Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS british laborites labovites lab orites hoe face major bajor test lewis miners liners clash with old foe US OS to continue egg price support ED NOT NOTE E I 1 when art expressed eprea in these hie olom nt they her are wheat of ot TV ern no wp per unions now BW and not nat necessarily of t this ahli p I 1 BRITAIN 4 warning Var ning sounded the pledge of anthony eden 5 british deputy conservative lead 4 1 I 1 1 1 or cr who with winston churchill ji and other party big wigs in election la is hoping to overthrow i the labor party that the conser natives will work with all nations nation jor for pence peace might have meant more than it indicated E EDEN DEN being acing the astute world t diplomat that he is must know that there are elements in m many ny ar places pr the united f states who feel that there must be no fur further ther support of power for the labor party in england with the position often regarded as the fostering ot of socialism the more conservative z t people everywhere fe fear ar it li it has as been an amazing thing to most stu dents of world history how the british traditionally J jealous c ot 01 their liberties ever permitted the imposition of this kind of govern y ment upon them A reduction ot of eai i the answer to fundamentals fundament aU might 4 explain that it came about only X through the economic distress of the once proud and mighty empire IT IS apparently assured that whatever the put outcome come tho the f labor party faces its severest merest test r to in election i eden warned in the first alist broadcast of a conservative speech in the just ended campaign that the united nations Is at its lowest ebb the democracies are forced to pay dearly for armaments and the nightmare of communism communes through asia ile he made a 1 telling point in recalling that the labor party in 1045 1945 declared that it it were returned to power it could got get along with the russians because of its socialist ideology and how the world situation had fione gon efrom from bad to worse since then opposition SPEAKER labor lie ite fuel minister hugh gaitskill had bad told on an audience lit ot leeds that the cost of socialism was high in britain and would remain high but declared the cost worthwhile because under the labor govern ment acute poverty has really been abolished 1 that was wag a debatable point about which the argument continued while britain voted EGG PRICES no humpty the american egg situation had no chance to rival the nursery nursery humpty story inasmuch as ac federal price supports were fixed xo so that no such fall as occurred to the nursery rhyme egg could pen to his modern counterpart TOE THE government which al ready owns some gome million dollars dollar worth of eggs intended to keep on buying them through march of this year the idea was to support the price at an average of 25 cents wroten a dozen on the farm the governments policy was wag quaintly stated by one federal of abial who summed tt it up with them tha hens are laying their fool heads head off the farm price of 23 25 cents a dozen boien was about 75 76 per cent of parity a level calculated to bo be squally fair to producers and consumers producers of dried eggs the statement said would continue lo 10 get about OS 93 cents a pound most of 61 the eggs the government buys are dried in the post past two years it has oc cumulated about 73 million pounds of these eggs most at a price of a pound some are stored in a COD cool cove cave near atchinson kensas the rest are in warehouses in other sections of the country TOE tile QUESTION of what to do with them has become the major s problem the law permits the department part ment of agriculture to give them away if they are arc kept butof out of com commercial M erceal competitive channels i this restricts them to welfare purposes pui and similar uses TAXATION get em all the treasury of the united states wants to put the tax bite on a lot of organizations which are not noi now paying any income tax an the operation of unrelated busan businesses s i the treasury made a request to congress that this be done asserting that some labor unions business leagues social clubs and char bitable and educational org organizations were getting away with nonpayment of tax that the treasury insists should be pali paid vance N kirby the treasur treas yx tax legislative counsel made it clear however that the ad adminta mints tax program did not contemplate such tax treatment of religious bodies except as a they might be affected in the operation of educational institutions ile he said the proposals would apply to labor unions business leagues and social clubs he also emphasized emphasis ed that the tax 4 r recommendation commendation e was concerned 4 only with business income which is not incident or related to the A PIT PITMEN MEN an old foe an old and hated enemy was again at grips with john L lewis and his united mine workers after a delay which brought him sharp criticism president harry truman had turned to the device he declares he hates in order to bring order out of the coal strike chaos THERE WERE MANY who had begun to wonder if mr truman known tor for the stubbornness he employs when balk edever ever would resort to the TH T H 11 law to resolve the mine deadlock now that he has it would cause much delight in the ranks of the political opposition thet the TH T H 11 law aw however regarded has beon bean used several times in national emergencies with an effect that gives elves it a real cause tor for being whether r anyone likes it or not the miners however showed defiance they still chanted the old traditional retrain refrain no contract no work and 11 I 1 looked like ilka a contract agreement was wag far coffas off as the president named a three mem bet bee board of inquiry who would attempt to restore peace in the troubled situation TO THE BOARD president truman named david L cole patterson N J attorney who headed a similar board in 1948 that settled a bitter contract tow row bet between e i en lewis and the operators ahn john dunlop harvard university business school and a veteran aln n labor management relations and W willard wirtz northwestern hersity law professor and former chairman ortho wage stabilization board theirs would be ba the difficult job because john L lewis was a difficult man to deal with be even more difficult since his three day work week had reduced the nations coal stockpile to a two week supply at tho the time of the strike RED BOMB H terrific echo there was a sudden and dramatic interruption in all the talk about the hydro genor H bomb just as everyone was pondering the fate of a world an on which the monstrous weapon might bo be loosed along came a report that the russians already had it the reporter was an englishman a mr de courcy who claimed that ho he had secret sources inside tho iron curtain which told him whatever was going on THE CLAIM was a bit rugged for the average american to accept inasmuch as there was still no actual proof the reds ever had the atomic bomb still it was a nice frightening topic of talk and discussion was rather wide widespread spread naturally the first impulse was a great rushing to revamp all atlantic defense plans and perhaps more naturally to talk of greater US outlay of arms for herself and the pact nations amid all the excitement ran an undercurrent of spy thrills and national menace with the disclosure that a german physicist who had worked with the british in developing ve the A bomb had given secret information concerning that weapon to the russians I 1 good omen As jitters mounted over reported leaks and treasonable acts concerning the he secrets of the hydrogen bomb apprehensive officials and citizens were further disturbed by reports that a former clerk in the french consulate at stettin poland had confessed he had led an espionage network that obtained information on british military movements ile he was identified as andre simo neau k y POLITICS po urics sound fury the no sound and fury of the upcoming co congressional ge elections was increasing in volume if I 1 the republicans public ans could make it stick they had found their issue liberty against socialism HOWEVER it appeared the GOP was running into the same old trouble inability to get along the me too element while pretending or appearing to have changed its t 9 collective minds was nevertheless th eless chomping choiping chom ping at the bit when called upon to embrace a more liberal attitude in an 11 day closed meeting members of the republican national committee and house and senate republicans attempted to iron out their differences they had hoped that a proposed statement of principles a and n d objectives would verve serve to unify the party and serve as a basic platform for the campaign electioneering electioneer ing out of the welter of discord come came these arguments within the party vigorous opposition to most ol of mr Tr pair fair deal policy A mid middle dle ground on US foreign policy advocating continuance of the partisan bipartisan bi bl policy but sharply yc criticizing criticising critic ising the administration of it particular condemnation of secret agreements at yalta and pots dam opposition to the spread of communism denunciation of any socialized health program wage and price control the brannan plan RETURN to a balanced budget and repeal of wartime excise taxes A fair price for or the tha farmers products that was the scaffolding for the platform which the committee hoped would satisfy all the republicans first results indicated it will not all of which would bring smiles to democratic hopefuls inasmuch as an there la Is little hope for victory ot at all by republicans who are divided it would be tough enough it if they were all united FOREIGN AID bottomless pit the question of whether the united states ever would be freed of the bur burden denof of supplying economic aid to europe was beginning to occupy the minds of many US citizens with more than eight billion dollars already spent on efforts toward european reco recovery on the basis of released figures and western european nations now asking for another four or five billion for the next two years the astronomical figures were becoming more i astronomical the apparent situation indicated that all the ERP supporters had to do in order to get more funds for european aid was to report amazing progress by the foreign nations on the road to recovery and immediately temper that with a but the but being that more and more money would have to be spent ill it recovery were to be permanent Th the marshall eMarshall plan Is supposed to end in 1952 but the follower of US foreign policy as it affects aid to needy nations would lay the customary eight to file that the plan will not end in 1052 1032 by that time with crisis mounting on crisis because of the himml ence of the H bomb and word that russia already has it it logically may be expected that there willbo will be found multiple reasons tor for continuance of aid to europe to an extent whereof no man can see the end euthanasia EUTHA gUTHA HASIA NASIA caso case in point advocates of eutha nasia I 1 mercy killing I 1 would find support for their views in the action of a bridgeport conn jury in acquitting blond carol of the slaying of her cancer ridden father A jury made up ot of all parents barenis found the 21 year old college collage girl not guilty of slaying tier her father carol ann had fired a bullet through her fathers head after it was i learned h chad live |