Washington and the Nation

...But they always were honest mistakes with no mean motives underlying thorn...

...It is s forsgons conclusion thst thsrs will be additions...

...He frequently was blamed for policies which ars Mr...

...He served his country faithfully and to the best of his ability for 12 years...

...To that extent the CIO steel workers case falsely raised the hopes of American workers, for as the Bosrd noted in the opening psragraph the union frankly conceded that the Board did not have the power to do this...

...7 on the basis that he did not want to see wages become a political football...

...All that followed, therefore, was of minor importance...

...The battle between Attorney General Francis Biddle and Assistant Attorney General Norman M. Littell in charge of the public lands division hss New Dealers jittery, as does the dirt coming out of the Congresiionsl investigation of the FCC in connection with the sale of Radio Station WMCA in New York City by Donald ¦Plamm to Edward J. Noble, former Undersecretary of Commerce...

...rotary Hull and the upgrading of Under sec i. tary •UtUniui is net the end, but the beginning ef change* fa the Stat* Department...

...whereas Judge Hull was the man who opposed it And it waa Judge Hull who decreed thai tbe Italians wore to have freedom ef the press in ths liberated areas, while it wss the Communists who demanded that freedom of the press be suppressed when same Italians In aisled on publising sn embarrassing pamphlet on r*c lit, a/ LtMm...

...It is at this point that questions as to the future of Mr...

...The totalitarian smear campaigns against the "Judge" may have obscured for some the fact that none surpassed him in accomplishment in helping to save the refugee labor loaders of Europe, the doomed Jews in the Nssi grip, the honest democratic elements who found it necessary to floe totalitarianism everywhere...

...He was not simply an office boy...

...And hell be the first one to admit this...

...Only the President has that power...

...Two more of the best minds fa the division are due to leave shortly, one "turning to an important post in the AFL union, the ethsr to another government agency...

...Stettinius arlss...

...As The New Leader has been pointing out for a year, appeals to the War Labor Board for increases in the Little Steel wage ceiling are completely fruitless, inasmuch as the President's Executive Order of a year ago took away the Board's power to raise or lower this ceiling...

...1*he resignation of Cordell Hull is a blow in more ways than one to the cause of democracy and freedom...

...The House Judiciary Committee this week quietly struck at what anti-Administration leaders call "gov-ernment by executive order" in voting for amendment ef the Second War Powers Act to permit consumers of critical materials to appeal to the Federal courts for Injunctive relief against War Production Board suspen sien orders...

...An effort was made a few dsys sgo to slip a Communist hatchstman into tha St at * Department's Labor Division...

...But whst the steel workers—snd the other workers in American industry—were interested in wss s raise in the Little Steel wage ceiling...

...Washington and the Nation Impending Changes in Washington By Jonathan Stout WASHINGTON, D. C—The reaignation of So...

...latently Baiwfan authority protastad to Allied head inarten fa Italy, demanding suppression of a pamphlet mTkt IM* •/ Tha Ruiaiant charged that the tpajphlat wu insulting to the USSR and that the author WU an enemy of Russia and a "Fascist...

...The chief reason, of course, why he could not be pushed was because Judge Hull represented ip his own person a considerable political force...

...i Labor people here are up in arms over the appoint ¦Mnt of David Efron aa assistant to Adam Stahl in the International Labor Organisation's union relations de pertmeat...

...Friends of • isfjsrtfr Afaarhan foreign policy are worriod about "outside" fUMUrw on Uio change* in the offing...

...Before the election it was hinted to American labor that tbe President would raise that ceiling following Nov...

...But it was a doss squeak...

...Ths latter doss not have the poliical force of Judge Hull...

...Will he hsvs enough strength to stand and fight whsn ths connivers start pushing him around...

...WMC Chairman Paul McNutt, in making an urgent •ppesl for 200,000 war workers urgently needed, this weak still listed foundries and forge shops as critical •pete fa manpower shortage...

...Dry rot ef the powers of the Labor Division have convinced l»bor people they can make more constructive eontri-bstions to the war effort elsewhere...

...As time passes there is a tendency to remember the smear words used against Mm sad te forget that they arose out of sack propaganda campaigns as the Communist chargea when Maaeolini fell that Hull was secretly hatching a "deal" with Badeglte...

...The issue at hand will be Italy...

...The blow is softened somewhst by the fact that his successor as Secretary of State is his level-headed Undersecretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr...

...Efron played the leading role in organising the Stalinist-front Council for Pan American Demur racy and is a close collaborator with Lombardo Tol* Another battle between the State Department and OWI is looming on the queetion of which agency is the spokesman for American foreign policy...

...After a while people get tired of talking to themselvee and resign...

...Whether this implied promise will be kept is still the President's secret...

...Judge Hull wasn't always right...

...And he could not be kicked around with impunity as many political foes learned to their own undoing...

...But it is only fair to report that following the decision in the steel workers esse hopes in informed lsbor circles here spiralled downward...

...AFL paopla here are incensed at the gratuitous in ¦alt giran tha AFL convention in New Orleans by the IrKlih Trades Union Congress in sending as the latter'i fraternal delegate Arthur Horner, a member of the British Communist Party's Central Executive Commit fas, Reports hare aay Horner was given an icy reception bafora ha left hurriedly last Wedneaday for Colom bis to attend the convention of the Latin-American federation of Labor at the invitation of Vicente Lorn berdo Toledano...

...But even so ho made fewer mistakes than the totalitarian minds who so frequently assailed him because he couldn't be either coatitsd or cajoled into playing their game and because ho insisted on working 100 percent of the time for Uncle Sam Instead of for Uncle Jos...

...But there were limits beyond which ths Judgs could not be pushed...

...Te be sure, increases of four and six cents an hour for the two night shifts of steel workers in the plants of the V. S. Steel Corporstion sre better then nothing...

...The Communist schemers are already at work...

...At the payoff, it was ahowa that the Commas lata made the deal with Badogllo...

...rhsnges in the Stats Department...

...And, on ths whole, that proved good for the sake of representative government...

...Extraordinary alertness stopped it in time...

...Roosevelt's, and which he carried out for the Chief...

...The WPB Labor Division is slowly falling apart as its ablest people continue to seek other posts...

...The WPB Ubor Division told McNutt that was the trouble with foundriea almost a year ago...

...WhAT was important in the War Labor Board's decision in the case of the Steel Workers was tha Board's opening statement...

...The union, frankly conceding that its demand for a 17-rents pei houi general wage increase was beyond the suthority of the board to grant under the existing wsge stabilisation policy...

...The jobs to be filled are often difficult, and some of them are relatively lowpaid," said McNutt...

...He sometimes made mistakes...

...Noble bought the station for $850,000, and sold it to Nathan Straus for $1,250,000...

...The pamphlet is by Loon Trotsky...

...The hand of Hnrry Hopkina la being wstchsd...

...Judge Hull was a sober, stesdy fores for good in the State Department...