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Monday, November 5, 1945_
DANGER AHEAD
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Behind the widening wave of strikes and threatened
strikes which is delaying the reconversion of production
and the demobilization of the armed forces is a clear
and distinct revolutionary pattern—and, in some of the
disruptions at least, unmistakable revolutionary activ
ity.
The dock strike in New York and some of our other
“labor disputes” partake of the same recognizable char
Hctcr
. The actual situation has been alarmingly demon
strated in the great automotive and steel industries.
In both industries, prices and wages are still deter
mined by the federal government through the contin
uance of its war powers.
In both industries, the costs of production have been
enormously increased by wartime increases in wages
and in the costs of materials authorized by the govern
ment. , .
At the same time, in both industries the federal bu
reaucracy has refused to permit any compensating price
increases. •
As a result, both industries—each of them of prime
necessity in meeting the problems of reemployment
and replenishment—have been operating against al
most insuperable obstacles.
The automotive industry, which has had a severe re
conversion problem, is about ready to resume mass pro
duction and mass employment.
The federal bureaucracy, by refusing to grant equit
able price adjustments, is compelling the industry to re
sume business at a net loss; and the larger its produc
tion, and the greater its payrolls, the heavier must its
financial losses become.
The steel industry, with no serious problem of recon
version, is now selling much of its production at a loss.
Obviously, if wages, costs of materials and sales
prices remain unjointed for any protracted period, these
two key industries will both be forced to shut down as
their working capital becomes impaired or exhausted,
and throw all their employes out of work.
And what will happen then?
The government still retains its wartime powers for
no proclamation has been made that the war is over and
that the power to confiscate property has ceased.
Let nobody doubt that if the steel mills and the auto
motive factories are closed by strikes or otherwise, the
demand for government seizure will be made and the
seizures will be made.
Moreover, shutdowns and seizures in two basic indus
tries will be followed or accompanied by more shut
downs and seizures, on an expanding scale; the coal, the
oil, the transportation and the communication indus
tries would undoubtedly be subjected to the same pro
cess.
And the peacetime seizure of private enterprise by
the government is revolution.
Let it occur—and the revolutionary elements will
find means to make it last.
For this is precisely what the advocates of “planned
economy” and of “nationalization of industries” want
to happen, in America as well as in Great Britain and
Soviet Russia.
And this is what the federal government is letting
the people of the United States in for with its sheer lack
of a sound labor policy, its weak truckling to labor
bosses, and its shameful tolerance of Communism.
IMMIGRANT
The little immigrant boy enters America. He can
never be President.
But that is the only, or nearly the only, door in Amer
ica which is barred to him.
He can become a great doctor, painter, farmer, me
chanic or teacher; or any of the myriad professions or
jobs are open to him.
He may be in a position to employ other people—or
work for someone else—it will be his choice—he is free
in America.
To be free in America—that is the all-important
thing. That freedom for individuality, for industry, for
labor—it provides the incentive fof investments, it cre
ates competition permitting business to grow and to
make more jobs, increasing production, thereby lower
ing material costs and raising wages and allowing for
an all-over betterment of living conditions.
It is a conceded fact that America has the highest
standard of living in the world. Only a continuance of
the principles of freedom and opportunity will keep it
that way.
The little immigrant boy must earn his place in Amer
ica, so that his children can have the right to freedom
and opportunity—and that they might even be Presi
dent.
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WASHINGTON
NEWS-LETTER
By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary lo E. L. (Bob) Bartlett.
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
ALEUT REPORTS ON
IMPRISONMENT
Believing it will be of interest
throughout Alaska, there is quoted
below a statement made by one
of the Aleuts captured by the
Japanese on Attu in 1942. The re
port was made to Monroe Sweet
land, American Red Cross Field
Director with the 10th Army
when the Aleut passed through
Okinawa on his reutrn to Alaska
from Japan. The report is entitled
“News of My Life in Japan from
1942 to 1945. Now Different.":
“June 7, Sunday. The morning
3 o’clock day breaking we saw
boats outside of Bay, and we
thought they were U. S. Navy’s
so we didn’t mind it. Later on 6
o’clock we send small boat with
outboard motors on. They saw an
airplane fly over the village. We
still thought it was Navy. 8 o’clock
we all went to Sunday church. By
that time the Japs went ashore on
land and they come from side of
mountain. After we finished our
church there they come down the
west side of hill run with rifles
and machine guns and start to
shooting village. One lady was
shot on leg but she got well again.
When Japanese army come into
village call for everyone. The of
ficers use swords to gather every
body then. The commander name
was Yamazaki. After he gathered
everyone he put Mr. and Mrs. C.
F. Jones in one room. Mr. Jones
he was a radio operator and Mrs.
was teacher then. It was 10 o’clock
then when they Japs got finished
with list every house was search
ed and all the guns, was taken
then besides that they take all
they want from house. They send
us home with guards evening 7
o’clock. They Japs call me out
from my house to help them to
take Mr. Jones and Mrs. Jones
out from school to another house.
He was calling 'for his bed and1
blankets there Japs won’t let them
have it tell him hurry up and get
out from school and then Jap offi
cer start to get ruff on him and
slap him on his face and kick him
on his back leg and done same
thing to his wife too. I left them
I didn’t know what was next.
Next morning 8 o’clock Jap com
mander call for everyone so we
went by flag pole and he read
something and rise Japanese flag
over us and take picture of whole
thing of village and us then. Ev
erytime when we ask for go to
fishing, policeman must be always
with us. We must ask for boats
too. Kill if we don’t. We will get
punished for that. They make us
to go to fishing for them. And
then in part of September they
tell us we must go to Jap and we
tell them we don’t want to go but
they tell us we must go to Jap
and promise us they will take us
home again when the war is over
so we said yes to them and we
left September 16 evening left
Attu to Kikkaido Otaru. We got
in Otaru Bay at 12 o’clock mid
night 26th September, 1942. We
went ashore on Otaru City they
give us old house No. 383 and we
start to work in Novmeber 11,
1942. Ten of men start to working
on clay and these men get sick
one by one finally we were five
altogether then later in 1945, De
cember, we stop working then be
cause everyone got sick and got
in hospital from that May 26 and
27 some men went out from and
we start to making gardens and
digging holes for caves to get safe
from bombing city. In month of
August 15, 1945, they let us stop
working and they gave us our
working payment. Then this is far
I know.”
VISITORS
Norman Stines, former head of
War Production Board in Alaska,
is in Washington to represent
Fairbanks in hearings before the
Civil Aeronautics Board.
D. J. O’Connor of the Office of
Price Administration at Juneau
called on Delegate Bartlett while
in Washington on a business trip.
James M. Cuthill was a visitor
in the Delegate’s office while in
Washington following his dis
charge from the Army. Prior to
enlistment in the armed forces,
Mr. Cuthill was employed by the
N. C. Company in Fairbanks.
E. V. Davis, attorney at law
from Anchorage, has been a visi
tor in the office of Delegate Bart
lett while in Washington to attend
the oral hearings on Alaska Air
routes before the Civil Aeronau
tics Board.
Coast Guard Commissions
First Inland Air Station
The only inland air station un
der the command of the United
States Coast Guard will be com
missioned on November 15, when
the Navy Department transfers to
the Coast Guard the air station at
Traverse City, Michigan.
Lt. Comdr. J. W. Kincaid,
USCG, of Ellsworth, Kansas, has
been designated as the acting com
manding officer of the new sta
tion. Under Lt. Comdr. Kincaid’s
command will be eight officers
and 80 enlisted men for the win
ter months.
The Coast Guard maintains and
operates air stations in peacetime
at: Salem, Mass.; Floyd Bennett
Field, N. Y.; Elizabeth City, N. C.;
Miami, Florida; St. Petersburg,
Florida; Biloxi, Miss.; San Diego,
California; San Francisco, Calif
ornia; Port Angeles, Washington.
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