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The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., Oct. 6, 1952
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A CASE FOR REPEAL
By Charles V. Stanton
The Taft-Hartley law is getting considerable attention
from both parties in the presidential campaign. Eisenhower
told the American Federation of Labor he stands for amend
ment of the act but not for repeal. Stevenson, who started
out as an advocate of amendment, has gradually shifted,
tinder pressure from the C.I.O-dominated Americans For
Democratic Action, to championing repeal.
We doubtless will hear much debate concerning this is
sue as the campaign moves into the home stretch. Argu
ments will become more heated than at present. Organized
labor, whiclj has fought the act from the first, will, through
its leadership, have much to say.
Labor's abhorrence of the act, in our opinion, is largely
psychological. Labor had everything its own way until the
Taft-Hartley Act appeared on the scene. The Taft-Hartley
Act was construed by labor leadership as a personal slap.
Consequently labor will not rest until it has won repeal. It
will not be content with amendment. The title of the act
represents the only major legislative defeat suffered to date
by labor leadership. So long as the title remains it is a
monument to that defeat. Therefore it is the title of the act
and the significance it carries, we believe, which incurs la
bor's wrath rather than the actual provisions of the law.
Thus the candidate who will declare in favor of repeal will
gain approval while one who would amend, even though ev
ery amendment might be dictated by labor, hasn't a chance
for endorsement.
Verdict Not Unanimous
While the top labor officials are energetic enemies of the
Taft-Hartley Act, the dislike does not extend unanimously
through the ranks.
Private conversation with many rank-and-file union
members will result in confidential information that a con
siderable segment of organized labor does not agree with its
leadership. In fact, we were present at one argument that
almost led to blows between two union members, one favor
ing the law while the other opposed.
There also is considerable resentment on the part of la
bor's Joe Doakes about being "pushed around' by his lead
ers. He doesn't take kindly to regimentation, even by the,
union he supports for his own protection. He objects most
of all to being told how he shall vote. This resentment has
been quite pronounced in enough recent "lections that it
can't be alibied as coincidence. It helped defeat Flegcl and
Shaw in the Oregon election of two years ago, after the
"must" sign went up in union halls. It was reflected in
Taft's victory in Ohio. It shows in the astonishing McCarthy
victory In Wisconsin. Every American is proud of his vote,
even though he may be negligent in exercising his rights.
An American objects to having anyone tell him how he shall
vote. And the workingman is first an American. He may
be persuaded but he won't be compelled.
Let Government Resign
The current controversy and the attitude toward the
Taft-Hartley Act, in our opinion, offer good reasons why
the federal government should get itseff out of the middle
of the labor-management quarrel, where quarrel exists.
We favor repeal of the1 Taft-Hartley Act. Not only the
Taft-Hartley Act but also all other controls and regulations
over either labor or management, except those designed for
health and welfare and the physical protection of the work
man. Since the government has attempted to act as referee,
labor troubles have multiplied. While there is a referee
to whom appeals may be made, disputants are certain to
stall as long as there is possibility of a favorable decision.
Why should labor and management attempt to compose
their differences between themselves when Uncle Sam is
hopping around trying to get into the squabble? And after
Uncle Sam gets into the fight, he wastes valuable time,
finds more ways to spend money, puts in months of investi
gations, hearings, elections, and finally comes up with an
answer based on political expediency rather than justice.
There was far more reason for government participa
tion in labor matters when labor was young and struggling.
In those days its grand old leader, Samuel Gompers, urged
against government interference. Now that labor has reach
ed maturity it is able to fight its own battles. Yet its leader
ship wants a referee and one whose decisions it can control.
President Truman has used the Taft-Hartley act in om.v
two out of nine controversies. That should be ample evi
dence that the government's labor machinery is unneces
sary, a waste of taxpayer money, and a costly deal for both
labor and management.
We'll go along with repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, but
only if we repeal the rest of the labor and management con
trols and gut the government out of the middle.
FromMt-rt 2 r )
ENDING
BASKET
Commenting on "The Checker
ed Years" a autobiowaphical
story of early days in the Dakotas,
reviewed in this column some
months ago, 11. W. writes:
"The same situations are de
scribed in Laura ingall Wilder'!
books for children, which we state
library workers like so much:
"Little town on the Prairie," "The
Long Winter," Those Happy Gol
den Years," etc.
"I think the deepest Impression
I get from such descriptions is
the violence and unpredictability
of the weather, and of nature:
the extremely cold winters, then
the hot summers, and the plagues
of grasshoppers etc. What cour
age it took to toil and plant a crop
and then, almost in an instant,
have it swept away, and have to
begin au'ain.
"1 wonder If some of those
prairie settleri did not in the long
run have more courage and torn-
I city lhan some of the covered
wagon pioneers about whom so
much has been written I One of
our reference librarians, here is
the granddaughter of an Oregon
pioneer. Ilex grandmother came
across the plains as a j oung wom
an, and walked nearly all the way
to Oregon. She told L. that noth
ing happened in the way of hard
ships, so far as their wagon train
was concerned. It was just like
one big outdoor picnic all the way.
"Then they settled in this fertile
Willamette valley. There was plen
ty of hard work, of course, but
no tornadoes, no grasshoppers, no
extremely cold winters or extreme
ly hot summers. In a way 1 think
they were bolter off than the Da
kola settlers, for the W. Valley
settlers did not have the violence
of nature to contend with .. .
"I remember my mother's cou
sin telling me of her experience
In North Dakota. . . on i farm . . .
ri f Pi.Ji T-1,. A ll r. .
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Copyright 1952, King Features Syndicate
CHICAGO The qaulities of mercy that Democratic
presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson says led him to sup
ply additional thousands of dollars in salary annually to poli
tical appointees does not extend to the lower echelons of his
hired hands. ,
In fact, Stevenson't Democratic
machine in the state collects from
the lower paid employees to help
keep the machine oiled with cas,i
so that a top favored few won't
get mad and quit.
A subcommittee of the Illinois
State Legislature is just begin
ning to develop the facts concern
ing kickbacks from Democratic
appointees of Stevenson's who are
required to pay set amounts, de
pending on the type of job they
hold.
For Instance, at the State Peni
tentiary at Chester, 111., the Demo
crats extracted $5,000 to $6,000 in
the way of kickbacks from the
prison guards employed.
Prison guards at Chester are not
overpaid by tho State of Illinois.
A beginner, for instance, draws
SL'ta a month salary, is furnished
uniforms and one meal for each
working day. A sergeant receives
$280 a month: a lieutenant $304;
a captain. $330 per month.
$75 back to the Democratic ma
chine. It doesn't make a pretty picture,
when you consider that a group
of coal mining firms in Chicago
have admitted that the Democrats
put a $300 price tag on their oper
ations under the governorship of
Adlai Stevenson. One operator, re
ported to be a big coal seller to
the state, says he shelled out $2,500
to help Stevenson along.
By comparison to the prison
guards who have to sweat out a
living on salaries ranging as low
as $3,100 a year, while kicking
back to the political bosses, Wil
liam I. Flanagan, Governor Steven
son's publicity director, increased
his annual income owing to the
qualities of mercy inherent in
Stevenson.
The governor reports that he
ptid Flanagan $7,900 in gifts out
of the governor's fund. This ex
ceeds what Stevenson's henchmen
! extracted from the prison guards
Prison guard work is exacting ' on the basis of figures disclosed in
and dangerous, and requires cour-the investigation so far. Flanagan
age and skill. Despite this the lis paid an annual salary of $7,500
Stevenson administration bounced i a year by the state. His job carries
ReDiiblican-appointed guards when
the governor was elected in 1949.
The rate of kickbacks at the pri
son is as follows: guards. $20 each;
sergeants, $25 each; lieutenants
$35 each; captains, $50 each. There
is no testimony as to the amount,
if any, that higher officials had
to kick back. An assistant war
den did, however, say he kicked
The first year they expected an
unusually good wheat crop. Every
.I.,.. cl,n ,n.-hrrl tint u-hi.nl I'rnw-
ing across from their house as j hi"-.f1na?sn w
her husband had promised her the
money from its sale. One morn
ing, as she was watching It, the
skv darkened . , .in a few minutes
hailstones as big as eggs fell
the title of superintendent of the
state division of departmental re
ports. Actually, he ghost-writes
some of Stevenson't speeches and
serves as general public relations
adviser.
Stevenson says he collected the
fund in order to keep such em
ployees as Flanagan on the pay
roll, because big business wouid
snatch them away if he ,did not.
Big business had made no such
overtures to Flanagan, at least not
up to 1948 when Stevenson hired
member of
a public relations firm at an an
nual salary reported to be $4,000
a year. So his job with the gov
ernor was a $3.500 a-year boost.
I presume that the prison guards
the entiie crop was ruined by the who kicked back to the Steven-
hail. Nothing to do but live o(f the I
land as best they could until they
could get their next crop in and ;
hope that it too would not be a '
failure!" I
son machine in Illinois paid in
come taxes on their salaries. If
not. it is certain they would be in
trouble since the Bureau of Inter
nal Revenue has copies of each
Bandon Bankrupt Co-Op
Plywood Plant Bought
PORTLAND Wl The bankrupt
Interstate Plywood Co., a co-operative
at Bandon, went on sale Fri
day at the federal courthouse here
and a group of stockholders bought
the plant and site for $135,000.
Kstej Snedecor, referee in bank
ruptcy, announced the sale and
said that $65,000 would go toward
settlement of a first mortage, and
$65,000 would go to Star Machinery
Co. for equipment it had sold the
firm.
Snedecor said he understood that
the buyers rpnrpcpntinc a
stantial number of the original
atockholdera hoped to return to
operation as a green veneer plant.
state's salary scales. I presume
also that the politicians who col
lected the kickbacks reported
them as campaign contributions,
because there are stiff penalties
ii uiey ao noi.
It would seem like a safe
assumption that Flanagan reported
hit $7,900 in gifts as income, but
it lsn t. For Flanagan and some
of the other beneficiaries of Steven
son't quality of fiscal mercy say
nicy uiu noi report uie casn pay
ments as income.
Hear Fulton Lewis Daily
Un KKNR, 9:15 P.M.
ITCH
(Paid Advartiaamanti
Scabies, la hi (Mr eon.
taaious and will not
iinua for lira it nol
atODDed. It maim eiuw
tt tha Itch mite which, n Immune to
ordinary treatment. EXSORA kills the
Itch-mite almost inttantlj Only three
days' EXSORA treatment la requlrrd.
Mail orders given 1.50
prompt attention. Postpaid
Fred Meyer Drugs, Roteburg
fame en inpa . 1.41.,, j mmm
"BEST BIT OF
SOWING EVER . . . "
Tea, son, I'ra just twed a
crop that will really bear fruit
retirement ftsmruire in the Sua
Life Atsitrance Compiuiy of
Canvl&. And tha aame policy
provides that if anything hap
pens to me while we still have
a mortgage, the farm will be
rlrar of debt for your mother."
No farmer ahouiti be without
thia protection call me today.
SUU LIFE ASSU1ANCE
COMPANY OP CANADA
ED WYATT
SPECIAL AGENT
Douglas County
State Bank Building
PHONE 3-8184
4 'f -4Wsi.v?I
... i ..ff. 1 1
UN LIFE MEANS SOUND
SECURITY SINCE 1IS
port and other regimentation. He
too has benefited by TECHNOLO
GICAL PROGRESS by the appli
cation of power and machinery to
the business of farm production.
I can remember when the corn
belt farmer plowed his ground
with a two-horse team or maybe
one mule and harvested his grain
with an old self-binder and a pitch
fork and harvested corn by hand
with a shucking-peg and a wagon
with knock-boards on it.
NOW it T rlsir with DAtVPD
MACHINERY, which has increas-
ea ana ttiMr lnkd production.
All thi 1 Uhnt utt Mall l.nUAl.i
cal progress, and the farmer has
ueneiuea oy 11, along with industry.
Did you ever stand long enough
hpfnril Millot' naintin 4kA 11.-
with the Hoa tn 0ran tha .itttap
hopelessness of the creature stand
ing were ana loaning on his mattock?
You can't tin mnr-li tnw m man
with nothing but his bent back and
a mattock to oroduce crops with.
But. give him POWER MACHIN
ERY and the imnrnvpH Icnennr.
tation and markets that power and
luaimnery proviae ana it becomes
another story.
It isn't the nnliticianc ivhn a1:v
improve the lot of the Man with
uie noe. 11 s xne inventors and the
technicians who widen his horizons.
That's . wherp th "fina,- l,A.,cnB
and the greater comforts and trie
eXDanded frpfrinm tn travel" that I
Stevenson talks about come from.
I'd like to rlnSA thi ninea tuilh a
statement that 1 suppose won't be
wiueiy agreed wun:
What has happened in thia coun
try sine 1Q7Q uynnlH h.va nMj
about, in broad nntlinp Rprzann.
LESS OF WHICH PARTY WAS
IN POWER. What is YET to hap
pen (in broad outline) wiU come
about regardless of which party
is in power.
That is to say:
Our economic fate is governed
more by the BROAD SWINGS
that are world-wide in their scops
than by the much-trumpeted do
ings of the politicians. After all,
the politicians are just the little
boy who thrusts his thumb into
the leak in the dike. If there isn't
mucn of a flood behind the dike, I
the boy can stave off trouble with 1
his thumb. But if the flood MEANS i
BUSINESS, he won't opt vppv tar
with his thumb in the break.
If we are to have a recession
in business that will put an end
to the boom, it will come not be
cause of party policy but because
of the ending of the easy profits
period during which our comoe
titien was OUT OF BUSINESS and
we had the world by the tail.
I want a change in administra
tion because ONE PARTY has
been in power too long. It has be
come corrupt. It has become ex-
travagant. It is taking too much
of our government away from the i
statehouse, the courthouses and '
the city halls and concentrating ir'
in Washington. .
,1 think the Republicans will be
more likely than the Democrat! to
HALT those dangerous trends. 1
Racketeers Owe Federal Taxes
WASHINGTON I Oregon
racketeers owe the federal govern
ment at least $2,674,808 in back in
come taxes and penalties, investi
gators reported Friday.
'James Guthrie, acting chief of
the Internal Revenue Bureau's
racket squads, said that investiga
tion of 161 cases in Oregon during
the year ended June 30 resulted in
additional tax assessment for 59.
The other 102 apparently filed
correct returns, agents reported.
Names of those investigated were
not disclosed.
Prosecution was recommended
in two cases, they said. '
Rackets investigated in Oregon
with the number of cases and the
total of recommended assessments
and penalties:
Abortion 7, $798,713; bootlegging
4, $1,252; extortion 2, $563; nar
cotics 7, $13,206; payoffs and graft
5, $256; prostitution 11; $180,000.
Gambling: bookmakers 8, $106,-
726; casinos 5, $11,932; numbers S,
$4,051; slot machines 70, $844,667;
other gambling 36, $713,442.
FOR SALE
One complete Sawmill consisting of 1 Saw Husk and 4 48"
Saw.; 1 3-block Carriage with power set works; 1 4x40
Idoco Edger; 1 Log Haul; 1 Roll Case; 90-ft. Green Chain;
1 Shaft ond Swing Saw; 1 No. 1611 Buda Motor in excel
lent condition; 1 Bu-50 Donkey eom-lete with Blocks and
Rigging; 1 1800-ft. 14" Skyline; 1 2500-ft. l3s" Skyline
both 50; 1 Chev. Dump Truck; Fire Equipment (Pump
and Hate!; and Miscellaneous Tools. ',
WRITE P. O. BOX 1017 ROSEBURG OR
PHONE 3-3472 BETWEEN 5 fr 7 P.M.
AUCTION SALE
HOMES
HOMES
OCTOBER 7, 1952
To clear right-of-way for Winchester-Shady Point
section of the Pacific Highway in Roseburg.
Buildings To Be Sold:
The former John P. A mo char rtsidtneo or Winch liter, located at tho
rear of the pott office. This building is to bo sold at 2:00 P.M., Stand
ard time, on the irimiiet.
TSe former Ralph M. Church residence at 1220 Garden Valley Road.
The former P. M. Odarklrk retidonce at 1212 Chatham.
The former Barney Root 'esidenca at 1134 Chatham.
The former Ray W. Johi.'reiidence located at tha southerly ond of
the Foirground Road. This it m new partially constructed two story
residence of excellent materials.
ALC BUILDINGS to be sold separetly.
BUILDINGS must be moved from present location rvithin 30 days of
notice of acceptance of bid.
ANY FINANCING MUST BE ARRANGED BY YOU WITH THE FIN
ANCE COMPANY OF YOUR CHOICE. IF YOU ARE CONTEMPLATING
MOVING A BUILDING, CONSULT WITH OUR MOVER PRIOR TO
SALE AND ASCERTAIN IF A PERMIT CAN BE HAD FOR THE
ROUTE CONTEMPLATED.
TERMS OF SALE ARE: The above building to be toM to tho highest
bidder at public auction but subject to approval of tho Oregon State
Highway Commission with tho right reserved to reject any or oil bids.
50 per cent of bid price must accompany tho successful bid with re
maining 50 per cent to bo poid within ten days of notice of acceptance
of bid by the Highway Commission
SALE DATE for tho lost 4 homes listed: 3:00 P. M., Tuesday, October
7, 1952, at the Church residence, 1220 Garden Valley Road ond con
tinue south until all buildings are sold.
For information contact Don Norlln Phone 3-6666 Roseburg or C.
W. Parker - Phone 4-2171, Ext. 717, State Highway Building, Salem.
Auctioneer: Claude M. Kilgore
Salem, Oregon
OREGON STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
STATE HIGHWAY BUILDING
T - Salem, Oregon
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