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Show , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS . Chart Economic Reform for Japs; Back Vets Rights to Old Jobs; U.S. Acts to Settle Oil Strike . Released by Western Newspaper Union. IFUITOR'S NOTE; When plnloos are expressed to these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's itwi analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) mit . y . - J Out on strike of elevator operators' union in New York, girls picket Empire State building. As a resnlt of walkout, thousands of workers were forced to toil up flights of staircases to reach offices. JAPAN: Economic Checkup To Gen. Douglas MacArthur went the task of supervising the economic reformation of Japan Ja-pan as a part of the U. S. program to destroy de-stroy Nippon's war-making war-making potential and promote widespread wide-spread opportunity in a nation formerly dominated by four great business ;houses. ! As MacArthur bent to the task, the Hirohito prospects rose that Not a Pauper tne personal fortune of Emperor Hirohito Hiro-hito would be divulged, revealing him as one of the world's wealthiest persons. Though the Mikado's assets as-sets are known to only a select few, the imperial family maintains a four-story concrete building complete com-plete with staff on the palace grounds to keep its accounts. Indicative of the vastness of Hiro-Jiito's Hiro-Jiito's holdings, the emperor possesses pos-sesses stock in every Japanese enterprise, since a bloc of shares are allotted to the emperor by a corporation upon organizing. Of the 300,000 shares of the Bank of Japan, Ja-pan, Hirohito reputedly owns 140,000. Besides the Mikado, the great business houses of Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Sumi-tomo, Yasuda and Mitsui possess the greatest holdings in Japanese enterprise, enter-prise, with their share estimated at over half the total. Under the U. S. program, steps will be favored for the dissolution of these politically influential institutions insti-tutions with their grip over banking, industry and commerce. Policies will be pushed for a wider distribution distribu-tion of income and ownership of productive and sales facilities, and encouragement given for the development devel-opment of democratic labor and agricultural organizations. In stripping Japan of its war-making war-making potential, the U. S. will' prohibit pro-hibit the operation of industries adaptable to war production. As in the case of Germany, manufacture of aircraft is to be prohibited and shipping is to be limited to immediate immedi-ate trade needs. U. S. authorities also will supervise Japanese industrial indus-trial research. As MacArthur's staff undertook an accounting of Japanese assets as the first step in the implementation of economic reform, the general ordered or-dered Premier Higashi-Kuni's government gov-ernment to institute immediate wage and price controls and ration commodities com-modities to head off extreme privation priva-tion among the country's 80,000,-000 80,000,-000 people. With Japanese experts figuring it would take Nippon from two to five years to get back on its feet, they proposed that the U. S. sell the country coun-try 250 million pounds of cotton within with-in the next year in addition to 60 million mil-lion pounds of wool; 3 million tons of rice; 2 million tons of salt; 500 thousand thou-sand tons of sugar; 3 million barrels of oil, and 3 million tons of steel. FOOD: To Curb Output Declaring commodity production goals should reflect consumer demand de-mand rather than maximum ability abili-ty for output. Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Clinton Anderson indicated that the government's 1946 farm program pro-gram may call for smaller harvests in view of decreased military and civilian needs. In making his views known in a conference with farm bureau representatives repre-sentatives in Washington, D. C, Anderson An-derson also raised the possibility of imposing marketing quotas to re-, strict the heavy output of certain crops. At the same time, Secretary Anderson An-derson joined President Truman in assuring the farm bureau men that the government would back its commitment com-mitment to support commodity prices at not less than 90 per cent of parity for two years after the official end of the war. VETS: Job Rights Clarifying the rehiring provision of the selective service act, draft officials declared that a returning veteran has an absolute right to his former position, or one of like status, even if it means the discharge dis-charge of a worker with higher seniority. At the same time, the officials stated that no veteran would be rein re-in further lowering the point score for overseas duty, the army revealed that enlisted men whose credits or age, as of September 2, 1945, equal or exceed 36, or who are 37 years old or 34 years old with more than one year of service, serv-ice, will be exempt. Also exempt are male officers with 48 points; army, doctors and dentists with 45 points or 40 years of age; veterinary vet-erinary and medical administrative administra-tive officers with 30 points or 35 years of age; dietitians and physical phys-ical therapy aides with 18 points or 30 years of age, and nurses with 12 points or 30 years of age. quired to take union membership in regaining his old position, since the law makes no provision for such conditions as a basis for his re-employment In handing down its ruling on vet job rights, draft officials directly clashed with the unions, which have stood for the rehiring of soldiers on a seniority basis, but opposed their re-employment in preference to others oth-ers with longer working records at affected plants. LABOR: Fuel Threat Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach's new streamlined labor department received its first real test as federal conciliators moved to bring about settlement of the CIO oil workers' demands for a 30 per cent wage increase in-crease before a growing strike threat imperiled the nation's fuel supply. Early negotiations were snagged by the union's demand that discussions discus-sions be held on an industry-wide basis and the companies' equal insistence in-sistence that agreements be effected effect-ed by individual refineries. In asking ask-ing a 30 per cent wage increase, the oil workers reflected the general CIO aim of maintaining wartime "take-home" pay by bringing 40-hour-per-week wages up to the total of the former 52-hour week. In other labor trouble, 60,000 northwest AFL lumber workers struck to 'press demands for a $1.10 hourly minimum compared with the present scale ranging upward from 70 cents, while 15.000 AFL elevator operators and building service employees em-ployees paralyzed service in over 2,000 New York skyscrapers by walking out in protest of a War Labor La-bor board grant of $28.05 for a 44-hour 44-hour week instead of the $30.15 asked for 40 hours. GERMANY: j Occupation Progresses ' Following close on General Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's announcement that no more than 200,000 troops would be needed within the next year to occupy Japan, it was revealed that U. S. authorities hoped to trim the postwar post-war force in Germany to less than 400.000 by next spring and reduce it to skeletonal dimensions within a ; few years. Disclosure of occupation plans for the shattered Reich coincided with reports that the co-operative attitude of the defeated Germans will permit the early election of local governmental govern-mental officials with balloting on a j county and state level following. Meanwhile, the army revealed that ' it was training hand-picked German I prisoners, of war to aid in the ad- j ministration and policing of occupied territory. Selected after careful screening, the PWs are taught American Amer-ican and German history, the English Eng-lish language and military government, govern-ment, and also are being acclimated accli-mated to democratic surroun 'lings. BIG FIVE: No Results Failing of settlement, ol important im-portant problem, the Big Five council coun-cil of foreign ministers meeting in London to map poscwar Europe moved for adjournment, with possibilities possi-bilities that the creation of peace treaties with former axis satellites may be directly negotiated between the U. S., Britain and Russia. The magnitude of the task of reconciling rec-onciling the conflicting interests of the Allied powers in the European theater was reflected in the difficulty of disposing of pre-war Italian colonies col-onies and strategic islands of the Mediterranean; reshaping the Italian-Yugoslav border; drawing up peace treaties for the Russian dominated dom-inated Balkans, and internationalization internationali-zation of the vital waterways. While the foreign ministers of the Big Five were scheduled to reassemble reas-semble in November to receive the recommendations of their deputies on settlement of the thorny issues, Russian opposition to French and Chinese participation in the deliberations deliber-ations raised the possibility that direct di-rect negotiations between Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, London and Moscow may be established as an alternative. |