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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZW iarriman Charges ointees Using Taft-Hartley Act To Bust Unions Tuesday, December 6, 1953 ike's App o Bob Ringer Guest Speaker At Knife, Fork Club Meet Bob Ringer, an auto racer and car salesman turned humorist evangelist, spoke at a full-house meeting of the Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club last? night at the Rogue Valley Country club. Ringer, who with his two young sons frequently drives in road races, explained he started on the lecture circuit as a hu morist as an outgrovth of his ex periences in training automobile salesmen. A young looking man, last night he approached the problems of America today as one who sees a ned io find the amusing angle in everything that happens. Christian Message The main portion of his talk was devoted to a lively running fire of jokes and anecdotes, but he interspersed these with a serious meage of Christian evangelism, pointing out the growing problems of crime, of juvenile delinquency, of world tensions, of alcoholism and oth er problems about which Ameri cans are concerned. The happy person is the spirit-, ually balanced person. Ringer declared, and he stated that the need of the times is for wider acceptance and practice of Chris tian doctrines, although he said "going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a chicken house makes you a chicken." One who is sure of his faith, Ringer indicated, is then free of the basic insecurities which de prive him of bis sense of humor, and he deplored what he said is a collective loss of Americans' former ability to see the amus ing side of things. He offered as a formula for happiness a Chris tian faith and the acquired abil ity tr'givevery situation the little twist needed" to turn tragedy to comedy and worry into amused confidence. Next meeting of the group will be in January with Harri son Wood as the speaker. Club President Eric Allen Jr. was toastmaster of last nights meeting. General Molors Tells Plans for Franchises Washington (U.R) Presi dent Harlow Curtice announced today that General Motors Corp. will revise its franchise agree ments with auto dealers under fire by Senate investigators to offer dealers a five year con tract instead of the present one year agreement. Curtice made the surprise an nouncement as the Senate Mo nopoly Subcommittee resumed hearings on GM's activities as the nation's major industrial giant. Curtice made public a tele gram to all GM car and truck dealers advising them that, if agreeable, selling agreements which were signed effective Nov. 1 for one year will be extended to expire to Oct. 31, I960, in stead: . The one-year franchise had been criticized by former GM dealers, and some current deal ers, in subcommittee testimony. STRIKE UNSETTLED Detroit U.R) Negotiators for Detroit's three daily news pepers and striking AFL stereo type workers meet again' today in efforts to settle the dispuate which has suspended publication of the newspapers for five days. Prince Gardner the gift he'll start using come Christmas Morn! I itt h'' -" The Re9is,ror rafesT"5"''' If ft, 1f . 7 Styled with optional money- 81 f'i 3 y 'ap onc' removable photo-. rX C J I ord cote. 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Harriman made the accusa tion in an address before the convention of the new 16,000, 000 member labor organization formed by the merger Monday of the CIO and the AFL. The New York governor singled out Vice-President Rich ard M. Nixon, Secretary of De fense Charles E. Wilson, Secre tary of the Interior Douglas McKay and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lothair Teetor as men high in the Eis enhower administration who are unfriendly to labor. "Unhappily, there are people in high places who don't like your marriage," Harriman said in his speech prepared for de livery to the new merged labor organization. "What these enemies of Am erican labor fear is that this marriage will last. And at this very moment they are plotting, and carrying on, a powerful and systematic attack designed to weaken the influence of labor in American life." Cites Indiana Case "It is any wonder that the NLRB has been turned over to men with long anti-labor rec ords?" Harriman said. "Or that these same men have tried to use the Taft-Hartley act to bust unions, as they did a few days ago in the case of a UAW local in Indiana. "You remember President Eis enhower himself said the law ought to be amended so that it could not be used to bust unions. But it wasn't, and now his very own appointees are using it that way. "It's high time we quit talk ing and eliminated from law the injustices of Taft-Hartley," he said. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell told the new AFL-CIO convention that he had always favored uniting the two labor organizations. "I look to the new unity to bring improvements in our union-management relations," he said. "If it does not it will have failed to rise to what may very well be its greatest challenge." Asks Continued Support He asked for "continued sup port" of his principles which have brought an increase in the minimum wage, attempts to ex tend coverage of the minimum wage laws, extension of employ ment insurance and social se curity and which have held "it is a mistake for states to rush heed lessly into the passage of so-called 'right to work' laws." Harriman's charge of anti-la bor tactics by Eisenhower ad ministration officials and his ap peal for elimination of the "in justices" of the Taft-Hartley act were considered an indication of the Democratic stand in the 1956 presidential campaign. Harriman, who Is widely con sidered a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for president at some later date, also urged: Asks Retirement Benefits 1. Extending and raising the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour, 2. National minimum stand ards for unemployment insux ance. 3. A medical care program to eliminate medical cost bank ruptcy. He also called for equitable retirement benefits for widows, better rehabilitation services for the handicapped, better educa tion and training services, a na tional system of insurance for temporary disability, retirement benefits for the permanently dis- abled, federal aid to education and provision for the needs of older people. ALLEGED SWINDLER Mil lionaire playboy Robert Schlesinger (above) is shown as he returned to New York voluntarily from Canada to face charges he swindled three men of $330,000. He had been sought on the charges since last June. Hitler Claimed Groomed by West Rangoon, Burma (U.R) So viet Communist Party boss Niki ta Khrushchev today declared that the United States, Britain and France groomed Adolf Hit ler as "their bloodhound" to set against Russia. Khrushchev charged the west ern powers are using the same tactics with the new West Ger man army. Khrushchev, touring Burma with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, delivered one of his harshest attacks yet on the West in a speech at Rangoon City Hall. "The history of the pre-war years gives sufficient evidence that the western countries made one concession after another to Hitler, pushing him against the east, against our country," he said. "However, everything turned out in a different way. "One Hitler whom the ruling circles of England, France and the U.S.A. were at the time feeding up as their bloodhound intending to set him free against the U.S.S.R. broke loose and at tacked those who fed him. Many leaders of the western countries do not even consider it necessary to conceal that they are preparing a West German army against the Soviet Union," the pudgy Russian leader said. 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