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Montana labor news., 1947-09-18
Income of Working People

The real income, in purchasing power, OF
the working people is going down steadily,
while profits, dividends and high salaries
are going up. That is the situation shown
by the latest report of the US. Treasury de-
%partment. Here are the facts:
Income taxes paid by working people
through withholding from their weekly pay
checks declined sharply during the first half
of 1947. In other words, the total amount
paid to labor declined, for the tax rates are
the same as last year.
At the same time, the highest payments,
showing a sharp increase, came from the big
salary group. There is only one conclusion:
they have increased.
Meanwhile, the tax receipts show that
both profits and dividends are way up They
are at an all-time high and are mounting
month by month. Meanwhile, a special con-
gressiOnal committee, composed chiefly of
reactionary Republicans and Democrats, is
getting ready to suggest that the next congress
reduce the income tax rates for the big fell
lows, slash the tax on profits and dividends,
but keep the tax rate on the little income
folks about as it is. At the same time they
would hand the working people an additional
levy in the form Of a SALES TAX on top of
everything else.
1t adds up to this: the working men and
women waste their time if they look to reac-
t~ionaries for just and fair tax laws. The tor
les are determined to make the little people
carry most of the load while they reduce the
rates for the benefit of the big fellows. That
is the kind of a congress we have, because the
workers did not register and did not go to the
polls and vote for their friends in the last
election.
\ 4 \
More COP pork barrel-Prices of build
ing materials went up 23T but wages rose
only $50 between October 1916 and March
1947.
4 4 !.
Most of this talk about war with Russia
comes from characters who are a good 20
years above the draft age.
y 4. i.
Today's optimism by the industrial big
shots often sounds like the same brand Herby
Hoover was passing out in 1880.
Montana labor news., 1947-09-18

Per capita income for 1916 in Mis-.
sissippi was $3.50 as compared with
$1,000 for the nation.
Evening star., 1947-03-14

think the western zones were doini
as well as the Russian zone.
In the American zone, for exam
pie, Mr.. Molotov complained. a party
not getting 10 per cent Of the votes
got no representation in the govern
ment. Several delegates were OBJ
served to smile as he went on to say
he did not think this was really
democratic because there was a
chance that an opposition party
might be excluded from representa-
ton.
Mr.. Molotov suggested that the
ministers direct the Control Coun-
Gil to allow democratic parties and
trade unions to organize nationally:
to put into effect a uniform electoral
law guaranteeing free and fair elec-
tions, and to speed land reforms.
No action was taken on the Rus
sian proposals, most Of which had
been agreed to at Potsdam or in the
Control Council.
But Mr. Bevin, who spoke last,
felt care should be taken not to set
up an electoral law which would
permit one party, possibly a minor
|ity group, to dominate the political
scene. The result, he warned,
would be totalitarian government,
dangerous in the case Of warlike
people like the Germans.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Warren
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deny reports of his groups decision.
but told a reporter:
II have said this before and I will
repeat it again. intend to do every
thing I can to see that Edgar L
Warren does not continue to serve
as head of the Cancellation Service
for good and sufficient reasons which
will become apparent at the proper
time"
Mr.. Keefe said he had expressed
his views to Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach and to the White
House through John Steelman
presidential assistant.
Expects Pressure for Warren.
Mr.. Keefe said he expects "a lot
of pressure" on Mr.. Warren's be-
half. He accused an unidentified
Democratic member of having vio-
lated committee rules by disclosing
proceedings of secret sessions tc
Secretary Schwellenbach, the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and
House Democratic leaders.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
frequently has praised the work OF
the Cancellation Service under Mr.
Warren, who served with the Wal
Labor Board during the war.
However, during Senate Labor
Committee hearings on new labor
legislation, Senator Morse. Repub-
lican, of Oregon criticized Mr.. War
ren's service for using ''phony" sta.
tistics in presenting its dispute set.
tling record.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Moscow
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in the conference, but if Britain,
the United States and Russia are
Just going to exchange information
in the light of their last conference
in Moscow, we will not insist upon
participating" .
Notes Sent by Molotov.
MIR. Molotov was disclosed last
night to have sent notes to Gen
Marshall and Mr. Bevin asking
them for an informal discussion o.
the Chinese situation.
A Chinese Embassy source said
today the Embassy here had not
received any invitation or other
notification from the Soviet Union
regarding the proposed talks but
had been informed of the pro-
posal through other sources"
A Soviet radio broadcast last
night, confirming earlier reports oi
the Molotov notes, said nothing
about an invitation to China but
did not bar such a possibility.
When the conference began Mon
Evening star., 1947-03-14

able to meet the guerrilla leader 30
get his side Of the story. Gen.
Markos" Is wanted on murder
charges by Greek authorities. 4
Yugoslav border officials Wednes-
day refused to permit the Yugo-
slav-bound team to cross the bof-
der despite the heated protests of
team officials.
The commission held an emer-
gency session at Salonika Wednes-
day night at which American, Brit
ish and French delegates declared
the Yugoslav refusal was sabotage"
Of the United Nations work.
Yesterday, Salonika dispatches
said, the Yugoslav liaison officer
notified the commission that per-
mission for entry had been granted.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Report on Analysis
OF D. {. 6-Year Plan
Due Soon, Young Say!

The report of the Commissioners
Planning Committee, making ar
analysis Of Brig. Gen. Gordon r
Young's six-year s22s, ,000,000 pro.
gram for municipal improvements
is almost ready.
Gen. Young, Engineer Commis.
sioner. told the Cosmopolitan Club
yesterday at the Carlton Hotel the
report viii be issued soon. His talk
was one of . series made to mo-
bilize community sentiment behind
the plan.
The Planning Committee was Gre
ated shortly after the plan was
made public. Gen Young is its
chairman.
He said yesterday members of the
group have reached agreement on
the major aspects of the program.
When the committee is finished, he
added, the report will be placed be-
fore Commissioners John Russell
Young and Guy Mason for approval.
He called on the Cosmopolitan
Club members to support the plan
when it reaches Congress.
The final draft, he said, would
hit hard at the need for a larger
Federal payment toward the Dis
trict budget and would call for re-
ducing Federally owned land here
to a minimum.
Washington is faced with an ex-
pansion and financial crisis such
as has not been. experienced since
the Civil War, he said.
Gen. Young's plan calls for a
Federal loan of more than $780,
100000, in addition to new and in
creased taxes, and larger Federal
payment to finance the program
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Jews Prepare Claims
AGAINST Britain for
MARTIAL Law Losses
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. IA reliable
source said today a Jewish Agency
executive member had conferred
with United Nations delegates in
New York on probable Jewish
claims" against Britain for losses
sustained by the Jewish community
in Palestine under British martial
law.
One agency official estimated the
loss at about $4,000, 900 a day. This
was the first authoritative indication
that Jewish leaders might be con-
sidering direct appeal to the U. N.
against Britain.
Both Jews and Arabs have re-
peatedly voiced dissatisfaction over
Britain's action in referring the
Palestine problem to the world peace
organization.
Oil Pipeline Blasted.
Violence continued in the Holy
Land.
Official reports from Haifa said
the oil pipeline within the refinery
area there was blasted by five small
bombs this morning, but the blaze
was brought under control quickly.
OfdcialS reported no damage or
casualties.
Police said the bombs were placed
under the pipeline by five men they
described as Jews, who arrived at
the scene in small truck and fled
toward Haifa in the same vehicle.
The blast occurred on the Iraq
Petroleum Co. property near the
huge refinery installation. The pipe
line was not in use at the time be-
cause of an eight-day strike of
about 1000 Arab laborers.
Hagana Claims Responsibility.
Reliable sources said Hagana,
largest and most moderate of the
Jewish underground organizations,
was acknowledging authorship of
the pipeline blast as retaliation"
for the deportation of refugees from
the ship Susanna, beached in South
ern Palestine Wednesday.
Hagana yesterday said it had
planned the operation to bring in
the Susanna, from which about 200
illegal immigrants escaped into
Southern Palestine, and added that
lit was only the first vessel of an
armada"
| The blast followed series of in
cidents yesterday, including the
wrecking of two trains and two
jeeps, the death of an engineer and
injuries to a British officer and a
fireman.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
French Bride Leaves,
Veteran Kills Himself
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 1.-Two days
after seeing his bride of last May
board a plane for her native France,
William Joseph Ryan, 28, ended his
life last night, police said, by leap
ing from the roof Of a six-story
apartment building. -
Police said the former veterans
wife, Denise Rech, %, told friends
she was going bore r~-'' @">rr
employed as a hotel electrician,
made good and SENT Ior i.s- ..s.--.4.-
Evening star., 1947-03-14
U. S. and France Sign
Accord on Prisoners
BY the Assoeio,sd Press


PARIS, Mar. 14.-Acting Foreign
Minister Pierre Henri Teitgen and
American Ambassador Jefferson
Caffery yesterday signed a provi-
sional agreement on German war
prisoners by which 10000 prisoners
a month will be returned to the
Reich. The shipments will begin
this month. -
The accord, covering 100000 pris-
oners captured by the American
Army lent to French authorities to
ease the nations manpower short
ages in reconstruction, is to be re-
viewed and completed within the
next three months. The signing cli-
NAKED weeks Of negotiations be-
tween French and American experts.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
IndividuuI Is Stressed
By Bible, Bishop Says
By the Assoeioted Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Mar
14.-Integrity of the individual is
the basic value of religion, DR.
Beverley D. Tucker, Bishop of Ohio
of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
said yesterday in the last of three
sermons at the University of Vir-
ginia on the significance of religion
for college students.
THE whole teaching of the Bible
revolves around the theme of the
sacred worth of the human individ-
ual in the sight of God," said Bishop
Tucker, who went from a pastorate
in Richmond to his post in Ohio
nine years ago. Moreover, the
worth of the individual to God is
independent of race, nationality or
social status"
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Polish Papers Hit Plan
For Greek, Turkish Loans

WARSAW, Mar. IA P.-PolisE
newspapers today criticized Presi-
dent Truman's proposal to make
loans to Greece and Turkey.
The government Zycie War
zawy called the move the first ster
in expansion by the means OF loans.
The Socialist Robotnik described
the Presidents proposal as assist
ance "for reactionary governments,
adding: THAT is why America lacks
money for continued UNRRA aid to
needy countries"
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Izvestiu
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pared for the principal delegates.
Claims of the United States for
leadership in international affairs"
said the government newspapers
editorial, grow in keeping with the
appetites of interested American
circles.
However" in continued, "Ameri-
can leaders, acting on a new his
torical situation, do not take into
consideration that the old methods
of colonizers and hard-headed pol
iticians have already outlived this
century and are doomed to failure.
In this is the principal weakness of
Truman's speech"
Izvestia said Truman did not
take into consideration either the
international situation or the SOW
ereignity of Greece"
And, really, what will be left of
Greek sovereignty after the Ameri-
can military and civilian personnel
have sat on the heads of the Greek
rulers and when the personnel COM
mences the direction of Greece with
the aid of $50 900, 900 imported Amer
ican dollars"
Izvestia asserted that from such
an" original defense of Greece, the
sovereignty and independence of
Greece would suffer first of all. 1t
said the Greek people, do not de-
serve such treatment.
"If this is what Mr.. (Foreign
Minister Constantin Tsaldaris wants
to obtain, then the worst to Mr..
Tsaldaris, who would lead Greece
into such a position" the editorial
continued. The long suffering
Greek people are faced with the
replacing of one master by another
master, the United States.
mo matter how the American
claims are covered up," the article
went on, sit is impossible to justify
these claims by alleged defense od
the freedom and independence of
the Greek people"
Turning to the situation of Tur-
key, Izvestia said:
American aid to Turkey is OBJ
viously directed toward suboroina-
ting this country of the United
States which one will not be able
to speak of the independence OF
either Turkeys internal or external
policies because policy will be under
the subordinatfon of American i'm
perialism.
Discussion of the subject Of the
United States being called upon to
rescue Greece and Turkey from the
expansion of a so-called totalitarian
state is not new.
Hitler also referred to the Bolshe-
viks when he wanted to blast him
self a path Of dissipation.
AT the present they want to
subordinate Greece and Turkey and
are endeavoring with making
great noise about a 'totalitarian
state to cover up their own expan-
sionist plan.
"Truman's speech could not but
fail to attract the attention of
public opinion in the United States
as we'll as outside of it," said lives
tia. "One cannot say that it did not
encounter serious criticism even in
the so-called circles of Congress.
"A group of 13 American Con-
gressmen tried to talk him out of
the speech before he made it."
The article said Britain, because
of her own hardships, was described
as being unable to give Greece aid
and therefore the reason was put
forward that pc United States, In
Evening star., 1947-03-14

day, Mr.. Molotov proposed a discus
sion of China in the light OF the Big
Three's Moscow agreement for non
intervention there, but Gen. Mar
shall asked for time to think the
proposal over and the Chinese ques-
ton was not put on the conference
agenda.
In almost q week of sessions, the
conference has made little substan.
tial progress on treaty with Ger.
many-which, with an Austrian set
tlement, is its main business.
Instead, the Big Four has beer
exchanging old, familiar arguments
long current in international nego-
tiations on Germany having to dc
with denazifcation, demilitariza.
ton and the like.
Voice Asked for Small Nations.
American Ambassador Robert D
Murphy told Deputy Foreign Min
listers today that smaller nations
which declared war on Germany as
we'll as those which actually fought
that country should have a voice in
making the peace treaties.
An informant who attended the
meeting concerning Germany said
Mr.. Murphy specifically mentioned
Mexico and obviously was putting
up fight for participation in the
peace discussions by all Latin
American countries which declared
war, but did not send troops.
The discussion arose in connec-
ton with French proposal for CIV
ing smaller nations a part in the
treaty-making. The French also
advocated immediate formation of a
consultative body of small nations
At a simultaneous session, the
deputies on Austria were begged
down in a longtime disagreement
over whether the Potsdam agree
ment gave Russia the right to seize
German assets in Austria.
The United States, Britain and
France maintained that the agree
ment gave no such right and that
other steps would still have to be
taken for the Soviets to get legal
title to the properties they have
already ACQUIRED,
Evening star., 1947-03-14

Truman's opinion. should give the
aid.
This American Congress is Of
fered the opportunity to sanction
two good affairs at once: The res
cue of Greece from internal mis-
haps and to pay expenditures for
the modernization of Turkey" the
editorial said.
There is no doubt that Tsaldaris
message to the United States, which
is crying please for aid, is bright
evidence of the bankruptcy of that
internal political regime in Greece
which unexpectedly got flattering
appraisal in the message OF the
President. But the cause Is not so
much the bribable Greek monar-
chists and their Allies 1t
is we'll known that the real mas
tiers of Greece were and are the
English military authorities"
Izvestia accused British occupa-
ton and British interference of aid
ing the bankruptcy of Greece.
THE message of the American
President avoids these completely
obvious questions" Izvestia de-
clared. "The reasons for such deli
cacy are entirely understandable.
The United States does not want to
criticize the English procedure as
they themselves are inclined to fol-
low the English example.
"It is not for nothing that the
London Times halls Truman's
speech and the Daily Telegraph
notes that his speech fully justifies
British policy in Greece One can
understand from Truman's speech
that the United States is not going
to change the course of British pol
icy carried on in Greece but that in
such a case better results also can
not be expected"
Evening star., 1947-03-14

| Three'S Moscow agreement, Decem-
ber 10, 1945, was said to be unac-
ceptable because China was not a
party to the agreement and be-
cause it involved China's internal
problems.
: Foreign Minister Wang Shih-
chieh disclosed that China had reit-
Grated its objection to discussion OF
its internal affairs by the foreign
ministers at Moscow, "either within
the conference or outside" in new
memoranda forwarded through the
Chinese Embassy here.
Meanwhile, most government Of
ficials indicated jubilance ovel
American policy outlined by Presi.
dent Truman's speech on Greece
Chinese observers, studying the text
said they were convinced it was
written with one eye on Europe anc
the other on China.
Official reaction was limited to a
Ministry of Information statement
that Mr.. Truman's proposal for aid
ing the Greeks was "heartenine
news whose statesmanlike quality is
enhanced by the fact that he advo-
Gates a practical, positive program
of economic and financial assistance
to implement it."
In Shanghai, the Chamber Of
Commerce and four other public
bodies sent q joint telegram to Mos
COW charging discussion of the
Chinese situation would infringe on
China's sovereignty and insult the
nation. Shanghai buses owned by
Chinese universities displayed plac-
ards protesting the Soviet proposal
| to take LID China's affairs
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Moves
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hotly denied any Nazi had been al
lowed to join it.
Mr.. Molotov unfavorably compared
denazifcation in the western zones
with the practice in the Soviet zone.
Gen. Marshall had said $4,000
Nazis had been barred from impor-
tant jobs in the American zone. In
the Soviet zone, Mr.. MolotoY retort-
ed, 100000 had been barred.
AS to denazification, Mr.. Molotov
proposed that the Control Council
for Germany be instructed to speed
removal of former Nazis from pub
lie and judicial office and to see that
real Nazis be brought to justice
quickly without wholesale persecu-
ton of the party rank and file.
The Russian foreign minister also
spoke on characterization of Ger
many. He felt progress was being
made. Again, however, he did not
Evening star., 1947-03-14
U. n. Powerless 10 Aid
Greece Without Plea
From Regime Itself
By the Associnted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 1.-THE
United Nations at present is pow
erless to intervene directly in Greek
affairs to help stabilize that govern
ment unless the beleaguered regime
itself asks the U. N. for assistance.
Greece. in a dire emergency now
and unable to, wait for the still
young U. N. machinery to function,
went directly to the United States
for assistance.
The United States, as President
Truman noted in his message to
Congress Wednesday, intends to
help free people maintain their
identity so that the peaceful OBJ
jectives of the United Nations might
be realized.
The major factor cropping up in
discussions of the case in United
Nations circles here and at Lake
Success is that of time. Most of
those authorities discussing the af-
fair pointed out that Greece has had
some experience with the Security
Council, where the political situa-
ton is such tl1atkan appeal from
Greece for help naight bring on an
extended debate sand controversy
while the Greek government foun-
dered
Deny U. N. Is By-Passed.
Qualified observers insist that the
United States is not by-passing the
United Nations. They say it merely
is snoring up nation in trouble
until the world peace machinery
has come of age and can function
effectively.
The United Nations charter pro-
vides specifically in Paragraph 7 of
its first chapter, on purposes and
principles, that the U. N. cannot
intervene In domestic affairs of any
member state nor must any member
state submit those domestic ques-
tions to the U. N. for settlement.
Meanwhile Russia was expected TO
protest projected American plans for
training and equipping 100000 Greek
soldiers to combat rowing Leftist
bands.
The move to build up the Greek
army, American experts said, was
part of President Truman's program
to hold the line against communism
In the Eastern Mediterranean.
These informants said the plan
also would bolster much more able
Turkish military establishment to a
point where, in the event Turkeys
position on the Dardanelles should
become fatefully jeopardized, the
country would not fall overnight.
Informed quarters said if these
plans are put into effect, they ex-
pected Russia to protest loudly, first
in their own press, and then prob
ably to the United Nations Security
Council.
Most Delegates Won't Comment.
These sources said they certainly
did not expect Russia to accept such
move without protest.
American experts said economic
boosters would be applied to both
Greece and Turkey under close
American supervision of expendi-
lures on scale which would amount
to substantial aid to Greece for an
indefinite time and a gradually di-
minishing program of help for
Turkey.
The revelation of these plans
added great concern among dele
gates over President Trumans
speech Wednesday. Most delegates
were still reluctant to comment,
showing the burden on their foreign
Offices.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
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of its investigation of conditions in
Greece's northern frontiers.
Another team was reported en-
countering difficulty, however, in
keeping a secret rendezvous with
Gen. Markos," reputed guerrilla
chieftain, in the mountains of
Northern Greece. Dispatches from
the north said Greek troop move
ments were preventing contact and
expressed doubt the team would be
Evening star., 1947-03-14
China Reported Refusing
PROPOSAL by MoIotov

NANKING, Mar. IA R.-It was
authoritatively learned today that
the Chinese government would re-
fuse to accept a proposal by Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov that the
Big Three hold talks on the China
crisis with China present.
A proposal to exchange reports
on China in line with the Big