Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1951 — Page 10

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A Promise to Keep EN President Truman made Charles E. Wilson direc- ; tor of the Office of Defense Mobilization, he promised that Mr. Wilson would be “responsible for directing all the mobilization activities of the government.” The activities specifically named by Mr. Truman were “production, procurement, manpower, transportation and ‘ economic stabilization.” Mr. Truman's Secretary of Labor, Maurice Tobin, is now seeking to have direction of manpower mobilization removed from Mr, Wilson and placed under himself in the Department of Labor. In this effort he has the support of a number of powerful union leaders. « » = : « x » THE change desired by Secretary Tobin should not be . made. For one reason, because Mr. Tobin's idea ever since he took office has seemed to be that his chief official duty is to do whatever the union leaders and labor politicos want done. Direction of manpower mobilization ought not to be - placed on any such basis, for the special interests of union leaders are not always the best interests of Workers: and the country. Another compelling reason why this change should mot be made is that it could, and doubtless ‘would, become a precedent for further whittling away of the responsibility now wisely centralized in Mr. Wilson's able hands. Once let

inter-agency conflicts and jurisdictions} rows among government officials that wasted precious time, energy and money in World War II.

We hope the President will keep the promise he made to Mr. Wilson and the American people.

These Strikes Are Wrong

AGAIN, as in mid-December, unauthorized strikes by railroad yardmen in key centers threaten the nation with a disastrous tie-up of rail traffic.

We repeat. what we said before—that the strikers are good icans who feel they have a great grievance.

Bufigmo matter how great their grievance, they are gravelysinjuring their own cause as well as their country.

Thé§ are affronting public opinion when they greatly need its sympathetic understanding.

- They are striking against their government, for the roads are under federal seizure and army operating control.

* They are defying the President of the United States,

on them to return to work.

They are violating a federal court restraining order, issued at Chicago last month, and Frisking severe punishment of their unions.

They are disobeying their union leaders, who have disowned the strikes and instructed the strikers to get back on their jobs.

At the time of the December. strikes, the ScrippsHoward Newspapers advised the yardmen to return to work and promised, if they did so, to help them put their case before the court of public opinion. Last week we kept that promise by publishing an article written by W. P. Kennedy, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Mr. Kennedy made some impressive points. The yardmen and switchmen got their last wage increase in October, 1948. Since then most workers in other industries have had repeated rises. Many organized workers, including a million non-operating railroad employees, have the 40-hour week with premium pay for overtime. Yardmen and switchmen do not, and their current wage rates are much lower than those of other skilled workers in many industries.

Their present wage controversy with the railroads began almost 23 months ago. Last June their unions rejected —as they had a legal right to-do—the recommendations of a Railroad Labor Act Fact-Finding Board appointed by President Truman. On Aug. 27, Mr. Truman ordered government seizure of the roads to head off a threatened strike for better terms.

After the unauthorized strikes in December, union officers and managament representatives were called to the White House for new negotiations. They signed, finally, what the public certainly understood to ‘be a firm agreement for settlement of the long controversy.

Under it, the yardmen were to get a rise of 25 cents an hour, bringing their average hourly wage to about $1.83. An “escalator” clause guaranteed further increases if the cost of living kept rising. The 40-hour week was accepted in principle, though its actual application was to be deferred until the manpower situation improved. The four unions involved were to observe a three-year, no-strike moratorium on new wage and working rulés demands.

How About Vogeler?

HE STATE DEPARTMENT in a fierce display of wristslapping restricted all Hungarian diplomats in Washington to’an area within 18 miles of the White House. This should be immensely cheering to Robert A. Vogeler, American businessman who for 14 months now has been confined -to a foul cell in | Budapest's Communist political prison, - Mr. Vogeler was given a 15 years’ jail sentence for “spying.” The U. S. Government has denied that he was an agent of this country and denounced the trial as a farce. Valentine Gubitchev, Russian pal of Judith Coplon who used the United Nations as a cloak for his spying here, was sentenced to 15 years after a fair trial in this country. But mstead of being thrown into a federal penitentiary, he was supplied with & first-class ticket at American taxpayers’ EXpense, put on a ship and sent home to Russia, . g Secretary Acheson say to that-—after a formal call on ~ him by Soviet “Ambassador Panyushkin, ,

. When is the State Department oing to see to it that Robert Vogeler is sent oa Boing

that process start and it will lead to the same confusions,

who termed their December sttikes “unlawful” and called

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BLUE DAYS

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By Frederick Cc. Othman

Chickens in the Living Room Don’t Help a Man’s Outlook

McLEAN, Va. Feb: 83—I had to drive into Washington the other night to pick up a lady house guest at a fancy hotel. While waiting for her, a warm, well-fed, clean-shaven citizen turned to me and said he was going batty, sitting in the lobby with nothing whatever to do.

The temptation was to poke him in tie eye. That was the day the power went off at Othman acres, It also was the day that 250 day-old baby chicks arrived to take up residence at Mrs. O.'s all-electric apartment house for poultry. When 1 got home my bride and our Peruvian Indian boy, Adan, were rushing the chickens inside to » the living room where the fireplace was roaring. This seemed like a poor place for chickens, but since the furnace was off, too, on account of the oil being sprayed by an electric motor, Mrs. O. said there was nothing left to do. Her chicks already were chilled, because it was some time before she noticed the power was off. So I pitched in to help.

Adan was coming in with the last load of .

chickens when he took a header in the back yard. Hilda rescued the birds, while I tried to succor Adan. He couldn't move his arm. I hurried him to emergency hospital where an interne said he'd dislocated his shoulder. Adan got a shot of morphine to ease his pain, while we waited for the doe, who was out to

dinner. 1 phoned my bride. No answer. An hour later I phoned her again. The power was

back on. She said she was in the midst of tak- -

ing the chickens out of the parlor. So the doctor arrived at the hospital and put Adan to bed, ordered up a plaster cast, and said he'd be out of commission for the next month. I called home again. Hilda said had I forgotten the house guest?

LIKEABLE . . . By Peter Edson

DiSalle Wins Friends In Critical Congress

WASHINGTON, Feb, 3—Price Director Michael DiSalle, in his first appearance before a congressional committee, demonstrated the perfect technique for getting along on Capitol Hill. He had such sober-minded Senators as O’Mahoney, ‘Taft, Flan-

And that's when I met the gent who was bored with life in the-city,

The aftermath now is aftermathing. Adan has so much plaster and ironmongery around him that about all he can move are his eyeballs, but he should be as good as new when sawed out four weeks hence. Sixteen of the chickens died of double. pneumonia; the rest survived and at the moment seem destined for a healthy old age. You should see ’em eat, Only my bride said she

"didn’t. believe she could sleep at night any

longer, not knowing whether the chickens’ auto-

“matac apparatus had blown a fuse.

Bird Pilot Light

SO I rounded up 12 feet of armored e¢ . . .ic’

cable—the man said it probably was the last for sale in Fairfax County—an outdoor type light socket, and a small bulb. This I spent a good many hours rigging up outside the chicken house ag a kind of pilot light for birds. So long as the lamp glows red, the chickens are warm. This, says Mrs. O, is a great comfort to her and she has slept soundly the last couple of nights] without once looking out the window,

The phone rang at 2 a. m. yesterday. The

poor house guest answered it. A helpful neighbor was on the line. He said he'd just seen what looked like a blaze at our chicken house and did we know that it was afire? 1 assured him he’d merely seen our chicken safety lamp. 1 don’t believe he understood. Tonight, with luck, I hope to get some sleep.

WITH YOU

IT'S FUN to be with you my love . . . while wee hours tick away... it's fun to do the things we do . , . to hear the things you say . ., so great to make the plans we do . . . about our times to be . . . of gardens fair and trips we'll make . .. on land and on the sea .. . no matter what may come along .. . be it fair or stormy weather , . . one thing I know within my heart . we'll always be together , . it's funny how a man can feel . . . about one little girl . . . but sweetheart darling I confess , .. you've got me mm a whirl, —By Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

By Talburt ENFORCEMENT ... By Earl Richert is | 4 2 Violators F Price, Wage!

Can Wreck Nation's Economy

WASHINGTON, Feb, 3—A violator of "the

‘government's. price and wage orders is worse |

than a thief, says F. Joseph (Jiggs) Donohue, the new enforcement chief for the economic stabilization agency. “A thief only deprives someone of his property,” he said. “But a violator of the price-wage orders “helps to wreck our country’s economy. “And if our internal économy falls us, we won't have the power to create the arms necessary to protect ourselves. Everyone's. ‘got to realize we're in this for keeps and must keep ourselves strong. It's like going on a diet for your own good.” Mr. Donohue, who has been on the job only since Monday, says he has not yet received’ complaints of violations of freeze orders,

Washington Lawyer

“BUT hundreds may be on the way, » he said. The only hope for éhforcement of the price regulations, he said is that most people will realize the purpose—which is to keep ourselves strong internally. A popular and prosperous Washington lawyer, Mr. Donohue took the enforcement job after Rear Admiral John H. Hoover resigned

with a tart charge that “politics” has entered.®.

ESA. The admiral refused to elaborate. Mr. Donohue says that as a voteless Washington resident he Is without politics,-but that ° if he could he would vote Democratic. He gave $5000 to the Democratic National Committee in the 1948 campaign. He recently served as special government prosecutor in the Harry Bridges case. A veteram of both world wars, Mr. Donohue says he took the enforcement job with the hope he could so some good—not because of the pay attached. (The job, not yet classified, will pay

from $16,000 to $18,000 a year.) Mr. Donohue .still is learning the routine of his new job, and isn't ready to talk about what he expects to do. Nor does he have any

need.

t a new: reader he is aware of |. But as spaper ot Tostrios =F

the many a tions that diready have come to light—su¢h as back-dating price increase orders and trying to sell meat at the top price charged for fancy uts during the base period. “All 1 can say is that it taken two people

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to violate the orders, ” he sald. “You can't violate them by yourself.” People charged above-ceiling prices may sue for treble damages and the government may

. seek to assess penalties of up to one year in jail

and a $1000 fine. Only a handful of ESA employees are works ing on enforcement. But the Justice Depart ment and other government agencies have been directed to help enforce the price ceilings. . Complaints of violations should be made to the local U.'S. District Attorney or to the ESA district or. regional offices.

“I on not agree vith a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your ight + fo say it."

Legislation Needed MR. EDITOR:

Too'late we are learning that Hoosiers made some grevious mistakes in choosing representatives for the present legislature. This is undoubtedly the mest trying time in our history, therefore we naturally expect profound thought, sober judgment in all issues concerning the general welfare of all the people. But some of the bills introduced force us to believe they are.the invention of a fiend. You may have heard some one say: “I am going to do this if it is the last thing I ever do.” (Usually this last tragic deed is a desire to shoot a mother-in-law, throw a judge in the lake or run over a traffic cop.) SP» THINKING people are forced to believe -that House Bill 148 {providing for 75-cent minimum wage and a 44-hour work week for workers not in interstate commerce) was invented by some fiend who has a lifetime grudge against all business ventures, and would like to burden them with a scheme that would drive them out of business. Thousands of small business folks cannot operate on a 44-hour week, or pay on an hourly rate. Those furnishing services would have to hire an extra crew, cut their hours and pay in half; and with the shortage of help this would be impossible. Many employers who furnish board, room and laundry for employees, have no accomodations for an extra crew. If the General Assembly cannot produce something to help us in a practical way, it had Just a as well quit and go home.

—Small Fry, Columbus.

Let "em Grow Up MR. EDITOR: -

People do not want their 18-year-olds to go into service, and Ido not blame them for feeling this way. Let the children grow up for Heaven's sake. I am sure this is true that those who are against 18-year-olds going to war are also against World War II veterans with combat service going into service again. What the people wish to see, and I am sure I speak for the majorit of right minded citizens, is for the defermer® boys of World War I1 to go into service now. There were lots of them who were deferred who still were able to work in offices and other jobs. Now let those men

en had it so easy when other poor devils were

fighting for them and their homes, let them go into service now and do their part. It's time they did; and absolutely-fair that they do so. —dJohn T. Lewis, City

Bv Galbraith

Bomb Shelters—Bah =

MR. EDITOR:

The people of Indiana are being asked to underwrite huge sums of nfoney for the so-called defense program. Anyone who is the least prac. tical minded knows that it is impossible to con. struct huge communal bomb shelters. There is no protection that can be constructed in any thickly settled urban area that would meet the needs without bankrupting the state. This is exactly what Russia wants us to do,

“In the first place Indianapolis is not going to be

the first city to experience this bomb barrage,

Our ¢hances of being attacked as a nation {sone

millioh to one, then for Indiana it would be a figure much greater. The thing we need is more and wider highways on which to move our motor vehicles, There are enough motor driven conveyances in Indianapolis to put: everyone on rubber in two shifts.-We need a place to go in the open spaces 50 miles or more from Indianapolis. ~Arthur 8. Mellinger, City.

VIEWS ON THE NEWS By DAN KIDNEY

RED China had to fight long and hard to win that United Nations Aggressor title.

“COLD WAR" doesn't mean the same thing to a GI in Korea that it does to a diplomat in Washington.

HISTORY Jesson—whether a country is an ally or an enemy all depends on the date.

CONGRESSMEN want to abandon the “one. package” appropriation bill—probably can't count that high.

ANOTHER thing that makes Washington topsy-turvy are the bureaus filled with featherbedding. “4

A FEW Democrats got price control jobs without even having been defeated in 1850.

- THE new price order will keep steaks in the STEEP freeze.

MANY middle-class families wish that the kind of prosperity we have now had never come around that corner.

CITY folks will have to work overtime te support the farmers at these prices.

A PECULATOR is a speculator who gets caught,

LIKE FLEAS . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

Red Goons Dodge British in Mdare

SINGAPORE, Feb. 3—Never before in the Nistgry of man conflict—to paraphrase Winston Churchill—have Britain's soldiers and policemen (about 140,000 Loi in ge AR owed so much hell-raising to so few Communist terrorists. The highest informed estimate of the total number bof Red

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ders, Frear and Benton and Congressmen Hart and Buchanan laughing all over their faces and chuckling in their stomachs.

If it's possible to make price controls popular, the jovial exmayor of Toledo is the guy to do it, The main secret of the Price Stabilization Director DiSalle’'s technique seems to be that he always obeys what should be rule No. one for any public

official -—~ never take yourself too darn seriously, When Mr, DiSalle first ap-

peared . before the Joint Congressional Committee on Economics, Chairman O'Mahoney seated him In the television and newsreel spotlights, before

the microphones. The hint was ,

that Mr, DiSalle should say something historic. He didn’t bite. He wouldn't say anything because he didn't have anything to say, then. Reporters nearly fell out of their chairs. Prop a microphone hefere most politicians and their jaws start yackety-yacking automatically. Mr. DiSalle merely observed that Chairman Cyrus Ching of the Wage Stabilization Board has been on the stand for an hour, but it wouldn't take him nearly that long to tell what he knew about price control. ~ ~ ” - NEVERTHELESS he does know something about price

controls. He appears to be one

of the few officials In Washington who.have been study--

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Ing the 20-volume history of OPA. DiSalle has even been conferring with the three past price administrators —- Leon Henderson, Chester Bowles and Paul Porter, ‘They offered to elect me a member of their ex-OPA Administrator's Club,” Mr. DiSalle observed with a big grin. : When Mr. DiSalle first came to town and showed himself, there were predictions that he wouldn't last long. These predictions were increased when Defense Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson cancelled Mr, DiSalle's first attempted price freeze order. Mr. DiSalle took to Washington like a Maumee River mudhen takes to Toledo Bay. Whether he- can take Washington {itself still has to be shown, But all signs now point to the: fact that he'll be around longer than some of the people who first wrote him off so quickly. » » » THE WAY in which Mr. DiSalle was recruited for service as Price Stabilization Director is not without interest. The story goes back to the 1930's when Toledo was having its worst’ labor troubles. One of Mr. DiSalle’'s classmates was killed in the Auto Lite strike riots. Later on, after he had become a la wyer and gone into polities, Mr. DiSalle started to organize Labor - Management -

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Citizens committees to deal with industria] relations problems in the area. At first he couldn't get any public support. But one of the men who worked with him was Edward T. Cheyfitz, an official of the diecaster’s union. He was a good labor leader and a good thinker, according to Mr. DiSalle. He accepted time studies and other measures for

increasing labor productivity when most union fought shy. of them. The two worked

closely in setting up the so-

called Toledo labor plan. Later Mr. Cheyfitz was hired by Eric Johnston as a labor

‘adviser and brain truster. It

was Mr. Cheyfitz ‘who suggested to Johnston that Mr. DiSalle would make a good price administrator. Mr. Johnston relayed the suggestion to Dr.

Alan Valentine, former head of .

the Economic Stabilization Agency. Mr. Valentine had a plane flown out of Toledo to bring Mr. DiSalle to Washington for an interview and hired him on the spot.

goons who dodge in and out of the Malayan Jungle to the stutter

of tommy guns and the thump ‘of hand grenades is 5000. The lowest estimate is 3000. That's not counting a few thousand men in the Malayan People's... Liberation Army. They're now lying low, presumably preparing for as new phase of fhe intérnational Communist grab at Southeast Asia. The liberation army kicked off on- this ‘people's revolution” in the summer of 1948, It then seemed worth trying for Red control of three critical areas of Malaya and the establishment of a “people's government.”

~ EJ » MILITARY and police action that included the (arrest of Red “intellectuals” and wholesale banishment of Chinese Communists. to China under erffergency regulations put a sudden crimp in the

plan. It was ‘cut back to ele-:

mentary gangsterism with ideological trimmings. On a gangster-guerrilla

- basis, “direct action” by po-

litical activists has persisted more than two years in the face of progressive forecasts of their eomplete Jiquidation. =. British security forces

(which include some of the’

world’s ‘best jungle fighters), a Malayan regiment. and a large Malayan. police force, all

‘ supported by Royal Air Force

bombers, could readily wipe out the whole. lot if they could get at the Reds. But they've dispersed and they take to the jungle like

* fleas take to a collie,

» SECURITY Sorted have been killing them at the rate of about 1000 a year. But since extortion and robbery fit so neatly into a “people’s revolution,” it's a paying proposition and Malgya’'s 2.5 million Chinese include enough rascals for replacements. This Commiinist movement is almost entirely Chinese though Commissioner Maledim MacDonald says 90 to 95 per cent of Malaya's Chinese are anti-Communist, But police in the field report a passivity among Chinese squatter farmers, tin mine workers and rubber plantation hands that suggests a different percentage, or which at any rate is almost as helpful to the Reds and obstructive to authorities as active support, nn » » ON THE other hand, terror can not be discounted as a factor in the apparent Chinese passivity. The British recently sfarted penalizing whole towns and villages for failure to report Communist murders and extortion in their midst. It is evident that Red China has furnished some of the toplevel guidance for the guerrillas, and greater reinforce-

-ments in arms and men, if

necessary, may be expected when the full heat is turned on. For the present the squads of political .goons serve the Reds’ purpose of keeping Malaya's six million people on sige.

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