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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
By Thom1as Stokes

leaders are going around swinging their weight and calling strikes willy y-y As matter Of fact m the major strikes since the automobiles steel coal and railroads-it has been the will of the workers to strike, as overwhelming votes in each case nave shown. Such strikes were expected after the war to bring wages LID to meet the increased cost of living.
 The right to strike is accepted today. Even Sen- ator Byrd (D Va) defended 1t the other day when suggestions were made for law to prevent strikes for six months.
 The inference also might be drawn from what the Senators said, that power is weighted on the side of labor leaders and unions. That isn't the fact. Our big industry as powerful, if not than ever and its power is enhanced by its inter-connec- tions This is proved today in politics, of which the best demonstration is what has happened in Con- gress to measures supported by labor
 Because of their great financial resources, in- creased by tax refunds, big industries are well able to stand long workless sieges, in the General Motors strike and the coal strike much more than the union who stuck to the picket line despite personal hardships The power of the purse mighty and it is on the side of industry.
 The Senators also referred to antitrust laws to regulate business. The truth s of course, that busl- ness continually has been striving to shake off such to exempt themselves through the Bulwinke bill, as insurance companies tried to do two years ago. s
 The irony of it all is that members of Congress who are so rabid to "do something about labor tn- clude many who were so anxious to vote huge tax refunds to business who voted for the insurance antitrust exemption in both House and Senate, who voted for the Bulwinke bill in the House and are ready to vote for it in the Senate.
 Their complaints about labor would come with better grace they equally alert to protect the public interest from these other threats In all the excitement 1t is only fair to point this out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
Foreign Trade Club

Among the organizations of which Waterbury may well be proud is it's Foreign Trade Club On Thursday night some egtyve persons gathered at The Elton for dinner meeting in observance National Foreign Trade Week. meeting held under the auspices of this newest among Waerburys organizations in the cts business problems.
 Mayor Monagan echoed the opinions of the city gen. ery when expressed surprise that this city could boast as large group directly concerned with and for eign trade generally That such group should be formed and continue vigorous existence stresses the nterna tional aspects of this city's economic activities
 Discussions such as those fosered by the Foreign Trade
 Club are informative and directly beneficial to those whose work centers around export problems Transcendmg the direct benefit the important contribution such discussions make the important end of better international under standing.
 Success to the Foreign Trade Club. May this husky voungster develop into the healthy adult which it's first few months of life to promise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
Another Appeal Needed

Secretary of Commerce Wallace has appealed, na- ona chairman of the Emergency Food Collection for gifts of cash and canned food for the worlds hungry His peal is meeting with the expected response.
 The American people have tradition of generous as sgtance to others in times of disaster And that at least they have chance to make direct and tangible con- trbution this latest greatest peacetme disaster they will not fail the opportunity.
 But Mr. Wallace to make the greatest possible sue of the humanitarian task that he has assumed 1t to us that he should make another appeal That appeal would be to Harry Bridges, head of the CLO. maritime unon who has announced shipping strike for June l5
 This strike seems be concerned with politics and our foreign policy with the memberships working con- ditions or pay It fits with Mr. Bridges extreme leftWng Communist sympathes-whlch are matter or record however stout he may deny actual membership in the Com mnnist Party.
 Mr. Wallace the object of considerable left-wng ad- ron might be able to persuade Harry Bridges to aban don this codbooded strike which could prevent the ship ent of food to the starving not Mr. Wallace might ado his influence efforts to block such strike
 The government was unable to stop the coal strike slow ing shipment of needed food abroad Unless can now as sure the American people that the food which they give VII really reach the hungry and as quickly as possible tner he campaign which Mr. Wallace heads scarcely hope attain Hs potential proportions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

tenn Even after that, building materials may be in such short supply, because of veterans housing prortes, that little will be available for airport construction,
 The biggest catch in the program right now, however is that the federal government at present has no money to spend All it has is an authoriza- ton by Congress. It will take separate act appro- priating the money, before any work can begin. It may be July before this appropriation act IS passed.
 Once the money has been put on the starting line about $SOOOO 900 will be set aside for planning, and similar amount will go to the Civil Aeronautics Administration for management purposes. The re- mander will be available at the rate of not more than $1OOOOO GOO year. seven-year period. It VIII thus be stabilizer as other construction declines.
 As the construction money is appropriated by Congress three -fourths of 1t will be apportloned among the states, according to population and area The remaining one-fourth will be allocated by CAA administrator T. P. Wright for the most-needed projects And all funds advanced by the federal gov ernment will have to be matched by state or local governments dollar for dollar.
 The need for more atrports k already great CAA says there are now 4OOO U. 9. aispcsts-casan ana
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
RUSSIA PREFERS CONFUSION
Bridgeport Post)

Rllssia's refusal to allow the drafting of peace treaties during the current conference of foreign ministers i'm Paris precipitates a situation that has been in various degrees of suspension for a quarter of a century.
 Secretary of State Byrnes' threat that the United States and Great Britain may be forced to make peace treaties with the conquered European countries without includ- ing Russia in the negotiations is regarded by internationalistS as bold step toward final break in the Big Three wartime alliance. It is deplored as an invitation for a complete split between Russia, with her coterie of puppet nations, and the other United Nations.
 However discouraging a final breakup of Big Three surface har- mony might be, 1t is not a cataS- trophic change in relationship. De- spite billions of dollars worth of vital material sent ot Russia when she was overrun by NaM regiments and countless, abject concessions made to Stalin at conferences both during and after the fighting, the United States and Britain have never been accepted by the Soviet as Well-meaning friends.
 The hatred. of democratic nations has never been lost by the Com- munist regime. Even when her sol- diers were retreating toward Moscow, the Kremlin viewed with suspicion all the help that was furnished by her democratic allies. The aid was accepted, but the United States and Britain were not. Our military of ficers were denied opportunities to obtain information that might have made our assistance more effective.
 If the foreign ministers confer ence deadlock leads to complete breakdown of surface cooperation by Russia, it vii mean only that the western powers stand right where they always have in the eyes of Russia. The international confusion that will increase will be the same confusion that Russia has been nur- | turing for many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
Views of the Press
THE MORE AMUSING ASPECT
(Hartford TimeS)

NktarC1OrQ 1lmeS)
 Perhaps it should be said that lone of the more amusing aspects Of the local world of politics" is not ''the grave concern being expressed by local political commentator, Democratic variety, over the fact that Governor Baldwin has not yet made his fourth announcement that he is retiring from public hfe," but the misunderstanding by our State Street neighbor of what this com- mentator and The Times itself have said about 1t.
 A more careful reading of our col- un1ns would show that, like the Courant, both MT. Berkman, poh- tical editor, and our editorial col- umns, have urged that the Cover nor is entitled to have his state ments taken at face value and to be spared the insistence of those who appear to think still that he can be drafted as a candidate.
 The Courant wonders 'who the leaders are" who are importuning the Governor! It names one who isn't, whom The Times also has named, the State Chairman, MT. Mitchell. But if the neighbor wishes to learn "who these leaders are" ]" we suggest it peruse it's own col umns. There it will find that 1t is Mrs. Luce, Republican Congresswo- man and quite factor in Republi- can politics, who insisted no more than a few days ago that she be- lieved Governor Baldwin could and should be drafted. It will find there that the Republican National Chair man, B. Carroll Reece, has confer red with MT. Baldwin and ask him I to run and so too, has MT. StaSSen, who hopes to be the party presiden- tial nominee in 1948. Another im- portuner is House Republican Lead CT Joe Martin. And we seem to re- member that Congressman Joe Tal- bot, who wants to be Governor, has said something of the same sort.
 Instead of castigating The Times for taking note of these individuals who seem unwilling to take the Gov ernor at his word, the Courant might be better advised to pay it's respects to them.
 It may be one of the Oldest dodg- es in political writing" to attribute to parties unknown the very thoughts that the writer himself Il wondering about"
 We wouldn't be so impolite as tc refer to such misunderstanding oi our plain statements. as 8 dodge in editorial writing. Instead we con- tent ourselves with asking Mrs. Luce and National Chairman Reece, Can. didate Stassen and Republican House Leader Martin, how they likt the appellation parties unknown
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

hands of any individual or group is dangerous to democracy and freedom" the report says.
 Well and good. Accepted The report then con- tinues:
 Labor unions and their leaders exercise such unrestrained and unregulated power today The pro- posals which we are making in these amendments aimed to be corrective of certain labor practices in the same sense that the antitrust laws of the early decades of this century corrective of the abuses of the free-enterprise system.
 Such measures safeguard real freedom Our amendments against the true interests of enlightened labor unionism than such measures as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Securities and Exchange Act were against the best interests of business
 Without going here into the amendments. some of which seem helpful, some not, the inference of these statements be examined with benefit.
 
 There is general agreement that John L. Lewis has indulged in exercise of power not comnen- surate with his responsibility as union leader and a citizen by his refusal for time to bargain co- lectively in the accepted manner.
 But the inference from what the Senators say, and others have said it directly is that national labor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

icy committee, very perfunctory measure
 Lewis then inquired if the Government would begin negotiation of new contract with the mine union once the mines were seized. He was assured by the Secretary of Labor that negotiations would begin soon Government administrator ordinator was chosen by President Truman and In- terior Secretary Krug Hearings would be conducted the proposed health and welfare fund, increased wages and other disputed matters Lewis was told.
 schwellenbach also assured the bushy browed miners boss that any pay increase decided would be retroactive to May l3 though the miners returned to work under Lewis's truce order.
 
 President Truman really had wanted to best John L. Lewis to the punch, he could have scared him to death by resurrectng the St. Lawrence Sea- previously urged by both Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover but which has been gathering dust in the Senate for months.
 There is nothing that worried John L. Lewis more than cheap electric power-umless 1t be cheap natural gas. And Truman also has neglected one other club he could brandish over John L. Lewis namely, the two Government-owned pipe lines from Texas to the East Coast which Texas natural gas operators want to take over.
 With the threat of cheap natural gas piped into industrial Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and cheap electric power feeding the factories of New York State and New England, John L. Lewis might have started singing less bellgerent tune.
 The 12-year fight the St. Lawrence Seaway is the greatest monument to effective lobbying ever seen in Washington. In part also it is monument to Congressional inertia. Both Republican and Dem- ocratic leaders have urged the construction of the waterway by-passing the St. Lawrence River rapids and giving ocean-gong vessels access to Duluth De- troit and Chicago.
 For long time Senator Overton of Louisiana, who wants Great Lakes traffic to flow through New Orleans, blocked the St. Lawrence Seaway. More re- gently Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee reported favorably on the seaway but the absence of Senator Wallace White, a Maine Republican, blocked vote.
 Meanwhile, Dutch and Norwegian steamship lines are getting the jump on American shipping by put ting small vessels into transatlantic service which can operate directly between Europe and Chicago These boats will be shallow enough to navigate the St. Lawrence without seaway, while large Amer ican vessels will be out of luck.
 Meanwhile also, New England and New York in- dustry operates at the pleasure of the browed gentleman who heads the United Mine Workers of America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

SalQ CQaC VIII not pedT ULle 14SIlI of cool analysis.
 Even in the calmer mood of the minority report on the Senate Labor Bill, submitted by Senators Ball GMinn), Taft (O) and Smith N.J), all Republicans, there are some differences that can be challenged because they concisely express assertions made in other quarters.
 Tt has always been an axiom of liberalism that unrestrained
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

Same time, they're belIlg WarIleu not to expect too fast action. Sending a delegation to Washing ton or putting the local congress man to work to get some action would today be a waste of time.
 It is now doubtful if any con- struction can get going for year. The Spring of 1948 may be a bet ter bet. It will take the Civil Aeronautics Administration year to do the planning and give ap- proval to local projects, fitting them into a national airport SyS-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

If each of you had saved a slice of bread & meal we could have saved 100000 bushels of grain and that would mean 20,0OOOOO lives. But in the weeks since we asked for it, there has been a very heavy consumption of bakery goods in this country.
 -Agriculture Secretary Clinton P.
 Anderson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

'Tt is an excellent bed book, light, witty, inconsequential. From a review of John MdNulty'S Third Avenue, New York;" in the Boston Herald.
 MAIN IDEA When I retire for the night, By all the days remorSes bitten, I spurn the witty and the light And what in levity is written. The sleep I woo is on the town, With such inconsequential pieces; I look for where Sir Thomas Browne Or "The Anatomy of Peace" is. | like to let my spirit roam
 Through stolid and impressive
 pages In the unpreposseSsing tome That stands, like granite. through
 the ages.
 The aphoriSmS of the wit, The froth, the titillating number, The howl-provoking little skit Are not the heraldS of my slumber. like the heavy and the deep, The crops of thinking giants reap
 ing;
 Ten minutes, and I fall asleep, Content that beds were built for
 sleeping.
 MT. Stalin says that MT. Tru- mans request for Russian grain to help UNRRA feed the hungry came three months too late. It should have been made at the time of the February harvest on the sunbaked Russian plains.
 We have an idea that the whole to-do against Franco's Spain will wind up in a severe economic Sanc- tion: no more olives in dry Mar tiniS.
 Moscow Radio announced We'd nesday that the Russian evacua- tion of Manchuria was entirely completed" News from Manchuria is that they left too late and too little.
 The word from Detroit is that there will be little difference in de- sign between the 1947 automobiles and the current models. There won't be quite so much danger Oi hitting your head when you strike a bump, however: the ceilings will be higher.
 A 9OO-years -old Korean porce- lain vase has been presented tt President Truman. Obviously the vase was handed down from gen. eration to generation in family that didn't have any children.
 .'The only thing that was settled when the Foreign Ministers Jeff Paris" says letter to the editor oi the Boston Globe, was the hote bill" That must have amounted ( something at that. At least w haven't heard anything lately abou the two billion that France wanted to borrow a few weeks ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

Assurance that his mlners would stay on the job if the Government took over the mines.
 Here is what happened at the ultra-secret meeting.
 Schwellenbach informed Lewis that Truman had decided to seize the mines and asked him if the miners would stay on the job when the truce ended. Lewis re- piled that he would cooperate in keeping the mines in operation adding, however, that he would first have to advise with his pol-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
AirpOrtS in AS

WASHINGTON May 25-(NEA)-Cities eager to get their hands on some of that $5O0,000,O0O just authorized by Congress for airport construction are urged to get going their local planning At the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
5 Years Ago

Robert Lunivitz of Plaza Avenue, left for Colorado for months vacation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
and Bothered

In the heat whipped up in Congress over labor legislation provoked by John L. Lewis and the parallel railroad strike threat many things have been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
.Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, May 2s-John L. Lewis had q confidential conference with Labor Secretary L. B. schweIIenbach on Monday at which he gave definite
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

Mickey Rooney appeared in the Strand Theater in Andy Hardy's Double Trouble"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
Waterbury or the Past
25 Years Ago

Two children were injured when the front porch of their home, upon which they were standing, collaps- ed.
 A 76-year-old man was severely burned when his car, parked on Willow Street, caught fire from a cigarette which he dropped from his hand when he fell asleep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25
15 Years Ago

Hospitals and police had busy day as 12 automobile accidents and nine injuries were reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-25

A man who attempted to commit suicide in Library Park by Slashing his wrists with a razor, was saved by police who took him to the hos pital where he recovered.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-16
But the Red Cross gave it back!

in emergencies no problem too big for it to solve .
nothing too small" =
That's right, there's nothing too big for the Red Cross...
no calamity too widespread -. no picture too black. Its SYM
Dol means food to the hungry .. shelter for the homeless =.
a friend to the fricndless.
Yon are the Red Cross. 1t is because of you that this agency
Of mercy is able to mean SO many things to all men =. to do
all it does. 1t is because of your contribution that the Red
Cross is able to help those in need. When disasters strike -.
when great tragedies or epidemics come -. the Red Cross is
there by the side of everyone who needs it. Your gift keeps
it there.
Keep Your Red Cross at Their Side.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-16

s'Ir's SOMETHING we'll never forget the heavy rains {.
the darkness and cold :. the river rising so rapidly we
had 70 leave our home.
I'VE lost everything in that flood -. the house and furni-
ture our clothes, everything. When you're faced with that,
you're desperate. We knew no one to urn to...W We had no
money, nothing. Then the Red Cross came TO hell us.
"They took over completely.
CLOTHES :. food -. shelter =. money =. they provided
everything until thcy could arrange to have our home rebuilt.
And when the baby was sick, they found a good doctor to
care for her.
"lguess there's hardly any way the Red Cross doesn't help
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-11-23

being every gallon gasoline every
o oil
But the trouble lies deeper peculiar makeup of the
themselves their departments
devoted exclusively geology acquisition of lands and leases
production refining marketing such department
a law itself.
Thus the only department of oil company before the
public with message marketing division which umpets
the superduper qualities of gasoline ubrcang OIL and similar
For all that the public knows all of this oil and gas coming
from unbroken string gshers of about
$1,000 each that stole from the
For obscure land major companies the worst
onde be taboo take the public back of the
give pcturethe tale of the many
penvey geoogzed extensively leased finally marked off
total after drilling of wildcat that may
$2O00 $500O00 The public should be told what oil
knowshat make the headlines because they
exception and that profit margins in the oil
industry skinny indeed Some day. this may be told It
thing the public would understand.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-11-23

The parrot was a beautiful bird,
and save for items of vocabulary
accrued during an extended domi-
cile in a house of i'll fame, its speech
and intelligence rated selling price
far higher than that asked. Came a
day when the long awaited reckless
customer arrived and, after due
warning, relieved the pet store pro-
prietOr of his spicy charge.
The customer, one of those souls
who is convinced that method and
patience can cure all ills of training
and proclivity, promptly launched
his program of rehabilitating the
erring bird by installing him in a
dark corner of the attic.
For a month the parrot ranged
the scale of acrimony and lubricity,
and gradually, there came change.
1t was on night when the new
master and his wife had friends
over for bridge that it was consid-
cred safe to show off the splendid
bird. For over week the parrot
had voiced none but the most &C
ceptable expressions.
When his cage was uncovered the
parrot peered brightly at each adj
miring face, then, with solemn
gravity came his pronouncement:
New house; new girls; the same
old fellows. though, the same old
fellows"