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Show ABOVE THE HULLABALOO By LTTLE HULL THE STEEL COMPANIES have He will enter the army as a commissioned com-missioned officer in October. 4T offered their employees an Increase In-crease In wages averaging 18 cents,' six paid holidays and double time for holidays worked, Increase In shift differentials, three weeks vacation va-cation after 15 years of service, and fringe benefits, making a total, cost to the companies of about 2& cents an hour the best wage offer ever made by the steel industry. They have refused however to allow al-low Mr. Murray from Scotland to further enslave the American steel workers by granting his demand tor the union shop. They at this writing are standing pat on the present agreements which give the worker the right to join, or not to join, the union! This Is an act of justice and decency in the same category as the fine determination of Mr. Truman's administration to prohibit the return of unwilling Chinese Chi-nese and Korean prisoners to the Communists. One concession would mean the virtual loss of liberty; the other, loss of life. There is no moral or economic reason for Murray's demand for a union Shop. It would simply give him complete control of his minions and also, practically, of an industry without which 150 million Americans Amer-icans could scarcely exist. Think of the injury Murray can do, and has already done, to this nation, and try to imagine what an agent of the Kremlin could do if he got Murray's jobl And such things are not impossible in these crazy times. The Reds have sneaked in and obtained control of bigger things than the C.I.O. When are those who tell us all the wonderful things they intend to do If we elect them going to put a stop to this ridiculous sort of situation? situ-ation? It wouldn't be permitted In a kindergartenl Our lives and the future of our country and of our. children are threatened by these internal monkey-wrenches which are sapping the strength we so desperately des-perately need to hold off the most determined enemy any nation has ever had to face.' |