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New York City (ILNS).—Three
messages promising the aid of Amer
ican labor in restoring Italian labor
unions, recorded by William Green,
Matthew Woll and Luigi Antonini,
were broadcast by shortwave to Italy
on Columbus Day.
President Green of the Ainerican
Federation of Labor ended his1 mes
sage as follows:
"We pledge our full aid in rebuild
ing the free and independent Italian
trade union movement within the
framework of a restored Italian
democracy.
"Let us then, the workers of the
United States and the workers of
Italy, go forward against the Nazi
barbarians, in memory of our ancient
ties and in confident hope of their re
newal."
Woll Hails Saboteurs
Vice-President Woll termed Italian
workers who risk their lives in sabo
tage of the Nazi war machine "Heroes
of this War." He said in part:
"We know the terrible cost of your
resistance, in blood and privation.
And already the American Federation
of Labor, through its relief agency,
the Labor League for Human Rights,
is preparing to send food, clothing and
$10,000 CHECK
FOR ITLAV'S ONIONS
Boston.—Matthew Woll, head of
Labor's League For Human Rights,
handed a $10,000 check to Luigi An
tonini, chairman of the Italian-Amer
ican Labor Council, for the purpose
of rehabilitating the free trade union
movement in liberated Italy. The im
pressive ceremony, serving as a sym
bol of American friendship for the op
pressed people of Italy, took place on
the platform of the AFL convention
here immediately after the delegates
unanimously adopted the following
report:
"The American Federation of La
bor, which has consisently fought
Fascism and has never forgotten its
fraternal ties with the organized labor
movement of Italy, pledges itself to
help the workers of Italy with all the
means possible and at its diposal. It
will assist in the complete destruction
of Fascism in Italy and will aid in the
restoration of democracy in that un
happy country until the Italian people
win the blessings of a just peace and
the benefits of freedom and democracy
as announced in the Atlantic Charter."
In similar spirit, the delegates, on
the eve of the Jewish Day of Atone
ment, adopted a report from the Com
mittee on International Labor Rela
tions which denounced Hitler's slaugh
ter of the Jews in Europe in the
strongest terms and recommended a
program of action in behalf of refu
gees from Nazi persecution.
The convention unanimously called
upon the United Nations to provide
temporary havens for such refugees,
to repatriate and rehabilitate the vic
tims of persecution when the war
ends, to mete out extreme punishment
to those guilty of perpetrating the
mass slaughters and to establish
Palestine as a permanent homeland
after the war for Jews who wish to
settle there.
AFL Chiefs Promise U.S. Labor Aid
In Rebuilding of Italian Unions
GREEN URGES WORKERS OF BOTH
NATIONS TO PUSH WAR ON NAZIS
Once Again Sieverling's Pretzels
Sieverling's pretzels a famous and
delicious knot tied biscuit manufac
tured in Hamilton sixty years ago by
August Sieverling, is once again being
manufactured here after an absence
of nineteen years. Lou Sieverling son
of the original pretzel baker has again
revived the business at 117 North
Fourth street, with a complete and
honest-to-goodness pretzel factory
Lou says fresh, hot pretzels will be
baked every day after 2 p. m. in the
afternoon. Old timers still remember
the Sieverling product and the young
timers won't forget them if tried.
You can buy these pretzels on mar
ket too.
VOL. XLIII. No. 30. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY OCTOBER 22,1943
medical supplies to the workers in
those sections of Italy which have
been liberated by the American and
British forces. This aid will be ex
tended as further sections are lib
erated."
Unions Seen Democracy's Leaders
In the third message, Antonini,
vice-president of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, an
nounced that the Italian-American
Labor Council began on Columbus
Day a campaign for a quarter of a
million dollars "to lend assistance to
the rebirth and the reconstruction of
free workers' unions in Italy."
"By setting Italian workers free,"
he said, "and including them in free
workers' union, the forthcoming Ital
ian democracy will find in its ranks
the ablest leaders and the most loyal
custodians of freedom. A free workers'
organization will represent the strong
est pillar of Italian democracy."
The recordings were made as part
of the OWI overseas labor program
which includes the daily reporting by
radio in several languages of the news
of American labor, especially labor's
part in the war, as well as special pro
grams in which leaders of both the
AFL and the CIO cooperate.
Deer Applications Must
Be Made Individually
Columbus, Ohio. Don Waters,
State Conservation Commissioner,
said applications for deer hunting per
mits for the December 6-18 season in"
Scioto, Pike and Adams Counties must
be made individually by nimrods.
"Some hunters have sent in the
names of several friends," he said.
"Each person must send in his own
application. These may be obtained
at any of the division's seven district
offices or at division state headquar
ters here in Columbus."
SEED OF NEW SWEET
CORN READY FOR TRIAL
Ohiogold 1, a new yellow hybrid
sweet corn developed by the Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station, is
available to Ohio farmers for trial
planting in 1944, announces J. B. Park
of the Station's Agronomy Depart
ment. In small-scale^rials for 3 years
in several states this hybrid has rated
alm&t without exception as sweeter
and more flavorful than any other
sweet corn. At Columbus in a 3-year
comparison with Golden Cross Ban
tam, Ohiogold 1 yiplded 18 percent
more, was sweeter, and was six days
later. The ears of Ohiogold 1 are long
and bear 12 to 14 rows of medium
depth, yellow kernels that are tender
and sweet.
Controlled production of seed was
made for the Experiment Station this
year by Ohio Hybrid Seed Corn Pro
ducers, Croton, Ohio, and W. N.
Scarff's Sons, New Carlisle, Ohio. Seed
can be purchased from them. Other
seedsmen who wish to obtain Ohiogold
1 for resale can purchase it from these
same sources.
HUNDREDS GIVE PLASMA
Two ^hundred persons made contri
butions to the American Red Cross
Blood Donor Service, which has estab
lished headquarters in the Anthony
Wayne Hotel. In the group were one
seven-time and 16 six-time donors,
Mrs. George Benzing, chairman of the
Hamilton Blood Donor Service Com
mittee, said. The mobile unit will be
at the hotel Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday from 2 o'clock to 7 and Sat
urday through 2 o'clock.
David Webb & Sons
FUNERAL HOME
PHONES 48-78 BOSS AT "D"
Pranksters Are Warned
J. C. Calhoun, Police Chief, today
warned youths against vandalism dur
ing the Hallowe'en season. They will
be arrested and arraigned in Juvenile
or Municipal Court, he said. The
Chief said several have been warned.
Police will make arrests in cases
where property is destroyed.
(WNU Service)
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
Many other important matters deal
ing with war and post-war problems
still remained to be disposed of at the
conclusion of the first week's session.
Paul V. McNutt, director of the War
Manpower Commission, drew extended
cheers from the delegates when he
declared in a convention address that
the workers of America "are doing the
greatest job in the history of the
human race." McNutt made it clear he
favors the application of voluntary
methods in the solution of the nation's
manpower problems, a position in
which President Green and the dele
gates heartily concurred.
Perhaps the most significant con
clusion to be drawn from the spirit
evidenced by the delegates during the
first week of the convention is labor's
increasing resentment against being
lectured at.
This was made abundantly clear by
the tremendous ovation given Presi
dent Green when he responded to the
address of the national commander of
the American Legion.
The attempts of the anti-labor press
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BOSTON CONCLAVE TAKES DECISIVE ACTION
ON MANY ISSUES DURING FIRST WEEK
Boston.—Swinging into lively debate
and decisive action on the nation's
major problems, the 63rd annual con
vention of the American Federation
of Labor opened its second week here
with these outstanding develop
ments
1—Repeal of the Connally-Smith
anti-labor bill demanded by unanim
ous vote.
2—National Labor Relations Board
denounced for "perverting the Wagner
Act into a charter for organizing rival
unions by means of unlawful raids."
3—Incentive plans disapproved be
cause their purpose is "to create some
form of speed-up" not consonant with
the established practices and policies
of affiliated unions.
4—Unanimous opposition voted
against imposition of a federal sales
tax, with instructions to the Executive
Council to oppose also any increase
in taxes levied on wages or compensa
tion of the workers "and that any in
crease in the amounts withheld from
wages be in the form of savings rep
resented by government bonds."
5—Adoption of the Wagner-Mur
ray-Dingell amendents to the Social
Security Act endorsed.
6—Unshaken resistance to direct
collaboration with government-domin
ated trade union movement of Soviet
Russia evidenced by delegates in
response to address by President
Green.
7—Traditional AFL policy in favor
of exclusion of Chinese immigrants
endorsed with proviso that the Execu
tive Council be instructed "to make a
thorough study of possible future re
vision of immigration and naturaliza
tion laws as affecting Oriental races."
8—Repeal of the poll tax which
bars Negroes and impoverished white
workers in six southern states urged
by acclamation.
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AFL Convention Roars Approval As Green Assails
Baiters Who Smear Unions Fint
and labor-baiters in official positions
to smear the entire labor movement
for the few and inconsequential union
mistakes while ignoring the tremen
dous accomplishments of organized
labor in the war effort have gotten
under the skin of the union represent
atives gathered here. They are fed up
with this bunk and they are deter
mined that the public must no longer
be misled by such false propaganda.
Deep interest was also displayed by
the delegates in how the trade union
movement will be affected by federal
and state anti-union legislation adopt
ed during the past year. Copies of
AFL Counsel Joseph A. Padway's
authoritative and forceful analysis of
these laws were exhausted as the dele
gates all sought extra copies for
transmittal to their local unions.
World's Strongest Naval
Air Force Built By U. S.
Labor In Three Years
Washington, D. C.—In the short
space of three years, between July 1,
1940, and July 1, 1943, the United
States Naval air force has grown to
be the most powerful naval air force
in the world. In that space of time
American workers have produced 15,
567 planes of all types for the Navy,
according to the Navy's recently re
leased Report on Production.
"This is the answer of American
workers to the challenge of dictators
who would enslave free labor through
out the world," Rear Admiral C. H.
Woodward, U. S. N., Chief of the
Navy's Industrial Incentive Division
declared. "American workers know
that their freedom is at stake and they
are willing to fight to preserve it.
Through this report they are serving
notice to Hitler and Hirohito that they
have just begun to fight. Our soldiers
of production in the aircraft factories
know that more and more planes will
be needed to win the final victory and
I am confident that they not only will
produce the required number of planes
for the Navy but also that they will
produce them on schedule."
In addition to the 15,567 planes pro
duced under Navy contracts during
the three-year period, almost 8,300
others were built under Army cog
nizance making over 23,000 planes
added to the naval air force. Of those
received from the Army, 7,800 were
trainers and utility planes and about
450 were combat aircraft.
In July, 1940, the Naval air force
consisted of 1,744 planes, of which
1,197 were fighters and bombers. In
July of this year the Navy had 18,269
planes, a ten-fold increase. During
those three years the Navy lost or
wrote off as obsolete 6,800 planes and
transferred 2,100 to other agencies, a
sizeable air force within itself.
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LAUDS
AFL,
Boston. President Roosevelt
praised labor's voluntary contribu
tions to the war effort and pledged
action to reduce the cost of living in
his message to the AFL's 63rd annual
convention. He said:
"Please accept my sincere thanks
for your invitation to attend and ad
dress the Sixty-third Annual Conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor in Boston on October fourth
am sure you will understand that the
heavy duties of the present moment
make it impossible for me to accept
this invitation.
"I desire, however, to take this op
portunity to extend to the officers and
members of the Federation my cordial
greetings on the occasion of the con
vention. Please assure those in attend
ance and all of the constitutent mem
bership of my gratification at the
splendid task that has been done by
American wage earners in turning
out the munitions and implements of
war. The battle of production is being
won in every shipyard, machine shop,
factory and construction outfit in this
country, and the skill, speed and
adaptability of American working
men and women have made possible
the outfitting and equipment of our
military forces in record time. The
participation of the wage earners of
this country not only in the produc
tion drive, but in the support of the
war effort by the purchase of war
bonds, both out of union treasuries
and out of personal subscriptions, is
one of the items of American life of
which we are very proud. In this free
country we are proving ourselves able
to do voluntarily all that is necessary
for the support of the great war ef
fort and to stand back of the brave
men who go into combat.
"And while I express my gratifica
tion for what you have done in the
past, I know that you will share with
me the expectation and the challenge
that American labor will do more and
more until every necessity is met, un
til every battle is fought, until the
victory is won and the peace estab
lished. Increased efforts to maintain
production levels and to increase them
in some instances are necessary. The
working people will be asked to con
tinue to support the war effort by
lending their money and by making
sacrifices and modifying their personal
habits. These sacrifices all groups in
the community are making.
"Many of the members of your
unions have gone into the armed serv
ices. Many of your sons and brothers
are taking their places in the combat
lines. Some of your daughters and
sisters are exposed to new and strange
dangers in the Nursing Corps and in
the Auxiliary services. The war is
very real to you. The cooperation of
American labor in a no-strike policy
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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Three Labor Candidates
Here is Joe Spaulding a member of
Carpenters' Union, No. 637 and their
business representative, and a candi
date for member of city council.
Here is Harry Koger a member of
Molders' Union No. 68, and a candi
date for member of City Council.
Here is Edwin L. Brondel, a mem
ber of the C. I. O. and is a shipping
clerk at the Ford plant.
All three are endorsed by organ
ized labor and the Hamilton Joint
Union Legislative Council.
Labor and Management
Cooperate In Chest Drive
Labor, representing both worker
and management, has agreed to
shoulder a large share of the burden
of the Hamilton Community -War
Chest in raising its goal of $218,550
during a financial drive, October 25 to
November 3.
This division, representing a united
front of workers from the C. I. O.,
A. F. L., independent unions, associa
tions, unorganized groups, plant own
ers and managers, has pledged "all
out" cooperation to assure the Com
munity-War Chest of victory in its
first combined campaign.
Marshall Barker, plant engineer at
the Beckett Paper company and chair
man of the labor industry committee,
has selected the following vice chair
men to assist him:
Edwin Brendel, treasurer of the
Butler County Industrial Union coun
cil, C. I. O. Clement Brunner, secre
tary of the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe
Workers union Ray Caldwell, repre
senting the American Federation of
Labor union and the Molder's union
Holton Ford, secretary of the An
drews Asphalt Paving Company.
MIDDLETOWN QUOTA SET
Middletown, Ohio.—The goal for
the War Chest Campaign in Middle
town and vicinity has been set at
$60,000, Ben Bender, chairman, an
nounced. The drive will start October
25 and continue through November 3.
RATION BOOK REQUESTS
Oxford, Ohio.—Applications for war
ration book No. 4 will be taken at
Oxford Stewart School on October 25,
26 and 27, and in other schools in
Reily, Morgan and Milford Townships,
all within the local board's jurisdic
tion.
and in the stabilization of wages to
steady our economy are expressions of
this realization.
"I ask your continued help in all
aspects of the war effort and in the
effort to stabilize the domestic econo
my. We anticipate a good deal of suc
cess in the rollback of prices which
will stabilize and reduce the cost of
living in essentials. For this the in
formed cooperation of all your mem
bers is needed.
"With best wishes for your success
ful convention, I am
"Very sincerely yours,
("Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt/1