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Evening star., 1946-04-20

In some instances American official
representatives are physically assaulted.
There have been several instances in
which unknown" persons have taken
pot shots at American military or naval
men. These incidents are always passed
in silence, lest the already strained re-
lationS with Moscow become worse.
Last winter the American naval attache
at Warsaw, Marine 1t. Col Andrew Wy
lie, allegedly was drowned in the Vistula
River while inspecting damage to
bridge before crossing it in his official
car, driven by Polish chauffeur. His
body was never found. His death was
described as an accident, but if a thor
ough investigation was made the Amer
ican public here knew little about it.
x = x X
American businessmen who in the
past could make adequate surveys of
economic conditions in the countries
in which they travelled, are equally
handicapped. If they are permitted to
visit any of the countries over which
the iron curtain has descended" they
are in touch only with high government
executives and can visit factories or
look at the economic conditions only to
While the Soviet representatives are
armed with perfect intelligence reports
from the many agents Russia has all
over the world, the American delegates
have to guess at what is going on be-
hind that Iron curtain" of secrecy. We
don't know, for instance, where the Yu-
goslay military forces are concentrated.
We don't know what is happening in
the Russian area in Germany Ameri-
cans are not allowed to move even a
few miles east of Berlin.
The Russians are playing no favorites.
For instance, about three months ago
reporter of the Communist Daily
WORKER was urged to interview the
widow OF the Well-known Communist
leader Thellman, who was killed short
~ before We day. Although his loyalty
TO the cause Of the u S. S. r. was with
out doubt, he did not dare cross the di-
Vidlng line and visit the widow. who re-
slded IN the outer suburbs of the capi
tai in the Russian zone.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

there is no longer any necessity or obli-
cation to serve in the Armed Forces:
That We can settle back comfortably:
Just relax. The effect of this, quite
aside from any other consideration, on
voluntary enlIstments can only be imag-
ined.
The House bill is clearly gamble
with our national needs and commit
ments. The impression it produces on
the world will be that of an American
people whose representatives are un-
willing to face up to their responsible
ties.
Consider. for example, the situation
in Germany. There We have a consider
able Army of occupation. That Army
can only be maintained at its full
strength-the strength adequate to the
discharge of its responsibilities-if it
forms part of a United States Army
which has adequate sources of man.
power for all needs. Otherwise there
must be compromises and adjustments
between the needs of the Army of occu-
patton and other responsibilities which
the Army as a whole must meet If we
reduce our occupation forces in Ger
many it is going to be very difficult for
the British government to convince
Parliament that the British Army of
occupation should not be likewise re-
duced The net result will be that the
Russians, who labor under none of these
difficulties in the making of decisions.
Will be more and more the preponderant
force of military occupation in Germany
and Will have, as a result, a more and
more preponderant voice in deciding
the future of Germany.
What the nation needs, in this period
of uncertainty and change, is insur-
ance for the future No one is proposing
permanent extension of selective serv-
ice. The Army's proposals have been
perfectly objective and honest: The
Army has asked for a years extension
OF the draft, to carry it beyond the
date OF convening of the next Con-
gress and to assure the meeting of the
100000 requirement on July l, 1947;
the Army has likewise promised that
nobody will be drafted if sufficient VOL
unteers are forthcoming, that the term
of service of inductees will be lowered
to 18 months as soon as possible, that
all fathers will be discharged at once,
and that every effort will be made to
use 18-year-old inductees on other than
occupation duty. These are fair and
reasonable proposals. The Senate, in
it's traditional role of national balance
wheel, should support them and correct
The timid flight from reality which the
House bill represents
(Copyrieht, 1946)
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Easter Soloist

Golden-haired and golden poiced,
ReUerently, she is raising
Her rare gift OF song, returning
To the Giuer 1Dith her praiSing
This, her talent, multiplied
Many times in po,Uer by choosing
Thus to magnify His glory
In the manner OF its using,
Purity of tone uplifting
All ,Uho hear her, clearly poicing
SupplicGtion and Thanksgiving,
Dedication and rejoicing.
HILDEGARDE WALLS JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Fishermen ought to be trusted. If
1zaak Walton be right in his faith
that: You will find angling to be
like the virtue of humility, which
has a calmneSs of spirit and a world
OF other blessings attending upon it,"
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Pink rattlesnakes have been found
on the floor of the Grand Canyon.
Could it be possible that some of the
thousands of empty bottles thrown
into the Canyon every year were not
empty after all?
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Every road traditionally leads to
Rome, but by the same logic every
road also leads to at least one other
place-which is as it should be, since
otherwise the Hub of the Universe
would be crowded intolerablv.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

Mankind is essentially adventur-
Gus. That is why gambling in one
form or another is the biggest busi-
ness in the world-with plenty of
losers every minute.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Criticizes Lady Astor's Speech

To the Editor of The Star:
On April Lady Astor, "the" Lady
Astor, honored the students at Dunbar
High School with visit and talk
The speech made good listening as far
as the brevity, the witticisms and the
face value of the words went. How
ever, it left bad taste in my mouth
and the discussions I heard later per-
tanning to the speech left an even worse
TASTE
The LADY" used several stereotyped
figures of speech that are known to be
distasteful to us and which could have
been substituted for words of a duller
point. Between the period of a sem
tence and the capital of the next were
implications and things left unsaid
that have been construed to their ugliest
forms.
1t seems to me that lady who has
had so much diplomatic experience, and
who has professed so many religious
ideals, would have known better how to
approach group of people and not
offend them to the core, Intentionally
or otherwise.
CMIss) JACQUELYN I. BRYANT.
Evening star., 1946-04-20
Letters to The Star
Readers Discuss Famine Abroad
From Different Angles

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is my belief that in every one of
us there is a desire to do something
great, to be great. We all need to feel
now and then that something we have
done was worth while, that we have been
lifted above our usual stature by job
well done, or help given when urgently
needed
Now, today and for some time to come,
there is given to each of us an opportu-
nifty not only to do something fine; we
each can save life, save many lives.
Ii we were able to look individually into
the faces of starving people everywhere,
we would be very glad to share what we
have in order that they might look for
ward to tomorrow and next year.
1t actually is within the power of
every one in this country to save life, to
do the great thing We all want to 90.
1t is not cross for us to bear but a
blessing we should thank God for, this
opportunity to waste less, plan meals
more carefully, and by example en-
courage others, that men, women and
little children may live.
If we do this, we shall experience the
joy that comes from having done a
great thing; if we fail, God help us all
We Americans have been blessed far
beyond our merit. Let us show our ap-
probation by sharing what we have,
that We may look back with pride and
not with shame upon 1916 and 1947
1t is up to each of us, individually, to
accept this responsibility
MRS. MARTHA A. POWELL.
To the Editor of The Star:
Every day we are told over the air.
waves of the famine in Europe and Asia
We are asked to eat less, to waste less
and make every effort to save food for
shipment to the needy.
I have a small farm and know that
I am speaking for every small farmer
from coast to coast when I say that we,
Gus over the program, are approaching
1t from the wrong end
For over year now, have been try
ing to buy farm tractor and imple-
ments. I visited every dealer in Wash
ington, Baltimore, Fredericksburg, Rich
mond, all the way down to Charlotte,
N. c. They all laughed at me when I
asked them when could buy the needed
tools. Their buildings are practically
empty.
How can We feed the hapless, famine
stricken millions in addition to ourselves,
when no efforts are made to provide the
| farmers with the tools which they so
badly need to plant and to harvest the
foods which every one of us is asked
over and over not to waste? Who gets
all the tractors which manufacturers
agents tell me have been and are being
turned out regularly, although on a
limited scale? How do black marketeers
get hold of them?
Answering an ad, I finally reached a
spot in the woods not far from Wash
ington where man who claimed to be
representing a client had no less than
five tractors for sale. 1 was sorely
| tempted to buy one, even though his
| price was $400 above the ceiling retail
price. Some think that should have
bought one regardless of the price. What
would you have done? Last year half of
my land stayed idle while the crops on
| the other half rotted in the field for
lack of equipment. This is hardly the
way to raise foodstuffs for the suffering
world. L. DE KOZAN.
Newington, Va.
Evening star., 1946-04-20

To the Editor of The Star:
Here is another viewpoint on food:
Messrs. Lehman's and La Guardias s
hard-boiled demand that food be fore
IDLY withheld from our people and
shipped abroad arouses nothing but a
feeling of resentment in my neighbor-
hood. Americans are a generous people.
They are responding to the call by Pres
ldent Truman and Mr.. Hoover for
voluntary sharing of their food. This
country, as matter of fact, is doing
more than it's part.
But compulsion in the matter is
another thing. 1t at once strips away
the mask of generosity and shows up
hard face of political interest.
Hearing Mr.. Lehman talk in WASH
lngton Tuesday night, one would think
that our blessed wheat, meat, milk and
fats are something that America came
by and utilizeS dishonorably These
charges of gluttony, made by New York
mllllonaireS, will not impress the rank
and file of our households. Have We
not pulled in our belts and given the
world free food these past five years on
a scale never before seen in history?
We had to do much the same during
and after the other war
I hear of children in England who
have never tasted bananas, and I am
sorry for them. But there are 5-year-
old children right here, related to me,
who never had tasted bananas or pine
apples until this month, who hardly
know the taste of butter or even mar
garine, have been forced all their young
lives to eat more frankfurters than good
meat. To them cheese has been a rarity
and free sugar bowl is unknown. We
have gone a year at time without
chicken, a year virtually without pota-
toes, two years without pork, this past
year virtually without apples or onions
and almost without canned fruit We all
feel like helping the hungry people
overseas. But the war is over now If
coercion is to be applied again, I for
one will meet it in whatever way is
necessary to give our own youngsters
first call A. B.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Frey Hits
At UAW-AFL.

CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (LPA)-
A long -smouldering feud be-
tween John P. Frey, president
of the AFL Metal Trades De-
partment and the United Auto
Workers-AFL flared into the
open at the AFL's 65th conven-
ton here last week.
Frey introduced a resolution
demanding. that the AFL revoke
the JAWS charter. The juris-
diction of several international
unions affiliated with the Metal
Trades Department "has been
invaded by the UAW, the reso-
luton declared.
Conferences held in Washing
ton with UAW President Lester
WaShburn "have failed to bring
about any cessation of this inva-
sion and these international
unions can no longer remain
passive under the circum-
Stances" the resolution asserted.
In an almost identical resolu-
tion Frey asked that the charter
of the Stove Mounters Interna-
tional Union be revoked.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
CIO Wins I70
Down South

ATLANTA LPA)-The CLOS
southern drive, with 20 new
victories last week, has won a
total of ITO NLRB elections in
southern industrial plants since
late in May, Drive Director Van
A. Bittner announced last week.
The scoreboard showed that
two international unions are cur
rently tied for first place in the
number of elections won. The
International Woodworkers- -CIO
and the Food, Tobacco & Agri-
cultural Workers-CIO, each with
27 victories, lead the United
Steel Workers with % and the
Textile Workers Union with 16.
The United Auto Workers and
the Mine, Mill & Smelter Work.
ers were tied for fifth place with
10 victories each. Against the
20 new triumphs last week the
drive recorded only two defeats
in NLRB voting.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Local Ia Wins
NLRB Election

Plant guards employed by the
Dura Mfg. Co. in an NLRB cleo
ton held at the company plant
last week selected Local IA,
UAW-CIO as their bargaining
agent, it was announced Tues
day by Frank Kott, union presi-
dent.
Mr.. Kott also announced that
the 65 employees of the Prestole
Mfg. Co. Bellevue Rd. were now a
Unit of Local IA after the com
pany management had consented
to negotiate a contract for the
company m p 10 yes without a
plant election. The Local was Ger,
titled as bargaining agent and
will begin contract negotiations
within a short time.
The Prestole Co. manufactures
a variety of fasteners used IN
automobiles.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Pittsburgh Strike
Still DecdIocked

PITTSBURGH, Oct. Is LPAl
The deadlocked Pittsburgh
utility strike went into its third
week as federal conciliators fail
ed to effect agreement on any
basic issues between the Du-
quesne Light Co and the inde-
pendent Duquesne Light Co.
Employees Association.
! The company flatly rejected a
new union peace plan and again
insisted that the $500 striking
members submit the issues to
arbitration, a demand that has
twice been refused.
AFL street car operators
meanwhile rejected for the Sec
ond time proposal that they
violate the independents picket
lines and return to work. More
than 270O of the operators are
now idle.
The strike picture became
complicated as District so of the
United Mine Workers-AFL pc
titioned for an NLRB election
among the striking production
and maintenance workers. AL
most Immediately the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-AFL and the CIO Util-
ity Workers asked that they be
in any election.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is
NPA)-W. Averell Hartman
millionaire railroad tycoon n
whom President Truman ap-
pointed to succeed Henry Wal
lace as commerce secretary, lis
under charge at Lincoln, Neb.,
as being a co-conspirator with
other western railroads and their
executives to end competition
in freight rates and to subject all
western freight rates to review
by eastern financial interests, 1t
was pointed out this week by
the National Farmers Union.
The Justice Dept. under the
la tie Pre- sid ent Roosevelt
brought suit against the western
railroads, charging them with
violation of the antitrust laws,
the NFU recalled, and the suit
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Fire, Rehire
Office Gals

Office employees of the Toledo
Credit Bureau, lao Huron St.,
went back to work on Wednes7
day of this week after being laid
off on Monday following a dis
pute with the company manager
over terms of their contract.
Principal points of disagree
ment between the union and
company centers on wages, un-
ion shop, increased vacation and
sick leave. Progress was re-
ported by Christine Walker, De-
troit, regional organizer for the
United Office and Professional
Workers, CIO, who is assisting
in contract negotiations.
G.. c. Martin, secretary for the
Credit Bureau, represents the
company management.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
NLRB To Decide
Guards SfofuS

FOSTORIA, Oct. Is - Status
of the Auto-Lite Spark Plug Co.
of this city will be determined
by the NLRB in a hearing to be
held here tomorrow.
Members of the company's S
guard force who recently Sc
lected the UAW-CIO as their
bargaining agent seek affiliation
with Loca 533, UAW-ClO,
w hich holds the bargaining
rights for the plant production
workers.
The company's contention Is
that the guards should be in a
separate unit, whereas the un-
ions position is that they should
be part of the main union.
Union spokesmen point out
that there are many precedents
for placing the guards in Local
533 and are optimistic about the
outcome of the hearing.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
CIO Wins A
Tough One

ATL ANITA (LPA)-When the
CIO southern drive loses an
NLRB election, that doesn't end
the matter by any means. The
fight just starts all over again.
That was proved again last week
at Cedartown, Ga, where en-
pIoyes of the Clearwater plant
of Goodyear Tire and Rubber
voted against representation by
the Textile Workers Union-CIO
last April.
The organizing work was not
abandoned, however; it was in
tensified. On Sept. 8 NLRB was
asked to hold a second election
and the frightened management
rushed unsuccessfully to the
courts to prevent NLRB from
acceding to the request. On Oct.
4 NLRB balloting began and
continued until the owner pad
locked the building at noon. The
polls were moved out to the
edge of the street and the voting
went on for the rest of the day
The result? Textile Workers
Union won by 800 to 665.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Is
Urged To
Hold Post

DETROIT, Oct. 15-Walter P.
Reuther, UAW- -CIO president,
has urged Phillip Murray to re-
tain his post as CIO president in
his Presidents column" in the
current issue of the United
Automobile Worker.
President Murray's reported
resignation brought this response
from the UAW head:
THE CIO cannot spare Phillip
Murray" said Reuther. There
lis no one to fill the vital role
which he is performing in the
labor movement and in the ma
ton.
organized labor and the
American people face in the
next several months a period of
crisis that demands the best and
Isoundest leadership we can pre-
duce. We in the CIO need Phil
Murray for his wise counsel,
his warm humanity, his sober
Judgment and his steadying in
fluence.
His resignation now would
be blow not only to the CIO
and to the labor movement but
to the nation.
II am surc that all UAW- -ETO
members agree with me and join
with me in urging Phil Murray
to stay at his post"
Richard GoSser, UAW CLIO
regional director, in statement
to the Toledo Blade on Monday
of this week said:
1T is my belief that the resig-
nation of Phillip Murray would
be unWise at this time. He is
the one outstanding person in
CIO who can guide us in unity
through these trying times. We
need Phil Murray now as we
never needed him before"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Hartman Faces Conspiracy Charge

in basic American industries,
notably steel and OIL"
The paper expressed wonder
as to whether there will be
pressure on the White House to
stop it, and prevent one arm of
the administration from at
tempting to prove that the new
Commerce Secretary violated
the laws and conspired against
a great geographic area of the
u. S."
Harrison is chairman of the
board of the Union Pacific Rail
road and also of the Oregon &
Washington Railroad & Navi-
CATION Companies. He is also
partner in the banking firm
of Brown Bros. and a director
of the Hartman Bros. Bank,
and of the Guaranty Trust Co.
of New York.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18

is now set for trial at Lincoln
on Dec. /.
When it comes to trial, ac-
cording to the MUS monthly
paper, National Union Farmer,
the government is expected to
present evidence intended to
prove that the new Commerce
Secretary was a leading figure
in a conspiracy among the rail-
readers:
List Three Charges
Ito end competition in
services as well as rates among
American railroads; 2-To use
this means of sitting industrial
in the west dis
turbing to the interests of east
ern capitalists who also control
the western railroads; S.-To so
frame railroad rates and service
to support monopoly practices
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18
Garage
Deadlock
Continues.

Toledo's 33 garages, members
of the Toledo Automotive Trades
Association, remained idle for
the third week as the deadlock
existing between the TATA UNI
ions over jurisdiction continued,
Efforts to reach basis for
settlement failed on Monday of
this week when officials of the
two unions and TATA failed to
break their deadlock and come
to an understanding for return
ing the garage mechanics to
their jobs.
TATA officials and lam lead
ers saw eye to eye in rejecting
the UAW-CIO proposal for hold
ing election for each separate
garage with the winning union
to be given bargaining rights for
the garages in which they hold
majorities.
Position Remains Same
Allan Loop, representing tbs
ITATA, maintained the positbak
which his organization has taken
from the outset of the contro-
versy. The association will not
accept any vote which does not
permit it to bargain as group.
Garage mechanics meeting at
Local IL last week Saturday
took the position that the ga
RACES should be opened for busi-
ness and the dispute settled
around the conference table, "as
it should have been from the be-
ginning"
No efforts have been made to
reopen the garages although the
TATA expressed its anxiety to
open at the LMC full Committee
hearing last week at the Com
modore Perry Hotel. No pickets
are being maintained at the
struck garages which remain
closed.
John Murphy represented the
lam at Mondays conference.
James Crowley, assistant UAW-
CIO regional director, presented
the UAW-CIO side of the dis
pute.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-18

date for state senator, and
Michael Damas and John
Jack Thompson, candidates
for state representatives. All
three are Democrats.
Also endorsed was Edwin J.
Lynch, candidate for the District
Court of Appeals bench. Lynch
who is a Democrat runs on the
non-partisan judicial ballot.
More Endorsements Coming
Chairman Rusch stated that
more endorsements were being
considered and would be an
Inounced as soon as the candi-
dates records had been studied.
What position PAC will take
on the 21-man council-mayor
plan will be decided at a mass
meeting which will be held at
.Macomber High School, Oct. 80,
according to Mr.. Rusch, who ex-
planned that the meeting would
be for the purpose of giving all
who attended an opportunity to
express their advocacy or oppo-
sition to the Guitteau plan.
Plan Active Campaign
Plans for an active campaign
in behalf of the Mohn-Damas-
Thompson candidates have been
completed by committee set up
by their supporters. A speakers
committee, literature committee
and headquarters have been set
UP and are functioning. Cam
paign headquarters will be To-
Gated at 425 Winthrop st. and
Gil Huron st.
Noon meetings will be called
in CIO plants which will be ad-
dressed by the labor candidates
from now until the election. The
three were guests Of the Toledo
Small Businessmen's Association
on Tuesday noon and explained
the legislative program they will
advocate if they are elected next
month.