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Sunday, Apr. 8, 1951 :

Here Is Your War

By Talburt

NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM . . . Sy Parr gion Study German Plan to ‘Give Lobo a Share in Management

WASHINGTON, Apr. T--Half-way between U. 8. capitalism and British Socialism, a new economic system is emerging in West Germany. The German name for it is “mitbestimmung.” Translated, it means, “co-determination.” What it involves is equal representation of union labor and management on the boards of directors of German corporations, Although U, S. newspapers are just beginning to show interest in co-determination, State Department and Marshall Plan officials dealing with Germany have been aware of it and have

peared under the Weimar Republic of Gérmany, after World War L man industries put one or two representatives of the unions on their boards of directors, But they were concerned only with working co! tions. On larger questions of sales policy or financial management, the union men were excluded from the board meetings. Hitler suppressed this ‘Economic Demooracy” as it was then ‘called. Hitler also killed off the unions themselves. .

Extended to Coal

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Give 1Aght and the People Will Find Ther Own Woy Watcned B® closely More recently, representa- \ Ww. ives o abor unions and management : Zroups have begun to stud 8 AFTER World War II Gefman labor union ecomn p d ’ M a re egy y it. movements were reorganized. In 1946, the Brite rec oisone y arxism my nen o a en, relied oe Steslworksrs of- ish, who controlled the Ruhr industrial area, At s an labor adviser ESPITE the historic ties between the American and . - in Europe, has just returned from an examina- Sranted ue Tinions Be Ersteniation wih Arthur ti i British peoples, and the popular assumption in this es Tz Deh Sossiial Dunagemen 24 Tey Sito companies Uiey Were dD) Martin ’ x ua country that come what may Britain is our most depend- Y share in representation by German ry fom opiside the old cartels, Fach Hoard a calls fo able ally, it would be most unwise wholly to ignore the : ee yu) £ Indu ASTDIY for Im- * of organization was extended to coal. ou his = on Min 2 b+ na i cts of industr 1 i hostility of many British Socialists toward the United % % 1 National “Association of Magitacturers is When the Allied High Contmission {or West. EL States. wn L~ 1 33% concerned over the possible spread of co- i GO es Sorina] Just yes on Pasced 2 Jo of a. oe 3 " : etermination from Be Sempo~ A demand that Britain take back the airfields allotted ¥ “%43 world. Eldridge erm A iy Yest nf the rary companies, Then the fun began. German defiance there to the U. S. Air Force was applauded vociferously . 7 E SITUATION r— LERE WE FIGHT 7 i Industry” and president of the National Man- atop Griens insisted that their co-determination ment. W t the ral : f the Nati 3 TH J agement Council, is now in Germany for NAM. yor 5 06 fxwencec to the new management. In has ov 8 e nal session 0 e National Conference of Labor 7 : EURQPE'S WAR WITH ¥ A His mission is to study co-determination, find January they threatened a strike if they Aignt will be f Women at Brighton, England. There was applause, too, x wouLD BE LUDICROUS 4 the reasons behind it, what it's trying to achieve sl Sincere A a Gen y “e y :5°4 and if possible help find w 3 : enauer assumed the for 2 Sear d thee Bilal pledge itself never to be used © ARMS, WHILE THE i might a possible, P find what other solutions role of mediator and avoided the strike. But a Be as a launching place for atomic bombs. 7 ) V WER ie 2 new law, authorizing co-determination, was in- & “ . ’ critical | “I am sure that no one here wants to follow the Rus- ; IF MEN > LIVES c bt DIPLOMATS THERE STILL ik Answer fo Reds? Sed i Te Sundestug=-the West German Join 3 game e he " i T (N VED." : E » § IMMEDIATE importance of co-determina- parliament at Bonn. { A sian brand of communism,” said one speaker. “But I ask : * 3 IGRT IT wIiTH WORDS x3] tion to the United States is that this is PE a vou, is it any worse than being tied to the tail of American 5 ——— 4 F " J or less what the United Labor Policy Committee Showdown Expecier! ty capitalism? E RS Sm ———— { & Is trying to obtain in the American defense pro- THIS LAW was passed on first reading and indica ; : LO . 4 gram. Instead of seeking co-determination at referred to committee. Here it has met oppo- matter a There were loud cheers and more applause as speaker E A 4 the individual corporation management level, sition and several efforts to get the bill out of chiefs. after speaker blamed “American imperialism” for the war i ba 3 however, the U. S. union officials want it in committee have failed. A showdown will come to Marti in Korea J g | government > They want to be co-managers of soon. . public \ ny e American rearmament program with De- The U. S. government has ke x aa s kept it hands out iw ww = x =» va 3 fense Mobilizer C. E. Wilson. Up to now, U. S. of the fight, believing that this is a proble View THESE were rank-and-file expressions, to be sure. 2 unions have made no move for an equal share the Germans must solve for themselves, fon HE : Yet a similar attitude has been reflected on occasion by - in Te Jerransthilities of Inqustsial management. jean Jngustiislists agree that any interference Wii eB E ’ of co-determination, Germans say y U. S. High Commissioner John J. McClo v Britain's Minister of Defense, Emanuel Shinwell, and by it is an answer to the threat of communism. It Would be regarded as American imperialism. gio Labor members of Parliament. Even what purported to i9 250 claimed 10 be & liter grawer io cominii- U. 8. businessmen as individuals, however that Eur - - -ae S 4 | be a factual review of American-British relations with the dustry, as a pol h, piv mgt oy this. ae, one vg Le 52 Blo = 01 world . vis : ; v : 2 : - S c cy. 8s Leo Te Soviet Union and China by Miss Alice Bacon, chairman of ang. : It would still leave some vestiges of NAM headquarters ig York Te > lost > the Labor Party, had an apologetic tone. This was em- » er Tams of the co-deternii ale convinced that the system won't Work. They That 1 . - . ‘zw n i y 0 ~ y phasized when, urging the importance of British-United tion movement say it is not new. It first ~ A aeons Se American Myestment #1 Jean san States friendship, she asked the convention not to believe ey - | that the United States was all “Wall Street, gambling and, CONGRESS ROUNDUP iiss By Charles Egger HB RE LS ME ion of A big-business profiteering.” i + 6 ; imcultie : y: difficultie; Moreover, Miss Bacon said she believed that without : FORUM— Hi gh Pri i That a “the restraining influence of the Labor Government. Amer- reat ate n S -_ : "l do not agree with a word that but | will rices’ : ciliationica might well be at war with China today.” 9 SE you say, ou} | will defend 1g fhe g your right to say it." ot oF : . mern ERR EEE EEE OEE REE NOE RETR E RENNER EOP N SENN ENT EON NNDe esse as at nnas ene nyy ' 2 a 4 «= Everybody's a W TR BL op Ne wonder whom the lay thinks we are sighing 1. EVEFYDOQY'S @ VVINN@r A Housewife Speaks borrow to expand and the money borrowed was gol ? MR. EDITOR: added to cash incomes. This increased the de- That _ The Britain to which these remarks were addressed Sona Ta A us week fe great Rebate in the of En Complain Shou! the high cost mand for the already limited supply of goods. sqnrees haa : . with neither side getting Ing. ile they readily admit they are i re : forced Is was not the Britain of David Lloyd George and Winston exactly what it wanted, but with both claiming victory. The Making more than ever before. they IE Con So a ® Infigtion merry-go-found started, ice, ono Churchill which we have known. Sduidienation dais bi based primarily on the vote approving ot balance the family budget. The bitterest ji It time for all of us ., . housewives ploited 1 Britain, living under straitened condition bee esident Truman's decision to commit four more divisions to complaint is about high food prices. This is = - ' + larmers., labor . . . management . .. fice to w g iS ; ditions, has N the common defense of Western Europe. Opponents based thei understandable when we realize that about 40 every group in the economy to realize that this Inate wo reduced to a secondary position in the world because of victory cries on adoption of per cent of the average family budget must be inflation is as d i That .t her sacrifices in the common interest of humanity. It js 5°, John McClellan's (D. Dy Congress before actGal = spent for food. : S SaTEerONe 2% ny hom: erie “fense aga inevitable, and understandable, that the c rati A amen calling on traming hile, started. The price freeze has had little or no effect Joris af samosage - + xAna everyone of us losey " FRANCISCO 4 site. Only way ) ) omparative pros- the President eanwhile, Speaker Sam on food prices. There are a ; if inflation wins. It causes strife betw cracker broke open a safe at iving I i Tri 8. pparently no serious ses strife between con- e at an priving R perity of the United States should provoke some resent- to obtain ad- Rayburn (D. Tex.) contributed — ee = sumers and farmers, I auto repair shop and then sat That A ment. In these circumstances, we ot expect Trion Re pe In he hew oy f Ea Jitters. EDITOR'S NOTE: Everybody's asking the and all other Conn a a iy bi i ot tn nntine Sven by ¥ : : i Xpe proval of Con- one o s infrequent floor - : yy Ee e lamenting the “take.” He tions vict to regard American contributions to their rehabilitation as gress before speeches, Mr. Rayburn said: question, “How come high food prices?” With the cost of mobilization. only got $30 for his efforts. Korea sec iv 3 making addi- “Since even yesterday, with an eye to finding a better answer to this ques- What can we do about it as individuals Lives there a man with s munists more than thely Just due. ti be ; 30 enemy planes coming over tion th J as groups? Is it implifi Ii le and dead: oul 90 mn A ional com- 3 e on than we now have, and possibly a better ; :'S It an over-simplification to sug- and Chins mitments. Korea, with the massing of gest that if we seriously want to do somethi By modesty so cursed, That A. BUT OUR assistance is evidence of our good® will, Sen. Mec troops in Manchuria and not lution, The Times is opening its Sunday ve must be willing to work harder i less. WhO never to himself hath Communi; There might be some appreciation of that, and in some Clellan’s all of them Communist Chi- Hoosier Forum to discussion of this ques- save more and pay taxes to meet the cost of said, maximum - nese by a great extent, I say tion. Today we hear from a housewif d the defense effort? And if th “1 am indeed well » m quarters there surely must be. Yet, notwithstandin amend i ¢ 8 pit Fo I al Mn Tun ie Jepsed continuing concern for Britain's well bein Se Ren Hoes To al a be orm eile! arelail grocer. Next Sunday the Forem wil Ol Selends HUN 0 Be & sandier In Korea, Bren bold Thieves Write suanpy Rational g, an 4 erican have the force a Wp gr 2} BRper present points of view of the farmer and the is Irs. Gordon McCalment (Housewife), City. B rhymes, ond front sentiment appears to be deepening and becoming more ©f law. but it : DE fh id Nota} Re Chere dows Um prac i outspoken. rather th bati I directs strong Sen. Bricker than . .. at any time since the wholesale grocer. After that, the question The Retail Grocer tice lead? Await | bi po r than abating. It is hard to believe that ,ressure at, _ idea rejected Sse, of the world war In is open to anyone for comment in The Forym. MR. EDITOR: Nowhere! In these unhappy RE-EN’ this a a Tata! or spontaneous development. the Presigent : vots the Speaker Bavourn dechined to Let's hear from you readers. You're the ones Corsimers aren't the only ones who dislike It ii even bhiy th Joe a ur disposition to treat the British attitude as the nce Congress mus ® _ alabor . I ; who pay the bills. ’ 38s is ; ; dy their entativ : : money for the Atlantic Pact orate on his statement. > . high food prices. Food store operators dislike feed! Whethe: superficial, temporary reaction of a war- i . : i ye: u h J porar} ar-weary nation army. An attempt led by Sen. Taxes shortages of food. The scare buying has about them too. Food market operators’ profits suffer AT REST to on Te, dep should not ignore the hatred for fundamental American John W. Bricker (R. 0.) to i : : materially as food pri i i at's & tough Dijon Jew aires in i : or make advance approval man- TREASURY Secretary John Subsided yet food prices remain sky high. What y as, food prices rite. Lower marging combination — safe«cracking bership o institutions which is inherent in the Socialist doctrine and gatory was rejected. Snyder told the Ways and IS responsible for this situation?” Who is the as a result of higher prices mean less profits. and brain-wracking. sory Boa to which all true believers in that doctrine subscribe. The The Senate also adopted a Means Committee that only ian, Id w ; ; Gross profits of grocers 25 years ago were This chap was probably just can influe apologetic note in Miss Bacon's speech f resolution suggesting that the $10 billion in additional tax Should we have rationed certain food items 30 per cent. Today's gross profits average. 14 playing it safe. Didn't want to Labor n sig = . 2 ch was a frank rec- House take similar action with revenue would be needed this at the same time the price freeze was ordered? per cent with net profits ranging from 1 per he charged with grand larceny, grievances ognition of this innate hostility. respect to - congressional ap- year instead of the $16.5 bil- Is i really ie farmer Who is getting rich at cent to 4 per cent, depending > he left them a Nitle petty Rot been & is } i i ’ ; mo oop commit- fon previously estimated. Rea-, the consumers’ expense? We know that no agri- on type of st operated oggerel. board, Tt This Marxian poison aust, be a matier of grave con- provat o Fe boop gon: The prospective $3 bil- cultural commodity can be frozen below existing DR iE eg in- But any good safe-man policy on cern to us, for it obviously is warping ard undermining lion surplus this year instead Parity prices, but isn't this parity formula to vest more and more money CUSH! to do better than $30 for controls, the character and stability of a nation in which we have RFC Probe of the anticipated $2.7 billion Simply guarantee the farmer a fair return for in stocks as prices rise. As 2» Nitro’s work. Especially with corporatio imposed implicit t w deficit. However, Mr. Snyder his products? Isn't it sensible to assume that an example, when. coffee was a SOUP company offering certainty po plici rust. e can only hope that the true THE FULBRIGHT commit- urged prompt action on the the farmers labor costs, equipment and supplies selling at 40 cents a pound, a $50,000 in a limerick contest. members British character will rise from the ordeal and purge itself tee decided to try again to get administration's proposed have risen in the same proportion as other grocer whose normal stock Okey, Joe! Othe IT of this alien philosophy before irreparable damage is done, Donald Dawson, President Tru- ways of raising the $10 billfon. ~ Prices? °° de Was 30, cases had anprokie Let's Stow’ a . man's personnel adviser, to tell Appropriations no * e > mately $420 invested in coffee, Seems in this “case,” who- chai : ’ . , i WOULD a direct subsidy on some f - Today the same grocer wi ever sca idn" airman. what he knows about favorit- ye J farm com y ame grocer with nned that job didn't That S are-Tire B n ism and political influence in THE Appropriations Com- modities such as we had during World War II 50 cases of coffee on hand has line it up very well! wien Pp a the Reconstruction Finance Litisse slashed $365 million pe the answer or would this make the infla- $996 invested in coffee, x a = doro nl TS y : : per cent—from President tionary pressures worse by giving both the® Some consumers bla FURTHE i : : HARD to see sense in the National Production Author. - Corp. Iw: fe fives) gatos wal Truman's request for $843 mil- farmer and the consumer a nd spend? Is Mr. Hagelskamp their grocer for today’s high gn hoof Dat, is nan wl ity’s.order that new cars must be sold without spare tires. they would use to get the silent lion to finance emergency op- the retail grocer or the wholesale food distrib- « +o low profits price. These people forget any more: Three Illinois pris- Map Cr Any rubber saving will be insignificant. Nobody wants Mr. Dawson to testify. erations during the remainder utor responsible for these high food prices or that on every dollar they oners, who left a poem for the SEN to Sriv ith : It also was agreed to let of this fiscal year. Largest is this just part of the over-all Inflationary "spend in a food store today, the grocer only sheriff, were apprehended in an t nr lve a car without a spare. So new-car buyers will buy gen. Clyde Hoey's (D. N. C.) LUE Nene made in amounts spiral in which we have found ourselves since nets from 1 cent to 4 cents, depending again escape attempt. Guess he was bil spares from tire dealers as soon as they can. The order Investigating subcommittee dig as 3 for civil defense and the the beginning of the Korean War? on the type of food store operated. Certainly a-verse to their leaving. releas nl Koaves them fies to 36 that into the big profits arising hi ce of America overseas What started the inflationary spiral? At a the food retailer is entitled this meager But poetry still appeals to pli t o at. K from the private purchase of roadcasts. time when it was necessary to decrease a large return for the services he performs. some folks. A copy of poet Aen 5 The almost certain net result: Tire dealers will do government-owned ships which Tax Concessions part of our productive capacity devoted to con- Like consumers, grocers are constantly; Pert Frost's first book was Mespwhi more business and people who buy new cars will be put then were chartered to other N : sumers’ goods to produce goods for the defense plagued with increased costs on everything they uc oned for $3500. And in Wexler y put to ATIONAL Production Au- effort, consumers y is ; . v Tokyo , of the unnecessary trouble of sh : companies. thority officials admil ; : 5 s’ incomes were rising. This. purchase. ' With many food items now covered Yo a government official of Empire Ces y trou e ol shopping for spares and, doubt-. . 2 Sony ofl 2 5 mitted be- created more demand for all consumers’ goods. by price control regulations, the number of price recently recited some poetry to has been a less, paying unnecessarily high prices. RFC Reorganization ities ar Bre beam a4 Nawrally Lroguoses raised Prices i the face increases should decrease unless producers and Sool indusiria) strisers. So we committee 3 . . . . ? z 88 § g . se who ¢ av ei ; ; 8 ave e. May / ; This spare-tire ban is part of the government's con- THE EXPENDITURES com- totaling almost $500 million prices got the goods, As it a ea ay the Dies Jepments of distribution are allowed to ca) Epic Fo rae Fe coun Be Serge: servation program. That whole program needs a thorough Mitte retomminded, ihe do 53d bes gota steel com- pay the prices the demands for wage and salary Your grocer ® PI 8 lower food prices the of letting us help him over the Due Sus > $ expansion pro- ner y : . . u s wi Fv. check-up by some such able agency as Sen. Lyndon John- plan to replace the five-mem- grams—without a check Dr A hase Sy Franta the pro- same as you. - I'm. sure youll find him ever an 3 ew Bittle tary in Se gon’s Preparedness Subcommittee. ber RFC board of directors formation supplied by the com- again to cover these. higher oy: Fajen prices Ta Biers 00d prices Nim Sou sa su). : 4 2 & Tenn with a single administrator. panies. Said Rep. George Ben- a aay gest ways to make your food dollar go farther, TRARY wr : ere, sayir Of course the country must not be caught ‘short of The reorganization becomes ef- der (R. 0.) “This is ere THE PRESSURE on Des cased os —H. C. Hagelskamp, Executive Secretary, HOWDA rR tings may not give himsel rubber in another war emergency. But good authorities fective Apr. 20 unless the Sen- of the worst kind of stupidity.” sumers to borrow to spend and business to indiana. Retail Grocers and Mest Dealers ar ARyeast th > ey ar hip a. > say there.now is little or no danger that it would be ate rejects it. The Fouse al- ss to Loa et BAEK te ha joi The i Dues , : mal now. The ually. OR . sn . : ready has approved the plan, Oscars have been awarded and Wexler, : ] EXAMPLE, President Collyer of the Goodrich House Manpower Bill everVoodY's happy. Except of fishing 0., who has a long record of being ri 3 y 7 y te those Whe Sus WS Duke pe & matters contends he real t d : ih 2 eos Sich > RY oosier e “ we BY u pnne Ing Ne learned rom Sire Jo . ds : e presen anger is that unwise ey Thal, BO e all this is that Judy Holliday associated government policies will bring on a grave rubber crisis in said he would support a ts Just be twine, Wheh Miss Rol Hil-ragn the civilian economy. posal to water down the Uni- Hg FOUR TE Yasy Jearney She Pid Von the mittee hea The government, Mr. Collyer says, now has enough raw bt: ag ay Jai jo a Sa FIRMS exclaimed, “I'm beside myself Was Lay rubber in its stockpile, and enough synthetic-rubber plants approval of UMT only in prin- hi ik i al PID SE: ,operating, to assure a more than ample supply for four opie, It wai requre a de- just want to ge myneitr + the Jw "years of war. iis ailed report from a new com- ! er en y » ) a He advocates a slowdown of stockpiling and mission on the organization JON HALL wont in the that six-fig urther “safety-factor” increase of synthetic capacity. That, , 2nd operation of UMT. The competition this year, Just as De ee he says, would make it entirely safe to release enough ig So mendations ell, perhaps, Jon might have Jraganine 3 e ad a roug me corralling Cs usher, Bb keep the civilian economy operating at top RNY Yoies from lus costars on ig : = the distaff side. Not long ago Nonexperts can't be sure whether Mr. Collyer is correct. oo BOLALION a, ne Fy woud be 2 2 sardner and some other HollyBut the patent absurdity of the spare-tire ban certainly or... my luck is ranning low woodearies gave him a pain in Refauve justifies a reasonable doubt that the government's rubber ji." 5°00 to have my spirit We neck. Sr experts know what they're doing. It would i lifted » «2 DY Somenns 7 know Explained he's so tall that rihe, “ y g. would be a fine idea to . . it's great to hear a tender he gets a crick bending downto made it did find out about that in a hurry. word . . . that seems to reas- kiss them during love scenes. po Aig. sure . . . that everything will Lots of us would BREAK our phere” for ; . be all right . . . and troubles necks for the chance! As the World Catches Fire ore arm pet Janay TA Check Te g effect . . . the ably has Jon up the crick for N CASE you've forgotten, the deputy. foregn ministers Tedlictie 1 eed. ; +16 help me a spell! ny : oy : . . i rough the crisis and . . . ful- ‘ IL, are still meeting in Paris. They've been talking steadily fill my spirit's need . . I call NOW FUE [FCC threatens unde which now for a month but can't agree on what their big four 'M* help a comfort and... a punitive action. jagsinst the verloading bo hould talk i i consolation too . . . for it has movie moguls unless they re- pverloading sses shou ; about in case they, too, might meet. ways of healing me . . . when- lease their films for video use. an deduct! Obviously, this thing has been rushed too much. The . ver I feel blue... and so I try She Jost bought a TV iat down on th 0 ge deputies should never have met without first having their to Dats Mung «xs the Kindness 30 Jel out of gomg te .the Special B “ea ve own deputy confer on what the deputies should talk about. found that consolation , . , an pesough. A Hark last Dec 1, &hort cuts in diplo y ous. does a world of good. ford, Coun. Woman. lierally eo mac, are perile laughed h had gone o ; —By Bea Burroughs g erself: sick over one ears, butt ii : picture—ruptured an abdom- Mego ig ) J ; : , inal ey don't . 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