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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.