4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Nov. 16, 1946
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Communist Strike Objectives
The Milwaukee, Wis., Sentinel has been running a series
of articles exposing; communist control of the CIO in Wis
consin, giving names, places, dates, histories and tactics
of the commies and fellow travelers who have worked them
selves into key positions in many uni-ins and maintain their
ascendency by terrorist methods. The Reds now control the
Wisconsin state CIO council, and the Milwaukee CIO coun
cil. The articles deal especially with Local 248 UAW-CIO,
the big Allis-Chalmers union, whose control means the ability
to wreck both industry and agriculture and the communist
Rpider web covers several other important unions in the area
for on the communist party map Wisconsin is staked out as
District 18.
The articles declare the union work is secondary to party
purpose, un-American, pro-Russian purpose, not for the bene
fit of the working man but for party welfare. And the
history of the many needless, protracted strikes in the Allis
Chalmers plant with their goon tactics verifies the charges.
They draw their inspiration from Josef Stalin's speech to a
delegation of American communists in Moscow a few years
ago, when he said :
"I consider that the communist party of the United Slates is one
of the few communist parties to which history has Riven decisive
tasks from the point of view of the world's revolutionary move
ment. The revolutionary crisis has not yet reached the United
States, but we already have knowledge of numerous facts which
suggest that it is approaching. It is necessary that the American
communist parly should be capable of meeting the moment of
crisis fully equipped to take the direction of future class wars
In the United States. You must prepare for that, comrades, with
all your strength and by every means."
To gather strength for a try at revolution, the party moved
in on the labor movement. An official party pamphlet ex
plained : "A firm grip on the industries is the first consid
eration for the success of our whole movement." Failing in
efforts to capture control of the AFL, Reds moved into the
CIO when it was organized and got on the payroll as organ
izers, staking out "cells" in every local they could muscle in
on as their private preserves. They have been at it ever
since.
The Allis-Chalmers strikes are typical of communist tac
tics. There is little sense in taking 11,000 workers off the
payroll for six months at a time on a few comparatively
minor issues, but the object is political, to reduce industrial
output, while Russia is building up hers, to hamstring Ameri
can reconversion with strikes and slowdowns. And to en
force their rule, in the union, the communists use a trained
goon squad to intimidate and destroy opposition standard
bolshevik methods.
Communists call all efforts to improve wages and working
conditions "reformism" and oppose it as a "bribe" for work
men to accept the American way of life, which must be over
thrown to bring on the revolution. Their problem is:
"How to keep control of the unions by appearing to work for
the immediate interests of the membership, but at the same time
seeing to it that they don't benefit so much from capitalism that
they won't help overthrow it some day. The communist answer
is long strikes, at the end of which they make loud claims of a
great victory for the workers. But they know that the workers
can't stand many 'victories' like that, and in the periods between
strikes they point to the workers' difficulties In paying up old
bills, and they say, 'See, the American economic system isn't doing
you much good. Follow usl' "
"Reformist" objectives are sought as the price they must
pay to hold on to union leadership until the bug of com
munist education has infected the membership, as workers
will no longer be interested in wages but rather in the over
throw of the whole economic system by force and violence.
When that day comes, the final result will be, according to
an official communist pamphlet:
"There are actual insurrections; the army wavers. Panic seizes
the rulers. A general uprising begins. Workers stop work: many
of them seize arms by attacking arsenals. Many had armed them
selves before as the struggles sharpened. Street fights become
frequent. Under the leadership of the communist party, the work
ers organize revolutionary committees to be in command of the
uprising. There are battles in the principal cities. Barricades
are built and defended. The workers' fighting has a decisive
Influence with the soldiers. Army units begin to join the revolu
tionary fighters. Armed workers and soldiers seize the principal
governmental offices, invade the residences of the president and
his cabinet members, arrest them, declare the old regime abolished,
establish their own power, the power of workers and farmers."
In pursuance of these communist party 'line tactics, in
addition to the long strike, a constant succession of wild-cat
strikes, slow-down strikes, absentee strikes, and strikes on
any pretext, for a labor contract is not worth the paper
it is written on, only serves as pretext for more strikes to
pave the way to totalitarian communism. Their strategy
kills collective bargaining although all experience proves
that strikes are disastrous to both the employers, employes
and the public and are the most vicious form of economic
waste.
Keep the Wheels Turning
First steps looking toward the organizations of a fire
prevention bureau inside the structure of the Salem fire
department were taken yesterday by two of the department's
captains, Ben Faught and Robert Mills, who undertook to
gather and compile all pertinent data relative to both public
and private buildings within the city as a means of aiding the
fire fighters in their regular work of combating fires either
large or small. Their survey and the information it supplies
I will be the first step in establishing a full set of records
' and a bureau to analyze and translate this data into useful
i Information.
For years there has been more or less agitation for the
establishment of such a fire fighting adjunct, principally
in the reports and recommendations of the National Hoard
of Fire Underwriters. The need for it has long been recog
nized by the men of the department and their superior
officers, but their advice never did take shape as a remedial
measure until last spring when the full importance of such
a bureau was heavily stressed in a report Captain Faught
made to members of the. city council a their request. Such
a bureau, he pointed out, would be charged with many duties
which are now being neglected or given only cursory atten
tion, such as:
Seeing to it that accumulated fire hazards are reduced; com
pelling compliance with city and state regulations governing
various building practices; devising safeguards of human lives in
cases of fire: inspecting and reporting on specifications of wall,
floor, roof, and chimney construction: enforcing regulations rela
tive to exits and other safeguards in such public buildings as
taverns, night clubs, rooming houses, apartment houses, theaters,
dance halls and other places where tue public congregates;
enforce regulations dealing with the widths of hallways and
stairways of all public buildings; see to It that adequute fire escapes
are installed and made easy of access at all times: inspect all
heating facilities-and fuel storage methods, and report upon any
weakening defects in public structures.
The survey being conducted by the two captains is but
one step in setting up the machinery for adequate preven
tion of fires in Salem and to minimize the toll of human lives
when fires do occur. Unless it is faithfully and fearlessly
applied the information they are now collecting will be worth
less and their time wasted. The wheels of prevention have
started to roll, and it is the undisguised Hntv nf tha it
Jteep them moving.
OREGON
Editor and Publisher
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The Fireside Pulpit
Reverend George H. Swift
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Money I attended a church service some time ago in which
the pastor was insisting that money waj an evil material thing.
He urged the members of his congregation to forget money, filthy
lucre, and center their hearts and minds on spiritual things! At
the conclusion of his inspiring oratorical effort, the pastor called
for a generous offering! I do
not know how many others
present, besides myself, won
dered why if money was such
an evil thing, the church should
be appealing for such a generous
supply of it.
Money is not the root of all
evil. On the contrary, money
is the source of much of the
world's greatest blessings. The
church uses money to carry on
its divine commission to "go
into all the world and make dis
ciples." Without money to en
dow schools and colleges and
to take care of their current
budgets, education would be at
a very low ebb. Without money
to buy food, millions now liv
ing would be dead of hunger
and privation before spring!
What is money? If gotten
through one's own effort or in
genuity, it is stored up self.
When we spend our own earn
ings we are giving of ourselves.
When we give money to God's
work we are giving of ourselves,
our stored up time, energy, and
A 250,000 year old skull
which the Japanese stole' from
the Javanese during the war
has been restored to its right
ful owners. Stealing a 250,000
year old skull looks like a bone
head trick.
The toilet tissue fiend seems
to be at work in earnest, that
miscreant who goes around
restaurants picking hats off
the hatracks and stuffing the
tissue under the bands and then
standing off in a secluded spot
and chuckling In unholy glee
when he sees his victim trying
to put on the hat. That this
wolf in sheep's clothing holds
nothing or anybody sacred was
Noefltie
Had Enough
New York iPi A Columbia
university assistant librarian
has threatened to quit. The rea
son: frogs.
For the past two weeks the
university's psychology library
has been invaded by the croak
ers who had apparently escap
ed through an open pipe from
the zoology laboratory on the
floor above.
The last si raw for the assist
ant librarian came when she
reached for a book on "experi
mental psychology" and a frog
leaped at her.
Husband Gets the Bird
Aurora. 111. Pi A. L. Pe
wonka, returning from a hunt
ing trip without a pheasant, was
greeted by his wife who was
waiting to give him the bird she
got without firing a shot or leav
ing her back yard.
Mrs. Pcwonka , explained to
the empty-handed hunter that
she found the pheasant in the
back yard. She said the bird
apparently had fallen there
after being fatally wounded by
a hunter in a nearby cornfield.
Funeral Services Held
For Charles Hart
Funeral services were held at
the McGinnis chapel in Port
land Saturday morning for
Charles H. Hart of that city, who
has visited in Salem often with
his brother, U. J. Hart. Inter
ment was in Lincoln Memorial
park.
Surviving Hart besides the
brother In Salem are his wife,
Eliza Hart of Portland, two
'aughtcrs, Naomi Hart and Ruth
'rautlatch. both of Portland,
ind two grandchildren.
igs for Supper
By Don Upjohn
love to God. If one's stored up
self in the form of money is
used in its entirety to gratify
selfish desires, then that per
son is literally feeding upon
himself, eating up his own vitals.
The end of that course is death,
the death that catches up with
selfishness which is the real root
of most evil. Money is tre
mendously important. Would
that I had more of it! With
money we may live well, help
the unfortunate, and give gen
erously to God's work remem
bering always that if it is earned
by the sweat of the brow, or by
good judgment, it is a part of
ourselves. As we belong to God,
so this stored up part of our
selves, our money belongs to
God. We are stewards of it, and
accountable to God for it Just
as we are accountable to God
for ourselves.
Money is precious. Spend it
wisely, not forgetting to be gen
erous with Godl
evidenced by the fact that in his
latest onslaught today he pick
ed out the hat of none other
than Joe Felton, our well
known and handsome justice of
the peace. When it gets to the
point where a man has such
satanic instincts he won't even
regard the sanctity of the
bench, even if it is a justice of
the peace bench, then it begins
to look as though the dream of
a world where there is broth
erhood of man and a lasting
peace becomes a hollow mock
ery. It looks as though the time
is coming when it will be neces
sary to pass a law making it
mandatory for a guy to get a
permit before he can buy toilet
tissue and have a detective in
every restaurant ready to pop
up from behind the counter
when he sees some suspicious
looking character fooling
around with the hats. However,
it is gratifying to know that the
police think they have a clue
to the identity of Salem's lat
est menace and may close in on
him at any time. '
If this keeps up the first
thing we know he'll step over
the border line of chivalry and
start tucking toilet paper in
women's hats hanging around in
restaurants and if that fatal day
comes we bet something will
explode under him like an atom
bomb. But, come to think of it.
we don't know as the average
woman's hat would set any fun
nier on her head If was loaded
with tissue than It does with
whatever It is now loaded.
The Irate Customer
Dear Sips: Being of different
political faith than thee
don't expect your opinions
to agree with me. Every
night 1 turn the pages of
our favorite paper first to
"Sips for Supper." (I'm a mor
on). Whenever anything goes
wrong my first thought is to
write to Sips. But after more
considerate deliberation I know
if it isn't republican damna
tion!" C. W. Purdum. route 2.
Salem. Gosh, there is one of 'em
left around here, after all.
Sublimity Henry Miller,
Bill Zimmerman, John Frank,
Bill and Walter Breitenstein
were the elk hunting party that
returned from Astoria. The
party hunted four days and
came home with a large elk.
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By Dewitt Mackenzie
(AP Foreign Ailalrs AnslysO
The campaign of left-wingers
in the British house of commons
to force the socialist government
to dissociate its foreign policy
from that of the United States,
so as to avoid what they de
scribe as an "inevitable con
flict" between Russia and Amer
ica, gives interesting emphasis
to the metamorphosis which
John Bull's empire is under
going. This rebellion apparently re
ceived a fillip from the an
nouncement in the king's speech
from the throne at the opening
of parliament last Tuesday that
conscription for the armed
forces would be continued this
being the first peace-time mili
tary conscription in Britain's
history. Prime Minister Attlee
gave point to this in his state
ment that developments of mod
ern weapons made England es
pecially vulnerable to attack.
He said the country was now a
part of the European continent
and "we must have trained re
serves who can take their part
straight away without waiting
six months for training."
Danger of War
That's plain talk. It means
that as things now stand there
is danger Europe may be head
ing into another war. Further
conflict isn't inevitable, but it's
a possibility. Mr. Attlee is play
ing the part of a wise man in
seeing that his country is pre
pared for contingencies.
And" the prime minister has
given no indication that he
thinks the dangers of another
war rest in the relations between
Russia and America. Europe is
as full of peace-traps as a hedge
hog is of quills. Attlee is too
well informed to agree with the
amazing statement by one so
cialist member of parliament
that the United States was the
only nation in the world where
some "ordinary people wanted
war," and that America was in
flamed with "war fever." Just
in passing one might remark
that this sounds very much like
the language we have been hear
ing from another great Euro
nean capital recently.
Strange Ideas Prevail
Of course strange ideas about
America still prevail in some
quarters of the British Isles.
I've even encountered, people
who believe that savage Indi
ans still roam the plains close to
Chicago. However, the average
Briton is better informed about
the U.S.A. than that. And he
knows that we don't want war
with anybody, though we hope
he will give us credit of being
able to put up a fight if It is
necessary.
So far as John Bull is con
cerned, his position is such that
it's good to have a friend
meaning America but his pol
icy of preparedness and his for
eign relations aren't inspired by
a iy "war fever" in the United
States. His policies arise from
two pressing personal situa
tions: (1) The post-war realign
ment of the European spheres of
influence has created a definite
threat to peace; (2) the British
Empire itself is undergoing a
mighty change which involves
an alicration in political rela
tionships and an upheaval in its
global defenses.
OP A Skeleton Staff
For Sugar Rations
Portland, Ore., Nov. 16
(AP) The district OPA office
here will close to the public
December 1. but a skeleton staff
will remain to handle sugar
rationing.
Rent control offices in 10
cities will not be curtailed.
The district OPA said 231
employes would receive termin
ation notices by November 22,
reducing the total staff to 8T
Most of these will continue
work on rent control.
Rent offices, with no staff
reduction, will continue func
tioning at Portland, Corvallis.
Klamath Falls, Eugene, Rose
burg. Medford, Pendleton, Long-view-Kelso,
Salem, and Bend.
Enforcement work for the
coast wil be handled through
offices at Seattle and Los An
geles. Bonded Liquor
At $6.50 Per Bottle
Portland. Nov. IB iPi The
Oregon liquor control commis
sion today promised some bond
ed whisky for Oregonians Mon
day. Officials said it would sell at
$6.25 to S6.50 a bottle. They ad
mitted that the liquor recently
made available by the war as
sets administration will not
reach sales counters until Feb
ruary or March. Oregon's share
will be 2000 cases less than a
half-day's normal sales in state
stores.
TO BETTER SERVE YOU
Marion W Motors
Are Now in Their Permanent
Location, Center and Commercial
Arsonist Gang Leaves Trail
Of Fire In Missouri Towns
Higbee, Mo., Nov. 16 U.R) Jittery residents made their own
plans for guarding their property today while state police
pressed a search for arsonists who have left a trail of burned
buildings through a half dozen
Nursing Class
To Start Soon
A , home nursing class for
women of Salem will start its
training as soon as sufficient
registrations are received, re
ports Mrs. Louise Arneson, di
rector of nursing services for
Marion county chapter, Ameri
can Red Cross. It is hoped to
open the class next week. Those
interested in taking the course
are asked to call the Red Cross,
9277. It is planned to have an
afternoon and evening class.
Six classes already are under
way in the county, a seventh to
begin next Wednesday night
.when women of the Waconda
and Mission Bottom areas meet
at the Waconda school with Mrs.
Alice Little as instructor.
Salem senior high school has
organized two sections for the
home nursing work, the classes
meeting Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays, Mrs. Arneson as the
teacher.
Other classes are in progress
at Woodburn, Hubbard, Gervais,
and Hayesvllle. Additional class
es will be formed in other sec
tions as soon as arrangements
are completed, Mrs. Arneson
reports.
Ft
orn?nt
Contributions to this ooluran
must be confined to 300 words
and signed by writer
To the Editor: Regarding your
editorial, "Futile Peace Efforts,"
in which you recommended that
Chiang Kai-Shek solve the Chi
nese problem once and for all
by going ahead and shooting all
the communists, thus guarantee
ing a continuation of the status
quo may I respectfully suggest
that you make an effort to fa
miliarize yourself with the prob
lem before offering a recommen
dation. "Thunder Out of China" by
White and Jacoby, two able ob
servers and eye witnesses of the
events they describe, confirm
reports published long ago in
certain "leftist mouthpieces"
concerning the ruthless totali
tarian regime of your hero,
Chiang, who spent as much en
ergy, men, and materiel trying
to preserve a rotten feudal sys
tem as he did trying to defeat
the Japanese. Indeed, your hero
feared the Japanese even less
than he did the communists, who
sponsord the reforms the people
wanted.
Without American interven
tion in his behalf. Chiang's feu
dal structure would never have
survived the test of time. It is a
sad commentary on a democrat
ic nation that we saw fit to help
preserve an evil system of ex
ploitation and human degrada
tion against which the Chinese
people rebelled as strongly as
they did against Japanese op
pression. General Stilwell him
self said that both victory and
peace rested on the measure
with which the strength of the
people could be freed from feu
dal restraints. Small wonder
that Chiang could not get along
with Stilwell!
Rather than send Chiang out
to shoot the communists, who
have formed the spearhead in
the revolt against a rotten feu
dal system, it would be much
wiser to withhold all aid from
Chiang until he has stopped his
military offensives and taken
concrete steps to end his dicta
torship. But when an editor suffers
from Russo-phobia and sees a
commie under every bed, well,
what can his readers expect!
A. L. Bose.
Wrecked Plane May
Be Observation Craft
Medford. Ore., Nov. 16
(U.R) State police reported to
day that wreckage of an air
plane discovered near the sum
mit of the Siskiyou mountains
late yesterday was that of an
Army L-4 Observation plane.
The wreckage was at first be
lieved to be that of the plane
in which a Portland pilot.
Vernon Coulter, and his mother.
Lorena, started out on a fligh'
from Redding, Cal., to Portland.
No trace of the Coulter plane
has as yet been uncovered.
Cyprus is the third largest
island in the Mediterranean.
small northern Missouri .com
munities. The state patrol sent a labo
ratory technician here to study
the charred debris of three
buildings burned yesterday in
the latest of the series of fires.
Authorities hoped that from his
findings they could learn some
thing about the criminals they
are up against.
State police said the firebugs
may be operating from freight
trains on a railroad which runs
through most of the afflicted
towns. Police believed the gang
has been making its get-aways
by hopping freight trains during
the blazes.
During all the fires,, robberies
were attempted while residents
left their homes to help put out
the fires. In all cases, however,
the loot was negligible. The fires
all have been similar, having
been started by the ignition of
oil or gasoline. In each case, the
town chosen for the fire had no
fire-fighting force.
The fires began six weeks
ago, when a barn and garage
were destroyed at Wakenda Sep
tember 28. A resident reported
that she was frightened by a
prowler in her home during the
blaze.
From Wakenda the fires swept
through Missouri hamlets in an
area roughly 50 miles long and
30 miles wide. Among the
towns struck by the fireburgs
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were Brunswick, Dalton, La
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Early yesterday the worst in '
the series of conflagrations
broke out here when five build
ings in the tiny business district
caught fire simultaneously. A
three-story brick building
bought recently by the town as
the site of a proposed factory
was destroyed. Two other build
ings were damaged.
The town of Higbee was un
able to fight the fire itself. Its
fire truck, a converted model T
Ford, was destroyed by fire Oc
tober 13 when the wind from a
blaze it was fighting shifted and
enveloped the truck In flames.
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Portland, Nov. 16 VP Want
a new home? You might try
the technique of Mrs. Joseph M.
Kuntz.
With her 4-year-old daughter,
she went onto Portland streets
wearing signs appealing for a
place to live.
She reported success today,
and the Kuntzes prepared to
move from her parents' to a
house of their own.
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