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Show " I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS " Big Business Flayed in T-H Row; Unemployment Increases in U.S.; Soviets to Keep Prepared for War (EDITOK'8 NOTE: When opiniont art expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's newt analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) pjIpgliM MiUWMMM mjl I" A f 4 l rv 'J y .-'A r "st I 1 8&1e&to ' Am I .a - 'iiiiiiiMfiiftiti'i - ii 1 r " 'Ain-.n BIG BUSINESS HEARD ON T-H LAW . . . Charles E. Wilson (right) president of General Electric, testifies at senate labor committee hearing on Taft-Hartley bill. With him, at left, Is L. R. Boulware, vice-president of General Electric. Their conclusions: The law is a "good law with wise safeguards in labor-management relations." That labor thought otherwise Is shown by the placard Wilson holds. " DEATH SPRAY: Nazis Had It Out of Mountain View, Calif-came Calif-came one of the most chilling, awesome post-war tales of what might have been in World War II. It was about a "death spray a spray so fatal that if a spot of it the size of a dime lay on a person's per-son's skin, that person was doomed. THE SPRAY was described as being potent enough to knock out whole divisions of men in exposed positions. A dime-sized spot, unless wiped off quickly, would kill a man in two minutes. It would penetrate ordinary ordi-nary clothing and some types of gas masks. Authorities for these statements, were U. S. army engineers who destroyed 125,000 tons of the spray where it was stored in carefully hidden caves in Bavaria. Maj. James M. Graham of the, engineer corps said the Germans called the chemical "tabun," a' combination of the scientists who invented it. According to Major Graham, who had charge of the disposal of the chemical, "tabun" was a military secret until about six months ago when some information informa-tion concerning it leaked out to the American public. One thousand tons were spared from destruction and shipped to the army proving grounds at Aberdeen, Maryland. THE MAJOR said the stuff Is nearly odorless that a person has to know exactly what he is smelling smell-ing before he can detect it with his nose. It has a faint fruity flavor and looks like crankcase oil. Then the Major said something that would add no comfort to those who fear a war with Russia. Ho said that the scientists who developed de-veloped "tabun" were in Berlin when the Russians took over and probably became subject to Soviet control. Speculation was that it was not used by the Germans because of a reluctance to engage in chemical warfare for a lack of knowledge of what weapons in this field might be possessed by the Allies. OLIVER TWIST: Fagin Is Issue Intelligent Jews would draw little consolation from the violent acts of their fellow men in multi-torn Berlin. With the world on tenterhooks over the possibility of a third world war and with the issue of Palestine not yet completely settled as it affects af-fects the Jews, a mob of Berlin Jews saw fit to demonstrate over the showing of a British-made film. THE FILM was "Oliver Twist," a story familiar to almost every English-speaking schoolboy and, ap. parently, familiar to a great many Jews as well. The Berlin Jews, It seemed, couldn't stomach the Dickens creation, crea-tion, Fagin, one of the major characters char-acters in the story. Fagin, depicted as a Jew, is an unlovely character who teaches children to steal for him and accords them brutal treatment. treat-ment. The charge that the film was "anti-Semitic" was hurled by the Jewish demonstrators. Their demonstration demon-stration was effective. It resulted in temporary withdrawal of the film. German police hospitalized some of the rioters, but said they could not continue to protect the theatre. THE ENTIRE AFFAIR provided a disturbing spectacle. Berlin, supposed sup-posed to be the proving ground of the ability of nations to work together, to-gether, has become, instead, the malodorous corpse of that conception. LABOR LAW: Trouble, Trouble' In the field of liberal or, as some would term It, even "left wing" Republicanism, the GOP's Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon was conceding con-ceding nothing to no man. THE SENATOR was vocally and vociferously hurt. The defense of the Taft-Hartley law by "big business" busi-ness" was giving the senator no rest and he meant to let everyone know about it. With little originality but much vigor, the senator was crying that the attitude of many defenders of the Taft-Hartley law was a "Judas betrayal of the capitalistic system." IN A SUDDEN onslaught against many of the business men who have appeared before the committee in defense of the measure, the senator declared their attitude is "shocking . . . selfish . . . class-conscious . . . un-Christian." In contrast, he praised Senator Taft (R., Ohio) whose name the law bears, for his "fair-minded objectivity" objec-tivity" in considering testimony on the "shortcomings" of the act Morse declared he and Taft are "much nearer together on the need for a law less drastic against labor" than they were In 1947 when the act was passed. MEANWHILE, sentiment was growing among congressional observers ob-servers that with every day of delay on legislative consideration of Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley law repeal, there increased the probability of labor's failing to get as many of the law provisions outlawed as they might hope to do. A major battle was shaping up on the proposal, with many legislators evidencing a dawning conviction that perhaps it would not be wise to scrap the Taft-Hartley law in its Fraternity Man Chooses Mind Over Gastronomies Culture had won s minor triumph. At Ann Arbor, Mich., Paul H. Smith, University of Michigan Junior, was about to have at it with a hog for eating capacity honors. Thinking better of the Idea, be changed his mind. Reason, It appears, had raised Us awesome head. Smith declared that, on second thought, It occurred to him that the contest might be a "reflection" "reflec-tion" on himself and bis fraternity. frater-nity. Fraternity men from high above Cayuga's waters to the Rose Bowl breathed easier, buckled buck-led anew to their academic tasks. but the overall decline was greater than normal. SIGNIFICANT was a report of Robert G. Goodwin, director of the bureau of employment security, who said that the number of people receiving jobless benefits increased by 62,000 to a total of 1,784,000 during dur-ing the week ending February 12. In the same week in 1948, there were 1,030,000 such claims. Employment or its lack has always al-ways been a major factor of indication indi-cation in an evaluation of the nation's na-tion's economic condition because of the simple fact that In past recessions re-cessions general unemployment has always preceded periods of national depression. RUSSIANS: Big Wor Talk The Russians must keep prepared for war. That was the message of Soviet People Are Funny entirety and replace it with some version of the Wagner act JOBLESS: 3 rVillion Out At present count the number of jobless in the United States stood at three million. However, according to the experts, ex-perts, there was no cause for immediate im-mediate concern. Commissioner Ewan Clague of the federal bureau of labor said the time to become alarmed would be when the unemployed un-employed total reached five million mil-lion and stayed there. Would it reach five million? THAT WAS A POINT on which the experts disagreed. Those who were loudest In pointing point-ing to the possibility of a depression depres-sion pointed out that in just three months the jobless total had jumped from 1.8 million to the present three million. That was a rate of acceleration which, they claimed, should cause everyone to be alarmed. Time was an element, Corn- Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, Soviet Sov-iet minister of armed forces, in a statement in an order of the day marking the 31st anniversary of the Red army. The Marshal named the possible enemy the United States. Bulganin added that the "ruling circles of the United States which seek to establish their world domination domi-nation by force pursue a policy of aggression and of unleashing a new war." The language was strong, even for the Russians. Was it the beginning begin-ning of a campaign by the Soviets to prepare the mass Russian mind for conflict? It could be. Bulganin played on fears and prejudices which might well lay the groundwork for calling the Soviet people into war. Intimating Intima-ting the possibility of attack, he assured the Russians that the "Soviet people may rest assured our army, air force and navy will ! vigilantly stand guard over their i socialist homeland." THE UNITED STATES was the ! only western Dower sinelprl nut v I f ''" And, people are funny, In many of the things they do. This woman, Charlotte Kiersteln, 23, on probation for a check swindle verdict, couldn't keep a job. Suspicious Sus-picious employers fired her 14 times. Then, jailed at her own request, re-quest, her story hit the papers and now she's been deluged with Jobs. Her past will make no difference. missioner Clague contended. Wait, he said, until the March and April begins to revive the construction business and Easter trade and then "we'll be able to tell better just where we're going." The federal official noted there was a drop of 1.75 million workers In non-agricultural jobs between mid-December and mid-January. Part of this was seasonal, he said, the marshal in his order of the day. But there was a naive element of braggadocio in all the anniversary anniver-sary statements. It seemed Lt. Gen. S. S. Shatilov, deputy chief director of the political board of the armed services, was trying to "whistle past the graveyard" when he stated that in its early days the Soviet army had "routed the hordes of 14 powers. A-BOMBS: Whom To Tell? Government officials were being trank, but futile. They said they hadn't figured out how to tell Ameri-cans Ameri-cans ways m which to protect them-selves them-selves from A-bombs without lettin, the whole world in on the "know how." Their dilemma, A-bomb officials said, is how to disseminate this in tormation at home and keep it ai home. No defense plans exist, foi area defense |