South Bend Mirror, June 29, 1945

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Provoke Move to Amemfwagner Labor Act
Ban Bloodless Coup D  Etat
FRIDAY, JUNE 29th, 1945
ELIEVE IT
Or ELSE
MEAT O'  THE COCONUT
BY
SILAS W1THERSPOON
It would
be contrary to all
precedent
if the Re-
publica n
move in
the na~
t i o n a 1
house of
representa -
tives, to
revamp
OPA,  and
OF COURSE G.O.P. IN
MOVE TO REVAMP OPA
HAD TO BALLAWAX IT
BY GRASPING WRONG
NORN OF DILEMMA IN
AID OF "PROFITEERS"
INSTEAD OF CONSUMER
take some of the crimps out of its autocratic
procedure, as "bureaucracied," hadn't tackled
the wrong horn of its cussedness, at least
mollycoddling the most damnable of them.
It went the limit on price-ceilings, which the
food "profiteers" want hoisted—365 to 12,
—but in the matter of rations, getting the
food to the people at any old price, it wasn't
so particular.
However, don't blame the Republicans too
hard. No 190 Republicans could make such
a showing. It took 175 of the 243 Democrats in the house, along with them, to pull
the boner. It is for the most part a good bill
but most of» the hampering seems done to
price-fixing rather than aiding food distribution. Rationing is not so disturbed. The
new secretary of agriculture is to. have a sort
of veto power over both, but the power of
appeal to the courts appears to apply to price-
ceilings alone. An amendment, conforming
to the senate bill, guaranteeing a profit to
food producers and processors, was whittled
down to favor only meat producers and processors—the farmer and the packer.
The reason that only 377 votes were cast
for and against the measure is that-the congressmen weren't all there; Grant, Johnson
and Wilson, of Indiana, for instance. Another thing, it appears to have been passed, from
the Republican angle, on the supposition that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is still president,
and needs some brakes on him, of the right
(On Page Two)
Madame, She Is a Problem
(Copyright)
By RUTH McKENNEY
^T\ T*T HEN last year I read in some fashion-
^y\j    chitchat column or other that Eugenie
▼ V    Demarest,   carefree   society   bud,   had
just returned from Paris with a trunkful of the
most delightful (or exciting, or exotic, or terrific) clothes, my very soul turned to water.   For
it took me back to those dreadful days two years
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Bill to Equalize Industrial - Union Relations
THE bill before congress to revamp the
Wagner labor relations act is undoubtedly
headed for many vicissitudes but here is
hoping that it comes through the mill somewhat
intact. The Wagner act in itself isn't so bad if
properly administered, or, but for the loop-holes
in it through which
the courts have
found it convenient
to crawl to give it
what to ordinary
common sense seems
woeful misinterpretation — and misapplication.
The bill isn'tswholly anti-New Deal; it
is rather pro-Square
Deal. In a sense it
will reconstrue the
Wagner act into
what it was originally supposed to pro-
Their Pet NLRB Is Challenged
William Green (above), President AFL; Philip Murray
(left), President CIO, and
John L. Lewis (right), President of UMWA. i
vide; not to make organized labor the king-pin
of American industry, with mobocratic-auto-
cratic powers, but to rescue, it from being the
total under-dog, and afford the work shop some
rights that the counting room will be bound to
respect.
As is, organized
labor taking its cue,
^nd the National
Labor Relations
Board personneled
as it has been to
succumb to those
cues, has managed
to set itself up, or
have itself set up,
not as a component
part of industry,
entitled to a square
deal, and getting it,
but rather as dictator, not only monopolistic of the work
(On Page Three)
San Francisco Kept Its Eye On Young Lady
AFTER all the hubub about the "big
three," and the "big five," and "veto
powers," when to amend, and Russia,
Poland, and Argentina, San Francisco appears to
have kept its weather eye on the main issue, and
the young lady, "Permanent Peace," won the day
—or at least it is so intended. The United Nations—50 in number,—becomes an international
reality so far as the conference is concerned.
Ratification of the pact by the participating nations is all that remains to set the ball rolling.
That essential in the United States seems likely of consummation. Should the
Republicans, ably
represented at the
conference, and
voting for the
pact, keep faith
and follow the lead
of their delegates,
they will have
washed their
hands somewhat of
the blood on them
in consequence of
the 1921 perfidy.
They will have
atoned somewhat
for this World War
II, — preordained
by the likes of
Warren Gamalie.
Harding, Henry
Cabot Lodge,
James Eli Watson,
George Higgins
Moses, Hiram
Warren Johnson,
Robert Marion La-
First One at the Table
Follette, and twenty-nine other derelicts, who
threw their monkey-wrench into the League of
Nations.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan
headed the Republican delegation at San Fran-
lisco; Senator Tom Connolly headed the Democrats _- but they have worked together quite
without friction, and Vandenberg and his senatorial colleague will return to Washington determined upon Republican approval for their work.
Of course, there is little or no question as to
how the Democrats will act.   If the Democrats
all say ''yes" it
will only require
nine Republicans
to ratify the compact, and it is quite
certain that it will
only require sixteen at the most.
There are a few
Democratic senators of the Burton
"£raut" Wheeler,
stripe, though Missouri eliminated
Bennet "Chump"
Clark last fall —
and the south has
a few hillbillies
down there of similar mould.
Still you can
count better than
nine Republican*
on your fingers
and toes; possibly
a necessary sixteen and you don't
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