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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, May .9. 1955 Labor Credited Xfith Oefeat of 3dmi8iistration7s Flexible upport Em By LYLE C. WILSON United Prta Correspondent Washington (U.R) American farmers -who prefer high and rig idly fixed farm subsidies to the lesser and flexible kind backed by President Eisenhower . can thank organized labor for their triumph in the House. Last week's margin of victory for high and rigid supports was a scanty five votes. The step-by-step record of the legislative contest points to organized labor as the key factor in the adminis tration's defeat. More specific ally, President Walter Reuther and his CIO provided some of the muscle which barely hoisted the Democrats to victory. Labor Tax-Cut Link Organized labor was similarly linked earlier in this session with Speaker Sam Rayburn in pushing a $20-per-head tax re duction through the House. Taxes and farm subsidies are the hottest political issues around, short of war and racial discrimi nation. The successful and active part nership of the House Democratic leadership with these most pow erful political forces in the U.S. is not new. But it is a continuing and effective trend. It is acutely interesting the numerous individ uals in this country who hope to see a considerably left-of -center farmer-labor party develop here. -Reuther is among those, who fairly may be counted as moving toward fhat end the substitu tion of an avowed farmer-labor political coalition for one of the current major political parties. At the trend is now, that would be the Democratic party. Reu ther's strategy is to align his or ganized labor consumers with farmer .producers, each' to sup port the legislative ends of the other. ' Reuther Agriculture Witness - Reuther appeared before the House Agriculture Committee in February to support the high rigid farm subsidies proposed by Rayburn and his party. Some persons called Reuther's state ment the most effective deliver ed during committee hearings. The committee voted to junk the Knowland To Continue To Oppose Far East Policy of Eisenhower Washington U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said today he will continue to oppose the adminis tration's Far East policy because his point of view is "entitled to have expression." The Californian charged "the other side it being pushed by the Indians, the British and cer tain voices in this country out side the government that are prepared to make another re treat." Specific Issue He took specific issue with the administration position on the Quemoy and Matsu islands, and on the American prisoners' held captive in Red China. " TOO BIG FOR JOB Richmond, Va. (U.R) Police charged 190-pound Michael Ga ble, 52, of Pittsburgh, with at tempted burglary and possession of burglars' tools. They found him stuck in a coal chute leading into the First Federal Savings and Loan Co. "I don't know how you differ entiate between an attack on Quemoy or the Matsus and an attack on Formosa," Knowland told reporters. "I am merely trying to point out what I think is a fact." Knowland was unperturbed about widespread public inter pretation that he is attacking the Eisenhower administration on foreign policy. Danger to Asia He said he felt it is important to point out "what I consider a danger to the whole of Asia" in event the Red Chinese take over the Nationalist-held Quemoy and Matsu islands off the China coast. Knowland also expressed scorn for the Red Chinese offer to let the Red Cross distribute food parcels to imprisoned American flyers and civilians. -"It is no solution to the, prob lem to let them keep prisoners in jail and merely send them food packages. It might be inter preted to mean that they plan to keep them in ,jail considerably longer," he said. administration's lower, flexible I subsidy program. Thereafter organized labor turned the heat on Capitol Hill Its representatives went to the big city representatives whose consumer voters, perhaps, might want- lower subsidies on what they eat rather than higher. But the labor lobbyists could offer the powerful support of their unions for the higher subsidy program. Can Argue for Support So, too, can labor lobbyists now eo to manv farm HUtrirt representatives and argue that labor's legislative projects merit support in return for big city votes given the farm bloc last weeK. inat is a process known as log-rolling or you-vote-for-my- Diii-ana-i u-vote-ior-vours. it. i practiced by all politicians, pres sure groups ana organizations. Some do it well and some do not. Labor is good at it. Ed Sullivan Signed ?y Warner's Studio ' . Hollywood (U.R) Warner Bros. Studio today announced the sienine of- Ed Sullivan columnist and television star, as star and producer of an inde pendent motion picture for the studio. Jack L. 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