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Thursday, January Y, 1043.
Body On ILO Model Is
Formed In India To Deal
With Conditions Of Labor
Organization Is First Of Its
Kind Set Up Along Na
tional Lines
Montreal (ILNS). Government
employer-worker collaboration in India
in the field of labor legislation and in
dustrial relations lias been put on a
permanent basis with the establish
ment of an organization modeled on
the tripartite structure of the Interna
tional Labor Review, monthly ILO
publication.
Formation of the new body, the ar
ticle points out, marks the first time
that a national organization has been
set up along lines similar to the ILO
to deal with questions relating to the
conditions of labor.
Three-fold Purpose
Purpose of the new organization
will be three fold
1—To promote uniformity in labotf
legislation.
2—To lay down a procedure for the
settlement of industrial disputes.
3—To discuss "all matters of all
India importance as between Employ
ers and employees."
The organization is to be composed
of an annual plenary conference and a
standing committee, each of which will
include representatives of the central
government, the governments of the
provinces and the Indian States, em
ployers and workers. In both the con
ference and the committee, representa
tion will
IK?
on the basis of two gov­
ernment members to one member for
ea$ of the employers and the workers.
Reasons For Organization
Among the chief reasons promptin
the government to propose establish
ment of the organization, the artich
makes clear, was the desire to avoid
the diversity in labor legislation which
was made possible by the granting of
provincial autonomy by the constitu
tion in 15)3"). In addition, the article
says, the Indian government felt it
desirable to formulate a procedure for
the settlement of industrial disputes
in the post-war period. Thirdly, it was
felt desirable to have an organization
which could make proposals for social
welfare, and thus increase labor mor
ale in the conditions of wartime.
Air Raid On Reich
Reported Followed
By Riots In Sreets
New York City (ILNS). Heavy
allied air raids on Hamburg, Cologne,
Duesseldorf, Essen, and other German
industrial centers have been followed
by a complete breakdown of the food
supply and transportation services and
subsequent serious riots, reports from
inside Germany to the International
Transport Workers' Federation indi
cate.
Particularly severe clashes occurred
in Hamburg, when large crowds of
women workers demonstrated. Local
police refused to fire oil the demon
strators and were immediately with
drawn and disciplined on orders of the
military and Gestapo commanders.
Gestapo and Elite Guard detachments
were called out and used against tin
people. The .number of dead and
wounded victims is estimated as very
large.
Similar food riots are reported from
Cologne where the soldiers used ma
chine guns against the demonstrators.
These disturbances have luvn indi
rectly confirmed by speeches of tin
Nazo leadership and recent frequent
visits of Ileinrich Himmler, head of
the Gestapo, to the a filleted areas. Es
sen also reported riots and street
clashes of such magnitude that the
local Nazi organ National Zeitung felt
compelled to come out with a scathing
denunciation of the "failure of the au
thorities to furnish adequate emer
geney food supplies and equipment."
Workers To Make Good On
War Jobs, Miss Perkins Says
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). Con
fidence that labor will make good on
the job of providing all needed mate
rials and weapons of war in 11(4.'} was
expressed by Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins in a New Year's mes
sage.
"Nineteen forty-three will demand
toil and sacrifice from all of us so that
our American way of life may be pre
served, our American institutions safe
guarded and freedom of speech, free
dom of the press, freedom of religion
freedom of assembly and equal justict
to all.be maintained as a noble heri
tage and as a sacred trust," the Secre
tary said.
"That toil and that sacrifice will In
gladly given by the workers of thest
United States. They will continue to
carry on successfully the task of pro
viding the materials and weaixins
needed by our Army and Navy oh
many fighting fronts.
"The skill, the high efficiency and
the great speed of America's workin:.
men and women and the cooperation
letween them and management wi
do the job and do it thoroughly for tlu1
preservation of American lives and
homes and to contribute in full mens
ure to the ultimate and complete vie
tory of the United Nations.'.'
We must reconcile ourselves to the
fact that there are no short cuts or
miracles on the way to the final and
conclusive defeat of our eueitiies.
Many Obstacles
(Continued From Page One)
of paramount importance, nevertheless
it is well to take note of who is spon
soring these moves.
In about every instance you will
And it is those who have been con
sistently anti-labor, or by playing
politics have allowed conditions to
•oine into existence. That culminated
with Pearl Harbor. General Short and
Vdmiral Kimmei were responsible for
that there can bo no question, but was
not others responsible for swing they
were not doing .their duty? Have w
forgotten who they were? If we liav«
I am very much afraid for the future.
Let us do everything we can to win
this war, but let us not forget thos
whose job it was to see to the safety
our country. Propaganda is already
at work to cause us to forget. They an
telling us it is all over and gone and
we must forget it and look to the
future.
If we are to have manpower con
trol, let us have something to say
about how it is to be applied. History
shows that the future is always based
on the past and the success or failures
of the future can be traced directly to
the successes or failures of the past
Let us then not sleep, but wish each
other a happy and prosperous New
Year and then work to make it a
happy and prosperous New Year for
all.—O.C. 44.
Nova Scotia Labor
Pioneer Dies At 72
Halifax, N. S. (ILNS).—John
•Toy, of Halifax, a pioneer in organ
ized labor and in workmen's compen
sation in Nova Scotia, is dead here,
aged 72. Born in Halifax, he started
out as a longshoreman, and, seeing .the
need of a union for the dock workers
organized the Halifax local of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Associa
tion, becoming the first president. He
has been either president or honorary
president ever since. He was also busi
nes agent of the local for many years
Joy campaigned diligently for years
in behalf of provincial workmen's
compensation legislation, and finally
his efforts were rewarded in 15)17. In
that year, the Nova Scotia Workmen'.*
Compensation Hoard was formed, and
.loy was one of the original members
being the representative of organize
labor. He had also been called on by
the Canadian Labor Department to
serve on special conciliation and arbl
tration boards adjusting controversies
and strikes, in various parts of tin
eastern provinces. He was president of
the Halifax Trades and Labor Coun
cil for some years.
llis retirement from the Nova Scoti
Workmen's ('ompensation Board in
15)37 was caused by ill health, which
had continued through the last liv
years, culminating in a paralytic
stroke, the cause of his death.
"SAY YES"
A campaign appealing to Americans
to complete the IUO,(HMMMH) outs't a tid
ing War Savings Stamp albums, now
only partially filled, and to corner
them into War Bonds will lie launched
this week by the War Savings Staff,
Harold 11. Bredlow, executive seen
tary of the Ohio stall', announced.
Under the slogan "Say Yes!" re
tailers .throughout the country will
urge customers to take their change
in War Stamps.
"If completed and redeemed, th
UMMHW),XH albums outstanding in the
nation would represent almost two
billion dollars in War Bonds," Bred
low said.
".Many thousands of Americans have
bought a few War Stamps, pasted
them in an album and left that aibun
half completed. Retailers will point
out that this half-effort is comparahlt
to a half-equipped soldier. Their 'Say
Yes!' campaign is designed to finish
the job.
1
"Stsunp sales have risen from less
than three million dollars per month
when they were first introduced
the public to an average of more than
fifty million dollars per month at the
present time.
"A total of more than $509,777,000
worth of War Savings Stamps of ail
denominations have been purchased
since the start of the campaign in
May, 15)41. Of this number only .r4
per cent have been converted into VVa
Bonds. This amounts to $302,000,000.
"About 40 million dollars worth of
stamps have been redeemed for cash
approximately 7 per cent of the total
volume sold.
"Substantially more tOan 200 mil
lion dollars worth of stamps remain
in the hands of the purchasers."
CIGAKETTKS FOR FIGHTERS
Los Angeles.—Local unions of tin
International Brotherhood of Team
sters in Southern California, through
their joint council, are sending l.(KK)
mm union-made Baleigh cigarettt
monthly to members in the arine»
forces overseas. The Raleighs are pur
chased in bond, less tax, from the
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corpo
ration and distributed by Army an
Navy chaplains among all branches at
no cost. Each package contains a small
post card with a message of cheer
from the union teamsters.
School buses will also be reduced
and students forced to hike it when
they live within* two miles of the
school.
GIAMOR
Speaking of hats, and is .there a
woman with soul so dead who won't
brighten up with the thought of a new
hat—the girls who want to go out in
the chill breezes and high winds wear
ing their largest brimmed felt hat tie
them on with a veil or tulle knotted
with a iovely bow under their chins,
and look, oh, so fetching!
But for practical chapeaus everyone
is wearing those tiny, breezy crochets,
because they're flattering and because
they're pulled up beaded, bowed,
shelled and pail let ted. They're worn
for day or night and are spanking now
and different. Think what a kelly
green pill-box, or a luggage tan callot,
or a fez-type with gleaming paillettes
would do for your fur coat!
Coin dots are having a revival! They
are s«*en everywhere. Picture a glamor
ous evening dress with black velvet
bodice and bouffant white net skirl
with black velvet coin dots spotting
the snowy if-t. Or for daytime, a smart
creation of beige crepe has self-color
coin dots in graduated sizes forming
a deep border on the skirt and band
ing the bodice.
WiJ.li millions of "women now en
gaged in war industries the question
of proper diet for health and beauty
is of increasing importance, especially
for women working under conditions
of great stress. Here is a set of rules
suggested'by a committee of nationally
noted experts who are working for im
proved health:
"1—Don't trust to getting all the
vitamins and minerals you need from
daily dosages of taiblcls. Eat a well
balanced diet.
2—Don't bolt your meals. Enjoy
yourself. That will help digest your
food.
"3—Don't grab a bite in the morning
and run. Eat a good breakfast.
"4—Don't' skip any meal in the day.
A hasty gulped chocolate bar or a hot
dog is not enough nourishment to keep
your body running at par.
*T)—Don't eat too many starches and
sweets.
"0—Don't 'smoke with your meals.
Smoke afterwards."
WOMEN
The present enlistment quota of tin
WAACS is lot),000, and recruits at
Des Moines are beiuj equipped at the
processing center at the rate of 300
in a ten-hour day.
It takes four weeks to transform a
recruit into a WAAC, but it takes only
and hour and a half to make her look
like one. Every half hour recruits in
groups of 30 are started through. They
first receive two barracks bags, pro
ceed to the foundation garment room
for girdles, aud brassieres, then to the
sizing room to have them fitted, then
to the outergarment fitting room, and
then they receive gloves, shirts and
THE POTTERS HERALD
"AH DONE DOOD IT!"
You never laughed so hard al a movie in all your lilt U Uit± lujimenl i«iciuie in.- Aa» .-c«iku mm m. When
he started "Whistling in tlie Dark" America said "we want more" so now Red Skelton is "Whistling in Dixie"-
Starts Sunday at the Ceramic Theatre for four days.
FOR WOMEN
TiPS—HINTS—HELPS—KEEPING AHEAD OF THE TIMES
By MARY MOORE
DO YOU KNOW?
The new food rationing program
scheduled to go Into effect within the
month will be patterned after the sys
tem used in England when1 clothing
as well as food Is rationed. Rationing
of canned foods will take place right
after meat rationing and householders
will be requested to declare all stocks
on hand of goods to be rationed.
The new-so-called universal ration
book is now rolling off the presses in
18 Cities and is designated to handle
two or three programs simultaneously.
AH transportation will be federal
ized early in the year by ODT which
will halt all non-essential travel. Rules
will be set up establishing what "es
sential travel'' really is. Pullman ac
comodations or nearly all lines will be
drastically curtailed and day coach
travel substituted. The reason for this
is the effort to use less equipment and
many more persons can be carried in
day coaches than in Pullmans.
the balance of the other 75 items that
are issued to each WAAC.
The alteration department is a busy
one, manned by civilian experts. Like
army equipment, there are two sizes—
too large and too small—and few of
the standard sizes fit because so few
of the recruits conform to standard
measurements.- The girls don't stay
fitted either, because of their active
life—the fat ones lose and the thin
ones gain, but the girls are all fitted
accurately and comfortably as well as
attractively.
Now the Army Aii1 Forces has re
quested the services of members of the
WAACS to replace enlisted men need
ed for combat duly. Men doing such
jobs as parachute rigging, bombsight
repairing, weather observing and glid
er instructing will be relieved of such
duties when the WAACS have received
the necessary training for more than
1T highly technical jobs. Some of the
classifications the WAACS are needed
for by the Army in re: draftsmen, tele
type operators, instrument specialists,
electricians, dope%nd fabric workers,
machinists and metal workers, truck
and tractor drivers, radio operators,
control tower operators, photographers,
photograph laboratory technicians,
camera repairmen and glider instruc
tors.
In addition, fhe Army Air Forces
have requested WAACS for clerks,
both administrative and technical, in
structors, bandsmen and housekeeper?
PANTKY PALAVER
Chef's Hints Vonr coffee ration
stamp No. 27 expired January 3, and
ration stamp No. 28 will be good for
coffee for the next five w«K»ks.
Add a stiflly beaten egg and hot milk
to mashed potatoes just before serving
—your potatoes will not be heavy or
soggy.
Two or three iettuce leaves cooked
with fresh green peas prevents loss
of color and shrinking. Never use bi
carbonate of soda to preserve color in
vegetables—it destroys the vitamins.
Potato stock becomes an economical
and nutricious soup when well season
ed and combined with diced cooked
celery, onions and bouillon cubes.
Tough meat may be made tender by
any one of the following .treatments:
Grind through food chopper to cut tin
connective tissues: ]^mnd to break up
the tissues marinate (let stand in an
acid mixture, sticli as vinegar, frencli
dressing) to soften the connective
tissue.
A cranberry gingerbread ring is a
glorified upside-down gingerbread with
jellied cranberry sauce, slices of
orange for frosting. Use your own or
prepared package mix recipe.
A Wassail bowl is a traditional
English drink, drunk with friends to
the toast of "Love and joy come to you
—and to you Wassail, too." Wassail
meaning, "be tlioti well." It's mad
with one gal. cider, dash grenadine, 0
egg whites whipped, all-spice, cinna
mon, crushed cloves, pint of milk or
cream. Heat and servo hot.
Meat pies are iniply stews with a
lid of crisp, crunchy pastry that
should melt in your mouth, and inex
pensive cuts of meats are glamorized
with the addition of vegetables. Bis
cuit topping is good too.
Lima Bean croquettes are good on
meatless days and economical too. Add
a tablespoon each of butter, milk,
chopped parsley i" a quart of cooked
strained limas, a tspn. each of salt and
onion juice. Form Into croquettes, dip
in beaten egg, roll ki crumbs or fiou
and fry in hot fat. Serve with catsup
or tomato sauce.
SHEFFIELD UNIONS BUY
$664,677.00 WAR BONDS
Washington, I). C.—Mildred .larrett,
recording secretary of Tri-Citios Con
tral Labor Union. Sheffield. Ala., re
ported to AFL Secretary-Treasurer
George Meany that during 15142 tin
affiliated local unions and .their mem
bers purchased *04,077.00 worth of
war bonds.
State Standards
Of Labor Upheld
Principles On Wages, Hours
And Work Conditions Are
Set Forth For Guidance
Washington.—Seven agencies of th*
Federal Government, six of them war
agencies, advised against blanket sus
pension of State labor laws.
The War, Navy and Labor Depart
ments, the War Production Board
War Manpower Commission, Maritime
Commission and Office of Defens*
Transportation joined in a declara
tion that long-time production had been
added by preserving laws regulating
hours of work and safe conditions.
With the Legislatures of forty-foul
States meeting in regular session this
year and probably considering mea
sures to speed the war effort, tin
statement of the agencies was issued
to State Labor Commissioners in re
sponse to inquiries as to whether the
war production and transportation pro
grams would require further amend
mont of State legislation.
Five Principles To Be Kept
The statement urged that State laws
embracing the following basic princi
ples should be preserved except where
modification might be necessary to in
sure the maximum production
1—A maximum forty-eight -hour
week.
2—An eight-hour day.
3—One day of rest in seven.
4—Adequate rest and meal periods
—Adaptation of hours of work and
working conditions to the age and sex
of the workers, except that there bt
no relaxation of standards governing
employment of those under 1!2 yeai.
old.
7—Tlie same wage rale- f'r womei:
as for men.
It was pointed out that the recom
mendation as to hours in no way af
fected provisions of the Wage Hour
Act requiring time-and-a-half pay for
all work over forty hours a week. R»
ports to the Department of Lanor
show that practicvJlv ii war produc
tion plants !:i the United States are
operating at least forty-eight hours
week.
War Production Not Hampered
"Te'.uporar.v modification of certain
labor standards has been pennittei
under proper safeguards, and at tii
.same time maximum long-time produc
ti.»n has been aided by preserving law.
regulating hours of work and estab
lis'iiug working conditions.
"In some Slates it has been" neces
s«ry to enact ]",rislation authorizing
such action for the war period in
other States temporary modification
has been authorized under exist-in
laws or under the emergency power.
of tin* Governor.
"This operating experience demon
strates that there is no need fo
blanket, suspension or lowering of la
bor standards as staled above in any
State.
"We wish to commend the Stah
Labor Commissioners for their assisi
a nee and good offices in meeting emer
gency situations, aud to assure them
of our full support in the maintenance
of the basic labor standards which
have been built up by their severa
States over the years.
"The continuance of the agreed pro
gram of 15)42 is recommended."
NOW ADMITS WOMEN
British Engineering I'nion Opened
o 1 K i i s
Something like l,rtin.000 women do
ing engineering work in war factories
have been made eligible for member
ship in the Amalgamated Engineering
Union, the most exclusive craft or
ganization in the British trade union
movement, and one of the wealthiest
for its size, in the world.
The rules revision committee act*
nn a ballot of the 000,000 memhershii
iif the union, which was overwhelm
ingly in l'avor of the stej).
In many respects, it is said, this i
a historic decision in the trade union
movement, as the A. E. U.. which
prides itself on .the high standard o
skill of its members, has' previously
resisted the acceptance of women.
1r
Woll Discloses How Labor Fund
Aids China, Britain And Russia
New Vork City.—The thrilling story
of how the contributions of American
Labor enable the Chinese Association
of Lalwir to smuggle skilled ChinesA
workmen out of Japanese held terri
tory into free China was revealed by
Matthew Woll.
Mr. Will is president of the Labor
League for Human Rights and United
Nations Belief. Memliers of the AFL
from Maine to California in cfo|era
tion with several hundred local Com
munity War ('bests have been making
systematic contributions to war relief.
'Since the beginning of the war,"
said Mr. Woll. "the trade unions of
America have I teen fighting for democ
racy on every battlefront. They have
done tins with the weapons they have
Imilt and with their dollars. Today,
we are assisting Gresit Britain. Russia
and China through the war relief or
ganizations of those countries. This
is done in eoojeration with the hun
dreds of Community and War ('bests
all over the country.
"But over and al)ove, those regular
contributions which go to our fighting
allies, there is a special program of
lalior projects in Britain. Russia and
China couducted in the name of the
American Labor Movement.
Thus 1.000 skilled workers nn- 1 -e
ing transferred from Shanghai and
oilier Japanese occupied cities into
free China. The task is being carried
out by the Chinese Association of La
bor,- which like the American Federa
tion of Lalxtr, is a member of the
Internal ionai Federation of Trade
Unions. Dollars contributed by Ameri
can trade unionists have made thos*
hazardous operations possible. Tlfe
Japanese patrols in the China Sea
bold no terrors for these brave men
who are smuggling their fighting com
patriots past gunboats and destroyers
to the underground railroads which
have remained concealed from tlie
Japanese inquisitors."
According to Mr. Woll, tii»- -.»ntribi:
tions of American lalior ure construct
ing and maintaining PiO mobile food
canteens to take hot meals to defense
workers on war projects. These proj
ects are in remote and inaccessible re
gions. A hot meal for a Chinese work
er, squeezed l{etween runaway infla
tionary living costs and the disrup
tion of tlie normal jiesicetime economy
and the natural and man-made famin".
is a daily contribution to morale whi
helps to sustain tlie ciiiii r\war in
dust ries.
The special labor budget for this
1 rogram. he said, amounts to
I
&
Ask for Union Labeled merchandise.
&
'This is over and above our regular
illotment to Chinese War Belief."
Mr. Woll asserted that similar allo
cations of .$W5ti,000 from American la
bor for special projects carried on in
the name of the AFL and CIO have
been earmarked for Britain and Rus
sia.
In Britain, he said, the projects
under way are three merchant sea
men's clubs for sailors on shore after
long, dangerous voyages: ten nursing
homes for orphaned and shell-shocked
children and a rest home for the
workers in British war industries, both
men and women.
The Russian allocation, he explained,
is providing schools, nurseries, and re
habilitation centers. These units are
l»eing slocked with such commodities
as sheets and bedding, warm blankets,
towels, and other supplies. Women
and children and convalescents re
ceive. through the generosity of Am
erican labor, warm clothing, shoes and
oversh'K*s, evaporated milk, vitamins,
school supplies, orthopedic equipment
and diathermy apparatus.
"These are not humdrum ordinary
contributions," he declared. "A warm
blanket is the difference between life
and death in the 40-degree below zero
weather around Stalingrad. Milk and
stout shoes, sulfa drugs and vitamin
tablets are potent weapons. They keep
our fighting allies strong. They dis
comfit our common enemy. When tlie
war is won, tlie whole story will l»e
told of how these small things, the
gift of American labor. helied to sus
tain the jeople of Britain, China and
Russia !n their fight."
When Words
Fail—
Say It With
Flowers
IS a dUtt
Mr. Bill More
FOR NOT BLOCKING THE DOOR!
We re grateful indeed to Mr. Bill More for moving
away promptly from the entrance door whenever
he rides with us. He speeds up the service and
provides more room for other riders who must
be accommodated.
We can't secure enough new vehicles because of
the war, and Mr. More is helping us get the great
est possible use out of those we have.
Cooperating irith American Transit Association
Working U Keep Transportation Rolling
VALLEY MOTOR
TRANSIT COMPANY
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