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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. ,
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