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APRIL 14, 1947 “Federalization of education,” said Frank B. Keefe (R, Wis.) in the House debate, “was adopted in England. That's how they got a Socialist government.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics suf- fered a 60-percent cut in funds in the House. “I ask you,” said Keefe, “aren't you getting a little tired of statistics?” The BLS statistics are widely used by wage negotiations; they are, in fact, in- , dispensable for collective bargaining and , ~ f0 substitute is available from any pri- vate agency. . HEN the House debated funds for the US Conciliation Service, the _. homicidal atmosphere on the floor _ changed to one suitable only to a lynch- ing bee. Representative Keefe does not like Edgar L. Warren, director of the service, and the House voted to cut out salaries for Warren and 101 other Con- ciliation Service employees in order to ” force Warren's ouster. The Conciliation Service is the only federal agency now engaged in efforts to reduce industrial conflict. President in November, 1945, unanimously recom- SB fet"mended expansion of conciliation func- tions, and Warren's administration has been in line with this recommendation. Warren was charged with Communist sympathies by Representative Keefe. His “communism” consisted of prewar mem- ; bership in a codperative Washington * bookshop and the American League Against War and Fascism. The House committee did not even attempt to show that Warren followed the Communist Party line wanderings of the League after the Hitler-Stalin pact; testimony showed, in fact, that he had no connec- tion with “front” groups under such circumstances. But the House, laughing _and cheering at Keefe’s sallies, uttered qi under congressional immunity, voted to knock out his job. Senate Republicans, to their credit, show signs of developing a strong aversion to pure smear tactics. Upon the Senate’s general attitude to- ward the NLRB and Labor Department appropriations, however, depends the answer to the real question—whether, after Congress finishes, there will be any federal labor functions worthy of the ‘WILLARD SHELTON labor and management in day-to-day Truman’s labor-management conference . > “pha 2S ce The Bandwagon Open-Door Policy (assist by camel) SENATOR KNOWLAND: . . . I should like to ask the distinguished Senator from Texas if this one instance is allowed, will it become a case of the camel get- ting his nose in under the tent, and thus open the door to a whole field of similar requests? — Fron: the Congressional Rec- ord, Straw in the Wind Alvord & Alvord—Tax matters, $36,- 327.85. Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel— Anti-trust matters, $33,000.00. Fish, Richardson & Neave—Patent _ and anti-trust matters, $229,979.70. 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Available at all bookstores © $2.50 A.A.WYN, Inc. « NEW YORK American Century a-Coming Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of Life magazine, presented a colossal and heart- warming pictorial sales talk on the strength, beauty and potentials of this country and people—'The New Amer- ica.” On a screen 40 feet wide and 12 feet high, a succession of colored still photographs—marvelously synchronized on five panels—were thrown, while an impressive narrator and symphonic music helped to impress the theme of an illimitable national futuce. The bear- ing on the foreign-policy issue was oblique, but many felt that it was there. ~ Arthur Krock in the New York Times. A Little Child Shall Lead Them Fear that “Communists” might flock in among the orphan adoptees [Euro- pean war orphans permitted to enter the US] was expressed by Representatives Leonard R. Dickinson, Bemidji, and John J. 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