Show f r Ti WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ANALYSIS- British Election Set February 23 Seek Trust Anti-Trust Law for Miners Conflict Seen on Proposed Budget expressed In these column th they r are those thou of n EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions opinion s are Western Newspaper e D Der Union Unions news new Analysts analysis anc and not necessarily of this newspaper b J rr k x xz z ji jis s f t t r i 6 TRIO WILL CHART RENT REST CONTROL HOUSING With rent control and housing two major items on the agenda of the current rt A congressional session these legislators will play playa a major part in making law-making activities They arc are left to right Chairman Brent Brentin y t i in h Spence D. D K Ky of the house banking committee Chairman Burnet Maybank l D. D SC of the senate banking committee and Sen John Sparkman D D D. Ala member of the senate banking shown after conferring with President TruY Tru- Tru Committee They are arc I t Y aid ald man on rent control and federal housing t ELECTION Britain's Choice In a little less than a month Britain's voting populace will make an elective decision on the Issue of whether to continue with socialism state planning and nationalization nationalization nationalization na na- na- na of industry under the present Labor government or orto orto orto to return to free Iee enterprise with Winston Churchill's Conservative party In setting February 23 3 as the date for the general election Prime Minister Clement Attlee must have been acutely aware that this will willbe willbe willbe be far and away the most bitterly contested and momentous election In modern British history Britain's 33 million voters will elect a new house of commons with the party seating the majority of candidates getting the right to form the government Speculation was high as to whether defeats within the past two months by the Labor parties In both Australia and New Zealand could be taken as a straw in the wind insofar as the outcome In England is concerned Most informed Informed informed In in- formed opinion had it that it would be dangerous to predict a downfall dO of Attlee's government on the they basis of the down under elections elec elec- Chief reason for this thinking was that the Labor party very recently had been able to show signs of substantial gains In Britain's Britain's Brit Brit- ains ain's fight tight to overcome poverty BIG STICK Union Monopolies Virtually everyone from busboy I to bureaucrat probably has at one onetime onetime onetime time or another discussed the question of whether the tactics used by some of the larger unions particularly John L L. L Lewis' Lewis United Mine Workers Workers Workers-in in securing benefits for their members do not constitute a monopoly In restraint of trade i ON CAPITOL HILL that Issue had been presented more forcefully forceful forceful- ly than ever before when 10 senators sen sen- seven seven Democrats and three threet t Republicans sent Republicans sent to the senate judiciary committee a report stating stating stat stat- ing frig that a bill forbidding labor to monopolize control of industry would end the usurpation and abuse of power such as currently is being demonstrated by Lewis' Lewis three-day three work week in the soft I coal mines The 10 senators were members of the senate banking committee which had been investigating the of the miners' miners short work workweek workweek workweek week but which had no power to tor r take ake legislative action in that economic eco eco- tomic area THE REPORT pointed out that Tf It this usurpation and abuse of power to control production and andi i price is tolerated by the congress its unbridled use will spread from J union to union from industry to industry and the congress will never again regain its own narrowly narrow narrow- ly circumscribed power to control the economy of the nation consistently consistently con con- consistently with the Constitution of the United States I Soviet Walkout I It has been evident for a long longtime longtime time tune that tha Russia wants to elimInate eliminate eliminate nate Chinas China's Nationalist government government government govern govern- ment both from the Chinese and international scenes and is sparing no effort to achieve that end IN ADDITION to the military pressure exerted by the Chinese Communists the Soviets had turned on the heat in the United Nations in a continuing attempt to get the Nationalist delegation discredited in the security council Latest development along those lines came when Russia's Jacob Malik wrathfully stomped out of a security council meeting because the other delegates would not kick out the Nationalist representation And said Malik he would not return to the council as long as as' as the Nationalists sat at the table Meetings with them present would be a parody he asserted And the chief Nationalist delegate T. T F. F who was presiding as January January January Jan Jan- uary chairman over the first council council council coun coun- cil meeting this year represents nobody Malik concluded US U.S. BUDGET No Balance Mr Truman's federal budget for forthe forthe forthe the fiscal year starting July 1 was not surprising It was unbalanced calling for the government to livemore livemore live livemore more than five billion dollars beyond its income during during- the year if if congress doesn't pare the figures figures figures fig fig- ures or give the President the moderate tax hikes he has pro pro- posed THE OVERALL BUDGET figure was 42 billion thousand dollars but Mr Truman declared the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed spending vital to our securIty security security ity and to the welfare of our people As was to be expected Mr Truman Tru Tru- Truman man insisted the budget was one of soundest prudence and and He argued that it was a financial expression the steps the government government government govern govern- ment ought to take now to build toward economic growth and the expansion of human freedom In our own country and and in the world National defense continued to be bethe bethe bethe the biggest expense in the budget although expansively covered in that is the money being spent in inan inan inan an effort to insure Europe against any further spread of communism An ironical twist was the fact tact that while the US U.S. is pouring money Into Great Britain as a part of that general effort the British turn right around and give aid and comfort to communism by formally formal formal- ly recognizing the Communists AS FOR TAX INCREASES the President was silent on specific recommendations He did however however however how how- ever indicate that he would like an earlier date for imposition of an increase in social security taxes from one and one-half one per cent to two per cent on employers and employees The President apparently apparent apparent- ly wanted that extra money to aid aida a insurance health-insurance plan which I congress seems to have little intention intention intention in in- of approving FORMOSA Many Tanks The Tho administration was standing pat on Its decision against US U.S. military Intervention in Formosa- Formosa destined to be the next area arca of or conflict in the Communists Communists' drive to control the Far East Official US U.S. attitude was that this country could do more to combat combat combat com com- bat communism In the volatile Orient by extending economic aid to lands still outside the Red orbit than it could by direct Intervention in the struggle AT THE SAME TIME however the generalized term economic aid was being employed as usual to cover a multitude of purposes A case in point was the news that the Chinese Nationalists had purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased nearly US U.S. army tanks for tor shipment to Formosa where they would be used in the defense against the Communists The military vehicles were listed as surplus army equipment and the price tag was 1000 per tank i Similar tanks minus weapons cost I about to build during the war I ANOTHER element in the parac paradox paradox para para- do dox c was that the Nationalists paid for the tanks with money from the million dollar kitty which was provided for the aid of China by congress last year US U.S. state departments department's stand standon on the matter was expressed by Michael McDermott department press officer who said that the Chinese Nationalist government had been spending the aid money I through its own purchasing agents and had bought whatever armaments armaments armaments arma arma- ments it wanted WE STILL recognize the Nationalist Nationalist Nationalist Na Na- government of China and would interpose no objection to its exporting this material from this country he stated Although the destination of the tank shipment was not disclosed officially it was an open secret that the cargo was bound aboard a Turkish ship for Chiang shek's Kai-shek's Nationalist government headquarters on Formosa FEDERAL OUTLAY Y GOP Sharpens Knife Even as President Truman was calling for a plus 42 federal budget for the coming fiscal year Republican members of senate and house were sharpening paring knives In an effort to slash some of the proposed expenditures Many Democrats too expressed misgivIngs misgivings misgivings ings over the prospect of another five billion red ink or deficit spending GOP HOUSE LEADER Martin Martha served notice that the Republicans cans in congress have no intention of accepting this budget and will work night and day if necessary to bring it within th the bounds of the capacity of the people to pay Similarly the GOP senate leader lead lead- er Wherry of Nebraska termed the budget message purely political political political cal which sugar coated the red ink implications Representative Taber R R. NY was the most violent in his attack on the budget proposals We cannot cannot cannot can can- not maintain our liberties he charged if we turn this money over to th the President and the Socialist Socialist So So- schemers who surround him Taber said he intended to battle for a balanced budget THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY that the President might be in hi trouble on his budget because ever since the congress convened members members members mem mem- bers have been talking of economy Answer Is NOI No r rr rF r F j z r 1 i r i r rV M r f Dean Acheson U. U S S. S secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of state arrives for the White House conference at which it was decided that the United States would not Interfere Interfere Inter Inter- fere in Chinese Communists aims in Formosa President Truman said this government will not provide any military defense or assistance to the island PROGRESS Deodorized Rubber products which In the past have been anything but Attractive attractive attractive At at- because of their odor may now smell as sweet at mountain mountainair air after a shower as the res alt res-alt of development of a new seri series s f The I I. I E E. E du Pont de Nemours company introducing the said they may be used singly or In combinations added during the manufacturing process |