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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEW, UTAII UN Gets Public Airing; CIO at War With Reds f Lv'4flr Baukhage WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. HUNTER COLLEGE, The Bronx, N. Y. Fifteen minutes ago the session ses-sion of the security council of the United Nations adjourned and the attractive room which It Is hard to believe was ever the gymnasium of Hunter college in the northern latitudes lati-tudes of New York City, Is almost empty. Since 11 o'clock the council members mem-bers have been at their places at the curving table on the platform and every seat In the "audience" has been filled. The first 40 persons to line up at the gates are given seats. Tickets are Issued only to those with some plausible reason to hold them. Some of the "visitors" remain and the marine guards are still on duty while other attendants clear away the various Impediments before each place from the Russian ambassador's at one end, to the Polish delegate's at the other. After each day's performance the actors and the audience in this play-are play-are soon far from the brown and rose room of Hunter college, but for a long time there are scores of busy men and women. They are the people whose business busi-ness It Is to report this drama and build up opinion strong enough to discourage war. I refer to the mem bers of the press, radio, the news-reels, news-reels, the photographers, photog-raphers, the sound - recorders. As I sit here they are gathering up their notes and mtmorada, making quick contacts before delegates gat away, pulling off had-sets, pack ing up cameras and tripods and then perhaps pausing for refreshments refresh-ments in the "press lounge" especially espe-cially Installed in the basement of he gymnasium where their quarters quar-ters are located. UN Recognizes Popular Interest I have covered many interna- tlonal gatherings from the peace conference con-ference of Paris after World War I and none has given as much proportional pro-portional attention to providing the necessary facilities for bringing the proceedings to the citizens of the world as this gathering at Hunter college. Of course the council is relatively small and the army of reporters seems large In comparison to Us cant 11 members, the "secretary and assistant secretary general and the various advisors. The fact that the principals are so few increases the Informality and the feeling of Intimacy which seems to exist between be-tween the organization and the group of men and women who observe, ob-serve, record and report Its doings. Along the wall, opposite the council coun-cil table at gallery level are a row of glass windows, the booths of the American radio networks, the BBC, and some separate stations. In a glassed-ln-corner behind and to the left of the table are radio engineers and the equipment which records all the spoken words of the members. mem-bers. At any moment a speaker may be cut in and heard by listeners lis-teners on any of the networks. At special points of vantage there are places for taking movie and still photographs. Whenever some dramatic dra-matic moment arrives you can see the Klieg lights slowly rise (and the busiest delegate Is likely to straighten straight-en his tie, take off or put on his glasses) while the moving picture cameras grind. Most of the speaking by the delegates, dele-gates, except when formal statements state-ments are read, Is done from notes or completely ad lib and since all of the members speak either English or French the pauses for interpreting are short either into French or English, except when Ambassador Am-bassador Gromyko speaks in Russian. Rus-sian. These "words must be Interpreted Inter-preted Into both French and English Eng-lish and Gromyko doesn't hesitate to stop the interpreter and give his own English translation If he doesn't like the interpreter's choice of words. He could speak In English Eng-lish himself if he wanted to but probably wants the Russian for the record for home consumption. Eventually when the permanent meeting place Is established the system sys-tem employed at Nuernberg will be used earphones and simultaneous translation.- This slows down the speakers but is much more rapid in By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. the long run making repetition of an entire speech unnecessary sometimes some-times twice or sometimes thrae times, as at San Francisco. But here at Hunter the business moves with a briskness that adds to the informality. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS. Rail Unions Renew Wage Bid As Carriers Ask for Rate Hike; Move to Spread Meat Supply May Leave Reds On Political Limb I never realized before that New York was NOT aa "early" town. When transportation is normal I can buy a New York newspaper In Washington on my way to work. On the other hand In New York at the same hour (7:30) I found there were no newsstands open between be-tween the club where I stayed on 57th street to the subway station, nor in the subway where I got on, or where I got off, 40 minutes late-. Of course the crowds were pouring pour-ing southward in the subway at that hour and they had been able to buy their papers when they got on, but In the normally busy area of the 50's the natives were not abroad In sufficient suf-ficient numbers at 7:30 to Justify the presence of news vendors. On the streets at the end of my run which is about 200th street (Kingsbridge station in the Bronx) the stands were open and most of the people who bumped against me as I reached for the staid Times tad the Republican Herald Tribune, Trib-une, were buying the left-wing PM. PM can't be called Communist since Editor Ingersoll Is not a Communist Com-munist but while he was off to the wars It hewed pretty close to the party line. The Daily Worker, however, is considered to express the official "wishes" of the Communist Com-munist party and, according to most of the other newspapers these "wishes" come direct from the Kremlin or maybe next door. Heretofore the Communists have supported the American Labor party par-ty which Is a New York party which in general embraced Democratic, New Deal, CIO supporters and had the co-operation of the Communists. Now the war is on between the CIO and the Communists and ructions are expected to arise in any corner. cor-ner. Nevertheless, when the Russian delegate walked out of the United Nations security council meeting, it was said that until he walked back the American Labor-CIO planning board had decided to withhold support sup-port of Senator Mead, Democratic possibility In the race for the New York state governorship. This move was looked upon by conservative papers like the SUN as if the American Amer-ican Labor party were willing to plan its political strategy according to the attitude of Moscow toward the United Nations. Since In the council meeting when the Iran affair af-fair came up Secretary of State Byrnes led the fight against the Russian stand. The fact that he later lat-er offered the resolution which labeled la-beled the Russian reply as satisfactory satisfac-tory and postponed the discussion of Iran in which Ambassador Gromyko had refused to take part beyond the time that the Russians themselves had demanded, the left wingers went to bed satisfied. However critics of the American Labor party and the CIO still Insist that they are now on record as having hav-ing tried to line up American votes to please a foreign power. What the repercussions of this little flurry flur-ry will be remain to be seen. If this is supposed to be an evidence of left-wing displeasure over the Democratic Dem-ocratic administration's foreign policy pol-icy and subsequent events have not removed that displeasure, the question ques-tion remains, where will the left wingers go? John Lewis, whose love for the Democrats evaporated when he couldn't collect on his generous donation do-nation to the Roosevelt campaign fund, is expected to become a hundred hun-dred per cent Republican when it comes to the next presidential election. elec-tion. It would take a great stretch of the Imagination, however, to visualize visu-alize either the communist appendage append-age of CIO, of the non-Communist CIO-PAC head, Sydney Hillman. embracing the elephant It has already al-ready been demonstrated that the Communists are becoming anything but an asset to the Democratic party par-ty and Hillman probably would be glad to get rid of them. Where the Communists will go is a questioa It is not likely that they and such fellow travelers as are willing to travel with them would essay a third party. But politicians hereabouts believe that they will be able to shift their weight about In such a manner as to upset more than one state and congressional political apple-cart 11 iJinjcr win""-- ((lnli . (EDITOR-S NOTE: When opinion are expressed In these eolsmns, they '""". Western Newspaper I'nlon't new analysis and not necessarily el U' newspi- Bearing placards, women representatives repre-sentatives of the national emergency emer-gency committee for price control besieged Washington to press congressmen con-gressmen for extension of OPA. In all, 800 women Invaded capital to lobby for continuation of agency. 3 A ',a 0 Y ? 'ML VJ fcv? . rv 1 t i il ' ' & RAILROAD PAY: . Seek More Despite an arbitration board's recent re-cent award of 16 cents an hour to 1,050,000 non-operating employees, the railroad industry was headed for another labor crisis with 15 unions petitioning for an additional 14 cents an hour boost. Non-operating employees em-ployees include telegraphers, clerks, machinists, boilermakers, electricians electri-cians and maintenance workers. In asking for an extra 14 cents to bring over-all increases to 30 cents an hour, the unions charged that the recent award only equaled wartime grants given to employees in other Industries and an extra boost would have to be given to compensate for general postwar raises of 18 cents an hour. Under the procedure of the national na-tional railway labor act, the railroads rail-roads must discuss the wage demands de-mands with the unions. If no agreement agree-ment is reached, services of a federal fed-eral mediator must be requested. In the event the negotiators still cannot can-not come to terms, the case is submitted sub-mitted to a fact-finding board which can only recommend terms of settlement or an arbitration board whose decision is final. Ask Freight Hike Even as the non-operating unions asked for an additional 14-cent-an-hour wage raise, the nation's carriers car-riers sought a 25 per cent increase In freight rates, with certain exceptions, excep-tions, to cover higher operating and labor costs. At the same time, the railroads requested continuation of the wartime passenger fare boost of 10 per cent Despite increased annual expenses ex-penses of almost 2 billion dollars and a sharp slump in postwar traffic, traf-fic, present rates are at the prewar level the carriers pointed out Of the mounting costs, 1 billion, 355 million dollars represent wartime pay raises, and a half billion dollars dol-lars Increases in prices of materials and supplies. Exclusive of any wage awards to the three operating brotherhoods, the recent 16-cent-an-hour grant given to 17 other railroad unions will add 619 million dollars to this year's operating costs, the carriers said. DRAFT: Seek Recruits Buck privates and apprentice seamen would receive a boost In pay from '$50 to $75 a month under un-der a house bill calling for substantial sub-stantial wage increases for all ranks to stimulate voluntary recruitment and avert the need for conscription. conscrip-tion. With the senate yet to act, house approval of higher service pay supplemented sup-plemented its extension of the draft for nine months, with a five-month suspension of inductions to provide pro-vide an opportunity for voluntary enlistments to fill manpower needs. Should recruitment fall below necessary nec-essary demands, the President could order resumption of conscription conscrip-tion October 15, with youths 18 and 19 years old and fathers exempt Duty would be limited to 18 months. Estimated to cost 632 million dollars dol-lars a year for an army of 1,070,-000, 1,070,-000, a navy of 558.000 and a marine force of 108,000, the house approved pay raises would also boost wages of privates first class and seamen second class from $54 to $80 per month; corporal and seamen first class from $56 to $90: sergeant and ! petty officer third class from $78 to $100; staff sergeant and petty officer of-ficer second class from $96 to $115; technical sergeant and petty officer of-ficer first class from $114 to" $135. and first sergeant master sergeant BARBS . . . by Baukhage Administration housing experts want to hold up construction on nonessential non-essential stores, office buildings, factories, roadhouses and amusement amuse-ment projects until veterans homes are taken care of. There'll be screams of anguish over that Try to get anybody . to admit that his shop, his theatre or his doghouse is not essential The Kurds again making trouble In the middle east mustn't be confused con-fused with the kind Little Miss Muf-fet Muf-fet ate . . . or drank. That kind of curd is the thick part of the milk as distinguished from the watery part and the Kurds with a "K" are distinguishable from either by the fact that they are "belligerent Moslem Mos-lem nomads " TOBACCO TAX: State cigarette and tobacco tax revenue tor 1945 totaled $164,200,000, an increase of 8.3 per cent over 1944, with the spurt in sales following the end cf the war and th? Imposition of higher tax rates in some states listed as the reasons for the increase in-crease in revenue. A rise of 11.9 per cent In federal fed-eral tobacco tax collections for the year was also reported. The federal revenue from this source In 1345 totaled S937.209.-000. I ft j K t and chief petty officer from $138 to $165. The graduated Increases would find second lieutenants and ensigns boosted from $1,800 to $2,160 per year and major generals, rear admirals ad-mirals and the highest ranks from $8,000 to $8,800. While no real objection ob-jection was voiced against the overall over-all increase, some criticism was leveled at the substantial boost in dollars and cents granted topflight officers In comparison with the lower low-er ranks. Senate differences with the house bill would result in representatives of the two bodies meeting in con ference to thresh out a measure aereeable to all. with indications pointing to approval of the draft if voluntary enlistments fail to meet army needs. FOOD: U. S. Acts Seeking to channel more meat Into major packing centers and relieve re-lieve the tight supply situation in big cities, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson An-derson announced government restoration restor-ation of wartime slaughter quotas In a "share the live stock" program. Re - establishment establish-ment of butchering quotas followed small operators' draining of meat animals from stock yards at prices ma jor packers could not meet without violating OPA ceil ings. Purchase of cattle for shipment on high bidding pointed up the men ace of the black market, with pri- liowles vate trade sources anaAnnerson asserting the majority ma-jority of meat being sold was at illegal il-legal prices and OPA officials con testing the charge. The heavy drain of small opera. tors on regular market sources was indicated by the rise in licensed slaughterers from 1,400 in 1939 to 26,000 in 1946. Normally dominant in the big Chicago stockyards, Swift, Armour and Wilson were able to meet only a, fraction of their needs. with Swift purchases for one week totaling' 270 head compared with 4,103 for the same period last year. While the restoration of slaughter quotas will not increase the total supply of meat, it is designed to promote more equitable distribu tion. With government set-aside or ders for foreign relief and the mili tary forces amounting to 15 per cent of stocks, the civilian supply will average 132 pounds per person in April, May and June. This com pares with 116 pounds for the same period last year. Besides assuring more equal dis tribution of meat, the government's "share the livestock" program also will serve to maintain employment at the big packing centers where sizable lay-offs have occurred due to Inadequate supplies. Meantime, Stabilization Direc tor Bowles announced an increased subsidy program to encourage high dairy production and forestall a rise in consumer prices before July 1. Instead of permitting a seasonal 35 cent per 100 pound drop in the milk subsidy, the government will hold the cut to only 15 cents, while the seasonal 7 cent reduction per pound on the butterfat content of cream will be held to only 2 cents On July 1, an additional 20 cents per 100 pounds of milk and 5 cents per pound on butterfat will be al lowed to bolster farmers' returns BRITAIN: Lure for Army Matching U. S. efforts miiitsrv force througn lain a buvus ---- , voluntary recruitment Britain ottered ot-tered substantial bonuses to en listees while Canada amiunutw Increased scale of-pay for regular army personnel. As the Labor government still re- n nnstwar conscrip- tion plans, Prime Minister Attlee declared 187,000 volunteers were needed and a $iuu Dnus wm paid Immediately to enlistees, with 4u. tmn tnr earh of three or four years of service. In addition, each recruit will be given $52 or a suit of clothes upon completion of his duty. With Canada planning an active postwar army of 25,000 men, basic cay and subsistence allowance for privates was mcreasea iu ? u tha wartime rate of niuiiui " $76.50 and the prewar payment of $72. Substantia wage muwaw v for the higher grades. Besides the regular force, the dominion wiu maintain a ic-...... ic-...... n, nf civ divisions of one BCl VC tuit-v . month's training each year and a supplementary reserve branch. PLAY BALL! Gala Opening Eating peanuts and drinking pop, President Truman set the pace for the nation's baseball, fans as the big league season got underway with near record crowds totalling 236,730 witnessing witness-ing the opening games. With the chief executive in attendance, the Boston Red Sox defeated the Washington Senators in the capital, capi-tal, 6 to 3, with Ted Williams marking his return to the scarlet scar-let hose with a 430 foot home run. At the same time, three other famed war vets starred In American league inaugurals, Hank Greenberg slapping out a home run to give the Detroit Tigers a 2 to 1 victory over the St Louis Browns; Joe Di Mag-gio Mag-gio rapping a four-bagger to pace the New York Yankees in a 5 to 0 victory over the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia A's, and Bobby Feller of the Cleveland Indians blanking blank-ing the Chicago White Sox, 1 to 0, on three hits. In National league features, Rookie Bob Scheffing's pinch single in the 9th inning gave the Chicago Cubs a 4 to 3 victory vic-tory over the Cincinnati Reds and Manger Mel Ott banged out the 511th home run of his 21-year 21-year career with the New York Giants to lead them to an 8 to 4 win over the Phillies. free Lots or Vets World War II veterans are being given free lots on which to build homes in St. Petersburg. Fla.. a Beachwood. N. J., the American Municipal association reports. The St Petersburg committee free veterans lots has issued lots to ex-servicemen since March 1, while at Beachwood, N. J., nea 100 veterans are being given a plot of ground. on 584 VANDALISM: Follows Strike In the most violent outbreak in Butte, Mont, since 1920 when 10 men were wounded in a pitched gun battle between deputies and pickets, organized mobs smashed the homes of maintenance workers of the strike - bound Anaconda Copper Mining company. As police were lured to distant sections by misleading phone calls, groups of young men, women and children armed with axes smashed homes, wrecked furniture and dumped furnishings outside. While union and local officials attributed the attacks to "bobby-sockers," company spokesmen charged that newly-arrived Communists had inspired in-spired the rioting. Vigorously denounced by leaders of the ClO-International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the vandalism ruffled negotiations with the company com-pany over the question of a retroactive retro-active application of an 18 cent an hour wage raise granted recently. While the union had demanded that the boost be retro-active to October 1 when the old contract expired, the company insisted on April 1. PRODUCTION: Higher and Higher ' Checking back on production fig-ures, fig-ures, the office of war mobilization and reconversion reported that the nation's output for the first quarter of 1946 was even higher than at first estimtaed despite a lag in the hard goods and textile industries. Whereas the OWMR computed production at an annual rate of 150 billion dollars, it hiked its figure to 154 billion dollars and added that the estimate might be even higher when all reports are In. Even at 150 billion dollars, the estimated rate tops all previous peacetime marks. In reviewing the bright production picture, the OWMR declared: Farm production should be 13 to 15 per cent above 1941 with good weather. The tire, washing machine, power, pow-er, gas. oiL steel, aluminum and magnesium industries are operating operat-ing far above prewar levels. Rate of production of radios, vacuum vac-uum cleaners, electric irons and bicycles bi-cycles is rapidly approaching the peacetime figure. Good Neivs for Canners Home canners also could find en-couragement en-couragement in the improved pro-ductioD pro-ductioD p.cture. with extension spe, ciahsts reporting adequate supples of materials. s Aluminum is fairly plentiful and the enamclware industry I, ning well above its prewar production, produc-tion, thus brightening proSpects for pressure canners or waterbath can ners. Stocks of jars and tops on hand e greater than at any time during dur-ing the war or before the war. The Big City: Free Warnine to Cafeeoers: Those stirrers you get with your high, ball are not sanitary. . . . Nearly ewprvone sticks the things into their kissers or runs them over their teeth and the bartenders have no way of sterilizing them before passing them on to the next patron. . . . Suggestion: Carry your own they come In silver and gold. . . . The jewelry stores can send my com missions to the Catholic, jewisn ana Protestant Charities. Oops! : In.Movietown there Is a "charm" school that teaches pet animals various stunts and manners. man-ners. The school also coaches the masters of the pets. Columbia Pictures' boss Harry Cohn enrolled his dog In the course. After ten days Mr. Cohn wanted to quit because: "We're not getting anywhere!" "I'm sorry, Mr. Cohn," said the instructor, "but you will have to learn that you cannot talk to your dog as though he were an actor or a writer." In Other Words: After reading the papers about the way some society so-ciety upstarts are behaving. Bill Schiller memo'd: "They call them thorough-breds. I call them thorough-brats I " Heheheh: Larry Storch, the Copa comic, overheard a man and woman as they came out after witnessing "The Lost Weekend." "I'm through!" said the man, "With drinking?" she asked. "No, movies!" You've Met Him: One of those bores spoiled a party with a series of spineless stories and loud gab. Finally, he got up to leave. "What I need," he said, "Is a little shut-eye." "What you need," said Phil Brito, "Is a little shut-up!" It Happened: Hollywood actors report that it happened on the Super-Chief the other week-end. A man nobody knew kept buying drinks for all In the crowded club car. He displayed a wallet packed with $1,000 bills. A film magnate was concerned when he passed out. He helped him to his compartment. Then the producer pro-ducer worried that he would be robbed since the limp one wouldn't think to lock himself in. The producer pro-ducer took the stranger's wallet for safe-keeping. At noon the producer joined the drunk in the diner and said: "You were pretty tight last night, so I put you to bed. Here's your wallet." wal-let." The stranger brought a wallet from his own hip and said: "Thanks and here's yours." Merciless Truth: H. L. Mencken says there are two times in every man's life when he is thoroughly happy. Just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one. The Morning Mail: "Dear Walter," Wal-ter," writes a reader, "I spent the week-end in the country. I heard two army horses (which are to be cared for the rest of their lives) congratulating each other on not being mere G.I.s." Saddest Story of the Week: Les Brown, the bandleader, brought it in. . . . It's the saga of the high-wire artist. . . . Poor chap. . , He jumped 50 feet straight up into the air grabbed a trapeze did 25 fast flips and caught the trapeze between be-tween his teeth with no hands! . . . Imagine! . . .Then he tried it a second time missed and fell to the stage with a crash that rocked the theater The producer helped the battered performer to his feet, put him in a chair and said: "You did fine and then you had to louse It up by getting slapsticky!" Broadway Glossary: Bartender: The one guy at the bar who knows what he's doing. . . . Marquee: Any actor's heaven. . . . Chanteuse: Not a singer. . . Maestro: Corniest member of the band. . . . Ingenue: Chorus girl who is "Going Places" with the producer. , . . Romance: When he picks up the check. . . . Love: When she does. . . . Manager: Man-ager: An unsuccessful booking agent . . . Critic: District attorney invited to the crime. . . . Stagehand: Off-stage prima donna. . . . Pals: The penalty of success. . . . Loyalty: Loyal-ty: Being true to someone on top. . . . By-Line: What has ruined more writers than hooch Luck: The other fellow's formula. . . . Quotation Marksmanship: A. 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