Ex-Policeman Really Solved 20 yr. Murder Case

Behind the arrest of a man known as "Hot Lemon," this week on suspicion of a 20 year old murder was the long persevering work of a retired police officer, the RECORD learned reliably.

The former policeman, one of several officers assigned in 1935 to solve the murder of taxi driver Harry Tetsuo Uyeda, quit the police force some years ago, but he never quit working on the Uyeda murder case.

At one time, when the evidence he had gathered seemed strong enough, he contemplated making the arrest himself. But he changed his mind and eventually turned over his findings to Detective Ed-win I. Adolphson who made the arrest Tuesday.

Killed With Bottle

Uyeda was killed May 19, 1935, by being struck on the head with a whiskey bottle. For many years, those familiar with the case have believed temporary anger and possibly jealousy were motives for the killing.

But the version brought out by police Wednesday as a result of interviews with "Hot Lemon," add-ed up into another story.

Police now say Uyeda left the Eagle Taxi Stand near Nuuanu and Pauahi Sts. to pick up two customers at Wo Fat chop suey house. He then drove the men to a spot on Dillingham Blvd. near Oahu Prison where the killing took place.

His body was then taken to Waimanalo Plantation and thrown in-to a cane field, police say.

The statement of "Hot Lemon," say police, is that the actual beating of the taxi driver was done by a man who died last January of a heart ailment. The only part of the crime the present suspect has admitted, according to police is assistance in disposing of the body.

Unemployment compensation which workers looked upon as dole or charity not many years ago is today accepted as an insurance program protecting them from total loss of wages when jobless.

As workers became more in-formed they have come to regard it "not as a privilege but a right to file for," Thomas Maeda, claims supervisor for the Honolulu office, said this week.

Program Not Absurd

Frank Torres, chief of the un-employment insurance division, who has been with the department from its inception in the 30s, smiled as he explained:

"In the early days people I know didn't want to file because they felt it was like asking for charity. Today workers ask, "Where can we get our unemployment?' These people aren't talking about a job."

The two explained that the changing attitude doesn't mean that the qualifying workers are abusing the unemployment insurance program. Far from it, they say, and give figures to back up their point.

Employment Major Emphasis Torres says that an average claimant for unemployment insurance receives benefits for 12.6 weeks. Only 29 per cent of the claimants totally exhaust the 20 week payment.

The department's major emphasis is to find work for claimants of unemployment insurance and this program has its problems. An employer doesn't like it when an employee he laid off continues to draw his insurance checks, the two said, for they feel they are sole contributors to the insurance fund.

A worker, on the other hand, may not want a temporary job or one carrying lower classification. The territorial employment ser-vice wants claimants to work in a suitable job and tells claimants their registration will be kept alive for their highest classification if it sends claimants to lesser jobs.

Suggest to Lower Sights

If the claimant fails to apply for "available, suitable work when so directed by the employment office, he is disqualified from receiving benefits from two to seven weeks.

Maeda explained that there is no disqualification when claimants refuse a job under their classification.

But he gave examples of exceptions. He said that a carpenter foreman out of a job for a few weeks, if offered employment as a first class carpenter, must accept the job. If there was a demand for foreman, this claimant would be working, he explained.

The agency tries always to give an applicant a job of his highest classification, but if he out of a job for some time, he must lower his sights a little, Maeda added. He said the agency always tries to encourage employers to pay more to bring about satisfaction to both sides.

Need Job Orders

 "Our office must send out the best suited person available so that we would continue to get job orders from employers," Torres added.

When there is dissatisfaction either on the part of the employer or employees, the dissatisfied party can appeal his case to a referee. The determination concerns whether a claimant should or should not receive insurance payment. A claimant is disqualified If he quits voluntarily, is discharged for misconduct or makes false statements in connection with his benefits.

Recently, Maeda said, the agency has had more employers appealing to the referee because the decision of the employment office has been against them. The examiners of the agency have been finding cases where employees had good cause to leave their jobs.

Employer Lost Case Since the employers pay the contributions, there are those that claim employees quit when such is not the case. Maeda explained that there is no misconduct if an employee is laid off for good cause. If an employee was absent during the busy season because of sickness or other valid reason and informed his employer that he was unable to report to work, he might be the first to be separated when slack season comes around. This does not disqualify an employee from benefits.

There was a case of an employee who claimed that he was laid off. The employer insisted that the worker quit. The employee claimed otherwise, saying that six others were laid off too. An examiner assigned to the case was told by the employer that the six were laid off but the seventh quit. The employer lost the case.

At hearings, whenever necessary, interpreters are provided. The referee does not follow rules of evidence and hearings provide both parties opportunity to express themselves.

Maeda said that an agency like his which deals with people directly makes mistakes and he said the object is to avoid mistakes and keep from repeating them.

Torres said, "We deal with human beings so we must give the best of service."

Position Misunderstood

They were speaking of attitudes of both the personnel of the employment service and claimants. "The agency's position may have "been misunderstood, Maeda said, because the employment service stresses that the employer, not the worker, contributes to the insurance fund. Some claimants re-quest that their payment be made to them in a lump sum because they want what's coming to them from money they paid into the fund.

Many workers say they don't want to be reminded that they are getting insurance paid for by employers.

Torres explained that the employees have worked for the employers' contribution, but the contribution is paid by employers. In years past the tax law gave the erroneous assumption that unemployment tax was taken directly out of the workers' paycheck, which was not the case.

The agency handles from 2,000 to 2,500 claims a week through appointments. By a systematic method of handling claims, individuals wait 30 minutes at most. It was mentioned that some claim-ants fail to report at their designated time and they become un-happy or critical of the agency's methods when reprimanded. But in the interest of all claimants, systematized handling has been found best.

The agency is watchful of fraud.

"We don't want fraud. So we explain our program, and policy to claimants clearly. Fraud by a few hurts many and all suffer," Maeda said.

To obtain maximum use of insurance benefits, Maeda said new claimants are shown film slides with narrative to explain the pro-gram. After the personnel of the department talk to claimants individually.

"After 20 years of unsuccessful efforts to jail or deport (Harry) Bridges, it should be time to halt the attempts to behead the ILWU," ILWU Local 142 executive board declared July 30 in a unanimously adopted resolution, and termed the union's president's acquittal "an encouraging sign of changing times."

"Local 142 and its membership have been with Bridges all the way, as they are with Regional Director Jack W. Hall," the un-ion's highest policy-making body between conventions said: "The Bridges acquittal is one down. There is one more to go-- the Hall case — and we will win that one, tool" the board said in reference to Hall's conviction in the Smith Act case. Public Opinion Should Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department appeal the acquittal by Federal Judge Louis Goodman, Harry Bridges will have the sup-port and sympathy not only of ILWU members, but of all decent people in the nation, the union leaders said.

"We earnestly hope and expect that the pressure of public opinion will make it the last time that he has to face these phony charges," the resolution declared.

Judge Goodman's decision acquitting Bridges of charges that he was once a member of the Communist Party "is really the fifth time that Bridges has defeated the persecution against him."

The resolution said also:

"Let's not have a sixth case. It is time for political persecution to cease in America if we wish to continue telling the world that we have freedom of speech and assembly and that we are a strong and democratic nation.

"Bridges' acquittal comes at a time when the hopes of the common people for a peaceful world appear closer to realization than at any time in the last two decades. Perhaps it is an encouraging sign of changing times. We hope that it is and that America will soon return to the tolerance and democracy that was once our proud tradition and heritage.

"Changing times or not, the support of the membership of Local 142 for Brother Harry Bridges has never wavered. It has been steadfast and unceasing, even when things appeared the darkest. That support has now been vindicated.

"Whether the prosecution appeals the Bridges case to the higher courts is immaterial. An honest judge, unswayed by political considerations and pressure, has held that the so-called evidence Bridges is 'unconvincing.' If the so-called evidence is the best that the government can pro-duce after twenty years of gum-shoeing and spending millions of dollars, few people will disagree with the fact that it's time to stop."

By Edward Rohrbough

"I go home every night and cry. If it weren't for my contract, I think I would pack up and go home. This whole thing makes me feel so bad."

Such is the reaction of the six-foot, shapely "China Doll," Miss Barbara Yung, to the restrictions the recent ruling of the Honolulu liquor commission has caused in her dance at Hotel Street's Hubba Hubba bar. Jack Matsuoka, owner of the bar, who fought valiantly but without success for her act before last Friday's commission meeting, is almost as much distressed.

"She is an artist," he says, "and she is unhappy. Right now she is giving me a bad time. I do not know if she is going to sue me or what. You see, her contract has at least three more weeks to run, and she is unhappy because she does not feel she is giving the customers their money's worth."

Monday night, at least, the customers didn't seem to be worrying much. Shortly before Miss Yung's act was due, numbers of young men both in uniform and China Doll would like to give customers more out, began sifting in to fill up the vacant tables. It wasn't a jammed house, but lone wolves were being seated two and three to a table.

China Doll Still Draws "It is not hard," cracked the China Doll "Cries Every Night" Over Liquor Comm. Rule; Still Draws Crowds toaster of ceremonies, "to tell who is coming on next."

The comment brought an appreciative chuckle. There was no doubt the crowd had come to see the China Doll, regardless of what the liquor commission might have done to her art.

Whatever that was, the com-missioners could certainly have had no complaints on grounds of decorum Monday night. Miss Yung whipped back and forth across the Hubba Hubba stage, with an occasional quick floorward dip, wearing an engaging smile in addition to plenty of shiny blue, Chinese-looking costume. Take away the costume and you'd have what most of the customers obviously hoped they would see.

But there were no complaints and the China Doll rated plenty of applause at the end of her last and most lurid act—one in which she manipulates a couple of streamers around her head as a sort of counter-attraction to the shape that some give credit for wrecking the peace of mind of the liquor commission.

No Bumps, Grinds

In the whole show, Miss Yung had given not the slightest suggestion of a bump or a grind. She had shown enough of her shape so the customers could be sure she was all there, yet no more than you can see any day on Kuhio Beach out among the tourists and toddlers.

"I am not a stripper," Miss Yung explained afterward, although she has worked in Minsky's, the burlesque that moved to New Jersey after being outlawed in New York.

"I am a Catholic and I go to church. I do classical Mandarin dances and that is the way I make my living. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Although Miss Yung is pretty hot about the restrictions the liquor commission has caused in her act, she is at a bit of a loss to explain how her routine has changed since Inspector Norman Lee's "no navel" edict went into effect Saturday. She looks at the inquirer as though perhaps he were a square who hadn't kept up with the times. Apparently, the change is just a matter of more clothes.

Cause Anger Clear

The China Doll's cause for anger is considerably clearer. She feels hurt, and perhaps somewhat insulted that the commission should feel there is anything improper about her dance. No one has ever said anything like that before, she says, though she has exhibited in theaters and night spots from coast to coast.

Over at the Club Ginza, a few blocks away on College Walk, the story is somewhat different. The Ginza, operated by Boy Matsuoka, a younger brother of Jack, had an entertainer whose billing usually included the word "passion," and she was frankly a stripper.

"She was," an ardent follower of night club affairs told the RECORD, "the hottest thing in town. She was—well, she was too much."

Passion Flower Gone

Whatever she was, the Ginza passion flower, who carries the homey name of Carol Jane Davies, has departed for Los Angeles. Her contract expired last Saturday, just as the "no navel" rule went into effect.

"My show is an all-Japanese show now," says Roy Matsuoka, "and I guess it will be that way."

Although the Ginza had a comparatively small crowd Monday night, it was an appreciative audience. In the opinion of this ob-server, the dainty charm of the Ginza girls gives the younger Matsuoka a better show, despite the sultry attraction of the China Doll and the Latin American renditions of Olga Valdez.

The origin of all this beef by the liquor commission about dancers is a little obscure. One writer on a daily attributed it to the arrival of the China Doll and her billing as an "exotic" dancer.

But there are others who say it rose from a strip act at the Pearl City Tavern when the enthusiasm of the stripper, a girl billed as "Baby Blue Eyes," for her art became too great even for her colleagues on the tavern stage.

Rate Mambo Queen High

Still others claim it was the "Japanese Mambo Queen," showing under the aegis of Bill (The Knee) Pacheco at the Oasis, who brought down the wrath of the all-powerful commission.

The Mambo Queen has operated for some months and won the applause and admiration even of some liquor inspectors. Critics of dances with a strong sex motif are inclined to rate her at the head of the class among local performers.

But Pacheco may be in hot water with the commission be-cause of his manner of championing his show. The word has got around that he appealed openly to audiences for support after his shows Saturday.

With patrons of night spots, and with man who seldom see the inside of a liquor emporium, how-ever, it's the commission that's in hot water. Many have followed the story in the dailies of how the commission decided to "clean up" floor shows, and they have also read the findings of the dailies that small children are allowed inside bars.

Pew express backing for the commission. The general opinion of the man on the street (or woman for that matter), as this reporter has found it, is that the police will stop any really Improper show—and that the liquor commission is pushing its power too far.

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New York- (FP) -The Assn. of Catholic Trade Unionists was counterattacked by AWARE, Inc., radio-TV blacklisting outfit which ACTU condemned at its recent convention.

The ACTU Resolution condemned the "unjustifiable blacklisting" of the self-styled anticommunist outfit, and charged AWARE with interference in the affairs of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFL).

Godfrey P. Schmidt, president of AWARE, called the ACTU resolution "factually baseless," and denied that any of the persons it named as alleged communists had lost his livelihood or been forced to "humiliate" himself to gain employment.

Seventy corporations, each with assets of $1 billion or more, form a powerful Billionaire Club with assets aggregating $201.4 billion, which, the UP calls "an astounding" figure equivalent to more than two thirds of the total national debt."
 A memorandum prepared by the staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on the Economic Report confirms estimates of the United Electrical Radio & Ma-chine Workers that the actual amount of involuntary unemployment is over 5 million.

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George Maeyama carded an 89-25-64 to win the ILWU-AA Golf Club monthly ace tournament at Kahuku on Sunday, July 31.

Marcus Hayashida was second with a 92-27-65. Other winners were M. Shishido, 90-24-66; Y. Moriwaki, 84-17-67; and T. Arakaki, 98-30-68. R. Tanaka won low gross honors with an 80. A

George Pratt won over Robert Borges for the Primo-Birsner trophy in a playoff.

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The film Hiroshima which opened at a Manhattan theater recently was produced by the Japan Teachers Union when witchhunting atmosphere created by MacArthur and the Yoshida government brought about the firing of progressive and liberal actors and writers from the film industry.

Hiroshima and other films produced by Japanese trade unions won tremendous popularity and clearly showed to commercial movie producers that the people wanted facts and reality, not IMUA-like brainwashing of the populace. The commercial producers were forced to rehire the discharged artists and writers, Japanese movies are winning world acclaim for realism and forward-looking presentation of subjects.

The Teachers Union which is red-baited by organs like IMUA works closely -with the PTA and the ministry of education.

For its U.S. showing the distributor on the Mainland cut 15 minutes of the film. It was formerly criticized in some circles as being strongly anti-American. After the editing Time magazines says the film is "well worth seeing," although it criticizes it for bad editing and propaganda it packs.

But Saturday Review's Arthur Knight says the film is indicative of "the current renaissance of Japan's film industry" which is not confined "exclusively to the jidai-geki, the period pieces." In-stead of anti-American content, Knight finds that the film's "sole note of overt criticism is directed against the Japanese military, first for its brutal discipline of civilians, and then for its refusal to adopt effective anti-radiation-measures for fear of alarming the populace."

The picture tells about the day the A-bomb was dropped, "dispassionately, without protest, without sensationalism, without cheap appeals for pity," Knight writes.

East Lansing, Mich.—(FP)— Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington, leading critic of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R,Wis.) told a Michigan State University education conference July 25 that the influence of the Wisconsin witch-hunter is waning.

The American people, he said, "are emerging from the suffocating fog of the do-or-die mentality of the McCarthys gyrating in war dances." He said that there had been a weakening, in the name of national security, of individual faith in one another, the government, the armed forces and religious forces of the nation.

He said the McCarthyite movement was stopped by people "train-ed in the schools of a free society." He added: "They acted to stop the McCarthys from carrying blazing torches and casting awful shadows across the campus, the church and the Capitol to blacken the memories of great servants of the people."

Hot Dogs and Hot Borscht

Tokyo—Soviet culture, every-thing from Russian lullabies and Siberian love poetry to Marxist dialectics, is reaching a fast-growing and enthusiastic audience in a Japan dedicated for the past years to baseball, Hollywood cosmetics and hot dogs.

When Soviet violinist David Oistrakh arrived here recently, tickets for his concert were sold out within 15 minutes after the Box office opened. His American counterpart, Jascha Heifetz, received a polite but hardly an enthusiastic reception when he toured Japan.

Even the nocturnal street singers who wander through the traditional "geisha" district of Tokyo admit they receive their biggest tips for strumming Russian folk songs on their guitars.

A number of Tokyo bookshops are now crammed with well-illustrated Soviet books and the selection they offer receptive clients includes the Marxist standbys as well as the masterpieces of Russian literature and contemporary novels.

"Sick of English"

The low price of Soviet books has helped to make them popular with students. A dozen average Russian books can be bought for less than a dollar, but the equivalent amount of American books here would run to $18.

Interest in all things Soviet shows up in the classroom, too. The director of Tokyo's Japan-Soviet Academy reports that 500 are now enrolled in Russian-language courses as compared to 150 only one year ago.

"Some of them," he explained, "are just plain sick of English. But others tell me they wish to read Soviet newspapers and magazines because the Japanese press does not tell them the truth."

Workers in some Osaka factories are now high-stepping Russian folk dances during their lunch recess. American barn dancing, once the craze after World War II, is now a thing of the past.

The Friendly Samovar

In place of names like "Texas" and "Friendly Eddie's," the newer night spots and restaurants are switching to "Little Moscow," "Samovar" and '"Volga." Many of them now are offering Russian cherry tea and "piroschkas" (meat filled pastries) while background music often is from Prokofieff, Shostakovich and Khatchaturian.

Vodka is becoming a well-known drink in urban Japan and there is even a domestically produced brand called "Troika," which is cheap enough to ensure its popularity. A Tokyo cooking school dedicated to the art of properly preparing "borscht" and other Russian specialties is now garnering handsome profits.

Meanwhile, Japan's sports-conscious youth is acclaiming Soviet prowess in such fields as soccer, wrestling, table tennis and track! Teams returning from international tournaments in the Soviet Union report on the real "feeling of comradeship" they experienced. And plans are now being laid for further sporting events with Russian teams.

Stanislavsky Reigns

In the theatrical world the de-ceased Russian dramatic master, Stanislavsky, remains the idol of Japanese actors and directors. It has become almost part of the Tokyo landscape to see eager drama students and hopeful stage aspirants trudging along with a Stanislavsky book tucked under then—arms.

Only in the movie field has the current Soviet cultural offensive bogged down. A mere seven Russian films have flickered across Japan's silver screen so far and they have been too propagandistic and ponderous for all but staunch party members.

There is no doubt that Soviet culture is sweeping this country with all the force and speed of a raging forest fire. Paradoxically, it is being aided not only by fellow travelers but also by Japan's fanatically anti-Communist White Russian colony. Though they bear no love for the Soviet Union, they are only too glad to spread the wonders of Russian cookery and the beauties of Russian music and literature to which they remain attached with the fervor that only an exile can muster. To most observers here the end of the current vogue for Soviet culture is nowhere in sight. Perhaps, they reason, it is only a temporary reaction from a long American occupation. On the other hand, they say, perhaps it reflects something deeper and more durable. Paul Burgundy, Worldover Press Service The Gazette & Daily, York, Pa.

Up to April 22, publicly-reporting companies had announced 239 dividend increases and only 39 reductions or omissions.

A challenge to debate has been issued by the United Public Workers and declined by the Hawaiian Government Employees Assn. The reader can judge the reasons for himself.

July 28, Vice President Adolph Samuels of the Oahu Division, UPW, addressed a challenge to the HGEA charging that, though the HGEA has criticized, it has actually ignored the UPW contribution, especially in the new civil service law, and played up the participation of the HGEA and your legislative representative, Mr. Charles B. Kendall."

To settle the" issue, Samuels suggests a debate between Kendall and Henry Epstein who acted in the same capacity for UPW.

August 1, President Sterling Mossman of the HGEA replied as follows: "to answer thereto, please be advised that one does not de-bate a subject where the record is perfectly clear."

Says a UPW official, "I'm not entirely sure, but I think he's agreeing with us."

Auditor James K. Murakami of the city and county government, and some friends who assisted with his successful political campaign last fall will hold a picnic and luau on Labor Day weekend especially for Murakami's many friends in the Democratic Party.

There will be candies and games with prizes for the children, Murakami said this week, and the location has been tentatively set for Ala Moana Park. The auditor said he will announce exact details of time and place well be-fore the picnic.

San Francisco - (FP) -The San Francisco Publishers Assn., now negotiating with the San Francisco-Oakland Newspaper Guild (CIO), has flatly refused to include in the contract a union demand for a clause against discrimination for race, color, creed or national origin.

The employers said such a clause is "unnecessary," though no non-whites are employed at present on any major San Francisco daily.

Pres. Magsaysay, Sen. Recto Call Political Parlies "Garbage Cans"

Both major political parties Were called "garbage cans" as popular Ramon Magsaysay, presi-dent of the Philippines, who was above criticism for a long time, last weekend was hoty denying that he was an American "puppet" and that he had taken $250,000 of American money in the 1953 presidential campaign.

Hard-hitting Sen. Claro M. Recto, a fellow Nacionalista Party member who takes pride in opposing Magsaysay's major policies, answered the defensive president that he actually hadn't accused him of "American puppetry." But Recto was dealing telling blows at the president of a new Republic where the people are be-coming more conscious of their nationalism.

The Batangas senator ripped like a rapier into Magsaysay who denied, "I am not a puppet. But it is easy to prove somebody was somebody's puppet." The president evidently referred to Recto's role under Japanese occupation.

In his defense, the president even went so far as to explain that he has been bawling out Americans if they made mistakes in dealing with Philippines officials.

"I am for the Philippines first," Magsaysay declared.

Pungently Recto replied: "I know the kind of Americans you can bawl out: Benny Gaberman and Marvin Gray. But do not try to make anybody believe that you have bawled out Admiral Spruance, Minister Lacy, General Cannon, Admiral Goodwin and General Lee, and last but not least, . Col. Landsdale whom Time (magazine) calls their author."

And the Batangas solon lashed hard : "The trouble with you, Mr President, is that you fear so much the Americans and the American papers that you prefer to blame your own counrtymen for what you now belatedly consider as an offense but which in reality was committed by the American press against your personal dignity."

Magsaysay Declared that Recto was not hitting him person-ally but at the Nacionalista Party, but the president didn't give the party to which he bolted much credit. The president had said that Recto had fooled the people by working for the election of Magsaysay "merely to lift the Nacionalista Party out of the garbage can."

Recto retorted: "It is un-fortunate that the President made such a statement. The Nacionalistas swept the elections of 1951 and were on the verge of another victory and therefore were in good shape when some NP leaders thought of taking Mr. Magsaysay" from the garbage can that was the Liberal Party. The President should not have dragged the Nacionalista Party into the controversy."

Recto declared that he never runs away from a fight, and that he accepts the challenge. The challenge came when Magsaysay told reporters, at a Malacanan press conference that he will not support Recto in the senatorial campaign. MAGSAYSAY TOLD reporters that he couldn't understand why Recto favors the recognition of People's China and opposes the recognition of South Vietnam. He criticized Recto for his position on Formosa, opposition to U.S. military bases in the Philippines, wrecking the first Japan-Philip-pines reparation agreement which would have made Japan get off easy and his "Asia for Asians"' declaration.

Well schooled in rough-and-tumble politics, Recto took on Magsaysay on issues which would draw popular support to-ward him. Thus, he replied to the president's press statement:

"I thought the idea of Asia for the Asians, was excellent, be-cause if Asia is not for the Asians, for whom is it?"

He pressed his point: "Am I to understand, Mr. President, that your feeling is that Asia is not for the Asians, and that the Philippines is not for the Filipinos, but for the United States of America?'"

With the feud going on, the Japan-Pi reparations settlement seemed endangered, for Recto had wrecked a former agreement for $400 million payment by Japan. The agreement had been signed by Vice Pres. Carlos P. Garcia. The present proposed agreement is for a $800 million payment by Japan.

Politicos view Magsaysay's fight with Recto as a bold move since the Batangas senator is a powerful figure in the party, while the president had joined the Nacionalista Party prior to the last presidential campaign. Nacionalista leaders, the Manila Times re-ported July 27, "have proclaimed that he (Recto) will most likely head the majority party senator-ial ticket."

Meantime a move is afoot by Sen. Quintin Paredes (Liberal), minority party floor leader, to form a bloc to push measures. If successful, this would include Recto. In the past such blocs have been powerful and effective. The last was the Democratic, Group which practically ruled the Senate in the 1953 regular session.

Magsaysay declared July 27 (Manila Times) that he will make a trip to the U.S. if necessary to sign the final trade agreement which is a revised version of the Bell Act which Filipinos say makes their Republic a colony of the U.S. The president also said that he will again call a special session of the congress if the present session fails to act on the land reform bill. He is being criticized for failing to bring about agrarian reform when he rode to victory in the 1953 election on such a promise and on his reputation of suppressing the Huks who have fought for land for the tillers.

Ramon Magsaysay, Philippines president said while Quirino's secretary of national defense, that he was tired of killing the Huks for the landlords. He associated closely with landlords during the presidential campaign and these opponents of land, reform contributed heavily to his campaign. During the congressional session Magsaysay did not push the measure for land reform which he says is the best answer to the Huks' program. Meantime, the Philippines which is low in finance spends $85,000,000 a year to maintain its armed forces to stop the Huks. (Philippines Free Press, May 28, 1955)

Last Friday's decision by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman in the government's case to deport Harry Bridges was a victory all around.

It was a victory for workers and many others everywhere who steadfastly supported Bridges during the last 20 years of severe attacks he faced from reactionaries in and out of government. Those who maintained faith in Bridges, the militant leader of the ILWU—whose name symbolizes militant American trade union-ism—were vindicated. They have been abused and attacked, by the press, radio, employers and enemies of honest and militant trade unionism in government, in the effort to intimidate the people and to isolate a leader like Bridges from popular, mass support. During the recent trial a witness for Bridges was deprived of a pass to work on a West Coast waterfront by the Coast Guard. Almost all of Bridges' supporters stood firm under pressure. Throughout the last 20 years a few buckled under from intimidation and some told lies for personal "protection" or for monetary and other rewards.

It was a victory for workers, for the Bridges' defense checked the assault from breaking through to "get" other union leaders.

It was a victory for democratic processes which have been severely set back in recent years. This was another proof that reactionaries in government are not the government but that the people can shape and mould their government. Had McCarthyism taken full grip of the U. S., a trial of the ILWU leader such as took place in Judge Goodman's courtroom would have been out of the question. Had Bridges lacked solid mass support from his membership and others, this victory in the fifth attempt to "get" him would have been out of the question. He would have been spirited by immigration officials onto a ship and to the high seas as they have done with other immigrants.

Opposition against reaction by the people, as in the Bridges' defense, has up-held and guarded democratic principles The principles of American democracy have been threatened time and again from the early years of this country when Thomas Jefferson himself was witch-hunted and people were jailed for non-conformist ideas, not to speak of op-posing vested interests of that time But the vast majority of people have always won in the end. As in the Bridges defense, at other times, too, the fight which the people put up helped to lift the cloud of fear and pressures of witch-hunting. It is such struggles of people everywhere that have slackened the tension here and abroad, and have created a mood more conducive to peace.

The attack against Bridges, aside from efforts of U.S. vested interests to de-port him, has mirrored the changing times. Several years ago the ILWU was cut off from the CIO when the militant union refused to go along on the Marshall and Truman plans, which CIO and AFL representatives working with them in foreign countries have since come to denounce as plans to enrich the rich only. More recently Bridges was jailed for opposing the Korean "police action" which cost tens of thousands of American lives in "operation meat-grinder," "operation killer," and others with like description. His membership in Hawaii protested the jailing. After two years of warfare people's pressure started by workers in Hawaii and elsewhere brought hostilities to an end. Again Bridges' supporters were vindicated. And it was demonstrated again that Bridges was concerned with the welfare of the majority and that the "hot water" of the reactionaries concerned him the least.

Bridges and his membership have called for China trade. The dailies here have denounced this as "subversive." Today McCarthy, isolated and shunned—even by his former backers, shouts Pres. Elsenhower is helping communism by talking to Premier Bulganin and Marshal Zukov. Mean-time even Sen. George of Georgia wants China trade to sell Georgia cotton.

Bridges has worked hard and effectively for his membership and their support demonstrates their appreciation. It is time reactionaries in government dropped the persecution of Harry Bridges. His ideas are advanced and he has given advanced leadership, ever since the 1934 strike when he started cleaning out graft and corruption and brought security, human decency and respect to his membership.

His victory is a national victory.

Chicago—Hand packing of Vienna sausage is a thing of the long, gone past at Libby, McNeill and Libby's huge meat canning plant here. Vienna sausage in four ounce cans has always been a big seller in Libby's meat products line and dozens of women workers used to pack the little sausages snugly into, their tins.

The women were, of course, members of UPWA Local 247. They worked fast and could turn out a lot of product. But along came a machine and out went most of the crew.

This mechanical marvel cuts the lengths of Vienna sausage to size and rams them into the cans in one continuous operation. A similar unit installed recently at the Foell Packing Co., also in Chicago, is rated at 180 cans per minute.

A crew of six women serves each of two such machines at Libby's.

Here's how it does the job. The long links are removed from smokehouse trees and placed in pans which are positioned in front of the operators. These operators place eight of the long links in a tube-like container slotted to permit the strokes of a rotary cutter blade.

A carriage moves the tube through the cutting section where rapid and positive cuts are made in perfect synchronization through its narrow slots.

The product goes on to the can filling section resembling a large wheel. As empty cans fed into pockets in the revolving wheel reach precise alignment with the cut-to-length product, still snug in its container, a pusher-head acting like a piston promptly shoves the sausage into the cans.

Filled cans then are removed at the drop-out position by what is called a "plow" operating in split-second coordination with the revolution of the wheel.

Moving down a gravity conveyor the cans then pass before the inspectors who watch for piece count and make occasional check-weight. From there it's a quick trip through the liquid filler, can crimper and vacuum closure machines. Reprinted from Packinghouse Worker, June, 1955.

By Frank Marshall Davis

Bridges and Riesel

Harry Bridges has been freed again, this" time by the trial judge who stated flatly that he doubted the credibility of government witnesses. This would, of course, suggest that somebody is guilty of perjury. But since perjurers in this case would be on the side of government, it is folly to believe that action will be taken against them.

It is interesting to note that while a federal judge was deciding that Bridges was not a Communist, one of his longtime foes was using his widely syndicated column to blast Harry and the ILWU. I refer to Victor Riesel, a hatchet man for management who poses as a pro-labor expert.

Riesel Is A Phony

For a good many years I have been aware of the fact that Riesel is a phony. Even if there were no facts to support this statement, it could be substantiated by the elemental logic that the nation's daily press which speaks, with only a few notable exceptions, for Big Business, would not pay for the daily comments of a writer who was genuinely interested in the welfare of the labor movement.

The working people of Hawaii who may have been fooled into believing that Riesel knew what he was talking about have only to refer to his column entitled "Bridges and Hawaii" appearing on the editorial page of the Advertiser last Saturday, July 30.

After describing Waikiki and Pearl Harbor, Riesel has this to say:

"And a sickening feeling hits you because you know that an arrogant man by the name of Harry Bridges really controls the economy of this island outpost and knows virtually every detail of what transpires here . . . Harry and his aide, Jack Hall, and a couple of lawyers growing wealthy out of their handling of cases of the native workers, are the bullying, terrorizing, cocky, behind-the-scene powers here."

Utterly Fantastic

This is so utterly fantastic that no comment should be necessary. Most of us who live here and that includes working people and small business men—have the belief that the economy is controlled mainly by the Big Five. Somehow or other this idea has taken hold in Mainland financial circles, for recently a survey conducted by Stanford University gave the major reason why investors are not anxious to risk capital in Hawaii. The reason, this survey sets forth, is that Territorial economy is so thoroughly dominated by the Big Five that any sizeable business venture that did not have their approval would have a hard time succeeding. Since organized labor has long been the whipping boy of Big Business, isn't it pretty obvious that the ILWU would have been singled out in the Stanford survey if this labor union really did control local economy?

Riesel is both patronizing and objectionable in his description of the ILWU membership. When he speaks of "a couple of lawyers growing wealthy out of their handling of cases of the native workers," he implies that ILWU members are a bunch of ignorant, inferior non-white working stiffs who are being exploited almost to their last penny by a couple of slick attorneys. The phrase, "native workers," always has patronizing connotations for me.

I do not know the financial status of the "couple of lawyers" but I have seen nothing to indicate they are "growing wealthy." I have it on good authority that they eat regularly, pay

their bills, and own their own homes but in the past this has not been sufficient criterion for winning the description, of wealthy. Undoubtedly it came as a surprise to them to know that they, along with Jack and Harry, are "bullying, terrorizing, cocky behind-the-scenes powers." Undoubtedly it is equally surprising to the courts and all others with whom they deal.

A Real Service

When you get right down to it, I think Victor Riesel did the working people of Hawaii a real service. He has produced in black and white proof of the fact that he is not only anti-labor but an inventor of untruths and a twister of facts to serve his own purpose. Islanders may reason-ably conclude that if he is unwilling or unable to tell the truth about Hawaii, he cannot be trusted to tell the truth about events and people elsewhere. He stands revealed, by his own, hands, as a phony posing as a pro-labor expert.

Riesel has been one of those working feverishly for years to get Bridges put away as Communist. And if the government can find some new way to continue the l6 year persecution of the ILWU chief, you can rest assured it will have the full backing of one Victor Riesel.