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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, AMERICAN FORK, UTAH . t nn t 111 Plans Reorganization Of Labor Department Vflf Secretary Undertakes Task to Knit trtf To Avert Vet-Union Row. By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyit and Commentator. U Service, Union Trust Building , .i. Horoulei lust one day to Lan the stables where one wealthy fc not too knOOoxen. At ieasi u ' r: -j mv father knee. Since 1. f.thr nloneered In Washington M in the early '90s, I wish he m here now to witness another uhingtonian doing a Herculean j, wnich be nopes u fer to Secretary Schwellen-,ch, Schwellen-,ch, whose assignment is to put t department of labor in order. He fc't foinf to nave w ao mucu awn-W awn-W out, but be has been tidying up i that he can Dring oaca unaer w. .41 most of a score of prodigal ,-.. 1l havinc to do with la tr which are scattered all over the ttrict of Columbia and points Jrth and west. it of the labors of Hercules decidedly thankless ones and riven him for sDlte because his tpmother, Juno, didn't like her (band's extra-curricuiar cnuaren. iwellenbach's job U thankless but it wasn't given to mm, Secretary Schwellenbach i lor ipite. It was given to him bis old friend, Harry Truman, aose the President believed that, I Hercules, Schwellenbach could fvtr. He was a popular, hard-king hard-king aenator. He was a popular, d-working Judge. The requests of desses and presidents are commit, com-mit, to the judge laid aside his , rolled up his sleeves and rtedln. he first thing he found out when reached the palatial "stables" Constitution avenue was that tak- care of administrative matters iid keep any labor secretary as 1 as Augeas should have been i his 3,000 oxen. No wonder no-7 no-7 quite dared to try to corral the one agencies, rightly under the torlty of the department To ad lister them would under the sent set-up be an Impossible And so they grew up- with their i public relations departments, I own statistical services and le- advisors, separate entities all t their own sweet, if sometimes Dieting, way. . the first thing that Schwellen-h Schwellen-h did was to get together a small -P who knew the department, knew organization and who Washington., .to , find out if 'ething couldn't be done to knit functions of the department e closely together so the head wouldn't have to sign all the 'el orders and decide whether e was enough ice in the Iced " the cafeteria; and attend to t trivia which might better be Rated. ;! was the first step in prepar-old prepar-old home to absorb its prodi-children. prodi-children. When the new secre-n-ived in hU panneled office, Ma tiie staff of the depart- ft tOrethpr mrA mmiA V. everyone acrctvl that tw to be a reorganlzaUon and that ("vision head mUn nrnhihlv fed that his own group didn't oe tampered with. Then he ahead. is written it la hoDed that Port of the crew of lnvestlga- '" a similar atudv of th p-mural artivifie. hu k. t, ww asv vuiir a soon go that a comprehensive r:'"-De la'd on. President Tru.- BARBS . . . by Baukhage recent Dhotn (ternizino" . . snowing U.l. f w cute brunette was really r s-ngiand. i r "ime Minister Attlee was in 'n old frlend he 5n ye" Invited him fwer There was no maid and g helped the wife wash the 1 man's desk by the first of September. Septem-ber. Reorganization Touchy Problem The next step would logically be an .executive order from the President Presi-dent embodying the Schwellenbach report to make the suggested changes. With his war powers, the President wouldn't have to ask the pleasure of congress. But President Truman doesn't want the changes he makes to be temporary affairs. Like every other president since Grover Cleveland, he has requested powers to reorganize the government govern-ment and never has congress of-, fered a carte-blanche go-ahead. Such a bill is pending in congress now. However, if the suggestions made by Secretary Schwellenbach were considered reasonable, they might be put into a bill and passed. In any case they will probably be presented before the other measure authorizing wider presidential authority au-thority is considered. In the meantime, labor itself is tending to cloud the atmosphere Insofar In-sofar as acceptance of any efforts to restore full, free, collective bargaining, bar-gaining, which the no-strike "pledge and various wartime restrictions have virtually suspended. The public pub-lic is getting very irritated with violations vio-lations of the no-strike pledge and what many feel to be union demands which, whether or not they appear fair as between labor and management, manage-ment, do not take the consumer into consideration. Much of the antagonism is due to the feeling of the men who resented strikes while they were In the service. serv-ice. Schwellenbach managed to smooth out one of the toughest veterans vet-erans versus unions troubles the country ever witnessed back in his home state of Washington after the last war. He admits there Is no doubt that such antagonism exists ftowr "We may -as weH faceit, he" says. But he thinks he can handle it One habit which Schwellenbach wants to break up, and it is as sumed the President wants him to break up, Is having labor disputes leap-frog right into the lap of the White House. Some of the old-line labor department officials used to writhe every time a long, hot telegram tele-gram went out such as some of those addressed to John Lewis while the coal strike was going on, which were signed by President Roosevelt but . dictated by the War Labor board, which labor and management had snubbed. These old-timers felt that many of the questions could have been settled with the machinery ma-chinery which already existed within with-in the department Of course, the War Labor board, which has had all the tasks com-" plicated by the war to perform, will die with V-J Day. Vows Impartial Labor Department Other separate agencies dealing with labor will continue. The United States Employment service and the-apprenticeship the-apprenticeship and training program pro-gram are now part of the War Manpower Man-power commission. Social security is run by the social security board. If the movement to create a new department of welfare succeeds, this new set-up might conceivably absorb ab-sorb social security and also the children's bureau, now under the labor la-bor department The National Labor Relations board, which administers Its quasi-Judicial quasi-Judicial functions under the Wagner act now independent, would have its "housekeeping" done by the de-partment-that is. its financing, per-sonnel per-sonnel and such matters would be under the secretary of labor. "" "Since Schwellenbach has been in office he has talked to a whole string of labor men arid a whole string- of management men, too. "I am not a labor official," he says, "I am a public official" That pretty well sets up his position posi-tion and, as I said, it makes his job, so far as the lobbies of labor and management go. about as thankless as the labors of Hercules. Congress feels that the labor department is supposed to look after labor interests inter-ests and what Judge Schwellenbach is shooting at is to have it operate with the Impartiality of a court But his chief concern now is to consolidate con-solidate under one head all government govern-ment activities pertaining to labor. . Canada expects to get more of India's trade than the United States because it will keep its price controls con-trols on longer than we do. I had the pleasure of making two philological predictions in the war which came true: the addition to readers' and listeners' vocabularies of the words "infiltrate" in the military mili-tary sense and redeDlovmnt." Tire Allotment Still Requires Lower Car Speed Utah county's share of the 13,-250 13,-250 grade one passenger tires allocated .to.. Utah. for August Is ., 1478, according to Leo B. NeLvm. chairman of the war price and raupnmg board. . Approximately five times as many tire application, come to me ooara during hot weather as during cold, the chairman said, urging that motorists check the air pressure in tires regularly, have worn tires recapped before iney are beyond repair, and observe the wartime srjeed limit of 35 miles per hour. "Don't blame the tire manufacturer manu-facturer or the recapper if you get a blow-out while rolling along at 50 or 60 miles an hour." he1 said, "Synthetic rubber will not stand the speed. Heat builds up In the wartime tires so fast that blow-outs occur under conditions which would make a . pre-war tire only moderately warm." The national quota of 2,500,000 tires for August was provided only by reducing present low inventories in-ventories another 500,000 tires, indicating that It will be a long time before new tires ran Via granted to A-book holders, he added. A Clubs and Socials Modernettes Mrs. Glen T. Anderson was hostess to v the Modernettes at a canyon party Wednesday evening at the Cave Camp. Supper was followed by Monte Carlo .Whist with Mrs. Soren Sabey and Mrs. Cecil Hansen winning the prizes. Other guests were Mrs. Stanley Green, Mrs. Don Searle, Mrs. Thomas L. Shaf ter, Mrs. Eldon Roberts, Miss Charlotte Chipman, Miss Hanna Reimschilssel and an extra guest, Mrs. Von TidwelL- Better Halves Mrs. Kay Rlchlns of Pleasant Grove was hostess to the Better Halves Wednesday evening. ' Two tables of bridge were played with Mrs. Alvln Fulkerson winning the prize for high score, Mrs. Lynn Milne, the second prize and Mrs. -I. ATNewsome' ' the Consolation ' favor. Dance Set The Dance Set's open, air party. at Latona Wednesday night was rained Indoors, but no one's spirits were dampened. The crowd went to the Apollo where a lively evening was spent to the music of Carter's Orchestra. This Is- the final social event for the group under the chairmanship of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Nelson. When regular dances are resumed in October Mr. and Mrs. LaVere J. Wadley will head a new committee. commit-tee. . - - Mrs. Newell Hofhelns entertained entertain-ed at dinner Wednesday of last week for Sgt. Loyal Mortensen who Just returned from Europe. Other guests were Mrs. Morten-sen, Morten-sen, Mrs. Dick Rogers and daughter daugh-ter Carolyn. Saturday evening Mrs. Lawrence Law-rence Hutchings was hostess for dinner in compliment to Sgt. Mortensen. Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mortensen, Morten-sen, Provo, parents of the serviceman. service-man. Orem Educator Takes Job With Union Pacific Omaha, Neb., Ausuc- 6 Wesley p. Soulier of Orem, Utah, has been appointed agricultural agent for the Union Pacific railroad rail-road with headquarters at Salt Lake City, J. W. Jarvls, supervisor super-visor of "agricultural development develop-ment for the railroad, announced today. Mr. Soulier succeeds Edward Ed-ward E. "Da vies, who has resigned. The change is effective September Septem-ber 1. A native of Provo, Utah, Mr. Soulier was educated at Lincoln grade and high schools at Orem, the Utah State Agricultural Col lege at Logan and the University of New-Mexico. In high- school he was president presi-dent of the local chapter of Future Farmers of America, was distrlc' winner of the Union Pa-. Pa-. cific's- Carl Gray scholarship. Upon graduation from colleg?, he taught vocational agriculture at Alamogordo school district of New Mexico and at Lincoln high school in Orem. where he has been rn instructor for the past six years. During the past two summi Mr. Soulier was manager man-ager of the Utah Berry Growers Association. As agricultural agent for the railroad, Mi". Boulier will have charge of the territory including Utah, Nevada and California. . ..... '( , 1 ....... . . ' . . !) ah i, . : P j 2t ,i ' I KttOvsh out tout oWft-r I Every year America's forests and woodlands suffer an average of 2 1 0,000 fires. That's 5 7 5 a day ...575 while you slept last night! , Every year fats born over 31,000,000 acres more than" in Yosemite National Park or the state of New York. Every year fires kill billions of little trees tomorrow's timber and enough big trees to build 2 1 5,000 five-room homes! Every year vital watersheds are crippled, hundreds of thousands of man-days of labor wasted, nature's beauty scarred. Startling facts but no more startling than this: Of these forest fires, 90 are caused by honest, patriotic American citizens, like you! One word carelessness explains the wholesale razing of America. It's time NOW to put an erfd to this crying shame. You and your friends can help! Please read the rules on this page . . . read them again . . . memorize them . . . tell others about them. Then be careful in all forest and woodland areas. Do your part to help prevent fires! 13 CHS Chipman Mercantile Company Griffin Bakery Garretts LG.A. Market Peoples State Bank 0. P. Skaggs 01? Sponsored V&L ' d&u r?uf pipe ashes. I 2. Break your march in two. When you can hold the burned end between your fingers play safe, use the ash tray. 3. Drown your l&iZJ itir and drown 4. If you must sk if the law ' mfc. Next;hivie Km every I? by ,-9-wBiaBjsxsja DEOS Cornet 5-10-25c Store Tri-State Lumber Co. Timpanogos Motor Co. Gamble's . Store Boley's Inc. Ellison Cleaning Co. csmpfiretth en it again. use fire: Ursf, reauire . helr.'"'" spark! t |