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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941.
STANDARDS OF ALL MENACED
The fight to abolish the poll tax as
a requirement for voting in the eight
Southern states which still have this
relic of archaism is a fight of all the
people. This is often overlooked. Rep
resentative Rudolph C. Tenerowicz of
Michigan served democracy and Amer
icanism by pointing out in a recent
radio address that the existence of the
poll tax is of direct concern to the
entire nation.
Tenerowicz showed there is a defi
nite relation between the poll tax and
the low labor standards that exist in
the poll tax states. Because citizens
of the eight states "must pay for the
right to vote," in the words of Tene
i-owicz, a large mass of poorly paid
workers cannot vote and are therefore
denied an effective voice in their local
governments. They cannot vote for
candidates pledged to better condi
tions. If they are forced to accept
lower standards of pay and work,
higher standards in other parts of the
country are endangered.
The American Federation of Labor
realizes the menace of the poll tax and
is on record as approving of the prin
cipal that all citizens, regardless of
color or race, should be equally en
titled to the full right of adult suf
frage. So the federation is backing the
Geyer-Pepper bill, providing for the
abolition of poll tax requirements in
federal elections. Passage of this bill
would spell the doom of the poll tax
in all elections and mark a big step
forward in democratic progress.
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SAFETY PLANNING EFFECTIVE
The United States Housing Author
ity reports that a "conspicuously fa
vorable safety record" has been estab
lished by public housing in the United
States and that this good record has
led to substantial rate reductions on
liability and fire coverage insurance
on public housing projects.
U. S. H. A. Administrator Straus
says that safety starts with the plan
ning of the public housing projects,
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PET FOODS SUPPLIES
CANARIES
which means a constantly decreasing
number of accidents. He says that
"planning for safety saves both money
and lives," and cites figures to prove
his assertion.
Of course the saving of life and limb
is far more important than money
savings. To the average low-income
family, an accident causing loss of
time and medical bills is a matter of
grave concern. A serious accident may
result in temporary or complete loss
of income. It may result in the accu
mulation of doctor's bills beyond the
breadwinner's ability to pay and still
provide his family with the other ne
cessities of life.
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LIBERTIES MUST BE PRESERVED
In the days of storm and stress
through which we live, the rights and
liberties of the people are in as grave
a danger of perversion by the blind
and thoughtless application of emer
gency policies as they are from attack
by armed forces. Only by insisting
upon full application of our funda
mental freedoms can we repulse the
enemy challenging us from without
and at the same time preserve the in
tegrity of our democracy from within.
Only by relying upon co-operation in
stead of compulsion can we bring into
full play the human, spiritual and
moral resources of the entire nation
leaving no fertile ground for subver
sive propaganda, unrest and revolt.—
William Green.
WHAT NEXT?
The Haul-a-Way Home, a three
room, portable house selling for $1,800
designed to fit easily on a truck, for
short highway hauls, or a flatcar, has
been produced by a Portland, Ore.
realtor, Business Week reports. The
house is 10 feet wide and 40 feet long
and comes supplies not only with fur
niture, but also an electric range, re
frigerator, water heater, and electric
heating system.
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WISDOM
The timid see dangers which do not
even exist.—Publius Syrus.
GULF SHIPBUILDING
"IN NO-STKIKE PACT
New Orleans (ILNS). A confer
ence of federal officials, labor and ship
building representatives held under
the direction of the Labor Division of
the Office of Production Management
has agreed tentatively on a program
designed to prevent strikes, lockouts
or limitation of production in Gulf
Coast shipyards during the national
emergency.
The agreement, when ratified by
government agencies, labor and man
agement, will cover a no-strike and
no-lockout clause, set up grievance
machinery, including provisions for
arbitration, provide basic wage rates
of skilled mechanics, overtime pay,
shift premiums, a training program,
and a two-year duration clause pro
viding for periodic wage adjustments
at the end of the year.
Civic Association Group
To Study Housing Plan
Middletown, Ohio.—The question of
housing facilities for an estimated
200 employes of the Civilian Conser
vation Corps scheduled to be trans
ferred here July 1, according to a War
Department report received here Mon
day, is under study by Civic Associa
tion officials this week.
H. H. Walker, managing director
of the Civic Association, disclosed he
had requested Fifth Corps Area offi
cials for a list of needed quarters for
the CCC employes, including houses,
apartments, and rooming facilities.
Waller said when the list arrived here
a survey would be conducted and real
estate firms asked to co-operate.
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THE MARCH OF LABOR
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the truth about many things, Mmetlmea
profoundly, sometime! flippantly. Mine
timea recklessly.
Clump! Clump! Clump!
Boots, boots, boots!
Planes and guns and tanks!
And diplomatic decoys, side slips,
fancy moves, lies.
The Nazi machine doesn't know
when it's got enough in its over
stuffed belly.
France knuckles. Tragic, strange,
amazing.
LaFayette, you're in a hell of a fix!
And so are we.
Vichy gives Hitler all the aces in the
deck gives him the green light. It's
been coming, clearly but that doesn't
seem to lessen the shock.
Vichy doesn't mean just mainland
France. It means Martinique it means
Dakar.
It can mean French Guiana.
Straight into this Western Hem
isphere, right where we have posted
our "keep out" signs.
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Get your map. Look at Martinique.
And look a long time at Dakar. That's
on the African coast.
In California we have a new bomber
that can fly from Los Angeles to Ber
lin and back without refueling. From
Dakar to South America is, in those
terms, a mere hop.
Look this thing in the eye, coldly.
What do YOU think?
In Washington officials wake up
slowly. Even in OPM there are dinky
officials—and some bigger ones, like
John D. Biggers, who think it's O. K.
to go slowly, not to arouse people too
much. The hell with that stuff. Ques
tion is, Can we go fast enough?
The President knows how serious
the situation is today. But he can't
go much faster than the people will
go and they have to understand be
fore they will go.
We had better wake up—and get
ready to go fast, worrying about
whether we haven't started too late.
This isn't just excited talk. It's cold
blooded looking facts in the face.
It won't be long before well all be
working harder than we are today.
It won't be long before every school
boy is collecting aluminum and scrap
iron.
It won't be long before there's a lot
more overtime worked.
It won't be long. It won't be long!
To repeat: It is later than you
think!
Some way will have to be found to
adjust grievances without stopping
work.
Some way will have to be found to
put a curb on corporations that bid
eight times the worth of a job, to bleed
a nation in dire peril.
Some way will have to bt" found to
bring understanding to a few labor
"leaders" who forget that this is a
national emergency, not main chance.
Bill Green will need plenty of back
ing up—and maybe Uncle Sam will be
forced to give it to him.
Ships must be built, in a race with
the greatest menace we ever faced.
And planes, by the thousands, and
tanks and guns and the whole wide
range of things needed in modern
warfare.
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papers. Listen to the broadcast news.
Think back of what you read and hear.
War comes awfully fast—and prob
ably without a declaration.
Too many Americans have been
thinking in a dream world, a world of
hopeful thinking. You know—it can't
happen to us we can keep out we're
too far away.
Do you know where our navy is at
this hour? Or our merchantmen?
Well, we're going to wake up
with a bang one fine morning and
probably very soon and we won't
care on what date Thanksgiving
comes. All we'll care about will be
whether we've started soon
enough to build the kind of war
machine that can win!
And in the end it all gets personal
where do YOU fit, and me and every
man among us—and ARE WE DO
ING OUR PROPER SHARE IN THE
PROPER SPIRIT?
It is going to get very personal very
soon.—C. M. W.
CRIME UNDER THE
NAZIS
(From the New York Times)
For listening to foreign radio broad
casts and sharing with his neighbors
the news he thus heard, a German has
been beheaded as a "traitor." Other
Germans languish in jail merely for
listening to foreign news which the
Nazi Government forbids them to hear
because it contradicts the calumnies
and optimistic lies put out by Nazi
propaganda.
This is the New Order that Hitler
would substitute for the freedom en
joyed under democracy. To seek facts
and share knowledge of them brings
the seeker to the headsman's block
Murder, on the other hand, if com
mitted in the Nazi interest, brings
honor and reward, as in the case of
the assassins of Dollfuss, whose
graves Hitler decorated, and the
Beuthen murderers, whom as Chan
cellor he released and recompensed.
AFL Auto Workers' Union
Is Certified By Labor Boarc
Hillsdale, Mich.—Local No. 663 of
the United Automobile Workers of
America, A. F. of L. affiliate, has
finally been certified by the National
Labor Relations Board as the exclusive
bargaining agency for all workers in
the Hillsdale Steel Products Company
plant at Hillsdale.
The A. F. of L. affiliate filed a pe
tition fgr an election early last Oc
tober, but due to delay caused by in
terference by the C. I. O., the election
was not held until April 11 when a
majority of 466 valid votes were cast
for the A. F. of L. The C. I. 0. inter
vened again with a protest against
the election, but the Labor Board
overruled the objection and certified
the A. F. of L. union. The employes
of the company welcomed the certi
fication as establishing the first real
collective bargaining they have ever
enjoyed.
METAL WORKERS' PAY RAISED
Shreveport, La. (ILNS).—An agree
ment has been reached between the
employes and the J. B. Baird Corpora
tion as to wages and hours and there
will be no strike. The 200 employes
machinists, molders and iron workers
received a wage increase of ten cents
an hour.
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London (ILNS). Three ambu
lances, purchased in London, have been
provided for use in Britain by the New
Zealand Federation of Labor.
A check for £900, to pay for the am
bulances, was handed to the Trades
Union Congress by W. J. Jordan, High
Commissioner of the New Zealand
Government, who visited T. U. C. head
quarters for the purpose.
Jordan, who was received by George
Gibson, chairman of the T. U. C., and
Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary,
expressed his pleasure in handing over
this gift from the Dominion workers.
Injured Workers Get
Small Compensation
Philadelphia, Pa. In a series of
articles criticizing the inadequate re
muneration for workers injured in in
dustry under the Pennsylvania work
men's compensation laws, the Phila
delphia Record charges that "victims
of industrial accidents in this state
get only 54 cents compensation out of
every dollar their employers pay for
workmen's compensation insurance
The rest—46 cents—is chalked up by
the private insurance companies as
profit, administrative expense, costs
and rebates."
N. Y. Employment Unit
Finds Jobs For 48,596
Albany, N. Y.—The 'New York State
Employment Service filled a total of
48,596 jobs during April, setting a new
high record for the month. Of the
placements, 15,490 were in manufac
turing, 12,102 were in household jobs,
and 21,004 were in other employment.
More than 284,000 persons registered
with the State Employment Service
during April.
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Sand and Gravel Workers
Given Higher Wage Rates
Washington, D. C.—Representative®
of the Conciliation Service of the U. S.
Department of Labor, requested by
the National Defense Mediation Board
to settle the controversy between 250
employes of the Smoot Sand and
Gravel Corporation, effected an agree
ment which the union accepted grant
ing a wage increase of from 3 to 10
per cent, time and a half for overtime,
and a reduction in hours of from 70
to 64 a week for tugboat operators and
dredgemen, from 58% to 55 hours for
unloading men and lighters, and from
54 to 51 hours for shipyard and shop
workers.
ATLANTA UPHOLSTERERS
WIN WAGE BOOST STRIKE
Atlanta, Ga.—Following a well-di
rected strike, members of the Uphol
sterers' Union here negotiated an
agreement with Knott & Carmichael
carrying a five per cent increase in
wages.
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