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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06

bungled the railway labor situa-
ton. Senators convinced that
railway labor had just COM
plants, but were being given
the runaround by Mr.. Steelman,
have been trying for weeks past
to get Mr.. Humans ear.
The President understand
ably in view of the international
situation relied upon Mr.. Steel
man. The result is a strike
against the national welfare, a
public clamor and bitterness
in the hearts of the railroad
workers that Mr.. Truman will
not easily overcome. None of
this in the opinion Of informed
Senators was necessary.
Someone-Treasury Secretary
Snyder?-persuaded the Presi-
dent he could gloss over the
Treasury Federal Reserve feud.
This effort, combined with the
timidity of Federal Reserve
Chairman McCabe. resulted in
headlines attributing dishonor
to the President.
All this is in the open. Much
more that is heard in the cock
tail lounges about matters like
the White House "in' enjoyed
by a certain airline, is not but
inevitably will be unless and
until the President acquires a
staff that understands the
phrase, above suspicion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Doris Fieeson:
Cronies Again Hurt Truman
Failure Of Intelligence by Palace Guard Puts
President in Unfortunate Situations

But thou too careless patient
That thou are Subn,ittest thy
anointed body
TO the care OF these that made
thee Ill :"
Shakespeare-Richard III.
In few short weeks of 1948,
by an unrivalled display of per-
sonal courage, Harry S. Truman
restored his sadly battered pres
tige and reelected himself
President Of the United States.
Now. little more than two
years later. a fresh crop of
troubles pouring upon his Off
cial family Is again reducing
his stature at a time crucial for
him and for the country. The
luster of his astonishing VIC
tory had served for a time to
conceal the fact that he was
sinking the job of improving
his staff whose deficiencies so
largely contributed to his earlier
troubles.
Harry Truman has a fanati-
cal loyalty to his friends. He
hates unpleasantness. Nor does
he appear capable of detach-
ment in his personal relations.
So the palace guard of Tru-
man cronies survives to get
their savior into trouble again
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for the duration - with the
Soviet Union standing peace
fully aside.
Eventually American ships and
planes may be engaged in bomb
ing China.
Meanwhile the people of Great
Britain will be drastically di-
vided on their governments
decision. They. like. the French
people, as opinion polls show,
already have repudiated the
American decision (unilaterally
reached and then imposed to
rearm Western Germany. In
short, the peoples which have
accepted American leadership,
first with enthusiasm, but pro-
gressively with doubt or dismay,
are beginning to dig in their
heels and stubbornly inquire,
"just where are we being led,
and for what purpose?"
And the American people.
from one end of this country to
the other, are also beginning to
ask that question. For what
purpose?"
1t seems reasonable question.
But the answer is silence.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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week at the same pay as 48
hours of work. and filing Of de-
mands for other increases in
pay for various groups of rail
workers.
August 4. 1950-No agreement
after nearly Is months of bick-
ering, and then a request from
President Kennedy of the Rail
road Trainmen that the Govern
ment take over the railroads.
August 27-President Truman
puts the railroads under the
Army. Assurances are given by
the union chiefs that the union
members will work for the Gov
eminent. This was followed by
a series of conferences at the
White House. but no joint meet
ings of labor and management.
December 14-Beginning of
wildcat" strike, with sickness
as the excuse.
December 81 - Memorandum
handed to railroad executives
and union chiefs at the White
House by John r. Steelman, as
sistant to President Truman.
Memorandum was signed by
railroad presidents and by the
four presidents of the rail-
road labor unions.
January 7, 1951-All four
general chairmen of commit
tees of the rail unions rejected
the agreement made by their
presidents at the White House.
January 18-Another meet
ing at the White House with
Mr.. Steelman, who turned the
matter over to the National
Mediation Board.
February 1-''Wildcat" strikes
begin anew and spread for sew
eral days.
February 2 - White House
claims that the union presi-
dents did not fully explain the
December 81 memorandum to
their respective committees and
that they now say they had
no intention of recommending
it, thereby indicating that they
signed it in bad faith" Union
chiefs concede they did not
recommend the ratification OF
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happened to Liz and Nicky II,
on their first date, he had in
sisted on a hot dog with mustard,
a turtleneck sweater, and Spike
Jones.
Or if Liz had said she wanted
to drop by I. Magnin's to pick
up a parka, and then have a
snack of liver with no onions,
and listen to an old Caruso
record.
My guess is-if either of the
two things mentioned above
had happened-Mr. Conrad
Hilton. ST., would have saved a
lot Of dough. Just a guess, mind
you.
I happen to be man who
devours Hollywood news. I
won't even get haircut I'M
less I can read about my screen
favorite in a magazine propped
just between the barber and the
hair that goes down my neck.
I want to know what Peck
eats for breakfast, I thrill to
the fact that H. Bogart can out
shoot all enemies. My whole
day is made when I read that
Jane Wyman does her own I'M
dies just as us OIL po' people do.
that Bob Hope is down to his
last dollar and is borrowing
from Bing. that John Wayne has
been adopted by the Rio Grande
River and is now a full f1edged
sandbar. and that Deanna
Swanson is old and fat.
The Hollywood people are my
heroes and heroines. I won't
smoke a cigarette unless they
indorse it. I won't risk the soft
ness of my hands until star
has told how she gets a Toni,
manicure, a shoeshine, and a
SINCE by using Old Grandpa's
cleanser.
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would prevail again in Con-
gress.
So, unless something new is
tried and found successful. the
yardmen j key to the present
situation - probably will con-
tinue to prefer the cold climate
of public opinion to the cold
climate of the railroad yards.
The quickest Congressional
action possible lies in the hands
of a subcommittee of the Senate
Labor Committee, already APP
pointed by Chairman Murray to
study the matter. The members
are Senators Humphrey, sub
committee chairman, Morse.
Lehman. Douglas, Nicely, Hill
and Murray. Using the power
of subpoena and taking testi-
mony under oath, this subcom-
mittee should be able to get at
the heart of the dispute in a
one-day hearing.
The heart of it is whether or
not the trainmen are repudiating
an agreement signed in their
behalf at the White House De-
cember 81, after two years of
negotiations under the Railway
Mediation Act. The management
makes this charge and has been
refusing to carry the negotia-
tions further. The union leaders
deny this, saying the agreement
was tentative and subject to
ratification by the 400 general
chairmen of the local unions.
This, they say, was not only
acknowledged at the time by the
White House negotiator, John
r. Steelman, in a statement to
the press, but was in keeping
with all precedents under the
mediation act. In any case, the
general chairman rejected the
agreement and directed the
unions leaders to continue nego-
tiations. Since then, they claim,
while the union presidents and
their negotiating committees
have kept themselves available
in Washington for a resumption
of negotiations, the management
has continued to insist that the
agreement of December 81 is
final.
1t is this impasse at the end
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Dorothy thompson:
Where Are We Being Led?
U.S.. as World Center for Credit and Aims
Calls the Score in H. NJ Deliberations
r Credit and Aims
Deliberations

British government believed in
the action. It does not. It was
not converted, by gentle sua-
sion, based on arguments of
reason. Its vote was extorted
by an American stand by or
else" attitude.
Since British world policy is
based on Anglo-American unity,
reason yielded to the necessity
OF choice. But Britain did not
vote as an equal partner. She
voted as a satellite, against the
considered opinion of the re-
cent commonwealth conference,
and against one member of the
commonwealth - India. When
Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British dele
gate, said "the results are very
satisfactory" he was undoubt-
edly using the language of
diplomacy, and thinking, now
the fats in the fire, we shall
have to stand firm"
Numbers of small states gave
their votes against the real
opinions of their governments
some after fighting vigorously
against the resolution. One
cannot assume any last-minute
conversion from their real
opinions.
Almost the whole Moslem
world abstained-and no one by
any stretch of the imagination
can consider the Moslem world
as pro-Communist, or India as
pro-Communist. Afghanistan
also abstained. Thus, the Middle
and Far East, and all the
states directly bordering on
China, either voted with the
United States faute de mieux, or
by abstaining registered their
disapproval.
And now what follows?
India is convinced that the
vote ends all hope of negotiating
a peace with China. India has
been right before. India pre-
dicted that if U. N. troops crossed
the 38th Parallel Chinese troops
would enter the Korean war.
The vote expected by the United
States Government from unWill-
ing delegates commits us to some
sort of sanctions. Their opera
ton will cement the Soviet Union
and Macs China indissolubly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Lives, Not Profits, at Stake
Rail Strike Sorry Spectacle to Free Nations
Gives Enemy Propaganda Ammunition

ca, 1000 miles away, is a
crime. for it hits directly at
those who are fighting for the
preservation of American free
doms, which includes the right
to strike.
The. switchmen's strike not
only has slowed the sending Of
military equipment to Korea,
but it is also interfering with
the production of desperately
needed war materials. Strikes
by railroad men, longshore-
men. steel workers and miners
no longer interfere with profits,
but menace the lives of the sons
Of the strikers themselves.
We pointed with scorn last
year at the political strikes pro-
voked by the Communists in
Western Europe. We criticized
them because they were leopard
izing the countries chances
Of preparing themselves against
the Russian threat. They now
see the same thing happening
in this country, when we are
waging a full-fedged war
against overwhelming odds.
The strike is not caused by po-
litical subversion. It is merely
the result of economic dissatis-
faction of a group of men who,
however just their demands may
be, do not have to place the
lives Of American boys in jeop-
ardy.
In the past we have adopted
a holier-than-thou attitude to-
ward the lack of financial in
tegrlty among some of the gov
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Committee Could Get at Truth
Senators, Using Subpoena and Taking Testimony
Under Oath, Could Clear u Railroad Dispute

of two years. during which they
had seen other labor organiza-
tons getting increased wages
and improved working condi-
tons. the leaders say. that has
led the men to take the matter
into their own minds.
The truth in this statement or
the lack thereof, can readily DO
established by the Senate SUBJ
committee. If it is not true. per-
haps nothing much can be done
about it, beyond branding the
strikers as "aggressors. If it Is
true, the Government should be
able to force the management
to resume bargaining in good
faith. After all, the managers are
working under orders of the
military establishment and they
could be ordered to negotiate.
One clause of the December
agreement-tentative or final,
as the case may be-drafted by
Mr.. Steelman. should be Of
interest to the Senate Com
mittee. It reads: I'll. If the
parties cannot agree on details
of agreement or rules they shall
be submitted to John r. Steel
man for final decision"
The agreement Is for three
years, or one year longer than
Mr.. Steelman's assured tenure
as a White House assistant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Lowell MeIIett::

There is obvious need for
drastic action that will put an
end to the strike of the rail-
road trainmen and the oppor-
tunity for such action would
seem to rest with Congress.
The White House has failed to
obtain an agreement between
the management and the men
under which operations can be
resumed. The courts may enjoin
any further refusal to work
but enforcement of an injunc-
ton is virtually impossible.
Putting the strikers in Jail won't
move the trains. Putting the
union leaders in jail probably
wouldn't move the trainmen,
who already have turned a deaf
ear to the appeals of the lead
ers for a resumption of work.
The President might attempt to
obtain authorization from Con-
gress to induct them into the
Army, making them subject
to the penalty for mutiny.
but Senator Taft's reasoning
against such action probably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Bung|ing in Rail Strike Hit
Government Has Medded With Machinery
For Handling Disputes Under the Labor Act

the memorandum, which on
January Z they characterized
as inadequate and unjust"
February 3-First joint meet
ing in several months, with rail
carriers and union chiefs sit
ting down together at the White
House.
Now it will be asked why, if
the communication of the re-
suits of the earlier conferences
and the meaning of the Deem
Der 81 memorandum was un-
satisfactory, some better means
was not devised. Why didn't the
Government, which was operat-
ing the railroads, ask for an OPP
portunity to speak to the rank
and file of the workers and ex-
plain the agreement? Why were
the union chiefs not requested
on January z to explain to the
Government their reasons for
rejecting something they had
signed-and If they signed it
under some misrepresentation as
to its binding character, how
did such a misunderstanding
arise?
Above all, 1t seems absurd that
better machinery for settling a
major dispute cannot be devel-
oped. Certainly in a time of
crisis the weaknesses in exist
ing statutes cause heavier
damage than in normal times.
When the Government takes
over a property, are the work.
ers employees of the Govern
ment? There needs to be
Qualification on this point lest
the whole theory Of seizure be
rendered useless in emergencies.
The rail strike has inflicted
hundreds of millions of dollars
of damage to innocent bystand-
ers. But. what's more. it has
injured the prestige of some of
the oldest and best of Ameri-
cas- labor unions. Are the lead
ers aware of the damage they
have done to the cause of or
ganized labor by the hollow ex-
cuse of Sickness? Somebody
In the rail unions has bungled,
too.
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: Situations

on wide front. 1t is not only
that they are doing those things
that they ought not to do. Their
failures of intelligence con-
sistently put the President into
unfortunate situations that the
merest modicum of foresight
would enable him to avoid.
A Senate subcommittee which
has been exposing grave weak
neSseS in the Reconstruction
Finance Corp, charges that
White House Aide Donald Daw-
son apparently exercised con-
siderable influence over certain
directors of the RFC." Mrs.
Dawson is described as top SUI
pervisor of RFC files.
The subcommittee goes on to
describe E. Merl Young, hus-
band of one of President Tru-
mans stenographers, as a
former $1,000 Government as
sistant messenger who now is a
$6O,000-a-year "expediter." Mr..
Young was sent by the Demo-
cratic National Committee with
Vice President Barley on the
Veep's campaign last fall.
Another party-RFC link is
Turney Gratz, assistant to Ma
tlonal Chairman Boyle. Mr..
Gratz formerly worked at the
RFC.
In different sector. Truman
Adviser John r. Steelman has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
David LoWrence:

Lots Of bungling occurred in
handling the negotiations lead
ing up to the present railroad
strickland an inquiry should
certainly be made, irrespective
of the possible ending of the
work stoppage this week.
The record discloses that there
is a serious defect in labor
management relations on the
railroads and much more seri-
Gus defect in the way govern
mental influence is exerted once
q crisis arises.
The public is entitled to a
thorough study of what has
happened. 1t could lead to legis-
lation to protect the public in
terest. It could lead to better
machinery for mediation or ar
bitration. But certainly the utter
Indifference Of the Congress Of
the United States is inexplicable
except on the theory that the
politicians are afraid of the
punitive power of a railroad
labor union and hence they shy
away from any action whatso-
ever.
There are some. of course, who
have spoken out bluntly and
among these is Senator Wayne
Morse, Republican, of Oregon,
a former member of the War
Labor Board, who refers to the
sickness" excuse for the stop
page as dishonest strike.
The Oregon Senator believes
the Government might have
long before this interposed it's
influence to bring the parties
together and to avoid interrupt
tons of rail service.
But the fact is the Govern
ment has meddled with the
problem and the machinery pro-
vided already by the Railway
Labor Act has been utilized, and
still the parties do not agree. To
understand what had been going
on it is necessary to examine
chronological record of the i'm
portant steps in the controversy:
March, 1949- Beginning of
formal demands for a 40-hour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Constantine Brown:

House cleaning during a storm
is difficult. But when the dirt
under the rugs menaces the
health of the family, the big
broom must be used and the
windows opened.
We are presenting a sorry
spectacle today to the free ma
tons of the world, whom we are
supposed to lead in their strug-
gle for survival against Com
munist imperialism. We are
supposed to show a determine
ton, through unity at home, to
weather the Kremlin raised
hurricane. And what is the pic
ture our allies and friends get
from the United States?
Railroad men are on strike
at a time when more than 10O,-
600 American soldiers are fight
ing for their life in Korea.
The soldiers in Korea receive
in the neighborhood of 500 a
month. It is true that they also
get board and lodging - the
board represented by K ra-
lions and the lodging a fox
hole in subzero weather. When
they work only Is hours a day
they consider themselves lucky.
Death and injury are the GIs'
professional risks, and they get
no workmen's compensation.
To strike Is an inherent right
of all workers. But a strike
which affects men whose
chances of survival depend
largely on the arms and ammu-
milton they receive from Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Dorothy Thompson:

The redoubtable Warren Aus
tin finally got A of the SO U. N.
assembly horses in the stable to
nod their weary heads yes to
declaring China an aggressor.
"It was a famous victory"
"a history-making decision,"
the AP dispatch from Lake
Success said. The Indian dele
gate concurred in the APP ap-
praisal. Sir Bengal Rau cried
out that the Asian bloc had
tried to halt "the march toward
disaster" asserting that the
vote would finish all efforts at
peace negotiations. Disastrous
decisions are also history
making"
A few days ago the Presi-
dent, while saying that he
thought an aggressor should be
named an aggressor, said that
of course the United States
would await the decision of the
United Nations. The inference
was that the U. N. is a DELHI
erative body, where. after CIV
ing thoughtful consideration to
all aspects of given case, the
representatives of free nations
vote, without coercion, accord
ing to the dictates of their
reasons and conScienceS.
This notion is very far from
the truth. The United States as
a world center for credit and
aims, and as the power to whom
all who refuse to associate
themselves with the Communist
alliance must look for protec-
ton, calls the score. If the
Government of the United
States refuses to listen to rea-
son, Americas associates even
tually are compelled to abandon
any standpoint they may have
wished to maintain in the light
Of reason.
If anyone thinks the vote
taken last week really repre-
sented the opinion of the A
governments who voted with
the United States. let him be
disabused. The British repre-
sentative voted with the United
States; but not because the
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ernments with which we are
associated. The wrath Of the
administration and of many
radio and newspaper commen-
tators was directed against the
venality of the Chang Kali
shek regime. We wanted no
part Of it. because Chiang's
relatives and many members Of
the Kuomintang had dipped
their hands into public funds.
What do we see today at
home? Five per centers" offer
their services to contractors
and are able to obtain favors
through their connections with
high Government officials. Only
last week the Fulbright Com
mittee made public an unsavory
story of how persons high in
the Government-including the
White House-were able to in
f1uence loans made by the tax
supported, Reconstruction FL
nance Corp.
How many similar instances
exist today Is not known. But
there is an uneasy feeling in
congressional quarters that the
Fulbright Committee has lifted
only corner Of the rug under
which much of Washington's
daily dirt has been swept.
1t is true that the country
is still rich enough and the
country, by and large. healthy
enough that such peccadillos will
not damage its fiber. But these
disclosures give our enemies
their best propaganda ammu-
milton. and one which the Voice
Of America cannot offset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-06
Henry WcLen1ore:
Devours Hollywood News
SundWiched in Barber Chair
Henry McLen1ore:

Luscious Liz Taylor Ito use the
language of the screen mag
azines) and wealthy Nicky Hill
ton Ito use his old mans dough-
have gotten a divorce after EOS
days of marriage.
I was shocked when read the
news.
You see. when Liz and Nick
traipsed down the aisle I was
one of the few who thought it
would last. I went 50 far as to
place a bet, at even money, that
they'd stay married 206 days. I
was that sure.
If I had known then what I
know now I wouldn't have made
the bet. It turns out that Liz
and Nick were drawn together
like two New York taxicabs be-
cause they both "adored over
size sweaters, hamburgers with
onions, and Ezio PIMA"
That's a quote. I didn't make
it up.
I have only two hobbies. One
is making a hard-way four.
and the other is finding out what
makes marriages click. I have
yet to make a hsrd-way four
when 1t mattered, but I have
collected a tremendous amount
of data on why boys and girls
are attracted to one another,
and what makes the boy say.
will va marry me?" and the
girl answer Yes"
The big sweater hamburger
with onions-Ezio Pima approach
is new to me. Nowhere in my
files do I find anything that
even approximates the original
bond between Liz and Nick.
Wonder what would have