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Wednesday, November 14, 1945
THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
When President Truman warned the labor-manage
ment conference that industrial strife in the United
States must end because “the American people do not
like it,” he was right.
The President was even more right when he said that
if the representatives of labor and management are un
able or unwilling to employ the processes of collective
bargaining to establish and preserve industrial peace in
the country:
“Then there must be a willingness to use some impar
tial machinery for reaching decisions on the basis 01
proven facts and realities instead of rumor or propa
ganda or partisan statement.”
There is of course only one way to provide impartial
machinery for that essential purpose—and that way is
through the honest and adequate and competent agen
cies of a sensible and trustworthy and patriotic system
of compulsory arbitration.
While President Truman refrained from indorsing
and proposing an American system of compulsory arbi
tration by name, he clearly and unequivocally did so in
principle.
He said, in effect, that the American people would be
glad to find the answers to the problems of industrial
peace in such a device of collective bargaining and such
a gathering as the labor-management conference.
But he also said with grim assurance:
“If the people do not find the answers here, they will
find them some place else.
“For these answers must and will be found.
“The whole system of private enterprise and individ
ual opportunity depends upon finding them.”
The representatives of labor and management have
nothing to fear, and everything to profit by and benefit
from, in a system of impartial adjudication of indus
trial disputes.
As the President so well said:
“That is the way to eliminate unnecessary friction.
“That is the way to prevent lockouts and strikes.
“That is the way to keep production going.”
Compulsory arbitration would not be an instrument
serving the interests or advantage of either labor or
management.
It would be an instrument for searching out and up
holding the truth.
It would keep the productive enterprises of the coun
try operating without interruption in spite of any con
troversy.
It would prevent idleness and the cessation of wages
during the course of any controversy.
It would assure the whole country and all its people
of the vital goods and services of productive industry,
pending adjudication of differences.
In short, it would serve the best interests of the
American people, determine the justice of any claims or
issues raised by the American people, and in the mean
time keep the peace among the American people.
The processes of collective bargaining, as the Presi
dent said, have been undertaken with hopeful expecta
tion in some quarters that they would give the country
the industrial peace it desires.
But they have repeatedly and consistently failed to
do so.
In spite of them, disastrous strikes have occurred and
are occurring, and the American people not only do not
like them but will not much longer endure them—espe
cially when the impartial machinery of compulsory ar
bitration would prevent them.
HOLLYWOOD
STAR-LITES
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By CHUCK COCHARD
HOLLYWOOD — (Exclusive'—
Screenhopefuls will find it hard to
beat the band as a springboard to
fame and fortune in movieland.
Cinemaville is filled with one
time dance band canaries who
warbled their way to studio con-,
tracts, glamorous stardom and
private swimming pools. . . . New
pretty thrushes are arriving to
i 'COMg wm AMP set US SOMETIME---SOON !*
CARE OF THE WOUNDED
We cannot pay our debt to them. We can only do our
best. Our hundreds of thousands of youngsters who face,
a future beset with handicaps look to us for help. Our j
poor answer is that anything money can buy is theirs—:
hospitalization, treatment, artificial limbs, vocational
training—and our well-documented guarantee that
their suffering must insure that American children will
face a better future.
There are thousands of American boys who will need
medical care. This means the expenditure of many mil
lions of dollars in the next year. That is one of the rea
sons for the Victory Loan.
GLIDER CONTEST IN SWISS HIGH ALPS
(New York Times)
Rules and regulations for an international alpine
glider competition open to pilots of all lands are being
worked out by the Swiss Aero Club. The club held its
first championship meet in 1943 on the flying field at
Samaden-St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine, when 11
experts competed.
In recent years, according to the Swiss Information
Bureau, it has been discovered that the Alps, with their
mighty bulwarks of rocks, their valleys and gorges, and
their glaciers, are, from a topographical and meteoro
lDgical standpoint, sometimes more desirable for gliding
than the lowland regions.
The sport in the high Alps naturally is more danger
ous. Landing opportunities are extremely limited, and
flying through clouds is possible only within a fair dis
tance at the side or at a sufficient altitude above the
mountains.
Strong upward winds which carry a pilot skyward
thousands of feet in a few minutes, change in a flash
into downward winds which can force him down into a
narrow valley. Here the skill of the pilot receives its
most severe test.
But the reward is rich. The pilot floats through sun
lit spheres above a realm where dazzling glaciers, regal
peaks, sparkling lakes, dark forests and verdant pas
tures form a grandiose panorama.
Two heads are better than one, but not in the same
family; likewise a husband doesn’t think his wife is an
angel just because she keeps harping on something.
join the ranks of movie queens
who got their start vocalizing with
the popular orchestras around
the country.
Only in her early twenties. B«t
ty Hutton is an old grad of the
musical school of hard knocks
having matriculated at the age of
twelve ... A few years later
Betty got her break when *he
ioined Vincent Lopez’ band and
developed her own singing style.
Another Betty who got first
class passage to stardom on the
wings of a song and the support
of a name band is curvesome
Betty Grable—she was originally
spotted by a talent scout when
canarying with Ted Fio Rto’s and
Jay Whidden’s organizations.
Alice Faye got the come-hither
nod from movie-powers while
singing with Rudy Vallee’s or
chestra.
Dorothy Lamour is anothe’* of
the graduates of band singers—
she used to sing with Herbit Kay’s
band . . . Ginny Simms vocalized
as the number one song-bird with
Kay Kyser and his band for years
before “going Hollywood as a big
star.”
Janet Blair got a Columbia test
through her warbling with the
late Hal Kemp’s band . . . Pris
cilla and Rosemary Lane are
alumnae of Fred Waring’s famous
“Pennsylvanians.”
The New Crop—From the na
tion’s bandstands has come a new
crop of screen personalities who
are busy carving careers for them
selves on celluloid.
June Haver was a lovely voice
with Dick Jergen’s, Freddy Mar
tin’s and other musical groups be
fore Hollywood tapped her on the
shoulder.
Gloria DeHaven, the daughter
of the Carter DeHavens, was born
into the tradition of acting but
got her start while singing with
Bob Crosby and his band, Jan
Savitt, and others.
These are only a few of the big
name stars and up-and-coming
personalities who made their
start while singing on a band
stand.
It semes if you want to get to
Hollywood via the shortest and
quickest route—then hitch your
star to a band.
Scoop Lou reports that the en
tire story of the War will be told
in a motion picture—through a
series of 53 chronologies which
will contain 600 reels made up of
500,000 feet of film . . . During
last week 27 new theaters were
given the “go” sign—mostly along
the north-east coast . . . One of
the craziest strikes still continues
in Hollywood—Yes, of course, it’s
outlawed by the AFL big-wigs . . .
It’s strikes like this over jurisdic
tion and not wages or working
conditions which hurts deeply the
union cause—and the poor men
out on strike tell me that they
have even mortgaged their houses
now and spent all their saved war
bonds while their leaders don’t
give a darn . . . Real union men
should throw out these out-law
leaders—and they call this a free
country when have to walk a
picket line when they would
rather work . . . Real Americans
aren’t going to stand for this much
longer—are they Mr. Green, or
Mr. Murray?
We are not taking sides—we
are only sorry for the men on
strike (not because they want to)
who are selling everything they
have worked for just to save the
Union’s face.