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\ J u ly 13, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE L a t er I will int roduce legislation which em.I wo.s st lll wit h the R esearch Council when would increase t he u nit - cos t limitations· World War II broke out . He Immediately was for family housin g in amounts which it en.J i b ack t o the command of Can adin.n . f lt uld ·ct . d d t forces. ls e . provi e prope r a n a equ a e I By n ow n. mn.Jor general, h e took tho 1st f a c ilities. - \ Ca.nn.dlan Division to Engln.nd . by 1940 he was M r. S pea ker , t he men who wear the ' p romoted to Jieut en n.nt general and placed , u niform of America 's armed services are in comm::md of the 7th c orps of c anadln.n ,/ e xpec ted to assume wh atever risk m a y be· - and English u nits. He devised a fiexiblo ' r equired of them. T hey c a n never enj oy defense system of t an!, traps, r oad b n.rrlers a nor m a l , h appy homelife, s uch a s tha t nnd entrenchments a~ainst a possible Gerwhich is available t o most of u s . The m m, invasion after the fall of Fran ce. . · l t t d Wh en t he 1s t Canadia n Army was created, c a 1ee~ man s1mp Y. c a nno_ pu . own Gen . McNaughton was placed in comman d roots 111 t he c ommumty of his c hoic e. At a n d in constan t m n.neu vers over t h o countr.i.e v e ry lea st, we s hould attempt t o h elp t ryside, whipped it int o a finely drawn fight him to f eel t h a t h e does have a h ome Ing force. He called .his nrmy "a dagger which is p le a san t and attr active and aimed a t Berl!n." But he was not destined comfortable. At too m a n y m ilitar y b ases t o lead i t in t o b attle. this is f a r f rom true. A g o od m a n y s er v In Decem ber , 1943, h e b ecame m and t ho icemen live in W orld War II ba rracks year 1944 fou nd him back in Canada relieved which were inadequ a t e even when t hey of du t y._ T he relinq uishmen~ i': command . . . . was believed due In p art t o disagreement we1e bmlt more t h a 1: 20 ~ea r ~ a go. . with the Nation al Defense Ministr y, which Let us c orr ect this s1t u at1on. It w ill d etached a corps from his a rmy and sent it have a p r of ound effe ct u pon morale and, off t o the war in Sicily and Italy over his I believe, a s ig nificant e ffec t u p on reten- p rot est . The min istry said the m en were tion of d esirab le per s onnel in the a r med eager and impatient for bat tle. services. TERRIDLE MISTAY..E "I st111 t11.!nl, I was right, " h e said later. DEATH OF G I A . G . L . McNAUGH- "It was o. t errible mistake to b realc u p tl1e .. TON a rmy." The n.rmy was reunit ed in tim e for the (M r. R ON CALIO asked a nd was given Normandy invasion In J une, 1944, but the per mission t o a ddress the House for 1 command had passed to Gen . H.D.G. Crerar , m inut e a n d to in clud e a- n ewspaper who led It t hrough t he battles of Fra nce, Belgium, the Netherlan ds and Germany. a r ticle.) Baclc in Canada, Gen. McNaugh ton was M r . RONCALIO . 1 Mr. S peaker, this nnmed Minist er of National Defense and Inter week death c a.me to on e of t he ou tst a n d - b ecame chairman of the Canadl:m -Arnerlin g m·en on this c ont inent and in our a g e . can Joint Defense Board. After the war h e H e was Gen . A. G . L . M cNau ghton, a re- served as Can ad ian r epresentative to t h e t ired g eneral who h a d c omma nded United Nations Atomic Energy Commission , C anadia n Armies in both W orld War I p resid ent of the Atom.le Energy Control Board of Canada an d Can adian chairmn.n of a n d II. Gener a l M cNa u ghton was a r em a r k - the internat ional joint commiss ion that h an dles U.S. and Canadian affairs. able h uman being who achieved r eknown The general, whoso full nn.me was An drew a.s an engineer, a statesman , a n inven tor, George Latta McNaughton , was born at Mosand general. He was a man with whom somin , Sask., Feb. 25, 1887. He mm;ied in I was h on or ed to serve as m y c ounter p a rt 1914 t o Mable Weir. They h ad three sons on the International Joint Commiss ion , a nd two d augh ters. One son, squadron leadUnited States a n d C a n a d a , for 2 _years, er I an McNau gh t on of the Royal Canadian Air F orce, was killed in action in June, 1942. 1961 and 1962, u ntil his retir em ent. An obituary p u blis hed in the W a shing - The widow and the other ch ild ren survive. ton Post on July _12 f ollows : GENERAL MCNAUGHTON DEAD; SHAPED CANAREVOLUT I ~ i I DIAN ARMY (M r . w GGONNER ased a nd was MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC, July 11.-Gen. A. G. L. McNau ghton, architect of t h e modern g iven permission to addr ess the H ouse Canadian a.rmy who fou gh t in two World for l m in u te a n d to r evise and extend his Wars, died today at his summer h ome h ere. r emar ks and to include a n editorial.) H e was 79. M r. WAGGONNER. Mr. S peaker, ~ye The m an who commanded the 1st Cnnn.dian Army before the invasion of France llad may well have passed the point of · n o been In apparent good h ealtl1 recent ly. The return in the r evolut10na(y v10le11ceih 'this Nation which masks itself u nder the cause of d eath was not made public. A brigadier at 31 in World War I he was n ame "civil r ights." We may be beyond credited with inventing the box barrage-an the h011r of midnight ; it m ay alr eady be artlllery firing system boJ,.ing ln t he enemy. zero-zero-zero-one. If tha t is true, and He was wounded in the battles of Ypes a n d I pray tha t it is not, every Amer ican will Soissons. A month b efore the end of the w ar he w as placed in command of all Canadian f e el the hot breath of revolution on the n ape of his neck, whether he be c onhea vy artillery. After t he armistice, he returned to Canada servative, liber a l, or radic al, or any sha de and began forming the nucleuc, of the Cana- of philosophy in between. dian army he was t o commnntl for a time in There are few who have even a assing World War II. The milita ry forces were reeorganlzed during his t enure as chief of stall'. rs wno can eny M'GILL GRADUATE a y 1s e deuterag onist An engineering graduate of McGill Univers ity, Gen. McNaughton became chairman or o f the Socialist and the Communist . the National Research Council in 1935. He This is not to say, of cou r se, t hat all came with some credentials as a research Negroes are Socialists or Communists, physicist. He invented the cathode-ray for they definitely are not. This is to compass, an aid to atrplane pilots. - The gen• say that in t oo many c a ses they are the
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pawns of the left ; ~be r adical g roup
which w ill d is ca rd them as u seless whe n ·
t h eil· p urpose has been ser ve d .
The S h r eveport T imes published on
J une 28 a masterful edit orial on t h is s it u ation u nder the tit le " R evolu t ion ? .___;u:_
ther e were a way I c ould r e quire every
Am erica n t o r ead it, I wou ld. I m ust, a t
least m~ke the effor t t
ive i t
nationwi de t ·
n it d eserves by includi n g i t her e in t h e RECORD. I urge every
Member t o st u dy it line by line.
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The civil r ights movem ent in t h is coun try
h as taken a dist!.nctly revolu tionary t u rn ..
Dou b ters can look at the m ost recen t d em an ds of righ ts leaders : $50 billion for Negro
welfa.r c over the n ext 10 years; a ll local ool!ce
power in fe der al h ai s ; federal t rials for
civil rig
cctses; forced integration to com p el "racial balance." Th e list is longer t han
,ve h nve space.
Much of tile evidence of a n ew revolut ionary outlook In t h e r igh ts drive is visu al-all
too visu al. At a crit ical Junctu re in its effort
to i;naintn.ln racial accord , Mississippi fi nds
itself storm ed by m ::i.rchers shout ing "black
p ower" an d flaunt ing slogans that could incit e blaclts or whites---or both- t o bloodshed.
What we h ave, in essence, ls a r em arkably
cyn ical bid on the p art of rights lead ers for
martyrs-martyrs that wlll t ransfuse their·
cause wit h somebody's r eal blood.
Bu t the revolution ary bell tolls not only
in Dixie. F ar to t he west of Mississippi,
Cnlifor n in. h as s een t he flam es, r eal flames,
of open r ebellion in Watts. Across t h e continent, New Yorlt City sits on a su mmer
powderkeg of mob violence nnd so-ca.lied
racial "moderates" like Martin Luther King
'are llghtini, the fuse w1t.h ba.relv-concealed
tbrnats of "disorder " unless d emands arn
met.
--in- b etween, r evolutionary sp::i.rks have
fa.lien on m idland cities like Chicago n.nd
Cleveland where Negroes n.nd ~
r acial
minorities h ave taken t heir troubles into t he
street, _firin g c:irs, smashin g glass, and shooting at pol!ce. Ot-her pbces are braced 1or
t rou ble that Negr o lea ders and .advoc:ites
h ave predicted- as a result of this or that
"grievn.nce."
Federal omc!als, now concern ed over the
,i6fent character of the r evolution, haven't
h elped to curb violence with their 'viiifue
rm licat1ons thn.t .he on! way for "o presse
eo le to e
some 1·m
1s or
1em o go out into the streets on a h o n1g t
and heave a bnckba.t tlu·ough somebody"s
store window.
R evolutionary a t titudes, of course, have
spread beyond the area of civil r ights and
in to the nunds and morals of some elements
of our most important commodity-youth.
There ls a spirit ,of anarcl'v abroad. of "anything goes," that m asks 1:.c"l f in democrn t ic
sloga ns bu_! seems to giorv in dop and dirty
~ Defiance of law, of all authority, is
the hallmn.rk of revolu tion and we can see it
not only in youthful ca.mpus rebels but in
the r ising tide of crime In tlus na.t!on.
This has been n. country of law and orderthe founding fathers t hought nothing more
importn.nt--but the Supreme Comt of this
era ,
u itself in the van ltard o. rnvolu tion and its r,··n~s mns o ten oniv mirror
t11e demand5 , , the mii1tants. The Warren
Court seems to be-at times---a revolutionary tribunal rather tho..n a constitutional
arbiter.
All federal office-holders take an oath to
uphold the Constitution, but the "liberal"
fashion of permiss ven ess and the raw, eKposed power of minority voting blocs have
packed more power than Bible-sworn prom-
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ises. Congress h as often y ielded t o the
r evolutionary tides ln these c ircumstances.
But there are oth er r easons why rad icalism
h as r epl::iced common sense and r ealism ln
dealing w1th our p roblems , the most important of which ls the fact that this racial
rcvolu t lon ls given-as m uch as possibl e-·_;c1011fiage trappings of · Jeg!tim ;,.cy; of
cmocr::icy; of doing what i s ri ght; of going
with the flow of history. T his lllus!on has
b een made n.lmost perfect by three d ecades of
l iberal lncl octrin;J,tion .
It ls not unusual for r evolutionary ideas
to swe.>p up so -called "liberals" or progressives. Short -cuts to some va,gue all-equal
soc!a.J!st p n.radlse appeal to many people who
hones t ly do not believe in authoritn.r!an
governm ent . The shortest short-cut to this
" parn.dlse" is a social revol ution in this
c ountry. So Martin Luth er King s ays " we
c a n 't wai t." Freedom now ! As he professes
• nou-v10lence," he shou ts that " we will
m ake .the whi te power stru cture s ~·
i.·v hen it wants to s a y 'po.' "
· Why wait, indeed . The Ru ssian revolu tionaries said · fre ed om was their oa-1, too .
may e
was.
e oppressed worker
was the Russian Revolutiona ry ca use Just as
the Negro ls advanced as tod ay "s vehicle of
total change. Bu t R u ssia no longer ls revolutionary ; radically r eactionary is the phrase
f or the Kremlin. What happened to those
dreams of freedom? ·what h appe ned to the
worlter?
The trouble ls that r evolu tionists a re all
too human. Once in power they want to stay
in power. T he way to stay in power is to
es tablish a cl lctatorsh!p. Nothin g ls there to
stop them beca u se the wave of revolution
· h as d estroyed "the checks and balan ces, the
institutions and traditions that could h ave
barred the way to tota lita rian ism. T he Rus sian worker was just a p a wn of p ower.
This n ation h a s avoid ed such soci al revo lutions and as a r esult fre edom has endured
on these shores. Some Inequities prevail,
but the b est syste m of Justice yet d evised together with freedoms no other n ation en Joys--provide eventua l out lets for most of
our troubl es. Th e .Anlerlca n way of dea ling
·w:lth problems as they arise h as b een one of
c alm, lawful evolu tion-not the revolution
we now are see:lng.
What good will it do the Negro if, In compelling a r evolution ary equ ality for h im, the
wider freedoms of all .Anlerican s- bln.ck or
whlte--are lost? Th e Russian worker h ad a
i-evolution m ade In his nn.me, too , but in the
end , onlv a deeper sin.very wa s his rewa rd .
It c an hn.ppen here . It is h appenin g h ere.
well as the efforts of emergency boards
appointed under this act to resolve labor
disp utes in the transportation field .
T o repeat what I said on July 11 , the
repo1ts of the emergency boards have
never in my recollection been totally accepted by the parties to t he dispu te ; indeed these reports, as in the present airline-IAM dispute, h ave served only as a
new basis to try t o get substantially m ore
concessions from management.
The President of the United S tates
should promptly exercise his great powers in a n effort to persuade the IAM to
settle this strike within the r easonable
perimeter of the Emergency Board report which L.B.J . described as " the
framework for a just and prompt settle-,
ment." The President should _also ask
Congress fo r immediate legislation designed to forbid any future strike in the
transportation industry under similai·
circumstances as exist in the present
controvPrsy which cause such a gr eat inconvenience to t he public, including Vietn am veterans trying to get a few frantic
minutes' leave at home.
I a m today introducing a bill , H.R.
16189 , identical to S. 3587, introduced by
S enator FRANK LAUSCHE, of Ohio, pro viding that whenever a labor dispute has
o·c cuned in t he vital transpo1tation industry and afte r the Conciliation Service
a nd Mediation Boa rd h a ve exercised unsuccessfully its power to bring about a
settlement, tLe President sha ll create a
Presidential Board that has the power to
m ake fina l decisions.
For the information of my colleagues
I a m attaching copies of the editorials
from the New York Times, Washington
Post, Washington Evening Star, Was hington Daily News, a nd the Wall S tr eet
Journal to be included as a part of my
r em arks :
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litical problem. The highly sk!lled me chanics, in n. strqng bargain ing pos ition be cause they are in short supply, object to
being grouped in the same unit with porters ,
kitchen workers, ra.mp a nd store personnel.
They say the unskilled d epress their wn.ge
and worl,ing standards.
.AJ; n. res u lt , I A.M leaders , faced with a revolt
by militant mechn.nics and fc n.rful of losing
them , app:u·cntly fe el the necessity for be in g mor e m.ilitant ·still .
But s urely these politi cal and intang ib le
considerat ion s are not sufficient reason fo r
shutting clown 60 per cent of the domestic·
t runk line industry, for d epriving 150,000
d a ily p assengers of air serv:lce at the s tart
of the vacat ion season and for disregarding
public opinion and the public interest.
Under Presidential prompting both sides
h ave agreoo to r esmne negotiations. They
could do no l ess. We urge them to settle
their d ifferences realistically and speedily.
[From the Washington Evening S tar , July
11, 1966]
A STRIKE AGAINST THE PUBLIC
The Internationn.l Association o! Machinists seems determined to press !ts strike
against five of the nation's mn.jor airlines to
the point where r estrictive l abor legislation
will become a m a tter of urgent national
policy.
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The la test manifestation of the unlon 's
"Public- be- damned" attitude was the a n nouncement last night that IAM personnel
would be forbidden to ser vice a ny aircraft
l eased by the struck airlines to those still
op eratin g. The leasing plan could, under .
no str etch of the imagination , b e con sidered
a strike - breaking move. The legitimate eco ~
nomic pressure on the struclc lines would
h n.ve r emained in full effe ct. T he only re s u lt wou ld have been to alleviate, in some
sma ll degree, the crisis ln the n ation's t r n.ns portation system, wn.r effort and economic
life. Now, even tha t slender re cd has been
snatched away.
Even b efor e this latest lll-cons idered n.c t!on, the u nion put i tself on s h aky ground by
spurning every attempt by dis_lnterested par - ,
[From the Washington Daily News, July 9 , tics to head off the stri!ce. Every statutor y
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means of avoiding the crisis was passed up .
AmJ.INE STRlliE
In a ddition, t h e union brushed asid e the offer
By any standard, the strike of the Interna - of the National Mediation Board for bindtion al Association of Machinisits against five ing arbitration . A presidenti a lly appointed
major airllnes ls u nfortunate . As usual, it emergency board headed by Senn.tor WAYNE
is the public that suffers most. On that MORSE, probed the Issues in dispute and ca me
ground alone the strike ought to be ended- u p w:lth n. recorrunendation for wage Increases
averaging 3.3 percent. The carriers accepted
and speedily .
T he uni on wants a bigger share of the in - the package; the u nion rej ected it. D espite
dustry's ·r ecent s u bsta ntial prosperity. It the fact that the proposal exceeded th e adLEGISLATIVE SOLUTION TO T HE blam.es
"short-sighted " m a n agement for the ministration's economic guideposts , Presi UNCONSCIONABLE"
AIRLINE strilrn a n d decla;res its dissatisfied members d ent J ohnson h a iled it as the basis for "a
just a ncl , --,m pt settlement. " T he airlines'
STRIKE
"have a rig-ht to strike."
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The employers, bargaining together for the final offer ...as even more liberal tha n the
(Mr. DEVINE asked and was given first
proposals of the emer gency board. But the
time, point out that th ey acceptedpermission to a ddress the House for 1 while the u nion rejected-as the bas is for union walked out.
minute, to revise and extend his remarks, settlement the recent recorrunenda tion s of a
The u nion's main con t ention Is that t he
and to include several editorials.)
Presidentia l Emergency Boa.rd . President a irlines a re prosperous and that th e workers
l',fr. DEVINE. Mr. Speaker, t he words J ohnson called the recommendations "the should sh are in that prosperity. l t ls true
" w1conscionable strike" are headlined in fram.ework for a j ust and proper sett lement, that the a irlines are prosperou s . It is also
t he editorials of the New York Times. which is in the n ationa l interes t." Tile com- true that the union membership already
p a nies sa y they h:w e sweeten ed the pot "by sllares ·in tha t prosperity In the f o,-r,1 of hi gh
The Washington Da ily News, and S ena - nn
n.dditional s u bs t antia l o!Icr above the wages and an ever-increasing number of Jobs
tor WAYNE MORSE, of Oregon, Chairman Board's
proposal s" tha t would exceed the ava ila ble. But the suggestion that wage disof t he P residential Emergency Board, estima ted $ 76 million cost of the recom- pu te settlements should be b a sed directly on
express public concern in the pending mendations.
profi ts could be t aken seri ously only if accontroversy bet ween the International
These are the facts . Wha t complicates companied by a proposa l for a lower wage
Association · of Machinists and United, th!s--a.nd very ne:::ly every Ja bor-n1a nage - p a ckage for the less prosp erous of the carriers
T rans World, National, E astern, and · ment relationsll.ip--are the lntan glble, the and a decreased sca le in the event profits
Northwc:li ~ Alrlines. Similar edito1ials h u man , the political consider ations . One of should sla ck off . The u nion has made no
ls the u nion 's announced determinasuch suggestion.
have a.I.so appeal'ed in other newspapers these
t ion to smash the Administration 's 3.2 perThe threat o f a st r ike and the strike Itself
across the Nation including the Wash- cont
wa;-;e guidelines even tho the Presi- are legitima te weapons in collectlve bargainington Evening Star, Washington Post, d ent!a rBoard's r ecommendations were in ex- ing. But the thou,,. ,10ss, capricious u se of
and the Wall Street Journal.
cess of that figure . They wa nt to claim that weapon to create •. voe in the nation's
This crippling and unnecessary strike cre<lit for it them.selves rather than having economy can only incre ....-_ the demand for
has a gain emphasized the sterility of the the boa.rd do it for them.
congressional action to cu rt a buses of union
Another factor is the u nion's inte1·nal po- power.
provisions of_the R ailway Labor Act as
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