The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1946 Page: 2 of 4
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Brotherhood attitude to one of strict
neutrality.
But there to another way to make a
choice. One to the heir-apparent to
the present administration. The other >
to being fought bitterly by the pres-
ent administration and by the Texas
Regulars. Republicans, big corpora-
tion lawyers, and anti-labor employ-
ers. One is crying out against one set
of labor unions, and asking (or the
support of the other set. The other,
profiting by the example of many
other progressive candidates who were
smeared as communists because they
had a fair-minded attitude toward or-
ganised labor, isn’t saying. Out It Is
significant that he was fired from
the biggest job (117.500 a year) in our
State government, because he wouldn't
order bis faculty members to be
quiet when the reactionary employers
were publishing lies about the 40-
hour week.
Homer Rainey’s defense of the
right of his faculty members to speak
out against public lying about organ-
ized labor resulted in his being fired.
He could have given in, sold out his
principles, and have kept his 117.500 a
year job.
Those are the issues in the Gover-
nor’s race to members of organized
labor, and. as faf as that goes, to
members of unorganized labor. Be-
cause history has proved that as the
unions flourish, so does the welfare
of the working man, organized or un-
to make a record on labor. So the organized.
rnunlat label on everyone who speaks
up for the working man. And with
the help of the do-nothing State ad-
ministration, they have been able to
keep the feats in labor-management
disputes buried in a welter of chargee
and counter-chargee.
Their campaign has paid off. Not
since the early days of the century
has organized labor keen used as a
whipping boy aa It to now being used.
Candidate* for the Legislature who
favor organized labor are smeared
with a red brush, and th* voters re-
spond by re-electing the Vance Muse
crowd to office.
This carefully thought-out cam-
paign has paid off, to the employers
who are fighting th* unions. Whether
they have paid off in turn can’t, of
course, be known. But the issue is
pretty clear to those who will think,
because this is a situation which can
be changed by changing the ruling
house of Texas, by replacing the do-
nothing administration with a fair ad-
ministration. Of course, it will take
years of fair dealing to make up for
these seven lean years of unfair deal-
ings. But electing a Governor who will
use the alw as it to written will be
the beginning of this change.
Now, let’s see about these two run-
off candidates for Governor. The Rail-
road Brotherhoods, in their run-off
legislative council report, say that
they are both “good Christian gentle-
men’’ who have had no opportunity
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While these corporations and individuals, including con-
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FIXITY OF PURPOSE
The secret of success is constancy to purpose—Disraeli.
employers. While guaranteeing them large profits, it authorizes
the government to peg wages at present levels.
It is not enough to he busy; so are the ants. The question is:
What are we busy about?—Thoreau.
Th* Ballas Crsftoma* npm**ta th* tn* trade **toa wravnuat, vririaa
tbs aapintioM aid *ebi*vm**to ri the America* Federal!** *f Lab**, tl
Dm* Mt rapreeeat th* Bolshevik, L W. W, Aaarebistle, Radical, *r aay attar
■avaawat t*J*ri**a t* th* paae* and stability ri Aawrtoa* InatMattona. It to
to* America, first and teat. a*d tar tta beaeet, m*ni, upright, erangwas
and tna tend* aatoaa all tta ttmm
Union
year.
Labor
year.
These
Carden, Starling,
Carden & Hemphill
ATW»1tWVTIL AT.T. A W
RIO GRANDE BUILDING
Whether this nation is to have “an unhealthy boom which
can only result in a disastrous bust** depends on the extent
businessmen profiteer now that price controls have been re-
laxed under the new law approved by the President.
That view was voiced this week by Robert J. Wyatt, A. F.
of L. member of the National Wage Stabilization Board, and
Boris Shishkin, the organization’s noted economist.
The new law, Watt declared, gives all the advantage to , “From
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"Sarah
laughing
chameleon opponent).
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represem ALL th*
County and
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las Craftsman of August 5,
from Wallace ReiSy’e “Spot-
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Sarah T.
Hughes
THE REAL
DEMOCRAT
for Congress
Bradley Charges
Abuses In Vet
Training Program
Everything is good which takes away one plaything and
delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful
work.—Emerson.
gressmen, were doing “real well” by themselves, workers and
their Unions were under the stem control of such monstrosities
as the “little steel” formula, etc.—Los Angeles Citizen.
For Your Real Estate
Rusinesg, Call
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Phone MH-1M7
When you are so devoted to doing what is right that you
press straight on to that and disregard what men are saying
•bout you, there is the triumph of moral courages—Phillips
Brooks.
education provisions of the GI Bill
of Rights.
Citing various unscrupulous prac-
tices. he Maid on* garag* owner in a
Southern town lowered the wage of a
mechanic from 135 to 123 as soon as
the veteran applied for training to
become a foreman.
The employer said the subsistence
allowance would more than make up
the difference.
Both the advertisln. and sales man-
ager* in a large Western department
store applied for job twining. he said.
One of them, the son of the store
president, was drawing 1700 monthly
and training for his father’s job. The
other, drawing . M00 monthly, was
training for the vice presidency.
••These trick practices stand
danger of besmirching a program
that can offer honest and useful train-
ing to thousands of veterans who
need it.” Bradley said
Under the GI Bill. State boards
certify establishments as qualified to
»le on-the-job training and super-
vise the training. The VA grants ap-
proval. reviews the course submitted
and pays subsietence allowances at
the rate of !65 a month to single
veterans and 190 to those with de-
pendents.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly
grows unconsciously into genius.—Bulwer.
{p* Jit*!
PsM by Banfoo,
Veteran fr tends
The sapling bends to the breeze, while the sturdy oak. with
form and inclination fixed, breasts the tornado.—Mary Baker
Eddy.
publications are respon-
sible. Their editors stand high In
the councils of Labor.
Union Banner. Fort Worth, 54th
year.
Farm A Labor Journal, Waco,
39th year.
Tm Caa Sara Maaay by Bayba Fraa
C. B. Anderson & Co.
FURNITURE
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Milwaukee -Stern warning that a
national scandal “involving millions
of dollar* In Federal funds” Impends
was sounded by Gen. Omar N. Brad-
ley, Veterans Administrator, in a
blunt discussion of the veterans’ on-
the-job training program.
Addressing the United Spanish
War Veterans at their annual en-
campment here, the General gave
official confirmation to formal charges
of the American Federation of Lalor
of widespread abuses in the program,
ills observations gave new strength
to the AFL contention that the vet-
erans enrolling In this program are
best protected under union appren-
ticeship.
Bradley pledged that he would rec-
ommend to Congress changes In the
law to tighten control*, if they are
needed, and called upon State and
Federal agencies to halt unscrupulous
practices which have been reported.
Declaring that even without the
, formal reports of “irregularities.” it
' Is “evident that something ia wrong.”
he said:
There is no reason for surprise at the revelations coming
from the Mead committee investigation of Congressman May
and his Garsson —-s_- ----
be any surprise at the prospect that investigations will
To protect the public from Im-
posters soliciting donations for
space in bogus labor publications,
year books, time books and various
schemes allegedly for the benefit
' of organized labor, the Texas La-
bor Press Association was organ-
ized seven years ago by heads of
the various journals and news-
papers recognized as representa-
tive of the Labor movement in
Texas.
Those bona I Ide laibor publica-
tions are:
Dallas Craftsman, Dallas, In Its
34th year of continuous
tlon in Dallas.
Southwestern Railway
39th year.
Weekly Dispatch. San
56th year.
Labor Advocate, El Paso, 37th
year.
Southwestern
Paso. 34th year.
Review, Galveston, 24th
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During th* paat Mven year*, organ-
_____ ___ become a* issue in
Texas politics. Rightly or wrongly, it
is an issue. And you can make out a
pretty strong case for the argument
that It waa made an issue Intentional-
ly by the past State administrations.
Back I* 1920, the Legislature pass-
ed a law setting up a State Industrial
Commission. The law aays that the
Governor shall appoint this Commis-
sion of five members every two years.
It doesn’t say ’’may” or ’’maybe”; it
saye the Governor “shall” appoint thia
Commission, three members to repre-
sent tbe public, one to represent em-
ployers, and one to represent em-
ployees.
Then, when a labor-management
dispute arises, the Governor’s job is
to assign this Commission to investi-
gate it and make tbe facta public.
But during tbe years of do-nothing
State government, thia Commission
has not been appointed. Strikes and
lockouts in intrastate commerce, like
the big one now on in Houston, have
gone on and on. simply because this
State Commission never bad been ap-
pointed.
Why wasn’t it appointed? That’a for
W. Lee O'Daniel ana Coke Stevenson
to answer. But it is obvious that in
apite of their great professed love
for obeying the Constitution and tbe
law. these men have failed to do what
the law directs them to do.
You could guess at it, if you liked.
You could guess that someone doesn t
want the facts to be known in labor
disputes. And that someone would be
the person who, through the support
of the dally press, which rarely, if
ever, carries a fair story on labor-
management disputes, wanted to use
tbe few strikes we’ve bad in these
seven years to make mt a case
against organized labor
A fact-flndinx commission, fairly
appointed, can turn the light of pub-
licity and public opinion onto the real
facta in a labor-management dispute.
The last time this commission was
used, in the pecan-shelters' strike in
San Antonio, it revealed to a horri-
fied public the starvation wage* and
the horrible health conditions in those
plants, and it resultei in public de-
mand for better pay and better work-
ing conditions. In spite of all the
newspapers could do* to hang ‘ a
“communist” label on the strikers.
But there are plenty of Texas big
shots who are Interested in breaking
profits for many years. We were not necessarily forecasting or
revealing what might have been seen in a crystal ball. It was the
result of just common sense, observation and remembering what
happened after World War I. There were graffers then; there
were grafters in World War II. Some of them will be revealed,
but most of them will be looked upon aa patriotic industrial and
business leaders, and few will question the methods, which en-
abled them to amass a few million dollars in a short space of
time. ■ ’■ .
the outset. unscrupulous
persons tost no time in taking ad-
vantage of veterans' training on the
- — - - tob.” Bradley told members of the
With the “cost of living climbing into the stratosphere, United Spanish war Veteran* at their
18th national encampment here. "The
dishonest employer and the unthink-
ing veteran have already infected the
program in many States.”
Both employers Mid veterans were
resorting to "trick practices." he said.
Something is wrohg. he continued,
when it takes 3 years to learn to be a
stock clerk In one State and 3 months
In another and when training estab-
lishments lower the beginning wage
of its trainees by an amount equal to
their subsistence allowance.
This Is a result, he said, of re-
sponsibility being split among State
and Federal governments under the
“Labels such as State, industry-, nationalization in them- iied labor has
selves mean little,” said Herbert Morrison in a recent talk.
“Whether these things work, whether they give u« what we all
so firmly desire, all depends on the sum of what each of us does ”
On every hand statesmen, and the ordinary man, are seeing
that new administrations, new systems and new deals can do
little good unless there is some new attitude or effort on the part
of individual people. With such growing recognition of our real
1 and basic need, it is surprising that there is still so much effort
' spent on plans and systems and so little on attitude and spirit.
That so much importance is publicly attached to ’ what each of
us does” while privately we each do so little about it.
What can we do? A freight operator said, “I begin with
my own home, my own truck line and my own industry. I can
. try to make them models of what homes and truck lines and in-
iustry should be in a democracy. Free from blind selfishness
on one hand and blind bitterness on the other. Free from per-
sonal dictatorship either at the business conference table or the
family breakfast table. Free from fear of either my competitors
or customers. Free to do what’s right without reference to either
pride or profits.” , . ,
The butcher, the candlestick maker and everybody else are
’ just as free. These are things each one of us can do. You do
not have to be a baker to form this kind of leaven in the lump of
present-day society.—Southern Teamster.
EEPLOYER MIST PAY
Washington, D. C- Where an em-
ployer requires an employe to obtain
a medical certificate from th* com-
pany doctor before resuming work
after an absence of one or more days,
the employer must pay for time spent
by the worker during regular work-
ing hours getting the certificate, the
Wage-Hour Division ha* ruled.
paper” industrial empire. Neither should there
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launched regarding activities of Andrew Higgins and Henry |
Kaiser, leading war industrialists.
No informed or alert person doubted that all during the war
corporations and individuals reaped unreasonable profits sa
result of government war contracts. It was known also that
government officials and representatives of the government were
receiving special considerations as result of assistance to corpora-
tions and individuals who were ’’fortunate” enough to be award-
ed huge contracts.
won-4here would be investigations and probes into costs and
Thia column asserted during the war that after it had been
Watt asserted, the workers’ only recourse is to strike for higher
wages. However, he added, organized lal>or doesn't wish to pur-
sue that course, because it realizes it accelerates inflation.
“So,” he said, "we are giving business a chance to save itself
and the nation from economic grief.
“It takes considerable self-restraint and self-discipline for
the trade union movement to keep to this policy under present
pressures. We hope that business likewise will exercise self-res-
traint and give the American people a break by restoring prices
to their natural level.”
Shishkin declared that “the gentlemen who were out for easy
profits at the expense of consumers did a thorough job” on price
controls.
“The new law,” he contended, “instead of showing how
O. P. A. should control prices, tells O. P. A. how it should take
price controls off.”
"The new controls will have to accept most of the sharp
price rises that have taken place in recent weeks. They will legal-
ize the black market prices. But wages will remain riveted to the
t-ame stationary rung at which they were held to the end of last
June.
“Workers who have helped hold the line for four years
will now find themselves at the tyid of the line—holding the bag!
“That’s what workers wil lhave to fight, and the A. F. of
L. will help them fight it.”
That this is not idle talk is made tragically clear in another
batch of regulations issued by O. P. A. raising prices on scores
of articles of common use.
Bread is hiked 1 cent n pound loaf and all other bakery’
products are given stiffer boosts. Consumers will have to pay
more for flour, breakfast cereals, macaroni and noodles, corn
meal and hominy grits.
Restaurants get almost a free hand to increase the prices
of items on their menus.
An increase of at least 20 percent in the retail price of wom-
en’s cotton garments is forecast.
Farmers are hit where it hurts in an average boost of 6 per-
cent on farm equipment and replacement parts
In addition, dealers are guaranteed their prewar markups
and distributors may exact an additional 2 percent “handling
charge.”
Hundreds of millions of dollars are added io the people’s
budget by a boost in the price of oil, which is translated into an
increase of 1 cent a gallon on gasoline.
Last, but not least, the price ceiling on automobiles has been
lifted by 10 percent. This, it is explained, will mean $100 addi-
tional on lower-priced cars
Makers of washing machines and refrigerators, the O. P. A.
declared, will soon be permitted to make a similar increase.—
’ —Labor.
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