Show MARQUIS CHILDS Strikes Menace Country 1 Like Spreading Cancer WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V Sinister Is a T word to be used sparingly Webster defines it to mean evil Injurious disastrous corrupt Yet that word seems to apply to the pattern of ot strikes strike taking shape in this country today Or perhaps more accurately It applies applies applies ap ap- ap- ap plies to the political motivation which appears appear to be back of ot some ph phases el o of this spreading cancer A strike is scheduled for tor June 15 That is the strike of at the seven C CIO I 0 maritime unions Even though they are arc far from tram controlling the waterfronts on the cast and west coast conat since there is active A F L competition tion they can g go a long way toward shutting down the shipping shipping ship ship- pin ping out of ot United States State ports What happens then to the relief relict ships carrying food to a hungry world I asked that question of ot one o of the leading officers of at the National Maritime Maritime Mari Marl time union He replied that a special committee has been setup set setup setup up to deal with just that ques ques- tion Cochairmen of or that committee committee committee com com- ore are Harry Bridges Bridge of at the C CIO I 0 Longshoremen's union and Joseph Curran of at the N M U. U Nothing Worked Out OutI I r was wa told that nothing had been worked out yet The committee committee committee com com- will take the matter up with U N R R A. A They will Insist on assurances from U N R R A that ships with U UN N R R A re relic relief relief re- re lic lief food contain nothing else but relief relict The fact is however that U N R R A is shipping only a fraction of oc the food toad leaving American ports That Is the fraction going to countries which cannot pay Most shipments are going to countries that need the food tood desperately and have the foreign exchange to pay for it Are Arc these ships to be bo stopped The answer seems to lie with the maritime unions If they are stopped hunger famine Camine will spread In Europe and Asia Now look at the background of ot the maritime unions Communist Communist Communist Influence is greater t there ere than in any other unions i in the country Bridges and Curran are heroes of oC the communists' communists Dally Daily Worker Soviet Russia was asked to join forces with Britain and the United States in helping to meet the famine crisis In spite of at a personal message from President President President dent Truman to Stalin the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- declined Does Russia want hunger to spread in the world Will Vill hunger and chaos further communist policy The Tho conduct of at the maritime strike may help to answer those questions It is an American tragedy this strike U will T take uke i against a back background ground of lh slon sion and ev tai corruption In b the ing InS of ot merchant ships to M t war Senator George Georgr b D. D Vermont says saya th the against the maritime chit l don sion and opera the ship c eo up to the mo most moat s t t of ot collusion c corruption regard presented of or public interest and r Z against an ari a athe tr ar the United Ivry States eVe These facts fact t are aref sot 0 lot In terms of at f to public the maritime union opinion t R re p r ing frig tho the extreme i L John L. L Lewis and hI hU his U Un i Mine Workers represent nt the political right riCht liS 1 become the hero of isolationism DI Diehard chard empl see in his tactics th the ciu li realize their fondest aims Control Undermined The Tho coal strike has hal t C long IonS way toward price control In so doing It Irreparably harmed the Tnt administration M Ma lass prod unions in steel and automo are suffering severe da dart which comes on top of th the la 10 resul resulting from the steel mi tad tor strikes strike While they have aims alnis extreme l left ft and b right arc are achieving the un lam suit That result is to re ltd America to to Impotence at it t t b when the weight of our pr prat PIU and Influence Is most needle need strike a balance in a dupa world An avowed this country has been quotE quoit saying that the the United States States' effort to to tD with Russian tort for expansion will be the redu o of this country to a third power I The strikes can be as an inevitable result of cf I fearful economic the war The railroad r not be fitted Into any pattern When t 1 leaders have played politic has been almost entirely in special interests of the talk rill unions They have taken a rt a of the road political line Yet when all this hu has t said the fact remains remain that I tho the interests of power politics the aim had hid t tto tto to cripple and impair this e c etry a atry try it could not have t tm teed n E Emore more effectively You do o have to look tar far to see what whit means |