The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dull y “4lasl.a Empire < except Sur COMP. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dousies: six months, S£.00; one year, at the following rs'es s in aavance, $7.50; By mail, postage paid advance, $15.0C; six month: I confer ® favor if they ¢ of any failure or irregul s Office, 602 ent ~ Alas convicti ness around the ccrne ground Even the resol ministrator, a busin that culated ots, Juneau, Alaska Business Office, 374 R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS n Production Ad- by the road ahead is |Senator Taft’ s forecasts. | losses caused by are appealling in ter produced. Another str shortages of materials in piled up essential parts - Added to these ", widespread fear of sud .| compel the unloadi lead to a b with a resul increased unem]llanm Of course, threatened prices. may be held ined consumer refrain from excessive the prophets cf depress year ay by the ANY of unfini inventories - Presid Vice-President “Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Maj in hand at g of st 1 of orders for $1.5) per month; £15.00 will promptly notify materiali aricy in the delivery trikes may not sufficie permit ¢ and lions may that event tled to the use for 0 it Or not other- b discredited ormed news published | However, they ha pe b 108 _ | calling mttention to the dismal uences of rash ka Newspapers, 1411 | behavicr ‘on the part of either labor or ma men — | The recent sharp declines in stocks cotton prices are in part at least fears regarding the business outlook scund an alarm that it would be foll The Budget and Defense (Washington S n it takes over ir nuary new Repub! will have an exi after the rs of deficits--to restore crder to |hv Nation's Any effort to do t ywever, will us hazards, > chief of them being a temptation to reduce ta ely and balan the budget primarily by making ill-considered cuts Y |ArmyandN | are cc Senator Taft, wh { probably will be major 1 | Senate Finance Committee, I J a re- recession is just | assuring approach. He feels tha budget can be cut 100,600,000 and $30,000.- 00 from the iotat for the fiscal year beginning down to a figure between S 000,000, a drop of at least ~17 000,000,0 by conceding outlay estimated for th But he would go y CONPEC S Islow on tax reductions; not make them the mark and | ei atter the lower levels of spending actually have reise of common | paen yeached both manage- Such an approach obviously commends it to iutely essential.”! common sense. It remains to be seen, however, whether colleagues wiil adhere to it or whether to lighten the |they will rush pell-mell into lh(‘ pnlw_mll\ popular but { dangerously unwise co taxes without really effecting a proportio: N expenditures 1 rapidly of late. opinion that Sl s Moreover, even assuming that they will first reduce ong ot depression =g bl fiipy spending, there is some reason to wonder whether ¢ word, recession—are based on superficial | they may not be setting their sights too high in esti- T T Because periods of rapidly. rising prices | mating military economies—the biggest zle reduc- and high industrial activity have in the past been | tion they have in mind followed by a downswing, it is assumed that t'vu‘ Although he says that any decision on this point familiar cyclical pattern is bound to be repeated. This ‘mus! be governed by argument, based on historical analog missed as unproved. has happened in the past does enal forecaster to detect more readily the indications of | ments that may underlying maladju @ecliné in industrial activity There are many such danger signals that neither 159]“‘5 while the world is can afford to ignore, management nor labor rising prices, a distorted wage str prespect of @ new crop of wage demands re the most immediate cau re by strikes Moreover,dncreasing consume is anticipAted, because the ir portion of the population have not rising iving costs. Only a relatively of organized worker: increases since VJ-D: succeed in obtaining mcre manufactured goods would ta omes have received If these advance ability of other groups to sustain high prices would he further impaired. The result would retail sales, reduction in manufactur growing unemployment the effect’on industry will be equally However, a knowledge of what favored groups should | wage increases, prices of > Army and Navy recom- ‘mend Mr. Taft himself believes that $8,000,000,00. }proanb]) will be enough for the armed forces in the next fiscal year. This would be $5,000,000,000 less than at present. There can be no questior (f course, that \uur military expenditures n t be s ally duced sooner or later, but reduction must be tim ‘n\osl carefully if we are not to do grave injury to our- 1g through a period o important for us to be ies, may be dis- ble the business | re- lead to.a sharp | High and | serious tensicn and when it is and the |strong >companied | Events ucture. months ma within the 1 few ) at Senator Taft has soundly csiimated of pessimism. | that Senator Taft y coiimate 3 |Army and Navy will need. Meanwhile, nee to igh prices | o gnt 1o pe kept 1. mind thai our ex large pr of a national defense are intimately linked with our foreign kept pace With | policy and that if we pare them down tco swiftly and small percentage | tco drastically, we shall be undermining our efforts substantial wage in the United Nations to promote the kind of peace that will best guarantee our own security. | Now that they control both the House and the | Senate, the Republicens have a heavy responsibility lin this nmpul a responsibility to be statesmanlike, and not merely political, in dealing with the budget ! and taxes. We have a sound bipartisan foreign ing actlvity, "“’1] policy, and to keep it that way the new Congre: and the again be contraction of s will . The Washingion Merry-Go-Round (Comtinvea pom Page One) be well advised to listerr attentively to the S If strikes occur to force payment of higher wages, jand Navy Departments before acting on disastrous. The lappropnaxinns I his mines closed in order to throw $300000 spent three years before Progressive Miners out of Work by Lewis and Edmundson to keep| One interesting development in @ mine closed in order to throw | 12 which takes in the entire state of Illinois, was duly elected by his, district as'a delegate to the Cincin- nati Unitéd Mine Workers Conven- tion in 1944 which he proposed running g@gainst Lewis for Presi- dent However, Lewis had Edmundson barred by, the credentials commi tee from even setting foot on the ention floor, This was con- to 'all the by-laws of the United Mine Workers, which gives ny delegate the right to be heard Purthermore, Lewis proceeded to kick Edmundsen out of tis unicr thereby it impossib him to employed us o coal nine citing United Mme free fair electior nd d anded t} right to sit as duly elected dele- gate and al his name place 1 tie a candidate president Not in ten years had had e, coura to Lewis's iron-{i; rule son at least had the satisfaction of forcing Lewis to court That however, *was as far as he got Judge Golasboro 0 last week ruled against Lewi this case ruled for him. John L's rival can- didate for presidency of the United Mine Workers found himself ou of court LEWIS'S HATCHET MAN To those who knew the inside dealing of the mine workers, Ray Edmundson’s break with Lewis had great significance; because ior ten years Edmundson had been Lewis so-called hatchet mar in the long and bloody Illinois battle with the Progressive Miners. Testimony tak- en by the Illinois Mining Commis- sicn shows page after page where Edmundson operated for Lewis in the feud which saw 21 of Lewis's rivals killed Most significant of all was the fact that Edmundson helped Lewis put across the payment of arpund $300,000 to mine operator Carl Elshof{ athSukugliekd .50 keep _then case is that Wil- 500 ccher miners out of work. dent of the AFI S this extraordinar liam Green, Pr heard about Lewis's secret payment MINERS BLAST L to Elshoff as early as 1938 but did When the U. T almost’ mnothing about it—even earthed the fa local members though the Progressive Miners of the United Mine Workers hit were then members of the AFL. the ceiling In December 1938, Green got a let- 4 "~ “It's a hell of a policy to hand ter hjom banker F. J. Lisman of gyer our dues to a mine owner, the Lisman Corporation, New York, remarked Robert Martin, head of stating that “a man by the name Local 49. of Elshoff, lessee of a mine, is PAY- “Had this come before the ing a rental of $2,000 to the OWners ecytive board I would have oppos- | day of the mine at Springfield, ed it,” said John Glasgow, a mem-|the There is something very peculiar ber of District 12's executive board about this situation, of which you would like to be informed. cne to uni “Advancing money I think . St to mine owners union is paying rental in order keep the workers of another t that time was the hated rival ¢f Lewis. The latter had left R 2 ¥ 5 A % Cines ACROSS 4%, Wished the AFL and was calling Green L Unit of woek. | $1- Bibiiz) all sorts of name: However, 4 character §. Peeler 42 Ribbed cloth Green did nothing except pass Li man’s letter on to the Progre miners reek letter Armed confllet . Nervous twitching Tries Waste allowance Write Run awa LEWIN'S SECRET FINANCIAL '| tion has THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, NOVLMBER 25 1946 20 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 25, 1926 \ This was Thanksgiving Day in Juneau, business was suspended, heme THE EMPIRE 7l rom ii x { . ° ° NOVEMBER 25 e ! gatherings were held and everybody, nearly, had turkey at dinners. | » e Ramsey L] — “ . arry Carrol . The Estebeth was delayed somewhere between Skag v and Juneau | ° H. B. Brown ® | and Capt. J. V. Davis left on the halibut boat Explorer to make a search. ° Violet Mello o R | > ; Gre Cuff : The Arcade Cafe was serving Thanksgiving Day dinners at $1.25. | ° R | - i : o) Services were held in the new Presbyterian Church this day and the | * 6.0 B winW WS SR ’Lll;huhlrls held services in the Odd Fellows' Hall. . { : T e ionism , there was il uld do about it. Furthermore it later leaked | out that Lewis had given an ;\d- diticnal $500. > dues to| e Roct erator of the Company would of the the Fed started tion. Yet later of this to the file pn.m\:‘\ attention miners if had not investiga- T and ral Government its income tax Ray Edmundsen, he man who had been Lewis's close buddy in putting across these secret deals, decided to run for president of the United Mine Workers, he was not even allowed to set foot on the floor of the Cincinnati convention, but was e pelled from the union. Such are the dictat of the man who now U. S. Government of when al tactics accuses the dictatorship. CAPITAL CHAFF Secretary of State Burns had a closed-door meeting with UNRRA boss LaGuardia in New York last week at which he flatly rejected LaGuardia's idea for an interna- tional organization to take over UNRRA's work. With UNRRA out way and the United States v responsible for relief in the zone of Germany, Byrnes 5 cut down the number of sons living in camps— y by cutting off relief. 4T, BELL :\'\um:\n:, INC. 1946) e S 150,000 FORMER 615 LOSE OUT IN DECISION OF VA MOSCOW, No Veterans Administration today it has pended subsistence payments to approximately 150,000 ex-GI's for failure to report earn- ings in hcol or job training. The payments, made under the GI Bill of Rights, amount to $65 monthly for unmarried veterans in school or on job training and to 0 monthly for married men. More than 1,200,000 veterans draw the allotments. Tuition payments, made directly to schools, are not affected Under legi tion passed last sum- mer, veterans' payments and earn- 5 are limited to a total of $175 | monthly for those without depend- ents and to $200 monthly for those | with dependents. In the event those figu are exceeded, the sub- sistence allewances must be reduc- d accordingly. The Veterans Administration warned on Nov. 1 that the subsist- ence allowancks would be halted unless reports of earnings were re- ved Nov. 5. Suspensions are to >main in effect until the informa- been received. STATED COMMUNICATION of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, Mon- evening at 7:30 pm. Work in A. degree. W. J. LIEVERS, Secretary. plished DEAL b1. Recipient of a How close Edmundson and Lewis i were at that time, is shown by bea the way Edmundson, then presi- 3 Dircction 3‘{,‘,’?(,‘3,."’ ool dent ‘of District 12, appeared be- 32 Sits 'nr{ an i A‘\\f:m:\n'n title Solution of Saturday’'s Puzzle fore mine locals to squelch criti- 34 parbor poat 65 »” oy Thrice: prefix DOWN cism of the $300,000 payment. The 36 [ Loam deposit . Femalo sheep Ilinols miners had had no idea - Strike bard 2. Rant this amount of money was being Lubricates taken cut of their dues to pay a . Horse of a mine operator to stay closed for ohabin . Habitations two years and a half. In fact, o ias they d not know it until the . Sena forth 1 Secretary of the Treasury started Black snake his income tax probe of Lewis . Tablo dish When word finally leaked out, Father howe the rank and file of the . Roman road United Mine Workers were sore, es- SuLslL Lo ) pecially in Illinois where they had plant been asked in the fall of 1940 to Qhserved) vote an assessment of 1 per cent Sot t their earnings in addition gl B to regular dues. Though they did . Concise not know it, this was to pay the g $300,000 hush fund given to mine . Drink slowly owner Elshorf : Hinerant This extra assessment was voted merchant down. How six months later o without a vote, Lewis's controlied Prickly pears executive board, acting through . Pertainiapgo Ny Edmundson, the mriners ment an; in went over the levied the Thus Illinois min- 1941, unbeknown to called upon to pa heads of assess- Va, May wer ers house Titles P Put to 1 Erench river Kind of starch Ibsen character The Juneau Gun Club was staging a Thar g Day rifle match. High, 27; low, 26; cloudy i R o 1 Dally Lessons in English % . corpon 5 Weather report: R WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not s “I can't FIND the papers.” LOCAT! substitute for FIND. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Catalpa. Pronounce ka-tal-r first d third A's as in ASK unstressed, second A as in AT (not as in TALL accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Mayonnaisc. Observe the NNAISE. SYNONYMS: Unbelief, disbelief, misbelief, incredulity WORD STUDY: “Use a werd three times and it is yours.” Let us| increase your vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: GU IBILITY; readiness to believe on slight evidence. “Quackery has no friend like gullibility."— Proverb. ot s i e * MODERN ETIQUETT n't locate the papers.” | a general s not in good use as n()BERTA LEE —— Q. When one has been invited to a wedding, is it obligatory to cail cn the bride and bridegroom as socn as they return frem their heneymoon? 1 A. Yes, soon after the' date given on their announcement as the time when they will be “at hom Q. Is it necessary for a woman to remove her shake hands? A. No. 1 gloves in order fc Q. TIs it proper to use only the initials on personal calling cards? 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