OHIO: Labor's Love Lost

Amid the clutter on his statehouse desk, Ohio's new Governor Michael V. (for Vincent) DiSalle keeps a framed motto attributed to the late Herbert Bayard Swope: i CANNOT GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR FAILURE—TRY TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.

Cheerful, chunky (5 ft. 5 in., 196 lbs.) Democrat DiSalle, a man of notable affability even in his harried term (1950-52) as President Truman's Price Administrator, is determined not to fail. Already he has irritated educators, businessmen and politicians with a tighten-up-and-tax budget. And last week he incurred the wrath of Ohio's powerful A.F.L.-C.I.O., which...

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