The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1937, Page 4

State, City and County Official Newspaper e : Published except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- aarths HD. and catered at the pomotlice at Bismarck as second class mal Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Ji Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen‘l, Manager Sec'y-Treas, and Bdltor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Pi clusively entitled to th tion of the news disp: ited to It of not other: credited in this mipspaner and also ws of spuntaneous ori, ublished herein All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The National Defense Observance of national defense week in Bismarck closes tcday with the anniversary of the birth of George Washington. It has been marked by speeches of local reserve officers and men with military experience, many of them veterans of the last war, all of whom have presented the hard facts as op- posed to the universal wish for peace. ‘| No one understands better than men with military train- ing the yearning desire of this country for peace. No one has @ more complete appreciation of the REASONS for that desire than the men who served in time of war. They know war isn’t a pretty business. The folks back home may have thought of it in terms of men marching to patriotic music and cheering throngs paying tribute to their country’s defenders, but the man who served thinks of it in terms of long, hard days in the training camp, of sickening sights and personal hardship and danger. : Every American knows that this nation will not enter an aggressive war while the present attitude continues. No one WANTS an aggressive war. America has no NEED for it. But no one looking at the present status of world affairs can ignore the potentialities for disaster which exist on all sides. In a world armed to the teeth the richest and most prosperous nation should be careful to protect itself. Otherwise it may find itself in the position of the blubbering fat boy who gets picked on by the “tough guy” down the block. A matter which concerns every citizen, particularly every father and mother, was pointed out to a local luncheon club last week by L. V. Miller, national guard officer and‘a war veteran. That is the liability of every male American for military service. Such men constitute the unorganized reserves of the country and they are entitled to the protection which only ade- quate preparedness can give. War now is a science, just as manufacturing automobiles is a science. It has long since gone beyond the stage of the volunteer with a musket or a squirrel rifle. In determining its national defense the nation has to match its cost against the possible consequences of failure to provide it. It must be considered in the same light as an insurance policy. It is not needed at all most of the time but when dis- aster strikes it is needed badly. Its present cost must also be considered in the light of what would happen in an emergency. The World war cost billions of dollars, how many no one yet knows. It would have cost billions less in money and thousands of lives less had America been better prepared. at If everyone were peacefully inclined the only need for military forces would be those necessary to police our internal affairs but that, unfortunately, id not the case. America lives on an international street where there are more bad boys than i | good ones, : North Dakota Model Proposal by the president to enact a crop insurance law je for republica- Sie Le RTE Seems neaudio Kees ces6es cx 29 aia oe owe Leen bts or 2 OE SERENE CORE ee Re a oto” e Bismarck Tribune Behind Scones Poco ccc c es ccc eoro eowce. Washington eoccccc croc coccocoosoos) Rodney Dutcher, Who Forecast the FDR Supreme Court Attack 10 Months Ahead of Time, Scores Again. He Tells Behind Scene Story of Auto Strike and Shows... How Breaks and Policy of U. @. in Strike Make Lewis Labor Kingpin. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 22—Some facts arent settlement of the General Mo- tors strike are blurred, others com- pletely hidden. Here is the real story: John L, Lewis is kingpin of the American labor movement, victor of @ major conflict in labor history — partly throug his own. force and sagacity, and partly through ald from the Roosevelt administration, The secret motto of officials here was: “We can't let John fail—” The prestige of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has gone down proportionately as that of Lewis has gone up, Green’s description of the strike agreement as a “labor defeat”, is regarded here as a feeble effort to discount rapid progress of the Committee for In- dustrial Organization. General Motors had one chance to vanquish sitdown strikers— use of legal violence to evict them. Fear of public reaction to inevitable bloodshed and deati, coupled with]: Gov. Frank Murphy’s promise to use National Guardsmen to prevent eviction during negotiations, pre- vented G. M. from using that weapon. Refusal of state and federal offi- cials to take a stern “law and order” stand against sitdown strikes until employers recognized the union's right to collective bargaining, made labor history of far-reaching impli- cations. * * Only Had 30 Per Cent Terms of the settlement a between G. M. and the United Auto- mobile Workers as to wages, hours and working conditions are expected to come from subsequent negotiations. They probably will sét the pattern of the entire huge automobile industry. The U. A, W. had organized only 30 per ceri of General Motors work- ers, according to secret figures of federal officials. Lewis will now attempt to fotce the issue of organized oe Reprise ve bargaining in the great steel jus> try. He is all set, also for a battle over] © INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT wages and hours with the bituminous (New York Times) coal industry this ee ie ie Meanwhile, he will e1 ie fight over Roosevelt's proposal to re- vamp’ the supreme court, supporting the president. General Motors, second largest among American corporations, ap- Pears to be willing to Mriustivad ae previous labor policy w! drew critical attention of » Senate investi- | made is better than blind subservience gating committee. If this should de-|Or swinging into line under the party velop, it will be another milestone in the history of ormenited labor. Six Months to Organize The big thing the’. a. W. won |Pules bet was a signed agreement of union recognition for its members from the largest corporation engaged in mass production, This is a hundred per cent gain over what it had before. Enormously significant is the fact that Lewis and C. I. O. now have a perio@® in which they can organize’ G. M. workers without coercion and intimidation by management. pehate pricisher sai coral bie rere end on the eve of production season. agreement. This agreement promises| White House telephone calls fig- exclusive collective bargaining with | ured in settling the point. So did the U. A. W. in plants on strike for six Chrysler wage increase, and the rev- months, If these conditions are ob-|¢lation that G. M. had paid the served, and Lewis cannot. organize a ue $350,000 in two years for majority of G. M. workers in six es : -| So now Lewis is sitting pretty. And Dae ee he will have met a real de- it has been, raed that bait Importance of the administration's | © dosen workers can tle up an auto- behind-scenes participation in strike mobile production line. Each side has 5 @ b b should bring North Dakota somewhat into the limelight of na- t tional affairs. Only here has the urge to give protection to farmers against the vicissitudes of nature taken the form of an enactment sim- ilar to that now proposed. Only in North Dakota has the state seen fit to enter the insurance field with regard to farm crops. t The law had been on the books for several years before 1919 & when §. A. Olsness became insurance commissioner and gave it 4 vitality. It still is a valid statute but has had many vicissitudes since those halcyon days when it was to be a major solution of the farmers problems. Protection against loss from hail has been given, to be sure, F .and there have been times when officials of the state insurance department wondered if it weren’t being called upon to protect from loss by grasshoppers or a wire dragged through a field by two saddle horses. Then there has been the little matter of collecting the insur- ance premiums. In the early days it was simple enough. Every- . one had to take out the insurance. Premiums were collected as taxes and there was no escape, Later many farmers objected -and decision as to whether or not insurance should be obtained . was left to the farmer. That created new complexities as to the rights of hail taxes with regard to other liens and the muddle has not yet been straightened out to the satisfaction of all con- - _. North Dakota’s experience probably is a forerunner to that which the government wil] have if and when the proposed fed- eral insurance becomes a part of our agricultural setup. Gov- ernment experts might properly give study to it in an effort to agsve themselves some of the headaches which this proposal is ‘gure to produce. This is a relatively small state but it has plenty ‘ experience in efforts to solve all problems by statute. The probability is that examination will be given the North i | Dakota record before the bill is passed, and while that js going | op, North Dakotans should glance at the situation which will ‘be created here. If, as Washington dispatches assert, the law -will cover losses from hail, grasshoppers and other ills, as well *macessarily go out of business. Clearly it will be unable to com- pete with the proposed federal setup. unmixed evil but it would at least solve the dilemma in which the state now finds itself with regard to hail insurance taxes, A Mew York professor aays the brain has attained ® quarter of its growth. Or, in s reckless driver, a tenth. es ss from drouth, the North Dakota hail insurance system will settlement moves catt scarcely be ex- | chance to win public approval by. its oe tactics. i preegag ever gaetay Serene | (Copyright, 1981, NEA Service, Inc) from the beginning, and with Lewis sein er not ed oe | Father of a Democracy|| Siesinzers They appealed to Walter Chrysler, for his workers. This gave G. M. the last big push into settlement. The final, essential strike settlement terms were suggested from the White House. “Roosevelt was at least partly influenced by the strike crisis in tim- ing his sensational supreme court message to Congress. ** * Knew What He Was Doing Lewis sometimes incurred sharp private criticiam from some of his own subordinates. Especially was this true when he called upon Roosevelt . REF for aid against G. M. in return for election support—an attempt to per- desserts. 42 Earth. suade Roosevelt to summon Alfred P. 44 Half an em. Who responded with a wage increase! © mOREZONTAL Answer to Previews Pussle 19He had a ; brilliant — Lie tt} Mit LLIN wos Sloan to the White House for a three- 46 To place in down. line. 49 Beam. 50 Place of grave error when he persisted in loudly demanding an exclusive collec- tive bargaining concession. This, everyone knew, he could never get. But now they concede he was using that demand as a hammer for the favorable agreement he finally won. Early in the strike he obtained the first’ formal White House recognition of C, O. I. Settlement of two glass works strikes by federal conciliators, Such a thing would be neither an unmixed blessing nor an| ‘#0 unloniats Months In the last four days, the fight was solely over whether G. M. would promise not to bargain with other unions for three months or, as Lewis persisted, for six months. Lewis knew ee Connecticut's new electric chair ts in use. While it seems satisfactory,| the end of the shorter period would leave him in a weak off-season posi- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937 | - The First President of the [_ 80 THEY SAY | (e)[a=] KeNOIOIMMETIAIEEP) IIT ma ISICIL REM INE IREENIAIS| GEES} People of the United States Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Braéy will answer b reine pomtalving, to health but not éis- poy ‘Weite fe ink. Aéérese De. Brpay tn care 0} ‘Tribuee. A scree must be accompanied by & in the method of humidifying the judgment is the decision of the ju-|of @ district judge, that an 2 S diciary committee to split up into two | congress is unconstitutional, be Answer— folds en wire racks placed above or three bills the long one concerning | directly to the supreme court. tl s ip into the water. Send stamped ‘changes in the federal judiciary sent|are admitted improvements in bearing d Dartioulars. It pays to use some to-it by the department of justice. cerning ¢ourt 5 of the air during the season when This would seem to be a reasonable |. Gaves fuel dills, keeps every one in better humor and method of expediting legislation. Into ; apart 5 one or tw6 bills the chief subjects i Development . upon which there is general agree- will correct retarded development ment could be brought. To a bill per- by. +. -@.H,L) mitting the attorney general of the to Answer—Ye italtary injections such as physicians United States to be represented in the beginnings of | testicle, will frequently correct the defect of develop- . proceedings of a district court relating | this congress. which it must yield to the members _Pyerthen themselves, and the approval given to : frhea in front lower jaw. Financially unable it by sober-minded citizens to Against its progress? . . . . lead to further experimenting with 1t.| (¢, r z f Answer—Be sur intake of vitamin C and vitamin D. thrtunob 4! the ‘tyrasiaload controt of | pati naint wien coats ‘once or twice s week with an all-powerful state—-Donald Rich-| giycerin, water mixture—haif 4 berg, commenting on fedral fixing of} todin and 5 per cent of sinc ‘wages and hours. ; RE (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) posal that an appeal from a decision Ui No, I have no plans for exploration. 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