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Aids to Labor in Presidents Plan
Increase and Extension in the Minimum Wage Statute
Bigger Jobless Pay Over Longer Period to Be Asked

ceive them. This was blocked
in Congress as a step to fed
eralize" unemployment insur-
ance which. under the law, is
administrated by the States.
The latter Ak standards, in
cluding benefits and duration.
which vary widely from State
to State. The average is $23 a
week for % weeks.
The adamant opposition to
the Roosevelt-Truman propos-
ais might be expected to persist
since the present Congress is
even more State-rights-
minded than then. So, too. is
the administration, as we
know. It would not recommend
anything that smacked of
'federalized" standards. What
Secretary Mitchell is under
stood to mean by Legislation"
is perhaps a resolution by Con-
greSs recommending that the
States raise their standards.
In urging improvement in
coverage of the minimum wage
law and its increase above the
present IS cents an hour, Sec
retary Mitchell said:
Large numbers Of low-paid
workers receive no protection
at all under this statute, Even
for many Of those now pro-
tected, the minimum wage is
low. We intend to work for
increasing the coverage and
the rate"
Here the Secretary of Labor
likewise has cut out a big job
for himself, that is. if expert
ence with the minimum wage
law is any guide. It took the
Roosevelt administration two
hard years of fighting to get
the law on the books, which
finally happened in 1898. Only
in 1949 was the minimum
boosted to rs cents from the
40 cents that had prevailed for
some time previously.
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EisenhoWer's Historic Statement
Address Seen as Refuting in Advance Any Charges
Of Wormongering or Military Threat to Russia

Tense capabilities of the United
States are such that they could
inf1ict terrible losses upon an
aggressor-for me to say that
the retaliation capabilities of
the United States are so great
that such an aggressor's land
would be laid waste-all this,
while fact, is not the true ex-
preston of the purpose and
the hope of the United States"
This is a masterpiece of in
verted statement which ap-
pears not as a threat but new
ertheless states as a "fact"
that Soviet Russia would be
laid waste if her government
ever attempted a surprise
aggression"
The third statement of ut
most significance was also
phrased in an inverted style of
expression, but it nevertheless
gives a pointed warning:
"We will never say that the
peoples of Russia are an enemy
with whom we have no desire
ever to deal or mingle in
friendly and fruitful relation
ship"
1t will be noted that the
emphasis is on the peoples Of
Russia" and this can be in
terpreted as a warning that the
present government in Mos
cow will be dealt with only as
it truly reflects the wishes of
the people of the Soviet Union
"a distinction of tremendous
Importance. 1t could pave the
way some day for a severance
of relations with the present
government if it shows itself
to be a barrier to the assumed
desire of the people of Soviet
Russia to remain at peace
with the West.
Unquestionably the main
object of the Bermuda con-
ference was to arrange for fu-
ture meetings with the govern
ment of Soviet Russia and to
go over the wording Of the
most important statement that
the Western allies have issued
since the close of World War
II.
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even a Republican administra-
ton under the conditions Of
the time.
The wartime cabinet Of
President Roosevelt was not
even Democrat, and Secretary
of State Cordell Hull was as
conservative as any Republi-
can. The Secretaries of War
and Navy were Republicans
Henry Stimson and Frank
Knox. So was the head of the
OSS, Col. William j. Donovan.
Alger Hiss entered the State
Department under Cordell
Hull and resigned to become
president of the Carnegie
Foundation for International
Peace, with the support of
John Foster Dulles.
Some Communists or pro-
Russians rose to positions of
advancement in all branches
of the armed services and in
the OSS.
Wendell Willkie, Republican
presidential candidate in 1910,
was rather more starry eyed
about our Russian allies than
F. D. r.
Instead of opening FBI files,
a course Of reading all the
books published between 1910
and 1946 by prominent Amer
leans would be more enlight-
ening. Internationalists in both
parties followed to some ex-
tent the pro-Russian line. The
reasons are a problem for his
torical, not partisan-political,
investigation.
But this business of opening
FBI files holds serious poten-
tialities. The FBI, our depart
ment of internal security, ex-
lists to serve the United States
no matter what government is
in power. 1t always has been
outside partisan politics. 1t
makes no policies. 1t is an
investigating bureau, without
power to prosecute, that func-
ton being reserved to the At
torney General.
In the course of it's investi-
cations. however. it has COL
lected and continues to collect
dossiers on tens Of thousands
of Americans, including every
one of any Importance in both
parties and in public life.
These dosSiers contain both
pertinent and irrelevant mate
rial-reports on personal asso-
Citations and peccadillos, news
paper clippings, hearsay re-
ports, information given with
or without solicitation, by per-
sons not under oath, who may
be reporting out of malice,
self-importance, or ignorance.
If these files can be declas-
sif1ed for selective public use
In party-political contests, the
party in power would have a
weapon with which it could
deVaState itS 0rrou0nfS Tt
would have a weapon of polit-
ical blackmail, and one that
could turn this country into a
police state, with everybody's
career, reputation. and charac-
ter dependent on what politi-
clans might choose to select
out Of a supposedly secret file,
on what they might choose to
plant in it.
The process of doing the
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hon1os [. Stokes

= Phases Of the Eisenhower
program being worked out for
the session of Congress begin
ming next month that are de-
signed to appeal especially to
4 labor have been unveiled by
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell. They represent an
! approach. in some respects, to
gunrealized New Deal-Fair Deal
aims of the last decade. They
include:
i /. An increase in the stat
utory minimum wage, now rs
cents an hour, and extension
= of it to persons not now COW
cred.
- 2. An increase in the
amounts of unemployment in
: surance benefits and extension
of the period of payment.
= 3. Preparation of a public
works program to provide jobs
that could be started as soon
as there were signs of an eco
nomic recession.
In a speech this week to the
CIO-UAW conference here on
full employment. in which he
revealed these objectives, the
Secretary of Labor showed
that the administration is
very conscious of current indi-
cations that the economy is
undergoing q ''readjustment"
in which unemployment has
increased.
: I'VE may face slight rever-
sails for short periods" Mr..
Mitchell declared. But the
Federal Government should
and will take action to pre-
> vent any serious reversal in
the trend of expanding the
economy"
In our system Of unemploy-
ment insurance, which is de-
signed as a cushion" to abb
sorb the first shock of eco
nomic recession, Secretary
Mitchell has discovered the
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the accuracy of any figures
used. It will be difficult any,
way to persuade Congress to
change existing law to make
such contributions but, on the
other hand, it may be a long
time before the Soviet Union
gives concrete approval, and
hence the proposal may con-
tinue to be simply a matter
OF academic controversy.
Entirely apart from the skill
full proposal that peaceful uses
of atomic energy be given top
priority in international nego-
t1ation over control of atomic
Notwithstanding that will
bring worldwide approval and
take the initiative from the
Soviet propaganda machine
there were in the Presidents
speech some chosen words of
warning, to the Kremlin which
are also Of sensational i'm
portance.
Three statements especially
will be duly noted behind the
Iron Curtain. The first is this:
To-day, the United States
stockpile of atomic weapons,
which. of course, increases
daily, exceeds by many times
the explosive equivalent of the
total of all bombs and all shells
that came from every plane and
every gun in every theater of
war through all the years of
World War IT,"
That's a manner of deScrib-
ing the power of the United
States from a quantitative
basis. 1t cannot fail to i'm
press the Soviets as to what
has been done in secret since
1945 by America with billions
of dollars of expenditure. It
is really the first public dis
closure Of the power of our
atomic stockpile.
The next statement of sig
nificance, designed as a reply
to any surprise aggression"
contains this fateful warning
unparalleled in history:
Should such an atomic at
tack be launched against the
United States, our reactions
would be swift and resolute.
But for me to say that the de-
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Some Post-Bernudo Reflections
Conference Described as Worned-UP Old Dish;
Real Trouble Seen in Soviets Wooinq of Fronce

fortunately exist now in France
lies have more value with the
masses than the truth.
Our diplomatic and mill
tary observers are watching
carefully these new Develop
ments in the light of the un-
scheduled trip to Poland Of
IL French members of the
National Assembly. including
the strongly anti-Communist
Edouard Daladier. the French
signer of the Munich treaty
with Hitler, and Jacques Sou
stelle. a De Gaullist leader.
These politicians took of inn
mediately after Premier Jo-
seph Laniel and Foreign Min
lister Georges Bidault began
their flight to Bermuda. Re-
ports that the IL parliament
tarians met with some i'm
portant representatives Of the
Kremlin cannot be officially
confirmed yet. But there are
indications that this has
happened.
According to some reports,
the only tangible thing that
Messrs. Laniel and Bidault
took back from Bermuda is
the promise from President
Eisenhower to support France
to a greater extent than in the
past in the war in Indo-C China
and also to obtain from Con-
gress a continuation of the
Foreign Operations Admins
tration. But our President and
Prime Minister Churchill were
very specific in their demand
that the European defense pact
be ratified by France at the
earliest possible date.
France is today, however,
less interested in cash or
economic assistance than she
is in keeping Germany dis
armed. Neither is the French
public willing to continue the
war in Indo-China even if we
assume full financial respon-
sibility. French political lead
ers, outside the government,
believe that a solution in Indo-
China could be reached easier
and quicker through the
friendly" intervention of the
Kremlin with Ho Chi Mini
than through the offices of the
United Nations or the support
of the United States. In this
they are correct-all that Com
rade Malenkov has to do is to
flash an order to Ho to stop
fighting and negotiate with the
French.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
FIeeson-
::D0ris FIeeson-
a Noble Destiny, NobIy Stated
Soviet Union Can Marshal Her AIbis, but She Cannot
Drown the Echoes Of EisenhoMers Historic Offer

:. Americans have been put be-
,. fore the world by their Presi-
dent as people with the brains
and imagination to grasp the
threat which overhangs the
atomic age, the, brains and
courage to undertake the gen.
eral rescue from it.
1t is a noble destiny, nobly
stated.
y The volume of applause
: which rose from the United
: Nations delegates spoke for
the worlds hunger for such
leadership. The Soviet Union,
the great power now so publicly
and definitely challenged to
cooperate for peace, may
marshal its alibis but. they
cannot drown the echoes of
President Eisenhower's historic
offer.
Unless Americans choose to
drown them, that is.
For the President, having
p, decided to educate this gen.
Grafton and set it new tasks
regarding the atom, poured
out a heavy dose for people
too long encouraged to be-
lieve that in secrecy there is
strength. The isolationists will
certainly complain at the Of
fered sacrifice of precious
materials and a portion of
: national sovereignty.
:, Some background has been
? set by the steady stream of at
lrtacks on atomic secrecy which
have come from the able and
= influential men who are and
Q have been members of the
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same deficiencies which pre-
viously had been called to at
tention repeatedly by Presi-
dents Roosevelt and Truman,
both of whom made recon-
mendations to Congress in
vain.
1--WE are convinced" the
Secretary said, that substan-
tial improvements are needed
in the unemployment insur-
ance system to make it a better
shield against economic re-
versals. Not only as a matter
of providing greater dignity
and decency to the wage
Garner without a job but also
to maintain him as an active
buyer in the market during his
period of unemployment, both
the benefit rate and the dura-
ton of benefits need to be in
creased, which I expect will he
recommended to the next Con-
greSs. The present unemploy-
ment insurance reserve can be-
come a great force to prevent
a downward spiral if the bene-
fit structure permits a sub
stantial part of that reserve to
be released if it is needed. It
cannot be released unless the
rate and duration Of benefits
are increased significantly"
Secretary Mitchell is very
much aware of the course of
unemployment problems. as he
was a director Of the WPA in
New York early in the Roose-
velt administration.
Toward the end of World
War II when economists were
predicting unemployment in
the early postwar period that
did not materialize, President
Roosevelt, first, and subse-
quently his successor. Presi-
dent Truman. recommended
uniform unemployment insur-
ance standards for all States,
with increased benefits and
longer periods during which
unemployed workers could re-
Evening star., 1953-12-09
David Lawrence

AS a piece of psychological
strategy in the "cold war;"
President Eisenhower's his
,ctoric speech before the United
Nations General Assembly is
:, one of the craftiest and most
penetrating documents flung
at the Soviet government since
: the battle of words began.
For the address brushes away
with one fell swoop any ground
for further accusations, inside
or outside Russia, about war
mongering" or military threat
to Soviet Russia by the West
ern powers. 1t puts squarely
up to the Kremlin the respon-
sibility for helping to achieve
; or blocking a solution of the
problem of international con-
.trol of atomic energy.
= Whether the proposals by
the President accomplish any
thing in the way of a practical
4; agreement or merely remain
: as a challenge to the Soviet
( government, it was a master
stroke to have assembled in the
: speech the challenging pro-
= posals it contained. It was
: n0 ordinary pronouncement.
1t bears the earmarks of pain-
stalking care given to every
= word over months and months
OF time. In a sense, it appears
as the consummation of a
strategy evolved gradually by
the National Security Council,
OF which the President is the
head.
:. At first glance, it might
seem that the old proposals
which provided for inspection
and a system of periodic dis
closure of atomic weapons have
been abandoned or at least
put to one side for the time
being. But a careful reading
of the speech will reveal that
there could be no ratios of
contributions" or procedures"
with respect to the ALLEGATION
of uranium and fashionable ma
'terials without Soviet Russia's
disclosure to the suggested
international atomic energy
agency of the basis for the dis
tribution and, of course, some
means of inspection to verify
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Austrian Presidents
Illness Revealed
BY the Assoeioted Press

VIENNA. Dec. 8. - Radio
Prague said last night President
Antonin zapotocky had been
confined to bed with a severe
cold for several weeks. The re-
port. the radio added. explains
why the President of Communist
Czechoslovakia was absent from
political affairs during recent
weeks.
The radio said he is recovering.
Evening star., 1953-12-09

The issue Of Communists in
Government during the war
and postwar period is neither
Republican nor Democratic.
There is no proof, but there is
likelihood that Communists
would have infiltrated into
Evening star., 1953-05-26
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AUCTION SALES
THOS. J. OWEN & SON, Auctioneers,
43S Southern Building.

Trustees Sale, Sale Of, Valuable TWO
NUMBER 1851 QUEEN STREET
NORTHEAST.
BY virtue Of a certain deed of trust
dated December 2. 1882 and re-
corded as instrument number 476l5.
December Decent 4 H. 1852 among the land
and at the request OF the party
secured thereby, the undersigned
trustees will sell. at public auction in
from: of the premises on THURSDAY
THE FOURTH DAY OF JUNE A.D.
following described land and prem
ises, situate in the District of Coium-
bia, and designated as and being Lot
rdysr dy5an Of made ns4 Il BY n. trant III d
called Younssboroueh, H T' ugh ss' as per Sl tph pIat
recorded in, the once of the Sur
veyor. for the District OF Columbia
IN Liber. 76 at folio SS: subject to
the building restriction line and
covenants OF record.
Terms: Sold subject to a prior (build-
ing association deed of trust for
approximately S6.206;22. and prior
mstelY s544e@s nSi further ioF particufsrs aReaGS
Of sale; the purchase price above
said trust to be paid in cash. A
deposit Of $500 90 required. Con-
veyancing. recording. etc, at pur-
chaser's cost. Adjustments made as
piled with within so days, otherwise
deposit forfeited and the property
may be advertised and resold at the
discretion of the trustees.
WARNER L. HUMBLE,
VERGINALD L. DOLPHIN,
ny23. 26. 20. jel.3 Trustees,
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THOS. J. OWEN 4 son, A1ctioneer1,
436 Southern Building.

oNE.HAiF' ' 1NTEREsT n YadsSFs N 8NFRiS5D 4Np To
pWEILINd Being Known As
PREMISES NUMBER 6OsM PARK
ROAD. NORTHWEST.
By virtue Of q certain deed Of trust
duly recorded, in Liber No. 9449.
r.ndpd, rSii9 164 % ,S ct n;a;;. sea;; Of the land
se At ahi pubIis bSIneesslsasd susted
in front Of the premises. on TUES
DAY, THE SECOND DAY OF
JUNE, AID. 1853. AT ONE-THIRTY
O'CLOCK PM, the following
described in tbo ntaTs land and premises, situate
DESIGNATED as and being an undi-
vided one-half interest in and to
Lot SO in Lewis E. Breuninger's
subdivision of lots in bellevue, as
per plat recorded in the ONCE Of
the Surveyor for the District of
Columbia in Liber County 13 at
folio Ill. Together with the ex-
fIn elusiye S right s Of possession in and to
property. Now known for purposes
Of assessment and taxation as Lot
SO in Square 3039.
Terms: Sold subject to prior
lbuilding association deed of
trust for approximately So, ,525.27
further particulars of which will
purchase price above said trust to
be paid in cash. A deposit Of
$4,000 required. Conveyancing,
recording, etc, at purchasers cost.
Adjustments made as of date of
sale. Terms to be complied with
posit forfeited and the property
may be advertised and resold at the
discretion of the trustees.
HOWARD BERNSTEIN,
THOMAS w. HUNT.
my21 ,23, 20, 29je1 Trustees.
c. G. SLOAN a. CO., INC,
Aucti0neers appraisers.
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THOS. J. OWEN 4 SON. Auctioneers,
435 Southern Building

THOS. J. OWEN a SON. .Auctioneers,
435 southern Building.
Trustees Sale of valuable. improved
real estate consisting Of an ur,-
story brick dwelling being premises
1254-A Carrollburs Place S.W..
BY virtue Of q certain deed of trust
duly recorded, in Liber No. 9459.
Folio 141 ct seq: OF the land re-
and at the request of the parties
secured thereby. the UNDERSIGNED
within the ONCE of Thos. J. Owen
g. Son. Room 435, Southern Build
On anf G!sfsRtn rHs afe ssSfsfS BAY o
oGnooK 5THE A-P PM lsSa; Re At fDllowinss 1NE
described land and premises, situate
in the District of Columbia, and
GN6ivIDEp NEHAEF 4 s a1a 1N4RkET sslPf 81
IN AND 70 Lot numbered Ninety
Four (94) in the Washington Sani-
tary Improvement. Company's sub
division Of lots in Square mum;
bered Six Hundred Fifty-One (65D
as per plat recorded III in sfr,ct the ohce
Columbia in Liber 81 at folio 27:
Terms: Sold subject to, a prior deed
Of trust for approximately $7.000.00
further particulars Of which will be
announced at time of sale: the
purchase price above said trust to
Ssoo.6So required. conVeyancing.
recording. etc. at purchasers cost:
Adjustments made as of date Of
sale. Terms to be complied with
within thirty days, otherwise deposit
forfeited and the property may be
advertised and resold at the dis
cretion of the trustees.
ABRAHAM H. LEVIN.
ROBERT G. WEIGHTMAN.
my21,26,je1 Trustees.
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PROPOSALS

GOV. OF DIST. OF COL, DIR. OF
PROPOSALS will be reed. in RIM.
404 400 Pa. Ave. NV. Wash. /.
D; G.. until 2 PM, DIST. June 4;
1853, and then publicly opened and
read for Toilet Modernization of 10
Schools in d. c. Proposal forms,
specns. and drawings obtainable,
without charge, from Supervisor
Contr. Sec. Procurement Office, D. c.
Rm. 406 400 Pa. Ave, NV. (Tel.
MA. $4,000. Ext. 237S).
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