The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-12
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12-Standard Oil of New Jersey recently took about 40 New York; Boston and Washington newsmen junket to the oil fields of Texas and Louisiana.
 While in Texas the party visited the giant King Ranch largest in the United States owned in part by Richard Kleburg, former Texas Congressman
 After extensive trips over the milion-acre cattle domain where the writers were shown every breed ot cattle imaginable, methods of raising grazing, roplng and branding, elaborate dinner was served at the 60-room, air-conditioned ranch house.
 Good liquor flowed freely and the main dish was roast beef the like of which has not been seen in Eastern markets since 1889.
 At the conclusion of the Gargantuan repast there were brief talks by the ranch foremen followed by the piece de resistance of the oratory-an out spoken warning from ex-Congressman Kleburg that there would be famine of meat in all the cities of the land if Washington and it's crackpot theorists do not soon quit making political football of the American belly"
 There is plenty of beef on the hoof on the ranges of the nation Kleburg declared, but he warned the cattlemen of the country determined that beef will remain on the range until it move to market in that is profitable and satisfactory to the ranchers.
 Asked later, by visiting newsman, if he meant that cattle raisers were definitely striking Kleberg snapped, Why not? Strikes popular and seem to have the approval of the Administration"
 Klebergs' warning might be considered the buster of defeated Congressman who is simply sore, but for the fact that he is regarded by cattemen the king pin' of the industry.
 He is withholding his beef, every head of it prime steers and the little fellows well the big ones taking their cue from Dick" Kleberg.
 The King Rance has ample financial resources for strike" the Humble Oil Company, affiliate of Standard, is producing oil the ranch, and it is estimated that Kleberg royalties will run close to $1500OO0O for this year.
 NOTE-Kleberg was busted from Congress by angry Texas voters when it brought out that he had required three teen-age boys employed in the capital to pay salary kckbacks to his office Keberg of the wealthiest men in Congress; had helped get the boys jobs ushers and page boys In return they paid about half their salary back to his office Livest member of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconverson Advisory Committee is petite Anna Rosenberg. Things always happen when Anna is around, as A.FL. President Bill Green, CIO Presi- dent Phil Murray and Eric Johnston, exPresident of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, learned the other day.
 Geen and Murray talking about how won derfu it would be when the country returned to free collective bargaining" Suddenly, Mrs. Rosenberg barged in with some ideas of her own
 You gentlemen talk great deal about collec- tive bargaining, she said, tartly "but what you is collective budgeoning You think about yourselves first instead of the American public. The is always the loser in your battles"
 Looking at Eric Johnston she added that indus try was equally at fault.
 wouldn't have all these costly strikes. There's absolutely Sense in great country like ours for labor and industry to be ganging up each other and choking the life out of the public and each other