. In this process he has apparently smeared a number of innocent people. McCarthy has fur= ther confused his own issue by talking indiscriminately about cases that were cleared up prior to 1947, when the government employee loyalty program ‘was begun. With cases supposed to be current, his numbers have varied

pO B00 40-OR@ rrr mr emans co e se s He finally said he would rest his case on

just one individual—Owen J. Lattimore—whom he accused of being the top Communist agent in the United States. The Senator declined to make his charge. against Lattimore in the open, however, where he would be out fram under protecting congressional immunity and could be sued for libel. And he changed his general charge of “security risks” to “policy risk.” They are two

“entirely different things

It is important to note that Budenz did not confirm the McCarthy charge fhat Lattimore

SIDE GLANCES

SPY PROBE . . ; By Peter Edson

‘New Angle in Red Hunt Case

was the top Communist agent in the United States. Budenz backed away from it. ‘‘Techni-

cally, that “is not accurate,” said Budenz. This -

changes the case considerably.

Foreign Policy Tieup THERE may be a great temptation to judge the Lattimore case now on the first Budenz charge: That Owen Lattimore was in a Communist cell in the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, run by Frederick V. Field, -Philip Jaffe and others, to promote Russian foreign policy objectives in China. In the face of this sensational charge, it may be difficult for many people to bear in mind

that Budenz also testified that he did not know, _ _of his own personal knowledge, seeing and meet-

ing him, that there was any vestige of Lattimore's membership in the Communist Party. By this testimony, Budenz shied away from making the Lattimore case another Hiss case. If Budenz had testified that to his personal knowledge Lattimore was a party member, the ground might have been laid for a perjury

charge against Lattimore for testifying under

oath that he is not and never was a Communist. Budenz's case against Lattimore rests entirely on what he says he was told -in 1937 by Earl Browder, Jack Stachel and others. Budenz says these individuals should be subpenaed and questioned by the Tydings committee. . The question would then become, how much belief . could be placed in their festimony? Chairman Tydings drew from Budenz an admission that they would lie to anyone outside the Communist Party if it was to their advan-

tage to do so. Later, under questioning by Sens.

Hickenlooper and Green, Budenz developed the theory that as Communist conspirators, they never lied to each other, and that their statements regarding Lattimore could therefore be believed. .

‘Belongs to Grand Jury =~ IN THE light of these new developments, it

will be several weeks before all the evidence is in. And in judging the case, it would be wise to

wait until all the evidence is in.

But as the case unfolds, it becomes more and

‘more apparent that a partisan committee, hold-

ing open hearings, is the worst possible vehicle for developing facts. The committee wrangles over technicalities and petty details that hamper thé investigation. The Lattimore case belongs before a grand jury.

] By Galbraith

One of the worst political thorns in the side of Franklin D. Roosevelt for several years was Ham Fish, so-called reactionary Republican Congressman. Ham's greatest political sins were that as early as 1935 he was warning all of us that the New Deal government was being infiltrated with Communists and later' he was warning us that F. D. R. was taking us into war. Ham was given a political purge by the voters in his home district and a man was elected who could help treate a brave new world

.much more to the liking of F. D. R.

Another victim of the New Deal smear was

Burton K* Wheeler, veteran Senator from Mon-

tana, who had the temerity to say that Franklin D. Roosevelt's war-making activities were going to plow. under every third American boy. It hasn't done quite that to date, but the war is far from being over yet. Wheeler was beaten eventually in his election. Another of the so-called isolationists who broke with F. D. R. over his foreign policy was Robert LaFollette Jr., who was in all probability beaten by Communists in Milwaukee.

er Sutteasreapges Wi ld; of course; be-easy- to-go on down ans

the line and show how the real patriots of our country have been purged from political life because the New Dealers and Fair Dealers have been playing ball with the Communists. Today we are spending billions in Europe to

try to prevent it. from going communistic. I °

greatly fear we are far too late because when our money runs out communism comes in and that has already happened in China. As I see it, we had better be putting our own house in order instead of following the war. making internationalists who are taking us gradually into another war. For no matter who wins the next war from a military standpoint, we are going to be dead broke and communism is probably going to happen right here at home and we will merely have fought another losing war.

‘Responsibility to People’ By N. J. Cassavetes

In spite of the anticipated outcry that Sen, McCarthy's “Red purge” in the State Department is motivated by purely partisan considera tiohs, a large portion of the American people, gravely disturbed by lagging government cire cumspection in matters of proper appointments, consistent with our cold war with Russia, feel somewhat reassured: with the awakening in the Congress. . 2 : Whatever temporary personal inconvenience and loss of prestige has been visited upon a numeber of officials under scrutiny, such officials. should not be unmindful of the fact that associated with the honor and emoluments of trust positions in the government is also their heavy responsibility to the American people in these critical days for American security. Indeed, men and women who accept the honors implied by high service to the government should be willing to renounce their academic beliefs which may be exercised more or less inocuously in a college class room, but not in the waging of cold war against a ruthless totalitarian state.

‘Why Not Legalize Gambling?’ By Raymond R. Ellis

All this talk about abolishing slot machines, gambling on horses, etc., provokes me. What happened when liquor was prohibited? Boot. legging arose. Well, then what will happen when gambling is clamped down on? Gambling is just as bad as liquor. Now that alccaol is legalized, why not do the same with gambling? o The government could put a tax on this ‘fun.” I have never done any gambling in my entire life, but I think that the people of this nation will take more chances knowing that it is being done behind someone's back. What's wrong with people?

What Others Say

ALL mankind today faces the choice be tween God and chaos. Americans have always

chosen God. We need to be closer than ever

to0.God in these times of great peril.—National American Legion Commander George Craig.

BEFORE any Republican rejoices at the pose sible shipwreck of the foreign policy of the Democratic administration, he should remember that we are all in the same boat.—Gov. Thomas

wed, Dewey of New York. = ~~ -

KEEP on rejecting demands that we resort

to police state methods to combat communism, One reason we combat communism is that itis

- a police state government. — William Boyle,

chairman of the Democratic National Committee. .

THE (Chinese) people think of the rump government on Taiwan (Formosa) as one that they abandoned in disgust. They attribute its

ability to bomb and shell them solely to its _

American supplies.—Prof. Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University. .

FREE TERRITORY . . . By Andrew Tully

‘Debate on Trieste

TRIESTE, which ‘Russia and the U. 8. are arguing about again, is not only a city but a midget international country, about one-quarter the size of Rhode Island. It's a strip of land shaped like a boomerang on the Adriatic Sea coast, between Italy and Yugoslavia. It was made a free territory under the jurisdiction of the United Nations in 1947,

It reported, also,

chairm~n, .added that mobilization planning was ‘more ur-

gent than getting legislation

on the statute books.” . = » - . APPARENTLY the Munitions Board

Baruch. In a moblifzation

manual-just released -it-sajd:

“Experience gained during World War II combined with experience and knowledge gained from post-war analyses demonstrates conclusively that ‘planning’ for industrial mobilization is not enough. Industrial preparedness must include not only plans, but also

specific prior readiness meas- -

ures necessary to put such plans into effect.” The Munitions Board blamed the National Security Resources Board, a presidential agency. Chairman Hubert E. Howard said his board had an industrial mobilization plan ready. However, he said, the Munitions Board could only plan for the military. He said it was up to the Resources Board to develop one for the

“nation as a whole.”

® = = LACK of a national plan

has hampered its work, the

Munitions Board claimed. Milftary mobilization planners can go no further, Their work can be “made more concrete (only) when a national plan has been fully developed.” the Munitions sisted. ; * The Joint Chiefs of Staff, it

eC RTIOhY™ BOTA WHEY “Will “be ‘needed —and when—for mobi-

pares industrial plans, sides -with Mr.

Board manual in-.

was pointed out, tell the Mu-¢

lization. The board then pre-

“OF COURSE,” the manual pointed out, “the “Thaustrial feasibility of military mobilization requirements can be finally estimated only if, at the same time, civilization mobilization requirements are taken into account. It has been pointed out that guidance is not yet available (from the Resources. Board) as to expected civilian requirements in a future mobilization. Pending" determination, industrial feasibility estimates are made in the light of civilian requirements in World War II. The production allocations program takes into account civilian requirements by ‘reasonable assumption.’ " 4 The board prefers to talk about a mobilization program rather than plan. A program, it said, “also deals with what it takes to carry out a plan— how to get from a starting point to a goal” * . » » IT'S program, the hoard deals with two elements—mobilization and supply management. Mobilization elements, it said, are "programs that will was achieve full effect only in the event of war.” Supply management involves

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“peacetime programs carried over into war.”

THE board revealed it had developed a classified emergency priorities manual, which is not available to ‘the public. However, the board. said, it “designed to provide a temporary system of industrial controls for military items.” It will be administered by

COPR. 1980 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG, J. 8. PAT. OFF,

"All right, maybe she never was in Polynesia—but could you

do it?"

the Defense Department “in

the interval between M-Day

4 and the time when a national

control system becomes effective.” The Munitions Board pointed out that the Resources Board plans eventually to ‘develop a complete wartime system of production controls.” So far, however, it hasn't.

but since the Security Council

....N1a8 never been able to agree ~~ = CC LC CO en — on a governor it's still being ~~ COUrSe, HKe"So many European ge

run by the Americans, British and Yugoslavs. » . =

BOTH Italy, which owned

Trieste before World War II,

“and Yugoslavia, which never

owned it but which has big ideas, would like to have Trieste. So far the U. S. has

been Dbiding its time to see.

what would happen. ' Something finally “happened the other day when Italy's foreign minister, Count Carlo Sforza, suggested maybe Italy and Yugoslavia could settle it between themselves. We think that's a fine idea, but Tito hasn't said yet that he'd play. - " » IT'S funny how things have changed, though. In the spring of 1948 before Tito started flirting with us, we used

Trieste to win a big victory *

over communism. Having nothing to lose in Yugoslavia, we came out and said let's give Trieste to Italy. Russia, of course, had to side with Yugoslavia, and the Italfans were so mad they licked the Communists in their general election. > s =.» TRIESTE'S big’ importance, of course, is that it's a swell . seaport, It—the city {taelf— also is a picturesque burg. In the first place, it's built on a series of steps on the hills that

surround the harbor. Then, of

cities, it's divided into an old town and a new town, Biggest sight-seeing attraction is the famous Castle of Miramare, which was built in 1854. for the Archdike Maximilian of France, who had a temporary job as Emperor of Mexico.

” ” ” * MOST of the 250,000 people in the city are Italians, who also have the biggest vote in the neighboring coastal towns. But the Yugoslavs are thicke est in the interior regions. Naturally, the most impore tant industries are ship-build-ing and shipping. Before the war it was nothing to have 25,000 ships a year running in and out. There's also a steel works, though; and the Triest« fans earn an honest lire mak. ing soap, spinning silk and cotton, canning fish and distilling booze. -

- » FOR some reason, people are irreverent about Trieste. The Italians, for instance, call it Topolino, which means Mickey Mouse, because it's such a runt of. a place. Our own GI's call their northern beat Upper Slobbovia and the southern section, whers the Yugosiavs run “hings, Lower Slobbovia. Whatever you call ft, it's been an international pain-in-the-neck for a long time.

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