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; i Bangersus Shrike: * ‘ : THE AFL switchmen'’s union has ordered a strike by = 4000 of its members-against five Western railroads. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the ‘Order of Con- +. ductors threaten a national strike by 250,000 of their mem“i bers on July 15. » All three unions object to y the Fecommenditions of a Railway Lgbor Act fact funding | board appeinted by Presi“dent Truman.

now received for 48 Sours. tor ‘somé80,000 members employed as railroad yard workers. The board recommended the 40-hour week with a wage raise of 18 cents an hour as a partial offset to the loss of eight hours’ pay.. “It turned 3 . down-increases demanded for other members of the trainmen’s and sonductors’ unions, wo. » ” ”_ PRESIDENTS ‘KENNEDY of the trainmen and # Nemitz of the conductors call the board's report “unjust, ;i: unfair, inequitable and injurious.” Rank-and-file workers, : te they say, are dissatisfied with the Railway Labor Act and %. feel that they can get more through direct negotiations. The Railway Labor Act does not compel acceptance of _ fact-finding boards’ recommendations, - So the unions are _ within their legal rights in threatening to strike, or actually striking, as a means of trying to enforce their full demands. But, in our. opinion, the country would not tolerate strikes which deprived it of railroad services essential to Ep health and safety. on . » ” z ..» ” E] A CERTAIN result of such strikes would be immense growth of public d demand for Sumer & arbitration of rail-

nell (R. Mo.) in & Bilt “Cong ; sant of the Donnell vi. ~ Both labor and management have often complained against the workings of the Railway dLabor Act. But if - NC that law. and its voluntary principles are destroyed by vikes, what replaces it will surely be far more unsatistory to the unions.

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we ome new bill before Congress is designed to tide % the Democrats over the November elections. ~~ It will neither Blanc the budget nor come anywhere close to it. It bids for the a of people who have complained long and loudly of the wartime excises on furs, jewelry, ~ toilet articles, luggage, amusements, communications and transportation. rl To make up the revenue lost by reducing the excises, the bill increases the rates and speeds up. the collection of taxes on large corporations, : > Corporutions don't vote, iN "on ? a8 8 > THE higher rate—a new ‘op bracket of 41 per cent of earnings—would not be popular if more people generally . realized that corporations do mot actually pay the tax. A. corporation is only a legal entity which the government _ assesses. The corporation-acts as a tax-collecting agency. The money comes from diminished dividends to stockholders and higher prices to customers. The corporate . tax is the most invisible of ,all hidden taxes. The 4 "peed-up in corporate tax tax collections will not bring in % single dollar of additional revenue. It’ will only bring in some of those dollars sooner, and to that extent diminish the amourit of red ink in the ‘embarrassing fiscal years immediately ahead. And, when the speed-up schedule reaches its goal of two tax payments a year instead of’ four, the budgetmakers will no longer have that cushion of corporate taxes due. But others will Yave to worry about that. Many politicians now serving will | no longer be in office. . x» wo a 2a x : THERE would be more ; public opposition to this speed-up if more people generally understood that, when a corporation balances its books at the year’s end, the ~~ profit figure is not represented by cash in the bank, but consists largely of inventories of raw materials, semifinished products, finished goods in transport; in ware“<houses and on the shelves, in the endless stream of manufacture and merchandising. i This speed-up provision is likely to cause. sporadic ~ unemployment as businesses borrow money from-the banks,”~ . squeeze down inventories and slow ‘down production in : gorder-to catch up with the EOVefBMEnt’s new tax-payment . schedule. w Fa But it probably won't cause any lyolte until after the November election.

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3121 More New Neighbors

FFICIAL census figures released yesterday show. even

figures we published a week ago—3121 greater. Our county now has a population of 549,047, an increase

85,000 the earlier figures indicated. Significantly, too, the trend toward residence in the county outside the Sorforate city limits, is even more pre

nounced. : The county's growth has been a little more, the city's a little less th tallies showed. More than one out of every five of County now live outside the official boundiifies of Indianapolis. THAT point up, again, and more " emphatically, the

_ need for Indianapolis and Marion County to move im- .~. Aymediately toward one government for one community. It seems th us not only the best but probably the only way in which wasteful, useless duplications of expense can

Deamon that this is a more “realistic” ap-

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in the last tex ‘years of 88121 instead of an increase of

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WASHINGTON, June 24—How fare the Rus-

sian satellite countries behind the Iron Curtain? :

We don’t hear much about them, of course;

“that's the way the Russians want it. But re-

fiitering westward suggest things aren't

ports too bright.

One foreign correspondent in Vienna pins the label “economic failure” on the Soviet Union's effort to communize the nations of Eastern EuTope: - He says

that both farmvand industrial output are lagging

badly. what we do about the smothering effects of communism on peoples used to some freedom, we ih American can’t show much surprise at such ‘reports. But" it's useful to note how Russia's pawns in these countries propose to Sope wits tate developiug ceisls,

TRICKS +. By Ludwell Denny Move to Slip Red China in UN

Lie Supports ) f Position

trick is Seng worked to slip Red China into the United Nations through the back door as payment of Soviet blackmail. Stalin says he will continue to boycott the UN until he has his way, so some are ready to appease him in the name of friendship for the international security organization. - Trygve Lie, UN Secretary General, leads this movement. But” he cannot deliver without support of the British and French foreign offices. He is beginning to get, that aid from London and Paris. It the movement success the results will extend far beyond a Russian victory and American defeat on the China issue, which is the immediate point of dispute. It will change the nature of the UN. It will confirm the trend by which Stalin has been gaining negative control of} the UN—through misuse of the veto power, nd through boycotting the organization unless it bows to his dictate. :

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EVEN the most enthusiastic appeasers chnnot contend that such a shackled and subserviept body was the kind the authors of the charter supposed they were creating at the

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proach to peace and security. But it is the opposite method to which the Russian government and all others pledged their honor and: their loyalty when they signed the Sharer, Secretary General Lie is accused by U Senators and others of being a Stalin tool. wn attempt to judge the motives of a public servant ‘is usually as fruitless as it is unfair. But regardless of motives, the net “affect of Mr. Lie's

avowed activities is to get Russia back into the UN operation on Stalin's terms rather than.

to guard the charter standards. Mr. Lie's recent trip to Moscow, his report to UN members and his projected cam mpaign trip to Europe on June 30, coincide with Stalin's phony “peace” maneuvers to split the defensive democratic alliancé barring. Soviet aggression,

British Mistake

THE British foreign office made the mistake some months of recognizing Stalin's puppet regime in Peking, only to be snubbed by those Reds. Now they promise to return the recognition favor, and save Britain's face, if she will get them seated in the IN. This week Britain tried behind the scenes to slip Red China into one UN subsidiary body and failed. S8he probably will repeat the effort when the UN Eco-

nomic and Social Council meets in Geneva ;

July 3. Meanwhile France, which has withheld rec~ ognition of the Peking Reds because of their aid to the Indo-China révolution, is putting out feelers for a deal on the UN payoff. Britain and France together might also swing the votes of Egypt, Ecuador and Cuba. _And all this is happening in the name of “saving” the UN.

What Others Say—

EVEN if events are not worse, the accumulation of them makes the situation worse. —Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Omar Bradley.

ALREADY we are being warred against. W. Stuart Symington, chairman of National Security Resources Board.

THE opportunities that can be created through the development of our natural resources are immeasurable.—President Truman.

Memo to Congress: The number of federal civilian employees has increased from 570,000 in 1929 to 2 million today. d & * Reforms recommended by the Hoover

Commission would reduce the top-heavy’ federal payroll.

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Chile Fears Copper-Import Tax

WASHINGTON, June 24—America's carefully nurtured good neighbor policy in South’

America will get a swift kick in the pants if

Congress fails to halt the automatic $40-a-ton tax on imported copper, due to become effective July 1. It is expected that prices on all copper and brass products will go sky high and that a fot of speculators will make fortunes. The whole bitter copper fight is a typical

4 Washington story. But the stakes have been

just a little®higher this time and the copgressional tricks have been more ruthless. Most interested party is the. government of Chile. Uncle Sam needs more than 300,000 tons of copper a year more than can be produced at home. Chilean copper fills that gap and has become that country’s most important industry. But the $40-a-ton tax could be ruinous to it. The tax originated during the depression. When war threatened and the U. 8. needed more copper, Congress suspended the levy.

Fear for Their Economy

THE Chilean case goes something Ike this: “America promises us reciprocal trade agreements and good neighborliness. We have been one of Ameriéa’s best friends. The U. 8. doesn’t have enough copper. No American worker will be harmed by keeping off the tax.

Yet if it is restored the. whole economy of

Chile will be harmed,, “The tax will have violent political repercussions in Chile and in all of South America. The Commies will make much hay. They'll say it's typical American ruthlessness. And all this comes just after the president of Chile was 80 enthustastieally wined and dined in your country.” If the tax goes on the whole copper market automatically jumps two cents per pound. When that increase gets pyramided into a consumer product the increase is much greater. In anticipation of the tax there has been very heavy future buying in copper scrap. This gambling in sep is revealed by Rep.

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Today Sen. Frank Graham of North Carolina faces Willis Smith in a runoff. In the first primary Graham failed by only a few thousand votes to get a clear majority over the three candidates running against him. The law requires a runoff if one candidate fails to get an outright majority.

SMITH is an ultra-conserv-ative lawyer in Raleigh, a former president of the American Bar Association. His campaign managers have used demagogic appeals to race predies to Qiscredit Graham, The inflammatory ‘tone of the attack is said to have produced backfire in Graham's

to apply the ultimate in praise, _ they call Graham a Christian. He has favored much but not all of the Truman program, : epudiating the ev.

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\Gerald R. Ford from Grand Rapids, Mich. Firms in his state such as furniture, auto parts and auto manufacturers comprise one of the biggest -blocks of copper users in the country and will be hardest hit by the tax. He introduced a bill to kill the tax, but his measure and -others like it have been kept buried.

President Boxed In rats

AN amendment to restore the tax has been cleverly tacked on a scrap metal bill. This neatly boxes in the President because he favors the scrap metal bill and recently said he was against the copper tax. And to sew up the case, they've tied up consideration of suspension with the general tax bill Several Western Senators have led the fight for the tax. Their contention is that the tax will bring into production. some of the marginal copper fnines in the country and give employment to many more miners. Not the least interested parties to the

shenanigans are the three major copper com-

panies in the U. 8, For some reason Kennicoft has remained neutral. Anaconda is for suspension because most of its sources are in Chile. It is in the process of investing $150 million more there in new mines. Phelps-Dodge, with all-domestic holdings, has pumped thousands in the campaign to get the tax reinstated.

Ex-Senator Leads Fight

JAMES DOUGLAS, brother of the ambas-

sador to England, is representing the.Phélps-

Dodge firm in this effort. Former Senator from Connecticut John A. Danahar is the representative of Revere’ Copper . & Brass, Inc, and is leading the fight for suspension. Part of the whole complicated picture is the rumor that all parties might be willing to make some kind of a compromise on the tax with the possibility of putting a floor under the price of copper. But in the long run.it's John Q. Public who will suffer.

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democracy the classes of the peoples of every land, who, until recent times, have shared so little of our boasted These people are rightly entitled to

. progress, earn a decent living.

For many hundreds of years man was held in abject submission to autocracy by the ruling class. Man has not yet become completely enfranchised from the dominance of the rich and politically powerful. Social Security makes a feeble attempt to at al some of the wrongs. The branch of Social

Security workers and survivors insurance costs

payers outside of the insured very little as it is paid by the worker, the employer and the government. It simply makes it possible for “men who have worked over a considerable

at the age of 65 on a wholly inadequate amount of insurance which they have helped to create. The branch of Social Security old-age pensions is paid ‘entirely by the taxpayers and covers those persons over 65, not covered by the in-

surance plan who are not able to and haven't -

the means to provide the necessities of life. Because of the political hookup in this branch, there is a great deal of injustice. Some receive more than others on account of political influOf course there are some who have made very little effort to provide for their old age, but many, because of adverse circumstances, who have made an honest effort to establish oldage security, are left stranded. We would .certainly be disgracing ourselves beyond redemption if we did not provide for them. In working class has been exploited throughout all history and is still not free from the dominance.

- of the rich and the politically powerful.

‘Positive Action Only Hope’

By David G. Tye, 514 East 20th St.

pi Tae erica. To turn our vague a attitucs into positive beliefs and actions is not. just an idea—Iit is our only hope for the future. : We read recently that the Russian budget calls for $18 billion for defense this year; that Pravda has told the Russian people the United! States is spending 76 per cent of its budget on past and present wars. We read that Sen. McCarthy's program is - producing a reticence to accept government jobs among capable Americans who do not wish to be publicly smeared; that the United States is in chronic danger of an internal economic breakdown. What control have we over these things? We can have full control if we make our democracy dynamie, We must take a positive interest in governmental affairs and show that interest in our voting. During this-senatorial election year and the coming presidential election our future will be decided. We need leaders in Washington. Men with courage, courage enough to investi-

gate the present charges against the State De-

partment and expose any persons’ ‘guilty of antiAmerican action; to form definite effective

loyalty standards and policies; to plan economid.

policies and governmental workings that will make our democracy dynamic again as it was in the days of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. ' Our job is to find such Christian leaders and with them develop a dyhamic democracy. This is our hope and our future against the threat of ussia.

t » - - Views on he News od By DAN KIDNEY WHEN the White House repairs are come

pleted, maybe retiring Gov. Thomas E, Dewey .

will try to move in again.

HEADLINE—World faces rubber crisis— Probably being used for money.

ONE thing about the A-bomb—it offers.

quick. decentralization for cities.

HONESTY is the best policy—not ne SEN. JOSEPH R. McCARTHY (R y must have written that $10,000 Lustron article

before he started talking about Communist spies. He hasn't had time since.

-~ “THE FBI seems to be catching more spies

all so-called civilized countries the . -

now that they have their names and-addresses,

A SEMINOLE Indian told Congress that

the white man started.scalping here. Must have -

meant theater tickets,

THE GOP probably will blame the Demo¢ratic city machines for price supports on Irish potatoes. ;

REPUBLICANS are worried about what the Brannan Plan will cost—Iin votes,

. By Marquis Childs : Two Primaries to Test Truman Organization

WASHINGTON, June 24-—Two more primaries are coming ‘up that have a greater bearing on the status of the Truman administration than most of the election contests to be decided in November. In the first of these primaries the issue is clearly drawn between the hybrid Republican Party and the regular Democratic organization aligned with President Truman, » = #

ONE Republican phase of the anti-Graham campaign is the circulation to North Carolina voters of thousands of copies of the Reader's Digest reprint of John T. Flynn's book, “The Road Ahead,” and a sermon by the Rev. Walter R. Courtenay of Nashville,

system.” The 31-page leaflet, reprinted from the Congressional

REP, GWINN explained: “Those are not especially for North Carolina. They're being sent out to all the states. We've got to stop this trend toward deep socialism. Do I think social security is part of deep socialism? Why, of course, I do, It's ‘taxing one set of people for another set instead of letting them build their own house of social seye. second critical Democratic primary—in Oklahoma on July 4—the difference between the two chief contenders is not so sharply drawn on the basis of ideas or opinjons. Sen. Elmer Thomas, 74 years old, is

‘seeking a fifth term in the

Senate. His chief role has been

eral” does not fit Monroney,

He has been most. closely associated with the moderate, border state Democrats in the

House who oppose the farthest

out measures of the Fair Deal such as the Brannan farm plan and the national health insurance proposal. Monroney has. won his high reputation by his persistent and effective effort in behalf of more efficient government. On the House side, he led the move that resulted in adoption of the congressional reorganization plan. = » Ld

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