Show St Sf louis P Pk an Might Sove Labor Unrest By y DREW DREn FEARS PEARSON FEARSON OX W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Senator Senator Wil William liam llam Knowland of California Isa bra Isa Is Is- a staunch Republican Stuart Symington surplus war property proper proper- ty administrator Is a Democrat But they seem to have something some Borne thing In common when it comes comel to helping g solve the tangled labor lahar la la- bor har situation At any rate Symington telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned Knowland the tha o other cr dayto dayto day to congratulate him on his re recently recently recently re- re announced plan for labor Jabor to share in company profits Its ts t's a great Idea the surplus property administrator told the tho senator from California I know I tried it in St St. Louis and it worked What Symington put across in St. St Louis Loul was an experiment which th the management labor-management conference could well have stud stud- led He had a bad strike in his lila Emerson Electric plant le led Jed by bya a union unton leader who frankly admitted admitted ad ad- he was a communist Finally Symington proposed pro profit lt haring At first labor wa was suspicious So were the stockholders and directors But Symington persevered Finally they agreed to a plan whereby profits at the end of the year were divided partly on the basis of 5 seniority partly on the basis of ot importance of ot work First year the profits profIt were only but last year they totaled a lush melon I to divide up among The latter arc are now sold soldon soldon on the Idea and so are the stock stock- holders The workers worked harder profits arc are larger and stockholders got a bigger dividend dividend divi divi- check Labor got 30 20 of every nickel we made in 1944 1914 says Symington and a system like that is the only basis for permanent permanent permanent per per- manent labor Jabor peace Symington's survey of various sharing profit-sharing plans plano leads him to that whenever it has haa been tried out sincerely it h has haa never failed I Bilbo BUbo L Loves Loea n e Persecution The Persecution The story is being whispered round that Mississippi's 1 Senator Bilbo BUbo actually paid to have hl his office picketed by a wounded war vet vet- eran cran I i I Whether true or not it Is 11 a fact fact th that t the Mississippi fill- fill buster huster always has hEes thrived on persecution He was in Jail jalI on ona ona a contempt of court charge when he first began his campaign campaign cam cam- for tor the senate It made him a martyr Since then Bilbo has always capitalized on the tho attacks against him He is now claiming a a. north northern m conspiracy to dictate to the state of ot Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- whom It should send to the senate That's That why Its It's rumored rumored ru u mored that he paid the veteran to picket his office so ao he could pull pun the persecution charge again Meanwhile various Bilbo anti-Bilbo candidates are arc on the horizon latest being Lieutenant Commander Commander Com Corn mander Levings only naval officer of ot- fleer f fro from I 0 m Mississippi who served on the battleship U S S Mississippi Capital Chaff The Chaff The maritime commission is about to disintegrate disintegrate grate just at a n. time when Ita Its hardest to keep a merchant marine marise ma ma- rine rise going Admiral Emory S. S Land chairman is b exiting soon probably to head Pennsylvania- Pennsylvania Central Airlines Admiral Howard VIckery another able commissioner is leaving to head the American bureau of shipping shipping ship ship- ping which establishes safety standards for ships Numerous young shipping exp experts who have worked faithfully are stampeding for private jobs The national labor relations board once kicked all over the lot by business and varIous la labor la- la bor factions has won unique recognition The manage labor ment conference could agree on Just about one thing thing namely namely toI to I 1 increase n a c r rea e a s a e appropriations for forN forN N NLRB L R B and to keep it Independent independent Independent Inde Inde- pendent of the labor depart depart- ment Yet a few years ago N NLRB L R Ft B was waa considered the greatest enemy of ot business Billy BUly Rose the big Broadway producer II is having servant troubles Reason Is i Senator Bil BIl- Bil- Bil ho bo A news columnist reported that Rose ROBe was on a committee with Senator Bilbo to plan a national na na- na- na stadium in InV V Washington D. D C. C Billy never met Bilbo but New York Negroes hate Bilbo Bilbo Bil Bil- Bil- Bil bo ho so BO that they wont won't work for Billy Rose They think hes he's a a. friend of ot Bilboe BUbos |