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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 1, 1945 Kids Govern O PA Office in Brooklyn for a Day IT if tl fi tx al tl m w io tl t( n at ti ti n si ti d f e q e n x c ï LABOR CRISIS TESTS TRI M AN The fast-growing labor crisis presents Harry S. Truman with the first big problem he has faced on a hitherto well-charted Roose velt sea. Up until now, most policies, especially those dealing with war and peace, had been pretty well established by Tru man's predecessor. In settling the current labor turmoil, however, Harry is completely on his own. For some time, labor advice from White House insiders has differed. Truman’s labor department has argued that labor troubles after wars were inevitable, that both Wilson and Harding had to call out U. S. troops after the last war, that labor has been in a strait jacket since Pearl Harbor, is bound to feel its wild oats now; finally that big business was equal ly in a straight jacket and equal ly willing to row with labor espe cially if it could get labor in wrong with the public . . . ad vice to Truman: Don’t stick your neck out; let both sides battle it out for a while. Opposite advice came from another wing of the White House . . . while admitting that all the above is true, other ad visers urged that both labor and industry needed guidance. For four years both labor and industry have had the Little- Steel Formula as their guide. They were supposed not to go above this . . . Now labor finds itself losing its overtime wages, with take-home pay dropping wav below lush war days, yet with the cost of living still high. Therefore, Truman was urged to step forward and set a na tional policy, suggest a wage increase which would partly off set the drop in take-home pay . . . It is this group of advisers which Truman finally has de cided to follow. v P t t b a i t s t 1 e f f t I i I « e I 1 1 i p n P a I i 5 1 « t i 1 < t t s i s I i 1 1 FARMERS VS. LABOR UNIONS Last week Florida citrus grow ers came to Washington, worried sick over the future market for grapefruit and oranges. They feared a return of the old days when their fruit was dumped into Florida rivers . . . The army has just cancelled orders for several million cases of orange juice. Si multaneously it has turned back on the civilian market several million more surplus cases. This backlog is bound to have a depressing effect on citrus fruit . . . Citrus fruit growers know that with wages dropping, the civilian demand for oranges and grapefruit will also nose-dive. When workmen get paid less, first thing they quit buying is fruit . . . Cattlemen also figure on a drop in prices. Not only will the army buy less, but workmen eat less meat, when wages are cut . . . Same is true of many other farm commodities, including dairy products . . . Never before has the average American eaten so well— despite rationing—as during the war years, largely because wages were high . . . Seldom before also have farmers been so prosperous . . . Seldom before, however, have farmers been so sore at labor unions. They were looking for ward to buying new autos, new farm machinery. Now all this is delayed by strikes. Also they were looking forward to the return of cheap labor from cities to farms. So far this hasn’t materialized. • • * UNIONS LOSE MONEY Big industrial unions naturally don’t want any trek back to the farm. It means loss of dues. The United Auto Workers’ 1,000,000 dues-paying membership has now dropped to about half of that. The drop was so severe that the cost of running the union went in the red . . . UAW chiefs are going about their wage protests in an orderly, fair-minded manner, have done their best to stop the Kelsey- Hayes wildcat strike . . . But some union leaders prefer strikes. It helps increase their power in the union . . . In Schenectady, Gen eral Electric’s Charles E. Wilson long has advocated higher wages. He says it helps him sell electric refrigerators, electric irons, etc. He has been ready to make up ward wage adjustments voluntar ily, just as wise Standard Oil of N. J. increased its pay immedi ately and automatically at the end of the war. However, certain CIO Elec trical Workers seem more in terested in a strike than a vol untary or negotiated wage boost . . . some labor leaders, unfortu nately, seem deliberately looking for strikes—among them John L. Lewis. They bring disfavor on the heads of other labor leaders, have given the entire labor move ment a bad setback with public opinion . . . Public opinion in some areas is now so anti-labor that Truman would get thunderous applause if he called out U. 8. troops as strike-breakers. the /N e B y P aul M allon Released by Western Newspaper Union ATOMIC BOMB CREATES SUPER-SPY SYSTEM NEED RDITOK'lS M U R Thu newt/atper, through special arrangement with the V u.<Ain<|i>n Rureiiu <>/ U eitern /Vein- paper Union ul Ifsltr Eve Street, A. IE , it aihinglon, I). is able la bring reader« this weekly column on prub- lems of the veteran und servireman and his family. Questions may be ad dressed to lb» ahnet Hureuu and they will be answered in a subsequent col umn. Ao replies can he made direct bv mail, bid only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. WASHINGTON—Major General Wild Bill Donovan bowed out of the first real American intelli Sm all Business Aid gence service (OSS) with a some what cool-sounding response from The small business division of President Truman to his idea of the U. S. Department of Com developing his line of effort fur merce is taking particular interest ther for peace. Mr. Truman cut in veterans who are returning up OSS, sending part to the War from the wars with the intention Department, but most to State. of entering the small business The Donovan notion of hiring field. someone like Sumner Welles, the The small business division has ex-diplomat, to keep intimate and given the subject considerable time independent watch on the inner and thought and now has avail international world, was left hang able for veterans a booklet, “Vet ing in air—somewhat foggy air. erans and Small Business’’ which General Donovan has never been answers numerous questions in the a glamour boy. He is a rather minds of the returning soldier. crusty soldier-lawyer. Those who The booklet covers many facts of know what he did in the confi the highly competitive small busi dential special agent part of the ness field and covers subjects such war say his work in the Balkans as, "Postwar Plans for GIs”; “In particularly was excellent and dustry’s Job to Place Servicemen”; could have been done by no one “The GI Bill and Small Business” ; else as well. Into his organiza “What About These Veterans’ tion, however, crept a number of Loans?”; “Factors in a GI’s Busi persons who did not fit the best ness Success”; “Getting Started in nature of the endeavor and gave Your Business”; “How Long Can it distaste with Congress. I think I Stay in Business?”; "Survival this fairly sums up OSS. It did Chances of Retail Stores”; “Risk great work, but was not popular. taking in a Postwar World”; (I can never learn what accom “Training Program for Small Bus plishes popularity in this era when iness”; “Marketing Facts On a a bank robber can possibly attain County Basis”; “Small Town a it by merely being for the 30-hour Most Important Market,” and sev week or some such social innova en other factors or subjects. tion.) These chapters were written by experts and information contained In the wake of this peculiar con will be invaluable to the veteran dition, congressmen are arising to contemplating entering the small shout "There will be no American business field. Gestapo,” and I assume also they These booklets are available to mean no OGPU or NKDV. In veterans by writing to the “Small Business Division” of the United deed there will not. But there is States Department of Commerce, a grave danger that the first vital Washington, D. C. necessity for a secure postwar world will be ignored and shunted Questions and Answers aside by muddleheaded political Q. Can a mother who is all alone thinking about it. and in poor health, have a son re If you thought Pearl Harbor a leased from the Army if he haa surprise and blits warfare sudden been in since Jan. 25, 1943, and in the South Pacific since June 19, as lightning, you are already old- 1943, and has never had a fur fashioned and obsolete in your lough? Mrs. I). W , Greenwood, thinking. The next war will start Wis. like a flash—the brilliant blinding A. The War Department says flash of the atomic bomb. If our that the fact the mother is all defenses were archaic last time, alone and in poor health would they will be pitiful next time un not necessarily bring about the less our officials know everything son’s release. If the case can be going on in this world. Advance considered a "hardship case” re knowledge is more essential to de lease might be given, but each case fense in a future world than a must be decided upon its merits superior air force, an army or and be recommended by the com fleet. manding officer. If your son, how Not the Fascists or the Com ever, has been in the army since munist nations, but the British, the dates you give, he possibly has a democratic nation, have the enough points for his discharge best world intelligence. It was now, or at least in the very near built up through generations. future. Without points for battle Their survival depended upon it, stars or decorations, which count because their little islands had five each, he has approximately absolutely nothing to justify 63 points. He is eligible for ap their superior position in the plication for discharge now at 70 world, except an awareness of points and the number is fixed at the facts of national existences 60 points November 1. and a superior shrewdness in Q. My daughter wishes to know using them. That is what we whether she will be entitled to need—only a better one. services of a doctor and hospitali It cannot be an army enterprise zation benefits when her new baby because the army covers only one arrives, if her husband who is now phase of world facts influencing in the navy is discharged under the peace and security. It cannot be point system before the baby ar navy, marine corps, or merely all rives?—Mrs. W. A. L., Mill Iron, three together, because diplomacy Mont. must be founded upon such in formation. (The British even move A. The Navy Department says commercially from such realistic that if she is now receiving navy ground news.) It cannot be split, medical care to which she is en or you will have each department titled, the navy will do everything performing again the coordination it can to help her provided she they showed about Pearl Harbor— does not move from the area where namely none. she is under treatment and the pregnacy is in the later stages. INDEPENDENT BUREAU Suggest she contact the nearest NEEDED navy hospital or dispensary for Consequently it must be an in specific information. dependent bureau covering at Q. Is there a course of study in least these government elements fire fighting listed in the educa and probably more (Justice De tional program for veterans and partment and FBI.) Furthermore, are there any books available on the head must be a man whose this subject? —G. E. D., Philadel character and personality guar phia. antee full pursuit of the business A. Many schools approved by to be done, and a complete dis State Boards of Education have avowal of any political implica instructions in fire fighting. For tions in the work. He must not instance, the University of Mary be a leftist or right or even a land, College Park, Md, and North professional Democrat or Repub western University, Evanston, 111., lican. That service must lean have such a course. It may be over backwards to keep itself po possible that the University of litically inviolable, and beyond Pennsylvania has such a course. even the faintest suspicion of po Suggest that you write one of these litical use. (The British know schools. how to do it.) Q. Will a soldier who has been The only limit on its appro in service for two years and 11 priations should be our need of months in the States and 13 months information. If we need the overseas receive mustering-out pay information—get it. If the if he is given a dependency dis spenders want to let Treasury charge?—Wife, Treloar, Mo. money loose, here is one place A. The War Department says where they could get something t’’-t if his dependency discharge is out of it. Some interested par honorable he is entitled to muster ties wish to limit the scope of ing-out pay. activity to foreign information. Q. Please advise if an ex-service It should be limited only by need. man can obtain a loan to join up in If it is found counterespionage an open shop in one or more in this country it requires action, unions?—J. C , Coffeeville, Miss. no political softpeddaling eon- A. Can find no regulation which sideratiops should be allowed to provides for a loan to join a union. stand in the way of getting it. Photo shows the price panel in session, when the students of Midwood High school took over the operation of the Ollice of Price Administration’s local rationing board in Brooklyn's Flatbush section for a day. For twelve hours the enterprising youngsters ran the rationing and price control machinery, with, of course a little expert supervision by a regular aide in interpreting some of the knottier problems. Japanese Sidewalk Salesmen Customers crowd around the sidewalk stands in the Ginza District in Tokyo, which is similar to New York's Fifth Avenue. Shopkeepers, their stores destroyed by bombs, set up their wares in the street, and carry on their business outside the wrecked buildings. In the background is the famous Jap Department Store, Takashimaya, where only two floors are now in use. W a n ts t o C ro ss A t la n t ic in B a rrell Had Kenny Treatment Because "It is inevitable that some day, someone will cross the Atlantic in a barrel,” Mark Charlton, discharged Canadian army vet eran, wants to do it first. He in shown with the barrel in which he plans to make the attempt. Mrs. John Rybolt, at home in Los Angeles, after a year of the Kenny Treatment for Polio, is shown as she greeted her children, Brian, 3, and Johnny, 6, while her husband looks on. Physicians say Mrs. Rybolt will be able to walk eventually with the aid of crutches. Women’s U. S. Softball Champions Opens Trade Parley The Jax Maids of New Orleans drove to the World Softball Cham pionship to make it their third year in the last four that they have won the title. They won in 1942 and 1943. The bevy of beauties hammered out a win over the Toronto Crofton Club lassies by a score of 5 to 0, as Nina Korgan of the Jax allowed but two hits. Photo ! shows the Jax with their trophy. Eric Johnston, President of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce ad dresses a plenary session of dele- gates to International Businesa Conference in New York recently.
