Milford chronicle., 1947-05-30

Dor bill. 1t was approved by forty-seven
Republicans and twenty-one Democrats,
total of sixty-eight Senators. There were
only twenty-four Senators against the bill of
which three were Republicans and twenty
one Democrats. Similar new labor measures
have already been approved in the House of
Representatives.
AS matters stand in Washington at the
middle of May there is practical certainty
that all differences between the House and
Senate bills will be reconciled and an inteli-
gent and fair law passed that will protect
America against national emergency strikes,
and widen the authority of the courts over
injunctions and jurisdictional strikes and
boycotts. No union will be recognized if it
is controlled by officers who are Communists.
The Government will establish a new
agency under the name of "Offce of Concil-
iatiOn" and another agency known as the
Federal Mediation Service" The existing
National Labor Management Relations Board
will be abolished. Other minor changes in
the labor laws appear to be acceptable to en-
ployers and workers.
The people of the United States are to be
congratulated by the good service rendered
by leaders of the Republican and Democrat
parties in Congress. They united on new
laws that will protect the public, and be fair
to workers that in the past have been subject
to the orders of bosses who have fought all
efforts of the Government to restrain and
prevent strikes.
The majorities in both Houses of Con-
gress will be able to override a Presidential
veto in case there is one.
THE "NEWBURYPORT PLAN"-and
other over-optimistic schemes to cure
Americas price problems by slashing from
the top-have proven to be failures
They will not, however, have been tried
entirely in vain if from them we learn the
lesson that we can't have our cake and eat it
too.
The manufactures are caught in the mid
die between two gOvernment-abetted forces
the insistent demand from above for lower
prices; and the equally forceful demand from
below for higher wages, higher prices for
materials that go into the cost of production.
1t should be obvious now, despite the
naive beliefs of some theorists, that we can't
keep costs spiraling upward, and expect to
decrease prices. If the natural public demand
for lower prices is to mean anything, the pro-
cess must start at the bottom of the ladder
We must have one consistent policy of
prices that applies at every level-from
farmer and laborer to retail counter
1t provides the only basis for an approach
speeding toward each other on the same
track k-one racing downhill, and the other up,
there's bound to be terrific crash in which
everyone concerned gets hurt.
We've got to coordinate our efforts before
that happens to our economy. We must begin
at the beginning and work together all along
the line if we are to have any realistic price
adjustments in near future.
~&o~S
THERE WERE 4,5OO visitors in Wash
ington who were delegates to the fifty-sixth
annual Continental Congress of the Daugh.
ters of the American Revolution.
The daughters are always up-to-date. The
President-Generalo of the society Mrs. Julius
Y. Talmadge, opened the five-day session
with the statement: 81 am glad to extend
greetings to the Daughters of the American
Revolution. The United States today is help
ing to build what we hope will be lastins
peace" She made plea in behalf of ga posi-
tive program of international cooperation
notably through the United Nations She de
clared that cooperation is the conversion
of our foreign policy"
These women speak out bravely. Evident
President Truman is on their side, nasmuc
as he echoed Mrs. Talmadges declaration
that cooperation is the cornerstone of ou
foreign policy"
ana IL is Delng echoed and re-echOed b
the best posted women and men in the cour
try, who know the history of these post-wa
days, that the United States has PERSISTENT,
| patiently, and sensibly used every effort
? bring the backward nations of the World /
z agree that cooperation is the conversion
. of our foreign policy"
> But, sad to relate, Russia is still carryin
f on policy that may lead to war; Commun
e SITS oppose all the pOlices that could be mo-
e tared into "the cornerstone our foreign po
g ICY"
: THE Federal TRADE COMMIs
SION is busy as little bees and it is holdr
sessions taking testimony on formal cor
$ plants of people who are gypping the Anne
n lean people with their goods, wares and 9TH
d. things. Sessions are being held by tri
|. boards now in Washington, Philadelphi
d New York, Boston, Springfield, Massachu
n etts; indianapolis, Dayton, Seattle, Jackso
q vile, Florida; Ashville.
l. Many firms get called upon the carpet