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LABOR DAY Americana are traditionally a dissatisfied people, al ways looking forward to something better than what they have, and planning actively to bring it about, though to any other people in the world they already "nave it. This is true no less of American working people, whether they belong to labor union or not, and whether their work is manual, clerical, administrative or other wise. It is an attitude woven into our national tradition through the generations. , And it's a good attitude, out of which stems progress. Show ui a completely satisfied person and we'll show you one to whom progress and even the hope of it has ceased, who is probably on the down grade, since 'none of us stand still. . All this is by way of preface to our theme, Labor day, ' which most people except newspaper workers are observ ing as a holiday, and we look forward to a half holiday this afternoon. The theme is that labor, which is all of us who work, has coma a misrhtv lomr way since that first labor day established by the struggling young labor unions in New York state in 1882. At that time the lz-nour day or tz- hour week was the established pattern and so far as anyona then dared hope, likely to continue indefinitely. Most work was hard, too, as mere was uuie macninery. The bright chap who devised those magic words "time and a half' possibly hadn't gotten out 01 Jenifers, isor were there any paid vacations or other "fringe benefits." ...... - iL. J.'l A All this and many more messings were over me aiswni horizon beyond the reach ox the most larseeinjr eye. Labor unions have done much since then to improve the conditions under which Americans work, but Ameri can ingenuity has done even more, for high wages must flow from high productivity, and tms is wnat nas maae the American standard of living posible. Labor sav ing machinery, work techniques, "know how." And a new world in which acres of automobiles around every industrial plant, is taken for granted has evolved, for the benefit of all, and particularly of workers. So we may all exchange the warmest congratulations today for what has been accomplished since the first Labor day was observed in the United States. Much re mains to be done, but we've come a long way.. LABOR DAY IN THE WORKER'S PARADISE toORKCI'01EVANCCS ARC CMUFVUXUSTMP TO RECOGNIZED LABOrt LEADERS ARE CIVCN SPECIAL ATTENTION"" " g(3&P MeK.uitttjradlcaU.lat " -: 1 -MMniMJ- WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Labor on Guard Against Possible Economic Slump y DREW PEARSON GERMANY REBUKES THE KREMLIN In the most important election of the year, people of West Germany gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his pro-Western government parties a new four-year term of office in Sunday's election by a landslide vote. Over 27 million voters also ejected all communists out of their parliament's lower house, crushed an attempted Nazi comeback and rejected the socialist plea lor neutrality in tha cold war. The election was an endorsement of Adenauer's American-backed program for rearming West Germany in alli ance with the West against Russian aggression and a re buke to the communist plot to coerce the voters and dis rupt the election. - ' Adenauer's Christian Democratic party won 244 of the 487 seats in the Bundestag, a majority of one, and with the seats captured by his allies, the Free Democrats and the German party gives him a margin of 97 votes. Trail ing far behind were the opposition Socialists with 150 seats. . The German vote was a humiliating catastrophe for the Kremlin and a triumph for the United States, a per sonal victory for Secretary of State Dulles, who gave onen endorsement to Adenauer and wan ronndlv herated for it by the appeasers, as well as Russia, which sent 7500 goons over the border to terrorize the voters and the neutralist Socialists. The Adenauer coalition failed to gain the two-thirds majority that would enable Adenauer to amend the con stitution and end the court dispute on whether rearma ment is legal. However, it was believed that'the tiny Center Party and the Refugee Association which won four and 27 seats, respectively, would join forces with Adenauer and give him the majority. A real election in East Germany would probably have the same result. Washington officials hail the election result as a diplo matic defeat for Russia and a powerful gain for Western unity. Dulles, who warned that an Adenauer defeat would be disastrous was not surprised, but most of his aides were. Many of them seem to still have the appease, ment eomplex. G. P. Socialist Retreat New York Times The waning power of the aoclallat doctrine of common ownership of the means ot production, that hypnotized Iuropean labor at one time and found its climax not only in the communist tyranny in Ituafia but also in a rash ot industrial nationalisation else where, la again illustrated in the latest report of the Gen eral Council ot the British Trades Union Congress. This report still clings to the old socialist ahlbboleths and affirms nationalisation of Industry and agriculture "in principle," but it displays lit tle enthusiasm for carrying H out In practice. Indeed, It admits that nationalisation mifht reduce efficiency, at least "temporarily"; that there Is no great public demand for more nationalisation; and that m any case the notion that nationalisation and workers' control" would solve ' the wage and employment nrohlem ! mere "wishful thlnklns" This report Is In striking contrast to the "Challenge to Britain" Issued by the British Labor party, which holds that the cure for socialism's short comings Is more socialism. But even this "Challenge," an tinder oressure of the Bevsnlte tall that wagi the Labor party dog, testifies to the ' great change that has come over socialist doctrine as such. . This most leftist pronounce. ment of European socialism today no longer recognises the "clast struggle" that was the basis ot all socialist dogma, and it falls far short ot de mandlng the common owner ship ot all means of produc tion. It sdvocstes "public ownership" only in basic and key Industries, though it would still put the private sector or the national econ- omy under its own type of planning and control that failed. The same general awaken lng from the socialist dream is evident everywhere in free Europe. The nationalization process Is regarded as finish ed in France, Italy and Aus- trie, and there may be even, as in Britain, some return ot nationalized Industries to pri- vata hands. In Germany the socialists still demand the "general ownership" of the basic eosl and steel industries, but they freely admit that British experience has disil lusioned them with govern ment ownership snd opera tion, and thst they are groo Ins for new forms of "public ownership" which they have not yet found. Washington Labor Day 1953 represents something of crossroad for organized la bor. For this is the first Labor Day in 20 years that labor has been on the outside looking in. For 20 years, labor enjoyed a situation wherein its top lead ers were not only consulted at the white House but where the basic policy of both Roose velt and Truman was aimed at wnat might be called a peo ples administration. But today labor sees the man it vigorously opposed safe ly ensconced in the White House, naturally inclined to favor the policies of the bus inessmen who backed him rather than the labor leaders who bucked him. So, despite the appointment of Martin Durkin, head of the AFL plumbers,' as secretary of labor, organized labor frankly recognizes that it is a long way from having any voice in Wash ington. "Durkin says that he s been consulted on all labor prob lems," remarked one top labor leader, "but what difference does that make when the sec retary of the treasury Increases interest rates on the mortgages which every workingman has to payt Or what difference does Durkln's consultation on la bor problems make when the treasury proposes a sales tax which increases the cost ot liv ing for every workingman? Or when the Elsenhower adminis- tration proposes cutting out cheap government electric pow- er, thereby increasing the el ectric bill which workingmen have to pay? No," concluded the top la bor leader, "we are in the same position today as with Herbert Hoover. He hsd a labor man, William Nuckels Doak, In his cabinet. But Hoover's pol icies were among the most re actionary In history and led to one ot the worst depressions in history. That's what we have to look out for today, matters such. as taxes, public power, gas and utility rates, which also affect the lower bracket public. ' j On the general welfare front, also, both the AFL and CIO now operate their own network radio programs for the first time in history. For some time, the AFL has sponsored Frank Edwards, a fair-minded lib eral commentator; while the CIO is now beginning a net work program with John Van Furthermore, some 1 labor leaden, stung by the one-sided treatment given their views by certain newspapers, especially in one-newspaper cities, are discussing the establishment of daily newspaper with a nat ional circulation, somewhat along the lines ot the Christian Science Monitor. TWO LABOR REACTIONS The above viewpoint has caused two significant and im portant moves in labor circles 1. The greatest stimulus in labor history toward unity; to- ward an amalgamation of trv A. F. of L. and the C.I.O. 2. A much greater effort to push policies that will help lower bracket groups general- ly, regardless of whether they belong to labor unions. This Includes social security health benefits, lower taxes tor the lower brackets, public power as against private power. Regarding Point No. 2. most people don't realise that the A. F. ot L. maintains a man in Washington. Nelson Crulk shank, whose Job it is to watch CIO-AFL AT STOCKHOLM On point No. 1-unity- there has been no period since John L. Lewis bolted the A. F. of L. when the two great labor groups, the AFL and the CIO, have been nearer unity. Part of this has come about because of the policies of the Eisenhower administration; part because new and younger leaders are now In command At the recent international labor meeting in Stockholm, for instance, Walter Reuther of the CIO worked closely with George Meany of the AFL. To gether they succeeded in over ruling the British on two im portant moves. One was the ad mission of Israel to the execu tive board of the ICFTU. The other was the election of Omar Becu of Belgium as president of the ICFTU. Both were op posca Dy me British. But in both cases the quiet coopera tion of Reuther and Meany scored a victory, Both men also sddressed the Stockholm meeting on East Germany, and sent a telegram urging Eisenhower to take strong stand in support of East German workers. The presi dent wired back that he con sidered it significant that It was the workers who were the backbone of the revolt against communism. Labor leaders, in cidentally point to Ike's laud atory statement in contrast to the statement of his attorney general, Herbert Brownell, that there are more communists In side labor uniona than any other group. LABOR NOTES LaDor Day was first pro posed by peter J. McGuire, president of the Carpenters and Joiners union, in New York In 1882. By 1894 congress de clared it a legal holiday. Event ually the first Monday in Sep tember became red-letter day in all of the 48 states. . . . Ap- mendous gains made by labor in the last generation. . . . Ac cording to elder labor states man Al Hays of the Machinists, labor cannot rest on its past achievements. . . . The Amer ican factory worker today earns more than six times as much as in 1013. Though liv ing costs have greatly . in creased, the factory - worker's wage still buys more than twice as much as they did 40 years ago. Also, twice as many Am erican workers own their own homes today compared with 1913. ... Just as responsible labor leaders are no longer smeared as "socialists," except by extreme reactionaries, so has the American workingman formed a new concept of his relations with management. Became he and his family have prospered under our system, the workingman is a strong believer in free enterprise, as long as it doesn't become mon opolistic. . . . The word "cap italist" has pretty much dis appeared from the American workers' vocabulary, at least ss a term of aversion. He doesn't suffer from the feeling that he is in a 'class distinct from the -"boss," or that he is Incapable of thinking like a man of business which in every sense he is. icopyrttht. mi) Salem 43 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL September 7, 1910 Acting Governor Jay Bow- erman had determined that Isaac N. Harrell and John D. Roselair must hang for their crimes. Marines to the number of 200 had been landed at Pan ama to prevent election dis turbances and Colonel Goe thals, chief engineer in charge ot Panama canal construction voiced the opinion that in view of the trouble American annexation might be neces sary. School Superintendent A. 'J. Ackerman had said that the average monthly salary of a Marion county school teacher had increased fast year over the previous year from $69.25 to $73.53 and salary of female teachers from $51.13 to $55.04. Col. E. Hofer, publisher of the Capital Journal, had an nounced himself as anti-assembly candidate (or governor. Elite Massage and Beauty Parlor, U.S. Bank, building, had announced preparations to take orders for - switches, puffs and curls msdc in their own establishment. Also cream and bleach tor the tan ned, wash for blackheads and feature cure. congress regarding health leg- proximately 17,500,000 work lslation, not merely tor organ- era, including 3,000,000 women. ized labor but tor the public generally. It was Crulkshank, among others, who helped in crease congressional appropri ations for cancer, heart, palsy, etc., after Mrs. Hobby, secre tary for health and welfare, cut the money in halt. Also the public doesn't real ize that the A. F. ot L. main tains an expert in Washington, are members of AFL, CIO and Independent unions the great est number of organized work ing people in history, peter McGuire could hardly dream of a finer "esprit de corps" in organised labor. . . . Nor is it likely thst pioneer labor lead era oi the past like Sam Comp ere and John Mitchell, whose Ibwtof.'.ski Ends Writ y BATMOND MOLIY Los Angeles to two prev ious articles I nave attempted to snake two points. Tint, the efforts of the administration to reduce expenditures have not been effective. Second, the forces working agsinst econ omy csnnot be met except by drastic action. In this article I shall describe what such dras tic action should be. In the last days of the recent seasion of congress, the power ful bouse committee on govern ment operations reponea out with approval H. R. J a bill which had been introduced and pressed against administration opposition by Frederic R. Cou- dert, Jr., a republican from New York. This bill was not passed, but It will be a basic fighting issue when congress returns in January. The dis couraging progress of economy has brought me to believe that among U 1he plans to balance the federal budget and relieve the taxpayer, this is the sound est and the best. The Coudert bill as amend ed by the committee on govern ment operations Is very simple. It declares that the "expend itures of the government dur ing each fiscal year shall not exceed its revenues for such year except (1) in time of war declared by the congress; or (2) during a period of grave nations 1 emergency declared by the congress by a concur rent resolution." It directs the president to prepare the budget in line with this policy. It au thorizes the president at any time during the year, in order to keep the budget in balance, to withhold the spending of money already appropriated by placing funds in reserve, by apportionment ot funds, or otherwise." The latter is very great dis cretionary power. It means that in order to achieve the pur poses of congress in this bill, the president may withhold or reduce any appropriation or even the payment of money due under contracts already made. This bill, to be sure, if passed would be a self deny lng ordi nance. It could be repealed by congress at any time. A consti tutional amendment would be better and, in fact, Coudert has also Introduced the exact lan guage of this bill as a proposed constitutional amendment. But an enactment of this kind has a certain standing in terms of principle not enjoyed by or dinary legislation. For it is, like the fixing of the debt cell ing by law, a solemn declara tion of government policy en acted at the instance of the house, in which all bills for raising revenue must originate. Such a law would be a rule of interpretation paramount to all appropriations. The serious ness with which congress re gards the debt ceiling, which it also passed as a self-denying act, shows the moral authority of such legislation. The British limitations upon appropriating power are only custom but are scrupulously observed. In arguing for this bill, Ros- well Magill, former under sec retary of the treasury and pres ident of the tax foundation, said: "A balanced budget is not beyond the reach of the federal government. It is not generally realized that most of the states bar deficit financing or debt creation for current op erations through a constitu tional limitation. Most of our cities also strictly limit debt. Like all people when they are invested with public office, j the people in the Eisenhower administration are Impatient of restraints. John Foster Dulles in 1952 felt that there was peril in the treaty power, but Secretary Dulles in 1953 says all is well "don't fence-me in." Secretary Humphrey opposes what he calls the "Inflexible" limits of the Coudert bill. But, as I show above, the bill ac tually gives the secretary, actj Ing under presidential author ity, more power than he now has. The director of the budget, in a letter to the government op erations committee, says that he does not believe expendi tures can be controlled by "ar bitrarily" limiting them "in any given period." This objec tion can be avoided by the bill as amended unless he means POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Here's New Idea Offered as Improvement on Labor Day ly HAL lOTLi New York W)4 Labor Day Is a fine idea. It gives the boss 24 hours in which to escape the critical eye or the working man. it gives the conscientious em ploye the same respite from his stern duty of reminding the management there aren't enough towels in - the wash room. . The theory behind Labor Day is great that Is, to honor labor by abstaining from it And it is a sound theory so far as it goes, because any kind of work looks better from a distance than it does when you get involved in it The trouble with Labor Day is that it Uvea up to its name instead of the theory behind it. Both boss and hired hand work harder playing on Labor Day than they do playing they are working on an ordinary day. They put out enough foot pounds of energy on Labor Day. to turn every wheel in America for a week. Why not save all this wasted energy? Why not have a "No-Labor-and-No-Play" day? As it is now, millions of Am ericans must work on Labor Day in order that other mil lions may play. That is the way our civilization is geared, But how about a law creat ing a national public holiday on which everybody and every thing would be forbidden to do work of any kind, or play in any way? The law would ap ply to men, animals and ma chines. It would enforce com plete and absolute rest from dawn to dusk. --. All, beaches, filling stations, bar, restaurants, theaters and highways would be closed. All power plants would be shut down. There would be no tele vision or radio programs, no ball games, no newspapers printed. The zoos would lock up, too, thereby denying the caged inhabitants the pleasure of laughing at human visitors. Cops could stay home and cool their bunions as no bur glar would dare burgle on that day. The only human Institutions allowed to remain open would be a few hospitals, as no law can keep a fellow from dying, falling ill, or getting himself born. Hens would be permitted to go on laying and cows to give milk, as there Isn't much congress could do to stop them cither. But for everybody else re pose, peace, no work or duties or energy-wasting pursuit of pleasure ot any kind. What a silence would fall in every city, ss fresh winds cleansed them of all smoke and factory fumes! How serene all America would seeml Nobody doing anything except Just ly ing in Dea resting . . . dozing . . . dreaming . . . resting ... all day long. Well, it's a fine goal, this No-Labor-and-No-Play" day. There's only one thing wrong witn it. it wouldn't work. It would drive Americans crazy. They couldn't possibly sit or lie still that long. They either have to bo doing some thing or going somewhere. By 10 a.m. the housewives would be saying to their hut. bands, "Law or no law, thia house is going to be cleaned. And you get up, you loafer, and help me." By noon ,to keep from break ing the law at home, the hus bands would be 'out breaking the law everywhere else, and every saloon would have a back door open. The highways wold be Jammed by mid-afternoon, and bootleg gas .would be selling for a dollar a gallon. Before nightfall every city would sound and smell the same as usual and 160,000,000 happy lawbreakers across the nation would be telling esch other: "I guess we showed the gov ernment it can't make an Am erican take a holiday lying down." Sounds Capitalistic (Salt Lake Tribune) Russian Premier Malenkov's recent speech to the Supreme Soviet made headlines in this country largely because of his comments relative to Russian knowledge of the hydrogen bomb. But some of his com ments relative to Internal Rus sian affairs may have been more ot a bombshell to the Russian people themselves. He promised tor one thing sharp improvement in the standard of living within the next "two or three years" admitting past severe short ages, along with poor quality of much consumer goods. He said the goods did not correspond to the "requirement and tastes" of the consumer and that finish and appearance left "much to be desired." The position of agriculture came In for special attention. Malenkov assailed past Soviet policy relative to a collective farmer's small private holding on which he is allowed to grow what he wishes for his own use or for sale. He admitted that private ownership ot such a garden plot is a necessity since the peasant's require ments "cannot as yet be fully met by the collective farm." As to the collective farm, the premier ssld there are still many areas where "collective farms have insufficient crop and money incomes and pay out little in money and produce to the collective farmers for their labors." Malenkov'a proposed cure for this "neglect' of agriculture was simple. The agricultural tax will be reduced and prices paid by the state -to collective farmers will be increased in order to stimulate their "fi nancial interest" in greater production. v What a shock that must have been in Communist Russia! Re duce taxes and increase prices so ss to stimulate production. Good heavens! That sounds practically capitalistic! BE APOLOGIZES , Sargent, Neb. WB State Ll auor Commission Chairman Tal Coonrad was sorry today for complaining that he might "end up driving a truck.", He mentioned the truck driving fate as a possibility because of the stand I take on certain things." Truck drivers retaliated by saying their jobs are "Just as honorable and in some cases more" remunerative than be ing liquor commissioner." Coonrad apologized. Following his victory over Joe Jeanette, Sam Langford had announced his intention of challenging Jack Johnson for the heavyweight champion ship. Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company bsd advertis ed "Talk to peruana tnree minutes for 25 cents." Jamei W. Mott, aon of Dr. and Mrs. Mott ot Salem, had departed for New York City where he resumed his work at the American Academy ot Dramatic Art. attempt to lmm-nva tha ataim ex-Consreasman Andrew Ble- of the workingman was da- miller ot WUeonsin, whose lob rided as "socialistic," foresaw! street, had $1.25 wool under It is to watch other legislative in then- wildest fancies the tre-weer for 0 cents. Huie Wing Sang company. Chinese and Japanese bazaar at 323 North Commercial that there should be no balance in any specific period. It that is what he means, he has been taken over by the old New Dealers in his bureau who, for many years, have been advo cating fiscal periods of five or more rears for budget-balancing purposes. That, Incidental ly, was a theory held by Rex Tugwell when he was in the government several years ago. Since there is nothing very flexible in the limits placed upon the taxpayer, it seems to me that the tax-gatherer should be limited, too. mtlMM at Tha AuwlataS Smnml New Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort fMriSSIH. a vloattnt aStanaa 4nee a: injR, aoMi fait tatta mm firmly t tat ana talk la mora com tart. ran aartakla a llttla rurrsITH oa raar alttai. Ma tamai, rooty, ptt, tail ar foolrnt. Ottekf "pltt odor" MUBtura kmuu. CI fASTSrm at aaa erat eiara. .VS. GEORGE HUGGINS vl' tliU-n-tkat fiv ' RID BOISB When Charles Huggins (Insurance) opened on office in Salem in1940, it was located on N. Commercial Street just around the corner from Charles Hudkins (Real Estate). A few years later Charles Hudkins (Real Estate) moved to a location on N. High Street. Charles Huggins (Insurance) moved Into a new building about a block oway on N. Church Street. Just recently Charles Hudkins (Real Estate) announced his retire ment from the Real Estate firm which he founded many years ago, end since then, (you guessed it!) several people hove been good enough to coll Charles Huggins (Insurance) to express their regrets on his re tirement. " Charles Huggins (Insurance) says he would like to re tire but, (1) He can't offord it ond his ogency sends Its best wishes the Chorles Hudkins (Real Estate) for many enjoyable years of retirement; ond (2) this is just o coincidence, but Chet Huggins (Coos Bay, In surance) Is making o formal announcement of his re tirement this month. (He happens to be Charles Hug gins (Insurance) brother! Whadya mean, you're con fused. We're not sure we're in tha right office! Muggins sf"a iwiri in a tits? China 171 N. INSURANCE FHONB 3-9119 (ALBM Iks Csenal Stack rmm rmi thta" ft