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Miners'Union Big Fine
Seen Trifle Compared
To Advantages Gained
Workers Have Benefited
Repeatedly Since Lewis
Began Series of Strikes
By David Lawrence
So far as the miners' union is
concerned, the $1,400,000 fine im
posed by the Federal Court is,
relatively speaking, a trifle com
pared to the advantages that come
from defying the employers and the
courts by means of a work stoppage.
The advantage gained by the
miners’ union through the so-called
settlement of the pension-fund dis
pute runs into many millions of
dollars. If the only penalty for
forcing the issue and Ignoring the
law is a fine in dollars, there is no
reason why the strike method
should not be repeated when the
present contract between miners
and operators ends on June 30. An
other Injunction wouldn’t mean
much—possibly another fine—but
John L. Lewis and the miners’
union can afford such minor pen
alties. The end. In their opinion,
could, financially at least, Justify
the means.
A survey of what Mr. Lewis has
gotten for the miners’ union ever
since he began the series of strikes
In 1919 shows that the miners have
benefited repeatedly. Although an
estimated total of 238.000.000 man
days have been lost in the more
than 5.000 strikes that occurred in
the coal industry in the last 30
years. Mr. Lewis can point to many
achievements.
Obtained Since 1940.
Among these, taking only what
has been obtained since 1940, are
the following:
1. A wage of $1.63 now, as com
pared with 85.7 cents an hour in
1940.
2. One hour a day in travel time
and 81.5 cents a day for luncheon,
as compared with none in 1940.
3 Four cents an hour on the sec
ond shift and 6 cents an hour on
the third shift as extra night pay,
as compared with none In 1940.
4. A welfare fund of $50,000,000
g rear, as compared with none in
1940.
5. Tools and equipment now sup
plied by the company, instead of by
the miner.
6. State compensation for mine
accidents applicable in all States
now. but not compulsory in all
States in 1940.
7. Pav differentials existed be
tween the North and South in 1940
but the same rates apply now.
8 The take-home pay in 1940 was
*30 in the North and *28 in the i
South for 35 hours of work in 1940
and now it is *84.82 for 48 hours in
both the North and South.
The question is whether some of
these benefits could have been ob
tained by some more sensible pro
cedure than strikes. The question
also is whether Oovemment can any
longer tolerate such an expensive
means of making labor agreements.
For within the last day or so Iron
Age. a trade publication devoted to
news of steel, said that, approxi
mately 1,500,000 tons of steel pro
duction have been lost by the 1948
coal strike and that the supply of
steel is the tightest In years. The
steel loss is said by this magazine
to be equal to a production loss of
300.000 automobiles. 20,000 farm
tractors, 200,000 refrigerators, 200,
000 stoves, 200,000 washing machines,
1.000 miles of 20-inch oil pipeline,
10.000 freight cars and 14 oil tankers.
Federal Law Defied.
This is an immense loss in goods,
but the financial loss to industry
and transportation has been sepa
rately estimated at about $100,000,
000 Mr. Lewis defied the Federal
law, which requires that certain '•
steps be taken in an orderly way
oefore a wsrk stoppage is called or
encouraged There has been^talk
of passing antitrust laws to prohibit
all forms of monopoly, including
Nation-wide control of unions. But
If the laws are defied or ignored;
and the only penalty is a fine, the
question arises whether this is a
sufficient deterrent.
Mr. Lewis was convicted of con
tempt of court because he did not
call off the work stoppage when
ordered to do so by the court. In
stead, he delayed and, with the
assistance of Speaker Martin,
worked out an arrangement for
handling the pension dispute that
afforded an excuse to send the
miners back to work. Apparently it
wasn't a settlement, as the coal op
erators now have gone to court ask
ing that the proposed arrangement
be set aside as violating the pension
provisions of the Taft-Hartley law.
The real issue in the coal dispute
Is what means the Government shall
exercise to compel obedience to its!
mandates. Mr. Lewis has twice been
convicted of contempt. If fines are
to be his only punishment he can
afford to be as casual about it as the
auto driver who forfeits collateral
for his various offenses.
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This Changing World
Kremlin Pressure in New Area Expected
After Communist Defeat in Italy
By Constantine Brown
In the. gigantic contest between
East and West we have won the
first round in Italy. The overwhelm
ing defeat of the Communist Party
was received
with Joy
throughout free
Europe and with
anger and dis
may in Moscow.
Our political
leaders are
watching now
for the Krem
lin’s reaction.
They know that
Prime Minister
Staling while far
mere cautious in
his moves than
Hitler was, will
not take this ConiUntlne Brown,
first defeat in Europe lying down.
Retaliation must be expected within
a short time.
For the present all reports from
Italy—whether from American,
British, French or native sources—
agree that we need not be concerned
over a large-scale rebellion by
Palmiro Togliatti’s forces in North
ern Italy. There may be some
local strikes or revolutionary out
breaks which the Italian Army can
quell now without much effort.
Workers Want Peace.
Moreover, the result of the elec
tions in the heartland of Italian
communism has shown that even
the industrial and agricultural
workers, whom the Communists be
lieved to have well under control,
are not in the least eager to answer
a call to arms. They have indorsed
constitutional socialism and re
pudiated totalitarian communism,
having discovered that the pres
ent government was in a position
to protect them against the Com
munist musclemen.
Reports from Italy in the last
34 hours say no major uprising
should be expected in the Immediate
future, although they contain the
necessary reservations on the more
distant future. Such reservations
are matie necessary by uncertainty
over what Moscow will decide to
do and whether it will order its
stooges in Italy to go ahead with
Plan B, which provides for procla
mation of a people’s republic with
the support of Marshal Tito's forces.
There is no question that the re
sults of the Italian elections have
greatly helped to stabilize the gov
ernment of Premier Schuman in
France, as well as the other west
ern governments. Those results are
also reported to have made a deep
impression in most of the countries
which have been forced behind the
iron curtain in the past 12 months.
This unexpected blow can hardly
remain unanswered by the Politburo,
whiclfc considers it as a definite
challenge to its expansionist plans
in Europe. The American analysts
are little inclined to believe that
Russia would force the issue in
Northern Italy. Such a step, par
ticularly if Tito enters the picture,
would be tantamount to unleashing
World War in.
Not Ready for Showdown.
While the U. S. S. R. now is in
a serious predicament, these politi
cal analysts think that Russia is not
prepared for a final showdown with
the western world. But she may
retaliate in other parts of the world,
such as Iran, or possibly increase
her pressure on the Western Allies
in Germany and Austria. ,
Another possibility for Russian
action would be to step up the Greek
civil war or to place Denmark and
Norway behind the iron curtain.
Anv Russian demonstration of force
in Korea or China would have little
or no effect on the European peoples
who right now are the main target
of Russia’s “cold” offensive.
A new Italian government will be
selected by the recently elected Na
tional Assembly on May 18. It ap
pears highly probable that Premier
Alcide de Gasperi will be entrusted
with the task of forming the new
cabinet, which will be composed of
Socialists of various hues, but no
Communists or Communist affiliates.
This new government will have the
full support of the United States
and the Western European countries
and is expected*to be invited into
the defensive alliance created re
cently by Britain, Prance, Belgium,
the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
At the same time, the United
States, Britain and Prance must
prepare plans to make good their
promise on the return of Trieste to
Italian sovereignty. This question
is dynamite-laden in that the con
sent of Russia and Yugoslavia must
be obtained beforehand. There is
no doubt that both these countries
will persist in their refusal to accept
the Western Allies’ proposition,
which to some extent influenced the
defeat of the Communists at the
polls.
However, neither we nor the other
western signatories of the peace
treaties can afford to let this matter
go by default, and bringing the
Trieste issue to a head may be the
spark which will ignite the Euro
pean powder keg.
Success Builds on Self
Ohioans Show Readiness to Give
Stassen Band Wagon Another Push
By Doris Fleeson
DAYTON, Ohio, April 22.—Ohio,
; the mother of Presidents, is flirting
giddily with that young, six-foot
three interloper from Minnesota.
Harold Stas
sen's first 24
hours here
yielded no sign
that she shares
the resentment
her favorite
son, Senator
Taft, bears to
ward him. On
the contrary,
the indications
are that the
fickle jade may
give the Stassen
band wagon an
other substan
tial heave down- »«'• *'««•»•
hill.
That a victory psychology has
been created by Stassen success in
Wisconsin and Nebraska was evi
dent from the moment he hit his
first crowd, a Junior Chamber of
Commerce luncheon in Middletown.
People like to feel they are greeting
a passible President; a peculiarly
electric mood seems to seize them
and they are more intent and re
sponsive than usual. The quick
ened interest in the young man
showed again that in politics cer
tainly. nothing succeeds like success.
Mr. Stassen holds his audiences.
He cannot set people dancing in the
streets with his eloquence; his com
mand of the English language is
nowhere equal to his large visions;
the brutal truth is he leans on
cliches. But he is confident and
clear; disarmingly ready to handle
| any topic in his customary question
1 and-answer periods. It is perhaps
: too carping to suggest that he is
almost too fluent and a simple "I
don’t know" might occasionally be
pleasant. It is perhaps an Inevitable
result of his long campaign.
Says Little to Startle.
He has not told Ohio yet any
thing not contained before in the
philosophy he has long expounded.
He is unquestionably international-j
1st; domestically, a moderate^pro
gressive. Actually he says little that
could startle any Republican to the j
left of Col. McCormick in these
matters.
Ohio Republicans who don't like i
Senator Taft’s rathef isolationist i
views or his brusque personality will!
have no trouble, as Republicans,
voting for Mr. Stassen.
It is understood that Mr. Stassen
purposefully takes care to practice
j moderation, well aware that he
must seek his nomination and elec
tion at the hands of a Republican
! Party that, on the whole, prizes this
virtue rather more than somewhat.
Ohioans are filled with admira
tion for the skill with which the
candidate and his Ohio manager,
Earl Hart, plotted his try here.
It is directed at young people and
especially veterans—they are among
his delegates. An uproarious wel
come Wednesday from Miami Uni
1 versity students who had just nom
inated him in a rump convention
convinced Mr. Stassen that the GI
jvote would help him here as it did
’in Wisconsin especially. .
The net put out for labor is of
course mainly the chance to vote
against the author of the Taft-Hart
ley “slave labor” act and there are
three AFL leaders and one from CIO
on his slate.
Appeal to Racial Strains.
In Cleveland, two young lawyers
—ohe of Hungarian extraction and
one of Bohemian—typify what the
Stassenites euphemistically term his
appeal to the cosmopolitan elements
in the industrial areas. By this they
mean, of course, the racial strains,
: Jewish, Polish, Czech, etc., which
took exception to Taft’s prewar iso
lation and his condemnation of the
Nuremberg trials.
There are two outstanding women
Ion the Stassen slate, including the,
ionly woman mynber of the Labor-]
| Management Board of Toledo. The
Stassen people are satisfied that1
the young Lochinvar out of the West
will do well in that quarter.
The natives suggest also that the
State welcomes the fresh face and
the new outlook which Mr. Stassen
seems to give the campaign, cer
tainly in contrast to Senator Taft
who, in their minds, stands for the
conservative party organization that ■
dominates here. Among Taft candi
dates for delegates, for example, is
Herbert Hoover's Postmaster Gen
eral, Walter H. "High Hat” Brown,
famous for buying a new official
limousine on the theory that the old
one would not accommodate his 6
feet complete with silk topper.
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On the Other Hand
Lack of Patriotism Leaves U. S.
At Mercy of One Natural Enemy
By Lowell Mellett
The manner in which the House
of Representatives rushed through
what the President and the Secre
tary of Defense regard as an exces
sive authoriza
tion for the Air
Force shows
how much we,
as a people, are
willing to do
to defend our
selves against an
uncertain hu
man enemy.
The manner
in which the
Ohio River, on
the same day,
cut loose in one
of its recurrent
rampages, leav
ing widespread Lowell Meiiett.
damage and destruction in its wake,
shows how little we are willing to
do to defend ourselves against a
certain natural enemy.
Russia, we feel, threatens our way
of life and perhaps our very lives.
We'd like to be friends and live in
peace with Russia, but we’ve
decided Russia won’t have it. So
we are providing a great Air Force
with which to scare Russia into
behaving or, failing that, with
which to defeat Russia in a fight.
We can’t tackle the Ohio River in
quite the same way. The river
doesn't scare. If you ever saw it
I in flood, you will remember the
Ohio as a coldly cruel, implacable
monster, relentless and remorse
less. We can’t frighten it, once it
is in full flood, but we can reduce
and control the floods and make
the river an enduring friend.
Understanding Needed.
This, however, would require the
same sort of patriotism we give to
the preparation few war. It would
require the expenditure of money,
the sacrifice of selfish interests and
an understanding of the desperate
nature of the problem, the sort
of understanding that Presidents
Theodore and Franklin J>. Rooee
velt and other great conservation
ists had. We would have to get it
through our heads that, if America
is to remain a land of plenty, our
watersheds must be saved and our
streams controlled.
One way of meeting the problem,
and in many respects the best, is
.being demonstrated in the Tennes
see Valley. Whether a similar re
gional authority would be able to
perform an equal service for the
vast industrial area of the Ohio
and its tributaries is a subject of
honest debate. During the ’30s the
National Resources Committee,
through expert subcommittees,
studied all the great river valleys.
The Ohio River, it said, “is a sewer,
a source of water supply, an outlet
for floods, and a highway. The
manifold use and reuse of its
waters present grave dangers and
great opportunities.”
The National Resources Commit
tee refrained from proposing any
general plan of conservation and
control for the region, pending
much more detailed studies. Before
any such undertaking could be car
ried . out, however, Congress abol
ished the committee. Congress
members did not want any Federal
agency poking around in their
States and their districts and per
haps recommending measures that
wouldn’t be popular politically.
Other Agencies Cany On.
Since then such efforts have been
carried on by other agencies; in the
East principally by the Federal
Power Commission and the Army
Engineers. They co-ordinate their
work as well as they can.
Men in the two agencies believe
that projects they have proposed
unsuccessfully to Congress in the
past, if carried out, would have
eliminated the latest fiodd at Pitts
burgh and greatly reduced the
damage at Wheeling, Cincinnati
and Louisville. But this would have
involved building reservoirs up
stream on many tributaries, and
there usually are local objections.
When hearings are held the con
gressional committees are swamped
with telegrams from private in
terests along the little rivers and
creeks involved. The engineers, in
particular, have learned to be wary
of any project that includes power
development, even though the pow
er might in time pay for the project.
Coal producers, as well as private
utilities, are heard from. If navi
gation is involved, the railroads
have something to say. Each in
terest looks out for itself, regardless
of the general welfare.
Needless to say, the great na
tional problem is never going to be|
met in this manner.
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McLemore—
Relates a Few
Hollywood Stories
By Henry McLemore
Just a few stories I have heard
since reaching Hollywood, and noth
ing more.
The first one concerns Jimmy
Grant, for many
years one of the
top screen writ
ten in the busi
ness. Not so long
ago he stopped
by a set where
a close friend of
his was direct
ing a Class J
quickie. Shoot
ing time was
something like 3
days, 2 hours
and 30 minutes.
The sets were
the same 'ones
Pearl White had Henr* mclmmk.
used, and the cameraman was using
a Brownie.
The script was something that
the Juke family might-well have
turned out in one night, and Grant,
sensing that such a picture might
set the movie Industry back 100
years, sat down and rewrote an en
tire scene.
The scene was reshot, or what
ever the industry’s name is for such
a procedure, and the director went
into a borderline case of ecstasy.
“Pure poetry!” he cried. "Like
music directed by Toscanini in the
Taj Mahal. Like talented nightin
gales singing to their mates. This
one scene—this one scene alone
wili save this picture. Don’t you
think so, Jimmy?”
Grant gave careful study to the
question for a split second and
answered. “It’s just like putting a
band-aid on a leper!” I
* * * *
This one concerns Peter Lind
Hayes, one of the most brilliant
young comics in the world. Peter is
a star now, but this goes back to
when he was a youngster working
at his mother’s club. He worked
all night and slept all day. some
one suggested that he take up golf.
Good for his health, his muscles, his
color. So he joined the Lakeside
Golf Club and soon was shooting in
the low 120s. Practice brought his
handicap down to 23, and more prac
tice lowered it to 13. He became an
eager beaver. He got the golf fever.
He would stand outside the club
and collar any one coming in.
"Got a game?” he would ask. “I
am Peter Lind Hayes and my handi
cap is 13.”
Came the day when a golfer named
Ralph Guldahl appeared. Peter, who
didn’t know that Ralph was the open
champion of the United States, but
tonholed him.
Hayes went through his 13-handi
cap routine, and a member who was
with Guldahl gave him an enlight
ening nudge. Guldahl said he, too,
was a 13-handicap man and was
looking for a game.
So they went to the first tee,
betting, I believe, a $10 Nassau.
Prom here on out it reads like a
fairy tale.
At the end of nine holes Peter,
who neither drinks nor sjnokes,
came shakingly.to the bar.
"Give me a double coke,” he Said..
By this time every one at Jthe club
knew what was happening.; C Z> ID H
Some one . asked Peter what waf
the cause of hit agitation.
"I’ve run into the toughest 13
handicap player I ever saw. Name’s
Guldahl or something like that.”
“How do you stand?” another
Lakeside member asked.
“All even,” Peter said, “but I have
had to play better than I ever did."
The closing curtain is this: Gul
dahl, like all champions, had an off
day. Peter had his best day. He
beat Guldahl 1-up. Not until the
finish did the Lakeside members tell
Peter what he had accomplished.
He did a swoon—and it wasn’t a
phony one.
* * * *
Space has run out. If it hadn’t, I
would have liked to have told you,
how I became something of a social
lion in Hollywood, and am being
entertained by some of the most
prominent counterfeiters and mari-;
juana rollers in this section.
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