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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Six
thousand Mexican workers for em
ployment by western and south-west
ern states may be only the advance
trickle of many added thousands to be
brought into this country by agree
ment between Mexico and the United
States, just concluded.
The first 6,000 ax-e to come imme
diately for track work and are to re
ceive the same pay that would be
given American workers for the same
jobs.
Mexican workers may not be em
ployed to displace other workers or to
affect the wage scale.
Transportation from Mexico and
back to Mexico after the emergency,
for the worker, his goods and family,
is to be paid by the employer or this
government, where necessary. The na
ture of the individual contract will
determine the source of this payment.
Supplements Land Army.
The agreement was reached be
tween the Mexican government and
the War Manpower Commission, with
Arthur W. Motley acting as WMC
representative.
An agreement for the transfer of
Mexican agricultural workers has ex
isted for some time, but the number
of Mexican workers to enter the
United States under the agreement
has been, it is reported, disappoint
ingly small.
There are several reasons for this.
One is improved employment condi
tions and improved wage conditions in
Mexico. It may be that another lies in
the difference between the labor laws
of Mexico and of the United States.
This is quite material.
Still another, in the case of agricul
tural workers, is, in some cases, the
reputation of United States agricul
tural employers in the past.
After Effect Is Sure
How many Mexican workers will
enter under the railroad and agricul
tural agreements remains to be seen.
If the influx is in large numbers the
after effect on both countries may be
considerable. One result will be the
experience of the Mexican workers
Free Mail Too Slow
For Many M. U. Tars
Oxford, Ohio. Although they
may enjoy the "free" mail privilege,
many of the 1,000 sailors, stationed
here are purchasing airmail stamps to
speed letters to their families and
sweethearts, according to the Oxford
Post Office.
Mahoning Dealers To
Buy Out-of-State
Youngstown, O.—A member of the
Mahoning County Liquor Dealers
Association, BRLDA unit here, re
cently stated the organization is
negotiating with distillers to buy a
shipment of whiskey. About 3,500
cases may be imported if the deal goes
through.
Tavern men have pooled their fi
nances at a single bank in order to
put cash on the line. The liquor will
be shipped to the Canton warehouse
which serves this county, where it
will be assessed for the Ohio taxeB
and then will be distributed.
NEW BUSINESSES
Hamilton
Mrs. Wm. Watts, 656 East avenue,
woodwork cleaner.
Barbra Orin, 2145 Madison avenue,
cosmetics.
Middletown
Harry Scoafer, 1924 Winton, shoe
repairs.
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New Agreement Calls For
Mexican Worker Army
United States Defecit To Be Made Up By Good Neighbor,
Under Guarantees of Equal Wages and Conditions
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under vastly changed living condi
tions, some of which will reflect into
the home life upon the return to
Mexico. Another will be an increase in
bilingual accomplishments. It is gen
erally realized that there can be no
large migration in which there is ra
cial and language intermingling,
without a substantial effect continu
ing into the indefinite future.
Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the
War Manpower Commission, said that
the first 6,000 Mexicans to be brought
into this country under the agree
ment will provide much needed labor
for Western railroad companies which
have been experiencing serious short
ages. Orders for Mexican workers, to
be filled whenever conditions permit
ted and under the terms of any agree*
ment entered into by the United
States and Mexico, were placed with
U. S. Employment Service offices
sometime ago, by a number of West
ern railroads.
Mexico Helps Victory
"By making its surplus manpower
available for employment in the
United States, the Mexican govern*
ment in making a direct and much
needed contribution to the war pro
duction program of this country and
the United Nations," Mr. McNutt
said. "The carefully developed agret
ment between this country and Mexi
co will insure that only well qualified
workers will be brought into this
country and that they will be em
ployed under conditions which will be
satisfactory to them, their govern
ment, and their employer."
Arrangements have also been made,
Mr. McNutt said, to provide necessary
medical examinations for all prospec
tive Mexican workers. The examina
tions will be given in Mexico, before
the individual is hired, by traveling
units of the U. S. Public Health Serv
ice.
Any disputes or misunderstandings
between Mexican workers and their
employers in this country are to be
referred to local offices of the United
States Employment Service. Admin
istrative machinery has also been pro
vided, Mr. McNutt added, for appeals
from the decision of the local employ
ment office representative to area and
Regional War Manpower Directors
The Mexican workers will be repre
sented in such cases by one of their
number, an elected spokesman for the
group.
General Grant Will Speak
At Middletown Sunday
Middletown, Ohio. Major General
Ulysses S. Grant, chief of the protec
tive branch of the Office of Civilian
Defense and grandson of the Civil
War leader, has been selected as the
speaker for the "I Am An American
and civilian defense honor award
ceremonies next Sunday May 16 in
Armco Park.
Mrs. Alexander Thomson, Sr.
President of Western College, Oxford
Ohio, who has been chosen as the
"Golden Rule Mother of 1943," will
speak at the noon luncheon in Hotel
Manchester.
Civic and patriotic organizations
will parade through the downtown
district prior to the outdoor cere
monies. Military detachments from
the Patterson Airfield and naval units
and WAVES from Oxford training
station also will be included in the
line of march.
CHICAGO MARKET CO.
The program will be featured by
the awarding of the Ohio merit effi
ciency citation to the Middletown de
fense organization. The Middletown
unit is among the first in the state to
receive the honor.
Front and High Sts. Phone 5000
CHUCK ROAST «. 32c
GROUND BEEF 21c
PORK SAUSAGE & 32c
Of the two types of electric batter
ies used in devices to aid hearing, 56
varieties of "A" batteries have been
reduced to two, and more than 175
varieties of "B" batteries have been
reduced to four standard types by the
War Production Board.
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HOME PLAT£
(WNU Service)
RACE ISSUE ONE
LATIN AMERICA
IS THE OTHER
Stir these around, separately or to
gether, and you've got something.
And you've got something to which
very few are at this time paying any
important attention.
First-hand observation and supple
mental reports from others let some
light into the race movement for job
operation.
Exodus From Florida
In agricultural Florida, which is an
important chunk of productive geog
raphy, great numbers of Negroes
moved out. Others simply remained at
home and thumbed their noses at farm
employers whose word used to be law
More went into t£e Army.
That old bokey, "law of supply and
demand" gave the Negro in some sec
tions of Florida a new economic
power and he isn't any too slow in
using it.
While the big agricultural interests
were busy trying to get Bahaman
labor (which now is coming into the
state under international agreement)
a good many Negro men were just
doing nothing at all, not unhappy in
knowing that bosses who once under
paid them now had the shoe on the
other foot and that said shoe was
pinching enough to produce acute eco
nomic pain.
Trek From Texas
When the war ends, or when the
emergency ends, it is stipulated that
the Bahamans must go home.
Cuba once had a deal like that with
Dominicans and the immigrants, al
though all imported under bond, never
did all go home.
But when the Bahamans go home
unless Florida's sun ceases to shine
the same products will spoil at harv
est time and the Negroes that have
left Florida may not return.
White labor take* little interest in
the problem.
Over in Texas this situation finds
more than an equal. There, in some
sections, as one ILNS observer put it,
"you can just see 'em flocking out and
that's been going on for a good while
now."
But the seeds of evil are in the at-
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VOL. XLIII. No. 7 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY MAY 14,1943 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
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All Out for Victory Gardens
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By CHESTER M. WRIGHT
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Two
huge problems, all bound up with
economics, with labor and with what
the professors call ethnological issues,
are shaping up to bombshell them
selves into our postwar picture.
One is the movement of races back
and forth over our land in the effort
to get workers where work is to be
done.
The other is the necessity of an ef
fective Latin-American voice in the
making of the peace.
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The Latin viewpoint toward the
peace is another matter that is climb
ing up for attention. Most observers
who write for a living talk of Britain,
China and Russia as co-makers, with
the United States, of the peace to
come.
Nineteen nations of this hemisphere
are united with the United States in
hostility to Nazi autocracy. Not yet
has a voice been raised to say that
these nations will have something im
portant to say when peace comes
marching home.
But anybody who imagines that
these nineteen nations, some of which
have important economic problems
that do not exactly mesh in with
United States interests, are going to
become tongue-tied when it comes to
saying what the peace shall be, may
have in store a very rude awakening
If the Good Neighbor policy con
tinues, one doesn't tell his very good
neighbor to shut his mouth, nor does
the Good Neighbor incline to shut his
mouth in the presence of his friend.
Latin-America will say its say and it
has become important enough eco
nomically to insist upon the right to
be heard and heeded.
The America that used to scoff at
any show of strength or will-power in
Latin-America has learned some
thing it has learned that economic
dependency ia not all one way WE
need Latin-America as it needs the
United States.
America cannot very well say, in
the face of Latin-American support,
that IT must be quiet while Russia is
given full attention.
These are but a couple of the prob
lems to arise in this home area when
the black-hearted enemy has been
licked into outright submission
problems which with wise handling
can produce blessings, but which with
blundering can bring one hell to sup
plant another. Labor's interest is tre
mendous, because production relations
are involved, along with human rela
tions of the most delicate nature.
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BIG NEW PROBLEMS FACE
LABOR AND NATION
titude of many of those who now seek!
labor where there is no labor. They
say, in effect, "wait till those babies
come crawling back to us after the
war!"
Most of the Negroes leaving Texas
are bound for California. So, they
carry into California, for postwar
clinical observation, a problem that
may replace the Jap problem that
once roared to a peak of climax when
Teddy Roosevelt sent the Great White
Fleet to the gates of Japan as a polite
invitation to have a look-see at the
battle wagons of the white man.
Japan looked then and wasn't ready
to fight.
Makings of Mew Issues
California labor never took the Japs
to its bosom.
Here are the makings of vast new
ethnological problems, to plague a
postwar American. And to complicate
its labor relations and its union prob
lems.
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Wake Up, Ohio Labor
Leaders Ohio House of
Reps. At Labor Again
Columbus, Ohio.—Don't whisper a
word of this to Eddie Rickenbacker
but absenteeism is becoming a ma
jor problem in the Ohio House of
Representatives.
Members were asked to remain in
session on Friday, April 30, instead of
going home on Thursday as usual. On
this date more than 40 members were
absent, with not a vote to spare on
passage of legislation. It was such a
tight squeak that even Speaker Wil
liam McCullouch answered roll call on
a bill to insure its passage.
At a committee hearing Friday
morning, many members, unaccus
tomed to Friday sessions, plainly
showed their "fatigue," which result
ed in less alertness in listening to the
hearing.
One advantage absentee legislators
have over absentee industrial workers
is that the legislators get paid when
they are absent.
May 25 Scheduled
For '4E" Ceremony
Middletown, Ohio. The presenta
tion of the Army-Navy "E" award to
the United Welding Company has
been set for May 25. L. T. Kenny
Vice-President and general manager,
said the program would be conducted
in front of the plant at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon. The company is the
third Middletown concern to receive
the award. The other two firms are
the American Rolling Mill Company
and the Shartle Brothers Machine Co
When Norwalk, Conn., entered the
Victory Book Campaign to collect
books for the men in service, a goal
of 10,000 books was set, but in spite
of unseasonable weather, 18,300 books
were collected, an average of two
books for every five residents.
329 South Second Street
WAR MANPOWER
COMMISSION
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Cincinnati, Ohio.—A special com
mittee on absenteeism was announced
by John Baker, Cincinnati Area Di
rector for the War Manpower Com
mission, following a meeting of man
agement and labor representatives
Friday. Members of the special com
mittee are:
John Hurst, President Central La
bor Council, A. F. L.
Harry Proctor, Building Trades,
A. F. L.
Al Whitehouse, Director, C. I. O.,
Dist. 25.
Harry Haberthear, Acting Regional
Director, C. I. O.
Morris Edwards, Eexecutive Vice
President, Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce.
Phil Cone, Assistant to President,
Cincinnati Milling Mach. Co.
R. C. Cosgrove, Vice-President,
Crosley Corporation.
George A. Seyler, Vice-President,
Lunkenheimer Co.
Hudson Biery of the Labor Pro
duction Division, War Production
Board, was named Chairman of the
Committee.
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Mr. Baker said: "This Committee
will function directly under the juris
diction of the Cincinnati Area War
Manpower Committee. The Absentee
Committee was instructed to proceed
with the preparation of a broad plan
to combat so-called 'illegitimate ab
senteeism.' The program will be larg
ly based upon recommendations made
by high officials of organized labor
and representatives of management
resulting from a study of a number
of Cincinnati war industries. The pro
gram will be jointly conducted by la
bor and management.
'The Committee will proceed on the
assumption that absenteeism cannot
be corrected by special legislation,
drastic regulations, systems of pen
alty or special remuneration. On the
contrary, it will proceed on the theory
that the individual worker will re
spond to patriotic and emotional ap
peal if he understands the importance
of his particular job in the war ef
fort. The Committee plans to place
equal responsibility upon manage
ment along with labor so that atten
tion can also be given to plant condi
tions and social problems that may
need thoughtful consideration and
correction."
The Friday meeting was attended
by high officials of a group of com
panies where special studies have
been made of absentee problems. It
was held at the Crosley Corporation
office.
Two Bills
Columbus, Ohio.—Two bills spon
sored by the printing unions of the
state, H. B. 386-387, have been recom
mended out of the House Labor Com
mittee for passage. The bills would
require prevailing union wages of the
locality where work was done to be
paid on all state printing and binding
work.
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