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retary post at the convention.
j- Walter Clawges, Chairman. L. U. 175
1 .. James Dermody ................... -L.U. 45
Robert W. Gresch ............... L.U. 50
(W Mary McGown ............... ..... ..L.U. 94
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before they are introduced on the convention floor.
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Officers’ Report Committee
Augustine Mazzie ............... L.U. 99
g7 F. J. Sanders ....................... ..L. U. 103
Ev George Groscross ............... ■L. U. 113
f. Harry Malpass .................... ..L. U. 122
I Robert Price .......................... ..L. U. 146
Bertha Hughes ...................... ,.L. U. 148
John Kamas .......................... ..L. U. 174
Jesse Lansbery ...................... ,.L. U. 177
Samuel Jackson .................... ..L. U. 184
Credentials Committee
Lance Ansell, Chairman...... .L.U. 45
Larry Finley .......................... -L.U. 12
James Gouker ...................... L. U. 20
L. W. Smith ..........................
Philip Schroeder ..................
,.L. U. 31
L.U. 44
Frank Buehler ...................... -L. U. 59
William Stackpole ................ .L. U. 172
Kenneth Brown .................... L. U.177
Chinaware Committee
David Bevan, Chairman........ L. U. 99
E. N. Mountford ........... L. U. 6
Norman Bratt .,.................... -L.U. 24
Samuel J. Lawton ................
William Robinson ................
.L.U. 24
L.U. 24
George Salsberry L.U. 24
Lloyd E. Cook .........a..’.......... L. U. 33
Albert Baker ...........
j.....:.......
.L. U. 35
John Briel .............................. -L.U. 35
Fred Perdunn ......—^u.......^... L.U. 35
Carl Heintz ...— L.U. 76
Forrest Sargent ................ .....L. U. 99
Charles Cobb ...... .L. U. 108
Harry Pennington L. U. 108
Samuel Jackson —.... L. U. 184
Earthenware 'Committee
i John Dbrff, Chairman:..,...^ L. U. 178
Alice Reeify ...........................
Finance Committee
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L. U. 178
Abe Edwards, Chairman......
Laurence Brown -..k,...^w—
L.U. 70
L. U. 9
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Labor Hostility To Restrictive Laws
New York City (ILNS).—Trade
aunion opposition to legislative re
straints or anything that smacks of
real or imagined limitations placed
upon labor’s rights and activities has
its roots back in the days when big
business ruthlessly coerced the work
ers, Algernon Lee, chairman of the
Social Democratic Federation, told the
Tamiment Social and Economic Con
ference at Camp Tamiment, Pa. The
four-day week-end conference was at
tended by numerous labor and indus
trial leaders, members of Congress,
public representatives, and others in
terested in the welfare and progress
of the American wage earners.
Referring to post-war labor con
flicts and their heavy price to the na
tional economy, Lee declared: “Pow
erful unions are today often in a po
sition, in pursuing the material in
terests of their own groups, to inflict
intolerable damage and suffering upon
1 Delegates Adopt
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A IB^^ |mittee on Rules.
Al
NO TIME LOST AS SOME SWING INTO
SESSION ON FIRST DAY HULL FILLS
ASST SECRETARIAL POST AT PARLEY
Sensing the amount of time involved in discussing resolutions I
at committee meetings, the various groups swung into action with I
some meeting on Monday afternoon and the balance to take uplinK
abling the convention to swing into^-------------------
morning and afternoon sessions. vTj
Vice Presidents of the organization
again assume chairmanships on the
various committees with First Vice
President E. L. Wheatley heading the
resolution committee Third Vice
President James Slaven, health com
mittee Fourth Vice President Charles
Zimmer, sanitary committee Fifth
Vice President George Newbon, rules,
appeals and grievance committee
Sixth Vice President George Turner,
state of order committee Seventh
Vice President T. J. Desmond, law
committee, and Eighth Vice President
Joshua Chadwick, general ware price
list committee. Second Vice President
Frank Hull will fill the assistant
Uommittees^sConvention
sFI W BV M/|| |ing the 1946 convention were adopted
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Immediately following the reading of the Executive Board lhavf. acteJ ?.n aI1 [eR(’,uJlons tIie c"n’
Report on Monday, the next official act on the day’s agenda was
the appointment of committees to process the various resolutions Im'
their work on Tuesday morning in order that the necessary pro-|Permission the ,ady
cedure of the committee’s. recommendation regarding the various
resolutions can be dispensed with as soon as possible, thereby en­
Doctors Predict
National Health
Bill Enactment
ject, hence its enactment in some
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all the people of the United States,” I Canonsburg,
ICei*S Elected
Bv Locol Union 195
trustee for 18 months Nell Vogt,
gn
BfOMMinO rrom rormor UOVS
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idtP °?n5 -J®
.G°e^
I Atlant{c
City« N J.—Rules govern-
here Monday afternoon upon the rec-
lommendation of Fifth Vice President
1 (George Newbon, head of Com-
Lonvent on ».the
tees shall meet in the morning, the
(hour to be set by the different com-
mittees, the convention to cenvene at
Mon ’i’lderXusXn rt Umerf
■adjournment, convention will adjourn
|at 5:30 p. m. After the committtees
no
come so obvious that leaders of both ..
parties had put in bills on the sub-
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Ispea^. more ,than.ten
form is extremely likely. He added quest.on unless by permission of the
said Swope. “Every individual, every I meeting of Local No. the decal l_, Curiev
Villa Carraher will continue as re
cording secretary,
elected were Stella Burns, financial ...................- —........
secretary Mae Brown, treasurer 'Bl.
Wilda DeThomas, guard Margaret
Silliman, inspector Mildred Wagnor,
family, is liable to illness. When an Local Union No. 12, East Liver
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~---.------. (complished to bring about a uniform |Lann,ng, Larry Finlay.
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the office of president. Leona Swoger |Koplen, defense secretary Roy Pat-|Ohl^Eay™°ad Br^n, E^ri Cox.
will serve as vice president, while |ton, inspector Carl Zinn, statistician, I p°“dU? Jf J? fc LiverP°o1’
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trustee for 12 months and Blanch
Galloway trustee for six months. Tiffin, Ohio.—Officers were elected
Our sympathies are extended to (at Local No. 7’s meeting last Tues
Sisters Florence Wallace and Mae (day evening. James Baker ^is re
Piatt.—O. C. 195. ... (elected president, with Adolph Talbot.
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reframingfade-|Jim
the Republican party in the last 121
disputes even in national rail,
and public utilities strikes 'was
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to 12 ^(/p. m. until all work of
Ithe convention is completed. There
will be no session July 4.
2—That smoking be permitted dur-
the session of the convention with
delegates,
I 3—That no resolution be accepted
for consideration by the convention
after July 3 except by a majority
vote of the convention.
4—Each de^gate present shall vote
individually on all questions.
5—Any delegate retiring before
10:30 a. m. or 3:30 p. m. without a
reasonable excuse, shall be marked
I absent.
that inasmuch as the Taft-Smith-Ball |co"^e"• nf (erative Potters whose credentials
bill provides for a means test he I 8. were verified and the delegates seat
would expect enactment of the Wag-1^ at the °Peninff session Monday
ner-Murray-Dingell bill as he did notl®6®11®" 15 ®f ,Natlon?[ Constltu‘ morning:
FkinV fhot iho |tion be enforced during the conven-1
think that the American people Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio
would stand for a means test.
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS). Ger-1 6—Each delegate shall have a rep
ard Swope, well known retired indus- (resentative badge to wear in sight,
1 trialist and head of the Committee |suc} badRe to be furnished by the Na
for the Nation’s Health predicted that |tional. Brotherhood to the delegates
a health insurance law bill be enact- |free of CO8t’ and sha11 remain the
ed before the next Presidential elec- (property of |he N. B. of O. P. until
1 tion. He was interviewed at a press phe convention adjourns.
conference here after testifying in 7—That all visiting members be ad
favor of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell (mitted to seats at the rear of the hall,
bill, which the American. Federation |but they must not mingle with the I
of Labor is supporting. I delegates while the convention is in 1 I'
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Pa.—At51the
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elected to the vice presidency. Her-
/U8a rk two. delegates to the convention,
ganued labor to aid in Baker and Herbert Fisher. Sev- with old friends. It
quote laborre aturn, tagsslabon,” sa.d ento.n new memhere were oblig.tel. w“ a typlcal “al Potters” group
that this negative attitude may bring |__q 7 (with the male members following the
about the enactment of legislation ___________________ |kilnmen trade and Mrs. Sullivan, a
less desirable to labor and the public. x-v(former office employee at the Stock
He added: “Union leaders will find
themselves in the same position as
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946
52nd CONVENTION IN SESSIONYEARPER$2.00
mni^thAn ten nnvl Tbe following is a list of the dele-
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xu 1 ?hrou,Lh hf/T land adjourn by city time. ISchaffer, Shell Johnson.
the next President takes office,” he Local UnIon No 5| Evanaville, ind.
8ald'
As an added factor in its favor, VCCQI W Local Union $ wheeli w Va_
Swope said that enactmen of such e y
gj
bill would remove the health benefits LU I W V© KipQFT Local Union Eagt Li ol Ohio
issue from labor disputes such as the -Fred BoWler, Laurence Brown, Ben
recent coal strike. UT VOnTirenCe k Broadbent.
“I believe in health insurance for|
Vut.es n. a"y (gates at the first post-war convention
K the £rotherhood of lOp.
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11—mi.
That the convention Convene |—Frank
rranx nates, Kay tsucner, ueorge
innoi iTninn in
regular
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held in Kast Liverpool, June 21. ill
is hoped that something can be ac- P° o1 ’. Oh,T“Har^ J*"1®™18’ George
Iwage for these girls. Eafi^ Liverpool,
band16 the affairs °f the ,ocai
Local Union No. 195, warehouse-1dent Clifford Rawlings, vice presi- 18» Liverpool,
women and kilndrawers, at their reg-1dent Charles W. Atkinson, recording |Ohl^~"0}1" Na
ular meeting Wednesday evening secretary Ann Bender, treasurer ^al Union 20, Steubenville, 0.
elected officers for the next term. (Edward Czarnicki, guard Clarence |J“I”*®
Mildred McKenzie was returned to (Wright, financial secretary Rose
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al (treasurer and financial secretary. O. L. Sullivan, Everett Marshall,
mothers elected were Walter Boneham, |L. L. Sullivan and the latter’s wife,
(defense secretary Carl Ames, in- |Leole, stopped in Headquarters last
society, including the wage workers |8pector Bill Doll, inside guard and (week while en route to the Atlantic
of other groups.” (trustees Frank Bell and James Welch. (City convention. The party visited the
Senator Joseph H..Ball of Minne- Last mjnute instructione were given 5,*““ »f Laghlin China
Potters lleuila
McCniiJmSv
f°d^—William
nnionJ.
Ithe next term: John Mamrack, presi-I Oh10caL Cox, Walter Watson.
|acquaintances
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years if they don’t recognize pretty Minerva, Ohio.—At the last regu- |and a delegate to the convention from
soon that labor relations legislation (lar meeting of Local Union No. 70 (Local Union 113, Huntington Park,
is on the way and develop a program (the following officers were elected: (Calif., was a caller this week at
of their own./. If labor will get to-(John Rourke, president Martha Cole,(Headquarters. George informed the
gether with the other sections of the (vice president F. I. Reed, financial (office staff he has a big job facing
community it will be possible to get a (secretary-treasurer Abe Edwards, re- (him when he reaches the summer re
lot better legislation and probably the (cording secretary William Inman, in-(sort. First, and by no means a matter
answer to our labor problems.” Jspector Charles Sharpnack, guard (of slight importance, is his desire to
Compulsory arbitration of labor!Sylvanus DeBee, statistician Leona (secure
coal (McMullen, defense collector Glen (second
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PRESIDENT JAMES M. DUFFY
Rnv Rnnhc
I—Sylvester Hauke, Frank Miller.
E- Mountford.
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^mon 21, Eart Liverpool,
v/«u I Local Union 22, East Liverpool,
lower shop Walter Rose, statistician, I George A. Goppert. ...
a- i ’I Local Union 24, Wellsville, Ohio—
Other officers! (Turn to Page Five) Norman Bratt, William Robinson,
George Salsberry, Sam Lawton.
Local Union. 25, East
Ohio—William Vaughn.
Marking 19 yem|| as head of the National Brotherhood of Operative Pot- (that restoration of the 45-year-oldi
ters. President Jame| M. Duffy called the convention to order Monday morn-(limit in the proposed extension of Se
mg in lh« Atlantia Sty Audtonum.______________________________________lectiv„ 8.^ was designed to per-
Seated At Opening 1
Monday Momma
Haines, Sylvanus DeBee.
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Liverpool,
Palestine,
(CALIFORNIA POTTERS
headquarters
ComP?Y whlle the city renewing
George Groscross, jiggerman at the
Vernon Kilns Pottery in Los Angeles,
a
room in Atlantic City. His
task
held Haines, trustee f?r IS rnonths.—0. C. gates that next year’s convention
*70. (should be held in California.
is to convince the dele-
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Local Union 53. East Liverpool, (Washington, in threatening Demo
Ohio—Mattie McGill, Ella Duffy. |cratic Congressmen with forfeiture of
Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio—(1946 campaign funds if they vote as
Tom Stahl, Frank Buehler, James (their constituents desire and oppose
Jordan. (extension of Selective Service.”
Local Union 66, Crooksville, Ohio ______________________
—Richard Brooks, Lewis Wilson, Joe
Murray.
Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio—(^ I
John Rourke, Abe Edwards, Glenn
Atlantic City, N. J.—Death benefits (year and was described in the report
were paid to the beneficiaries of one I of a joint legislative committee head
hundred and ninety-five members of|ed by State Senator Jack Tenney as
the National Brotherhood of Opera- (“presently an important stooge and
tive Potters, during the year ending (tool” of the Communists.
April 30, 1945, according to a table
compiled in the Executive Board’s re-|^
port, for which benefits of over $39,-
000 were paid. But these figures are(g.
less than that paid in the following
year ending April 30, 1946, when 2061
deaths were reported, for a total of| New York City. (ILNS).—A fed
$40,100.00. Another table shows the |eral grand jury in Nashville, reported
National Brotherhood of Operative (after two months’ investigation that
Potters has disbursed $690,123.30 in (there were no violations of civil rights
death benefits over the past years. (in connection with the Columbia,
L. U. NO. 121 ELECTS I
WRIGHT PRESIDENT
45-Year Age Limit
Is Assailed As
Draft Labor Move
Now York City (ILNS).—Union
leaders, .including A. Phillip Ran
dolph, president of the Brotherhood
I of Sleeping Car Porters, charged here
Imit the drafting of strikers.
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
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Coast Labor Orders
|wO Hl Hl II111ST InGUIfy
Local Union 75, Coshocton, Ohio— San Francisco (ILNS).—The Cali
Thomas Stull, Dan Churton. (fomia State Federation of Labor, in
Local Union 76, Buffalo, N. Y.—Carl (convention here, ordered an investi
Heintz. I gat ion of alleged Communist influ
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tion picture industry.
e/AA 1^3 A resolution was amended to ex-
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B-x—
a.X2X (Herbert
IH DdlGTIT
Liverpool,
Local Union 29, East
Ohio—Harry Brindley.
Local Union 31, East
Ohio—William Wile, Leland Quinn,
Russell Biggins, Louis Smith.
wICIIHIS lAFL
(elude specific mention of the name of
Tenn., riots last February, and at-
S
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was also one of the signers of the
statement.
“The TrUman Administration stands
for seeking to attain
^1Icondemned
Local Union 33, Beaver Falls, Pa.— (through this devious method what it
Lloyd Cook. (failed to get when the Senate over
Local Union 35, Trenton, N. J.— (whelmingly killed the President’s
Albert Baker, John Briel, Fred Per- (draft-labor proposal,” the unionists
dunn. (declared in a statement made publie
Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio—A. J. (by the Workers’ Defense League.
Sanders, John Ehrhart, P. K. Laugh-( “The proposal to extend the draft.
lin.( |for another 9 months is thinly veiled
Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio— (subterfuge, and is the obverse side of
R. C. Larkins, J. I. Sullivan, Philip (the Army’s determination to enact
Schroeder, Carmen Workman, John (peacetime conscription and to put
Hamilton, Bruce Miskelly. (American workers at the mercy of
Local Union No. 45, Trenton, N. J. (draft boards in times of strikes. What
—Lance Ansell, John Cooper, Sr., (other purpose could motivate
James Dermody, Andrew Jamieson, (change in the age limit, since men
Local Union 50, Camden, N. J. —(in their forties are practically worth
Robert W. Gresch, Stanley Malpas. (less as soldiers?
Local Union 51, Canonsburg, Pa.— I “We denounce the coercive action
John Mamrack, Roy Patton, Clifford (of Democratic National Chairman
Rawlings, William Donkin. (Hannegan, as reliably reported from
Festivities Got Under
Way Monday Morning
In City Auditorium
this
IGraHa JUTV KG DO FT OH ColUHlblG RlOt
(rfQlCl KHCOtlTHQIHQ KOCO VlOlOHCO
tacked alleged falsehoods &bout the
Sebring, Ohio.—Local Union No. (and array class against class.” Fol
121 met last week and elected officers (lowing publication of the report, of
for the next six months. The presi- (ficials of the National Association for
dent’s chair will be filled by George |the Advancement of Colored People,
A. Wright. Virginia Minesinger will (with the support of the American
take care of the duties of the vice (Civil Liberties Union, telegraphed
president, while Hazel Brown will (President Truman and Attorney Gen
continue as recording secretary. Other |eral Tom Clark scoring the report as
officers elected are Naomi Woolf, (a “shocking” encouragement to race
financial secretary Mae Bert, treas-(violence against Negroes.
urer Winnie Johnson, defense sec- The federal grand jury was origi
retary Hilda Haught, inspector (nally called after protest by many
Mary Mackison, guard, and Elnora (interested groups, which pointed out
Lamp, trustee for 18 months.
121.
-0. C. Ito Attorney General Clark that civil
(rights were involved in the riot aince
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CONVENTION
ISSUE
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READING OF EXECUTIVE BOARD REPORT,
NAMING OF COMMITTEES AND WELCOMING?*
DELEGATES MARK FIRST DAY’S ACTIVITIES?
The rap of the gavel has sounded and National President
James M. Duffy has called the 52nd Annual Convention to order.
The scene of this year’s parley at the summer resort is somewhat
different than two years ago when the delegates met in annual
session to chart the course the organization would follow through
out the year.
At* that time our nation and all the freedom-loving people of
the world were engaged in a life and death struggle for the preser
vation of humanity and of civilization.
Millions of sons and brothers, the flower of our nation, were
-♦giving battle to the dark forces of
Nazism and Fascism, which were de
termined to destroy every vestige of
civilization and would turn the clock
of human history back a thousand
years.
We met in that convention, deliber
ating on the business of our organi- ■_
zation, of industry, of labor, and on
matters effecting the economy of our
people and of our nation. But while
we kept ourselves at that time oc
cupied with the business of planning
for the betterment of the economic
and material conditions of our peo­
ple,
our hearts and our minds were
fKotiSahdfc and thousands of miles
away. We were hoping and praying
far tha Mamph ot ew eawad^c war
riors yes, and praying
of our people, of our
ters, for our brothers
We are meeting today under the
bright sun of victory and peace. The
world holocaust has been brought to
an end. Civilization has been saved.
Democracy has triumphed once more
and America, the America which we
all love, is stronger today than ever
before.
President Duffy, in his opening re
marks, cautioned the delegates that
if we are to enjoy the fruits of a free
democracy, we must have vision,
vision which the delegates must ex
ercise in charting the course the or
ganization will follow .throughout the
year, and not bobbing under the im
pression any action the delegates may
take will cure all ills, or reveal the
secrets of the atomic bomb.
Adding further to his remarks and
quoting the well known phrase, “God
Helps Those Who Helps Themselves,”
he pointed out that is not the way to
accomplish things. He urged the dele
gates to keep in mind the views of
the Brotherhood, and the accomplish
ments the organization has made over
the past years, through the orderly
process of collective bargaining with
our employers, as practiced by mem
bers of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters.
i
K. Sorrell, president of the
Conference of Studio Unions,
who led the strike in Hollywood last
Using a biblical phrase as a theme
for his closing remarks, “Where there
is no vision, the people perish,” the
Brotherhood chieftain urged the dele
gates to give serious thought to all
matters brought before the conven
tion, and to peer into the very depths
and strive to come up with the proper
answers.
Rev. R. G. Sullivan of Christ Meth
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Negroes were arrested without war
rants, held incommunicado, denied
bail and counsel, subjected to third
degree, denied protection of the law,
and finally two of their number shot
to death while in jail. It was appar
ently these statements enlarged and
documented in pamphlets that the
federal grand jury considered the
only crime connected with the riot.
In a telegram to Clark^ the NAACP
said that “the grand jury instead of
performing its directed job of locat
ing the criminals, devoted itself to a
denunciation of those who exposed
the crime. There has been in exist-’
ence at all times photographic and
eye-witness evidence of actual viola
tions of federal rights by State High
way Patrol and State Guard. The
finding of the grand jury flies in the
face of evidence and will be in
terpreted as a signal by state officials
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for the lives
sons
and
dough
and sweethearts
who were giving their lives for the
preservation of the America of today
for the Americans of tomorrow.