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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago. ,
10 YEARS AGO
Jin. 27. 1933 (Sunday)
There are no immedtale
plans for fluoridation of Med
ford s water system Because
there has been no public de
mand for such a move, City
Superintendent Robert Duff
said today.
The 1993 Oregon state AAU
basketball tournament will be
held in the spacious gymnas
ium at Crater High school at
Central Point; Crater Lions
will sponsor the event.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1943 (Friday)
Local war price and ration
ing board members report re
newal of "B" and "C" gasoline
rationing books will become
increasingly difficult.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sev
eral outdoor lovers journeyed
to steep places to ski and
slide on the week-end."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1933 (Sunday)
Medford man sentenced to
study Bible each Sunday "for
a long, long time" after being
arrested for habitual drunken
ness. Jackson county delegation
to Oregon state legislature in
vites Gov. Julius Meier to at
tend Oregon Diamond Jubilee
celebration to be held in Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1923 (Monday)
Jackson county fair asso
ciation directors announce
plans for motorcycle and auto
mobile races with prizes to
talling $5,000.
Medford fire department
starts new investigation of
series of fires in local restau
rant after third blaze in two
weeks is put out.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1913 (Wednesday)
Officers elected by Rogue
River Cooperative Fruit asso
ciation include J. A. Perry,
president; D. W. Stone, vice
president; S. A. Nye, secretary
and W. B. jacKson, treasurer
Medford nurseryman, miss-
lna for more than four years,
found near death in Santa
Rosa, Calif., hospital.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ii superior;
lavan or eight it excellent: tire Of
six it good.
1. In what country do King
Paul and Queen Frcdrika
reign?
2. Who was chosen an Apos
tie in place of Judas the trail
or?
3. What are young tigers
called?
4. Was Thomas Jefferson
the second, third, or fifth
President of the United
States?
5. Name the composer of
the popular song "Over
There."
6. Is the female or male
black widow spider poison
ous? 7. Correct the following
punctuation: Jane said: "John
go jump in the lake".
8. Which of our standard
foods is the fattiest?
0. How many inches are
there In one mile?
10. Of which state Is Salem
the capital?
Answern 1. Greece. 2. SI.
Matthias. 3. Cuba. 4. Third.
5. George M. Cohan. 6. re
male. 7. Jane said, "John, go
jump in the like." 8. Butter
and margarine. 9. 83.360. 10.
Oregon.
Ten Points Against HUAC
Last Monday in this space we reprinted an
editorial from the Coos Bay World which argued
in a reasoned and dispassionate manner that the
Committee on Un-American Activities of the
United States House of Representatives (or
House Un - American Activities Committee
HUAC for short) should be abolished, and that
its functions should be turned over to the Com
mittee on Judiciary.
This brought the expected response of letters
which in violent terms accused everyone oppos
ing the HUAC's virtually unlimited grant of
power of being a Communist, Communist dupe.
fool or knave which simply is untrue.
lhis Kind of hysterical thrashing around and
name caiiinir is, unfortunately, in direct alien-
ment with the way in which the HUAC has op
erated, and is one of the reasons we hope the
House sees lit to restrain it and its irresponsible,
unproductive, and costly investigations.
ARE hardly alone in this belief, and the
growing number of people who agree is
not confined to pinkos or their dupes. It includes
some eminently respectable people.
Among this number is the editor of The Chris
tian Century, the highly regarded Protestant
magazine, the editor, Harold & Fey, writes:
"In practice, although not by specific mandate
from the House, the principal activity of the Commit
tee . . . is to oppose communism and in particular
communist subversion. This purpose is a useful one
and deserves to be carried out effectively. The House
committee, however, is performing this function so
ineptly that it weakens and confuses the forces in our
government and our society which strengthen de
mocracy. It should therefore be retired and its object
pursued by more appropriate means."
VJIR- FEY indicts the Committee on ten counts.
The first is, since a loyal citizenry is our
greatest strength and security against subversion,
and since loyalty can only be earned and won,
not coerced, a committee which engages in public
harassment of citizens, "exposure," and public
shame, "is subject to serious question on grounds
of morality as well as intelligence."
the second involves the powers of the com
mittee. The House "has never been able to de
fine what it wants the committee to do. Its terms
of reference are so ambiguously stated that it is
impossible to define the requirement that testi
mony be pertinent. The committee now has vir
tually unlimited authority."
A THIRD reason is that the committee's meth
"ods are not productive of sound information
in the areas needed, and development of better
means will be prevented as long' as the committee
is allowed to follow its present course.
f ourth, abolition of the committee would
lessen the atmosphere of fear and suspicion too
prevalent throughout the nation, . where many
individuals have been led to believe that com
munism is winning the cold war, that Americans
are easy dupes, that whole professional groups
are "infiltrated" with subversives all of it patent
nonsense, but encouraged by the committee.
Fifth, the type of loyalty probe conducted by
the committee no longer serves the public in
terest. All sorts or loyalty tests and oaths are re
quired of government workers; to extend these
to the population at large would be silly. "The
presumption 01 loyauy is a vanci ana precious
element in our free society. Loyalty probes by
government agencies bring this presumption into
question and introduce elements 01 clouut, sus
picion, fear and coercion. 1 hey also give rise to
resentment over injustice when such probes are
conducted without adequate safeguards for in
dividual rights.
SIXTH, Mr. Fey makes an excellent case for
tlin iivnnnctrimi th'it tlio rnmniilloo Vina llA-
come a source of divisiveness and dissension in
a nation which, above all, needs to remain united
at this perilous point in history.
seventh, he says abolition of the committee
would be a step toward strengthening freedom
of speech and association (both guaranteed in
the Constitution). He adds, "There is no doubt
that communists would deny freedom of speech,
assembly and the press in this country if they
had a chance . . . But they do not nave that power
in this country, and please God will never have
it. On the other hand, we their opponents have
the power, and if we are not careful we do harm
to freedom bv the means we use to protect it.
Eighth, "the mandate of the HUAC . . . should
be withdrawn because the impression is wide
spread, whether iustif ied or not, that the commit
tee manifests a dangerous tendency to use state
power for the purpose of silencing its critics.
MINT1I, the committee has served to miseducate
' the public about the norms of dignity, self-
limitation and restraint which it has a right to
expect an airencv of government to follow.
And tenth, the committee "operates at the
fringes of constitutional power.
In his summary, Mr. Fey says:
"HUAC practices personalizing its attacks; con
sidering persons who .ire 'identified' lis communists,
no mutter by whom, to be guilty until proved inno
cent; referring to such persons thereafter as 'identified
communists'; prejudicing t lie standing of people so
that a fair trial is difficult or impossible; usurping
grand Jury functions by 'Indicting' people publicly
all such practices should be abandoned.
"In government the committee has helped down
grade federal service by encouraging the normal bu
reaucratic tendency to mediocrity, by discouraging
initiative, courage and imagination. It has hindered
recruitment of scientists and capable leaders, has dis
couraged persons interested in the teaching profession
and government service by making these fields objects
of suspicion."
For all those abuses, and for its denigration
of American Uinstilutumal treedoms, the com
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nuttee snouiu ue lerminaieu. r.A.
Second Wave At The Bay Of Pigt
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
ON THE BRINK OK WAR
Washinglon-N o one has
quite admitted it as yet; but
the fact remains that the
European pol
icy of the
Kennedy ad-
m i n istration
has been
brought to a
jarring, shud
dering halt
b y Gen. de
Gaulle. The
aim was to
"wait to do
Europe." For
f7S
Alanp
business with
two years, this has been
the strongest of several rea
sons cited by the Kennedy
policy-makers for not doing
business with the intransigent
de Gaulle. And for two years,
the hope has been that this
larger, more amiable Europe,
with which business could be
done, would come into being
with Britain's admission to
the European Common Mar
ket. The aim has been blocked,
the hope has been frustrated,
by de Gaulle's brutal veto on
Britain's admission. Further
more, the protests of the other
five members of the Common
Market have been pallidly in
effectual; and the Germans,
long our warmest European
friends, have now interrupted
their protests to sign the new
Franco-German accord.
IN THESE circumstances,
- at least for the time being,
doing business with the Euro
pean Common Market means
doing business with de Gaulle.
Yet de Gaulle's actions can
only be interpreted as sharply
hostile to the U. S. His almost
openly announced eventual
objective is to eliminate Amer
lean influence from Europe's
sacred soil.
The first impulse of the
Kennedy administration has
been to retaliate in kind.
Eyes roll piously heaven
wards. Strong denials are
instantly and probably, sin
cerely entered, when the
question is asked: "Are we
now going to war against de
Gaulle?" Our policy, it is
stated, Is always to leave an
open chair at the conference
table, which the General will
be welcome to occupy when
ever he wishes to talk with
the President.
Yet consider the actions
which arc being taken, or are
now being contemplated. First
of all, despite the tot 1 disar
ray produced by de Gaulle's
veto against Britain, our able
Trade Act negotiator, former
Secretary of State Christian
A. Herter, has already left
for Europe to get tl.e European-American
trade and
tariff talks going.
TT IS ACCEPTED as almost
certain that when and if
serious talks begin, the
French negotiators will do
everything in their power to
make life hard for Herter.
But the intention is to try to
surround and checkmate the
French, by seeking to orga
nize a pro-American united
front of the Italians, Germans,
Belgian, Dutch, and Luxem-
bourgers.
Secondly, the multi-lateral
deterrent, which the British
approved at Nassau, is a fine
bright red rag to the Gaullist
bull. Knowing thi.. we have
already sought and won the
approval of the Germans and
the Italians. And we are going
to go on pressing forward
with the multi lateral
deterrent scheme in talks
with other NATO nations,
come hell or high water.
Finally, if the going gets
too rough, there is talk about
asking the Germans, point
blank, to choose once and for
all between France and the
United States. For the Ger
mans, there could be no more
agonizing choice. For Gen. de
Gaulle, there could be no
more infuriating act.
WIGHT there is the central
" point that must be faced.
The American actions now
under way or under contem
plation in Europe really add
up to going to war against de
Gaulle, whatever one may say
about open choirs. Ai any
rate, de Gaulle will thin' that
the' U. S. has declared war
upon him, and that is what
mainly matters.
There are two reasons why
this is a profoundly serious
and dangerous prospect. In
the first place, if we seem to
be going to war on de Gaulle,
he will move on to the next
stage. From seeking to limit
our influence in Europe, he
will proceed to active retalia
tion. And he can do very
serious damage in this way,
by ordering the Bank of
France to use its power
against the dollar on the
world markets, for instance.
There are things of the
same sort we can do against
de Gaulle-temporarily crip
pling his nuclear deterrent
scheme, for Instance, by re
fusing to supply France with
the American tanker aircraft
needed to give the French
Mirage IV bombers the range
they will otherwise lack.
AS THESE examples may
suggest, the scconu reason
for worrying about an open
political war between de
Gaulle and the Kennedy ad
ministration is, quite simply,
that it will be very difficult to
keep within bounds.
Such a contest, if permitted
to develop, will be a fight
with no holr: barred
Hence the only sensible
American objective, in case
of war, will be nothing less
than breaking up the Euro
pean Common Market. That
is the only truly effective.
truly decisive way of isolating
de Gaulle, the only sure way
of doing business with the rest
iiifiii
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller lippmann
(cl 1063, The Waihlnaton Post
tlppmanai
ADENAUER IN PARIS
The Franco-German treaty
of cooperation which was
signed In Paris on Tuesday
must no doubt
be read in the
light of Gen
e r a 1 D e
Gaulle's press
con ference,
on the ' Mon
day of the
p r e c e d ing
week. In the
press confer
ence, the Gen
eral excluded Britain from
Europe and rejected the idea
of an Atlantic partnership
with the United States. In
the new treaty, he has formed
a close and special f ranco
German relationship within
the Little Europe of the con
tinental six.
This is to be the inner al
liance which leads "Europe."
How? Paris and Bonn are to
consult before any decision
on all important questions of
foreign policy," - except, it
would seem, on the enormous
ly - important decisions to ex
clude Great Britain and push
off the United States. The
General made these decisions
the week before Dr. Aden
auer arrived to sign up the
alliance. Thus, by the timing
of his press conference, it
was possible to present Dr.
Adenauer with an accomplish
ed fact: he has been commit
ted to the kind of Europe
which all the German parties
do not want.
TN view of the fact that
General De Gaulle asserted
his primacy in the act of
signing the Franco-German
treaty, the paragraphs about
defense must be read with
much attention. They appear
to mean that Germany is to
contribute her resources to
creating a military force
under French control and
leadership. The military sec
tion of the treaty is not ex
plicit and clear. It sounds as
if Chancellor Adenauer had
agreed that German money,
technology, productive ca
pacity and manpower are to
be drawn upon in creating a
military force which is inde
pendent of NATO, independ
ent of the English-speaking
peoples and indeed independ
ent of the other countries in
the European community.
The timing of the press con
ference and of the new treaty
were almost certainly de
termined by two other consid
erations. One is that the nego
tiations with Britain at Brus
sels were on the verge of suc
ceeding. The other is that Dr.
Adenauer no longer has the
confidence of the German
parliament, not even the con
fidence of his own party, and
has only a few months at best
before he must leave his of
fice. He would have had to
leave it last autumn except
for the personal respect
which he enjoys with all the
parties. Last autumn, they
wanted him to go at the time
of the Spiegel affair. But they
did not want him to go under
circumstances which ob
scured his great services to
his country. All the party
leaders. Including the Social
Democrats, felt that his great
career should not end with a
nasty scandal.
So it became necessary to
exclude Britain abruptly be
fore she justified her applica
tion for membership and to
sign up West Germany be
fore Dr. Adenauer leaves
office.
ONE wonders how far Dr.
Adenauer's signature on
the treaty will control his
successors in Germany. There
is much reason for scepticism.
For we have to remember
that, while the accomplished
facts the break with the Anglo-Saxons
and the Franco
German alliance are open
and spectacular, the effects of
these shocks are delayed and
not yet in view. But there
will be effects.
There could be no greater
illusion than for Bonn and
Paris to assume that they can
act while the other Western
nations will not react. If they
now disrupt the alliance, they
may well find that they have
started a reaction toward iso
lationism which they will not
like at all.
of Europe without worrying
about de Gaulle's strange
quirks and grandiose views.
It can be seen, then why
careful stock-taking and hon
est fact-facing are now urgent.
Above all, if we mean to take
the actions that de Gaulle
will interpret meaning war
to the knife, it is vital not to
cherish any illusions about
where those actions must
lead. A wholly new situation
confronts the U. S. and some
months given to studying it
will not be time wasted.
Editorial
Comment
A QUESTIONABLE IDEA
Governor Hatfield in his re
cent inaugural address sug
gested that the State Board of
Higher Education and the
Board of Education be com
bined. Not presuming to be experts
in the field, we would like to
quote a few other opinions.
The Eugene Register-Guard:
"Both boards . . . have all
they can do to keep up with
tht problems they now
hava. To double those prob
lems, no mailer how large
the board were made,
would be to add to the work
. loads of the members. Too
few citizens now can afford
the time it takes for this
sort of servica."
The Oregonian:
". . . we art not con
vinced that . . . prospective
benefits outweigh the pros
pective disadvantages . . .
". . . study should not
necessarily be directed to
ward a merger. Current ef
forts toward improved co
ordination between the two
appear to be working very
well indeod."
Chancellor Roy Licuallen of
the State Board of Higher
Education:
"There are practical rea
sons for not making the
move. The disadvantages of
the plan outweigh any ad
vantages that might accrue.
"It might very well de
prive us of the services of
some outstanding lay people."
President William Walsh of
the State Board of Higher
Education:
"I don't see how it could
be possible to appoint board
members and expect them
to do a responsible job.
Combining the boards
would make the job even
more complex and demand
ing. A member would need
to neglect either the work
of tht Board or that of hit
Try and Stop Mo
-By BENNETT CERF-
THE STAFF at an upper Park Avenue hospital recall with
relish the day one of the biggest doctors on the staff
shook a pampered patient by the arm, looked about at the
lavish baskets of fruit
and flowers in the room,
and announced, "You
have now occupied this
room for four weeks,
though you know there is
a long waiting list. So I
have just had a definitive
consultation about your
case with Doctor Rodgers,
Doctor Lippman, Doctor
Shannon, and Doctor
Hayes and we all will
give you exactly twenty
minutes to get the heck
out of that bed!"
David Green, In a Cosmopolitan article on "news slanting,
cites the famous series of headlines In a Paris Journal reporting
the day-to-day progress of Napoleon's escape from his first exile
in Elba:
First Day: "The Corslcan Monster Has Landed in The
Gulf of Juan."
Second Day: 'The Cannibal Approaches Graase."
Third Day: "The Usurper Has Entered Grenoble."
Fourth Day: "Bonaparte Cheered by Lyons Populace."
Fifth Day: "Napoleon Awaited Eagerly in Fontaine-
bleau."
Sixth Day: "His Imperial Majesty Returns in Triumph
to Paris."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
The Cuban issue erupted
with renewed force in the
Senate last week over reports
of a new around-the-clock
Soviet military build-up on
Fidel Castro's island.
Senator Wayne Morse of
Oregon called for an immed
iate investigation. He asked
the State Department for a
quick briefing for his Senate
Latin-American affairs sub
committee. Senator Keating of
New York, who was one of
the first to sound the alarm
last year over reports of of
fensive Soviet missiles in Cu
ba, told a reporter this morn
ing that he has confirmed by
official government sources
that a new INTENSIVE build
up is under way there.
SENATOR Keating said that
Cuba is now TEN TIMES
stronger than it was last July
1 just before the Soviet mis
siles and bombers-later with
drawn under pressure from
President Kennedy - were
landed there. He said the
weapons being newly added
include MIG fighter planes
capable of carrying nuclear
weapons with a range that
would cover many areas in
the United States and Cuba.
He added:
"I don't know whether they
have nuclear weapons. I don't
know that they don't, cither.
I do say they are capable of
carrying nuclear weapons. I
have made no statement
which is not confirmed by
official government sources."
Slate and Defense depart
ment officials, however, say
that Soviet arms simnlieri to
Cuba are about what thev
were at the beginning of the
year.
full-lime outside activities
or occupation."
Statements such as these
make one wonder exactly
what was behind the Gover
nor's suggestion to coniouie
the two boards.
Was it an honest attempt
to provide tor a great deal of
overlap?
Or was it, as one promi
nent Lane County Senator
suggests, an attempt to take
some of the punch out of the
requests of the State Board of
Higher Education's budget re
quests by putting the Board
on the defensive? University
of Oregon Daily Emerald.
WHAT'S really happening tn
Cuba?
And WHY is it happening?
IT'S HARD to say.
So MUCH big-time riolltip.
is wrapped up in the Cuban
situation. When President
Kennedy told Premier
Khrushchev to GET HIS OF
FENSIVE MISSILES OUT OF
CUBA, OR ELSE, and Kroosh
GOT THEM OUT, and was
quick about it, with no back
talk, it was a tremendous vic
tory for President Kennedy.
Almost in a matter of hours
it changed his public image
from that of a somewhat hesi
tant young man who didn't
quite know what to do next
to that of a confident and
fearless Chief Executive, cap
able of meeting any crisis that
might arise. :
At the same time, it chang
ed the image of Premier.
Khrushchev - and the change,
didn't add anything to his
stature.
All of which nutures the
suspicion tiiat Old Kroosh has
some cards up his sleeve
which he hasn't played yet. '
WHAT'S in the wind in
Cuba? ;
We can only guess - but
this seems to be a REASON
ABLE guess:
If crafty Old Kroosh had
it in mind in the first place'
to build Cuba into a nuclear"
base from which he could
launch a nuclear attack on!
the United States that would
so cripple us that we would
be unable to retaliate DECIS
IVELY, he was forced to pull
in his horn. He found Presi
dent Kennedy tougher than
he had expected.
But he can't afford to be
too humble. So, what he may
have in mind is to make of
Cuba a base of operations
from which he can effective
ly EXPORT COMMUNISM to
all of Latin America.
In order to get away with
that project, he may be un
dertaking to make Cuba too
strong DEFENSIVELY for us
to tackle safely.
Unions Facing Uncertain Future in U.S.
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Sevareld
Class Phots
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BY ERIC SEVAREID
Labor unions were once
described as Institution: that
combine the characteristics of
1 ' l an army, a
3Rk a business and
a town meet
ing. Most of
them, most of
i .' j the time, are
simpiy a ousi-
ness, and few
are town
meetings, any
more, since
they arc in
herently undemocratic, almost
as much so as a corporation.
It is their performance as
"armies" that has currently
frayed public nerves, severely
damaged the national econ
omy, raised Congressional
tempers rnd produced the
prospect uf a drive for re
strictive legislation, which the
Kennedy administration can
hardly wish to sec happen, for
two reasons: It would divert
the Congress from other vital
tasks and. if 1963 is a bad
year for labor peace, it could
produce new laws mor re
strictive of union actions than
a Democratic administration
could easily live with.
Amending Taft-Hartley so
that Presidential fact-finding
boards may make specific
though not binding recom
mendations is likely to be a
weak weapon, as labor and
management forces arc now
shaping up for battle, and
about the only defense line to
fall back upon after that
would be compulsory arbitra
tion in strikes of national con
cern, an idea that enjoys no
vast popularity with either
side. It is n little hard to see
how anti-trust laws applied
to unions could be much more
effective than the same laws
as now applied to companies,
however jocular the notion
may be that today's unions
arc "private, voluntary assoc
iations." But the chief of the federal
mediation service is surely
correct In his forcast of an
unpeaceful year ahead. Pro
longed spasms of strikes and
shutdowns will do severe
injury to the President's
whole scheme for "getting
the country moving again."
The prospect, indceed, is
for many years of dislocation
in many industries, because
the issue is becoming less and
less one of wages and work
ing conditions, and more and
more one of fundamental job
security as the implacable
move ment of technology
changes the whole nature of
man's work In this country.
No longer is the real cry,
"more, more, more and now."
The real ghost hovering over
the shipping and newspaper
strikes is automation. The
printers' walkout is the spasm
of a dying craft in a sick
industry. Whole trades, an
cient skills arc at stake, not
just jobs, and in the long run
little can be done abit it
save to ease the pain of the
transitions.
A social revolution is well
under way and none of the
three major power centers
concerned-government, labor
and management-feels certain
as to how it should be con
tained and directed. Perhaps
it is not too much to say that
in the most fundamental sense
of the dialectic of economics,
the "labor ingredient" in the
value of goods and services is
rapidly declining in relation
to the "capital ingredient" in
the form of research and
machinery. (One reason some
economists argue that all
workers must be part capital
ists through share ownership.)
In any case, the American
labor movement, which has
already lost much of its once
inspiring "image-' as a leader
toward social ideals, is now,
taken as a whole, losing its
force. At its peak, it has organ
ized one-third of the Amer
ican work force but this pro
portion is now failing and
its enlightened leaders now
frankly speak in terms of a
"crisis" for the movement.
Some of them reason that any
institution that does not grow
bigger is bound to grow small
er (the operating principle in
business today) and they are
issuing rallying cries for new
recruitment campaigns.
It is possible to be skeptical
about this, possible to believe
that automation cannot in the
end be resisted and that, short
of a serious depression and
mass unemployment, the high
point of union organization is
already behind us. Surely the
fundamental requirement is
for new training and re-train- '
ing in the skills increasingly
in demand, an area in which
some labor leaders have do-,
monstrated more imaginative
awareness than most of man
agement. Already,- the majority of
the American work force are
white collar people; steadily,
we become a semi - standard
ized, middle class society.
The old attraction of labor
leadership with its idealistic
ethos no longer attracts. In
my college generation, gener
ous minded, socially conscious
graduates wanted "to be in
the labor movement." Today
their counterparts head for
the Peace Corps. The unions
themselves, from simple suc
cessful existence, exert their
energies In centripetal, not
centrifugal directions like alt
bureaucracies. As J. A.
Berime of the Communica
tions Workers has put it-with
the world in ferment, Amer
ican trade unions are quies
cent. .
Labor as a power center
loses force, but mar.-gemcnt
is not likely to absorb this
force. It will surely go to the
third element in this troika,
government.
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Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
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