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Evening star., 1960-10-09

corps are arriving in town
from all corners Of the globe
today. Many are well known
in Washington and will find
a warm welcome awaiting
them.
Gen. McN mara has
planned a stag dinner for
tomorrow evening for the
Evening star., 1960-10-09
SERVICE NEWS
BY EVELYN M. DENT
Contributing Writer

The Army Quartermaster
General, Mai. Gen. Andrew
T. Mcnamara, has scheduled
the annual Commanders Con-
ference for tomorrow and
Tuesday.
Ranking officers of the
Evening star., 1960-10-09

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Evening star., 1960-01-11
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Dick Nixon celebrates his 47th birthday. He began his
training for the presidency rather aehavng up golf
only six years ago.
We're slowly woong the Russians to private enterprise
Soviet embassy wife has just been nabbed shopftng $256
worth of meat.
Kansas Democrats organize for Jack Kennedy. They
his approach to the farm problem When walks up
meet it, he ngleS
Senator Smathers invites Democratic candidates to enter
ForidaS May primary He'll be swamped with 100 appl-
cants two seeking the presidency looking
summer rates.
Walking: What American child taught to do in case
he ever has to look for his a parking lot
Republican is fellow who asks how much it's going
to cost Democrat wants you can borrow
it.
Sir Anthony Eden publishes his memoirs He has
mentary proof that British general had been command
Custer would still be standing.
Evening star., 1960-01-11

President Eisenhower should
initiate regular discussions be-
tween management and labor
before he leaves the White
House.
The Missourian. a potential
candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, noted
in his prepared remarks that
Mr.. Eisenhower. in his state
of-the-Union message, sug-
gested regular discussions be-
tween management and labor
outside the bargaining table"
The Senator also said the
minimum wage should be raised.
But he did not specify by what
amount except to say it should
insure that low-income families
can purchase the necessities of
modern-day life"
About 500 union officers are
attending the three-day legis-
lative conference opening today
at the Willard Hotel. In his
keynote speech. Mr.. Meany
warned that Congress had bet
ter deliver on social legislation
this year. or the voters will
make some changes.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Whittier Collective BARGAINING?

But I do believe that the day
we abandon free collective
honest free colleotive-bar-
gaining, it is going to be a
sad day for the United
States"
The sad day" has arrived.
1t arrived when, upon in
structions from the PreSi-
dent, pressure was applied
for two weeks steadily by
both the Vice President and
the Secretary Of Labor, and
finally. on January 4 a So
called settlement" was an
nounced.
An article in The Wash
ington Star yesterday says
that the Federal Mediation
Service is disappointed at the
turn of events and that it
was ready with a much more
balanced offer to present
to both sides, but apparent
ly political considerations
weighed heavily with the ad-
ministration and the regu-
lar mediating machinery
was sidetracked. The admin
istration wanted and needed
a prosperity" slogan for the
1860 political campaign.
But what about 1861 and
1862 when the prices in most
industries are raised to off,
set wage increases similar to
those granted in steel? What
about "free collective bar
gaining" in future years? Will
big unions force a crisis each
time and. by organized black
mail. compel the political ad-
ministration in power to put
pressure on management to
accept a settlement" pleas
ing to labor?
1t was announced last week
that no plan to deal legisla-
lively with this problem will
be presented by the Eisen-
hover administration at the
current session of Congress.
This is the biggest surprise
of all. Did the administration
abandon it's plan to ask Con-
greSS for new laws dealing
with the strike problem, and
was this one of the promises
made in forcing both SHES
into the settlement? Will
the administration reverse it
self and. responsive to an
aroused public opinion, lay all
the facts on the table, to-
gether with recommendations
for a law forbidding the
monopoly power Of industry
wide bargaining? It's the only
way now to restore free
collective bargaining"
(Copyright, 1900
Evening star., 1960-01-11

cept all that is helpful in
this relationship. And very
probably he ean avoid most
Of any part Of that relation
ship which may seem harm
full by election day next No
vember.
But beyond all this there
is an elaborate, smooth
clicking plan of battle to ex-
ploit every ounce of the pres
tige of Nixon's present po-
sition. Actually, the effort is
to make him seem almost to
be President already.
l. Nixon is presented as
the principal author of the
steel strike settlement-and
to a large degree, so he was.
That settlement has unde-
niable inflationary possibil-
tiles. on which the Repub-
licans understandably do not
care to dwell. But it also
avoids having to face up to
new and controversial labor
legislation in an election
year.
On the whole, it pleases
management. And manage
ment, it should not be forgot
ten, is still the heart and
mind of the COP, not to
mention the main source of
ca align money. And
though none of the funda-
mental labor-management
issues in steel is solved, the
Nixon formula at least puts
of the showdown until after
the campaign is over.
And it is far from displeas-
ing to labor. On the whole it
was a labor victory, and not
a management victory, which
Nixon helped so much to die
tate. So, for the politically
critical short run anyhow,
this is one of those rarities:
A political tour de force
pleasing to both sides-or
not, at any rate, resented
much by either.
2. Nixon the doer. as to la
Dor, Is at the same time
Evening star., 1960-01-11

If Democrats have caught
the names of these gentle
men. it is not yet apparent.
Instead:
Senate Democratic liberals
are embarked upon an effort
to break the power of the
congressional caucus as en-
bodied in the crafty person
of Senator johnson Of Texas,
a candidate for President.
They happily note that john
sons ambitions make him
vulnerable to their effort to
get Congress into line with
the liberal thought which
always prevails in Democratic
national conventions.
At the same time, the
southern conservatives are
trapping the Texan in a
crossf1re on the civil rights
issue. 1t is Johnson's plan
to get the issue out of the
way early and as quietly as
possible. The automatic re-
Sponse Of the South, out
numbered and outgunned. is
that they shall not pass.
To win, they must revive
the Republicans southern
Democratic coalition, a stra-
tegy which can only benefit
tho pear-certain Republican
nominee, Nixon. 1t appears
probable they will try.
Involved in a battle to
reach the party pocketbooks
are the Democratic National
Committee and the Demo-
cratic Congressional Cam
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Practically UnchoIIenged Heir
To Nomination Rated Hard to Beat

Formidable is the word for
the massive and many-sided
push the Republicans are
now opening for the election
Of Vice President Nixon as
the next President of the
United States.
1t is as powerful as a bull
doZer at full throttle. It is
as synchronized as the finest
watch. 1t is the most pro-
fessionally competent opera
ton seen in Washington in
a long, long time.
Few detached observers
here - and few Democrats,
too. in their private thoughts
- have any remaining doubt
that Mr.. Nixon will be ex-
tremely hard to beat. Simple
luck, as. has been the case
over and over in his career,
is one factor. He Is the prac-
tically unchallenged heir to
the COP nomination - but
for the small gleam of hope
for a convention draft that
still lies in the eye of Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York.
Then, as President Eisen-
hower's more or less ordained
successor, Nixon is in a most
happy position. He can ac-
Evening star., 1960-01-11

When the steel-str1ke set
tlement news came through, a
corporation lawyer digested
the news and sighed:
"Oh, for the good old days
Of conservative F. D. r. and
the New Deal"
The fact is. Of course, we
are still operating on the pla-
teau attained by the New
Deal. We then demonstrated,
as a people and as a capital
ist system, that we had ma
tured as a nation to the point
where we could settle our
major problems without an
theology such as the MarxistS
or Fascists set up, and also
without violence.
That we will continue to
demonstrate this maturity is
indicated by the moves to-
ward top-level labor-man-
agement conference. If, as it
appears, it has become neces-
sary in world affairs to hold
summit meetings" attended
by the heads of government,
1t is not at all strange that a
similar one should be held by
those most concerned with
making an industrial civiliza-
ton work without an ideol-
ogy or violent clashes be-
tween groups.
But we should not over
look the poStmortem find
ings in the still warm body
of the steel strike. Chief
among them is the fact that
the steel strike will make for
more bigneSS. Of equal i'm
portance is the inescapable
conclusion that the settle
ment makes all the more diff
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Democrats Battling Democrats

paign Committee. Because
the latter was planning the
unusual step of Embarrassing
dinners to fill its Golfers, the
national committee had to
rush in with its annual JEFF
ferSon Jackson feteS. The
result is a committee $780,
a-plate dinner only eight
days after a brutal income
tax deadline January IS.
On the presidential nomi-
nation scene, Senator Ken
nedy of Massachusetts has
posed an emotional family
problem for Democrats by
proclaiming that he can't be
fobbed of with the vice presi-
dency. He has at the same
time set himself up as the
arbiter of whether he is or is
not rejected for first place
because he is a Roman Cath
olic. The Senator's condition
is that he must be beaten in
"open competition" which
would appear to rule out a
compromise choice after a
convention deadlock.
This is dark reading for
Adlai Stevenson or any fa-
vorite-son Governor, includ-
ing some of Kennedy's core
ligionists.. 1t chills many party
members looking hard for a
dark horse.
Kennedy also is the object
of a surly glare from the SEN
ior Democratic Senator from
Ohio, Frank Lausche. Lausche
feels that the meek manner
in which Gov. Disable yielded
the Ohio delegation to Ken
nedy is "undemocratic" and
must be fought.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Push for Nixon Formidable

SHOWN as NIXON the doer In
civil rights. A presidential
committee" Of which the Vice
President is actually the
head is quietly winning him
powerful political friends. in
its efforts to put qualified
Negroes into white collar
jobs in business.
This antidiscrimination
committee is a political nat
ural. 1t appeals to all who
are liberal on race matters,
in part because its operating
vice chairman, Irving Fer
man, had past connections.
with the American Civil Lib
critics Union. More import
family, the committee is get
ting the job done to an OBJ
servable extent. 1t may we'll
be that its activities in break
ing down job discrimination
against Negroes in clerical
and technical posts, as well
as in manual labor, may be
as useful to the Vice Presi-
dent in the end as his own
advocacy Of civil rights leg
islation.
8. Some of President Eisen-
hower'S own most intimate
associates, his Cabinet ofi-
GERS, are now openly report
ing to the Vice President as
well as to the President. Sec
retary of Labor James Mitch
ell has long done so. Arthur
Flemming, Secretary / OF
Health, Education and We'll
fare, is among other Cabinet
members joining this parade.
Finally, the Republican
NaGlOnal CommlCCee had to
act with some show Of neu-
trality while Nixon was still
being opposed by Rockefeller.
But it is now able frankly to
cast all its heavy resources
into the Nixon build-up, and
into an accompanying cam
paign to try to elect a pro-
Nixon Congress.
Put it all together and
what does it spell? 1t means
that no man not already in
the Presidency ever had so
big a drive going in his be-
half.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
DORIS FLEESON
Coucuses, Civil Rights, Party Finance,
Kennedy Race Blunt Attack on G. O,P.

The Democrats are back
In Washington in full force
and the nights of the long
knives are well under way.
Their targets are not. how
ever-aS might be supposed
by those unfamiliar with the
party at its most energetic
a couple of fellows named
Ike and Dick from whom
Democrats can expect a
good deal of trouble before
they march back into the
White House.
Instead, their loudest war
whoops are reserved for on
slanghtS upon each other.
The more potentially divisive
and disastrous the struggles
involved, the more creative
Democrats are in their meth
DDS of waging it. This is the
more interesting because it
can be all but proved st&tis-
tisally that their 1860 fight
against the Republicans is
half won.
That is, Democrats will
control the next Congress
and most of the State houses,
barring some kind of circum-
stances no observer has yet
imagined. 1t is barely pos
Si5ie that a landslide for a
Republican President might
slash Democratic margins of
victory, eveh win the House.
But 1t is improbable.
Their troubles, therefore,
are automatically pinpointed
for them in the persons of
the President and his heir
apparent, the Vice President.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
DAVID LAWRENCE

Do labor and management
really know what happened to
collective bargaining" in the
steel strike settlement? Do
they realize that free collec-
tive bargaining" as the term
has hitherto been used, is
now a thing of the past? Are
they aware that Government
dictation, based on political
expediency, now has been
substituted?
These questions are asked
because the story of the way
the steel strike was ended
through governmental pres
sure-has not yet been alb
Sorbed in its full significance
by management or labor or
the public.
The administration, to be
sure, didn't intend to favor
one side over the other, but
the course adopted in deSper-
alton by the President-any-
thing to Sttle the strike-led
to the trap in which the Gov
ernment officials found them
selves. Principle went by the
boardS-and expediency ruled
the hour. Now monopoly
power in big unions is more
solidly entrenched than ever.
A glance at the pronounce
mentS made by Mr.. Eisen-
hover in his press confer
enceS beginning last summer
shows how the President, per-
picked by the most costly
strike in history, gradually
came to choose the easy. way
out-surrender to big union
ism. Here are some signifi-
cant excerpts:
July 15-"I believe that we
have got thoroughly to test
out and to use the method of
free bargaining, and the Sec
ond that we try to bring the
free bargaining collective
bargaining-about by pres
sure of Government, that is
too great. under the circum-
stances, then I believe it's not
free"
August 12-"PerSonally I
think. except for the use of
the Federal Mediation Serv-
ice, that until there is a ma
tional emergency diScernible,
a national requirement, a
need for action, I couldn't
think of anything more OBJ
jectionable than to put the
Federal Government con-
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Meony Louds Kennedy
On Reform Bill Efforts

financial support during the
steel dispute. Referring to the
claims of credit for settling the
dispute. Mr.. Mcdonald said the
Steelworkers did it with your
aid and the help of Almighty
God"
Senator Symington. Demo-
crat Of Missouri, told the rally
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Postmortem Findings in Critical
Strike Stress Wide Repercussions


ficult the position Of steel in
the world market.
That we need a high-level
conference is inescapable. But
1t should not be had without
preliminary study and, more
important, a steady course in
public education.
U. S. Steel. for example,
likely would be able to meet
foreign competition. 1t is
further along with automa-
ton necessary to reduce
costs. But most of the small
er steel companies cannot do
so. This certainly is a matter
Of real concern to labor
which cannot view the loss
OF jobs with unconcern.
Therefore. there must
rather quickly be a meeting
of minds on this subject of
automation. 1t is expensive.
1t requires time for manu-
facture and installation.
There must be more research
into further cost-saving de-
vices and techniques. The
leaders Of labor see this. But
they are paying the penalty
OF not having let their
knowledge. be shared by To-
cal organizations. Labor will
need to do a job educating
its members. Because of
failure at the top, the rank
and file Of craft union mem
berS have been allowed to
believe that it was labor's
policy to attack automatic
devices and to hate the man
agement which attempted to
work out use Of them.
We now are at the point
IN our industrial develop
Evening star., 1960-01-11
Steel Settlement Seen Replacing 1t
With Government Dictotion in Future

SANITY in the business of set.
ting these major strikes"
August 25-"I still insist
that free bargaining means
that these people must solve
their own problems. I have
urged all of tn em-both
sides-not only in this strike
but any other that is impend-
ing or even thought of, that
negotiations must not con-
tribute to imitation, because
here is a terrible enemy ready
to Pounce on us any time we
get unwary."
September III have con-
sistently stated I was not 60
ing to interfere in this strike,
that it was a thing for free
bargaining; and when the
Government got into it we
could get into all sorts of ar
guments of delay and, I think.
damaging effects upon the
country. because soon people
would be talking about the
procedures that the Govern
ment was applying, rather
than the basic issues"
September 28-"Free COL
lective bargaining-the logi-
cal recourse of a free people
in settling industrial disputes
has apparently broken
so far as governmental
action can be brought to
bear on this matter, l am not
going to permit the economy
of the Nation to suffer with
its inevitable injuries to
all
1T is up to both sides,
labor and management, to
recognize the responsibility
they owe to our Nation and
settle their differences rea-
sonably and promptly. I
shall use every conceivable
personal and official influ-
ence available to me to break
the impasSe."
The Taft-Hartley 80-day
injunction was requested
from the courts on October
% and was promptly grant,
ed. Here is what the Presi-
dent said on December 2
after work was resumed:
Il have tried to use every
bit of influence I have had
officially or personally in this
matter to get these people
together If we can't get
anywhere on this thing, then
finally the Government Just
cannot sit idly on its hands.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
RALPH McGILL
Steel, Markets and Politics

ment where many industries
which are small in the rela-
tive sense, but which actual
ly are quite large employers
Of labor, will increasingly
find themselves unable TO
compete They have not had
the capital to spend on au-
tomation. They have not
possessed the imagination
and vision to keep up with
the times.
The new steel settlement,
in the long run, will be
disastrous to them. They
cannot compete and the
Government cannot hold back
the larger company, U. S.
Steel. because our industrial
society requires efficient big
ness to prevent us from being
buried by Mr.. Khrushchev's
system which is moving, with
all possible speed, toward the
greatest obtainable efficiency.
At least two of the auto
mobile companies. for exam
pie. have been able, through
modernization of plant, to
reduce unit costs to where
they could. if they desired,
put less well-planned compe-
titors out Of business. The
same thing is true of one of
the major electrical manu-
featuring concerns.
All this is a part of mar
kets, jobs and politics. Mr..
Nixon may be hurt political
ly. insofar as some of the
conservative business leader
ship is concerned. But both
time, events and the inexor-
able, inescapable pressure of
industrial developments are
on his side politically.
A top level labor-manage-
ment conference is not mere
ly indicated. 1t is imperative.
Evening star., 1960-01-11
BY LEE NJ. COIN
Star Stan Writer

AFL-CIO President George
Meany today said Senator Ken
nedy deserves credit for trying
TO eliminate anti-union fea-
lures from last years labor re-
form bill, not blame because
he failed in part.
Mr.. Meany said the MasSa-
chusetts Democrat and others
worked tirelesSly to get rid of
some Of the more obvious in
justices and did make a
number Of Improvements"
In a speech before an AFL-
lCIO legislative conference here.
Mr.. Meany said:
"A considerable amount Of
misunderstanding has devel-
oped in the ranks Of labor
about this measure-about the
way in which it was adopted
and about the position taken
on crucial votes by certain
members Of Congress whom we
rightfully regard as friends of
labor"
The AFL-C1O and some of
its affiliates disagree on plac-
ing the blame for enactment
of restrictions they consider
unfair to honest unions. The
International Association of
Machinists. for example, blames
Senator Kennedy. So does the
Teamsters Union which is out
side the AFL-CIO.
Had mo Choice"
Mr.. Meany said union mem
bers should use only handful
of crucial votes to Judge mem
bers Of Congress. These votes
involved the bill Of rights"
for union members and other
key amendments. After labor
lost on these votes, Mr.. Meany
said, members of Congress had
no choice but to vote for pas
sage Of the bill.
House Majority Leader Nc
Cormack, Democrat of Massa-
chusetts. told the delegates
Democratic leaders will push
labor's legislative program. But,
he added, the Democrats need
some Republican help.
On many bills, he said, the
House Rules Committee is ex-
pected to delay action. In most
cases, he continued, one or two
Republican votes on that key
committee would break the
bottleneck.
Representative Ford, Repub-
lican of Michigan. warned that
labor will make a mistake If it
throws all its support to Dem
ocratS. Recalling labor's dis
appointment at the record of
the Democratic-controlled 86th
Congress so far. Mr.. Ford ad-
vised: 1T takes more than a
party label to make an ally"
Pledges RaCkinP
Mr.. Ford, who is a member
of the House Republican Policy
Committee. said the G. o. P.
will do the right thing by la
Dor. within limits of a balanced
Federal budget.
Mr.. Meany said he knew as
far back as last February that
powerful financiers had made
up their minds to give the
Steelworkers Union a rough
time in negotiation.
He said all the talk about
who settled the steel disr~s
arises out of the fact that this
is, among other things, leap
year" He obviously meant that
politicians are trying to reap
political benefits from the set
tlement, keeping an eye on the
November elections.
Grateful for Support
David J. Mcdonald, presi-
dent of the United Steelwork-
ers Of America, thanked AFL-
Evening star., 1960-01-11

OFFICERS
EDWARD L. MeALEER
President
CHARLES H. DOING
Vice President
ROBERT L. LEWIS
Vice President
MILTON r. JOHNSON
Vice President G. Secretary
JOHN p. BIRCHBY
Vice President
FRANCIS G. ADDISON, III
Vice President
WILHELMINA S. LUDWIG
Asst. Secretary
FREDERICK S. GENAU
Asst. Secretary
Evening star., 1960-01-11
DIRECTORS

FONTAINE C. BRADLEY
Partner in law frm of
Covington and Burling
CHARLES H. DOING
Retired Vice President Of
Washington Loan and Trust Co.
JAMES C. DULIN
Lawyer and President Of
Davis Memorial Goodwill Industries
RICHARD F. GREEN
Chairman OF the Board of
Farmers Banking and Trust Co.
MILTON r. JOHNSON
Vice President g. Secretary OF
EQUITABLE Savings and Loan
Association
WILLIAM E. KINGSWELL
President Of
William E. Kingswel Co., Inc.
ALFRED H. LAWSON
Retired
Washington, D c.
ROBERT L. LEWIS
President OF Steuart Motor Co.
EDWARD L. McALEER
President Of Equitable Savings and
Loan Association
OTIS H. RITENOUR
Senior Vice President Of the
Washington Gas Light Co.
FRANK j. STRYKER
Former Vice President of
American Security and Trust Co.
WILSON L. TOWNSEND
General Counsel Of the
Export-Import Bank of Washington