Capital Comment

...Actually it opened with the radio address hy Secretary of State Byrnes on his return from the London Conference...

...Save that strange conclusions are drawn from these trite premises...

...A man, beaten down, starved, worn out, apparently forgotten by the world, would capitulate and then wuuld find himself in a better position...

...kept rent increase* down to SJJ percent...

...The emotions shift and surge in the final moments...

...And food ia the all-consuming interest in life in Germany today...

...Gordon Heath plays the Negro with restraint...

...Genevra's love, too, makes the story less representative...

...But despite polite and diplomatic language he will leave no doubt in the minds of analytical listeners that Russia torpedoed the London Conference—apparently with cold and calculated deliberation...

...True, some of the big unions whose membership rolls were unduly swelled during the past half dozen years have lost a portion of this membership sinre the war plants were closed...

...In its place, the new ordera from the highest authority imply frank acceptance of the fact that power politics based on force is the only reality in international relations today...

...Concerto by Conus...

...rent control regulation...

...These still exist in the Americsn, Brit-ieh and French cones...

...Presented by Kermit Bloomgarden and Ceorgt Heller...

...He would be given better clothes, more food, less work...

...Circle 7-6000...

...Anoher important part of the picture was the constantly increasing corruption...

...Turned down were applications from the ItufTalo Federation of Labor foi a Union Labor Post, and the Kansas City (Mo...

...Officials report that there are approximately 1,200,000 persona coming from Russia, Poland, eastern Europe and the Balkans who so far have refused to be repatriated to their homelands as long as they are under Soviet control...

...Most important of all, he would be given a position of authority over others...

...4) Rondo Capricioso by Saint Saens...

...Ia this current labor unrest seriously retarding the general effort of industry to retool pisu is for the expension of civilian production...

...The current situation, howevtr, presents an angle which the press and radio oracles appear to have failed to realize...

...But when the criminals began to arrive—and later prisoners from foreign lands as well as Nazis who were being punished—intrigue went on at a dangerous rate...

...Labor realizes this, and the levelheaded elements in industry probably appreciate this too...

...van the food allotted to these poor victims waa often stolen by the guards to be given to more favored categories of prisoners...

...to go to hell on hall bearing" *--»nd so did any resl hope for a league of nations, as this correspondent sadly but faithfully reported from San Francisco.' This week provided the climax of what began at the Golden Gate and the Wilsonian approach was reluctantly albeit angrily abandoned in our relations with Rusaia...

...Next came tbe Russians and the Poles, then the citizens of other nations...

...At the start Socialists, Communists and members of other parties ail stood up vigorously (ox, tbetr own theories ss the only way of salvation...

...The curious angle about these self-appointed .spokesmen for American industry is the fact that they do not represent a cross-section of thought in American industry vis-a-vis labor...

...i ? the panicky strike stories, Here is how ?econversion record shapes up, for instance, in a summation by the Committee for Economic Development in a *pot check-up of eighty-four major cities • ml former war production centers...

...Within this caepp diseussion was freer than anywhere else in Germany...

...POST-WAR SOUTH "DEEP ARE THE ROOTS" By ? ? mind aVUtteau and Jamet Cow...

...Big John is no tonic to advocates of peace-at-any-cost—of cost to labor in particular ut, any time...

...The French in their zone, with Gallic perception for the needs of an emotional outlet for people long and horribly suppressed, have instituted the weekly practice of taking parties of Jews from the Assembly Centers on inspections of the Nazi SS prisoners in the jails...

...Whatever unemployment we may face in the coming months and through 1946, will be due primarily to the release from industry of the millions of men and women who had been engaged in war work aince 1940...

...ront that point on the relations between Russia and W wartime allies...

...There is no expectation of keeping secret for long the scientific knowledge involved...

...Only the younger daughter, Ge-nevra, Brett's playmate from infancy, holds steadfast...

...Roosevelt Post has been set up in the liquor industry in New York...

...With the continued existence of I'MUKA trembling in the balance, officials of the organisation are planning an Immediate determined drive to get the** displaced peraoaa to go l»ck hosne Ths greatest pressure will be put on them to do so...

...The average family needed sn income of $1950 after income taxes were paid to "break even" in 1944, according to A. Ford Hinricha, acting commissioner of labor statistics, testifying before a Senate body on the 66 cent minimum waye bill...

...I don't like il myeelf...

...At first, when the prisoners were exclusively anti-Nazis there was, despite this arrangement, general unity and understanding...

...We have just gone* through a prauli, -ally strikeless period lssling more than three and a half years...

...It will not come from labor's efforts to hold its line of earnings in the months that lie immediately ahead...

...It may be worth quoting, in this connection, an excerpt from a piece by Russel Porter, in the New York Time* of Oct...

...One of name...

...Which can hardly be contradicted...

...A further reliable explanatioi may be added to President Truman's announcement on the atomic bomb, which also finds its place in the general picture...

...The processes ol collective bargaining, which do not exclude strikes, arbitration and compromise as logical finalities, would have taken care of that in due order...

...Charles Waldron makes the Senator an apt caricature...

...The only reason given by the Legion is that no new posts are being chartered...

...In the Americsn, British snd French sonea the Jews are given twice the food ration which they are given by the Russians...

...7, covering experiences in a cross-country flying tour with a representative group of employers in the National Manufacturers' Association, to wit: "The typical business man and industrialist whom one meets when traveling around the country ' today is a keen specialist in management, production, engineering or one or other technical profession...

...Twenty-five of these closely surveyed cities show reconversion well under wsy with no major unemployment indicated...

...ft COSTS UP 11% Washington (LPA...

...Shadow Over America LEGION REBUFFS UNIONS CHICAGO (LPAL—The American Legion is once more under attack by ,ite labor members because in recent months it has turned down two applications— one by an A FL and one by a CIO body— for chartering new posts...

...Following thst drive, u nicka plans« lampaigii to get the nations of tha Western Hemisphere to open their doors to those who will become stateless persons by refusing all efforts to get them to go noma...

...Finally we managed to smuggle arms into the camp...

...and ? proposed steeling eaca mere of Truman...

...2) Sonata by Cesar Franek, Allegretto (ben moderate), Allegro, Recitative — Fantasia, Allegretto poco maxso (Intermission...

...JOHN CASSIDY NAMED PUBLICITY DIRECTOR FOR ?. T. VlCTORT LOAN John Cassidy, of RICO Theatres, has been appointed Publicity Director for tue Victory Loan for the Greater New York area, it was announced by Irving Lesser, General Chairman of the Motion Picture War Activities Committee...

...What Jews still remain in the Ruaaian zone are domiciled in house* from which Germans have been ousted to make room...

...American workers since 1942 abstained from striking, primarily through a genuine, deep-seated spirit of patriotism in time of national emergency and, in part, owing to the pledged word of their leaders le give up strikes for the duration...

...But if'a the truth, ¦ ? · Unk ? A is faced with a terrific problem...

...I'm torry...

...Cassidy, one of the city's best-known publicity men, will devote full time to the Victory Loan snd will make his office during the drive at campaign headquarters in the Roxy Theatre Building, 153 W. BOth Street, Tel...

...Still, as the week swings past midway the strike "wave" which has been giving sleepless hours to many • ? editorial scribe and astute columnist is receding, according to tha hour on the hour observers of the industrial barometer...

...This truce has enme to an end with the war's end...

...that the next time an American diplomat faces ¦ Ku* aian diplomat across an International conference labte, the Russian is going to get a taste of eonie of hie own medicine...

...Talebearers got in their work...

...Immediately affected are: UNRRA...

...Rusaia« d«-Mandii for $(»00.000.000 for ie» oust rurt ion of war-wrecked industrial installations, housing and trana-•ortatton and communication linen in the Ukraine ind White Russis...

...Each overseer, naturally, was under the supervision of anSS-msn...

...comparatively few Negroes are returning to aristocratic southern belles who will abandon all in love of them.—But Barbara Bel Geddes makes the role most appealing...

...e*e TlllS Is not sn sttempt to draw a heavy optimistic line across the country's industrlsl lsndsrape...

...All the more to because I ? Hit A officials are expecting the suffering of the coming winter to equal the suffering those poor derelict* suffered during the war relief...

...The inferences which did not appear in the President's statement were msde more than amply dear by the rising tide of comment in other quarters pointing the finger of dissatisfaction at Russia...

...They are no longer called concentration campa...

...He thinks it ia better business to provide job* and wages (hat will sustain the buying power of eonaumera at reasonable prices to himself than to enforce extortionate prices and profits at the risk of drjviavg the customers of all industry out of their job* and out of the market...

...That, in fact, is not the secret...

...but the play makes vivid one of the many problems heavy upon this war-torn and peace-hungry world...

...aHoW wss it possible for me to escape after aeven years of Buffering irr Dachau, Ausehwitx and Buchenwald...

...kick is a sidelight on the report on the plight of the Jews still remaining in concentrstion camps in Germany...

...29 thsl: "Shortly after his arrival, Byrnes will make a radio report to the nation...

...This, according to Judge Advocate Man-rice A. Frank of the National Conference of Union Labor Legionnaires, is u "weak excuse" and "ridiculous...

...The change is beet explained this way: Up to April 25 (the dale the San Francisco Conference convened), American policy on the highest •«vels, an<l American attitudes from the highest to tha lowest levels was touched in terms of Wilsonian idealism and waa translated in terms of international cooperation and generosity of spirit towards our wartime alliea...

...In that report he will be whistling: in the wind (and he known it) because he wilt plead for continued hope in the eventual success of the United Nation» Organisation and the Big Five parleys...

...That is the only chang...

...Especially in Buchenwald tbe community of feeling was developed to an extent that would have been ' quite unimaginable among outsiders...

...ogram: 1) Sonata in ? major by Handel, Adagio, Allegro, Largo and Allegro...

...It was cleverly devised to prevent the development of a spirit of solidarity among the prisoners...

...There is an unhappy time ahead fur Europe'a homeless million and a quarter human being...

...The allegation being made by the propagandists (and some rattlebrained liberala', too) that at the rate the Russians are going in their scientific research they are probably close to the secret already...

...By Max U. Danish THE entrance of beetle-browed John L. Lewis on behalf of the mine foremen into the perturbed industrial aren* has sprayed a dash of indigo blue over the jittery tempers of the country's mind-readers and mind-formers...

...That the British Labor Party it democratic is shown by th* harsh criti-risms of Attlee made by the Trade Unio* • ongi ess, especially on his speech abtat demobilization...

...From here on out, the tough-talking Russians are going to hear much tougher talk themselves...

...But on the whole, the labor movement, with at least 12,000,000 members in its fold, stands there strong and conscious of its power and ready to defend its positions...

...I can report that authoritative quarters give that argument the black eye...

...And after years of the pressure of prison life the bravest political prisoners sometimes gave way...

...He wants sustained high levels of production aad employmeat at goad productive wages, in an atmosphere of industrial peace at home and world peace abroad because he figures that means a beneficial economic circle instead of the vicious circles of the past...

...Even Brett's mother knows his place: black is black, she reminds him, and white is white...

...The militant spirit which labor is displaying at this moment should not hurt its position during tha forthcoming discussions...

...Capital Comment Intfansigeancc, has never been more unpopular ? u/official circles in Washington than it is right now...

...The factors that may influence the future stages of reconversion are given as variable...

...FAMILIES NEED $ I AN-HOUR PAY WASHINGTON (LPA).—Workers need a wage of at least $1 an hour, for a standard 40-hour work week, all year round, to "break even" on current expenses, is the conclusion of the Department of Labor, which has done many studies on family budgets...

...Brett Charles, a war hero, who has eaten dinner at English tables, has been blessed as a saviour by Italian peasants, comes home to a land little changed, in the deep South...

...What effect, if any, the present tense labor atmosphere is likely to have on the President's labor-management conference scheduled for November 5, is rather difficult to forecast There arc those who are inclined to think that the tension, even if considerably subsided by the time the parleys get under way, will interfere materially with the success of that conference...

...the locked - out Ford men and the Kel-sey Hayes wheel makers in Detroit back at their jobs after seven weeks: the rail expressmen calling off their strike pending arbitration—a return to accepted labor-employer practices of prewar days is clearly indicated...

...But the longer the war lasted, the mere our antagonism tended to disappear...

...The social grades in the camps were sharply marked...

...It is quite obvious, nevertheless, that the half dozen of spot •Hikes end pre strike moves which have oceured in some basic and not-so-baslc industries would have caused hardly more than paaaing comment four or five years ago...

...The SS men stood above tbe law, and they stole everything in sight that had tbe slightest value...

...It was, apparently, thought out first...

...3) Chaconne by Bach, for violin alone...

...drama in the play, with a swiftly moving story, as the taste of freedom and equality the Negro has had is galled by the folk he finds at home...

...The reassuring element in the changed situation is evidenced in the discernible switch from the picket line to the arbitration table...

...Attlee and Stalin which now appears leas lately...

...In that address Secretary Byrnes completely confirmed the prediction in this column on Sept...

...it is the first drama of the season to command more than a moment's thought...

...After this long tale of cruelty, I can refer to what waa the only beautiful feature of life in these csmps, the solidarity among the prisoners...

...What the conference may be expected to realize is a modus operandi that would keep labor disputes down to a minimum and from turning into wasteful strikes...

...How great was oar souse of solidarity is indicated by the fact that we not only listened to foreign radio broadcasts but thst, under the very eyes of the SS guards, we built a radio transmitter of our own...

...Appeasement, as a method of dealirg with Russian Prophets of Doom Is the Strike Wave Retarding Reconversion...

...have gone out to all American offi rials dealing with Russian reprasentatives or wrestling with questions involving- Kussisn interest* that the new order is: "No more concessions...

...J. T. S. In Concentration Camps great extent in charge of the adnatalatra-tioB...

...At the h'nllon Theatre...

...Down there, where "damn Yankee" is still one word, Brett finds the old Colonel still bossy, though afraid of these black men who have come back—as he puts it—"reeking with rebellion...

...No less annoying to these publicists is the fact that the New Deal, which they have helped to kick around, abuse and belittle so ardently for nearly a decade, .still stands there, embodied best in the "Wagnerian cycle" of labor and social legislation, with the Labor Relations Art, their pet aversion, still intact...

...They controlled barracks or cell blacks and managed the reception and release oi the inmates...

...This idyll of labor lying meekly down and accepting quietly a deflation of their living standards bas now been rudely shattered by the quick reaction of the unions in several industrial centers which were among the first to strike, which, in a prophetic sort of way, epitomizes labor'a determination not to take it on the chin without slamming back, has come to some of our moulders of public opinion as a shock and a disappointment which they are now trying to magnify as a factor that is likely seriously to interfere with reconversion...

...Italy and Scandinavia...

...He has accepted the idea that unions are here to etay aad so is a good part of the New Deal, la fact, although he would net admit it pub , Ikiy ia many cases, he has accepted a goad part of the New Deal philosophy...

...If such men could be led to commit cruelties against fellow prisoners, they would soon be taken into the brother hood of the persecutors...

...The reaaon is simple...

...Families with incomes of less than $1,960 in most cases went into debt in 1944, the government studies show...

...Thus this week becomse historic for a new departure in American foreign policy...

...But that surface picture in the Russian tone ia materially affected by the fact that the Russians have no Jewish problem in their zone because the Jews refuse to stay there...

...This quick «hange f ? om( wartime practices to peacetime labor lac-tics is palpably unnerving some of the gentlemen of the press and radio who had somehow figured out that the self-imposed wail line restrictions would be Continued by the unions at least during the early postwar stages, regardless of slashed earnings, climbing cost* and even attempts by some anti-labor moguls to crush the trade unions...

...On the whole, it may honestly be said that their howling of "Beware, labor is coming," is chiefly a product of hardened personal attitudes...

...Tough language, ain't it...

...Industrial Union Council for a John W. Yates PoRt...

...Ever timely, the authors of the striking "Tomorrow the World," which anticipated the problem of re-educating the young Nazis, have turned, in "Deep Are the Rooots," to what our world holds for the Negro back from the war...

...Not even Assembly Centers...

...The plsy has power...

...disturbed, her fear and consequent hate come through...

...DUFFY'S TAVERN" STATS AT PARAMOUNT The combination of "Duffy's Tavern" on the screen and The Andrews Sisters in person continues at the New York Paramount Theatre for a sixth straight week...

...Duffy's Tavern" features Ed Gsrdner and most of the starts on the Paramount lot...

...Most of these persons are in England, France, Germany...

...Almost with unanimity, the Jewa have left the Russian cone for the American, British and zones...

...The sounder judgment, however, lies with those who adopt the realistic view that the forthcoming parleys sre not going to result in abolition of strikes or produce a cure-all for industry-labor disputes...

...They are now called Assembly Centers...

...The BLA survey also found that clothing prlZ have been hiked 46 percent, house nishlnga 45 percent, fuel, electricity and ire 15 percent, and miscellaneous item, 21 percent...

...The propaganda campaign to get the United States to share the atom bomb's secret with Russia has attempted childishly to make Truman appear ailly in "trying to keep a secret that cannot be kept...

...three cities will require a three-month period to fully re-in vert...

...And that's the point on which the issue now will be joined...

...But when the economic surface is in a ripple* the appearance of John L. in the headlines is viewed as nothing short of a Texas cyclone...

...With the oil strikers returning to wort, under Navy auspices for the time being...

...Whatever doubts remained, however, were dually •wept aside by publication Wednesday of Army Chief of Staff Gen...

...following the Byrnes report came the authoritative announcement from President Trumen that the United States intends ot keep the atomic bomb secret to itself tor the present...

...Is this »Vi in genuine...

...At the same tune, Krank points out, the Legion boasts that a Franklin I...

...We actually constituted a aew international...

...Since we were all convinced from th* outset that Hitler would tall, our debates centered on the rtorganiaztion of Germany...

...twenty, among them the largest i ? the country—inctlid-ing Buffalo, Youn.-stown, Dayton, Birmingham, Klint, Pontiac, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Houston and San Francisco—may require a full six months to retool and start full speed at work again...

...The Colonel's (ex-Senator) elder daughter is the same condescending, helpful soul—so long as she is allowed to dictate Brett's future...

...Industry, the country over, is moving ahead with retooling and re-planning for civilian production with greater speed than it moved in 1940 and 1941 to meet the oncoming needs of the war...

...Rus-sian drmand« for equal participation with the I aitee" States in control of conquered Japan...

...The tignifieant thing, neverthele**, is that the rtport of the CSD make* no reference to the current sporadic itriket e* a retarding element in reconversion...

...The day the San Francisco Conference openeii the yearning of the American people for a real working •«»»tue of nations reached its highest peak...

...One may accept Russel Porter's evaluation of the typical business man of today with a grain of salt, but it certainly is leagues away from the belligerent silhouette which his colleagues on the same paper are crayoning for their reading public...

...Thus the week's events in Washington and elsewhere pointed a certain continuity and unanimity of direction, and supported the quiet adoption of a new foreign policy...

...The first crack in that fragile eggahell came almost %>mediately after when Foreign Commissar Molotov insultingly and bullyingly refuaed to permit Secretary ·» State StettiniuH to have Ihs honor of being the host if his own home Und insisted on having hi* own way Wen in so small a matter as that...

...And in the present state of the deterioration of relations between the United States and Russia, there is the strongest antipathy here to helping Russia develop its industrial resources...

...With some except Ion a, of course, he is not out I« smash the unions or break dew* wage ¦rale...

...The allegation that labor's initial steps lo safeguard its elementary Irving requirements by demanding a wage that muld cope with the high-price home budgets of 1946, does not square with reality...

...The 31 percent estimate by ? LS, walk, an Improvement on their previous figdrss, does hot Meet the 84 percent reveal*) by ? Joint AFL-CIO study reported t» th* late President Roosevelt Uaias economists, concerned with the w aft freexe that limita pay increases U U percent above rates of January 1941, declare that living costs have actual* risen more than'45 percent...

...The Jews, who were being sent eastward to be deatroyed, were robbed of clothes, jewelry, money...

...A meek and docile front in face of the uncertainties and perils of the postwar days could earn precious little at this hour for organized labor in this country...

...This news should not come as a surprise to readeia of The Ntw Leader, The development of a new "hard-boiled" American policy was accurately projected in this column one week ago when it was reported hare that: "Add to 'death and taxes' one more certainty Jf...

...Marshall's report in which he warned against disarming the United States and warned that We must refuse to depend on the United Nations Organisation to keep the peace, until it has proven it can do so...

...Washington this wee* wa»/'het" with, foreign news...

...Deep Problems Rouse in "Deep Are the Roots" MISCHA ELM AN AT CARNEGIE HALL OCTOBER 24 Assisted by Leopold ? in man at the Piano...

...On the loweat level were the Jews...

...hmm/km workers' living costs have Jumped »i percent since 1939 and food costs tew increased ? percent, the Burtm*Jj| ?? bor Stat ieties has disclosed...

...The guards suspected what waa going on, but they could do nothing to prevent iL ?o We were able to stand on the defensive until the Allied srmies arrived and we were liberated...

...But Brett—shocked through several crises—learns that he must labor with his people, and stays...

...Prophets of Doom Hardly so, if we are to believe business and industry reports which are, curiously enough, bring recorded in neighboring columns of the same newspapers which i t...

...loan from the United States...

...There are no longer any concentration camps in the Russian zone...

...In many cities th* food cost Inereas* went well over the ? percent mast Washington, D. C, experienced a «Vklt cent rise in food prices and a (4 perresi increase in clothing prices...

...SS-merr thus trained and promoted from among the prisoners often became the most cruel of prison guard* snd most hated by their former comrades...

...Staged by Elia Kazan...

...What disturbs most the high apostles of balanced budgets and untouchable free enterprise of the Arthur ? rock, Mark Sullivan, David Lawrence school of industrial philosophy ia perhaps the irksome fact that the trade union movement appears not only to have survived the period of "underground" existence during the war when strikes were taboo, wages frozen by law, and every form of labor militancy subordinated to the major demands of the war effort, but has come out of its corner ready to fight for a proper spot in this brave new postwar world we have just now entered...

...LI VI...

...The most satisfying time* were when prisoners from other countries of Europe wer« gathered in our camp...

...This arrangement facilitated the development of underground move merits...

...then characters were made to fit the thesis—especially the old Senator and the supercilious writer from the North...

...Set by Hoviard Bay...

...U is reported that Europe will have no fuel for heat, no food and inadequate shelter...

...Rusoiaa negotiation* for a lfc.0oe.0O...

...At the very top stood the native Germane...

...In fact, she wakes to realize that she loves him, is ready to go North, and become his wife...

...It is reported ss having a therapeutic value for .-ballrml spirits...

...But its disadvantage far over -balanced this single good point...

...The view now being taken here is that a swaggering, swashbuckling imperialistic Russia is a threat to the peace of the world and that we must not repeat the mistake we made with Japan in helping arm her for the destruction of Pearl Harbor...

...The real secret concerns the industrial process by which the bomb is manufactured and the industrial resource* which are required to make it possible...

...American labor feels free again to deal with employers directly across the table or, in rase of deadlock, to employ its inherent tight to cease work...

...What happened to the ousted Germans is not officially known, but it is believed they have been taken to Russia as slave laborers...