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CAN STRIKES BE PREVENTED?

Current increases in the cost of living are being more and more widely regarded indicators of new wave of strikes to come Although men like Philip Murray of the CIO are concentrating on the anti imitation front hoping to keep prices sufficiently under control to head off wage demands in rewriting the OpA statute Congress hung an albatross around the necs of these industrial statesmen If grocery bills continue to mount working men-havng had the eco- homie facts of life pointed out to them by their WiVes the managers of the family budgets-may well be restive by next winter when many Of the contracts in major industries will expire.
 If something is not done soon such dlscontent could lead to another serious industrial breakdown and one does not have to argue at length that such a soppage would be disastrous Even for the strikers if might well mean losing more than they can gain The right medicine, of course, is prevention mats why there already is talk of getting the government back into the industrial picture as it was during the war However while drastic controls are necessary is an emergency they can hardlf be accepted as the normal rule Instead of reyerng to freezes, solu- tion must found the lasting basis of agreement -agreement between management and labor, perhaps with some governmental help In getting together.
 Such also is the conclusion of Lloyd K Garrison, outstanding expert in labor relations In outlining a program for lasting labor peace in the. New York Times he says that the time Is ripe for one more forward step this field. What he recommends ls' in effect an agreement to agree.
 The desirabty Of collective bargaining is no longer seriously disputed There is growing under standing of the relationship between wages produc- ton prices and ongrange security Respect for con- tracts has grown the point where the majority of disputes arise only in connection with the drafting of new agreements or the renewal of old ones.
 To minimize this trouble zone-the one in which
 iyalx to oripjna tp- MT Garrison proposes "a national charter of prin- ciples which the government itself might pro- muleate" This would not be enforceable in the courts but it would make it easier for the two sides
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EASTERN STARS

Juneau Chapter No. T, Tuesday, October g, at 8 o'clock. Initiation.
 ALICE BROWN, Sec. adv.
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get together Further it would appeal to the com of the country and help to fix clearly the moral responsibility for any breakdown negotiations first purpose would be to emphasize the broad of agreement between the parties It would keep men the job during negotiations Not only does MT. Garrison cite British accom- plishmcnts in peaceful labor negotiations, but he also calls attention to the unanimous agreements reached in the management-abor conferences called by both President Roosevelt and President Truman. Had Congress accepted the advice of MT. Truman and provided for really broad gauge study of the prob lem of strke-prevention, might well have started with these agreements and broadened them. For the sake of industrial peace, this work still ought to be done
 Such a code" would be a recognition of the simple fact that strikes settled later in the end, there is agreement, why not resolve disputes without recourse costly strikes and lock outs?
 There is always somebody to throw cold water any suggestions, but there is no good reason why this should bring about labor peace in the ment between the great majority of American ployees and employers. They do not want to change the rules of the They do not argue about basic principles but about what constitutes their fair share of the earnings of our industrial plant.
 In that fact are potentiaites of peaceful operation which have by means been realized to the full
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bentrop stated, and I believe that be was quoting Hitler, that if the United States would go to war it would be only with Roosevelt. ;
 "Dieckhoff Ambassador to Washington had this comment:
 'Ribbentrop always had the idea that the Foreign Office should try to influence the election against Roosevelt. He even had the same idea in 1944, which was more fool ish than it was in 1940. In the Foreign Office we did not particu- larly like Willkie either but we
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3.-The -Sazls knew in March l940 that John L. Lewis was com ing out against Roosevelt in the November election, though Lewis own coal miners did not know it until six months later.
 4.-JameS D. Mooney, vice presi- dent of General Motors, had told Nazi agent Westrick that he would try to sell Roosevelt on getting along with Germany-even after Hitler had taken France, Norway, Belgium and Holland.
 5.-Father Coughlin wrote a let ter to the German Consul in De- troit asking German support for Coughlin'S war against the Jews and Roosevelt. An emissary of Coughlin'S Leo T. Reardon, also went to Berlin and made a similar proposal to Ribbentrop.
 6.-Carl Byoir, the well-known New York public relations man, collected over Sl00,000 from the Nazis for publicity work, using the German Railroad Information Of- flee as a front.
 These are only a few of the many startling highlights of Hit ler's desperate gamble to keep Am erica neutral. If he had succeeded, if the United States had not gone to the aid of England after the fall of France, the story of the wars outcome might have been en- tirely different
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Dewey than for WlnKie. According ly, Ribbentrop's America Committee was again on the job, this time headed by Colin Ross.
 Tn the Roosevelt-Dewey cam oaign. the foreign office had two pet schemes One of these involved so-called folkdom propaganda, aim d at various nationalities in the United States with a view to get ing these nationalities to vote against President Roosevelt. The other scheme involved the planting, at what the Nazis regarded as a crucial time, on the eve of the election, of some alleged secret agreements between President Roosevelt and Stalin. A number of members of the former German Foreign Office gave us accounts of these schemes. Schmidt told us In 1914 the attitude prevailed that anybody would be better than Roosevelt and Dewey was judged much more lavorably than Willkie and the estimate went so far as to oelieve that a negotiated peace un- der Dewey might be thinkable.
 T recall very well confei ence in Rihbentrop's private quarters at Wilhelmstrasse where the elections and the possibility of influencing them was discussed. Present were Dieckhoff, Gaus, Steengracht, all section chiefs, and several members of the America Committee.
 "At that conference it was clear ly stated that chances of directly influencing the press were hopeless, but that a press survey which l had made myself clearly showed that the majority of newspapers were in favor of Dewey. I had ar ranged a service in Stockholm and Lisbon which had no other functions than to advise me about the elections. The only way of in- fluencing the elections in more or less radical manner was, in our opinion, to plant in the neutral press some sensational news dis criminatory to Roosevelt, and the best subject for this was to say that there was a secret agreement between Stalin and Roosevelt. An attempt was made to place such a story both in Sweden and Switzer- 1 land, but without success. The story did appear in some small Swedish newspaper, but as I recall this oc- cured day or so after the cleo tion.
 "Ribbentrop himself stated: One of the ideas we had to try to pre- vent the reelection of Roosevelt in 1944 was the folkdom idea. We wanted to address ourselves to the different nationality groups in Am erica, such as the Polish groups 1 the Irish, the CzechoslovakianS, the l Hungarians, the Greeks, the Ital- ians, and even the Germans. We received reports about this propa- ganda. The reports came via South America. We received special re- ports from our men and then there were two or three radio transmit ters. remember, for instance, we oOt reportc ahOlJt the results wit in the Polish minority. I remember especially a report about the Polish group"
 (Note-Another column on Hit lers efforts to sway the American people will follow shortlyD
 (CoPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
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The Washington
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PLOT TO DEFEAT ROOSEVELT

Here are some of the verbatim quotes from the section of the sup pressed report dealing with NaZi attempts to influence American elections:
 Concerning the l940 elections, Paul K. Schmidt (of the Nazi Elm bassy in Washington told us: Both Ribbentrop and Hitler were of the opinion that any President would be better than Roosevelt. The Embassy was requested, and did furnish, extensive reports with regard to Willkie. The report stat ed that Willkie would not be friendly to Germany, but would not be capable of as sweeping pol itical decisions as Roosevelt Rib
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thought that anybody would be better than Roosevelt
 Tn the 1940 elections the Nazis had scheme to get John L. Lewis, the labor leader, to come out against the reelection of President Roosevelt This scheme will be re- lated in later section of this re- port.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
Action On
Leaf
Is Delayed

Nashville. Tenn, Jan. l5.-(AfD
Jim McCord announced
today he would withhold temporal
ilv any action toward bolsterln9 sag
glng hurley tobacco prices,
After a conference with State
Agriculture Commissioner @. f. Van
Cleve, McCord said he would delay
action until a report could be oD-
tanned from a congressional meet
ing on the same subject in Wash
ington today. He said he understood
that officials Of North Carolina, Viz
ginia and Kentucky also would
withhold action until receiving a
report of the meeting.
The governor said yesterday, ne
Wuold cooperate with governors OF
other hurley producing states in
any reasonable plan
Tennessee's hurley market opened
at an average Of S48 per hundred
last month but have dropped to
about S37.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
10 States
Affected By
Strike
Three Big Concerns
Tied Up BIS Newest
Labor Disturbance

New York, Jan. 15-(AP)-
Two hundred thousand electri-
cal workers III 1G states from
Massachusetts to California
struck today against their COM
panies, which produce the mai
or part of the nation S home
and industrial electrical appIi-
anceS.
Albert J. Fitzgerald. inter.
national president Of the C.LO.-
United Electrical Workers, an
nOunced at 8 a. m. that the
Walkout in plants Of General
Electric, Westernhouse and
General Motors was lone hun
dred per cent effective,' ac-
cording to all bulletins received
at UE national headquarters up
to that time.
Fitzgerald said 1000 women
and 25,000 Salaried and white
collar workers were among
those who left their 5c!,s. lie
said this was the largest number
of women to strike in recent
wears Women and white collar
workers will be presented in
picket lines, he said
The union president declared the
WalkoGt was 100 percent effective
;,> i,, lol
and Pittsburgh, Pa, Lynn and
Springfield, Mass; Schenectady, N.
Y: Broomficld, Newark ana Jersey
City, N. j., and Dayton, Ohio. 4
total Of $4,000 workers are employed
in these plants.
International headquarters of the
union announced shortly after a.
M that 'thc Walkout began on sche-
dule' Fitzger@'d said:
because of the refusal of the
General Electric Westinghouse
and General Motors Corpora
tons to grant the unions 50
day wage demand, 100000 en-
ployees have been compelled to
go on strike
Approximately 10000 workers left
their Jobs in four Mass a'chusetts
cities. Fitzgerald announced at a.
m. that G. Es big plant at Lynn.
Mass, employing 10000 persons, was
shut down. Several thousand pickets
we're at the plant, he sid.
PickCting began at a. m. at the
Westinghouse lamp plant and the G.
+. air conditioning and industrial
controls plant in Bloomfield, N. J..
md yI-i+l1j1 two l1DIl,,S b.t SyNplled
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
Sinking OF
Liner Told
By Doenitz

Nuremberg, Jan. 15.-(AP)-An
affidavit by Grand Admiral Karl
Doenitz, introduced before the in
ternational military tribunal today,
eXr'cded the German myth that the
British liner Athena was sunk bE
Che British themselves in 1889 in a
"lot to push the United States into
the war.
Great Britain demanded the con-
ViCtiOn of DOen!tZ successor to Adolf
Hitler as fuehrCr Of Germany as a
'murderer' for U-boat attacks on
helpless sailors in lifeboats and for
ordering the ruthless shooting OF
cOmmandOs.
Colonel H. J, FILLMORE a British
>~oSe"utor, to'd the tribunal trying
Doenitz and 81 other top Nazis as
war criminals, shat Doonitz was no
plain sailor and was a key cog be-
hind Nazi preparations for agGrcs-
siVe war.
The affidavit signed by Doenitz on
November II, l945. said the Athena
was sunk by the German submarine
U-3O on the day Britain entered the
war On board were 800 paSsen
gers, some of them Americans. Ger
man propaganda at the time tried
to lay the blame on Winston Chur-
chill.
Bolstering the case against
Doenitz, 1t. Com. Karl Heinz Moe
HE, German submarine comman-
der who sunk 20 Allied ships, tes-
titled against the admiral, asserting
that he did not want to be blamec
for his former chiefs order to shoot
p li4eboats. .
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
Communists Sav
Forces OF Chang
Disregard Truce

Chunekins. Jan. l5.-(AP)-
Chou En-lai. No. 2 Chinese
communist, today sought a meet
ing with General Marshall. He
was reported ready to complain
against alleged government ViO-
latiOns OF the recent civil strife
truce agreement.
ChOu'S move followed emo
muniSt charge that on Monday
government forces "ferOciouSly
attacked" kWangshan. commun-
ist-held highway center in
southeastern Honan province. A
government spokesman denied
the charge and reported that
federal forces everywhere had
halted operations at the Sunday
midnight de adlinc, except
where they were forced to fight
i'm Sclf-dcfenSe"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
South Carolina
Declines Repeal
OF Poll Tax Act

Columbia, :. G.. Jan. ID
(AP) The South Carolina
House of Representatives re-
jected today a Scnatc-aDproVcd
resolution locking toward poll
tax appeal. The vote was 69-40.
Meanwhile, the first horse
racing bill proposed in the Cen
craI Assembly since the war be-
gan greeted legislators as they
returned for the second week of
tie 1916 session. The bill to le-
galize pari- mutal betting on a
county option basis was intro
duced by Representative (leVe-
land OF GrceuNillc Racing not
now prohibited but not CONNER
c'ali2cd because OF the antibct-
ting ban would be licensed and
regulated.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
Ashe\ille Leaf
Market .Arrang,es
Sale Resumption

AShcVillc. Jan. I5.-(AP)-
The AShcville hurley tobacco
market arranged to open today
after sales were halted yeSter-
day following a vote by grow
erS to close land prevent posi-
bic friction between those who
wished to continue and those
who voted to stop sales"
X. S. Witherington, market
supervisor, said those who de-
sired may sell today and others,
if they wish. may turn their
tags. Sales were halted yeSter-
day after 1886 pounds were
sold at an average price OF
$3.50 per hundred. an increase
of 5.21 cents over Fridays av-
erage, when sales were also
stopped.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
u. S. Group Divided Over
Keeping Nippon Islands

ney, argued that the United States
should retain any islands of mill
tary value.
Delegates said thu. if any held
cut, the disagreement could be con-
sidered as tantamount to an issue
between the State and War Depart
ments and would have to be refer
red to President Truman for settle
ment.
Kenney. chief Of the Pacific air
staff, could not be reached imme-
diately for comment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
$50 Men May Be Trapped
In West Virginia Shaft

Welch. W. Va, Jan. l5.-
Cap seventy five coal miners
mlraculously escaped alive to-
day after a tremendous blast III
the No. 9 HaVaco mine on the
outskirts Of Wclch. but the fate
Of 1872 others was in doubt as
reScuerS drove into the smoke
and dust filled shaft workings.
+, l.. Chatiicld, an inspector at
large Of the State Mines Department
SAID he was informed that l67 men
were in the workings when the eN-
plosion occurred around $50 a. m.
The force was so terrific that
Negro pupils in a school house and
workers in the store and office OF
the New River and Pocahontas Con-
solidatei Coal Company, from 800
to 900 feet away, We're injured by
shattered glass and debris. The mine
is operated by New River ana
POCahontas.
Unofficial estimates said from
third to one half of those COM
ing from the mines alive walk
ed Up the shaft steps. which
somehow remained intact, al
though the tiprle appeared to be
a total wreck. The shaft is about
400 feet deep.
Hospitals of Wclch, city of l.
Geo population, and the county seat
Of the biggest bituminous coal pro
ducin9 county in the United States,
were quickly filled to oVertl0Wlng
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15

London, Jan. -(AP3-OHicial
sources disclosed today that Amer
lean civilians and military officials
at the United Nations general as
sembly were split over whether Am
erican- conquered Japanese islands
should be placed under UNO SOY
ereignty.
The delegates themselves were
said to favor trustee plan for the
Pacific islands, while their special
military advisor General c. Ken
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
Ceilings On
Cotton May
Wreck OPA
Top Price Limit May
Not Be Imposed, In
Opinion Of Bowles

Washington, Jan. 15.-(AP)-
A schedule of proposed price
ceilings on raw cotton were an
e nOunced today by the OPA amid
predictions from southern cotton
states senators that the action
may mean the end of the
whole Office of Price Admins
tratiGn."
Southern legislators, pointing out
unless Congress votes its continu-
ance said. however, they didn't be-
licve the ceilings would seriously
hurt the price, but might reduce
cotton acreage this yea.
OPA's announcement. accord
ing to Director Chester BOWles.
said the aeency's advance notice
simply puts it in position to
impose the controls if it finds
them necessary. The announce
rnent anded that lit may not he
actually necessary to put the
ceilings into effect
The OPA notice fultills a legal
requirement that growers be mott
fled of planned price schedules at
least Is days in advance of the nor
NAL planting season. In announcing
it, B0Wles said the rise Of cotton
prices thre3"ens the whole stabiliza-
ton program in the cotton textile
field.
Saying continued increases would
mean higher prices Tor clothing,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15

Not Part OF
Peace Draft
Also Denies Jobs
tt Brass Hats Are
Factor In Policy

Washington. Jan. Is -
(APD- General Dwight D.
Eisenhower told Congress today
every man eligible for dis
charge by July l will be out of
the Army by that time.
Explaining the Army's de-
mobilization policy at an in
formal Senate-House meeting
at the Congressional Library,
the chief Of staff declared that
the recently announced slow
down in rehabilitation was nee
eSsary to prevent the Army
from being depleted by March
But even with the showdown, he
said:
"There is rot single man who is
TO be discharged by July who
won't be discharged by July |.
He prefaccd his remarks with
flat statement that demobili-
ZatiOn is not tied in with the
War Departments sponsorship
of universal military training,
or with any desire of high rank
ing offers to retain their posi-
tiOns.
Some offers and some CTS have
suggested such might be the case
Such conclusions, Eisenhower as
serted, are ''utterly false
Eisenhower said that of l,2o0
general officers on duty on W.,
789 already have been or are being
reduced in rank or separated from
service.
The meeting drew approXi-
mately 200 Senate and House
members, whose complaint
about decentralization led to the,
extraordinary session.
There were fewer than tltty co..
eressmen seated when General FL
Scnhoucr, Admiral Chester W. MINI
itz. chief Of naval operations, anG
several score Army and Navy OIL
fcers arrived at 10 O'Clock, but they
began pouring in little later.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15

Welch, W. Va, Jan. l5.-(AP)
An explosion apparently deep
in the workings belched from
the opening of the HavOcO No.
9 coal mine today with such
force Negro children in grade
school 500 feet away were in
jured. and the fate of $50 to 300
workers was Immediately in
doubt
Before leaving Charleston for
the scene. State Mine Chief &.
X. Spindler said he was inform
ed by one of his inspectors that
$50 to 800 men were believed to
have been at work in the No. 9
mine of the New River and
PocahontaS Consolidated Coal
Company when the terrific blast
occurred.
Spindler left Charleston for
the scene, which is about one
half mile from the outskirts of
Welch, a coal mining city Of
about 1000 population, accom-
panied by John II. Hansford.
State director of mine rescue
work.
The chief said he was in
formed by f. L. Chatfield. an
inspector at-large stationed at
Welch. that rescue crews already
were started in the slOped mine.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
COTTON SEED CRVSVrNGS

WASHINGTON. Jan. l5.-(APl-The
Census Burerl reported today that
cotton seed crushed in the five
months period August 70 Deem
ber 81 tota1ed l92A282. tens, COM
pared with 2.120,749 tons in the cor
responding period a year ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain and cool tonight. becOm-
ing cold in northwest portion
tonight; Wednesday partly
cloudy and colder.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-15

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-13
ronn Takes Red Sox Scout Dodgers Against Giants
Hagen Talked and Coached
 Sam Snead to British Open

20 to 75 yards ito make things tougher for us," according to Snead, but that was right down Slammin' Sam's alley.
 Using the smaller 1.62 British ball because it travels straighter in the wind, Snead drove the 312-yard 10th three of four times, the 18th twice, the 340-yard 18th once.
 Snead reports the St. Andrews turf firm and nice, with traps in the middle of the fairWays, trou- ble on both sides, bunkers the player can't see and pot bunkers too small to permit proper stroking. The greens are hadd, lightning fast.
 T knew I was in at the third hole of my final round," smiles Samuel Jackson Snead.
 "A bird directly overhead sang merrily while Tapping it's wings frantcially, yet remaining perfectly stationary against the terrific wind. The brdis song under the circum- stances did something to me. OK. Let's go, I said to myself. I was on the green, 365 yards away, in two less than six feet away. I went out in 40 and back in 35. don't know what that bird was singing, but it was awfglly nice"
 The 72-year-old British Open championship cup now stands on the mantlepieee of little house at Hot Springs, Va.