Lewis Faces Fact Finders United Mine Worker Presi
dent John L. Lewis (left), Union Secretary-Treasurer John
Owens (center), and Welly K. Hopkins, UMW counsel, con
fer at the hearing table in Washington at they faced presi
dential fact finders seeking an analysis of the soft coal
crisis. (AP Wirephoto)
Paul Miller, Hit by Coal Strike,
Only Gets by After Bad Luck
By JAMES HOITON
Lake Lynn, Pa., Feb. 10 (IP) Just about everyone in this mining
town is pitching in these days despite the coal strike to help the
Paul Miller family they've had the toughest luck of anybody.
To the Millers Paul, Harriett and four surviving children
hunger is just another chapter in a tragedy that began two
years ago
Their neat, four-room frame
home burned to the ground in
1948. With it went everything
the.' Millers owned but the
clothes on their backs.
Miller, a coal miner, started
all over again. He bought an
old house and tore it down.
Then he partially rebuilt it
rather crudely, he admits on
the site of the old house.
Last August, four - year - old
Bobby died of a ruptured ap
pendix. Two months later Mary Eliza
beth, 10, was stricken with te
tanus and spent 38 days in the
hospital.
In the meantime, recurring
coal strikes and "holidays" par
ed down Miller's usual $80-a-week
check.
Came 1950.
Miller, along with most min
ers in' this area, worked Just
three days a week and stopped
when the miners began their
"no contract no work" strike.
There was no extra food in
the Miller larder. Last year
hadn't permitted any saving.
The few dollars he earned
vanished fast.
Couldn't he get some other
kind of work?
In this shabby mine town,
there aren't any steady jobs to
be had and odd jobs are out be
cause nobody has money to pay
for them.
Miller applied for relief. He
was turned down.
The state department of pub
lic assistance places a lien
aaainst property owned by a re
lief recipient. Miller owns his
rebuilt shack, but he nothing in
the way of a deed to prove it.
The Salvation Army provided
everal food slips.
"Without them we'd have
starved, I guess," said 35-year-old
Mrs. Miller.
The government provided the
miners with surplus potatoes
and the Millers got 100 pounds.
"That's all the food we have
In the house," the chunky house
wife declared. "I'm trying to
save them, so I can only give
the children three potatoes be
tweed them to take to school
for lunch.
"I know 'this sounds terrible
but I tell them that maybe the
other children will share their
lunches with them. And they do,
too."
The other Miller children are
Paul Jr., 12; Harry, 8, and Ro
trer 9 months.
How do the Millers feel about
their plightT
Miller, speaking slowly, com
mented:
"I can't say much except I
want to go back to work aw
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ful bad. 'Course, long's there's a
strike I'm staying out."
Miller was asked what he
would tell President Truman if
he had an opportunity to talk to
him about it.
The 37-year-old digger mur
mured only:
"I'd sure like to go back to
work."
But his wife spoke up quick
ly. She said:
"I'd tell him right away that
I didn't like him using this Taft
Hartley law. That's not helping
the miners. And it sure isn't go
ing to settle the strike.
"I don't like sending my kids
to school practically to beg food,
but I think my husband is right
in not working. I'm in back of
him."
She turned to a little stove in
the corner.
"Would you like some coffee
" she began. "Oh dear, I for
got. We haven't had any this
week. The neighbors give us
things like that when they can
spare it. But they're having a
tought time of it, too."
No Oregon Potatoes
Dumped or Sold fork
Portland, Feb. 9 (P) No
Oregon potatoes have been
dumped this year and none are
for sale at one cent a sack.
That's what the U.S. produc
tion and marketing administra
tion reported today. The PMA
added that 277,602 sacks of pota
toes were sold to stockmen for
feed or distributed to schools
and institutions for lunch pro
grams.
The dumping of potatoes has
occurred in areas where the
agencies have not been able to
dispose of the surplus as feed or
at one cent a sack, mostly in the
Maine potato growing counties.
Waves Going to Hawaii
Washington, Feb. 10 IP) The
navy announced today that 73
enlisted Waves are to leave San
Francisco tomorrow for duty at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Reds fo Lose
Right to Teach
Washington, Feb. 10 m The
office of education said today
that communists have surrender
ed the right to teach "in a nation
of free people."
There is no justification, there
fore, said education commission
er Earl J. McGrath, for know
ingly hiring teachers "whose
commitments are contrary to the
foundation principles of freedom
itself."
But in his annual report to
the federal security administra
tion, McGrath warned against
the effort to keep communists
out of the schools lead to thought
control and limitations on aca
demic freedom.
McGrath called for an investi
gation of the teaching profession
to see why it attracts some peo
ple while repelling others.
He also proposed a vigorous
educational campaign "focused
directly on problems of interna
tional understanding" to help
avoid another war "which would
wipe out our civilization."
Additional federal aid to
schools, is needed, he said, espe
cially in the poorer states, to halt
what he described as "deterior
ation in the quality of educa
tion."
McGrath said a shortage of
teachers and school facilities has
brought an "emergency crisis
which will mean educational pri
vation to many of our children."
Jean Wallace Faces Sentence
Los' Angeles, Feb. 10 VP) The
ex-wife of Franchot Tone faces
sentencing Friday on a charge of
drunken driving Christmas eve,
the night officers say they found
her in her car clad only in lace
panties and a coat. Actress Jean
Wallace, 25, was convicted yes
terday after a trial in which
she contended policemen offered
to drop the charge. if she'd "be
nice" to them.
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Outlook Under Aussie Life
(Editor's Note: Some 4,000 American veterans of World
War II have settled down in Australia. Twenty thousand
more are said to be eager to try their luck there. In the fol
lowing dispatch the United Press general manager for Canada,
who is on a tour of Australia, tells how the Americans are
getting along down under).
By PHIL CURRAN
(United Presa Stair Correspondent)
Sydney, Australia, Feb. 10 (U.R) Ex-GIs are doing all right
"down under" in Australia, but they have had to shift mental
gears.
Of more than 2,000,000 American troops who surged through
Australia during World War II,
President OKs
Probe of Trusts
Washington, Feb. 10 (U. Pre
sident Truman today approved
congressional investigation of al
leged monopolistic practices by
certain firms in the steel, news
print, chemicals, soap, airline,
and theater industries.
Chairman Emanuel Celler (D.,
N. Y.), of the house judiciary
committee said after a White
House call that Mr. Truman had
endorsed the inquiry. Celler
said a judiciary subcommittee
will investigate:
U. S. Steel corp.
The newsprint industry, which
Celler said is monopolized by
Canadian firms "with the conni
vance" of U. S. paper compan
ies. The E. I. DuPont De Nemours
Co.
The soap industry with spe
cial attention to Lever Bros.,
and its parent corporation, Uni
lever. Pan American Airways.
Alleged control of the whis
key-barrel manufacturing indus
try by distilleries.
The Shubert theatrical hold
ings.
Celler would not discuss the
subcommittee's invest igation
plans. But from previous an
nouncements, he has Indicated
the committee will open its in
quiry with inquiries into U. S.
Steel in March.
2 Railroad Unions
Authorize Strikes
Chicago, Feb. 10 (IP) Members
of two operating railway unions
have voted to strike for a 40
hour week, the unions announc
ed today.
A spokesman, however, said
that does not mean a strike is
imminent. He said that under
procedures of the National Rail
way Mediation act a strike could
not possibly occur before late
spring.
The two unions are the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen and
the Order of Railway Conduc
tors. Together they represent a
total union membership of about
200,000 railroad workers.
an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 have
"returned to make their homes
here.
Sydney P. Pollack of Irving
ton, N.J., president of the Am
erican Australasian ex-servicemen's
club, estimated another
20,000 ex-G.I.'s want to return
here, but are held up by a lack
of shipping. Most either took
discharges here or returned un
der the Australian government's
scheme which pays 40 per cent
of tourist-class passage and
guarantees a job.
The biggest beef is the
shortage of housing and high
rents in relation to income.
Eddie Olson, 28, of Minneapo
lis pays $13.44 weekly for a
three-room furnished apart
ment. To make ends meet, his
Australian wife works in the
postoffice.
"It's not like it was when
Uncle Sugar was able to pick
up all the chits," Olson said.
On the other hand, George
Kesseler, 29, of Naples, Tex., a
former naval petty officer, said
he didn't think the housing set
up was too bad. He said he had
built a three-bedroom house of
tile and brick.
"My aunt back in Texas built
one about the same time," he
said. "It cost the same amount
and isn't any better than mine."
Kesseler's pet gripe is the
Australian attitude toward
work. He operates a refrigera
tion business.
"Aussies don't work like we
work back home," he said.
"You can't get any production
out of your staff. They don't
get any kick out of working.
They want to get as much
dough as possible for as little
work as possible. They're
much more interested in a
bottle of beer or going to the
beach or to the races. The
quality of work is good, but
it comes slow."
The ex-G.I.'s generally com
plained that their Australian
incomes do not permit them to
buy many things they took for
granted back in the United
States cars, refrigerators, ex
tra radios, electrical kitchen
appliances and the like.
None, however, wanted to be
labelled a "big noter," or
"squawker."
Bill Reitner, 28, of Catskill,
N.Y., a researcher for J. Walter
Thompson advertising agency,
said most of 1 the chronic
"squawkers" already have re
turned to the states.
Vote of Confidence Re
publican William B Widnall
gives out with a big smile in
Hackensack, N. J., as he hails
his 2 to 1 election to the con
gressional seat vacated by J.
Parncll Thomas as a vote of
confidence in the GOP. The
district is normally republi
can, but democrats hoped con
viction and imprisonment of
Thomas for salary kickbacks
would channel some votes
their way. (Acme Tclcphoto)
Railroad Man Hurt
In Speeder Collision
Dallas, Ore., Feb. 10 Fred A.
Brown, operator of a Southern
Pacific speeder, was hospitalized
Wednesday night after the col
lision of his speeder and an au
tomobile at the Uglow avenue
crossing. He rcr(i"vl shock and
bruises. j,
Joseph Cabral, a companion
on the speeder, and C. V. O. Mc-
Taggert, driver of the automo
bile, were not injured. Both
men live in Dallas. McTaggert
is purchasing agent for the Wil
lamette Valley Lumber com
pany.
"Competition is easy be
cause the Australian doesn't
like to work as hard as we
do," he said. "I think it's eas
ier to make a good stake than
it is in the states and to keep
it because the taxation isn't so
bad despite what you've
heard."
Charlie Petersen of San Fran
cisco, who is studying account
ing and helping a bookmaker on
the side, said he also was "do
ing all right."
Pollack said there are still
150,000 jobs open in Australia.
"Any G.I. who wants can get
work," he said. "But he'll have
to change some of his stateside
ideas, slow down the pace a bit,
and get to thinking like Aussies
if he wants to be happy.
"The war-time glamor and
easy dough days are gone and
the Yank Is no longer a big
timer operator on his Austral
ian Income. But it's a com
fortabe life if you make the
adjustment."
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore.,
SENATE BILL 57
Salem Letters Ask Congress
To Act Favorably on Matter
At least 100 letters from Salem urging congress to pass Senate
Bill 57, sponsored by the Atlantic Union committee, probably
will be on their way to Washington shortly.
A letter signed by Lawrence Osterman, chairman of the con
gressional action committee of the Salem unit of the Atlantic
Union committee, ask! that the
letters be sent to members of
the senate subcommittee con
sidering the bill and to the six
members of the Oregon delega
tion in congress.
Senate Bill 57 is in the hands
of a subcommittee of the senate
foreign relations committee, and
similar bills are in committee
in the lower house.
The proposed measures would
request the president to invite
the democracies that sponsor the
North Atlantic Treaty to name
dplcgates to a federal conven
tion for the purpose of exploring
possibilities of federal union.
Members of the Salem unit
arc requested not only to write
letters themselves but to per
suade others to.
The Osterman letter calls at
tention to a forum meeting at
the First Congregational church
Sunday night, March 12, arrang
ed by the Congregational young
adult group. The meeting will
hear a discussion between Jus
tice James T. Brand of the state
supreme court, state chairman
for the Atlantic Union commit
tee, and Orvai Etter far west
ecretary of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation.
Members of the senate sub
committee to whom Salem peo
ple are asked to write in behalf
of Senate Bill 57 are: Senators
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