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Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

The latest Of Rockefeller's CON
servative" moves, is causing real
anxiety among his liberal friends
and It might even disaffect those
many independent voters who have
found the New York governor 80
attractive.
What he proposes Is that the
us. unilaterally resume nuclear
testing underground, to avoid fall
out). Some people wonder If this
is merely a means of dissociating
himself from the Eisenhower-Nix-
on Tets not be beastly to the
bear" approach. Or is there more
to II,
Until he develops his position
more fully think it would be wise
to withhold judgment on Rookie
fellers tactics. But his managers
ought to know that there are many
people besides local Republican
politicians who have yet to make
up their mind about Rockefeller.
They would be unhappy II some
thing 90 important as nuclear test
ing were regarded merely as a
political gimmick for 1860.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06
Jury Trails For Those Accused OF
Drunk Driving

The ruling of the Minnesota Supreme Court
drunk driving had right jury trials this
opinion based good grounds
AS has been pointed here before the
charged driving usually
an automatic conviction
Certainly everything driving
the fundamental rights of for fair trial by
citizens should denied because
public interest
Murder public get
fair trial
the already heavy load Of litigation presently
Minneapolis way tusties those
accused of drunk driving should not have the jury
the court overloaded steps
additional judges before present controversy surrounding
the trials this felt there judges
the municipal
population
In persons a charge
driving have felt the that their being
court" fashion. Now, citizen
heard and reviewed by his fellow citizens police
to bring into court real evidence that the suspect while
driving If takes judges justice
all parties concerned-then we should have them.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

want justice in business. We do
not want things to be equal; we
want them the same. Then we
know they are equal. We are not
trapped by the argument that any
one for integration is a Commtln-
ist. Communism is for the subju-
cation Of individual to state and
not for the individual freedom
characterizing integration. Those
who work for integration live ac-
cording to the Bible and American
ideals" Rev. Fred L. ShuttIes-
worth, Birmingham! Indignation
leader.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

TN my opinion, many jobs that
women hold in the labor market
puts pressure on their femininity.
1t Is much more difficult to rear a
family and have feminine relations
with your children If you have to
go out and hold a fuIl-time job
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

Rockefeller is without question
an earnest, dedicated, essentially
liberal businessman Of vision and
foresight. While he Is a hard work.
er for the causes in which he be-
lieves, he is not a tough" polite
ian in any sense Of the word.
Almost his first act on becom-
ing governor was to hike certain
New York taxes, which hit the
average citizen quite hard. The
question of whether the higher
taxes were or were not needed will
probably be argued for some time.
But one thing Rockefeller forgot
was promptly to squeeze some Of
the fat out Of the state budget,
long inflated by the demands Of
corrupt politicians. His failure
brought criticism from organized
labor and his program was called
soak the poor" tax.
A really tough politician would
have handled the situation differ
emily.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06
70 Correct The Record On MiIson Rose

Editor makes boil inside to personin position of
sthat viii subject his constituents to nequt
he tries dstort
his colleagues and his own
hide.
exactly what Commissioner Rosn did when the writer
assaed him his the aboca scheme" to turn the Coleman
property to the city for park purposes.
Roen Ld And he knew that he telling lie when he stated
his that the the city
Council against the Coemans unanimous
Robert Peterson Adrian
wine Donald NJ DeCourcey voted fornot
against the Coemans challenge prove otherwise
Jerry Robins, President 6l0 Minnesota.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

put on the Dig freeze Iney were
curious about Rockefeller, but not
curious enough to risk Nixon's
wrath by giving Rocky a big well
come.
EocKefeller's managers, OF course
sense what is going on. So they,
and he, apparently have decided
the course Of wisdom Is to draw
Nixon out on a number Of issues
in those areas where they feel the
Vice President continues to live
up to his reputation as Tricky
DiclIy."
Their efforts along these lines
have not been Tremendously sue
cessful either. The result has been
that a somewhat premature sense
Of desperation seems to have af-
flicted the Rockefeller camp. It is
causing the New York governor to
perform in a manner that seems
out Of character.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06
WHO'S THE CONSERVATIVE

WHO'S THE CONSERVATIVE
Rockefeller now seems determ-
ined to convince the local Repub-
lican politicians that he is more
conservative than the Vice Presi-
dent. That win take some doing,
because Nixon IL not 80 much con-
servative as he II resilient; or,
to put It less politely, he's tricky.
The way Rockefeller Is going
about the unhappy task he has set
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06
WATCH
on the
POTOMAC
BY ROBERT O. sPTVAcK

Washington-THE ROCKY" ROAD TO THE WHITE
HOUSEGOv Nelson Rockefeller is learning the hard how
tough and demanding national politics be- His trip
country tremendous according
reports coming national party headquarters here Leading
Republicans still fearful that Vice President Nixon might by
become President before the national conventions
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

I'VE cannot accept token inte-
grafton because token democracy
is no democracy. We do not want
to put a place out Of business; we
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06


Editor and apprecatve thank you to Mr. Newman
interested cooperative approach toward all Chest
pagn communications sent your way
AS you doubt already 1000 workers collected
total Of s., ,sO7e7 exactly 1OoS9 Of the goal
staff volunteer workers. that real impetus
to the three week campaign readers through
the coverage In your Newspaper
At the Community Chest look forward to other
poits work with coming yearCOrdialy
Annette Su<Ov, October % 1859.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

Copyright, 1869, Robert @.
Spivack).
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

Police They
votees just violently o.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

The Big Three's new compacts
Stin lack the genius mark.
Each looks like q little Rambler,
Or else like q little Lark
Minneapolis spokesman., 1959-11-06

The labor law not bad its defenders permits
the operation Of the first free speech amendmen-n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24

When the labor union bosses
raise money to contribute to
the campaigns Of members OF
Congress. must those who are
elected disregard their per-
sonal convictions on the
merits of proposed laws and
do the bidding Of the groups
that furnished the funds?
This issue seems to have been
projected by James B. Carey,
one of the top leaders OF the
AFL-CIO, whose recent letter
to members of Congress has
caused a stir. He expresses
gratitude to those who voted
as labor wanted and wrote
In bitter sarcasm to those
who, having accepted cam
paign contributions from Ia
Dor interests. voted against
their wishes on the Landrum-
Griffin bill.
Mr.. Carey threatens repri-
sails at the ballot box, and
apparently the labor unions
will withhold contributions
next time from those men,
bers Of Congress who refused
to consider a campaign con-
tribution as a bride.
There is nothing unusual
about Mr.. Carey's letters to
members of Congress. He
should not be criticized as
being alone in his viewpoint.
For what he has written is
in line with CLIO policy for
years. Indeed. John L. Lewis,
while active in the CLIO, was
Enthusiastically frank about
the meaning Of a contribu-
ton from laboring men to
the campaigns of candidates
for ONCE.
When the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, having
accepted big contributions
from labor unions for his
1896 campaign, said in the
midst of a strike in 1887
something that the labor
union leaders didn't like, Mr..
Lewis declared publicly:
1T i'll behooves one who
has supped at labor's table
and who has been sheltered
in labor's house to curse with
equal fervor and fine imparti-
atty both labor and its adj
verSaries when they become
locked in deadly embrace"
In q biography of Mr..
Lewis written by Saul D.
Alinsky and published in
1S49 by G. P. Putnam 81
Sons, the author tells of an
interview with the labor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
DAVID LAWRENCE
Carey Letter and Lewis Views

Democratic Senators who
happened also to be anti
labor, the United Mine
Workers chief rendered a
helping hand. Again Mr..
Lewis is quoted in the Saul
Alinsky book as follows:
Where did the money
come from that Franklin D.
Roosevelt siphoned into those
Southern States to try to
bolster up the fight against
the anti-New Deal Senators?
Where did the money come
from?
III tell you where 1t
came from. Right here, from
the Golfers of the United
Mine Workers Of America. 1t
came by request Of the Presi-
dent of the United States
through one OF his trusted
aides. You tell this to the
President, and II he ques-
tions 1t, and I'm certain that
he will not, you may inform
the President that / am per-
fectly willing to name names
and sums, chapter and verse,
to satisfy any slight amnesia
that there might be on this
particular issue.
"You ask me for gratitude
in terms Of an administration
that we have literally poured
our life's blood into support
ing. You wonder that I do
not express the feeling that
one should have for a great
champion Of labor. / say that
labor's champion has to a
large extent here been a
bought and paid for PROPOSE
ton. There is nothing we
should be grateful for when
we paid cash on the barrel
head at the price demanded
for it,"
So the philosophy of the
money raisers in labor's ranks
hasn't changed much in the
twenty years since John L.
Lewis spoke. In the 1858 con.
gressional campaign when
the labor unions boosted that
a majority of the House OF
Representatives was elected
through their help, the Fed
eral records show a relatively
small sum was contributed.
Big amounts were, however.
donated largely to State Or
carnations which do not
come under the Federal laws
requiring the reporting of
contributions. 1t is estimated
that labor raised approx
mately $40 million. Much of
it was spent to uphold laws
compelling workers to forgo
their civil rights and Join
unions.
(Copyright. 1857
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Young Steve Rockefeller ~ do" His father, Gov.
Rockefeller, says>"I might"
With so aboard the flag will be known the
Star Strangled Banner.
Khrushchev will be quzzed at WashingtonS Press Club
Antcpatng he'll receive the treatment the
men give Eisenhower Russia is prepared to declare
the spot.
Democrats name a committee suburban problems.
suburb place city farm inhabited by couples
between 80 and so thousand in debt
Q-What is today's biggest political question? A-Why
people multiply faster than Republicans
Rocky says he under certain conditions" Such
as being implored by two more friends.
Census Bureau the States have doubled taxes
10 years oh WELL can't take it with you In fact
can't even take it home with you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
WILLIAM S. WHITE

The United States now has
sound hope for working It's
way out Of a most awkward
situation In Latin America.
We have been caught between
the devil Of Yankee Imperi-
alism" and the deep pink
sea Of Castroism.
Fidel Castro. the bearded
revolutionary demi-god in
Cuba, has stirred UP the
whole Caribbean. Plots and
counter-plots for and against
this or that regime in Pan
America have been Matched.
sometimes on United States
soil. Seemingly comic -opera
"invasions," involving only
handfuls Of men but in areas
where handfuls are enough
to overturn a government,
have been popping UP in
Caribbean waters.
Basically, our national in
terest in all this is simply the
maintenance of order and
responsibility in this hemi-
sphere. Ideally. too. we want
to promote democratic re-
gimes - but not If these can
be obtained only by outside
aggreSsions by self-appointed
bringers Of true gospel Of the
Castro kind.
Most of all we seek to
avoid any wide spreading of
the possibly quite well-inten-
toned responsibility of
Castroism. II this uninten-
tionally assists in maintain
ing undemocratic regimes,
such as that Of Trujillo in
the Dominican Republic, this
obviously is part of the price
Of non-interventionism as a
doctrine.
For the United States,
poised on the brink of fate
full cold war negotiations
with Nikita Khrushchev of
the Soviet Union, simply
cannot afford the risk of
violent upheaval at its back
in this hemisphere.
We cannot, now or later.
act badly and alone to keep
the hemisphere peace, either
with our own troops or
through economic sanctions
against the disorderly ones.
That would be Yankee I'M
perialiSm," indeed. And all
this sort of thing we dis
avowed two decades ago in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
DORIS FLEESON
Doubt About Senator'S Chances Seen
In Backing of Wagner for Second Spot

Senator Kennedy of Mas
sachusetts has had a very
bad week. presidentially
speaking, with the profit 60
ing principally to Adlai
Stevenson.
The heaviest blow came
from New York, the only big
State open to him at this
point. There the Democratic
county chairmen suddenly
decided to advance Mayor
Wagner of New York as a
favorite-Son candidate for
Vice President in 1860. They
added that the States del
CATION would remain uncom-
mitted to any presidential
candidate.
Both the Senator and the
Mayor are residents of the
Eastern Seaboard and Roman
Catholics; Democrats OBJ
viously will not nominate a
Kennedy Wagner ticket next
year. What the New York
leaders have done is to adj
vertise their opinion that
Kennedy can't make it. a
view some of them frankly
expressed when the Wagner
move was framed.
There is reason to believe
that the action came as a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
RALPH McGILL
RockefeIIer's DenioIs Raped

ence to polls as the deter
mining factor. Polls selected
him President of the United
States in 1913. And a lot of
newspapermen, in the cold
gray dawn of the morning
after, took an oath that
as long as they thereafter
lived they would go out and
see for themselves rather
than depend on the statisti.
clans.
1t was politically necessary
for Gov. Rockefeller somehow
to manage to change the
image Of himself as having
no capacity for decision until
informed by the facilities of
Madison Avenue poll takers.
But the method of it and the
outright denial means simply
that he is saying veteran po-
litical reporters at Puerto
Rico were utterly and COM
pletely in error. He didn't
have the grace to say he may
not have made himself clear.
This. If the Governor will
pardon me, is difficult to &C
cept. 1t is especially so since
he did not make up his mind
to deny the attributed state
ments until he had taken a
poll of Gov. Dewey, one of
the most pragmatic of po-
litical advisers.
If the press at Puerto Rico
was, indeed. entirely in err
ror, there should have been
an immediate correction on
the day following their pub
LEGATION. The opinions at
tributed to the Governor as
suredly should not have been
allowed free circulation for
two weeks to be, finally,
denied after a conference
with Gov. Dewey.
''Nelse," as the public rela-
tions humanizers seem to be
asking us to call Gov. Rookie
Teller, doesn't look too good
in this little controversy. The
image Of him is more fuzzy
than before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
DORIS FLEEsON
New York Move JoIts Kennedy

for civil rights is widely
viewed as the price House
Republicans paid for South
ern conservative support Of
q tough labor bill.
Whether or not this is SO,
Speaker Rayburn and Senate
Leader Johnson apparently
do not care to buck the Goa
lition during the adjourn
ment rush. Thus the issue
which most divides the DEM
ocratS will go into a presi-
Dental year and become
even more Of a problem for
all their candidates.
The New York State
maneuver so damaging to
Kennedy's hopes is a most
unusual one, the reasons for
which appear to lie in the
local problems of the party.
1t shows the leaders, who lost
both control of the State
government and a United
States Senate seat to Repub-
licans last fall, giving first
priority to rebuilding opera
tons of their own.
Like Scarlet O'Hara, they
will, it seems, think about the
presidency tomorrow. This is
normal for the dominant
New York County organiza-
ton (Tammany HALL when
it has not had a Democratic
Governor in Albany to run,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
Reputation of Statements About Polls
Is Linked to Conference With Dewey

decision on the basis of the
public opinion polls at the
time the polls would be
the controlling factor.
In a press conference in
Albany, following a week.
end meeting with former
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who
seems to be masterminding
the unofficial Rockefeller
campaign, Mr.. Rockefeller
repudiated the attributions.
They were, he said, not
true.
Now, I am one who worries
and bites nails about what
seems to me to be too fire.
quent lack of responsibility
by a free press. But If the
Governor will pardon me, I
do not believe that the able,
experienced newspapermen
who covered the Puerto Rican
conference could have been
so far off base as to be
slapped down with a COM
plete denial. Gov. Rockefel-
Ter is, I am sure, a charming
gentleman, but he looks even
worse in denial than he did
before.
1t was no secret that the
statements about polls being
a controlling factor was an
unwise one. 1t is not yet pos
sible to take the pulse of the
American people by polls and
be confident of the right
answer. The mood of the
people changes with events.
Polls are one reason why the
campaign of Senator John
Kennedy is not advancing,
but standing where it was
some months ago. He has
relied too much on too many
polls in too many categories
OF age, occupation, etc.
One readily can under
stand that Gov. Dewey would
be alarmed about any refer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24

muniSm in Latin America, Mr..
Rubottom said Latin Ameri-
cans have deep-seated opposi-
ton to the Reds, but current
unrest has provided a great
deal of opportunity for extrem-
lists to move in.
Asked specifically about
communism in Cuba, Mr.. Ru-
bottom said Communists do
appear to be boring in in sew
eral important places there.
But, he noted, this is not the
first time there has been an
upsurge of communism in
Cuba. He recalled that in 1916
Communists held two cabinet
posts in the Cuban government.
Mr.. Rubottom said Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro has in
Weighed against the United
States in a very, very serious
way" but he said this may be
due to exaggerated ideas"
II think the Cuban people
are friendly to the United
States irrespective of what DR.
Castro may say" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
Latin Farley
Gains Hailed
ByU.S. Aide
~ the Associated Press

Assistant Secretary of State
Roy r. Rubottom. jr.. says the
United States would work
through the inter-Amerlcan
system in combating any Com
munist penetration Of the
Western Hemisphere.
Mr.. Rubottom, who handles
inter- American affairs. ap-
peared on a televisicn program
(ABC-College News Confer
ence). He termed the recent
foreign ministers conference
in Santiago very successful
The conferences action in
temporarily STRENGTHENING the
Inter- American Peace Com
mittee to enable it to deal with
any new Latin American out
breaks. Mr.. Rubottom said. is
a very considerable achieve
ment."
Answering questions on COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
!, Former Clio Chief Quoted on 'Quid
Pro Quo for Political Contributions

leader during the Roosevelt
regime. Mr.. Lewis is quoted
as having said:
Everybody says I want my
pound Of flesh, that I gave
Mr.. Roosevelt 100000 for his
1896 campaign, and ! want
quid pro quo. The United
Mine Workers and the CLIO
have paid cash on the bar
rel for every piece of legis-
lation that we have gotten.
I'VE have the Wagner Act.
The Wagner Act cost us
many dollars in contribu-
tons which the United Mine
Workers have made to the
Roosevelt administration
with the explicit understand
ing of a guild pro quo for
labor. These contributions
far exceed the notions held
by the general public or the
press. Is any one fool enough
TO believe for one instant
that we gave this money to
Roosevelt because we were
spellbound by his voice? 1t
is common knowledge that
we spent approximately three
quarters of a million dollars
in the 1886 campaign. And
you might be interested to
know that the 100000 direct
contribution wasn't my price,
but was the figure named by
the White House, and l was
given approximately 48 hours
to get that money.
Certainly there was a
quid pro quo the right for
labor to organize. But there
was more than that. The
sums we spent in 1886 were
not only cash contributions
that were made to the
Democratic Party, but also
were money expended in
terms of salaries for organ
izers and other personnel
who worked full time organ
izing and electioneering for
Roosevelt. Radio time pur-
chased, billboards, handbills,
literature and all other
paraphernalia that are part
and parcel of the process of
being elected President Of
the United States didn't
come gratis"
The same interview re-
veals that in 1888 when the
tensions between Mr.. Lewis
and Mr.. Roosevelt had eased
of somewhat and the Demo-
cratic President was trying
in primary contests to
purge" certain Southern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24

surprise to Kennedy and that
he was counting on 80 to SO
New York votes on the first
ballot at Los Angeles. The
young Senator has been the
first to say that he had to
maintain the momentum Of
his amazing rise and that
the first convention ballot
was therefore of crucial i'm
portance to his ambitions.
In Congress Kennedy, who
had the courage and vision to
launch the thorny struggle
for a new labor reform bill,
has been put on the spot by
House conservatives who
transformed his bill into a
much tougher one. Now in
the Senate-Hous conference
he becomes the key figure
of an effort to achieve a
compromise which will COM
mand public confidence and
the Presidents signature, but
will not wholly ALLEVIATE
labor.
Together with other ambi-
tious Senators, Kennedy will
be placed at a disadvantage
by the decision of the Demo-
cratic leadership to abandon
hope for a civil rights bill at
this session. A quiet burial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-24
Lotin-Americon Stability Sought

responsibility around Pan
America will necessarily be
a Typhoid Mary to the new
collective security. Castroism
is not regarded as Commu-
nism; 1t is regarded only as
disorder.
There is sober belief in
very high quarters here that
this new arrangement will
really work. Accordingly.
there is no present prospect
of Administration support for
the establishment of a new
Pan American peace army
under the control of the Or
ganization Of American
States.
Some with long experience
In Latin American affairs.
notably Senator George
Smathers Of Florida, are urg-
ing such a force. Vice Presi-
dent Nixon. among others.
is understood to have en-
couraged Senator Smathers
in this proposal. The State
Department is not hostile to
it in principle. But the de-
partment is aware that the
Latin Americans in general
are not ready to go quite that
far. There is a Latin Amer
lean fear that it might be
pretty much a United States
show.
So the present intention is
to depend upon the interme-
date way involved in the
newly strengthened Inter-
American Peace Commission,
which is a triumph for Sec
rotary of State Christian
Herter. Indeed, his first sor-
tie into er-American di-
plomacy seems to have been
considerable SIIccASS