The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-30
Goparessiona
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No.
Congressman VIM. M.CoImer
DOMESTIC TURMOIL

Those American citizens, c.. Is
and civilians all alike. who look
ed forward to the termination
of the European and Pacific Wars
as a period of unblemished re-
joicing now have awakened to
the fact that life is not altogeth-
er a bed of roses. The notes of
the bugle of peace had hardly
died out when the nation, al
ready aggravated by the war,
found itself torn by domestic
strife. Today's headlines reflect
no gigantic battle at sea or on
land, but in their place we find
glaring headlines of differences
between the Army and Navy on
the proposal for unification of
our armed forces. Generals and
admirals, secretary of wal and
secretary of navy, are at odds
over this controversial problem.
Instead of firing their bullets
at the enemy they r now fir
ing their barbs at one another.
Layman citizen is at a loss to
know who is right.
Again, each newspaper edition
brings new headlines of new
strikes. Labor, having made the
greatest advances in the history
of that movement, flushed with
success both in the industrial and
political field, is demanding more
wages and more recognition. In
fact, the whole reconversion pro-
gram is threatened by what prom
ises to be a knock down-drag out
fight between labor and manage
ment. 1t would appear that a
showdown is imminent. Either
industrial management is going
to surrender to labor Oh labor is
going to receive its greatest set
back since the origin of the Ia
Dor movement. Apparently this
showdown may have the potenti-
alities of some good coming out
of it all. Certainly the orderly
reconversion to a peacetime econ
omy with fun employment cannot
be realized without some defin-
lite assurance as to what are IN
dustry's rights and what are Ia
boris rights. The American cap
italistic system of free enterprise
cannot continue indefinitely with
this constant battle between the
two forces.
Some thirty days ago President
Truman, with high hopes, called
for the Labor Management Con-
ference. That conference to all
appearances has made little prog
ress. The issues are sharp and
apparently the delegates from in
dustry and the delegates from
labor find their differences hard
to reconcile. The strike wave
has increased in considerable vol
ume since the conference began
its deliberations. In fact, just to
give a little added touch and
color to the situation, the Capt.
tai Transit Company here in the
Capitol City vas paralyzed twice
since the Conference began Its
deliberations by a strike of the
union employees of that COM
pany. And while President Tru-
man on the second occasion
forthrightly stopped that strike
by placing the operation OF the
street cars and buses under the
Federal Office of Defense Trans
portation. there are MANY grlpes
from other parts of the country
to the effect that the Capitol CITY,
the site of the Federal Govern
ment. could just as well afford
strikes as other parts OF the
country.
The whole automobile industry
is threatened by the General Mo
tors strike: the Ford employees
are threatening to follow SUIT
with a wave of sympathetic
strikes in other kindred indus
tries. The whole communica'