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f F:- Labor L^iders Angry F IVE of the nation^ top labor spokesmen, led by Phil Murray of the CIO, have had it hot and heavy with Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson over the govern ment’s manpower program. The ill feeling which flared be tween them looked like a curtain- raiser for more trouble on the labor front, and raised one of the most difficult problems o f any de fense or war program. Purpose of the labor leaders’ call on Wilson was to keep the nation’s civilian manpower program under the labor department. This has been the subject of a bitter backstage battle for some time, with Wilson and Gen. Lucius Clay wanting to take manpower away from Secre tary of Labor Tobin and Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosen berg, and with the latter two threatening to resign if the labor problem is taken out of their hands. Labor leaders have good reason to fear General Clay and any man power commission which he or ganized. They recall that during the recent war and before he went to Germany as military governor, Clay demanded of FDR that there be compulsory allocation of labor under a Ir.bor draft. That was onf reason why the five leaders went to see mobilization czar Charlie Wilson last week to try to keep civilian manpower under the labor department. They got nowhere. Wilson’s attitude during the bitter meeting was “I’m run ning things—we’ll do it my way,” though he didn’t put it quite so bluntly. He didn’t have to. On the way to the meeting the labor group had read a news story telling of Wil son’s and General Clay’s plan to set up their own manpower commis sion under civil service commis sioner Arthur Flemming — with Clay, however, as the real boss. Wilson did not deny the story. Nor did he seem concerned when the labor leaders ^reminded him that he was setting up a board to con trol labor without consulting labor. Ample Authority When reminded that labor was Consulted equally with manage ment during World War II, and that labor had a co-chairman on the office of production management, Wilson made it plain that he did not plan to follow this precedent *T have authority from the Pres- ident,” he said, “and I am going to use that authority. I haven’t as yet asked Arthur Flemming to head up this manpower commission, but I Intend to do so. And if he doesn’t accept I may head it up myself.” “Well, we don’t like a proposition like that,” spoke up CIO president Phil Murray. “We represent the men and women engaged in war production work and we think we should at least have an equal voice in the government’s manpower pol icies.” . Murray added that if Wilson be came manpower chief in addition to his top job as mobilization boss, it would be the same as a man “taking advice from himself.” Note—Other labor leaders attend ing the meeting were: Dan Tracy, president of the AFL electrical workers; A1 Hayes, president of the international association of machin ists; George Leighty, chairman of file railroad labor executives as sociation; and James Carey, CIO secretary-treasurer. Inside the Communists There was something funny about the way Farrar, Straus & Co, sud denly junked Hede Massing’s new book cm life inside the Communist party. She’s the ex-wife of Gerhart Eisler, and the book won’t do Stalin any good . . . The manuscript was immediately snapped up by Duell, Sloan and Pearce . . . Com munist party membership has tak en a terrific beating in Europe in the wake of the Marshall plan, the tide of toys, the friendship train and other friendship projects to Europe. In the Dutch parliament, Commu nist seats have dropped from 56 to 27. In the Soviet zone of Austria, Communists lost 10 of their 11 par liamentary seats. In Belgium, they lost five out of 12 seats in the low er house and two out of five in the senate . . . v In Denmark they dropped from 76 elective posts to only 24 . . . The Dutch Communist newspaper is now down from 400,- 000 circulation to around 100,000. while the Communist press of France has taken similar losses . . . Most amazing development, however, is in Italy, where two Communist senators have re* from the party. Military Seuttlabutt The air force . is probing com plaints of kickbacks and shortages at the Bolling field officers club outside Washington. Major Dan H. Rogers, officer-in-charge, has re signed . . . Army Chief of Staff General Collins told the senate services committee behind doors that there are now Communist troops in Korea. 's intelligence at the time reported only 276,000 ■WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Gov. Dewey Breaks With Top GOP Leaders on Arms Aid to Europe; Farm Aid Needed to Kill Rackets Hitch-Hiker FARMERS: Must Help Curb Rackets With the government’s order limiting the number of slaughter houses that will be permitted to op erate and the amount of livestock they can butcher, it became appar ent it is going to take patriotism down on the farm to keep meat off the black market. While big and middle-size slaugh terers who provide most of the steaks and chops for the dinner table will be licensed, several hun dred thousand farmers who usually butcher a few hogs, sheep, for their own consumption or for local sale are exempt. While these farmers right now don’t account for much of the meat eaten in the United States, they are a potential headache for price con trollers. During World War II many farmers sat up their own barn yard slaughterhouses with no more equipment than a tree, a rope, an ax, and a butcher knife. It wasn’t very sanitary, but plen ty of racketeers were willing to buy the meat at fancy prices and truck it into the cities for sale at even fancier black market prices. Price control officials are afraid that some farmers exempted from the slaughtering regulation might be lured into illicit butchering by the prospect of easy money. The job of keeping check on the farmers would require an army of enforce ment agents, and is impossible un der present conditions. For that reason it will take a lot of patriot ism down on the farm if present slaughter regulations are to be en forced. HOLLYWOOD: Unpleasant Publicity Hollywood, that land of make-be lieve so often in the headlines, ap peared in line for considerable more publicity, but of an unpleasant na ture. The new avalanche began to roll when the house un-American activi ties committee announced plans to investigate certain Hollywood actors that would “inevitably” lead to a revival of the communism-in-Holly- wood case. In 1947 the committee investigated Communist influences in the movie capital in long and sensational hear ings with the result that 10 writers pnd directors were convicted of contempt of congress for refusing to say whether they had ever been Communists. All went to jail. The new hearings may do consid erable go''d, but as in all such in vestigations, some innocent people can expect to be hurt. (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) DEWEY: Breaks With Top Men The hints at a serious riff in policy within the Republican party during the past few months took on definite form when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey took sharp issue with such top G.O.P. leaders as Taft of Ohio, Wherry of Nebraska, and former president Herbert Hoover over the defense of Europe. In one of the bluntest statements ever made by Dewey, the New York governor said it would be “ut most of folly” to depend upon sea and air power to protect the U.S against Communist aggression. He added, “Anyone who thinks you can defend the United States or any sub stantial part of the world with any two out of three branches of the armed forces, is ignoring every les son of history.” He then urged faster mobilization and sending more American troops to Europe immediately. He said he felt the deployment of troops was no business of Congress. This viewpoint is the exact op posite of Taft, Wherry and Hoover who have repeatedly demanded no more American troops be sent to Europe without prior approval of congress. They have also urged placing our faith in defense on over whelming sea and air power. Thus develops the serious riff within the Republican party that could have far-reaching results within the coming year. Politically it could mean that Dewey is dead as a possible G.O.P. standard bear er in 1952. On the other hand, if Dewey’s thinking is the expression of the ma jority of the Republican party, it could mean Taft, Wherry and Hoover will be stamped isolationists and doomed to ultimate oblivion. In this connection, it was interest ing to note that Dewey said, “Any isolationist speech is an aid to StaUn.” William J. Newton, Jr., who first made headlines last August when he landed a seaplane at sea beside the “Iron curtain” liner Batory and got into trouble with the FBI, is shown (left) as he was interviewed by corre spondent Frank Conniff, after he turned up in Korea. Newton said he had hitch-hiked 12,000 miles to “kill some Communists” to clear his name of the taint of communism. The 8th army gave him a physical, turned him down as unfit. PRICES: Reach Record Level The American public found itself in a strange position, ope which it did not entirely understand and which presented frightening possi bilities for the future. The situation began to develop some weeks ago with the enactment of price-wage controls, which most people believed would halt the cost of living spiral. Shortly after the “freeze” went into force, numerous loopholes in the plan were made known by which many foods could jump from 5 to 200 per cent. Later the gullible public was told by the bureau of labor statistics that wholesale prices reached a new rec ord high despite the “price freeze”. The main increases were in prices of food and farm products. This, of course, caused immediate rumblings in labor’s ranks. In turn, Secretary of Agriculture Brannan defended farmers against the charges that farm prices were “un reasonably high”. Economic stabilization adminis trator Eric Johnston, who has the most thankless job in the United States today, issued a statement saying that prices may advance a few more months and finally level off in midsummer. The average American had no de sire to see any one group of the na tion’s economy—farmers, laborers, manufacturers—unjustly bear the greatest burden of price and wage controls. But the average American was worried about how far he could stretch his pay check without dras tically lowering his standard of liv ing. He wanted to know if he could stand it until the midsummer level* ing-off took place? KOREA: Reds Counterattack With stunning force and typical blood-curdling methods, complete with suicidal charges, bugle-blow ing, bell ringing, whistle-tooting, and drum-beating, Chinese Com munists launched a counterdrive against U.N. forces in central Ko rea. The counterattack stalled the U.N. advance that began late in January and which had approached Seoul. Eighth army officer^reported ele ments of nine Chinese divisions and six Korean divisions were used in the counterattack. At full strength this would mean as many as 150,000 to 200,000 men. However, heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Communists since the U.N. offensive began. Officials claimed Red casualties, by ground action alone, totaled 80,121. Some military observers believed Communist armies in Korea had been hurt so seriously in recent weeks they could not continue an offensive for a long period of time. Others, however, were cautious with their predictions, remembering the overwhelming manpower available to the Communist cause. Morale was reported high among U.N. troops during recent weeks as they pushed slowly toward the 38th parallel. EDUCATION College Enrollment Drop Is Expected Mobilization is having a drastic effect on colleges throughout the nation. A recent survey of Ameri can universities and colleges re vealed that most institutions pre dict they will lose 25 to 50 per cent of their students before the end of this year. Such a drop in enrollment will re sult in a sharp cut-back of faculty members, possibly as many as 20,000 to 25,000, who will be dis missed from their jobs or will not be replaced when they leave for military duty or war jobs, the sur vey' revealed. The drop in student enrollment is causing college officials serious con cern. They report a decline of 5 to 10 per cent in enrollment for the spring semester which began in January. JAPAN: Progress Toward Treaty Preliminary steps for a peace treaty between the United States and Japan appeared successfully completed with the announcement that the basic points of a defense agreement to be guaranteed by American power had been agreed upon. Japan has become more impor tant to American security since the Communist plan of conquest in Asia became clear. The proposed peace treaty hinged on future security measures in Japan. The security guarantee Includes stationing of U.S. armed forces in and about the country. No time limit will be specified and U.S. troops might be stationed in Japan for many years. And while the arrangement lasts, an attack on Japan would be con sidered the same as an attack on the United States. American policy has leaned heavi ly toward a free and strong Japan as a balancing factor in the Pacific. The United States does not want to place heavy economic or financial burdens or major commercial dis abilities upon Japan. In this respect, however, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand may not agree fully with the United States. BIG-FOUR: Meeting Proposed The United States, Britain and France were reported willing to hold a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in Paris sometime during March. Whether or not the Russians would > consent is another matter. No one is willing to make a guess. One of the main problems of such a meeting would be to get the Tour nations to agree before the meeting took place on just what they would talk about. Britain and France ap peared willing to have deputies of the Big Four meet and work out an agenda. ITie United States want ed to list some of the topics that should be included. The United States wants ^to talk about the rearmament of western Germany, eastern Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Communist satellites in the Balkans. Russia would never consent to such an agenda. It became apparent from the ap proach of all four governments that nobody expected much to come out of another Big Four meeting. They may meet but it will produce nothing except more frayed nerves and propaganda blasts. BUDGET: V I. ' Congress Accepts Dare President Truman in presenting his budget to congress said it was a good tight one and dared the leg islators to trim it. Evidently con gress is going to accept Mr. Tru man’s dare. Several Democrats and Republi cans at least have promised to do so. Senator George of Georgia, chairman of the powerful senate finance committee which will han dle the tax bills to pay for the bud get, said it could be cut $5 to $6 billion “without harm.” Senator Bridges of New Hamp shire, ranking Republican on the senate - appropriations committee, termed the President’s program “as full of water as a field of melting snow.” He urged the senate to squeeze the “water” out. On the othe^ hand. Senator Mc Mahon of Connecticut asserted talk of a $6 billion cut in nondefense items was “fakery—it can’t be done.” Whatever Mr. Truman’s motives for making the dare, he certainly stirred up opposition in congress. The battle may be bitter before it is over. Engineer Joseph H. Fitzsimmons, en gineer of the Pennsylvania rail road commuter train that met disaster at Woodbridge, N.J., was recovering from injuries received in the crash. He re portedly admitted that he was speeding at 60 miles an hour at the time of the wreck over a stretch of track where speed was supposed to be a maximum of 25 miles per hour. The wreck death toll was 83. Approximate ly 500 injured. IRAN: Red Gift to Royalty Joseph Stalin’s gift of a $150,000 mink coat and a desk set studded with black diamonds to Iran’s Shah ef Shahs and his new bride caused a number of lifted eyebrows in diplomatic circles. It is not unusual for presidents, kings and even dictators to send each other presents oh important occasions, but Stalin’s gift to the Shah of Iran was viewed with deep er meaning than mere respect for ♦he head of one state to another. OLD CHRISTMAS CARDS AT WORK . . . Jackie Sexton, 2, shows keen interest as Miss Jetta S. Hendin, administrative director of the pediatric- cerebral palsy clinic at Vanderbilt Clinic, New York City, helps him cut out gay figures from some of the 25 million Christmas cards contributed to United Cferebral Palsy to help in therapy train-' ing of cerebral palsied children in clinics, schools and homes all over America. In background, two patients cut out their own figures. TO TEACH REDS . . . Philadel phia-born Dr. Margaret Schlauch, 52, New. York University English instructor, has notified the school that she is-resigning to join the faculty of the University of War saw in Communist Poland. ASKS ATOMIC SECRECY . . . Atomic energy commission chair man, Gordon Dean, warns that Russia and her satellites must be kept in the dark about atomic weapons experiments now being conducted in the Nevada desert with the newest methods of atom ic warfare. ■ ?! . <' jfb ..-iv 'ifoxk ■ I. ^ ■ CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS * INVEST. 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He told newsmen his nation wonld become the first Asiatic nation to take up arms alongside America In the conflict. LEADING CANDIDATE . . . Pos sible first choice to succeed Base ball Commissioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler whose contract expires in 1952 is George Trantman, pres ident of the minor leagues. A meet ing of owners comes March 12. •«|ii ... ' ! 9. t •. -