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Thursday, April 0, 1042.
Addressing industrialists
Four Million Women Must
Take lobs In Industries,
W. P. B. Official Asserts
Boston (ILNS).—Four million women, almost six times as
many as are now employed, must be directly en^a^ed in war pro
duction by the end of next year, Miss Thelma McKelvey, chief of
the Women's Labor Supply Service, Labor Division, War Produc
tion Board told the 2JUt annual Massachusetts Defense Safety
Conference here.
from
the
Now England area, Miss McKelvey
pointed out that 1 lit? expanding mail
power needs ol' war production call for
a war labor force of work
ers by the end of 15142, 23.(NNMNNI
workers by tlie end of 11 43. To meet
these manpower goals, we must draw
millions of new workers into the labor
market.
Training No\v Urged
"Women are our most important
labor reserve," Miss .McKelvey .said.
Tiie Women's Labor Supply Service of
the Labor Division predicts that three
or four million women workers, pos
sibly even more, will be drawn into
war industry tins year.
Miss McKelvey said that "We must
start training these workers now so
that they will be ready as jobs open
up. We cannot afford to wait until the
last minute."
Stressing the principle of "equal pay
for equal work," Miss McKelvey urged
employers to utilize the local labor sup
ply and .thus to avoid unnecessary
labor migration with its resultin
housing congestion and transportation
dilliculties.
"It is not true," she said, "that wom
en in industry are a safety hazard.
Any new worker, man or woman, who
takes up a new tool must he given
safety instruction along with job in
st met ion. To keep industrial accident:
to a minimum, safety should be built
into every job from the fli'St moment
of. training.
"One of the major causes of Indus
trial accidents is fatigue, lioth men
and women are subject to the fatigue
which comes from too long hours, in
sufiicient rest or poor diet. These fac
tors are not alone the worker's con
cern: they are very much the em
ployer's concern, since they closely af
fect production.
"Tlu women of America are ready
a.nd eager to do their share in winning
this war. The sooner labor, manage
ment and government agencies begin
to prepare women for jobs, the more
quickly we will meet our production
goals."
'God Bless You AH'
MacArthur Replies
To A. F. oiL. Pledge
(The following cabled story was
carried by the Associated l'ress, April
1!).
I nited States Army
Headquarters,
Australia, April 1.—American labor
organizations have given (Jen. Douglas
MacArthur, United Nations supreme
commander
in
strong
the Southwest Pacific,
assurances of support,
and
the
general has been quick to express his
appreciation, it was disclosed.
Messages from President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor and .lames Carey of the Con
gress of industrial Organizations wen
read at a press conference.
An Army spokesman pointed out they
marked the second demonstration of
labor backing for (leu. MacArthur.
The first was in the Philippines, im
mediately after he was appointed com
mander of the ('nited Slates forces,
when a committee representing all
Philippine labor organizations called
ou him.
Mr. Creen's message to Men. Mae
Arthur said: "We're behind you, gen
eral, five million strong. Your fear
lessness and skill in .the face of over
whelming odds makes every last one
of us proud to be an American. We
solemnly pledge to invest one billion
dollars of our earnings to help main
tain you and our fighting men every
where. We further pledge we will
builtl for our armed forces the finest
and best war weapons the world lias
ever produced."
(ion. MacArthur replied: "Labor
never has failed tin Army or the Na
tion. .May (Jod bless you all for your
splendid patriotism."
JOB PLACEMENTS SHOW
DECLINE IN FEBRUARY
Washington, D. ('. (HAS).—.Job
placements by the I'nited States Em
ployment Service declined slightly in
February to a total of approximately
425,MM), Federal Security Administra
tor Paul V. McNutf announces. At
though placements normally are fewei
in February than in January, the dt
crease this year was less than 3 pei
cent, sis compared with 11 per cent ii
the same period of 15)41. Compare)
with placements in February 1040, bt
fore the initiation of the national dc
fense program, the volume this Feb
ruary was Si 5 per cent higher.
Continuously expanding employmen'
opportunities under the war productioi
program and the increasing use of th*
public employment oilices an reflected
McNutt said, in the ever greater mini
ber of industrial and commercial job
lilled by the- 1". S. Employment Serv
ice. Non-agricultural placement during
the first two months of 15)42 totaled
807,7(M—(H,000 more than in the sam«
period last year and about 370,(KM
more
than in the lirst two months oi
1U40.
For Women
TIPS—HINTS—HELPS
Keeping Ahead the Timet
By MARY MOORE
PANTRY IWLAVEIt
Chef's Hints: Sweet jwrtaloes may
not look as glamorous baked and
served in .their skins as candied, but
all of the natural sugar of the potafo
is conserved and none is needed when
baked. They really do have a better
flavor.!
You just might try baking sweet pn
fatoes, slicing in a casserole in layers
with sliced oranges, a dash of nutmeg
and a little honey and butter.
Speaking of honey and butter, do
you melt it together to serve over hot
cakes and waffles?
Try cooking string beans, carrots,
cabbage or spinach in this unusual
way. Hrown one or two onions in but
ter or drippings—-add the raw vegeta
ble sliced—cover with a small amount
of water, season, and cook until tender.
Does left-over fish in the ice box
stymie you? Heat a can of condensed
mushroom soup and add one tablespoon
of sherry, a dash of mustard and Wor
cestershire sauce. Remove skin and
bones from fish, mince and add to .the
sauce. Pour the whole thing over
boiled, well drained noodles.
And, if you don't like mushroom
sauces, cook together two onions, i
small green pepper, a stick of celery
all minced, and add to a can of to
matoes. Season with a little sugar
salt and pepper and Worcestershire
and add the flaked fish. Equally good
served over rice or noodles.
(Jail it
"Fish Creole."
Here is a cake frosting that will
make any plain layer cake into a party
affair: 1 cup water, 2 cups sugar, /$
teaspoon salt, 4 egg whites, 1 package
flavored gelatin, Yi cup boiling water
Y\ teaspoon cream tartar.
Pour gelatin into boiling water an*l
dissolve. While cooling to thickened
consistency hut not jellied, cook sugar
water, salt, and cream of tartar until
same spins a thread. Add pinch salt:
to egg whites and heat stiff, continue
beating while adding syrup in thin
steady stream. Then add gelatin mix
ture. If it doesn't hold its shape ready
to spread, .then cool for a few moments
before spreading. The flavor gela
selected will give you the desired col
oring also.
American Labor Party Hits
Smith Bill As "Tory" Drive
New York City (IL^).—The state
organization of the American Labor
party, through Lester Kosner, execu
tive director, has asked the Naval Ar
fairs Committee of the House of Rep
resentafives to kill the Smith bill to
end the 4-hour week in war industries.
Kosner, writing the committee, dt
clared supporters of the bill had
charged falsely that delay in tlie pro
duct ion of war supplies was caused by
labor.
"On behalf of .the 4ri0.000 voters who
supixirt the American Labor party, wt
express to you our complete opposition
to the Smith bill," the letter read.
"There are men in and out of Con
gress who apparently are more con
cerned about straitjacketing labor and
killing New Deal reforms than they
are in winning .the war. We witness
in Congress the same ceaseless, unre
lenting campaign to undermine public
confidence in tlie Administration and
the labor movement.
"We need no better evidence of tlie
kind of war these Tories fight than is
furnished by the campaign of bald and
deliberate falsification that accompa
nied Cingressnian Smitlf's bill into tin
Mouse hopper. No man can say in truth
that since Dec. 7 organized labor has
flagged one whit in its detetrmination
to defeat Hitler and his allies. Its
leaders have stood loyally by (heir
compact with the President of the I'nit
ed States to maintain full production
no matter what dispute may arise be
tween them and tlie owners of in
fllftvv."
Backs Pooling Plan
For Private Autos
Informal Transportation
Clubs" Would Get Work
ers To And From Jobs
Philadelphia (ILNS). .lames P.
Casey, union leader and regional labor
representative of the War Production
Board, expressed strong endorsement
of the proposal that workers in indus
trial plants and offices form "informal
transportation clubs" to pool the use
of private automobiles used in getting
to and from their jobs, made in Wash
ington by Sidney llilluian, WPIi Labor
Director.
Few Cars Well Filled
"P.y working out arrangements for
sharing the use of cars in such
groups," Casey said, "individual car
users participating will be able to ex
tend the life of their tires and the
cars themselves, and only by such
means can workers in urban areas help
to- prevent overburdening of public
transportation facilities."
Hilluian pointed out that ill travel
ing to and from war plants, the aver
age automobile in many rtises carries
only one or two persons when it could
be carrying more.'
Appeals to All Workers
"If we pool resources now with our
neighbors and fellow-workers," he
said, "we can make our cars last
longer, and avoid additional strain on
buses and street cars which are al
ready being taxed to capacity in many
war production areas. With war in
dustries springing up in many iso
lated areas where public transporta
tion facilities are inadequate or rion
existent, a growing number of em
ployes must depend entirely upon auto
mobiles to get them to and from their
work."
Hillman did not limit Mils appeal to
workers in war industry, hut empha
sized that it. should become a national
practice in civilian as well as war in
dustry. lit asked labor unions to stimu
late the formation of such clubs, and
suggested the creation of a transpor
tation pool in every union hull and war
plant.
Sales Tax Hit As Move
"?9 Soak The Poor"
New York Cily (ILNS).—Endorse
ment of the Treasury Department's
tax program and opposition to a Fed
eral sales tax as a "soak-fhe-poor"
measure were voiced by speakers at a
meeting of 200 representatives of la
bor, consumer and civic groups held
under the auspices of the Union for
Democratic- Action.
Professor William Withers of Queens
College, legislative representative of
the union, who testified at recent hear
ings on tlie tax bill in Washington,
declared that a general sales tax would
"contribute to ruinous inflation and
seriously retard the war effort, if it
did not indeed lose the war for lis."
tin
"Your friend, Joe, seemed to bt
lift of the parly."
"Yes, lie was the only one who could
louder than tb« radio"
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
The (!reai and Supreme Ruler of the Universe has, in his infi
nite wisdom, .removed from our midst our friend and fellow worker,
Clyde Parsons. We, the members of Local Union S, EiLst Liverpool,
Ohio, recognize the loss of this brother, who was respected and loved
by all of his fellow workers therefore, be it resolved:
That, we, (lie members of Local Union No. SO, shall cherish
and respect the memory of his pleasant: manner and loyalty to our
organization.
That, we extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family,
our charter to bp draped in mourning for a period of thirty days,
a copy of these Resolutions to be published in our official journal,
Tlie Potters Herald, a copy spread upon the minutes of tlie Local,
and a copy sent to the bereaved family.
WILLARD SMITH,
WM. A. MERCHANT.
llAlillY L. WOOD,
Committee of Local Union No. SH.
THE POTTERS HERALD
Showing at the Ceramic Theater Starting Sunday
0
Falling in love with another man on the very eve of your engagement, to a first one Is a pretty reckless thing to do
—especially when the fiance is rich and the other man penniless. J'.ut that's exactly what Norma Shearer d«»es in "W
Were Dancing," rollicking Noel Coward comedy which starts Sunday at the Ceramic theatre for four flays. Melvyn
Douglas is the man with whom Norma falls in love after but one dance I^ee Bowman is the jilted fiance and th«
couple looking on with disapproval are Heather Thatcher and Reginald Owei
Keeping Of Democracy
At Home Held Calling
For End Of Poll Tax
Roanoke, Va. (ILNS).—The mainte
nance and increase of democracy at
home "calls ftfr the ohilition of the
poll tax in the eight southern states
where it is now a condition to voting
in political elections," declared the
Rev. James Myers, industrial secretary
of the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, in an opening
address at the Workers' Educational
Institute sponsored by the Southern
School for Workers here.
"Under present conditions in sucii
stales masses of our people do not
even enjoy full political democracy,"
he said. "With the United States as
suming an increasing role in world
events, it is the more important that
democratic institutions shall be pre
served and extended over wider areas
in our national life. Thus the influence
of America for the freedoms on a
world scalt will be ^ieyua rded and
enhanced." n
Demand the Union Label on all
your purchases.
FOR EXAMPLE
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THEN THE
HOWEVER
Vfyi
Curb On Shifting
Of Painters Lifted
New York City (ILNS).—Law rent*
P. Lindeloff, president of the Brother
hood of Painters, Decorators and
Pa per hangers, with headquarters in
Lafayette, Intl., lias notified officials
of District Council 9 of tlie union, this
city, of revision of the union's rules
removing restrictions on the move
ment of union members to war jobs in
various parts of the country.
The revision was in res|onse to
petition filed by the district council
requesting the parent organization to
"clamp down on the reckless admis
sion of new members" when thousands
of skilled painters were out of work
in New York and other locations with
relatively little war employment.
JKWKLKY WOKKKKS MADE IDLE
Providence, K. I. (ILNS).—Several
thousand workers in the Providence
jewelry industry will lose their jobs as
a result of the War Production order
prohibiting use of copper, lead and tin
State Director Thomas H. I!ride of the
U. S. Employment Service said.
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The Bottleneck
Of Pride
Bjr RUTH TAYLOS
The
bottleneck of pride is as -Meat a
handicap in thn successful prosecution
of this war as are other difficulti
that, are talked about much more. We
could wijx out many of the other !ot
tlenecks aiid handicaps, if we could
once bring pride out into the often and
overcome it.
When we stand out for the particu
btr rights of our group, when we try to
bargain, to set a price on our c»»o|era
tiori, we create a Iwfttleneek of pride.
Tlie manufacturer who is willing to
apply priorities to any except his own
articular product, the labor leader
wiiti halts war work over a jurisdic
tional dispute, the housewives who
hoard rationed f«ods—any group that
demands preferential treatment is
guilty of .-.-iting up a bottleneck of
pride.
Tin individual who thiijks lirst of
pof.il.ion— whet her he IK in the armed
forct**, in industry, in professional,ac
tivities or in a laln.r union—who won't
give up one iota of what, be considers
due liim is guilty of establishing a
Ik
i leneck of pride. Saving face is a Jap
a nest fetish, not an American one.
Selfishness, egotism, personal ambi
tion are the causes of this dread bot
tleneck which is choking our progress
and halting*our action as a nation. We
are all guilty—for this is a bottleneck
that can be smashed by each and every
one of us as individuals.
We must think first of service and
second of self. We must be sure we are
'loing the work of which we are most
capable and serving in the right place,
Recaue of pride, we must not try to
fill a job some one else could occupy
more effectively. We must be willing
to step aside. We must stop being sen
timental about the past—we must put
into jMiwer men who can do the joo
We must clear out the dead wood. And
we must do it now!
This is no time for sentiment. ThN
is not an appeal to nobility of spirit or
purpose. It is a plain statement of
fact. There won't be room in an A
dominated world for people who an
interested in advancement or jutice o
fair play or higher standards of liv
ing. We must defeat these enemies who
would turn the chick back to the dar
ages. Wt must defe-at tlie Axis and w
must not let a .bottleneck of pride ham
string us!
PHILANTHROPIC PAPA
I-'ay Mr-. 1 '.isliaway's husband
didn't leave 1:-r very uifich when h»
died, did he?
Ray—No. but lie left her often
enough when be was alive.
Why the Y0 Me C. A, and Boy Scouts
Are Not Self-Supporting
Some folks wonder why the Scouts and the 'Y' are
not setf'supporting. The answer is simply this:—
The average boy whom they serve could not af
ford to belong if membership fees were in propor
tion to service rendered.
Last year these two organizations reached over 1500 boys. If each oi
these boys had paid $15.00 per year (which is the fee iiiai men pay at the
"Y') the total income from boys would have been $22,500.00.
AND SCOUTS WOULD BE SELF SUPPORTING
YOU WOULD NOT BE ASKED FOR A CONTRIBUTION!
These 1500 boys paid only a small portion of the necessary cost. G37 of
them PAII) NOTHING AT ALL. The remaining boys paid small fees
ranging from 50 cents to 5 dollars. Thus the actual income from boys'
memberships amounted to less than §2,000.00.
YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED SO THAT THE
GREATER NUMBER OF BOYS MAY BE REACHED
Give to the JOINT FUND CAMPAIGN April 13th to 17th
PAGE FIVE
Traffic Fatalities
Drop In February
5,490 Deaths Reported In
First Two Months Of
New Year
Chicago (ILNS). Traffic fatalities
decreased in February for the lirst
time since July, 1JJ40, the National
Safety Council rejorted.
The drop was eight per cent from
the same month a year ago, and ended
18 months of continuous increase. The
February toll was as compared
to 2.-7.X) a year ago.
Mileage Data Inrcanph'ft'
Only fragmentary reports on Feb
ruary mileage arc available. The coun
cil, therefore, is unable to determine
what part any decrease in travel due
to curtailment of cars and tires may
have played in the smaller Ira flic loll.
If February travel did fall in pro
Itortion to the drop in highway fatali
ties, it was a sharp decrease, the coun
cil jKiinted out, since mileage was up
K |M cent in Decemlier and 1« per
cent in January over the correspond
ing months of ]5»41. January was the
2Sth consecutive month to show an in
crease in travel.
Complacency In
justified
The council .warned against any
feeling of complacency growing out of
the reduced February toll or a belief
that the curtailment of cars and tires
automatically will bring further reduc
tions.
"We cannot overlook the facts," said
Col. John Sfilwell. president of the
council, "that --».4!X» |H rsons were killetl
in traffic in the first two months of
this year—only one per cent fewer
than in the corres|M»nding jwriod of the
record-breaking year of lim. Further
more. the February toll this year still
is greater than It was in February,
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