The Willamina times., April 30, 1942, Image 4

TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
THURSDAY. APRIL 30. 1042
By Edward C. Wayne
McNutt Heads Nine-Man Commission
To Conscript Essential War Workers;
DeGaulle Urges Countrymen to Revolt
As Laval Takes Over Rule of France
( E D IT O R S N O T E — W h en o p in io n * « re e x p re s s ed In th e * * c o lu m n *, ih e v
• re those or the n e w * a n a ly s t an d not n e c e s s a rily of this n e w s p a p e r .)
. (R elea sed by W estern N ew sp ap er U nion.».
Tflf. CHEERFUL CHERUB-
OK.pletL^e excuse rc\e,
re-Ktie-r;
U. S. Dairymen Aroused
By Unionization Threat *
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thing
I ht-ve. th t.t lvzy
feeling
PecvIiKr to th e .
New Farm Organization Protests Against Mine
Workers’ Attempt to ‘ Wed Pick-Axe
And Milk Pail.’
.spring
R T C * "’’
By BAUKHAGE
Neu, In alvtl m id C.omnirnlolor.
Gaston Henri-IIaye, Vichy F rench am bassador to the United States
(left) as he talked with new sm en at the state departm ent in Washington
when he called upon U ndersecretary of State Sumner Welles. His visit
occurring a short tim e after Laval becam e F ra n c e ’s chief of governm ent’
was of a conciliatory nature.
’
M O B IL IZ A T IO N :
Of Manpower
in the Philippines, upon J a p hold­
ings there had been prom ptly re ­
ported to us, and later by the Japs.
A few doubted, because of allied
silence, that the raids had occurred
at all, but these w ere in the tre­
m endous m inority, com pared with
those who had accepted the J a p re ­
ports of their own d isaster, and had
preened thenjselves joyously over
the avengem ent of P earl H arbor and
B ataan, and that the long-dem anded
bombing of Tokyo had been ca rried
out.
WNU Service. 1343 II S treet, N W .
Washington. 1». C.
John Llewellyn Lewis, one-tim e
; A m erican labor czar, still head of
the powerful United Mine W orkers
I union but otherw ise pretty m uch of
i a lone wolf, is trying to unite the
fa rm e rs and m iners in one big un-
j ion, controlling all th at re sts be­
neath the earth and ull that blooms
! above it. A s o r t o f m a r r ia g e o f th e
pick-axe and the milk pail. Both
, honorable em blem s but never seen
in the sam e shield before.
A lot of dairym en in New York,
New J e rse y , Pennsylvania, Ver­
mont, M ichigan and Minnesota are
1 pretty m uch excited about it.
They say th at the attem p t to o r­
ganize the “ United Dairy F a rm e rs ”
division of the United Mine W orkers
is threaten in g the safety of the n a­
tion, to say nothing of th eir own
safety and th eir own property. Some
of them a re worried enough to in­
corporate as the “ F ree F arm ers,
In c.” and subscribe money to “ fight
to the en d ” ag ain st Mr. Lew is’ ef­
forts.
A num ber of the leading farm or­
ganizations thought enough of the
m a tte r to hold a series of m eetings
to discuss it in Washington and to
p re p are to testify before a congres­
sional com m ittee on the m atter.
At the h ead q u arters of the United
Mine W orkers they will tell you th at
all these unpleasant re m a rk s are
inspired by the milk trust. T hat
is farm bred, mostly. They are
sons or cousins or friends of furm
owners. They ju st don’t look at
things the way city folks do, who
n ever worked a farm or never cared
m uch about owning one.
And then they point to the efforts
of the farm -lalior party and the non­
p artisan league. Both just fell ap art.
F a r m e r S te a m e d U p
The one m an whom I talked to
who was really steam ed up ubout
Mr. Lew is' new venture and actually
felt th at the m ovem ent he was s ta rt­
ing w as dangerous had been a farm ­
er, too. He m ay be right.
He said to m e:
“ F a rm e rs don't like this thing but
th ere a re som e discontented farm ­
e rs who will sign anything if they
are m ad. They feel th at the state
or the federal governm ent is against
them . Pushing down prices. And
if this m an Lewis could get them
to sign a union card, prom ising them
higher prices, and then force them
to deal only with help that had
signed up and ship their milk only
with tru ck e rs who had signed up,
then all the re s t of the milk would
be ‘hot m ilk ’ and it would be de­
stroyed. And if Lewis got control
of the CIO again and got a few rich
people th at thought they would get
a break out of the com bination, they
m ight push him for election in 1942.
R em em ber the CIO contributed
$500,000 to the D em ocratic ca m ­
paign fund in 1936.”
He was w orried.
Somehow I am not. I am not a
fa rm e r but I know that nobody who
works close to the ground feels he
has to join up and borrow help from
an organization. He is a lone fight- i
er. He is independent. The only
union th at he believes in is the un­
ion of hard work and the co-opera­
tion of n atu re if sh e's willing
If
she isn 't—spit on your hands und
try again.
I think Mr. Lewis is hollering
down the wrong rain b arrel.
On the home front President
Roosevelt had moved to mobilize the
entire m anpower of the nation, plac­
ing Paul V. McNutt in charge of the
com m ission which would be charged
with this duty.
It wras given all-em bracing pow­
ers, and not only to d raft and place
men, but women into industry which
would produce the goods needed to
win the war.
The commission of nine m em bers L A V A L :
was to include WPB chief Donald
Nelson, also representatives from And Power
the w ar, navy, agriculture and la­
P ierre Laval had leaped into the
bor departm ents, the selective serv­ saddle of the Vichy governm ent, and
ice system , civil service and a the im m ediate afterm ath had been
new labor section of the WPB.
the recall of A m bassador Leahy and
At the tim e when the older m en an attitude of watchful w aiting on
were to register, the 45 to 64 group, the p art of Washington to see which
and at a tim e when som e millions way the c a t would jum p.
of potential selectees were listed in , While it was considered a prob­
classes not available for m ilitary j ability th at the eventual outcom e
service, it was seen as a distinct ! would be the recognition of the
E c o n o m ic W a r f a r e B o a rd
probability th at the M cNutt com m is- ■ DeGaulle m ovem ent as the real
G o es on W a r p a t h
sion would begin to draw on this , F rench governm ent, this action
reservoir of m anpower.
The Board of Econom ic W arfare
was not im m ediately taken.
H erbert W. Voorhees, president of
At the sam e tim e Sidney Hillman,
L aval’s first act in form ing his the New Jersey F arm bureau, who is on the w arp ath at last.
labor chief of WPB, and form er p art- 1 governm ent was to put 13 of his
About a y e a r ago I wrote in this
ner with G eneral Knudsen in the closest friends into a cabinet of 21 was elected president of the F ree colum n about econom ic w arfare. I
form er w ar production setup, was m em bers. He did subm it the nam es F a rm e rs , Inc., an organization said it was a very hush-hush propo­
called into the White House inner to M arshal P etain, and received the form ed by farm lead ers in the New sition but plans of im portance were
circles as a special adviser to the aged g en eral’s approval, but this York m ilkshed to com bat the UMW under way. It was being handled
in its attem p t to organize milk fa rm ­ then by the d ep artm en t of com ­
P resident on labor m atters.
had been considered a m ere m a tte r
m erce.
It had been thought that Hillman of course, as the feeling was th at ers.
was on his way out. Suddenly the Petain had actually laid down the th ere is a no-strike ag reem en t for
L ate r a Board of Econom ic War­
nation discovered th at he was not reins of governm ent and was sim ply the duration so th ere is no dan g er fa re was form ed. Vice P resident
on the way out, but in.
a rubber stam p.
of strikes. T hat they are sim ply W allace was put at its head That
Laval split the civil and m ilitary fighting “ big business” in the form is about all m ost people h eard about
E O M B IN G :
it until Rep. M artin Dies charged
divisions of governm ent, abolished of the m ilk trust.
th
at a num ber of com m unists and
Jap Cities Suffer
the national defense m inistry, and
T hree things a re being attem p ted
one nudist worked for it. The "nud-
kept
three
all-im
portants
posts
for
by
this
expansive
“
D
istrict
50”
of
A m erica’s spring tonic had been
ist proved to be a solem n econo­
the sensational report, from J a p a ­ him self, the m inistries of foreign af­ the United Mine W orkers union. m ist who once wrote a book on that
nese sources, it was true, but un­ fairs, interior and inform ation—the They a re organizing first, the d airy intriguing subject which a high court
w orkers; second, the country tru ck ­
denied in Allied circles and hence latter, that is to say, propaganda.
D eGaulle’s reaction cam e from ers (who ca rry the milk and other said was scientific and unobjection­
accepted, that A m erican planes,
able even if the pictures were a lit­
probably carrier-based, had wreaked London, w here he broadcast in supplies to m ark et) and, third, such tle bit Police G azettish.
French
to
his
people
calling
on
them
farm
ow
ners
as
will
join.
havoc and destruction on Tokyo and
Then suddenly cam e a sweeping
three other g reat Nipponese centers, to revolt, saying “ the duty of each R e m e d ia l L e g is la tio n S o u g h t
one is to fight relentlessly against ( I have talked with "D istrict 50” o rd er which turned over to these
including vital Kobe.
both the enem y and the m en of h e a d q u arters of the UMW; I have gentlem en, who had been working
Some of the angles of the Jap Vichy,
to drive them out and sabo- ! talked with m em bers of the d e p a rt­ without any publicity, com plete pow­
broadcasts had been efforts to gain tage their
o rd e rs.”
m ent of ag ricu ltu re; I have talked er over raw m aterials. Ju st pre­
inform ation as to the source of the
S ecretary Hull had retu rn ed to 1 with a form er d airy fa rm e r no ceding this o rd er S ecretary Jesse
attack which apparently had been
Jones of the- d ep artm en t of com­
as m uch of a surprise to Japan and Washington, and pushed p re p a ra ­ longer on the fa rm ; I have talked m erce who had a g re a t deal to do
tions
in
a
diplom
atic
way
to
fru
strate
with a m em b er of one of the farm
as m uch of a m ystery as had been
the Vichy coup against the W estern groups which have held a series of with raw m aterials was questioned
the attack on P earl Harbor.
m eetings here in Washington who sharply in congress as to ju st what
A ttem pting to pierce the veil of hem isphere.
He had had a serious breakdown, are seeking “ rem edial legislation to his progress had been.
censorship and silence in Allied cir­
The gist of the order was th at the
and
had been convalescing in F lor­ cure the ills of the union m ove­
cles, observers tried to figure the
Board
of Economic W arfare had the
ida,
but
cut
short
his
convalescence
m en t.”
stren g th and source of the raids, and
com plete say as to w hat raw m a­
to
return
to
the
capital
because
of
At
D
istrict
50
they
m
erely
say
m ost of them believed it had been
terials w ere acquired by this coun­
from two U. S. carriers, and m ight the critical tu rn in U. S.-Vichy af- the m ovem ent is a g re at success: try how they w ere to he acquired
i
fairs.
th at 33 d istrict lead ers representing
have com prised as m any as 100
10 states who m et here in W ash­ and w hat essential m aterials, raw or
navy bom bing planes.
R U S S IA :
ington to plan th eir intensive ca m ­ otherw ise (excluding guns,’ muni-
The J a p s claim ed that nine were
tions and planes) went out of the
Holds
the
Ball
paign
are enthusiastic. I was told country.
shot down. The Jap s told of huge
fires being started, and 20 hours
The Red arm y , fighting back G er­ th at already 30,000 dairy farm ers or
The policy of the acquisition of
afte r the raid s had adm itted, in their m any s spring offensive and turning farm w orkers had been signed up. raw m aterials is not, however, based
T
hat
h
ea
d
q
u
arters
was
getting
in­
own broadcasts, that the fires in the tables on the Nazis, were
quiries a t the ra te of a thousand a entirely on what we need. It is
Tokyo had not been completely still “ carry in g the ball.”
p artly based on w hat the Axis pow­
quenched.
There w as no question but th at week.
need
And so these m aterials
M em bers of the d ep a rtm en t of ag ­ ers
F rom this the Am erican im agina­ they w ere being vastly aided by
will be bought, begged or seized
tion was able to gather a picture their allies, England and the United riculture a re staying out of this w henever and w herever necessary
of huge blazes roaring through the States, in two ways—by the sending whole business officially.
to keep them out of enem y hands
But m ost of them have farm back­
close-packed, flimsy wood and paper of large quantities of vital supplies,
Bor want of a nail the shoe was
grounds
them
selves
and
I
im
agine
houses of Tokyo’s suburbs, the after- and by the trem endous non-stop
lost,
for w ant of a shoe the horse
m ath of five hours of bombing.
Royal Air force bombings of G er­ they don’t feel very differently from was lost for want of a horse—”
other fa rm e rs who a re not directly well, you know what happened. For
Sim ultaneous raid s on four cities m any and occupied F rance.
widely spaced geographically could
These la tte r w ere being ca rried out affected. The ones who look on the want of oil, or m agnesium or alum i­
hardly, they had pointed out, have daily and nightly, by av erage forces thing as a theory ra th e r than a fact num , or rubber, the m ost powerful
been carried out from a single ca r­ of several hundred bom bers and —and it still is a theory at this arm ies can fail.
rier.
fighters, the high w ater m ark being writing.
And so we have at last consolidat­
And these fa rm e rs sim ply say:
If the raid s had been by land in excess of 400 planes.
ed under one head, in one com pact
well,
fa
rm
e
rs
and
w
orkers
ju
st
never
planes, observers had said, the gov­
And these w ere no baby bom bers
body, the effort which is ju st as im­
ernm ent would not have kept si­ either, but huge, four-m otored ships, seem to be able to work together. portant as the effort of m en and
They
look
at
things
differently.
And
lence, as raids by A m erican planes some of them A m erican, m ost of
and planes and ships. T ie
this applies to farm help as well guns
based in A ustralia, with a sub-base them B ritish built.
Board of Econom ic W arfare ,s oæ
as farm owners. B ecause farm help the w arpath.
on
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