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PAGE A HERALD ANT) NEWS. Klamath Falll, Oregon Thursday, May , 196J EDSON IN WASHINGTON Railway Labor Issue Could Bring Changes ". . . And Let's Not Change the Style, Ludwig!' ; It is fitting, we think, for the times, that wo reflect ok the unusual wisdom and writing talents of St. Francis of Assisi, who gives us these words to ponder: "Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. : "0 Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be Wheat Referendum Vote On Tuesday, the 21st of May, the wheat farmers of this country will make a decision which with full justification is described as one ". . . of extreme importance to American agriculture. . . ." The outcome of this refer endum to be conducted by the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture, will go far beyond the desires and problems of the wheat farmers alone. It will have far-reaching effects one way or the other upon all farmers, processors and consumers. The referendum will call for a yes or no vote on a plan providing unprecedentedly strict acreage allotments and marketing quo tas. The Secretary of Agriculture would be given vast powers to regulate all handlers, processors, and distributors of wheat, all the way from the farm to the consumer. The pro posed compulsory wheat program is designed to dovetail with similar proposals for other grains. Should this happen, the livestock feed grains would inevitably come within the system, and the nation's meal production would be definitely, perhaps drastically, af fected. The vote, according to observers, is apt to be a close one. There is a belief that large numbers of farmers, busy with planting and other chores, won't turn up. The argument presented in favor of a yes vote Is that it would produce $2 per bushel as against $1 per bushel wheat. The Secretary of Agri culture is authority for this. But there are grave doubts that his view is a correct one. The market system, plus existing support plans, plus restrictions on the sale of Com modity Credit Corporation stocks, plus the ever-present possibility that Congress would act should a crisis occur, supports these doubts. Itichard Wilson, Washington correspon lis! IN WASHINGTON Jfr NLRB By RALPH do TOLEDANO When the National Labor Rela tions Board was created, its (unc tion ni simply to supervise col lective bargaining. In the yean since, it has set itself up as prose cutor, judge, and jury. That these powers, sometimes In direct violation of the statutes as enact ed by Congress, usually favor un ions is no reason for the labor movement to applaud them. A swing of the pendulum could have the NLRB acting as arbitrarily and Illegally against the unions it now coddles. The extent ol the perversion of law and logic by the NLRB is hardly realiicd by Americans. But the present chairman of the NLUB has stated that the body's role Is not to carry out policy set down by Congress hut to create that policy. Tho NLRB. more over, has repeatedly held that precedents set by the Federal courts in labor-management cas es are not binding on its future decisions. Labor and manage ment, guiding their actions by these decisions, have found them selves In trouble when the NLBB, in effect, has overruled the courts. It will come as a surprise to most citizens tliat in the Ilnynes Stelle case, the NLUB ruled that management was un fair because it told the truth to Its workers. In the Barker Brothers case, however, the NLRB ruled that the union was not unfair even though It had lied to the workers. In short, the NLRB has set up two classes of citizens and two sots of books. Labor has Ore right of free speech in dealing with workers. Management does not. though this is guaranteed by the law. Management must hew to the letter of the law, as Inter preted" by the NLRB. Labor, however, hai been allowed wide latitude and given the "right" to ignore certain provisions of Taft Hartley and LaivlrumCrlffin two laws on labor-management which the NLRB does not like. Congress has already begun to stir restlessly, but the pressure An Instrument Of Acts Arbitrarily from the politicians has kept this down to a minimum. The House Committee on Education and Id bor. some years ago, felt com pelled to warn that in neither the Wagner Ait nor the Tatt Hartlcy Act "did Congress dele gate i to tlie NLUB or any otlicr instrumentality) any discretion to determine what the country" la bor policy ought to be." Tlw NLRB, having assumed a policy-making posture, has gone beyond ignoring the courts and the Congress. In a scries of de cisions, it has made it plain that an employer cannot even be guid ed by NLUB precedents. Having "interpreted" the law in one way yesterday, the NI.I1B sets its own decision on its ear by com ing to new and radically riiller ent conclusions today based on what Its members "feel" to be the national interest. Interestingly enough. I lie NLUB has reinstiluted one of the abuses that led to Uie American Revolution. According to the Con stitution, to the common law, and to ordinary decency, no man can be tried for any art ion which was not a crime at the time he committed it. Tins would make him guilty ex post facto To put it in very simple terms, if a city council reduces the speed limit from 50 to 2.1 miles an hour, no man can he arrested because he drove 50 miles an hour before the new regulations were passed. Not so with t h e NLRB, which held otherwise In tlie Town & Country case. Em ployers who have followed the die talcs of tlie NLRB have been fined and otherwise ponnlifod sub sequently, when those dictates have suddenly been changed. It will also come as a sur prise to some that the NLUB has ruled that a company cannot go out ol business without the permission of the union. The Dar lington Mills case was the first In Ulis category, but there have been others. Tht right of a com pany to dispo.ee of its property and to make contractual and sub- Peace understood as to understand, to be loved 'as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." We do not mean to be preaching St. Francis' eloquent words speak for themselves. We would only ask that every reader, in study ing these simple phrases apply them to his or her actions and thoughts in analyzing the course of action pursued. It is not more dif ficult to be constructive than it is to be de structive that is the message St. Francis brings to us. Important dent for the Dcs Moines, Iowa, Register, has provided a forthright argument against ap proval of the proposal presented in this com ing referendum. As he sees it, wheat farmers are being asked to decide "whether to take the final plunge into the strictest form of con trol and regimentation of private enterprise ever seriously proposed in this country." Then he says: "The absurd claim is made . . . that farmers are choosing between $2 per bushel and $1 per bushel wheat. This is not even sta tistically correct. . . . This is so unrealistic that few farmers will be fooled. "Farmers won't be left in the lurch. They are given a chance now to escape a new regi mentation that they will come to hate even ' more than some of them detest their present restrictions. If the wheat farmers say no, Con gress will come immediately to grips with this problem again, and there is no lack of effective programs which could be enacted. "The choice is not between $2 and $1 wheat. It is a choice of freedom and responsi bility or the intensification of control systems which haven't yet been able to do the job." Another dissenting voice is that of Pres ident Shuman of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Here, In a sentence, is the sub stance of a case he has developed in detail: "A 'no' vote in the referendum would be a signal to discard the outmoded farm program concepts of the depression thirties that have created burdensome surpluses in the con trolled commodities and move in the direction of a dynamic and expanding agricultural econ omy." The lale will be told on the 21st of May. It is unthinkable that once independent farm ers will vote away their freedom, as they are now being pressured to do, by the public of ficials who would be their bosses. contractual arrangements has been rescinded by the NLUB. In the Town & Country case I mentioned, the board ruled that the company was "unfair" and should have consulted with the union in advance. This harks back to an old pro posal by UAW President Walter Hcuthor, w ho urged that tlie num ber of cars produced each year should be determined by a na tional referendum. Mr. Reuthcr, in another plan, called for union participation In all production de cisions of management. In short, the NLRB is busily writing off those guarantees of "life, liberty, and properly" in scribed in the Constitution. It is hardly any wonder that increas ingly there is sentiment for some restraint on the NLItU's open seizure of improper powers. Almanac By United I'ress International Today Is Thursday. May 9. the ISith day of lttu with ::Ki to fol low. Hie moon is approaching its last quarter. Tlie morning stars are Venus. Saturn and Jupiter. The evening star is Mais. Those born on this date include abolitionist John Brown in I Boo. On this day in history: In 15(0. Christopher Columbus, accompanied by his 13-year old son. set out Irom Spain on his fourth and last voyage to the new workl. In Commander Riihard E. Byrd of tlie U.S. Navy and Hovel Bennett became tlw first men to fly over the North Pole. In 1W3, the Natis began their series of book burnings by throw ing 15,000 books into a huge bon fire in Berlin. In I'.HH, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated, yielding tlie throne to his son. Crown Prince Humbert THE GLOBAL VIEW No Decline, In Prestige Of Castro By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst MEXICO CITY (NEAI - There is little evidence below the Rio Grande to back the Kennedy Ad ministration's view that Fidel Castro's popu larity is on the decline in Latin , m America. Vf- ?3n tAs T from w W I hnra tho nunc. optimistic report by deLesseps S. Morrison. U.S. Ambassador to i tlie Organization of American States, that Castro's prestige "has taken a real nose dive" was more wishful thinking than fact. for the act is that even in Mexico which claims to have had its socialist revolution more than SO years ago and needs no inspiration from Cuba Castro's image as the "Yanqui Killer" is brighter than ever. After the Cuban crisis last Oc tober, which revealed Castro as a Russian puppet, some Latin American "revolutionary intellec tuals" were beginning to have second thoughts about the inde pendence of Havana's bearded dictator. Rut all doubts were soon dispelled by President Kennedy's failure to press tlie terms of his "dismantling" ultimatum to Pre mier Khrushchev which called for on-site inspection in Cuba. Rightly or wrongly, some Latin American politicians are con vinced that there is a secret deal on Cuba between the United States and Russia. This conviction has been reinforced by President Kennedy's feud with the anti-Castro exiles from Cuba. "How do we know what con cessions President Kennedy muie to Khrushchev in their private correspondence?" a foreign poli cy expert of Mexico's dominant Party ol Revolutionary Institu tions asked this writer. "The fact is that the United States accepted meekly Kidel Castro's ban on on site inspection "This was the first time in history that mighty North Ameri ca was really thwarted by a tiny Latin American nation." Even Latin American politicians and opinion makers who oppose Castro and castigate him in pri vate fear to criticize him publicly- En route to Mexico, this writer attended a Pan American con ference of Journalists called to discuss the positive and negative features of the Alliance for Progress. A majority of tlie I-atin Ameri can tournalists who took part ,n the New Orleans conference were quite uninhibited in their verbal shatts against "Yanqui imperia lism." The "progressive" newsmen ac cused the United States of the old charge of "exporting capita lism" through the Alliance lor Progress in an elfort to enslave Latin America. Latin Americans ol rightist per suasions objected to the (act that the Alliance for Progress stressed social, agricultural, economic and tax reforms. They saw the Alli ance as a sinister conspiracy to "soak the rich " Thus, the right ists in turn charged tlie Kennedy Administration with "exporting socialism" to Latin America However, in three days of dis cussions there was hardly any net eirnce to Castro s and Mus- 1'' 'M By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The trouble with the conserva tive approach to society is that it wants to deal with men as they used to he, and the trouble with the liberal approach is that it wants to deal with men as they ought to be; thus, men as they are tend to be ignored by doctrin aires of both factions. It is easier to make history than to write It: the lunatic who killed Lincoln made It, hut no single historian has yet suc ceeded In giving us the defin ite portrait of the Civil War and Its altermath, despite thousands cow's attempts to subvert Latin America. As though by ignoring Ihe unpleasant subjects they would cease to exist. It is, of course, foolhardy to blame President Kennedy or his administration lor the failure of U.S. propaganda in Latin Amer ica. Many U.S. officials and dip lomats serving below the Rio Grande, especially in Mcxicu, arc com)etent and dedicated men and women. Unfortunately, tlicy face heart breaking problems which arc rooted deeply in the history, economic development and social psychology of Latin America. But it is just as foolhardy tn ignore reality. It is dangerous di plomacy to view tlie relations be tween the United States and La tin Ameriia through rose-colored glasses r-nd ignore tlie fact Uiat Castro's image as anti-Yankee leader of a successful "anti-imperialist revolution" remains un tarnished. Vegetable Talk ACROSS Infatuation Punitive Palm leaf (var ) Coterie Search Oraneered vegetable 1 Hardy catibase JJ s of Irllute S Red vegetable 12 Assam nUworm 11 Guldn s not 14 Within (comb, f firm I 15 Termini is Intention 17 solar disk is Squatter 20 ChanRi-a Scope Rov a name Cat icomb. form! Bin Lubricant Visit Italian city Seottlih "no" Lertte plant DOWN Sharp Vinnuh name Covers Oriental Brums Samuel'! teacher iPib ) Impairing V2 Ritter vetch 1 Aeriform fuel J4 Notch 27 Vigor 21 Hoot 51 Mine 52 Stiitar 3.1 Vfakt I miltakt 34 Pm 35 Circle 3 Hamlet for ont 37 Kxister) ' uagei 1 12 13 14 I 5 16 7 I 8 9 10 ill i2 il Ti 15 16 17 18 19 " 20 2T 1 22 23 J 11 IT IT 26 Or 28 31 r"" J2 33 uJ 3 35 36 140 ""'Ul ' 42 43 44 ! 46 47 48 49 "50"SI "5l 53 54 5S 55 57 a e STRICTLY PERSONAL ot books on the subject in the last century. The author who sits down to write a certain book or play, and knows exactly what he in tends to say in it, and keeps un swervingly to this original pur posesuch a man cannot write a genuinely imaginative or cre ative work, for unless tlie cre ation takes over and guides the author to a purpose and in a dirccUon he did not conceive in the beginning, his work will be stillborn. When a person says with great finality, "I know my own mind," what lie commonly means is that his feelings have ordered his mind to stop thinking on the subject. Why Uie country life is called "Ihe simple life" has always baf fled me in terms of the diverse number of - things one needs to know, and uie multifarious activ ities one needs to engage in. the country life is the most complex of all: but its very complexity provides a personal satisfaction not found in the automatism of urban living. A certain amount of jealousy is natural and reasonable: but the unreasonably jealous man. lar from valuing his wife or sweet heart, is really depreciating her. for his jealousy is based on tlie hidden assumption that she will easily capitulate to anyone at tractive who comes along, that she is cheap, easy and fickle. Answer to Previous Pullle tT.A'-f ;1tiaTTl 3 tl iM'gmae'fe'A 9 drifted trwr ) lOi.trman itr'im 11 1'nits of wright IP Bffort 21 Hilt 24 Kit. bottom! lvat 30 Rovtrt city .1".! Formal ulo0 M rhest rati l .W Duparagc 39 Lum 40 Hrinfu 41 Palanc 42 ViMKt 43 Aejfl 4 Ertrt 47 MiipM WiriM 4 Ceramic piece M Narrow inW 25 Final musical parage Nam mtii!i 27 Weathercock 29 TnM. wine TVIIMir SE,AN PIEA tTt77Pl Ik I Hi A rs rl i t sKssTFI Ie-V" Mig-i? IE By PETER EDSOV Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEAI Wheth er new restrictive labor legisla tion comes out of Congress this year may be determined by the outcome of the railway labor work rules issue. President Kennedy's Emergen cy Board reviewing this four-year-old dispute between America's railroads and their on-train em ployes is expected to file its re purt about May 10. Members of this board are judge Samuel I. Rosenman of New York, President Clark Kerr of University of California and Nathan P. Fcinsinger, University of Wisconsin law professor. All three have been fact-finders and arbitrators in numerous labor dis putes for 25 years. There will be SO days after the board reports for tlie carriers and the brotherhoods to work out a settlement. If they do, and if there is no strike, pressure for new legisla tion to restrict unions is expected to vanish in Congress. But three times this year rep resentatives of railroad manasc ment have walked out of negotia tions on tlie work rules issue. They have insisted upon accept ance of the 12 recommendations of a 15-membcr Special Railroad Commission appointed by Kenne dybacked by a Supreme Court decision on March 4 upholding the right of management In change work rules. Representatives of the operat ing brotherhoods have been just as adamant in opposing the work rules changes they claim would destroy 65,000 jobs. If coming negotiations end in stalemate and there is a strike. Congress wiU have a new reason for legislating to protect the pub lic interest. A new labor bill just introduced by Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., is regarded as significant in this connection. He proposes that the strike provisions of both the Rail way Labor and Taft-Hartley Act be amended. He would authorize the Presi dent tn appoint boards of inqui ry into labor disputes. These boards would be given a new power to make recommendations for settlement, in addition fact finding. In place of the 80-day court in junctions now obtainable under Taft-Hartley for "cooling - off" periods, the Javits hill would pro By FULTON LEWIS .lit. Soviet missiles, capable of rain ing nuclear destruction on U.S. cities, remain in Cuba. Tlie charge is made by Ruby Hart Phillips, one of the coun try's foremost experts on Castrn Cuba. Mrs. Phillips, for more than two decades the New York Times' Havana correspondent, left Cuba in ltlfil and now writes from Miami. Her pipelines into Cuba are known (or (heir accuracy. In a telephone interview witli my associate. Bill Schuli, Mrs. Phillips was blunt: "Intermediate range ballistic missiles with a range o( fm Tun miles are stationed throughout Cuba. There is no question about that." The charge is backed up by two Americans who returned re cently from Cuba alter eight years. They turned ncr volumin ous inhumation to thp Central Intelligence Aeency and broad cast thrir story over Radio Sta tion WtiBS. Miami. The station did not disclose their names for fear of reprisals against friends in Cuba. Their report is based on firsthand knowlcdce plus what "completely reliable" sources as well as Rus sianstold them- At !cat l.Onn two-st.ise. 4.Vfoot rockets with a minimum ranee of .100 miles are in Cuba, many of them stored in caves. Tlie Soviets have cleaned out. reinforced and ventilated about 50 hute natural caves in Orionte and Ijis Villas Provinces alone and are using them as military droits for tanks, rockets and planes Submarine "pens" hap been huilt under the guise of "fishing ports" at Muriel, near Havana, am! at Bancs, in tincnie Prov ince These service an estimated 50 Russian bloc subs operating in and around Cuba. Hull-speed vessels, about i.vi (ect long and carrying no Hag or insignia, are "running'' sm.ii! aims and trained saimirurs tn H ull. Guatemala. Venezuela. Chi vide for a 30iay required bar gaining period on a board's rec ommendations, even though nei ther sitle would be required to accept tlie recommendations. This apparently would elimi nate employe elections on accept ance or rejection of management's last offer in a labor dispute. While maritime industry representatives have testified before the House Merchant Marine Committee in favor of the last-offer provision, government conciliators have not found it to be effective or work able. Railroad management formerly opposed arbitration of its labor disputes but has now swung round to support it. The brother hoods oppose it and have even refused to consider the presiden tial commission recommenda tions to allow changes in work rules. Daniel P. Lotimis, American As sociation of Railroads president, believes that "the final answer to recurring crises in transportation lies in making board recommcn lions final and binding on disputing parties. "I believe that once binding ' arbitration is set up. you' will get a rebirth of real collective bargaining to get mutually satis factory agreements." The argument seems In be that labor and management will strive to reach agreement in order to avoid arbitration in which either side might lose. This is a negative approach which seasoned labor mediators are inclined to believe will not work. All these developments come at a time when labor relations ap pear to be improving a little, alt er a bad winter. With tlie long New York and Cleveland newspaper strikes end ed, two smaller rail disputes set tled, rubber workers reaching new agreements with the major tire companies, and aulo and steel worker unions holding pre negotiations talks intended to head off strikes later in the year, there is a little late spring sunshine on the labor front hori zon. A major achievement has been to get Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz out of the business of hav ing to devote so much time to putting out strike fires, for which he is neither staffed nor equipped. The big elfort now will be to get collective bargaining back in the hands of labor and manage ment representatives, where it belongs. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . i Russ Missiles, Men Remain Cuba Threat le. Peru, and Argentina on a reg ular schedule of shipments. Tlie Soviets did not remove all their bombers or long-range mis silesmeasuring 70 feet without warheads despite claims to the contrary. In her telephone conversation with this office, Mrs. Phillips in dicated thai President Kennedy's statement was misleading in re lating that several thousand Soviet troops had been withdrawn from Cuba. "Some troops have been with drawn." she said. "That is true, but an equal number have ar rived from Russia. The Soviet troops are not being withdrawn. They are being rotated." Mrs. Phillips said it was "im possible" (or the Administration to estimate (he number of Soviet troops now in Cuba at 1.1.000. lteliahle reports to her put Ihe number at M.OoO -An exact lig ure." she said, "is impossible to arrive at. however, for so many soldiers wear civilian clothes and do not lne at military installa tions." Mrs. Phillips' view of Soviet troop strength is baiked up by Hanson Baldwin, the Times' dis tinguished military editor. A grad uate of Annapolis, Baldwin is rec ognized as Washington's outstand ing journalistic authority on mili tary matters. He said recently: "There appears to be a con sensus that no major reduction in Soviet strength has taken place and that the Russians are rotat ing troops, rather than withdraw inq them " Baldwin disclosed that Tr. rent reassessment of Russian slirncth had convinced some in tcllikvnce experts that there may be M 01 to 40.000 R5lan mil,. tary personnel on the island. tiovernment experts cannot,' howeser. really know the num.' her o( Soviet troops in Cuba. Despite Presidential assertions, "some of Uie highest govern ment officers and many intelli. Ci-me othcers admit tiiat they do not know how mnv troop are on the island." Baldwin saxs;
