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Published Every Friday at
Moro, Ore g op
Giles L. French
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Editor
MüKÛ, OKEGO.V
I'KIDAY, JU N E M, 194A
Bricker Debates Broughton
W ake U p . A merica !
account for the loe» o f orestige tt>
a greater extent tlwui w hat they
opposed. ,
$
WE HAD TO SAVE
Ent. red a* second claa, n u itl.r aa the
Poatoffice at Moro. Orason under Act
of Conirreaa o f March S, 187®.
W ill the W agner Labor Ac
H am per P ost-W ar
Employment?
A banker was talking about
Mo<i«otMl by
C H U R C H L 9
the
large bank deposits. They
FMD O. CLARK
Chairman,
American
come, be said, from many small Economic Foundation
Christian Science Society
NATIONAL C D ITO R IA I—
accounts that have grown rapidly
Sunday morning services a t
A» debated by
11 a. m. Subject **God"
iSSOCIATION in these prosperous times during
Raoul Deavernine
Dr. Hatty W. Laldler
„Wednesday n igh t service at 8
the war. Business men and farm
\tW l—
E x ecu tive D irector, L fn g u t for
includes testim onials of healing.
er* wbo form erly did not have N a tio n a lly kn ow n a tto rn e y , f> ormar
p re sid e n t o f tha C ru cib le S teel
ia d u a tria l D em ocracy
The reading room in tin- tea»
much money in the banks now
C o m p a n y o f A m erica
PER
of the building is open. All au
have nice checking accounts.
thorized Christian Science .iters
I AT I 9 M W thout stopping to look up the
MR. DESVERNINE OPENS: Col
DR. LAIDLER OPENS: I believe
ture can be bought or borrow©«?
laet
bank statem ents
it seem s lective bargaining — when It is the that the National Labor Relations
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Act,
called
the
j
Wagner
Act,
will
•ery likely that Oregon banks are free expression of employees—is con
stimulate rather than hamper post
WASCO METHODIST CHUBCI1
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ci^ypring about $200 per person on structive and beneficial to our econ war employment This act as la
omy. But no one knows whether col
Sunday
School at 10:00 A. M.
Payable in Advance
th< entire
population o f the lective bargaining under the Wagner known, forbids employers doing an
There
will be no preaching ser
interstate
business
from
engaging
in
ONE YEAR .............................. $2<9 state. We only have a little over Act—that piece of class legislation certain unfair practices. Unfair prac
vice
at
the
Wasco and Grass Val
a million people and at least $200,- that gives 20% of America’s workers tices, as defined In the act, consist
ley
Methodist
churches next Sun-
r
of
C
l
/
i
a
n
i
Republican
presidenti.»’
J
W.
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JU N E 30, 1944
000,000 in cash in banks. The nor power to exploit the other 80%»—will among other things, in a refusal to
• r f North Carolina and
oay, the 26th, on account o f the
. and J. f '
help
or
hinder
post-war
employment
b
a
r
g
a
i
n
collectively
with
labor
mal used to be around $60
on a radie program
freely chosen by a firm’s em
annual Methodist conference in
Rat oning and shortages have It depends upon how this power Is groups
ployees.
in
discrimination
against
r. :
r their parties mc.’ l Portland, June 22 to
used.
We
know
that
unless
we
have
the 26th.
Those u)hu w o u ld tr a d e shown us that we can pile up mon -
parity—that unless the wage levels workers because of trade union ac
Services a3 usual the following
tivities
and
In
encouragement
of
fr e e d o m fo r s e c u r ity a re ey if we just do not spend it. of all large groups are such that they company-dominated unions. It pro
Sunday July 2nd.
Times have been prosperous, but can buy from each other—we will
vides that a labor union selected by Several factors atrongly inliu- be expected of the state fair
F- L. Cannell. pastor.
d e s e rv in g o f n e ith e r.
have
s
e
r
i
o
u
s
unemployment
ThÄ
^he
majority
of
employees
should
if we do not buy, or cannot buy,
enced the decision. The army re grounds.
wc accumulate money. And ev en t- question can almost be reduced to constitute the sole bargaining agency cently renewed
Moro Community
its lease
on z
'.tally there is enough cash on this: w ill the power of organized of the workers and it furnishes a »part of the fa rgrounds and at
i’reabyterian
Church
labor be used to help or to hinder machinery for the selection of the
I EWEY A BRICKER
hand to buy a farm or som ething parity b e t w e e n the agricultural bargaining units. After World War I (the present time other branches of Fureka Lodge No. 121 A.FAk A.M.
James D. Moherg. pastor.
Meets on the 1st and
The Repu hl i©ans have finished rise of permanent value.
.vorker and the Industrial worker? there was no such legislation. Em the eervice are negotiating
3rd
Thursday evenings Bible School 10 a. m.
for
All of us want a lot of things, At present the CIO and the AF of L ployers took advantage of the chaotic (enlarged uses o f the property.
Lof
each
month Visiting Morning Worship 11 a. m.
tlæir convention and the dele
conditions to start a crusade to break
members are cordially Semon “The Parable of Judge
r. new car. new furniture, more Lave the power to practically dictate ”P many unions. Trade unionists Moreover, as the war movqs to
ghtea should be on their way
‘invited to meet with us ment Ma 26: 31-46
and better clothe«, new houses, the wage levels of their memo- < were blacklisted, union protections
R. P. Brisbine W. M.
home to ooojer dim es. The weather trips. The money is available to The unorganized workera mu»: take abolished, wages drastically reduced, the w est coast the fa ir sponsors
Prayer Meeting 8 p- m. Tuesday
R. V. Lockhart, secretary
was the only thing that was hot in us when and if the opportunity :heir chances— particularly the farm mass purchasing power decreased, feel th at further war usee may
Ch oago, if one judges from news arrives. If we all try to spend it er whoee income is largely controlled labor morale lowered, resulting in
Moro Lodge No. 113, I.O.O.F NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING
■>y the elements. We 111 remember strikes, lockouts and widespread un
accounts Great interest in poli at once there will be high prices; vhat happened in 1931 and 1932 employment The National Labor Re
Meets 1st and 3rd
Notice is herby given that Mary
Tuesdays in I.O.O.F.
ties is not sufficiently common co if we spread our demands out, -vhen the farm Income toboganned lations A ct If continued, will, after
Fdith
Sayrs, Administratrix of
I hall- Transient and
ever shadow the more striking wv may have good tim es for -nd factory lhcome stayed up. The this war. avoid many strikes caused
the Estate of Omer G. S a y u ,
by unfair employers' practices. It la
(visit
ng
brothers
are
rew s of war. It is probable that years. Inc dently, buying bonds, is i-.?tory workera had to stop work- likely to pppvent a successful and
cordis IV invited deceased, has filed in the County
i: g because the farmer couldn’t buy disastrous assault on collective bar
unless there are unexpected de the best way to save
to meet with us.
Court o f the State of Oregon for
irora the factories. If organized labor gaining machinery and thus assist In
velopments the D ém ocrate con
Ernest Houston N. G.
Sherman County, her Final Ac
accepts the sober responsibility that maintaining consumer purchasing
vention next month will be under
Percy Thompson, Secretary
N ext Tuesday will be the Fourth accompanies gieat power, we might power. In stabilizing industrial con
count and the Court has set the
the cloud of war as well.
el July. Normally there is muck ue all right. If labor (ails to accept ditions and in keeping the wheels of
Bethlehem Chapter No. 78, O.E.S. 26th day of July, 1944, n the
Age old rules o f proper politi raid about the anniversary of the ihia responsibility, we w ill be In very Industry running.
Meets Every Second and Office of the County Clerk in th.
MR. DESVERNINE CHALLENGES:
Fourth Thursdays in ea?h Court House at Moro, Oregon, at
cal conduct prevailed in the selec first statem ent o f the principles serious difficulties.
OR. L A I D L E R CHALLENGES: The trouble with the National Labor
Month. V isiting Members
tion o f Dewey and Bricker »3 upon which this nation w»s found
Relations Act is that it protects only
the hour of 10:00 o’clock a- m.
Invited— Moro, Oregon
The depression beginning in 1929 was
nominees. A man from a popu ed This year we are fighting for d je primarily not to the high wages about 20% of America’s workers. It
as
the time and nlace for the
Alice Omduff, W. M.
lous eastern state and one from them and those at home are too ©( the few million workers then or has created a privileged high-income
settlement of stud'fccounting and
Marie Hoskinoon, Secretary
class protected by government. There
the m «idle west is a common bill busy to plan celebrations. The ganized. but to the low purchasing is nothing inherently wrong with
Lupine Rebekah Lod^ge Np. 116 for hearing objections to the
of political fare, and one that o f long year since 1776 have caused power of the mass of both Industrial strikes but we must understand who
same, if any.
Meets
2nd and 4th
ten achieves success. In this cast1 u? to take many o f these rights v.orkers and farmers. In 1929, 43% of the workers are striking against
Tuesdays of> each
Mary Edith S ayis
the nation’s families received inoomes When organized labor strikes it
il m ight have been possible to and privileges for granted and to.
month. V isit ng mem
Administratrix
cf $1500 a year or less, a total income strikes against the workers who are
bers welcome.
c lto s e a more western vice-pre- overlook the fact o f their neces r.o greater than the total received not organized — the workera who
J. Tracy Barton
A le e McKee N.G.
s dent " considering• D ew ey’s Mich sity to our happiness. We only »rat year by the one-tenth of 1% of must buy the products of organized
Thc Dalles, Oregon
Standard
of
California
labor
and
pay
the
extra
cost
caused
Florence Johnston,
igan birth.
cherish them after our careless- the families on the highest rung of by the higher wages. The CIO and
Attorney for the Estate
Dewey has made a rapid rise rose has lost them to us, orwherr the economic ladder. The lack of AF of L with a fair wage policy can
parity that year that was important
to fame. He was first known as a r.-e learn of the entire absence o f was not that as between the indus stabilize industrial conditions but. If
their present exploitative policy per
racket busting district attorney them in other lands. It is a fitting trial wage-earner and the farmer, sists in the post-war era. we cai ex
t me to read the Declaration o f but that existing as betweep |h©se pect nothing but trouble.
at a time when New York
two groups and the economic masters
DR. LAIDLER REPLIES: By pro
rdden with racketeers. That re Independence and spend a little of America.
hibiting unions controlled by the
putation was not sufficient to gH time thinking about rt, so th at
MR. OESVERNINE REPLIES: Or boss; by forbidding coercion of and
for him the nominaton in 1940. w can be renewed in our fa th in Laidler drags the old familiar red discrimination against trade union
herring of class haired across the members, by making provision for
New th at he has been governor of governm ent by the people.
trail, but he cannot evade the hard holding honest elections to determine
New York h- won that nomina
facts. If a farmer must exchange 2 what unions represent the majority,
tion easily. The record speaks well
day» of hit work for 1 day of fac the Wagner Act protects not a small
for hia adm inistrât on o f the na-
tory work, he can only “employ” o n e - per cent, but all^thcf workers in their
half o f I factory worker. And organ- right to organize. Under it thousands
t on’s second largest adm inistra
ganized’ labor should remember that of employees outside unions are reap
tive job
Frara the Observer. July 3, 1925 although the farmer had less dunng ing great benefits from collective bar
Slightly more than 112 farmers, the depression, he stjU had his job. gaining agreements. During the last
Bricker is less spectacular, bu'
he has been governor o f a large visited the experim ent station last It was the laetory worker who was few years, increases in wages in the
great corporations have coma not
slate for years and must twva Sunday on annual Feild D ay, on relief. To insure political and eco primarily out of the pockets of other
nomic stability. lai»or unions must be
done well to renut a. Both men 1 eld later this year than usual be molded into our democra‘ !c proc workers, but out of huge war profits
are experienced; both have re cause of the seasonal differences esses. They must not rt nt i pro of big business. All labor has directly
cords as administrator».
:n growing crops. There were far tected by law. yet immune Iron» law. or indirectly benefited.
Perhaps their records were the mers from Sherman, W asco, and
deciding factor o f their nomina Morrow counties.
W B Johnson
and wife
left
tions. Certa nly voter» must have
Thursday
for
their
home
in
the-
become conscious of the dangers
(Continued from Page One)
W
illam
ette
valley
near
Salem
.
that come from lack of adminis
They
made
the
round
trip
by
mo
trative ability.
w ith this pick-up profit going to
Oregon will not have a stat?1
If Republican can now make tor over the new Mt- Hood loop them The tar ff rate is 76 cen ts
fa r i ; i )44, according to an-
highway,
a
most
unusual
Toute
ond manage the sort o f campaign
per 100 pounds, so i f the Cubans noun< ement made in Salem late
that w.lj truly divide those o* between eastern Oregon and their ♦win in the controversy the cash
last week by Director E. L. P e t
A m erit an ideals from thoae wnc valley home.
gain
to
them
would
be
considerable
erson
of the state departm ent of
Only a few persons went to
Waa toward the European type of
•but
Senator
Johnson
o
f
Colorado
TH O USANDS OF M AN HOURS are lost every week in Oregon’s critical
agriculture
following the regular
political thinking Dewey and Bric ♦be Sunday School rally at W as insisted that there i» nothing in
semi
annual
meeting
o
f
the
state
war induatrief needleaaly.
co last Sunday, most of them re
ker will win i® November.
m aining at home or going
to <tl-e sugar act which wx>uld just ,fy 'loard of agriculture. Members o f
Sometimes the ¿ u s e is thoughtlessness. The job just doesn’t seem important
recognition of such a claim.
the boaard of agriculture and the
BuckhoHow.
director considered carefully ail
HOW, NOT WHAT
. . . or the grass looks greener somewhere else . . . or a touch of the wanderlust.
A (H Barnum returned Monday
Speaking for and in behalf of Ihe angles on the fair before de
afternoon from Portland where n©
The defeats o f Senators Holman
Many of the most important causes are beyond the workers’ control—personal
had gone Sunday with a shipment Ihe cotton growers o f the south, e d i n g it would be unwise to h IS
ir. Oregon, Clark <® Idaho and the
o f Alabama a fair under present conditions.
of beef cattle from his Lone Rock Senator Bankhead
problems, such as illness in the family; plant problems, such as poor eating
close contest of Senator N ye in
Any sta te fair that could b?
has introduced a nmolution for an
•took
farm.
facilities; and community problems, such as inadequate housing, poor tr?ns-
have caused cora-
From the Observer, June 30, 1904 investigation of the rayon industry held this fall would be only i
reaaons therefore,
^portation, lack o f child care facilities, or unsatisfactory shopping hours.
Mac Bull has sold his Plaxa lots and has asked for an appropria glorified carnival, th e group felt
that any one to Postm aster Perry, who will at tion from the sen a te contingent
Th« only way wo can stop thia needless lots of precious man hours is
given. There is sure- oc«e proceed to convert the pro fvnd to pay its expenses. Sinoe
M v u in n iiiii
m the three states perty into homes for . ntending investigations are demanded for
for everybody to make this resolution now— I pledge myself to stay on
'V i
in* question. Holman charged that
th e purpose of gath erin g data for
,residents of Moro.
j
the job and finish the jobf ‘ *’
OO
WAR
DUTIES
>
DO
YOUR
Wl
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there w as extrem e use of money
Miss Nina D Phillips, daughter •future legislation, it is to be pre-
agsrisst him, but the charge falls of the prosperous road builder and «UTried that Senator Bankhead has
when the figures are known. Mor farm er at Kent, and Fred -Henna- in mind som e plan which will be
se spent more than Holman hut gin, son of our c a p ta list friend nefit cotton growers, a t the expen
Buy m ore War
not enough m ore to account for and retired farmer, Henry H ea- se of the rayon m anufacturers, al
B o n d s — and
the vote. The CIO, opposition w ai nagin, were married on the 22nd. though he offers no details. The
cheerfully attend
effective and all labor opposed
Frank Sayrs carries his left government now has. many thou
Io o th er hom e-
Holman because o f hrs vote for hand in a sling because of a sands of bales o f cotton in stock
front duties. Let’s
the Smith-Connolly bill. But Hol
get this war won
slash from the tusk of a hog he <p»les and the yearly product on
man lost in the rural areas too.
quickly!
is far iuexcesxi of dom estic uses,
was handi ng a few days ago.
Clark is said to he a member of
An elaborate petition will be so the cotton ’people are constantly
an old p o lftea l fam ily in Idaho presented to the
county court •reeking new w a y s in which they
and has been charged with not next week asking for some a ssist •may advance their product, out
WwkOTSt
House Owners ar Renters:
doing all the th ings he promised ance towards reconstructing the they have so fa r been unable to
If
you
are
a
war
worker
or
ia
any
essential
to people who supported him six Harris grade.
convince American women that
If you have living units to rent, list them
Work, year can decide not to quit your job
years ago. His defeat m ight have From the Observer, July 2. 1913 cotton is the m ost desirable of
(free) with the War Housing Center.
until the BIG job is dooe.
l»een reprisal for forgett'ng his
The Moro baseball team le ft stocking material.
Working Mothers: ■
fro n d s, Jt was not money, nor Tuesday for Ione to fill a five day
Cmplayass:
CIO in hft case.
Investigate child care centers to care for
schedule.
I have been more' and more
You can see that conditions in your pi«nt
N ye w as one time hailed as n
Moro branch of the Tum-a-lum convinced, the more I think of it.
children
while you work.
are such that employees will want to stay
liberal who tam e out o f the west Lumber company sold six thous that, in general,. prid*c is a I fhe
with you. And you can help by adhering
Take Care at Children:
to attack the war* material maker« and feet o f lumber Tuesday for bottom o f all great m istakes.
’to all aaopowur regulations.
of the east eoasA. He wks the the new posts for the Hay Canyon
I -
— Ruskin
Help parents who are working to stay on
Bank ers. Decfurs, ltc.t
prime isolationist
telephone I ne-
the job by caring for one or two children—
Arrangements are being made at DeMoss on the 8rd.
It is true th at all three oppos
sap your place of business or
particularly under two years of age—in
C R Belshee has had the Moro
ed the administration. Other men tc have the entire Salvation Army
on certain nights for cooveo-
your home (with compensation for you
have done so as consistently and corps stationed at The D alles m eat market auto - del ivery car
ukars on odd-hour shifts.
for day care or full time).
have been returned to office time camp a t DeMoss Park the 3rd and pvt in order for the \ harvest.
a fter time. Holman and Nye, how 4th of July. The Army band will Thoae wanting deliveries during
ever, were - very hitter in their 6e held in the Park Sunday A par harvest are desired to n o tify tha
TW> “‘nrZZ **•’
hr
TZ-WKINHABD company
denunciations. They srtiw s f to ba rde of the boy scouts of Wasco market before definite routes are Natle««l Disulirrs Pioduiis Leriraratian «
with
hitter. That may will be a feat o f the celebration nrranged.
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