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iarriman Charges
ointees Using Taft-Hartley Act To Bust Unions
Tuesday, December 6, 1953
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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.
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Accusation Made
In Speech Before
Merged Convention
New York (U.R) New
York Gov. Averell Harriman
charged today that President
Eisenhower's appointees are us
ing the Taft-Hartley act to bust
unions.
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.
Time Bomb Explodes
In Cyprus Building
Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) A time
bomb smuggled by anti-British
terrorists into one of the most
heavily guarded buildings in
Cyprus exploded last night but
there were no casualties.
. The bomb heavily damaged
the headquarters of British Dis
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ens. Authorities said casualties
would have been heavy if it had
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