Major Companies' Monopoly Drive Threatens Oil Supply
MUNRO, DAVID A.
Major Companies' Monopoly Drive Threatens Oil Supply Ickes, Eastman Offices Aid in Squeeze on 'Independents' By DAVID A. MUNRO WASHINGTON, D. C. — Frank Phillip«, maverick oilman from the...
...Schroeder was still making isolationist speeches just before that election...
...Because of agreements with the states, total U. S. production is thus curtailed...
...finance committee...
...And We Big Business lobby wouldn't stand for a Secretary of Commerce who didn't come out of » Big Business background...
...Characteristically the forecast has been set for this month at 4,031,400 barrels daily, against 4,066,200 barrels daily during October and 4,311,700 barrels daily during November of last year...
...But they all begin with this basio proposition: labor must work out some modus operandi for swinging its weight on issues of common concern in a planned, concerted and continuing fashion...
...She almost got away with the gag that British Intelligence asked her for the file, until checking showed *he British never heard of her or the file...
...per cent to wildcatters (prospectors), who find oil on the public domain...
...Certainly the success of this proposal will shortly be determined by what occurs as a result of the Kaiser conflict...
...Donovan's face red...
...But the farm lobby wouldn't stand for a Secretary of Agriculture who never followed a plow...
...The doilar-a-year boys were supposed to he industry's loan of its top-management experts tc the government to help run a winning war...
...Added Gaetano Salvemini, one of the leading anti-fascists now in this country, to a statement: "Everything which weakens the democratic groups in Europe, helps, not the conservatives who are hopelessly doomed anyway, bnt the Communists...
...It seems that there has been a lot of fiddling in Washington, while Rome burns...
...Failure to act on the basic proposition that, «Vspite internal dissension, labor must find some way of presenting a single face in competing with the other lobbies in Washington is what .«aused it to miss the boat in helping to run the war effort...
...The manifesto was received by Vanni Montana, secretary of the New York branch of the underground Italian Socialist Party...
...The two-party system is in for difficult days, for the party going up if carrying the...
...is reported split over efforts to place ? McCormick man in the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, there is no evidence to show that the schism is anything more than a disagreement over tactics and their effect on public opinion, The New Leader was informed by important members of the party's "interventionist bloc...
...Maybe it should be changed...
...The best commentary on the conferences themselves is in the quote from the AFL newsletter which was released on Dec...
...Some criticism has been expressed of Churchill's remarks...
...One of the things such preparations must take into account is seeing to it that people with dependable trade union backgrounds find their /Way into the innumerable subordinate poets in the Government, such as deputies, iassistante, division heads, bureau chiefs, section bosses...
...its own business...
...TAPCO, or Trans-American Pipeline Co., which was to be put through with the money of the International Machinists Union (AFL) and which was in direct opposition to the majors, was effectively denounced by Secretary Ickes...
...It is widely feh that any move on the part of the United Nations, any sympathy, open or disguised, in behalf of leading Italian generals or clerics, would constitute a blow against the Underground...
...publicity chief Clarence Buddington Keiiand, former associate of the anti-Semitic Verne Marshall (No Foreign War Committee), has also been suggested as a possible national -chairman...
...Stassen and his colleague Senator Ball have some strength—just how much will be better learned after the Dec...
...McCormick originally planned to insist on his muskrat-faced Sancho Panza, Werner W. Schroeder, as the successor to sharp little Representative Joseph W. Martin...
...The file was a dossier on an anti-fascist Ukrainian leader who is also anti-Communist and is ending American undercover work in the conquered portions erf Poland and the Ukaaioe, The Stalinist currently under F.B.I, surveillance is a charter member of the American CP...
...The President, along with other government leaders, is harassed and worried by the dynamite-Jader...
...Chairman Phillips, of pant Phillip« Petroleum Company, has aa*d tavat "a lack at oil to fight the war will be the next national scandal...
...nor with any of the men who have carried it on...
...When, for example, the move for a general sales tax was started in Britain, the National Council of Labor carried the ball by going to Churchill and saying no...
...But that's how things are...
...There they will have a ^50,000 war chest at their disposal...
...And done right now...
...Much literature and erudite mumbo-;umbo appears in the hearings and orders of the Petroleum Coordinator to celebrate this, curtailment...
...mainly, the salesmen and purchasing agents in WPB are under Ferdinand Eberstadt, former Wall Street investment banker...
...The peace conferences themselves ended quietly but with at least the door open for other meetings...
...In the past the NLRB created voting units so that the crafts in many huge factories were snowed under by the unskilled workers...
...And, let it be added, this is lese the lault of the Administration than of organized labor itself...
...But where the blame lies is no secret in Washington...
...going slowly whenever one's work has any connection with the state of war...
...There are two hard facts involved in this local angle on unity: 1—Despite the great amount of government hiring under the most progressive administration in the nation's history, honest trade unionists with a background of responsibility in the labor movement are relatively rare in government posts, as compared with representatives of Big Business or the Farm Bloc or even with those hundreds, of so-called pro-labor people who never had any more intimate contact with the labor movement than to drift into its periph^y—euch people as liberal college professors,^ economic research people, social workers, ex-Bull Moosers and^ of course, those Igring borers, the Communists and'their fellow-trarvelers...
...The New Leader's informants insist that the Hoover...
...The alibi that these men have special qualifications for their jobs took a terrific beating when WPB within the past month found it necessary to put these orphans of the storm through a special training course to teach them the fundamentals of industrial production...
...The inter-union fight endangers what gains were made at this week's peace conferences between the AFL (represented by William Hutcheson, carpenters...
...The Republican Party today is virtually unanimous in its isolationist.sentiment...
...The industrial union group was nurtured by the NLRB, which has the power to create factory units for collective bargaining elections...
...Now, top management in industry is mad* up of two types of men—production experts and financial experts...
...Florida is not only a major base for the control of a vast sea and island area to the southeast of continental United States, but it is also the southern terminus of the Inland Waterway through which petroleum products could be safely barged to all the East Coast shortage areas...
...Its production experts industry kept for...
...A treaty with Fascists could be nothing more than a trap for fools...
...Never has a single issue epitomized the danger of labor conflicts as does the fight over Kaiser...
...Willkie will fall back on the bloc organized by the popular Gov...
...The exiled governments everywhere would do well to watch the battle of Coronado...
...This is what has caused the angry alarm raised by Krank Phillips, and what has caused the ner' vouyjess among Army and Navy officials concerned "with petroleum...
...Earlier in the week the majors' political squadrons ran up the first retreat signal when they allowed S. 2293...
...He is also a member of the Petroleum Industry War Council, formed by the industry and government to assure enough petroleum products for the fighting services...
...Beveridge is the beginning not the ejjd of new social techniques...
...Fearing that the pious Mr...
...It was mulled over by lawyers and economists until it was finally necessary to get a presidential proclamation to permit the owners of the uncompleted line to charge tariffs which would include a 20 per cent return on the investment, in addition to a 7 per cent dividend...
...Its call for action was explained: "Civil disobedience does not mean open revolt—yet...
...Maybe that's not as should be...
...Willkie for refusing to become their personal property in 1940...
...Thea« policies, established by the majors, have found expression in the acts of Secretary Ickee, Commissioner Eastman and of President Roosevelt himself...
...This is the second time in recent months that an important Stalinist agent has teen found in the O.S.S...
...Meanwhile rifts in the first flush of unanimity over Beveridge report are appearing...
...And yet there are large stocks of petroleum products in Venezuela, now unused, though Venezuela is as close to Casablanca as New York...
...Working and functioning no matter whto is in the White House, whereas Cabinet members and heads of agencies come and go...
...s Intimates of CIO President Phil Murr...
...Institutionalised property is preferable naturally to laissez-faire starvation, but we look for more in the post-war world...
...called the "Wildcat Oil Bill," to pass in the Senate unanimously...
...In 1937, labor acquired the total numbers to givo it numerical equality with the Farm lobby, and the organizational power to cope with the Big Business lobby, but it has never received the recognition commensurate with that coming-of-age...
...file...
...As has been noted, there is scant hope of achieving organic labor unity in the current peace talks...
...And even while working for change, practical people play the game according to the rules as they are, not according to the rules as they should be...
...Those who know of Mr...
...Pardon us for pointing, but the labor unions are full of men who know more about industrial production than the personality boys do about stag smokers...
...They were all opposec to the destruction by the United States of Hitler's Germany...
...But there are some things which can be done short of that ultimate goal...
...It is also weakening the labor front against attacks on it by men such as the head of Inland Steel this week who declared open war on the AFL, CIO and Phil Murray whom he refers to as a Leninist...
...Capital Comment By JONATHAN STOUT Waehington Correspondent, The New Leader WASHINGTON, D- C—The AFL-CIO labor nnjty talks were still under way here at the WlDerd"Hotel,, with no conclusion in sight, when fbJM dispatch was written.'"Meeting as the two committees did, under a heavy pall of pessimism, Jt may not be inappropriate to comment on an angle of unity which, perhaps, is more keenly appreciated in Washington than elsewhere...
...reason...
...Powerful private insurance interests oppose the scheme and they are heavily represented in Parliament...
...Admittedly, it is riot simple to deal with both these facts in a manner satisfactory to all factions in labor...
...It has the virtue of being of vital concern to every locality in the nation...
...2r<—To guard profits by keeping the price of erode high...
...Political observers here believe that Mr...
...The people in these subordinate jobs are the straw bosses...
...Enough of fascism...
...That is a principal fact affecting- the oil is-d us try...
...Any political neophyte in Washington will tell JWU ours is a government-by-lobby...
...The highlight, of course, was the abrupt decision of the Priel» dent to override all opposition and declare national gas rationing by fiat, effective December 1. This will have the effect of postponing the interference of inevitable war needs with the carefully laid commercial plans of the majors...
...Intelligent conservatives are supporting the plan but various Colonel Blimps are polishing their battJe&xes for a showdown fight...
...The majors' political decisions have had as objectives the following: 1—Tovbuttress"their monopoly position by keeping pipelines from independents...
...OldGuardGapturesGOPNat'lCommittee Hoover Seen as Dictating Party Chairman Choice By T. ft...
...WHHrie's energetic fight forces the naming of a neutral...
...Destruction of the Wagner act would cripple the CIO...
...The G.O.P...
...This would pit the ArL and ?? organizers against each other in the very factory yards themselves...
...Though these men have been accused of adhering to the major companies' attitude, they have offered no solace to those oilmen who now blithely insist that everything is all right...
...The same report adds the significant comment that independent producers hold 95 per cent of the reserves of Mississippi and that the OPR ordered "a 15 per cent decrease in production the summer of 1942...
...The minority group led by Wendell Willkie has no real influence in party ranks aside from the nuisance value the former G.O.P...
...This bill provides a flat royalty of 12...
...Murphy's personal sentiments realize that this religious outlook prevents him from being a communist...
...These men control the Republican Party today...
...And any experienced trade union leader knows the importance of having the straw bosses on the side of the union...
...But unlike some local angles as they may occur in other places, the, Washington local angle is pot a narrow-visioned one...
...and it will wot be used to stop the spread of isolation tat ¦*·**· ment...
...It will be interesting to see what Murray does with this opportunity abas Len DeCaux...
...Tories to Fight Beveridge Plan By S. L. SOLON London Correepondent, The New Leader LONDON, By Cable, December 2.—The Beveridge report, embracing a wide social insurance program for England, has certainly gripped the imagination of the British people, but it would be a mistake to assume that it has met an uncritical reception and complete approval from all social groups...
...The implications %ere are great...
...The Big Business lobby and the Farm lobby have their internal dissensions, too...
...He blame* selfish policies...
...Said he: "The newspapers act as if the report was the brave New World twist slices of bread, but it is just the beginning and a modest one...
...politico's that Hoover has been placing in strategic positions inside the National Committee...
...7 session of the Republican National Committee...
...Dewey is too intent on reaching the White House to alienate any forces in — — ->~—- —i* ? Vw would be -forced to Contend at the 1944 nominating convention But his spirit will be marching through thai delegates' ranks in the Coronado...
...Apparently hurriedly printed in an illegal Italian shop, full of minor typographical errors, it was nevertheless a ringing call for opposition to the fascists' war for empire...
...The first two such parleys broke off in somewhat intransigeant moods...
...But it is not too late for labor to begin now its preparation for helping to run the reconstruction of the peace to come...
...Donald Nelson himself, of course, was the top purchasing agent of Sears, Roebuck...
...Said Berle: "There can be no compromise with the cult of Fascist slavery...
...No immediate indication of results was forthcoming as the conferees settled themselves to the task of finding a way to bring about a formula for a reunited labor movement in America...
...One manifesto of the Italian Socialist Party, smuggled out of Europe, reached New York this week...
...The measure of success of these* policies was shown in the O'Mahoney report citing increase of major companies' control of- oil production from 52.7 per cent on January I, 1939, to 70 per cent on January 1, 1942...
...In the most considered opinions of the best informed labor circles in the country the AFL-CIO peace parleys failed to pace tbc way for a labor merger...
...In furtherance of the artificial scarcity policy of' the majors, the monthly "forecasts" of Interior's Bureau of Mines (concerned with conservation) have been scaled down month-by-month for two years...
...Hoover's closest confidant in New York is George S. Sokolsky whose sentiments on labor are not secret...
...It does not mean general strike— not yet...
...G.O.P...
...It is understandable that political and governmental aspects of any question should loom large in the Capital...
...Though the G.O.P...
...And that was the end of the general sales tax idea...
...Robert R. JfcConnick, his press and his allies in the Hoover camp, were attempting this week to capture the Republican Party to put a "nego-tiated-peace" ticket in the field in 1944...
...The inter-union fight is keeping labor from direct representation on the war boards...
...This was first insisted upon by Secretary Ickes and the majors during the "phony" oil shortage last year...
...Here is an example of a "local angle" that Washington appreciates more than other sections of the people...
...Secretary of State Cornell Hull added to the "war of nerves" by warning of an imminent "explosion" within Italy...
...It is almost academic whether they win the public fight for a chairman who represents their viewpoint, or whether Mr...
...The possible solutions are complex...
...1. the very day the meeting opened...
...Nor for ex-Bull Moosers, either...
...The Italian-American Labor Council here, headed by Luigi Antonini, has pledged its aid to the underground fight...
...Dispute at Kaiser Menaces Labor Unity,MayStartAFLWaronNLRB Special to ? hi New Leadek WASHINGTON, D. C—President Roosevelt, certainly the most influential force among national labor leaders, is meeting with top AFL and CIO chiefs on the unity question...
...Thomas E. Dewey has been left out of this report because Mr...
...Many things built op as a part of the internecine war of the past seven years now remain as obstacles to amalgamation...
...While both AFL and CIO representatives indicated a strong disposition to seek out a settlement in the shortest possible time, theii job was seriously embarrassed by CIO raiding in the field which has aroused the anger of a large propoortion of the AFL membership...
...It's the local angle here...
...As influential as Harry Hopkins is at the White House, the fact remains he quickly got moved out of the Com-merce post Big Business doesn't stand for social .workers in the Department of Commerce...
...years ago, we have today 4al* set-up: Big Business and the military are rfnnaf the war: Labor is completely out of the picture and reduced to yipping ineffectual protests...
...of hatred for the progress so pa n«t*ker.h won by the nation during the past decade...
...In London, another manifesto was promptly re-broadcast to Italy via short-wave, and preparations arranged for its further distribution among the Italian people...
...A letter which appears in the record for the hearings before the Public Lands Committee, indicates that there are untold reserves right in Florida where they could do the war effort the most good...
...Also,-the people m these subordinate jobs, in the main, go or...
...The National Council of Labor is British labor's powerhouse...
...An example, perhaps, may be taken again from British experience...
...But they left the door open for further conferences and at least clearly outlined the issues involved...
...previously active in America First activities, is head of the Committee for Constitutional Government, an extreme rightist group...
...Political warfare, at the same time, was intensified by the United Nations spokesmen...
...He blames the government...
...Willkie is still immensely popular throughout the nation and that he is.rapidly growing in stature and political maturity...
...The McCormick-Hoover axis intends to seize the committee via a simple squeeze play...
...vice-chairman, so he could be around as an eligible dark horse when the interventionist WillkieHStassen forces turned the Coronado ballroom into political prize ring...
...When Big Business was unloading its now useless salesmen and purchasing agents onto the governmental payroll some time ago, it was represented that industry was patriotically lending its "experts" to the war effort...
...GREENE Special Correspondence WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the White House and the international peace conferences as potential prizes, British-hating Col...
...refusal to pay taxes...
...A recent survey of (be backgrounds of the dollar-a-year beys in the Government discloses that, with the exception of a handful, what industry loaned the Government patriotically was its financial experts...
...have declared their private war in Washington on all men who were at any time anti-communist and they are using CIO apparatus to press their personal vendettas...
...Meanwhile, in the face of persistent opposition, the "big inch" pipeline from Texas to New York, the darling of the majors, has been forced through...
...The Army and Navy have thus put themselves on record so that the blame for any large military curtailment will not be laid to them...
...Louis, Mo...
...He keeps on saying it...
...iOn November 12th the Ickes office hastened to announce that the fuel for Generals Eisenhower and Alexander, then opening up the African Second Front, "is from America's East Coast or diverted from supplies that might haVe come to the East Coast...
...Yet the Petroleum Industry War Council had previously announced that, with all the makeshift means of transportation fully in„ operation, the East Coast shortage is accumulating at the rate of 100,000 barrels a day...
...However they point out that he has no political machinery and his -vigorous New Dealism has alienated the conservative die-hards in the party who have never forgiven Mr...
...Though the Navy and the Mississippians had asked for a long line to market their products on the East Coast, they could do with a short line only fifty miles long to connect their field with a barge terminal on the Mississippi River...
...They want only to fight Japan They are still violent isolationist and plan to keep America from aiding in reconstructing the world along lines which are best summed ep by the phrase "peoples war...
...However, no matter how many allegations have been made to the effect that these figures are "scientifically" set, the OPC has not even claimed that the mounting demands of war -have been considered in the calculations...
...The country-wide decrease, as indicated above, was 6.5 per cent- Country-wide control by independents, as indicated above, is only 30 per cent...
...The O.S-S Far Eastern Division is a good spot for a guy like that . . . and it Col...
...As a measure of the work of the OPC and the ???, this fact means -that alb the rationing and consumption curtailment policies have not added a gallon to the available stockpile...
...Donovan's set-up, which has the tremendously important job of contacting and working with the underground in the Nasi-occupied sections of Europe...
...It is sprinkled with such esoteric symbols as proration allowables, nomination* and depletion allowances...
...Petrrngell...
...And he ought to know...
...Captain Carter has aeked for "twice as much oil...
...The Italian Socialist party, once the leading political force in free Italy under MatUottt, is now taking the leadership in underground work...
...have been saying for a long time he wouW like to get rid of the CIO's StajiniM-oorirhmltee publicity office...
...There is now not enough oil chiefly because the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator (Secretary Ickes) cut down production...
...And now there is a reactionary swing in Congress with the Tories emerging in full control, and labor's gains of the past ten years are vary much in danger...
...conflict between the AFL Metal Trades and the CIO Shipbuilders unions over jurisdiction in the mammoth high-speed Kaiser shipyards...
...New appeals to the Italian workers and peasants, and to "soldiers, sailors, aviators" are being distributed in an extensive campaign for civil disobedience—"Enough of war...
...underground 1» America...
...if it has the will, get itself a powerhouse...
...Labor, in fact, has been pretty lucky It hasn't done worse in the Labor Department...
...Various plans for digging up old pipelines, to relay them to convey oil eastward, or to make pipelines out of wood, have been regularly scotched by the Ickes and/or Eastman offices—not out of fear that the government would lose in these schemes, for they were to be privately financed, but out of fear that the monopoly would be broken...
...For instance, the basic •0-hour week is practically certain to get a mauling after January...
...William Green is reported to have told the President late this week that any loss by the AFL metal trades at Kaisers, where the NLRB voided the AFL contracts and ordered new elections at the instigation of the CIO, would result in an all-out drive by the AFL in Congress for the repeal of the Wagner Act...
...Should the McCormick-Hoover camarilla win in the fight for control of the chairman's spot, and should the nation be in the mood for a Republican sweep in 1944, the nation will have cause to remember long what happened there in the Coronado ballroom...
...Perhaps the most flagrant instance of .the effort to make capital of the oil shortage while the war effort suffered has come to light in the case of the Florida reserves...
...The bulletin said: "Peace conferences between committees representing the AFL and the CIO got under way at the Willard Hotel here after a three-year lapse...
...Axis owns the Republican Party...
...London now looks towards Washington for an American parallel...
...Major Companies' Monopoly Drive Threatens Oil Supply Ickes, Eastman Offices Aid in Squeeze on 'Independents' By DAVID A. MUNRO WASHINGTON, D. C. — Frank Phillip«, maverick oilman from the Oklahoma, country, won't keep his mouth ehut...
...may be the war's decisive battle...
...In support of the effort, to prevent use of this independent field, "the Office of Petroleum Coordinator reports an erroneous reserve of 28,000,000 barrels, while the Navy Department desires the (Tinsley) line to supply oil for East Coast storage, now empty...
...There is no blinking the difficulties in the path of unity...
...House leader quit to marshal the Republican minority—which may soon be functioning as a majority with reactionary Democratic support —against 10 years of New Deal legislation...
...Here, the report of the O'Mahoney Committee on'Public Lands and Surveys, just issued, gave "a known proven reserve of 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 barrels," but the "Office of Defense Transportation declined to permit building a pipeline" to get it out...
...A needed extension to the vast old Plantation Pipeline System, from Baton Rouge to Houston, was delayed for three and a half months...
...So has former Congressman Samuel B. Pettengill, chairman of the G.O.P...
...What has actually been going on in Washington is illustrated by the case of the Tinsley Oil Field in Mississippi...
...His father's ironwork shop on the West Side of New York in the early 19...
...It would also remove the peaceful means by which collective bargaining agents have been selected for the past five~ years...
...Stassen of Minnesota...
...However one executive told me that it's Beveridge or "Bolshevism" for post-war Britain and that the industrialists' groups will take their medicine...
...All Washington is preparing its contacts with Republicans who will sit in that parley in the Coronado Hotel, St...
...A similar short pipeline from El Dorado, Ark., to Helena, Ark., also to a barge terminal on the Mississippi, was blocked for a profits...
...It is felt that these pioneers of the anti-fascist fight ought to be regarded as allies, in their own right, of the United Nations...
...They're trying to hush this one up, just as they did several sematbj ago when a former member of the Moscow Dairy News staff was caught in the act' of trying to steal a secret document from a high It confidential O.S.S...
...Secretary Ickee' Department ef the Interior, where the majori fre powerful, had filed an adverse opinion on this measure seme time arc but not a shot was fired by the Ickes and oil big guns as S. 2292 sailed through the blockade and came into port...
...It has been promised the support of such men as Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Republican leaders have virtually determined to fight the '44 campaign on a platform which will exploit casualty lists, - rationing, manpower muddling and general war weariness...
...by building pipelines susceptible of major control and by* keeping producing areas out of the hands of independents...
...There has already been an echo of the Phillip* statements in worried expressions from General Pyron of the Army and Captain Carter at toe Navy...
...He is a "major" oil company executive himself...
...Bloody picket lines are no help to war production, and many government officials fear that the Kaiser incident will touch off just such conflicts, it was reported...
...American labor may, for varied and complex reasons, find it impossible to get labor unity . . . but it can...
...Dewey will not take sides...
...This has not been forthcoming, either...
...There, tremendous power is wielded by the National Council of Labor, a coalition body on a full-time operating basis set up by three separate entities—the British Trade Union Congress, the British Labor Party and the British Cooperatives...
...His emphasis on Mas* solini the man seemed to many a lamentable departure from the highly effective level at political warfare reached by the State Department'« A. A. Berle in a call to the Italian people last month...
...History may be made there...
...Maybe nothing that labor can do now will win for it an equal role in running the war...
...But it boils down to a- series of political decisions dictated by the controlling factors in the industry, the majors...
...The failure of wildcatting to bring in enough new producing areas is only one aspect of the growing oil shortage...
...Colorless, bespectacled Schroeder is just the man the McCormick crowd wants to put in controls!' the party whose future appears so bright after last month's elections...
...At the very least, there will be such jobs to do as winning back a lost 40-hour week...
...Italian Socialist Manifesto Spurs Drive to Overthrow Fascist Regime A new political offensive, in conjunction with the deepening military crisis in the Mediterranean and the Allied air blitz on the Milan-Turin-Genoa area, has been launched by the Socialist and labor underground in Italy...
...2—Instead of a national coalition government with labor as an equal partner in the conduct of the war, as envisaged by some ¦far-eighted people two or...
...These are all Hoover men...
...The conferences* most notable success was the formulation of a plan for the ending of the jurisdictional fighting...
...The official retreat before the expocifl sterol was in full swing last week...
...The major oil companies, which have staffed the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator and who manage also to get their way with the Office of Defense Transportation, have laid down the policies that have brought America, producer of 70 per cent of the world's ell, to the bir.k of an oil shortage...
...General W. B. Pyron, who only recently was a vice-president of Gulf Oil Corp., has aeked for "much more oil...
...Schroeder would be too hot to handle, the McCormick-Hoover strategists had Frank Gannett, New York publisher, resign as National G.O.P...
...Or is that only local color...
...Harry Bates, bricklayers, and Daniel Tobin, Presidential spokesman and head of the powerful teamsters brotherhood) and the CIO (represented by Philip Murray, R. J. Thomas of the Automobile Workers, and Julius Emspak, Communist spokesman and czar of the CIO electrical workers...
...But he has tolerated men such as Lee Pressman and Len De Caux, who...
...The story' itself was headlined: "LABOP PEACE CONFERENCES START AS NEW WARFARE FLARES "IN WEST WITH CIO RAIDS ON KAISER YARDS...
...The seriousness with which the AFL considers the Kaiser fight was being determined in labor circles today by the news that the AFL has dispatched John P. Frey, Metal Trades chief, AFL counsellor Padway, and a newly hired publicity agent to the west coast...
...Washington knows that it is the people in these subordinate jobs who do the real work to which the head of the agency merely signs his name...
...And that brings us back to the dollar-a-vtau men who padded WPB's papioUe with Ibeor companies' salesmen and purchasing afeatte...
...Maybe it is too late for labor unity to retrieve .«y part of this error...
...If he exerts any influence now it will be cleverly camouflaged...
...CIO publicity chief, is drafted shortly...
...He has the support of Hoover, Senator Robert Taft and the tightly knit group of G.O.P...
...In case after case, the other pipelines have encountered nameless opposition...
...British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in his Sunday birthday ad-ores', summoned the Italian people to get fid of Mussolini...
...standard bearer can wield...
...While closing in on that important Communist in the Far Eastern Section of the Otic* of Strategic Services, the F.B.I, might bead some of its efforts to discovering who is okaying the Stalinists into Col...
...The Kaiser conflict jeopardizes the National Labor Relations Board...
...Whatever the immediate criticism on the Beveridge report, that it goes too far or does not go far enough, the idea behind the report, the need for democratic overall planning, is now firmly fixed in Britain—and that may be its most important value...
...There could have been worse selections than Madame Perkins, and there might be worse ones than Ickes...
...wm» «be headquarters of the CP...
...The most interesting comment came from a man in the street who was queried by this correspondent...
...These plans, as we will see, are dependent upon and find their expression in the production curtailment policies of the Icket office...
...To disobey means to ignore laws, decrees a and regulations issued by Fascist authorities...
...British Labor, by past experience, has learned to look a gift horse well in the teeth and the Beveridge report is no exception...
...A fight on the NLRB by the AFL would aid the conservatives and the industrialists, not to mention the bad boy of journalism, Westbrook Pegler, sitting on the sidelines watching one labor federation attempt to destroy what many believe is the bulwark of CIO...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 49
