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Show 1 UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH BASEBALL: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Price Supports Drannan Sees NeedlorNew Aids lo Farm Coal Industry Seeks Strike Peace Says Present System Provides No Answer To Surplus Problem When opinion Note: (Editor's are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) secretary Charles Brannan, still plumping of agriculture, was plan) his of (Brannan for adoption supports farm price for system aids must arguing that new price U.S. Communist? be provided now. trouble Pointing out that there is 1948 farm surpluses getting rid of even as 1949 surpluses are pouring in, Brannan said the disposal problem "points to the need of supplementary action on price supports, more particularly with respect to efficient methods than procedures for handling price supports of per-'ishab- le commodities." THE agriculture secretary may have had a point there, but the main question was: Would his plan of letting farm products find their own levels on the price market, with subsidies making up the difference provide an adequate solution? Up to this point, he had been unable to convince congress that it would. What luck he would have in the future was wholly problemati cal. But there was no arguing the point that something needed to be done to clear up the muddled farm price support program. As it was being operated, federal farm policy seemed to be getting worse the farther it went. Brannan was eminently correct when he admitted that the present sensation was caused in British political circles when Lord Beaverbrooks conservative London Evening Standard named War Minister John Strachey (above) "an avowed Communist." A JOBLESS : Hit New Peak Again Jobless numbers In' the programs system price support United States had catapulted to a one on "encourage new high, and again the federal n on commerce hand, and department appeared the other . . . and to find sufficient unperturbed about it. ly new uses for the surpluses, or to Unemployment rose to 4,684,000 divert them into in February the highest figure channels at anything comparable since 1941 when the total was to the support price usually is im 5,620,000. possible." DESPITE THE FACT that many SUMMING UP, Brannan said: industrial and economic leaders "Briefly, the outlook includes the to see danger in the sitprofessed likelihood of some further contrac commerce department the uation, tion in the total demands for U.S. the usual bland, unwith came up farm products and points to the concerned explanation as to the need for adjustment in production if a favorable price level is to be cause of the big jump in unemployment. maintained." As was stated in January when The problem indeed was a grave one and made even more grave by Jobless figures appeared alarming, the fact that the administration commerce department boss said: "The slight rise in unemploymay be caught in a trap that has ment between January and Febbeen long in the making a trap created by the fact that having so ruary (204,000) appears to be due long experienced the subsidy aid mainly to seasonal increase in the as is, farmers wont like any tam- labor force and not to any cutbacks in employment. pering with the program. But was that the case? Wasnt FARM UNION: it logical to assume that an "Increase In the labor force meanAsks Red 'Bargain1 ing unemployed but available labor From a surprising source came meant a corresponding lack of a plea for the United States to employment for that same force. "strike a bargain" with Russia and IT WAS SIGNIFICANT, many to spend 150 billion dollars in the observers felt, that the figure as next 15 years on the undeveloped not include striking did reported areas of the world. a fact that meant the workmen, THE SOURCE was James Patunemployment picture was not diston, president of the National Farmtorted in that sense. ers Union. Patton said, "Somehow, Why was unemployment appar1 believe we will be able to find How a way to live in this world with ently steadily increasing? exwould "seasonal the turnover" differ in viewpoint as peoples hold water? If there planation to tynday Timmy and social were serious threat of widespread MarC1 in the. nation, it o strike a bargain unemployment "Lff seemed the government should with Ul!(P we are fighting ascertain the fact. - 'jjng with peaceful in thjL "so that all of lines, FRENCH-SAA- R: ' arms us ci Wllh ' America by U.S. Worried "Li placAjUD BERGMA1 of the peoUnited States high level diplople of uEPH COTTOiUal credit mats had a new and aggravating fiie next of 10 billionproblem on their hands: The sud15 years for the of buildFrench-Germasplit and the denly critical ing TVAs on the i, over the Saar region. bThursd. mans Yangtze, and for The situation was complicated undeproductivity In all of., when France and the veloped areas of the worlu. government of the coal-ricPRESIDENT PATTONS proposal was magnanimous, generous, Saar signed a pact under which but withal mostly France would take the Saars coal visionary. It would delight those for the next 50 years, which the who operate on the theory that German chancellor resented. America can buy peace and good Washington officials frankly adwill with its dollars. mitted deep concern over the situation. They indicated the objecThey might even add that America must be the most hated nation tive of American diplomacy in this In the world, inasmuch as it apinstance would be to try to minipears it has no friends except those mize the problem in the Interest who are won and kept with money. of European unity. over-producti- under-consumptio- al f; sys-tem- s. p3priCO - n semi-independe- nt h e, . Drafting Procedure Seen as Preventative Of Recurrent Disputes The most crippling coal strike in the nations history had come to an end. Miners were pouring back into the pits and allied industries, faced with a threat of total shutdown, were reviving and calling men back to work. John L. Lewis, United Mine Worker chieftianr apparently had won again. He had obtained a raise in pay for the miners along with additional health and welfare benefits. But as the nation relaxed with a sigh of relief that the production-sto- p threat had been removed, leaders in the coal industry began to look farther ahead to examine methods by which a permanent coal peace might be won. Leading mine operators stated they hoped to complete arrangements to have Harry W. Moses, head of the "captive" mine subsidiaries of the United States Steel corporation, to leave big steel and devote all his time to handling the coal industrys dealings with Lewis. APPOINTMENT of Moses as a e representative of the soft coal industry in its relations with the UMW is designed as a move to end the chaotic conditions that have existed in the mine fields for years. The move has the support 0- - virtually all the principal opera tors in the north and west and was expected to win strong favor among southern operators as well. .A lasting Industry peace has long been the goal of operators and the public, which is beginning to tire of the almost annual war of nerves between the mine union boss anc operators while the nation stands almost helpless without fuel. full-tim- LEWIS: A Fine Largess John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America a labor union which does not pay its members strike benefits and which subjects them to untold misery and hardship during strike periods was offering a victory flushed loan to the C.I.O. United Autmobile Workers Old, Old Story There Is a magic elixir of a sort in the news which comes each spring from the training camps of First, the the baseball legions. mere fact that baseball training has begun is like a tonic to the fans who have suffered through the winter doldrums awaiting only the day when the sports pages will flourish with recitals of the deeds of their favorite performers and the outlook for the current season. Baseballs return is as much a part of the recurrent miracle of spring as the daffodil, the crocus or the first robin. Particularly true and apropos is the sameness, the events, which are part and parcel of resumption of the national pastime. For instance, has there ever been a spring in baseball when word from the training camps didnt carry an overtone of apprehension concerning the physical welfare of this or that player? Haven't colds and fevers and injuries always been on hand to send the more rabid fans into ecstasies never-failin- g as they sweated out these afflictions with his heroes? And so it was this spring. The same news from the training camps. News that it was "unusually chilly" in Florida or California or wherever the players were chasing flies or laying into the horse-hid- e at batting practice, that colds and fever were, prevalent. And thats the way it should be, for without the drama of suspense, without the element of threat, without the theme of fate yet to be encountered and conquered, the old, old story of baseball would lose something of its enduring charm and appeal. But the script always turns out all right. The hazards are met and defeated, the team shapes up okay and the long grind of the big league schedules get underway. There is all the color and pomp of opening day; the white sphere arch ing against a blue sky as a mighty bat. propels it heavenward; a flash of movement as an infielder races to spear a sizzling grounder and the zipping white streak as he hurls of suffering Large Aity) masses of could be pitted in Alaska, or other as they were inthe foS cording to military (!) led the recent mock 3$ Alaska sub-Arcti- couldnt agree c on whj case. One reason gjVe. culty of transporting 1 other was that there enough room. There has been mudi in the U.S. for a , ern powers with Stalin h to staU off another war, this has been heard in well as from many pow-wj- high-place- d Americans Currently, U.S. atti'J proposal appeared cool the state department had pletely closed the door to parley. State Secretary eson wasnt too enthusii the idea, pointing out-aso that Russia certainly use it for pm bly U.N. COST: One Dime Eaclr Each citizen of the pays less than a dime of the basic United Natii Unil for budget. At least three membra gress disagree on whel too much, too little, or according to the first ii weekly wall newspaper is UN GRAM. APPEARING for this week, the new the pub! ports that Sen. Herbert of Maryland, chairman ate committee on e: L the executive departa recently issued a re; that the U.N. reduce tures for the United its Nat its affiliates, thinks that per capita is too mud ( woman Helen Gahagan Jj on the other hand, saytij little; while Sen. Estes is quoted as saying it right. The U.N. Gram, which ball at baseman. scribers about the United And Mr. Fan relaxes contentedin this issue objectively ly in his box or bleacher seat, hap- each of these three vii py that once again a full summer Buttressing Senator of his favorite sport is all spread "too much point, it out before him. ternationalism, plus nsl G-ME- N: -- union. ARCTIC ? More Power? Should the FBI famed " of the gangster era be given judi"G-men- fense, is a luxury. U.N.i just the start: eachHow agency asks more. little nations pay? Supporting the "too of Congresswomai PURPOSE of the loan cial as well as Investigative pow- proach it says: "New York would be to help the UAW win new ers? home, pay5 contracts from Chrysler and GenThat is a question congress was permanent than I disposal eral Motors. Lewis wrote Walter tangling with. The national science garbage nual cost; its subway def auto of foundation the head Reuther, bill, which has been run the U.N, for six mon giant e workers union, that passed by the house, would require AND BACKING up improvements in the coal industry the FBI to make a definite finding fauvers "just right" vM were fought by money interests of "loyalty to the U.S." before a the UJJ linked with "the financial group" person could be cleared for a Job argues: "Upping poorer out by forcing which dominates with the foundation. would make It a "rich ntf He added that this aid is needed UP TO NOW, the power of the "Our aim," states pubb so "your union may be assured beFBI has been purely investigative. lace Thorsen, "is to yond preadventure, of success in It can check on .an individuals and talking its present struggle. Reuther was loyalty at the request of govern- thinking United Nations and thej in the midst of a long strike for ment offices, but can only report doing in building the pensions at Chrysler corporation. those findings not rule upon them. munity. At the time of Lewis offer, it was The amendment to the science estimated UAW workers had lost foundation bill which would Shir give 35 million dollars in pay and the the FBI additional authority was company 250 million dollars. adopted without opposition by the Help for Reuther was authorized house, but opponents hope to knock at a jubilant meeting of Lewis with it out when senate and house mem-- , his top union aides, where Lewis bers meet to settle on a final verwas said to have boasted that he sion of the bill. had "licked" the y Chief critic of the bill was Repy injunction provision of the resentative Holifield (R., Cal.) who law, inasmuch as a federal declared that "This is the first court injunction issued under the time in American when the history law failed to halt the coal strike. FBI has been conthe charged by MOST of the big U.S. industrial gress to concerns feared that Lewis victory certify theevaluate, report on and of an individual. over the coal operators in the mat- This is theloyalty OGPU (police state) ter of wage increases and additionsystem of Russia." al health and welfare benefits IT IS LIKELY that the controverIn Germany tbef V would touch off a series of strikes. sial amendment never would have Coal was being mined again and been p,rtar to America seriously considered but for Glomblg industrys wheels were turning, the current hysteria in when .1 high places Temple but the immediate future appeared over of stardom to leakage Ameriimportant j rising grim and uncertain. The question can defense and DafWV secrets weapons Hollywood. seemed to be: When and where to Russia. It is a of c0,nj doubtful authority daughter will the next strike erupt? It to accord even the excellent FBI. conductor Eber,br seemed inevitable to even a casual the FBI, itself, will be Perhaps and has played in observer that another round of heard later on whether it desires man films. f(n wage-hik- e fights was in the making. such power. Released by THE wage-welfar- car-makin- g. Another strike-emergenc- Taft-Ilartle- .t |
