Milford chronicle., 1946-02-22
NATIONAL NEWS ITEMS
It's Time To Tall on Strikes
By ]. L. JONES

the prices ol manufactured foods
and products to match incrcsard
wages demanded hy labor unions
looks To the average pcrSun lik.
simple problems in subtraction and
addition. But our master-minds in
OPA have insisted that industry
should absorb higher WAGES out ~
IrOtitS through imaginary hiehnl
volume of production. without in
(rcaSln& prices. President Truman
:, cretary of Labor Schwrllcnhach
Price Administrators Chester Bow
les and Il flock of brass hats" in
tn" Administration have insisted ON
tfeahOI" methods Of sottlino
They have failed.
Elder Statesman Bernard NJ
Paruch was edged into the picture
early in February and he arsIlrd
that BowlrS should modify present
policies to permit some higher
prices To compensate for navmcnI
Ol higher wages. That seems t.I
luakC common ScnSo and il didn't
take Presidential tact-findin.
body to prove it.
ArSu" as people VIII about Tn,
ways to settle the strikes in which
more than Il million men are en-
@a@ed and there is but one reason
able answer. that is a square deal
tor industries MI an equally smlar.
deal for wage workers. The haSi.
ur IN" whole matter calls for moth
!n@ more or less than rcadiust
lrcntS that balance the present in
/ lHtiOnarN rates that affect the cost
u liIiu&. The cuSl of llin hJ~
-Une up despite The Oiticc of Price
administration. 1t is duuhtfu!
y neither it would have .onc up fas-
ter. or higher, without a Govern
lncnt Price administration.
When the whole matter is re-
Viewed the Fact stands Out that IN
I 10 has scared the dickens ont at
IN" Politicians The Democrats
know that they retained control ol
the National Government through
the labor vote, even aftcl the tarm-
q vote had gone back unon Demo
cIdt policies
Actually This lun& knock dow II
ana DRAG cut ligh between Labor
and management could have been
avoided. One of the LEADING news
papers Of Washington saws that the
Truman lIan to keep the price
down and lift Hp WAGES does not
make ScHec." and il adds thc sane
that wages ana prices
shouldn't have separate compart
mcntS"
There is statute that las been
ON the books for many years and il
Is known as "cOllcctiye bargain
ms." If politics had been left out ol
all this trouble it might have been
that these strikes could have been
settled by collective bargaining.
1t Is high time to get down t0
eases, which means that the Fedp-
raj Government should bring these
strikes ia an end and start the
wheels rolling in the direction OF
RccOnverSiOn.
Tax Relief l. All Imagination
AA IMiS stuff about giving reliCl
To taxpayers doesn't show up on the
Government blanks which million
of taxpayers Will use To make then
returns in March. thousands ui
business firms will have losses in
business, rather than gain. and the
concerns that had contracts and
JOBS out Of the war are not getting
back To normal operations. Mean
Whllp their factories and their capi-
tai are deprcciatin2. Anvonc who
wants to get JOY OUT of the general
upset of affairs throughout the
| nlt"d States needs to believe i'm
lairies. There isn't any relief Just
the corner" and vi hat the
OPA Administrator says to the
contrary isn't &oins To help the
The British Loan
Nobody seems to doubt that Great
Britain needs $500. 400 600. but
there is Il big difference Of opinion
ON tariIHl Hill in Washinston
about having the United State,
Government furnish all that money.
In view OF the history of World
W arl there is only one Government
III Europe that is entitled 10 furrh-
tl credit and thai is Finland. All
IN" rest of them failed To come
through. Now. our friend Britain is
reading III" procession with Rus
Nla. France, China and other conn
tries in III" Atlantic and Pacific
trailing along in line asking fer
loans for themselves. No Vondcr -
W Washington ColumniSt asked thc
Gn"Sil"n: Nv hy should CaniIoli +
America us" the borrowed dollars
"' lis citizen taNpaycrs to hclp Rri.
tam SocialiIc her industrip, - The
correspondent of this uaurr from
aSliln2tUn believes il proncr tu
ask the same question. lIaIrnI W.
enough troubles of our own tu keen
| nclc Sans head aching"
Ho" Do They Get That Way!
Several million people. with tho
President of the United States lead
lr% the band. are in fear nr i'm
llatlnn. The White House insist.
on Wa3" initiation and ucgoino
prices back To pre-War times. But
d"clar" the survivors Of the old
New Deal tn" manufacturers ana
producers have improved their of.
lci"ncy to such Il degree that tbnv
can turn out all kinds of macbjnery
cheaper than in the 1899 and ~ to
period. That's worse than Wishfnl
thinking. q
The Legion i Alert
NJ time whom the United State.
lar"' extremely critical sirlatinn.