. T. 1 ST IKES (N ' L te t i s v nin, resident Truman evo ed t e Taft-Bartley Act to r e vent a nation- ide trike - among a hundred thousand C. I. 0. pac in · house ·orkers. The me~eatenin to quit tonight at mid- i ht. 1'ut the /\ / President has •••k■ ix appointed a fact finding committee ,o look into the situation. Mti/fe has sent · telegra■ s to the employers and the unions ur in them to continu~ .. ne~otiations pen ing a report by bis fact finding board. News fram Chicago is that the "Big Four~ of the meat packing eaployers have consented to the President's sug estion, and will make all pos ible in orm ~ ion available to members of the board. On th e men's side, the National Community Organization, which will direct the alk-out 1 i£ the UnLons are b rred by the Taft-Bartley law, is meeting late tonight to con i er#the situation. L. T 2. 1 ~ - A c . ~ °""< c.J2Q.;: - 3: - Thi s NatioaaTommunity Or g a n i s a t i o n ~ ~ · not • ~ 0 subJect to labor laws,Arepresents some ei h ty- thous a nd,p ac in 6 h ouse orkers. the \ae fae, Ii.all iag ae■ nit,t.N goes t.1 work.. Under the le11t ~ ~ , t h e Unions do not h 0 ave to abide by the President's request. The men c a n strike until April first w ' thout violatin g the law - an d th e latest from Chicago is that the walk-out may take place to-night in spit e of the President' last minute ef orts. L. T. 3 An ith the hint of Sprin in the air - the snow aeltin fast, robins, orioles a n d tanagers bursting into song \ain, there is the threat of another strike. ~ This morning at eleven o'clock a hundred and ten thousand of John L. Lewis's soft coal miners stayed away from the mines. Three hours later the number bad gone up to a hundred and sixty thousand --- in nine s1at.es. By the aiddle of the afternoon fifty percent of the soft ■■ta coal men in the entire country were out - and aore are expected t follow thea. John L. Lewis contends that the aine owners have ceaaitted a breao) of cont~act. Be charges they have failed to live up to their pr ■ ise of providing ,■ix pensions f•• for the ainers. If this coal-strike continues it may be onl) a aatter of days until steel plants have to 01·ose - closin g _ at a critical ti ■e. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, Girar Davidson. Assistant Secretary of the Interior says that he expects the r a nk L. T. 4 and file of the United ine orkers will force John L. Lewis to call off bis strike. •1t costs too much to li•e• says Davidson •The miners do~'t have t e money to keep away from their jobs.• nder tne ~ n Washington, 1:ntd&dliltf,• a Federal district Jude• today ruled against the Taft-Bartley law - at least he sax ruled against th e clause which forbids unions to spend aoeny on p - litics. •unconstitutional• said Judge Benjamin Moors) This from the learned judge in a ■uch discussed test case in which C.I.O. President Phil Murray invited prosecution. Dismissing the ch ar g~s, I L.T.' Donor Bis~••"-the judge asked~~Bow are people to get information concerning the views of Labor men and wo ■en if their organization is forbidden to publish anJ news whatsoever?•) 1OYALTY President Truman today o enly offered battle to Congress on an issue that has been bothering the Capitol Hill la makers for some weeks. The issue is, can the President of the 0nited ~tates,and executive departments and agencies of the Federal government, refuse informati which Congress asks for? As a matter of fact, this problem is almost as old as the Republic. Recently it came to · a focus again because of that Committee -on-OnAaerican-Activitiea attack on Dr. S~a:n4ar4 Edward Condon, Director of the Rational Bureau of ftn■ta 0h• DnA■erican Acti•itiea Co■■ittee demanded a loot at certain files of the Department of Commerce. Secretary Harriman said No. Today the President stepped into the argument, with a formal order to officials of the Executive Bra ch of our Fede~al Government to ignore s,bpoenas from Congressional Committees -- s~bpoena~ a s king for repo s on loyalties of employees.) said The efficient investigation of e p loye Ir. - · =------ Truman, makes it neces · ar y for reports, records and files to be strictly c o nfidentail. Tis i neces ar in the interest of nati nal security, he went o n , neces sa ry in order to preserve the confidential character and sources of information furnished, necessary to protect goverhment personnel against the disseminati o n of unfounded or disproved charges; also necess ry in the interest of fairness and justice. Mr. Truman then orders that all subpo•nas or deaands from Congress be referred to hi ■, before an1 governme~t emplo7ee gives information to Congress. effersou / of his / p oduce do7~nts o r o e ~ , / President Andrew a c~ on 1 so too e me t nd. T · q ue ti n ; ~ tr u ed me muc : of late, as it as m ny ot ers, so oday I go in tuuc with an old friend, lrofessor Y. r . Cur · in of rinceton, ackno ledged to be our foremost livin aut i ority on American Constitutional ua. It turned ou that r. Corwin, naturally, the question. s b e e n l' i Ii l. i n a ~re a ea about Be told me it was one of those unsettled · points th t never has been satisfactorily adjudicated. Be pointed out that, on the on~ nd, the~e is ·the power of Congress to investigate and illuminate its judgment. Congress has 2r~~!~g most of . the agencies of the Feder 1 overnment, among em m~e Department of Commerce. o, those agencies are t e creatu es of Congress, subject to on re In re ect em, said Profe or Corwin of rinee on, e ou s pow rs of Congre s re re we u i m it.e . e i i t 1 0 a ct t I - e - r ee . e Presi d e n t n t h e he d s 0 d e r m e n ' S - l Ca bi n et ini s ter s £O !!f !.g~ !~..;; re at i on i e x i ts . T a t That m a tter c m e u p be fo re non e o t er t . an Chief J ustice John ars h al J:. in t J e f m ou c - ~ , e o oft en he a r about; Marbury versus , a d1son. In t a t. ru l in g , J o h n _ ar sh a l l decided that a confide n tia l re ations . i exits between the Secret a ry of State an t e r re s i en t , an d that therefore information invo · vin g t , a confidential relationship did not have to be d ivu l g ed even to the Supreme Court. On t h e other h and, the D e p art•ent o f Commerce, said he, is pure l y an a g ency of Con . 6 ress; -i\e 13eweN11 Dr. Corwin point s out · t h at since a , s l on g a o as S even tee Nin~ty-three, a c ~ nfide n tial r e l t ions h i p h as rown up between t e Preside n t an d is Cabinet . Tl ere fo re t h e relationshi p is extra-consti t u t i na , e xt r a e a , as he termed it. evert e ess. if a c ommi ee of Con ress wants to obtain documents from Secretary Harriman and be refuses to respond, be will be in contempt. of the co , inmittee, wb i-ch i l l refer it. to t e . Congress as a who _ e, thus putting im in contempt of Congress. hereupon the next step wou~d be for the United States Attorney of the D istrict of Columbia to prosecute the Secretary of Commerce ro,. misdemeanor under the LOYALTY - 6 Professor Corwin also told me he thought there waa another phase or this issue which should be made clear. In d1■c1plinary powers over the entire federal eatab11ahllent an4 1ta •ployeea. That iaplies also a protectt•e power, the FOREIGR A Stat · epartment today issued a .-aur=a:11111 t:n1tal warning to the people of Italy. ~ 2iR IHII'-, I\ if the Communists win t.he elections on April Eighteenth, ao:;m~ aa;iuf "\ more help from Uncle sa{ Mike Mc Deraott, spoke11J . 1a11 .. 1 tor the State Department, aa:td that the Connuntsts 1n Italy -t{J- 11\;b . have amounced they •••·t want~ part ot the European A A Jl!'covery Program. Re also expressed tbe belief of tbe State Depa;rtaent that the splr1t and the feeling ot the ltlltan people indicates that the Connun1sta will not win. II Secretary Marshall today spent ecae tille with tbe l'oreign Relations Comt:ttee ot the Senate in a closed ■eeting, urgJ.ng quick action on the Pre1ident 1 s request tor another two-hundred-e.nd-seventy-tive •1!11ona tor military help to Greece and Turkey. The meeting was behind closed doors and all we lalow 1s that the Secretary aaid the hour is tar more «.. tatetul now than it was . . year ago, because CODlllluntat A regimes have been imposed upon Hungary ~zechoslovak1a ~Y 1nd1m1dat1on, fraud and terror. FOREIGN - 2 &e:t:err: todai, •• l;eaa11d I bat President Truman him.self will appear before ,a a jomt sesaton of the House and Senate Tb at halt-past-twelve on Wednesday,_. give the lawmakers 11■1 I\ new intormation on the foreign situation. Whit he says will be broadcast over this network. COIPEREICE At Paris, a conte~ence of delegates from sixteen nations to discuss the Marshall Plan began 1n the tamoua Clock Room of the French foreign Office on the Qua1 d•Orla1. The conference had been called by Great b1ta1n and Prance • . ~~~ 1f Foreign N1nister Bidault aade a speech ... said that the obJeot I\ ot the meeting waa to establish an econ0111c alliance ot the atxteen countr1ea represented. 'l'be7 propoae to begin bJ , eatabl1ah1ng a penaanent organization ot those 11.xteen countries with headquarters at Par11:«'B1dault and lll'1t1ah Pon1p S 8 cretar, Bevan hope to include t1Ye other countrlea 1n the t1Ye-power treat7 to be signed at Bruaaela on VedneaclaJ, tbl • treaty U'l'UIPd laat weet between Great Britain, Prance, the letherlanda, MJX•bourg and Belgiua. The other countries a to be brought 1n: . . . SW.den, lorway, Del'IIU'k, Portugal and, 1t is also hoped, Italy. PALESTIIE (A truce 1n the battle of Palestine - that is the ho ot Uncle Saa, france and China. The three goverraenta made a fonaal request to the Arabs and Jews 1n the Holy Land to talce a rest from bloodshed and give the big powers a chance to arr1ve at a settlement ot that tragic queat1o1/Sov1et Raaa1 toot no part 1n th1a requeat;but~Grollylco raised no objection. - ·-·- 'l'be foreign conaula 1n Jerusalem held an -rpnaJ ••tinl todaJ and YOted to protest to the Arab COWltM.el -/JG,.,_~ ap1Dllt the wnn~r 1n llhich~'- Araba have been vlolat~ ,_ ,, ' """ OYer the weekend, hoat111t1ea all At as the Bol.J Lad cauaed the death ot seventy-two Arabs and twelve Jewa. iRITAIM British Prime Minister Clement Attlee made a fairly startling announcement in the Bouse of Common• today. One that is sure to bring wrathful words fro ■ Moscow. Bis ajesty's Labor Qovernaent intends to throw ~ from government jobs. 1- out all known Communists -- Thia aus t be done, said the Prime Minister, to prevent soae foreign power froa obtaining access to British Goveraaent secrets. Be went on to tell how at present there is no way lf of knowing Just which ■ embers of the British Coaaunist Party would be loyal to Britain, if there ••r• a crisis. Be wants to eliminate the possibility of anyone doing anything in the interest . of another power. In· Britons other words, he wants to make it difficult for'l_tz to play the · 'l_•t•x* ■xz■t role of traitor. And he reminded the Commons of the behavior of the British Communist Party before Bitler attacked Russia just as thr beh a ved over here. The importance of all this is emphasized by the fact that the Prime Minister himself s tood up froa BRITAIN - 2 - the Treasury bench to make the announcement. It was a rather storm7 affair -- with many interruptions fro ■ Coaaunist aeabers and Left ling Laboritea. One Red M.P. eTen started to sing the Red anthem, until the others shouted hia down. Attlee explained that the Cabtnet is forced to take thla step aiaply as a aatter o~ goTernment aeourit7, proteetion againat traitors; no politic• about it. And, be said the saae precaution• will be taken with regard ...a~vernaent to~•••••••••* eaployees known \o be active Fasciata. JIBYERS NaJor General Bennett E. Meyera drove to the cou,rt-house 11Jilous1ne this moming. · ~t--1~MS).1--14tn~r1e1~-'1.li1e he let~ 1n a patrol wagon ,.~1i-w, with handcutfe on his wrists, • we ol 111, .. 112 Ira h1111if -G« Untted State■ larshala as escort. A. A• he stood up to race the Judge, hla demeanor••• nonchalant, even Jaunty. His lawyers had made a plea tor a new trlel. The Judie dented it and pomted to the tact that lle1er1• counsel had hinted durlDS the trial . that the motive beh11id the charpe against the ex-general were Nvenge and an att•pt at blaclma11. 'nle Juqe said he had aaawaed the 4etenee would otter proor ot those charges and no one was more surprised than the colll't when the detense rested without calling a single W1tnea1. . :t: So, said Bia Honor, he would pronounce sentence at CIIICe. Under the law of the District of Columbia, he could have sent the tormer MaJor General to thirty years imprisonment. But since the offense with which he was charged was co111111tted before a federal body, meaning a committe~ ot Congress, the penalty • tUtDS - 2 would be less severe . ...(_.$aid the Judge: "Bennett E. Meyel'I, 1t 1a the sentence or this court that you shall be 1.llpr1soned 1n an institution for a period of twenty-months to five 7ears." ' The court then refused a 1 •• to give.I---& :Ms□•• ~ - ~ to file Illa appeal. " TAXEI Today h as been a day of headaches for mo ■t of us - tigu~ing out our income tax and tryin to get under the tape for the last minute rush. All overt e nation - considerable ingenuity exerwised as to what is, and bai ls not deduct1,1e under the heading of expenses. I■ In os Angele• a young woaaa put ?o•n bar tranator■- ation a s a deductible expenae. Tbe internal revenue col• ctor scratched his head, and queried her Ja1t a1 to bat was a traaator. ■ ation. •1h7 that's a •i1• ■ be aai4.•I have a ~ald spot. I have to cover • it for buaiae1a reasons.• The hard-hearted collecter rur'ed against t~e . '-" I yo~ng wo ■ an. His ruling - a wig ■ ay be an overhead expense, but it is not deducti-le under our inco ■e tax laws. !IIG ~ FOLLOW STR!!! The strike fev r, which comes wit Spring, today affected Iing George the Sixth and Q ueen Elizabeth. Their Majesties came close to h a vin t o wash their royal selves in cold water, because the fourteen attendants in the boiler room of Buckingham Pal a ce walked out demanding a half a quid more ten bob more per week. In order to bring their weekly wages up to twenty-two dollars The ling and Queen were a\ Windsor Castle when they heard the strike newa. So, those who felt the effects of the strike were the other lesser help at Buckingham Palace. The help had to w ash and shave in col4 water. lhe strike extended to the Houses of Parliament, and to government office buildings. There was no hot water for tlie bath of the Speaker oft he House of Co !Iona. Also, lesser government employees had to walk