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The union times., 1946-07-20
Demise Of OPA Reduces Buying Power Of Dollar
Government Statistics And Commodity Reports Show
 US. Heading For Crash

The nations wage earners have been hit by what is virtually a pay cut amounting to 20 per cent because the lapse of O.P.A. has zoomed prices upward, reports from all over the country indi- cated this week.
 Senator Alben w. Barkley. ma. jOrity leader, declared that govern ment statistics were indicating a jump of 20 per cent in the price of food during the first week since O.P.A. expired with no hope i'm sight.
 The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor gloomilv acknowledged the runaway nature of prices while the New Council of American Business admitted that prices had doubled the annual rise since 1o43.
 Wholesale Index Up
 Two facts pressed against any "self. imposed or voluntary" intended re- strictionS for holding the line: Whole sale prices are still swinging up not having reached retailers yet and dis tributors have given no assurance they will hold the line in the face of these increases.
 In dollars and percentage terms, here's some of the bad news:
 Wholesale food prices in New York were at their highest point since June 10, 1920 on July 1Ith. Cattle prices broke the highest rec Ords of the Chicago livestock mar ket's 8l-year history on July 10. Rises of 5O% in retail prices of beef and 3O% in pork were fore cast by OPA economists, with the expectation that prices would level off at 2O% to 25%o of their former level.
 Cotton prices continued to shoot up to their daily limit on the cOt- ton exchanges each day, fore shadOwing price boosts for all cot- ton products. Leather prices were boosted 2O% to 3O% above the old ceilings, and already manufactur- CTS were asking 8%o to go more for some shoe lines.
 Housewives were the first to feel the pinch and could easily translate the economic portensions of butter jumping from the OPA price of 5 cents to 83 cents a pound as meaning her husbands pay envelope wasn't doing its former job.
 Rents Held
 AS far as rents were concerned, the Senate measure which ripped ceilings off the basic commodities included a clause prohibiting federal ceilings in states having their own measures.
 In Connecticut, Gov. Baldwin, immediately suspended the eviction statutes, thereby giving tenants some relief. They could refuse to pay demanded rent increases and because of the Governors action, could not be eVicfed on those grounds.
 
 (See other story on Page 1
 Meanwhile in Washington the Office of War Mobilization and Reconver- sion asserted in its seventh quarterly report an inevitable" and sharp de- pression" faces the country unless price controls remain in effect.
 In accepting the report and mak- ing it public, President Truman added the information that he was considering several moves to conn bat imitation by means other than price controls. These moves can only supplement a price control system, Truman commented, and are 'nO substitute for price con. troll"
The union times., 1946-07-20
How's Your Liver?

Instead of reading palms, primitive soothsayers read flyers to foretel1 the future. According to the Encyclo- paedia Britannica, the reading of omens in signs noted on the liver of a sacrificed animal is one of the oldest and most widespread methods of di- vining the future. Hepatoscopy, as liver-reading is called, is still prac- ticed in Borneo, Africa and Southeast Asia. The custom is based on the primitive belief that the liver is the seat of life.
The union times., 1946-07-20
Coop Stores Backs Housewives Strikes

GREENBELT, Md. (LPA)-When the community manager in this model community refused to allow house wives to picket the shopping district urging buyers to protest OPA'S death, the cooperative grocery store came to the ladies' rescue and allowed the erst- while picket signs to be displayed in its windows.
The union times., 1946-07-20
Acquino Named By Norwalk BIT Council

Fred J. Acquino, Carpenters No. 746, was elected president of the Nor walk Building Trades Council at the annual elections. Fred Lapinsky, Painters Union, was named vice. president
 Alfred Thomas was reelected sec retary-treasurer for his fourteenth year of service. The trustees are Perry Mallett and Morris Cohen.
The union times., 1946-07-20
Building TradesSpeed Housing Program
HIDDEN CHARGES RAISE PRICE
 Expose Wage Myth In Cost Of Homes

If contemplate building buying house you told by the banker the builder that the high price due abo cost
The union times., 1946-07-20

JOHN R. STEELMAN, recently appointed director of the Office of War Mobilization & Recon version, warned that price con- trol machinery was essential. Otherwise, he said, the rapidly rising cost of living would result Gin the dissipation of the savings of our people," (Fed. Pix)
The union times., 1946-07-20

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The union times., 1946-07-20

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The union times., 1946-07-20

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Evening star., 1946-01-12
Fireside:
Whittier Homestead

The great jet throat through wtich the
red sparks si0arn1ed
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lines
About Cornelia's death: the crane,
black armed:
And ample kettle casting queer de-
signs
OF shadows are the same as on that day
He dreamed OF stDeet Maud Muller rak-
ing hay.
The empty chairs and silence reteu
OF peace contained in love's unself-
iShneSS.
They speak OF talks pith tern and as
phodel,
Tell ho,D the hearts deep sorrow and
distress
Are healed BY hope the trusting one
can see
Shining as starlight through a cypress
tree.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1946-01-12
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

LONDON, Jan. 12.-The United
Nations Assembly. still in its infancy,
is making fair progress despite efforts
OF too many persons to emphasize
differences of opinion, which necessarily
occur whenever large and important
international gathering is in session.
The pattern is familiar to one who
saw the creation of the United Nations
Charter in San Francisco
, The London Evening Standard views
with alarm, for example, the coming
election OF a secretary general the
most important executive Office of the
United Nations Organization In fact,
so alarming is the situation that this
newspaper declares a new approach
is to be made to Gen. Dwight Eisen-
hover, United States chief of staff, to
allow his name to be put forward as
candidate for secretary general 1t
Is suggested that President Truman
himself may make a personal appeal
to the general to get in the race for
this job.
For the record, the United States
delegation, including Secretary of State
Byrnes. insists that there is nothing
to the report. However, the Evening
Standard story takes the position that
a deadlock over the nomination of a
secretary general by the Security Coun-
cif is inevitable, since the Big Five
or permanent members of the council
must be unanimous. This means, the
report implies, that Russia would never
agree with the United Kingdom and
the United States, China and France
on such an appointment unless it be
on a man like Gen. Eisenhower, yet
no one has heard Russia say she will
not agree.
The very fact that the big nations
have to agree makes it practically GER
tain they will. 1t is unthinkable that
the United Nations would fail because
these powers could not get together
on the appointment of secretary gen.
eral. This practice of unanimity on
the part of the militarily strongest
nations is good thing to begin early
since it must maintain If there is really
to be peace in the future.
The press in London. as we'll as In
Evening star., 1946-01-12
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

The United Nations Organization got
off to an auspicious start when the ma
jority of the 54 nations scored victory
for secret ballot and elected Belgium's
Prime Minister, Paul Henri Spaak, as
the President of the Assembly. The fact
that the minority candidate, the Nor
wegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie,
supported by the Russian and American
delegations, was defeated is a healthy
indication that, so long as the secret
ballot is maintained, the smaller ma
tions will vote according to their con-
sciences.
The American Government has always
been the stanchest supporter of the
UNO because it believes the organiza-
ton is likely to help prevent further
wars. For altruistic and selfish reasons,
the United States is more interested
than ever before in its complete success.
While the armed forces of all the ma
tions which have participated in the
war against the Axis are being either
maintained on their war footing or are
being strengthened, the American armies
are rapidly disintegrating.
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The orderly and, from the general
point of view, hasty rehabilitation of
all branches of this country's national
defense is, being speeded up by the CT
demonstrations in various sections in
this country and abroad where the men
are stationed.
The soldiers want to get back to ci-
villain life. This was foreseen by some
of the military advisers of President
Roosevelt when they cautioned him not
to promise his wartime allies that this
country would keep about 2,500,0OO in
Europe indefinitely
They warned him that as soon as the
cease fire order went out the men would
consider the war as ended. and would
demand that they be returned home as
quickly as ships and planes could bring
them. Should subterfuges be used to de-
lay their return, Mr.. Roosevelts military
advisers told him, the GIs would simply
walk out on the Army.
This warning is now by way of being
fulfilled. The people of this country
know that American soldiers are the
most intelligent and the best fighters in
the world while fighting is going on But
they are not willing to ly-dally in the
service doing unpleasant chores and
wasting time in what they consider USE
less routine drills. This psychology is
not understood by many foreigners, who
are either used to compulsory military
Evening star., 1946-01-12

the United States, made much of a re-
ported split in the United States dele
cation over the atomic energy resolu-
ton and the implications it held of
trouble also with Russia, but the split
blew up IN thin air. Yet there are
still those who foresee trouble over the
very reasonable Interpretation Mr..
Byrnes put on the atomic energy reso-
luton and the safeguards which are to
surround every phase of the problem
When the Russians sought to put
Foreign Minister Trygve Lie of Norway
into the presidency of the assembly they
were defeated by the election of Foreign
Minister Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium,
Athough the Russians accepted their
defeat with good grace, the suspicion
mill found new grist for headlines.
In another London newspaper. the
Star. appeared storm signs at UNO-
russians want secretary general to be
European" Well, if the delegates of
the United States We're consulted, it
would be discovered that they crossed
the Atlantic Ocean with the firm under
standing that the secretary general in
all probability would be a European.
Some of them like the idea of having
Canadian Ambassador Lester B. Pear
son for that Office, but they had no real
expectation he would get it since the
home of the UNO is to be in the United
States. The Russians presumably will
.ave a favorite for the Office, possibly
Yugoslav Ambassador Stanoje Simic in
Washington or Foreign Minister Masarvk
OF Czechoslavakia. The British will
nave man or men, too. In the end,
however, agreement will be reached.
President Spaak of the Assembly, in an
address to the delegates, strongly urged
harmony, particularly among the great
powers for the benefit of all. He urged
delegates to show an international spirit
and sink their differences. Speaking
Tor the whole assembly, he said. I'VE
attach the utmost Importance so far as
the great powers are concerned to a good
understanding among them. 1t is from
that we expect success. security and
lasting peace
Evening star., 1946-01-12
Promise for Chino

To the Chinese people this must
seem to be day of great promise,
and that is what it is. For the truce
which has at last brought halt to
their civil strife means that China
now will have far better chance,
in an atmosphere free of fEatricidal
violence, to achieve that future of
unity, peace, economic progress and
democratic government which
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek holds
out before it.
The generalissimo's statement ac-
companying the announcement of
the truce between his government
forces and the Chinese Communists
"a statement which reaffirms the
terms of limited accord reached by
the two factions last October-con-
tains four far-reaching pledges:
Nontraitorous political prisoners are
to be freed; popular elections are to
be held and local autonomy pro-
NOTED; all political parties are to be
equal before the law and may
operate openly; and freedom of per-
son, conscience, speech, publication
and association, together with safe
guards against illegal arrest. is to
prevail throughout the country.
Considering the fact that the
Chang government has been a one
party government up to now and
that personal and political liberty
has been a phrase rather than a
reality, these pledges are significant
in the extreme. They have been
made formally and personally to
the all-party political consultative
conference now meeting in Chung
Evening star., 1946-01-12

service or have always had large stand
ing armies. The widely -publicized I'VE
want to 60 home" movement is consid-
cred abroad as being "mutiny" of the
American forces and an indication that
the United States can no longer be re-
garded as real military power
Nations which have based their diplo-
matte activities for hundreds of years
on the force of the bayonet may now
wish to take advantage of the "disin-
tegration" of the American armies and
press beyond existing wartime agree
ments their claims for conquest and
special zones of influence.
1t Is true that skilled foreign strate-
gists are aware that the United States,
while not militaristic country, pos
sesses such large resources of man
power and raw materials and has such
industrial capability and inventive gen.
ius that she can place the strongest mill
itary force In the world on the battle
field.
But these same men also know that
it will take major shock, such as an
aggression in force against American
territory, to persuade the people of the
United States to leave their remunera-
tive occupations and join the Army
Again. while Americas armies are now
becoming the weakest of all the major
powers, nothing has been done In this
country to moderniZe our recruiting
system to ward off any surprise attack
The American general staff, aware of
the unsettled conditions throughout the
world, had hoped to be able to main
tain large part of our arms until the
Congress decided on the size of our
standing army.
The desire of the GIs to return to
civilian life at once is likely to upset
these plans. The debate in Congress
for compulsory military training and
the size of the standing army promises
to be heated and protracted, principally
because this is Congressional election
year.
The American general staff fears that
within the next few months this nation
will find itself with only skeleton army
and no final legislation for a ground
force equal to cope with present world
conditions
Under these circumstances the Ameri-
can delegation in London is forced to
place its trust in the UNO to solve any
major crisis which may occur in any
part OF the world in which our interests
may be affected.
Evening star., 1946-01-12

the problems of shifting from a two
front war to one-front war recurring
fewer men and, in the process. to do
justice as far as possible to individuals
OF long combat service.
While this process of redeployment
was going on, the atomic bomb knocked
Japan clear out of the war. This could
haroly have been foreseen and provided
against. No one even knew whether the
atomic bomb would go off at all until
July, long after We day. But by that
time the point system was going full
blast, and it had to be continued.
Ihe dIscontent of some of the men
VINO are temporarily held in service
overseas is understandable They want
to get home, they want to see their
families and they want to get into
competition for jobs and opportunities.
I've had quite a few letters from them.
Their complaints seem to crystallize
around two points:
They have it firmly fixed in their
minds that Gen. Marshall told Congress
that all men with two years service
would be out by March 20, and they
accuse some of their officers of empire
building is, trying to keep men in
service to justify their own retention of
high rank.
Both points are misconceptions. Gen.
Marshall told Congress on September 20,
We hope that by late winter we will
have reached stage when in ef-
feet the point system may be relaxed
and two years of service will govern"
That was an expression of hope, not
promise. The March 20 date came from
another officer who was subsequently, so
closely questioned by Congressman that
he blurted out something to the effect
that he guessed" that "late winter"
might mean around March 20.
AS to empire building" there has
been some of that on the part of officers
OF various ranks. But it isn't universal
practice by any means.
NO one can deny that there has been
confusion and delay in our demobiliza-
tion.
But every Congressman and every
citizen must still ask himself whether
he really means what he says when he
speaks OF our obligations to help keep
this battered world at peace. If so, then
he must remember that the possession
of adequate power by law-abiding folk
is the only means by which any COM
munity-world community or country
village-has ever yet been able to keep
itself at peace.
copyrisht, 1e46. New York Tribune, Inc