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Volume CLXXVII April 10, 1952 Worcester, Massachusetts 2 cents

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN SEIZES
  U.S. STEEL MILLS; CITES WAR
   AND INHERENT AUTHORITY

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     Republicans decry Truman's "tyranny"

By W.R. Hearst
White House Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9 – Citing the need to ensure a steady flow of vital war materiél to U.S. forces fighting in Korea, President Harry S Truman, acting as Commander-in-Chief, today ordered the seizure of all U.S. steel mills.

Now we know where Harry Truman got the idea to seize private property, says Ace Columnist Hacky Carp.

Hacky Sez:
Who Does Adolf Truman Think He Is, Anyway?

By Hacky Carp, Sr.
Ace Columnist

I hate to say I told you so, but who always said that these New Deal liberals wouldn't be satisfied until they had transformed the United States into a Stalinist dictatorship? I did.

Now the little haberdasher has finally shown his true colors: Commie Red. Government control of free enterprise? That's right out of Joe Stalin's playbook. Who does pinko Harry think he's kidding? Not old Hacky!

The true goals of the Communist conspiracy in the White House are now clear: a no-win strategy in Korea, muzzling patriots like Gen. MacArthur and Chiang Kai-Shek, promoting Commie-lovers like Dean Acheson, and now: appropriating private enterprise under the pretext of wartime need.

There's a word for a government that unilaterally seizes private property on the whim of an absolute dictator: it's called Communism. Right now American boys are fighting and dying in the struggle against the global Red menace.

Our boys, shivering in their foxholes thanks to the Truman no-win policy in Korea, would be shocked to learn that the enemy they're fighting against over there had won over here.

It can't happen here? It already has! Just ask Douglas MacArthur!

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The President's decision to act on the basis of his inherent authority follows weeks of maneuvering, triggered by continuing labor strife in the steel industry.

White House sources assert that Congress's refusal to act to resolve the steel strike left the President "no choice" but to seize the mills and order the workers back to their jobs.

His popularity already suffering from Republican charges that he had failed to provide a "victory strategy" for the Korean Conflict, Truman immediately came under withering Republican attacks.

"This is the most extraordinary and unconstitutional assertion of Presidential authority in the history of the United States," thundered Senator Richard M. Nixon (R – Calif.). "If this action is allowed to stand, the United States will effectively have become a dictatorship. That is not what our boys are fighting and dying for in Korea," Nixon said

While Capitol Hill Democrats are said to be privately concerned about Truman's broad interpretation of executive authority, in public, they are backing their embattled president.

"We need to support our president in wartime," Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D – Texas) told his colleagues in a floor address. "U.S. steel factories are as important to the fight against Red Chinese aggression as boots on the ground."

His legal adviser and fixer, Abe Fortas, expressed confidence that the seizure, like Senator Johnson's dubious 1948 election victory, would withstand an expected Supreme Court challenge.

"The Supreme Court will surely recognize that the President as Commander-in-Chief has the inherent authority to take whatever measures are in his view necessary or appropriate to prosecute a war," Fortas explained.

Legal scholars agreed that the Court, packed with Roosevelt and Truman appointees, was unlikely to cabin Presidential authority in the face of the current national emergency.

But Senator Nixon took vigorous exception to the claim that the President's action would be blessed by the Supreme Court. "The Supreme Court has always been the bulwark of our freedoms and I am sure that they will take a dim view of what I like to call the arrogance of power. Now who promoted Peress?"