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PAGE SIX Pointing out that ifie men and women of American labor are produc ing planes, ships, tanks, guns ami ammunition "at the fastest rates ever attained," Mr. Meany said: "The cost of food, generally, has doubled in the past 'J years. What does this mean to the American worker and to Ills wife and family? It means that the American housewife, confronted wllh such sky-high prices and desiring to discharge Iter responsibility of keep ing the war workers in her family nourished so that they can produce for victory, lias no alternative but to pass up the foods which are essential to a balanced diet but which are now be yond the reach of the average faui||y'ts poekelbook." Mr. Meany conceded that many workers are now earning more than they formerly made, but emphasized tiiat many workers, millions of tliein, "huve received no Increase in pay in the last years, or have received pure ly nominal increases amounting to 3 or f» ccnts an hour, or $l.r0 to $'.».00 per week." The average pay cnvttlopc for all manufacturing industries, in eluding I he war industries, holds only $41. each w«m»U, he said. Mr. Meany asked that President Itoosevclt, under ids wartime powers, issue an executive order to the OPA "not stating in general terms that: food prices should be held down, hut. stating in definite, specific terms that retail food prices must be rolled back within a definite, specific period of time to the levels which prevailed on May l.r», 1!M«." Only in tills way," said (he AFL leader, "can I lie American worker lie nssured that he will lie unhampered in Ills elTorts to perform the tasks that lie is anxious to do to produce all the weapons of war that our nation needs for final and conipiele victory," Local Union No. 33 (C.onlinurA From Pa or One) sudden death was a shock to his many friends ill the plant here. Lieutenant Shot singer was navi gator of Ids own Hying fortress and chief navigation ollicer of the s*|iial roil. lie possesed an air medal for distinctive service to Ills country and only a month ago was awarded the covefed oak leaf cluster for Ills record In (lie Tunisian campaign. The flier enlisted in the army all' corps as au aviation cadct in August, 15M1, and was called up for training several months later. He won his wings and Ids commission as a second lieu tenant in April, P.M2, at Ma.lhcr field, California, and iast July went over seas. While based "somewhere in Kng laml," Lieutenant Khotsiuger partici pated in bombing raids on enemy in stallations In northern Kuiope. lie was assigned to duty in Africa shortly be fore Thanksgiving. The telegram from the adjutant general, carrying news of Lieutenant Shot singer's dentil and addressed to his brother, Walter Shot.slnger, Meany Calls For Roll-Back Of Food Prices To Assure Workers A Balanced Diet NATION-WIDE RADIO BROADCAST Washington, I). C. (ILNS).--Warning that the prices of food have "reached a point so high that the future of our war effort is most seriously threatened," Secretary-Treasurer George Meany of the American Federation of Labor called upon President Roose velt to order the Office of Pi ice Administration to roll back retail food prices "within a definite specific period of time" to the levels of May 15, 1912. In a nationwide radio broadcast the plain-talking labor leader branded price control in regard to food "a miserable failure" and quoted actual prices of simple, basic foods in American cities today in substantiation of his charts. He* listed many foods which have roup up 100 per cent or more since January 1041, and one which tins risen 275 pet' cent "A Flying Fortress is a wonderful instrument of war," Air. Meany de clared, "but if it lias no fuel it cannot get off the ground. The American worker, as figures prove, is n wonder ful producer, but if he does not have sufficient nourishing food in ins stom ach. he cannot do a jolt at top speed and at peak efficiency. "Holding lie present line on food prices is not enough. The American people are already over their heads. Prices on food staples must be lolled back. "Can wo expect this to be done under the present goxeininental policy? Obviously not! According to the senior assistant of the Director of OPA, in la remark of 3 or 4 days ago, there is nothing in the President's hold-the-line executive order of April S to prevent price adjust merits. This statement was evidently made to appease certain food producers by indicating that the Presi dent's order did not prevent OPA from allowing prices to go even higher than they are today." Labor Paved Road (Continued From Page One) there to be broadcast by the men of the budding Mexican labor movement. It carried the message of friendship More than any oilier factor, labor forced a turning in Mexico from sits picion toward friendship. II must be understood and remem bered that the Mexican revolution was fought with the help of organized labor in Mexico. Not tlie organization of .today, hut the fruit of its time and place. There was then the Onsu del Obrero Mundiai (House of the Work ers of the World.) Its philosophy grew out of the syndicalist pholosophy of Spanish labor. Hut it entered into a signed compact with Hie leaders of the military revolution. This compact recognized a mutuality of aims be tween labor and the revolution and that mutuality of aim continues to tills day. Those who do .not know this are without a knowledge that leads to much understanding of today's Mexico The (JCOM Itegins Life And as that other war approached, tills pioneer movement turned into the Mexican Federation of Labor, the CltOM, today a sound and influential organization, hut in the latter thirties surpassed in numbers by its left wing rival. .lust as that oilier war ended the ("ROM and the AFL took the lead in forming the Pan American Federation of Labor. Whatever may have been its shortcomings, the Pan American Fed eration carricd on the work of build ing good nelghborliness and resulted in more visiting hack and forth, more exchange of views, more creation of understanding than any other effort, political, economic or anything else. President Roosevelt's great, job didn't start from scratch. It started over a roadway built by organized labor, In the face of great odds, in cluding the hostility and lack of un derstanding of some of its own mem bership. It continued even .through thai period in Mexico when the conflict with the church was at its height, slackened, but never stopped. History must never lie written in such a manner as to obscure tills great and vital phase of .the development of friendship between Mexico Fulled Stales. History must never sluLctl simply: "The Secretary of War desires me fo express his deepest regret that your hrolher. First Lieutenant Raymond A. Hhotsingcr, was killed April 12 in ac tion in defense of ids country in North African area. Letter follows." Lieutenant Shotslnger Is survived by his mother, Mrs. Catherine Iiraden of Patterson Heights, and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Vincent Rhoaf, Mrs. (Jale I^ewis, Mrs. Martha McMalion, Mrs. Margaret Croom, Mrs. May Kerr, Mrs. Nora Kimhcy, Mrs. Alma !ood, Mrs. Geo rye Messer, Lewis, Walter, John, Joseph and Fred Shotslnger. and the neglect or for get the pioneer work done by Samuel (ioiupers, American labor's greatest leader. Two Who Helped Nor must history be so written as to forget .the tremendous contribution made by those two Mexican Presi dents, Plutarco Kilns ('alies and Al va ro Ohrcgon. It was and perhaps still Is a boast of Mr. ('allcs that he carried a card in tlit* International Association of Machinists. In the face of the tragic fact thai under Wilson our Navy fired on Vera Cruz, these facts remain. The pioneer ing for 1 lie good neighbor policy was done Jty organized labor and with the help and encouragement of Wood row Wilson. A great many American labor men helped, bill without (Soinpers' far seeing leadership they could not have had their chance. And so, as Franklin Oelano Roosevelt went to call upon Avila Camaclio in .that great Mexican industrial center, lurking in the shadows of the mountains not far away were the shades of those who fought for understanding when the ob stacles were great. They fought when American Industrial and financial interests were Intent upon plunder and exploitation. They did a great job ami the fruit of today's effort is richer because of (lie cultivation which they tolled to bring about. Pledge lly Camacho One word more: Whatever were the pledges exchanged In Monterrey, Avila Camaclio could have given no stronger word (him he gave to me in an Inter view iu .the National Palace in Mexico City a year and a half ago, when lie enabled me fo return with the positive assurance thut Mexico would march side by side with the Fniled States in a brotherhood that would become a brotherhood iu arms if needs lie. in the company of Luis Moroues and Hob Huhcrman that pledge was given and how magnificently it has been kept. A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER We love you dear old Mother mine. Yes, we have loved you all the time. And may our love for you ne'er mise. Hut ever, ever more increase. You've loved us Mother, Love us more, yes» love us as in days of yore, Because, you know there is no other, Could ever take your place, Dear Mother. James (iusky Green Local Union No. 21). OBITUARY HARLOD PAt'L WRHillT Harold Paul Wright 311. husband of Mrs. F.dna Woods Wright jf Dixon ville, died Tuesday at 1 :10 p. m. at his home. He had been 111 since Decem ber. He was bom In East Liverpool and was a lifetime resident. Mr. Wright was a member of the Pennsylvania Ave. Methodist Church and Turners Local No. 10 of the N. 1$. of ()rT\ He was employed by the liarker Pottery Co. In addition to his wife, he is sur vived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright of IMxonville four foster sons, Floyd I'ringle and Karl Liggett at home, Corp. Itobert I'ringle stationed iu India Pvt. John Pringh of Hamilton Field, Calif., two foster daughters. Miss Dorcas I'ringle at home and Mrs. Gale Zink of Fast Liverpool a brother Adrian Wright, and two sisters, Mrs. Carl Anderson and Mrs. Henry Thompson, all of East Liverp* ol. Riles will be held Friday at 2 p. m. at the family home in Dixonville by Rev. W. K. Speaker, pastor of the Pennsylvania Ave Methodist Church. Interment will be In ltiverview ceme tery. •k CALVIN II. ItAILEY Sebrlng, Ohio. Calvin H. Bailey. 70, of Iteloit, a resident of this vicinity for ."»l years, died at 1 :20 p. m. Thurs day, April 20, iu the family home, after an illness lasting several years. Horn at St. Mary's, Pleasant County, W. Va., on May i^{, 1S72, the deceased was the husband of Lydia Bailey. He was a member of the Beioit Friends Church and of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters. Mr. Bailey is survived by his wife af home, two daughters, Vera Morrow and Kva Reighenbach of Beioit, one son, Ray Bailey of 57!) Wright Ave, Alliance, four brothers, O. S. Bailey of St. Mary's, W. Va., and Wassuui, Kverett ami John Bailey of Chester, W. Va., and two sisters, Nancy Wherry of St. Mary's, W. Va., and Ida Taibott if Wellsville. Funeral services were conducted af the Friends Church in Beioit on Sun day, May 2, with Rev. Charles Iluworth in charge. Burial was made iu Grand view Cemetery. MRS. Mllli BlIidSFIILD Minerva, Ohio. .Mrs. Nellie Burch- field, HS, 20(5 Murray Ave., passed away it the family home Saturday, May 1, following an illness of IS months. Born in Minevra, she was a life long resident of this vicinity. Siie was a member of the Presbyterian church and Local Union No. 70, N.B.O.l'. Surviving are her husband, John Burchfield One daughter, Ruth Ann at home two sons, John Burchfield at home and Russel C. Rourke, Minerva one stepdaughter, Mrs. Violet Black, Minerva one stepson, Harold Burch field two sisters, Mrs. Ola McCalllster and Mrs. Florence Kllelt, Alliance two brothers, Howard Vail Meter, Alliance and Charles Van Meter, Minerva. Services were held Monday at 2:00 p. m. at the Itut ledge-Jackson Funeral Parlors with Rev. K. .1. Burlier in charge. Burial was iu Valley SI reel cemetery. MRS. KM/A ROBINSON PRICK Mrs. Hlizu Robinson Price, (!f», former Fast Liverpool resident and wife of James Price, a potter, died suddenly Monday morning at her home in Burhunk, Calif. She was born In Fast Liverpool ami resided here until 20 years ago when she went to California. Mrs. Price was a member of St. Stephen's Fpiscopal Church iu Fast Liverpool and St. Paul's Fpiscopal Church in Burhank. She was nlliliatcd with the Daughters of America, No. 4. In addition to iter husband, a son, lolin II. Price of Burhank, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Many penny of Fas! Liverpool, survive. A daughter, Airs. Hazel WedgewiHid, preceded her in death. Services were held Wednesday at II a. in. in the Little Church of Flowers and interment was at Rose lawn memorial in Glemlale, Calif. AI BI UT R. AKINS Albert R. Akins, r», died Saturday at r» :ir» p. in. at his home at 307 Drury Lane, following a lingering illness. He resided in Fast Liverpool for the last 40 years and was employed last by (he Cronin China Co. at Minerva. Mr. Akins was a member of the N. B. of O. p., Local I'nion No. 70. lie is survived by bis wife, Mrs. Bcrnudiuc Hoping Akins, at home five sons, Wilbur Akins of McKeesport, Albert Akins of Beaver, (Mialies Akins ind Frnest Akins of Akron, and Ray mond Akins of the army a daughter, Mrs. Betty Hanuan of Akron, two sisters, Mrs. George Parker of Min erva a brother, Alonzo Akins of Chester, and six grandchildren. Rites were held Tuesday at 2 p. ni. from the Dawson Funeral Home. Inter liu'iit was In Spring Grove Cemetery. You Can See the Cream ALWAYS USE CREAM TOP Milk Bottles TIIKV AI«K SANITARY Used Exclunively lly Golden Star Dairy Phone 3200 THE KrtTfcM tt&RAtt* Seek School Link With Child Labor Washington. To prevent war laltor demands from "saixxtuging the aca demic education of youth," Dr. Fred erick Allen, director of (he Philadel phia Child Guidance Clinic, proposed to the Children's Bureau of the Labor Department that schools and employ ers unite to make wartime child em ployment part of education programs, lie spoke at a meeting of the bureau's general advisory committee on pro tect ion of young workers. 'In Texas 25,000 children between 12 and 15 have left school (his year," said .lames K. Sidel of the National Child Labor Committee. "The com pulsory attendance laws are not iieing enforced. Some children are working as many as eighty-five hours a week sixty hours plus schooling Is not un usual. In Louisiana the same thing is true. Many schools are not even half tilled, especially along the Gulf' coast." Miss Leu root sivouded the War Man power Commission's |H)licy on child employment, which states children should receive "wags paid adult workers for similar Job performance." An Open Letter To President Roosevelt My dear Mr. President The trade union members of the United States a re ^overwhelmingly your friends. In spite of all argument they and their families voted for you and elected you three times. Neither the dramatic pleas of John L. Lewis or tin propaganda of Wf/r of the newspaiters had any effect on their trust in you But their faith Is being damaged seriously right now and it Is up to you to do something about it. Until now, whenever there was criticism of any government action or policy it was directed at your assistants. You were exempted. This was due to the strong lielief in your motives and the allowances made for the many problems you are compelled to fake care of us our Commander in Chief. Maybe you have taken that strong trust for granted, and have catered to your old enemies in order to get national unity. But we beg you to hear the complaint of your old friends, now, or else all of us and the whole world will suffer for ages'to come* Please hear this "1)111 of particulars." Ydcir time is too valuable ,to detail everything, hut these are the high spots. THK COST OF LIVING OPA has failed. Tn your hold-the-line order you said prices must be rolled back. Instead of going down, prices are going up. Meat, fresh fruits and veg» tables, are out of sight. Administrator Brown keeps playLng "yes, no, maybe about labelling that would protect us on quality and quantity. The OPA is filled up with spokesmen of selfish business iuterests, who resign when exposed only to be replaced by others of the same kind. They are playing games with prices, not roiling tliem back. The result has reaily hurt the war effort, WAfJK STABILIZATION When you I issued the hold-t lie-line order, the War Labor Board imme diately threw out thousands of pending cases. If the Board had acted with promptness as cases were submitted many workers would have had favorable decisions now their cases will not be considered at all. Can you blame them for being bitter? As bad as this is the question of inequalities. Workers, through their unions, have been fighting for years on ,the issue. Now It Is "inflationary" to secure justice! Decision on all wage and cost of living matters are in the hands of your "assistant President." Director Byrnes. He insists on a wage freeze. You are his IIUSSS, and the unrest and strikes that may come will be iu your lap also, MANPOWKB A real, permanent, fascist joh-coutrol is being slipped over, step by step. We see it happening. McNutt issued his latest, most im|Kriaut order without even consulting his Labor "Advisory" Committee. Some of us think this is the most dangerous of all situations. While we are fighting slave-lalior hi Ms iu Congress (approved by some of your Cabinet members!) we may get the same thing without law. Mr. President, you know tlia! labor will fight fascism at home just as vigorously as we oppose it abroad LABOR RKPKKSKNTATION Many months ago, Donald Nelson agreed to give Ijihor its proper recog nition in war production, ll is still a promise, without reality. Production will never reach its joteiitial peak as long as the knowledge and abilities of Labor are rejected. In other agencies, either there are no labor spokesmen at all, or anti-labor biased influences predominate. In Britain, the Manpower Director is a Trade Union leader. It makes sense .to have it so. It gets results to have it so. When will you make It-so in America? THK WORLD WAR Union men and women are citizens. They are interested in what their war time government is doing to win the war in the shortest jKissible time. They want to see the war end, not Just with a stoppage of shooting, but with the beginning of a program of making freedom, brotherhood and security real throughout the world. That is why we are angry about your State Department. Time after time we see the United States, our country, dealing with the most reactionary, fascist-minded elements. Dalian, l'eyrouton, Franco—maybe tomorrow Clano maybe the day after tomorrow a "good business-like" German! 'i he masses of people in Kurope are members of Labor unions or of labor political organizations. If there is to be revolt, they will make it. What ho|x. do we give them, what inspiration, when we deal'with their enemies? When we recognize and put into jKiwer anti-semltes and luitl-democrats? To French Labor we have given Peyrouioii, their outspoken opponent whom will be give to Hie Italians when we invade? ACTION, MR. PRKSIDKNT To all (he people of the world you have Iwen the white-knight of liberty and hope. VVe are in a crisis at home and abroad. We face upheaval, with loss of lives and spirit. You can act. You are a great leader, wise and strong. Do not let down your firmest, oldest followers. Act now, liefore It Is too late. Texas Drop Cited As Typical Of War's Effect On Classrooms Ask for Union Labeled merchandise. Sli uerely yours, A UNION MAN Have You Given Your Pint of Blood Yet? Meany Asks (Continued From Page One) nourished so that they can produce for victory, has no alternative but to pass up (lie foods which are essential to a balanced diet but which are now be yond tiie reach of the average family's pockef look." Mr. Meany conceded that many wojkers are now earning more than they formerly made, but emphasized that many workers, millions of them, "have received no increase in pay in the last 3 years, or have received purely nominal Increases amounting to or fi c«»nts an hour, or .$1.50 to $2.00 |»er week." The average pay en velope for all manufacturing indus tries, including the war industries, holds only $41 each' week, he said. Mr. Meany asked that President Roosevelt, under his wartime powers, issue an executive order to the OPA "not stating in general terms that food prices should be held down, but stating in definite, specific terms that retail food prices mus( be rolled back within u definite, specific period of time to the levels which prevailed n May 15, 1042." "Only in this way."*said the AFL leader, "can the American worker The Ued Cross is appealing to every man and woman in the United States to give at least one pint of blood to save the lives of our boys out there. It doesn't take but an hour—it's painless—and It means so much to our Armed Forces. Science has gone far in the use of blood plasma. Lives are being saved every minute of every day because of this marvelous discovery. So, gel in touch with our Bed Cross people and make your date to give at least a pint of blood. The Dawson Funeral Home 215 West Fifth Street be assured that lie will be unhampered his efforts to perforin the tasks in that he is not only willing to do hut that he is anxious fo do—to produce all the weapons of war that our nation needs for final and complete victory." Phone 10 NUTRITION AND LABOR Six years ago I travelled in Russia with a group of American teachers and scientists. One day we had lunch at the vast collective farm, Gigant (meaning giant), near the now famous but devastated city of Rostov. We were served the Russian black bread and thick soup. Fvery person received a large plate of the mixture the Russians call soup, which consists of potatoes, cabbage, beets, some buck wheat, and some boiled niea.t. If not overcooked, it can be a very tasty and a highly nutritious dish. It -was a hot summer day, and the vast majority of American tourists literally turned up their noses at this luncheon. They wanted a fresh vege table salad and ice cream, or at least iced coffee. To their way of thinking and in accordance with our own cus toms, (heir demands were very simple and |iiile natural. Some whole wheat bread and butter, a mixed vegetable salad, a hard boiled egg, and a cold glass of milk would have pleased me very well too. Hut it so happened that the Russian food habits and food sup plies were not the same as our own, and they prepared for us the same thing that they ate. The majority of the American visitors returned the soup and the bread untasted, com plained of the lack of food on such a vast farm, and were pleased with an apple and some other snacks which the restaurant could offer them. The fact was that the collective farm cafe teria simply did not have any other food but what was given us. Wliat is important to .the point of tills story Is the way Russians regard ed us. They looked upon us as though we were the most pampered, ungrate ful and self-centered people ill the world. The idea of ordering special dishes is something fantastic to them -about as fantastic as the idea of rejecting bread and soup, which in their opinion, should make anybody the happiest person in the world, pro vided it could be obtained every day. They regarded the American attitude in tiie same way as we look upon the spoiled brat of a rich family who thinks it a terrible comedown to have .to live without a valet. The general reaction of tiie people there was that (lie behavior of our group was de generate, immoral or sinful, that we showed no respect for God's great gifts I Here's the reason the stapo is worried I Where |ri!t the invasion strike first? Nere's the timely, thrilling story on tt*$J screen! Wft&iv&NiS G0V.0^:^ Thursday, May «. 1043. THE RUSSIAN DIET To one who has traveled in other lands and gained first hand experience about .the food situation elsewhere, the complaints about food that one hears occasionally in this country these days seem very strange. He is in the same IHisition as a person who lias seen poverty and misery about him all his life and is suddenly transported into an extremely wealthy home where spoiled children complain of not hav ing enough maids or a chauffeur of their own or of having to wear the same costume to two ha lis in succes sion. The fact of the matter is that youngsters brought up in an environ ment of unlimited abundance cannot be blamed for making such demands To their way of .thinking, the things they want are essential, and in their circle of society no one will regard them as insane or overpampered. Tin same is true with our attitude toward food. and that someday we would be pun ished for such offensive behavior. Of course it is not fair to compare our habits and our ideas of what Is right and proper with those of iiny other nation, and least of all with those of the Russians, who have cer tainly not been aide to relax eco nomically, politically and mentally for one moment for many decades. Thipy lived on a war psychology and on war rations since 1014. The American worker is accustomed .to different treatment, to different standards of living and has a different outlook on life from that of the Russians. Under peacetime conditions no one would want to make such analogies. Hut under peacetime conditions there would le no point in depriving ourselves irf what we believe to be our due shii^'e of the things we can well afford, ltr the mere reason that other nations do not share our standard of living. Under watime conditions, however, the situation is entirely different. The welfare of other nations that fight on our side becomes now, in a way, as much our concern as the welfare of any section of our own country and our own people. (Russian diet continued) Ship Deliveries Hit High Point In March Washington. I. C.—American mer chant shipyard workers during March smashed all previous records for ship deliveries witii the completion of 140 new vessels, (o(aling 1,510.000 tons deadweight, the Maritime Commission announced. March output corresponded to a rate of more than IN.000,000 tons a year. Although the commission's schedules called for the rate of 5 ships a day by May, this rate has al readv been achieved. A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH THIS BANK Will assure those much needed dol lars when unexpected emergencies arise. Those Individuals who do not enjoy this favorable position will find our PERSONAL LOAN SERVICE A most convenient and economical way to meet financial reverses. When justified, we advance cash on personal notes at (i% interest a year plus a $2.00 investigation fee, which can be repaid in eighteen months or less. Inquiries treated with strictest confidence. 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