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THE POTTERS HERALD
OK'TCIA: .MU'HNAI. oi-
kindle a spark
THE NATIONAL BKOIHKKHOOD OF Ol'KKATiVK POTTERS
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADKS & LABOK COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., owninu am! operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Job
Printing Plant in the State.
Entered at PoFtoffiee, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rates of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
Aupust -I', 101S.
General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 6th St., BELL PHONE 575
HARRY L. GILL Editor and Business Manager
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada $2.00
President -James M. HufTy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President E. L. Wheal ley. Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Buililintr. Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President —Frank Hull, 633 I. W. Hell man Building, Los
Thin I Vice President—James Slavcn, Cannons Mills, East Liveriool,
Ohio.
Jftnirth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton,
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton,
New Jersey.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, 400 Monroe Street, East Liver
lool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 176 East Virginia Avenue,
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chndwick, Grant Street, Newell, West
Virginia.
Sec retary-Treasurer—John D. McGilllvray, P. O. Box 6, East Liver
1kk1, Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARK STANDING COMMIT! KE
Manufacturers A. G. DALE. KKKD SUTTERLIN. JAMKS TURNER
Operatives. E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, KDVV'AUD SKYKIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers M. J. LYNCH. ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives. JOHN McGILLlVRAY. LOUIS lMKSI.OCK. I'. HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY. JOHN T. IIALD AUK. Jr.. WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturer- BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS
Operatives, BERT CLARK. H. R. HAISLOP, JOHN McGILLlVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, ROBERT DIET/. SR., BERT 1IARKER, MARGARET
PARKER.
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVEN, HUGO MILLER. ROLAND HORTON
LOOKING FOR SUBSTITUTES
ONE THING Ohioans, like all other Americans,
are to have to learn to do during this war
period and perhaps a lontf time afterward, is to do
withouL a tfreat many things. Already, because of
the acute shortage of rubber, motorists are liav
ing to be careful of their tires to make them last
as long as possible.
With restrictions already imposed on the sale
and manufacture of automobiles for private use,
many Ohioans, along with other Americans, are
going to have to learn to make use of other means
of
transportation.
Many other articles will be on the shortage list
if
the war is to last anywhere as long as our mili
tary exports expect it to last.
What is true of the individual is true of the
manufacturer. Those industries which are busy
on war and defense work get a priority on ma
terials. This is necessary if we are to go ahead and
win the war. Nothing can bo done about it so iar
as these war materials are concerned.
A great many small industries may be forced
to
shut down unless they can get the materials
needed for their products. At least, they will be
forced to close down unless they can find some
satisfactory substitutes for the materials which
cannot be had. This is a line time for our chemists
and our inventors to come to the fore. If some
thing can be found "just as good" for the manu
facture of non-military articles then this will serve
a double purpose of satisfying the consumer's
wants and keeping the plant going.
Therefore in a great many instances the ability
of a plant to keep going will depend in a large
measure on finding suitable substitutes for the
article manufactured or for the materials used in
the manufacture of t!i standard article. It is up
to the directors here.
The war will bring many dislocations. Many
plants will have to shut down either entirely or in
certain departments. This will mean unemploy
ment in some lines. Sooner or later these things
will adjust themselves, l.ut in any event this is
no dislocation comparable to the tremendous sac
rifices of the young man who gives up his business
or his job and risks his life in the interest of his
country. Here is something worth thinking about
Americans will have to learn to get along on
certain substitutes. This is necessary if we are to
win the war. And it will be done, just as it has
been done by our forefathers.
One point should not be overlooked. While
there may be substitutes for certain material
things there is no substitute for courage, patriot
ism, loyalty and one's determination to do his
duty. So long as these qualities remain this nation
cannot be whipped, no matter how few automobile
tires we have for pleasure cars, or whether or not
our tea and colfee are the genuine article.
DEAD ISSUE
T0(JI01t UAIkSON and other financial writers
ju4 can't seem to get it through their heads
that strikes iij war industries are no longer a live
i. sue. They keep harping on the subject, handing
out windy advice to labor and pontifically warning
against the wrath to come unless labor outlaws
strikes.
Evidently they don't know that labor has out
lawed strikes and that strikes are "out" for tin
duration of the war. This doesn't mean there will
bt» no strikes while the war is on. There may be
some, just as there were here in the World War
and as there are now in Great Uritain, a nation
facing a ruthless and desperate foe aciuss only 20
miles of water.
Hut strikes will bi .nnl far between. They
are "out" by the action of labor
nature of the war crisis.
Discussion of war
strikes
is wasted time and
effort time and effort that might be better em
ployed by the aforesaid financial writers.
This all seem.-, plain enough to the ordinary
citizen, but the financial writers, some of them at
least, just can't seem to understand the situation.
Neither can some members of Congress, column
ists and others. Or maybe they do understand, but
have become so used to talking about strikes that
they go on in a s»rt of mechanical way, parroting
the same old stuii and hardly realizing what they
are doing.
Or, again, maybe they hope that by spouting
the same old,
old
stull', they can here and there
of
prejudice against organized
labor. Whatever thei- motive, they are putting on
a Silly
performance by
dibCUsbing
ON THE HOME FRONT
OUR ACTUAL involvement in a major shooting
war should bring home many a hard truth to
Americans. One of those truths is that we can no
longer afford political persecution of industries
whose fullest possible production and cooperation
is necessary to building our defense and prosecut
ing the present war.
Most active of the business-destroyers are the
utility baiters. These men, apparently, want com
plete socialization of the electric industry and they
will do any tiling to gain that goal. Recently the
administrator of the government's Bonneville Dam
told an Oregon private utility which has been dis
tributing Bonneville power, and passing all savings
on to consumers, that it could 110 longer buy juice
unless it would agree to certain stipulations. One
of those stipulations was that the utility must
agree, in advance, not to oppose public ownership
campaigns.
In other words, the administrator said that the
utility must not defend the investments of its
stockholders against attacks which threaten its
very existence—and that if ti does defend itself,
it will be cut off from a source of power 011 which
it and its customers, many of them defense indus
tries, depend. The purpose is clear—to make pri
vate utilities as defenseless as possible in the face
of determined, ruthless drives for power socialism.
If the right of protest and of self-protection
can be taken from a utility company, it can be
taken from any other kind of business which
public officials might want to socialize in the
future.
An abundance of power is an essential of de
fense production. The private utilities can provide
power from widely scattered sources, which is an
indispensable asset as a war-time safety measure
against bomb attack demoralization. But how can
private companies carry 011 if public officials are
permitted to use the most high-handed methods to
forward socialism? The internal war against busi
ness endangers the very safety of the nation at a
time when we are fighting the greatest external
war in our history.
SOME FACTS ABOUT PRICES
GOOD MANY sincere but misguided people
are blaming retailers for price increases, and
the steady rise in the cost of living. The retailer,
after all, stands in a close relationship with the
consumer and is a handy goat.
Ilov/ever, the facts show that retailing has
done an extremely good job in holding price in
creases down. The statistical charts tell the story
of rising wages, salaries, taxes, rents and all other
costs. Between June, 1939, and October, 1911, the
wholesale cost of food increased 31.5 per cent—
yet the retail cost increased only 19.2 per cent.
The wholesale cost of clothing increased 19.7 per
cent—and the retail cost only 12.5 per cent. The
same thing is true of practically everything sold
at retail. In short, retailing, by increasing effi
ciency and economy, and in some cases by volun
tarily reducing its modest margins of profit, has
passed only a part of wholesale price increases 011
to the consumer.
The chain stores have been leaders in the drive
to protect the public standard of living, and thous
ands of independent stores have followed suit, lie
tailing1 in all fields is performing a great public
service today there have been almost no incidents
of profiteering or speculation. Don't,blame your
merchandiser for price rises that are completely
beyond his control—and that he must make if he
is to stay in business. Instead, give him the credit
that is his honest due for the splendid job he is
performing' in your behalf in actually holding
prices down.
SAVE FOR DEFENSE BY HOME RULE
JN SEEKINd out ways for the Government to
save two billion dollars in non-defense and non
essential expenditures, the Brookings Institution
recommended that some 300 millions of that
amount might be saved by transferring certain re
sponsibilities back to the state and local govern
ments.
And recent statistics hear out the thesis that
state and local governments now are financially
able to reassume some of the functions and obli
gations which, during the depression years, they
relinquished to the Washington treasury. Last
year, according to the National Industrial Confer
ence Board, state and local governments collected
in taxes about nine billion dollars—a half-billion
more than in
HMO,
rPIIK
it elf. In the
very
spent
a dead ibtue.
011
planes, ships,
and a billion more than in l!K8.
The Federal (iovernment is going to have to
raise nobody knows how many billions to fight this
war. Under the circumstances, the states and
counties and cities and school districts should un
dertake a larger share of the costs of relief, road
building, street improvements, sewer installations,
grade-crossing eliminations, etc.
The concept of home rule and local responsi
bility—the most basic of our institutions—suf
fered a severe setback when the depression made
the smaller units of government financially un
equal to their tasks. But with local tax revenues
rising, this would be a good time for the people to
stop depending so much on handouts from Wash
ington and to resume running their own affairs.
WAY TO HELP
IMil NCI PA aim of the defense savings
program inaugurated by the United States
I reasury last May is to enable all citizens, rich
and poor alike, to participate according to their
ability in the great national effort to defend our
way of life, our institutions and our freedom. The
energy and money.
wai piogiam calls lor tremendous outlays oi ,'»oo
Billions of dollar.,
are being spent and
tanks,
tary equipment. By purchasing a
bond whether
worth
by purchasing a lo-cent defense stamp, each indi
vidual man, woman, or child can make it that
much easier lor the Government to obtain th.
money needed to carry out our unprecedented war
program.
The defense program is of particular value to
wage-earners. Not only does it give them an op
portunity to help their (iovernment, and at the
same time to set aside some savings for future
emergency, but it offers them an effective tool
with which to combat and help prevent an in
flationary increase in prices which, as a rule, would
hurt wage-earners and lower-salaried workers
more than any other -roups in the United States
will be
THE POTTERS HERALD
£cQ4tomic
National and International Problems
Inseparable from Local Welfare
One of the great military debates
of modern times has been that con
cerning the relative effectiveness of
andpower, seapower and airpower.
Each of these fighting arms has had
brilliant, convincing, and even fanati
cal partisans.
The master of land warfare was
the great German strategist, Clause
witz. Writing in the days before the
airplane existed, he argued that the
nation with the largest concentration
of well-equipped ground troops would
be the certain victor in war. The Ger-
Imperial Army of 1914, which
was unquestionably the finest the
world had seen up to then, was largely
developed along Clausewitz's ideas.
All remember how it swept everything
before it and seemed an irresistible
force until American manpower came
to the aid of the faltering allies and
turned the tide of battle.
The most able advocate of seapower
was an American—Captain Mahan,
who also wrote before anyone con
ceived of warfare in the skies. Mahan
believed that seapower would be the
deciding factor in any major war. His
writings greatly impressed Emperor
Wilhelm II and led to the naval build
ing contest between Germany and
England. The end was victory for the
British after the battle of Jutland,
when the German surface fleet fled
to its base at Kiel and was immo
bilized for the duration of the war
by the British blockade.
The most persuasive supporters of
airpower were the Italian General,
ouhet, and the American General,
Billy Mitchell. Douhet wrote that wars
could be won through lavish use of
the air-arm alone, by terroring whole
nations and forcing swift internal col
lapse at home. The tragic case of Mit
chell is well known in this country—
he was demoted and finally forced
out of the Army by superior officers
who thought his claims for the air
plane were absurd.
The believers in the superiority of
airpower to all other forms of attack,
have had their chance to say "I told
you so" since the IJ. S.-Japanese war
began. When the Oklahoma went
lown in Pearl Harbor, it was the first
time in history that a ship of the line,
in commission, had been sunk by an
airplane. Most stimning blow of all
was the plane sinking of the Prince
of Wales. This great warship was
one of the very few major fighting
vessels launche.jJ.J y any nation since
the air bomber attained real range
and attacking capacity. Her archi
tects considered her practically invul
nerable to iir attack. Yet she, along
with the Repulse, an older but fairly
modern British battleship, were de
stroyed and sent to the bottom in a
matter of minutes. And aircraft alone
were employed by the Japanese in the
battle which resulted in Britain's
darkest day since Dunkirk.
Does this mean that the airplane
has finally and for all time demon
strated its superiority to landpower
and seapower? The answer, in the
view of most authorities, is No. Flet
cher Pratt, the American military ex
port, writing in Life recently, said:
"None of the major victories of this
war could have been accomplished by
airpower alone. Even in Crete the air
victory had to have its preface in the
form of a land invasion of Greece,
which provided the bases from which
airpower could operate.
"The great and graphic
lesson
of
this war is this:
"The old terms—seapower, land
power, airpower—have no real and de
tached meaning. The three are now
merged in what might be termed
global power, with each service de
pendent upon the other and with air
power absolutely essential to them
all."
11 other words, landpower or sea
power without strong air support, are
under terrible handicaps. There were,
apparently, no RAF planes 011 hand
when the Prince of Wales went down.
There were few if any American
planes in the air over Pearl Harbor
when Japan made her attack. And, to
look for a lesson on a far bigger
scale, England was losing the war and
losing it fast until she attained air
supremacy above her Isles.
In the Pacific wc will need far more
planes than we have at present. Japan
has imitated leading German, British
and American types of aircraft with
considerable success, though
she
no gigantic ships of
and
defense
$ 1,0(10
is
guns and other mili-
savings
or
nr
onlv ^25—or
has
the
Flying Fort­
ress type (nor, for that matter, has
any other nation,
so
11 ., craft plants can produce only 200 to
far as is known).
Japan's weakness, according to
best available evidence,
the
is
lack of re­
placement power. It is said her air-
miiitary craft a month. Our pro-
auction
is
now many
times
as great,
growing fast. An eventual
American producing capacity of six
'S0V(M thousand planes
even
c,)"fi(,('nlly
a
month, is
Indicted. Equally impor­
tant, we have within our own bor
ders
all the
fuel
we need to fly
J""a" m"st
them.
KCl hor
fucl'
°"CC
her
reserves are used up, by conquest.
To sum up, airpower has proved
itself to be a fighting force which
must supplement and back up all other
kinds of fighting force. The range
and load capacity of bombers steadily
increases. Fighters operate at higher
and higher altitudes, and the increase
in their fire-power since the war be
gan, is nothing short of miraculous.
America started way behind in the
battle for airpower, but she is be
ginning to i.iuii up now.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
"WITHOUT RESERVATION"
JAPS CALL IT PEACE
HITLER—" A NEW ORDER"
BELIEVED LINDBERGH
"Without reservation"—
That's the way you wrote it, gentle
men—
In your letter to the President,
about War Labor Board—
"We endorse without reservation
the right of labor—
"To organize and bargain collec
tively"—
And then you spoiled it all—
You don't even know as much about
it all as Bill Hard does.
You included:—
"That the board should not accept—
"For arbitration or consideration—
"The issue of the closed shop
etc."—
That's the way the Japs offered to
accept Manila—
As an open city: "If the Filipinos
would stop fighting"—
So they blasted churches and little
huts—
Having air superiority, for the time
being.
You mentioned a "principle"—
"That the right to work (sic)—
"Should not be infringed by govern
men (sic, again)—
"Through requirement of member
ship in any organization"—
Add
effective-
Or else: ". will impair
ness of War Labor Board"—
That's how much your "without
reservation" means, in fact—
to "four freedoms"—
"Freedom not to join a labor
union"—
Have you tried selling that joke to
Marx Brothers
Why, Hitler endorsed that, long ago,
following Mussolini—
Or would you claim, that your "yel
low dog" slips—
By which workers promised never
to join a labor union—
Only registered their "indepen
dence"
Could it be, that you still have some
of these still on file—
And are just "protecting" the
honor of the signers?
Those badges of shame were out
lawed, years ago—
When Senators denounced them,
registering America's verdict.
That's how your minds always
worked—
Japs, call blasting women and chil
dren, "peace"—
Hitler, calls starvation, massacre,
robbery, a "new order"—
Negotiations, with totalitarians, in
clude bombing—
Collective bargaining, with advice
of counsel—
Includes reservation of islands of
"open shops"—
Which you really don't think are
reservations, at all—
You can't help these little mental
blank spaces—
It's the way your fathers brought
you up.
Some British financial lords—
Wanted to appease Hitler, even
after Munich—
They had no concern for "far-dis
tant" Czechoslovakia—
Much less for any political or in
dustrial democracy—
Their world was still going on with
"business as usual"—
They really believed it: they put
their money on it—
They would believe anything that
went along with it—
They believed Lindbergh and they
didn't even read Mein Kampf—
Their minds were like the "closed
shop" issue is now—
Closed.
W I S O
I
lj| $» »$* *$* j1 "j1
Contentment lies not in the en
joyment of ease—a life of luxury
—but comes only to him that
labors and overcomes—to him
that performs the task in hand
and reaps the satisfaction of work
well done.—Oscar Wilde.
CLARENCE E. SWICK DIES
PAINTERS' IN ION OFFICIAL
Lafayette, lnd. Clarence Eugene
Swick, general secretary of the Broth
erhood of Painters, Decorators and
Paperhangers of America, died at his
home here January 4 after an illness
of several weeks. He was 64 years old.
Mr. Swick had been an officer of the
brotherhood 33 years.
"MOONSH1NING" IN ENGLAND
o 11 o n.—Amorican-stvle "moon
shining" has made its appearance in
staid old Britain, taking its place in
the ranks of such unsavory war habcis
as "black markets," food racketeering
and hijacking of illegal supplies. Il
licit distilling has been almost un
known in England, but police an
nounced that they had found a 100
gallon still in a l'eckham cafe, plus
other necessities for concocting
whisky, gin and rum. The proprietor
was given his choice of a stiff fine or
five months in jail.
$ 11
n
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
'I -I' 'I i
Industrial accidents are increasing
in all nations at war. Speed-up is tak
ing its inevitable toll of death and in
jury. The rising accident rate has al
ready been noted in the United
States, which has been engaged in in
tensive arms production a much
shorter time than other countries.
Strikes, however, get the public at
tention, while comparatively little is
said about accidents and their evil ef
fects on output. The effect of strikes
is grossly exaggerated, the foes of
unionism seizing gleefully on them in
an attempt to "smear" the labor
movement. This has not escaped the
attention of the International Federa
tion of Trades Unions, which com
ments to the point on accidents in the
Canadian province of Ontario.
The Ontario Workmen's Compensa
tion Board reports that 61,116 indus
trial accidents took place in 1940. In
all, 263 men were killed, and more
than 70,000 received compensation for
injuries. Traffic and road accidents
caused 716 deaths, and 13,715 persons
were injured. The Federal Office of
Statistics gives the figure of fatal ac
cidents as 1,800 in all. This figure
does not include all other accidents,
which are estimated by the same of
fice at about 43,000 more.
Thus, in the province of Ontario
alone, nearly 13!),000 persons in one
year have been killed or partially or
temporarily disabled.
Comment of the International Fed
eration of Trade Unions on the On
tario figures is as follows:
"A large part of this loss of valua
ble man-power is avoidable by the im
provement of industrial and public
protective measures. But only little
is done towards thorough-going radi
cal improvement.
"Instead, public discussion centers
on the economic damage caused by
strikes and lockouts. In the first six
months of 1941, there were only 125
strikes throughout Canada, affecting
about 37,400 workers and involving
the loss of about 152,000 working
hours. That is just about the time
requisite for the production of 40
bombers.
"If these figures are compared with
the foregoing accident statistics, it
will be seen what a trifling thing has
been over-stated for only too trans
parent reasons. The trade union press
rightly says that, so long as there is
no compulsion for economic and in
dustrial undertakings to protect their
workers adequately, such circles have
110 right to criticize any loss through
strikes, or even to demand military
counter-measures. Their negligence is
inflicting damage five or six times
higher on the man-power of the na
tion and on the arms program."
In Great Britain, a further sharp
increase in industrial accidents has
been reported for 1940. The number
of fatal accidents rose to 1,372—21
per cent over that for 1939, which was
17 per cent above that of 1938.
The number of non-fatal accidents
was 230,607—20 per cent over the
1939 figure, which was seven per cent
above the 1938 total. The increase, as
might be expected, was in the arms
industry.
Statistics show that the increases
are chiefly traceable to the influx of
new unskilled or semi-skilled workers.
W A N E
t*
Nylon leather, a substitute for
natural leather, has been de
veloped by the du Pont labora
tories and is said to he strong,
pliable and readily worked as re
quired in many uses. By a slight
change in the manufacturing pro
cess, nylon .sponge and cork sub
stitutes may be produced.
999,115 NYA YOUTH GET
PRIVATE INDUSTRY JOBS
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Be
tween Oct. 1 and Dec. 1, 1941 approxi
mately 55,000 young people who got
their practical experience on the Na
tional Youth Administration won
programs secured jobs in private em
ployment, bringing to a total of 399,
115 NYA youth who went into private
jobs in the first 11 months of 1941, it
is reported by Aubrey Williams, NYA
administrator.
Among the various war production
industries in which NYA youth have
iieen placed are aircraft production,
shipbuilding, machinery and equip
ment, chemical products, iron and
steel products.
At the present time all projects of
the National Youth Administration
are designed to prepare young people
for specific jobs in war production in
dustries or for occupations essential
in the civilian defense.
Of the 399,115 NYA youth who
went into jobs in private industry In
the 11-month period ending Dec. 1,
264,334 were young men and 134,7S1
were young women.
SEAFARERS SUPPORT WAR
ON AGGRESSOR NATIONS
New York, N. Y.—Complete unity
of purpose with the President of the
United States in the all-out war
against the Japanese aggressors and
their criminal allies, was voted in the
major East Coast ports by members
of the Seafarers' International Union
of North America, Atlantic and Gulf
District.
Thursday, January IB, 1942
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatched Out
The Truth
IT'S COMING
BILLIONS FOR FREEDOM
"GO GET 'EM"
BUT IT SHALL BE
All out! What a message was that
ringing document delivered to the
Congress by the President!
If you remember what you have
been reading in these columns, think
back to what they were saying a year
ago, six months ago.
They were saying, "It's coming. Get
ready."
We didn't take the war seriously
enough. We thought it couldn't hap
pen, or if it could happen there was
plenty of time.
Well, out of a clear blue sky in
which "it couldn't happen" it did hap
pen and Pearl Harbor was written
into our history books on a flaming
page in which the great glory of
heroic sacrifice does not blot out the
terrible story of unreadiness.
But now we know what we have to
do—and America will do it!
Once upon a time the Barbary Pi
rates were told that we would give
"Millions for defense, but not a cent
for tribute."
In today's language this nation says
"billions for freedom and nothing
short of freedom."
The President has said this nation
will strike at the enemy all over the
globe, wherever the enemy is and
wherever we can get to.
No mere sitting on our shore lines,
waiting for attack. That's out. The
order is, "Go get 'em go after 'em."
liead the catalogue of equipment to
be produced—planes, tanks, guns,
bombs, ammunition, ships. The world
never heard of such an order in all the
ages of time.
And to fill that great order, with the
work of hands and brains, is the work
of labor—American labor. What' a
role it is that has come to the work
ers of this land of ours!
Eighteen men must toil for every
man who stands up front in the fight
ing lines.
That's how big is the job of labor to
turn out the hordes of tanks that will
rumble and blast their way through
the forces of tyranny, the planes that
will clear the skies of the birds of
prey and hate, the ships that will
carry the food and the machinery of
war to the forces of freedom over the
seven seas.
That's how big.
It isn't much use trying to imagine
how great is the task. It slips past
the poor powers of our imaginations.
For most of us our powers to imagine
concrete things do not go far beyond
the shape and scope of things that wo
have seen.
And nobody ever saw such a mass
ing of equipment as we now shall pro
duce. It never was. But it shall be!
Where our imagination fails our de
termination will not falter. This great
task we shall perform.
L.ibor has brought itself into a soli
darity of conviction. The two great
armies of labor have entered into an
agreement which puts the nation and
the nation's good ahead of partisan
rivalries.
There can he concentration 011 the
job of making the tools and the equip
ment of war, which is to save freedom
throughout the world, so that we and
those to come may know how good is
life without a tyrant's chains and
lash.
American labor can be proud of
what it is doing and is to do.
It can't take time out now to preen
its feathers, but after it is all over
and the battle flags are furled, then it
can write its page of history in that
indelible ink that is saved for those
who write in proper pride of duty well
performed.
Until that day comes, let th-j
pledges be kept, as obligations
solemn that nothing of whatever kind
or character can move the workers
away from them by as much as a
hair's breadth for so much as a split
second of precious time.—CMW.
MRS. ROOSEVELT REFUSES
TO CROSS PICKET LINE
V Yolk City (ILNS).- K'alh'
than cross a picket line, Mrs. Frank
lin 1). Roosevelt and two friends got
their money back for three tickets to
"In Time to Con:• ," a play at th-.
Mansfield Theater.
Outside the theater were two
pickets from the American Federation
of Musicians, placed there in protest
against the action of the management
in using recordings of the American,
French and English national anthem™
instead of having them played by mu
sicians.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by Jo
seph P. Lash, general secretary of the
International Student Service, and an
unidentified woman arrived at the
theater at 8:30 p. m. When Mrs.
Roc.sevelt saw the picket line, placed
in front of the theater, an explanation
was offered her by Frank Goodman,
spokesman for the play. Mrs. Roose
velt replied: "Fair or not fair I can
not cross a picket line."
ARMY TRAINS TIRE REPAIR]
Cleveland, O.—A special school
train soldiers in the repair of tire
opening in the plant of an Akron,
Ohio, tire company. Classes of 20 men
will receive training to equip them to
act as instructor.- .11 thc-ir army unite..