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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 30, 1949
Basis of Fight on Labor Laws
Top officials of the two leading labor organizations, the
AFL and the CIO, have asked the senate to kill the ad
ministration's new labor bill, now amended to embrace
injunction powers and government seizure for strikes
involving nationl emergencies. They state it makes the
bill "absolutely unacceptable" and request the bill be
dropped before passed, leaving the Taft-Hartley act in ef
fect for a campaign issue in the 1950 elections, when of
course an effort will be made to purge congressmen who
refused to accept the dictation of the labor bosses.
Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.), democratic leader of the senate,
predicts that if congress passes the bill as amended the
president will veto it, in spite of the fact that Mr. Truman
utilized court injunctions to discipline John L. Lewis and
his miners.
Under the Taft-Hartley act the president has pro
claimed seven strikes as constituting national emergencies,
but in only four of them have injunctions been sought
in the other three cases the 30-day "cooling-off" period
was utilized, which delayed but didn't prevent strikes,
thereby reducing the effectiveness of the T.-II. act.
The Taft-Hartley law has been continuously hysteric
ally denounced by the chiefs of organized labor as injur
ing labor which is the sheerest nonsense. It has not in
jured organized labor in any way, but has protected the
public, when utilized in national emergencies. Its faults
can be corrected. In no way has it "robbed labor of its
social gains" as repeatedly falsely asserted.
The fact that the ranks of union labor have steadily
gained and now number 16 million employes in industry,
and also the fact that their political power has grown
under the T.-H. act, to such an extent that the executive
and judicial branches of government have been in the
direction of giving unions more and more immunities and
placing management under greater and greater restric
tions, show that the attacks on the law are unfounded.
The real source of objection is that the labor law curbs
the czar-like pcwer of labor bosses and unions willing to
paralyze essential industries for selfish ends. They want
to retain their power without responsibility and that is
always fraught with evil results to society and to the
economy.
Tacitus, the Roman historian of the first century A. D.,
wrote, "Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the
passions combined." Edmund Burke declared, "The greater
the power, the greater the abuse." Lord Acton wrote,
"All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts abso
lutely." And it is this lust for power that accounts for
much of labor turmoil.
Making Insurance Complicated
Oregon's board of control remained mum Tuesday at
the time of the formal protest on the award of a contract
for liability insurance on state cars to the second low
bidder. A letter later stated to Clarence Young, attorney
for the low bidder, that the board had signed the contract
and was going to stick by iU decision.
The decision was made two weeks ago. Then the General
Casualty company, represented by Dooly & Co. of Port
land, was given the contract on a cost figure $8,778.43
higher than the lowest bid. The low bid was submitted
by the Truck Insurance Exchange, a reciprocal company
of Los Angeles, which has had the state's automobile
liability insurance for the past three years.
Explanation at that time for this particular action
favoring a standard stock company was that the success
ful bidder had agreed to put three safety engineers at
work in an effort to reduce the accident toll of state
vehicles. This service was expected to cost $15,000 and
was to be borne by the insurance company.
However, the low bidder,, who had been handling the
state's business for three years, declared that its com
pany had been carrying on a safety program for the three
year period. And the cost for this service, assumed by
the company, was estimated at $18,000 a year. But de
spite this safety survey service, a standing relationship
with the state, and a bid more than $.8,700 lower, another
firm was given the business.
Explanations given by the board of control so far in
this matter have hardly been satisfactory. It is a strange
move for the board to take without giving the public
a more understandable explanation. With an insurance
man as one of the three members of the board, it is cer
tainly not a matter of not knowing all the aspects of this
type of insurance. But the people of Oregon whose $8700
was spent "extra" for another company, ought to have
a more easily understood explanation.
Russia's War on Religion
Russia is intensifying its war on religion in both the
Baltics and the Balkans, the Romanian Catholic church be
ing singled out for destruction or rather communization
along the lines of the Russian Greek orthodox church
which is now permitted to exist under Soviet domination,
with the politbureau selecting prelates and clergy.
In Czechoslovakia, the communist government has seiz
ed virtually all church consistories, the highest adminis
trative offices in archdiocese and diocese. Archbishop
Beran, the prelate, is a prisoner in his palace and his arrest
is momentarily expected.
In Romania the communists have arrested Archbishop
Aaron Marton of Alba Giluia and Bishop Antonio Durcovici
of Iasa, the only two Roman Catholic prelates recognized
by the government after its crackdown on church activity
last October. At that time all bishops of the Greek Cath
olic rite were arrested and three bishops of the Latin rite
were deported. Alba Giulia is in the Transylvania area
and has 320 priests. The church claims 890,000 Catholics
out of a population of 3,200,000.
With announcement of the two arrests which eliminated
the last of the Catholic hierarchy, the Vatican issued a
bitter attack against the Romanian government and the
"violent persecution of the Catholic church there," as in
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other countries
where persecution is underway.
Both the Roman and Greek rite Catholics are being pcr
necuted and the Potestants in Hungary as well, and Czech
Protestants will be next on the Red purge list. It is a war
against all religions by the Godless communists, and the
Moslems' turn may come soon, would have come ere this
except for the large Mohammedan population in Asiatic
Russia as well as the Balkans.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Barkley Stories Soften
Vishinsky at Conference
By DREW PEARSON
Washington When Secretary of State Acheson got back from
Paris, he expressed his thanks to Vice President Barkley for hii
help at the foreign ministers' conference.
Barkley was mystified. It was newsi to him that he had been
helping.
Acheson then
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
explained.
At the start
of the Paris
conference, the
atmosphere was
cold. Finally
Acheson invit
ed Foreign Min
ister Vishinsky
to dinner. But
even after cock
tails, the guests
were aloof. So
Drw pnnu
Making a routine check of
her name, the FBI found that
she was working in the justice
department, and put her under
surveillance. This all began
shortly before Christmas.
The surveillance soon showed
that the young lady was spend
ing nights in the apartment of
another justice department offi
cial, H. P, Shapiro. She brought
her suitcase from his apartment
to the office next morning, and
the secretary of state decided to probably took government doc-
mellow the foreign minister of uments away in it at night.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Made to Order
A loyalty check was made of
Shapiro which turned out O.K.,
and the justice department then
figured it was wasting money
shadowing Miss Coplon. It al
most decided to drop the case.
T . 1 J l . 1
Barkley joke he could remem- ur-
v. .-j u- ji ..... veillance was continued for n-
Russia with some of Alben Bark
ley's famous stories.
As a result Vishinsky was al
most in tears. Even the Inter
preter had a hard time keeping i
straight face. Acheson told every
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BY DON UPJOHN
It became evident today what the weather man has been up
to in furnishing fall and winter weather around here ever since
summer started. He has been saving up his best to use in launch
ing the Cherry-
ber, and after the dinner was
over, Vishinsky put one arm
around Acheson's shoulder and
remarked:
land festival to
day and giving if
Queen Pat a '
right royalf.
weather setting
In her queen-i"
uuiii ci n y in no
pepping every
body up for the
coronation this
evening.
other two or three days.
It was the very next day, and
after spending the night with
Shanirn that Mi fnnlnn want
"I may not win anything nt. to New York to meet her Rug.
slan boy friend, Gubitchev.
gotiating with you, but it is cer
tainly a pleasure to visit with
you."
One of Barkley's latest stories
REPENTANT NAZI
The U. S. army chat strange
a new world until he becomes a
cross word puzzle addict. Take
In our own nimnlp case tarklinff
a crossword puzzle occasionally lg about Kentucky friend who wayg of doing things
we have been amazed at how a "eiPd nim get elected to tnt 0nly nazl defendant to plead
hitherto unknown field has houM of representatives a quar- guilty and turn state's evidence
opened ahead. For instance, be- ter of century ago. After the at the Nuremberg trials was
fnrp taklnc nn crossword nuzzles election, the friend came around Ernest Wilhelm Bohle. who wn
xua'A nv avan'hporH nf .h. to tell him: finallv nmiiHpn nt viar xrimea These Opera-
three toed sloth and an apod "I want you to know that I or crimes against peace and hu- V0."1 ? Vrely
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Air and Naval Exercises
Not to be Taken Lightly
By DeWITT MacKkNZIE
(Iff) rorrtn Alftlr AnHjit)
More than 100 warships British, French, Dutch and Belgian
are assembling in Penzane bay, on England'! west coast, for naval
exercises. - "
These
was as foreign to our vocabulary sweat, bled and almost died for manity, but was sentenced to
defensive, aimed
Don tTpJohn
a ilnnm nnthori nna lira nixlrsrl vnll Thpr isn't anvthlnff I fivp VMn fnr hoi no on SS man t 8 g g T esslon
up by the same route. Now we wouldnt do for you, and all I Believe it or not, the army T mi, , t
Vpa in miirh
pvltifpmpnf Is hplntf Worked UD fnca ermm mttnU ntnvAm tm.. uant im tnv vrin tn h tt tffAflt has nnw lmnpiAnAl T)Vi1a wltk '"r. X flc lnicr-
over the festival that even some and orie with abandon to say congressman." some of the hard-boiled SS life- ihl fl t I '
worms are beginning to arrive nothinir of ido. ro and such like. A fw vpar. law RarVlsv termer against whom Bohle tes- 0
In the cherries for the event. if, sure a vocabulary builder, was elected to the senate. Again tilled. As a result he is in dan- C,v nrh.!
this crossword puzzle business his friend came to see him, and 8" ' "ia 1".
as sure as there's a shlve. gaid: When Bohle was first aentene-
"I want you to know that I 1 to Landsberg prison, he was
Jumping the Season sweat, bled and almost died for -dually put In solitary confine-
Trlpple Trapping
Lebanon Suspecting that rats
were raiding his chicken coops,
Warren Wood, of route 1, Leb
anon, set a trap and caught the
fafliAf rf ilnm nlnn a hpnltv anprU
men, measuring 18 inches from "es.day.
neuveri proba
bly is unique.
Mean time,
British Ameri-
c
DeWItt MaekeniU
an4 Ttiiitlt
Dallas The first red-ripe lo- you and I know you are going to mnt, usually reserved for those warolanei are waelnir nvr Bri.
cal tomato was reported here be a great senator. There isn't waiting death. The cells have taln a mock war which Is deicn
Mr. and Mrs. Roy anything else I want from you." n ventilation, and Bohle was ej "operation foil " Its Dur
nose to tail-tiD. For several days clacK 01 1K swuon grew wnai Finally, when Barkley was T"c" ",e V V l" P"e to test John Bull's de
.. .. . . j.- j thev believe Is the first nne tu nave
aiipr inai ine Dan oisauuearcu - . r r rrei..cu rac iun " '
Other
of the
month. As this
Is my first mar
riage, I am anx
ious to make a
good impress
ion. Is there
anything I
ought to know?
Should I look
for a job now
or later?
(Signed)
"BASHFUL"
The exercises teem to be cal
culated to serve two important
purposes:
(1) They afford striking ad
vertisement of the determina
tion of the Western Democracies
to stand defensively; (2) They
provide invaluable defensive experience.
The operationi presumably
are in part a gesture toward
Moscow. Their international as
pect serves notice that the At
lantic pact it more than a piece
of paper. Russia, of course, ex
pects the pact to be put into op
eration and implemented, but
there are times when actions
speak louder than words, and
one of them.
Indeed, the Muscovites un
derstand action better than
words. The current action gets
added emphasis from the fact
that it Is being carried out by
t ..., ki a army o far have gone unheed- t.rr!hi k m j...i- four important members of the
r,ignieen aegreei at i.iamain .imn.t HIpH tn mak vr.ii vir 'u' the late war, wn "savpri" hv "' wwijr.
r.ll. iU- tirmi (.m.U In ... t - r
xmi. ...r ... presldent. now I want you to xne oeiensive air neet, though
can truly get Intel- Polk county. Most anything can do .ompthinff for me." DIPLOMATIC POUCH . several midland and costal cities
"What it it?" asked Barkley, The French and British fleets suffered "extensive damage."
worried. are staging a secret rendezvous The official referees withheld
"Help me take out my citizen- off the French coast today (June comment on this, but the British
ship papers." 30) to test out very important defensive forces were jubilant.
' new radar equipment.
B-3 TEST Al one Plnt aunng tne raris These two operations are be-
Sinr thm mnrh-hallvhoopn conierence wnn
battle of the B-36 vs. navy jet llallea. cneson siooa up ana trumpet, although they
tiahiar ha. n't uot nm. ntt thp said: "Mr. Vishinsky. I didn't nrisp a histnrio vont
air force has decided to stage a com.e to Paris to dance a d'Pl0- There is no comment from Pean D e m o c r a c i e i couldnt
secret B-38 test of its own. matic minuet. I came here to the governments concerned as to weatner-
These tests have been staged get something accomplished." the meaning. The event is left Hence the precautionary pre-
at Muroc base, California, and Vlshinsky immediately went to speak for itself, and broadly paredness which, by the way,
so far jet planes have theoretic- back to real work- 11 does- However, we shouldn't was not carried out to meet the
ally shot down with camera (Copyright, 1949) dismiss it lightly. last two wars.
l I j r
war criminals fpn.p. aeainst an attack with
from the unsprung trap, so Wood field-grown tomato of the sea- United States, his friend came atm bombcrs-frm ? lar-
tied down the bait and waited. son- " is r-nud and nicely back and this time he said: Following protests Bohle has ter. Here again the international tn'f '
Last Wednesday morning three ln? c'BTly fwi Wnen you were elected t0 b undPF 7ntihrZtoi 1 " UnlqUe
young rats were caught with one riely. the tomato was raised from the house of representatives, I "nd" ""l8" thrMt, from This is Britain's first major
" il .11 41 seed thev had crown themselves aa ,,, v-f A wuat omer oa pnsoneri. 4- 0ff;4. nr u u-
noses concentrated on the bait. rjrst tomto was not picked in you were elected to the senate, ,'inl!!n: The ,econd day of the Pera
Wood is planning further entice- lnl area
ments to snare the matriarch of
the brood.
j vut ni.il villi, w .v Lire ovunic, , . . ,. , . . ui. OH.U1IU UB V ui UIC UUCltt'
last year until July, i went down the line for you 'can Civil Liberties Union to the tion London (which suffered so
again.
No one
lectual enjoyment and be lost In happen in Oregon
POOP MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Just a Bit of Advice
For a June Bridegroom
By HAL BOYLE
New York (A") To the poor man's philosopher:
DEAR SIR,
"I am 25 years old. I will become a June bridegroom the last
day
From the military standpoint,
the air and naval exercises are
ordinary horse sense.
Should there be war (which
heaven forbid) Britain would be
the main base of the Western
Allies. Were England knocked
Vishinsky ing carried out without blare of "V by a surPrise atomic attack
com- uuisei qi war, k would De
a catastrophe which the Euro-
Hal Boylt
guns the giant plane which is
atom
ter how hot the day to wear
a necktie, preferably one with
no Hula girls painted on it.
Authorities differ as to wheth
er you should invite your old
girl friends to the ceremony.
Your anxiety Is ouite natural. r my Pa", I believe you
Bashful. But you must calm should.
yourself, my boy. After all vou dozen yur ex-flames weep
probably wouln't notice what
you were wearing u you snowea scheduled to carry the
up in bathing trunks. Don t io bomb in case of war.
it, however-even as a gag. Bet- However, this does not yet
ter arrive in a neat blue serge mean that the jet fighterl ar.
freshly pressed if possible. And WDerior to th bitf bombers. So
It Is still in good tasteno mat- far the B.36 hasn,t fired back
inn hnui Vtrr Iha riaxr r urao . '
has merely tried to escape jets.
Your Pontine deserves
IPdDNmiAW
Since the bomber's guns have a
range 800 yards greater than the
jets, the final result may be dif
ferent. The tests have also demon-
The sight of, sa7. half ratfd that difficult to hold
jcia aicauy lui aui'Ultllc 111-
will soon be worrying for two,
and that takes strength.
You show a lot of character
In your desire to make a good
Impressions at your first wed
ding. So many boys these days go
into marriage thoughtlessly
they just take it as another
light-hearted adventure. Some
times I wonder what the world
Is coming to or has it?
Yes, there are many things
you .ought to know. A wedding
is indoed a serious matter, but
if it is prepared for proDerlv.
ing in despair will give your
bride a feeling of quiet victory.
And, after all, she Is the one you
want to make happy.
But once she has said "I do,"
you must begin at once teaching
her how two can live as cheaply
as two. Give her a little les
son in thrift.
There is one last thing, my
boy that matter of a job. Just
before you drive off in your
father-in-law's car, It might be
ing at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
In contrast the B-36's guns are
on a more stable base and can
shoot farther.
It is also significant that the
air force has used Its lightning
speed F-86 in the secret tests
a plane that holds the world's
speed record and can outfly the
navy's Banshee.
NOTE The F-86 was piloted
in the Muroc test by Captain
"Chuck" Yeager.
JUDITH COPLON CASE
ALMOST DROPPED
The inside story of the Judith
Coplon case is that at one time
the Justice department almost
wise to suggest that he start
there is no reason why it can't lookin8 at once for employment
be fun for everybody. Ior 'ou.
It is a sad time for fathers
Naturally, mv hov ther. ar when they lose their daughters.
a few business details to be antl ,n" TasK wm reassure the cropped me investigation,
straightened out. And it Is bet- old nian tnere is sti11 something Original tip regarding the
ter that they be arranged in toT nim to do in tnis world good-looking young government
advance so that there will be no while you're enjoying your girl was picked up, strangely
hard feelings afterwards. honeymoon, as June bride- enough, aboard the Polish
The first thing, of course, is 8rooms should. steamship Batory. The FBI had
the dowry. You simply mustn't And tak yur brid along, a plant aboard the vessel and
let any affection for your bride too boy' She'll be grateful overheard Judith Coplon's name
Influence you In this Important forver fr this little touch of mentioned during a conversa-
matter. More and more par- thoughtfulness. tion.
ents are finding themselves with
daughters on their hands these
days, and a good man is get
ting harder to find. So drive
a fair but sharp bargain.
Many fathers-in-law still dis
like making cash settlements,
and It is perhaps wise to respect
this old - fashioned prejudice.
However, If your bride's dad is
any man at all, he probably will
be only too glad to present you
and his daughter with a newlv.
furnished apartment, rent - Daid To the Editor: The robins are mad because th rhp
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All Puffed up on Anniversary
Menlo Park, Calif. (A0) Embarrassed, Charles E. (Dad)
Brown cancelled the Browns' 62nd wedding anniversary
party.
Brown, at 82, had the mumps.
OPEN FORUM
The Robins are Mad
SIGN OF THE EXPERT WHIREVIX
YOU OOI
for three years. If he isn't able
to buy you a new car, too, be
big about it take his old car.
Now there is the matter of you can get a subsidy. They will
the wedding Itself. Too much Sive it to you In the form of a
stress has been laid on the im- shot in the arm.
portance of the ring. After all We cherry growers are Just
have harvested their crops!
The cherry growers are mad because they haven't got a subsidy.
it yuu gu to me rigni piace
Who knows who will be the
next vlctimT
Just another year gone
it is only a symbol. Buy a simple cog in the gear. This gear 10 "keep ,na uPPr MP"
ring, jusi dc sure me gold won t runs 24 hours a day, and when nav been a cherry growei
wear off until at least three days It is full, throws one victim out toT frty years,
after the ceremony. and picks up another, to be FRED J. BROWNING.
My boy, they ground to pieces. 295 W. Browning Ave., Salem
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