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IN
THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOl'RNAL OF
THE NATIONAL KKOTHKHHOOL) OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at .Eiist Liverpool, Ohio, by th« N. B. of O
P., owning and derating th« B#st Trades Nawapapti and Job
Printing Plant in the State.
Cntared at PostofTice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, aa second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rates of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 18, 1917, authorized
August -0, 1918.
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President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Firut Vice President—E. L. Wheallcy. itoom 210, Broad Street National
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 6111 Pacific Blvd., Huntington
Third Vice President—James Slaven, Cannons Mills, East Liverpool,
Ohio.
Fourth 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-
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 176 East Virginia Avenue,
Sebring, Ohio.
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, West
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. •. ItALE. FKF.l) SUTTKRLIN, JAMKS TURNER
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNei, EDWARD SEYEIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTER
Manufacturers J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives. JOHN McGILLIVRAY, LOUIS PIE.SLOCK, E. IIAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BKN 1). HARDKSTY, E. K. KOOS
Operatives. E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF. Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BKN D. HARDKSTY, E. K. KOOS
BERT CLARK.
H.
R. HAISLOP. JOHN McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, ROBERT DIET/, SR., BERT IIARKER, MARGARET
PARKER.
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVEN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
LEA UK it OF TOKYO RAID PRAISES
UNION-MAUK (iOOUS
ONE OF THE first official acts of James H. Doo
little after lie was promoted from lieutenant
colonel to brigadier general in recognition of his
successful bombing raid on Tokyo was to send a
tele -,ram to the workers in the Hamilton Standard
Propellor Co. factory in East Hartford, Conn., con
gratulating them on the superiority of their union
made product. The International Association of
Machinists (AEL) has a contract at the plant.
The Army Air Force leader also had high
praise for the superior quality of American-made
incendiary bombs. He was particularly pleased b\
the "excellent patterns" sown by the bombs when
released from the planes and their highly incen
diary action. According to Cleneral Doolittle, every
bomb "worked perfectly" and there were no duds
or "delay in functioning or failure of any kind."
"The planes themselves-—IJ-251VS—were espe
cially equipped for the mission," he said. "We have
in oil!* training centers on our production lines
the pattern from which will be built many
more surprises for Japan and Germany." These
planes are made by the North American Aviation
Co., where the United Automobile Workers (CIO)
i« the bargaining agent.
Meanwhile, the Army has announced that the
new AT-1.1 crew trainer for the Army Air Forces
will be equipped with Hamilton Standard I'ropel
lors. This union-made plane will be manufacturer
by 1 Joeing Airplane Company. It has a wing span
of feet. Hoeing workers are members of tin
Machinists Union.
AVERAGE I S. FACTORY WAGE
7H CENTS AN HOUR
l^XCLUSIVK OF overtime payments, the aver
age earnings of factory workers in the U. S. in
January was 76 cents an hour, Secretary of Labor
Perkins repoited last week.
"Many of those who earn l-ss
than
1
40
hour are outside the scope of minimum wag
legislation," Miss Perkins explained. "One-tenth ol
the factory workers, the most highly skilled, earn
.si. 10 or more.
"Hourly earnii!.
^LUTHER EVIDENCE of the closing of labor's
ranks during the war emergency were tin
simultaneous statements made by William Green
president of the AFL and Philip Murray, president
of the CIO, urging the "soldier of industry" t(
donate blood for plasma to save the lives of tlu
men at the battle front.
"The men in the front line trenches have tin
assurance that the soldiers of industry, those who
work in the nation's mills and factories, are doing
everything in their power to aid in the defense ol
America," tireen said, in urging the blood dona
tions.
And A punting ont that "organize*
labor of Aiio-iica doing everything in its powei
to see that the men in the armed forces have tin.
necessary arms and supplies in this fight against
Fascism," urged "the worker at home" to donate
a pint of blood which means little sacrifice to tin
but "to the men wounded in war's conflicts, it
may mean life or death."
ARMY TO SELL UNION Y1AUE
OFFICERS UNIFORMS
ORDER THAT Army officers may obtain uni
forms of proper quality at reasonable prices
uniforms manufactured under the direction of tin
Army Quartermaster Corps will be placed on sale
throughout the country late this summer.
Although the Quartermaster Corps bought tlu
cloth for the uniforms, actual fabrication will bi
on commercial contracts made through the Phila
delphia Quartermaster Depot. Many well-known
manufacturers having union contracts are partici
pating in the program. The uniforms will be sold
ready
made,
authorized retail stores.
cents
an
in e war industries art
somewhat higher than in manufacturing industry
as a whole. As these industries expand, average
hourly earnings will rise, quite apart from an\
revisions of wage rates. Nine-tenths ol workers in
war industries earn r0 cents or more two-third
earn from (o cent^ to $1.10 one i\lh earn $1.10
or more per hour."
Accoring to this January report, workers in
war industries, who compromises .r),7"0,000 of tlu
10,lot),000 persons engaged in manufacturing
averaged 81 cents an hour.
LAIiOR IMTEl) IN ACTION
through Army pot exchanges and at
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
AGREES ON OVERTIME
A NEW OVERTIME formula ending payments
for Saturday, Sunday and holiday work as such
was agreed on last week by the General Motors
Corporation and two CIO unions The United
Automobile Workers of America, and the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of Amer
ica.
The overtime issue which caused GMC's re
cent, but short-lived defiance of the National War
Labor Board, was settled at mediation hearings
before a three-man panel of the Koard. The new
plan puts into effect the agreement between the
President and the AFL and CIO on the overtime
question in more than 90 GMC plants employing
230,000 workers.
The agreements between the corporation and
the two unions provide that straight time shall be
paid for work up to 40 hours a week time and a
half for work over 8 hours in any one day or for
work over 40 hours in any one week, and also for
the sixth day of the work week. Double time will
be paid for the seventh consecutive day worked.
These overtime payments for the sixth and
seventh days will be diminished by all time lost foi
personal reasons.
The new agreements
provide for the
ment of overlapping shifts designed to guarantee
maximum utilization of machinery and the
ichievement of continuous war production. Em
ployees on such 3-shift operations will receive a
full 8 hours pay, the 20-minutes lunch period be
ing absorbed in the overlap.
WHY NO ACTION?
IN IIIS BUDGET message addressed to Congress
on January 7, President Roosevelt declared that
it is part of our war effort to maintain civilian
services which are essential to the basic needs of
human life." To reach this objective in social se
curity, the President asked Congressional legis
lation providing "an increase in the coverage" of
the old age and survivors insurance system "lib
ralization and expansion of unemployment com
pensation of unemployment compensation in a uni
form national system the "addition of perma
nent and temporary disability payments and hos
pitalization payments," and improvement of the
assistance programs of the Social Security Act.
The President's recommendations are needed
for the effectiveness not only of the social security
program but of the war elfort. Social security laws
are not mere, reforms. They are on a par with
guns, battleships and airplanes in the security of
the nation. The President's proposals are favored
by organized lalor.
Five months have elapsed since the President's
message. During these months, Congress and the
public have almost forgotten the message. In fact,
it has been remembered only by the enemies of
social security, especially the opponents of health
insurance, who have intensified their attack on
this program despite the critical need for healthy
forces in the military and industrial trenches of
the battle for the nation's very existence.
Action on the Chief Executive's proposals
should not be postponed any longer. When will it
be taken, Congress? When will you act?
FIRST WAGE UECISION
IN ITS FIRST wage decision since the President
sent his message to Congress to freeze the cost
of living, the National War Labor Hoard last week
issued a directive order stabilizing the rates of
pay for 1,700 employes of the Mreeze Corpora
tions, Inc., of Newark, N. J. The CIO United Auto
mobile Workers of America was involved.
The Hoard order set new minimum rates o
pay for ten classifications of jobs which were be
tween the lowest and highest rates paid by the
company. The new rates amount to considerable
wage1 increases for workers paid below the ne-w
standards. Those pair more than the standard
rates did not have1 their wages reduced.
Hecause of the "urgent need for the stabiliza
tion of the hiring rates paid by this company," the
Retard raised the present minimum hiring rate
from fifi to (JO cents an hour, with the rate to ge
cents an hour sixty days after hiring, to 70
ce'iits within ninety days and to 71 cents within
120 days.
putrosK or CKNsoiismr
U)MAIKNTIN(i ON the Churchill government'.
attempt to suppivss the London Mirror, govern
ment critic, the London Times recently editeirial
ized on censorship:
"The purpose of a censorship is to prevent in
formation from reaching the enemy, not to silencc
critics at home. Its purpose should not be to main
tain morale—not hecause morale should not, but
because it cannot, be' maintained by suppression
Tlu1 le'sson of France on that point is final. Ii
morale' is bad, mere censorship will make it worse
will destroy it.
"The morale of this nation is good, and could
only be threatened if it were not free to speak its
mind Without the constructive force of criti
cism it is unlikely that this country would have
survived the disasters of the past two years, or be
in any position to confront the urgent perils
ahe-ad."
4-
INCENTIVE FOR LABOR
INCONSISTENCY of employers who fight fail
wage levels yet demand high profits for busi
ness is scored by the American Federation of
Labor in its current economic survey.
"Employers claim that high profits are neces
ary as an incentive' for business, yet they con
elemn similar incentives for workers," tlu survey
remarks, discussing wage stabilization.
The AFL is deing a gexd job in putting tlu
searchlight on this claim of the employers. For toe
long, they have be'e'ii permittee! to get away with
talk abemt fat profits as a business "incentive,
while decrying the same "incentive" for labor.
High wages, it has been proved again anc
again, provide an incentive for labor to do its best
making for efficiency and consequent good business
profits. When all employers realize this, the nation
will have taken a big" step fer\vard tow aril last in
prosperity.
establish­
THE POTTERS HERALD
oca+v&mic
tJlufltliKfliti
National and Internationa! Problems
Inseparable from Local Welfare
Last January, an otlie-ial announce
ment said that the United Staters Army
would reach a total of 3.000,000 men
by the enel
of
1J)42.
Since
tual size
of
the "work
the'n, the ac­
tlu* Army
and
procise? plans
for its expansion have not been an
nounceel, inasmuch as they are military
see-rots of the first order. Some com
mentators have forecast that in .time
tlu Army might teital nine or ten mil
liem. The best available information
senmis to indicate that a total of at
least (I,000,(too will be attained.
That is obviously going to have a
revolutionary e'ffect on the manpower
this country. However, there is no
factual evidence to support the .scare
rumors which say thai every physical
lit man under 30 is certain to be
lilae-ed in uniform. Selective Service
heads are making a genuine e-ffort to
cremate an Army of the size* ne'eded with
minimum dislocation •'. American fam
ily life.
Here is how mutte
time,
-hape up at this
ublished
according
si,-iic-
to
met its:
First, practically all
available
Second, the Sedectl
ere placing in the 1-.
men who huvi» 110 gen
peMideiK'.v. That ilic
working wives, mei
iittle» to the support e
1 tie 1 men with meai
tlu'se me n will be ii
ml of the ye-ar, unit
to pass the physical
perform vital werlc ii
single
men in the 'J0-35-year brae-ket have
been calleel. -Many who were given temi
porary ele'fe rme,n.t for occupational mi
sons are now being suiiimeine'd. In time,
women and older men will replace
thousands of young men in defense in
dustries.
e Se'rvice Betarels
classification all
line claim for
el1-
iides me-11 with
whet contribute'
the'ir households.
Almost all ef
uniform by the
they are' unable1
examinations or
war industry.
Third, it is universally believed that
'emgre-ss will soon approve a bill pro
vieling government grants to depend
ints of sen-vice men. Tlie'se grants, as
now projected, are small—urounel $"0
1 month for a wife and chile!, ltut they
will make i.t possible for the Sedective
Service lie ia re
Is to call thousands e»f
nie'ii whet are now elelerrenl for ecet
tioniie* reasons.
Fourth, a ne»w draft: classification,
M'., has been aeloptee|. Anel that is a
luatte-r of ve ry great importance. At
the present time, men with genuine'
le(tendencies
are' edas-die-el as :!-A. The
i IS classilicatioii is
for
eir light"' polie'y whie-h
xiste'd in World War J. In e»the»r
weirds, a man will lie glve'ii .the' e-hoice
of going into the Army, eir leaving a
non-wa 1
I ion.
Tlie iiidw.-itrie'S
is essential to the
linite'ly limite'd in
store-
uputio
i
for a war
Whn 1 1 his all ad(
you are a single
soluble health, yo
\nny unh'ss you
plae-cahle in some*
have' ele'pe'inle'nts u
tirely for support,
for the* time' heii
strong liki'lihood I
liniiance of your
pend upon your etb
industry. If you 1
de-ferts, you are in
tary se'rvice. 'I'
standards have bet
with ele'fective' e-.v^
te\, are he'ing call
assigned to lion-e-oi
a i i v a o
upa-
liieli «ire iij.-.-iitied
war efl'eirt are ele'
number. Lawyers,
i-le-rks, ne'u ^pape'rnie'ii, whole
aelverlising iue»n, eite\, have 110
for deferment, De'fe-rme nt is
nl.\ to liie-n who bold a job
ale-rs,
-hi i
111
Uive'li
which
I i rei-.l ly
nd absolutely run:
•tlon and transpeir
I finished niate'rials
in war.
s up to is plain. If
11, unele'r 2iC(, in rea
will
essai'.v to the prodi
talioii of the raw ai
which are involve-d
go
I to the* colors anel
ibatant eluty.
em
remains to lie
ly of (1.000,000 men
ill' to six time's that
e'e.'ele'el in industrie'
transpor.ting sup
!. agrie'ultuiv musl
on an expanding
we are sending tre«
of foodstuffs to nut'
vice he-ads, sue-h a.*
have advised tlu
enough farm labor
•lieai lip to the' ne'e
•ports say, in some
virtually eleiiueiing
abor. Furthermeire.
iy the liigh wages
•y, and worke'rs are
lis in war faclorie's
s. This si'eMtis to lie
-erioiis of the UIl
I I I
worked •'in. A11 ai
would nii'an that
I
number would he
manufacturing at
plie'S. On te»p e»f
be ke-pt going, a
scale, inasmuch n
nii'iidous 1 |ii iui it it
Allie'S. Sele'etive S
(Seucral llersliey.
'oarel- t" exempt
to kecp tood pl'odi
essnr.v le-vel. 1 111.
aivas the draft
e a
farnu'rs canti. i
pahl by war iudn
naturally taking
i n s e a o o n a
one1 of the1 most
solvi'el problems.
It is probable
course of the' w.a
bearing em Army
If. for instnne-e\
hold 1 he (le'nuaur
in the Pacific, a
large'si -i /.o peiss
esNiiri 11. on the'
manages to cracK
1 his summer, and
win victories, yon
a Here i" 1
ollsly I• -!•,-'!•
1 lial the immediate
will have* a elirevt
\pansieni plans he're
Itussia e-nntinue-s to
ind Japan isstopjied
1'. S. Army of the
)e will not be ne-c
Mher lianel. (Sermany
the Bussiau de-fe'iise
l' Japan e-ontiiiues to
ran le»eik with assur
nslon on a 1 i mend
e-ale.
hat nie-n be-twe-e-n .T
s tile- se-e-oliel group
a ge-ne-ral rule-, be
hiuel-the-lines Army
ted that the greater
It is reported
anel -H. which w
ivuiste'red. will,
it a ken 111
servic.-. a i r:.,
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
PEARL llAIiliOR
IIITI.KKS I'-IJOATS
Hi Kiii:K siKMM xe.i
AMKKICA IS MAI)
Now America IS mad!
We dieln't like Hitler—
His treatment of German Jews was
offe'iisive—
Jut that seemed to be Germany's
business, after all—
If those Heii lie's wanted that kind of
a country—
We'll, we we're' glad we didu't have to
live in it, with them—
Czevheisiavakia was pretty rotten,
but Britain toe»k it—
1'edanel, Belgium. Holland, and then
France1—
That began to show which way the
beast was headed—
About that time we began to road
Me'in Kampf, .teo—
But, still, that was over ,yomler
across the Atlantic—
Then came Pearl Harbor—
All America woke up, with one' large,
unanimous cuss-word—
We were px'etty angry, but so nearly
helpless—
For the time being, the urge? to de
something—
While we learneel, bitterly, enir silly
handicaps—
It was te'rribly humilia.ting. clarify
ing, eelucatiemal—
When Hitler de i laivel war 011 us,
right afterward
We' took it as ,1 lilere Ilia 11e*r--of-fact
inciele'iit.
The' draft, was just lexical pivpared
ne'ss—
If it did mess up a lot things, it
aIso abseirbeel man-power
Le'iiel-lease hook-u]i was really good
for business-
Vanken? jiriete in mass-production be
gan to swe'll up—
That st ull' har be'e.11 our middle name,
first, anel fe»r .velars
If they wante'el planes,
I
lien I he
aroiinel tlie« globe
nu'ti with ge'iui
1 lie* dependencie'S who. in addition, are'
tuploye-el in war work. The hope is
that thousanels etf mm who no\y have'
non-war jeths will sluTt to war jbbs, In
rde-r to obtain the 3-P» ele-fe-nne-iit.
Some ohseTvers say 1 hat eventually the'
Se'lee-ti\e Service Hoards will operate'
on
tanks,
na-ly
guns
and e*annon balls
Hit h'r woulel soon be wanting to take
le.'ssems from our lx»ys.
-K
llie'SS bou i i |o ,l»ill
1
Singapore', lloiiu Kong, Surabaya,
never seemed important In TTM
Hve'ii whefli the .laps
played
their
nasty tricks lhere, ,toe—
Proving Ilii'ir 1 e'v e 11 esj s, tlie'ir
klinwh'dge! of eilir weapetlis—•
It still see'iiii'd to he a long way off,
down unele'r"
Australians
were mi.ulily tine-
chaps,
dandy tightens—
But e've'ii the» fall of Manila did not
make us unde'i'staml
I'ntil MacArtliur landed "somewhere
in Australia"—
Then, sueldenly, tliis little globe
shrank In proper proportions—
Aine'iie-a be-gan to think in terms of
eiee'aus, ami e'olitineMils—
While Itussian winte'iv, and Kusian
,s«ddie'rs. became our pals
•K -K
Then Hitler's U-boats uii iia.-~ly
Sinking gasoline ianiei ale»u
Atlantic coast—
Japan has Kteppeel
into tlx
ire virtually irre
ar industry. If
you
10 leieik to you e'U
ou will be defer ml
lt—but he»re is a
it in time' the? cou
elefermi'nt will ele»
lining a job in war
ive minor physical
exempt from mili
ie original physical
11 redaxe-d. and men
iglit, he'aring, lee't,
our
uf
our
It nie-anf we? bad to linel another way
to ge-f the- gasoline ae ross—
Whe'ii sueldenly, OPA 1 li'inle'rsoii
clanipe'd down on tire's
mir supply
us, colel and clear
Tlieise .Japs had cut
supply-
of
rubber, fioin (lie Kast 1111 lies
Then we« eliel e|iiarrel, abeuit' ho dull
it V", ami synt lie-lie' rubbe-r—
I'ntil the hitle'l'
Irmli ilawiied
upon
'if
inbber
Thai meant tires
Jaloppii's, anel .!• i i• I
Gas we coulel wangle', somehow, lior
leiw, be»g eir ste-al
But ruliber: we- bad ge»ue to sleep on
rubber
Here i
ilic tireiloms
Fre'e-elenu t••
nobody
nie-ntioiied out tlie're* em ihe Atlantic
I're-e-eleiui to burn gas, and rubber,
anywhe-re*, any time1, anyheiw
at e uiili I lie
cup, or to
hite-h-hike'—
Now may all ilu-ir Shintns and
Buelelhas anel etlhe-r "sorry" ielols—
Blast those- ugly little' hypnerites who
have? grabbed etff our rubbn
NOW we are .MAD!
1J4 jl
W I S O
'I1't"t '1*
A nation witli whom seiitinicnt is
nothing is 011 the way to cease to
be a nation at all.—1. A. Fronde.
DlOtol'SKYrM \li: IIONOKAKY
.. MIMGI U OF CIO
Baltimore-, Mel. Jack Dim1ipse*y
former heavyweight champion ef the
wnrld.
.1-
"betnele-el"
an
liie-inbir oi Local HI,
honorary
of
ihe- (TO In
elustrial I'nion of Marine and Ship
buileliug Weuke-rs he-re1, following his
appe-araiie-e* e»n be-half of the' War Sav
iii'-rs Program. Denipse'y was pri'senteel
with his CIO e*arel fnllnwiug his spe-erii
be-fore shipyarel worUe-rs he-re-, urgin
tlie-in to buy War Bemls. Jlis plan was
mvive'el with thundreius applause-.
lire)|ietrtiein e»f this group will
get
to
weirk in war industry. Xe) plans have
beTll Uiade !«r the group 1'i'gis
trans. $
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
Hardship and poverty in youth are
sometimes given as explanations of the
revenge of dictateirs on society. Per
haps it depends 011 the society. Tlior
vahl Stauning, Socialist Prime Minister
of De'innark, who die'el May 3, was born
in a poe»r home anel lie grew up under
conditions that were not so geod as
thejse which he helped to make fer
the suce-e'eeling Danish generations.
Stunning began as a e.-igar-sorter. lie
rose? thretugh trade union eillices te be
a me-mber of parliament, tilled many
responsible jobs we'll, anel wiien he
died he hael been prime minister for 14
ye'ars, in two periods. He did a great
ileal towarels making De'innak the
lanel of individual liberty ami 110 pov
erty whicli it was betore fhe Germans
came, and even the crustiest conserva
tives came to look at the big, calm,
be'arele'el man with something like af
fection.
He holel eiflice so lemg because of this,
for as lie usually hael a majority of
only twe votes he coulel easily have
bei'ii put enit. His life was eleve»te iin
sellishly to the working class, but ne»t
in the spirit of class warfare.
In these days of Lava Is anil Quis
lings, it is important to distinguish be
tween them and a real patriot like
Stauniiig. Twelve thousand Danes, the
King, .the Crown Prine-e', the Cabinet,
the Swe-dish Prime Minister and one
Finnish Minister, a perseuial friend,
came to his funeral, anel that was be
cause tlie'y re-ga re
led him as a goe)d
man who bad
eloue?
his best under im­
possible circumstances.
When the Germans broke every pact,
oath anel promise te Denmark and in
vaded it April t), 1010, Staimiug's Gnv
e'riinie-nt e-alle-el otf military Danish re*
sistane'e1, se^'ing the use-ie-ssne-ss ef hav
ing CopeMihagen dejstreiyed for the sake
of being able to liolei off the Germans
for a elay or two. Few Danes blameel
St aiming for this.
More' blanu'el him for not having
entere'el intei military alliance with tlu
either Scanelinavian governments, when
Swevlen, though ne»t Norway, expivssed
willingue'ss tei eliscuss it. But, t« have
be-e-n e'flee.'.t ive, such efforts should have
be'e'ii starte'd ye«ars before', when it cer
tainly diel not look as if the English
ami the French were in any effective
allianev against Germany, wlie-n in
fae't, the appe'ase»rs geiverne'el England.
In April, P.I40, it is hard to se-e' what
else Stunning coulel have tlone» excejit
tei sign, uneler protest, the ten-point
"agm'miMit" forced 011 him by the
bombers overhe»ad. As has been we'll
saiel, poeir as that soe-alle-el tre-aty was.
if still became the' pin-point on whicli
King anel Gevernnie-nt could take their
stanel when eibje'e-ting te» .the' gross Ger
man violations of it, soine-tinie's ejuite
effective obje-ctions.
The Ite-ich Labor Service', ere-ale-d by
Hitler after tbe ele-slnietiem ol: the in
de'penele'iit German unions, is an instru
me-nt tei ke-e-p the Nazis in powe'r. a
Be'rlin broadcast boaste'd reveMitly. The
primary purpose- of the- Labor Se'rvice',
the broaelcast stated, is te) ineloe'trin
ate all Ge»rniiin yeuiths in "unceiiidUion
al
faith" to Hitle»r and Nazism.
Stating that the' Ke-ie-h Labor Serviev
is neiw giving syste-matie* peditical in
strue-tinii, the e'onune-ntatnr ren'e»ale-el
that this inslriictinu is e»ntire'ly enn
e'e-rne-el with Ilitle-r's care*e»r. The' youth
id' the' Fue-hre-r, his life as a solelie-r.
ami his rise- to peiwe-r iu (U'rmany make
up the curriculum of 1 his school for
worke'rs.
10very young Ge»rinnn is ceimpe-lleel tei
be-leiug to tlu- Labor Se-rvice and to sub
mil himse'lf to this course in what the
Berlin radio
calls "si
thinking."
ruiglit political
TREASURY AND AFL IN
JOINT KAIMO BROADCAST
Washington, D. The rnite-el
Sla.li'
Tre'as'ur.v De-parlinenl is
eetopi-r
ating with the' American Fe-de'ralieui o!
Labor iu sponsoring a spe-cial nation
whle raelio breiaele-ast on the' N.B.C. i
Ne-twrok en Saturday, June' 13, .11
10:1.1 p. m. 10.W.T. This will be via
first tinie (lint one of the regular wee*k
ly se-rie-s, Labnr for Victory, sponsore'd
on afe-rna.te- we-e-ks by the AFL and tlu
CIO, geies em the- air in full spnnsor
ship with a geive-rniue-nt war agency.
While eletails of the program are
still a set'ret, it will be aiivel from
Wasliingiein anel Hedlywneid, ami it will
inelmle- national ligure-s and a name
hand. The' program is e'xpe'ete'el tei pro
mote many phases nf the war e'ffort, 111
aelelitiou to boosting the AFL's elrive
10 top its anuituiie'e-el epieita of a billion
dollars in War Savings Bonds.
STEEL WORKERS HIKE
WAR BOND PAYMENTS
Cleve'land, O.—The' lit) meMiibe'rs of
Local U.123, Vnite'd Steel Worke'rs of
Anie'rica, CIO, vote-el let raise the'ir
re'gular payroll de-eluctiems fetr War
Bomls an average- of $.'5.00 a month
apie-ev, ele-spile- ine-re-ase-s in living cost.
"This ae-tiedi lias |te*e«n take-n," the-y
wrote war proeluctiou ollicials, "in spite
of the» constantly rising cost of livin
in Cle-ve'laml anel vicinity."
MAY DRAFT BRITISH WOMEN
New York City.—The labeir shortage'
iu Great Britain-has. become so acute
that the gem-mme'iit may soon lie
fetmnl to draft wouhmi to take the
plae-e' of nie-n in e-sse-ntial jolts. Mrs
Letvat Frase-r. le'cture-r for tlie Britisl
War llelie'f organizatie»n. tedel a lne-e-t
ing of the Daughters ed' the American
Revolution.
Thursday, June 3,1042
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatched Out
The Truth
AFL-C IO UNITY
NOT IMPOSSIBLE
ML'ST BI! PATRIOTS
NATIONAL WELFARE
AT MAKE
Humors that AFI^ and CIO will get
together. Welcome x*eports. Maybe it
will happen.
One pnwe'rful reason exists. Both
groups neiw know all abeiut Je)hn L.
Le'wis. CIO has lvcovere-el freim its iu
fatuatiein. Illusions are all geme.
Se, results are peissible where they
were not possible when the last futile
motiems were made.
As long as Lewis was a part of CIO,
in geiod standing with others, all hael
to stanel .together. That's recognized
organizatiein tactics everywhere.
But Lewis broke out. HE starte'd
things, just as was the case back in the
elays wlie'U be was pot-shooting at AFL
leaelers from within the fold.
Well, when a man or a faction starts
hooting at its own group, smashing
the windows in its own house, theni the
rest of the outfit is free to go after him
or it and resteire- eireler.
Lewis has been the biggest obstacle
to unity, from start to finish.
Having kicked over the traces i.u
CIO—and with CIO and AFL wen-king
togetbe-r in a war agivenie'nt for vie.*
tory—botli sides can unite AGAINST
whatever menace may remain in John
L. Lewis.
But that eleiosn't me'an that unity is
sure-, eir easy. The road \vill lie difficult.
The picture is full of puzzle's. What
te» do in case's where both AFL anel
CIO have unions in the same field
won't be e'asy. For example, the elec
irie-al lielel.
Ne»t easy, but not impossible. All
things are possible where men are ef
etete'rmination and gooel will.
IVrhaps nothing woulel give the na
tion a greater impetus teiward victory
now than labeir unity, with AFL and
CIO forming eaie big labor movement.
For beith leaelers—Grwn and Murray
—pe'ace would be a tromonelems thing.
Eae'h is big enough to put any pe-r
semal ambition on the' she-lf. In a united
niovenie'Ut, for e'xampli', there e-oulel lie
but dim president. Neither of these nie-n
would halt pe'ace fe»r the sake of thai.
Tlie'y are preitty fine men, those two.
lOacli outfit can be premel e»f its pivsi
tItMil, kneiwing that e'itlie-r woulel step
asiele lor the sake of pe'ace.
Perhaps more tremble might: e-ome
from national union le'.aele'rs, but lie-re
again, it shotilel be true that national
wed fa re woulel mem mem .to broad
views anel ge»nerous action.
Sei le't lis heipe'.
Is it too much, in the agony of battle
of natieinal life and safe ty?
Ne, not too much to hope from
patriots.
And today we- must have- patriots.
There is 110 room for those who are
not.
Little- nie'ii, wliei will not se-e' the na
tion's safe-ty, must stand aside'.
Perhaps it is not yet tlu hour for
peiuce. Perhap.- we must wait ye-t a
little while'.
But if pe'ae-e can come', the- whole
nation and more' will e-hee-r in grout
^ratitiule-. Fre-e'dom will be safeguarded
by that much metre.
For unity, in no matter what part of
emr national life\ ailels to stre-ngtii.
The elignity and priele ef a unitel
nieive'iue-nt would give Ame rica sonie
tliing.
1 lisciplintHi, intelligent stre«iglh is a
ureal thing. Sire'iigth to a Hitle-r is for
ele-strue'tion. Slre-ngth to unite-el freH-ine-n
is lor fre-e-tleim ami fetr pe'ae-e —for vie
tetry oveu* the foe-s etf fre-e'deun.
If so be that it can now come .topass,
le-t this groat boon come let e»ur nation
and to the* wage earners of this na
tion.—CM W.
ji jf ji »{i »ji »X 't* »}«|t
W A N E
You can now have a wlietle meal
with glass service. Table's and
eliairs are being made- from glass,
set are knive-s, forks anel othe table
se-rvice. (ieihle-ts, plates and clips
of glass, are etf e'eturse net! new.
AFL AI TO WORKERS WIN
ANOTHER NLRIS ELECTION
Milwaukee, Wis.—In a four-way bal
loting among the e'iiipletye s of the Auto
matic Proelucts Company here the
Unittnl Auteiineibile Workers of Anii'i
ie-a. AFL affiliate', wem a National La
bor lte-lations Board election by a eli
cisive majority.
MORE PAY FOR GRANITE MEN
Barre, Vt. (ILNS).—Barre nie-nibe is
of the Granite Cut.te»rs' Internalietual
Association
eif
America, AFL
affiliate*,
have' ae-e-e'pte'd a coni|iromise'
wage-
scale» fo !sl)..10 elaily. The etlel se-ale'
was
S'.i anel the' union bail asked $10. Whe'ii
the ele'inauel was re-fused, weirk was
suspenele-d May 1, about 8U0 men being
affected.
NAZIS CONSCRIPT HOLLANDERS
London—Germany is expected to con
script another 2 10,(KM) Dutch laborers
to work in war factetries elespite fail
ure' eif thi'fr e-ampaigu to force the
Dute-h into works proje-cts, the Ane ta
Ne'ws Age-ncy saiel. Set far abemt 1S0,
()00 Hedlauelers have been forced into
German war work, it added.