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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
Labor Craftsmanship, '4o Model

in an industry on q scale
that the big companies
usually can afford to pay.
but which compel the smaller
companies to operate on thin
margins Of profit or in the
red.
Nowadays the AFL-CIO
merged organization seems
to have two voices. George
Meany tends to be like his
predecessors in the ALL
Sam Gompers and Bill Green
- while Walter Reuther
makes speeches which would
indicate that he sincerely
believes the American eco
nomic system would fare
better along socislistic lines
and with more and more
Government control, inter-
vention or even ownership.
His views are often reflected
by many of the so-called
liberals" in Congress.
There's a big argument
currently as to what has
caused imitation. The fact is
the dollar is So cents less in
buying power than 20 years
ago. Wage rates that are
forced upward irrespective Of
the higher prices they induce
can result only in more and
more unemployment. The
workers with seniority keep
their jobs. The younger ones
lose them. AS for the youth
coming of age in the labor
market, many don't get jobs
at all.
Unemployment today is due
largely to the attacks on the
private-enterpriSe system by
thoughtless labor-union lead
ers. This is the opposite of
craftsmanship. 1t can only
bring encouragement to pri-
vate initiative and. finally.
introduce a species of Gov
eminent control and mo-
nopoly.
There is no substitute for
competition, and even the
labor-union movement, which
is governed by a monopoly
today, would be far better
of with a little competition
inside it's own ranks or at
least some of the 1949 states
manship that sincerely re-
cognized at the bargaining
table the common interest
of employer and employee.
tcoDyright, 1857
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Az of L Praised for Urging That Unions
Cooperate to Cut Employers Expenses

agement production COM
mittee. Now is the time to
revive this pre-war idea and
make it effective for today's
needs"
This writer in his 1949
dispatch characterized the
statement as IAN excellent
example irresponsible lead
ership in the trade-union
movement" and added:
The main pillar Of the
free enterprise system is
competition. but again and
again wage rates are forced
upwards by considering only
what large units in business
can absorb. These are the
very increases that put
smaller companies in the red
or out Of business.
"The AT Of l. does not by
any means abate its interest
in wage increases. In fact, it
urges these be sought wher-
ever possible because of the
need for maintaining con-
sumner purchasing power.
There is no. doubt that
union leaders Of the respon-
sible type are fearful Of the
effects of the present recess
sion. The fact that they are
sending out words Of reas-
surance concerning the I'M
derlying strength of the eco
nomic system does not alter
the fact that they know this
is no time for boat-rocking
on extraneous issues"
The Springfield Republic
can in its editorial the other
day describes the 1919 pro-
nouncement of the AT of L
as significant of what its
doctrines used to be before
the merger and prior to "the
AFL's absorption of the
"Reuther philosophy" and
adds this comment:
To-day, the merged ALL
CLIO demands regular annual
pay boost. plus ever-mount-
ing fringe benefits and other
built-in imitation devices, re-
CARELESS of the competitive
position of any business"
Large unions, moreover,
are frustrating the historic
process of job creation by
setting uniform wage rates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
DAVID LAWRENCE

When President Eisen-
hover appealed last week to
labor and management for
craftsmanship on both
SIDES" he was concerned with
its absence nowadays at the
bargaining table.
How different. for instance,
Is the attitude of the big
labor unions today from
what 1t was only ten years
ago, when there was evidence
OF real craftsmanship as well
as sound economics! Atten-
ton was called recently to
this contrast by one Of the
editors Of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican. who said
that, on unwrapping an old
mirror, he found in a 10
year-old newspaper some
quotations which afford an
opportunity for comparison
with what is being said to-
day.
In the article. which hap
pened to be one that this
correspondent wrote on June
81, 1919, there was an ex-
cerpt from the monthly sur
vey issued by the national
headquarters of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and
distributed to local unions
throughout the country. The
AT of L declaration read as
follows:
I'm the present precarious
business situation. wise union
policies are Of utmost i'm
portance in negc iating with
your employer. Get the facts
on his financial condition
and outlook from him If pos
sible; supplement your in
formation by writing to AT
of L headquarters.
Perhaps your employers
prospects are excellent, but if
his profit margin is being
squeezed by price declines
your future will be more
secure if you help him i'm
prove his competitive posi-
ton. A wage increase may
depend upon a plan for union
cooperation to prevent
waste. save expense, cut costs,
improve production.
such a plan can be devel-
oped through a union-man-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
Rockefeller Held Gamer by Enactment
Of His Plan, in Contrast to Williams

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's
success in persuading a re-
luctant New York Legislature
to enact his controversial tax
program has given new life
to his possibilities as a can
didate for the Republican
nomination in 1860.
The attractive young man
who swept into the Empire
State governorship in the
face of overwhelming Demo-
cratic victories elsewhere has
proven himself in his first
test as a leader. And it was
no minor test, either. His tax
program, compelling as it
was from the standpoint of
State finances, was unpopu-
lar with the public which
had just elected him. 1t was
equally unpopular with Re-
publican politicians.
1t came under sharp at
tack at its outset and at
times it appeared that
Rockefeller would suffer an
ignominious defeat before his
gubernatorial career had as
much as got off the ground.
Yet the last legislative hold
out was finally brought to
bay and Rockefeller got the
more than a quarter of a
billion in new taxes he be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Chairman Alcorn doubts Republicans will nominate
Rockefeller In fact there's doubt there are enough
Republicans left to nominate anybody.
Senator Heating leads parade Of Speech-makers to
Hawaii Hawaians will learn that you don't get anything
including Statehood, for nothing.
Historians will open is million Harry Truman papers
May Gen. Macarthur will release his 50000-word reply
May H.
Democratic Boss Johnson is praised by Senator Mon
roney the ideal modern TV canddatethe first
do-it-yourself Western.
Question Box. QWhats the object of kids rolling eggs
the White House lawn? A-Same Ikes golf gameto
break go.
Father: "How do you explain these Cs and Ds?"
Daughter: I'm too young to get my learners permit"
Real reason for the revolt in Tibet: They want Lowell
Thomas back-to make him the Deco lama.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Panel of Former Presidents

whatever to gain-and all
that was in him TO give.
A bipartisan group of Sem
ators headed by Jacob X.
Javits of New York proposes
that we place our retired
Presidents upon a new Ad-
visory Council on National
Security. Mr.. JavitS and his
associates want also to APP
point to this council rs other
leading citizens. Their plan
may be open to objection in
detail. But surely in its prin-
ciple. in its central purpose Of
putting the sage memories Of
the past into the service Of
the present, they are on the
right track.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30

quarters we have been toss
ing upon the rubbish pile Of
history those Of high station
who have outlived their
terms. At the moment. no
use is being made Of the
great experience and accu-
mulated knowledge Of two
former Presidents Of the
United States, Herbert c.
Hoover and Harry S.
Truman.
Within a mere hour, as
time goes these days, a third
former President, Dwight D.
Eisenhower. will join these
two in their singular form of
unemployment. Mr.. Eisen-
hover, too, will be finished
come January Of 1861.
Not to use the talents of
such men-and not to find
a way to use the talents of
all who will become ex-
Presidents in the long to-
morrows-seems hardly SEN
sible. Even Federal judges
after retirement may still be
subject to emergency duty
on the bench. And flve-star
officers, generals of the army
and admirals of the feet,
remain five-star officers for
life.
Those who suppose that
Mr.. Hoover or Mr.. Truman,
or Mr.. Eisenhower after he
leaves the White House.
could contribute nothing do
not we'll understand the
country. Each of them has a
rocklike personal following
and will have as long as he
lives. Sitting together on a
council of elders, whatever its
title might be, they could i'm
mensely add to national
strength and unity in any
crisis. For each would be
above any possible suspicion
of personal ambition or par
tiSan malice.
Each would have nothing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30

lieved the States business
required.
The fact that Rockefel-
ler's tax proposals got
through the Legislature
does not make them popular
with the voters. But he does
not have to face the electo-
rate again for quite a spell.
By then the first sharp pain
may well have been forgot
ten.
Rockefeller'S initial sue
cess in New York is as great
a contrast as could be
imagined with the troubles
of another Governor, still
young despite six elections to
Office. Mennen Williams of
Michigan also has presiden-
tial aspirations, which might
have come much nearer
realization except for his
troubles with another Repub-
lican legislature.
Williams is a Democrat
and as such might be sup
posed to have special troubles
with the Republican legiSla-
lures with which he has had
to deal all through his ten
years in Office. But the Mich
igan record proves that in
regard to taxes Republican
Governors Jared no better
than Williams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
DORIS FLEEsON
State Tax Success and Failure

Michigan has no income
tax. And the Legislature is
not about to provide one.
1t does have a 3 per cent sales
tax, but five-sixthS Of that
goes to school districts and
local governments. The con-
Stitution of the State for
bids borrowing more than
$25O,000.
The recession has been a
real blow to Michigan, where
unemployment is still high
and the population still
growing. Because of it, State
tax revenues in the current
fiscal year will be $40 million
less than expected. The State
has simply run out of cash
and is getting by through
the expedient of asking its
biggest taxpayers to ante up
in advance.
All this has led some parti-
sans to term Michiga n
bankrupt" and cite Will
liams' edition of the welfare
state as its cause. This is far
from the truth. Michigan is
far down the line in state
welfare benefits. Yet the ma
tional image of Williams has
BEEN damaged because his
Legislature has refused to in
crease taxes. And the image
of Rockefeller, because he has
fought with his Legislature
for more taxes and won, is
more viable than ever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
Boys Club Week
To Sturt April s

The Boys Club of Greater
Washington will celebrate Ma
tional Boys Club Week April 6
to IL with a week-long series
of events, Executive Director
Paul E. CasaSsa announced
today.
Included in the program will
be junior commissioners day, a
recognition night" dinner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30

streets Sc; Miller. Forty-ninth
street and Washington place
NE.
On Thursday, from 10 am.
to noon, clinics will be held
in the following schools: Sousa,
Thirty-seventh street and Ely
place Sc: Terrell, First and
Pierce streets NV: Gordon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30
Polio Vaccine
Clinics Slated

Twenty-three special polio
vaccine clinics will be held this
week in junior high school
buildings throughout the city
for families who do not plan to
go to a private physician to be
immunized.
DR.. Daniel L. Finucane, di-
rector of health, said the Health
Department and the District
Medical Society are co-operat-
ing in an intensive campaign to
have entire families protected
against polio with the Salk
vaccine.
He urged every person, young
and old-even those over 40
to protect themselves with the
full series of three shots.
Spot Survey Made
DR.. Finucane noted that in a
spot survey early this month it
was found that only about half
of the infants and preSchool
children had completed their
three polio shots.
Following are the days and
locations of the clinics:
Tomorrow, from 10 am. to
noon. clinics will be held in the
following schools: Hart, COL
Mississippi avenue Sc; Gar
net-Patterson. Tenth and U
streets NV; Francis. Twenty
fourth and N streets NV;
Randall. First and l streets
S.W.; Taft, Eighteenth and
Perry streets NE; Eliot, Eight
zenith street and Constitution
avenue NE; Douglass, Pomeroy
and Stanton roads Sc; Shaw,
Seventh street and Rhode Is
land avenue NV.
Wednesday and Thursday
On Wednesday, from 10 am.
to noon. clinics will be held in
the following schools: Kramer,
Seventeenth and @ streets Sc:
Langley, First and T streets
NE; Deal. Nebraska avenue
and Davenport street NV;
Banneker, Euclid street near
Georgia avenue NV: Paul,
Eighth and Oglethorpe streets
NV; Hine. Seventh and c
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30

Thirty fifth and T streets NV;
Stuart, Fourth and E streets
NE; Jefferson, Eighth and H
streets S.W.; Mcfarland, Iowa
avenue and Webster street
NV; Woodson, Minnesota ave-
nue. and Foot street NE;
Browne, Twenty-fourth anC
Benning road NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-30

father and son night, a spring
music recital, family night, the
commissioners ball, an ath-
letic jamboree and other
events.
Election of three junior COM
missioners will take place on
Friday at the Eastern Branch,
The club has been serving
Washington for 70 years. The
celebration here will coincide
with similar events planned by
more than 500 other Boys
Clubs of America.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-03-26
LIT
uJJ
What Color Would You
Like To Ba

Years ago read a fantasy deal
ing with the invention af skin
whitener and the complications
it created in a hitherto Jim-Crow
society. But life may soon catch
up with fiction According to DR..
Morris Fishbein, former editor
of the American Medical Associa-
ton magazine, science is likely
to learn how to control skin COL
or. AS the medics learn more
about the functioning of the en-
doctrine glands, DR.. Fishbein told
doctors at ST. Louis conference
they may be able to modify skin
fermentation quite extensively.
The thought is enough to turn
members of the White Citizens
Councils purple or blue.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-03-26
We Want Out

When I reported last month
that we had received request
from California State Prison for
our pamphlet about racial equal
ity, We Open The Gates, it re-
minded Rabbi Morris Kertzer OF
the time he visited Iowa State
Penitentiary during World War
II to deliver a sermon. The pris-
oners' newspaper, he reports, had
this patriotic slogan: GALL OUT
for Defense!"
And when the Rabbi preached
at Sing Sing a couple of years
ago, he reports, the inmates dis
played unusual fervor when they
sang the hymn, LET My People
Co."
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Brotherhood Of Man?

ut is easier to love humanity
as a whole" remarks longshore-
man-philosopher Eric Hoffer in
The New York Times Magazine,
than to love ones neighbor."
AS proof he cites a Russian
land owner, Petrashevsky who,
some one hundred years ago,
came to this remarkable conclu-
sion: Finding nothing worthy Of
my attachment either among
women or among men, I have
vowed myself to the service of
mankind"
Communist and other totalita-
rian states find it entirely nat
ural to maintain they are dedi-
Gated to the service of man
kind" while viewing the love of
ones neighbor as counter revolu-
tionary. Chinese Red leader Mao
Use Tung, 70 f example, warns
that one of the worst sins any
Red subject may commit is a
failure to report the miSdeeds Of
eminent of the people, by the
people, and for the people does
not perish from the earth.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-03-26
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Hooray For Teachers

Southern public school teach
ers often stand out as unsung he
roes of the school desegration cri-
sis. In Norfolk, Va, for example,
the virtually unanimous teacher
support for opening the public
schools was an important factor
in the smooth transition that oc-
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-03-26
PACE THREE
Cured when the courts ordered
the schools opened.

Cured when the courts ordered
the schools opened.
In Dade County, Florida, teach
ers also voted almost unanimous
ly, in response to a question:
naire from the Florida Education
Association, that free public
schools must be kept open"
The University of Virginia
chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, the
teachers fraternity, called on all
teachers to join a Committee for
Public Education, to keep free
public education a reality. And
the national fraternity has just
published action Patterns in
School Designation; A Guide
book" to aid school officials fac
ed with the difficulties of draft
ing and implementing desegre-
CATION program.
The educators who wrote this
guidebook - Herbert Wey and
John Corey visited scores OF
communities drought the nation.
They are painfully blunt in de-
scribing desegregation efforts
Continued on Page a
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Amt 1t The Truth

There's one thing about AM
erica" observes radio star Pat
Buttram. "It's land where even
the loWliest street cleaner can
become a college professor = if
he's willing to make the finan-
cial sacrifice"
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Personally, we'll take another
definition of service to mankind
the one that suggests we treat
the other fellow the way we'd
like him to treat US.
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THIS WEEK Mooozine / Jolly IS. 1859
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What RR consolidation can do

railroad consultations are consistent with
public interest.
Tax concessions for regional railroads,
possibly in the form of construction reserve
provisions.
"a new look at Interstate Commerce
Commission regulations in the light of
broad consolidation programs.
vONsoLIDArIoNs, am convinced, would
~ result in:
]. Better service to the public - both
tor the long-distance traveller and the long
suffering commuter.
z. Greater security in jobs provided by
the railroads. (Railroad jobs have been
shrinking at the rate of 1000 per month";
3. A stronger transport network for the
nations defense.
q. A chance for passenger railways to
make some money again - and to improve
their methods.
The system has worked in the past. EVERY
major United States railroad is the product
OF consolidation of many smaller railway
companies, operating separately and some
times IN competition with one another. The
Pennsylvania, for example, is actually a
consolidation of about 600 smaller lines.
Much of the railways financial plight
stems from hauling too little freight over
too many duplicate routes. Railways carry
less than so per cent of the nations freight,
drop in recent years of Is per cent Con-
sOIidntiOn sOOuId increase the freight prof.
its that help cushion cOnlmufer losses.
Outmoded practices and vigorous carrier
competition planes, buses, trucks, boats,
pipelines = slash into rail income. Rail.
ways need to become just as enterprising
and alert as the competition. Consolidation
scOuLd help meet this challenge.
10 be sure, there is no one solution for a
transportation problem that has been build.
ing up for 30 years or more. A regional rail-
road system, however, will produce a rail
network for troubled lines that is more eff
cient and less costly than what We have to-
day. And government funds are not required
to launch or to advance consolidation.
Would consolidation destroy healthy
competition among railways, resulting in