| Show WEEKLY WEE Y NEWS ANAL ANALYSIS YSIS r a jI Y aft P ley law 7 Sees ees Toa 9 e I a peas BS e I Released by Features EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion are expressed In to these columns they column tile they ore are those of or Western Newspaper U Union news new I and not necessarily of oC this newspaper LABOR Lewis elvis Fight John L. L Lewis and the T Taft Hart t toy ey law were locked in a mortal struggle His United Mine Workers were still out of the pits in a n vol volun unary un- un ary objection to the comp companies companies' mies' mies alleged refusal to provide them with witha a month a month a-month pension plan Most jf if f the miners were out fish- fish ng sig Lewis himself was out gunning or or the Taft-Hartley Taft law enactment f which was largely the result of lis Jis activities in in the first place After the miners had gone out President Truman acting under the raft-Hartley raft law had appointed a finding fact board to investigate the difficulties But when the board asked John L. L Lewis to testify he refused Then the board issued a subpoena requesting that he appear Again Lewis refused stating that the board lad aad no right to demand his presence Defore it He said he based his disinclination ion tion to testify on the facts that 1 i Neither he nor the had done anything covered by the raft Hartley law thereby nullifying the e Presidents President's invocation of the aw aw and 2 Two of the three board members members mem- mem bers were biased and and in honor should not serve Finally minutes before the dead- dead me ane the burly bushy chief appeared It was obvious of course that the chief was out to break the raft Hartley enactment Apparently Apparent Apparent- ly iy he was determined to drag the pension dispute all the way through the courts preferably courts preferably as ns high as the supreme court to get a final verdict And any ay it turned out the process would react for the miners' miners Immediate benefit While the courts would be mulling over the matter the date for the annual renewal of the mine workers' workers contract in June would be approaching The longer he present dispute remained unsettled unsettled unsettled unset unset- the worse the nations nation's coal situation would grow thus putting Lewis in a good bargaining position to extract a favorable contract for text lext year MOBILIZE l Controls Bernard M. M Baruch approves of selective elective service and universal military mili mili- military i tary training for the present quasi- quasi risis but he does not think that is enough Dough to meet all the implications the world situation holds The financier and presidential ad- ad iser liser called also for an economic mobilization plan and said that Americas America's failure to muster all its resources now for peace would leave no alternative but to mobilize forwar for forwar war in the future Baruch told the senate armed services services services ices committee that he was afraid that if the nation suddenly and with- with Dut ut preparation were called upon to mobilize and prepare for a big war such forces of domestic inflation would be set in motion as could lL lUW LIl Late DULL Ly open ana leave it defenseless He suggested the appointment of someone to watch the impact upon our Dur economy of the partial mobilization tion we are entering upon and to maintain a constant inventory balancing balancing bal bal- all our growing commitments against our resources It had not been been beena a hidden threat but Baruch's statement had focused attention on the possible danger that thata a sudden spate of military spending could bring about ruinous inflation As a result talk of reviving the defunct OP OPA A was being heard in Washington Baruch's warning touched off informal discussions in congress about the possibility of reviving reviving re reviving re- re wage-price wage controls rationing and other curbs on the domestic economy This of course had been an integral integral integral in in- part of President Truman's famous point 10 program against inflation inflation in in- which he proposed last year but most congressmen virtually had gagged at the thought of price and wage controls and the President was accused of trying to set up something like a police state Now however congressmen were not so sure They were beginning to wonder if the military spending necessary to contain Russia might not have to be buttressed by controls controls con con- troIs at home Greatest Killer 4 t k f r a law t ti Glenn L. L Martin pioneer aircraft aircraft aircraft air air- craft builder revealed that the U. U S. S has developed an offensive weapon superior to the atomic bomb He called it a radioactive cloud the cloud the greatest killer lilIer of human hu Im- human man beings ever devised Martin l said also Id be he in favor of using it before Id I'd become a slave to another nation LUCIUS On War Nerves said Lucius to his helpmate as he arranged a quizzical wrinkle in his brow think were we're toward another war Soon as you open your mouth I figure figure figure fig fig- ure were we're in iii for at least a skirmish retorted If you spent half as much time my peace of mind as you do your soybeans we the wouldn't have near the arguments we wedo do doShe She impaled the elder statesman of county on a glance Dang bang it why do you have to drag your chair militarism into everything I 1 set out to do a little on One of the reasons you married me in the first place was to get security Now you got security but you still want to fight The light of creative achievement gleamed briskly in Lucius eye Say by gosh that there gives me a aright aright aright right smart idea for an aphorism Nothing I 1 like litre better than an aphorism What think of this Between 1941 and 1945 we were united with Russia in the bonds of holy warlock warlock warlock war war- lock but now the honeymoons honeymoon's over the lock is busted and there aint no noth- noth th u I I in rn seer t u of 01 me tree original mca idea except war Mister you can put that out in the corn crib with the rest o of f your aphorisms commented the critical Pita so sighed the elder cider statesman statesman statesman states states- man but it worries me not me-not not knowin how hoiu to feel about this here world situa situa- tion Im I'm get gettin tin on toward 69 so I 1 I could afford to think that in order to have peace and a secure foreign policy we first got to rig up a strong backbone back back- bone at home And a strong backbone right now means a strong army and navy and air force REPEAT Lice's No lien Gen Dwight D. D Eisenhower fair- fair haired boy of both political parties said it it once more He would not be bea a presidential candidate on anybody's anybody's any any- body's ticket There had been a lull following his unequivocal refusal of Republican can overtures and then the pro- pro Eisenhower sentiment was resurrected resurrected resurrected in the hearts of no ho fewer than four widely divergent groups Probably the most unique approach approach ap ap- was being made by Torrey Stearns a New York public relations relations rela rela- man who harbors the opinion that Eisenhower is a Republican He conceived a People for Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- hower movement The method is a nationwide solicitation of voting citizens to send in postcards bearing bearing bearing bear bear- ing this signed testimony I want to vote for General Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- Eisenhower hower for president in November I Iam Iam Iam am a citizen of voting age On June 21 Stearns announced all of the the statements will be presented presented presented pre pre- to the Republican national convention as indisputable evidence that the people of the United States demand the nomination of Dwight D. D Eisenhower for president But Eisenhower was having none of it Speaking through a statement by Maj Gen Floyd L L. L Parks army press chief he indicated that his Chis no politics statement of some weeks ago ngo should apply to all parties partie and groups of voters Said Parks He has not changed one one iota in his position and I r do not believe he will do so |
