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Boston. American workers and
their unions are world champions,
just as the New York Yankees are in
baseball, Senator James Mead of New
York told the AFL convention here
on his return from a world tour of
the battlefronts with a group of other
senators.
Tops in production, tops in loyalty
and supreme in reducing time lost
through strikes was Senator Mead's
characterization of U. S. labor's war
record. He branded as false propa
ganda charges by anti-labor spokes
men that the workers of this country
have failed to back up the boys on the
fighting fronts. He said:
"Our production is the world's best.
Compared with any other country in
the world, friend or foe, in the qual
ity or quantity of our goods we lead
and all others follow. That has been
proven, my friends, if you will just
look at the record.
"Our equipment is on every allied
front in the world. It is being shipped
on every ocean, into nations that are
joining with us in this gigantic con
flict for human freedom and human
decency. Every nation and every
army in the world, fighting on our
team, has American equipment and
American goods to sustain them in
battle.
"The answer to the critics of Amer
ican labor is that we are doing our bit,
that we are excelling even the fondest
hopes of our friends.
"They talk about strikes. I inquired
into the matter of strikes in the coun
tries through which we passed and
from the representatives I met from
other countries. Unfortunately, where
labor is free you will hear of an occa
sional strike. But when they look at
the record again they will find, as I
find in a report from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, that in the entire
year of 1942, the first full year after
labor gave its no-strike pledge,
strikes in America only represented
6 tenths of one percent, and even the
common cold or the enforced absence
as the result of a punctured tire or
breakdown of a trolley or bus exceed
ed the loss resulting from strikes in
U. S. Labor "Champs" of The World
Sen. Mead Tells Boston Convention
Senator Mead Brands False Propaganda Charges By
Anti-Labor Spokesman, That Workers of This
Country Have Failed to Back Up the Boys
LYDEN SPEAKS AT
DEDICATION SUNDAY
Michael J. Lyden, president of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor, will
be the principal speaker at the dedi
cation of the Honor Roll Board, which
will take place at the labor temple
next Sunday, October 31. Judge P.
Boli will also be one of the speakers.
Others will be announced later.
Hollowe'en Judges Announced
Robert J. Brown, chairman of the
Hallowe'en celebration committee of
the Hamilton Coordinating Council
for the Treatment and Prevention of
Juvenile Delinquency, has announced
the judges for the costume contest to
be held in the downtown area, Satur
day night. They are: Lucian Kahn,
chief judge Miss Stella Weiler Tay
lor, Mrs. Mark J. Pater, Miss Louise
Mullemer, Mrs. J. J. Higgins, Mrs.
James Koger, Mrs. Walter T. Lap
thorne, Drew J. Webster, George
Cummins, William S. Locke, James R.
Fisher, and Sidney Whitaker.
ELECTRIC PLANT
BIDS ARE OPENED
Bids for wiring and cell structure
work in the new addition to the muni
cipal light plant were opened at noon
Monday in the board room at city hall
City officials said that work of
tabulating the bids would be started
immediately and a full report would
be submitted to council. A preliminary
check indicated that 11 separate bids
had been filed.
The work was estimated to cost
$120,000. The addition, including the
wiring and cell work, cost approxi
mately $825,000.
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this country. I want to ciomrnend the
American Federation of Labor and
your leader for the splendid cooper
ation you have given to the govern
ment.
"Although it is unfortunate that we
have strikes in any country fighting
this war on our side, the fact that we
have reduced them to an all-time rec
ord is complimentary of your leader
ship and of your loyalty and of your
pledge. We found mistakes, unfortu
nate incidents happening here and
there throughout our investigation.
The Truman Committee, in its ex
haustive investigation extending over
a period of years, found industrialists
at fault, found the quality of the ma
terial they were using and selling to
our government not up to standard.
We found even in the Army itself
reasons for setting up court martial
proceedings. It all brings out the fact
that we are human and that occasion
ally humans err, and when I talk to
you about errors, unfortunately er
rors did occur in every human fam
ily and in every walk of life. We have
been accused in the ranks of labor of
making mistakes, but when I say to
you that the findings of our commit
tee have shown that even in the indus
trial and financial leadership of the
country, they have made mistakes,
when I add to that that even in the
ranks of the military mistakes have
been made and court martial proceed
ings have been warranted, then I say
that so far as we are concerned our
mistakes have been smaller than they
were by comparison with any other
nation on earth, and we ought to be
proud of the fact that we rate the
standing of champions.
"Talking about champions I am re
minded of the fact that the New York
Yankees won at St. Louis a few days
ago. They are champions they have
a right to proclaim that they are the
greatest aggregation of baseball play
ers in all the world, and they have the
tangible evidence in the pennant that
will fly pridefully over Yankee Sta
dium. And yet if you look up the box
scores you will find they made some
errors, too."
BILL FINN SELLS CAFE
A High street business change was
made a few days ago when Bill Finn
sold his cafe and restaurant to Evans
J. Jonson. Jonson takes over, next
Monday, November 1. He has leased
space occupied by the business for
five years. Jonson, it is said, will fol
low along the line of Finn's principal
in still operating a union establish
ment. Bill Finn was in business twen
ty years, the first place at corner of
Main and "C" streets. Later he was
located at the corner of Front and
Court streets and later at 340 High
street, the present location. When
asked what his future ambitions were,
Bill said, I'm going to take a rest, but
I am not tired.
NEW BUSINESSES
Hamilton
Caleb M. and Martin A. Coyle, 201
Hancock avenue, service station and
restaurant
Middletown
George Dimitroula, 1300 Central
avenue, restailrant.
CHICAGO MARKET CO.
Front and High Sts. Phone 5000
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URGE FRANKS *29c
SOLICITORS LINE UP
FOR CHEST CAMPAIGN^
Middletown, Ohio. Fifteen hun
dred solicitors began a city-wide can
vas Monday in an effort to obtain
$60,000 for the 1944 War Chest. Ben
Bender and E. E. Gant, chairmen of
the drive, announced that the first
noonday meeting of the drive would
be conducted Friday at the Manches
ter Hotel. Reports from Captains of
teams assigned to the downtown area
will be read.
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Outstanding among the decisions
taken in the closing days of the con
vention were:
VICTORY—"We have pledged our
selves to contribute all of our re
sources and capabilities to the win
ning of the war. Let us now solemnly
pledge ourselves, while so doing, to
use every energy we possess to pro
tect the wage earners of our country
from these twin evils—compulsory
control of labor by the Government
and government through discretion
ary authority
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
VOL. XLIII. No. 30. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY OCTOBER 29,1943 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
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Boston.—The American Federation
of Labor put bureaucracy on the spot
as its 63rd annual convention ad
journed sine die.
Many War And Post-War Labor Problems
Decided As Sessions End
The delegates slammed the day
lights out of labor conscription, Gov
ernment by edict and other forms of
labor compulsion which they de
nounced as the worst obstructions to
utmost war production.
At the same time the convention
gave its unanimous and wholehearted
approval to every constructive pro
posal for speeding victory in the war
and for guaranteeing victory at the
peace tables.
Fortified in the knowledge that the
American Federation of Labor is now
at its peak strength in history and
freely predicting a total membership
of eight million in 1944, the delegates
marched out of Boston confidently de
termined to carry out the decisions of
the convention to the beat of their
ability.
POST-WAR—Convention called for
establishment of an inter-Depart
mental Government Council to corre
late all post-war planning establish
ment of a Federal agency to clear
cancellation of war contracts and to
speed conversion of industry to a
peace-time footing creation of an
other agency to dispose of surplus
plant facilities, materials and lands
acquired for war purposes expansion
of AFL's own post-war planning pro
gram return to 40-hour week after
war without reduction of pay scales
initiation of a huge post-war housing
program to provide jobs and decent
homes extension and enrichment of
"good neighbor" policy to Latin
America immediate declaration of a
basic foreign policy by Congress
creation of a world organization to
keep the peace, buttressed by "under
standings" among democratic nations
full support for self-rehabiliation and
self-re-education in conquered coun
tries.
UNITED MINE WORKERS-^Con
vention welcomed the bid of this union
for re-affiliation but delegated final
action to the Executive Council with
instructions to resolve jurisdictional
conflicts of UMW with existing AFL
affiliates before issuing charter.
WAR LABOR BOARD—Denounced
edicts by Economic Stabilization Di
rector Vinson vetoing WLB decisions,
urged the President to restore WLB's
former power to adjudicate disputes
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AEL Hits Bureaucracy and Compulsion of Labor
Green, Meany, Council Re-Elected Unanimously
finally by democratic processes and
refused to countenance perpetuation
of WLB setup after war ends.
NO-STRIKE PLEDGE—Reaffirmed
unanimously.
MANPOWER—Hit proposals for
National Service Act insisted on re
tention of voluntary, decentralized ad
ministration urged creation of labor
commission to safeguard working and
living conditions of workers imported
into war centers warned against em
ployment of prisoners of war on vital
war projects and demanded elimina
tion of manpower waste through la
bor-management cooperation.
PRICE CONTROL—Charged fail
ure of OPA to reduce living costs,
criticized cost of living index of Bu
reau of Labor Statistics, urged great
er attention to proper nutrition for
workers, insisted on labor representa
tion on all rationing boards and called
for mobilization of women's auxiliar
ies to aid in price control and ration
ing programs.
RENT CONTROL—Urged central
labor unions to make community sur
veys on rent costs for use in protect
ing wage earners against exorbitant
increases.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR RE
LATIONS Welcomed collaboration
with British Trade Union Congi'ess,
rejected proposal for similar direct
tie-up with Soviet trade unions which
are Government-ruled and denounced
American Communists who espouse
Russian policies to the detriment of
American interests.
LEGISLATION Called on Con
gress for immediate repeal of Connal
ly-Smith Act, asked adoption of Wag
ner-Murray-Dingell Social Security
amendments, cestigated State and
anti-labor legislation now being tested
in the courts.
NATIONAL WAR FUND Ap
pealed to all AFL unions to support
this great humanitarian drive to raise
funds for war relief in which the
AFL's own Labor League for Human
Rights is actively participating.
EDUCATION Decried spread of
child labor in war industry, urged
adequate salaries to keep teachers
from leaving the profession, support
ed constructive youth training and ap
prenticeship programs.
CIO—Voted to continue AFL
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Unity Committee so that "no oppor
tunity to establish unity may be over
looked."
Absentee Ballots Issued
The Butler County Board of Elec
tions had issued by Tuesday, 108 ab
sentee voter ballots to registered resi
dents of Hamilton and vicinity, and
one-half of these went to men and
women in the armed forces.
More ballots may be issued before
the end of the week.
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HANDICAPPED TO
GET MORE WAR JOBS
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Help
for approximately one and a half
million handi-capped persons, to fit as
many of them as possible for war
jobs, is the goal of the strengthened
program of the Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation. Appointment of a na
tional advisory council, made up of 20
outstanding leaders in training for
the handicapped, was recently an
nounced by Federal Security Admin
istrator Paul V. McNutt.
The council was appointed under
terms of the Barden-LaFollette Act,
passed in July, which extends earlier
legislation providing federal aid to
state administered vocational rehabi
litation programs for remedial treat
ment of physical handicaps. A big
part of the new program will consist
of job training.
Already many handicapped persons
hold some types of war jobs, but as a
result of the proposed training, their
their fields of service, it is expected
will be extended.
WOMAN CANDIDATE
FOR SCHOOL BOARD
Middletown. The "eleventh-hour
entrance of a write-in candidate for
city school board has caused political
observers to revise upward their prev
ious predictions of the possible vote
total in the coming municipal elec
tion.
The candidate, Mrs. Nell Blair
Blackford, 128 South Main street.
EAGLES TO AID
VICTORY CANTEEN
Butler Aerie, No. 407, Fraternal Or
der of Eagles, meeting Monday night
voted to assist the Mothers and Dads
of Sons in Service in establishing
their Victory Canteen by donating a
sum of money, and lending pocket bil
liard and a ping-pong table for the
duration.
The membership committee report
ed that with the reading of 16 new
applications, Butler Aerie had fallen
short, by ten members, the yearly
blue ribbon quota.
AFL DELEGATES
SEND UNION SMOKES
Boston.—Delegates to the Ameri
can Federation of Labor Convention
here contributed $250 for the purchase
of union label cigarettes to be sent
to the fighting forces overseas. Pres
entation was made to President Green
by Delegate Adamski, chairman of
the convention's Good Will Commit
tee. Accepting the donation, Green
said the money would be promptly
used to send cigarettes abroad. Mil
lions of union label Raleigh cigarettes
have been included in the cigarettes
sent by trade unionists to members of
the armed services.
97 Percent of Pay For Bonds
Chattanooga, Tenn.—R. F. Ault,
ordinance plant worker, is lending the
Government virtually all he makes
he is putting 97.5 percent of his salary
into war bonds. Ault says he buys
1200 in bonds every month, leaving
him $1.38 a week for transportation.
He and his wife live on what she
makes as a sales clerk. "We have a
son in North Africa," he explains.
No Crowing In This Town
Glendale, Calif. This city has
passed a law prohibiting the crowing
of roosters within the limits of the
municipality. Police have been author
ized to enforce rigidly this ordinance,
which outlaws "any rooster, animal or
fowl that makes any sound, crow or
cry that disturbs the peace of any
neighborhood."
Allies Fight On In Malaya
New York City.—Nearly 20 months
after the fall of Singapore, "British
troops and Chinese guerrilla fighters
central Malaya, are still holding
out against the Japanese," the British
radio said in a broadcast recorded by
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Unions In India Meet
Montreal.—Membership in unions in
India numbered 269,803 March 1, the
International Labor Office reports in
an account of the annual meeting of
the All-India Trade Union Congress
held recently in Nagpur. This figure
represents total membership of 191
unions, it was reported. Approximate
ly 300 delegates attended the confer
ence, which passed resolutions cover
ing cost of living, shortage of essen
tial commodities, price control, ration
ing, and government mediation pro
cedure.
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