FOUR HERALD AND NEWS
."ueiday, April 17, 1945
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1 By MALCOLM EPLEY
SPACE is short today on this page, and we 11
depart from usual style to jam some random
thoughts into a shorty . . . And we'll dedicate
the column to The Herald and
News' tough struggle with the
wartime paper shortage.
Fire has wiped out one of
this area's unique industries
at Likely, near Alturas, where
a peat moss plant burned down
. . , We join Modoc people in
the hope the plant can be re
built . . . There's a full-fledged
political campaign going on at
Klamath Union high school
prior to election of next year's
student body officers . . . The EPLEY
kids know all the tricks ... A "very friendly
subscriber" has written us about a story in our
favorite sheet which says that babies born at
the Tulelake WRA center last year totaled 488.
246 boys and 242 girls . . . "Not even rabbits
could match that record," says our correspond
ent, intimating that thefigures prove Japs are
rats . . . Persons frightened by the quoted
figures will get some reassurance out of the
fact they should have read: "Totaled 488, in
cluding 246 boys and 242 girls."
Klamath Elks were especially thrilled by Wes
Guderian's striking picture the other day of
-the Elks flag at half mast . . . The banner,
whipping in the breeze, provided a framework
for the clock on the front of the Elks temple
with the hands standing at 11, the Elks' "tender
hour of recollection" . . . Mr. Roosevelt was a
member of New York Elks Lodge No. 1 . . . The
picture also illustrated the classic beauty of the
Klamath Elks building, which does much to
lift the architectural level of our town.
Maintaining friendly relationships with sur
rounding communities should be a constant
Klamath objective . . Helpful along that line
will be a visit by a group of Klamath people
under chamber of commerce auspices to Alturas
for a meeting of the Modoc county defense
council April 25 . , . Interested people should
get In touch with the chamber regarding this
trip ,i,We well remember the friendly meet
ings that used to be held by Klamath and Lake
county chamber officials . . , They were omitted
in recent years because of the war, but they
should be resumed soon . , . Recently, Klamath
has strengthened its relationships with Bend,
and we should do more along that line.
News Behind ihe News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, April 17 The coal mine
wage settlement is a joke a grim joke
upon the government and its wage policies per
petrated by the - old policy-scuttler John L.
Lewis. . : . ..
They made it look real. Lewis and the
operators handed out to the public earnest state
ments dripping with literary perspiration from
their six weeks of dual negotiations, adding
!t..,. ), nf nnnrsp ahem there w
Ull UHMWIWItO -,..
a small matter of the government approving
the wage boosts and the price hikes to be mude
livraijui jr .w ' -o-
They inspired news accounts suggesting , the
hourly base rate was noi increwcu uu uro
inAHacoe nniittnnji. liinrh hours, travel
lUUUGil HIMhlUV, . , ,
pay, etc.) were in accord generally with war
labor board policy, implying government bp
proval therefore was a mere matter of routine
What they really did was to shatter the gov
eminent s little sieei lormuia ay ourjiuu um
evasions to an extreme which makes mockery
rt it Tt-tn Fur-tc Ul-P tllPKP!
The miners already were receiving wages
above the little steel formula under the old
contract. They had received allowances for
lunch time, vacation time, travel time, under
ground, and "practically everything except
breathing tune aner nouis, dlu-uhik uu icuco
lion lime. ,
Ordinarily the operators would have stood
for the little steel lormuia or lor any practical
means of avoiding cost increases which will
inflate the nation's coal bill another $150,000
000 annually and may hurt their business.
' Operators Double Crossed
rMJT my inner information is they felt they
D had been doublecrossed by the government
in previous stands upon this ground, Une gov
ernment encouraged them to resist Lewis, and
then in the last four strikes, gave no help in
resistinc him.
This time, just before the agreement was
announced, the disagreeable Mr. Ickes had begun
seizing their mines, taking first the captives of
the steel companies. Rather than nom tne line
for an administration they could not count on.
they let Lewis have his way and pushed the
whole matter right up to war labor board and
office of price administration.
Now the Lewis deal really constitutes a new
labor onslaught upon the little steel formula.
That economic policy becomes obsolete if labor
can get wage increases as high as Id to ZO
per cent around and outside it.
The Lewis formula shows all labor how to
crush the administration policy and if the
WLB and OPA accept it, all labor will be
upon them seeking similar allowances for stand
ing time, sitting time, walking time and talking
time. By whittling it down they may save
some face, but not much else. The government
simply cannot get away from the fact that
anything it gives is a violation of its formula.
Consequently AFL and CIO are watching Lewis
approvingly, and with a grin on their faces,
to see how government will get out of this
new hole.
May Hole Up
IT may decide to hide away in the hole for a
few weeks. The government's economic di
rectors have already promised to break their
hold-this-line order after V-E day. WLB might
then accept a goodly portion of the Lewis pro
position without too much embarrassment. Lewis
is not in a hurry as the agreement provides any
increases must be retroactive. - i
" During the- Lewis-operator negotiations, an
attempt was made to handle the problem in a
' new way - by bringing it under the wing of
Frances Perkins, the labor secretary, instead of
the curmudgeon or the war labor board. Lewis
did his part, and was perfectly willing to accept
Miss Perkins' direction. But the operators
played safe by -throwing the matter into . the
board.
That Is about the only point they won, .ex
cepting exclusion of the preposterous Lewis
demand to collect a tax of 10 cents a ton on
coal. This will not greatly grieve Lewis, how-ever,-as
the increases he got will cost 25 cents
a ton more than twice the proposed tax.
Thus proceeds labor-wage negotiations in the
thirteenth year of this . labor government. It
is getting to 'be a tricky business.
Market
Quotations
NEW YORK, April 17 fAP) Profit
cashing stemmed the stock, market
bulge today and, while rails and as
sorted industrials continued to advance
many recent climbers backed into the
minus column.
Closing quotations:
American Can , , sg
Am Car & Fdy rr.r 431'.
Am Tel & Tel . AV
Anaconda , 33s
Calif Packing . 33-
"v 34
Commonwealth St Sou
uums-wngnt ... ,.,
General Electric
General Motors
Gt Nor By pfd
Illinois Central M .
Int Harvester
Kennecott
Lock need
. 43
. 68
. 333',
Long-Bell A"
Montgomery Ward ,
Nash-Xelv
N Y Central
Northern Pacific
Pac Gas c El
Packard Motor
Penna R R
Republic Steel
Hichficld OH
Safeway Stores
Sears Roebuck
Southern Pacific
Standard Brands .
Sunshine Mining
Trans-America
Union Oil Calif
Union Pacific
U S Steel :.....
Warner Pictures ..
24 i
23
37',
6
. 37U
23
..... 227 i
,.-.106 ,
44i
32B
,. 14' i
11 "4
24'.',
8Gfc
14i
Potatoes
LOS ANGELES. April 17 fAP-WFA
Potatoes: 8 broken, 11 unbroken cars on
track; arrivals Idaho 5. Maine 1, New
York 3, Utah 1; by truck from California
3; no sales.
SAN rRANCISCO, April 17 fAP-WFAl
Potatoes: 8 broken, 7 unbroken cars on
track; arrive Is California 1. Washington
1, Colorado 1, Maine 1; market firm;
Idaho Russets No. 1, $4.20; Oregon
- Deschutes district Russets, culls, 30-lb.
sacks. S1.70. 4
New stock: 1 broken, 1 unbroken car
on track; arrivals Texas 2. Florida 1,
CHICAGO, April 17 AP) Potatoes:
arrivals 27, on track 98; total u. S.
shipments 428.
Old stocks: offerings very light., for
'. best stocks demand very good, market
firm.
New stock;: none available InrW in
today s truck market. Maine Katahdlns.
awl stock $4.15; New York .Green
Mountain U. B. No. 1, S3.55; Wisconsin
Chlppewas. seed Uxk $3 23; Mtf neiota
North Dakota .CoVbin, commercials
$3.00. .--. " J
It's a "frozen" article you
need, advertise for a) used one
in the classified.
LIVESTOCK
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, April 17
nr-ntm wme sajaoie uu; uneven,
steers 25 cents lower, fed good $16.00;
??k"!8e comjnon 914 lb. Holstelns
$12.50; medium 914.00; she -stock 25-50
cents higher; few fed cows 911.79; com
mon largely 310.00-11.00; canners and
cutters S7.50-9.00; - odd 1600 lb. sausage
bulls $12.00; calves salable none;
nominal; good to choice quoted $15.00-
Miauiu ou; nrm; iew pacKages
good 160-300 lb. barrows and gilts $15.75;
Sheep salable 650; past two days
iiuiy sieaay; jate Monday deck
good to choice 99 lb. spring lambs $15.50,
extreme tnn arming IWin V... a
74-81 lb. spring lambs $15.00; complete
clearance.
April xi lAP-wr A"
Salable cattle 100. total 150; salable and
total calves 23; market active on limited
supply, mostly steady; few common-low
medium steers S12.00-13.23; good-choice
fed steers salable S16.50-17.00; cutter
common heifers $9.00-11.00; canner
cutter cows $7.00-10.00: fat dairy type
" meaium Dee 1 cows
Sjl-50-12.00; medium-good sausage bulls
cull-common grade $9.00-10.00.
u9S .u, iWUU mantel
u h8teady; outchers mostly $15.73;
z. 1 : v.8'" Bwa rows 9ia.uu:
choice 81 lb. feeder pigs $18.00.
Salable and total sheep 50; practically
yucicu, jfuuu-cnoice wooieo ana
spring lambs salable around $15.50-
di1m eca $8.00; good ewes salable
58.50 and above shorn ewes quotable
$6,75 down.
v..nv,nuu. "pni if (Afi sye rallied
sharply toward the close today on the
strength of the Winnipeg market, re
covering most of the day's losses.
.u ryts ana re-
-w . , .v. iiiwtc wii ceni irom ine
; low of the day. The demand was re-
garaea as snort covering.
' "pciwug mc marxei was de
pressed by lack of demand.
Corn gained strength with wheat and
rye at the close but was off important
fractions. Barley and oats followed
other grains. .
At tVi. ...1 1. .
... u.v w,wk wncut whs 10 l cent
lower than yesterday's close. Mw
$1.74,. Com was Vic higher to Tic
ower. May $1.44',. Oats were to l".e
lower. May 66Hc. Rye was ,c higher
to 1c lower. May $1.33li-V. Barley
-: w i'mc tower, way i.0G3,
OBITUARY
HENRY HARPER IRWIN
. YT .. l"r". Jorraer resiaent
of the Poe valley district, passed away
til Vi . '. inu"aay. April 12.
.--w, iV)iunrin iwh uiness. ine de
ceased was a native of Ponca. Oklahoma.
w" to years, iu months and
vL ",,cu- urvivea ny
a brother. Leonard P. Irwin of Napa,
If, i " win, veniu OUimilie.
Velma Cave, Sarah May Elusbuary, and
son, Man! on Irwin -of Areata. Calif.; a
sister-in-law. Mrs. J. P. Sexton of
The remains Vest In Ward's Klamath
funwBi nme, vto mgn, wnere friends
may call.
CHICAGO. April 17 (AP-WFA1 Sal
able hogs. 6000; total, 10.500; active.
and gilts 140-lbs. at $14.75 ceiling; good
clearance.
Salable cattle. 8000; total, B000; salable
j..t, i luw. icq steers ana year
lings, including yearlings heifers, steady:
"'"-'- nt.iyc, ineuium ana
good offerings active, medium and good
grades slow; top steer $17.75; heifers
April price for heifers on record! bulk
aluxra RIROn.17 7. mn .in i
dium: bulls steady to strong, vealers",
steady: both beef cows $10.00-13.30; cut-
w -so.jw ouwn; pracucai top weight
sausage bull $13.00 and outstde on heavy
fBt hulls ahmil n T '
Salable sheep, 356o;' total, 3300; scat
tered early sales slaughter lambs strong
Colorado fed Iambs $18.75: bidding
s".."" M.i gwu dim tnoice lamDS WIM
asking prices up to $17.25; load mixed
common to good shorn lambs. No. 1
pelts $14.00 straight: sheep scarce,
steady, odd lot shorn native ewes $6.28.
Portland cement received its
name Because it hardens into a
mass resembling the Portland
stone in England.
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED
U fllN NO HflHplTAI.IZATION
no L,oii oy Time
Permanent fitesuitsi
DR. E. M. (MARSHA
n,l,nnH.M.V m ... '
Every Day Is
SOMEBODY'S
BIRTHDAY!
ROBES $8.50 to $25
Terry cloth, rayon, part wool
and all wool,
RUDY'S
600 Main ,
WHEAT
VITAL STATISTICS
HOLMES Born t Klamath Vally
1045. to Mr. and Mm. otto Holmei. 4IMI
nlr',?,d..',"! a glrl- Well": pound,
o'j ounces.
GBHRtfg- Born at Klamath Valley
toMr. and Mrs. O.' E. Gehrke. 3320
Ytiu. nn weigm; 7 pounas
Girls.
Women
are you
from loss of
Hera's One Of The Best Home Wajt
To Build Up RED BLOOD!
Tou girls who suffer from etmple
anemia- or who lose so much during
monthly periods that you are pile, feel
tired, weak, "dragged out" tola may
be due to low blood-Iron.
So atart today try Lydla J5. Pink
Bam'a tablets one of the greateefe
blood-Iron tonics you can buy to help
build up red blood to glre more
etrengtb. and energy in such cases.
Taken aa directed HnkhanVs Tab.
lets are one of- tbe very beat borne waya
to get precious iron Into the blood.
Tbey help build up the bed qualttt
of tbe blood by reinforcing the haemo
globin of red blood cells.
Just try Plnkham's Tablets for 30 days
then see If you, too, don't remarkably
benefit. Follow label directions.
lydial'Pinkham'jTACtCTS
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SIDE GLANCES
eeifciwweellrvieta.T.M.te.aaAT.ff.
Tm sure I saw vou hidinB something under that counter,
voting-lady! I "don't know what it was, but if there s
any under-the-counter selling going on here l want my
- share!"
Increase in Rates
For Fuel Requested
PORTLAND, April 17 UP)
The Portland Gas and Coke
company has asked the state pub
lic utility commissioner and the
Washington department of pub
lic st-rvlces to approve Increases
in rates for gas fuel for house
heating.
The company said Its operation
costs will climb $300,000 an
nually through expiration of a
pre-war fuel contract. Also, the
OPA has been asked to approve
I an increase in briquet prices.
msmim
ISM
' rani i:,ifl ,ri'2w' s; jna
From Ihe Klamalh Republican
April 20, 190J
Abel Ady of Cnllfomla has
bouulit the west aide llveo
stable hero.
.
R. C. Spink has gone to Che
muwn with seven Indian chil
dren, who will conclude thell'
education l Uic Salem Institu
tion. . . ,
From the Evening Herald
April 17. 1935
Fair, cooler weather today dls.
pelled the danger of floods In
the Sprugiic river area,
About 25 members of the local
Elks lodge went to Ashland last
night to pay a good-will visit to
the Ashland lodge.
BACKACHE,
LEG PAINS MAY
BE DANGER SIGN
Of Tired Kidney
If tw.rkrh nl If HM WfWw l
mUpnl'fo.ilutVt jt ct'iiii'Uin wl lo no(hiti
ftUmt ( hvm. nto niy 1 w niu you Uil
liur kklurya livrtl tlrntlM.
t bA Utlnr- ie Nature rblt! wny o(Uklt
ftrroa mla nrnl pntfonuiM at out cl tti
Ww.l, Thty help wort ptvpl p boul J
!lh 14 .! "I VWny tvbm and ftlttrt
don't work nrll. poloru ! niltr Uy
In Ilia Mhx1.Tii noltwrw miy trlart tuciio
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ip anl rnctty, nulng up nthu, wrllmi.
putlinw uolcf Itio yt, liwlrli ml dtiil
dcw. Kriunt ur in-Biiiy pww tth mwl
iri ik! Inif iiiog ctuf-t inww liiwt h-r U iny
IbTnx wrunt ub your kulu or llWr
lH.n l .iil A.-k vtnir druxnUt (or lko)
rilh, wl nuccwwJtilb' t-y rilllwu vt ovft
mrt, Tbv Btve htypy tttirt n.l brlr
Itio ! imlni ol Wi.lnry (iil Until "Ml p.'Uoti
uua vuli Iruuj Uta tiloou. 0t Dva 1 iUa
SI PROGRESSING
Vernon Moore, chairman of
the UNRRA clothing drive),
sponsored by tho Lions' club
stated his gratification for the
reaiKinsn of Kluinalh peop'" 10
tho drive.
Moore said clothing la com.
Inn In In tubsUntlal quantities
...j . .i,imrnt nf 100 nounda
will be annt from here probab
ly Thursday or rnimy. "
lis collections reach 100 pounds,
, ...Ill l,n ninrln. and
llipim.nt ,,
evuryone l urged to continue
to bring wearaoio ni"'ul,
to the weighing depots.
The police department Is a-
abUnrtn aortlng .
'.Mio alx type u? IJ! ' hllt
sired for the ,iri.L."rnnli?
cd Into the p.uiH.Y;r;w
pnckuuvH for
on H,,,o. Tllu
- WW
is 1413 Main.
LOMBARDt DISLlKEeTr
I.ntnl.Mrrll nf it.. -'.."'".
down to ? walk KJISLS
and aoctiml lifter 111 ttltTW 'if
in batt nu nrurii..: ' the b.
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HISSEH'S INSTlfllTi
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Ladies' Work Gloves
All-Leather
Ladies' Vork Slacks
Ten Herringbone
Boys' Waist Overalls
Slies 10 to It
Oregon Woolen Store
00 Meln Street
SHOULD MANAGEMENT
BE
A Statement by General Motors
UNIONIZED?
A HE National Labor Relations Board
has ordered a bargaining election among
the foremen and other supervisory
groups.of a Detroit automobile company.
This company is not a part of General
Motors, .but we. are concerned with the
principles involved.
This confusing action by the Board
means that it is sanctioning and pro
moting the unionization of management
personnel, in spite of the fact that the
National Labor Relations Act includes
as an employer ". . . any person acting
in the. interests of an employer directly,
or indirectly." '
We are sure that Congress did not
intend to approve unionization of man
agement when it passed the Act
The results if applied throughout indus-
try would be bad for the management
groups involved, bad for industry, bad
for labor, bad for America.
Bad for Foremen
We think it would be bad for foremen
if American industry should be com
pelled to make a change in its proven
type of organization, which would un
avoidably reduce, the foreman's status,
diminish his responsibility, authority '
and influence, decrease his opportunities
. for personal advancement.
In General Motors, foremen have always
had' important responsibilities and
authority.
We have always guarded the status of
our foremen, and have provided special
training to improve their abilities, in
crease their efficiency and enhance their
opportunities for promotion to even
" more important management positions.
The great majority of General Motors' .
principal executives at one time were
foremen.
Vfe are convinced that it would be im
possible for a foreman to follow both
management and union leaderships at
the same time, and under those condi
: tions to carry on all his duties as they
now exist. All elements of management
must have a common objective.
It would obviously be impossible, for
instance, for him as a fellow unionist .
with those under him, to perform his
functions which relate to their working .
conditions, wages, promotions and as- .
signments on the unbiased basis which
is essential to good management.
Bad for Industry
From our experience both 'before and
during the war, we are certain that the
.... THE POSITION
OF FOREMEN IN
GENERAL MOTORS .
In General Motors, foremen are the
MANAGERS of tbeir departments.
Tbey participate in establishing man
agement policies iu both production
and personnel matters. Tbey have
full authority to approve or disap
prove the hiring, to supervise toe
work, and to make work assignments
of tbe employes under tbeir super
vision. They initiate wage increases,
transfers and promotions. Tbey are
directly responsible for tbe efficiency
and safety of tbeir group. Tbey have
full authority when necessary to take
immediate, appropriate disciplinary
action for violation of shop rules,
and other improper conduct of tbeir
employes. Tbey are tbe first point of
. management contact and make tbe
first management decision on alt
matters relating to Ihe employes
under their direction.
- I
accepted American method of spreading
managerial authority and responsibility
among foremeu-so that management is
in close, direct contact with compara
tively small groups of workmen-is the
best and only sound method of handling
day-to-day relations with the thousands
of employes engaged in modern mass
. production.
Anything which would require a change
; in this set-up would interfere with employer-employe
relations and with pro
duction. For example, there have been many
strikes in war production plants, par
ticularly in Michigan. Charges have
been made that workmen, haye been
loafing in plants engaged in war pro-
duction and that they are being, paid
high wages for not working. We are
conscious that the public feefs that there
must be something wrong. The. attempt
to tear down the position and authority
of foremen and to unionize members of
management is importantly contribut
ing to this condition. ;
Bad for Labor
As a matter of fact, the close-contact
method is about the only way that man-
agement and labor can work harmonU
ously together In largo organizations.
Much is said those days about coopera
tion. It would be a serious handicap to
any hopes for teamwork and tbe pursuit
of common interests, if anything wcro
done to remove this facility for knowing
and understanding each other.
It is our firm, sincere belief that loss
of this closo contact would make har
monious relations between management
and labor almost impossible and would
interfere with practical collective bar
gaining. Bad for America
The removal of forcmori, from their
present position as a vital, Integral part
of management would require reorgani- '
nation of factory management on a basis
far more complicated and decidedly less
effective. Necessary factory discipline
would suffer, worker efficiency would .
be impaired. , j
We believe the effect on you-on the
public as a whole-would.be very; real.
It would interfere with the war effort.
It would make war materials cost more.
It would slow up postwar reconversion
to civilian production. ; "
It would delny adequate postwar output
of cars, refrigerators, ranges, furniture
-all the things peoplo need so. much and
have waited for so long. , ,
Flnally-and, In the long run,-perhaps
most important of all-it would so in
crease production costs as to boost
prices and the cost of living,' and make
the problem of reasonably full employ
ment much more difficult. .... . .
Action Called For
When peoplo have as deep a conviction
about anything as we have about union
izing management, .they ought to do
something about it.
If the meaning of the National Labor
Relations Act can bo so confused as to ;
promote unionization of management- ;
and thus impair the effectiveness of the
American production system of ;which
we are all. so proud-then the meaning
ought to bo cleared up.' . .
General Motors believes - and hopes
others will feel the same-that it is a
patriotic duty, a duty to the foremen, to -industry,
to labor, and to the public as ,
a whole-to oppose the unionization of
management by every proper and law- .
ful means. ...
That is our intention,
GENERAL
MOTORS
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