'PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY FE-IDAY, JITN : 7, 19,16 . ........F............A....JUNE............. Fifty-Sixth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Stafff Margaret Farmer Hale Champion Robert Goldman Emily E. Knapp Pat Cameron Clark Baker Des Howarth Ann Schutz Dons Guimaraes . . . . . . . Managing Editor *........ . . Editorial Director . . . . . A City Editor .Associate Editor . Associate Editor . . . . . . . Sports Editor . . . . . Associate Sports Editor . .Women's Editor *...Associate Women's Editor Business Staff Dorothy Flint . . . . . . Business Manager Joy Altman . . . . . . Associate Business Manager Evelyn Mille . . - . . Associate Business Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of re- publication of all other matters herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan. as second-class mail matter. Subscription during the regular school year by car- rier, $4.50, by mail, $5.25. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1945-46 !W NIGHT EDITOR: FRANCES PAINE Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. Union Trustbustiung RECENT MONTHS have demonstrated all too clearly the vulnerability of our national eco- nomy to labor upheavals. Weakening price con- trol, rising, wages, threatening inflation have followed in the wake of these disturbances. The need for effective legislation to halt this trend has become imperative if we are to retain our position of world leadership. This is not the first time the stability of our free enterprise system has been attacked by the domination of a single group. Before the turn of the century the increasing forces of capital constituted an imposing threat to the basic laws of our economy. Government control came to the rescue with the writing of anti- trust legislation. As late as 1914 with the passing of the Clayton Act, the labor movement was spe- cifically exempted from monopoly control mea- sures, very like the manner an infant industry is protected from foreign competition by means of a high import tariff. But even as the tariff, permanently retained, will react against public interest, so has our continued mothering of the labor groups turned against us. Underlying our economic system is the prin- ciple of freedom of activity for the individual within a group, giving rise to the problem of reconciling this freedom with the demands and needs of the society. It was originally believed that the system of free competition would pro- vide the ideal solution to this prblem. However, the past fifty years have brought a slow turning away from this concept toward state control of labor and industry. Recent events have shown this present middle position to be untenable. We are faced with the alternative of adopting complete domination of industry by the gov- ernment with fixed wages and enforced arbi- tration, or attempting to reinstate the prin- ciples of free competition by restriction of union activities and revision of anti-trust laws to in- clude both labor and capital. Of necessity, im- mediate action must be a step to greater state control, as found in the Truman Strike-Draft Bill. A long-run policy must be designed to re- store a free working society as originally con- ceived. There must be a balance of power between groups of individuals so that one group cannot advance at the expense of othe:s. THE IMMEDIATE NEED for action was em- phasized recently by Rep. H. H. Buffett (Rep., Neb. when he declared, "Vigorous action is ne- cessary to safeguard this country from industrial warfare which will lead to state socialism, with employer and worker both the loser ... we must decentralize power in the labor union move- ment." Decentralization of the big unions is the first requirement of the long-run policy. The aim will be to match the size of the employer with the size of the union, allow free inter- change of information by both, but subject to anti-trust regulations. There must be a re- turn of freedom for the individual which is lacking under the present union set-up. In affect, this plan will equalize bargaining power betw een employer and union and restrict the scope of union control to the same extent as that of the employer. Increased activity in wage competition would result, with wages ap- proaching the marginal value of the workers' services. The present trend is to set the wage, adjust the price, and allow the demand to be reflected in unemployment. We seek a return I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Report on Apathy By SAMUEL GRAFTON LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA-A month ago in North Carolina, a fortnight ago in the deep south, and now today in Los Angeles, I have had the same strong, feeling that the people of this republic are passing through a bad hour, emo- tionally. It is as if they wanted something, and not only didn't have it, but didn't quite know what it was. It makes a hard kind of story to cover, this story of a mood; but what surprises me is the amount of material which comes flood- ing out when I raise the question. A candidate for Congress said: "There is a terrible weariness in people; it is almost like a momentary loss of faith. I don't understand it. My friends call me up and say: "It's awfully hot in Washington, isn't it? You wouldn't like it as well as California, would you? Where are you going to live? If you're elected, you're not really going to be able to accomplish anything, are you?' They act as if I were running for the federal penitentiary. It is almost as if we had thrown up our hands and had lost faith in our- selves. You still hear political arguments; this is a very articulate community; but it is almost as if there were an inability to focus, and the argu- ments trail away into nothing." My friend, the candidate, thinks, the death of Roosevelt has something to do with this feeling; that a wave of fear followed F.D.R.'s passing, and that people have turned inward, and are thinking about smaller things, instead of bigger and bigger ones. He told me dourly about a questionnaire he had received from one association, which asked him, in one breath and in one sentence: "If you are elect- ed, what will you do to reduce taxation, or what other qualifications do you have for pub- lie office?" I asked a brilliant woman, a veteran resident of the city of Los Angeles, about the postwar mood, and she popped too. "There's been a peculiar slowing down of the machinery," she said. "I feel it myself. I just want to sit in a patio and put my feet on a chair and drink beer. People are kind of milling around, in a futile way; they don't talk about the atomic age, any more, or any other kind of age. They damn the unions mechanically, but with- out real interest; they don't actually discuss the strikes, and if you notice, there's been no scab- bing. They don't know what to think. There just doesn't seem to be a voice anywhere in the world; Roosevelt is gone, Willkie is dead; no- body has taken their places, and people feel it. They are still crowding into Los Angeles, lots of servicemen are trying to stay here; but they are in a mood that's hard to understand. It's as if they don't see anything to look forward to and are afraid they aren't going to find whatever it is they are looking for. They don't want to take ordinary jobs and settle down with them and say, that's that. It's as if there should have been something wonderful for everybody at the end of this war, and it isn't here. Maybe the wartime ads about the postwar future have backfired." I remember the personnel officials at the Lock- heed plant, earlier this week, and their baffle- ment at the curious tide of inarticulate discon- tent which runs through industrial plants to- day. "It isn't even a very interesting breakdown," said my friend. "If it could be like the twenties it wouldn't be so bad. It's the twenties without F. Scott Fitzgerald." (Copyright, 1946, N.Y. Post Syndicate) Obstructionists THE UNITED STATES is facing its third ma- jor strike i a month unless the proposed walkout by seven maritime unions on June 15, can be averted. The president has proposed to combat this action by seizing the merchant ships under the provisions of the Smith-Connally Act and sail- ing them with Navy or non-union personnel. However, the unions have retaliated by asking the World Federation of Trade Unions to boy- cott American ships. The appeal was directed to foreign dock workers, in particular. Seizure of the merchant ships is not a dras- tic proposal, since the government owns most American flag vessels through the War Ship- ping Administration. Boycott of the ships, how- ever, would probably be an effective way of cur- tailing operation. The union's strike committee has declared that troop and relief ships would be excluded from the boycott. Nevertheless, any amount of shipping going abroad is vital for one reason or another. Food would admittedly be allowed to go through, but food is tied up with a great many other things. Undoubtedly other goods are be- ing sent to foreign countries in order to rebuild and rehabilitate the economy of these nations. If such operations are delayed, these countries will take longer to get back on their feet and will therefore be dependent upon American relief for a longer period of time. Relief is a stop-gap measuye; rehabilitation is long-range. Obviously, we can not afford to allow either of these measures to be obstructed. -Phyllis L. Kaye WHENEVER THERE IS a major strike in this country, a number of people . . . some honest and some not honest . . . try to raise a false issue which actually has no bearing on the strike. Thus during the coal strike most Ameri- can newspapers tried to tell us that the strike was simply an effort by John L. Lewis to take over the United States. During the railroad strike President Truman attempted to place the entire blame on the leaders of the striking Railway Brotherhoods, Al Whitney and Alvanley John- ston. We were told that these two men, as well as Mr. Lewis, were attempting to take over the country. We heard frightened sobs from those who feared that we would all starve, and there ,were many furious roars from all corners. The coal strike and the railroad strike were both said to be efforts by power-mad leaders to set them- selves up as dictators in this country. On the eve of the threatened shipping strike the same cry is again being raised, and this time it is coming from a supposed labor leader. Joe Ryan, president of the AF of L International Longshoremen's Association, has charged that the CIO shipping unions are going to strike in order to "turn over the maritime industry to Soviet Russia." If Mr. Ryan's charges are true, we should certainly act upon them and prevent the strike. However, there are very good rea- sons for believing that they are not true. The first of these reasons is that we should always view with suspicion any charge by the AF of L against the CIO, or by the CIO against the AF of L. The CIO was founded by several unions which were expelled from the AF of L, and rancor has never died down. The second reason for doubting the charges is the character of Mr. Ryan. His attempt to sell out his own union members in the San Francisco strike of 1934 caused all the long- shoremen on the West Coast to leave the AFL and found the CIO Longshoremen's union under the leadership of Harry Bridges. Ryan then at- tempted to frame Bridges and have him de- ported to Australia, but this plot was broken up by the United States Supreme Court. Now Ryan charges that the proposed strike by seven CIO unions is an attempt to turn over the shipping industry to Russia! When the rank and file longshoremen on the East Coast revolted against Ryan and struck early this year, the New Republic revealed some interesting facts about Ryan. They called him a dictator inside his gown union, and pointed out that he made himself president for life at an annual salary of $25,000. Bridges was elected president for one year at a salary of $6,000. The third reason for doubting the charge is that it is obviously ridiculous. The 200,000 men who threaten to strike all make their living from the American shipping industry. Are we to be- lieve that they intend to destroy their source of livelihood by turning over the shipping in- dustry to another country? During the war the average wage of NMU members was about $200 a month. Today the average wage is only $145 a month, a decline of 40%. Therefore the union wants a 30% wage increase. Today the average work week for seamen is 56 hours and they are not paid overtime. They want overtime for all hours above 40 in any week. Even during the war these seamen made only about 85 cents an hour. The CIO unions involved have promised that, in the event they do strike, they will continue to sail all troop ships and all relief ships. Thus in the case of a strike, we have been promised that no innocent people in Europe will starve as a result of it. These seven unions have not struck a single time since the beginning of the war. Therefore there is reason to believe that they will keep their current promise, just as they kept the no-strike pledge during the war. -Ray Ginger ussian Comtplex ACCORDING TO EDDY GILMORE, Associated Press correspondent who has just returned from Moscow where he has been an observer during the past five years, neither Russian diplo- mats nor any Russian think of their recent world political moves as any but completely justified in accordance with peaceful aims. Russians want nothing but peace, Gilmore says, and lists reasons ranging from depletion of Soviet resources in the war to the desire to get their famous five-year plan into operation. Yet the Russian's recent reduction of their army left some six million men under arms. And Soviet moves to consolidate their position in the Balkans and the Near East have been aggresive to say the least. National inferiority complexes rank high among the world's maladies. However legitimate Russian motives may be, their attitudes and actions should be given an international airing. Continued misunderstanding accompanied by politically suspicious moves can only lead to the logical outcome of any well-developed na- tional inferiority complex. The parallels are too obvious and numerous to list. -Milt Freudenheim Pubication in the Daily Official Bul- letin is constructive notice to all mem- bers of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent In typewritten form to the Assistant to the President, 1021 Angell Hall, by 3:30 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1946 e VOL. LVI, No. 158t Noticest Faculty Tea: President and Mrst Ruthven will be at home to members of the faculty and other townspeople Sunday, June 9, from 4:00 to 6:00. Cars may park in the restricted zone on South University between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. Student Accounts: Your attention is called to the following rules pass- ed by the Regents at their meeting of February 28, 1936: "Students shall pay all accounts due the University not later than the last day of classes each semester or Summer Session. Student loans which are not paid or renewed are subject to this regulation; however, student loans not yet due are exempt. Any unpaid accounts at the close ofl business on the last day of classes will be reported to the Cashier of the University and " (a) All academic credits will be withheld, the grades for the semester or Summer Session just completed will not be released, and no transcript of credits will be issued. "(b) All students owing such ac- counts will not be allowed to register in any subsequent semester or Sum- mer Session until payment has been made." Herbert G. Watkins, Secretary Tickets for Graduation Exercises:t Entrance tickets to Ferry Field and; Yost Field House for the graduation exercises on June 22 will be ready for distribution on June 7. Please apply at the Information Desk, in the Business Office, Room 1, Univer- sity Hall. Those eligible to receiver tickets will please present their ident-t ification cards. For Ferry Field a rea- sonable number of tickets to each graduate will be available; to Yost Field House, however, owing to lack of space, three only can be provided. HerberthG. Watkins, Secretary Faculty, College of Engineering: There will be a meeting of the Fac- ulty of this College on Monday, June 10, at 4:15 p.m., in Room 348, West Engineering Building. German Departmental Library Books are due in the departmental office on June 10 regardless of the due datestamped in the book. Women's Engineering Society: Will the members of the society please sign their names to the information cards that have been sent out by the secretary before they are remailed to Mrs. Dyer? Students having lockers at Water- man Gymnasium should clear lockers and secure refund prior to June 20. Lockers at the Intramural Sports Building must be vacated by June 7. The building will be closed on and after June 8. All NROTC students who have ap- plied for admission to the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the Spring Term who have not re- ceived their admission certificates please call at 1209 Angell Hall as soon as possible. Senior leather bound and card- board announcements will be ready for distribution Monday, June 10, and Tuesday, June 11, and may be picked up between the hours of 10 to 12 and 1 to 3 in Room 4, Univer- sity Hall, on those days. Seniors are required to bring either their re- ceipts or their identification cards to obtain their orders. Every senior should check his order to see that it is correct as no corrections will be made after the student leaves the room. For those who are unable to pick up their leather and cardboard orders on June 10 and 11, there will be a later distribution on June. 18 from 1 to 4 in Room 2. Notice to all Graduating Engineer- ing Students: Caps and Gowns for the Commencement Exercises will be available for rental Monday and Tuesday afternoons, June 10 and 11, from 1 to 5 in the Garden Room of the Michigan League. All Engineer- ing students must make their rentals on one of these days, as they will not be available after Tuesday. Seniors in Aeronautical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering: Mr.' Nance of North American Aviation, Inc. (Inglewood, California) will in- Ml Tu Tu Mc Time of Exerc DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN nday at 8 " "' 10 " " 11 nday at 1 , ," 2 3 2 esday at 8 ", " 9 "x " 10 ,, 11 esday at 1 "t " 2 " "$ 3 ise ..................... Sat., June 15, ......................Wed., June 19, ...Tues., June 18, SPECIAL PERIODS ... . Thu., June" ..........Sat., June ..........Fri., June1 .........Tues., June7 ..........Wed., June ......... Mon., June1 .........Thu., June1 .... Fri., June1 ......Thu., June1 ..........Tues., June7 . .........Mon., JuneI 13, 15, 14, 18, 19, 17, 13, 14, 13, 18, 17, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Sociology 51, 54 .................... Spanish 1, 2, 31, 32 .................. German 1, 2, 31, 32 ................ Political Science 1, 2, 52 ............ Psychology 42 ...................... Chemistry 55 ....................... Speech 31, 32 .................... French 1, 2, 12, 31, 32, 61, 62, 91, 92, 93, 153 .................. English 1, 2..................... Economics 51, 52, 53, 54............ Botany 1 ............... .......... Zoology 1 .......................... Thu., June 13, Fri., June 14, Fri., June 14, Sat., June 15, Sat., June 15, Mon., June 17, Mon., June 17, Mon., June 17, Tues., June 18, Tues., June 18, Wbd., June 19, Wed., June 19,. 2:00-4:00 2:00-4:00 10:30-12:30 10:30-12:30 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 10:30-12:30 2:00- 4:00 8:00-10:00 2:00- 4:00 8:00-10:00 8:00-10:00 2:00- 4:00 8:00-10:00 10:30-12:30 8:00-10:00 8:00-10 :00 10 :30-12:30 10':30-12:30 10:30-12:30 2:00- 4:00 2:00- 4:00 8:00-10:00 8:00-10 :00 10:30-12:30 10:30-12:30 Spring Term Exam Schedule UNIVERSITY OF MIChIGAN College of Literature, Science, and the Arts College of Pharmacy School of Business Administration School of Education School of Forestry and Conservation School of Music School of Public Ilealth June 13 to June 19, 1946 NOTE: For courses having both lectures and quizzes, the time of ex- ercise is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses having quizzes only, the time of exercise is the time of the first quiz period. Cer- tain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. To avoid misunderstandings and errors, each student should re- ceive notification from his instructor of the time and place of his examina- tion. In the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, no date of examina- tion may be changed without the consent of the Examination Committee. Time of Examination School of Business Administration Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any necessary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. School of Forestry and Conservation Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any necessary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. School of Music: Individual Instruction in Applied Music Individual examinations by appointment will be given for all applied music courses (individual instruction) elected for credit in any unit of the University. For time and place of examinations, see bulletin board at the School of Music. School of Public Health Courses not covered by this schedule as well as any neccssary changes will be indicated on the School bulletin board. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS June 13 to June 19, 1946 NOTE: For the courses having both lectures and quizzes, the time of exercise is the time of the first lecture period of the week; for courses having quizzes only, the time of exercise is the time of the first quiz period. Drawing and laboratory work may be continued through the exam- ination period in amount equal to that normally devoted to such work during one week. Certain courses will be examined at special periods as noted below the regular schedule. All cases of conflicts between assigned examina- tion periods must be reported for adjustment. See bulletin board out- side of Room 3209 East Engineering Building between May 29 and June 5, for instruction. To avoid misunderstandings and errors, each stu- dent should receive notification from his instructor of the time and place of his appearance in each course during the period June 13 to June 19. No date of examination may be changed without the consent of the Classification Committee. SI Time of Exercise Time of Examination Monday (at .8 (at 9 (at 10 (at 11 (at 1 (at 2 (at 3 Thursday Saturday Friday Tuesday Wednesday Monday Thursday F riday Thursday Tuesday Monday Saturday Wednesday Tuesday Tuesday (at (at (at (at (at (at (at 8 9 10 11 1 2 3 June 13 June 15 June 14 June 18 June 19 June 17 June 13 June 14 June 13 June 18 June 17 Julie 15 June 19 June 18 Juie 13 June 14 June 15 June 17 June 17 June 18 June 19 2-4 2-4 10:30-12:30 10:30-12:30 8-10 10:30-12:30 10:30-12:30 2-4 8-10 2-4 8-10 8-10 2-4 8-10 10:30-12:30 8-10 10:30-12:30 10:30-12:30 2-4 8-10 10:30-12:30 Chem-Met 1; E.E. 2a Draw. 1; M.E. 1; Span.; E.M. 1; C.E. 2 Draw. 3; Surv. 1, 2, 4 Draw. 2; M.E. 3; Frenc Econ. 53, 54; English 11 M.P. 2, 3, 4 *Thursday German *Friday * Saturday *Monday h *Monday * Tuesday *Wednesday *This may also be used as an irregular period, provided there is no conflict with the regular printed schedule above. Prescribed V-12 courses will also follow the above schedule. terview graduating seniors on Friday, June 7, in Room 3205 East Engineer- ing Building. Applications blanks may be obtain- ed in Room B-47 East Engineering Building. Interested men will please sign the interview senedule posted on the Aeronautical Engineering Bul- letin Board. Men interested in jobs as coun- selors at a summer camp for crip- pled children may obtain full infor- mation at the Bureau of Appoint- ments, 201 Mason Hall. Widow Village Program for Vet- erans and their Wives: Saturday, June 8: Record Dance, Biological Chemistry Lecture: Dr. B. L. Baker of the Department of Anatomy will speak on "Applications of Chemical Methods to Microscopic Technique" in the East Lecture Room of the Rackham Building on Friday, June 7, at 4 p.m. All. interested are invited. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Harry Andrew Broad, Fine Arts; thesis: "Contemporary Lihography, to be held Saturday, June 8, at 9:00 am. in 2009 Angell Hall. Chairman, J. G. Winter. English 1, Final Examination Schedule for Tuesday, June 18, 8-10 BARNABY CeeI*a r,., Me.at. ..R u.,Ia ".. t.i c 04 T I've enjoyed playing ball with j If we only had one good player we could really depend or, . . . By Crockett Johnson Put on the mitt and mask, m'boy ... Fadeway O'Malley is about to test McSnoyd's batfing r ,,,