FOUR " THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, DECEMWBER 10,'1$46 __-- Anti-Labor Laws WHEN it became evident on the morning of Nov. 6 that the Republican Party would dominate the 80th Congress of the United States, numerous proposals for anti- labor legislation were immediately advanced by conservative elements. Advocates of such measures contended that it was necessary to restore management to a position of pquality in collective bargaining relations with labor. With a few exceptions, these suggestions were not marked by extreme irrationality. With the beginning of the coal strike on Nov. 21, however, the public,, whipped into a state of hysteria by the American press and radio, has demanded enactment of legislation which is calculated to render organized labor impotent. Certain groups even favored drafting miners into the Army and forcing them to work the mines. Despite the issuance of an injunction re- straining John L. Lewis and the United ;Mine Workers from abrogating the Govern- 'ment contract and the subsequent conviction of Lewis and the UMW on charges of con- stempt of court, the miners refused to return to the mines until Lewis ordered them back. Now, out of blind unreasoning anger and frustration, the Government, management and the public are demanding revision of the Wagner Labor Act and the adoption of punitive anti-labor laws. Before the 80th Congress succumbs to this tremendous pressure, it is mandatory that members of the Senate and the House of Representatives lay aside political con- siderations and objectively analyze the pos- sible consequences of economic coercion. MANY Americans labor under the de- lusion that the surest and most ex- pedient method of solving a dilemma is to pass a law. History has proven, particularly in the case of prohibition, that mere legis- lation is ineffectual unless it is supported by the individuals and groups it concerns. From the initial refusal of the United Mine Workers to terminate the coal strike, it should be apparent that if Congress attempts to drastically undermine the ability of .organized labor to defend its basic rights, unions will defy such laws. Tyrannical coercion must inevitably re- sult in national industrial warfare and economic chaos. If present labor-management problems are to be settled, quickly and peacefully, and a practical basis laid for the satisfactory resolution of future industrial disputes, it is absolutely essential that the government arrange for negotiations between the United Mine Workers and the private mine owners. Only through the recognized processes of collective bargaining negotiations can a workable compromise, providing the great- est mytual benefit, be achieved now and in the future. -Joseph Frien S - Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITORS Bagrow and Paine ALSOP EDITOR'S N appeared in une present brought for cated columi By JOS WASHIN has ga: uis clean-c which iA th siderably m ably prove he has also long-delaye necessary f to get good Even now tends to co of Lewis's d reached the to discuss t to the cou last emenda draft. In t] -Clark Cli: Pius A. Kru Tom C. Cl spoken ofa speech." T Presdent's when then ,Boston Sym conducting; minor, No. Jalet, "C Symphony H]EBOS Hill Aud bination of rate progra musical exp The orch conductor, S working tog of this fine Make much vitzky direci the orchestr under Mr. B What ra nng was th integrated p always show or relatively a standard Of immed ance of the There may music to S opening pas wouchka-bu is unfair to stand on it uwsic prope f the cryst the compose t, beginning chant" and velops into a , 'for one,c program wit] I'd like to h The Sibeli full utili with an ire it renew rchestra pe hsme to asso they playe -truman Labor Plans !OTE: The following column which unnaturally the first reaction. And the next yesterday's New York Herald Trib- s a comment on the coal strike not was the wise decision to keep silent and not th in available regular Daily syndi- to trample on the fallen enemy. ns. No president in history has ever filed EPH and STEWART ALSOP away a document, in all probability, with happier feelings of relief than Truman GTON, Dec. 8-The President felt when "the no-quarter-asked-or-given ined sorely needed stature from speech" became necessary. Placed in the ut victory over John L. Lewis, morgue with it were elaborate, long-range e first break he has had in con- plans for a protracted, embittered struggle. ore than a year. What will prob- The truth is that the President and his more important for the future, advisers had seen only two outcomes. They learned an invaluable and very hoped that Lewis and the coal operators d lesson -that nothing is more would arrive at an agreement. They were or a man in his position than ready to hang on and fight it out, if neces- advice. sary, until the men returned to the mines v the drama of the great event of their own free will. But they did not nceal its meaning. As the news expect Lewis to capitulate. ecision not to carry on his fight White House, the last meeting N THE two or three days before the end, he President's projected speech the frenzy that from the first character- itry was just breaking up. The zed Lewis's search for -a way out began to tions had been made in the final mount to a sort of crescendo. The miners' he little group of men consulted leader sent all sorts of odd personalities, fford, White House counsel; Jul- selected only because of their known access g Jr., Secretary of Interior and to the President, to plead for the opening ark, Attorney General - it was of direct negotiations. Yet even, these ob- as "a no-quarter-asked-or-given vious signs of weakness did not serve to he others had already left the warn the President and those around him office, and Clifford was leaving of their approaching good fortune. Until news came. Jubilation was not the last moment, they were wholly pre- occupied with the best way to say the hard things they believed had to be said, and with their plans for such later steps as prosecution of Lewis under the Smith-Con- 'USICnaly act. Behind the drama of the event, however, there is also meaning, and in many fields. Iphony Orchestra, Richard Burgin What has happened must affect all sorts Program: Haydn: Symphony in C of situations, from that produced by the )ut," oon"), Op. from the Congress of Industrial Organizations' com- No. 1 inE minor, Op. 39. mitment to seek another round of wage in- creases to the relationships between the various personalities surrounding the Presi- itorium last night and the corn- dent. this great orchestra with a first Of these affected situations, the last m made for an overwhelming named is by no means the least important. erience. Since the end of the war the President's estra was without its regular obviously good intentions have been con- Serge Koussevitzky, but years of sistently frustrated by the bad advice he ether have so fused the talents has received. This time he got excellent group that it doesn't seem to advice from Secretary Krug and from his difference whether Dr. Kousse- friend Clifford, who were the real archi- ts personally or not. If possible, tects of the first carefully blueprinted a was better than ever last night strategy Harry Truman has ever adopted urgin. to meet an oncoming emergency. In the last fortnight Clifford has confirmed his e for a particularly happy eve- position as a; really important new figure choice of an exceptionally well in Washington. After taking his decision rogram. Dr. Koussevitzky has to stand firm, the President in fact, ceased 'ed taste in his selection of new to consult Dr. John R. Steelman and the ne mpiec andiwhn h ues . other advocates of appeasement, and re- concert piece it has guts to it. lied exclusively on Clifford, Krug and At- iate interest was the perform- torney General Clark. Prokofieff "Choud" ballet suite. be 'a tendency to compare this It MUST be added that once the President's travinsky - and certainly the mind was made up he did not look back. sages arc reminiscent of Pet- Even on the day when Judge T. Alan Golds- t to say any more than that borough handed down his decision, when the music. It is well able to Lewis half promised through his lawyers s own feet and once into the that he would come to terms in return for r it shows unmistakable traces a stay in judgment, the President did not llization that we associate with hesitate before returning his refusal. But, r's later music. The last half of although Truman thus stood, so to speak, with "The Arrival of the Mer- on his own feet, he can be expected to turn "The Dance of Servility," de- to the same advisers for help in the future. an arresting and exciting work. It is to be expected, for example, that they didn't bother to associate the will be asked to propose the preventive "h the music, but program or no, measures by which to ward off another ear it again. round of strikes resulting from CIO wage us symphony was played, mak- demands. nation of the rich orchestration Then, too, work has already begun on earnestness and sincerity that the President's message to Congress on the ved stature. Mr. Burgin and the state of the Union, which will deal at length rformed in a way that I have with the labor problem. It can be stated ciate with the Boston orchestra categorically, on the highest authority, that d as if they liked it. no detailed decisions have as yet been IT WAS THE privilege of the press during the past two and a half weeks to color the impasse which existed between the miners and the government as a workers' strike against the sovereign power of the oUnited States. Aside from its being absurd to speak in abstruse legal terms, when the whole of the labor movement was being threatened with its existence, the facts were quite the reverse. The Administration did not seek any real solution to the refusal of the miners to work without a contract. Instead, they chose to deal in terms of labor's funda- mental right to strike. That there was collusion of thought between the Ad- ministration and the Coal Operators, is evidenced by the similar expressions of sentiment-a "fight to the finish." As far as they were concerned, it was not the fact that the coal miners had just de- mands, or that the strike was disrupting the economy of the country, but rather that labor's fundamental right to strike was to be fought to a finish under these circumstances unfavorable to labor. The working man was to be taught a lesson. Any attempts to meet the miners' de- mands, as was suggested by Cyrus Eaton, one of the southern Operators, was con- sidered treason against the efforts to curb labor. It is significant that Mr. Lewis (after calling a strike as *n opportunist move to discredit the announced wage struggle of the CIO) should capitulate just as a united front by the large unions was rapidly being formed. Phillip Murray had appealed for unity "against the ferocious attack being made upon us." Mr. Whitney of the Rail- road Brotherhoods offered his support. Even though Mr. Green refused to ally himself with the rank and file of his union, the majority of the AFL locals, throughout the nation, had raised their voices against the government tyranny. - In short, Mr. Lewis took the responsibility for creating the sentiment against labor, for which the re- actionaries in Congress have been waiting, then did a complete about face and refused support from the whole labor movement, in a fight which concerns them all. CONTRARY to what the press reported as a strike by four hundred thousand miners against an abstract entity, "gov- ernment," the conflict was far more basic and broad. It was a fight between a few determined capitalists and the whole of . the labor movement, which implicates every other sector of the American econ- omy thereby affected. One need not to go to Karl Marx for ex- pressions of the conflict which is inherent in our economy. As far back as 1861, Pres- ident Lincoln said, in his annual message to Congress, "Labor is prior to, and inde- pendent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not existed first. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration." Whoever does deny the reality of this fundamental struggle which does exist between monopoly capital and labor, to- day, might do well to peruse Professor Vernon L. Parrington's "Main Currents of American Thoughts," in which the conflicting thought during the rise of the Industrial class is traced very thoroughly. PERHAPS, more than any single period in our history, these past few weeks bear out the struggle which is reaching the height of its development, between those few who own so much, who control the greater part of the economy, as against the laborer and the small businessman. This handful of capitalists, through a controlled press and radio, have carried out an un- abated campaign, since the war's end, to throw the labor movement into the weak- ened position it occupies today, after Lewis' single handed sell-out. In Mr. Murray's words, "The stage is set for the Eightieth Congress to be met by national hysteria deliberately fomented and inspired." Yes, the reactionaries in Congress have gained the, sentiment for which they were waiting - far below the surface, however, beneath the laundry bag and the Wagner Act, exists the struggle of the working man for his share in the nation's economy. .-E. E. Ellis "VOGUE" . . . consists of 325 large quarto pages, of which no less than 15 are given up to articles on world politics, litera- ture, etc. The rest consists entirely of pic- tures . . . of ball dresses, mink coats, step- ins, panties, brassieres, silk stockings, slip- pers, perfumes, iipstick, nail polish-and, of course, of the women, unrelievedly beautiful, who wear them or make use of them. One striking thing, when one looks at these pictures, is the overbred, exhausted, even decadent style of beauty that now seems to be striven after. Nearly all of these women are immensely elongated. A thin- boned, ancient-Egyptian type of face seems to predominate; narrow hips are general, and slender, non-prehensile hands like those of a lizard are quite universal. Evidently it is a real physical type. . . ." -British Author George Orwell, in the New Republic BILL MAULDIN x--\ -. 7O opt. 1946 by united feature Syndaae, In.i 1'-Z Tm. Reg. U. S. Pet. Off.-All rights* ervd EDITOR'S NOTE: No letter to the editor will be printed unless signed !and written in good taste. Letters over 300 words in length will be shortened or omitted; in special in- stances, they will be printed, at the discretion of the editorial director. Prejice.. . To the Editor: IN TODAY'S DAILY was pub- lished a letter by a reader who seemed to place too much em- phasis on lack of "prejudice" as the "criterion for judging" edu- cation. I refer to the letter en- titled "Prejudice." There is much talk of prejudice, and reader Hall is certainly cor- rect in saying that it is a human failing, which should be overcome by education. But there are two basic fallacies in his theme: 1) Truth is the primary ob- ject of education, (or it should be) and: 2) What is not true, is false- of course, there are degres of falsity. This is a world of imperfect be-' ings-the" human beings are the most capable of being least per- fect, because by their volition, or will-power, they can guide them- iI I DqILY OFFICIRLBULLETIN 11 Letters to the Editor. i (Continued from Page 3) _+i and Trends in Junior Colleges." The faculty and graduate students are invited. Department of Bacteriology: Seminar at 7:30 p.m., Tues., Dec. 10, Library, E. Medical Bldg. The subject will be "Bacterial En- zymes." Speaker will be Dr. Paul K. Stumpf, School of Public Health. Everyone is invited. Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, open meeting at 5:00 p.m., Room 303, Chemistry Bldg. Mr. C. W. Bjorklund will speak' on "The Recent Chemistry of Beryl- lium." Physical Chemistry Seminar meet at 4:15 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 12, Rm. 151, Chemistry Bldg. Mr. Ray- mond O'Rourke will speak on "Studies on Semi-Conductors. Part II." Open meeting. Special Functions Seminar meet at 10 a.m., Dec. 11, Rm. 340 W. Engineering Bldg. Mr. Hansen will talk on "Laguerre and Hermite Polynomials." Concerts Student Recital: Margaret Kay, violinist, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the require- ments for the degrees of Master of Music at 8:30 tonight, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A pupil of Gilbert Ross, Miss Kay will play compositions by Bach, Ravel, Brahms and Beethoven. The public is invited. Student Recital: Richard Gool- ian, student of piano under Joseph Brinkman, will present a recital at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 12, Rack- ham Assembly Hall. Given in par- tial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music, the program will be, open to the general public. Events Today University Radio Program: 3:30 p.m., Station WPAG, 1050 Kc. Tuesday Playhouse, "The Pro- posal" by Chekhov. U. of M. Mathematics Club meet at 8 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Prof. N. Coburn will speak on "The Karman-Tsien Relation in the Supersonic Flow of Fluids." A.S.C.E. Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers meet at 7:30 p.m., Union. Prof. J. C. Kohl will speak about recent developments in the use of Structural Glass (illustrated with slides). Everyone is invited. All Mechanicals, Aeros, and Navals: A.S.M.E. Roast at 6:15 p.m., Union. Tickets on sale to- day at the Arch. Ann Arbor Amateur Astro- mers' meeting at 7:30 p.m., Astro- nomical Laboratory, 5th floor, An- gell Hall. Dr. Dean B. McLaugh- lin, of the Department of Astron- omy, will speak on the subject, 'A Night with the Astronomer and His Telescope." The public is in- vited. W. Engineering Bldg. There will be an intercollegiate debate with the University of Detroit. Quarterdeck members meet at 5 p.m., North entrance, W. Engi- neering BZldg., to attend a dinner and meeting with the Propeller Club in Detroit. Famine Committee meet at 5 p.m., Lane Hall. This is the last meeting before the clothing drive. Polonia Club at 7:30 p.m., Inter- national Center. 'Ensian picture will be taken. Refreshments. Modern Dance Club meet at 8 p.m., Barbour Gym. The Christian Science Organi- zation meeting at 8:15 p.m., Up- per Room, Lane Hall. Armenian Students' Association special meeting at 8 p.m., League. The B'nai B'rith Hilled Founda- tion open meeting of Music Com- mittee at 4:30 p.m., at Hillel. Michigan Dames meeting at 8:15 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Inter-Racial Association meet- ing at 7:30 p. m., Union, to com- plete plans for the Anti-Lynch campaign and rally and to hear re- ports from the Chicago Student Conference Unity Committee. U. of M. chapter of the Inter- collegiate Zionist Federation of America meeting at 8 p.m., B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation. Program: business meeting, planning the Chanukah carnival for next Sun- day. Members are urged to attend. Coming Events Michigan Chapter AAUP meet- ing at 6:15 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 12, Union. There will be a presenta- tion by a panel of "Teaching Problems Arising From An Over- crowded University," with a dis- cussion period following. Join Union Cafteria line at 6:15 and take trays to the lunchroom of the Faculty Club for social hour and program. English Journal Club meet at 8:00 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, West Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Prof. A. S. P. Woodhouse, University of Toronto, will speak on' "'The Agreement of the Peo- ple Revived'; A Note in Puritan Political Thought in 1659." Re- freshments. Graduate Education Club meet at 7:30 p.m. Wed., Dec. 11, in the East Conference Room, Rackham Bldg. Panel discussion on "What is Wrong with Teacher Education in the Graduate School" will be conducted by a group of graduate students. All graduate students and faculty members are urged to attend. Business Administration Job- Panel. Professors Riegel, Paton, Jamison, Gault, and Rodkey rep- resenting five fields of business activity, will be members of a Job- Panel, 8 to.10 p.m., at the Union, Wed., Dec., 11. University stu- dents and faculty invited. Spon- sored by Delta Sigma Pi. U of M Section of the American Chemical Society meeting at 4:15 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Rm. 151, Chemistry Bldg. Prof. D. B. Mc- Laughlin of the Department of Astronomy, University of Michi- gan, will speak on "The Chemis- try and Physics of Stellar Atmos- pheres." The public is invited. Annual business meeting will fol- low the lecture. Sigma Xi, Michigan Chapter, open meeting Wednesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m., Rackham Amphithea- tre. Symposium on Antibiotics; Prof. Malcolm H. Soule, Dr. Ralph E. Bennett, and Dr.. Ernest Wat- son, speakers. "Aspects of the German Prob- lem." Prof. Pollock of the Political Science Department will speak on the above subject in the Rackham Amphitheatre at 4:15 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 12. Compulsory meeting of the J-Hop Publicity committee at 4:05 p.m., Thurs., Dec. 12, Union. The room will be posted. All houses must send a representative. Michigan Wolverines meet at 6:45 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Union. Members are reminded that three consecutive, unexcused absences constitute dismissal from the Club. Please be present to plan for the basketball season. Gargoyle Advertising Staff meet- ing at 4 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Gar- goyle office. Everyone must at- tend. I.A.S. meeting at 7:30 p.m., Union. Speaker will be Prof. Nelson, Aero. Engineering Dept., who will speak on the "Supersonic Design prob- lem." 'Ensian picture will be taken. Pi Lambda Theta meet at 8 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, University Elemen- ary School Library. Miss Harriet Green, of Michigan State Normal College, and the Institute for Hu- man Adjustment, University of Michigan, will talk about her work in teaching visual hearing. All members are urged to be present. Eta Kappa Nu, Honorary Elec- trical Engineering Society, meet- ing att 7:15 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Rm. 247, W. Engineering. A.I.E.E.-I.R.E. meeting at 8 p.m., Dec. 11, Rm. 348, W. *Engineering. Prof. Crane of the Physics Dept. will speak on the "Synchratron." AVC Record Hop, 2:30-5:30 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Michigan League Ballroom. Everyone invited. AVC semester membership party at 8:30 p.m., Fri., Dec. 13, Smith's Catering, Green St. Tickets may be obtained from Bob Wagner (phone 7179). Michigan Dames Art Group meet at 8 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, at the home of Mrs. G. G. Mackmil- ler, 1008 Pontiac St. Michigan Alumnae Club meet- ing, 3-5 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Hen- derson House, 1330 Hill Street. All house directors and sorority chap- erones invited. Faculty Women's Club meeting at 8:15 p.m., Wed., Dec. 11, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Tula (Mrs. Hans Kurath) will present a pro- gram of dances. Guests invited. selves, driven by mistaken ideas, to depths of imperfection deeper than those of any irrational or inanimate being. So, this imper- fection is part of us, and must be accepted, yet we must not be discouraged from seeking perfec- tion. In this search, we imperfect beings concoct all sorts of political, economic and even religious ideas. But can we forget that there is but one truth? No, we don't for- get that. But what is true? "Aye, there's the rub;" there is the cause of Republican sympathizing, of Democratic sympathizing and es- pecially of "Red-baiting." There are those whose intellec- tual application to study has led them to the conclusion that Christianity-which, incidentally, is the basis of our American con- stitutional philosophy-is truth, or as close to truth as imperfect man can approach. Among these are men with strong enough convic- tions to oppose and denounce any- thing which "perverts" or opposes truth. Some might call this pre- judice. I would suggest, as did reader Hall, that "facts and thinking" can be applied to the cards which are stacked on the table. Thus, untruth-the tools of the "scourge of cheap politics"-might someday be stamped out. -Vincent H. Meli * * * To the Editor: WHILE perusing through the lo- cal dailies and plunging head- long midst the usual collection of humdrum articles, we came across one of inspiring interest with the somewhat ludicrous headline, to wit, "Co-eds Want Slacks Back." The catastrophic implications were of such overwhelming pro- portions that my colleagues and I were taken aghast. "Heavens to Betsy," we ejaculated, almost as a man, ". ..can this be true??" What has happened to the red- blooded American girl? Where is that well known sagacity and in- testinal fortitude of American womenhood? Surely, there is nothing more soul inspiring, noth- ing that will stimulate the aes- thetic qualities of man, more than the silhouette of a well shaped gam or gams. Forsooth, there is no need to drape the shape. 'Tis shocking! The cold you say. bah sh. courage, courage ... chin up! In closing we would like to add, that we hope this epistle will be published in order to raise the morale of those gals that .are suf- fering from the frosty and clutch- ing fingers of ole man winter. -Norman Friedman and seven others, University of Pennsylvania BRITAIN has been sending a considerable number of mo- bile power stations and units, originally built for blitz emergen- cies in this country (England), to Odessa and other Soviet ports. British electrical equipment is in demand, and without government intervention the English Electric Company, Ltd., has recently ne- gotiated with Soviet purchasers for contracts worth more than $4 million. British machine tools are also keenly sought. -New Republic Expense Money When Congressmen take the oath of office, they are eligible for $200 expense account money. 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