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THE RIGHT TO WORK
A new labor relations bill has been introduced in the
house designed to curb the abuses of picketing and in
cluding a section from the Taft-Hartley setting out what
is required from the employers. Other labor bills have
kept the labor and industrial committees in a turmoil.
The committee has not yet reported on the new bill
which will probably be amended.
.' Surely the right to work is as fundamental as the right
to vote, though it has been denied since the advent of the
New and Fair Deals and the attention of the committee
is directed to the decision of the supreme court last week
whioh ruled that a, state could prohibit peaceful picket
ing when the purpose of the picketing conflicted with a
state's law banning all forms of the closed shop.
The 7-to-2 decision was in line with a series of decisions
on picketing rights handed down in recent years. The
majority opinion was written by Justice Harold H. Bur
ton, Justice William O. Douglas said in a dissent that an
Illegal purpose was not clearly shown. Justice Hugo L.
Black simply noted a dissent.
The case involved Virginia's Right to Work Law, which
declares that a denial of work on account of membership
or nonmembership in a union is contrary to public policy.
It also provides for damages.
When building trades unions of the American Federa
tion of Labor mcketed a school construction project,
Richmond court issued an injunction against them. The
court also awarded damages of $190 to the contractor,
Graham Brothers.
The ueaceful nature of the picketing was undisputed,
There never were more than two pickets and at times
only one. The picket placard read: "This is not a union
job." The complaint alleged that as a result of the pick
eting, union members on the job refused to continue to
work there. When the injunction was issued the picket
ing ceased,
,
Justice Burton said that "the effect of the picketing
was confirmatory of its purpose as found by the trial
court" He then added:
"Petitioners here engaged in more than the mere publication
of the fact that the job was not 100 per cent union. Their
picketing was done at such a place and in such a manner that,
coupled with established union policies and traditions, it caused
the union men to stop work and thus slow the project to a gen
eral standstill.
"Such conduct, furthermore, was conditioned upon the fact
uutt some oi tne worn on tnis jod, particularly tne piummng,
was being done by a subcontractor who employed nonunion
labor, whereas (J. F.) Joinvllle (president of the Richmond
Building and Construction Trades Council) had demanded of
the general contractor that the job be '100 per cent union.'
"Based unon the findings of the trial court, we have a case
In which picketing was undertaken and carried on with at
least one of its substantial purposes in conflict with the de
clared policy of Virginia.
"The immediate results of the picketing demonstrated its
potential effectiveness, unless enjoined, as a practical means of
putting pressure on tne' general contractor to eliminate from
further participation all nonunion men or ell subcontractors
employing nonunion men on the project."
'
If the proposed Oregon bill followed the pattern and
language of the Virginia bill, its constitutionality would
be assured and such a law upholding the right to work
without paying tribute to labor bosses, would be an
effective way of curbing the greatest monopoly existing
in this country, organized labor, which habitually vio
lates the XIV amendment to the Constitution, which
reads: .
Section 1. ClUsenship Rights of Citiiens Due Process
Equal Protection. All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi
zens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunity of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop
arty, without due process' of law, nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
INDO-CHINA HAS A LESSON FOR US
Maybe that far. off war in Indo-China, now safd to be
turning at last in favor of the French and their native
allies, thanks in large part to mounting U.S. aid, has a
lesson we could apply to Korea and to other points in
the Far East where communist aggressions may occur.
France is spending a lot of money in Indo-China, about
a billion and a half dollars a year, of which a third comes
from us. She has about 60,000 French servicemen out
there, a considerable part of her professional army, for
no draftees are sent.
But there are no French units. The French serve as
officers, instructors, technical 'experts. Not many are
now fighting at the front. This is done almost entirely
by anticommunist natives who are interested in protect
ing their country from Red invasion and are now doing
a pretty good job of it. In fact a better job from what
we in the U.S. hear than was done when France tried to
any the ball alone.
After nearly three years of Korean fighting the United
Nations are now trying to do this. They are arming and
training large Korean armies which have become virtu
ally equal to white soldiers in the fighting there. Need
less to say they can be kept in action at a small fraction
of what American units cost.
South Koreans fighting Chinese Reds have no propa
ganda value to the Kremlin. White Americans fighting
yellow Asiatics makes a rich grist from the Red propa
ganda mills. And we are only now beginning to catch on
to the obvious.
Eventually we predict that the U.N., or the U.S., for
they are virtually the same when fighting is to be done,
will enroll the equivalent of a "foreign legion" of tough
professional fighters to repel aggressions. But it takes
so long for an idea the British and French have always
Meed in Asia to percolate through to us.
Community Chest Institute April J 5
April 18 has been announ-1 to accepting this uc
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BY CARL ANDERSON
Top G.O.P. Wrangle Ovei
Serving Rum in the Capitol
Y PREW PEARSON
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Roscoe's Work in Life Is
Hoisting Women's Skirts
By HAL BOYLE
New York (ff) Roscoe C.
Schwartz at 69 holds a peculiar
niche in our complex civilization.
He plays a keyboard for a
living, as does Jose Iturbl, the
pianist. But out of Iturbi's key
board comes haunting music
and . out of Schwartz's key
board comes nothing but strong
blasts of air;
The air blasts come up
through holes in the floor.
They are intended to blow
skirts up over the heads of un
wary lady patrons of the fun
house in the Palisades amuse
ment park, across the Hudson
River in New Jersey.
Schwarz, a tall greying man
with eyes like an eagle, is the
acknowledged dean of his
strange profession. He has
been at it now for 27 years.
"I guess I've lifted the skirts
of over six million ladies in
that time," he estimated, "and
I suppose that is a record.".
His performance has a classic
simplicity. He sits unnoticed
in a small booth. As the ladies
start to enter the funhouse,
Roscoe pushes a button
Swoosh goes the air . . . Swish
go the skirts ... The ladles
squeal , . . The crowd laughs
in delight ...
Then everyone waits for
Roscoe to push the next button
and catch the next feminine
customer. What do the women
themselves think of all this?
"Well, sometimes the young
girls get annoyed, or pretend
to be annoyed," said Roscoe,
"but the old girls love it."
By HAL BOYLE
with her handbag. But the
crowd booed her.
"That's the only time any
thing like that ever happened.
Of course, I've had my share
of dirty looks and nasty re
marks." Roscoe'' philosophically
shrugs these off as the criti
cism any artist must face.
After all these years he still
enjoys his work. And he has
reached a few conclusions
about the ladies.
"They look trimmer today
than they did years ago. They
wear less outer-clothing now
than they used to but more
underclothing.- And their fa
vorite color for 'em now seems
to be blue."
Only one out of the millions
of lady victims of this prank
have ever counter-attacked.
"In the old fun house I was
out in the open didn't have a
booth," said Schwartz. "I save
one lady the air, and she didn't
have much on under her dress.
She came back and hit me
MORE FUN, ANYWAY
(Albany Democrat-Herald)
The McMinnvllle News Re
gister, product of the merger of
the Telephone Register and
the News-Reporter, announces
it will go dally in April, 'mis
will be only the third daily to
be started in this state in 15
years. Both ot the others went
under; but this does not sur
prise the enterprising and op
timistic Bladines, who are now
publishing one of the largest,
most readable and most suc
cessful weekly newspapers in
the United States.
The Grants Pass Courier
ran successfully as a daily for
many years while its territory
was smaller and perhaps, less
promising than Yamhill
county is today. The McMinn
vllle weekly often publishes
more pages in its one issue
than small dallies do in a
week.
The Bladines may not make
any more money with the
daily than they're making
with the weekly at least,
not lor some years but
they'll have more fun.
But Roscoe definitely has
nostalgic feeling for the wide-
skirted fashions of other days.
"The last couple of years
women have gone back to tight
hobble skirts, he complained
"You get no results at all with
them. I let 'em go by now
just ignore them."
Schwartz rose to his present
post after a 16-year appren
ticeship on the ferris wheel.
"I liked the ferris wheel all
right," he observed, "but this
job is more exciting. You have
an audience.
Roscoe is married, has four
children, and five grandchil
dren. I asked him what his
wife thought of his seven-day,-
a-week job of blowing up la
dies' skirts.
"She isn't overjoyed," he
said wryly.
Brooks
Brooks Mrs. Julius West-
ling entertained the Brooks
garden club with a 1 o'clock
pot luck, serving twelve mem
bers.
Care and species of primros
es was the discussion topic.
The next meeting will be at
the home of Mrs. Willard Ramp
on March 26.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Belike
and family have arrived home
after a sojourn in San Fran
cisco, Calif.
Brooks district has organized
a new Girl Scout troop under
the leadership of Mrs. Waldo
Lowery and Mrs. William Pfau,
assistant.
New members are Donna Ed
monds, April Flte, Jo Ann
Hicks, Betty Jean Kurth, Jer
ry Lou Lewis, De Ann Low
ery, Candace Ramp, Charlene
Wymore and Mary Lowery.
The girls meet each Monday
after school in the assembly
room. Mothers who are serv
ing on the Scout committee are
Mesdames Sam Ramp, Cleo
Hicks and Orville Mymore.
Brooks PTA is holding its
election of officers for the 53
54 year, Tuesday, April 7, at
8 p.m. at the regular meeting.
A well child conference
workshop will be held Tues
day, March 24 at 2 p.m. at the
Keizer Community church.
Anyone in the Brooks area in
terested in attending, should
contact Mrs. William Pfau,
county health chairman.
When radio broadcasting
first started in the 1920s, sta
tions all operated on one 300
meter wave length.
Washington It has just
bubbled to the surface, but
two top republicans got into
a bitter, backstage wrangle
last week over "hard liquor'
being served in the capitol
; building. They were Con
gressmen John Baylor
Pennsylvania, who wanted to
throw a "buffet supper" for
his mother, and A. L. "Doc'
Miller of Nebraska who called
it a "cocktail party" and stop
ped it on the excuse that
highballs would be served.
What caused the ruckus was
Saylor'a plan to use the house
interior committee room for
his get-together. As a sub-
chairman of this committee.
Saylor made all the arrange
ments at his own expense and
sent out invitations to com
mittee, members.
Among those invited was
the committee's crochety
chairman, "Doc" Miller, who
has been conducting a run
ning feud with his fellow re
publican sub-chairman. Miller
promptly, tattled .to House
Speaker Joe Martin about the
cocktail party, then wrote
Saylor an amazing letter
threatening to "expose" him.
Miller's letter was never
meant to be published. How
ever, here is what he wrote:
'I have your invitation to at
tend a 'little' party In the com
mittee room . . . on March
19. I want to call your atten
tion to the "recent conversa
tion between us . ... when
you asked if you could have
the use of the committee room
for a party. I said in effect
that if hard liquor was to be
served, I would not give that
consent or be responsible for
such a party. You replied in
effect, 'Doctor, what is a party
without a highball?'
"No Cocktail" Miller
"I have talked today with
the speaker and Mr. Jim
Auchlncloss (in charge of the
house office buildings), and
they tell me I have control
and am responsible for the
committee room," Miller con
tinued triumphantly'. "I know
they agree with me that the
committee room should not be
used for so-called cocktail par
ties. ...
"I - am assuming you are
using the room for a social
get-together minus hard
liquor," the letter went on.
If such is not the case, you
do not have my permission to
use the committee room.' If
the room is used in violation
of this letter, I would expect
to take the case to the floor
of the house for an airing.
The resulting publicity could
cut two ways."
Ike's Tour
A little incident which hap
pens in the home of almost
every married couple even
presidential couples happen
ed in the White House re
cently.
The president was conduct
ing a group of congressmen
through the White House and
took, them off the customary
tour to give them a special
look at his own personal quar
ters upstairs.
These consist of a sitting
room, with a couple of bed
rooms attached. Ike, who gets
along with the democrats al
most better than with the re
publicans, took the group up
to tne door of the sitting room
and started in.
Suddenly there was a fem
inine shriek. Inside was Ma
mie in a black negligee. The
startled first lady rushed into
the bedroom, Ike grinned, and
decided he'd better stick to the
routine sight-seeing tour of his
new home in the future.
PERSPIRING DEFENSE BOSS
The man who is getting the
most backstage brickbats in
Washington but probably de
serves the most sympathy is
ex-General Motors boss
Charles E. Wilson, perspiring.
persevering secretary of de
fense.
Starting out with two big
strikes against him, the oppo-
sision ox congress and part of
the public, Wilson now has an
other strike against him the
d by tne community chest
as the date for their Chest In
stitute, which will be the sec
ond to be held. The first was
last year.
Main speaker at the meet
ing to be held at the Senator
. hotel, will be C. C. Moore, di
rector of the National Commu
nity Chest campaign and fi
ante service, New York. Prior
accepting this position
Moore was the campaign dl
rector in Chicago.
Joseph A. H. Dodd heads the
state committee working on'
the institute and members of
the Marion county committee j
are Dr. Robert Anderson, chair
man of the committee, Herbert
Barker, Harold Robertson and
Rev. David Ferguson, Pratum,
who is Marlon County Com
munity Chest president.
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opposition of the brass hats.
But he probably deserves the
support of congress and the
public as of today.
When he stepped Into the
defense department, Wilson
found things just about as bad
as indicated by some of the
newspaper headlines on the
ammunition shortage. His pre
decessor, sincere, hard-working
Wall street banker, Robert
Lovett, long had coasted on the
theory that the military could
run the show.
. When branches of the serv
ices 'were at odds with each
other, Lovett compromised.
When the joint chiefs of, staff
voted against a second super
airplane carrier, Lovett an
nounced that they had OK'd
the carrier and asked congress
to appropriate the money.
When it was revealed by this
column and congress that mil
lions of dollars were being
wasted by duplicate buying be
tween the army, navy, and air
force, Lovett waited three
months before issuing an or
der to iron out this duplica
tion. .
These were some of the
things Wilson discovered when
he stepped into the defense de
partment. He also found that
the much vaunted unification
program was not working,
Many brass hats have simply
given up any idea of harmony.
On top of this, the tank produc
tion program has been par
tially fouled up, the produc
tion of Sabrejets could be
lot better, and other procure
ment problems have been
scattered all over the Pentagon,
Wilson has been working at
his new job night and day. He's
forthright, honest individual
who chafes at red tape and de
lay. It's still too early to say
whether he'll lick the job or
it will lick him. But there's no
question that he's working
hard for the best interests of
the public.
DIMINUTIVE A-BOMBS
It's no longer a secret that
the one important object of
the atomic experiments at
Frenchman's Flat is to test
small atomic weapons. In con
trast to the first bulky bomb
dropped over Hiroshima, the
A-bombs are now down to
size where two of them can be
carried under the wings of an
F-84.
Only trouble with these
small A-bombs is that when
Russia develops the same size
bomb, as eventually must hap
pen, it could be smuggled into
the United States in a suitcase
or in a packing box in the hold
of a ship. Thus it could be de
tonated from a pier alongside
the New York waterfront, or
from a baggage locker In
Grand Central station. Or a
ship passing through the Pan
ama Canal could be blown up
inside the locks and jam that
vital waterway for months.
Another test being made in
Nevada is of atomic land
mines. These not only can pre
vent the advance of an enemy,
but could be planted on the
flanks of our own advancing
troops to prevent an enemy
from closing in on the flanks.
Another result of small A
bombs is that they can soon
be put in the warheads of navy
torpedoes, and when exploded
underwater can cause terrific
damage to enemy ships. Only
thing the navy is perturbed
about is whether the under
water explosion might be so
severe as to injure our own
ships.
One A-bomb will be explod
ed underground at French
man's flat in order to throw
up a large amount of radioac
tive dust, thus test out the ef
fect on troops. While this ex
periment is slightly dangerous,
it's not considered as danger
ous to spectators as the drone
airplanes which fly over
Frenchman's flat. With no pi
lots aboard, they are in the air
to test the effect of each explo
sion, and the danger is that a
blast wil put them out of con
trol and catapult them down
on the spectators.
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Sec'y Benson Tells Dairymen
Price Supports May Be Out
Chicago U.R) Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson
told the dairy industry today
it had better solve its prob
lems "without the kind of gov
ernment supports which price
your products out of the mar
ket."
In a speech prepared for de
livery to the American Dairy
association, Benson warned the
surplus-ridden industry that if
present "alarming" trends con
tinue, 'butter is on the way
out."
Benson made It clear that
he thinks the whole farm price
support system must be re
vamped. No farmers can "af
ford to price themselves out of
markets," he said. He cited cot
ton as well as butter prices,
'Lose Good Will"
The secretary told dairymen
they have lost some of their
good will with the public" be
cause of "unworkable price
supports at the expense of the
taxpayers." He told them the
government expects them to
come up with solutions of their
problems in the next 12
months.
They have an opportunity,
he said, "to demonstrate to the
nation that high rigid supports
and subsidies are not neces
sary" for farm prosperity.
The agriculture department
now owns about 830,000,000
pounds of butter, cheese, and
dried milk which it has bought
from the Industry at 90 per
cent of parity prices.
Supports Extended
When Benson recently or
dered these supports extended
for another year, starting April
1, it was on the assurance that
the industry would attempt to
cut federal support spending
by boosting commercial sales
of dairy products. He indicated
hope that the government will
be well rid of its butter stocks
by 1954.
Spring Valley
Spring Valley Twentv-
three members of Spring Val
ley Junior Farmer's union
were guests on a modern hay
ride recently , with (Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Dickenson as hosts.
The hay wagon was pulled
by a tractor, driven by Mr,
Dickenson and a portable ra
dio provided music. After tht
ride the group enjoyed a wien
er roast.
George, Jr., and Mack Ham
mond, who have been gone
two weeks to Waldport felling
and bucking logs, are horn
again.
Poppy seeds are grown in
France to produce salad oil
rather than narcotics.
Salem 25 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
March 23, 19Z8
Until Charles Maxwell, col
ored, moves to open his pro
jected barbecue establishment
at the corner of Hunt and
North Capitol streets there- is
nothing the city attorney can
do to block the project.
W. S. Low, Salem street
commissioner, expects to pave
between 100 and 150 city
blocks during this summer.
Gilbert Donker, farmer liv
ing between Turner and
Aumsville, was Splitting oak
fence posts the other day. In
one big trunk he found a
"nigger-head" rock about the
size of a man's head and that
aroused his curiosity. In
quiry in the neighborhood re
vealed that Guyan Gibson,
owner of the property in 1886,
placed the rock in the oak
tree fork during that year to
mark a property line survey.
Public initiation ot 150 mem
bers will feature the Tuesday
evening meeting of Capital
Post 9, American Legion, at
Salem armory.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stahl
man, whose home was de
stroyed by fire recently, at
tribute their safe escape to ex
ploding rifle cartridges. They
were awakened by the noise
before" spreading flames en
gulfed their home. Their $3,
500 residence near Detroit
was a total loss.
Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson on
Friday afternoon visited Cen
tral Howell school now hous
ed in temporary quarters.
Two weeks ago the old school
house was completely destroy
ed by fire. Classes are now
being held in the Congrega
tional church about a half
mile north of the schoolhouse
site.
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