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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-06-03
Inside America
written by the staff of The CIO News)

A MERICANS are firmly
committed to opposing tax
alton without representation.
But we're still keeping peo-
pie of Alaska and Hawaii in
territorial status-they pay
income and other US. taxes,
but have no voice in Senate or
House or election of their gov
ernors.
So CIO Executive Board,
at recent meeting, asked Con-
gress to give statehood to both
areas, so they can get same
measure of self-government
as rest of US.
Hawaii has twice as many
people as Wyoming, five times
the area of Rhode Island. A
laska is more than twice as
big as Texas, has population
about the same as Nevada.
People in both territories
want more home-rule, more
representation in Congress.
And CIO thinks they're right.
X
Efforts of certain leaders of
Mine, Mill g. Smelter Work
ers to smear the CIO steel
workers union at House hear
ings fizzled' like a balloon
with a gaping hole.
During CIO Executive Board
meeting, Vice-President Reid
Robinson of Mine-Mill showed
up at House Labor sub-com-
mittee hearings on proposed
Fair Employment Practices
Committee bill. Robinson did
a lot of fiery talking about
alleged collusion between CIO
steel union and Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad Com
pany at BeSsemer, Alabama
(Mine-Mill had just lost cleo
tion there to five CIO local
unions, which have since join
ed steel union.)
Committee members, sur
prised at this kind of testi-
mony, asked Robinson to-
come back with details; also
asked CIO representatives to
give their side of the story,
too.
4 4 r
When showdown hearing
opened, Robinson of Mine
Mill wasn't there. He was
called three times during
course of hearing by Repre-
sentatives A. Clayton Powell T..
D, N. Y. - and he wasn't
there three times.
Then Secretary-Treasurer
David Mcdonald of steel un-
ion took the stand. Said Nc
Donald: The United Steel
workers is Internationally op-
posed to any type of discrimi-
natory hiring practice by this
or any other employer.
And, Mcdonald said, "vici-
Gus falsehoods" uttered at the
hearing a week earlier by
Robinson came from a man
devoid of principle and des-
titute of honor"
Il
The steel union official also
read into the official record
a report by four executive
board members of Mine-Mill
At the time Robinson was
president, three or four years
ago. Report said that "all evil
ience indicates that Robinson
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was attempting a shakedown
and soliciting a bribe."
Incident in question involv-
ed a meeting between Robin
son and an employer under
contract with Mine Mill. Re-
port said Robinson sought to
get $4,000 from the corpora
tion official, using phony ex-
cuse that his brother had ab-
seconded with $1,000 of the un-
ions fund Robinson said he'd
used $4,000 from his own Of
fees revolving fund to cover
his brothers alleged misdeeds.
He wanted the $4,000 to cover
his own accounts before fell
low union officers had a
chance to see the books.
When employer suggested
bank loan, Robinson replied
his earnings were too small
and he probably could never
repay it.
It's not pretty story-but
you can find it in detail in
the records of the House La
Dor Committee hearings on
FEPC.
4 X 4
American Tel & Tel likes to
pose as great public institution
- even though its own labor
policies are pretty ruthless.
Latest deal pulled by Ma
Bell" was to try withdrawing
recognition from Communica-
tions Workers of America.
AT&T, taking good deep
breath, argued that since the
union, affiliated with CIO, it
wasn't the same union with
whom company had negotiated
contracts. Company claimed
it didn't know if CWA men,
bers approved of switch-al-
though they'd voted 2-1 for
CIO in national membership
referendum.
At Detroit, Michigan Bell
Company asked for represen-
tation election among en-
ployes. But regional director
of NLRB in effect told COM
pany to jump into Great
Lakes; he advised Bell firm
that its contracts with CWA
stand as bar to any such en-
ployer-sought election.
CWA officials hope - and
I hink - company will get
same response in 33 other sim
liar cases filed with NLRB.
HERE AND THERE: CWA
and CLOS Telephone Workers
Organizing Committee due to
merge at convention in Chi
cago starting June 13
H. R. Lloyd has become presi-
dent of United Rubber Work.
ers, following union boards
outsting of L. S. Buckmaster.
Buckmaster plans to appeal
decision to convention in Sep
tember Senator Scott
Lucas Cd. ILL.,, Senate Demo-
cratic leader thinks Taft
Hartley repeal may come up
in Senate during first half of
June CLOS Jim Carey
blasted Soviet military Off i
cialS, Soviet trade unions,
G erman Communists and
World Federation of Trade b,
Unions for ordering or tolerat-
ing strike-breaking in Berlin
transit dispute.
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Sun Yat Sen.
founder of modern China. that
there should be set up an in
ternational board to intervene in
China for a tutelage period OF
five years and believes that the
only chance for China to have an
opportunity to take her rightful
place in the world is for some
similar arrangement, perhaps un-
der the United Nations, to be set
up today.
Lack Community Consciousness.
The author feels that if the
Chinese people could only be
granted by some magic formula
security from their "own bandits
and war lords. as well as from
thieving outside powers, they
could probably outwork. outpro-
duce and outcivilize all their
neighbors." He rightly says that,
aside from the lack of security,
the missing ingredient in China
has always been community con-,
sciousness and that if China can
not develop this quality she will
continue to destroy herself and
be a cancer to the world. But in
order to give China a fair chance
Mr.. Moorad believes that the
project of DR.. Sun should be re-
vived.
It is admitted that arrange
ments for international control Of
China for a period are not f1atter-
ing to China's big Five" status,
but he says that what China
needs much more than f1attery
is something to eat and wear"
An international board would
have the advantage, the author
believes, that no one power could
bend China to its own profit or. on
the other hand, become fed up
and stop too soon."
However, when one Of the great
powers concerned has by it's ac-
tions shown a definite reluctance
to cooperate in international
matters, it is doubtful that any
real progress could be made by
adopting Mr.. Moorad's sugges-
tions.
The author himself recognizes
this for as he says in his con-
cluding paragraph, "A solution in
China depends primarily upon a
firm and final settlement OF ac-
counts with Moscow and until
that settlement is made our task
In the Pacific will be grim and
dangerous"
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piled. And yet they seem only
part of the CRIME. the hardship,
the horror, the futility of war.
These are men for whom "the
past and the future are forgotten,
with the present becoming the
last and maddest dream before
death" They were living where
death had place, but there was
no room for life
PREPARE THEM FOR CAESAR
BY Mary Louise Mabie. little,
Brown; $780,
Apparently Julius Caesar, like
Napoleon and certain other
geniuses of history. never loses his
romantic appeal for novelists and
dramatists. From Shakespeare to
Shaw and, more recently, Thorn
ton Wilder, plays and novels have
been based on a career both his
torical and fabulous.
Miss Mabie has written novel
around Caesar. If you think it is
Just another in a long list, you
are in for a pleasant surprise.
Despite all that has been written
about the dictator of Rome, her
story seems fresh, perhaps be-
cause she has thrown perceptive
imagination into it and written ii
with a gusto that sweeps away
the cobwebs of antiquity and
makes it seem real. Her chronicle
has wit, wisdom and understands
ing. Her obvious grasp of the
times, which must have been based
Evening star., 1949-07-24

is assumed by some Of the major
advances of modern science.
Limitlessness is also an in
experienceable concept. The non
mathematical mind, at least, hard
ly can grasp the idea Of bounded
time and space-of a timeless
nothingness before time. of a space
less nothingness beyond space. Yet
such concepts may be necessary to
explain the finite universe which
seems to be demanded by the
strange phenomenon of the red
shift of retreating nebulae.
One can accept these concepts
and build scientific hypothesis
upon them. The validity of such
hypotheses rests upon the fact
that they work. One cannot
assume, philosophically, that they
afford a true picture of nature.
They are a cropping into the un-
movable.
This, of course. is a highly un-
satisfactory situation. 1t Is some
thing with which philosophers
must struggle.
DR.. Frank poses the problem. He
holds, primarily. that the con-
fusion is a matter of semantics-
the attempt to describe new con-
cepts in old words.
He has made an important
approach although, of course, no
ultimate solution.
Evening star., 1949-07-24


This century fumbles In met
aphysical confusion.
DR.. Frank. now a member OF
the Harvard faculty and once
Einstein's successor at the Uni
versity of Prague. attempts to
resolve the chaos of paradoxes by
book which he has spent 40
years in writing. 1t promises to
be one of the most important
philosophical works of the genera
ton.
The conflict is between sense
perception and ultimate reality.
Any human observations, upon
which the laws of science ultimate
ly must be based, are subject to
the objection that they must be
made with the human senses, how
ever exaggerated by mechanistic
devices, and arranged by the
human mind. Yet within the past
so years it has been increasingly
evident that the mind is so limited
that it cannot comprehend ultimate
reality or arrange the observations
of the senses in accord with it.
Senses and mind alike are for
ever imprisoned, for example, in a
three -dimensional universe. The
human being is so constituted that
there never can be any actual
experience Of a hyperdimensional
creation-such as is demanded and
Evening star., 1949-07-24

admits. Col. La Fargo. although
serving as historical officer OF the
ATC, saw far too much during
80 900 miles Of wartime flight to
pretend otherwise.
Honest Appraisal.
His 320-page story of the war
development of an organization
that produced the Berlin. Airlift
is obviously an honest appraisal
by a creative artist. He wrote
about the ATC in 1916 while on
a Guggenheim Fellowship. His
work bears testimony to the fact
that no generals were looking
over his shoulder. He saw many
flaws in the organization he
served during the war years. with
out. losing sight of the majestic
proportions, the color and signifl-
canoe of the big picture.
The book is solidly based on
statistical detail. but it's appeal is
vastly widened by anecdotes, per-
sonality sketches, characteriza-
tions and wealth Of description.
Col. La Fargo does not neglect
the men and women behind the
great transport and ferrying serv-
ice, either on the home front or
the desolate, isolated. womanless
bases where communications and
maintenance personnel were
stuck for the duration.
He attempts also to explain the
reaction of ATC airmen to occa-
sional jeers from combat veterans.
Evening star., 1949-07-24

Remarks like "Allergic to COM
bat" cut deeply. They we'll knew
what the men in the foXholeS
suffered, and this knowledge made
them keenly aware of their clean
er clothes, food and billets at the
rear.
Yet they, too. had counted their
dead-on the Hump run. the des-
ert, jungle and ocean. Lifting
gasoline, explosives or heavy ma
chinery in and out of beatup
fields got lot of allergic-to-com-
bat men sent home" in kilograms
Col. La Fargo pictures the vast
amount of work and manpoWer
behind the men in the cockpits
and on occasion he seems some
thing of a mystic. For example
he climbs into the cockpit late at
night on a long haul for a smoke
with the pilot:
Ahead and above are the stars,
from an altitude Of 5000 feet or
so as clear as ever you saw them
in Arizona or New Mexico. The
plane is full of the rising and fall
ing drone of the engines, sound
like organ music. like a deep
pitched hymn sung by a tre-
mendous chorus.
"Home, Sweet, Home"
"You sit and smoke. in. a COM
panionable silence You exchange
word or two. You look at the
contours of this young mans face
as the glow picks them out. and
then ahead into the yastness into
which he Is staring, and you be-
gin to understand the distant
quality you have noticed in flyers
eyes.
After a time it will often hap
pen, if the pilot believes you know
enough to understand. that he
will lean toward you and say in
a voice of deep warmth, Listen
to these beautiful engines!
Not only pilots appreciate this.
The reviewer once heard a
wounded kid in an ATC litter ship
bound from Okinawa to Guam ex-
claim:
II never knew these damn
things could sing Home, Sweet
uoyno'o
Evening star., 1949-07-24

compassed so much Of humanity's
emotions.
Mr.. Brown sees Shakespeare as
primarily a dramatist, a man who
wrote for the theater and lived
himself it's very real life of almost
equal parts of basic materialism
and sublime escapism. But he is
also irresistibly drawn to the au-
thor of the sonnets and writes
with much clarity and common
sense about the nonsensical the
ories that have shadoWed them
throughout the centuries since
they were published with their
battling dedication to "Mr. w. H."
Mr.. Brown believes that Mr.. w.
H. was Sir William Harvey, STEP
father of the Earl of Southampton
ard that the young earl himself
was the model for the young man
whose praises the poet sang. He
isn't quite so sure about the Dark
Lady of the latter sonnets. but
leans to the idea that it was Mary
Fitton.
He is much preoccupied with
various aspects of Shakespeare's
loves and traces them with con-
vincingness through many Of the
plays. He has some original and
provocative observations of his
own, too. He believes. for instance,
that the last two acts of Anthony
and Cleopatra contain "the most
heart arching poetry that
Shakespeare ever wrote" There
are no formal analyses of the
plays, one by one. but there are
many such interesting and decided
opinions about them.
Mr.. Brown himself has some
what labored style and his book
is all too casually organized, veer-
ing from a curious formality to
first-person informality. But it
does have the virtue of treating as
a human being a man all too often
set upon a forbidding pedestal.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Bandit King Legend
Of Century Aqo
THE DREAM ENDS IN FURY
BY Samuel Anthony Peoples.
(HdrDer & Bros. S275.)


THE DREAM ENDS IN FURY
BY Samuel Anthony Peoples.
Harper & Bros, $2.75J
Back in 1S4s, when men lusted
after gold and California had no
law, a young Mexican terrorized
the gold camps. His feats became
legend. Out of these legends Mr.
Peoples has shaped his biography
of Joaquin Murrieta, bandit king
of the coast.
AS the author pictures him
Joaquin was a romantic figure
part Robin Hood, part Mexican
patriot. and, finally, all killer
Joaquin. according to this story
dreamed of returning to Sonora
with his beautiful Rosita and a
fortune in gold. Overnight. the
dream was shattered as a vicious
quartet played on Saw Mill Flats
hatred of the Mexicans. Joa
quin's brother was lynched, his
wife raped and murdered and he
was left for dead. From that
time on, Joaquin was wed to
vengeance.
What follows-whether fact or
fiction-is a violent thing. blood
spattered but rich in the local
color of Californa. AS Joaquin
preys on the conquerors of the
coast, the reader sees the freights
rolling through the booming San
Francisco. watches the fandango
danced in sleepy Sonora. visits
the canyon fastness of the bandits
and rides the fatal trail through
Death Valley. The author has
made his novel pulse with the
birth pains of a new land.
Evening star., 1949-07-24

Israel A. Horowitz is one of the
leading American chessmasters
and editor of Chess Review. Hans
Kmoch is an expert analyst whose
recent migration from Holland to
the United States has been great
gain to American chess. In COL
laboration they were able to pre-
sent the games of the great tour
nament for the worlds champion
ship, begun at The Hague and
finished at Moscow last year. in
annotated form in Chess Review
within remarkably short time
after they had been played. The
games are now collected in book
form, but those who have them in
the Review should not suppose
that they can ignore the, book
for the annotations have been
carefully revised, corrected and
expanded.
A preliminary section presents
the five players, Botvinnik, Smy-
SLOW, Keres, Reshevsky and Euwe,
their portraits. personalities and
records.
To the initiated, chess tourney
is. at least as exciting as a horse
race and the dramatic significance
of each lap and each round is
Evening star., 1949-07-24
About Headaches
HEADACHES

FEADACHES
BY Noah D. Fabricant. (Farrar
Strauss & Co..
Headache is probably the most
universal of all illnesses.
DR.. Fabricant here reviews what
is known about them by physi-
clans. There are about a dozen
causes. physical and mental. A
headache never is a disease in it.
self. but symptom of some un-
derlying disturbance. This may
be quite trivial, such as a hang
over. or very serious, such as a
brain tumor.
"In general" says the author,
"a person suffering from a severe
headache or from recurrent or
persistent headaches, should place
himself under a competent physi-
clan as soon as possible" He has
been warned that something is
wrong, perhaps seriously wrong,
and it is highly important to find
out about it. II. r. H.
Evening star., 1949-07-24

Jne war, was
lunatic in that
it lacked any
safeguards or
provisions for
i n t e r national
help tow a r d
China, which
was at b e S t
only potentially
a great power.
Mr.. Moorad re-
fers on several
occasions to an
alleged pro-
roco1 of Dr
Evening star., 1949-07-24

stressed in Introductory pages or
paragraphs. There are numerous
photographs taken during the ses-
sions of play and some rather
undistinguished caricatures. The
scores are frightened with dia-
grams. sometimes as many as six
to a game.
Review of Opening Play.
The book concludes with a 40
page section by Kmoch which is a
truly unique contribution to chess
history: The Opening From An
derssen to Botvinnik." In nine
chapters he reviews the lines of
opening play used on the eight
occasions when the worlds cham
pionship has changed hands, from
1851 to 1887. as we'll as one occa-
sion when it did not-the Steinitz-
Zukertort match of 1885, In the
10th and longest he analyses the
contributions of the 1948 event to
opening theory. Few people be-
side Kmoch would have the range
and depth of knowledge, as we'll as
the technical ability, to produce
such a survey even if the idea had
occurred to them.
In revising the notes as they
originally appeared in Chess Re-
view. the authors have had the
benefit of the excellent Dutch book
of the tournament produced by the
ex-champion, DR.. Max EuWe. An
interesting conflict of opinions
occurs over the Gruenfeld defense
won by Keres from Smyslov in the
second round. This was on its face
a very brilliant game and was so
hailed by HoroWitz in Chess Re-
view. But DR.. Euwe dismisses the
game as no brilliancy. for he
| thought he had found in Il
QxBP rather than NxP a move by
which Smyslov could have quickly
halted the white attack. But Horo-
Witz has found in % R-B1 a reply
which disposes of EuWe'S sug-
gestion and Keres' game therefore
stands as a truly inspired sacri-
fetal attack
+ On Point of Defense.
In another game, Smyslov's
quick win from Euwe in the 10Th
round. Horowitz assumes that
Euwe's game is hopeless after
whites pawn sacrifice on move II.
In this case, however. Euwe has
shown that he had a sufficient
defense by IA N-N5, and this
analysis has not been taken ac-
count of in the American book.
AS a sporting event, the first
world championship tourney was
marred by the one -sidedness of
Botvinniks S victory and the COM
plete failure of Euwe. But the
chess played. apart from a few
brief and dull draws. was Of an
exceedingly hard-bitten and sharp
character and the so games pre-
sented in this book are in the main
splendid examples of modern tour
nament chess at it's toughest and
best. No aspiring chess player can
afford to be without "World Chess
masters in Battle Royal"
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S o m e n oW ne
and the other
GIs spotlighted
are distinct, de-
spite the scare
ity of d e t a ii
about their past
life. T h e
writing is lean
a n d tou G n :.
Foul W ord S
S prin g from
anger and frus-
tration, P err
h a D S t h e S e
words could
have heer1 i'm
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80 Writers Pen
Views on Salvation
THE WISDOM OF
CATHOLICISM
Edited by Anton C. Pegis. IRAN
dom House. '$6J
Reviewed by
CASPAR NAMES.

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Among those represented in this
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The range of thought, and even
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covered. But the centralizing
theme Of eternal salvation Of man
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