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G 0 0 Tuesday. January 10,-1956 MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Effect of Rising Wage Scaies on Farmers May Be Headed for Congressional Inquiry By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) The dis pute about the effect of organ ized labor's rising wage scales on the well being of Amer i c a n farmers may be headed for congres sional "inquiry. The top lead ers of organ ized labor are touchy On the labor - farmer r e 1 a t ionship. So are the poli- identified Secretary i ' H IT'' 'H Ljrfe C Wilson ticians most closely with the big unions. Churchill's Lion On Display at Zoo London (U.R) Sir Winston Churchill's lion Rusty has left quarantine to go on display in a zoo. Rusty, presented to the former prime minister last July by the Lions Club International of At lantic City, N. J., replaced his forma lion, Rota, who died. Rusty spent six months in quar antine because of British health regulations. State Group Formed for Telephones in Argentina Buenos Aires U.R Com munications Minister Luis M. Ig arttua announced Monday night that a state-owned corporation has been formed to operate Ar gentina's telephone system. Under the administration of ousted dictator Juan D. Peron, the government bought the tele phone systemQfrom the Interna tional Telephone ands Telegraph Co. for some $100,000,000. As of last Dec. 31, the State Telephone Administration had an accumu lated deficit of more than forty million dollars. of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson gave the issue a orice-over-light- ly treatment a few months ago in a New Orleans speech. He was rebuked by Walter Reuther, then president of the unmerged CIO. The evidence in- Handicaps' Friend . Dies in Portland Portland (U.R) Mrs. Marga ret Bondurant, 79, one of Port land's Women of Achievement and holder of a special citation from President Eisenhower, died last night in Good Samaritan hospital here. For 46 years Mrs. Bondurant had been associated with work for the physically handicapped. She retired last October from ac tive management of the Craft Shop for the Handicapped which she founded and operated as a volunteer since 1947. Portland Quota Club named Mrs. Bondurant Woman of Achievement in 1949 and in 1954 President Eisenhower cited her for her work in behalf of the physically handicapped. She was president of Albertina Kerr nur sery in 1919 and had been chair man of .the state advisory com mittee for the blind and the Children's Farm Home in Cor-vallis. Adenauer Invites Mission Troupe To Play in Bonn Paris (U.R) West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has invited the Moral Rearmament Ideological mission to present its play, "The Vanishing Island" in sBonn, it was disclosed here Mon day night. Dr. Theodor Oberlander, West German refugees minister, said at the Paris premiere of the play that he had written a letter of invitation to Dr. Frank Buch man, founder of the mission, on behalf of Adenauer and other top West German officials. Quotes From the News New York Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on the new Russian look after his recent extensive tour of the Soviet Union: "The smiling, peaceful, prosperous Russia is the most difficult international problem America has yet faced." New York Henry Ford II, on ihe idea of investors buying Ford Motor Co. stock with the intention of making a fast dollar: "We of Ford Motor Co. are business men and not miracle men." Washington A Senate Judiciary subcommittee in its prelimi nary report to the Senate on narcotics traffic: "Heroin smugglers and peddlers are selling murder, robbery and rape, and should be dealt with accordingly. Their offense is human destruction as surely as that of murder. In truth and in fact, it is 'murder on the installment plan.' " Miami Beach A Florida vacationist on the cold wave: "We're going back just as soon as we can find the other half of eur bus ticket which we lost around here some place." Monte Carlo, Monaco Andrew Vavier, 25, bank clerk, on re ports Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly will wed in the United States: "It is unthinkable that the sovereign should marry outside his own principality." Ramstein. Germany Maj. Gen. Robert M. Lee, commander of the U.S. 12th Air Force, in ordering his airmen to pare down their waistlines: a "Flying personnel will be suspended from flying activities until the reductions have been accomplished." dicates that the White House passed the word to Benson to lay off. Benson had said that higher wages under a new CIO contract in the farm machinery industry had been a factor in the cost-price freeze about which the farm belt angrily is com plaining, v His department made the same point in broad terms, extending to industry in general, in a study of food marketing costs pub lished last week. The labor lead ers and labor politicians chal lenged that one, also. Probe Need for Facts The mere fact . that Benson said what he said and that his department's study backed him up does not prove that there is real and basic conflict of inter ests between organized labor and the farm community. The fact that Reuther and others deny it, however, does not nec essarily prove that the basic conflict does not exist. If all the facts are to be had in satisfac tory form they will have to come from a serious and well conducted congressional Investi gation. If Reuther and his associates are confident they can prove that their wage hikes do not con tribute to the price squeeze, it is likely that the Democratic House or Senate will undertake such an investigation this year. The unions are closely allied with the Democratic party arid could apply much pressure for an investigation if they want it. Meantime, some of the farm organizations seem to go along with Benson, notably the Na tional Grange and the American Farm Bureau federation. The left-wing Farmers' Union likely will be lined up with labor and the labor politicians In any showdown. , The Grange and the Farm Bu reau obviously, sense a conflict of farmer-labor interests. Both, for example, favor the adoption by. all states of the so-called right-to-work laws which organ ized labor opposes on grounas that it is union-busting legisla tion. Organized farmers appear to be disturbed, by the political power accruing to labor, espe cially since the AFL-CIO mer ger. The farm bureau favors la bor's right- to organize, but re gards "with concern the threat of political monopoly by labor unions." The bureau, however, advocates collective bargaining and the right to strike, The bureau also is on record with a citation of "featherbed d i n g, jurisdictional conflicts and boycotts" as substantially increasing costs to farmers and all consumers. Spokesmen for both organizations told the Unit ed Press a farmer-labor political combination would be unrealis tic and impractical. The bureau spokesman explained, further, by saying the interests of labor and farmers are not . identical, although not necessarily contra dictory. ... A congressional investigation could produce some interesting information if it ever takes place. , CABINETS & Kitchen Buiil-Ins . Built To Order PRICES RIGHT! 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