FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1950 wildcat Strikes INDUSTRY and the public have long rec- ognized that labor unions have come of age in respect to the-powerful force they wield in the economic life of this country. But these organizations are yet im- mature in many of their contacts with management, the public and what does them the most harm-their own members. One of the most immature actions retained by labor is the wildcat strike. Of course union officials in general dis- claim any blame for these usually brief, une- sanctioned walkouts. They say that the strikes are called wildcats because they arise from the men themselves, and term the out- breaks "protests" not to be dignified by the name "strike." Sometimes the officers will clamp down on wildcatters and order them back to their jobs. But at other times they actually sanction wildcat action. Such an attitude discredits the union. The wildcat strike defeats the purpose of col- Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff fand represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JOHN DAVIES lective bargaining, and at times the union- company contract. When it does this it de- feats the basic purpose of the labor union. And- it defeats the real effectiveness of a full-scale strike supported by the majority, not the minority, of union members as an economic weapon to be used as a final re- sort in pressuring management. During labor's recent drive for a "beat the controls" wage boost, Ford Motor Company refused to talk about a raises As a result, wildcats broke out in Ford plants. Carl Stellato, a union president, denidd blame for the strikes. But he warned the company more stoppages would follow because he would not demand that the strikes be stopped. So the walkouts had full union sanction, and in effect broke the contract, agreed upon in good faith. It also aided in by- passing the bargaining table. The whole business made the 'state of labor rela- tions look pretty backward. Such displays will result again unless union leaders convince the rank and file that until they do away with wildcat strikes: and follow regular union channels for their grievances, they cannot hope the public or management will treat them as fully grown. -Vernon Emerson. ON THE Washington Merry-GoRound WITH DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON - The story can now be told of the last cabinet meeting attendad by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. It was not a happy one. Nothing much was said about Johnson's forthcoming departure, put President Tru- man, looking straight at Louey, said: "There's a little item I want, to take up with all of you. It's the matter of wire- tapping. J. Edgar Hoover has been doing a lot of wire-tapping . . ." At this point, Attorney General Howard McGrath interrupted. "Mr. President," he said, "I know all about Mr. Hoover's wire-tapping. I know every tap he is making. He only taps with my appro- val in cases involving savotage, espionage and kidnapping. He has less than 200 taps out. I review every one of them every month.", "That's not the point I was trying to make," continued Truman. "I just wanted to tell you folks that Hoover tells me he' Isn't the only one in Washington who's tapping wires. He tells me that many of you are. I just want you to know that I don't like it a bit. I don't think much of wire-tapping and of anybody who taps wires. I think the habit of having some- one on the telephone all the time when you are talking to someone else is bad. It violates the freedom and dignity of the individual. I want you all to cut it out." Note-The most -notorious wire-tapper in government was Secretary Johnson's close friend, Senator Brewster of Maine. * * * SENATORS were whiling away the hours during Sen. George Malone's slot-ma- chine filibuster, and gossiped over the rumor that Harold Stassen would become Secretary of the Navy or get some other big govern- ment job. "Do you know what Stassen reminds me of?" remarked Sen. Paul Douglas of Illi- nois. "A pitcher of ginger ale which has been left standing for a day." * * * Ken Wherry, the irrepressible and delight- ful Republican Senate whip, is privately burned up at the way colleagues, particularly Bob Taft, inveigle him into taking the rap for them. ' A few days ago this column told how Wherry at one time put Albion Beverage, "The Ghost Senator," on the payroll of his Senate small business committee. Later Beverage wrote the below-the-belt speech by Indiana's Senator Jenner, calling Gen. George Marshall a "living lie" and "a front for traitors." Following this speech Wherry confided to a colleague in the Senate cloakroom, "I met Beverage at a small dinner party Bob Taft gave for a few of us. Beverage had just come back from trying to run for Sena- tor against Margaret Smith in Maine. Bob asked me to find a place for him. Now, I catch the heat." The merry mortician from Nebraska also told how pessure was put on him to make the speech which was ghost-written by Al- fred Kohlberg, the China Lobbyist, attack- ing the National Farmers' Union. "But," said Wherry, "I was too smart for that. I let Styles Bridges make that speech." Note-Alfred Kohlberg, a leader of the Chiang Kai-Shek lobby, contributed $1,000 to the New Hampshire re-election campaign fund of Senator Bridges. He also contributed to the recent campaign fund of Bridges' secretary, Wesley Powell. A HOMESPUN hoosier farmer from the vil- village of Young America, Indiana, is scaring the daylights out of Congressman Charlie Halleck, one of the real GOP powers in the House of Representatives. The farm- er, Dale Beck, is leaning over back fences in what is considered a sure-fire Republican district and drawling : "It's time this dis- trict was represented by one of us, instead of two-Cadillac Charlie." A private poll taken a short time ago actually shows Halleck, who was GOP majority leader in the 80th Congress, fall- ing behind Democrat Beck. Haleck was so worried he tore away from important hearings of the House Lobby Committee to return to the hustings. In previous campaigns, it was hardly nec- essary for Halleck to campaign in what was carved out as an unbeatable Republican area. Only one Democrat has represented the second Indiana district in Congress in the past 20 years. Another tip-off on Halleck's concern is that he has ditched one of his sporty Cadillacs-it stays in Washington-and now drives a middle-class car in Indiana. His opponent, State Senator Beck, is a hearty 52-year-old farmer who, with three Marine veteran sons, manages 475 acres in this rich, flat country. He has a "howdy folks" approach. Behind the scenes, Beck is getting en- couragement from certain Republican lead- ers incensed at the way Halleck dumped Ho- bart Creighton, the party's 1948 nominee for Governor, in a bitter scrap for district GOP chairman last spring. Republican dirt farmers are also asking why Halleck went on the floor of the House to defend an ex-convict, Edward A. Rumely, who runs a lobby financed by Du Pont and other big eastern industrialists. Though none of them live in this district, Halleck tried to get the House not to cite Rumely for refusing to divulge the names of the Big Business contributors to his lobby. But the main gripe against Halleck is Lhe fact that he went to Congress a man of modest means and now sports two Cadil- lacs and an upstage manner. A danger sign was the drop in Halleck's majority from 26,000 to 14,000 in 1948. CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES DEWEY AND RUSSIANS-Secretary Ach- eson was burned up' at Governor Dewey for insulting the Russians at the official din- ner sponsored by the City of New York last week. He considered it poor taste for Dewey to talk as he did when foreign minister Vishinsky and other Russian delegates had attended the dinner with the understanding it was strictly a social affair. Acheson agrees with Dewey that the Rus- sians are practicing slave labor, but thinks official American criticism of Russia should be confined to business meetings of the United Nations. Remarks like Dewey's, he fears, merely play into the hands of Moscow propagandists. RUSSIAN URANIUM-American officials THOMAS L. STOKES: Fall Elections W ASHINGTON-There seems to be more uncertainty about the outcome of No- vember's congressional elections at this stage, seven weeks before the balloting, than for any off-year election in some years. Ordinarily, about this time, the sensi- tive political tactician can detect some- thing moving, what politicians call a "trend." But no practical politician is yet confident enough to lay down a bet on a trend in either direction. Of course most of that breed were so wrong In our last presidential contest-the 1945 "miracle" -along with us amateur dopesters in the political reporting fraternity that they -and we-might very wil be excused for a certain bashfulness and lack of bravado and let Dr. Gallup go it alone. Harry Truman, who fooled us all then, still is a potent factor for this November's contest. Though not before the voters him- self, he has come to be more of a factor than Presidents normally are in such mid- term elections when local issues usually are predominant. This is because there is this time a compelling, overhanging national issue- Korea; and because Republicans have chosen to pitch their campaign about Korea. It Is the foremost topic in public interest, since it is daily before the people and affects so many of them directly. It is, therefore, a convenient starting place for Republicans to attack the Presi- dent and his administration, beginning high up in the field of diplomacy and military preparedness and ranging down to such mundane matters as greatly increased ex- penditures, higher taxes, controls and pos- sible rationing, and the young man in the family who is awaiting a draft call. * * * T IS SO much the engrossing topic that in some communities, it is reported, can- didates for City Council are running against Harry Truman and discussing foreign policy and military matters with the glibness of experts on a radio panel. This entails certain risks, since Harry Truman has a way of bouncing back as, for example, in 1948. Republicans by now have considerable respect for Harry Truman the practical politician who bobs up every so often with a horseshoe. Con- sequently, they are privately worried that, favorable as things have appeared for them, he might yet bounce up unexpected- ly again-through his own initiative, or through something that might happen that would turn out well for him and his Democrats. It might be, for instance, that what Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur accomplishes in his cut-off movement in Korea would in the end have more to do with the November con- gressional elections than anything that has happened here, or will happen here. Coup- led; say, with the fact that the country is in a very prosperous state, which never is con- ducive to startling political upsets. UNCERTAINTY and jitteryness among members of congress, of whom 432 rep- resentatives and 36 senators face the voters in November, were clearly manifest in a couple of incidents that occured in the closing days before they left to go back home to campaign. One was the decision to return here in November, after the elections, to' do some- thing about an excess profits tax. Members discovered suddenly that their constituents, upon whom they had imposed increased individual income taxes effective October 1, were very conscious of congress's failure to tax war profits-a discrimination that was too plain. So the House Ways and Means Committee was left behind as a hostage, so to speak, to prepare a bill. The other incident was the panicky rush to the bandwagon of the Wood-McCarran so-called "Communist Control" bill. This was a sorry spectacle of accepting any- thing, no matter how bad and how un- American, because it was tagged as against Communist and because of the fear that an opponent might whip up anti-Com- munist frenzy among enough of the folks back home to defeat them if they voted against it. In their fears they may have overstepped themselves, and may have underestimated the native instinct of our people against such repressive measures. There may not be time enough before election for a reac- tion against this new law. But it is evident already, as the Justice Department pre- pares to enforce it, that it is going to create a veritable labyrinth of legal tangles, if not1 rank injustice against innocent persons, as President Truman forecast when he vetoed it. Already members are saying that maybe they will have to amend it-after the elec- tion, of course. (Copyright 1950, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) & "To Give You An Idea How Effective It Is-We're Beginning To Believe It Ourselves!"s to the event. A responsible student then gives the individual permis- sion to the students participating who in turn records them with their director. Open houses. for the Michigan State game are authorized in of- ficially organized student resi- dences on Sat., Sept. 30, between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. for pre- game functions and between 5 and 7 p.m. for post-game functions. No registration of these functions is necessary provided they are confined to the hours indicated. Law School Admission Test: Ap- plication blanks for the Nov. 18 administration of the Law School Admission Test are now available at 110 Rackham Bldg. Application blanks are due at Princeton, N.J. not later than Nov. 8, 1950. Medical College Admission Test:. Application blanks for the Nov., 6 administration of the Medical College Admission Test are now available at 110 Rackham Bldg. Application blanks are due at Princeton, N.J. not later than Oct. 23, 1950. Graduate Record Examinations: Application blanks for the Oct. 271 and 28 administrations of the Graduate Record Examination are now available at 110 Rackham Bldg. Application blanks are due at Princeton, N.J. not later than Oct. 13, 1950. Lectures University Lecture "The Ameri- can Position in Korea." George A. Fitch, L.L.D., Secretary National Council Y.M.C.A. of Korea. Rack- ham Amphitheatre, 8 p.m., Sat., Sept. 30. Sponsorship of the De- partment of Oriental Languages and Literature and the Interna- tional Center. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for Awadh Kishore Prasad Sinha, Psychology; thesis: "Experimen- tal Induction of Anxiety by Cori- ditions of Uncertainty," Thurs., Sept. 28, 3121 Natural Science Bldg., 10 a.m. Chairman, C. R. Brown. Preliminary Ph.D. Examination in Economics will be held during the week beginning Mon., Nov. 6. Each student planning to take these examinations should leave with the Secretary of the Depart- ment not later than Fri., Oct. 6, his name, the three fields in which he desires to be examined, and his field of specialization. /etteMTO THE EDITOR The Daly welcomes communications from its readers on matters of nera interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the editors. by Scarlatti, C.P.E. Bach, Corel- li and Schubert; gCarnival of the Bells by James Lawson, and vari- ations on a group of British folk songs. Events Today Canterbury Club: 10:15.a.m., Holy Communion. Graduate School Record .Con- certs: Each Thursday at 7:45 p.m. Tonight: BEETHOVEN, 1st Quar- tet, Op.18 no.1; MOZART, Diver- timento no.15 in B Flat, K287; SCHUBERT, Trio in B Flat, Op. 99. All grad. students invited; si- lence requested. East Lounge, Rackham Bldg. Gilbert and Sullivan Society: Open meeting for all persons in- terested in chorus, principal roles, and stage crew for "The Gon- doliers" in the League 7:15 p.m. U. of M. Hostel Club: Organi- zational meeting, Upper Room, Lane Hall, 7:30 p.m. U. of M. Women's Glee Club: Freshmen eligible for tryotits. 4 to 5 p.m. Polonia Club: Meeting, 7:30 p. m., International Center. Students of Polish descent invited. Alpha Kappa Psi, professional business fraternity, invites all in- terested commerce and economics students to its smoker at the Chapter House, 1325 Washtenaw, 7:30 p.m. Movies. U. of M. Sailing Club: Business meeting for old members, 7:30 p. m., Rm. 311, W. Engineering Bldg. Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity : Regular meeting,7 p.m., Union. Members requested to attend. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese social worker and poet will speak in Hill Auditorium, 8 p.m. Tau Beta Sigma: Meeting, '7 p. m., Harris Hall. La p'tite causette: Meeting to- day at 3:30 p.m., League; here- after eache Monday and Thursday at that hour. Interfraternity Council smoker originally scheduled for Thurs., Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. Natural Science Auditorium, will remain on sched- ule with the exception of an 8:30 starting time. Discrimination . . To the Editor: IF YOU applied to the medical school, you would be asked to state your religion and nationality and to furnish a photograph. President Truman's Commission on Higher Education and a con- ference called by the American Council on Education believe that these questions are unnecessary, and could easily be used for dis- criminatory purposes. There is an organization on this campus known as the Committee to End Discrimination. This group consists of representatives of var- ious political and religious organi- zations and residence halls. For example, last year the Young Re- publicans, Young Democrats, and Young Progressives all sent repre- sentatives to C.E.D. meetings. The C.E.D. has been working with Dr. Wayne L. Whittaker, Secretary of the Admissions Committee of the medical school, on thedpossibility of having potentially discrimina- tory questions removed from the application blanks of that school. The C.E.D. does not accuse the medical school of discrimination, but does feel that information gained from such questions could be as easily obtained after appli- cants have been admitted. Presi-' dent Truman's Commission on Higher Education states that the appearance of certain questions on application blanks "constitutes= al- most prima facie evidence" that discrimination is practiced. A school with as high an academic rating and as great a reputation as the University of Michigan Medical School can ill afford to have accusations of discrimination leveled at it. We ask all students interested in the program of the C.E.D. to attend its first meeting of the year, Friday, September 23, at 4:15 in the Union. .Ed Lewinson IMEHAS no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trum- pets to announce the beginning of 3. II _I Michigan Men's Glee Club: To- night is the last night for try- a new month or year. Even when The University Extension Service' outs. Tryouts are not held a new century begins, it is only announces the following courses Spring so this will be the i we mortals who rming bells and opening on Thurs., Sept. 28: portunity until next fa fire off pistols. Astronomy for the Layman. This freshmen and graduate st -Thomas Mann new course is planned for those and all others are eligible. who awish a general knowledge of' INTELLECTUAL curosity is very the constellations and a survey of (nmin a Ev, the~~C m elmnar atso stooy Sin the ast op- ll. All tudents tts ay eve- Peoples Three "Africa, dangerous. Once you start ques- tioning you don't know what's go- ing to happen. The only thing' more dangerous, however, is igno- rance.. -Henry S. Commager I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN III (continued from Page 2) Callings hours for men are Mon- day through Friday at 1 p.m. Sat- Nelson International House; and urday and Sunday, the hours are in fraternities with resident house decided by the individual house. director, Friday, 8 p.m.-12 p.m.; Closing hours are: Sunday, 11 Saturday, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. and p.m.; Monday through Thursday, 8 p.m.-12 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.- 10:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10:30 p.m. 12:30 a.m. .1___Girls who attend the following Official Notice. The Women's' events must be in the house one- Judiciary Council, consisting of half hour after the termination of four juniors and two seniors, and the event: one graduate student, works in 1. Functions approved for late conjunction with the Office of the permission by the Committee o4 Dean of Women to'formulate Student Affairs or the Dean of house rules and acts as a disci- Women. plinary board in cases of infraction 2. Choral Union Concerts, May of house rules. Festival Concerts, Oratorical As- All University women students sociation Lectures, and Athletic residing in organized undergrad- events. uate houses, including graduate 3. Play production performances students, must observe all house and other functions in the Lydia rules. The same applies to. guests Metidelssohn Theatre. of residents. Any student who finds that she Any student expecting to be out may be more than thirty minutes of her house after 7:30 p.m. must late after the regular closing hour register the occasion and place, or more than 15 minutes late after and, if out of town, the complete' a late permission shall notify her address. Resident Director of her expected No telephone calls may be re- lateness and probable time of re- ceived or sent after 11 p.m. or such turn to the house. +i.- .f . n.rrime,_!Any girl who violates the house the elenmentary acts of atooy Lectures will be supplemented by slides, demonstrations with the planetarium, telescopic observa- tions, and the identification of constellations in the sky. Non-' credit course, eight weeks, $5.00. Prof. Hazel M. Losh. 7:30 p.m., 3017 Angell Hall Practical Public Speaking: This is planned to meet the need of the student who wishes a course devot- ed exclusively to training in public speaking rather than a basis course in the whole field of speech. Study analysis, practice, and crit- icisms designed to promote the ac- quisition of proficiency in extem- poraneous speaking. Limited to twenty-five persons. Noncredit course, sixteen weeks, $16.00. Prof. G., E. Densmore. 7:30 p.m., 4203 Angell Hall. Short Story Writing for Begin- ners. Analysis will be made of short story types, of their construc- tion, and of marketing possibil- ties. Students will be expected to write several short stories. There will be individual criticism and re- vision after class. A bibliography will be supplied. Noncredit course, sixteen weeks. Miss Esther L. Mueller, instructor. 7:30 p.m., 165 School of Business Administration Bldg. Concerts Organ Recital: Robert Noehren, University Organist, will play the first of three organ recitals Sunday ofn~tin Will A. . d Land of Contrasts," and "in People: the Watussi," 7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. Displays of artifacts, customs, and skeletons of 4merican primitive people on second and fourth floors; open to the public from 7 to 9. M1~ t ttI University M'useums Frid ning program: "Primitive of America and Africa." films: "African Tribers," : r I Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff Jim Brown ........ Managing Editor Paul Brentiinger ....... City Editor Roma Lipsky.......Editorial Director Dave Thomas......... Feature Editor Janet watts ....... .. Associate Editor BilConnolly.......... Sports Editor Bob Sandell .. Associate Sports Editor Bill Brenton .. Associate Sports Editor Barbara Jans'........ women's Editor Pat Brownson Associate Women's Editor Football Color f I a T SATURDAY'S football game with Michigan State, the Wolverine Club will present the student body with an excellent opportunity to increase school spirit on the campus and add to the color of Michigan's football games. Though their earlier attempts have often met with failure because of student apathy, the Wolverine Club has continued spending time and money to add to the spirit that is so much a part of the gridiron sport. And this Saturday, after two years of planning and preparations, students will give the fi- nal touches to the club's efforts, either one way or the other. In the hope that the freshman and sopho- more class can't be as lethargic and lazy about school spirit as the senior and junior classes have proven to be, the club is request- ing most of the frosh and sophomores to come to the stadium an hour before the game to practice a unique and colorful flash card sstem . time as Tine sw cnoara cib. .; All local calls must be limited to' five minutes. No outgoing long distance calls may be made after 11 p.m. without special arrange- ment with the house president or the Resident Director. In case of emergency, incoming long dis- tance calls may be received after 11 p.m. Quiet hours shall be fixed by the individual houses, and their enforcement shall be supervised by the house president and the Judi- ciary Council.I rules and is brought before the Judiciary Council may be placed on social probation. Office of the Dean of Women Judiciary Council Group late permissions and mid- week overnight permissions are to be obtained by one student desig- nated by the group. Forms for these permissions have been sent to department heads and should be returned to the Office of the Dean of Women four days prior afternoon, Oct. i,mH intn uaior-1 ium. Scheduled to begin at 4:15, the program will include Couper-. in's Offertoire sur les Grande Jeux,1 and Franck's Grande Piece Sym- phonique; La Nativite du Seigneuio by Messisen, and Toccata, Op. 5, by Durufle. This recital as well as those to be played on October 8 and 15, w'fil be open to the general public. Carillon Recital: Percival Price, Jniversity Carillonneur, will open his series of fall programs at 7:15! p.m. Thurs., Sept. 28. The recital will include University of Michi- gan songs, instrumental selections Business Staff Bob Daniels. . Business Manager walter Shapero Assoc. Business Manager Donna Cady ...... Advertising Manager Bob Mersereau ...... Finance Manager Carl Breitkreitz .. Circulation Manage! Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press isexclusivel3 entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Past Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail mater. Subscription during regular school year: by carrier, $8.00; ;y mail, $7.00. "Red Channels" FANTASTIC as a radio soap opera-but dangerous as no soap opera ever could be the case of "Red Channels" continues. "Red Channels" is the privately published list of persons in radio and television who are charged, by private decision, with being pro-Communist. A few weeks ago this publication brought about the firing of Jean Muir. 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