The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-12-27
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON

FeatureB-HNO
NEW YORK.-This writer hap
pened to be down in Eliza
bethton. Tenn, in 1928 when Ed
ward F. McGrady was kidnapped
Army Labor Aide in the .'i middle
For Fair Break to of the night,
Ownership, Labor put down 10 nm IN
ness and told to keep going. He
was an A. F. of L. representative,
organizing the rayon mill workers.
He walked straight back to town,
met his assailants, and explained
to them there had been a mistake.
Always dapper, smiling wry smile,
he never so much as lost the crease
in his trousers in this adventure.
The vigilantes bought him drink.
Nobody knows the trouble he's
seen, but he's Strengthened out
a lot OF 1t, too, and now at GO,
he becomes the special labor
aide to the army as special la
Dor consultant to Secretary
Stimson. He has held down
many a sizzling hot lid of labor
strife and, respected by owner
ship for wise counsel and fair
dealing, he is equally respected
by labor as a hard-hitting con-
tender for its rights.
1t was in September, 1887, that he
was upped SO stories to a mahogany
and mono-metal Office and a sal
| airy OF SIS, 900 a year as director of
labor relations for the Radio Corpo-
ration of America. His singular sue
cess as labor conciliator during
the preceding five years, while as
sistant secretary Of labor, lay in
keeping the friendship of both sides.
But no one ever called him a yes
man. He is hard-headed and tough
minded.
He was a newsboy in one of the
sleaziest Of Boston slums. He be-
came a newspaper pressman, and
union organizer. Samuel Com
pers sent him to Washington, where
he remained IA years as the legis-
lative agent Of the A. F. Of L.
His habits Of speech, never
b0okish or turning to double
talk, have had much to do with
his success In clearing up what
he calls Observation-Disclosures"
In short, hard-hitting words, he
has preached the responsibility
Of labor to cooperate and pro-
duce, n well as bargain, along
with the responsibility Of owner
ship TO give the worker q fair
break. He was assistant admin
istrator Of the NRA under Gen.
Hugh johnson. In his now post,
he serves without salary, hav-
Ing been partially released from
his duties by President David
Sarnon Of the r. G. A.
| pORTUGAL'S austere, ascetic lit
tie $2,500-a-year dictator, DR.. An
tonic Oiviera Salazar, is the
shrewdest man in the business, when
One for Ripley hes n,S ~, y
Dictator DisIiking of bad trou
Uniform, Oratory pie. and max,
showing of solvency and peace. JUS,
now, reports from Europe that he
Is putting out peace feelers are in
teresting If not important. He is or
middle ground. With his co-dicta
tors, he has assailed democracy, bu'
his country has been for centurie.
more or less in British leading
strings, and he is charged with none
Of the brutal excuses of the Other
Continental tyrannies. 1t was il
May Of last year that he made
sharp break with Italy and Germa
ny and swung into the British orbit
In 1928, when Gen. Antonio Car
mona seized power, he summoned
the acidulous, little, bespectacleC
professor to take hand in the gov
eminent. DR.. Salazar said it woulC
be all or nothing. With the under
standing that England would con
tinue its benign mandate over Portu
gal, he took over as premier.
He dislikes uniforms and new
er wore one, and dislikes ora
tory even more. He has made
four short speeches In the IL
years of his premiership. By
cutting out all social reforms,
| aho luz
public health and education, and
by developing guild system OF
his own devising, he has con-
served resources and cut down
the external debt. There is q
disagreement as to what has
happened to the internal debt.
His critics say it has risen
sharply and that real wages and
the standard Of living Of his
people have been lowered.
Right at the start of his regime
there were complaints from tourist
that Portuguese hotels we're infested
with fleas. DR.. Salazar, a reclus,
with no fear of detection, tried on
one of the hostelries and didn't &c
much sleep. The next day, their
was an official decree, with ribbons
a wax seal and everything, fixing 1
S25 fine on hotel keeps for eacl
flea caught. This decree, like al