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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-27
Alaska Vote
Scheduled for
House Today
ny ROBERT X. WALSH
star stan writer

Test voting efforts 10,
amend or kin the Alaska
statehood bill start In the
House today with slightly Inn
proved prospects for passage
by a close roll call tomorrow.
Opponents could force an
immediate showdown by NOV
ing 10 strike out the measures
enacting clause. Such q mo-
ton. II successful either at the
start or close Of today's ses-
sion. would be subject TO q roll
call decision tomorrow.
The opposition therefore was
expected TO strive at the outset
for changes In the bill. Some
repeatedly would be acceptable
TO statehood advocates.
But any tentative amendment
regarded as weakening the
measures effectiveness would
have TO be sustained on q roll
call tomorrow. All tallies today
would be by standing or teller
voting In which individual
members are not ofiicially re-
corded.
2S-vote Victory Seen
At the end Of four days Of
general debate late yesterday, |
hackers Of the bill predicted
victory by ct least rs votes. In
order TO hold or gain strength
the sponsors indicated willing
ness TO reduce the public land
area that the Federal Govern
ment would give to the pro-
posed new State. They also
might agree TO opposition de-
mands for continued Federal
control over fish and wildlife
resources for q considerable pc
Rod after statehood.
Smith Leads Attack
Chairman Cannon Of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee has announced he viii raise
parliamentary points Of order
against several provisions for
payment Of Federal funds to
Alaska in event Of admission
to the Union. /
The main attack in closing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-27

replied that there Isn't any
thing In the bin from the
enacting clause 10 the final
sentence that Is acceptable 70
me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-27

lican Of Nebraska. asked
whether he would support the
bin II II provided for another
vote by Alaskan residents on
the statehood issue. Mr.. Smith
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-27
Mitchell Sees Passage
Of Labor Reform Plan
BY. LEE M. COIN
Star stan Writer

Labor Secretary Mitchell predicted today Congress will
enact most Of President Esenhower proposals union
forms.
Moderate desire corrective and not repressve
legislation rally the administrators program told
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-27
Public Aroused

He urged the subcommittee
to act promptly because "the
public throughout the country
is aroused"
Mr.. Mitchell repeated In sub
stance his earlier testimony be-
fore the Senate subcommittee.
He did not back away from
any Of the proposals which
drew criticism from union
leaders and middle-road Sena-
tors.
Among other things, he de-
Tended the proposal to punish
an entire union for certain mis-
deeds by its officers.
He also went down the list
of other administration recon-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-27

the HOUSE LdpOr-Mhndgeme
Relations Subcommittee.
His testimony today was the
first real sign Of life in the
labor field on the House side
of the Capitol. The start Of
House hearings makes final &C
ton this year more likely. al
though major hurdles remain.
While Mr.. Mitchell testified,
stan experts continued work on
q draft bill for consideration
by the Senate Labor Subcom-
mittee, probably at a meeting
tomorrow. The Senate panel
completed hearings last week.
Secretary Mitchell noted that
a wide variety of labor bills has
been introduced. but he said
none of these other bills
are as reasonable or as we'll
balanced" as the Presidents
program.
He said the main aim Of the
administrations program is Ito
protect the individual worker
from discrimination and op-
preston by INSCRIPTIONS union
officers or employers" without
undesirable direct interfer-
ence."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
Questions on the Right to Work

overheard Mayor Rudolph
Ploetz ask Sheriff Theodore
Mosch. How much are you
obligated to the union forY
He said Mosch suffered and
stammered' on noticing that
Heimke was within earshot.
Then, he said, the Mayor
and sheriff, neither now in
office, withdrew to continue
their talk in private.
'Mosch testified previously
that he received a campaign
contribution from the United
Auto Workers Union"
So law and order broke
down and though an appeal
was made to the Governor
for the use Of National Guard
troops. the request was re-
fused on the ground that all
the law enforcement resources
Of the county were not being
used.
Intimidation can be as eff
fective as actual violence in
attaining union detectives.
That's why strong arm meth
DDS are used in strikes now
adays. For every employer
who takes q strike rather
than submit to extortion,
there are thousands Of en-
ployers who are afraid to do
so. Likewise, most employees
are afraid to cross picket
lines. Coercion-not free
speech-is. therefore. the basis
of "picketing" today.
The fright to work" is de-
nounced by so-called "liber-
ais" and others as "the right
to scab." Coercion Is used to
enforce the epithet. All this
happens in free America
where the Communist system
of election is ridiculed as un-
democratic, but yet where the
improper use Of money and
muscle to keep citizens from
working who want to work is
tolerated and acquieSced in
by the Congress and many Of
the State Legislatures.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
By JOHN T. KENNEDY

U. o. Senator from Massachusetts,
Twenty-three years ago, in
the wake Of the Great De-
preston, the Nation took a
major step forward in the
enactment of the Social Sc
curity System. An important
element Of the new program
was the institution Of the
Federal-State system of I'M
employment insurance under
which jobless workers received
weekly benefits while actively
seeking employment.
Without question. unem-
ployment insurance has
served not only as a humane
tartan social program-but
also as one Of our most i'm
portant economic stabilizers.
Sensitive to fluctuations in
the economy. it automatically
pours millions back into the
economy to replace lost wages
when a downturn occurs.
During the late 1930s, the
system served both of these
detectives well. Every State at
that time paid maximum
benefits equal to so per cent
of the average weekly wages
in that State, and in most
States an unemployed worker
could receive up to so to so
per cent of the average weekly
wage in benefit payments.
However. over the years.
the States have Jagged in
keeping the program up with
current wage and price
levels. Congress has not acted
at all. AS a result, the bene-
fits paid to workers out Of a
job today are geared to price
and wage levels prevalent in
the 1930S.
In very few States do most
unemployment insurance re-
cipients receive as much as
so per cent of their previous
weekly wages. In some cases
the percentage is as low as
80 per cent. In dollar terms.
average unemployment bene-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
As Loyoffs Rise and Hope for Upturn
Suqs, Concern Grows in Michiqun

1855 were not finished with
their 36-months-to-pa con-
tracts.
But this year no signs Of
upturn have appeared and
the steady flow Of layoffs
has resulted in predictions
that new sales may touch a
point as low as as million.
Certainly it is clear that the
industry has had warnings
that some mood, not tenn
porary or capricious, has
struck their customers.
Car dealers are coping with
an estimated inventory of
100000 cars, which is cruel
and unusual punishment for
them.
What illustrates the auto
motive manufacturers Is that
peoples savings are UP, gen.
orally speaking, and that re-
assuring indications Of BUSH
ness activity exist in other
fields.
A vice president Of Gen.
eral Motors, Edward T..
Ragsdale, general manager
of Buick, was frank and al
most irascible about this on
his return from a two-week
swing through the West.
He insisted the hard facts
did not indicate a recession
of the magnitude painted,
that the cash was available
for consumer purchases and
that business activity was
better than the average per-
son realizes.
For public consumption, at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
Senator Urges Broader JobIess Pay

6 per cent unemployed. A
large proportion of the in
sured workers in these areas
have already exhausted their
benefits.
Each year since 1858, the
President has urged the
States to increase benefits
so that most workers would
receive so per cent Of their
weekly wage, to broaden the
coverage of the system and
to extend the duration Of
benefits. Exhortation to the
individual States in this
field, as in others, has not
been an effective alternative
to positive action. Since 1858
only one State has broad
ened coverage: only three
have adopted a uniform 26.
week duration Of benefits;
and in every State benefit
payments have decreased in
relationship to average
weekly wages.
The current economic de-
cline points up the neces-
sity of snoring up this i'm
portant barrier against the
rushing tide of unemploy-
ment. Seventeen other Sem
ators have Joined me in
sponsoring legislati on to
strengthen the unemploy-
ment insurance system by
establishing Nationwide
minimum standards.
Too long we have neglected
this important instrument
of economic policy. And
failure to act now-before
a self-perpetuating economic
decline is well established
would be the height Of folly.
Aid to the unemployed, as
Governor Franklin D. Roose-
welt told the New York State
Legislature nearly 80 years
ago, must be extended by
government, not as a matter
of charity, but as a matter
of social duty"
Copyright. 1858. BY United
Feature Syndicate, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
DORIS FLEESON

DETROIT, Mich. - The
economic news in this key
industrial State is getting
worse faster.
The State Employment
Security Commission has an
nounced a new unemploy-
ment total Of AIS, 1000, or l4.3
per cent Of the labor force.
This Is the highest figure
since the enforced idleness of
the immediate postwar period
when industry was convert
ing from a war to a peace
footing. It represents an in
crease of $4,000 since mid
February.
During the postwar lay
offs, everybody had the COM
forting assurance that q
pent-up demand for goods
and services existed, waiting
only to be tapped by attrac-
tive goods. No such warming
prospect appears on today's
horizon, and some Of the
most friendly observers are
in q questioning mood about
the whole structure Of the
dominant automobile indus
try.
Car sales have fallen
sharply from their all-time
high of 10 million in 1855.
When they dropped to So
million in 1856, Detroit re-
NAMED calm and talked OF
election year uncertainties.
In 1857 a slight gain to SO
million sales was recorded.
1t was still possible then to
suggest that the buyers Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
John r. KENNEDY Substituting for Stokes
Benefits Paid to Unemployed Today
Are Ge0red to Price Levels of 1905

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EDITORS NOTE: This is onother Il
the "Stotesmen's Series" column
by distinguished personoees in gov
eminent, business. notionaI offoir
and the military who ore writin!
guest columns for Thomas /. Stokes
who is seriously III.
fits in the various States dur
ing November. 1857, ranged
from a low of $40 a week to a
high of about $35-with most
States paying an average Of
about $27.
1t takes no expert in
family budgeting to realize
that present State unemploy-
ment benefits fail miserably
in providing the wherewithal
to maintain even a modest
standard of living at today's
prices. Aside from the seri-
Gus impact on the welfare
of families and individuals,
the overall effect on our
complex and interdependent
economy is even more lseri-
GUS. The butcher. baker, in
surance company, doctor,
mortgage holder-all of these
and many more depend for
their economic health on the
maintenance of consumer in
come.
Another startling made
quacy of the present system
is that, with we'll over AS
million unemployed, only
about 30 million are drawing
benefits. Too many workers
are not even covered by the
law. Too many others have
been out of work so long
they have exhausted their
benefit rights. The benefit
period is too brief in every
State.
Even in the mild recession
of 1856 more than 40 per
cent of all claimants ex-
hausted their benefits before
finding employment. In the
present downturn, one-third
of the Nations major labor
market areas have more than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
Engineer-Cobbie Amused at Visitors
Who Look Down on ImperiIed Pioneers

TEL AVN, Israel (By Air
maiD This is the 10th ami
versary Of the birth of Israel.
The main functions and fes-
tivities which are expected to
be attended by some $4,000
Jews and quantities of dollars
from America will take place
later But planes full of cele-
brants are already coming
from all over the world.
OF all the visitors the
Americans appear the most
enthusiastic and emotional
Many have tears in their eyes
when they see the new flag
with the Star Of David flying
over the immigration build
ing. In some cases, ! am
told, they have knelt and
kissed the sandy Israeli
ground.
The enthusiasm of their
American coreligionarieS is
not always shared by the rank
and file Of the Israelis. They
feel that they assume too
often a patronizing attitude
and regard the people here
as poor relatives whose eff
forts must be lauded even
though they seem pretty
backward.
AS in so many cities at
home the taxi drivers of Tel
Aviv are the most interesting
and free talking people. One
with whom I rode was a Jew
from Manchester, England.
who works at his profession
as an electrical engineer from
8 am. to 2 pm. and drives a
beaten-up American car of
1910 vintage between 4 and
10 pm. This is the only way
to meet the high cost of liv-
ing. He did not grippe but
was so cheerful that after
he showed me where I could
buy a Gillette razor for $3.50
(plus 81 for S blades) I asked
him to have a cup of coffee.
He parked his car and we
sat down at a sidewalk table.
The conversation is well
worth repeating because 1t
illustrates what makes these
people tick and why they
abandoned the security and
relative comforts Of living
In the West to come to this
arid land where the enemy's
guns are less than five miles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Settler Likens Israel to Old West

they know about being brave
in that sense Of the word?"
My newly acquired friend
took a bite of his second
piece of Viennese pastry and
continued: 81 read occa-
sionally English and Amer
lean newspapers. It seems
that you're in q hell Of q
funk because Of the Rus
slams. That comes from being
too fat and comfortable. If
some Of your people were to
come here and live for "a
hours a day with the con-
viction that the Arabs will
descend upon you at any
moment you will forget how
to be scared and will think
only how best to beat them
back.
Here we are q brand
new nation and ! can say
that we are all alone. No
security pacts for us like the
NATO and the others. The
enemy surrounds us on the
north. east and south. There
is not a single point on the
frontier further away than
a rifle shot. In some places,
as in Jerusalem, the Jor-
danian Legion is within bay
onet range. The Prime Min
ister's residence is 500 yards
away from the Arab Legion
post.
1.-THE Egyptians and Sy-
rians are better armed than
we are because the Russians
provide them with plenty Of
good equipment for free. We
have to buy out Of our
meager resources everything
the army and air force need.
Yet you don't find anybody
panicky or even scared here.
If we live here we must make
up in our minds to also die
in this country. Neither Ben
Gurion (the Israeli Premier)
nor anybody else would last
minutes in Office If he be-
came an appeaser. Most Of
the people you see in this
country fought either in the
last war or in the 1947 or
the 1856 wars against the
Arabs. We are not afraid to
fight again"
On this note the former
Manchester man drove me
back to the hotel and charged
me $4.50-one and a half
hours fare. It was worth 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
DAVID LAWRENCE

Is coercion by force or
threat Of force necessary to
maintain trade unionism in
America? Can't 1t succeed
by processes of reason and
voluntarism? Why should
violence be melted? Why are
millions Of dollars Of the
workers dues used for cam
paign contributions to help
elect members Of Congress
when there is a Federal law
forbidding it? Why are citi-
zens in free America COM
PEELED to pay tribute as the
price Of getting or keeping
a job? Isn't the right, to
work" as important to pre-
serve as any other civil right
protected by the Constitu-
ton?
These questions arise when
one reads the testimony cur.
rently being given before
the Senate committee on
"rackets" and the speech just
put into the Congressional
Record" by Representative
Ralph w. Gwynn. Republican
Of New York, who says that
approximately $725.000 was
spent recently by a single
union to elect a United States
Senator. Mr.. Gwynn says:
I'm the 1856 elections. or
ganized labor was active in
800 of the 435 congressional
district elections and were
successful-that means that
their man got elected-in
more than IT'S. And when
I say the unions were active,
I mean just that!
I'm addition to direct
money contributions. labor
supported candidates received
incalculable numbers of free
campaign workers. union
treasures paid for untold
hours Of radio and TV time,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
DORIS FLEESON
Danger Signs in the Auto Industry

least, all he saw wrong was
that the average consumer
was STEPPED in gloom" Bust
ness, he said, lacked "a for
mula for generating conf
dence among the people"
So far the industry is
pretty much agreed on two
demands on the Federal Gov
eminent for relief. One is
for removal Of the excise tax
on car sales. the other for
some form of income tax
moratorium.
Negotiations on new union
contracts begin at General
Motors next week and at
Ford a few days later. The
generally depressed picture
takes much Of the steam OUT
Of the wage demands Of
Walter Reuther and his
United Automobile Workers.
1t is too soon to tell whether
they will close ranks at the
bargaining table in the in
terests Of an assault upon the
consumers pocketbook.
The politicians are natural
ly vocal. Governor @. Men
men Williams describes the
State situation as a major
economic disaster" and is
preparing a State-Federal
program to remedy it. He
wants Federal action to pay
for the cost of extending UNI
employment com p ensation
benefits and more Federal
highway expenditures. He is
attempting to prod local COM
munities into building prof.
ects and has suggested a S55
million State building pro-
gram,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
KohIer Probe Data, Speech in House
Cited in Deploring Labor Practices

friends of the candidate in
serted expensive full-page
ads in the local newspapers.
Lets look at just one
campaign, in 1854, by one
union for one Senator.
Special election radio and TV
broacastS cost for time only,
with no allowance for staif,
script preparation, reprints
Of talks was $250,000. Special
election editions of regular
publications, extra copies to
distribute outside the regular
union membership ran to an
other $175,000. And then, on
top of all this. the union
hired 500 special organizers
the payroll title for politi-
cal workers-at $40 per day
for the 80 days before the
election. This cost another
100000. exclusive Of ex-
penses or other services"
To what extent have union
labor contributions to politi-
cal campaigns had their in
fluence on the local level
in j. handling strikes? The
United Press the other day
reported from Washington
this item from the hearings
of the Senate committee on
"rackets"::
Police Chief Steem w.
Heimke of 'Sheboygan. Wis.
testified today that a sheriff
who seemed to be obligated
to the union did nothing to
control a waterfront mob
during the Kohler strike. He
also told the Senate Rackets
Committee that officials of
the United Automobile Work.
ers' Union refused to assist
me in any way although q
majority of those involved
were strikers.
"Heimke. then a police
captain. testified that when
he arrived on the scene, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17

This is the second dispotch frol
Mr.. Brown on tour Of lsroel in til
troubled Middle Eost.
away.
YES" he said, IT was max
ing more money in England
than here by working much
shorter hours. But I felt that
I. like the old country itself,
was dying on the vine.
1T was like living in a poor
grandmother'S once hand
some but now rundown mas
sion where everything was
regulated beforehand as it
has been in the good old
days of the past. This ancient
land offers an opportunity to
make its desert and stones
into something really pro-
ductive.
I'VE are doing a hard job
but it is constructive. That
is why I am amused rather
than angered when Ameri-
can Jews come here and give
us the feeling that they look
down on us. What do they
know about hard work?
I'VE the immigrants from
all over the world-and I
mean all over the world-are
doing the same pioneering job
the early colonists did in the
United States. Go and look
at the farmers in Galilee
along the Jordan, the Sy-
rian and Lebanese borders.
They drive their tractors
with one hand on the steer
ing wheel and the other on
a rifle. It's just as I read
when I was a child that your
colonistS did when they
cleared their land with rifles
ready to defend themselves
against lurking Indians.
THE Jews came to Amer
lea by and large after the
country was settled and in
full swing of development.
All they had to do was to
pick the ripe fruit that was
ready to fall in their lap.
That's why I am more
amused than angry when my
fares from across the At
lantic tell me we do this
way and that way in the
States or 1t is very brave of
you to live in this difficult
country What in blazes do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

One Senator says only halfway home his miracle
to everything He's got Democratic Chief Lyndon
johnson for ibut he get Ike to out against it.
Russia and America are getting closer summit con-
ference long list of topics has been drawn that can't
be discussed without starting
One Congressman says intends to take vigorous anti
recession steps, Instead Of talking about it, he VOWS to
run against it.
Grace Keys baby boy named Prince Albert Alex
Louis Pierre With all those boy hardly knows
which he prefers. "Butch'-or Stats"
Small boy describing visit to relatives: Gee they must
be rich They fruit in the house when nobody SICK
The Administration reports shoe production boom
ing Well when fellows out pounding the streets for oo
he sure needs shoes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17

This is the second dispatch from
Mr.. Brown on o tour Of lsroel in the
troubled Middle Eost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-17

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