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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, August 30, 1950
WHEN U. S. INDUSTRY WENT ON A STRIKE
When the Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson, at
tempted to account for the $90,000,000,000 spent by the
military establishment in the last few years, he pointed
out that $42,000,000,000 was used to liquidate World
War II.
This is a surprising sum. Mr. Johnson’s explanation
includes two items, terminal leave pay and “the
amounts paid to contractors whose war-time produc
tion contracts were terminated.” It might be interesting
information for the people of this country to know ex
actly how much money, whether millions or billions,
was used to settle the claims of war contractors. In fact,
there have been some rather unsavory stories in con
nection with the approval of termination contracts.
This brings to mind another fact that is not generally
known in the United States. In 1940 and 1941, when the
Government of the United States was attempting to
persuade the nation’s industrialists to convert to the
manufacture of war materials, many of the nation’s
leading manufacturers refused to convert their plants
to defense production until their terms were met by the
Government.
Of course, the magnitude of the conflict made this
silly but is should not be overlooked that many of the in
dustrialists not only insisted upon the construction of
new plants but that the Government, in making the
first war-goods contract, should allow sufficient profit
to the industrialists to pay for the plant. This meant, in
essence, that the Government would pay for the plants
and the industrialists would own them. Upon subse
uent orders, the Government would pay a profit to the
industrialists who had thus acquired the plant con
structed by the Government.
In the face of the danger that now confronts the na
tion, there are some labor leaders who remember what
happened in 1940 and 1941. They remind business men
that “there are no profits under Soviet rule” and assert
that the nation cannot afford “the luxury of a strike by
the nation’s industrialsts.” As George Meany, secretary
of the American Federation of Labor says, the industri
alists demanded that there be no tax on defense produc
tion profits, that they, have five-year plant amortization
and that the government meet their demands before
they began to produce. If anybody is interested in the
subject and will take the trouble to study the record of
1940 and 1941, they will find that Mr. Meany is telling
the truth.
AND THE RAINY SEASON THREATENING
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
♦Continued from Page One*
the southeast tip of Korea. It
seemed likely the communists
now were under orders to strike
for Pusan at all costs.
However, a spokesman for Gen.
MacArthur’s headuarters in Tok
yo said the Reds had lost the
chance to make a quick march on
Pusan. He said Allied ability to
move reinforcement quickly to
any threatened point in the U. N.
beachhead-in-depth on Korea, re
moved chances for success for
such a quick thrust.
The new Red roadblock near
Pohang, posed a serious threat.
Yongchon, some 25 miles south
west of Pohang, is astride a main
highway leading westward to •Tae
gu. It is on the road southward
from the Red central front push
at Uihong. The same road leads
south from Yongchon to Pusan.
British troops, vanguard of more
United Nations ground forces yet
to come, stepped ashore in South
Korea, about 1,500 strong, to fight
beside the Americans and South
Koreans. To the wail of bagpipes,
English soldiers and Scottish “La
dies from Hell” disembarked with
some of their own battle equip
ment. A Scottish officer said they
weer “ready to go.” In the British
force are units of the famed Ar
i
gyll and Sutherland and the Mid
dlesex regiments, especially train
ed for the type of war which is
raging in Korea. ,
Along the blazing 45-m i 1 e
northern front, ..the Reds have
committed 40,000 troops in the
twin attempts to take Pohang, No.
2 east coast Allied port, and en
velop Taegu, forward U. N. base.
North of Aegu, hub of the cen
tral front, Red forces shoved
back South Koreans four fhiles in
an advance in the Uihong sector,
driving to within 18 miles of Tae
gu, to try a new avenue for an at
tempted breakthrough.
An Allied intelligence officer
said it was in this sector that the
giant communist offensive might
begin to develop. The focus of the
offensive may be determined as
soon as the elite Second North Ko
rean Division is returned to the
line. There are signs of Red rein
forcements in the rear of this
sector. Two Red division, the 13th
and 15th, are not far away and
could be brought into action in
cr.se of a breakthrough.
The Allied air attacks continued
around the front. Air and ground
reports for Tuesday listed four
Red tanks destroyed, two ammu
nition dumps exploded, 28 ve
hicles of all types knocked out
and between 12 and 15 artillery
pieces put out of action.
B-29’s dropped 230 tons on en
emy railyards at Chongjin, 60
miles south of Soviet Sibera. Light
bombers plastered Red supply
lines.
U. S. Navy guns plastered the
North Korean positions around
Pohang. The South Korean navy
reported the destruction of two
Red' ships yesterday off the south
west coast.
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Soviet Russia opens a new
propaganda assault at Lake Suc
cess, N. Y., as the Russian month
of presidency of the Security
Council draws to an end. Soviet
delegate Jakob A. Malik has noti
fied the rest of the members he
will fight to place communist Chi
nese charges of American aggres
sion on the council addenda.
Red China charges the U. S.
with armed aggression in For
mosa, island bastion of the Na
I tionalists. The United States has
said it would welcome an on-the
spot U. N. investigation.
Wednesday, August 30, 1950
40,000 communist troops ham
mered at the northern wall of Al
lied defenses in South Korea to
i
day in battles growing hourly in
ferocity. Furious fighting wrecked
the outskirts of Pohang, eastern
anchor of the United Nations line,
as the Reds suffered bloody losses
for a few yards of ground.
The Reds were throwing 20,000
troops at the eastern end of the
Allied line in the north in an all
out bid to seize Pohang, No. 2 Al
lied port.
Another 20,000 troops were
blasting at the central sector of
the Allied northern wall, driving
down from Uihung, some 18 miles
north of Taegu, rail hub which is
the Allied forward base. Under
an umbrella of artillery and mor
tar fire, the Reds dented the de
fense line there for about two
third of a mile.
Indications were that another
10,000 Red troops—the North Ko
rean 15th Division—was edging
eastward across the northern
front to a point where it could be j
plunged into either of the big bat- j
ties—the Unhung drive o rthe Po- i
hand assault—in an attempt toj
ram through a decisive power
blow. Collapse of the Allied line i
at either point would bring the
Reds flooding into Taegu.
> furious was the Pohang bat
tle that at times both sides were
counterattacking at the same time.
The Allied troops held to the port
city and roads leading westward
to Taegu, but they had lost Kigyej
nine miles northwest of Pohang,
which changed hands three times
in 48 hours.
On the Naktong River at the
western end of the northern front,
element sof the U. S. First .Caval
ry Division kicked off against i
Reds entrenched on a 1.700 foot
hill four miles northeast of Wae-;
gwan, a town .12 miles northwest1
of Taegu. The attack was against
Reds in company strength or
greater, and gained to within 200
feet of the summit of the hill in
five hours. To the south on the
western front, U. S. artillery
blasted Red attempts to cross the
Naktong River, inflicting heavy
losses.
On the southern end of the 120
mile battle line in South Korea,
U. S. Negro troops and South Ko
rean units threw back six deter
mined attacks in 48 hours, al
though none was in great strength.
Subok Mountain—named Battle
Mountain by the GI’s because of
the bloody fighting there—chang
ed hands for the eighth time in
two weeks and was back in Allied
hands after a day-long fight.
The United States threw out a
hint it intended eventually to toss
i
out the communist regime which
rules North Korea beyond the 38th I
parallel. The psychological war
fare branch of the Far East Com
mand, in an air raid warning leaf
let being dropped in North Korea,
has advised citizens to move away
from target cities and tells them
“you can held build a strong, free
Korea after the communists have
been driven out.”
The war of words will continue
in the United Nations at Lake
Suc9ess. N. Y. A Security Coun
cil decision to air the Formosa
question brought assurance that
Russia would not boycott Council
meetings after delegate Jakob A.
Malik’s month-long term as presi
dent ends tomorrow. In effect he
said he would stay on to fight for
the seating of, a Red China repre
sentative to accuse the U. S. of
aggression in Formosa.
The vote was 7 to 2 to investi
gate the complaint.
Tomorrow the Council meets
again, and it will be Malik’s last
days as president, so he is expected
to uncork his strongest propagan
j da weapons. Britain’s Sir Glad
wyn Jebb takes over as president
Friday.
Malik’s latest propaganda de
vice was an alleged protest against
continuation of the war, purport
edly signed by 39 U. S. officers
and men held prisoner in North «
Korea. There was one glaring de
fect in the “protest” however. It
was couched in terms which long
have become familiar to the world
as the communist way of saying
things.
In Washington, meanwhile, the
Truman administration was at
tacked by Sen. Taft (R.-Ohio), 4
who demanded the President clear
up what the Senator called a
“complete lack of both plans and
policy” to meet the threat of
World War III. He suggested the
re-arming of Western Germany
and Italy against a possible Rus
sian attack.
Secretary of State Acheson was
attacked in another quarter. The
Veterans of Foreign Wars in con
vention in Chicago were prepar
ing to vote on a resolution calling
for the dischargd of both Acheson
and secretary of defense Louis
Johnson.
The Reds in North Korea step
ped up their propaganda against
American bombings, claiming in a
broadcast from Pyongyang, their
capital, that U. S. bombers hit a
field hospital. The broadcast said
a protest note had been sent to
the U. N.
But the unrelenting American
attacks from air and sea contin
ued, putting a steady drain on
communist supply lines throough
oue Korea. The planes also at
tacked heavily all along the 120
mile battlefront, listing 25 tanks
and 87 trucks destroyed or dam
aged in yesterday’s raids.
House Passes
Red Activities
“Spotlight” Bill
WASHINGTON, (/P) — With
overwhelming House approval, a
bill designed to put the spotlight
on activities of communists and
their “fronts” moved today to the
Senate amid prospects it would
be passed next week.
The House okayed the measure
by a whopping 354 to 20 late yes
terday after several hours of de
bate.
Should be Senate version of
what to do about communists dif
fer from that of the House—as is
likely — the differences will be
ironed out by negotiators from 4
the two chambers.
The vote in the House exceeded
that given two years ago when it
passed the original Mundt-Nixon
bill. The vote for that bill, which
died in the Senate, was 319 to 58.
The House-passed bill includes
major features of the old Mundt
Nixon measure, plus some new
ones drawn up by the un-Ameri
can Activities Committee.
A new feature makes it a crime
for a communist or a member of a
communist-front organization to
hold a iob in the government or
in a defense plant.
Most of those who spoke against
the bill in the House argued that
it provides guilt by association *
and thought control.
Many supporters replied that
they did not believe the bill went
far enough in dealing with com
munists.
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