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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951
No Solution in Sight in Manpower Fight
ThinkingNot Wanted Here...
FTFTY-SECOND Conference of the Texas
* Society, Daughters of the American Rev
olution, March 10, 1951.
President: Dahlings, let’s call this meeting
to order. We have some very, very im
portant business. Girls, we must never
forget the glorious opportunity and tre
mendous obligation given us by the nine
teenth amendment.
Mrs. Smythe-Jones: Madame President, your
new hat is positively stunning. Did you get
it at a bargain sale?
President: Thanks, Mrs. Smythe. It’s just a
little trifle I picked up at Neiman-Marcus
for $150. But as I said we have business
to attend to. I feel that we should write
some of our public servants and tell them
how we feel about that horrible United
Nations.
Mrs. Lamebrain: Madame President, some
one told me that they even allow foreign
ers in that filthy organization. Are we, as
real red-blooded Americans, going to let
such an organization flourish in this
country?
Mrs. Phew: No, we must not. If we don’t
watch out, the Loyalist Tories will be run
ning our government.
President: I have here a telegram which we
should send to our governor, Speaker of
the House, and President of the Senate:
“The Texas DAR State Conference of
delegates representing six thousand mem
bers request the State Legislature to vote
against and oppose all bills favoring an
Atlantic Union and any form of a world
government.”
Let’s vote whether we should send it.
(At this time, rich old Mrs. Gothedough en
ters; welcoming greetings and flattering
exclamations about her new dress are
heard from all the members.)
President: The ayes have it. We will send
the telegrams.
Handwriting on Siberian Walls .
W/HILE AMERICANS can remain some-
” what detached, Europeans are living in
fear of Russia’s ever increasing power. There
is good reason for this fear if we assume
that Russia has designs upon the rest of the
continent. Unless their methods have chang
ed, the Russians could not be counted upon
to preserve the autonomy of each invaded
country.
Indeed, these countries fear that their
intellectuals would be killed, the able bodied
men sent to Siberia, and their countries re
populated by Russians. If this were to take
place, rescue would be absolutely fruitless.
Even now there are thousands of German
prisoners that Stalin does not account for
in accordance with law and decency.
This re-affirms a view we have long held
—the primary problem is the defense of
Western Europe. A limit on the number of
divisions that we can send to Europe would
have severe consequences that we can ill
afford. To leave the door wide open would
be an invitation to Russia to make a quick
grab with a high probability of success.
We cannot help entertaining suspicions
about what lies behind the iron curtain. For
the time being, Those who have had a good
look apparently can’t manage to get a round
trip ticket, or maybe Russian trains just
run one way.
In any case the farsighted Europeans
can stand right where they are and read the
handwriting on Siberian walls.
Highly Vulnerable
US Concentration of Vital
Headquarters is Dangerous
By ELTON C. FAY
AP Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON, March 15—(A>>—
” The military, which preaches
the merit of dispersion to private
industry, is continuing to concen
trate some of its most vital pro
jects in a single, apmparatively
small area of the country.
The state of Maryland and the
District of Columbia at its South
west corner, provide a highly pro
fitable target for any enemy bomb
er or airborne troop attack.
There exists within a few easy
flying minutes, a complex of mil
itary research centers, command
headquarters and airfields.
The Defense Department is add
ing to those prioi’ity targets a
new one of equal value, a wartime
“second Pentagon” for use should
Washington come under attack or
immediate danger of attack.
It has chosen as the site for
this alternate national command
post Camp Ritchie, in Western
Maryland North of Washington.
The camp was used until recently
by the Maryland National Guard.
The location of that emergency mil
itary headquarters, with under
ground quarters and communica
tion facilities, is Within relatively
short distance of another primary
target, Camp Detrick.
Situated on the outskirts of
Frederick, Md., Camp Detrick is
the center of the military’s germ
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warfare production effort.
Fifteen minutes away from the
modern fast bomber ls Aberdeen,
heart of the Army’s ordnance re
search and development work and
its chief proving ground. At Balti
more (where 2nd Army headquar
ters also is located) is the center
for the Army’s counter intelli
gence corps, the agency which
seeks to ferret out and prevent sab
otage and espionage.
Washington and the immediate
vicinity would be an enemy bomb
ardier’s dream, even if it did not
have the White House and seat
of government.
Here, over the years, concen
trated such top priority targets
as the Pentagon (the whole mili
tary high command and all its
operating staff in one building);
headquarters of the Atomic
Energy Commission (a civilian
agency with a military mission);
the Bureau of Standards which
specialize in precision instru
ment development needed for
weapons; a Naval gun factory,
and three military air fields, two
of them adjoining.
Moreover, the Maryland-District
of Columbia concentration is close
to the Atlantic Seaboard. There
have been broad hints that inter-
jnediate range guided missiles,
capable of launching from sub
marines or surface ships, are a
reality or close to it.
While almost all these installa
tions and centers were started in
the days before the electronic era,
most of them now would be simple
for radar-equipped enemy bomb
ers to find at night or in the
stormiest weather.
Aberdeen, Baltimore, Washing
ton aj:e located on rivers or bays.
Of all natural landmarks, these
are the easiest for a radar to
locate. The delineation of a bay or
river or coastline or a radar scope
conforms exactly to the picture
presented on a map. No bombard
ier or pilot can* mistake, it. When
long range, target-seeking guided
missiles are ready, this could help
them “home in” on the final phase
of their flight.
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By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, March 15—(A>)_
’ Labor leaders are in a running
fight with Charles E. Wilson, big
boss of the defense program, over
several things. One of them is the
handling of manpower.
There’s no shortage of workers
for defense plants now but there
may be in another nine months
when defense production really is
rolling. It will mean getting work
ers for jobs, training them, maybe
even shifting them around.
If the problem gets serious the
government will face this choice:
trying to work it out through the
voluntary cooperation of labor and
management or slapping on gov
ernment controls, telling workers
and employers what to do.
Labor Likes Volunteering
Labor leaders want the volun
tary method. In their fight with
Wilson they are looking forward
to the long-range problem and
the steps which the government
may take, or want to take, to fill
manpower needs.
And the labor leaders want some
say-so in what’s done. But as time
passes this whole squabble tends
to get lost in a fog of words. This
is a brief attempt to explain what’s
happened and what the situation
is now.
On Sept. 9, 1950 President Tru
man issued a general order to get
the defense program going. He as
signed various jobs to government
officials. One of these was secre
tary of Labor Tobin.
He told Tobin to do what he
could to meet manpower needs
which would arise, including the
making of plans and policies. The
word “policies” is important in all
this. It really means deciding what
shall be done and how.
And Tobin appointed Robert C.
Goodwin, a Labor Department of
ficial, to run the job of setting up
a program that would help get
men where they were needed in
defense plants and all the mil
lions of details connected with
such a job.
Pleases Labor
In addition, Tobin did something
else which pleased labor very much.
He set up an advisory committee
composed of representatives of lab
or and management. Actually, this
would amount to a policy commit
tee.
Goodwin, knowing the manpower
problem everywhere, would decide
what steps he tought should he
taken to solve these problems. He’d
recommend what he thought should
be done to the Tobin labor-man
agement committee.
It would approve or disapprove
and so advise Tobin. Whatever it
decided would be pretty much the
government policy on . manpower
since Tobin could be expected to
follow the views of his own labor-
management committee.
Authority Argued
But the people in Wilson’s office
say Tobin could set policy only
in so far as the work of his own
labor department’s activities in
manpower were concerned but lack
ed any authority to detei’mine man
power policies for the whole gov
ernment and all the country. Why?
You’ll have to go back for a
moment. On Dec. 16 President
Truman appointed Wilson as sup
reme boss of the whole defense
program. This was a little more
than three months after he had
had told Tobin to handle manpower.
Wilson Over Tobin
In his Dec. 16 order, setting up
Wilson’s job, Mr., Truman told the
latter he would control the whole
defense effort, including manpower
problems. This cleai’ly made Wilson
boss over Tobin where manpower
is concerned.
So Tobin who was made—or
seemed to be made—manpower boss
by one presidential order on Sept.
9 lost the power to Wilson by an
other presidential order on Dec.
16.
But everything rocked along un
til Feb. 9 when Wilson forcefully
stepped into the manpower picture
by- setting up, inside his own of
fice, a manpower committee of his
own. There were no labor-man
agement people on it.
Member Restricted
Instead, its membership was
strictly limited to representatives
of government departments or
agencies which have a deep inter
est in manpower. This committee
included:
A representative of the Defense
Department, of Selective Service,
of the Agriculture Department
(farm workers) and the Civil Ser
vice Commission (government
workers). And Wilson said a re
presentative of Tobin’s Labor De
partment would be on his. commit
tee.
This changed the picture around
a hit. Under Tobin’s arrangement,
this is what would happen: Good
win would make a recommendation
to the labor-management commit
tee which in turn would make a
recommendation (really a policy)
to Tobin who’d put the policy into
effect.
But under the Wilson arrange
ment, this would happen: Tobin’s
outfit could make policy in what
ever activities concerned the Labor
Department but when the whole
country and the government were
involved then—■
The big policy decisions would
be made by Wilson’s committee
which, in the end, would mean
Wilson since he’d have final say
as top boss. The labor people com
plained this made them too remote
from a final policy decision.
This is why: Goodwin would
recommend to them; they’d recom
mend to Tobin; Tobin would have
to content himself with' express
ing his views to Wilson’s commit
tee through his representative on committee could decide on a con- on Wilson’s committee. But it He asked labor to name someone
that committee; the Wilson com- trary policy; and Wilson could complained there is not even one to work with him. Labor hasn’t
mittee through his representative charge that. representative on Wilson’s own done so yet. And there the whole
on that committee; the Wilson Labor isn’t demanding a place personal staff of top labor people, case stands.
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