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Evening star., 1949-05-05
On the Other Hand
Story of Industrial Peace Comes
In Midst of Taft.Hartley Battle

he took his first Job as water boy
in q steel mill. working II hours
a day at 8 cents per hour. BY
the time he was II. Henry Roemer
was q mill superintendent. and at
% he was q general superlntend-
ent. During 10 years Of steady ad-
vancement he became widely
known for his ability 10 put run
down steel companies back on q
profitable basis OF operation.
Set Out to Prove Point.
Then In 1891, Mr.. Roemer came
to the Sharon Steel Company as
its president. Many steel men
counSeled him against accepting
the new position and assured him
that Sharon was beyond any nope
of ever again showing q profit.
Mr.. Roemer did not agree and set
out to prove his point.
His experience as q mill hand
had great influence upon his atti-
tude toward his employees and the
union and upon their attitude to-
ward him. The importance of
that experience Is reflected In Mr..
Roemer's own words:
ct always remember that I
might have been on the other side
Of the bargaining table myself. :"
Sharon Is not one Of the big
steel companies, but 1t Is not ex-
actly small. It operates six plants
In five Pennsylvania and Ohio
cities. It has all the problems Of
the steel industry generally. with
.sorne special problems growing out
Of its unwillingness to Join IN any
solid lineup against labor. In
1887 when 1t entered into. It's
agreement with the union 1t had
to depend on its competitors for all
of its coal and go per cent of its
scrap. Some Of these competitors
were involved In that years great
battle with the workers. which
included lockouts and strikes. yio-
ience and bloodshed. Sharon
didn't make itself popular, but it
survived.
Maybe there's q moral in all
this, one applicable to the political
war precipitated by the Taft
Hartley Act.
Evening star., 1949-05-05

d a ntage OF Constantine Brown
the situation, which both the
Europeans and Asiatics seem to
understand far better than we do.
Moscow now is smiling broadly
at the United States. That this
is not sincere smile is apparent
to most policy makers in Wash
ington and other Western capitals.
Victory on Paper Only.
The Berlin blockade. which has
been spectacular but unimportant
insofar as overall military and
political strategy was concerned
is expected to be lifted next week
possibly Monday. This will be pic
tured by the interested officials
who need diplomatic victories,
even If they are. only on paper
as a great success for Western
diplomacy.
The conversations between the
Big Four for the settlement of
the German question will follow
In a short time.
The Kremlin now is reported
to be willing to accept the new
Bonn constitution. which estab-
fishes the Western German re-
public. as a basis for discussion
and is willing to have it apply.
with certain notifications, to a
unified German republic in which
the Eastern zone occupied by the
U. S. S. r. will be integrated.
This would be accompanied by
an agreement to withdraw the
Evening star., 1949-05-05
Budget
Governor Battles Costs in Calling
For Record Outlay of 81 ,055, 100000

familiar TO the Republican Gov
ernors Of New York and Cali
fornia. Messrs. Dewey and War
ren. They. too, have had TO meet
them with bigger budgets and
taxes-in their case. meaning
they are under fire for New Deal
ism" in their party which for
Gov. Stevenson. at least. Is not q
drawback.
Gov. Stevenson was not pre-
cisely taken unawares by the
situation. He Is q liberal Demo-
crat who supports the party policy
nationally. But the magnitude of
q conscientious Governors task
in Illinois slightly staggers him
and he wishes he could be more
certain that people generally
realize what political life is like
these days. 1t appears that the
Legislature doesn't know or
doesn't care-it has just made 1t
necessary for him to continue
operating under 79-year-old
constitution. which can be amend
ed only with extreme difficulty.
Served in Washington.
Gov. Stevenson Is the grandson
and namesake Of one of Grover
Cleveland's Vice Presidents. The
governorship Is his first elective
Office, though he held important
Jobs In the Navy and State De-
partments in Washington prior to
and during the war. His great vic
tory last fall puts him in the
forefront Of presidential possibili-
ties.
He shuts out discussion Of this
with the dry assertion that he
can hardly entertain any such
ambition until he has licked the
Illinois situation. He recalls that
In his campaign he banished
national issues. forswore the easy
target of communism. and talked
about Illinois instead Of :7oose-
welt.
1t has long been practice.
however, to consider that Gov
ernors who can lick pivotal State
problems can manage the presi-
dency. Most professional politi-
Goes think they will see Cows.
Stevenson, Dewey, and Warren on
the 80 stage. .4 a-
One former Dewey associate in
this sector. incidentally. is betting
that the New Yorker will run
again for Governor, not Eenator.
released by the Bell Syndicate, Ine)
Evening star., 1949-05-05

cOSlnbAOAlf S0A
sidering this news, has issued a
report on the labor-management
relations of the Sharon Steel Corp.
and the United Steelworkers Of
America (CIO). The NPA Is COM
posed Of eminent business and in
dustrial leaders, as we'll as repre-
sentatives Of labor. agriculture
and the professions. Recently 1t
has been studying ''the causes Of
industrial peace"
Report ON Case Study.
II made O case study Of the
Sharon Corp. because. In the
language Of the report:
81. The only strike or work
stoppage at Sharon since this re-
lationship was established almost
IL years ago was the industry
wide steel strike Of 1916.
20. The company and the union
have been able to achieve salts
factory adjustment OF every griev-
ance without finding it necessary
to resort to arbitration.
IS. The parties settled their dis
putes during World War II with
out referring q single case TO the
War Labor Board"
Both parties seem 10 have prof.
tied by this pleasant relationship.
The company's competitive po-
sition In the steel industry i'm
proved significantly. Profits and
dividends increased at q faster
rate than for the industry as a
whole. Man-hour productivity In
creased steadily. There have
been no complaints Of feather
bedding. on the one hand. or of
speed-ups. on the other. Wages
compare favorably with industry
and community averages.
While the report gives most Of
its space to the technical details
of the labor management relation
ship ut Sharon. It gives its great
est emphasis to the human de-
tails. OF the corporations presi-
dent. It says:
Henry Roemer was the son Of
. blast furnace worker. At ID
Evening star., 1949-05-05

been said by a Russian. not by q
man from Missouri. wnere corn
cob pipes, mules. and dovn-to-
earth Americans come from,
The Taft Hartley Act may be
bad. and II may be gooc, tina,
doesn't matter The thing that
matters is that the American peo-
pie, be they silly or smart, must
have the right TO cast their votes
the way they see At.
Prison Camp Tactics"
No President has the right 10
influence a single vote by the Use
of the club OF patronage BY
leadership. yes. BY being strong
and sound and fine enough TO
cause US all TO follow him. yes.
yes. and yes again. But 10 use q
threat as a means Of leadership
Just isn't leadership. That, to put
it bluntly. is prison camp tactics.
voted for Mr.. Truman-would
have voted twice. II they hadn't
had q watcher at the polls, His
program made sense. At least. 70
me 1t did. But when he uses his
authority TO belabor those who
make the rules We live by. when
he lifts the big stick over heads
that have no real chance to flght
back. then ! must say that 1852
can't come too soon.
The very word patronage" has
an Ill odor. It means. II you
want to know the truth. bribery,
pure and simple. Vote my way
and I'll take care OF you. You'll
be a postmaster. son, II you want
to sell your soul for the right
TO sell stamps.
wonder II Mr.. Truman re-
members who elected him.
Reminder on Election.
In case he has forgotten. In
case he is in danger OF getting
a little too sure OF himself. 7
would like to remind him that
the American people elected him
I have no business talking to the
President OF the United States
like this. That ! grant you. But
consider him q friend. and as
one Of the little. tiny people who
helped put him on Pennsylvania
avenue. I don't want him to let
any Of US down.
Mr.. Truman. some day you will
know that you can't threaten an
American and make 1t stick. An
American will put UP with It Just
so long. Then he will assert him.
self. but loudly.
Don't ride the crest too high,
Mr.. Truman. You have the big
gest job In the world and only
One Being can enable you TO-
handle 1t. That Is God. Turn
to Him and not to patronage for
your strength. II you don't, you'll
be forever remembered as the man
who had the greatest chance and
didn't measure up.
distributed By McNausht Syndicate, Inel
Evening star., 1949-05-05
On the Record
Miracle of Greek Resistance to Reds
Seen in History and Attitude of People

All the great questions about
Greece remain forever unan-
swered. How did this people live
for 400 years under the rule OF
the Oriental Ottomans?
Why LIS Greece alive today
That is the question. Not whether
1t has q good or bad government
But why do people walk its streets
with light in their faces? Why
do they fight a battle no other
people have fought? How could
100000 people, never well org
anized, defeat Mussolini's Italy?
How could they Withstand the at
tack Of the Germans longer than
France? How could, they emerge
from four years of occupation
riddled through and through with
communism. with O weak govern
ment. In a country devoid of prac-
tically every natural resource. and
take on q battle in their very
midst? AZ, = vre rs1~
Why-one asks oneself-did
Czechoslovakia, an advanced and
well-organized state. never lift a
gun against either Of its conquer
ors, while these people threw
upon each in success
sion, and go on doing so today?
Answer in the Soul.
The answer is not to be discern
ed in the intellect, but in the soul
The Greeks responded to. accepted
and created Christianity out of the
words of a Galilean because they
the soul. No man
before Christ had come nearer to
His spirit than q Greek: Socrates.
The Greeks are a people Of the
soul. And the soul is immortal.
The Greeks also are o people Of
imagination. Here. in the midst
of a terrible civil war-which
is not a Greek war
Is being undertaken a unique
experiment: Communists are
being converted into the elite Of
the resistance against tn "A!
To live in perpetual danger. to
be perpetually defeated and per-
petually renaissant, to confound
all analysts, to defy all statistics
that Is Greek.
1t Is precisely because nothing
is as 1t seems to the calculating
mind that Greece is the worst re-
ported and least understood
country in Europe today.
tReleased By the Bell Syndicate. Inc0
Evening star., 1949-05-05

G o v e r y ] n
Gre g ce, I re-
piled, II have
discovered that
1t is inhabited"
That was not
an empty wise
crack. Before I
came to Greece
I was familiar
W ith the sta
tistics o N pr o.
duction, preju-
dice d against
t h e political
system. skepti-
cal about war.
Evening star., 1949-05-05

the effort to re-
peal or modify
the Taft-Hart-
ley Ac t, the
public is offered
today q story
Of labor peace.
And 1t is not
even q new or
su d d e n III t.
break of peace;
it has been 60
ing on for II
years.
The National
Planning AS
Evening star., 1949-05-05

SHOW up QIa-
matically In
the great in.
dustrial States.
It came as q
real blow to
Adlai Steven
son the new
D e m era tic
Governor elect
ed here by an
unprecedent e d
m a ] GRITTY to
clean up the
debris Of the
Dwight, Green
administrator ON
Evening star., 1949-05-05

Burma has nad
powerful roper
cussions not
only In Asia but
also in Europe,
and particularly
Germany.
w hile our
State Depart
m e mt ignores
the Far East
and considers
China a poor
relation, tn e
U. S. S. r.
is taking full
Evening star., 1949-05-05

WA. ~ GetFTT-
med hy thei-
votes on repeal
Of tire Taft
Hartley Law and
and other plat
form balls.
! don hike
that
And ! don /
think that you
do either
That has a
tlnEe o! the
dictator in II
Il sounds as II
II might have
Evening star., 1949-05-05
By Dorothy Thompson

ATHENS. Greece.-(Via Air
maiD-When I was asked by a
government minister whether I
had made any outstanding dis
Evening star., 1949-05-05
McLemore
Hos Own ldeos
On potronoee
By Henry NeLemers

NEWS ITEM FreS2aen: T.u-
man served blunt notice Or
congressional Democrats tAA;
the Federal pa:ruaAge they &c.
Evening star., 1949-05-05
BY LoweH MeHeft

Peace, it's wonderful, but 1t
doesn't always make news. Yet
against the background of the
bitter labor battle in Congress,
Evening star., 1949-05-05
BY Constantine Brotcn

The relentless and unopposed
march Of Communist forces
toward South China and the bor-
ders of Indo-C China, Malaga and
Evening star., 1949-05-05
LOUIE
By Doris Fleeson

SPRINGFIELD. III. May S.
The mounting costs and spreading
responsibilities of the new welfare
Government are beginning to
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Radio Signals Arouse
Hope for IS on Big
by the Asseeiofed Press

LONDON, Jan. 2s.-Air Force
headquarters said today constant
radio signals are coming from the
area $50 miles northeast of the
Canary Islands and are believed to
be survivors of missing Super
Fortress.
The American B-2e was lost yes
terday with Is men aboard on a
fight from Dakar, French West
Africa, to England.
We have strong hopes that all
the boys are alive and WELL" an Air
Force spokesman said.
An oil slick was sighted by a
French flying boat near the spot
from which the radio signals are
coming, headquarters said.
The radio signal is a constant
ct" 1t was picked up by direc-
tional finders at Cabo Jubi, Rio de
Oro, on the northwest coast of Al
rica, and at Las Palmas. in the
Canary Islands. The Canaries lie
TOO to 900 miles southwest of
Gibraltar, off Rio de Orc. They are
on the route from Dakar to Eng
land.
BY co-ordinating the signals
headquarters placed the location at
about 20 degrees A minutes north
and IS degrees 10 minutes west.
This is only a few miles from the
place where the oil slick was seen
A Bit Flying Fortress and a B-2s
Super Fortress both were dispatched
at once to search the sea- British
Air Force planes also helped in the
hunt.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
German Women
Told to Use Ink
On Amorous Reds
BY The Assoeiotsd Press

BERLIN, Jan. %. Ink as a
weapon against ill-behaved Russian
soldiers was recently proposed by
the Russian commandant of a small
Eastern German town, the British
licensed Telegiaf reported today.
Some women had come to see
the commandant, the newspapers
story says. to complain about in
creasing molestation of German
women by Russian soldiers.
When the Russian officer asked
the women what he should do about
it, they didn't know. So he came
up with an idea.
Always carry some ink with you.
he said. In case of distress, pour
it over the soldiers clothes. Since
every soldier has but one uniform,
can easily find out the culprits
from the ink-blot."
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Clothing Union Drops Pay Plea;
Cost of Living Index Down Again
General Motors Workers Foce 2-Cent Cut
In Hourly Wage if Decline Continues

Officials of the CLOS Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers said
today they have decided against
asking for a fourth round of
postwar wage increases because
of the current economic situa-
ton. Union officials cited a
slackened demand for mems ap-
parel and drops in the cost OF
food items.
The announcement was made as
the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
leased its regular consumer price
index which showed a decline for
the third straight month.
More than 10000 General Motors
employees face a 2-cent-an-hour
wage cut If the Governments cost
of-living figures continue to decline
another month. The United Auto
mobile Workers Union. CIO. has
contract with General Motors
tying in part of its wage scale with
the BIS statistics on consumer
prices, permitting either rise or
fall in wages. There is a similar
agreement with CLOS United Elec-
tricaI Workers for other GIN
workers.
One of the clothing union officials
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Mink Coats Worth $4,000
Stolen From Sonia Henie
BY the Assoeiossd Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 2s. Thieves
ransacked the fashionable hotel
apartment Of Sonia Henie, ice
skating star, last night and stole
two mink coats valued at $4,000,
but apparently left her jewelry
intact.
The coats were taken from Miss
Henie's suite at the Hotel Pierre at
Sixty first street and Fifth avenue.
The loss was discovered by Miss
Henie's mother, who occupies an
adjoining apartment. Her return Of
the theft included no mention Of
jewelry. Miss Henie herself
was not Immediately available for
comment.
The actress-skater, former wife Of
Dan Topping, is starring In her own
ice show now at Madison Square
Garden. The coats were described
as a platina mink valued at $4,000
and a wild ranch mink worth about
$4,000.
The theft Is another in a series
that have occurred in fashionable
Manhattan hotels and apartment
houses during the last few months.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Pruvdu Hits Red Drama Critics
AS Parasites and 'PruttIers'

paper continued. employed the tech
nique of contrasting the classics
with contemporary Soviet drama to
the disadvantage of the latter. Yet
another trick, the paper said, was
silence. If the critics did not like a
play they simply did not review it..
Singled out for criticism were
Y. Yuzovsky, A. Gurvich, A. Bor-
schagovsky, L. Malyugin, E. Khol-
odov, and two others named VAR
shavsky and Boyadzhiev.
The principal plays which they
have attacked are Moscow Char
acter" and In One City by So
fronov, Our Daily Bread" by Virta,
"Ukrainian Steppes" by the writer
Korneichuk, and Great Fate" by
Surov.
Pravda said bourgeois esthetics"
holds forth most strikingly on the
pages of Theater and Soviet Art.
Theater is a monthly magazine.
Soviet Art Is Q weekly Newspaper.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
More Than 800 Feare(
Dead in Collision Of
Two Ships Off China
Vessel With 500 Refugees
From War in Crosh With
Collier in Darkness
By the Associoted Press

SHANGHAI, Jan. 2s.-Virtually
all hope was abandoned today
for more than 600 passengers
and crewmen of two Chinese
ships that collided 100 miles from
Shanghai.
The Australian destroyer Wara-
munga picked up IS survivors, in
Guiding some crew members Of both
ships. the collier Kienyuan and the
4,ooO-ton freighter-passenger ship
TAPPING. The survivors. including
some of the 500 war refugees aboard
the TAPPING, were landed in shang-
hal tonight.
Survivors said the two ships
crashed of the island OF Chu Shan
in pitch darkness. The Kienyuan
went down in five minutes. Badly
crippled herself, the TAPPING picked
up those struggling in the water
and raced to try to go aground on
the island, 10 miles away, but sank
before reaching its goal.
AS far as is known here. the
Waramunga, en- route to Shanghai
from Japan, was the only ship to
reach the scene in time to pick up
any survivors.
The TAPPING. operated by the
Chung Lien Ship Co.. was en- route
to Formosa with the war refu-
gees. It was feared some govern
ment officials ana their families
might have been lost. The vessel
carried crew of IS.
The Kienyuan was carrying coal
to Shanghai from Formosa. She
normally carried crew of between
10 and IS and no passengers.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Star News on WMAL
Three Times a Day

The Stars new radio news
programs are presented three
times a day, Monday through
Saturday, over Stations WMAL
and WMAL-FM.
The broadcasts, direct from
The Stars newsroom, may be
heard from Il noon to 1905,
6 pm. to sos and II pm. to
11:15. They are prepared by
The Star, based on informa-
tion supplied by the papers
entire newsgathering organi-
cation.
Remember the times: Noon,
6 pm. and II pm. Supplement
your reading of The Star by
getting up-to-the-minute re-
ports by radio from Washins-
toms news authoritN
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Three Killed in Boston
As Panic Follows Fire
In Subway Station
Many Persons Injured in
Scramble for Stoirs;
Unidentified Man Hero
fPicture or Pn0e A-5)
fPicture on Page Az
ky the AssoeiotecJ Press

BOSTON, Jan. 28.-At least
three persons were killed today
and an undetermined number
injured in a crowded subway
station swept by panic as sudden
fire filled shafts and corridors
with smoke.
The dead were two women and
man, all unidentified.
Police reported a screaming mob
scene broke out in the underground
State Street Station near the water
front, close to the heart of Boston's S
financial district.
Many persons were knocked down
and hurt in a shouting scramble for
a stairway leading to the street.
Others injured were construction
workers who were changing the en-
trance to the old station whose two
story superstructure was landmark
in the district
Unidentified Hero.
Police credited an unidentified
person with sizing up the disaster
swiftly and leading most of the
passengers to safety along subway
platform to another emergency
stairway exit.
First reports said a fire in the
shaft of one of four elevators in
the station may have started from
acetylene torches being used by
WorkMen.
Two elevators were still in use
for passengers during the construc-
ton.
The station-deep underground
is the first on the Boston side of
the -harbor tunnel linking
Boston with East Boston.
All Trains Halted.
All trains in the tunnel, which
runs from Maverick Square to Bow
doin Square. were halted. Power
was shut off while fire apparatus
crowded into the area and f1remen
battled the flames.
Ambulances and stretcher bearers
sWarmed into a vast traffic-tangle
on the surface where smoke poured
upward through the subway super
structure at State street and At
lantic avenue.
Among those taken to the City
Hospital for treatment were James
McNulty, elevator operator; two un-
identified women and one uniden-
titled man.
Hospital attendants said the bodies
of the three dead were badly burned.
Another Fire Wrecks Plant.
Power in the tunnel was restored
in about an hour.
Another fire and 10 violent explo-
sions today wrecked the big board
plant Of the U. S. Gypsum Co. at
Mystic Docks in the CharlestoWn
section.
Fire Chief John F. McDonough
estimated loss at $125,000.
The lives of firemen battling the
raging. resin-fed flames were en-
dangered by the blasts. Firemen
attributed the explosions to asphalt
drums.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
German Gets Deuth
For Killing American
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

KASSEL, Germany, Jan. 28.-
August Flamme, German bricklayer
was sentenced to death by an Amer.
ican Military Government court to-
day for numbering Sergt. Raymond
Switzer of Lake Orion, Mich, or
May 8, 1948.
The bricklayer was convicted after
q 12-day trial. He denied his guilt
until yesterday, when he broke down
and confessed he killed the Amer.
lean soldier with an iron bar in the
mems room of the Kassel main
station because II was possessed by
s',A deeire to ho-'e his watch"
Evening star., 1949-01-28
British Protest Red Plans
For Firing in Air Corridor
kx tha Assoeiafad RrAsS

BERLIN, Jan. 2S.-Russian plans
to conduct air-to-air firing practice
in corridor traversed by the Allied
airlift to Berlin drew a protest to-
day from British authorities.
The British called the Russian
firing plans a violation of four
power air safety regulations. The
Soviet warning to Allied flyers,
posted at the Berlin Air Safety Gen.
ter, said the drills would be con-
Quoted for six hours in the Buckle
burg corridor, which is used by both
British and American planes re-
turning from Berlin to Western
Germany.
Fog at the Wiesbaden and Frank
furt loading bases curtailed the air
lift this morning, but shuttle planes
were arriving from the northerly
British zone fields.
Evening star., 1949-01-28
Burma Rebels Seize
; Important Cities
BY the Associated Press

RANGOON, Burma, Jan. o.
Karen rebels, their war for indie
pendence from Burma mounting
steadily in fury, seized three i'm
portant cities In heavy fighting
today.
The rebels took Bassein, second
largest port of the Irrawaddy Delta,
and captured Toungoo and Pyu in
an apparent drive to seal off the
capital city, Rangoon, from the rest
of Burma. The offensive moves
gave the rebels strong grip on the
important Rangoon to Mandalay
railway.
Government troops, fighting
Karen tribesmen who demand an
independent state of Karenistan,
were reported engaged in heavy
fighting on a 40-mile front.