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Evening star., 1952-11-16
Labor Vote
Election Autopsy Convinces Union Chiefs
That They Didn't Do So Badly After All
By james Y. Newton

among the go million plus of the
country's employed. And, like those
of other segmentS, quite few did
not vote at all, and others voted
Republican, as they always do.
"But would like to ask our critics
this" Mr.. Meany added, "if the vast
majority of our union members did
not vote for Gov. Stevenson, then
where in hell did he get the q mil
lion votes cast for him? Certainly
they did not come from the profess
sional groups and the farmers. There
is conclusive proof that both the
farm and professional vote went
overwhelmingly for Eisenhower"
Mr.. Meany attributes postelection
comment about the unions failure at
the polls to what he calls the false
impression that organized labor vot-
ing as bloc. or close to it, can win
an election.
How can that be true" he asks,
when our union members make up
only Is per cent of the vote of all
working -class people?"
Error in Analysis
Mr.. Meany said that in deciding
that the rank-and-file vote went
against the unions the commentators
and experts made the mistake Of
analyzing the entire vote of an indus
trial city or county. Even in the
heavily industrialized cities, he said,
the union vote is very much of q
minority. He said that to obtain an
accurate analysis the returns must
be examined at the ward and pre-
cinct level.
'The Borough Of the Bronx. as a
whole, is working g-class community.
with large concentration of union
members" Mr.. Meany continued.
Normally, a Democrat will get a
majority of 100000 or so in the
Bronx. This year Gov. Stevenson won
the borough by only 10000.
That has been cited as an example
of the failure of the leaders to swing
the labor vote. But let's look at the
returns from wards which have the
heaviest concentrations of union
members. In the 5th ward, Steven
son won by $4,000 to $500. In the
9th it was 10000 to 1000, and 1000
to 5000 in the 7th. These pluralities
Of from 3 to nearly to were larger
than a Democratic presidential can
didate usually gets. Yet, the Bronx
as whole. rejecting smaller over
all percentage Of union members,
went for Stevenson by only 393, 900
to 241 900, or about 8 to 5. It seems
clear to me from this that it wasn't
our union voters who went for Ike"
The AFL Political League, Mr..
Meany said, sampled the returns from
Cook County (Chicago) and found
results similar to those in the Bronx.
San Francisco went to Eisenhower by
177,000 to 100000, but the working
class districts went to Stevenson.
Although greatly disappointed with
the outcome Of the election, Mr..
Meany said that he and other union
leaders were far from dissatisfied
with labor's part in it. He said that
rather than pull in It's horns, the
AFL planned to expand its political
activities greatly.
Labor Is new to this game" he
said. But think we are gradually
learning what 1t Is all about"
Evening star., 1952-11-16
-. 8. Army Photo.

Ages to describe as an 'armored
knight one who had jumped out of
bed in his nightshirt and merely
pulled a gauntlet on his swordhand."
And. to the argument that tanks
should protect infantry from enemy
tanks, he hooted that "to throw away
such potent piece as tank force
in fighting the enemy tank force is
as foolish as for a chess player to
begin by swapping queens"
At the other pole from the propo-
nentS of armored armies are those
who think the emergence of the atomic
bomb, other new explosives and new
anti-tank weapons has made armor
all but obsolete. And between these
extremes are many middle opinions.
Official Army View
The official United States Army
position is almost squarely in the
middle. The infantry division now
has more tanks than the armored
division of 1912. And today's arm
ored division not only is more mobile
Evening star., 1952-11-16

dollars in such a cause, and reasoned
that hungry North Koreans might
not turn down such bait.
From Washington, D. c., came a
plan for breaking the deadlock over
prisoner-exchange, which halted the
armiStice talks. It was simplicity it
self: Why not release all the u. N
held prisoners who do not want to
return to Communist rule? Then the
only prisoners remaining for ex-
change would be those who want to
go back. The" writer did not think
there would be any risk in the release
plan
Child Correspondents
About third of the letters are
from children, probably the ones who
held up homemade 'I Like Ike"
signs everywhere the general cam
paigned.
A 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts,
Evening star., 1952-11-16

and other war-making material that
the United States would need.
Hitler started his destructive six
year war with an annual steel output
Of only % million tons. At that
time the steel production potential of
the United States alone was more
than double that figure. In the same
war the q. s. S. R.. having lost the
main source of its steel, the Don
River Basin. still defended itself sue
cessfully with only about million
tons a year. And that amount in
cluded lend-lease shipments.
Comparing the relatively plush
troop trains of the Americans with
the rebuilt cattle cars on which
Russian troops travel, it is easy to
see that the Soviet Union soldier
costs only fraction of what it costs
to maintain a United States soldier.
The Soviet Union counts manpower
cheaper than industrial power. In
the last war, the U. S. S. r. lost
about 16 men for each man lost by
the United States. Stain will not
hesitate to make similar sacrifices
in human life in future war.
War Losses Reeouped
There is another way of looking at
the remarkable Soviet industrial ex-
pansion. In 1910 the Soviet Union
produced IS million tons of steel. The
Don River basin metallurgic area
absorbed a tremendous amount of
destruction in World War II. But in
spite of this the Soviet Union was
able to produce 40 per cent more
steel in 1850 than in 1910. And in
1855 the Reds want to have 81 per
cent more than in 1850, or 81 million
tons. This is considerably greater
than the amount which sufdced Hit
Ter to start war against the U. S. s. R.,
Evening star., 1952-11-16

in the Normandy hedgerows and the
breakout at st. Lo preceded Patton's
breath-taking exploits in August.
1914.
BY the end of the war the domi-
nant voices in the United States
Army held that the tank-infantry
team with emphasis on infantry was
the key to battlefield success.
Infantry. they said, had to open
the holes and set up the play for the
spectacular broken-field runs of
armor. And infantry had to protect
armor from enemy infantry and anti
tank guns.
Best Anti Tank Weapon
But infantry needed armor to pro-
tect it from enemy tanks. THE best
anti-tank weapon is another tank"
was q phrase that grew into dogma
during the last months of the war.
Little Of this fitted either the con-
cepts or the cherished desires of the
Patton-men, however, and in the
postwar Army they have fought hard
Evening star., 1952-11-16
By Noum Josny


Britain and the United States COM
bined.
Other items in the Soviet war-mak-
ing potential show similar favorable
development. The 1866 coal and pc
troleum output is expected to exceed
the 1910 level by 125 per cent. Elec-
trio power capacity is expected to
skyrocket 235 per cent in the same
period. The output of aluminium,
which is supposed to have risen con-
siderably from 1910 to 1850, Is ex-
pected to increase not less than 2.6-
fold in 1950-1955.
The petroleum and aluminium out
put will support Stalin's expanding
air force. To provide for still greater
expansion of aluminium production,
indispensable for airplanes, work has
been started on a huge hydroelectric
project in the heart of Siberia, as
far from any bombing attacks as
possible.
It should also be remembered that
the Soviets never fully disarmed after
World War II. In 1948 the Soviet
military budget was equal to that of
1910, when the U. s. S. r. was
feverishly preparing for war. Since
1948 the military budget has been
expanded year after year. More i'm
portant, the expansion of steel. alum
mum and fuel output is expected to
continue, in some categories at an
accelerated pace.
The Price
What the Communist leaders fail
to mention is the price being paid for
these glorious attainmentS. Ac-
cording to them, there are no sacri-
fees involved. The huge industrial
expansion was accompanied by q
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Battle Between Tanks and Infantry Is Raging at Penogon

and has more fire power than any Of
its predecessors, but 1t also has infan-
try forces riding in arnored vehicles,
and self-propelled artillery that can
keep up with it. Army engineers
have developed a portable bridge capa-
BILE of supporting tanks. It can be
quickly thrown over a river. Finally,
the development of larger and more
efficient cargo carrying airplanes
means that today Patton's Sd
Army would not necessarily have to
grind to halt because it was out Of
gasoline.
No Need for Fear
There are those infantrymen
who say that the properly weap-
oned and indoctrinated and trained
foot soldier need not fear tanks.
And there are others who say
that new anti-tank weapons may
drive the tank from the bat
tlefield. DR.. Vannevar Bush. among
others, has suggested this. He
has observed that the development
of a light weapon that can fire a
shaped charge more accurately and
farther than the bazooka fires its
rocket is entirely possible. Indeed
we may already have 1t.
Armored people have their snswer
to all Of this. They will have new
weapons, too, they say, plus greater
mobility as better engines and trans
missions are developed.
Protection Secondary
It is curious and revealing to note
how the original purpose Of the tank
to provide soldiers with protection
from enemy fire-gets less attention
from most of today's tankmen than
either mobility or gun power. AL
but few of them say they will hap
PLY do with less armor plate if they
can have more speed and maneuver-
ability and harder hitting, faster
firing weapons.
Tankmen have also said that the
atomic bomb is no more and pos
sibly less threat to tanks than 1t
is to infantry. Tanks, they say, can
disperse faster and farther than men
on foot. And they have noted that
some observers of the Nevada A-bomb
tests have said that tanks came
through those tests with greater
relative immunity" than other types
of equipment. Noting this, the
armored school observed: Picture
then, if you will, the advantages
offered if ground personnel in battle
were mounted in fully mobile ar
mored vehicles whose characteristics
would protect them from blast, heat
and radiation" Given the mobility
of armor. the school asserted, "armor
is the best force for the atomic
battlefield"
Evening star., 1952-11-16

In their poSt-mortems of what was
to them a ballot-box nightmare, trade
union leaders do not deny they took a
"clobbering" in their espousal of the
candidacy of Gov. Adlai Stevenson.
That is obvious. The beating given
the union "Johnny-come-l Lately" to
national politics was second in sever
ity only to the going-over Senator
Taft, Republican, of Ohio, handed
them two years ago.
But the union chieftains have re-
sented the post-election comment
that they were beaten, at least, in
part, because large numbers Of their
members voted for Gen. Eisenhower;
that the leaders have no influence
with the rank and file and that,
therefore, labor is impotent politic-
ally.
Since the election, the unions have
been checking to see just what hap
pened to the labor vote. The process
is still going on. But the leaders say
there already is in enough evidence
to show that the opposition's COM
ments are not true.
Meony's Claim
George Meany, secretary treasurer
of the American Federation of Labor,
said the checks so far completed in
dicate that more union members
voted in this election than in any
other. He says further that the evi-
dence is that at least as many union
members voted for Gov. Stevenson as
had supported any Democratic presi-
dental candidate of the past. In
some areas, he adds, it is indicated
that Mr.. Stevenson got a larger per-
centage Of the labor vote than either
Presidents Roosevelt or Truman.
What Mr.. Meany says happened
was that labor and its allies in the
cause of Gov. Stevenson simply were
swamped, overwhelmed by an
avalanche of votes from other seq
ments of the economy. Like others
who have examined the returns, Mr..
Meany adds that large part Of the
Eisenhower landslide was made up OF
the vote of women. And, he con-
cedes that among them undoubtedly
were a goodly sprinkling Of union
wives who believed Gen. Eisenhower
could bring their sons back from
Korea sooner than Gov. Stevenson
could get them home.
Another important factor in the
election outcome, according to Mr..
Meany, is an indication that large
number of non-union workers this
time voted Republican, at least in the
presidential contest. Normally, he
says, the bulk Of non-union workers
votes Democratic along with most
union members. That is because they,
too, have benefited from the liberal
laws put on the books by the New
and Fair Deals. Mr.. Meany attributes
the detection this time Of the non
union worker largely to the. failure
of the Democratic organization at
the State, county and precinct level
to get the Stevenson story across.
Minority Of Is Million
Mr.. Meany points out that the,
Is million union members, while
sizable, are very much of minority
group. They are even greatly out
numbered by the non-union workerf
Evening star., 1952-11-16

great improvement in living stand
ards. it is claimed. These all-aruund
attainmentS were made possible by
the "immeasurable" advantages of
the socialist planned economy-so say
the Soviet leaders.
But to prove this they need the
help of statistical magicians. Deputy
Premier Malenkov said that real
wages" that is, the purchasing power
of wage earners. increased by 81 per
cent from 1910 to 1852 and that real
incomes Of peasants rose even more.
by go per cent. Saburov predicted
confidently that real wages of wage
earners will increase by 35 per cent
from 195O-55, those of peasants by
about 40 per cent. It will be noted
that peasants are said to be doing
better in both computations. This is
because it is darker in that corner,
and there is more opportunity for
statistical magic.
Worse OFF Thon 1928
The fact is that the level of real
wages in the Soviet Union will be
lower in 1855, if the goals are reached,
than they were way back in 1928,
when the great era of industrializa-
ton and five-year plans started.
What is more, the 1910 figures are
not good basis of comparison.
Prices of all consumer goods
were raised more or less drastically
in 1910, resulting in a great decline
in consumption levels (real wages)
from 1889 to 1910. Therefore,
comparing the unusually low real
wages of 1910 to those of 1850 and
1855 makes the later figures look
artiflcially good.
Realistic analysis indicates that
wage earners' incomes in the Soviet
Evening star., 1952-11-16
By John B. Spore

In the post-World War II years
the loud, brash voices Of the armored
tankmen who had roared across
France and Germany to the Danube,
under the command Of the late Gen.
George s. Patton, jr., were muted.
not by choice, but because-so 1t
seemed to them-that the high
command of the Army was intent on
making the tank a handmaiden of
infantry. They noted, for example,
that the postwar infantry division
was allotted more tanks than their
own armored divisions had had in
the early years Of World War II.
''If only George had lived" they
said sadly as they heard infantry"
generals advocate adding tanks to
infantry divisions and more infantry
to armored divisions. And their cup
of bitterness became dangerously full
when they heard that one "dis-
tinguished general"-common1y be-
lieved to be Omar Bradley-had said
that the Army needed only one type
of division because when you add
stanks to infantry divisions and in
fantry to armored divisions you even
tually arrive at about the same num-
berS in EACH"
Wonted: A Billy Mitchell
There are many armored soldiers
who disagree violently with that kind
of talk. But the high command of
the Army has been largely domi-
mated by infantry" generals in the
ARav.eHan
senhower, Bradley and Collins all
rose out of the Infantry. No au-
thoritative American spokesman for
the tankerS has appeared. In their
service magazine, Armor, plaintive
voices are occasionally heard wish
ing that ''armor had a Billy Mitchell
to fight its case"
A vision of masses Of armored
giants roaring down roads and across
flaming battlefields, pursuing or en-
circling reeling enemy, is exciting
and very rare. The panzerS that
drove across France in 1910, Rom
2mel's armor in Africa in 1912 and
Monty'S bit later set the stage for
the audacious plungeS led by Patton
in 1914. In Russia, too, there were
great tank battles between the Ger
man Wehrmacht and the Red Army.
But when these battles were sober
ly analyzed, it was found that armor
had its weaknesses. and that every
bold stroke by armor alone had been
preceded and accompanied by the
slow, battering sledge-hammer blows
Of an infantry armor team. Thus
the battle Of Ell Alamein set the stage
for Montgomery's rout Of Rommels
Panzer Korps. Thus the great battles
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Minority Of Is Million

Mr.. Meany points out that the
16- million union members, while
sizable, are very much of minority
group. They are even greatly out
numbered by the non-union workerf
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-18
Order of Publication

The object Of this proceeding IS
to procure a divorce A Vincuio
Matrimonii from the Defendant,
Sarah Elizabeth King, for custody
of the minor child and for such
other and further relief as the nd
ture of his case may require.
The Bill states in substance, that
the Plaintiff is a citizen and resi-
dent of Montgomery County, State
of Maryland, and has been so for
more than one year last past; that
the Defendant is nonresident Of
the State of Maryland and that the
address of the Defendant is 1891
Columbia Road, NV, Washington,
District of Columbia; that the Com
plainant was married to the De-
PENDANT on the 9th day of June,
1913, in the District of Columbia,
by regularly ordained Minister
OF the Gospel; that as a result IF
the said marriage one child was
born, namely, Kenneth Russell
King, on July PC, 1915, who is at
present living with the Complain
ant and whose custody Complain
ant seeks; the Bill further alleges
that ever since their marriage the
Complainant has always conducted
himself as a kind, chaste, dutifnl
and affectionatc husband towards
the said Defendant, Sarah Eliza
beth King, and that the Defend
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tween the time of the said mar
liage and the filing of this Bill of
Complaint, in January, 1850, with
cut just cause or reason, abandoned
and deserted your Orator aud that
such abandonment and desertion
has continued uninterruptedly for
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the filing of the Bill of Complaint
and is deliberate and final and The
separation of the parties to the
cause is beyond any reasonable ex-
pectation Of reconciliation, to all
of which affidavit is made.
The Bill then prays:
Q) That the plaintiff, Kenneth
w. King, may be divorced vim
culo matrimonii from the defend
ant. Sarah Elizabeth King.
90 That permanent custody of
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lettered "D", in the subdivision
known as Dennis c. Simmons Ad-
dition to Rockville" as per plat
recorded in Plat Book No. 80, Plat
No. 1858 among the Land Records
of Montgomery County, Maryland.
This property is improved by a
one story end-of-row prick dweli-
ing containing four rooms and
bath, with all modern improve
menus, and located at PAL North
Adams Street, Rockville, Maryland.
TERMS Or SALE-A cash de-
post OF $4,000 will be required at
the time OF the sale, the balance
to be payable in cash within ten
days after ratification of the sale
by the Circuit Court, with interest
on said balance from the day Of
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adjustments Will be made as of the
day of sale, including front foot
benefit charges of the Washington
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which will be adjusted Tor the cur
rent year to the day of sale, and
thereafter assumed by the pur-
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including revenue stamps are to De
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The above described property
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CLIFFORD G. PERCY,
Trustees 1871
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1952-12-18
EXECUTORS SALE
Personal Property

Under the terms of the will of Elijah Mills deceased tho
undersigned executors named in his will will
SATURDAY, JANUARY ard AT 1000 O'CLOCK AM
at the rcsdnt of the said Elijah Thomas Mills West
side of Muddy Branch Road about mile from Gaherburg
sale public auction all of the personal property owend by Mr. Mills
at the time of his death, including the following:
Lot Of certificate, of Southern CoopeIative vctroa
records; old
old bureaus; old RADIO IL inch Phco TV table
mason Jars canned goods metal q beds with springs
mattresses: old neraham mantl clock
hnai hall rack with mirror; cotng chairs westinghouse
eo' stove nearly foot Westinghouse refrigerator nearly
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few posi 1887 Pontiac coupe; AND OTHER SIMILAR
ATTIC rs
Term cash; articles until paid warranty of
any So made, and all property sold strictly is.
Null and Null, Auctionees John D. Bowman Jr executor
HIM Alexander, Clerk Farmers Banking and Trust
st. Company, executor of
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the minor child of the parties here
to, Kenneth Russell King, born
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orator.
(3) That your orator may have
such other and further relief as
his case may require.
1T is THEREUPON, THIS oath
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adjudged and ordered that the
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this Order of Publication in some
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sent defendant, Sarah Elizabeth
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and substance of this Bill warning
her to be and appear in this Court,
in person or by solicitor, on or
before the 16th day of January,
1858, and to answer said Bill and
abide by and perform such decree
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the alternative, by service of copy
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Mayor and Council of Rockville, Maryland
!. NOTICE. OE HEARING

nearing VIII De held on the 18th day of January 1853
M he ohce OF The Mayor and Council of Rockville
all located of Rol
% Dawson Avenue Rockville Maryland The hearing held for
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10 construction and Installation Of Water Bea
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maj authorization by The Mayor the present
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