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sentations practiced upon you. 1t is
common conversation in Washing
ton, as we'll as throughout informed
circles in the rest of the country, that
8 or 9 cents is the maximum raise
under present price and wage rules
that could be granted. Management
has agreed to this. Under any honest
appraisal of what the steelworkers
ought to have, 8 or 9 cents would
bring them in line with wage rates
for automobile, rubber, electrical,
copper and other such industries
which have been cited as the exam
pies of fair wage rates for STEEL
workers.
IF fair settlement is declined
after collective bargaining is restored
under the law, I believe the people
are ready to invest in the cost of
strike rather than to be taken over
by CIO dictator. He practices the
same rough, tough compulsions,
threats and intimidations of foreign
dictators. The people see Green, Muir
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ray, and other such piously anti
communist union leaders prompted
by excessive greed, taking advantage
of the Russian fear crisis and actually
playing, unintentionally we hope,
Russia's game by striking or threat
ening to strike in atomic, aircraft,
electronic, steel and armament plants
engaged in our defense work. Their
guilt is evidenced by the fact that
these men do not call similar strikes
or create disturbances of similar mag
nitude in other plants such as textile,
agricultural implements, household
items, automobiles, and other non
critical industries.
'Mr. President, now would be
very good time, with the war slack
ening up in Korea, to call their bluff
and let the union bosses strike if they
persist in their course. If they should
succeed in the exercise of the lawless
conduct above described to exploit
the public, the cost would be much
more than the cost of strike"
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shaeowner, you are licked if you don't fight back
BY SUMNER GERARD
co-fovnde and Trustee, Government
OVERNMENT officials are try
. ing, again, to take away some

GOVERNMENT officials are try
" ing, again, to take away some
more of your income and savings-to
give to somebody else; at the same
time undermining all citizens con-
stitutional liberty. What are you 60
ing to do about it?
You are a shareowner in one or
more corporations. You are almost
certainly among the 80 million own
ers of u. S. Government bonds, the
78 million holders of insurance poll
cies, the 20 million with savings bank
and other deposits, or among the mil
lions who get or expect to get gov
ernment or private pensions. You
may have other savings too.
You have already seen your saw
ings melt away under government
managed and promoted imitation.
You have seen government follow a
consistent policy of cheapening and
redistributing your savings through
imitation and taxes. Now, in the steel
case, they're out to take your income
from savings as well.
Union leaders are hungry for pow
er-and politicians need votes. The
way to get votes-or so the admins
tration seems to Thinks to satisfy,
at any cost, the ever-mounting appe-
tites of dominant union officials for
economically unwarranted but polit-
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the government doesn't collect from
the steel companies. If that doesn't
take care of it all, we'll pay for it
in higher prices and diluted money
to the extent that the government
doesn't collect taxes and is forced to
borrow-i.e., "create"-money to pay
its bills.
But even though the public ulti-
mately pays the bill, the savers and
investors can be bent and broken as
they absorb these initial shocks. It's
not only the danger of galloping in
fation-that's with us already. 1t is
the elimination of your income from
savings that is at stake in this new
stab at profits. Not decrease, not
dilution, but an elimination! And the
elimination is not just of your sat-
ings but of you as free person!
Miserable Excuses
The unions, Public" members of
the Wage Board, a United States Sen.
ator, and even the President of the
United States are loud in proclaim
ing that the WSB recommendations
are just "catch-up" for the steel
workers-not a bit unstabilizing, and
easily payable out of steel company
profits. Every previous wage-price
increase has started another round of
imitation.
Mr.. Murray claims he has to have
this unwarranted increase because he
fell behind other union officials and
now wants to regain prestige for him
self by catching up with other la
Dor bosses. What a miserable excuse
for another inAationary wage round.
The hollowness of the claim is fur
ther vividly illustrated by Mr.. Muir
rays action two days after the recon-
mendations for his $4,000 steel
workers were made. The proposals,
he announced, would now be auto
matically applicable to the 100000
employees in the little and big steel
fabricating shops across the country
Just as though the "catch-up" the
ory, the ability to pay" or the
application of wage and price stabili-
zation to these companies had not
even been considered by the Board in
making its recommendations. If the
increase should be applied, as Mr..
Murray demands, to this new and
heretofore unconsidered group, will
a price increase be granted, if neces-
sary? 1t seems it will not. You, Mr..
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STOCKHOLDERS: WILL YOU
STAND UP AND FIGHT
OR TAKE 1T lying DOWN?

When the theot of steel strike used for draining more
yo" income who did do protect yourself eov Your
investment provided the which tools used the indus
o production responsible for Americas high scale of living Y many
shoeowne securities have lost much Of their vove and
steel shares selling at less than 40 percent Of their investors values
because profits have been poned of by labor monopoe and
toxoion.
Whof happening? Public members Of the Wage Sterilization
Board of whom beoden organized labor recommended
an high increase Of pay for cO steel workers. and these
ondh terms described mot unreasonable by Friendly gen
in the White House, drive already under apply these
terms OIL ovoon aluminium and other industries starting another
spo Steel and other shares would down still ver
the Government would billions less from steel other
companies, and the public would have make the difference
How could this happen? Because ond IS million other share
America vnorgonzed Because business leaders,
like prvdsh poren foil tell their stockholders frankly the uet Of life
and how the President forced them submit rocking labor bosses
Whof you do ubovt i7 Read the startling SPOTLIGHT
this Discuss them with osocoes fellow shoreowners
and employees and community leaders, Ask all speak their
representatives. in Congress and take the outlined below
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k spotlight !. T.. .,.. ::;;;;It !':;;I

Shareowner, in steel and all other
companies, will pay the bill.
But if the unions don't have
enough power already to force the
government to make you pay, the
government has an answer for that.
Impose the union shop" force it ON
industry by government recommen-
dation-so union leaders can tell EN-.
ployees, PAY your dues or lose your
job" That way there is less oppor-
tunity for resistance from the rank
and file to any tyranny that exists.
That makes it easier for union Off
cial to throw his weight around. That
makes it easier, Mr.. Shareowner, to
take your money. That gives the un-
ion officials still greater income and
still greater political power over the
President of the U. S. and other gov.
ernment officials.
Do you want to do something
about it? If you do-and you certainly
should, if you believe in the right to
save and enjoy the fruits of your saw.
ings-you should wire, write or send
a postcard to your Congressman and
your two Senator'S telling them to:
!. Support Congressman
Aliens resolution TO in
vestisate what's going
on in WSB, who's rum
ming it, and where they
are taking US. THE need
for investigation on oli
fronts is evidenced by
the news.)
z. Support Senator Dirk
sens effort to toke
owoy WSB's power to
Recommend" on such
issues as the union shop
and other muffers fhot
have nothing to do with
wuge sfobilizofion.
3. Protest against any mis-
use Of war-granted
powers, TO force
through such biosed SET
Elements as the presi-
dent and Phil Murray
are now attempting to
make.
Itisyour savings, your income, and
your money, Mr.. Shareowner. You
are under attack, and it's your battle.
Will you take licking lying down
or will you stand up and fight?
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ically savory wage increases.
It's a simple pattern. First, the
Wage Sterilization Board recon-
mends wage increase of 2o to 80
cents an hour with the so-called
public" members hardly able to
conceal their union label underneath.
The union then announces in effect
a policy of whole hog or strike" p"
The President of the United States
called by the steel workers that "rath-
er friendly gentleman in the White
House"-rushes in to say the unions
must have whole hog, and that the
cost must be paid for out of company
profits,
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Absurd Prefense

That's where you come in, Mr..
Shareowner-because it's your money
the rather friendly gentleman" is
talking about-and giving away. He
wants to cheaper and redistribute
to others the savings you expected
would protect and reward you now
and in the future.
1t is absurd to pretend that such
enormous increases in costs can be
paid for out of pro6ts-at least for
long. Ultimately, it is the public-all
of us-who pay the bill. We will pay
for it, in part, in whatever price in.
creases that occur. Well pay for the
rest in taxes to make up for the taxes
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John Dunlop, another so-called
public member of the Board, has
been almost continuously in the pay
of AFL since 1913, to settle AFL jul
risdictional disputes within the un-
ion. He is reported to have received
compensation as high as 20 thou
sand dollars a year from that union.
Would he also imperil his job with
his union employers? George w.
Taylor, former Chairman of the pub
lie members, recently resigned from
WSB and was Immediately employed
for reported 20 thousand dollars a
year job to act as tull-t;ne arbitrator
in internal CIO disputes. Benjamin
Aaron, another public member, ap-
pointed to act solely in the interest
of the public, is beholden to union
bosses for part of his income.
consequently, was it not fore
gone conclusion that this Board,
stacked as it was, would vote as it did
8 to 4 for the biggest single wage
raise in industrial history? 1t is all
the more outrageous that they took
advantage of their country while at
war. They tried to use the power of
your Office to force upon the public
an additional spiral of imitation. They
have done this deliberately in spite
of the fact that under the old escala-
tor clauses in the automobile indus
try a declining cost of living indicates
a wage reduction in that industry
from z to cents an hour as of
April IS.
Did They Let You Down?
"Mr. President, many of my con-
'stituents believe that you have been
let down again by your advisers.
"CIO Secretary Treasurer McDon-
aid only Thursday boasted publicly
that the steelworkers in this dispute
are in particularly fortunate posi-
ton because they have a rather
friendly gentleman in the White
House
'As one member of the House La
Dor Committee, may I remind you of
the fear we had when you first
appointed the Wage Stabilization
Board with Mr.. Taylor as Chairman?
Before the Labor Committee, Taylor
testified that the Board would not
presume to have legal authority to
settle wage disputes or to force the
acceptance of the closed shop or the
union shop. Now, the Board has at
tempted to do just that.
''Now, Mr.. President, we believe
the Wage Stabilization Board should
be abolished as illegal and its recon-
mendations in the steel case ignored
as fraud on the public. Such move
would also return wage negotiations
to the democratic bargaining table of
industry and labor as provided by
law.
IF you follow the procedure of the
existing Taft-Hartley Act, you will
appoint a new Board of Inquiry to
report to you whether or not the Ma
tional safety is in danger from
threatened steel strike. If they find
that it is, you may apply for an in
junction which will be good for 80
days. In the meantime, management
and labor are required under the law
to proceed in good faith to arrive at
a settlement. If it fails, the law re-
quires vote of all workers before
strike. Atpresent the Wage Stabiliza-
ton Board, completely dominated by
CIO, has substituted itself for the
law. Freedom is suspended.
''On the merits of the steel dispute,
you and the people generally have
had the most fraudulent misrepre-
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It's the same old act, but who pays for il?
BY RALPH w. GWINN
Member Of she House con,mistee on Lobor

fNCE again, the stage is being
~ set for another steel strike. It's
the same old act, an inAationary de-
mand by a labor dictatorship. And it
has the same old supporting cast-a
rather friendly gentleman in the
White House." and so-called pub
lie representatives" on government
boards, proposing impartial" settle
ments.
Thirty months ago, the rather
friendly gentleman in the White
House" hailed a so-called fact
finding" settlement as statesman
like formula" for settling steel la
bor-managementd dispute. A crippling
steel strike followed and the family
finances of many steel workers are
just beginning to balance. Last week
the friendly gentleman in the White
House found the Wage Stabilization
Boards recommendations in the cur-
rent steel dispute by no means un-
reasonable"
Svecvnbed TO Blvdqeoninq !
Not unreasonable" TO whom?
Not unreasonable to Phil Murray but
disastrous to the public, to steel share
owners and to families of steel work.
efs facing strike losses and increased
infationary prices for everything
they buy. l.
Collective bargaining has sue
eumbed TO bludgeoning government.
for increases that could not be OBJ
tanned through labor-management
negotiation. The new and ever in
ereasing tactic is to bring direct pres
sure upon friendly administration,
which sets up dummy board of So
called impartial" members. AS
point out in the telegram to President
Truman quoted below, the Wage
Stabilization Board public represent
atives who are supposed to be beyond
the influence of either side have long
"supped at labor's table"
The situation has become intoler-1
able. It calls for immediate legisla-
ton to end WS.B. and such calloused
deception of the public. Citizens in
all walks must speak up to their rep
resentatives in Congress demanding
fair play between economic groups.
Leaders of industry must take the ini-
tiative to mobilize shareowners 50
that they too will speak up to Con-
gress as they have never done before.
1--WE Are Shocked"
Only thus can constitutional lib
erty and our private enterprise system
be preserved from destruction by
self-seeking and monopolistic pres
sure groups.
Last Sunday sent the following
telegram to the President:
"Dear Mr.. President:
Constituents in my district are
shocked to learn that some public
Wage Stabilization Board members
who recommended an all-time high
increase of pay to stop the CIO steel
strike-were actually receiving COM
pensation from CIO and AFL just
prior to their appointment to the
Board by you.
"These members were supposed to
be disinterested, impartial represent
atives of the public, beholden nei-
ther to labor nor to management in
the controversy. Nathan Feinsinger,
Chairman of the Wage Stabilization
Board, has been the favored arbitra-
tor of CIO since 1913 and paid very
substantial amounts by them. He is
their spokesman for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley Act. How could he i'm
partially decide against CIO in the
steel strike without endangering fu.
ture union employment as arbitrator
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Itisyour savings, your income, and
your money, Mr.. Shareowner. You
are under attack, and it's your battle.
Will you take licking lying down
or will you stand up and fight?
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Mrs. Truman Entertuins

Mrs. Truman was hostess yes
terday afternoon to 200 members
of the National Capital Young
Democratic Club, entertaining at
the White House. The hostess
wore the corsage of talisman
roses sent her by the organization.
Both Mrs. Truman and daugh-
ter Margaret are honorary men,
bers of the club, which was or
ganized during this campaign
year. Plans already are being
made for a busy schedule of activ-
ity during the next campaign
Officers of the club are Mr.. j.
Vernon Brown, president; Mr.
Frank Lawrence. vice president;
Miss Barbara Tomlin. secretary;
Miss Anita Rich, treasurer, and
the directors are Mr.. William F.
Fadler, jr.. chairman, and the
Misses Jane Tomlin and Audrey
Goldstein.
The Rev. c. Leslie Glenn, rector
of st. Johns Church on Lafayette
Square, and Gov. .Eelect Will
liam c. Marland were guests anc
Mrs. Vivian House, one of tile
sponsors of the club. was escorted
to the party by her son, Sic j
Vincent Faulk, who made the tril
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Miss Cussurd Becomes Bride

The brioe is an alumna of the
Madeira School in Greenway, Va,
and Bryn Mawr College. She also
studied at the University of Paris
and later worked there for the
Mutual Security Agency. She is
the granddaughter of Mrs. Richey
Dessez of Washington and the
late Mr.. George A. Dessez of New
York and the late Chaplain Will
liam Gilbert Cassard. U. S. N, and
the late Mrs. Cassard.
Mr.. O'Brien was graduated from
Phillips Academy in Andover.
Mass, Yale College and the School
of Architecture of Yale University
He is a member of the Schuyler
Meadows Club of Albany and of
the Yale Club and Racquet and
Tennis Club of New York. He
served as navigator of a destroyer
in Korea and holds a commission
as lieutenant q. g. in the Naval
Reserve. Mr.. O'Brien is now with
the engineering firm of Amman
and Whitney.
He is the grandson of Mrs. John
F. O'Brien of West Chazy, N. Y.
and the late Mr.. O'Brien and of
Mr.. James D. Munroe of Pitts
burgh and the late Mrs. Munroe
The couple will live in Paris
after a wedding trip through
Spain and Italy.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
|FinIeys Hosts
At Dinner
|For Mr.. Dale

A dinner was given last evening
by the Director of the NationalI
Gallery or Art and Mrs. David Fin
ley at the 1925 F Street Club in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Dale of New York.
Mrs. Dale was unable to attend
because of illness but Mr.. Dale,
with a number of out-of-town
friends, attended the dinner and
afterwards the opening of the ex-
hibition at the National Gallery of
Twentieth Century French Paint
lngs from the Chester Dale Col
lection"
Other guests at the event, were
the French Ambassador and Nine
Bonnet, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Davies, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
Mrs. Truxtun Beale and Mrs.
Dwight Davis.
There also were Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Mellon, Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
McKelway, Mr.. F. Lammot Belin,
Col. and Mrs. Harry A. Mcbride,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker. Mr..
and Mrs. MacgiI James, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard P. Williams III, Mr..
Huntington Cairns and Mr.. Perry
Cott.
Included among the others who
enjoyed the fete were Mr.. Francis
Henry Taylor, director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. and
Mrs. Taylor: Mr.. and Mrs. Stod-
dard Stevens, Mrs. ToWar Bullard,
Miss Louise Marock and Mr.. Ro-
land Redmond, all of New York;
Mr.. FiSke Kimball, director of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and
Mrs. Klmball; Mr.. and Mrs. Stur-
lgis Ingersoll, Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce
Gould, all of Philadelphia; Mrs.
j. Frederic Byers of Pittsburgh
and Mr.. Andre Sperry of Buenos
Aires.
Evening star., 1952-11-23

In a candlelight ceremony at
historic st. Helena's Episcopal
Church in Beaufort, S. c., Miss
Karen CaSsard was married yes
terday to Mr.. John Larkin O'Brien,
jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. O'Brien
of Loudonyille, N. Y.
The marriage was performed by
the Rev. Albert j. dubois, Canon
of the Cathedral of the Incarnation
in Garden City, Long Island. He
was assisted by the Rev. John w.
Hardy, rector of st. Helena's and
the Rev. H. Karl Lutge of Boston.
A reception was held at the home
of the brides parents.
The former Miss Cassard is the
daughter of Capt. Paul Cassard
u S. NJ, retired, and Mrs. Cassard
of Beaufort, formerly of Wash
ington. Given in marriage by her
father, she chose a Paris gown OF
heavy ivory satin with a fitted
bodice, high neck, long sleeves and
drapery at the waistline ending ir
two panels falling over the train
The headdress was a Mary Stuart
cap of matching satin with finger
, tip veil of French illusion anc
she carried a bouquet of white
camellias.
Miss Anne Peyton of Bethesda
was maid of honor and the brides
maids were the Misses Patricia
O'Brien. sister of the bridegroom
Carol Hustled of Washington ano
Leslie Anne Bowie Smith of Upper
Marlboro They all wore bouffant
gowns of emerald-green slipper
satin with !. inserts of cartridge
pleating aud carried white chrys-
anthemulns with. wreaths of white
chrysapthemums in their hair.
Serving Mr.. O'Brien as; best mar
was. his brother. Mr.. Duncan M
O'Brien. UShers were the Messrs
Charles f.. Callahan, Allan D
Parker, John "A. Rarnsdell. March,.
T. Reynolds, w. Alexander Stuart
and Richard S.'West.
Evening star., 1952-11-23

to Washington from Fort Benning,
Ga, especially for the party.
Other sponsors who attended
the party were Mrs. Charles F.
Brannan, Senator and Mrs. Estes
Kefauver, Gen. Albert c. Cox,
Mrs. Francis G.. Ulen, Commits
sioner F. Joseph Donohue, Mrs. A.
Vincent Frye. Mr.. Walter l.
Green and Mrs. Nathan Hurwitz
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Luncheon Planned

The Army Daughters will have
a luncheon on December / at /
o'clock in the ballroom of the Bur-
1ipgton Hotel. At II o'clock. a
business meeting will be held.
which is to be followed by a social
hour. Reservations may be made
by writing Mrs. Raymond V. Cra-
mer. 1921 California street NV.
or by calling her at DE. 4861 no
later than Thursday evening.
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Visitinq Home

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lee Preu
have left for their home in New
Orleans. They will visit relatives
in Texas before returning to
Georgetown after Thanksgiving.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-24
Todoy's
Business
Mirror
Nv SAM DAWSON

NEW YORK R--Truce in Korea
that perennial bauble of hope
has been pretty well discounted in
advance now by business and In.
dustry.
The interminable.gabbing at Pan
munjom already has worked the
economy into a situation where the
dollar and cents effects OF a
truce would depend pretty much
o ilhow people take it - just an
other milestone in the seemingly
endless cold war, or a real let
down in defense effort.
And the public has been taught
that the defense effort Is chief
mainstay in an economy rather
obviously balanced lust now be.
tween initiation and depression.
Times have changed since the
truce talks started last July.
Those who believe the truce
would lead TO defense letdown
and q business slump fear these
possibilities:
A truce could make consumers
even mere reluctant to buy. AL
ready they are bargain hunters.
Some businessmen fear customers
will stay home entirely, waiting for
Q collapse in prices.
= -
Stock traders might abandon the
war babies industries profiting
from rearmament. They might
woo again the peace babies = i'm
dustries hard hit when most ma.
terials are earmarked for arma-
ment. They might even fear that
declining defense spending would
send the heavy industries ON the
downward path that textiles all
ready has trod.
Commodity prices, already weak.
ened, might feel the depressing
touch of a truce. War has a
hearsier appetite than peace.
Store buyers and factory pur.
chasing agents, already playinp il
close TO the vest, might put off
future orders.
Congress, locking for a place to
whtttie the budget, might regard
the truce as an invitation 10 carve
on the fat Of military appropria.
tons, and foreign aid.
The United States foreign nolicy
and the defense spending that GOES
with L is described as already
past the point CT no return. !
That means, more money.
Congress has appropriated 100
billion dollars for defense = %
billion Of that still unspent. Con.
gress has been asked for co billion
dollars mere in the fiscal wear
ahead. II this total Of $50 billion
dollars is poured into the economy.
Il could offset much Of the effects
Of the letdown from a Korean
truce.
And even il The nation should