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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
By DrsSO Pearson

may become as famous as the label Made by Union Labor" It will probably take the form of the initials "vAv"
 when these initials are used immediately follow ing Congressmans name, it will indicate he Voted Against Veterans".
 cOngFessmen, already sensitive about this years elections, are worried sick about last weeks vote housing for veterans especially the vote subsidies which would have permitted low-eost homes at price-range which veterans could afford.
 This worry was why Congress ducked rol-car vote If each Congressman hsd neen iorcea to stand eide for some Instead Q teller vote was taken which meant that Congressrnen merely walked swift ly down the cehter of the aisle to De counted
 However. alert newsmen standing just above in the press gallery carefully tabulated those voting against veterans housing The Republicans. except for few liberals like Charles LaFollete of Indiana, George Bender of Ohio voted as Q block against veterans
 The Democrats, despite a plea from President Truman himself plus teSsrams from sos Hanpsgan d ssl Will De labelled "VAvH" (voted Against Veterans Housins) in this important test vote; Barden, NC; Cravens, Ark; Doughton, N. O.; Durham, N O.; Earthman, Tenn; Erwin, N, o. Gathngs, Ark; Gibson, Ga; Hare, 8. O.; Lanhann Texas; McMilan, dock, Aris; Murray Tenn; Pacen, Ca; Page, Texas Riley, s. O.; Roe, Md; Russell, Texas; Slaughter, Mo- smith, Va.; Summers, Texas; Tarver, Sa'; VlnSonp Oaj WLuVtSAip NASS'b VAifOVAAeVVAt AAA01'
 
 Despite aI the threatening talk, you can mark 1t down that there will be no repetition of the last railroad strike in 1922 which crippled transportation throughout the nation
 Here's the way Government labor experts dope is out:
 Eighteen brotherhoods, representing 1,2500O0 workmen have submitted their minimum wage-n crease demand of $250 day to two Government ar filtration boards in Chicago,
 Under the law, when @ dispute Is submitted to arbitration both sides are compelled to abide by the boards ruling favorable or upfavorable So you can forget about @ strike here, though number of changes in rules" (working conditions) demanded by the lS brotherhoods are still in mediation.
 Biggest problem is the settlement of trump" dispute involving the Trainmen t250OO0 members and the Engineers 100000 menbersl. They have refused to go along with the other brotherhoods and have insisted that both the wage and rule" de- mands be arbitrated together
 The scheduled walk-out of the Trainmen and Engineers on Monday was nultfed under the Rail- way Labor Act by the Presidents appointment of an emergency faot-fnding board, for the act provides that there can be no strike for 30 days after the board is named and then for another 30 days allotted to the board to make report following fact-fnd- ing investigation.
 This 60-day cooling -off" period has never failed to prevent a strike, when invoked, since 1928 when the Railway Labor Act was passed So the nation can be fairly certain that things will be settled peacefully
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
In nToday's Mail
WRITER ADVISES DEMOCRAT TO FORGET O.P.A. AND TRAIN OUR GUNS ON THE BIG 3, WHERE, HE SAYS, THE REAL
 BOTTLENECK EXISTS

Editor of The Democrat:
 Waterbury, Conn.
 March 9, 1946. In your editorial of Saturday, March g, you advise the oP.A, to train its guns on bigger game than the half cent a week it will cost the average American if the brass industry gets price relief. The OPA. has ruled that the wage dispute must be settled before there is any price relief, or haven't you recognized that as an official rul- ing of the U. S. Government. I also believe you have joined the Big 3 in their fight against labor, as told to you by MT. Dris- coll in his letter of March 9th. Since there has been little action on the part of the Big 3 since the OP.A. ruling it is their fault that the people of Waterbury are not back to work.
 If you want to see the people of Waterbury get back to work, just forget about OP.A. and price re- lief and train your guns on the Big 3. That's where the bottleneck is and when it is broken Waterbury will be humming again.
 PAT WALSH,
 Union Steward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
Streamline Red Tape
By Peter EdsOn

inhabitants Congressional District Committees have consistently opposed this measure.
 It will take separate legislation to require lobby ists to register and report their activities The chances that anything will be done in an election year. when every candidate needs contributions from the pressure boys. are remote.
 Reorganization and simpification of the cumber- some committee set-up in which much of the con- gressional work is done has been long overdue But if these changes referred to tine House and Sen ate Rules Committees they will be resisted because the members who have good committee jobs now won't want to let them go
 Giving Congress stronger control over fiscal af fairs Of the government as the committee Tecom' mends, would first have to be approved by AppfopF' ations, Ways and Means and Finance Committees
 Increasing congressional research and clerical stasfs would normally have 10 be referred 10 Appfo- pgiationg Committees. If the recommended congress Eonal director of personnel Civil Service Committees would first have to pass on the Idea.
 It b obvious that f al this red tape has to be unWTapped before the new slseamlined Congress can be revealed, reorganization will be lengthy proeefs The obvious and almost the only gay lp which any action can be secured through putting aii fhe pros posed reforms in one omnibus blii-4to EeoFganke the Congress, and for other purposes"
 The congressional resolution under which the LaEolIete-M -M0nF0ney Committee was eFealed permits it to operate until the end Of ie46 Filing Of the eommltsees report does not therefore mean that ihe conmitites work h finished.
 1hls comgpltiee is available lo the Congress tgf further work on its oHn recommendations and if is the best prepared group og men in Congress to inifA the tob t hes begun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
By Thomas L. Stokes

By and large the coalitions purpose is to break away from controls of all sorts imposed during the war price controls being foremost. and to abandon subsidies as 8 means of increasing production or holding prices down to the consumer or both The effort is to get completely away from numerous de- vices used by the New Deal Likewise the coalition Is resisting proposals that would carry the New Deal idea-increase in minimum wages, medical and education programs and the like.
 It is hell-bent for what was called "normalcy" after the last war.
 In vain the President and Administration leaders try to stem the tide They argue that some controls must be continued for time yet to ease transi ton from a economy so that the wage-earner and the consumer will be protected.
 To one who watched Congress operate after the last war, what is going now looks much like that You get the feeling from observing this back to-normalcy" spree that some day in the future the Monday morning quarterbacks, or perhaps the his tcrianS are going to point back to all this, shaking their heads gloomily, as the time when the nation missed its opportunity.
 Congress may be following the mood" of the country Whether the country has any particular mood" is hard to tell War-weariness probably still has most people in its grip. so that they do not bother too much about Congress It is question al- ways whether Congress should accept temporary mood" or whether 1t should take the long view ane lead, or try to lead
 President Harding and Republican Party leaders chose to accept the war-weary mood" after the as war and drtfted with it, with results that we all now know We abandoned our position of world lead ership and gorged ourselves here at home in 6 get rich-quick, speculative picnic It lasted for awhile Then it ended
 There is the same atmosphere in Congress today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

committee report can be broken down In sections and referred to other standing committees in the hope that they will frame new stFeamlining legis- lation which will be acted upon by the Congress.
 Either procedure probably means lot of delay with the prospects for anything et all being done not too good Failure or inability of Congress to set on any of the proposed changes in organization wi in itself be the best evidence that congressional machinery needs some Of this newfangled Jet pro- pulsIon with FadaF, rockets and maybe an atomic bomb thrown in to get things moving
 Increasing congressional pay and pensions for cOngTeHsmen will require new legslation against which there wI be plenty Of opposition ln an election gear These proposals w0ud first have to pass Appro- priatlons and Rules Committees
 Tt wil take separate legislation to relieve Con- sEes of responsibility for governing the District Of Columbia and giving this government te the vOtsIass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
Views of the Press

owners of corporate business, and just as essential to It's continued operation as the men who actlvety conduct the business and those who man the machines. It would seem that they should be entitled to Q voice in determining the settlement of problenlS of such vital import ance to the whole economy as the current wage of politically inspired wage boosts, A poll among General Motors stockholders, for example, on the merits of the present dis pute, would certainly produce some interesting results, Walter Reuther and his cohorts, who suggested long ago that the British government intervene in the controversy as stockholder, probably would be dis mayed If such survey were taken Tn all likelihood, the result would be a humping vote of confidence in the policies of management Per haps it's time for stockholders to organize, to offset the .dispropor- donate influence of the unions in modern industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

energy is left in the hands of the military, wallace told Truman, the Army would be in q position to take the first real steps toward fascism this country has ever seen.
 For example, the Army would be able to: Cl) Appoint military men exclusively to the Presidential Commission on Atomic Energy; (2) Put such blanket restrictions communication between scientists that atomic research would be halted; (S) Give the mii- tary the right to fire any scientist from public or private employment; (D Give the military full au- thority to make its own laws for people working on atomic energy lover and above the Espionage Act"; (5 Set up criminal penalties for discussion of atomic information among scientists over and above those prescribed by Congress- and (6) Permit private own ership of fissionable material (the material from which atomic bombs are made).
 Wallace pointed out that 1t was absurd to give such powers to the military in times of peace
 we wouldn't give them control of all gasoline or coal even though they too used for national defense, would we?" the Secretary of Commerce argued.
 President Truman cmphatically agreed He even went further and promised that he would do every thing he could to prevent brasshat military control of atomic energy.
 How far the President will get with the Senate and House Committees, however, is prohematical The Senate Committee on Atomic Energy Is one of the most reactionary on Capitol Hill while on the House side, Chairman Andrew May of the Military Affairs Committee says privately that when the Atom Bill gets Into secret Senate-HouSe conference he will make sure that his own May-Johnson Bill is substituted for any non-mlltary measure thar sen ator McMahon of Connecticut is able to write
 What has happened in the Senate hearings is in terestng The Senate Committee has listened tp the scientists who did the real work on the atom bomb but then has turned around and appears ready to Ignore them Instead the Committee is giving more weight to General Leslie Groves who at first con- sidered the atom bomb New Deal boondoggling project.
 Although in charge of the atom project, 1t was months before Groves did anything more than snicker at the idea that 1t could blow up the world.
 When Professor Harold Urey one of the chief atom scientists was asked the other day how much General Groves contributed to the atom bomb he replied;
 He didn't retard 1t more than IS months"
 Veterans are considering a symbol which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
Rejection Slip

The late R. Phillips Oppenheim could have written grand thriller about the enuous bit of imagery that Col Juan D. Peron candidate for president of the Argentine dreamed up about Assistant Secretary of State Sprule Braden The ambassador who financed his international spy ring with blackmail-thnk of the possibilities
 But Colonel Peron feel, missed the boat We have consulted all editors and find them agreed that the coones little opus does not fit into requirements at the moment. We find it unconvncng and than that, it bores distraction So return with the suggestion that Colonel Peron give time and ingenuity to the coction of the plot for his next offering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
NO JUSTICE

NO JUSTICE I've often thought, when sweating
 out
 The dull ideGs that rig this Line That three a week would be about A number tlcketed for mine. dredge the glimmerlngs that fail-- And all 600 frequently--to please, And lovely thoughts my mind assail Of every other day at ease. But still I peck away and toll At columns in which MuSa sticks; The crops chat leave this shallow
 soil
 Hebdomadaiiy stand at six. Comes Harold to this thankleSs task And not without Ickesian glee, And all his new employers ask Is that he fashion merely three. Three pieces, Harold! Dull or gay Each week you shoot them out the
 stuff,
 Who always have so much to say that secen wouldn't be enoughn!
 We'll, the telephone workers strike was aveTted just before the dead line. They'll try 1t again in twenty minutes, tough. .. .. .. .. ,..
 A new constitution that throws the Emperor out of power in favor of the people, rejects war, bans armed forces and sounds the death knell of the nobility hes been an- in Japan. Japan will have to start from scratch again-anG we've still got the sneaking hunch that she already has begun ato itch a little.
 The O. P. A. solemnly announces that 1t does not pan to put a ceil- ing price on fish worms. For the benefit of those who came in late, fish worms aren't what fish have, but what gets them. A fish worm .s a dry fly when nobody is look ing.
 MT. Churchill's reference to the ''irOn curtain" had one bad effect. 1t made the Little Woman look at the windows with that terrifying, hOuSe-cleaning gleam in her eyes.
 The first accordion was patented in 1929 by x Damian. He was a Venetian with plenty of push, and, what is just as important to Suc- cess. plenty of pull.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
We Feel Better

Buried deep in news from Vatican City is paragraph that has frightened whole day It the prese- taon of the Popes old red hat to the Cardinal Spell The Master of Robes held out the hat silver tray
 What shall do n0w?" asked the august preate. Just take it?"
 Even cardinals princes of the church. after years of familiarity with puncio and protocol be faced with situations for which they have precedent When they are they can be big enough to ask frankly: What do do next That going to be big help the next time we get caught with patent salt shaker don't know how work
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
THE FORGOTTEN MAN
(The Hartford Courant)

The forgotten men in most labor disputes today-and notably in the General Motors inbroglio, now drag ging through its seventeenth week are the stockholders of the cor porationS involved. Management and labor are both most vociferous in getting their views before the public, in advertisements as well ..; in the news stories; but the stockholders without whom Amer ican business would be impossible necessarily remain mute. and hence are completely ignored in the stru- gle.
 Shareholders are, after all, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

had to have Q roll-call later to straigften themselves out.
 Speaker Rayburn remarked wryly that members should follow their leaders.
 This had an ironic connota- ton. It aptly symbolized the sit uation in Congress. For that body operates these days like a leader less mob, with party lines mean ing little.
 Democrats, for example, hard ly know from one day to the next who are their leaders. For
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

Harry Truman, regarding the atom bomb.
 Wallace had been asked by Truman to keep an eye on the battle of atomic energy now raging on Capitol Hill, and the purpose of his visit was to tell the President the latest and sad- dest news--that the Senate Atomic Committee was ready to report out Q bill which would turn atomic energy over to the same military control which delayed its develop .an..A l,a..la.a. Ahn s.anaa YAL nAna.nln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

mean a thing unless somebody first gets busy and removes some of the red tape which now pre- vents modernization of legislative machinery.
 As Congress is now set up, reorganization of Congress can be acted upon in only two ways. l-IndiVidual members of the l2- man LaFollette-M Monroney Com mittee. or any other congressman for that matter, can introduce bills to carry out any or all Of the proposed reforms. 2-The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
IAm the Law

Mayor Frank Hague has instructed the Jersey City police to ignore New Jersey court injunction against mass pcketng So when group of lb0 supervisors sought to enter the Westinghouse plant through illegal picket line of CLIO electrical workers mounted and foot Jersey City helped the defiant strikers repe the supervisors
 Now you know why the sage Of the Jersey swamps Is known as Frank CT Am the Law) Hague.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
16 Years Ago

It wasn't difleult for a i6-year- old local youth to explain to detec- Ives why he stole three cars and wrecked them. The yosingster said that he was a fataiist and had dreamed of doing just that for three nights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

"I don't know why drink it." said a local man when arrested for in- toxication after tossing of" an over abundance of bootleg liquor. The stufs," he revealed, tastes like boiled glue"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

"It is shameful" said restaurant Manager Carlos Dunopolis, that the people of Waterbury and the Nation persist in wasting so much food during the course of a life time. What, asked he." couldn't we do with all that food in so many of those cases where children starve in slums?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

Two grammar school youngsters fractured their legs when they fell into the swiFling waters Of the Naugatuck River while riding Ice cakes and became caught between the b0hblng Aces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
s Years Ago

A Waterbury high school boy. Ed- ward oarInody. vas adJudged top artist in 6 nationwide contest oil paintings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

When police inquired of Carmen Toretti why he wandered about Full ton Park minus his clothes, he re- piled that the weathe: was so Spring-lixe that he undressed un- consciously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
LeaderleSS Mob

At one point In the hurly -burly in the House over the housing bill when amendments were being slapped up and down, Republicans missed their cue and voted exactly opposite to their intentions. They
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, March 1l-Henry Wallace has walked across the White House threshold hundreds of times but rarely was he more heavy-hearted than when he went in to confer with hls good friend
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11

tions for streamlining Congress, just outlined in report on years work by the La-Follette Monroney
 Joint Committee on Organization of Congress. won't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-11
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

Harold 1ckes' new job will call foi him writing only three columns Q week News item.
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Is Taxi Rules Violations
Reported 10 PUG in March

The Public Utilities Commission
said yesterday it had received Is
complaints during March of viola
tions of taxicab regulations by cab
drivers and had forwarded them to
the Board of Revocation and Review
for action. Five drivers had their
licenses suspended for varying
periods.
BY the middle Of this month
seven cases were considered and
action taken in six, the PUG said
while five Of eight cases originating
in February also were decided.
Names of drivers, their companies
the offenses and pepalties, accord
ing to the PUG, are:
w. D. Phillips, Independent, over
charge, warning; T. w. Thompson,
Dixie, overcharge, one week suspen-
sion of license: Joseph Wooten, Sky
view, refused to transport, warning i;
Gerald Adams, Harlem, overcharge,
80 days suspension; D. G. Randolph
Independent, overcharge, indefinite
suspension; S. j. Hamilton, indie
pendent, overcharge, one week Ii
cense suspension; Harry B. Moore,
American, failure to stop, license
suspended until he appears before
the board; Leslie A. Albright, Pre-
mier, failure to stop, warning; Her
bert w. Bowman, Charles T. Berry,
and Douglas Strong, all of Diamond
failure to stop, warning,
Evening star., 1946-04-28
DR.. Shimkin Sturts Today
For Liberion Health Job

Dr. Michael B. Shimkin, assistant
chief, Office of International Health
relations. United States Public
Health Service, was scheduled to
leave today for Monrovia, Liberia.
where he will inspect public health
program.
Surgeon General Thomas Parran
announced yesterday that DR.. Shim-
KIN will act as his representative in
studying the program, set up in No.
vember, 1914, by the Public Health
Service in cooperation with the
state and War Departments, at the
request of the Liberian government.
To date the program has estab-
llshed control measures for malaria
and other communicable diseases
and aided in the formation of a
public health education program in
the fields of medicine, nursing and
public health.
Evening star., 1946-04-28
Brothers Work Together to Get
$4,000 for Eye Operation

this was hardly enough to meet his
expenses. George was in the Army
at the time, but he received medi-
cal discharge and began looking
after his brother again.
AccumuIates $500.
Today the two brothers live alone
at 939 G place NV. William likes
the radio; George enjoys books
Little by little their bank account
is growing They have 5000 now.
IF can only find the right sort
business, something in which Bill
can be of help" says George rumi-
natively, cooking his head and leav-
ing the sentence unfinished.
William has a letter from the New
York Medical Center in which ex-
penses of an eye operation are listed
item by item. No one, including the
patient, can be certain how long the
treatment would require, but Will
liam estimates it at a year, and the
cost at $4,000.
Bill won't tell you this. He's
too proud. The fact is his accident
compensation payments have about
run out" says George, nervously
I'VE must get that money, though.
Gamble on Operation.
Neither brother is at all sure that
the expensive operation and care
will restore Williams sight, but
both are willing to gamble on 1t. A
milky film" now obscures every.
thing in Williams vision, like look
ing through the colored glass win
dows of a church" The surgeon
with whom George has corresponded
wants to fix up Williams face along
with the eyes if and when the oper-
alton is scheduled. but William has
no interest in beautifying himself
Il know I'm not pretty because
children tell me that every day.
says William soberly. Just let me
get my sight back and I'll take care
of myself"
Just like him." whispers George
in an aside. Hes proud, doesn't
want to be a burden. Well keer
on plugging. Some day he'll make
it,"