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Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Win Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1956 Pages 1 to 10 Eisenhower Said Taking Advice From Some Held Hostile To Organized Labor Br ROBERT A. SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Editor's note: This is the sec ond in a series on the record of the Eisenhower administration. Washington President Eisen hower has been taking advice from some people whom labor leaders regard as hostile to organized la bor, and simul taneously the labor leaders who had easy access to t h e White H o u se under Roose- unlt mH Trn. A. RoDL Sroitn man " i " longer the intimate advisors of Wie president who has held office since 1953. This is all a manifestation of different concepts. Union leaders tend to equate unions and all laboring men, although union membership is a statistical mi nority of labor. The Eisenhower administration has a broader con cept of labor and acts accord Ingly, although to many union leaders this is regarded as anti union. The record shows that the ad ministration has dealt with un ions and respected many of their demands. But it has not dealt with them exclusively When Eisenhower first formed his cabinet he chose a labor ex ecutive, Martin P. Durkin, as his labor secretary a selection pronounced "incredible" by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, co author of the Taft-Hartley act which labor opposes. This ges ture toward the unions soured in seven months. Durkin had worked out a pro gram of 19 changes in the Taft Hartley Act which he believed Eisenhower endorsed. Other ad visors persuaded the president differently, and when Eisenhow er wouldn't back Durkin the labor leader quit, declaring the President had broken his word. Gained Confidence of Some To succeed Durkin, Eisenhow er chose James P. Mitchell, a New York department store ex ecutive who has won the con fidence of some labor leaders, but gained the enmity of some employers who regard him as leftist". Mitchell retained the best of Durkin's men in the Labor Department. Union leaders talk quite dif ferently of the president's ap pointments to the National Labor Relations Board, which handles labor-management disputes un der the labor act. After appoint ments changed a majority of its membership, the board limited its jurisdiction over disputes, leaving thousands of employers and employees without the pro tection and restraints of the labor act. This would seem to cut both ways, but it is the unions that are crying foul. The board's interpellation of free speech has been broadened. Thus an employer hoping to fend off a union invasion, has more freedom to talk to his workers without having an unfair labor practice complaint lodged against him with the NLRB. Unions have won many NLRB decisions, but it is clear that management is now more com fortable with this board than it ever had been. No board has ever been free of criticism from one side or another. Until re cent years, it came from man agement, now from labor. Claims Program Blocked The record on labor legislation is not as bad as labor feared it might be, nor as good as the administration claims. Secretary Mitchell claims that his labor program has been blocked in Congress by the chairman of the House Labor Committee, Rep. Graham A. Barden (D-N.C.) who is not friendly to labor. No changes have been made in the controversial Taft-Hartley act, for the Republican adminis tration and the Democratically controlled 84th Congress have been at loggerheads over what changes would be acceptable to all sides. The minimum wage has been raised from 75 cents to $1 a compromise between the 90 cents asked by the administration and $1.25 proposed by union leaders. The administration has talked much of extending the wage and hour law to cover several mil lion more employees, but the retail trade lobby has been so effective in opposing this, that nothing has come of it. Following an announced pol icy of non-intervention in labor management disputes, the admin istration has invoked the emer gency injunction against strikes of the Taft-Hartley act only three times. Bui) this is largely due to the fact that there have been so few disputes resembling na tional emergencies. Partisans will argue whether this state of affairs was just the good fortune of the Eisenhower administratiqn or the result of its policies. In any event, President Eisen hower has presided over an era of relative industrial peace. Wages, living standards and em ployment have touched new highs. Unemployment has not been a serious national problem. Prices had been stable until this summer. Never Had it so Good , Economically, labor has "nev er had it so good." as AFL-CIO President George Meany conced ed last year. This is reflected in the eco nomic statistics which show that this spring the average factory worker had 16 per cent more spending money after taxes than he had in July, 1952. Employ ment in non-farm establishments went up more than four million in the same period, as the na tional economy and population expanded. And man-days lost in strikes went down 50 per cent. In short, the administration has an economic record with a powerful political potential. It has played ball with labor lead ers to some extent, but much less than Roosevelt and Truman. It has been more responsive to employer-minded advisors. It has acted on the assumption that unions are strong enough to ex tend their influertce without White House assistance, that some workmen prefer to be un organized and are entitled to protection of that choice, and that labor legislation is in real ity labor-management legisla tion. (NEXT What about the welfare state?) . - W" . ' -i 1 fOMRINT. WATfRS nrr rniv. tt c . , , -"sal ,. u. 0. BIupE ana planes are searching for Navy patrol plane with 16 aboard, attacked and believed shot down by Communist Chineae aircraft in international waters 32 miles off Wenchow, north of Formosa. (htUnatUmal) Motorist of Future May Follow Yellow Road, Color Expert Says New York (U.R) Color ex perts think the motorist of the future may "follow the yellow brick road" instead of highway signs to his destination just as Judy Garland did in the fantasy, The Wizord of Oz. Colored buildings, roads and sidewalks will be a natural step in the evolution of color, ac cording to Paul Wrablica, an in dustrial designer. He claims-that increased use of color will save many hours and materials, and make living easier and happier for everyone. Among the conveniences he envisions are hot and cold water faucets colored fed and blue, electrical switches with the "on" button colored green and the "off" button colored red, and bolts and nuts with a standard index color for each size. "The idea is to use color in stead of words to convey a mes sage," he said. "It's easier and faster to 'read' color than it is to read words." Wrablica has made some sur prising discoveries in his experi ments with color in industrial application. He thinks these and similar developments may give birth to whole new business and industries. Wrablica and other color ex perts learned that a crane, trac tor, or bulldozer operator often ab.used the dull and drab equip ment he used on his job and at the same time took good care of his colorful private automobile. They introduced color into such machinery and found it was given better care, needed fewer repairs, and often led the oper ator to do more and better work. Wrablica has used color in small machanical and electronic parts to. convey a message and at the same time produce the psychological reaction that re sults in better care. His firm was commissioned to redesign a metal aircraft con trol panel switch in such a way it would convey a variety of in formation to the user. Wrablica designed the new switch with permanent color and markings. After it was put into use the manufacturer found workers abused the part so much less in handling that there were 25 per cent fewer rejects "That was an incidental bonus the manufacturer got by using color in the product," Wrablica said. "We are making discov eries like that constantly." He thinks the color of a pro duct made for general consump tion can make the difference be tween its success or failure. "People sometimes don't know exactly why they buy or don't buy a product," Wrablica said. "The reason is that its design or color has a psychological ef fect that they don't completely understand. "Good designers understand these things and build in isles appeal. One of the most effec tive ways to do rtat is with color." Announcing O Prudential's New Family Policy I with the 1 r A "Cradle Clause h .1 i - f x . f. ill Sopoom Dad H insured for $10,000. 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Emily Our girl's ambition frightens me. Jerry Emily's fear compli cates the problem. Emily My husband and I usually get along very well, but we are having a very painful disagreement about our daugh ter, who is 14 and seems to be off her mind on the subject of modeling. Ever since she got this idea into her head, she has become unmanageable. She stands be fore the mirror by the hour, rufuses to eat at mealtime be cause she wants to be thin, and then gorges herself afterwards because she is hungry. If I as much as say a word to her, she lets loose a tirade about my being antagonistic to her, competing with her and trying to hold her down. She is a pretty-enough girl and possibly could get to be a model, but she refuses to do anything to improve herself. She will not take lessons in anything that will give her grace or improve her personality. She simply stands 'before the mirror, wears tight clothes, and practices arti ficial gestures. , I am frightened for the future, but my husband pooh-poohs my fears and refuse's to take, a hand. Jerry I am just as concerned for the future as Emily, but I try not to be tense or frightened. The problem is not simple, and we have complicated our girl's situation by making our home in an isolated area where she can not visit friends unless we pro vide transportation. This has greatly curtailed her social life. Besides, she does not seem to get along well with the girls in school. Perhaps they are jealous of her appearance, and she may be emphasizing that jealousy by her efforts to shine. In any event, I think Emily has made the situation unneces sarily complicated by taking too serious and critical a view of our girl's childish ambition. I think that if we stopped appear ing to be opposed to her ambi tion, we might better be able to guide her to do the things she needs for self-improvement, such as piano lessons, dancing, etc. The Council: There is a risk in following the husband's in- I clination, but there is a greater risk in pursuing a course that will make the girl feel opposed, antagonized, and frustrated. It would be constructive to give this girl the real facts about modeling, its requirements and its hardships as well as its potential rewards.. Girls of her age are likely to get a fantastical ly glorified view of this pro fession. The best way to cure the kind of daydreaming that be comes a substitute for self-improvement is to combine posi tive encouragement with hard facts. Try to have her meet some models who have been through the mill, and have them tell her what it takes. 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