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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:
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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.
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MOLUCCAN OFFERS JUNGLE TROOPS . . . Karel J. V. Nikijuluw,
representative of the republic of the South Moluccas, south Pacific
inifltid group, points to his country during a New York press confer
ence. The Moluccas, part of the Indonesian federation of republics,
has offered to the U.N. two thousand trained Amboinese jungle troops
to fight in Korea. 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.
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