Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                The stars and stripes Magazine july 1945 bust suitable War memorials stir Public debate by Stanley Meltzoff stars and stripes staff writer the people Back Tome Are talking of the disinterested Ard the interested Are talking Sculp insist thai Bronze statues Are favor real estate own want to build pars and Fresco painters prepared to prove that murals never slow to put Oil on a buying Fror the newspapers Nave begun to turn Oit pieces on the kind of the location of monuments and the Naii n in o the subject of exhibit considerable most chs would rather see the War Over f r7and when it is Over they would rather see appropriations go to veterans and veterans one of the More reasonable suggestions was that a Mound the height the heat Pyramid of Cheops do construe Ted empty oration recalling the Mountain sculptured by Guzum Bor glum into likenesses of Jef Lincoln and proposed that the neighbouring mountains be carved into likenesses of Mau dins Joe and vets and by Phil Bucknell stars and stripes Stair writer new probably the toughest single problem on the Domestic front is the attempt to blend with the established safeguards of Orga maed labor the veterans rights As Laid Down by the go Bill of the select Ive service act most All those things which every american knows is due the returning it is a problem that has loomed Large in the Public prints and in the congressional and has often been rehashed by often to the Point of massing Tir problem even More confusing to the Many angles Are but Little has been done to formulate a Clear Cut policy which will the Veteran what his rights really Are employers what must be granted to returning a servicemen 3give unions guidance on what the administration the chief difficulty is to merge the selective service acts provision requiring an employer to re employ a vet eran whose Job was interrupted by the War Lor at least one year with the unions demand that the seniority rights of the men tired in the intervening time be not in that the returning veterans should have Dav Torday seniority rights accruing for tune spent in the armed forces is admitted by most out most of the unions Are demanding that the returning Veteran should serve a probationary period at Bis before he picks up accrued it is is to ensure that a Man who has been a Good worker for Many years and for reasons Best known to his draft Board did not serve m uniform should not of Trust out of his Joyc by a Man however Good his service record May be not yet proved to the employer that he is suitable for a situation or to the Union that he is qualified to take has Olace in the inhere is nothing on the statute books 1 that provides for these yet not necessarily into the atmosphere of uncertainty last a week John Elliott Banian tossed he pushed for legis exempt returned veterans from compulsory Union membership or payment of dues framed As an amendment to the i Bill of it would permit Honor ably discharged veterans to work Thev could jobs and would waive Normal sems ship requirements in a closed rank has received Little in the first be put the Bill before the House veterans of which he is without any previous consideration or hearing of any testimony and with out a full membership of the commute sing then be presented it to tie in a Migis be exempt joining unions  Jority signed by a majority of toe members of the protested his in the second his Bill is considered not so much for the Veteran As it is against organized he himself claimed that the Bill would result in strike breaking by permitting veterans to take Obs vacated by strikers and to keep them regardless of any it this Bill passes and be comes a he it will break More of the strikes in our defense Indus tries than anything else that has been done since the new York Herald which 1 opposes the principles of the closed shop and considers rankins Bill with poetic yet opposes the bin Beca Stit is purely class legislation which sidesteps the problem As a both closed and Union maintenance shops Are anachronisms in a so called free especially when decreed under government by to give any specified group veterans the privilege of ignoring them would be to neglect the Mam body of equally entitled to in instead of Insulat so our veterans against the labor move we should democratize it Thomas Scripps Howard political who can m no Way be called a wrote that its not Nice to think out some persons m this country would set the returning veterans against the workers who have had remain at Home to produce the things with which to Steht the object of promoting this dangerous cleavage is to weaken labor unions or rankles purpose is Clear from his own it is in keeping with uie  he has it is More easily understood by taking into account his background and locale poll tax a state where labor has Little 11 the Bill would give veterans seniority credit for All of their time in the armed services and would permit them irrespective of any contract or agreement for a period of one year to disregard affiliation with any labor organization or to pay any dues or assessments to any labor Orgaz Tion the Knutson Bill provides for issuance of a seniority credit certificate to each Serviceman upon his Ore Dit would be equal to the number of Days spent in the service after each sixth Day of that service would count As a Day and a each Holiday would count As two the safeguards which Knutson said labor can rightfully demand include the following provisions limiting the use of certificates 1 a Veteran must qualify for a Job he seeks in a 90day probationary 2 certificates Are valid for Only one year following the completion of the probationary at the end of one year if the Veteran has not used his certificate of seniority in securing employment it is automatically 3 if the Holder of a certificate leaves a position which he obtained through a seniority certificate after 90 Days on the he May not use the certificate for seniority purposes no action at the time of writing had been taken on this but it is known it is considerably nearer the viewpoints of some veterans organizations than rank s which received no encouragement from any exse vice but Knutson proposal As Well As rankins is almost sure to run into trouble with labor on the clause which provides a leeway of one year before a Veteran who gets a Job must join a whatever its consideration of the Bill will at least begin to make Clear exactly what the Veteran can at the to owing to a labor nor can Tell on the negative there was consider opposition to the Practised on the boulevards of Brooklyn after the last War of planting Trees marked with a plaque inscribed with the heros alter said one who wants to end up As a Mere Halfway Stop for some Pooch in Brooklyn by and the War memorial discus Sion rages Between two Utility Nan and the Monument Alise the utilitarians would like to see Monef used for memorials spent on some of Robeet of use to the veterans or to the Community As a the Monument lists insist on the necessity of works of utilitarian projects Are already under at almost half a million Dot Lars has been collected in Denver for the general Maurice Rose memorial Hospital and other towns which Nave Given birth to heroes May not be far another instance is the scholarship for Young Artiss set up in memory of Gregor Don can slurs and strives artist killed near Anzio Many universities Wilt receive funds m the name of graduates who never returned from the but the Are Beta vocal and the cry Tor nos i Parks and they does not meet the Arkly it is a Good thing to build a Hospital say the it is a pointless act if our aim is merely keep alive the memory of a Soldier what is needed is something that tells of an act in As permanent a Way As if hospitals or Parks Are the Community should build them whether or not there has been a if we intend to Honor a we should do just and not slur it by using it As camouflage for our own neglected the real problem is not whether Monu ments shall be but How to guarantee that these monuments will not extend the Long line of tedious monstrosities that clutter up our rather than erect More corny Victory More Bronze Pigeon roosts or More mountains sculptured into it would be better that the courage Anc Patriot ism of our time is no less than that of the we also should try to preserve the memory of our times in a fashion As Oer moment As that of general opinion is that rankins Mil g will be pigeonholed or in some Way when it first appeared some obviously were afraid Toop be it Les they be accused of ant Veteran Asito but the wide nature of the opposition it has received makes its defeat r or its loss in route almost while All the furore attending rank s measure was going on the legislation sponsored by Harold Kymson has been More or less overlooked the Knutson which was Rel erred to the House military affairs committee at the end of is being pushed by the veterans of foreign wars Ana proposed with the idea of obtaining on the subject of seniority it also remains some elements of rank s me the people talk Home Are m dither Over memorials for War