Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 21, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published the Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized Ai second class matter by the Post office department vector r. S. Malone president publisher vice president Grant Dexter we. Lord editor general manager Whitn Peg thursday August 21, 1952 or. Truman s dilemma president Truman s latest move in his Long struggle with the protectionists of the United states Congress is significant and hopeful. By appointing a non partisan group of eminent citizens to study the whole problem of the nation s foreign Trade the president evidently Hopes to lift the Tariff out of partisan controversy. And when the investigators file their report or. Truman expects it to weigh heavily with the next Congress whatever the result of the november election May be. Clearly or. Truman is alarmed at the recent growth of protectionism in the United states. He says that his country has constantly urged it s foreign friends to increase production to expand Trade and to reduce tariffs so that through world Trade they can expand their Dollar earnings and progressively reduce their dependence on our yet at the same he adds bluntly we find grow ing up in this country an increasing body of restrictive Laws attempting to further the interests of particular american producers by cutting Down the imports of various foreign goods which can offer Competition in american markets. The so called cheese amendment to the defence production act enacted despite a number of existing safeguards is a strik ing example of this trend. On the one hand we Are insisting Molotov s encouragement that our friends expand their own world Trade on the other hand we seem to be raising new barriers against imports from abroad. This poses a very real dilemma for. Our whole foreign a or. Truman rightly sees that Tariff policy is an essential part of . For when Tariff policy damages the Prosperity of the United states foreign friends and allies it immediately undermines their ability and May undermine 1heir willingness to co operate with the United states in joint Western states tried another approach. They proposed that the four Powers agree on what was known As the Short treaty which was designed to free Aust Ria on the basis of an instrument limited to eight general articles. The russians replied after five months and two reminders rejecting the Allied proposals. Examination of the soviet note reveals it to be a Long recital of excuses. In addition to the old ones my scow laments the fact that the Short treaty leaves out Many of the clauses originally drafted for the longer instrument. How sincere this criticism is May be judged from the soviet pro test against failure to include clauses covering free elections arid Basic rights. Precisely Simi Lar clauses were written into the treaties with Hungary and bul some resistance from or. All of them have since been torn up by communist governments with or. Giving the new boy the freeze defence. To some degree at least the recent changes in United states Tariff policy have damaged certain foreign exporters. Tie Dairy restrictions to which the president refers Are one example of this process the threatened restrictions on Swiss watches recently blocked by the president were another. Up to now such whittling has been confined to the outer Peri Dieter of the Geneva Trade agreement system and has not any Large volume of Trade. What or. Truman evidently Sears what foreign nations certainly fear is that having breached the perimeter the protectionists of Congress will love on to larger areas of Trade. In the political and military aspects of the two great parties of the United states have co operated consistently since the Day of Pearl Harbor. While there have been violent disputes in detail and various spectacular incidents like the dismissal of general Macarthur the by i Artisan policy has survived. With the nomination of general Eisenhower by the republicans both parties renewed their Basic agreement and was from 1he presidential election Campaign. Unfortunately however the same sort of agreement has not been achieved in Tariff policy even though it can never separated from proper. The Republican protectionists of Congress have never been entirely reconciled of Man that in the ranks to the reciprocal Trade agreements system which bears the of its architect or. Cordell Hull. They could not destroy i at they have inserted crippling amendments in this legislation wid in such a Case As the hairy import restrictions they have successfully circumvented. Agreements negotiated by the president with foreign states. As a result of this protectionist drive or. Truman rightly nays our whole faces a very real the wording of or. Truman s statement should be underlined. He does not say that restrictions on imports damage merely economic prospects of the United states and its foreign another attempt at a treaty thus apparently reaches a dead end. Russian calculations in this matter May be open to different interpretations on the record the one certainty is that consideration Tift the people of Austria does not enter into them. K Woock Ano i d be. Railway operations need for proving ground Sun drumming up the Case for improvement of railways or. Robert r. Young said most of you i think agree with me about this backwardness of our rail ways. But what to do about it that is a Tough one. The benefits of consolidation look ing far ahead to Legal Consolida Tion into several great systems otherwise government ownership is Likely to come through bankruptcy or Public demand for bet ter service. There should be created an in a the Industry can no longer of Dusty proving ground like Thetford the delays that go with 132 great research organizations of the motor companies. It should be staffed by experts who have never been infected by railway thinking. To it should be As signed the task of improving standardizing and introducing Competition into the Purchase of All railway supplies. Careful Steps a judge Speaks few men in Canada could have made the kind of speech which or. Justice Ralph Maybank delivered before the convention of the trades and labor Congress wednesday night. He spoke As a Man who had belonged to Trade unions since his youth and who still was a Trade unionist in Good standing. Nothing was More moving in his speech than the Story of How his fellow workers on the Railroad often did his share of the Job against his will and his. Protests so that he could find time to study and pass his University examinations. This Story has much More than personal overtones. It is an epitome of the labor move ment. For deep in the heart of the Workingman is a passion for the fight for the . Senate edit to the carriers. The rank and file of Bankers too have Benefit president of the United election. Of these 20 seats Only 61 Campaign and thus if general died from opening up this Choice the most careful Steps should be taken by this proving ground to see that non competitive relationships such As existed for generations Between All the rail roads and two investment Bank ing houses should be wiped out in All departments. Under the competitive bidding railroads the duplications the w Aste. Most of the benefits of Legal consolidation can be attained quickly through cooperation. Savings can indemnify handsomely the mortgages the property and the employees that must be sacrificed. A t ast there is the vital sub i j Jet of labor management relations. It is Idle to argue who started the feud. But in my role of management i would not deny my share of the blame and the shame. Labor and management by their Mutual distrust Are equally guilty of inviting state control which threatens to gob ble them both up. Rule adopted by the commission 1 states has More real in traditional and Safe re pub by the letter and the in the remainder implications of the than any elected chief of state Init he will be a serious a democracy. But As Many dents have found As or. Truman found in the Case of the steel Industry seizure not Long ago those Powers can be drastically and unexpectedly limited by the supreme court s interpretation of the Constitution. The Power of the legislature As opposed to the Power of the executive constantly re asserts itself in moments of crisis. It is therefore Short sighted to View the present election Campaign in the United states As a education a desire to lighten the narrow struggle Between two burdens of others by the use the presidency. General reason for social purposes a con upon friends. He says these restrictions affect our whole foreign it would seem from his statement and from his appoint ment of leading democrats and republicans to study the of International Trade that or. Truman is seeking that same kind of impartial non partisan to Tariff policy which has succeeded so Well in the other aspects of . He wishes to show in other words that while Trade restrictions May Benefit certain Small segments of the United states Economy the end result is to damage the econ omy As a whole to damage the welfare of foreign allies and thus to damage All . If this basis premise is accepted it should be possible to secure some general agreements on objectives anyway be tween the two parties. The nomination of general Eisenhower who believes in abundant foreign Trade should facilitate such a bipartisan approach. But in the end of course Only the Congress can write the Tariff Laws can maintain or repeal the reciprocal Trade agreements act next year can support or repudiate the engagements made by the executive with foreign states. Thus the views of the next Congress to be elected in november on the specific Issue of the Tariff must vitally affect what or. Truman whole the foreign policies As Well As the economic prospects of the free nations. Presumably or. Truman s panel of distinguished americans drawn from both parties will have a report ready for the new Congress Early next year and it could prove to be one of the most useful documents of our times. States on the danubian lines of approach to Vienna. But All those nations Are today in the Iron grip of communist regimes and no such excuse is tenable. In the first phase of negotiations which lasted until the be ginning of the present year the largest apparent difficulty was of the lonely and obscure Are to be found leaders As Wise and Trust worthy Given the proper train ing and Opportunity As among those who Are blessed by Beuer Fortune. What or. Justice Maybank saw in terms of his own life was Only the old heroic tradition which made the Trade unionists such pioneers in the Battle for adult education in England and for improved school standards All Over the English speaking world. There is nothing finer in the record of organized labor than its consistent and constructive support of education. Or. Justice Maybank permitted himself a necessary and valuable observation when he reminded the convention that Trade unionists must achieve their purposes within the larger principles of the democratic heritage. It is fair to say that a dispute which can not be debated in Public has something wrong with it whether the fault be on the Side of labor or on the Side of manage ment. Once a Paradox this truth has now dwindled into a truism for the Day has Long passed when the Community can be ignored and treated As if it had no con Cern in major Industrial conflicts. Judges sometimes embody the austerity of the Law it is Good to find or. Justice Maybank speaking so manfully for its humanity also. Another rejection it would be hard to find a bet ter test of the Worth of soviet professions than is provided by the Small partitioned state of Austria this country was not a principal in the second world War having been forcibly annexed by Hitler in 1938. Its claims to favourable consideration were duly recognized in the Moscow declaration of november 1, 1943 which described the Little Republic As the first free country to fall victim to Hitler Ite aggression and pledged that it would be re established As a free and in dependent it is also Evi Dent that Austria is not like Germany a nation which could play a powerful role in Europe the conflict Over the of German assets definition and War Booty. The russians could and did claim that any austrian pro Perty taken Over by the nazis was a German asset regardless of the obvious fact that any settlement of soviet claims on such a definition would ruin Austria. Nevertheless after some 260 meetings it appeared that the area of disagreement Between Russia and the Western Powers had narrowed to a few articles and for this reas on occasion great on which Compromise should have anxiety among its powerful pre been possible. As this Prospect sent overlords opened however the russians of yet Austria seven years Al Eiferd other objections including the destruction of Hitler ism is still an occupied state with for eign garrisons part of it curtained off by the soviet Union which adamantly blocked All at tempts to set it free through a treaty settlement. During the Early Post War years the suspicion was Strong that the russians were stalling in order to justify the continued presence of occupation troops in the a charge that the other peace treaties had been broken by the failure to appoint a governor at trieste1, for which of course the russians were at least As Culp Able As the Powers accused. In any event this was not a matter for which the austrian people could be held accountable. When the soviets failed to attend a. Meeting on. Austria called for january 1952, the three from the Golden books work without Hope by Samuel Taylor coleria re All nature seems at work. Stags leave their the bees Are stirring Birds Are on the and Winter slumbering in the open air wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring and i the while the sole in Busy thing nor Honey make nor pair nor build nor sing. Yet Well i Ken the Banks where Amaranth blow have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom o be Amaranth Bloom for whom be May for me be Bloom not Glide Rich streams away with lips a brightened Wreath less brow i and would you learn the spells that browse my soul work without Hope draws Nec tar in a Sieve and Hope without an object cannot live Eisenhower and governor Ste. Venson Are in the spotlight but behind them in the shadows often Little noted by foreigners hundreds of More or less obscure candidates Are struggling for control next Congress beyond the Power of the new president to. Control it will make the Laws fix the budgets and exercise a final veto on the policies of the nation. Struggle for control with the nomination of Gen eral Eisenhower it was widely supposed in most foreign coun tries that the Republican party would almost certainly win the presidential election. Within the United states however the Emer gence of so formidable a demo cratic candidate As Stevenson apparently is taken As the Assurance of a hard fought and extremely doubtful Campaign. If the outcome of the presidential poll is doubtful the struggle for control of the legislature is much More so. If general Eisenhower is to Bej elected and in office is to enforce his policies effectively he needs a Republican Congress behind him. Yet it is by no Means cer Tain that his election could carry a majority of Republican legislators As the saying goes on his coat whatever their prospects May be in the presiden tial election the republicans face an Uphill fight in the Senate be cause the circumstances of the autumn vote in a geographical sense Are peculiarly unfavourable to them. A of 96 seats in the Senate the today s scripture behold thou Hast made my Days As a hand breadth and mine age is As nothing before thee verily. Every Man at his Best state is altogether vanity. Birthdays , Winnipeg born Sovari Scotland a gust 21, 1877. Thomas Martin Minitonas Man. Born nor Wood ont., August 21, 0 republicans hold 46. A third of the Senate must face the elec tors every and it Hap pens in 1952 that 20 of the re publican seats Are. Open in the on the other hand the democrats hold 50 seats in the Senate but Only 15 of them Are open in the election. Of these 15 five Are in the solid democratic South and one in Rhode Island seems to be firmly held. The republicans thus Are Given a Chance of Victory in Only 9 of the demo cratic constituencies. If they Are to control the sen ate the republicans must hold All their present seats and win at least 3 of the 9 socratic seats. Should the republicans lose some of seats they now hold they must make still further inroads into democratic strongholds. Clearly so far As the Senate is concerned the mathematics and geography of the election strongly favor the democratic party. It is quite conceivable indeed that general Eisenhower could win the presidency and face a democratic Senate the historic dilemma of the United states political system of divided Powers which has afflicted Many former presidents and among other things destroyed the of Woodrow Wilson in the congressional elections of 1918. Happily is not a major Issue in the present election since both presidential candidates Are basically agreed on it but in Domestic policy Gen eral Eisenhower intends to strike hard into traditional democratic territory in the South which ate a result of the civil War has maintained something like a one party system. Democrats historic bail Cick since the civil War the demo cratic party with rare exceptions could reckon every presidential and congressional elec Tion on the Assumption of Vic tory throughout the states of the confederacy. Only in 1928, when or. Herbert Hoover carried seven Southern states largely on the Issue of Alfred Smith s religion and his hostility to prohibition did the Republican party seriously break into the democrats historic Bailiwick. In 1948, because of his Strong stand on the civil rights president Truman provoked the Dixie rat revolt Benhower is to Cross the Mason Lou siness to Competition. The Bond Selling Racket which Over should that come labor will in 1944 Bankers spreads on More than management for issues have not Only shrunk to the chief victim of the insatiable less than 1% but prices state always is labor risen resulting in a double Ben Jit is labor that fights the planned wars and ultimately pays the most burdensome taxes. At the top and Dixon line in Force he must the years Cost the Industry Bil do so under his own steam also de to Many out the help of a divided such As new York Cen. He has Strong Hopes of terminal which ing the 24 electoral votes 7? millions to build Back in Texas his Home state the twenties although it was votes of Virginia and the 30 of that Ime that All the Florida. He is conceded a could barely to take As Many As 56 electoral is operating Cost to say votes in the South and if of train operation. The Contastin the North is close they Dewidt of the terminal might Well decide the 1q my Jons. Election and the control of the legislature As Well. The Bankel 3 m the ter Points in spread to sell some of the 60 millions of Bonds which at any rate the Central guaranteed. There Are Are encouraged by evidences Rodmany other terminal situations change in the thinking of the South As indicated in its press. So far twice As Many daily news papers there have declared their support of general Eisenhower As supported or. Dewey in 194s. So far As the South is concerned general Eisenhower appears to be a much More formidable Candi Date than his predecessor of the last election. Change in thinking the federation would like to see railway labor at the top of the Heap in wages and hours. Management should cheerfully concede that in return for a full Day s work. As Long As govern ment inflates wages must go up Nof do we deny the right of every one to Shorter weeks and longer vacations As efficiency increases. The Industry should set a world pattern for labor management cooperation. There should be a permanent National labor Man Central however with their As la gement conference with its local Socrates took three and one Quad chapters in each Carrier. Unlike Cleveland Only in degree. It is the embarrassment the financial Community in these monumental terminals the Mort gages against them which makes it so difficult to get their can Cerous costs off the backs of the railroads. Clearly Railroad executives can never Rise to their Best like sheep uniformly following false leaders. They should follow the owners or themselves become owners and make for their share holders a lot of Money. Often there is More Money to be made in improving a sick Industry than in preserving a Well one. If even a few will Only strike out on some new paths the forces of the federation urges a rail petition by these few Road unification a Jvance staffed with experts to realize1 of common action charged pricing after control t he rubber footwear companies recovered their free Dom of action when the control regime was lifted april 2, 1947. They gave an Assurance that they would not increase prices for a three month period and beyond that were warned to exer Cise care in the use of natural rubber while shortage persisted. To this latter end or. J. A. Martin who had been rubber controller was employed by the association to administer a sys tem of voluntary control which would keep polymer the Crown corporation producing synthetic in operation. Or t. A. Macro n Aid the combines commissioner Points out that no objection can be taken to the Industry discus Sions respecting he observes however that no Case has been made out to that these arrangements involved any of the other arrangements to which objection is taken re port Page Waterproof Range at a meeting representing eight companies held in april 10, 1947 the Waterproof Range pre among the Southern democrats pared by the Post War planning but a repetition of this schism committee was reviewed and has been avoided in the present braille s achievement from the London times few men have increased the intense As Reading at random sum total of human Happi Ness and Opportunity so manifestly As Louis braille the son of a French Saddler who haying himself gone Blind invented the system of Reading and writing and a Man who must wholly de Dard Range attached. There was which bears his name. It is pro per therefore that his fellow countrymen should commemorate the Centenary of his death with pomp Pride his body churchyard where it now rests to be Laid in the pantheon in the company of France s heroes. Certain changes effected. With these it is noted in the minutes the consolidation was Page or. G. B. Smith association Secretary thereupon distributed the pro with the footwear Stan could not arrive at an effective agreement covering Standard lines unless it controlled special lies which might otherwise take the form of very slight variants thus circumventing the agree ment. W Hile there was no general Price revision until the lat ter part of 1948, the report cites evidence of Price discussions common action in respect of the prices of new lines and of actual uniformity in prices. Thus or. A. R. Kaufman pres ident of that firm acknowledging a letter from the association Secretary april 16, 1947 observed we will continue present prices until mutually except that we will withdraw our two per cent Cash discount which has not been Given by our competitors for some or. Price lists will not be changed. You undoubtedly know the chief reasons and it seems that so Long As that situation exists our prices cannot be increased at least with out exposing ourselves to certain difficulties. Nevertheless we were Able to get the prices of the new lines and list them for you As in evidence when asked if the reference was to a meeting of Charest said i think so but i am not so sure about the report mentions another of his letters dated two Days later and referring to an interview with the other rubber footwear company Man agers during this pages 461-62 Price lists Kaufman was asked with whom did you contemplate Mak ing an agreement was it can Adian Goodrich Gutta Percha Dominion rubber Northern rub Ber and Miner he re plied yes i would say those and Likely no asked if agreements were sub sequently made he replied that there was no formality of an no binding agree he admitted to an under standing in accordance with list prices and pages 456-58 procedure indicated Pend upon his lost vision whenever he would open a Book is perforce denied it. To Day the Blind Are enabled by free lending libraries and the publications of Institute for the Blind heavily subsidized out of the Institute s own funds to keep themselves amply supplied with being removed from the country anything from detective fiction to treatises on higher Mathe Matics. Braille s contribution to the education of the Blind is braille s achievement however shown by the numerous Blind and no country founded in the last half reaped so much of its benefits or followed it up with so much promptness arid Zeal As Britain. The braille system gave thousands of Blind people., the inestimable Boon of direct Access to books. Intellectual delights Are so of the nineteenth Century and by the Large number of Blind men and women who have graduated from the universities in the last half Century As a preliminary to entering the professions which they have often distinction. Also a list of conditions govern ing the manufacture of specially lines. Thus it was noted that special to lines must have some unique or exclusive feature not found in the Standard Range and not merely a color or height Varia Tion. They should be sold at higher Price Levels than Standard lines but the prices May be either net or list subject to Dis count. They should return a bet ter Gross margin than that obtained on Standard lines. Net prices should show a minimum Mark up of 55 per cent Over fac procedure with respect to can Vas prices was indicated by or. C. D. Pequegnat of Kaufman. The prices were adopted on sep tember 1, 1947 and they were the prices of the Dominion rubber company we adopted them. Price lists for that period issued by seven companies proved on examination substantially Iden tical for Standard Page 459 with regard to the 1948 water proof Range the report finds that prices were discussed and com Mon action taken. Page 459 it quotes a letter dated March 3, tory costs and list prices a min 1948 from or. P. H. Charest of mum Mark up of 73 per other provisions covered trans Alfred Lambert which controlled Acton to a or. Desjardins an por tation charges re Bacton official. The excerpt reads Sale prices arid Mark . Page the Point Here As noted in the. Is that the Industry in consequence of our meet ing held yesterday in Montreal it has been decided that the next rubber and Tennis Canvas annual Waterproof Price lists effective on dates from March 8 to March 22 and issued for do minion Goodrich Miner Kauf Man Acton and Gutta Percha products include the prices mentioned in or. Charest s letter with one or two exceptions. Page 463 in july 1948 came the first eneral increase on Waterproof prices since control. Cited in this connection is a memorandum by or. A. Baicar Bata sales Man Ager which reads new Price increase is charged on All shipments from factory starting july 12th All other companies including British rub or Are increasing their prices. Or. Parson sales manager footwear division Dominion rubber suggested that we should put on our increases Date july 19th the reason will explain Page 463 or. Baicar explained before the commission that or. Parson did t actually suggest. He said they Are putting on their prices on july 12." he conceded that Bata prices were increased on the Date mentioned july 19. New Waterproof prices for Standard products were examined and found predominantly the the list prices of Cam Bridge and a considerable num Ber of Bata s Brit ish rubber used a net pricing system which made comparisons difficult where the products of this company were concerned ;