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Evening star., 1946-11-17
atins,Annoyed
At Scarcity of
Goods in u. S.
By Clarke Beach

Our Latin American neighbors are
becoming more and more annoyed be-
cause they can't buy in the United
States enough of the scarce goods
which they direly need
Latin American diplomats and Off
cial visitors and trade representatives
visit this country in droves to try to
place orders for exports. One hears
more and more complaints that the
United States is failing in its good
neighbor policy at a time when a good
neighbor is sorely needed.
These Latins also accuse the Gov
ernment of not living up to wartime
promises to assist them in reconstruc-
ton.
Sumner WeiIes and his United States
delegation to the conference at Rio
de Janeiro in 1912 promised them spe-
cial consideration after the war.
At the Inter- American Conference
r in Mexico City in March, 1e45, the
following resolution was passed, with
United States approval:
LAS soon as the war demand dimin-
ishes or ceases the nations that pro-
duce machinery, tools and manufac-
tured goods should make available such
goods to the other American nations
on fair and equitable basis and within
the limitations of the control mechan-
isms existing at the time. ="
Only Fraction Found.
But since the end of the war the
Latins have found they could not buy
more than small fraction of the
goods they most desire.
What they want is for some items to
be decontrolled. On other items they
seek Government priorities and prefer
ential treatment from producers.
The basic difficulty is that there is not
enough of many items to go around.
The stability of our own economy is
threatened through shortages of manu-
factured products.
State and Commerce Department and
Civilian Administration officials con-
slider that they have leaned over back
ward to help the other Americas.
Francis Mcintyre, deputy director for
export control, says, "No other part of
the world is getting such preferential
treatment"
Textile machinery producers report
they have orders from United States
firms on hand which cannot be filled
for two years or more Almost no ma
chinery will be exported until 1949 or
1850, in the opinion OF George L. Bell,
director of the Ofice Of World Trade
Promotion.
Eight prominent Mexican textile men
recently told w. H. Myer, chief of the
Commerce Departments Machinery and
Metals Division, that they would invest
$l40, 100000 in textile machinery If they
could get It,
Instead of benehting them, however,
their money is actually injuring their
economy, they say, since 1t is contribut-
ing to imitation. Notably in Brazil, the
imitation is reaching crisis proportions.
Their dollar balance is mounting
daily, since their trade with us is three
times as great as It was before the war.
Distributed by Associated Press.l
Evening star., 1946-11-17
National Labor Relations Policy
Is Top Issue for 80th Congress
Legislative Action Will Not Be Immediate Cure
for Situation Which Has Developed Over
20.Year Period
0.Year Period
By Senator Joseph II. Ball

| with this vital issue, reflects no credit
on the party.
Republicans largely drafted and over
whelmingly supported the so-called
Case bill in the Seventy ninth Congress.
II now, having both responsibility and
powers they abandon the principles they
supported In that bill, they would stand
convicted of the most blatant kind of
political expediency.
Basic Problems Attacked,
The approach to these problems In
the Case bill undoubtedly will be fol-
lowed in the new Congress. That bill
tackled number Of specific problems:
Strengthening Federal mediation, the
secondary boycott evil. lack of legal
responsibility for union breaches of
contracts, compulsory unionization of
foremen and so-called welfare funds.
On every problem, the solution pro-
posed in the Case bill was to write
clearly into law, applying equally to
all and enforced through the courts,
new rights and responsibilities for both
employers and unions. That is the
sound liberal approach, in contrast to
the approach in the Wagner Act and
in the Truman emergency bill, of simply
making a broad and loosely defined
grant OF power to some executive
agency, giving it not only administra-
tive, but also legislative and judicial
powers.
The various provisions of the Case
bill will be reintroduced early in the
next session and we should get speedy.
favorable action On them.
The specific language of the bills may
well be changed after Neutrality-suspicious.
larly If union leaders show some willing
ness to help solve these problems in
stead of continuing their attitude of
screaming opposition to any and all
legislation. But the approach will be
the same.
Considerable revision of the Wagner
Act must be an early undertaking, but
will require somewhat more study.
One has only to review the wide varia-
tions in the National Labor Relations
Boards Interpretation of that act in diff
ferent cases and with different board
membership to see how much arbitrary
power was delegated to the board and
how much it has been abused. 1t Is high
time to tighten up that law, with Con-
gress itself doing the legislating instead
OF leaving it to an appointive board.
The problems of protecting individual
and minority rights in union activities
and of finding some solution other than
arbitrary executive action when industry
wide shNtdowns threaten to strangle
the national economy are as urgent as
any. But they have had less study, and
there is not at present any legislative
approach commanding wide support. On
these two problems, believe there must
be considerable investigation and study
before concrete legislative proposals are
drafted for consideration by Congress.
Distributed By North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1946-11-17

fSendtor Ball, Republican, of Min
nesota is likely to be chairman OF
the Senate Labor Committee in the :
merit session OF Congress. He tUds q
joint sponsor OF the original Ball
Burton Hatch-HII bill Which aCould
haze repealed many features OF the
Wagner Act. Senator Ball also has
promised to sponsor a bill outlaaping
the closed shop and has predicted its
passage by the Eightieth Congress)
Formulation Of legislation establish
ing a national labor relations policy
is unquestionably the No. domestic
issue facing the Eightieth Congress. But
1t must be understood that legislation is
no panacea for our present problems in
this field.
For 20 or 80 years our national pol
icy-if it can be called a policy-has
been to increase steadily the power of
unions while steadily decreasing their
duties and responsibilities under law.
The power of employers, on the other
hand, has been curtailed steadily as
Government imposed many new re-
sponsibilities and duties on them
Judicial interpretations of law have
contributed fully as much to this drift
as legislative enactments, and the ex-
tremely partisan approach to labor re-
lations problems by executive agencies
granted or seizing broad discretionary
powers has contributed more than either
of the other branches of Government
to the present state of affairs.
Total Of Negotiations.
Our national labor relations-be they
harmonious and stable, or belligerent
and chaotic-are the sum total of many
thousands of individual negotiations be-
tween employers and unions, conducted
within the pattern and rules set by ma
tional policy.
To expect that overall picture to
change Immediately when national poll
icy is changed is to expect the impos-
sible. A 20-year drift toward industrial
warfare and chaos cannot be changed
overnight simply by passing law or
series of laws.
In fact, it is entirely probable that the
immediate result of drastic changes in
national labor relations policy win be
an intensification .of industrial strife.
Groups enjoying special privileges and
immunities seldom give them up with
out struggle, and union leaders are
not likely to be any exception But in
dustrial peace at any price is just as
fatal a bargain for freedom as is inter-
national peace at any price.
The sooner we make the necessary
adjustments the law--of the rights,
freedoms, responsibilities and duties of
both employers and employees, the
sooner will we begin moving toward
industrial peace and stability.
1t is too early to attempt to predict
in any specific terms what the new
Republican Congress will do. But the
prediction that Republicans, in the
hope Of winning union leader sup
port In 1948, will merely shadow box
Evening star., 1946-11-17

tSee BROWN, Page C-5J
Evening star., 1946-11-17

"In the Monocacy River and Goose
Creek watersheds of the Potomac we
have considerable land erosion caused by
improper farming practices, which, in
turn, causes high turbidity in the Po-
tomac and its reaches and seriously
interferes with navigation from time to
time, due to sitting.
"In the mountainous regions of the
basin, in Western Maryland and West
Virginia, many areas are badly eroded
because of the land being used for farms
instead of for forest areas, for which
it is better fitted.
There are, throughout the basin,
several areas of industrial development
Evening star., 1946-11-17

tsee BIRcHPIELD, Page c-7.)
Evening star., 1946-11-17

(see U. S. FACING, Page C-5)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
Lynch Terror Rolls
Onward Down South

WASHINGTON (LPA)-With
the imminent announcement of
the appointment of a federal
commission on lynching by Pres
ident Truman to combat the in
creasing mob violence against
Negroes, came word from Missis-
sippi and Louisiana of further
incidents of such violence last
week.
In Mississippi, in typical Bill
bo justice" a Holmes County
all-white jury last week acquit-
ted five white men charged with
manslaughter in the death of a
Negro farm hand whom they ad-
mitted whipping two days be-
fore his beaten body was found
floating in a bayou.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
ANG Head
Warns Of
CP Threat

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 81
GPA)-The president of a CIO
international union and the for
mer head of the Communist
Party in the United d States
clashed here last week in de-
bate over Town Meeting of the
Air on the question, Are Amer
lean Communists a Threat To
Labor Unions?" Milton Murray,
president of the American News
paper Guild, said "Yes." Earl
Browder said NO
Urging Communists to iden-
tify themselves, rather than to
hide behind false faces" Muir
raw made it clear in answer to
questions that he does not advo-
cate proposals that Communists
be excluded from membership
in unions.
"The fact that Communists
are in the labor organizations
does not mean that they are any
more welcome there than they
are to you in your city or your
state or in your local parent
teachers association" Murray
told his audience.
Kiss of Death
This Communist minority is
exploited by propagandistS in
an attempt to convince the pub
lie that the entire labor move
men is communistic Because
a few Communists have noisily
and obnoxiously attached them
selves, for example, to the CIO
political action program, that
whole program Is being de-
nounced as Communist. And be-
cause PAC largely has support
ed Democratic candidates, the
suffering Democrats are being
tagged as communistic. If the
Communists honestly wanted
PAC and the Democrats to win
they would keep their big
mouths shut instead of giving
us the kiss of death"
Browder, who explained he
was no longer the official
spokesman for the Communist
Party, asserted the strength of
the labor unions lies in labor
solidarity. "Obstructions placed
in the Communists way by legal
means against their being chosen
to lead the labor movement"
Browder said, in every country
where they have been used
"have inevitably seen the trade
unions broken down and rights
have been taken away and the
whole labor movement has been
placed under serious handicaps
if not destroyed"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
Labor Doubles
Election Efforts

NEW YORK (LPA)-Organ-
lied labor in every section of
the country redoubled its efforts
this week to get out the largest
vote ever recorded In an off,
presidential year-and to have
that vote insure a progressive
Both Congress.
Labor campaigns for individ-
ual candidates were accelerated
In the stretch drive under the
prodding realization that a shift
of only 25 seats could throw
Congress into the hands of the
Republican Party and Its reac.
tionary Taft-Dewey Bricker lead.
ership.
Political action campaigns by
both CIO and AFL committees
from Oregon to Florida took TO
the airwaves with increasing
frequency, arranged additional
mass meetings and rallies, or
ganized new house.to.house can.
vases, turned out new quanti-
ties of political literature and
bought newspaper ads to bring
crucial issues to the attention OF
the electorate.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
PAc Publishes Teehnie

NEW YORK, Oct. 30-Blue-
printing the techniques success
fully used by labor and indie
pendent political action direc-
tors, a comprehensive Manual
of Practical Political Action
will be published October % by
the National Citizens PAC, it
was announced this week.
Authored by the nations pol
itical specialists, the illustrated
200-page volume analyzes for
the first time the forms and
methods every shop steward is
concerned with when his union
gets into election campaigns.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01

south than nationally, it is point
ed out. Between August 1889
and June 1946 consumers prices
of goods and services used by
moderate-income city families
advanced more rapidly in seven
of the 10 largest cities in the
south than the national average
for the "a large cities usually
surveyed for this purpose by the
BIS"
Food prices, which represent
about two-fifths of the moder-
ate-income families budget, in
creased more rapidly in most
southern cities than the national
average for "a large cities.
Residential rents rose more
sharply in most large and small
cities in the south than in all
large cities of the nation"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01

Tall quiet Woodland back from Is months fight
be brutally beaten and have his
smallOwn southern the night of his
with bus driver in Batesburg s. Co.
merces clubbing by the chief of police The southern
didn't like WOOdards failure to Eyes, Sir
and backiacked "When to-,
WoOdard "he gouging my eyes with the billy"
storm Of section of the country and
chief indicted under federal law for violating
the civil rights prisoner Permanently sgheSs now, the
combat veteran half in the army
on speaking by the Natl Association for the
COOred People Attempting to dramatize
ust of general problem the NAACP hopes TO
raise funds campign against lynch violence and trust
fund for UPA)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
PAc-CIO Denies
Moscow Okoy

NEW YORK, Oct. 80 GPA)-
Commentator by the Moscow
radio of CIO-PAC supported
candidates in the November
elections was disavowed last
week by Jack Kroll, CIO-PAC
director.
Taking note of the broadcast
Kroll said that while the world
press and radio are free to COM
mend all elected candidates in
all countries as has been the
practice for generations, CIO-
IPAC regards as completely un-
warranted and thoroly disavows
any foreign influence or inter
ference in our domestic election
contests. l cannot state this too
emphatically on behalf of our
committee. We repudiate and
reject all efforts by our political
enemies to tar us with an alien
brush"
Declaring that the leadership
of the Republican party, know
ing that they have no real pro-
gram to offer the American
people, are seeking to ride to
victory on false issues" Kroll
stated: "The record of CIO-I
PAC since its inception in July
1943 has been ABSOLUTELY clear.
It is an official committee of the
CIO representing over 100000
American workers with their
families. CIO and CIO-PAC are
the voice Of over 100000.
Americans, loyal to America
and American institutions. Both
in war and in peace this has
been amply demonstrated be-
yond doubt"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
cIO FaVors Spending

WASHINGTON (LPA) "A
policy of government deficit
spending in periods when private
economic activity is insufficient
to maintain a high-income, full
employment economy was ad-
vocated last week by the CIO.
The October issue of the Ec-
onomic Outlook, monthly pu-
blication of the CIO Research
and Education Department,
poses the question "how can we
keep the national income at
high level and keep increasing
it?"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01

THIS week Dy LdOOA DSPoA 'liISi
Seven articles, comprising
an entire issue of the Monthly
Labor Review, examine the
south compared with other re-
gions for its wage levels, living
costs, labor laws and the growth
of its unionism.
With its 843,812 square miles
and 37,624,000 population, the
south still remains in many re-
spects a backward, undeveloped
and underprivileged region, the
study shows. But in other re-
spects, some sections of the
south have made rapid strides
forward and are just beginning
to realize their potentialities.
Spurring industrial, eco
nomic, social and legislative
emergence of the south has been
the growth of the trade union
movement.
The income and wage picture
for the south, as shown by the
government study, suffers Sc
verely in comparison with the
nation as a whole and with other
sections although Improvement
has been steady and the gap re-
duced.
Per Capita Lower
Per capita income payments
TO the civilian population for the
nation as a whole in 1945 aver
ages S791, for all other states
1929. Prior TO the war (1940)
the average for the nation was
$573, for the southern states
1887 and for all other states
$685..
Industrial wages by major in
dustry groups showed similar
discrepancies.
The proportion Of the coun-
try's total wages and salaries
which were paid in the south
Increased steadily from 1929 to
1945-from IA per cent of the
total In 1929 to 16 per cent in
1910 and 13 per cent in 1945,
the study found.
n-usE.. = HE.oLn.k
''The Pacific region with great
consistency" according to the
report, Showed the highest
wage level, while, with almost
equal consistency the southwest
had the lowest earnings in the
country. In 26 out of 20 in
dustries, the Pacific region came
out highest; 5 other regions held
top rank in a few cases The in
disputably low position of the
southeast is evidenced by the
fact that II ranked lowest in %
out of 36 industries.
Making the wage contrast ev-
en- more specific the report
found that "Only one of the 20
Pacific industries had average
earnings lower than the national
average, whereas in the south
east only one out of SO industries
came above the national aver
age, in the southwest only two
out of 81, and in the border
states only eight out of "a in
dustries" /"
Explains Low Wages
The low wage level of the
SOUTH" the study concludes, lis
accounted for in large measure
by the predominance of agricul-
ture and the relatively large sup
ply of unskilled labor competing
for jobs in comparatively few
industries Other important fac
tors include e.. decentralization
of industry comparative lack of
unionization, and limited degree
Of protective labor legislation"
Living costs have risen more
rapidly in some sections of the
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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
Washington Will Vote

WASHINGTON (LPA) -
VoteleSs Washington will 60 to
the polls on Nov 5 with the rest
of the nations citizens-but only
to repeat their traditional de-
mand for a voice in their own
government.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
Need For Unions
ShOlUn In Report
South's Wage Levels Are
Far BeLOlU Rest OF Nation

WASHINGTON, Oct. 80 LPA-The enormous diff
ces and opportunities confronting the unions in their
current southern organizing campaigns pictured graph
av in an extended study of Labor in the South issued
this week hv Labor Department.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19

President Green of the American
Federation of Labor ably stressed
this serious danger in a recent add
ress. He warned that the Com
munists in America are a dangerous
fifth column who threaten to sabo-
tage production in America because
of our differences with Soviet Rus
STA" and who are even ready to in
cite instruction here should these
differences lead to conflict.
Isn't that close to treason against
the government Of the United
States?
president Green took the stand
that the A. F. of L. is the bulwark
of resistance against the Communist
invasion of labor's ranks and the
refuge Of all unions that spurn the
Red doctrines. Those who oppose
the Communist invasion are per
forming a great and patriotic SER
vice for America.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19
FARMERS UNION CONVENTION
TO BE IN GREAT FALLS

The county organization of the
Farmers Union of Lincoln county
met the last Saturday in August.
We had as guest, Gwynn Gavin
of Kalispell. State organizer, Mr.
S. A. Hinerman of Larslan, state
board member. He gave a very fine
talk on Farmers Union and what
we stand for and the need of poll
teal acting in the Farm Union.
The end of the fiscal year is
September % with election of Of
ficers for the coming year at this
meeting.
The convention of the Farmers
Union will be in Great Falls. Oct
%, 90, 80, 81, 1916 Mr. William
Gutenberg of Trego is a member
of the convention committees on
legislation and resolutions. State
delegates will be sent from each To-
cal and from county organizations
to the state convention.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19

It is difficult to determine just
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19
The Forum

Hi mon and pop and you in the
business world Your pet peeve
seems to be these kids
Well so what We hang around
in every place in town until you
shove US out. Where else have we
to go? Mons tired-she can't stand
bunch of us traipsing through the
house, and Powell he's got a
favorite program on the radio or
else wants peace and quiet to read
the latest, so-we 90 up town and
loaf around.
If you'd all get together and give
us a building, a nickolodian and
hamburger grill, soda fountain,
place to dance, and yeah, you might
even throw in a place to roller skate
come winter, we'd be out of your
way and we'd be having ourselves
a time.
Other towns have these places,
why can't we?
Some Teenagers.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19
N o T G E

Pursuant to an order made by
the State Fish and Game Commits
sion at their meeting held August
II and 10, 1916, in the office of the
State Fish and Game Warden in
Helena, Montana Lincoln County
shall be open to the hunting of
Blue Grouse, Ruled Grouse and
Franklin's Grouse from September
% to September %, 1916, both dates
inclusive.
The bag limit shall be three 90
birds per day and the possession
limit shall be six (6) birds after
the first day. The hunting of Up
land Game Birds on any State or
Federal Preserve or Refuge is pro-
hibited.
The Fish and Game Commission
has adopted the Federal Plug-in-
gun regulation for Migratory water
fowl which is as follows: Upland
Game birds shall not be taken with
or by means of any automatic
loading or hand-operated repeating
shotgun capable of holding more
than three 90 shells, the maya
zine of which has not been cut off
or plugged with a one-piece metal
or wooden filler, incapable of re-
moval through the loading end
thereof, so as to reduce the capa-
city of said gun to not more than
three 90 shells at one time in the
and chamber combined.
State Fish and Game Comm.
By: Elmer Johnson, Chairman
A. A. O'Claire. Sec'Y.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19

Some Teenagers.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-09-19

Monday evening, September 8.
There were 81 present and two
large cakes were served.
Magyar and his wife, the former
Jane Matzka of Roundup were
married last Saturday in the Round
up Congregational Church. They
left Tuesday for the Obermeyer
cabins on the Yak to spend a week
They will return to college at Boze-
man where they are both students.