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V iking Firms Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.Thurs.. Oct. 21. 1954 i t ee TO lerms York Drivers (25-Cent Boost PRESENTED BY LANE COUNTY VOLUNTEERS FOR FREEDOM The Honorable Nelson Dilliworth, State Senator of California, said it thus: "We should be afraid that Socialist and Communist material and propaganda is not matched, answered, and exposed. If it is not, our way of life in this wonderland of the world will go by default through a series of persistent half truths and outright lies against the American Institu tions that we hold dear." ... truck drivers m the Metropolitan area end- E employer group Khe union demand for I . ...hniir pacKage in- pi-011 f 1 . ..mnanv officials pre- Q the settlement will Pi. fees by 10 to 15 F . -kins- rnm. fcii 20 out of business and .cturlng firms will irea to avold tne ln' intes. GREETINGS 7B FREEDOM "T-"v -gift A - if smJ IS GET PEP TALK htolan, chiet economist urged the drivers L ik employers a good fcrk and to cooperate in ty possible to increase ef- tA as iu HiiiiiMiv. of the wage increase, employer predictions of I nf tne increase, jvaii'o" Mild not be "so disas , the strike would not bed so quickly." northern New Jer- t, employing about 1,000 (tontinuea io uum ut mi for the firms' resist :. . .. i i m addea i-ceni-an-nuui they would nave io pay tiip no between wages and those in New - , , ... tity. At the stare or tne 84,1)00 anvcrs wei e uui, m FROM PLEDGE nlkout ended officially oseph M. Adclizzi, chair Ihe area-wide employer jng committee, announced of the area's 3,500 firms tleased from a pledge to lie demands of the strik- L International urotner- Teamsters. her, a majority or me take the solid employer Monday, the first work le strike, and signed in- contracts with the union, oby Trap' sts Train BTER SPRINGS, W. Va. It police searched Thurs- the person who rigged a fbooby trap" which blew kith a tram hauling coal itrike-bound mine, killing Bur of the crew. Ian Robert Nicholas, about Bolair, was buried alive lday beneath a carload of he jumped from the loco- tender and three cars of car "drag" which over ice has been spasmodic (! United Mine Workers the Haust Coal and Coke kntor of three unionized nines and a non-union or surface mine in this pain was hauling the first coal from a Maust mine kridse. dynamited Oct. 1. Itaced. officials were not avail- kit in the past they have bed knowledge of any of puts of violence. II I . a anuS GETHER-Pianist Liberacc looks Rr fii!g y" hP. ,S ",,",nickcd eomedtan Victor Boige backstage at the Golden Theater, New York Citv during an intermission in performance of Borec's one man show "Comedy in Music." Borge is starting the second year of his show which mixes piano playing and comedy. Liberace is on a personal appearance visit to New York. Seven Sheppard Jurors Selected flRGUARD WANT ADS MING RESULTS CLEVELAND WThc Shep pard murder trial appeared Thursday to be picking up speed, DUt indications were it would he another week before testimony starts. With seven jurors tentatively selected out of the necessary 13, including one alternate, the sex tinged trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard moved into its fourth day. Defense Counsel William J. Corrigan an'd Fred W. Garmone probed the sex angle repeatedly in questioning prospective jurors Wednesday. They wanted to know if the veniremen would be prejudiced against a person who might have engaged in illicit love. The name of Susan Hayes, 24- year-old hospital technician, came up with increasing fre quency. INTIMATE ROMANCE The auburn-haired beauty, ex pected to be a main prosecution witness, admitted to police she had an intimate romance with 30-year-old Dr. Sheppard when he was in California last March. Dr. Sheppard, a boyish-faced osteopath, is charged with first degree murder in the bedroom slaying of his wife Marilyn, 31, on July 4. He says a mysterious intruder killed her. Miss Hayes' name came up at Prince Due in U.S. NICE, France OB Prince Aly Khan was en route to New York by way of London Thursday to settle "once and for all" his dis pute with former wife Rita Hay worth. Aly said red-haired Rita has been delaying a settlement regarding their child Yasmin. one point in questioning by Gar mone of Mrs. Louise K. Feuchlcr, eventually seated as a fifth juror. Garmone asked Mrs. Feuchlcr several questions about whether she had seen published pictures ana stones about Miss Hayes, and lor the first time was not met with objections from the prosecution and Judge Edward BIylhin. one of Garmone's questions was: "Susan Hayes made a state ment to a reporter during her travels here from California about the fact that she had been intimate with Sam Sheppard. If you read that quotation by Miss Hayes, would that cause you to become prejudiced? Mrs. Feuchlcr replied, "No." Later, Corrigan tried the same line of questioning with another prospective juror and was halted by the judge. CORRIGAN OUTRAGED Corrigan was outraged. He whirled to face the judge and shouted at the top of his voice: "I know they're going to bring Susan Hayes into this courtroom. I know what vidence they have. I know how Susan Hayes has been blasted in the papers." The blowup came after Corri gan asked Melvin C. Holliday whether "the fact that he (Dr. Sheppard) had any affairs with another woman would bias or prejudice you in this case?" Prosecutor John J. Marion ob jected, and Judge Blythin sus tained him on grounds that Miss Hayes was not an issue at this time. Corrigan refused to ask any more questions and Judge Bly-i thin seated Holliday as the sixth juror. A seventh, Mrs. Anna W Foote, was also seated. when you buy whiskey by the drink or by the bottle . . . f&lj Say StttpttttCs ftttilleri Company, New York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65 Grain Neutral Spirits. Volunteers for Freedom is born of need, a terrible need for education by the thousands of people desiring to vote intelligently. By reason of an occasional letter to the editor Edith Phetteplace was called upon to speak to some thirty women at a private residence. Their lack of knowledge and their thirst for information was a factor in introducing this citizenship project. It is a most grave decision the voters of Oregon are called upon to make in November. The issue goes far beyond the candidates themselves. It is what they stand for that is.vital. The issue is shall we abandon the Constitutional form of Government and substitute the Socialist form? Though we as an organization are starting with but limited funds we are hopeful that some way, somehow, the funds will be forthcoming to perform this necessary citizenship education project. The project simply is this to pass on to the people information on the American way and the Socialist way, to pass on to the public the plight of nation after nation that has taken the Socialist way as Russia, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc. Then and only then can the people of Lane County vote intelligently! Mert Foils CLIP and MAIL TODAY CREED of the Lane County Volunteers for Freedom I BELIEVE In Freedom Under God that man has certain unalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the dignity and Importance of man that the State should be the servant, not the master, of Its Individual citizens. In the American principle that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of individual liberty it is the right of the people to alter it. In the Bill of Rights and the Freedoms it guarantees under the Constitution of the United States. In the economic principle of free enterprise and the ownership of private property. I THEREFORE PLEDGE MYSELF To recognize that "external vigilance is the price of liberty" and to be alert to any external or internal force which threatens my Freedom. To take appropriate counter-action in the areas of my influence against the anti Freedom, anti-God forces of Communism and collectivism. To do all in my power to pass on to my children and to coming generations United States of America blessed with new economic strength and moral vitality, honesty in government, and the principle of "Freedom Under God." MEMBERSHIP Annual Sept. to Sept. LANE COUNTY VOLUNTEERS FOR FREEDOM Mert Foils, Exec. Secy. 350 Fairway Loop Eugene, Oregon ( ) $5 General ( ) $25 Support ing ( ) $100 Master As one who subscribes to the Freedom Creed here with and is willing to further citizenship education by way of radio, newspaper, and leaflet'l hereby offer my help by membership as checked above. (Please Print) i NAME ... ADDRESS DO YOU WANT THIS WAY OF LIFE . . . Excerpt From Harding College Letter March, 1953 ALL ABOARD FOR RUSSIA! Authentic information now is coming out of the Soviet Union, from behind the Iron Curtain, giving striking evidence of the complete failure of Socialism's key promise to provide, a paradise for the wage earners. That was Karl Marx's rallying cry and it has been the bail dangled before the wage earners by all Socialists in America and abroad since Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto. Socialism's rosy promise to the wage earners, ironically, has failed most miserably in Russia, the very country which holds itself up as the perfect example of 100 per cent government ownership of the tools of production and .distribution. And it has had 35 years of trial and error in Russia, under the most rigid application, of pure Socialism, to prove its case. DOCUMENTED FACTS Anxious to get some concrete documentation on the failure of the Socialist economic system in Russia to raise the living standard of the wage earners, I wrote our State Department in Washington, requesting authentic facts from behind the Iron Curtain. They have supplied the facts, and the picture they paint of the workers' plight under government ownership of the production and distribution facilities ought to convince any American that Socialism is the worst possible way of life. Before we look at the facts, let's examine the Russian economic system to be sure we understand-that it is a Socialist system. Marx, the Socialist, founded Communism; he emphasized that a Socialist economic system would be necessary. Under it, the government would own and operate the facilities of production and distribution. Later, he thought, the state -would "wither away," and there would be no government, only "social control." So for 35 years Russia has been a Socialist state. THE TOILERS .In 35 years under government ownership, here's what our State De partment reports: "Soviet workers have to put up with whatever labor conditions their one and only employer (the state) dictates. Wages are fixed. So are prices and working hours. Labor discipline is strict and any breach of its numberless provisions is severely punished. All jobs are frozen. Leaving the place of employment without the express permission of the management is punishable by imprisonment for from two to four months; or, in defense industries, up to eight years." Of course there are no labor unions, and no right to strike. Since 1938 every worker has been required to have a "labor book" with de tailed data on his employment history. "This internal passport," the State Department reports, "enables the boss to control the worker effectively at all times. To sum up: Labor is defenseless against the monopolistic employer the omnipotent state. It is hedged in by punitive legislation. It is under constant pressure to increase output. THE PAYOFF The $64 question is: Has the sAeat and toil of the Soviet worker, not to mention his loss of freedom, been compensated by a better economic life, a higher standard of living? The answer is a big NO! There has been, no improvement in the living standard since the Socialist government look over all private property 35 years ago. Today the Russian factory worker must work nearly an hour to earn enough to buy one pound of potatoes. Under privately owned, competitive enterprise, the American factory worker does it. in two minutes. All food items present similar comparisons. Housing is another example. As many as three families live in three and four-room houses or apartments in a poverty-stricken atmosphere. The clothes of the average Russian worker are pitifully poor. Instead of the state gradually withering away, as Marx promised, it gets more powerful and brutal. A powerful bureaucratic class has grown up. In it are Selected members of the Communist Party which numbers only 6,000,000 members. These rulers live richly, The other 194,000,000 Russians are economic slaves. This is full socialism in practice govern ment ownership. The facts should alert all Americans, especially wage earners, to resist further government encroachment into the realm of production and distribution. That is the road of economic slavery. G. S. B. Excerpts From "Where Karl Marx Went Wrong" By Samuel B. Pettengill (The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.) The remedy advanced by Marx was to preach the gospel of hate, of the class struggle, of the redistribution of wealth, of the confiscation of property and its ownership and management by the state which always means the politicians. But greed and exploitation arc not cured by socialism. Stalin and Molotov live like oriental potentates, giving state dinners that would make Nero and Caligula green with envy all this in the name of the down-trodden proletariat! Greed, however, was not the main reason for the conditions which Marx described. If all the wealth of the owners of the mines and mills had been redistributed to the workers, it would have relieved their con dition but slightly, and for but a short time. ' So, the class struggle, as the remedy for these conditions, was wrong. What then, was the real trouble, and what is the true remedy? LOW PRODUCTIVITY AT FAULT The REAL trouble was the low productivity of the workers. And, as workers can be paid only out of production whether in England a cen tury ago or in Russia today wages must be low and hours of work long when production is low. James Watt, the inventor ot the steam engine which revolutionized the modern world, and those who followed him in the competitive struggle to make a better engine and sell it for less, did more to take women out of the coal mines and off the tow paths of the canal boats, more to take children out of the factories, than did all the Socialists and Communists, and politicians of the world combined. Yet' Watt's name would be unknown today if one of these despised capitalists, a man named Matthew Bouiton, had not risked $150,000 on Watt's invention. Would he, by the way, dare take that risk under today's taxation? THE PROFIT MOTIVE Let us say that James Watt and the man who financed his project were not humanitarians. Let us say that they put their brains and money together in a common enterprise for the profit motive. What of it? Was the result good or bad? Did they take the women out of the coal mines? or did Karl Marx, with his gospel of hate and the class struggle? What did the profit motive do? It made Watt and his partner, and all who followed them, work to make better engines and to offer them at a lower price to get the market from their competitors. Was the result good or bad? The profit motive is just as honorable and useful to mankind as is the wage motive. Both do definite good. The wage motive prompts men to become skilled and efficient so they can produce more and earn higher wages; and because they do, all man kind benefits. The profit motive prompts men to make better tools and to cut costs in order to sell cheaper; and again, all mankind benefits, THE ANSWER No, my friends, Karl Marx did not have the answer he lifted no burdens from human 'backs. The answer is not in the class struggle. The answer is in competitive free enterprise. The answer is in the co-operation of inventor and investor; in the cooperation of the manager and the worker with his know-how. The answer is to substitute slaves of iron and steel for the strength of human backs. The answer is constitutional liberty, which sots men free and says that what any man honestly makes is his "to have and to hold." Wages can be paid only out of the product; and tho larger the pro duction, the higher the wage. The more money that Is Invested in horse power and equipment the more capital that is put to work the less will children and women and men have to work at killing toil. The true remedy for our troubles is more capitalism, not less. Pd. Adv. Lane Co. Volunteers for Freedom, Mert Fotte, Secty.
