Evening star., 1947-06-20
On the Record
Wallace Smart Politician
Despite Confused Mind
Views on Democratic War Party and
Labor Reforms Make Sense
On the Record
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President Truman has vetoed the tax bill and
he WILL think, veto the labor bill, too. This
Is not due to liberalism" on the part. OF the
President II he vetoes both bills it win be
because OF politics.
Henry Wallace has confused mind but he
is smart politician. When he says that Mr..
Truman viii lose II the Democratic Party be-
comes war party@or his opponents can make
it look so-and that the President cannot af-
ford to ALLEVIATE labor. Mr.. Wallace makes sense.
This column always has maintained that In
dustrial relations cannot be made peaceful by
law and through the courts. They can be made
peaceful" by force-in the totalitarian way
or they can operate in the free market with as
little Government interference as possible
Ii the labor law passes-and it looks as though
1t would even over presidential veto-it is
safe to predict not labor peace but another
series OF strikes, much unrest, and endless lti-.
cation.
Labor Largely to Blame.
Labor, If the law passes, will itself be largely
to blame. Labor's leaders have resisted every
proposal for reform, have INDUCED in shocking
abuses, and have advanced extremely unsound
economic theories.
Neither Mr.. Wallace, labor's leaders nor YOU
nor /, however, can do one thing to bring
drive them up. The infiationary prices are, in
essence, the result of neither 'capitalistic" nor
labor" policies. They result from the fact that
before during and since the war money was
and is being issued, not to enable the people
to buy ordinary consumption goods and not in
relationship to the value of merchandise In
circulation nor any stable standard, but for
the purpose OF financing the costs of Govern
ment. We entered the war with huge debt:
We increased it prodigiously during the war;
and II Mr.. Wallace had his way to prevent q
depression 1t would mount in unmitigated ratio.
The high prices reflect the operation of sup
ply and demand, of an inf1ationary Government
monetary policy, and domestic and foreign
pressure for goods far beyond the supply. The
labor leaders and MIR. Wallace crying for low
cred prices are like King Canute addressing
the waves Herbert Hoover makes more sense.
Abroad we have got to cut our pattern to fit
the cloth, and at home we must increase pro-
ductiop hugely q
Wallace Views Shifted.
Mr.. Wallace has shifted considerably since
his first speeches against the Administrations
foreign policies. A year ago, he was insisting
on equal rights for the United States in the
Danubian countries Today he is prepared to
write these off, but thinks we should" or
would" fight against Soviet expansion in Mid
die Eastern oil areas
A year ago, he acclaimed himself as an ideal
ist' who wanted to see the -Four Freedoms
everywhere in the world" Today, he is ''prac-
tical' and can close his eyes to what was hap
pening In Budapest while he was speaking
when Communist thugs entered a meeting of
the liberal party armed with brass knuckles,
rubber truncheons and rotten eggs, and broke
it up.
Lynching bees happen in the United States,
too, but if Mr.. Wallace is trying to compare
violations of civil rights here with the organ
lied police terror of Communist governments,
he just doesn't know what he is talking about
AS politician, however, Mr.. Wallace is right
war party, and Democratic candidate who
loses labor, Negro and other powerful minor
ity votes won by F. D. r.. will not have chance
in 1948
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