Editorials.

In this article, the editor gives his literary concerns on international politics. The Vinson bill, which has been approved by the U.S. House Naval Affairs Committee, is really a bill to repeal the Wagner Act. Under it, a fine of $5,000 and a prison sentence of one year could be imposed on "either labor or management" which tried to bargain collectively in plants now open shop. The week that has passed since the signing of the Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact has brought only conflicting guesses as to its significance in terms of immediate Japanese policy. The steel industry has suffered two severe shocks in the past two weeks. The first was administered by one of its own leaders, E. T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel Corp., who while negotiations for a wage increase were proceeding between U.S. Steel and the SWOC upped the rates of his own non-unionized workers by 10 cents an hour.