The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-01-11
ANOTHER CASE OF PETER AND
PAUL
By ]. Il. Jones

a fact-lnding board to inquire into
the demands of tie United Automo-
| bile Workers for shorter hours and
more pay is unavoidable. The board
, followed orders and went on a snoop-
ing expedition for excuses to freeze
new automobiles at prewar prices.
Now, for example, If that sort of
| stuff was imposed on clothing store
that was squeezing by on a small per-
centage of profits the merchants
would likely insist that they were
running their own business. That is
eractly what the motor corporate N
has done, Small business and big
! business must make reasonable pro-
| fits.
The American public does not need
to be told that all costs have gone UP
and that vital rights of all manage
ment till exist. That cannot be de-
toured by manufacturers or clothing
stores. That has been the way Ameri-
can business has been conducted ever
since the first English settlers came
to our shores.
Gus procession of labor union strikes
for dozen years. Laws for collective
bargaining and laws for Federal
boards have been passed. for the pur-
pose of settling disputes between EN-
ployers and workers Congress has
done it's part, bit the White House
has just muddled through. Lots of
laws were by-passed by President
Roosevelt, who appointed arbitrators
boards, agents and other kinds OF
trespassers. The Secretary of Labor,
National Labor Relations Board, the
Department of Justice, the United
States Treasury and all the tax find
ing and revenue groups and the Fed
eral Trade Commission were pushed
out of the way. Now President Tru-
man has ignored the fact that these
"fact-finding" groups were maintain
ed by the taxpayers at an expense of
billions of dollars. These official
groups could deliver more facts and
information in "a hours than an in
depenednt body like the one appoint
ed to win the battle for the automo-
bile workers could dig up in tie next
year or two.
The old scheme to rob Peter to pay |
Paul didn't work successfully when
St. Peter at Westminster was robbed
to raise money fer the repair of st. !
Paul's in London. And that system is |
still phoney.
President Truman has done a |
great disservice to the American pub
lie, and it's industrial system, and es-
pecially to the employers and work |
ers who have created the greatest |
and most successful methods of OPP |
Grafton in the World.
Oh, Sugar!
In another six months the Philip |
pine Islands will become independent
and on their own. But the United i
States Is not going to give them up I
and the Philippines are not going
to give us up. The population of the
Philippines, at the time of taking the .
1910 census, was 1880, 1000. and the
land area of the Islands was ia, $3.50
square miles.
Reciprocal free trade relationsil
have existed between the United /
States and the Philippines since |
1909. Under the new relationship |
covering the forthcoming indepen-.l
dence Of the Philippines free trade
will continue for ten years. The
most important shipment of the Is
lands to our own country has been
sugar. The Philippines are insistingli
that it's sugar should be shipped
without any tariff to the United
States, indefinitely
BUT the United States is being &C.
cused of letting Cuba down by fall
ure to provide the market for all of
it's sugar.
All restrictions on the shipments
of sugar from Hawaii were removed
by an order by President Roosevelt
in 1912. So Hawaii figures in our
three-cornered sugar puzzle.
A lot of people keep right on ask
ing why sugar production is not de-
veloped in TIE United States so as to
take care of our own demands. All,
there is the rub! A half dozen of our
own Southern States have grown as
fine quality of sugarcane and sugar
beets as has ever been produced in
any part of the World.
New Years Cheer
The happy optimists shouted loud
er than all other people-even those
filled with New Years cheer-in
welcoming the return of business and
conditions to normally" as former
President Harding used to prognosti-
cate.
The trouble With everything was
simply surplus of IFS" that labor
and international strikes might be
cured '-whateve that means.
By way of encouragement the best
so-called guessing contests trotted
out the latest available figures
showing pretty features" of the last
of 1945, with many barometers
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