RUSSIA TESTS TWO BOMBS;
THE U. S. TESTS TEN
A little more than two years
*go, President Truman reported
that “within recent weeks an
atomic explosion occurred in the
U. R. fi. R.” I*st week it was
announced that the Russians had
succeeded in exploding; "another
atomic bomb.”
No details were available and
It was not explained how the
United States acquired the infor
mation. It is known that each
atomic blast sends clouds of ra
dio-activity through the atmos
phere, which can be detected with
instruments thousands of miles
from the scene of the explosion.
This may have been the source of
the information but there is the
possibility that seismographs, op
erating close to Russia, detected
the explosion, or it may have been
spotted by high-flying B-29s in the
Arctic region. Again, espionage
agents inside the Soviet Union
tnav have reported the blast.
It is expected that the Soviet
will lose some propaganda advan
tage, based on the views expressed
by Premier Stalin, in February,
when he contended that Rusisa
was busy with peaceful economic
development, not leading to an
atomic armament race. In addi
tion, the reported explosion may
give evidence that the Russians
are making decided progress in
the atomic weapon race and may
have some effect upon Western
Europeans who are not overly
anxious to co-operate with the
'Western powers in creating a
European army.
The scientific experts, who try
to figure out the relative position
«f the United States and Russia
In the atomic bomb race, say that
the President’s announcement
makes it clear that Russia has
tested only two bombs. This is
winch slower than the United
States, which has tested at least
10 models of atomic weapons and
Is continuing tests in Nevada.
Moreover, we have designed at
least 12 different types of atomic
weapons, each designed for a spe
cific purpose.
WILL U. N. TRY TO
PROMOTE IMMIGRATION?
The United Nations Organiza-:
tion, which, with its many rami
fications, tackles about every job
in the world, is interested in plans
to promote the immigration of 1,
700,000 Europeans to overseas
countries.
At the recent meeting in Na
ples, Italy, delegates from 27 na
tions, including this country, dis
cussed plans for coping with sur
plus population and manpower
problems. The group, organised
by the International Labor Office,
is concerned mainly with raising
working and living standards
throughout the world.
Everybody recognizes the prob
lems that face over-populated
countries but not everybody in
the world believes that every un
der-populated country has the ob
ligation of accepting additional
immigration. Those countries
which desire additional immi
grants can certainly take steps
to secure them but what about the
United States, where immigra
tion is restricted by law?
The question arises whether the
United States, in accordance with
its membership in the United Na
tions, would be bound to accept a
determination of that organization
and open its doors to the immi
grants that the U. N. thinks it
should receive. This is not so far
fetched as it may sound because
already, in a California case, the
court has decided that a treaty
obligation, made through the
United Nations, is superior to the
laws of this country.
WHY COMMUNISTS
ARE NOT PARTNERS
Aneurin Bevan, who resigned
from the British Cabinet in April
as a protest against the British
rearmament program and is now
fighting to wrest control of the
Labor Party from Prime Minister
Clement Attlee, says that the
Western nations must accept Com
munist China as a partner in
building a peaceful world or face
destruction.
Declaring that we should not
repeat “in China the same folly in
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1961 that we committed against
Russia in 1918," he warned that
if we do, “Western civilization
will come down in ruins and no
amount of atom bombs will enable
it to survive.”
It may be, as the British poli
tician suggests, that the Western
powers made a mistake in their
attempt to intervene in Russia by
force of arms in 1918 and it may
be that, in 1951, we are taking
some risk in connection with our
attitude toward the Communist
regime in China.
The answer to Mr. Bevan’s
warnings requires that somebody
propose a different course of ac
tion that carries a greater guar
antee of safety to the free nations
of the world. So far, acceptance
of Communist Russia or Commun
ist China boils down to acceptance
of the Communist economic the
ory of the restrictive program
upon human freedoms that they
compel others to accept by force
arms. Up to this time, neither of
these Communist powers has
shown any inclination to compro
mise or co-operate in a way to
permit free peoples to preserve
their liberty or security.
There may be a few individuals
in this country, and m otner coun
tries, who would favor a preven
tive war against Russia and Chi
na in order to stamp out the pos
sible spread of Communism. They
are in a vast minority, however,
because most of the peoples of
the free world ardently desire
peace for the harmonious develop
ment of the world and its peoples.
They do not desire this worthy
goal to an extent which makes
them willing to surrender the»r
future into the guardianship of
the military regimes that police
the Communist states.
It seems to us that before West
ern nations can consider a part
nership with Communist nations,
there must be satisfactory evi
dence of a desire on the part of
the Communist nations to be part
ners rather than masters. Ev
erywhere the Communists have
advanced, they have used force,
either in police action or military
pressure, to compel reluctant peo
ples to -adopt the Party line.
Such compulsion would mean
the end of free institutions as we
know them and, consequently, un
til there is certainly that Russia
and China want to “play ball” in
the modern world on a live-and
let-live basis, there is not much
use in talking about mistakes in
the past or possible peace in the
future.
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EMPLOYES CONTRIBUTE
TO FREEDOM CAUSE
Directors of the Crusade fox
Freedom have telegraphed their
“personal appreciation” to both
management and labor at the
Fort Worth, Texas, Consolidated
Vultee Aircraft Corporation’s
plant for that unit’s contribution
to the 1951 Crusade campaign.
Under the leadership of Lloyd
Turner, an employe, Consolidated’s
plant workers there contributed
more than $10,000 toward erec
tion of at least two more freedom
stations abroad through which
Radio Free Europe will expand Its j
fight against communism.
The telegram, signed by both
General Lucius D. Clay, and Har
old E. Stassen, national directors,
told the employes they had “made
a significant contribution to the
fight against world communism.”
Meanwhile, contributions con
tinued to pour into Crusade head
quarters in the Empire State
building. From Massachusetts, a
couple sent $2 and their “hopes
and honest prayers,” while a high
school history class in New Jersey
gave $5.43 in one week and s«id
they planned to make weekly
contributions.
A retired Indiana minister
mailed a $10 check to “help you
in this good work," and an Ohio
mother of two children, whose fa
ther is in the Merchant Marii e.
contributed $20 wits this com
ment:
“If this check can buy a couple
of bolts for your proposed trans
jmitter, or a balloon or two to
send messages of hope on the
winds of, or over the air waves
of, freedom, I shall feel more
' than justified.”
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1. Genesis 9:16.
2. God.
3. Noah.
4. After the flood.
NEWS AND VIEWS
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT
(An ILNS Feature)
Coincident with plans for an
all-out union campaign against 19
Senators and at least 66 Repre
sentatives in next year’s congres
sional elections, the 70th AFL
convention has authorized a boost
in the per capita tax and a na
tional drive for a voluntary $1
minimum contribution from each
of the federation’s 8,000,000 mem-'
hers.
That is a sizable goal and
should greatly benefit the 1952
program of Labor’s League for
Political Education. It also is a
decisive departure from the
method of financing union politi
cal action solely through mem
bfrship gifts.
* * •
Voluntary contributions, David
Dubinsky. president of the Inter
national Ladies Garment Work
ers’ Union and chairman of the
LLPE finance department, told
the convention delegates, amoont
to only $600,000 in 1950 when
the quota was $2 per member.
This is a far cry. a very far cry
indeed, from full membership
participation. Mr. Dubinsky’s
union alone, with its more than
400,000 members, could have done
better. *
Whether a lower voluntary
quota will show better results re
mains to be seen. In any event,
the one-penny-a-month compul
sory raise in the per capita mem
bership tax should net about‘$1
million, or in excess of what the
AFL national office spent in 1960
for its various publicity activities.
On that score the council’s an
nual report listed about $200,000
for printing; the AFL’s two prin
cipal publicity media and $652,
733.90 for publicity., salaries and
expenses (this presumably in
cludes radio time and services).
• • *
The purge list of 19 U. S. Sen
ators, described by the LLPE as
“shortsighted, anti-labor, and
members of the Taft-Hartley class
of 1946,” is interesting and in
structive. It is composed of 5
Democrats and 14 Republicans—
a reasonable nonpartisan ap
proach. As campaign time rolls
around, there will be more to say
about the record of these and
other members of Congress singled
out for defeat.
But by reading in that list such
names as Senators William F.
Knowland, Calif.; H. Alexander
Smith, N. J.; Ralph E. Flanders.
Vt., and even Harry F. Byrd, Va.,
I could not help recalling the
concluding sentence from the in
troduction to the AFL Executive
Council report;
we need, desperately, citi
zens with moral courage to up
hold principles regardless of
consequences. Only such citi
zens are fit for public service
and able to use wisely the
great power which our economy
gives to , all entrusted with
authority.
These are statesman-like words.
The last thing labor wants and
American national life stands in
need of are spineless public fig
ures, unable or unwilling to as
sert their beliefs and be counted.
We already have too many of
such. It is the teat of good citi
zenship and constructive trade
unionism to weigh the council's
admonition before accepting a
recommendation which unwitting
ly paves the way for yes men and
legislative puppets.
* * *
There are “two deadly mill
stones around the neck of organ
ized labor in America today: the
wage freeze and the escalator
clause,” -writes the East Tennes
see Labor News, Knoxville, in a
refreshing editorial.
"The wage freeze is pay
triotically .tied to price ceilings
in the name of national defense.
No more vicious course designed
to keep workers from getting
a fair wage for their hire has
ever been devised by any Con
gress or any administration....
“Escalator clauses tare) a
cie\ er device recommended by |
administration officials and ac
cepted by some unions and em
ployers. Accepting an escala
tor clause in a contract is like
jumping in a rut out of which
there is no way to climb.
“You tie your wages to a
nebulous thing called ‘Cost of
Living Index.’ Even if the cost
of living index were absolutely
accurate—which it isn’t—only a
damn fool would agree with his
employer that he would work
for a fixed way the rent of
his life. That’s what an esca
lator clause amounts to."
Unfortunately, these convictions
are held at present by too few
of the country’s unionists. On
the contrary, a majority of work
ers, particularly in the mass pro
duction industries, have been tak
en in by promises and sleight
of-hand tricks which threaten to
undermine labor’s steady advance.
For as the editorial continues:
“Historically, organized labor in
America has been gaining in
strength and getting just a little
more and a little more of the
profits of industry as the years
go by. That has meant there
was less left for Cadillacs and
mansions staffed by servants, and
yachts and winter homes in
Florida. The workers were get
ting more of a break.”
Yes, the working people ought
to keep these facts everlastingly
in mind.
- Do you measure your neighbor
by the same rule used to measure
yourself?
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of W. W. Cruse,
late of Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present them, duly
verified, to the undersigned at his
address, care Hunter’s Grocery.
R. F. D. No. 2, Providence Road,
Charlotte, N. C., on or before the
18th day of October, 1952, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
settlement with the undersigned.
This the 18th day of October,
1951.
W. I. WILLIAMSON,
Administrator.
(10-18, 26; 11-4, 11, 18, 25c)
NOTICE OF SERVICE BY
PUBLICATION
North Carolina,
Mecklenburg Countv.
! IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Hazel S. Franks, Plaintiff, vs.
James C. Franks, Defendant.
The defendant, James C. Franks,
will take notice that an action
entitled'as above has been com
menced in the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg County, North Caro
lina, by Hazel S. Franks, the
plaintiff, to obtain an absolute
divorce on the grounds of two
years’ separation; and the defend
ant will further take notice that
he is required to appear before
the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Mecklenburg County at the
Court House, in Charlotte, North
Carolina, within twenty-seven days
after the 2nd day of November,
1951, to answer, demur or file
other pleadings to the complaint
of the plaintiff filed in the said
action, and if he fails to appear
and answer, demur or file other
pleadings to said complaint with- j
in the time specified herein, the |
plaintiff will apply to the Court j
for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
This the 11th day of October,,
1951.
J. LESTER WOLFE,
Clerk of Superior Court of Meek- j
lenburg County, North Carolina.
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