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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
1T forget
betrayal

facturers promised that with price
control dead, prices would find
their normal levels"
Although the nation sorely needs
a housing program to meet an
acute shortage, the COP Congress
preferred to let free enterprise"
have its fling, and the well-her-
aided Taft-Ellender- Wagner hous-
ing bill just squeaked through
Senate committee to end up Ian
gushing on the calendar. Instead
of providing long-range program
of public housing, the COP will
give us an investigation of s'high
costs in the building industry"
with special attention to labor.
FLOOD control is too socialistic
for Republican stomachs, so the
Missouri Valley Authority, setting
up model IVA for nine western
states, lies buried despite the
rampaging waters of midwestern
rivers this summer.
Pleas for a higher minimum
wage over the present 40c-an-hour
level were pocketed in committee
because the COP doesn't believe
industry should be required to
pay 65c-75c an hour by federal
law.
A Senate subcommittee finally
reported out fair employment
practices bill but, did so in way
to insure no action until some
time after next January. The
anti-poll tax bill, passed by the
House, is conveniently filed in
the Senate judiciary committees
office. s. as.4
On tax legislation the COP
twice failed to force through the
Knutson plan to relieve the
wealthy of federal burdens while
continuing to tax the individual
worker trying to support a fam
lily on $1,000 year.
HEALTH insurance met the OPP
position of the doctors union called
the American Medical Assn. and
was promptly buried, along with
federal aid to education.
The brightest spot in the 80th's
record is the stand of the Senate
on its opening day in refusing to
seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo Cd,
Miss. And even in that the COP
got an assist from an ill-fitting
set of store teeth that brought
Bilbo a mouth cancer.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
Observation-Disclosures

W<AoA144NG1O lN--NE HJ-AFL
Pres. William Green's annual
Labor Day message featured
a call for American workers
to fight to repeal the Taft
Hartley act and declared "the
AFL has just begun to fight"
Green's message follows:
This year Labor Day finds
the nations workers existing
under the ominous shadow of
the most oppressive anti-labor
law ever enacted by Congress.
There can be no real hope
of future progress and the en-
joyment of the free, American
way of life for the wage earn
ers of our country while the
Taft-Hartley act remains on
the statute books.
AS yet, the full impact of
this reactionary law has not
been felt by labor, but as time
goes on its provisions will stifle
the growth of organized labor,
weaken the trade union move
ment in our land and make it
increasingly. difficult for Amer
lean working men and women
to keep their heads above
water.
THE AL does not propose
to submit to such oppressive
and repressive conditions.
On this Labor Day, l call
upon every member of our or
ganization to join in an un-
relenting campaign for the re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley act.
AS true Americans, tn e
members of the ALL will rally
to meet this challenge. We are
determined not to let our free
doms be throttled. We are
ready to fight with every legi-
innate weapon at our command
to protect our right to improve
working and living conditions
for ourselves and our fellow,
workers. We will not willingly
or supinely permit the forces
of reaction to capture control
of our country.
Let me make this clear. The
AFL has just begun to fight.
We will use our economic
. strength to the fullest extent
to protect the rights of our
members in contract negotia-
tons with employers We will
take advantage of every OPP
portunity to challenge the
legality of the slave labor law
in the courts.
BUT even such measures are
not enough. In the coming
year, labor must exert its poll
teal strength as never before
in history. We must unite to
defeat for reelection every
member of Congress who voted
for this obnoxious law. We
must join in electing to our
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

ers to the realization that grass
roots work in the political field
has a priority demand on their
time, conviction may come from
some of the other chief accomp-
/ lishments of this Congress.
With consumer prices soaring to
record heights in every store and
shop, Congress under its Republi-
can leadership sat back and
watched them zoom. This, the
COP said, was as it should be
because the Natl. Assn. of Manu-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

WITH the Natl. Assn. of Man
ufacturers playing the tune.
Congress stomped all over the
welfare of the people. The
Taft-HartleY law. wrecked rent
controls and high prices give
labor something TO remember
on election day. ls4s. Unions
planned all-out political action.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
Profiteering Is Retarding Employment
In l947 Government Surveys Show

Substantiating the contentious of
many thoughtful leaders from all
walks of life that runaway prices
would soon exhaust the purchasing
power of Americas millions, the US
Employment Service and the Bureau
of Labor Statistics last week af-
firmed that lowering mass purchasing
power is heading the nation toward
unemployment and another depres-
sion.
U. S. Employment Service Director
Robert S. Goodwin, releasing survey
of labor market conditions in 80 major
areas, said factors making for bust
ness expansion which sent non-agri-
cultural employment sharply upward
last year have lost their upward drive"
The usual seasonal rise in hiring has
not materialized in 1947, he said, add
ing that employment levels "are gen.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
Business Busts Are
Increasing

Business failures are on the in
crease. This is interpreted by experts
as indicating that the day of easy
money is over
Principal casualties thus far have
been manufacturing enterprises. For
the first two months of this year there
were 159 failures in this field, with
liabilities of over SIS millions.
Heavy mortality among retailers is
forecast by Dun e Bradstreet and
Business Week" The latter recalls
that at least one of every five bust
nesses in the country was founded in
the last three years and ''has known
only the best of times as far as prices,
profits and sales are concerned"
Many will disappear, it is predicted,
when Caught in the midst of falling
prices and liquidating inventories"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
Here's What Is Back
OfPriceCuts

Just before International Harvester
made a slight reduction in it's tractor
and farm machinery prices, it raised
the price of binder Irvine by II per
cent and baler Irvine by 70 per cent
both of which items it tightly controls
So slight is the shading in tractor
and machinery prices that, according
to the CIO-Farm Equipment Workers
Union, the publicity alone will repay
the corporation. 1t points out that
the move is in line with the MANS
advertising campaign, which proclaims
voluntary" price reductions are being
made by business, and this ballyhoo
is designed to knock out the price sup
port guarantees to farmers as we'll as
to prove that no adjustments in wages
are in order.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16

orally below those anticipated by en-
ployers in previous months"
The time has apparently come, he
said when it will be more and more
difficult to maintain current levels of
employment and output at present
prices
Public employment offices placed
only 391,00 job applicants in non-agri-
cultural industry this March, compar-
ed to 100000 placements in March,
1916, USES said.
A bureau of labor statistics monthly
employment check released April 26,
showed the overall job picture in
March slightly better than in Febru-
airy, with durable goods industries such
as refrigerator, machinery and ma
chine shop products offsetting declines
in non durable goods industries.
The largest drop in manufacturing
employment was 10000 in textiles, BIS
said, adding that preliminary reports
increase employment at this season,
their job rise was slight in 1947, and
mems clothing actually showed a drop
in employment. These are items on
which some of the steepest price rises
have been registered in recent months.
Home building, often referred to as
an employment stabilizer, was badly
off in March, BIS reported, with only
53,400 new permanent homes started
in March, 1917, contrasted with $4,000
new permanent dwellings started in
indicate that orders for cotton goods,
woolens and wOrsteds are falling off"
While the apparel industries normally
March 1916. The 1916 March figure
was 40 per cent gain over the pre-
ceding month, whereas the March 1947
total was only % per cent more than
February 1947, far slower rate of
spring pickup.
Severe winter weather in many To-
calities during February and early
March and resistance to higher build
ing costs are reported to have caused
many builders to delay starts" BIS
reported. Estimates show per cent
fewer housing starts in the first quar-
ter of this year than in the same per-
iod in 1916
Trying to strike an optimistic note,
Goodwin said: although a business
dip later this year is a much discussed
possibility, it seems clears that sea-
sonal rises in demand for workers in
agriculture, construction, food process
sing and certain other fields will tend
to keep employment high during most
if not all of the calendar year."
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velopment as some of the other Sec
tions of the country"
On that point, Mr. Quinn was cor
rect.
When the west does become astute,
it will keep the Quinns, seeking pork
for special interests, at home.
1t will quit playing footie, as does
Clifford Stone of Colorado, with it's
betrayers in the National Reclamation
Association, which is dominated by
land spectators, railroads and power
companies. did you notice that the
u. S. House of Representatives
knocked out every appropriation for
a Bureau of Reclamation project which
would develop electric power? That
certainly shows the power companies
aren't assisting the west.)
1t will support Senator Murray's
bill to create Missouri Valley Au-
thority, the Columbia Valley Author
ity, Central Valley project and similar
overall plans with useful detectives
which people can understand are not
pork, but useful development work
1t will quit rolling out the barrel.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
By LOUIS ADAMIC

We Americans are central factor
in the world today. We hold some
trump cards. We are a great power.
We excel nearly all nations in indus
trial skill We could be infinitely
constructive if we would. It's up to
us-not entirely up to us, of course,
but almost entirely-up to you and me
and our neighbor.
Our country began with a revolu-
ton, with a revolutionary theology.
Our country has a wonderful tradi-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16

ton. l plead that we be true to it
We'd better be true to it! We'd bet
ter go along with the peoples revo-
luton in other parts of the world.
We'd better remain American and
get behind the new Greeks, the new
Chinese. Let's drop Chang, who is
the Chinese Mikhailovich. And let's
give SHUTS to understand that he'll
have no support here for his attempt
to keep white supremacy in So Africa.
| am in favor of our helping the back
ward peoples to gain industrial equali-
cation with u.s. If we do that, it'll be
good business for us industrially, fl
ancially-certainly it will be cheaper
than 10 billion dollars a year, which
our budget now earmarks for war. If
we do that, the whole world process,
now full of drastic and violent proba-
bilities, may be moderated.
My guess is that nothing will pre-
vent World War III except what I
am suggesting here; what l have
tried to suggest in some detail toward
the end of Dinner at the White House.
There is great contest on in the
world: between abundance and want:
tomorrow and Yesterday: left and
right: the impulse toward liberation
and the rapacity of Imperialism.
I'm for being on the right side,
which is the left side-Left meaning
the party that favors general welfare.
If we join it, that side is sure to win
hands down, and we are sure to win
for ourselves, for man all around
World War III is almost mathe-
NAUTICAL certainty unless we, the US,
approach the present negative and ex-
plosive situations with positive, con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
The Cats Out of the Bag !

is the official labor in
gress Who drafted that program How
it?
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5075) by Senator
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16

work without being threatened or
molested.
10. The right to a union free of Com
munist domination and control, and
one that is devoted to honest trade
unionism and not class warfare and
turmoil.
20 Every right to strike for any
legitimate object that he has had I'M
der our laws for the last hundred
years.
81 And finally, the right to have
a fair hearing, before an impartial
board, without cost to himself, when
ever he believes that any employer
or any union is depriving him of these
rights.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16
(From the NAM News of
April 26, 1910

THE WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS
1. The right to join with his fellow
workers to select collective bargain
ing agent of their own choosing; that
is to say, one that is not forced on
them.
2. The right to get a job without
joining any union.
3. The right to vote by secret ballot
in fair and free election, the votes
in which are openly counted, on
whether his employer and a union can
make him join the union to keep his
job.
4. The right to require the union
that is his bargaining agent to repre-
sent him without discriminating
against him in any way or for any
reason, even if he is not a member
Of the union.
5. The right with his fellow en-
ployees to make demands of their own,
and to bargain about them through
without dictation by national and in
ternational officers and representa-
tives, and without regard to the de-
mands of other employees upon their
employers.
6. The right to keep on working and
getting his pay in spite of sympathy
strikes, jurisdictional disputes, Illegal
boycotts, and other disputes that do
not involve him and his union or his
employer.
Z. The right to know what he is
striking about before he is called out
on strike, and to vote by secret ballot
in free and fair election on whether
to strike or not after he has been
told what his employer has offered
him.
g. The right to express his opinion
concerning union policies, union Off
GERS and candidates for union office,
and to make and file charges against
his employer, the union, or union Off
GERS, without suffering any penalty or
8. The right to vote by secret bal |
lot, without fear in free and fair cleo
how much dues he shall pay what |
assessments the union can make him
pay, what the union can spend the |
money for.
10. The right to vote by secret bal
lot in free and fair elections for his |
own choice of union officers.
II. The right to know how much |
money his union has, how much it
pays its officers, and how much of
the unions money the officers use for
their expenses.
IL. The right to refuse to pay the
union for any kind of insurance, well
fare, or relief that he does not want.
49, The right to receive his pay in
lis pay envelope, without the en-
Dloyer and the union spending it for
lin, checking it off for union dues or
or other purposes.
ID. The right to stay member of
. union, without being suspended or
expelled, except for % not paying
lues, (2) disclosing confidential in
ormation of the union CD violating
ITO COhtldSC, W. DOlhSo q Ooiii
nunist or fellow traveller, 90 being !
convicted of a felony, CO engaging in
Iisreputable conduct that reflects on {
he union.
15 The right to be free of threats I
o his family for doing things in con- {
lection with union matters that an |
mployer or a union does not like. :
16. The right to settle his own griev- '
noes with his employer
IT, The right without fear of re-
risal, to support any candidate for i,
ublic office that he chooses and to
ecide for himself whether or not his ;,
honey will be spent for political pur +
oses.
IS. The right to go to and from his !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-05-16

signed to prevent recurrence of the
production-paralyzing epidemic of in
dustrial disputes stimulated by the in
trusion of politics into labor-manage-
ment relations.
That's what the people ordered last
November.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Col. Robinson's S Rites
|At ARLINGTON Today

Funeral services for Col. David l.
Robinson, jr., who served on the
staff Of Gen. Lucius D. Clay in Ger
many, were to be held in Arlington
Cemetery at 2 pm. today.
The 40-year-old officer died
Wednesday night at his home, 452s
North Eighteenth street, Arlington
Va, after an illness of several
months. He had returned from
overseas in April because of i'll
health.
Col. Robinson, a native of Mum
ford, Tex, was called to active duty
with the Texas National Guard in
1943. He served two years in Berlin
as director of management control
on the staff of Gen. Clay. Prior to
his assignment overseas he had
served in the Bureau of the Budget
He entered public administration
work in Dallas in 1925. From 1881
to 1885 he served as assistant city
manager. From 1885 until he was
called to active duty, Col. Robinson
was with the Public Administration
Service in Chicago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Wylene Robinson; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. David L. Robinson of Dal-
las; two brothers, Francis N. Robin
son of San Antonio and Robert r
Robinson of Dallas, and a sister
Mrs. George M. Stuart of Dallas.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Burial Rites Today
For Admiral Cecil

Burial services for Rear Admira
Charles P. Cecil, 81, who died in 9
plane crash in the Pacific on July 81
1914, were to be held today al
Arlington National Cemetery.
Admiral Cecil commanded unit
of the 7th Fleet Amphibious Force
His body was returned from the
Pacific last month.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Mary r. P. Cecil of Charleston, S. C.
Rear Admiral William N. Thomas
the chief of Navy chaplains, was tc
conduct the service.
Honorary palbearers are Vice
Admirals Robert B. Carney, William
N. Fechteler and George F. Hussey
jr., and Rear Admirals O. B
Hardison, Arthur c. Miles and Frank
E. Beatty.
The body Of 1t. Robert w. Kirk
patrick. Marine pilot who was killed
in a plane crash on New Caledonia
in 1943, also has been re-interred
at Arlington National Cemetery. The
body arrived with the first group of
war dead from the South Pacific.
His widow, Mrs. Marian Kirk
patrick, and 4-year-old daughter
Susan, live with her mother, Mrs.
Mary Twitty, 1869 Columbia road
NV.
1t. Kirkpatrick, who was 26 at the
time Of his death, also is survived
by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Kirkpatrick; a brother, Donald, and
a sister, Mrs. Richard Spooner, all
of Long Island, N, Y,
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Brethren Peace Meeting
To Hear Two From D. T..

Two Washington residents will be
among the speakers representing IA
different national, racial and re-
ligious groups at peace meeting
to be held at 2 pm. Sunday in the
Brethren Service Center, New
Windsor, Md.
Washington speakers will be DR..
Frederick j. Libby, executive secre-
tary of the National Council for
the Prevention of War. and Limo
Karzis, Greek artist and lecturer.
Participants on the conference
subject What Price Peace?" will
represent the following groups:
Chinese, Russian, Italian, Negro,
Polish, Jewish, Japanese, Turkish,
Greek, Swiss, American, Friends
Meeting, Norwegian and American
Unitarian.
Choral and solo numbers by Rus
sian, Norwegian, Roman Catholic,
Negro and Friends Meeting House
singers will be a feature Of the
meeting.
A 25-minute broadcast featuring
the program speakers will be sent
over Station WIND, Frederick, Md,
at $50 pm. The evening meeting
will start at $50 o'clock.
The conference is sponsored by
the educational committee Of the
Brethren Service Center.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Private Rites Today
For DR.. MarschaIk

Private funeral services for DR.
Leighton Van Buren Marschalk
Washington dentist for more than
26 years, were to be held this after
noon at Hines Funeral Home, 2901
Fourteenth street NV, with private
burial in Congressional Cemetery
He died Wednesday at his home
1921 Longfellow street NV.
Born in Pensacola, Fla, he came
to Washington with his parents and
attended public schools here. He
began work at the post Office in
his early teens and rose to super
intendent of the registered mails
division; post Office inspector and
assistant superintendent of the
division of equipment and supplies
before he resigned after 27 years
service. While working he attended
the George Washington School of
Dentistry at night and after his
graduation he opened an Office in
the Professional Building. He later
moved to the Mills Building and
because Of physical disability he
had been practicing at his home
the last year.
DR.. Marschalk was active in the
Fourth Church Of Christ Scientists,
3505 Sixteenth street NV. and was
first reader Of the church. He was
member of the churchs building
committee and at one time was
chairman.
DR.. Marschalk owned dairy farm
in Fairfax County, Va, called Gym
thanna where he spent his leisure
time
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Mary Bertha Marshalk, Christian
Science practitioner.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Clara McQuown, IA, Dies;
Lecturer, World Traveller

Miss Clara Winifred McQuown
"a, lecturer and world traveller, died
yesterday at her home in the Ken
nedy Warren Apartments, 313a
Connecticut avenue NV, after q
brief illness. She had lived here
since 1917.
A native of Franklin, Pa, Miss
McQuown was descended from the
earliest settlers of Western Penn
sylvania. She had travelled in the
Orient and Near East collecting lee
ture material before she came here
For the past Is years she had
been a lecturer on current questions
in national and international
affairs.
Miss McQuown was a member of
the Republican Women's Club, the
Woman's Synodical Society of Balti-
more and was a past officer of the
Washington Presbyterial Society.
She also was on the Board of Di-
rectors of the League of Republican
Women of the District, served for
several years as secretary of the
Pennsylvania State Executive Com
mittee of Women's Auxiliaries of the
YMCA and was a member of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
No close relatives survive.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Rites for Ruth A. Reed
To Be in Dunkirk, n. Y.

The body of Miss Ruth Alden
Reed, 40, who leaped to her death
yesterday at the Meridian Hill Ho-
tel, 2601 Sixteenth street NV. will
be sent to Dunkirk, N. Y, tonight
for services and burial.
Accompanying the body will be
Carl H. Willingham, Washington
attorney, who served for 20 years
as secretary to Miss Reeds father,
Representative Daniel A. Reed, Re-
publican, of New York.
I Advised at his home In Dunkirk
of his daughters death. Mr.. Reed
was unable to come to Washington
because of a slight injury suffered
recently in a fall from ladder.
The 72-year-old Representative,
who has served continuously since
1918, was shocked by the news, but
both he and Mrs. Reed were said
to be bearing up we'll.
Miss Reed plunged to her death
yesterday morning, presumably
from the roof of the eight-story
building, to a paved alley. She had
been Ill and under physicians
care.
Until recently Miss Reed had been
active in club work. Her schooling
included the Madeira School here,
the Peabody Conservatory, Balti-
more, and the Ithaca IN. " Con-
servatory of Music.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day at pm. in the Reed home in
Dunkirk.