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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, March 7, 1946 Pi -Gl * T N ews B ehini E D I I OH'S N O T E : I hi» nuu/»im/rtr, THE/NÈ. ... WALLGREN A M ) L I MBER thrminh i/nnial urruntrm rnl with ih r WASHINGTON. — Lumber price U'ltkiniiliin Uurrun » / If'eUern /Vow»- aul allon ceiling« topped the agenda of the / n i / x - i I'ninn al fo/ft E»r S lrrrl. N. It'., President’» conference the other Ihnhm/tlun, It. C., i» a b it In bruin m ill tlvleu avil by W tu ltr n NewMp.tper Union. day with his old friend Gov. Mon sr» (Ali icee&fy column on problrm» of Wallgren at Washington. TH R EA TEN ED VETO POWER the ir ln u n unii «erilemuin unii hi» )nm- However. Wallgren also took oc ily. (tu ntien » aia« he mli/re««ed fo ih r ON LABOR LEGISLATION casion to invite Truman to spend WASHINGTON. D. C .-W N U .— uhm » Uurran unii they w ill he an.«M ere<l a vacation this summer in the north in a «iih«ei/oenl rnluinn. Sin r r /i l in run Confidential cunvussers have found west aboard the presidential yacht. he muile ilireel h« muli, bui only in (he congress in almost total disagree "The people of my state riilum n u h ìih w ill apprur in ih n neu « ment ns to whut will be done ubout would be delighted to have you strikes and the unions. paper regularly. as a guest, and you ran also Twenty of the men, best placed take a trip up to Alaska on the W idows’ War Pension» to know, gave 20 differing private Williamsburg,” Wallgren told predictions. Many There have been so many In said from the first him. quiries concerning pensions for wid that the steel strike Truman accepted tentatively, ows of veterans of both World Wars would be settled, saying lie would go If he could I and II that we ure giving here the then uutos, then possibly make it. general provisions for the various the big o th e rs ; Wallgren's main business, how types of pensions: ever, was to strongly urge an in whereupon i n t e r Pensions for widows, children and est would die, while crease in the price ceilings on lum dependent parents of veterans ber. He maintained that this was congress arg ued whose death resulted from service In without a decision necessary in order to increase lum both World Wars I and II: widow, u n til a ft e r th e ir ber output for the housing program. but no child, $50; widow with one e le c tio n next No "We are facing a serious job crisis child $65 and $13 for each additional Pres. Truman in our lumber mills. H arry," said I N IT E D STATES DELEGATES TO UNO RETURN . . . Arriving at LaGuardia field, New York, the Amer child; no widow, but one child, $25; vember. Others did not be the Washington governor. "We have ican delegation to the United Nations organization expressed high hopes for the organization when it next no widow, but two children. $38 lieve congress could longer duck the a model unemployment compensa meets In the United States. Left tp right as they leave the UNO Clipper are Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. Mrs. equally divided, and $10 for each and expected various tion law in my state, but many un Eleanor Roosevelt. Edward Slettinius. head of the delegation. John F. Dulles. New York International finan additional child; dependent father problem union-curbing cnuctments. But Mr. employed workmen are swiftly ris cial advisor, and Sen. John Townsend. They all seem encouraged by progress made at the first meeting. or mother. $45, or both $25 each. Truman had told his leaders pri ing up the 26 weeks they are en A widow means she must have vately he would veto anything which titled to draw as compensation. Both been married to the veteran prior might be called an anti-union law. from the labor standpoint and the to December 14. 1944. lived continu Surely nothing opposed by thr housing shortage, inventories in our ously with him until date of death, unions could get two-thirds ma mills must be built up as quickly except where there was a separa jority necessary to pass over as possible.” tion due to misconduct of or pro such a veto. The confused and ID L E WAR PLANTS cured by the veteran, without fault » » confusing prediclluns, in thr Iasi of the widow—and must not have Governor Wallgren also urged the analysis, therefore, appeared to remarried. sale of government-owned light add up to Just about the same Pensions for widows and children metal plants, now idle in his area, total — nothing, or llttlr-or-noth- of World War I for death not con to private operators as another ing. nected with service: widow, but no means of increasing employment. A nice neat hole in the wall is child, $35; widow and one child. $45 Two idle plants in question are the quite evidently being dug, through and $5 for each additional child: no Aluminum Rolling mill and the widow, but one child. $18; no wid which all may escape. A commenta Aluminum Ingot companies at Spo ow but two children. $27 equally tor or two started it with toothpicks, kane, operated by Alcoa during the divided: no widow but three chil but behind them some congressmen war. Henry Kaiser wants to buy dren, $36. and $4 for each addi are ready with drills the former for the production of tional child. The same definition of. FACT-FINDING WITHOUT aluminum-built automobiles and pre widow applies as above. This pen POWER OH TEETH fabricated housing. sion is not payable to any widow This Is a proposal to cut the Tru- Wallgren told Truman that the without child, or to a child, whose mnn fact-finding bill down to fact lumber situation has been aggra annual income exceeds $1,000. or finding alone. It would be stripped vated by a neat little device of to a widow with child or children ot Its power of subpoena, to which certain big timber outfits, including where annual Income exceeds General Motors objects, and the the Weyerhauser interests, which, $2.500. cooling-off period of 30 days before calculatedly or otherwise, has been < »-• There is no provision for pensions strikes, to which the union objects. stifling competition. Under the to widows of World War II for death Just pass a law letting the President Washington constitution, the state not connected with service. appoint commissions to find facts. government must sell timber to the The only trouble about this es Question» and Answer» highest bidder, but some big out Q. What type of dependents must cape Is too many people can see the fits have been bidding over the hole It might be a hospitalized veteran who Is rated price ceilings. This causes all bids better to go brazen 100 per cent or more disabled have to be thrown out. ly out the window, in order to draw more than the $20 The President said he would talk or keep arguing monthly Institutional award? — to the RFC about the plants, but — J in te r m in u b ly in E. G. R„ Milwaukee, W’is. suggested that Wallgren thrash out hopes everyone will A. The Veterans* administration his lumber price problems with forget about the says that if you have one depend price control boss Chester Bowles ' ,A.TION.b BIGGEi,T SURPLUS GOODS SALE . . . Square miles of surplus war goods, ranging from spools whole matter. ent, you may draw a pension of $115 BUTTER BLACK MARKET Such le g is ts - of thread to giant road scrapers and derricks, are being readied at the Port Hueneme navy depot, California per month or more, depending on The office of international trade, for what will probably be the biggest surplus goods sale in the nation. Shown in photograph are some of tion s im p ly p ro nature of your disability, if you ore now under the commerce depart poses what already the tractors which will be sold to the civilian market. Only one kind of goods will be offered for sale in 100 per cent disabled. The amount ment. is planning to ask U. S cus one day. has b e e n d o n e . In excess of your $20 may be sent to Without legislation toms officials to investigate some Hillman the dependent. M r T ru m a n has strange shenanigans in the re-sale Q. I have been trying to get re of butter this country has been ex adjustment compensation of $20 per established precisely that kind of porting to Mexico. week, but have been unable Io do fact-finding General Motors walked Despite the serious butter so. I am a veteran of this war with eut on it. shortage, which has caused the The question raised by such 26 months and have a disability dis American housewife to turn a permanent fact-finding law Is: charge, but have not got a pension to substitutes and jam for ber Would anyone ever show up yet. So I would like to know how table, we sent 5.500 pounds of for the hearings? To handle thr to get the $20 a week.—R. F. S. butter to Mexico in the last quar problem that way would be like Wolf Island. Mo. ter of 1945. waving back a windstorm with A. The fact that you have a disa Some of this is now winding up a feather. billty discharge, or even drawing a at Tiajuana. the Mexican resort pension should not interfere with If congressional leaders try to town across the border from San receiving readjustment compensa push their boys through this hole Diego, where the butter is being tion under the G.I. bill. Require there will of course be trouble. The sold to American tourists for the ments for this compensation are <1 labor committees of both houses are fabulous price of $1.25 a pound. you reside in the U. S.; <2) you are closely controlled by the unions. Under export price ceilings, en completely unemployed or if par Nothing can escape them which 1» forced by the OPA and the depart tially employed, at wages less than opposed by the unions, or nothing ment of commerce, this same but $23 per week; (3) that you are regis ever has. ter was sold to Mexican dealers at tered with and reporting to a pub On thr open senate and house ’S - -ik,. S S from 47 to 49 cents a pound. The lice employment office. USES; and flo o rs , h o w e v e r, t h e ir b ill X 4) that you are able to work and price varies a couple of cents a would be open to amendment by 5 : » available for suitable work. Have pound, depending on the type of the attachment of every possible your discharge or separation papers packaging. solution every congressman has with you when you register for em In other words, we are now buy proposed. The problem of Mr. ployment. ing back American-made butter Truman's leaders will then be Q. I was reading where they are from Mexico for triple the price to prevent any Important action, still counting points since V-J Day. Mexican dairy dealers are paying ! and they are likely to wind up The Red Cross said they froze them us for it. Commerce department of ’' S V with conflicting bills from the V-J Day. Please answer which Is ficials can only guess how much two houses. 9M correct and also how many points smuggled butter may be involved Certainly anyone looking for solu and how many years of service do in this cross-border black market, tions from congress must wear long you have to have to be discharged? but the customs office will be asked -X , range glasses, and anyone looking —Mrs. E. D., Louisville, Ky. LONESOME G.I. . . . As the first to make a thorough probe. A. The war department says that toward consideration of the funda snowfall of the year hits the dismal NOTE—Mexico is also one of JAPANESE SILK TO TH E RESCUE . . . The drastic nylon hose short city of Tokyo, this U. S. soldier, far for the record, men in the service mentals of the problem will have to our biggest purchasers of ex age in the U. S. may soon be remedied, in part, by the shipment of silk from home, with no knowledge of are still earning points for each look hard The plain fundamentals ported nylon stockings. Out of a or silk hose from Japan. Photograph shows plant at Mimata village, as the language, looks like he would month of service, but for the pur are these: total of 9,110 dozen pairs of manager checks the stacks of "books” of raw silk awaiting shipment. poses of discharge, points earned EN TIR E NATION CAN rather be some other place. nylons exported In November as of September 2, 1945, are count BE STRIKE ROUND —the last monthly figures avail- ed. For the army, according to Gen The unions have developed their ble—Mexico bought 5.010 dozen eral Eisenhower, men with 40 points strike technique to the point where pairs. Cuba received 2,603 doz as of September 2, except volun they can tie up the nation any en pairs. teers, or with two years service will night. A simultaneous strike in tele CAPITAL CHAFF be home by June 30; men with 45 phones, telegraph and radio alone One reason for the current inter points or 30 months’ service will be would neurlv do it. national food shortage is that Leo home by April 30 Add elrctrleal power - house Crowley, when FEA boss, refused to Q.—To a lonely wife and mnther workers, and you can see what heed the warning of Secretary of of Virnna. Mo., and Mrs. J. <?., of i four unions could do to ihe coun Agriculture Anderson last summer, Carterton. V a„ each of whom have try. Add not the big railroads when Anderson argued that FEA three children. but the teamsters who merely should help increase plantings of A —Your husbands are eligible to handle all freight in the cities, winter wheat, cereals and proteins in apply for discharge immediately be the elevator operators and bus South America. The South Ameri cause you each have three children drivers, and you have the obliter can crop was hit by drouth, or it The same answer holds true for Mrs ative possibilities of a general might have been larger. H. R.. New Boston, Texas. strike from only a few unions. Sen. Tommy Hart, the only ad Q. A few weeks ago, I began a I have mentioned only a few of m iral on the senate military affairs correspondence course with a New- the strikes which have already committee, recently asked commit York school at a cost of $80 for been called. tee members if there were a dicta the entire course. A down payment In this campaign the unions, by phone in the walls He complained of $20 was made, and five monthly rather clever timing of local strikes that the Washington Merry - Go- payments must be made to clear to keep pressure on the White House Round had quoted him all too ac up the balance. Would the govern (first buses, then telephones with curately when, at a secret session, ment pay the entire bill, or must I, out real issue in either), and by he defended the war department re because of its low cost, pay the ex preliminary and bolstering strikes garding demobilization. . . . Rep. IN VESTIG A TE ESPIONAGE . . . Justice R. Taschereau. left, and Justice CHINA'S BEST F R IE N D . . . Often pense?—J. A. V„ Webster, Mass In other cities, have used their new R. L . Kellock, right, members of the Supreme court of Canada, who have ’ referred to as China’s best friend Clare Hoffman of Michigan, who A. If you are a veteran of this power to get an unprecedented considers himself an expert at anti been appointed by the dominion government to act as members of a com- Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer has war with an honorable discharge, wage increase which will average labor legislation, was miffed be mission to hear evidence on the espionage ring that disclosed wartime been active as chief of staff to Gen- the government will pay tuition for above 18 per cent, a figure repre cause he was not consulted in the secrets to a foreign mission in Ottawa. United States officials have stated eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and fac- correspondence courses up to $500. senting Just about what they expect writing of the harsh Case bill passed that material Information an the atomic bomb could not have been re- tor In industrial development of Make application at your nearest ed to get from their demand for 30 vealed. Chinn. by the house recently. Veterans’ administration office. per cent. X " in “ .„J By P M 2^
