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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Gives 8 Points for Peace; Reds Snap Defense Wall in fiorth; Hew Wage Increases fire Reported (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspuptr.) Conference j; ff MANPOWER: Doctors and Fathers Thousands of men who had looked upon the draft as something remote, re-mote, a mere possibility in the dim future, suddenly found themselves face to face with the probability of being in the armed forces. The house armed services committee com-mittee announced the draft would be extended to draft-age married men with dependents. Officials estimated there are 1,000,000 married mar-ried non-veterans of draft age 19 through 25 and that up to 400,-000 400,-000 would qualify for induction. Meanwhile, a senate house group reached a compromise on a bill to draft doctors and dentists through age 50. ..The bill upon which the conferees agreed is designed to put into uniform 5,600 doctors and 8,000 dentists who were trained at government gov-ernment expense during World War II. Few doctors or dentists actually are expected to be drafted. Military Mili-tary officials are confident the threat of a draft will swell the ranks of volunteers. An added inducement in-ducement is the fact that volunteers will get $100-a-month bonus' while draftees will not. Doctors could be drafted with the rank of private; volunteers, would get at least a lieutenant's commission. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director di-rector of national selective service, reported that nearly three out of five candidates for military service serv-ice are being rejected. SPY-WEARY HOUSE: Votes Red Curbs The house had approved by a roll-call vote of 354 to 20 a bill which subjects American Communists Commu-nists to heavy curbs, and the senate sen-ate was expected to approve a similar sim-ilar bill. The measure is unusual on the American scene in that it would force a political party to register its many fronts (organizations). It goes even further and would compel them to label their propaganda prop-aganda and deny them defense jobs, bar them from government employment, em-ployment, and deny them the right to travel abroad. President Truman is reported to disapprove of the legislation on the grounds that it might impair traditional American liberties. From a technical viewpoint such legislation if applied to one party could be applied to another and thus restricts the individual's political po-litical and civil liberties. According to the F.B.I., the legislation legis-lation will hit about 550,000 Communists Commu-nists and fellow travelers. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I., in a recent report estimated there are about 50,000 Communists and 10 times that many sympathizers in the United States. DEWEY: All-Out Attack . Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who was as dead as a fried mackerel politically speaking after his recent announcement that he was retiring, is back in the limelight. Dewey announced he would seek a third term as governor gover-nor of New York. His return to the ring would indicate in-dicate the Republicans have found an issue. In his own words: "We will not survive this crisis (the Korean conflict) unless we have a strong and constructive opposition party to force correction of the errors er-rors and incompetence of the national na-tional administration and to compel com-pel it to take a larger view of our dangers and more effective action to meet them." Political observers reported there can be no doubt now as to what campaign issues the Republicans will expound this fall. On all fronts it will be a sharp attack on President Presi-dent Truman's conduct of the Korean Kor-ean war. Mistaken TRUMAN: Statement of Policy In an obvious attempt to erase some of the confusion that has developed de-veloped around the American foreign for-eign policy since General Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's statement on Formosa, President Truman made a report to the nation in which he stated eight aims of this country. At the same time he announced plans for doubling American armed strength to nearly 3,000,000 men and asserted our productive capacity capac-ity would be pushed to any degree necessary to attain a victory for freedom and the rule of law. In his speech which was broadcast broad-cast over ' a world-wide hookup, the President made it plain that a world war would not develop unless un-less the Communists drove new puppets pup-pets against the United Nations forces in Korea. By this he meant, of course, Chinese Communists who have been reported as massing troops near the Korean border. However, he made it plain that we would stay in the conflict if such a decision was made. He then attacked Russia for violating its pledges of international co-operation and preaching peace, but practicing aggression. The eight points expounded in his speech: 1. We believe in the United Nations. Na-tions. 2. We believe Koreans have a right to be free. 3. We don't want the Korean fighting fight-ing to expand into general war. 4. We particularly hope the Chinese Chi-nese people won't be misled into fighting the U.N. and the American Amer-ican people who still are their friends. 5. We want none of Asia, Formosa For-mosa included, for ourselves. 6. We believe in freedom for all far eastern nations. 7. We do not believe in aggressive aggres-sive or preventive war. 8. We want peace and "we shall achieve it." KOREA: Stab at Taegu North Korean forces, in the greatest great-est advance in several weeks, broke through the northern U.N. defense wall and sent two columns of tanks and troops within a few miles of Kyangju, 12 miles south of Pohang. From there the columns could swing west and stab at Taegu from the rear, or continue to push for Pusan some 50 miles to the south. It was the most serious threat to U.N. forces in a number of weeks. Military men were wondering if the Communists had the strength to exploit their penetration. On all other fronts U.N. forces were holding or counter-attacking. In the northwest U.S. troops continued con-tinued to root out Reds dug in on a 3,000-foot ridge 12 miles north of Taegu and smashed several Red attempts to cross the Naktong river. On the south-central front U.N. forces further compressed the Red bridgehead across the Naktong near where it joins the Nam river. In the southwest U.N. forces were back in old positions west of Maman and Mason after breaking up new red attacks. On this front the Communists reportedly lost 13,000 troops in four days. In the air navy and air force planes continued to give close support sup-port to ground forces on all fronts, striking savagely with heavy explosives, ex-plosives, rockets, napalm fire bombs and machine guns. B-29's and B-26's continued to strike deep into Red territory. LEWIS: The Bear Growls John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and known in some quarters as the unhappy bear in labor's ranks, has growled again. This time tht victim was A.F.L. President William Green. Lewis told Green in no uncertain terms that his union w&uld not be bound by a no-strike pledge during the war emergency. He charged Green of bartering the rights of labor to appease his "innate craving for orthodox respectability" re-spectability" and added: "Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We can do ,our own no-striking." Some believed Lewi- used this means of getting back at Green for not including the miners in tunity talks between the AFL and the C.I.O. EMPLOYMENT: All-Time High Employment in the United States was the greatest in the nation's history, his-tory, the department of commerce reported with more than 62 million persons at work. The only decrease noted in the entire employment picture was that of farm workers. A drop of 280,-000 280,-000 during the month, to 8,160.000, was reported. The August total W3S 752,000 above the record set in July, 1948. Chairman Millard Tydings (left), senate armed services committee, and house armed services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson, (right), are shown at the White House after conferring con-ferring with President Truman ' on a new tank program which will cost an - litional $500,000,-000. $500,000,-000. LABOR: What's in the Future? The Ford motor company tore up an unexpired contract with the United Automobile Workers and granted an immediate 8-cent-hour-ly cost-of-living wage increase. Previously, Pre-viously, the Chrysler corporation had made a "voluntary", wage adjustment ad-justment of 10 cents an .hour. On top of this the White House announced an-nounced the long dispute between the A.F.L. , switchman's union and .10 western railroads had been settled with an agreement that gives the union a 23-cent-hourly wage boost. With these facts in mind, economists econ-omists are asking what's in the future for the American people? They cme up with the immediate an'sw r that it will force the nation into direct wage and price controls con-trols much sooner than would otherwise other-wise have occurred. Thj Ford company's labor relations rela-tions is always a pattern for the automobile industry. Other companies com-panies will follow this trend, most observers agreed. Current hourly pay of the average av-erage automobile worker is estimated esti-mated at $1.75. Rates for skilled craftsmen, such as tool and . die makers, run about $2.50. Most economists believed the new wage increases would be reflected re-flected in the price of automobiles within the near future.. ' Observers reported the over-all picture indicated a round of wage increases throughout the labor ranks. These increases in the past have been reflected in the cost of living in all fields. ' i Some economists, ! however, believe be-lieve that as soon as the wage structure is equalized to . make up for loss of purchasing power since Korea, the economy will go along on a plateau. JOHNSON: Refuses to Resign Defense Secretary Louis ' Johnson, John-son, under fire from many "quarters "quar-ters to resign but still backed by President Truman, flatly rejected a demand for his resignation and said he had "no apology" for his record as chief of the nation's military chief of the nation's military forces. In his unusual statement Johnson John-son said many of the attacks on both him and Acheson were "primarily "pri-marily political" and were leveled "with an eye to the November election." elec-tion." He likened himself to the late Defense Secretary Forrestal who broke down after repeated attacks by critics and later jumped to his death. He said he was sure he still enjoyed en-joyed the confidence of the President Pres-ident and the public and that "in the long run the solid facts of what the department of defense is accomplishing ac-complishing will stand out above the misinformation that various individuals in-dividuals and various groups, for reasons of their own, " see fit to spread." Among other things, Johnson has been accused of promoting a defensive de-fensive war and working against the policies of the state department. depart-ment. Criticism of Johnson has been forthcoming from both Democrats Dem-ocrats and Republicans.; Casualties A total of 6.886 Korean war casualties casual-ties were reported by the deTense department as the conflict got well into its third month. :The ' total, however, did not include those suffered suf-fered during the latest big Communist Commu-nist push. " The total included 443 killed In action, 3889 wounded, and 2,436 missing in action. The summary said 60 wounded have been returned re-turned to duty. - It r 'c 1 1 i v . .. vi s j Ex-New Dealer Lee Pressman, Press-man, (above) admitted onetime one-time Communist, in testimony before a house committee named three other government employees who were Communists Commu-nists In 1934 and 1935. Now Pressman says he feels he made a "mistake" by joining the Communist Com-munist party and that he has cut all connections with them. FORMOSA: Confusion Increases New confusion has been added to the Formosa question with President Pres-ident Truman's statement that It would no longer be necessary to keep the U.S. seventh fleet off Formosa For-mosa once peace has been settled in the Korean war. No one seems sure just what President Truman means. On the surface the statement would seem premature and adds to existing confusion. |
