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Evening star., 1946-10-13
Lincoln
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commissioners-is laid at odds of
10 to 7 on Senator Knowland.
The professionals are quoting
odds of from 3 to / to 212 to j on
the Republicans in races for State
offices.
Because1of the law which permits
cross filing "a candidate can file in
both Republican and Democratic
parties Mr.. Rogers and Senator
Knowland ran for both the Repub-
Ican and Democratic nomina tions.
The total vote cast for Senator
Knowlsnd in both Republican and
Democratic primaries exceeded that
cast for Mr.. Rogers. A third candi-
date, Representative Patterson,
Democrat, an extreme left winger
supported by the CIO, rolled up a
considerable vote in the senatorial
primary, however, and his vote
added to that of Mr.. Rogers was
something more than million,
while the total vote for Senator
Knowland was about 100000.
In the belief that most of the
Patterson votes would go for Mr..
Rogers, the Democrats were encour-
aged and the Republicans CORE
spondingly discouraged. In the in
tervening period, however, the sit
uation seems to have bettered for
the Republican because of new is
sues that have arisen including the
meat shortage and the row among
the Democrats over foreign policy
started by the attack of former Sec
retary of Commerce Henry A. Wal
lace over Secretary of State Byrnes
course at the Paris Peace Confer
ence.
In 4 press conference Mr.. Rogers
said: "I favor Byrnes' policy as op-
posed to that advanced by Mr.. Wal
ting UP the Democratic Party"
It developed that Mr.. Wallace
has been invited to come to Califor.
mia, but that Mr.. Rogers had moth
ing to do with the invitation. Mr.
Rogers refused to say whether hi
would attend the Wallace meeting
or meetings. Mr.. Wallace is sched-
uled to be here October Il.
State CIO Likes Wallace.
Mr.. Wallace is well liked by ths
California CIO. This split over Mr.
Wallace. therefore is causing trouble
in the Democratic ranks. Mr.. Rog'
ers ventured the suggestion tina
MIR. Wallace was coming. to helf
out Representative Healy and Heller
Ga1agan Douglas. Mr.. Healy, IL
the 18th district, is in real troubl'
and may be defeated although Mrs
Douglas. who is running againS
Evening star., 1946-10-13
| Midget Painter
Rejects Union
But Keeps Job
BY the A..eeiatsd Press

TRENTON, N. J., Oct. l2.-Wher
Dewey d'Agostino, Trenton paint
ing contractor, hired midget he
thought he had solved the problem
Of painting the almost inaccessible
underside Of the Lee Avenue Bridge
But, he reported today, along
came local 301 of the painters union
AL. and, according to D'Agostino
said: you'll have to have q union
midget"
The contractor didn't have one
and his non-union midget, Carl
Schielke OF Windsor, said he wasn't
interested In becoming q union
midget.
D'Agostino, restoring to his rights
under the contract, asked the union
to produce q union midget in two
hours 50 the job could go on. When
the desired individual failed to ap-
pear, Mr.. Schielke went back to
work.
The union was not available for
comment.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Welfare
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ported. THE authorization for
classification personnel opens the
doors to the use of modern and sci
entific methods in care OF children. y
Won't Oppose Legislation.
Meanwhile two other develop
ments broke across the public well
fare front:
l. Commissioner Guy Mason has
told key members Of the welfare
board the Commissioners will not
oppose legislation to the next Con-
gress to make the board as inde-
pendent of the city heads ss the
Board of Education now is. Any
thing more than that, the Commits
sioners will fight.
what is asked is submitted with
the prayer" that the board need
not be forced to wait for a catas-
|trophe among it's children and aged
to create for the District the serv-
ices it needs to prevent such catas-
trophies"
Public welfare funds are not to
be considered acts Of charity, the
members told the Commissioners.
Rather they are IAN investment in
public security"
THE impulses to do good for and
to the people is q dangerous motive
with which to face the public vel
fare needs of q city" they warned.
Sound reason, sound investment for
public security provide saner and
more realistic approach to the ap-
preparation of money to carry out
the law than does the emotion that
waits for catastrophe to stimulate
attention and effort
Present demands on public well
fare are at low point" the report
said, but the future will see In
creases.
Because of the wartime limitation
on construction, the board said 1t
had placed primary emphasis during
the past year on the basic services
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Reporter Studies Hotel Situotion
But His Wife Makes the Bed
By GEORGE Beveridqe

rope barred the entrance to another
dining room.
II have bottle" ! said. Can
n get some ice?"
certainly" He gestured to q
waiting bellboy who looked surpris-
ingly like the first desk clerk. He
led us into the room service bar,
handed me a bucket and then
helped me fill It with ice. Glasses
and pitchers also were on hand.
A little later the hotel seemed
nearly deserted. That's because
nearly everyone is out to dinner =
explained Russell A. Conn, man
agerss of the Ambassador. Mr. Conn
stayed around until about midnight
to make sure everything goes all
right"
Hou-ekeeper Is Busy.
And it did. Using only a dozen
or SO employees who are not in
volved in the union walkout,. Mr..
Conn and his staff somehow man.
aged to keep surprising number
of services in operation.
Perhaps the busiest was Mrs, Sally
Preble, the Ambassador house.
keeper. Robbed of her staff of some
IS maids. Mrs. Preble and three
assistant fousekeepers managed to
clean most rooms and keep them
stocked with linen.
1--WE tried to make each bed as
people checked out she said, but
ii was just too much. But people
have seemed to get into the spirit
of this thing. They seem in a hap
pier state of mind than ordinarily"
And there have been fewer COM
plants from men than from women, y
Miss Kane added.
In spite OF the help shortage, the
hotel served banquet Friday night
to group of F'ordham students here
for the football game at Georgetown.
Three hostesses served as mattresses.
Chef Gordon Kings only other
duty has been to prepare meals
for the few hotel personnel on
hand. The hotel also has main
tanned full scale telephone service
by bringing in non union operators.
Only large-scale activity sched-
uled at the hotel last night was a
meeting of the South Atlantic
Grotto Association, a Masonic order.
More specifically, member said
they are the Mystic Order OF the
Yelled Prophets of the Enchanted
Realm.
Although unable to have dinner
together, the members said the
80 participants ''are doing
fine"
Evening star., 1946-10-13

Ito children and families receiving
aid In their own homes.
Services in protection Of infants
through licensing procedure has
been well begun" the members re-
2. A compromise has been reached
between Welfare Director Ray HUFF
and Auditor A. r. Pilkerton on the
hitherto controversial situation un-
der which Mr.. Pilkerton audits re-
lief expenditures with personnel
paid by welfare funds.
Mr.. Mason said he has advised
Board Chairman Edgar Morris and
members Fred Kogod and A. Hard
ing Paul that the complete inde-
pendence recommended for the
board by the recent social survey
sponsored by the Council Of Social
Agencies is unacceptable to the city
heads.
The board itself, in recent state
ment, repudiated the survey pro-
posal that 1t have its own legal
counsel and be able to propose its
own legislation directly to Congress.
But the board would like to be free
of the pre-audit of its relief ex-
penditures made by Mr.. Pilkerton
and this the Commissioners viii
oppose, Mr.. Mason indicated.
Understanding Reached.
The understanding between the
board and the city heads clears the
way for legislation at the next ses.
sion Of Congress to end the present
confusion between the authority Of
the board and the Commissioners.
At present the board is charged
with welfare administration but
cannot even appoint its own per-
sonnel. 1t recommends and the
Commissioners hire and fire.
At the time the adult prisons
were separated from welfare last
summer into department of cor
rections, the Commissioners agreed
to support an independent welfare
board along school board lines, but
the social survey recommendation
made it necessary for the board to
sound out the city heads on this
proposal
The HUFF -Pilkerton compromise
reyolves about language in the an
nual appropriation bill which re-
quires the auditor to audit the re-
lief payments but charges the cost
OF the audit to the relief fund. Mr..
Huff has favored elimination of the
language and the vesting of some
of the functions performed by the
auditor in the welfare central busi-
ness office he Is establishing. :.
Under the agreement reached, the
Commissioners will seek elimination
Of the Objectionable language and
six of the nine members Of the relief
auditing staff will be transferred
to Mr.. Pilkerton's payroll and the
other three to Mr.. Huff's business
office, it was said,
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Hartman
CONTINUED From First Page)

composed Of the elite Of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and the State
Department. The conference was
secret.
Hartman explained that his be-
lief came from his numerous per-
sonal contacts with Russian per-
sonaiities, members Of the Politburo
the Supreme Soviet Council and
even with Stain himself, while he
was American Ambassador in Mos
COW for two years.
Hartman added that the Soviets
as a consequence of that conviction
decided to adopt a policy line oi
tending to thwaft by all means
everywhere the efforts Of the United
States and Great Britain in world
political problems.
Hartman is also reported te
have told the history Of President
Roosevelt,s political views and stat
ed that the views of Roosevelt
which originally were based upon
the belief that the United States
and Soviet Russia could live peace.
fully in the same world despite thu
differences in the two systems
changed swiftly in the last month,
of the war.
Changed His Sentiments.
"a short time before he died
Roosevelt arrived at the same con.
clusion as that of Moscow.
IF Roosevelt were living now, hi.
policy would certainly be about thu
same as that of Truman anc
Byrnes," Hartman is reported te
have saio.
Hartman said that he himself al
| the beginning Of his Moscow mission
shared the belief that the two sys-
TENS could live in the same world.
Hartman said that at this time
| it seemed to him that the Soviet
leaders themselves shared this idea
"But little later Hartman
acknowledged that step by step the
Soviet mind changed. Hartman
explained that he was then obliged
| himself to modify his own senti.
ments and that he is now convinced
that the two systems. 'one- an au-
thoritarian dictatorship forbiddins
every liberty and the other of Demo.
cratic liberties, are incompatible.
I'm Harriman's opinion the dan.
ger of communism in the world /:
apparent because when you are ex.
posed to typhoid, you risk the chance
of catching it.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
1900 BushWorkers
Strike in 7 Canadian
PuIpwood sections
By ,hs Assec;a,sd Press

TORONTO. Oct. 12.--Approxi-
mately $4,000 bushworkers in the
Cochrane, Ont, and Thunder Bay
areas, whose principal occupation Is
cutting timber from which news
print pulp is made, were called out
on strike today.
Locals 27s6 and 2ss5 Of the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
called the strike, affecting approx
mately 5000 workmen In each area.
Operators hesitated to predict the
effects Of the strike on industry url-
til after the week end and Canadian
Thanksgiving Day which falls Mon
day Many men were away from
work today on the usual weekend
exodus one operator emphasized.
Maintenance workers were ordered
by the union to stay In the camps.
Union demands included q $5-a-
day minimum wage, union recogni-
ton. and improved living and work.
ing conditions.
w. A. Delahaye Of the On
tario Forest Industries Association,
speaking for the operators, said the
employers were not clear on all the
strike issues. On the $5-a-day min
imum demand, Delahaye declared
that wages are now largely based on
piece work and that an average
workman makes from 81 to $40
day.
Observers here thought newsprint
and pulp mills have enough ma
terial on hand to last through the
winter so far as newsprint is con-
cerned.
Meanwhile, D. w. Ambridge.
president of Abitibi Power & Paper
Co, said Canadian newsprint prices
are bound to increase" following
the advance Of $40 q ton In the
United States ceiling price.
Mr.. Ambridge said the United
States increase, announced by OPA
yesterday, would tend to increase
exports to the United States. He
added. however, that he did not
think this would cut down much
on domestic consumption.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
.NLRB Vote tuesday
In Pittsburgh Holds
Power Union S Fate
BY the Associated Press

/ PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12.-The in
dependent Power Workers Union
whose wage demands have en-
meshed this steel capital in a l9-
day power strike, today faced q
fight for existence in collective
bargaining election, tentatively set
for Tuesday.
The election date was fixed by
the National Labor Relations Board
after a meeting of officials Of the
struck Duquesne Light Co. and rep
lresentatives of four unions.
The election, called for by District
SO of the ALL United Mine Work
ers, will involve 1,700 maintenance
and production workers. majority
Iof the 5000 members Of the Striking
Independent Association Of En-
ployes of the Duquesne Light and
Associated Companies.
A spokesman for District 50 said
the other members of the independ-
ent union, largely clerical and TECH
nical workers, were not taking part
in the balloting because members
OF that union were not among the
original group requesting bargain
ing rights petition.
Other Unions Listed.
In addition to District 50, other
unions to be represented on the
ballot are the independent union,
the ALL international Brotherhood
OF Electrical Workers and the CIO-
Utility Workers of America.
At the same time. 2,70o idle AFL-
streetcar motormen, who twice voted
against crossing picket lines set up
by the power strikers. were again
balloting-this time by mail-on
whether to return to work.
The 16-day stoppage by streetcar
and bus operators, depriying 1000 600
daily riders of transportation, has
been the most pronounced effect OF
the drawn-out power walkout.
A civic-community group, claim
ing SOC, 900 members, today threat
ened the union with court action
unless it acts on petitions calling for
t a new general membership votO on
arbitration.
The petitions had been circulated
Eby some of the striking members who
Emphasized that 1t was not back
lto-work movement, but demand,
under the union constitution, for a
meeting. =
George L. Mueller, q the unions
president, said he planned to ignore
| the petitions.
.Just because a few company
dominated employees want to hold m
election, they can't Inconvenience
| the rest OF the membership" he de-
clared.
/ Meanwhile, electricity was still
available for necessities rs the strike
chugged through its third week.
Chill autumnal rains added to the
gloom of the city today.
Company, union and special con-
ciliators reported mo progress" in
efforts to find a solution to the wage
dispute. The union seeks 20 per
cent wage increase to raise present
base pay from $l18 an hour to $1.41.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Tentative Accord Reached
In Canada ChrysIer Strike
sy the Asseeiat.d Pr.ss

WINDSOR, Ont, Oct. 12.-Ten-
tative agreement on terms for set
tlement of the 117-day strike Of
$500 employees Of Chrysler Ltd. Of
Canada, was announced today by
George Burt. Canadian director Of
the CIO United Auto Workers.
Mr.. Burt said details Of the pro-
posed settlement reached after
lengthy negotiations with the COM
any, would not be disclosed until
the 5000 employees of the Windsor
plant voted Tuesday and the 500
Chatham workers ballot on We'd
Evening star., 1946-10-13
IAFL Throws Support
Behind Campaign 10
IUnionize Big Farms
" fhs Assorioisd Ifsss

CHICAGO, oct. 12.-The Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor Is throw
ing Its weight behind drive to
organize farm workers and help
them gain bargaining rights and a
shorter work week.
II the plan succeeds, the combina-
tion Of agricultural and industrial
workers could have far-reaching ef-
Ifects in the Nations politics and
economics.
Already one AFL group is spon-
soring the third political party idea
1t is backing resolution in the
AFL convention here to form such
a party, independent of the Re-
publieans and Democrats, with
combined labor and farm support
Cooperation Promised.
The third party proposal likely
will fail to get convention support
The AFL Executive Council, how
ever, already has pledged that IL
will cooperate lin full measure" in
promoting the organizing activities
|of one OF its newest afilliates, the
National Farm Labor Union.
H. L. Mitchell, president of that
union, predicted In statement to-
day that the AFL, in order to imple-
ment the, farm-worker organiza-
tionaI campaign. will work actively
to have Congress extend to the farm
those benefits it has granted workers
In industry.
There Is not much difference to-
day between large-scale farm opera
tions and a huge industrial plant
except that hired workers on the
big farms are still being treated as
second -class citizens" Mr.. Mitchell
said.
Social Security Cited.
He said that special exemptions
bar farm workers from the old-age
and retirement provisions of the
Social Security law, from the wage
hour laws 40-hour work week maxi
mum, and the legal bargaining rights
guaranteed industrial ~wage-earners
under the Labor Relations Act.
"The AFL is going to bat for U.s. -
Mr.. Mitchell said. ut will demand
that Congress change these laws
so that the 1000, 900 American farm
workers and their families can be
restored to first-class citizenship" /"
Mr.. Mitchell said his union would
concentrate on big agricultural en-
terprises" rather than on family
type farms. He maintained the
larger ones "often wiring their low
production costs out Of the sweat
and blood Of hired hands" to the
competitive disadvantage Of the
small farmer.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Shippers on Atlantic
And Gulf 10 Confer
With Strikers Soon
BY III. As:..:.sted Press

Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
received assurances yesterday from
Atlantic and Gulf Coast ship opera
tors they will arrange an "early
meeting" with striking engineers in
the 12-day-old maritime tie-up, the
Labor Department announced.
The Atlantic and Gulf operators
had walked out of the negotiations
here Thursday night, claiming the
unions position made further dis
cussions futile" f E
Subsequently the union, the CLIO
Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso-
citation. offered to negotiate a con-
tract at once with the Atlantic and
Gulf operators, instead of insisting
on Nationwide agreement.
Offer Wired to Operators.
A Labor Department spokesman
told reporters Mr. Schwellenbach
had telegraphed to Frank j. Taylor,
head of the operators group, copy
of the commitment offered Friday
by the marine engineers.
The Secretary has talked with
Mr.. Taylor several times since wir-
ing the commitment" the spokes-
man added, land MIR. Taylor has
promised him he is doing everything
possible to arrange an early meet
ing"
Mr.. Taylor was in New York, and
the. Labor Department expected him
to announce meeting with the
engineers there. There was no in
dication here when it might be
| called.
| A report from San Francisco said
Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO
longshore leader, had accepted an
invitation of the marine engineers
to come to Washington to sit in on
the strike negotiations. Joseph Cur
ran, president of the National Mari
time Union, also was reported in
vited.
! Wage Increase Sought.
The CIO-Marine Engineers, prior
to their offer to negotiate at once
with the Atlantic and Gulf Coast
operators, had insisted on ma
tional agreement unless the Mari
time Commission promised in ad-
vance, that terms of any Eastern
contract would be enforced on Gov
ernment owned ships in the Pacific.
Principal issues of the strike,
which has tied up approximately
600 ships on all coasts. are wage
increase and preferential hiring of
members of two unions, the C1O
Engineers, and the AFL Masters,
Mates and Pilots. The unions have
asked an increase of about II or
18 per cent.
Bernard Winstock, chairman OF
the Engineers Strike Committee,
said after committee meeting in
New York that all East Coast colliers
would join the strike at midnight
last night and thereafter the coal
haulers would be picketed.
Foreign Ships Freed.
Wlnstock SAID the meetmg was
called to set a joint strike policy
that will show shipowners at this
time that we. have weA-organizedl
and determined group who will not.
return to work until our just de-
mands are met"
Meanwhile, the tight hold striking
unions had on the New Orleans
waterfront relaxed somewhat yes
terday as picket lines changed po-
sitions, blocking off only American
ships and not the entire wharfs.
This freed 80 foreign ships but.
still tied up AZ American vessels.
Up until yesterday, New Orleans
was the only port 100 per cent shut
down.
Evening star., 1946-10-13

Frederick M. ROBERTS, Negro Re
publican in the 14th district, is ex-
pected to win easily.
Mr.. Rogers, whose chief asset is
his name, did say that "the Demo-
cratic Party is so strong it will sur
prise many people on election day
He claimed that in travelling over
the State he had found the Demo
cratic organization well established
in many small communities. He
added that war veterans are over.
whelmingly Democratic-and that
they were registering to / for the
Democratic Party in Los Angeles.
Going after his Republican op-
ponent, Mr.. Rogers characterized
Senator Knowland as an ."l946 iso-
lationist" because Senator Know
/ land opposed in the Senate the Brit
ish loan, He. also charged that
Senator Knowland, war veteran
as is Rogers, is no real friend o.
the veteran but only gives him LIZ
service during election campaigns,
Discussing the meat situation
which has many of the Democratic
candidates worried Mr.. Rogers
came out for removal of controls or
meat prices. S $3.50 ',sS.s'sss.
He said, Because the Republican.
successfully sabotaged the Original
OPA bill, and because meat is shor'
and the demand for it SO great, fee
the removal of controls over meal
is today necessary to keep our avail
able supply from going into tht
black market, and to keep the coun.
try from going into period such a!
existed in the days of prohibition
When the prices of meat increase
hope the housewives will blame
Republican Senators (among then
Senator Knowland) who killed al
chance of proper control
Real Contest in Ninth District.
| In only one of the congressiona
districts now held by the Repub'
licans is there any real contest, the
ninth, where Representative Gear
hart is the incumbent. But ever
there the prediction is for Repub'
lican victory.
The Democrats, on the other hane
may lose one or more House seats
In addition to the Healy race, Rep
resentative Izac is likely to lose II
| the twenty-third district: Repre-
sentative McDonough is in bae
way in the seventh, and Representa-
| tive Doyle in the eighteenth /:
having serious trouble. In the six.
teenth district Mr.. Patterson ha'
declared he will be an Independent
candidate in "writein" effort Il
win again his old district.
If he goes through with it thi'
may give the Republican candidate
chance there.
The Republicans in California, a
in other States, are making grea
play on the Communist issue, link
ing the Reds with the Democrats
They have used the issue adroitly
ard it is having its effect. MI
Rogers and Jimmy Roosevelt hav,
both done everything they could t.
disassociate themselves from an,
and all Communists and fellow
travellers.
The CIO leaders who are goinl
along with both Roosevelt and MI
Rogers, played part in the election
of Mr.. Roosevelt as State chairman
They say he has shown ability, bu
contend that he is primarily in
terested "in what we can do TO
him"
Just the position of the CIO vii
be after the coming election remain
to be seen. There is talk here o
abandoning the Democratic Part
and starting a new political party
So far, it is only talk and nothin
will be decided until the CIO con
Vention in December.