The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1947, Page 4

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Jeattle, Wash BLASTING THE JUGGERNAUT Associated Press dispatch from Washington, Janu- ary 10—Senator Ball (D.-Minn.) f{oday introduced a bill that would break up industry-wide bargainin between upions and employers. Ball called his new measure more im than his previous bill to outlaw the closed shop. described the measure as aimed to prevent nationw shutdowns in an industry as a resuit of a labo Federal Courts would enforce its pro straining orders. As recent as last month, C. E. Wilson, Presid of the General Motors Corporation, in an address before the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association at Chi- cago, outlined a five-point- program which he regards as basic in the rewriting of the country's labor laws. Since Mr. Wilson has had more than his fair share of experience with the labor problem, his views are of more than ordinary weight. It is interesting to note, therefor, that of the five points he enumerates, he places first “the prohibiting of industry-wide bar- gaining.” In developing his views, Mr. Wilson pointed out that workmen's unions have a sound and constructive Iplace in American life. A majority of Americans is for them and doesn’t want to see them destroyed. But that majority also recognizes that it has a right to protection “against the predatory abuse of monopolistic Labor monopelies, ortant He - ITise In the national standard of living. ne i, | never made a right. and that a proposal to set up two gigantic cartels where one had existea before is an excellent example of that truism There are many evil possibilities in such proposals, but perhaps the most pernicious of all of these is the threat which it weuld hold for the free enterprise system. Britain, between the Trades Union Congress on the one hand and the Federation of British In-| dustries on fie other, has, as the London Economis | reminds, drifted far along this road to “Mussolini: corporative state.” Apart from the police power that weuld be called for if the consumer were to be protected from the | effects of such a tempting opportunity to gang up on them, it is obvious that the net effect of organizin | industry-labor relations along these lines would be that the progress of all industry would be slowed down o that of its most backward member, and with it 'y This, as the Economist - observes, is ‘“a doctrine for those who cherish repose and fear competition; not for a country | that has to make its way in the world.” This is an unanswerable indictment After the Repu can-controlled Cengress gets | rolling, this country will have thousands of DPs | displaced persons ci the genus Democratic politician It isn't surprising that the investigaticn n like Bilbo should turn out to be a circus President Truman says it's difficult to find good men who will serve the’ government. He might try of a The Wrong Remedy Cincinnati Bnquirer) [ rental propert ed by existing rent ¢ sts are wdily X difficult anc iual ca There vided for lanc e on th { monopolistic labor lings have bee concerted eff Certainly in Cincinnati there is no of any significant dimensions. But whatever the numuers of dwellings taken off the rental market, this policy of withholding apart- ments and houses in a time of grave housing shortage is unforunate in the extreme. Although it is called a “strike.” it is not in fact. Traditicnally, a strike is a conspira mong workers to force an employer to Iter w. the conditions of wo A strike, in ther w , is the weapen of a group, aimed at the JErsen or- pers capable of changing the conditicns of which complaint is made. But the closing of rental propertics, although i hurts the people who want to find hcmes, aimed at the government. It is a political weapon intenged to coerce the government and compel it to change the law, or regulations made pursuant to law. strike” power in the-guise of unionism.” said he, business monopoly.” One porting, is resisted That is gaining Purposes intolerable, just as is any other form of of the “solutions” that is certain to be put forward, and 'which the unions may be found sup- the cne which Mr. Wilson's company has and against which he now warns the country. the proposal that the bigness of labor’s units be counterbalanced by permitting busi- ness to organize on an industry basis for bargaining |in a bracket with the last year—stril itself. And those ar- of construction of ! raise ! families desperate In this resvect, the so-called landlords strike is a few notorious industrial strikes of kes which were not directed against | employers, but against the authority of government are exceedingly unwhclesome pre- cedents to be fcllowed by substantial property owners, typical of our solid citizenry. In the interest of landlords, and in the interest the country generally, as an incentive to new dwellings for rent, it is desirable to rent ceilings promptly. But to deny homes to ly in need of them is not the right The short answer to this is that two Wrongs way to bring about a remedy. The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continued jrom Page One) President was all set for a show- down. The showdown never devel- oped. Though Byrnes received some caustic criticism from Admiral Leahy for yielding to the Ri ans, Truman finally fell for Jimmie's plausible explanation and agreed to let him go ahead. PLANNED T0 FIRE BYRNES Nevertheless, it was immediately after this flare-up over the Mos- cow agreement that Truman sent a cable to General Marshall asking him to be Secretary of State. This was in February. Signiticantly, Truman sent the cable through the War Department’s secret code, not the State Department's, and Byrnes never knew about the messages un- til some weeks later when a friend in the War Department showed him the messages. That may have been the reason for Byrnes' first letter of resiznation dated April 16. General Marshall, at the time he was apprcached last February, was lukewarm. He had no desire to be- come Secrctary of State. Simultan- €ously, a premature press leak caused Truman to pull in his horns —temporarily. And during the year that has followed he and Jimmie have been getting along better. Basically, however, Truman nev- er changed his ideas about Mar- shall, and those who have seen the two together can easily understand why he picked him as Secretary of State. Entirely aside from Marshall’s broad experience and ability (which will ke discussed later), he has a personal magnetism which won Truman even in the days when the Preside: was ccnducting a hard- boiled Senate probe of 'War Depa ment inefficiency Unlike some others, Marshall was alwa irank about admitting mistakes, never tried to cover up, was g jous and even-tempered in his Senate testi- mony. Later, When Truman become President, Marshall showed the re- spectful deference which military rank always superior au- thority. In of igncring Tru- man, as did some Cabinet members, Marshall went out of his way to sell him on all military plans. Tru- man, who had served as a field artillery captain in the first world war, has always been partial to the army, and being on the inside of military strategy made a great hit, In additicn, he felt sorry for Marshall when the latter was cited by an army board as partly respon- sible for Pearl Harbor. He also felt that Marshall got a raw deal when Churchill blocked his appointment as ccmmander of the 2nd front. Net result of all this was that cng before he went to China, Mar- shall and Truman not only were warm friends, but enjoyed a most warm and intimate relationship. Probakly the most glowing speech Truman has ever made was at the Reserve Officers’ dinner a little cver a year ago when he announced the military conscription policy Marshall had sold him and, simul- tanecusly, set his friend up on the seme military pedestal with Hanni- bal, Napolecn, and Genghis Khan, “Early in the war,” Truman also revealed—in very serious vein—*I went to General Marshall and of- cred my services. But General farshall wisely turned me down MARSHALL AND LATINS While Secretary of State Mar- izall will enjuy the most cordial re- lations possible with the President I the United States, his relations wiul three major parts of the world will be varied. They are: Great u-sia, and Latin Ameri latter, Marshall trip to Brazil h hi point- Aff, which help- ed in cementing U. S.-Brazilian miulitary relations. At the start of the war, however, the General came near undomg this goodwill by pro- posing that we take over strategic Brazilian bases whether the Brazil- ians liked it or not. Had we been hasly, we would have alicnated all Latin America. Fortunately, how- ever, Marshall was blocked by Sum- ner Welles, and a few days later Brazil voluntarily offered us the bases. It was with the British that Gen- eral Marshall had most friction— hough most neutral observers felt that he was right. Many of his ar- guments were over the 2nd front which the American and Russian commands wanted, but which the British opposed. One difference was over the in- vasion through “the soft underbelly ol the AXxi: which Marshall did notconsid oft™ at all. And while he yielded to Churchill when it came to the invasion of Italy, he ilatly refused to jump from Italy over to Greece and Jugoslavia Churchill, of course, foresaw the danger of Russia’s getting into the Balkans and staying there. Mar- hall was interested not in the fu- ture political map of Europe—as he | now will be as Secretary of Slate | ‘e was interested in winning vic- tories. And in one memorable con- ference he reminded Churchill that there were submarines in the Acgean and Adriatic, snow on the n mountéins, and he was not risk the lives of American s in such a gamble. BRITISH DISLIKED MARSHALL It was these arguments, of course, which led to Churchill’s refusal to ccept Marshall as Allied Com- der of the 2nd front. The most tiiolic debate came at the Quebec mierence when Marshall was ¥ ing for the reopening of Hurma Road. At Quebec it was finally decided that Lord Louis Mountbatten, cou- sin of the King, would command the Indian Theatre and the Burma Iload. Following this, Marshall call- d the Chinese Military Attache to rmed him of the mo- 1, and asked him to Cover the Inside awan Anoint . Was victorious . Novel Rank Direct 5. ltatkan opers o 6. Turmeric a8x ow umation 7. Finaily . Congealed Sceint ACROSS 1. Hardens ze serpent Portion Low of a boat Sphere. falurial fever I . Body of & vessel 5. Rtecline Cavern . Wander Prondis odder pit “arcels of C kround e t Station . Cancel 7 EEL B the IHI HL THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-JUNEAU, ALASKA — = wl . . . JANUARY 13 Helen Jane Adams Mrs. Willlam Biggs Ben Taylor Mrs. G. G. Brown Lou Hudson Harry Stonehouse Stanwood Whitely Sheila Berry Douglas Weyand Mary Campbell . . . ° © o 0 0 o e e ¢ c @ take a special plane to Chungking to inform Chiang Kai-shek. He did not want him to entrust the news to cable. taking these precautions, hall was amazed to note that news of Mountbatten'’s appointment had been given to the press by the British Minister of Information. At the next meeting of the Chiefs cf Staff, General Marshall *said in brief: yentlemen, when you agree on strateg you don’t an- plans to the enemy.” d Alan Brooke, British Staff, bridled at this. He is a charge of bad his Mujesty's Army.” General Marshall re- sir, , sir, 1s what I intended ow Drew 1 Mar- ations wi Rus- ackground column of State.) TIDE TABLE JANUARY 14 w tide 1:12 am., 3.1 ft. High tide 7:44 am, 15.3 ft. Low tide 14:14 p.m. 38 ft. High tide 20:19 p.m., 12.3 ft. tieciion Confest Baliois impounded CHARLESTON, W. Va,, Jan. 11— Gov. Clarence W. Meadows, acting on instructiors from the Secretary of the U. S. Senate, took steps to- day to impound the ballots in the Sweeney-Kilgore election contest, but with an explanaticn it was just tandard precedure. Thomas B. Sweeney, Wheeling insurance executive and Republi- can nominee for the seat of U. S. Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D-W. Va.), filed the contest in the Sen- ate after the incumbent Democrat nad been certified on the basis of oilicial returns giving Kilgore a margin of 3,534 votes. Sweeney’s protest against seating Kilgore was referred to the Senate tules Committee. ANEASY KILL OLIVE, Ill,—Joseph Wolt- cring, truck driver of Effingham, , bageged a 275 .pound four-point ut firing a shot. animal was killed when it into the side of his truck as he drove down a highway. - - NTION LOX 1 vontact uiber 000 ft. ner iber 3-tf B S P E D) Solution of Saturday’'s Puzzle DOWN Team of horses Small rug ashore etal-hearing compound nstrument . Side by side Epochs Dwarf animal . Sprends for “ooks in water voured 34. Low ha 6. Constituent of an atom Gypsy . Humor RRefuge Hymn tune N . 20 YEARS AGO ‘. JANUARY 13, 1927 | Members of the Alaska Game Commission, now meeting in Juneau, were to be guests of the Chamber of Commerce the next day. from THE EMPIRE ey Executives of the Boy Scouts met and discussed plans for the sum- | mer, also for the Father-Son banquet to be held February 11. Scouters at the meeting included Robert Simpson, J. W. Leivers, H. L. Redling- . shafer, Dowg Austin, Homer Nordling, Ed Garnick and Harry Sperling. ‘ Banker Harold Post and wife left for the south on a vacation trip. ! Steamer Northwestern, which struck the rocks on Maud Island and | damaged her bow,: arizved in Juneau. Freight was to be discharged |and passengers taken aboard the Alameda for the westward. The Northwestern was to return direct to Seattle for repairs. G. E. Krause, Fred Henning and Willis E. Nowell left for Seattle lon the Victoria, and Howard D. Stabler left for Ketchikan. Russell Blake's auto backfired and started a fire around the engine. The Juneau Fire Department answered the call from 4-9 and the little blaze extinguished. The Douglas High School and Juneau Firemen were scheduled for + bosketball game for the fcllowing night. Weather report: High, 28; low, 27; clear ? Daily Lessons in English I\’g L GORDON | ORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I did not mean to do it.” “I did not INTEND to do it.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Crescendo. Pronounce kre-shen-do, k I's as in BET, first E unstressed, O as in NO, accent second syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Supersede; observe the second S, and not OEDE. SYNONYMS: Pertinent, relevant, applicable, apposite, apropos. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it.is yours.” Let us se our vocabulary by mastering one werd each day. Today's word: MALY; deviation from the commcn rule; irregularity. “Through rift of disccvery some seeming ancmaly drops out of the darkness.” .. H. Chapin. | MODERN ETIQUETTE % 1mcrs 1oe Q. When visiting in a home of a friend, and this friend’s child needs reproving, is it all right for the guest to do so gently? A. Never, or it may be “the end of a beautiful friendship.” this duty to the parents. Q. Must cne acknowledge an invitation to a home wedding? A. Yes, but not to a churc:: wedding. Q. If you live in an apartment, should you ask the employees of the building to do anything Ior you that is not in their line of work? A. No. Leave | LOOK and LEARN % ¢ gorvon i L s e 1. What is the average number of times a sleeper changes his pesition during an eight-hour sleep? 2. What percentage of the land surface of the United States is desert? 3.What is the largest inlet on a United States coast? What is dendrology? { 5. What does the title “sahib” mean in India? ANSWERS: About 35 times. About 22 per cent. Chesapeake Bay. ‘The study of trees. Master. 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