- CT ■ i i Ifmm '' GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY - SUNOCO. MOW. MAY 17. 1957. The oft—announced st.ee! strike is not likely to take ;e this week. The proposed walk-out in the five largest inde- lent steel plants has apparently been postponed. The C. I. 0. raiting for the results of the election in the Jones and Laugh- plant which take place this week. If they win, they will have first closed shop among the larger companies in steel. But the six big independents Bethlehem, Republic, Nat­ al, Inland, Youngstown, and Armeo are not signing agreements ir. Their argument is that the Labor Relations Act only pro- p: i I 1 : for an election under the management of the National Labor in ions Board. Nothin the Act or in the Supreme Court Decision res the signing of an agreement with anyone. They are ready, nold, to obey the law but not to do more than the law requires. It is beyond doubt true that when the United Steel Cor­ poration came to terms with the C.I.O. it was expected that the entire steel industry would fall into line. This did not happen — and it looks as though important units of the steel industry might manage to remain out of line. 5ii ■ ; 1] i RETAKE k<-4 CT . 7 LEAD SOKOLSKY - SUNOCO. MON, ¥ l AY 17. 1987. i The o±t—announced steel strike is not likely to take place this week. The proposed walk-out in the five largest inde­ pendent steel plants has apparently been postponed. The C. I. 0. is waiting for the results of the election in the Jones and Laugh- lin plant which take place this week. If they win, they will have the first closed shop among the larger companies in steel. But the six big independents Bethlehem, Republic, Nat­ ional, Inland, Youngstown, and Armco are not signing agreements so far. Their argument is that the Labor Relations Act only pro­ vides for an election under the management of the National Labor in Relations Board. Nothin the Act or in the Supreme Court Decision requires the signing of an agreement with anyone. They are ready, they hold, to obey the law but not to do more than the law requires. It is beyond doubt true that when the United Steel Cor­ poration came to terms with the C.I.O. it was expected that the entire steel industry would fall into line* ihis did not happen —— and it looks as though important units of tiie steel industry might manage to remain out of line. I 1 ' || 1 I :!? I FILM STRIKE There111 be no strike of screen actors and actresses for the next ten years^ Thatfs one clause In the contract signed today between the Players1 Guild and the movie producers. Outside of that* the principal consequence of tnis agreement is a rise in pay for extras and stand-ins. f’TJ ALBANIA Of all the world's revolutions of the last twenty years, probably the most curious was that short, sharp little affair in Albania. We’ve observed any number of agitations crying* "Votes for women!n But we've never before heard of people being willing to fight with the slogan: "Veils for wgw™ women!" That, it turns out, was the real reason for that rebellion near the Greek frontier. When Kernel Ataturk abolished the fez for men and the veils for women in Turkey, there was grumbling. But not even the most devout of conservative Turk ever thought of fighting about it. So it was not unnatural that tBfc Mpi'u r-PT Altetiicij pnpnl arl#.. known ■ King Zog, should have A followed suit with the complete approval of the Albanian Parliament. In fact, after the Parliament had passed the law, most Albanians took it quietly. The majority of women threw aside their veils even before they had to. Only in two provinces of southern Albania, were the Moslems disgruntled. So a couple of ambitious politicians . a ^ . . pvTrfrfryfrflttrc thou ■ht they saw in this sentiment a chance to upset the government and put themselves in its place. But King Zog's troops made short work of them. And one of the leaders was killed. HIIsIDENBURG r I I: b The disaster which destroyed the HINDEfJBURG was not its first accident. So much was brought out at Lakehurst this afternoon. One witness before the Commerce Departments Board of Inquiry was Hans Freund. He is the only survivor of three of the great dirigible *s riggers. As such it was his province to watch over the gas cells. And Hans Freund told the Board: uYes, we did have an accident, a bad one. It was on a voyage to Rio de Janeiro last year. One of the 1 ill gas valves stuck. Thereupon one of the cells swelled up in dangerous fashion. There was no casualty, and the Germans took warning. They installed a new type of gas valve on the next journey.1' I The American Museum of National History wants ten million dollars to spend in ten years, A drive is being organized to get this money. The money is needed to make more readily available, the results of expeditions to all parts of the earth. I used to see a good deal of Roy.Chapman Andrews, director of the Museum, when he would go off from Peiping to lose himself in the Gobi desert hunting for dinosaurs eggs and bones* Well, I often wondered what anyone wanted with all this stuff, but then I discovered how little we really know in these civilized days. You know, the Chinese used to dig dinosaur bones and the bones of other prehistoric animals out of the desert sands. They called them "dragon's bones," and they used them for medecine. And it did them aoclots of good. Well, when,my wife was getting all ready to have our baby along came the doctor with tablets all fixed and ready which he said would do her good. The tablets were calcium- dragon's bones* ^ObEUM -£~ We can learn lots from deserts and from other parts of the old earth and from lots of things buried deep in the sands of time. That's why I hope the museum will get its ten million dollars — so that it might help us learn these thing s MICHAELSON The Republican Party has some advice from the Democrats* Charles Mlchelson, Director of Publicity for the Democratic National Committee, said that the Republican Party must reconcile itself to the fact that it has no chance for victory in Nineteen Forty. So, he suggests im the G.O.P., should immediately start planning its strategy for Nineteen Forty-Four and Nineteen Forty-Eight. Mlchelson said that he was writing not from the standpoint of propaganda, but merely as a political analyst of some experience. His article in the AMERICAN MAGAZINE advises the Republicans that their first fundamental lack Is discipline. What they need most Is a boss with iron in his soul, one who will command instead of exhort. A Mark Hanna or a Bois Penrose or Matt Quay. As a matter of fact, he has a particular man in mind. Mlchelson suggests Ogden Mills of New York, the former secretary of the Treasury. Mlchelson said that he thinks that Ogden Mills comes nearest to measuring up to the job than anyone else. Mlchelson believes that the Republican Party must return to its traditional conservatism, amputate its progressive arm. He implies that first of all the XS. G.O.P. should drop ___ MICBELSOU - 2 Mr, Land on and Mr. Hamilton. He apparently must find John Hamilton a bit of competition. Michelson feels that after the results of the 1956 campaign the Republican Party must take its stand definitely on one side or the other of the economic fence. The Republicans, he says, cannot go radical. And the party cannot hope to compete in the field of temperate liberalism such as that of the Franklin Roosevelt school. Actually, he said, there is no other place for the party to go than back to the old-time fundamental conservatism. But Republicans feel that what Michelson calls old-time fundamental conservatism is really a struggle in the direction of a restoration of traditional American freedoms. Many Republicans insist that the future of the party is not at all gloomy, not more gloomy than was the future of the Democratic 1 1 i ii H : i: tl 1 I If ’ll Party after Woodrow Wilson left oxfice, A Republicans find a program in Herbert Hoover»s speech during the last campaign in Denver. They say that if Republicans can agree on this program leadership will not be wanting. THEATRE A curious event occurred last night in New York. Actors and actresses assembled at a mass meeting to protest against the Dunnigan Bill wnich would make the New York City Commissi oner of* Licenses, a censor over all plays produced in that city. And for that matter, he would enjoy a censorship that would be nation-wide because most plays start in New York and if they are killed here, they are not likely to survive on the road. time when the struggle between democracy and dictatorship is the great political issue of the age. In Japan, they have a crime which would startle most Americans. That crime is called, "Dangerous thoughts." A man can get into real trouble if he is caught having any "dangerous thoughts." Lots of folks have gone to Jail there for that crime. All over the world Ifve had lots of experience with censorship and I*ve never seen it work yet. When I lived in China, a stiff censorship was clapped on to the press. So a A'K.. GrUmu r form of censor ship a becomes an issue at this lot of smart newspaper boys got out what came to be called "Mo squito Papers." They were called that because nobody could irs THEATRE - 2 catch the editors — here today and gone tomorrow. Those papers published the news. Censorship can only lead to bootlegging. HORVATH Vv'ell, I see old Dmitri Horvath, died. He was seventy—eight years old. I knew him well in Harbin and Peiping. He was over six feet tall, erect and strong — a real soldier. And he enjoyed the longest and fullest beard I have ever seen on any man. Horvath was born in the Gza^s palace in old St. Petersburgh and he remained loyal to the Czar through all the years of revolution and change in Russia. When I first met him, he was the Director of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which Russia and China owned in partnership— China being the silent partner because she had nothing to say in its management. General Horvath governed florth Manchuria Through which the railroad ran as though he owned it — and for that macter, nobody ever thought that he did not own it. In those parts of the world, every government official is a little king and nobody cares. WINDSOR -i The squabble about the Duke of Windsor* s wedding is no longer a secret in England. It!s being openly talked about today m in London* s newspapers* And they openly intimate that there are ditierences between the royal family and the government. Only, ill it isn*t so much Prime Minister Baldwin and his colleagues as the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is opposing the royal family. And, §! of course. His Grace is not, strictly speaking, a member of the governmeht. So far as King George is concerned, he has long been willing to announce his permission for the marriage of his elder brother to Mrs. Warfield. But, in the words of the English papers. there are ^ecclesiastical objections!1 to Mrs. Warfield as a twice divorced lady. Thus, two days after the coronation, the most famous l romance in the world today becomes the principal topic of 1 i 1 conversation in Britain. All the world will know tomorrow just n i when and where Mrs. Warfield will become Duchess of Windsor, in what circumstances and who will be there. The Duke himself will give an audience to the hoards of correspondents, a hundred and seventy of —a, WINDSOR _ 2 them, at Monts, who are on the job at the moment. Presumably we shall also be informed just exactly what will be the title, rank and status of the bride. One of the 'things that interested London today was not in the news columns but among the advertisements. Buried among hundreds of other ads, it read: rM,formerly Bessie Wallis Simpson, have renounced and abandoned my Christian name of Bessie and also have renounced and abandoned my surname of Simpson, and in lieu of such surname I assume the surname of Warfield. $ Signed) Wallis Warfield.11 Mrs. Warfield took this step by what is known as a poll deed, a simple procedure by which English people can go though the formality of officially changing their names without having to take the trouble of going to court as we do. i COURT Tomorrow1s the day in the Supreme Court fight. Either the Senate Judiciary Committee will report against the President's Bill or the President will compromise. It seeras certain that the Bill cannot pass the Senate as the President prepared it. The revolt in Congress is as much against t,Must,! legislation as it is against the "Court Plan." The Senate Is fighting for the right to legislate all on Its own. Democratic Senators are in the lead In this fight, and although It may split the party, it is likely to restore the balance between Congress and ’the President. Win or losejlilis has been a good fight, because it has been fought entirely on the basis of principle — and that is good, healthy American doctrine. M TOfr^^m, STTPRg^E COIT^T ?.e have still to learn what the Supreme Court of the United States thinks about the Social Security Act. Some rulings were handed down in Washington today, but not one of them concerned the question everybody wants to have answeredi "Is that Act constitutional’^11 One of today’s decisions upheld an important Louisi­ ana lav . Ihat was one of the Huey Long statutes which levied license taxes on chain stores. Goodnight**