Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 4

4-IDAHO STATE JOURNAL Friday, November 7, 1958 EDITORIAL For some time, Victor Riesel, whose column appears in the Journal and many other newspapers across the land lias been tolliiif his readers about James li. Hoffa's plol- tings and planninys for bigger and biyi'ci 1 powers for himself. For those not familiar i Hipsel's remarkable sources of information--especially since he was blinded by acid tossed by a hoodlum linked to one of Hie worst kind of union gangsters--his probably seem too lurid to be true. Riescl has told you abnut Hoffa's constant moves about the country, here and there with other figures of his ilk who he is Iryim; In entice into a huge combine. Riesel hns even reported on secret conferences between Hoft'a and Hurry Bridges, the west coast dockside labor figure who Uncle' Sam lias been tryini! for so long to deport.

The Hoi'fa he liilks about is Jimmy Hoffa, "president" of the Toampters Union. Has Riesel been ireel ins you the right dope? Well, here's what a UPI dispatch from Pittsburgh said: "James H. a predicted Sunday night ho eventually will lead a i Teamster Union of members spanning i a the entire transportation industry. Hoffa said the giant labor force? would be formed by organizing the transportation workers everywhere--those who drive trucks, work on boats and handle aircraft. i not be by the McClellan committee, laws or the the teamster president declared." How about a Here's a man whose union has been tossed out of AKL-C1O practices, a a whose position KS head of this union is questionable under law, a man whose union is under the control of court-appointed monitors, a man whose conduct, past and present is constantly under attack by an investigating committee of the U.

S. Senate i bis nose at the whole kit and kaboodle. How far can Ibis man go? How long can he get away With it? Walter Reuther, the powerful leader of the United Automobile Workers, said the other day in Cincinnati: "If I had my way, Hoffa would be in jail along with Dave Beck (former Teamster boss) and Schefferman (Nathan Schcfferman, alleged influence peddler)." Reuthor, who Riesel and other observers has said wants himself to be Mr. Big, may have selfish motives in opening a jail cell for Hoffa. But all honest citizens wanting only for the American Way of Life to prevail will have little trouble agreeing with him.

VICTOR RISSF.L SAYS Industry Gears to Match Labor in Politics GOOD NEWS IS RAD NEWS --Hcspilo determined government cutbacks on ulie.it acreage, Iliis year's harvesl looms ns the largest on record, 503 million bushels more than COT be consumed al home or by export. This means tliiit America's a i of surplus wheat will be liikccl up 10 I. 1 billion bushels. This Is enough, says the Department of Agriculture, to fill all our needs for and still have 300 million bushels for 1SCO. Hut already another bumper crop is being predicted for next year.

The government at present holds $2.5 billion worlli of wheat in storage bins worth $250 million, 5150,090 a to THE 86TTH CONGRESS OF IHE BURG By ING QUOTE FOR is he that 1.19. FROM Gen. Eisenhower's Whife House inner sanclum to the executive suites of influential men whom one still thinks of only as captains of industry, they are wondering how labor could do it all within 15 years. And as they ponder, they already are planning to stop labor's pile driving political machine in the next two years. As the final ballols are counted, Ihe nation will find that this wondering, this pondering, this planning is the biggest political slory of all the building of a new industrial political machine to a labor's techniques.

To match industry studies them, especially the early days, for on the beginning depends the end. And in Ihe beginning, exactly 15 years ago, there was Sidney Hillman. It all started on a dog-day in Washington on the afternoon of July 7. 1943. It began at a special meeting of the full CIO Executive Board in their old headquarters.

That soft Scottish-burred voico of president Phil a announced a new group something called the CIC Political Action Committee. It would have five members. Its chairman would be Sidney Hill man, president of the Amalgamat ed Clothing Workers Union. When Phil a laler de scribed PAC, whose significanci was little noticed even by the militant union chiefs who approved it in the still and stifling Washing ton heat, he said: "It is the function of the com mittee to conduct a broad and in tensive program of education fo IN OUR LAST ARTICLE in this column we told our readers about our recent visit to Bogota. Colombia, while en route home from the annual meeting of the Inter American Press association in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In Bogota. Mr. H. J. Fieselman, the husband of former Betty Swanson of Pocatello, told us that the economy of Colombia fluctuate; with the price of coffee, mid a raise in (he price of a cent or two per pound put the whole Republic on more substantial economic basis.

We don't know how it could he manipulated, but it seems to us the best aid we could give our South American neighbors would be to yay a cent or two more for their products rather than giving away millions of dollars of our own products. These "giveaway" programs just don't seem to work, at least as far as making any friends for the USA is concerned. doubt if 10 per cent of (he people who receive our bounty know its sotirce. We left Bogota at 15:15 Oct. 20, but recall few details concerning the airport.

We were told tiiat Bogota now has under construction an International Airport designed for the accommodation of jet planes. The plans are to make the Bogota airport the main center in South America for jet planes arriving from North and Central America, and Europe. From Bogota connections would be made to other points in South America. IT IS ABOUT A FOUR-HOUR flight from Bogota to Caracas. Venezuela, probably the fastest-growing city in the western hemisphere, ft was not long ago when it was a rather sleepy colonial town, but the By FRANK F.I.EAZER United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)-Congres-' sional were laying out for the heavily Democratic 86th Congress today a program of housing, farm, labor reform and economic legislation for which they believe the voters spoke.

In Tuesday's landslide election. Speaker Sam Raybnrn rejected President Eisenhower's "radical" label for the new Congress, sakl it was himself who had turned out to be history's big spender and promised for the new Congress a constructive course geared to the country's best interests. In a telephone Interview from his home at Ronhani, the veteran Democratic leader said Tuesday's balloting in which Democrats added 13 Senate seals and at least -1-1' House seats to the majorities they already in both houses--stacked up as a against recession, high prices and the Benson a pro- ie'purpose of mobilizing the, 5,00,000 members of CIO and en- sting the active support of all trade unions AFL, rail- oad brotherhoods and unaffiliated, or effective labor action on the olilical front." THERE WAS one man who saw He inherent force it could give ahor. That was Sidney Hillman. 'en days after that board meet- ng, he hit the road out of Phila- lelphia with his public relations aide, Dick Rohman, and a lawyer, 'he Democratic Party never was he same again.

The trio moved hrougli Chicago, Birmingham, De- roit, Minneapolis, out to the coast nd back. Everywhere, they sought new faces. They found one in Minneapolis, fe soon became one of the vocal, mellifluous, militant young thun- dercrs who were to sweep the ligh-button shoe, howler hat traditionalists out of control of much of the Democratic Party. He was a young educator by the name of Hubert Humphrey. When Hillman met Humphrey on that first reconnaissance sweep, the labor leader dispatched won' to Washington that Humphrey's Democrais should merge with the Farmer-Labor Party.

They did. In a short time Humphrey, who had lost one race for mayor of Minneapolis by over 4,000 votes, won the next cam paign by more than 30,000. Today Sen. Humphrey is welding his ma chine together for the fight for thi presidency of the U.S. Back from that trip, Hillmai reported to the President of th U.S.

and the president of tha CIO he unionist assured both that abor political action was here to lay. But if it wasn't to be threat- ned again by the whims of John Lewis and his Republican pro- livities, CIO-PAC would have to ed down with merged units of beral and citizens' organizations every state where a union local xisted. Franklin Delano Roosevelt aid hurry with the word. On Nov. 15, 1913, national convention Phil Murray at the CIO in Philadelphia, Phil Murray reported on activities and plans.

They vere officially approved. few months Hillman had an auxiliary 'ournal Classified Ads Get Results going the Citizens Political Action Committee. IN 1914, the Republican opposition ran against Hillman and "Clear it with Sidney." This year the bailie is against Walter Reuther and the "radicals. 1 In mid M6 Hillman died. But PAC rolled on lo help Harry Truman win in '-18.

Later It merged with the newer AFL Labor'i League for Political Education, Finally it became the COPE organization now active in over 40,000 precincts, operating as a decentralized street-by-street vots- g'etting network. Today industry seeks the manpower lo match what began in '43 for the battle of Ihe century in '60. something special Only Perfect Salad Dressin that Smooth, Teasing Taste. nd that it reflected general disappointment also the leadership of President Eiseimow- Benson farm program, dissatisfaction with which apparently was a factor in election of a number of Democraiic House members from farm stale districts that previously were Republican. No Tax Cut Rayburn said also he will ask (he House Ways Means Committee to study the tax law for loopholes and inequities that ought to be remedied.

He ruled out prospects of a general tax cut however and said a tax boost Is not in the cards either. ft was learned that Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson--who with Rayburn will exercise firm leadership of the new Congress--will announce in a Texas sptech Friday a more detailed listing of legislative goals for the coming session. Johnson's list is understood to include, in addition to bills cited by Rayburn, legislation to relieve depressed areas (such a bill was vetoed this year by Eisenhower); broaden water conservation and irrigation programs; expand cons i of jet-age airports; accelerate exploration of space; and bolster the atoms-for-peace program. Raybnrn said there will be no vendetta against Eisenhower des- Forecasts I.alwr Reform Bill Although no formal legislative goals have as yet been set for the new Congress Rayburn forecast passage of: --A housing bill, its details tact mari Democrats are to he worked out, bu: presumably irked at some of embody key slum clearance and college housing loan features of a Democratic measure which campaign charges by the President and by Vice President Richard M.

Nixon. "We'll go along with the Presi- oil, iron ore and mineral developments in Venezuela h.ive turned Osec some unions hy a lie it into one oF the riches: most expensive cities we have ever i i A such a didn't -I I 1 1 I- visited. Great sections of the- old have been gouged to make modern boulevards, ami ail the improvements have been ncces- sary to handle nevertheless the city the charm for us of some of the other American capitals. Probably, one of the reruns we could not enjoy our.self was the costs, and we four.d the liotcl Tamanaco, which is beautifully located on a hillside overlooking a good part of the city, the most expensive hostelry we visited in any of the South American countries, the prices being on a par and even higher than many of the gyp joints you some- times run into En New York City. The service, food and other facilities do not justify prices in view of fact that the Intercontinental Holds corporation, which operates the Tamanaco, advertises that "IHC hotels do u'-i: come under the luxury classification in rales." WHEN YOU COME to Caracas by a i you lar.d 0:1 the coast at La Guaira airpor: ar.tl drive, what we would cstim-uc as some 20 miles, over one of the Jir.est 1 we have ever seen to reach the city.

Jt climbs in i i i a from sea level to 2.7CO feet, ar.d is an engineering wonder. Caracas is the hi: ihphrc of Simon Rolivar. The Liberator was horn on July 21. 17M, his i i a h.is ivjci! It is a typical uF ckus is filled with I a i paintings, and excellent copies of i and other decorations of the time of Bolivar. Bolivar is buried in Caracas in llie National Pantheon along with his aides in the wars to liberate Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Undoubtedly the rr.ns'. i private club in the world is located in Caracas. This is the Armed i-orces club arour.d which the social life of Caracas centers. Everywhere in Caracas there are building operations I progress, and the; business district centers arojr.d the towers of the Centre Simon Holivar, two skyscrapers, which were the first tall buildings in the city. The city of Caracas is located in a valley, and the residential areas cluster on the mountain sides surrounding the city.

The government is making a valiant attempt to i i a slum areas by the construction of colorful and gigantic housing unils of from 15 20 stories high, all very modernistic in design. i i out of the valley is the Cerro del Avilia to an elevation of some 6, J04 feet, on the top of which is located the Humboldt hotel which is reached by the longest cable car line in the world. White we. were in Caracas top of Ihe a i was cnrr.inually hidden hy clouds, and we would no: have cared to have been housed at the Humboldt where the fog shrouded the building, making it a i but place. However, clear weather view from there he magnificent.

Caracas is divided into some three separate unils and these upit.i are connected by tile-lined and brightly-lighted underpasses. We wish the Pocalello city commissioners could see these ur.derpafscs as we know it would encourage them to make many improvements in dark which connected East and West Pocatello. (To lie Continued if our readers aro not it bit tired of these ratlier trite nnd brief comments of our recent trip to South America). A a night out wilK'the br.ys, Sam suddenly realized that the morning of new day had dawned. After some considered hesitation, he telephoned his wife and thoutcd, pay (ho ransom, honey, i escaped." the House this year failed to wherever we think he's right --A new Kcnnedy-Ives labor and will vote against him when we reform bill or along its thinks he's wrong," he said.

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