Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, May 2, 1946
Railroads Demand 25% Higher Rates
Rail Unions Renew Wage Bid As
Carriers Ask for Rate Hike;
Move to Spread Meat Supply
Higher and Higher
month from the wartime rate of
$76 50 and the prewar payment of
Seek More
$72. Substantial wage increases also
Despite an arbitration board's re were announced for the higher
cent award of 16 cents an hour to grades. Besides the regular force,
1.050.000 non-operating employees, the dominion will maintain a re
the railroad industry was headed for serve force of six divisions of one
another labor crisis with lb unions month's training each year and a
petitioning for an additional 14 cents supplementary reserve branch
an hour boost. Non-operating em
ployees include telegraphers, clerfcs. F O O D :
machinists, boilermakers, electri U. S. Acts
cians and maintenance workers.
Seeking to channel more meat
In asking for an extra 14 cents into major packing centers and re
to bring over-all increases to 30 lieve the tight supply situation in
cents an hour, the unions charged
big cities. Secretary
that the recent award only equaled
of Agriculture An
wartime grants given to employees
derson announced
in other industries and an extra
government restor
boost would have to be given to
ation of w a r tim e
compensate for general postwar
slaughter quotas In
raises of 18H cents an hour.
a “share the live
stock" program.
PAY:
Ask Freight Hike
Even as the non-operating unions
asked for an additional 14-cent-an-
hour wage raise, the nation’s car
riers sought a 25 per cent increase
in freight rates, with certain excep
tions. to cover higher operating and
labor costs. At the same time, the
railroads requested continuation of
the wartime passenger fare boost
of 10 per cent.
Despite increased annual ex
penses of almost 2 billion dollars
and a sharp slump in postwar traf
fic. present rates are at the prewar
level, the carriers pointed out Of
the mounting costs. 1 billion, 355
million dollars represent wartime
pay raises, and a half billion dol
lars increases in prices of materials
and supplies.
Exclusive of any wage awards
to the three operating brotherhoods,
the recent 16-cent-an-hour grant
given to 17 other railroad unions
i will add 619 million dollars to this
year's operating costs, the carriers
said.
Re • e s ta b lis h
ment of butchering
q u o ta s fo llo w e d
small o p e ra to rs *
draining of meat
animals from stock
yards at prices ma
jor packers could
not meet without
violating OPA ceil
ings. Purchase of
cattle for shipment
on high
bidding
pointed up the men
ace of the black
market, with pri-
Bowles
yate trade sources
and Anderson asserting the ma
jority of meat being sold was at il
legal prices and OPA officials con
testing the charge.
The heavy drain of small opera
tors on regular market sources was
indicated by the rise in licensed
slaughterers from 1.400 in 1939 to
26.000 in 1946. Normally dominant
in the big Chicago stockyards. Swift.
Armour and Wilson were able to
Bearing placards, women repre
sentatives of the national emer
gency committee for price control
besieged Washington to press con
gressmen for extension of OPA. In
all. 800 women invaded capital to
lobby for continuation of agency.
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sun. The nest space must be
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R A IL R O A D
Checking hack on production fig
ures. the office of war mobilization
and reconversion reported that the
nation's output for the first quarter
of 194« was even higher than at first
estimtaed despite a lag in the hard
goods and textile industries
Whereas the OWMR computed
production at an annual rale of 150
billion dollars, it hiked Its figure to
154 billion dollars and added that
the estimate might be even higher
when all reports are In. Even at 150
billion dollars, the estimated rate
tops all previous peacetime marks
In reviewing the bright production
picture, the OWMR declared:
• Farm production should be 13 to
15 per cent above 1941 with good
weather.
• The tire, washing machine, pow
er, gas. oil. steel, aluminum and
magnesium industries are operat
ing far above prewar levels.
• Rate of production of radios, vac
uum cleaners, electric irons and bi
cycles is rapidly approaching the
peacetime figure.
meet only a fraction of their needs,
with Swift purchases for one week
totaling 270 head compared with
4.103 for the same period last year
While the restoration of slaughter
quotas will not increase the total
supply of meat, it is designed to
promote more equitable distribu
j tion.
Lure for Army
Matching U. S. efforts to main
tain a strong military force through
voluntary recruitment. Britain of
fered substantial bonuses to en
listees while Canada announced an
increased scale of pay for regular
army personnel.
As the Labor government still re T O B A C C O T A X :
mained silent on postwar conscrip
State cigarette and tobacco tax
tion plans. Prime Minister Attlee revenue for 1945 totaled $164,200.000.
declared 187.000 volunteers were an increase of 8.3 per cent over 1944,
needed and a $100 bonus will be with the spurt in sales following the
paid immediately to enlistees, with end of the war and the imposition
another $100 for each of three or of higher tax rates in some states
four years of service. In addition, listed as the reasons for the in
each recruit will be given $52 or a crease in revenue.
suit of clothes upon completion of
A rise of 11.9 per cent in fed
his duty.
eral tobacco tax collections for
With Canada planning an active
the year was also reported. The
postwar army of 25.000 men, basic
federal
revenue
from
this
pay and subsistence allowance for
source in 1945 totaled $937,200,-
000.
privates was increased to $95 a
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FISHIN* SEASON . . . Stuart
Robinson of Taunton. Mass., like
all good fishermen, is proud of his
catch of hrook trout on the first
day of the fishing season. Got out
your gear yet?
Washington Dipest?
Nations Must Submerge
Sovereignty for Peace
By BAUKHAGE
Newt A nal y it and Commentaire.
WNV Service. 1616 Eye Street. N. W..
Washington, D. C.
HUNTER
COLLEGE.
THE
BRONX, N. Y. — These notes are
being jotted down in the basement
of a room that once sounded to the
dull staccato-thud of rubber-soled
gym shoes as the girls came trip
ping downstairs from the floor
above to scamper into the show
ers, pull on their bobby socks and
other strange accoutrements which
distinguish the modem female col
legiate.
Is the United Nations really go
ing to get anywhere?
First, let me admit that as I
write we are walking a tight-rope
stretched between two crises, either
of which might wreck us or might
be forgotten by the time these lines
reach the printed page.
And. of course, the rock upon
which the United Nations may
flounder is the veto. Most people
don't understand the veto. Briefly,
it is the right of any of the Big
Powers, the permanent members of
the executive council, to say "no"
to the discussion of any matter
which said power doesn't want
raised.
Power Politic»
Still in Force
B R IT A IN :
problems, as it plans to do, such a
strong public sentiment can be
built up behind it that nationalistic
world-minorities cannot stand up
against it
There is that hope. There is an
other. Atomic energy.
As Chairman Corbett of the de
partment of political science of
Yale university put it:
“When It comes to that . . . (con
trol of atomic energy) . . . I think
that the discrepancy between the
legal situation in the UN (he refers
to the power of the veto and the
nationalistic insistence on sov
ereignty) and the actual needs of
international collaboration are go
ing to become so glaring that we
are going to have to make a di
rect attack upon this problem of
the veto.’’
The key word to that remark is
"glaring." The "needs of interna
tional collaboration" must glare in
the light of pitiless publicity. The
light of understanding must be
shed upon the truths of what an
other war will mean and it must
be more than light. Heat must be
incandescense.
World sentiment
must rise to the degree at which it
creates the energy necessary to
bring action.
Peace must become dynamic.
In other words “power politics” is
still in force and the only advance
we have made is that compromise,
which is the basis of all democratic
action—is the only possible solution
of controversial questions. The un
democratic alternative is the use of
power, which in this case may be
I
exercised without the will of the
majority. The right of the veto is. ,
Syr
as was brought out in a recent
University of Chicago round-table
discussion, really the insistence on ,
the expression of national sovereign
ty; the sovereign right of a nation,
if it gets mad enough, to promul
gate the organized savagery of war
We can, it is true, never hope
for any permanent peace until we
are willing to yield that sovereignty
to a higher authority which ex
presses the will of the majority of
all peoples.
The United Nations at present has
not been granted that authority.
But there is hope which 1 have
watched grow as international pro
ceedings move forward under the
impetus of a will to peace and the
implementation of ever - growing
publicity which creates the under
standing to bolster that will—It is
this: as the United Nations con
Camera snaps Baukhage at
tinues to discuss those matters
Hunter college with Iranian flag
which are not affected by the veto,
in background.
as it deals with social and economic
i li» ,
SAY ITS STAGGERING
Shippers Fight Rail Rate Hike
id H W
B IRTHDAY . . . Mrs. Anna M.
Jerome, New York City, blows out
candles on her birthday cake. She
is 102 years old. The large candle
represents the first 100 years, and
the two smaller ones for the addi
tional years. Mrs. Jerome had a
big time at the party, which was
attended by family and friends.
WASHINGTON. — The National
Industrial Traffic league has sent a
memorandum to all shippers who
are members of the organization,
calling on them to assemble in Chi
cago on May 7 to consider the course
the group should take in fighting the
proposal of the railroads to raise
freight rates 25 per cent.
A spokesman for the N. I. T. L.
termed the proposed 25 per cent
freight rate increase sought by the
nation's railroads a "staggering"
blow to shippers throughout the
country, as plans were being rushed
to seek disapproval by the Inter
state Commerce commission of the
railroad request to Install the in
creases by May 15.
"Seeking a rate increase of this
nature is certainly a very broad
issue and one unusual In transpor
tation history," it was explained.
"The shippers will, of course, favor
a prompt and early hearing but will
oppose placing the rates in effect
S t a r t T h is H o u s in g
P r o je c t Im m e d ia t e ly
before that time,” the spokesman
said.
It pointed out that few organiza
tions had had time to view the rail
road petition, but that the executive
council of the league at its recent
Chicago meeting considered the
prospect of a railroad request for
an immediate rise. The railroads
had provided shippers with a brief
declaration of their intentions at that
time.
At the same time, it was learned
that leading domestic steamship
company operators met in New
York to consider the railroad request
and that a possibility exists that wa
ter carriers might launch an imme
diate campaign to raise domestic
water rates somewhere in the vicin
ity of 25 per cent.
“There is a real need for a rev
enue increase by railroads," offi
cials of a leading ship line organ
ization declared. "But there is equal
ly a need among steamship com
panies for such a freight rate rise."
They said domestic water carriers,
including barge lines, may seek post
ponement of any immediate rail
rate increase, desiring to have the
case considered on its merits after
a hearing. The proposed 25 per cent
rise, however, according to these of
ficials, would probably not affqpt tha
joint m aritime commission - war
shipping administration petition now
in the hands of the ICC calling for
an investigation of railroad rates
with a view toward raising water
rates.
“This WSA - USMC application
goes beyond the matter of a rate
increase and it will still stand, de
spite the action of the ICC on rail
roads," it was asserted.
Meanwhile, other sources suggest
ed that the maritime commission
likewise may oppose the immediate
rail increase, although basis for this
belief was thought to lie in bringing
about a more favorable reception by
the ICC of the [»ending joint water
carrier request.
R II88 DON’T LIK E U. 8. A.
WASHINGTON - Inside reason
why the Russians are pulling wires
to huve the capital of the United
Nations moved back to sleepy
Geneva is that American public
opinion has been too powerful a
champion of the smaller nations.
So the Russians have been work
ing behind the scenes to corral
votes in favor of the Geneva trans-
fei and can count on Yugoslavia.
Czechoslovakia, Poland and France.
However, they can't count on the
British, who once favored a Euro
pean capital, but are now 100 per
cent sold that American opinion is
one of their best allies.
The Russians nlso can't count on
the Lati.i Americana. In the old
days, Pun - American diplomats
loved lolling in Paris most of the
time and turning up in Geneva a
few days of the week. Today, how
ever, Paris is one of the most
uncomfortable places in the world.
Geneva is short of food, and New
York is far more pleasurable.
The Russians, who originally
favored an American city as the
U. N. capital, now consider »his
a serious mistake. They dislike
the fact that American newspa
pers publish columns and col
umns of front-page news on ev
ery move made by the Rus
sians. and they figure that
American newsmen at Geneva
would sit drowsily in the Swiss
cafes drinking beer, or spend
week-ends in the Swiss Alps.
In Europe, they also believe, no
photographer or newspaper would
have the energy to trail Ambassa
dor Gromyko on his famous and
circuitous trip around New York
City when he almost stopped in at
the Security Council meeting, but
didn't.
If the Iranian question had been
discussed at Geneva, instead of
New York, the Russians figure, it
never would have attracted so
much attention and the Soviet would
have come off with a complete vie
tory.
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NO ARMY RACE PREJUDICE
A Negro, former master sergeant
in the army. Marlon F. Green, tes
tified before General Doolittle's
"caste system" board the other
day. that there was little evidence
of racial prejudices and dlscriml
nation in the army. When General
Doolittle inquired about this. Ser
geant Green replied
"Colored soldiers found some
resentment against them when
they first Joined the army, but
this was quickly Ironed out aft
er a tew months of training. In
February. 1941, we had some
fights and riots while I was sta
tioned at Camp Livingstone.
Louisiana. However, by the time
we finished training, everybody
was getting along fine. I en
countered no racial bias what
ever overseas.”
The ex-G.I. also suggested that
saluting of officers be optional when
enlisted men are off duty and off
the post, to which Lt. Gen. Troy
Middleton, now an executive of Lou
isiana State university, countered:
"Wouldn't optional saluting such as
you propose tend to tear down dis
cipline?”
"Not necessarily, general," re
plied Green, " if a man does some
thing to merit respect, he will get
that respect whether he is a civilian
or an army officer.”
• • •
POWER AND NYLON LOBBIES
Many congressmen will vote
against dynamic Speaker Sam Ray
burn in a secret committee session,
but don't have the nerve to stand
up and oppose him on the floor of
the house.
Very soon, however.
Democrats who have fallen for the
beguiling promises of the giant pow
er lobby are going to face the latter
test.
Sam Rayburn really has fire
in his eye when he talks about
the power lobby. And today that
lobby ranks with the real estate
buttonhole» as one of the most
potent on Capitol Hill, has even
gone to the extent of dangling
nylons before the wives of con
gressmen in order to win votes
against the government’s south
west power authority In Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas and south
ern Missouri.
The question at issue is whether
the government can construct its
own electric lines to distribute elec
tric power from the Denison dam
on the Texas-Oklahoma border and
the Norfolk, Ark., dam.
Without
such power lines, the government
merely generates the power but
can’t sell it.
The power lobby
wants to prevent this sale.
So far, the power lobby’s tech
nique has been successful with
the appropriations subcommit
tee. which knifed the construc
tion of the distributing lines.
Cong. Ben Jensen of Iowa,
Henry Dworshak of Idaho, Rob
ert Jones of Ohio, and W. F.
Norrell of Arkansas were the
gentlemen reported to have fall
en for the wiles of the lobby.
However, when the bill comes out
on the floor of congress, Sam Ray-
bum, together with the dean of
congress, Adolph Sabath of Illinois,
plans to stage a real battle.
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