Show WEEKLY NEWS A ANALYSIS 1948 1940 Election Campaign Hits Stride As Democrats GOP Vie for labor Soviets Aggravate Berlin Situation By Bill Staff Sufi Writer Writer- Writer Writer- NOTE j When WileD pinions are m expressed In ID theoe Iu iii fh lb 1 i y are these t EJ Western Westen Newspaper Unions Union's news Dew JSU and n D. D net t 1 of this ew W K Kt t a ti t THE TilE GOLDEN KEY Trygve Trygye Lie secretary-general secretary of the United Nations beams as he be accepts from former French Premier Robert Schuman a golden key bey as a symbol of Frances France's temporary surrender I of sovereignty ty over the Palais de dc Chaillot where the U. U N. N genera general assembly opened on OD September 21 What treasures of peace that I key might unlock this year Is a question that gives pause to the entire world II CAl iP CAMPAIGN AIGN i a Trumpets Sounded Politicians cleared their throats as with the sound of trumpets and the 1948 1918 presidential election campaIgn campaign cam cam- n swept Into motion molion The first skirmish between Democrats Demo Demo- Demoi 1 i and Republicans featured President Truman and Harold E. E Stassen who carried the word of their respective parties into the great industrial area around De De- troit trolL THAT INDICATED that for the time being at least the pivotal factor factor factor fac fac- tor directing the policies of both GOP Gap and Democratic campaigns would be the labor vote To win the election this November November November Novem Novem- ber Mr Truman probably will need the same proportionate amount of the labor vote that turned out out I in favor of Roosevelt In the 1932 1936 and 1940 campaigns Whether he will get it is very much open to tor r question at this stage Truman Launching his battle for reelection reelection reelection re elec tion in the Detroit area over the Labor Day week end President Truman fired at will AT GRAND RAPIDS Lansing Detroit and Flint he exhorted ex ex- exhorted all aU the little people of the i r r. r U U. U S S. S to register and vote in the November 2 election If 11 a heavy vote turns out he in insisted insisted in- in 1 not only will ill he be elected re-elected but the Republican majority in congress congress con con- gress will win be replaced by a Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- Democratic cratic one IF YOU STAY home next November November November No No- vember and keep these reactionaries reactionaries reaction reaction- aries cries in power you win will deserve every blow you get and you can expect a barrage of ot body blows said Mr Truman This was a repetition Lion tion on of an idea that idea that get what you deserve whIch deserve which he had ex expressed essed earlier in the year and which at the time was received with some animosity by the people to whom he addressed it You can elect a reactionary admi administration administration ad ad- mi ministration and go into an era o of fear tear or you can elect a congress and an administration that stand ready to play fair with every element element element elem elem- ent of American life and enter an era of new hope Were We're in a hard tough fight against shrewd rich opp op op- p ments They dont don't count on your vote they Just dont don't want you to vote Judging from his Labor Day speeches President Truman is planning to shape his campaign around round these contentions 1 THAT THE MAIN issue boils bolls down to Republican special privileges privileges privileges leges as against Democratic concern concern concern con con- cern for the little man I. I 2 THAT THE TIlE NOTHING DO congress under GOP control has done nothing to justify its re reo election 3 THAT ANYTHING EXCEPT an out all-out vote by labor on election day would be a betrayal by la labor labor la- la bor of its Us own interests tt 4 THAT IF THE mE MASS of ot the nations nation's voters go to the polls on election day a Democratic victory is assured Stassen Just a step and a half halt behind Mr Truman came Harold E E. E Stassen striving valiantly to scatter the coals of the bonfire the President bad had kindled in Detroit Apparently blessed by Thomas E. E Dewey GOP Gap presidential candidate Stassen's speech in the motor city was billed as the official of the he Republican campaign 1 Employment Record I IThe The U U. U S. S rounded the turn from summer to autumn with its civilian employment at the highest level in inthe inthe inthe the history of the nation Approximately million workers work ers era are employed while the unemployed unemployed number only as compared to more than 12 million during the gloomy depression years of the early Personal prosperity pros now depends however on the impact of inflation STASSEN SPARED no words In taking President Truman to tas task referring to him as ns a complaining complain ing failure who had bad resorted to demagogic appeals in seeking re re- re- re election Specifically he charged that Mr Truman had dishonored labor I with an extreme demagogic appeal to set class against class In thus resorting to the time hon i ored political device of attacking and reproaching the opponent from froma troma a personal standpoint Stassen had gone Mr Truman one better In I his Detroit addresses the President I did not even men mention lion Thomas I Dewey THE TIlE DEFEATED GOP Gap aspirant for the party's party nomination declared that Mr Truman had come not to laud labor for its record but as a complaining candidate for election seeking labors labor's vote His scolding threatening complaining complaining complaining com com- speeches indicated that he lacks the leadership p in affairs at home and abroad so vitally needed needed needed need need- ed in these next crucial years said Stassen He failed when he had a Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- Democratic cratic congress to work with He failed when he had a Republican Republican lican congress to work with TURNING TO THE political football football foot foot- ball which the election year has made of the Issue of Communist activities in the U. U S. S Stassen asI asserted asserted as as- I that the Republican party I is driving the red herring out of the official waters of the Potomac by means of congressional inquiries into the Communist problem Too many red herrings have been in Washington for too long a time he blasted The President should help man the red herring nets instead of complaining against the fishermen BERLIN More ore Trouble There was it appeared no end endI to the sponsored Russian-sponsored trouble in I Berlin and it was having its grimly i detrimental effect on the fiber of I Ii i the peace Latest incident piled atop many other instances of petty Soviet encroachments encroachments en en- needed little more than a small flame to turn into a funeral pyre for what Is left of world harmony IT WAS A FLAGRANT invasion of at American offices in the Berlin city hall by armed Russian con trolled police who kidnapped 19 western sector policemen who had sought sanctuary in the building What the purpose of the raid was never became quite clear On the surface it looked like pure terrorization terrorization terror terror- carried out as part of the overall Soviet plan eventually to get control of the entire German capitaL capitaL capi- capi taL taLAN AN AMERICAN protest by Col Frank Howley American commandant commandant comman cornman dant in Berlin was rejected bluntly bluntly bluntly blunt blunt- ly by the Soviet commander Maj Gen Alexander Kotikov who flatly aUy warned the U U. S. S officials not to interfere In in- Interfere in matters which dont don't concern con con- cern them Kotikov's letter followed rejection of French protests that demanded the release of another 19 antiCommunist Com anti antiCommunist western sector policemen who were by Soviet police while traveling in a French convoy under a Russian guarantee of safe conduct In the face of these intolerable developments how could East West negotiations for a Berlin BerUn agreement continue Apparently they couldn't except under almost impossible strain SECRETARY OF STATE George Marshall charged that the Berlin city hall ball were aimed at least in part at disrupting the talks by the four military governors governors governors gover gover- nors who were ostensibly seeking the road to a n settlement of the Berlin Bertin Ber Ber- tin Im problem and the issue of uniform uni uni- uniform form fonn currency Thus it was easy to understand I why U U. S. S diplomatic authorities s were concerned with the possibility ity of ot an early collapse of the formal formal for for- mal negotiations It was likely that tha the Kremlin would be the first to flash the red light |