Daily Sitka Sentinel
Home-Owned Newspaper
volume xvi
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Thursday, December 8, 1955
10c a Copy
NUMBER 253
Stevenson flays Republicans
as starting "hate campaign"
I
Charges attempt
to stir up class
conflict by GOP
N1EW YORK i/P) Alai Stev
enson today accused Republi
can leaders of “hate monger
ing” against labor and asked
whether it was an attempt “to
stir ufp class conflict.”
The 'Democratic candidate for
the 1966 presidential nomina
tion said 'he was speakinjg
“bluntly against what appears
to be a design to play the ugly
politics of group hatred.”
'Stevenson told cheering de
legates at the AFL-OIO conven
tion a number oif Republicans,
including trwo members of Pre
sident Eisenhower’s cabinet
have recently engaged in “a dan
gerous brand of politics” in
criticism against organized la
bor.
'His speech was interrupted
27 times by applause nad when
it was finished he received a
standing ova.ion. In 1952 Ste
venson received the endorse
ment of the AFL and CIO
meeting in separate conventions
Stevenson said “there ap
pears to ibe a design 'to play the
ugly .politics of group hatred,”
and he asked:
“Is this, indeed, an attempt
to stir up class conflict? No
election, no dffice is worth such
a price.”
He said the highest duty of
American (people nowadays is
to say nothing in the political
arena which will hurt demo
cracy’s chances abroad. He add
ed:
“And the politics of have
monlgering even (blights demo
cracy’s future here at home.’
(Stevenson, defeated 1952 De
mocratic presidential candidate
who now is making another bid
for his party’s nomination,
spoke before the AFL-CIO con
vention.
He said he had intended “not
to let this become a political
speech,” but went on to add:
“I propose, nevertheless, to
apeak bluntly against what ap
pears to be a design to play the
ugly politics of (group hatred.”
He continued:
“It started (with the secret
V eotchcombing
9 (Looking (back — Right aft
er Pearl Harbar— Sitka had
a nice snowfall and a full moon
to go along (with it. The town
looked like the pictures of an
“Alpine Village” and could be
'been from ,the 20,000 foot level
for (bandbing. We all kept our
fingers crossed.
9 We wonder if the men on
the road 1955 years ago, cussed
paying itiheir taxes the way we
do now. Bet they did?
• “I’ll say what you want to
hear —so vote 'for me”—should
be Ad-lay’s theme song.
• Better (get your packages
into the postoffice — it’s later
than you think.
ary of agriculture’s attempt to
blame the farmer’s current de
pression on the city worker’s
wage increase.
“And now the chairman of
the Republican senatorial com
rnittee has charged labor lead
ers with organizaing ‘a eonspir
acy of national proportions’ to
take over the federal govern
ment:
“The national chairman of
the ‘Salute to Eisenhower’ din
ners has made this curious in
sinuating statement that labor
became a pot ent political force
in America at about the same
time as the rise d’f the Nazi
party in Germany;
“A member of the cabinet
has said that he doesn’t ‘hap
pen >to go along with some of
the ‘goons’, >as he puts it, who
are ‘running things’;
“And a Republican state
chairman has proclaimed that
labor leaders are ‘Marxist So
cialist bosses Who are trying
to i ake this country down a rat
hole.’
(Roger Tubby, Stevenson’s'
press aide, said the four per
sons Stevenson referred to were
Sen. Barry Gold water (R-Ariz)
chairman of the Republican
senatorial campaign committee
Frederick C. Crawford, Cleve
land industrialist and nai tonal
chairman of the “Salute to Ei
senhower” dinners; secretary
Douglas McKay di Interior; and
Philip Kuehn, Wisconsin Repub
lican state chairman.)
U. S. has gone
overboard on
security, is claimed
NEW YORK (/P) The man
who will head the National
Assn, of Manufacturers in 1956
declared (today the U. S. has
gone completely overhoard on
security.”
“Everything has to he secur
ed — jobs, wages, hours,” said
Cola G. Parker, NAM president
designate, in an address pre
pared for delivery at the asso
ciation’s annual convention.
Parker called on the 3,000 in
dnstrial leaders ai.tending the
convention to set an example
for the country by insisting
their communities refuse to ac
cept federal (government help
wherever possible.
“We have no right to critiz
ize the ’farmer or the laborer
for his reliances on government
unless we stop doing it our
selves,” he said
“Let us stop relying on the
Great White Father, who has
| nothing r.o give us except what
he took away from us in the
first olace.”
Parker declared that “in the
41 years from (1913 to 1954 our
! taxes were multiplied 45 times
—'from two billion dollars a
year t.o more than 90 billions.
Even more 'importantly. Uncle
Sam’s bite of this total widen
ed from 33 per cent in 1913 to
75 oer cent last year.”
Parker, retired board chair
man Of Kimlberly-Clark Corp.,
Neenaih, Wis., will .be formally
elected president of the NAIM
at a meeting of the board of
directors tonight.
'A "tight"
situation
OKLAHOMA CITY, (/P) Ok
lahoma City taxicab dirivers in
the downtown area were in a
itiht squeeze yesterday when an
irate housewife demanded they
find and return her girdle.
The housewife said her hus
band went to a downtown shoe
shop to have the zipper on the
girdle mended. “My husband
says he remembers leaving it
in a taxi,” the woman explain
ed. “He didn’it get the caib num
ber tout (he said the driver was
tall and good looking.”
All the calbs in the downtown
area were checked but no gir
dle.
“If I don’t get that girdle
back, I’m (going to sue some
body,” ,ihe woman threatened
cab officials. She said she need
ed it to go dancing.
Wire tapping
explosive issue
at convention
FAIRBANKS UP) The con
stitutional convention commit
tee on the bill of rights is try
ing to figure out what to do
aibout the explosive issue of
wire tapping.
Should a prohibition of that
controversial practice be in
cluded in Alaska’s constitui ion
The committee hasn’t decid
ed but one member. James Doo
gan o'f Fairbanks, is dead set
against the prohibition.
As the committee wrestled
with the subject yesterday for
the first time, Doagan said:
“To prohilgiit wire tapping
would undermine the very
roofs of law enforcement.
There’s both right and wrong
wire tapping. A ^statement a
bout it does not belong in the
constitution as a fundamental
right.”
John Hellenthal, Anchorage
wondered i'f outlawing wire
tapping with specific qualifi
cations would be a good idea.
He cited the practice of allow
ing wire tapping cases of /trea
son, but only then if decided
upon during secret session o'f a
U. S. district court.
Language encompassing tne
issue was presented for consid
eration, not necessarily as a
recommendation. The wording
is: “Wire z apping or obtaining
unauthorized information by
other technical means or devic
es is prohibited. Evidence ob
tained in violation of this sec
tion shall be inadmissalble in
the courts.”
The suggested draft gave
rise to Doogan’s expression of
views.
The committee session clos
ed with no decision. Chairman
Dorothy Awes has the hope
that this and other last-min
u! e issues will be decided in
the next few days so the com
mittee may report to the whole
convention in full on its as
signed subjects -— bill of
rights and preamble — by Mon
day.
The constitutional conven
tion committee on local gov
ernment will stage a public
hearing Saturday at 9:30 a. m.
in the basement chamber of
convention hall on the Univer
sitv of Alaska campus,
i Inviited to testify is Fair
banks mayor Douglas Preston,
U. N. votes to admit countries
as a bloc; veto may be used
Problem now up
to security council
for action
UNITED NATIONS UP) The
U. N. general assembly today
overwhelmingly approved a
package deal designed to bring
18 new members into the world
organization; but the deal still
faced the (threat of a veto.
The vote was 52-2 with five
abstaining. This was the same
as the vote in the assembly’s
special political committee late
yesterday.
The assembly’s action puts
the problem squarely up to the
security council where Nation
alist China has said it will veto
Outer Mongolia.
The U. N. immediately an
nounced the council would meet
Saturday to act on the applica
tions. All 'five permanent mem
bers — Britain, China, France,
the Soviet Union and the Unit
ed States — have the veto pow
er.
The only members voting a
gainst the package deal in the
assembly were Nationalist
AFL-CIO disagreed
over talks for
labor peace
NEW YORK (IP) The AFL
CIO neared the end of its his
toric founding convention to
day amid a disagreement over
arranging talks for a labor
peace pad; with business.
George Meany, AFL-CIO pre
sident, said representatives of
the National Assn, of Manufac
turers (NAM) had talked with
him and accepted a bid to Me
any to discuss a live and let
live arrangement. #
The NAM denied having a
greed to any such discussions.
While Meany indicated he
would try to straighten out the
difficulty today, there remain
ed the solid 'fad; that this No. 1
leader of organized labor was
courting the idea of working
out a nonaggression deal with
industry.
Charles R. Siligh, Jr., the N
AM’s board chairman, expres
sed surprise at Meany’s over
ture. Sligh did not, however,
throw any cold water on (the un
derlying suggestion labor and
management could work out an
agreement narrowing their dif
I ferences.
Meany declined 10 say wnax
he has in mind (but stated i‘o
reporters that he feels there is
a wide area in which industry
and labor could agree.
Asked whether he consider
ed getting to/grl her on legisla
tion as one 'possibility for a
greement, Meany refused to
say.
The idea may be expanded
somewhat tomorrow when Me
any makes a iluneheon address
to the NAM, also in sessiort
here, on the subject: of “what
lalbor expects from industry.”
Sligh will speak at the same lun
cheon on “what industry ex
pects from labor,”
China and Oulba. The five ab
stainers were (the United States
France, Belgium, Israel and
Greece.
There was no idication [pri
vate appeals to the Chinese Na
tionalists had shaken their de
termination to use the va o to
exclude Outer Mongolia.
In a speech just (before the
vote, Chinese delegate T. F.
Tsiang voiced vigorous opposi
tion to all five Soviet satellites
— Albania, Bulgaria, Romani,
Hungary and Outer Mongolia.
While he did not repeat his
privately made 'threats to use
the veto, his aides said he s.ill
intended to do so.
No reply to U. S.
query regarding 2
American soldiers
BERLIN </P) Reports from
communist East Berlin say two
American soldiers arrested af
ter a street fight have been
turned over io Soviet military
authorities.
A U. S. army spokesman said
the Russians had made no re
ply yet to an American inquiry
addressed them after the (gov
ernment-controlled press and
radio is East Berlin reported
the two soldiers arrested yester
day.
The soldiers were not iden
tified in the iSoviet zone ac
counts. U. S. authorities said a
quick check of records did not
show any men laibsent without
leave
U S. army officials said
they were “pleasantly surpris
ed” the 'two men had been turn
ed over to t he Russians. They
said they feared the East Ger
mans “might make a test case
of the incident and the Soviets
would back them up.”
Arrest1, of the soldiers had
led to speculation East Ger
many might seek to assert its
newly-claimed “sovereignty” tby
I trying them before its own
communist count.
; The Reds recently have de
clared East Berlin is a sover
eign capital of the East German
state and Berlin is no longer
under four-power control.
Apportionment
proposals sent to
committee '
FAIRBANKS (/P) A proposal
was introduced again Wednes
day at the constitutional con
vention which would retain the
current four judicial divisions
of Alaska so 'far as the state
senate apportionment is con
cerned. A similar proposal was
introduced yesterday.
Delegate Maynard Londboxlg
(continued on page four';
Marine forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
Outside waters Dixon En
trance ito Cape Spencer south
erly winds 25 to 45 mph with
strong gusts.
Cloudy with rain showers.