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Show "opSHoSToF the press THE RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA NEWS (INDEPENDENT) says: Three thousand Los Angeles appartment house owners, riled at APO rental regluations, have taken a page out of organized labor's book by threatening a "strike". Their strike would consist con-sist of withdrawing properties involved from the rental market-and market-and include picketing OPA offices. of-fices. Come to think of it, what would be more natural than landlords land-lords picketing OPA offices in an effort to get their way? Labor unions un-ions call strikes to get their way-at way-at any time against anybody. They even have their "sympathetic" "sympath-etic" and general strikes, when establishments are struck and aren't ar-en't even in dispute with their workers. It might be a good idea-if idea-if for no other reason than to get the matter of striking out into the open where it could be looked look-ed at from all sides if we all went on strike at the same time. Picture John L. Lewis with an acute attack of indigestion calling call-ing for his doctor, only to find his tired M. D. has gone on a sit-down. sit-down. Or AFL's Bill Green sitting sit-ting in the middle of the street-evicted street-evicted because his landlord got tired collecting rents. Or CIO's Phil Murray in a great dither because be-cause his cupbord is bare- the farmer having taken a walk and gone to town until things straighten out. Maybe they would'nt like it. But, gosh who started it? THE DAYTClN (OHIO) LABOR UNION (LABOR) says: REMEMBER UNITED NATIONS It would be nice if we, as a people, could grow up rapidly. That is, it would be nice, if we could use moie mature judgment, judg-ment, as a people. Some yap says to his neighbor, "Well, we'll have to fight Russia next." The neighbor neigh-bor thinks the yap maybe knows what he's talking about, so he says to some lodge mate, "Well, it seems we'll have to fight Russia Rus-sia next." That'sthe way "opio-ion" "opio-ion" is built quite often. How often does a person, so approached, come back with, "Just WHY will we have to fight Russia, next, or any other time?" Not often enough. Eut suppose a person, so approached, should say that. The answer , might be, "Well, it seems we can't get a-long a-long with Russia." The persistent i one might come back with, "Just WHY can't we get along with Russia?" And he probably would be told, "I don't know, but that's what they say. There arc poincs upon which the US. and Soviet foreign policy differ, of course. We differ also with England and we may be differing dif-fering with China one day. Also, we differ with France. We have had two wars with England and we had to tell France to get the hell out of Mexico. We haven't had any war with Russia, al though we've had arguments and bitter criticisms, under both the Czars and the Soviets. But just because we differ on some things with Russia, with England, with France, doesn't mean that we have to have war or even expect war. These and other nations have set up the United Nations Organization, so that wars may be avoided, or crushed, if they start. If the good intentions of the nations of the world went into the foundations and super-structure of the United Nations Organization, then we do not have to have wars and neither neith-er do we have to talk about having hav-ing them. Maybe we just haven't got accustomed ac-customed to having a United Nations Organization yet, and so have little or no faith in it. Well, we'd better begin. For here is something to remember: The nation that starts a war runs a grave and awesome chance of being be-ing declared an aggressor nation and consequently gets pounced upon by ALL the other natfons in the United Nations Organization. That goes for the United States, as well as any other nation, whether whe-ther it be Britain, France or Nicaragua. Nic-aragua. And we are learning that a disgusted world can deaj mighty harshly with an aggTes-sor aggTes-sor nation. Not even the atomic 1 bomb, in its present state, would save us from that, if we got crazy enough to talk ourselves into starting a war, Before this war's shooting stopped, stop-ped, everyone agreed that "there must never be another war." But the treaties have not even been signed and the mourning isn't over, before fools start talking about what nation or nations we may have to fight next. And so many of them say "may" in such I a manner as to indicate that they are practically sure of it. We had better be thinking vigorously and intelligently a-bout a-bout the United Nations Organization. Organ-ization. And Labor, for its part, could well lead that thinking. It could start thinking out loud. Its legislative agents could put the bee on Congressmen who run off at the mouth with warlike drool, in words that flow from springs of prejudice, or hate, or both. We don't have to disband our armies and navy, nor shall we, for there is a lot of police work yet to be done and even the United Unit-ed Nations may need their help. But we can and must stop talking talk-ing as if we already intended to use those tremendous forces in a war for which the plans are on the boards. |
