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GOP Sweep Frees Truman
Of Burdensome Program
By BAUKHAGE
New* Analytt and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1816 Sye Street. N.W.,
Washington. D. C.
WASHINGTON. — There is a feel
of Christmas In the Washington air
which Is prompted tyr more than the
evanescence of the Joyous spirit of
moei — jusi uj
to get onto a
Connecticut ave
nue car headed
for the F street
shopping district, j
The White House !
presents Its usual
decor of pine and
ribboned wreath.
And, at this writ
ing, the chief ten
ant is, I believe,
dreaming of a
Missouri Christ
mas among his
menas- Baukhage
Whether he
spends the holiday beneath his own
rooftree or the one which Uncle
Sam so generously provides, it can
be said that it will be a far merrier
occasion than a year ago. He will
be among his friends as well as
his family, and as one of his official
circle put it, with his "professed”
enemies (the opposite party) in pow
er his "unprofessed” enemies (offi
cially his friends) having no further
opportunity to toss brickbats or
bandy threats about his head.
I recall another crisp, cool winter
day last February a year ago, when
we wended our way to the Presi
dent’s weekly press and radio con
ference. Bemused pansies (I re
corded in this space) showed frost
bitten faces in the garden of the
White House grounds.
We were discussing the difficulties
and differences which President
Truman already was encountering
at the hands of his own party in
congress.
"Congress has to be realistic in
an election year," I quoted some
one as saying, "They are facing
real issues. And the President’s pro
gram isn’t realistic."
"Whether or not it is realistic,”
another member of the group re
plied, "it isn't his program. He in
herited it. It’s New Deal and New
Deal is Old Hat now. It doesn’t rep
resent Harry Truiftan’s ideas at all,
but he has to go through with it.”
As we look back, it is plain
enough that whether it was New
Deal or what it was, the program
of the President was one that the
people rejected on election day, the
moral obligations of the past, the ef
fect of the pressure groups, the
ukase of the party of bigwigs were
swept away and Harry Truman,
who didn't want the Job that was
thrust upon him when death com
manded, was made a free man.
X J.
The President’s satisfaction
springs not from any spirit of “I
told you so" hurled at his alleged
supporters, not from any lack of
loyalty to a cause well lost. It was
simply the weary but happy flood of
relief of a man who, having attempt
ed what he knew was an impossible
task, saw that task ended, and
friend and foe forced fairly Into the
open. ,
War Terminated
Honeymoon With CongretM
My mind goes back to another
scene shortly before the death of
President Roosevelt. I sat in the of
fice of the vice president talking of
days when the caissons went rolling
along and both of us — many miles
apart — rode beside them. We
talked also of the then forthcoming
San Francisco conference of the
United Nations and Mr. Truman’s
theme was what he felt to be his
function. Paradoxically enough—as
It turned out later—it was helping
establish liaison between congress
and the White House, complement
ing the highly successful effort of
Secretary of State Hull which re
sulted in the forging of a bi-parti
san foreign policy. And in so short
a time, after Mr. Truman became
President, that liaison between
Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania
avenue snapped in twain, never to
be reunited.
Three months after the President
took office I recorded: "The politi
cal armistice in Washington will
end shortly after the President's
(Truman’s) return from Berlin—
by that time domestic discontent
will be crystallizing, the honeymoon
will be on the wane. . .
And I then had the temerity to
predict that if , . . "the Japanese
war should end . . . within the
year . . . President Truman will
be stripped of the protecting armor
of the Commander-in-Chief. Then
the slings and arrows which even
Roosevelt's enemies were wont to
deflect to congress and other gov
ernment agencies will be aimed
squarely at the man in the White
House."
That prophesy required no gift
of the occult. Mr. Truman knew It
then—or I wouldn't have.
From now on the President is his
own man. The legislation he of
fers, whatever its fate may be, will
be moulded to suit his own heart’s
desire. He has fought the light to
the best of his ability, assailed from
the right and the left and the rear
as well as the front. Now he will
write his own ticket, be it good or
bad. Few Presidents have had such
an opportunity or faced a more
severe test
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Presidential Bee Hums
Washington withdraws from offi
cial activity for the holidays with
out getting any real impact of the
advent of the new regime. There
has been the preliminary hurly
burly of reorganization on CapHol
HHl but the same old faces are
evident and the same old voices
speak. The active Republican lead
ers In both houses of congress have
been so much in the limelight for
the last year anyhow that they
merely appear to be stepping up,
rather than stepping in. It all seems
quite routine and casual.
There was just a touch of the
excitement of the beginning of a
new era when house and senate
steering committees had their first
senator I aft
Politically Cautious
meetings and made their first nffl
dal statements concerning legisla
tion and policy. Most of the steps
had been foreshadowed and the
change of venue was not fanf.tred
The last 14 years make up the
longest period of lean years that
any party has suffered. I witnessed
the end of two 12-year drouths
through which the Democrats th rst
ed; close of the one that began
with William McKinley and ended
with William Howard Taft, when
Wilson accompanied the “new free
dom” to the White House And the
next, another 12-year period, when
the New Deal followed Hoover’a
exit.
The Democrats had only a short
interlude at the pie-counter between
Taft and Harding and their return
in 1933 came in the midst of such
a domestic crisis, with the mad
days of the NRA following on the
heels of the bank holiday, that our
attentioi. was diverted from poli
tics. But what the Democrats did to
the Republican officeholders “wasn’t
good,” as one Republican put it
recently. He added: “We are going
to do the same tor them.”
Congress begins with the Repub
lican Presidential plum within eas
ier reach than any which have dan
gled in many a year and it is no
wonder many hands are reaching
hopefully for it. In fact. Senator
Vandenberg early sounded the
warning that more thoughts should
be concentrated on the responsibil
ities following the victory of '46, and
less on the possibilities of '48, for
the good of all concerned.
The battle between the Tsftites
and the anti-Taftites began even
before election and the Ohio sena
tor himself is so determined that
this time he will win the nomina
tion that he leans over backward
to avoid criticism. He refused to
go on a broadcast for even a three
minute statement of Republican
policy and he took off for Central
America shortly thereafter.
BARTER MART ESTABLISHED ... To discourage the black market
and to provide Allied personnel as well as Germans with a legitimate
means of exchanging goods, a barter market has been set up by Amer
ican military government in Frankfurt. The market has proved very
popular.
NEWS REVIEW
Labor Ranks View Mine
Dispute as Wage Guide
LABOR: 4
New Crisis
Once again it was John L. against
the government!
This time, Washington appeared
determined to force a showdown
with the burly United Mine Work
ers chieftain, but It had its job cut
out for it as 400,000 UMW members
stood steadfastly by their leader
and both the AFL and CIO threw
in their support.
As in previous UMW walkouts,
Lewis held a hand full of aces. Pun
ish him as it might try, there were
the 400,000 skilled and implacable
miners who refused to go down into
the pits before clarification of the
status of their contract; there
were approximately 12,000,000 mem
bers of organized labor who looked
with disfavor upon government
use of the injunction to break a
strike, and the courts were still to
decide the legality of terminating
the UMW-govemment pact.
But, encouraged by the country’s
overwhelming swing to the right in
the recent elections and the possi
bility that the courts might decide
in his favor in interpreting the legal
Coal Mining Red Style
From Russia, where the Com
munist commissariat has its own
method of settling labor problems,
comes word of the working of a
gigantic new coal field in northern
Siberia by slave laborers from Lith
uania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and
Crimea. Consisting mostly of po
litical dissidents, the laborers ore
boused in wooden barracks and
subsist on porridge and 600 grams
of bread daily. Abosst 38 mines
have been developed in the 5,000
square mile field.
aspects of the case, President Tru
man was set to push John L. to the
limit in his efforts to wring wage
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•PX1 TRAIN IN JAPAN ... The
army recently opened a new “PX"
train which travels throughout Ja
pan to serve G.I.s and their fam
ilies and other Allied personnel
where other PX facilities are un
available.
and hour concessions from the gov
ernment.
Under the UMW-government con
tract, the miners received $75.25
weekly for a 54-hour week, In con
trast to $23.88 weekly for a shorter
week in 1939. Lewis' latest demands
were said to call for a 40-hour week
with earnings approximating those
for 54 hours.
Arrival of the latest soft coal
crisis saw the government prepared
for emergency distribution of bitu
minous stocks. Only householders,
hospitals, utilities and other essen
tial public services were to receive
deliveries. Railroads were sched
uled to haul only food, clothing,
medicine, fuel and other necessi
ties and to reduce locomotive pas
senger service by approximately 25
per cent.
Humming again after the crip
pling strikes of last winter, indus
try faced another slow-down to con
serve fuel supplies and spread them
over the period of the walkout.
CIO Goal
Like the AFL, the CIO watched
the coal strike with interest, not
only because of the injunction pro
ceedings generally condemned by
labor but also because Lewis’ ac
quisition of new wage concessions
promised to blaze the way for boosts
all along the line.
Meeting in Atlantic City, where
John L. formed the CIO 11 years
ago, CIO Pres. Philip Murray
sounded the battle cry for another
round of wage increases by lament
ing the rise in prices which offset
previous boosts and assailing the
uneven distribution of wealth.
Seeking to Indicate the extent to
which recent price rises have
crossed out the 18% cent an hour
wage raise won by the CIO earlier
this year, Murray said that steel
workers now are earning $13.04 less
a week than they did last March.
Pointing to the ability of Industry to
bear higher wages, Murray said that
profits in the last quarter of 1946
would total 15 billion dollars com
pared with 10 billions for 1944.
HOUSING:
New Wrinkle
The public received its first goo^,
look at the Lustrom corporation's
heralded porcelain enameled steel
home in Hinsdale, 111., outside Chi
cago, and the showing marked an
other step in the battle of the com
pany with the Tucker automobile
corporation for possession of the
huge Dodge-Chicago plant.
The battle took a sensational turn
with charges of Preston Tucker, the
auto magnate, that a prominent
Washington attorney had promised
to use his Influence in having the
National Housing authority remand
its order turning the Dodge-Chicago
plant to Lustrom if given the Tuck
er corporation's legal business plus
a stock interest Named as the at
torney, Theodore Granik-vigorously
denied the allegation.
FORECAST FOR 1947
Survey Shows Rise in Building
NEW YORK. — Representing an
increase of 35 per cent, 830,000
dwelling units will be constructed in
the 37 states east of the Rocky
mountains during 1947, according to
an estimate made by Thomas S.
Holden, president of F. W. Dodge
corporation. fact-finding organ
ization for the construction Industry.
The figure represents a gain of 35
per cent in number of units and 38
per cent in dollar volume from the
anticipated 1948 totals. The estimates
are based on elimination next year
of present priorities and allocations
of materials, Holden said.
For all construction, Holden said,
an Increase of 25 per cent It ex
pected. bringing the dollar total to
more than $9,500,000,000 compared
with $7,700,000,000 this year in the
states surveyed.
Holden said it was probable con
struction activity would continue
on an increasing scale without seri
ous setback and added, “if this
turns out to be true, construction
may be the principal sustaining ac
tivity tending to moderate the im
pact oj price recession on the gen
eral business structure.”
Decontrol of material prices will
stimulate increased output of many
scarce items, Holden said, with ne\y
cost levels "lower than black mar
ket prices."
Sees Labor Shortage.
Declaring that "the major bottle
neck will be shortage of skilled la
bor," Holden said that while np
prentice training has been stepped
up, "recruitment has not kept pace
with needs in a number of impor
tant trades."
The estimated increase in resi
dential building, he said, was based
on assumption that new construc
tion will be completely exempted
from rent ceilings, which he de
cribed as “the principal deterrent#
to apartment building."
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