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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Mar. 10, 1947
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Soaking the Employer
: Although nearly every bill to curb the abuses of or
ganized labor introduced in the Oregon legislature has been
apparently side-tracked or pigeon-holed, for at least no action
has been taken on them to secure a vote, most of the legisla
tors having decided to let the national congress do the work,
there is no such timidity about soaking the employer.
The Oregon senate Saturday approved a bill and sent it to
the house making an increase in unemployment compensa-
fon benefits all paid for by the employer and constituting a
eavy drain on operating costs. In addition a bill is pending
to make the employer collect the income taxes of employes
at his own expense.
'. The new unemployment benefit schedule would be ?20 a
eek for 20 weeks in any one year, compared with the present
schedule of ?18 a week for 20 weeks. Labor asked for ?25
tor 26 weeks, but employer representatives asked that no in
crease be allowed.
J If the Oregon law had been similar to that of many states
and the jobless increases been paid for on a 50-50 basis by
employer and employe as old age and other pension legisla
tion provides, there would have been little or no objection to
the ?20 for 20 weeks benefit proposed. But there is no jus
tice in making the employer the goat.
There is probably no uplift law on the statute books more
abused than for unemployment insurance. Every employer
(Jan point to instances where workers have voluntarily quit
their jobs and refused proffered work to spend their time
loafing, hunting or fishing for the $18 a week deposited in
the fund for them to draw on. Many others get other work,
do not report it, and continue to draw their insurance in
addition to their wages, which pile up funds for a still longer
vacation. It would require an army of snoopers to check up
on the delinquents. If part of the money they draw was
their own contributions, it would be at least a partial check
on the abuses.
Very large elements of humanity won t work unless they
have to, but the New Deal has put a premium on idleness and
many have the idea that the employer owes them a living
whether they work or not, and the government must take
care ol tnem, instead oi tneir taxing care oi me govern
ment, and have thrown thrift out of the window. Their
motto seems to be more and better doles from the cradle to
the grave.
Another Costly and Futile Strike
The second oldest strike in the nation, that of the 14-months-old
walkout at the J. I. Case company at Racine, Wis.,
ended Sunday when members of the UAW-CIO local 180
voted 927 to 448 to return to their jobs at the farm equipment
plant. The company states that "the terms conform to the
principle basis of the company's policy. The wage increases
ollereu in uctooer, lU4b, were accepted Dy tne union, una
vary according to classification."
Union representatives said "this is not a good contract
but it is the best we could obtain." It will yield an "across
the board" pay increase averaging 25 cents an hour. The
union originally asked 30 cents.
The long strike was not so much for higher wages as for
a closed shop, compulsory check-off and assessments for
maintainance of membership. This the company refused
and the union lost. Government seizure advocated last
June by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach was refused by
President Truman.
Last December, the national labor relations board ordered
the company to bargain at Racine and found the firm "had
refused to bargain collectively with the union on the union's
demand for a closed shop and dues checkoff." The board said
the "company's failure to bargain caused the current strike."
The union gave-up the principal objective of the strike.
As in all other long strikes, all parties lost, the employers
lot production profits, the strikers 14 months' wages, the
public, especially the farmers, lost mechanized equipment.
It will take many years of work at the increased wages to
make up the wages the workers lost . What did the strike
profit anyone ?
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Showdown in Britain
Britain's labor government faces the toughest test this
week of its 20-months tenure a showdown in parliament on
the regime's economic policy as set forth in a recent white
paper. At the same time Attlee's foreign policy of scuttling
the empire is under fire.
The debate will culminate in a motion of no-confidence by
Winston Churchill and the conservatives he heads, as leader
of the opposition, but the danger of the government's over
throw is slight, although the combined conservatives and
liberals may master a vote of 200. The laborites have 394
of the G40 seals in the house.
However political observers expect the rising d'scontent
will produce a sweeping cabinet reshuffle soon. Meanwhile
Altlee has advised his followers not to abstain from voting
in the debate for any reasons whatever and members of all
parties have been requested by their leaders to be on hand.
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: A Dog's Life j
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By Don Upjohn
'Looking at a 1902 Salem city
directory we had a surprising
revelation. In the front of the
book is a picture of the state
capitol. In the foreground are
two women apparently walking
leisurely along and with com
plete self confidence. What of
it you ask? The what of it lies
in the fact the two women wore
dresses with the skirts up to
their knees. Gosh, we didn't
know that women even had
knees that long ago.
No Pay, Hence
No Inflation
Yenan, China, March 9 (De
layed) Pi Communist China
has the world's only regular
army without any payrolls, re
ports its commander, Gen. Chu
Teh.
The No. 2 communist party
leader, Chou En-Lai, said that
was one reason communist China
has no inflation. Not even pro
fessional officers and soldiers of
Its million-man army receive
any pay, ho added. Conse
quently, they can't very well
boost prices by bidding up
scarce goods.
Not more than three percent
of the communist population is
supposed to serve in public office
or in the army, the remaining 97
percent working and contribut
ing in kind, not cash to their
support.
Mao-Tzo-Tung, illusive leader
of Chinese communists, moves
almost weekly, to avoid possible
sir attacks and to preserve se
clusion in which he can main
tain his heavy work schedule.
Only a few top leaders of the
party which claims control of
160,000,000 Chinese people
know his address. Plus, of
course, Mao's ever present body
guards. Communist Commander-in-Chief
Chu Tch. the No. 2
Chou En-Lai, and other bigwigs,
by contrast, are readily accessi
ble to even the lowest nartv
members.
Walking along the street this
a.m., with one of our towns
most solid citizens he uttered a
groan as the sun showed signs
of coming out. "Doggone it," he
said "I suppose the sun is going
to start shining now, the grass'll
begin to grow, and I'll have to
mow the lawn." There's a case
of civic righteousness.
Tribute lo Mazy E. (Auntie")
Brooks
(By a Friend)
A noble soul has reached the
heavenly light
Loved Christian neighbor, friend.
and Patriot-light.
Her hand was ever lent to kindly
deeds; ,
Her ear attuned to near distress's
coll:
Her Faith and works embellished
Christian creeds:
Serene she drank Life's honey, or
Its gall.
Her sympathy was never sought In
vain :
Her kindly heart a goodly beacon
stood,
Ready to cheer discouraged,
lighten oain:
She vastly served her fellowmen
and God.
Her spirit lingers as a beauteous
cloud.
Hovering o'er lovely Day's horizon-breast:
Her Faith and works a shining
Mcmory-snrouci
Of Glory, as she enters into
Rest I
The Recreant Husband
County Clerk Harlan Judd
had to .dun a Woodburn lady
for $2 penalty because she didn t
get her dog license fee in by
March 1. "Have you a wife and
have you ever carried one of her
letters around for a couple of
days before mailing?" the lady
wrote back. "Well, you can
then understand my position. I
usually send in this fee on the
28th and this letter should have
been mailed that day but my
husband is like all the rest of
you men and carried it a couple
of days without mailing. Do you
think I should still have to dig
up a couple of dollars for my
dog license?"
Old Solomon Judd pondered
this one awhile. The law doesn't
allow him to give an extension
of time on delinquent licenses.
He then wrote, "We would sug
gest that inasmuch as your hus
band forgot to mail the letter he
pay the $2 penalty."
Novelties
Dixon's Death in Fight With
Wattier Said Case of Self Defense
Silverton, March 10 The death, around 10 p.m. Saturday
night of Vernon Dixon, 22 years old March 14, was under investi
gation all day Sunday with Miller Hayden, district attorney,
Denver Young, sheriff, and Vic
Grossnickle, local chief of police,
rounding up five witnesses, all
testifying to a "case of self-de
fense" on the part of Al Wattier
who struck Dixon in a fistic en
counter, said by the witnesses to
have been started by Dixon. The
man died two hours later at the
Silverton hotel after being taken
from the scene of the encounter
in the rear of a pool hall. The
body was taken to Salem Sunday
for an autopsy.
Dixon was an ex-navy man.
He is one of seven sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Dixon, recently
moving from Silverton to Con
cordia, Kans. The brothers are
Everett, Robert, Lawrence, Mil
ford, Earl, all of Silverton; Leo,
with his parents, in Concordia,
and a sister, Mrs. Charles Basque
of the middle west.
The investigation will be con
tinued by the grand jury, it was
officially said Sunday, after the
coroner's inquest.
Senator Austin Dunn
Taken to Hospital
Sen. Allsiin T!tmn Tlalm
taken to a Salem hospital today
for observation.
His physician said ho did not
know the nature of Senator
Dunn's ailment, or whether it
was serious.
Dunn was In his hotel room
when he suffered the attack. He
is serving in his first session.
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the late Sen. William H. Strayer
of Baker.
Autopsy on the body of Ver
non Franklin Dixon showed he
sustained a fractured skull, the
fracture extending from the rear
of the cranium to the front.
Sheriff Denver Young slated
Monday that according to the
information gathered by District
Attorney Hayden, Chief Gross
nickle and himself Sunday at
questioning of several witnesses.
Dixon and Wattier had had some
unpleasantness at a party about
a week ago which was more or
less amicably settled.
Saturday night about 9:30
while Wattier was In a beer hall
having a beer, according to wit
nesses, Dixon came in, made
some accusations, and invited
Wattier outside. Wattier com
plied and when he appeared out
side Dixon stripped off his coat.
and witnesses stated, slapped
Wattier twice.
Wattier then hit Dixon and
knocked him to the pavement.
Wattier then went back into the
beer hall, according to the story.
Two of Dixon's friends who pick
ed him up wanted to take him
to a hospital, but he protested
and went to his apartment in
stead. When his brother Law
rence came In about 2 a.m., Sun
day, he found Vernon in bad
condition, called a doctor, and
when the doctor arrived, he pro
nounced Vernon dead. Th? sher
iff said that the circumstances
as unfolded at the questioning
did not justify an arrest.
Boyhood Souvenir
Catskill. N. Y., March 10 P)
A trip to the dentist uncovered a
25-year-old mystery for Sgt.
Paul Kelly of the catskill police
department.
X-rays revealed a piece of
metal in Kelly's jaw. After
probing, the dentist removed a
B-B shot.
Kelly could not recall ever
having been shot, but an older
brother remembered that Paul
had gotten in the way of a B-B
shot when playing "cops and
robbers" more than 25 years ago.
For Want of a Ladder
Kansas City, March 10 (Pi
Firemen at No. 29 station had to
turn in an alarm for help in put
ting out a small blaze at their
own firehouse.
A motorist discovered the
blaze yesterday under the eaves
of the two-story building, and
the firemen found they needed a
ladder. But they had none.
Their's is a pumper station.
So, reluctantly, the firemen
rang the gong, and four compa
nies raced to their aid bring
ing ladders.
Three Runaway
Boys Returned
Portland, March 10 (P) Three
16-year-oid boys, part of a group
of six who escaped from the
Woodburn training school over
By DeWitt Mackenzie
AP ForeUn Attain Analyst)
The question of American aid
for Greece which over the
week-end has become coupled
with discussions of possible
help for Turkey as well has
brought a sizzling inquiry from
a man of few words who asks
with raised eyebrows:
"Is the United States going
to pull England's chestnuts out
of the fire?
Well, I could be wrong but it
isn't my observation that the
people of this country are dis
posed to pull any chestnuts out
of the fire excepting their own
That s quite apart from Un
cle Sam's desire to be generous
and helpful to his fellow men.
Anyway, the first step in an
alyzing our question is to de
termine whether its premise is
correct and we soon find that
it isn't.
Washington obviously takes
the view that those Balkan
chestnuts don't belong to John
Bull alone but to Uncle Sam as
well, so the problem isn't to
establish ownership of the
chestnuts but how best to get
them out of the fire.
In Serious Danger
The proposition of course is
that Greece and Turkey both
friends of the western allies
are in grave danger of being
swalled by the red flood which
swallowed by the red flood
which has swept down the Bal
kan peninsula. Without help
their chances are little better
than nil and they are the last
remaining strongholds of west
ern democracy in those parts.
However, that's far from the
whole story. America and Bri
tain stand to lose not only
Greece and Turkey, but these
two strategic utposts are in
turn bulwarks of independence
in the eastern Mediterranean,
Persia and the whole middle
east. Moreover, their downfall
would weaken the chances of
western Europe to resist being
communized and absorbed.
Naturally then the United
States has vital interests in the
Balkan crisis. For one thing she
has vast economic rights to
safeguard oil being one. But
far more to the point is the fact
that the continued independence
of that area is essential to world
peace.
This is true because nothing
short of disaster could result
from any one nation no matter
which gaining domination of
the bulk of the globe.
Paid Rent to
Avoid Eviction
An eviction case, in which the
federal rent control office was
prepared to intervene, failed to
go to trial in justice court Mon
day when it developed that the
defendants had paid their rent
and vacated the premises Sunday
afternoon.
Plaintiff in the case was Mrs.
C. A. Hendry, who brought evic
tion proceedings against Mr. and
Mrs. E. F. Dorlarque. Here
from Seattle to intervene for the
government was Sylvanus
Smith, an OPA attorney.
Intervention was intended by
the rent control office for the
reason that Mrs. Hendry had al
legedly failed to register with
the rent control office.
Mrs. Hendry, Ralph E. Moody,
her attorney, Clare A. Lee, local
rent control director, and Attor
ney Smith were in the courtroom
when Moody informed Smith
that the Dorlarques had vacated
the premises Sunday afternoon
at 3:30 o'clock, and their present
whereabouts was not known.
The court issued a default order
for costs against the Dorlarques.
the week-end, were captured
here yesterday.
Police said the trio admitted
burglarizing three business es
tablishments and stealing two
cars.
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Attempt to Assassinate Roxas by
Hand Grenade on Platform Fails
Manila, March 10 tf) An attempt to assassinate Philippines'
President Manuel Roxas was made today when a hand grenade
was thrown on the platform where he had just finished speaking.
ine grenade was thrown by an
unidentified person as the pres
ident concluded his speech in
the grandstand at Plaza Miranda
in front of historic Quiapo
church.
Roxas was uninjured. He left
immediately for Malacan while
police threw a cordon around
the grandstand in an effort to
trap the would-be giller.
The grenade exploded just 20
feet from President Roxas.
Malacan palace announced
late tonight that he was resting
well after the incident.
Photographer Emilio Magla
land, who was taking pictures of
President Roxas, was injured by
the grenade. Shrapnel pierced
the right side of his back.
The large crowd assembled to
hear President Roxas speak was
panic-stricken by the explosion.
So far as could be determined,
the photographer was the only
person injured.
The spokesman at the presi
dential palace credited Jose Ave
lino, president of the senate,
with saving Roxas' life.
He said Avelino kicked the
grenade away a moment before
it exploded.
It was hurled accurately at
the president as he sat down aft
er finishing his speech.
The constitutional amendment
which the president was advo
cating provides equal economic
opportunities for United States
citizens in the development of
the Philippines.
There has been extensive cam
paigning for and against it for
the past several months, with po
litical observers predicting that
it would be approved.
Manuel Roxas
Helicopter to
Beat Picket Line
New Bedford, Mass., March
10 W) Unable to receive regu
lar deliveries because of a
picket line, the strike - bound
Cornell-Dublier Electric cor
poration plant has hired a heli
copter to get raw materials into
the yards.
The helicopter made several
flights with raw materials to the
plant yesterday and a manage
ment spokesman said that fin
ished ' electrical products also
would be delivered by air un
less the 32 striking drivers,
warehousemen, stock room
clerks and checkers return to
work. I
Five on Way
To Canonization
Vatican City, March 10 tP A
hero of Switzerland, three
French religious figures and an
Italian priest were advanced to
day on the long road toward canonization.
In a secret consistory held in
consistorial hall of the apostolic
palace, Pope Pius XII got the
vote of the cardinals present-
given by lifting their skullcaps
for the elevation of sainthood of
Nicola de Flue of Switzerland,
Lubovico Griggnion de Mont-
fort, Michele Garicoits and Cath
erine Laboure of France and
Guiseppe Cafasso of Italy.
Thereafter, in a public consis
tory, the pontiff heard advo
cates plead the causes for canon
ization and as is traditional, re
plied that he would take counsel
in a latter semi-public consis
tory with the episcopate "in par
tibus" the archbishops and
bishops residing in Rome and the
vicinity.
This was a formality, howev
er, and dates for the elaborate
ceremonies in the Bazilica of
St. Peter's at which the five will ,
be named individually as saints
already had been set.
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