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Labor's Interests Fused With Average Citizen's 1 By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service. 161S Eye Street. N.W., Washington, O. C. WASHINGTON. ? "There never will be a Labor party in the U. S." In the aftermath of the election, I couldn't help cogitating these worda, spoken to me several years ago by an official who helped write some of the most important New Deal labor legis lation a decade ago. The reasons given were that workers in Amer ica were individ uals first and members of la bor unions after ward?they were primarily citi zens with group interests common 10 ouier citizens. They didn't look at themselves as a political unit. In analyzing the new congress, some people have made the mistake of pointing to the defeat of candi dates conspicuously endorsed by the CIO-PAC and the victory of those marked for purge. Then, because the PAC is an institution which has behind it one of the two big interna tional union organizations, these people Imply that because of the de feat of the PAC, labor itseff was defeated. As a matter of fact, la bor was not beaten by any oppos ing group. It was not a question of labor, politically organized, meet ing organized political opposition. It was a case of a lot of men who hap pen to belong to unions plus a lot of others who don't going to the polls and utterly disregarding the wishes of a group which had tried to attach itself to the labor union and thus proving (as my friend said) that American labor is an Ameri can citizen flrst and a lot of other things next and when he sits in his union meeting he is a member of that local and not a member of a political party. Bankhaie i navrn i me sugniesi qoudi that many an American citiaen, who otherwise might not have voted, did so because of the en ergetic efforts or persons in spired by the CIO-PAC booklets and contacts, the chief aim of which eras to get voters to the polls. I am equally certain that of these voters who exercised their franchise chiefly beeanse of CIO-PAC nudging, many vot ed quite the opposite to what the CIO-PAC wished. COP Win Stems From Many Causes But this election was something more, then a revolt against the frank effort of CIO to reward those who had .espoused specific measures or to punish those who didn't. When Guffy. Meads and Murdoch were mowed down in the senate, men who certainly spoke the speech as labor considered it should be spoken, when 10 congressmen, marked for the purge at the PAC meeting in At lantic City last spring, were all re elected with one exception (and that was Representative Slaughter, beat en by the President's own special efforts in the primaries); when things like that happen, you know that plenty of perfectly good union members in perfectly good standing were voting against the preach ments of the PAC. Perhaps if it had not been for two other circum stances PAC's views might not have been so vehemently opposed up and down the line. Both have to do with good old American customs which spring from frontier days when emergency situations had to be met with emergency measures for the sake of simple self-preservation. One of those customs which has precedent implied all through the constitution is that too much power isn't good for anybody, and in a republic you don't elect people for life, or put one party in power in definitely. That is one thing that accounted for moat of the votei against the "ins" regardless of the candidates' persuasions. Another factor which added to the landslide quality of the vote Is the old law of action and re action. Americans have a habit of goiag to extremes. They have cer tain tastes inherited from pioneers that make them like their music loud, their horses fast, their stakes high, their goals worth winning. They ere not as fast to start either a fight or a frolic as aome nations, hut when they do get "het up"?oh. my! Failure to recognize that (act has caused what was the greatest military nation of its time to be licked t&ice in a generation. It was this characteristic, I (eel sere, which caused Amer icans of all sorts to siring much farther toward the conservative side than they normally would have done. Their patience had been exhausted by the efforts of a screaming minority to implant Communism on our soil and thus attempt to bring to this country the very thing from which America was supposed to be the escape, tyranny of the minor ity. Of late it has become the style to sneer at the majority. The "vulgar herd" and the "mob" were the con temptuous epithets of kings. The modern majority-scomer is more careful of his language. He phrases it so that it will appeal to the "peas ant and worker" or to the readers of persuasive and expensive page ad vertisements in metropolitan papers. The language differs when it comes from the extreme right and the ex treme left, but its purpose is the same: minority rule. Totalitarian ism as produced by a Hitler or a Stalin is not too different from that more subtly suggested by the power ful pressure group in a capitalistic country. The 80th congress has a tougher Job than the 79th. We hope it will be able to handle it. It was not elected to smash labor. It was elect ed to carry out a mandate (among others) to help keep labor from smashing itself. ? ? ? Parties Split On Hot luuet It may be that alter the next elec tion we can get down to the old par ty lines again, but it can't be done yet. There is still a pretty bad scrambling of Democrats and Re publicans on many issues which will split parties as it has before. It will be a relief if we do get back , to honest labels again. The British are still having their troubles on this score. The Conservatives, who are the "outs," have disensted changing their name. They have done it before. They have been known as the "Tory," the "Unionist" and the "National" as well as the "Conservative." Sir Hartley Shaweroas, brilliant Brltlah prosecutor, taunted them about this recently and even went as far as calling them "neo-Naxls." This sounded strange from those dignifled lips which hurled one of the most restrained and yet most dev astating charges against the Nuern berg war criminals that I have ever heard in a courtroom. It would take a pretty inflamed imagination to see in the great majority of American or British conservatives, a similarity to the Nazis?a differ ent breed of cats! ? ? . Marianne Ready To Forgioe Fritz 'Twas the day after Christmas in Frankfurt, Germany, 1945, when all through the ether there was static enough to make a trans-Atlantic broadcast impossible. I had an ex clusive story, so I sent it as a dis patch to David Wills, my substitute, who was sitting at the microphone in Washington to cope with such contingencies. The story (I said in my dispatch) would probably be denied, and I ad mitted it seemed incredible, for it revealed a plan of the French gov ernment to help re-populate France by admitting German war prisoners to citizenship. It seemed impossi ble, that, with the ancient Franco German hatred so recently fanned . to new fury, Marianne would take her "traditional enemy" to her bosom. The story was broadcast and that was the end, until, some 10 months later, it was confirmed in a matter of-fact statement of the French min ister of population, then touring America. A copy of the original dispatch which I exhumed frdm the files re flects my feeling in its incredibility as I stood admidst the ruins of a German city with the memories of a twice-devastated France clear in my mind. The idea now apparently is accepted without comment. How well the plan will succeed, I do not know. But to me it is a comforting thought that it baa been proposed because it shows so clearly how war hates are artificial things, and bear no part in the re lationships between individuals. ? BARBS . . . by Baukhage What's happened to the man who uaed to brag about never having mm to oollege bat having three col lage man working far htm? When the 0.1. atudenta get through, a man who hasn't been to college will be ? rarity. ? ? ? peeta aren't realbr*cold at alL The reason some of the Democrat* wanted the president to resign after the Republican victory may have been because they were too young to remember there were two parties in the country. see All's weB^that: ends well, as the BLAST WRECKS SCHOOL ... Crowds of anxious parents and volunteer rescue workers fathered quickly at the Baroda consolidated school at Baroda, Mich., following a boiler explosion in the base ment of the school which killed one child and injured at least 16 others. When reports were first received at Chicago rescue planes with medical supplies were rushed to the scene. HONOR VANK PIGEON . . . Credited with flying 20 miles in 20 minntes with a message that saved the lives of 100 Allied soldiers during the Italian campaign, "G.I. Joe," a U. 8. army pigeon receives Britain's highest award for animal valor, the Diekin Medal, in a ceremony at the historic tower of London. It was the first time a bird or animal ever received this medal. Ma]. Gen. Sir Charles Keigbtley is decorating the pigeon. Insert is a close-np of "GX Joe." ESCAPE IN FRANKFURT . . . Although it must teem unnsusllr tame to people who have looked aloft hi terror aa Allied bombers showered down their loads of death and destruction, the aerial show In battered Frankfort prosed a main attraction for war-weary eiti sens who tried to forget a multitude of troubles that beset them. Di THE GOOD OLD WTNTEK TIME . . . They are traveling a mile a bMi an their water aUa at Cyyreaa Gardeaa, Fla., hat feffl Hhde, wba hails ina Anaheim. Calif, lui if thla he treasea, make the meet et it) Ms time U yet "the eye" en Nancy Stffley, he Anew whr Ml la gethalM *a FlecMa. away frem hia ewa earn k*8lvlcke ^ iWHwm vfll tWif. PORTIA'S PORTIA . . . Adele I. Springer, New York City, recent ly elected head of the National Association of Women Lawyers, has called upon men and women of America for united action to establish law and order. ADMIRAL BYRD HONORED . . . Rear Adm. Richard Evelyn Byrd planning another Antarctic expedition, who was recently presented a gold star In lien of a second Legion of Merit for out standing secret service during re cent war years. NOBEL WINNER . . . Prof. Don ald W. Kerst, 35, University of Illinois physicist, who has been announced as a 1946 winner of the Nobel prise for his contribu tion to physics on his research pertaining to atomic science. FRENCH HOPE . . . Displaying his double might with which he hopes to take American pugilis tic honors and earn some of the good old American currency, Marcel Cerdan, French boxer, allows his fists at American em bassy while awaiting visa. SWEDISH HEIR . . . Six-montb eM Prtoee Ctrl GnsUf, third in Iht ot ncensioo to the Swedixh threw, peees for tret phete. The Trtto PROSPECTIVE POLICY WASHINGTON.-With Republican leaders gathering in the capital to , begin organizing their own G.O.P. 1 ruled congress for the first time in 16 years, here is a merry-go-round view of what the country can expect during the next two years: | FOREIGN POLICY ? On the sur face there will be no outward change. Later, however, important I changes will become apparent. The British already are worried over our swing to the right. BUDGET?The three largest ex penditures of government are for army-navy, veterans and service on the national debt. These can't be pruned ? unless the Republicans want to cut down the army and navy, which they are not likely to do. Easiest pruning job, therefore, , is on foreign loans and relief. UNRRA will be the first to go. A 200 million dollar loan to Italy, : planned by Truman, will be ditched next. Other loans to European and Latin American countries will be axed. I Ttiia ia ahnra nna fhinra Hi foreign policy comes in. The Italian loan was planned in or der to help struggling Italian democracy and prevent Italy's swing to Russian Communism. Midwest Republicans, many of them still privately isolationist, will veto this. However, the end of several war time expenditures such as price sub . sidies and service separation pay ments should permit balancing the : budget. I TAXES?Despite current talk of tax relief for small wage earners, , there will be only minor tax cuts. ' One of two things will happen. Ei I ther expenditures will be such as to i forbid major tax reduction. Or a i cut will be made in the lower brack | ets, after which G.O.P. congress men, pressured by higher-bracket groups, won't be able to resist the temptation to get aboard the gravy train. If they add tax reduction for the higher brackets, it means that : Truman will veto the bill. TARIFFS ? Midwest Republicans ! would like to go back to the old Hoover high tariffs. Some of the eastern Republicans from manufac turing regions will go along with them. If they get going in earnest, however, there will be a stalemate. Truman will veto. LABOR?One Republican faction favors immediate and outright re peal of the entire Wagner act. How ever, they know this would bring a veto and that the veto probably would be sustained. Another G.O.P. group wants to avoid antagonizing labor. Certain AFL leaders, espe cially John L. Lewis and Bill Hutch inson, carpenters' boss, helped them win the election, and they want to keep labor happy for 1948. Therefore, the following compromise is prob able: 1 TLo r?c. kill mill k. Iii auv uii| nui uc jraaisvu once again, and this time will become law. Even if Truman ?etoes, which is doubtful, south- ' era Democrats and the strong G.O.P. majority will be able to override the White House. 2. Senator Ball's bill, putting labor unions under the anti-trust laws, also will be adopted, j IMMIGRATION?Republicans are traditionally hostile to immigration and minority groups, and the house i immigration committee now is in herited by Rep. Noah Mason of Illi nois, well-known witch-hunter. Dis placed persons in Europe will get 1 little comfort from Mason. A re vived and stronger "Dies commit ? tee" can be expected?probably in both houses of congress. AGRICULTURE ? No major change in the farm program is in prospect for the next two years. However, you will hear the same cry for parity prices on farm prod ucts. Co-ordination of all farm agencies will be demanded. ECONOMIC OUTLOOK ? Prices generally will rise during the next six months, although not so rapidly, and with some commodities such as food and textiles dropping in the winter. Food prices should slump after the Argentine and Australian crops are harvested in February. Clothing and furniture prices should come down soon, certainly after Christmas. Autos will remain scarce for some time. . Rent control will be dumped with in about six months, although the Republicans will be too smart to re peal it outright. They will pass the buck ha<-k to the individual states, which will mean the virtual end of | rent controls, since state legislatures ' are notoriously susceptible to real estate lobbies. That, in brief, is the future G.O.P. congressional picture. ? ? ? CAPITAL CHAFF The big brass of the navy depart ment has been pleading with Adm. W. M. Miller, retired, now TWA vice president, to return to his old job as chief of public information. But it's no dice. 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