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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1941.
BOOST FOR VACATIONS
Vacations with pay, now a provision
in many union contracts, are con
vincingly championed by the presiden
tial emergency board set up in the
railroad wage dispute. The board
strongly supports organized labor's
case for paid vacations, declaring they
have "become an important element
in our American standard of living."
The board's report, approving a
week's vacation with pay for members
of the 14 unions of non-operating rail
road workers, finds that such vaca
tions "are necessary to the main
tenance of physical and mental well
being of workers." The report further
finds that paid vacations improve
workers' efficiency and morale. These
are precisely the contentions of or
ganized labor.
Last summer, the Office of Produc
tion Management sought to discour
age vacations in defense industry on
the ground that they hampered pro
duction. While not mentioning the
OPM action, the emergency board
takes issue with this view, saying
that railroad employes should not be
denied a week's vacation "on the
ground that this is not the appropri
ate time for them to enjoy a period
of relaxation."
The board's finding, it says, is "based
on the accepted premise that vacation
periods are socially desirable." Labor
believes that the finding is sound and
the nation will be the gainer for uni
versal acceptance of vacations with
pay.
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THEY DON'T LIKE DIRT
New York's able Mayor La Guardia
has no patience with the assertion that
people of low incomes enjoy dirt and
bad housing. Paying his respects to
this old chestnut, he says:
"People are not dirty and unkempt
because they want to be. People do
not crowd into a small apartment be
cause they like it.
"Have you ever been in one of these
tenement houses with its dark rooms
Add Indigestion, Gas on Stom
Mch, Heartburn, are usually caus
ed by injudicious eating or drink
ing. Try Alka-Seltzer for relief.
Alka-Seltzer also relieves the
distress of Headache, Colds, Neu
ralgia, and Muscular Aches and
Painx, because it contains an an
algesic, (sodium acetyl salicylate).
Yoar druggist sells Alka-Seltzer In
Bendy packages and by the glass at
•Is soda fountain. Try It.
AlkarSeltzer
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Despite a threatened shortage in
personnel, the nursing profession is
far better prepared for the present
emergency than it was at the time of
the first World War, it is made clear
in a pamphlet, "Better Nursing for
America," written by Beulah Amidon
and just published by the Public Af
fairs Committee. This pamphlet was
prepared in co-operation with the
American Nurses Association, the Na
tional League of Nursing Education,
and the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing.
"Twenty-five years ago," Miss Am
idon points out, "nursing as a career
was little sought after. The hospital
schools did not have enough well
qualified applicants. Some 60 per cent
of the schools required only one full
year, or even less, of high school, and
there was little pretense that nursing
schools existed primarily for educa
tional purposes. Many hospitals had
schools simply to obtain cheap nursing
service."
Today nursing schools have rigid
entrance requirements and provide a
thorough education. Vast new fields of
specialization have been opened up,
and standards within the profession
have been materially raised.
Nefr responsibilities have been
placed on the profession by the na
tional defense program. Each month
hundreds of well-qualified nurses are
being drawn into the Army and Navy.
The mushroom growth of communi
ties in which defense industries and
cantonments are located has been ac
companied by serious problems of san
itation and health.
To meet these needs and the prob
lems of the post-defense period, a
—without a window in the middle
room—the cooking and the washing
and the sitting room all in one—chil
dren around, irritable, the mother
frantic? Try to keep a house like
that clean and cheerful.
"We take the same family and move
them into our new model low-cost
houses. You see a complete change.
The mother has on a clean, pretty
dress it may be just an apron, but it
is clean and pretty. Her hair is
combed, now that she has some place
to comb her hair. The children are
clean when they sit at the table, be
cause now they have a place to wash.
They had no place in the old tenement
houses the only sink was all occupied
with preparing the meal. Now there
is also a separate place to wash
clothes, downstairs in the laundry."
Mayor La Guardia has been fighting
for decent housing all his life. He
knows his subject and his statement
should effectually dispose of the idea
that dirt is to the liking of the poor.
But erroneous ideas are tough and
long-lived and this particular one will
probably survive for many years.
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WHAT NEXT?
The Chicago Bridge and Iron Com
pany, makers of tanks for storing oil
and water, has applied its own tech
nique to one of its own buildings, a
lunch-room for employes, says Busi
ness Week. The building is made of
dished" plates, only three-sixteenths
of an inch thick, welded on the job.
Hailed as the first steel building with
out beams or supports, it is 108 feet
in diameter, 28 feet high and is fire,
sound, and heat-proof.
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WISDOM
Enlighten the people generally and
tyranny and oppression of body and
mind will vanish like evil spirits at
the dawn of day.—Thomas Jefferson.
WAREHOUSE WORKERS' PACT
Seattle, Wash. (ILNS). Ware
housemen's local No. 117, affiliated
with the Seattle Joint Council of
Teamsters, A. F. of L., has signed an
agreement with all wholesale hard
ware companies in Seattle and sur
rounding area calling for a minimum
wage of 75 cents an hour, or $130 per
month.
JOE HOLSTEIN
LIBERTY HOME
8eventh and Walnut Sts.
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
THE BUTLEH COUNTY PRESS
Nursing Council on National Defense
has been set up composed of repre
sentatives of the national nursing or
ganizations with ex-officio represen
tation from the federal government
nursing services. As its first step,
this council recommended a nation
wide survey of registered nurses to
determine where our nurses may be
found and what services they are
equipped to render immediately in the
event of an acute national emergency.
As a second step, the council is
staging a drive for recruiting nurses
along four major fronts: (1) an in
crease in enrollment of qualified reg
istered nurses in the Red Cross Nurs
ing Service which, in addition to pro
viding service in time of disaster,
serves as the First Reserve of the
Army and Navy Nurse Corps (2) an
increase in enrollment of qualified stu
dents in sound schools of nursing
(3) development of refresher courses
for graduate nurses who have not been
active recently and (4) encourage
ment of qualified nurses to enter the
specialized fields of nursing.
It is estimated that at least 27,000
nurses will be required for govern
ment service during the coming year,
and that an additional 10,000 are
needed for staff positions in hospitals
and other civilian institutions. A drive
is also under way to enroll at least
50,000 student nurses. Given this
needed personnel, the profession ap
pears to be ready for whatever de
mands may lie ahead.
"Better Nursing for America" is
the sixtieth of a series of popular,
factual, 10-cent pamphlets published
by the Public Affairs Committee, 30
Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
THE
CHERRY TREE
Where with ear Little Hatchet we tell
ths truth abent atir thlags, seMetiasee
prefenndlr, sesa«tia»s fllppaatly. some
times recklessly.
As these lines are written, John L.
Lewis has not written the final chapter
in the captive mine dispute. The me
diators, or arbitrators, have rendered
their findings and it is up to John.
In the award Lewis was given all
he wanted, except the closed shop,
which to him means the check-off. He
could have had all that before. His
last word on the matter won't mean
much, because there's a person called
Uncle Sam who is going to see that
the mines keep running.
Wisdom would be in acceptance of
the award—and yet acceptance has
great risks for Lewis, because lack of
the check-off may kick back into the
free mines.
But whatever happens, isn't the
course run by Lewis in the last quar
ter of a century an odd one?
Some will remember back to when
he succeeded Frank J. Hayes as presi
dent of U. M. W. A. Hayes, the mine
leader who looked like a college man
just out.
And some will remember when Lewis
was in another jam, faced with an
injunction, the entire A. F. of L. ex
ecutive council ready to back him—
waiting through day and night for the
word.
The word came. Lewis said, in ef
fect, "I cannot oppose my govern
ment." It saved the judge a lot of
bother, but it left the executive coun
cil flat.
History is interesting. A great many
public figures bank on the fact that
their followers—and others—will not
look back to other days. Mostly they
don't.
Who remembers the presidential
campaign in which Labor's Non-Par
tisan League blossomed forth—and
was a power. George L. Berry was
the president. He voiced it as the
purpose of the league to help elect the
President and then "to walk with him"
through his elected years. John L.
Lewis kicked a half million dollars
into the league—and right after elec
tion George Berry departed from its
precincts. Most other A. F. of L. men
went out also. Leaving Lewis, party
liners and some others.
John L. Lewis became, to all intents
and purposes, Labor's Non-Partisan
League.
It would hardly be right to say that
he and his league "walked with the
president." They walked until they
got around behind him and there they
seem to have stayed, within kicking
range.
And once Lewis let go with a wise
crack—that one about "he supped at
Labor's table"—and then served the
nation instead of John L. Lewis.
Probably Lewis has many times
wished he had put that wise crack
on ice.
Well, it's a long road since the
battles of West Virginia and Mother
Jones.
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When Roosevelt was elected the first
time John L. Lewis was just about
hanging on the ropes. Came NRA and
John L. Lewis saw the band wagon
coming down the road. He jumped on,
played his cards with wizardry and
leaped to top position of power.
It was a great performance. Gen.
Hugh Johnson was in his corner all
the way. They ought to still have a
lot in common.
Well, the war came. The situation
today is NRA turned around. Now the
nation is supreme. Its needs come
first.
John L. Lewis is learning the lesson
hard. So are a great many others
But Lewis manages to dramatize his
battles where others don't.
Whatever hampers the making of
war materials today has to get out
of the way.
Some labor leaders may think they
are being shoved around. Lewis per
haps more than any other.
If they were wise they wouldn't
have to be shoved around. They
would get in there and help the
nation.
Labor has all the guarantees it can
ask. But it can't abuse them and it
can't put them ahead of national
safety. It can let the reds push IT
around, which is what is happening
in plenty of places.
Labor—starting with John L. Lewis
had better learn to use the machin
ery created for the purpose to get its
grievances righted. Its other griev
ances it had better forget, before
something very forceful happens.
Nations at war don't stand for much
internal monkey business.—C. M. W.
STRONG ACTION IS
NEEDED TO DEFEAT
S1NARCH1ST ORDER
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—At the
risk of being accused of shooting
twice at the same bird, I want to come
back this once more on the subject of
the Sinarchist movement in Mexico.
While the United States plays
around in Mexico pretty much on a
tea table basis, this foe of democracy
goes hell-raising around the place,
creating a shooting army that hates
democracy and that is all tangled up
in a web of belief deriving from Fa
langist, fascist and nazi notions.
The leader, a young firebrand and
self-anointed fuehrer named Salvador
Abascal, makes a play upon his first
name to imply that he is the saviour
of Mexico.
Abascal Union-Hater
Abascal hates unions, he hates farm
ers' organizations, he hates the pro
democratic government of Mexico.
And he struts around in the trappings
and with the mouthings of a first-rate
imitation of Hitler.
How much power does he have? You
can get good estimates that run from
100,000 to a half million. Perhaps
100,000 is more likely to be fairly
accurate.
In Mexico City I heard a lot about
the Sinarchist movement Sinar
quismo, as it is called there. The cardi
nal principle is that there must be "a
supreme power charged with ordering
and regulating in the interest of the
common welfare." That's a quote, ob
serve.
May Revive Church Dispute
One of the worst things, at the mo
ment, about Sinarquismo, is the chance
that it may revive the church dispute,
since one group of churchmen evi­
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dently have become allied with Abas
cal's outfit, while the larger group
shuns him like poison. All of the Jew
haters in Mexico are lined up in sym
pathy with Abascal.
Abascal has taken part in several
mob violence actions. In one, thirteen
workers were killed. Here is fire that
needs to be met with something more
than party etiquette. The shock
troops of nazi-ism are not only mo
bilizing, they are mobilized. The
trouble north of the Rio Grande seems
to be that a lot of people haven't yet
got the idea that a war is on and that
we have a war to win. So they just
look pleasant, talk in generalities and
tell themselves that tomorrow is an
other day.
WHY THE WEEK'S
DELAY?
(From the Editor and Publisher)
We're looking for information. Why,
we ask, was there a lag of more than
a week between the first announcement
of the torpedoing of the U. S. S.
Kearny and the disclosure that the
ship had been struck in what amounted
to formal combat with a submarine?
Why was the information fed to the
public piecemeal—first the announce
ment of the attack, with no casualties
indicated then the report of the cas
ualties, with uncertainty surrounding
the fate of the "missing" men finally
the detailed report of Secretary Knox,
with the news that the Kearny had
answered a call for help from another
convoy and was actually bombing a
submarine when the torpedo hit.
Conceding the necessity of caution
in releasing naval news, we can't see
that any good purpose was served by
the procedure in this instance.
HE WAS "KING FOR A DAY'
New York City (ILNS).—Carl Mar
tin, Brooklyn iron worker, is not al
lowed to smoke at work, his wife op
poses his smoking at home and, so he
told the judge, that was, why he
lighted a cigar while waiting to vote.
A policeman told him it was against
the law, an argument followed and
he was arrested.
"Well," ruled Magistrate Lehrich,
"you're a voter and king for the day.
Sentence suspended."
Thm Standard Oil
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MEANY DISAGREES IN
CAPTIVE MINES CASE
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-—JGeorge
Meany, secretary-treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor, has
issued the following statement:
"At the time the case of the United
Mine Workers of America came be
fore the full National Defense Medi
ation Board, I made a motion that the
board's decision in the case should be
as follows—that the owners of the
captive mines be requested to sign the
Appalachian Agreement without any
reservation or qualification whatso
ever.
"I made this motion because I was
firmly convinced—and I am still
firmly convinced—that, this decision
was the only proper one that could
be arrived at on the merits of the
case itself and wholly apart from any
extraneous issue. If I had been in
Washington at the time the vote of
the board was taken I would have
voted for the motion.
"I am therefore in absolute dis
agreement with the decision of the
board. However, the majority has
spoken, and in the interests of na
tional defense I believe that the par
ties to this controversy should abide
by the decision of the majority."
BIG GRADE CROSSING TOLL
Washington, D. C. More than
16,000 persons have lost their lives in
accidents at highway-railroad grade
crossings in the last 10 years, says the
Association of American Railroads.
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