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Here's a labor leader who doesn'f
like government 'help' in strikes
A few days ago we wondered If
the assistance of Gov. Hatfield in set
tling a recent Oregon strike (and of
President Kennedy in offering assist
ance in a New York labor dispute) was
good or bad.
We came to the conclusion that
possible abuses were more to be feared
than the possible help was worth.
Our view is not an unpopular one
In some labor circles.
Joseph A. Beirne, president of the
communications workers union and a
vice president of the AFL-CIO took up
our point In a recent editorial in his
union's newspaper.
Not long ago, a labor leader was
regarded as a bush leaguer if he set
tled a big strike outside the White
House and a sandlot player if he set
tled outside Washington.
Beirne says he is worried about
the future of collective bargaining be
cause he sees "so many in the field of
labor and management looking to the
government for their answers."
In his union newspaper, Beirne
writes that in the early months of the
Kennedy administration "we have seen
more top level labor-management rep
resentatives yield to government solutions-
of negotiating problems than
we have seen for a decade.
He was remembering those post
war years under the Truman adminis
tration when business and union lead
ers trooped to the White House to
await their turn for attempts to settle
disputes in the auto, steel, coal and rail
way industries. Other big strikes were
settled in the office of the secretary of
labor.
Being called to the While House
became a status symbol for n strike
leader. In one dispute, settled In the
Labor Department, government media
tors grumbled that the union side would
have taken a pay cut If it could just sign
Its new contract In the White House.
Labor was usually, but not always,
accused then of seeking government in
tervention to get more favorable settle
ments. Even John L. Lewis, who thunder
ed against government intervention,
made his breakthrough to start the
Mine Workers' welfare fund in nego
tiations with the government, not the
coal industry.
The trend was reversed under the
Eisenhower administration, although
then Treasury Secretary George M.
Humphrey was reported Involved in
settling the 195G steel strike. And, after
President Eisenhower repeatedly insist
ed that the government should stay out
of the 1959 steel dispute, he gave Vice
President Richard M. Nixon credentials
to work for a settlement.
Whether labor or management was
more responsible for inviting federal in
tervention in the big postwar strikes,
Beirne puts them on an equal basis
now.
He says ho is not accusing the gov
ernment of taking over collective bar
gaining and that it is "natural for a
strong president and a strong secretary
of labor to provide the answers when
asked, even urged, to provide those
answers." What is happening, he says,
Is that the government "is moving in to
occupy a vacuum."
Beirne refers to no specific cases,
but he could be talking about the New
York tugboat strike last winter and the
recent maritime strike.
In the offing is the threat of an
auto strike, which the administration
would view as almost disastrous for an
economy just emerging from recession.
Beirne points to the passage In Ken
nedy's inaugural address in which the
President said Americans should ask
not what their country can do for them
but what they can do for their country.
Labor and industry can meet this chal
lenge, says Boirne, by negotiating their
own contracts without asking the gov
ernment to sit in.
Safety regulation implemented
This is action long overdue:
Bend police have been ordered by
Chief Emil Moen to clear Drake Park
footbridge of fishermen.
A city ordinance prohibits such
fishing.
Drake Tark footbridge for the past
several seasons has been a popular
spot even more popular than the
"Fishing Bridge" in Yellowstone Na
tional Park.
There are hazards connected with
fishing from the Bend span. Pedes
trians have beeh complaining that they
Humor from others
"You've never been to a psychia
trist?" exclaimed a girl-about-town to
her best friend. "Why, you must he
crazy!" Frank Farrell in New York
World-Telegram and Sun.
The doctor was discussing health
find it difficult to weave their way
through a barrier of hooked lines whip
ped over bridge and water.
But the greatest hazard Is to
youngsters who fish from the bridge.
A youngster fell from Drake Park
bridge a number of years ago. He died
in the Deschutes. And so did the man
who attempted to rescue him.
Bend officers are not being hard
boiled In enforcing the no-fishing regu
lations. They are implementing a safety
ruling.
and hygiene with his spinster patient.
"Even though you take a bath
every day, you can't stay healthy just
by bathing alone."
"Maybe not, doctor," snapped the
lady, "but I'm still going to bathe
alone." Uncle Mat's Monthly Letter.
By Jack Anderson
Editor's Note While Drew
Pearson Is en route to Russia to
cover the current crisis, his as
sociate, Jack Anderson, is cov
ering the Washington front.
WASHINGTON - Of 32 differ
ent plans for dealing with the Ber
lin crisis, the NATO high com
mand Is still struggling to compre
hend the latest which was deliv
ered in the middle ot their delib
erations by an obscure Lieutenant
Colonel from the Pentagon.
The NATO leaders were already
deep in the details of a military
master plan, worked out by our
joint chiefs of staff, when Lt Col.
D. C. Armstrong showed up In
Pans with new orders.
He announced that the joint
chiefs' plan, brought over only a
few days earlier by Maj. Gen. Da
vid Gray, had been scrapped. A
new strategy had been prepared
Armstrong said, by his civilian
boss: Assistant Defense Secretary
Paul Nitze, a man of piercing eyes
and dynamic sway.
The Nitze blueprint for saving
Berlin, of course. Is top secret.
It can be said only that he favors
using military force to b r e a k
through the blockade, if the Reds
should Impose one.
On this point, his plan differs
from that advanced by the joint
chiefs only in the details. Nitze is
more optimistic about calling the
Soviet bluff, more obscure about
military moves.
Armstrong, a short but suave of
ficer, arrived in Paris on August
1, carrying the Nitze panacea in a
padlocked briefcase. The British
and French learned of his purpose
even ahead of the Americans who
had just outlined the joint chiefs'
proposals to the NATO council.
Cable Order Ignored
Dismayed, they cabled the State
Department for higher instruction
on what to do about Armstrong's
sudden appearance on the scene.
Back came a cable, dated Aug
ust 3, directing Armstrong not to
present any new strategy to the
NATO council. Whether he didn't
see the cable in time or simply
disregarded it isn't clear. But he
went ahead with his mission and
laid Nilze's proposals, before the
council as the latest U.S. policy.
The French, after due consider
ation, complained that they could
not understand the new military
instructions which were phrased
in vague civilian terms. The Brit
ish postponed passing judgment
upon the plan until it had been ap
praised by their own military
chiefs.
Meanwhile, the NATO generals
don't know what they're supposed
to do in case of a Berlin showdown.
Politics and Oil
Oil lobbyist Elmer Patman, the
middleman in the attempted bribe
of Sen. Francis Case five years
ago, is trying to mix politics and
oil again on Capitol Hill.
Patman used to pass out politi
cal contributions for Superior Oil
Company until he made the error
in judgment of sending an emis
sary to Case with a $2,500 offer
for his vote on natural gas legisla
tion. The South Dakota senator
turned it down with such loud in
dignation that it precipitated a full
dress Senate investigation. .
The affair cost Patman a $2,500
fine, phis a one-year suspended
sentence, for failing to register as
a lobbyist.
Apparently unrepentant, he Is
now using his cousin, Texas Con
gressman Wright Patman, to bring
pressuro on the Interior Depart
ment to award Superior Oil an
import quota.
The congressman, who has the
benevolent look of a country pas
tor, has often battled for Uie public
interest. But his latest crusade was
timed and phrased more to benefit
cousin Elmer.
Scarcely 13 days after Elmer at
tacked the import program for dis
criminating against Superior Oil,
the congressman ordered his
House Small Business committee
to investigate oil imports. El
mer's testimony and Wright's an
nouncement sounded curiously
alike.
merit sounded curiously aliko.
"Domestic producers are not be
ing aided by the (oil import) pro
gram. The program as administer
ed is monopolistic," charged. El
mer at an Interior Department
hearing.
Congressional Echo
Wright, in his announcement,
put it this way: "The House Small
Business committee will make a
thorough investigation of the pres
ent foreign crude oil imixirt pro
gram to determine whether it is
weakening the domestic oil indus
try and fostering monopoly con
trol." Said Elmer: "You will observe
that there are refiners with import
quotas that never heard of a bar
rel of oil until they got a quota
with some tickets that they could
trade for something else."
Echoed Wright: "Itefinerg in all
parts of the t'nitod States are giv
en foreign oil quoins and ration
tickets to buy Una cheap foreign
oil. Must of litem have never used
foreign oil and can't use It."
S.il Elmer: "(When these peo
ple get quota tickets and they
could sell them for $1 or $1 25 a
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for cash and not for crude, and
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about it)."
Echoed Elmer: "It appears that
cash markets for these ration
tickets are in operation and inland
refiners are selling their quotas
to coastal refiners at prices rang
ing from $1 to al.25 a barrel."
Said Elmer: "It is a sign of the
future that only 14 college fresh
men enrolled in petroleum engi
neering this spring at the Universi
ty of Texas ... As lute as the fall
of 1357, the university was giving
training to 134 freshmen in petro
leum engineering."
Congressman Patman admitted
to this column that he had discus
sed oil imports with his cousin but
denied that he ordered an investi
gation to help Superior Oil get an
import quota.
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Poncho Villa story
traced by writer
To the Editor:
Every now and then some one
will put a letter in your paper
about this free country. Well sure
it is if you don't critize the policy
of the elite in power.
Now you know all about the bat
tle at the Alamo, which was long
before Poncho Villa was born.
Did you ever hear of the battle or
massacre along the Mexican bor
der and what it was all about?
Villa was a revolutionist. Robin
Hood reformist fighting the graft
ing Mexican government. Our gov
ernment backed the government
of Mexico against Villa. Large bat
tles were going on along the bor
der. Villa had some of the govern
ment forces trapped. So we moved
the Mexican government troops
through U.S. soil to attack Villa in
the rear, and furnished arms to
their soldiers. We are always but
ting in other people's business. So
Villa paid us back by attacking
our cavalry one dark New Years
night near Columbis, New Mexico
with a bunch of Yaqui Indians.
Our boys were in bed when Yaqui
hit Uie cavalry camp. They killed
a lot of the boys in bed, burned
the hay, shot a lot of horses. This
was a massacre. Did you ever
hear of this? The State Depart
ment kept it quiet.
We sent Negro 9th Cavalry after
Villa but he got into the moun
tains. So the next place Villa
showed up was on the Hurst
Ranch throe million acre spread.
Thousands of cattle and horses.
Villa told F. Stone who was the
boss not to let the sun shine on
him again in Mexico. F. Stone
owned the peninsula- ranch north
of Redmond. He could tell you all
about this. F. Stone sold his ranch
a few years ago. The story goes
that it cost Uncle Sam $50,000 to
get Villa finished off. A friend of
mine was with Villa for some time.
He was the man that took Billy
the Kid in the gang at Trinidad,
Colorado in the seventies.
A. Mcglitsch
Redmond, Oregm,
Aug. 21, 1961
Sheba wins
Virginia City
camel race
VIRGINIA ClTY, Nev. (UPD
Sheba, spurred by maternal love,
won the annual camel race here
Sunday.
Competing riders attributed
Sheba's victory to the fact that
her daughter, Heba, was posted
at Uie finish line.
Sponsored by the Riverside.
Calif.. Press-Enterprise, the desert-raised
one-humper from Indio,
Calif., won four of the five races
held on Uie final day of a three
day revel in this historic mining
town.
Sheba covered Uie downtown
street race course In a record .12
seconds with Indio businessman
Frank LytUo in the irons.
Virginia City's population
swelled from its normal 400 to nn
estimated 9.000 for the races. The
great Comstock I.ode silver strike
occurred near Virginia City a cen
tury ago.
The triumphant dromedary was
a Joint entry of Uie Enterprise
and the Indio Pate Festival.
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IN BERLIN Tank-supported United States troops In West Berlin infiltrate a mock-up town
near the Soviet lone border during maneuvers.
Captain wants
U.S. to bargain
with vessel .
NORFOLK, Va. (UPD-A Cu
ban sea captain said Sunday he
has asked President Kennedy to
use the ship he hnacked to bar
gain WiUi Uie Castro government
for his relatives and those of 10
fellow defectors.
But Jorge Agustin Navarro said
his request did not take into ac
count a court hearing which could
also affect Uie fate of tho Bahia
de Nipe, a 3,800 ton Cuban
freighter originally bound for the
Baltic Sea and possibly Soviet
ports.
Navarro, 45, a trim, gray
haired mariner, diverted the mer
chant ship to Norfolk last week
to seek political asylum with 10
of his 33 crew members. ,
He told a news conference Sun
day he had suggested tiiat the
President use Uie $1 million
freighter to make sure that Cuba
would not retaliate against the
families of the defectors and to
bargain for Uie families' freedom.
The court hearing, scheduled to
resume today, was to determine
whether Uie Coast Guard can
keep federal marshals from at
taching the ship in order to set
tle claims against its owners Uie
Cuban government and the Navi
era Facuba S.A. Shipping Co.
The State Department said
shortly after the Bahia de Nipe
arrived here Uiat the ship and its
23 remaining crewmen would be
allowed to return to Cuba.
But wiUiin hours, four suits to
taling more than $750,000 were
filed in U.S. District Court
against the vessel's owners.
When federal marshals attempt
ed to board Uie 323-foot vessel to
post notice of seizure, the Coast
Guard shooed them away.
The Coast Guard argued it had
authority to "prevent any person,
article or Uiing from entering a
ship" when it is deemed that Uie
entry would threaten to create
"disturbances to international re
lations." Grounding due
for aircraft
WASHINGTON (UPD-All civil
ian aircraft will be grounded for
12 hours starting 9 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 14 (PST).
The Air Transport Association
said commercial and private fly
ing will be halted for Operation
Sky Shield II, tho second nation
wide test of Uie continent's air
defenses.
About 50 airline flights In the
Pacific Northwest will be affect
ed, but some will change sched
ules.
Temperatures
Temperatures during Uie 24
hours ending early today.
High
West Berliners
take heart from
2 U.S. moves
WASHINGTON (UPI) Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson's
Berlin visit and Uie arrival of an
other 1,500 U.S. troops reassured
West Berliners that America will
defend them, according to Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk.
Rusk said "Uie events of the
last two days have reassured"
Uie people of West Berlin, dis
mayed at the Communist closing
of the East Berlin border.
Rusk, appearing on a television
interview Sunday, rejected sug
gestions that the United States
was slow in replying to Uie Com
munist action. An "instantane
ous" reaction would not bd t h e
best course in Uie Berlin situa-
Uon, he said.
Rusk, declining to say at what
point Uie United States might re
sort to force in Berlin, said the
U.S. aim was to protect the
West's "vital interest" there by
peaceful means.
"We will not be pushed out of
West Berlin," he said.
The West's vital interests in
Berlin, Rusk said, were Uie free
dom and security " West Ber
liners, Western access to Uie city
and continued presence of West
ern troops in the city.
He predicted that Russia and
the West would eventually sit
down at the conference table to
settle the Berlin situation, which
he said involved a larger issue
"Uie great world wide confronta
ion between the Sino-Soviet bloc
and Uie free world."
Rusk said Uiere would be "follow
up" moves to Johnson's visit in
Uie diplomatic field, but declined
to discuss Uiem.
If the Berlin crisis worsens, he
said, it will be laid before the
United Nations.
New machine
washes off cows
in jig time
ARTESIA. Calif. (UPI) Teo
Albers thinks he has invented Uie
greatest thing for cows since
mink-lined automatic milkers a
very hygienic machine that
washes a bovine in 4'i seconds.
Tho contraption is called a
"cowash" and might develop the
cleanest, if not the most contented
cows in the world.
Albers. a native of Holland who
came to Uie United States in 1946,
says Uie cow enters a concrete
block-walled runway, activates a
spring valve to turn on Uie show
er, sloshes to -Uie next station and
gets a speedy scrubbing, rubdown
and rinse. It is something like an
automatic car wash.
The invenUon requires onlv
Uiree gallons of water per animal
and saves better than one third
of the milker's time. California
law insists a dairy cow must be
washed daily.
No such law exists for people.
Testimony due
in Norris case
HACKENSACK, N.J. (UPI)
A court hears psychiatric testi
mony today in the case of a 28-year-old
man charged with at
tempting to send a threatening
telegram to President Kennedy.
Judge Benjamin P. Galanti or
dered Hirman B. Norris of West
New York, N. J., to appear be
fore the Bergen County Court to
hear further testimony by doc
tors and a psychiatrist.
Last week, Dr. Laurence E.
Collins, a psychiatrist and retired
clinical director of Uie Greystone
Park mental institution, testified
tiiat Norris suffered from a par
anoia reaction and was anti-social.
He said Norris was a danger
to himself and to others.
Norris was arrested last July 9
while trying to send the telegram
to Kennedy. It read:
"You have taken Uie bait. You
would raUier see a war than de
port one man. For that I am re
lieved of all duty to my fellow
men. I have ordered your assas
sination. I give my word; make
your peace with your God. I will
have you killed as soon as it can
be arranged."
RESOLUTIONS DUE
CHEHALIS, Wash. (UPI)-Pet.
sons pushing for a feasibility
study of the proposed canal con
necting Puget Sound and Uie Co
lumbia River will present resolu
tions and endorsements to South
west Washington county commis
sioners at Spirit Lake Thursday.
The 1961 Washington Legislature
authorized a committee to study
the canal work.
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