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i Tt -1 Man Wlio Licked John L. LeivU 'Not Worried v. Trouble Is an Old Story to AFL-jCIO Bossi msmt fc1 "Green, AFL. We disaffiliate, Lewis." In this action, Meany firmly ea tabllshed himself as Green's heir And when Green died In 1952, Meany stepped In. There would be no more com promises.

First came defiance of the commands of Dan Tobin, late 'president of the Tobin had bossed Green, but Meany would not obey him. Meany put his own men across as secretary treasurer of the union in tho face of Tobin opposition and then went to work on the AFL-CIO merger plan. This vision came true In 1955, thus ending two decades of 1 n. It LINCOLN-lt-NKnnASKA, FF.Rgi.TAIiY 2, 1958 1 many problems tf organized labor. t.

I AW irf r- iiiiiiiiiiiwiHiiiiHiiiiinnniiiiiiiiiH If Meany was elected president of the new group without even the opposition of the powerful Waller Reuther, then president of the CIO. This election made him a power ful No. 1 In the labor section of America's population. Ready Wit The man physically ia almost a cartoon figure of a labor Now 63, Meany stands five feet, 19 Inches tall and weighs 2J0 pounds. He favors fancy vests and constantly chews a cigar.

But the resemblance to the labor "boss" is purely physical. The union is a way of We to this dedicated leader, who haa fought rack eteers in unions with an almost holy fervor. A fluent and forceful speaker, Meany is a decidedly aggressive individual. And his bulk conceals a capacity for quick thinking and fast acting. The natural lines of hU faze and mouth suggest a pout, but De LI "hind his eyes lurks a ready wit and puckish sense of humor, He exhibited his quick humor 1 Very adroitly Just after his elec-! tlon as AFL president la an address before the National Press Club ii' Introduceo4 as man who 'lib Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin, has spent most of bis lift as a plumber," Meany replied: "AnV ef you people who ever paid a plumbers' bill know you can't uderestlmate tht Ingenuity of a plumber." And he has often been referred to aa Plumber." He" Is noted for his persistence.

Just before one session of Coo SECTION gress, he talk.ed to a group of AFL lobbyists. "We may not get what we want this year, next year or the year after," he said. "But what we want is reasonable and Just and we'll win sooner or later." It has been his unwillingness to compromise with the corrupt element! in the Teamster and with those in the AFL-CIO who are willing to look the other way rather than riak a fight that has done much to bring on the present internal crisis. He drove Dave Beck, the ster's president, off the group's executive council. He forced suspension of tht Teamsters' when they elected James R.

Hoffa president In tht face of charges by tht AFL-CIO ethical practices committee and the Senate rackets committee that Hoffa had engaged in improper' activities and was tht friend of hoodlums. This expulsion will cut the federation's income by about 10 pr cent and. could set off a labor war, splitting the federation Maui. I1. Own Hoax Stranger still, Xiros, according to this Information, later studied in Paris, became a close associate of the Marquis de Sade, killed his teacher in a duel, shipped to tht South Seas on a whaling vessel, ruled "as a god in the Marquesas for six months," died of "mysterious causes" and was buried on tht "volcanic peak of Hiva Oas." If it occurred to anybody that the Marquis de Sade was long dead before Xiros was supposedly born, he didn't mention it.

A few days after the exhibit opened last November, Solomon received a request from an art magazine for photographs of tht Xiros collages. Now the museum staff let the cat out of the bag The art magazine was told that the collages were a hoax. Finding themselves at a loss for a 19th century representative for LI1.I1I il JM General Says Next War to Be Fought Blunt. forthright. dedl-, eated, poerfuL and pected, This Gtorg Mcany, head of the mammoth ATLCIO union.

la upon hla ahouklera that tht present crucial' problems of the united labor movement reat. They art not the ahouldera of man to be fooled. George Meany ia tht giant federation's boas In fact well title. Very recently he haa: 8eenr4 the euiter of the giant Teamsters Union from the AFL ao. Obtained auspemlot tf the Bak-17 and Confectionary Workers.

Beat amoat all hla efforts to ward cleaning up ether corrupt" anions. In addition, Senate labor racket bearings have been oontinuing In Waahlngtor-brlnging each- week videnc of Illegal practices In la bor. And the problems have kept piling up. There Is the poaalbtllty ef a se rlous labor war as a result ef the Teamsters' expulaloa. Plana for an org atiiuttoa irlve lave been stalled A drop In public confidence In labor and the prospect ef reatrie tlvs legislation as a result ef the Senate commlttee'a disclosures.

The failure of some state and local parts of the anion to merge Toluntarlly. And Jurisdictional disputes be tween member anions about which unions', members should do what work. But for the- man whoae first vie tory came over John L. Lewis, bushy-browed chief of the United Mine Workers, such problems do not worry him unduly, For it was Meany who defied -Lewis in the 1947 convention when Lewis wanted to fight the then new Taft-Hartley Act's non-Coin tnunist affadavit provision. Established Himself Due partly to Meany's argument, a recommendation was passed that the unions abide by the provision.

Shortly afterward Lewis sent his famous message to AFL President William Green, which said: in Space Medaris was divorced He and his, first wife had one child, now Mrs. E. L. Stilling of Gambl-r, Ohio. When the stock market crash came, Medaris was Off OfTa trip.

"When I left." he "I was worth $120,000. When I got back I had $69.60." Medaris took h's end bought a suit, new shoes, new hat and walked out of the store with 50 cents to look for a job. He successively worked for a bakery and as an automobile was the on'y job at which I ever failed" and for chain of grocery stores. In 1930 In Cincinnati he met Virginia Smith, daughter ot Cincinnati banker R. Cliff Smith, while Medaris was kibitzing a bridge game.

Medaris, by the way, Is a bridge whiz. They were married the next year and have two children, Mrs. Marta Woody, wife of an Army captain here, and West Point Cadet John Bruce Medaris Jr. After 10 years in the business world Medaris returned to active duty as a captain in ordnance in 1939 "Once you've been inside, you miss the life, the friends." Medaris moved up to lieutenant -colonel in a hurry and by 1942 was in North Africa where he was assistant ordnance officer for the 2nd Corps. He made the Sicily invasion and then was flown to England where he became ordnance planning officer for the invasion of Normandy.

When the war ended he was a brigadier general. On Sept. 13. 1935. Mrriari.

who holds the Distinguished Servlre Medal, the Legion of Merit and ihe French Legion of Honor, was promoted to major general and six weeks later assumed command of ABMA. He began a routine which he still follows, an hour's reading before breakfast every morning. He works 10 to 12 hours a day. In the two years and four months he has been missile chief, Medaris has had to fly to Washington about once a week to consult with consulting committees who consulted each other ami were sunposed to advise the secretary Of defense. Medaris takes a dim view of their ability to reach a decision.

"Some place," he told the senators, "there has to be one man who can make a decision, who can give a command and has the resources to carry it out." Then he told the enators, "We must work at 'hint's we we can do in 15 vears Th missilrs and satellites will cime abng as a by product Hnw do you start1 "Give me said Medaris, "clearly definrd adequate manpower and funds for tne year ahead and then let me alone." '1 Meany bread shoulder tt esrry the both maneuver and counter-action against anything that can come up to him. So now," Medris concluded, "you have to put men up there to attack him and this is just as sure as anything in the world." Photo Satellite Under Medaris, the United States already is working on a 500-pound satellite, perhaps larger, which will orbit around the globe taking pictures of potentially hostile areas as it goes. Medaris has long been plumping for long-rai'ge planning. In mid-December he told the senators what he had been saying to his Pentagon superiors privately. "Our goal," he said, "should be nothing short of man's domination of space.

We will never get into this race at we should so long as our objectives are short term." That Medaris should wind up as a missile man is somehow fitting. He has had a fantastic career. In his day he has been a mail sack heaver, a taxi driver, a Great Lakes pilot (at age 12), an underage Marine in France, a trolley operator, automobile dealer, airplane pilot, management consultant, interpreter and military planner. Son of William R. Medaris, a Milford, Ohio, attorney, he moved when he was about 5 to Columbus with his parents.

Shortly thereafter they were divorced. hit General aad Mrs. Medaris N- A i W1 u(7 1 portions of It back, almost word for word. i "There was, one English teacher I'll always remember," says Medaris. "She had my first class every morning.

She would call upon me to recite during the first 15 minutes. Then I'd put my head down and sleep for 45 minutes. When others objected, she always said, 'Leave him alone. He While in high school Medaris, who had skipped two grades, went to live with an uncle for a summer and earned a Great Lakes pilot license. Though he gave his age as 14 he was in reality on, 12.

"There wasn't all this insistence on age in those days." Marine at 16 On his 16th birthday, May 10, 1918, Medaris enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Parns Island, for recruit training. "Many of my military standards," he says, "go back to that period." Medaris arrived in France too late for combat and he wound up stationed at Bordeaux. "Somebody got the bright idea of making the Marines MPs. At 17 I was assistant provost marshal of Bordeaux." With a twinkle, Medaris observes, "I learned a lot about life in those days." He returned to the United States as a corporal and was discharged in 1919. He went to Ohio State University, majored in mechanical engineering and got married.

As a senior ROTC cadet, he competed in special examinations for a regular Army commission and won. He went into the Army just a few months short of earning his degree. From this point on he served at assorted U.S. Army posts and moved on to a tour of duty in Panama. There he learned Spanish so well that during the 1925 Chile-Peru border dispute he was official Interpreter for the U.S.

mediators. While still In Panama he begun to find Army infantry life dull and transferred to the ordnance corps. Money problems, however, began to build up and in 1927 he resigned from the service to take a management job for a General Motors franchise operator in Colombia. He worked in Colombia for 18 months, where he made so much money his boss declined to renew the contract on the same basis and asked Medaris to take a cut. Medaris declined and sailed for' New York.

Divorced For the next 10 years he worked in the management field, earning his pilot's 'rrnse meanwhile. He still flies his own plane. While back in the United States k' Art hoax this Is one tf tht collages tf "Estabaa Xiros." Museum Finds Itself Medaris lived with his mother, the former Jessie LeSourd, and his basque-descended grandmother, Mrs. E. G.

LeSourdrM Springfield. Worked as a Boy In those days, says Medaris, "money wasn't too free at our house. I worked almost all the time." Since he was large for his age, Jobs came easily. During his fir ot year in high school he worked as a mail sack heaver at the depot. "It was in those years," he goes on, "that I learned how kind peo pie can be.

When I was woikt' at the station, 6 p.m. to 6 a.m they'd let me sleep on the mail sacks until a train was due. Then they'd wake me. I'd heave up the sacks and go back to sleep. "In my second year, I drove a night-hawk taxi.

There was only one stand in town. I'd sit in the cab in line waiting for a fare and those tough cab drivers would push my cab up for me as the line moved up." During his third year, he worked as a trolley operator, studying during the two or three minutes turn-around at each end of the line. Through his high school career Medaris was No. 2 man In the class scholastically by a very narrow margin. How? "I'm blessed with a photographic memory." Even now he caa read a 300-pagt book in two hours and recite large space age product.

0 By BEM PRICE HUNTSVILLE, Ala Wl There is one John Bruce Med aria. He is tough, hard-beaded, Jwo-stajr general with both feet on' the ground. Theri there is John Bruce Med-aris, space cadet. This is no split personality. Maj.

Gen. Medaris simply is a military man who believes the next major war may out of this world. The 55-year-old Medaris is chief of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) near where the coming space age blends with the Worrisome realities of budgets, missiles and investigating committees. ABMA is the heart of the Army's program. It was here that the range Jupiter missile was developed by a team of former German scientists headed by Medaris' technical director, Dr.

von Braun. Here was born the JupiterC, the Army's most advanced missile. After Russia sent Sputnik I aloft, the Army was "given permission to try to launch a satellite with the Jupiter-C. The Navy's Vanguard long had been designated alone for this chore. As a public figure Medaris is a product of the space age.

He came into view shortly after Russia launched Sputnik I when he calmly told a Senate committee that back in 1955 the Army had offered to perform a similar feat but had been turned down by the Department of Defense. Added Chore Medaris henceforth will be more nd more in the public eye. He bas Just been handed We added chore of running the new Missile Planning Office for the Army's Department of Ordnance. This new office, set up last month, has as its objective: "The development of long range plans for military and scientific achievement In missile and related fields, exercising the widest possible latitude in advanced thinking." If this "advanced thinking" follows the outlines Medaris already has laid before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, the United States is space bound. Medari told the senators Jan.

13 that "as sure as anything in the world" men eventually will be fighting in space. "You get up there," he said, "with military capability satellites, which have reconnaissance capabilities. This requires counter-capability to blind the other fellow. "By the time you get that countered, the enemy comes along and puts men up there who can defeat your ability to blind him by automatic mechahisms, because" the tnemy has the power of decision board hit craft and he can bandit Stuck With By CYNTHIA LOWRY ITHACA. NX (jf Like most art-exhibits, this one at the Cornell University Museum opened sedately enough.

Visitors came, saw, nodded, commented knowingly. But, largely because of the remarkable works of one Estaban Xiros (pronounced Zeros), the show had moments of conspira-trial winks, high tension, and a rather strange ending. Staged by Museum Director Alan R. Solomon, his staff, and Cornell art students, the exhibit on "fantastic art through the centuries" included loaned works by such modern surrealists and Dada masters as Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp. Most fantastic by far was the roomful of works by Xiros, represented as a master of the collage a pasteup picture.

They were amusing, perfect In their 19th century mood, and the Xiros room was well attended by faculty, students and art devotees in this college town. Some acted as If they were highly familiar with Xiros' work, which struck a half-dozen or so staff members and students, who were even more familiar with it, as a trifle odd. And who was this Xiros? Visitors were informed that Es-tabar, "perhaps the best known XlXth CenUmy collagist (or, more properly, papier collagiste) was born in Taormina, Sicily, in 1828. The son of a Russian princess and a general in the Porguguese army, he studied' at the Academy of Naples for six years, but abandoned a promising career in science in 1851." weir ciniuiuuni, wie museum bhui and a group of students had de elded to try to fill the gap. Mrs.

Inez Garson, assistant director of the museum, set to work with scissors and glue, clipping steel-plate engravings from Victorian magazines and home medical books to make up tht -coll ages. They turned out ao well that tbt pranksters went on to invent Estaban Xiros to go with tbem. 1 The only apparent doubt, officials said, was manifested by one faculty member who studied the collages, burst out laughing, and said, "whom do you think you're kidding?" Not until long after tht exhibit was dismantled did tht boat corns publld knowledge,.