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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Ohio, as Second-Class Mail Matter. lasaed Weekly at J2« Market 8treet Telephone 1!H Hajailtea, Okie Endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown Trades and Labor Council of Middletown, O. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944 SOMETHING IS WRONG Sunday night radio guy says "A reporter's report to the nation, which might be something like this: Residents of the District of Colum bia since 1878 have been governed en tirely and absolutely by committees of the Congress of the United States. About the same situation as if your town was governed by men elected from the other 47 states. Senator Pat McCarran, of Nevada, thinks citizens of the District should have some degree of self-government and has introduced a bill for that pur pose, but he seems to believe said citizens are not sufficiently interested in the matter. He overlooks the fact that other similar bills have been paraded in Congress in the past 40 years, with nonaction and none expected and District citizens perhaps feel "Why get excited when it don't mean any thing?" The thing to keep in mind, it seems to us, is that in America the home of the free our government is based on self-government, and that if any segment of our population has not that privilege something is screwy. And that is all from Washington at this time, as another radio guy says 0 IT'S HELPING WIN Pentagon Building in Virginia, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia, is a target for any writer who wants to ridicule the ad ministration. Its hugeness is so incon ceivable and confusing that anything said about it is interesting and be lievabie to readers of any publication. This so-called monstrosity was has tily constructed to house workers of the War Department when space was needed to help win the war. The Presi dent designated the site and army en gineers supervised its construction (And, by the way, union mechanics did all the work.) It is a building, a five-sided circular ring, with five rings, all connected and with a space inside the smallest large enough for four football fields what anyone can call a big building, hous ing about 40,000 workers. But, even though critics ridicule it, it is a structure which is helping to win the war, and while it cost more than expected, who knows what to expect these days 0 HOME REPAIR TO HELP Home repair and maintenance will be among the most pressing needs of America in the first postwar year, and should be a major factor in easing the country's transition from war to peace economy, Abner H. Ferguson Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration believes. Home owners have made only the most pressing repairs since Pearl Harbor, and even before, Ferguson says. In the meantime the nation's residential properties have been de teriorating until the backlog of home repair work needing to be done has grown enormously. The building industry can turn to home repair and modernization work within a very short period after war limitations on critical materials have been lifted. On this fact, he says, is Postwar Labor-Industry Teamwork Pledged By Green and Eric Johnston Labor Agrees on Free Enterprises, But Wants Broader Definition of Terms of "Free Enterprise" Labor Insists On Being Included Not Companies Only Washington, D. C.—A sound and constructive basis for labor-manage ment cooperation for the achievement of maximum production and full em ployment in the postwar period was agreed upon by AFL President Wil liam Green and Eric Johnston, presi dent of the United States Chamber of Commerce, in a nation-wide "Labor For Victory" broadcast over NBC on Jan. 9. 'Our interests are identical," Mr. Green said of labor and industry. "Our fate is interdependent. Not only that we can't look to anyone else, not even the Government, to do the job for us. We must do it ourselves if we hope to maintain our way of life and the free enterprise system." Excerpts from the ensuing discus sion follow: Mr. Johnston—I'm glad you men tioned "free enterprise," Bill, because to my mind it's the key to our post war success. Yet there exists enorm ous misunderstanding of the term. Some people interpret it as meaning unbridled capitalism, of the dog-eat dog kind. I fear that in some labor quarters free enterprise is regarded as a fancy name for letting big busi ness pursue its own sweet way and the public be damned. That's not it, at all. Free enterprise, as modern businessmen see it, is synonymous with service—service to labor, to the public and to the Government, in time of peace as well as in time of war. In order to render these services more effectively business and industry must be free—free from unnecessary Gov ernment restriction and free to break new ground and make new advances. And in order to be able to continue to render such services, business and in dustry and capital are fully entitled to fair profits. I don't mean to soft pedal the profit motive by putting it last. Far from it. The chance to make fair profit is the best inducement— the only practical inducement—to the investment of new capital in the post war period and to the widest possible expansion of peace-time production. Mr. Green—I agree with you as far as you go, Eric, but labor insists on a much broader definition of the term "free enterprise." In other words, free enterprise is not a one-way street. Labor claims a vital stake in free en terprise, too. Industry cannot expect to enjoy the benefits of free enterprise in our democracy without extending comparable benefits to the workers. The American Federation of Labor sincerely believes in the free enter prise system. We recognize the right of private ownership and management of property. We concede that the own ers and managers of property are en titled to fair profits. We agree that unnecessary Government controls over business should be lifted. But, at the same time, labor demands that indus try accord the right of free enterprise to the workers. That means private industry must wholeheartedly recog nice the right of workers to organize into free and democratic unions of their own choice. It means that priv ate industry must be willing to bar gain collectively with unions repre senting the workers. It means that private industry should agree to the lifting of war-time controls on the freedom of labor in the postwar pe riod. Finally, it means that private industry should not expect to make profits by paying substandard wages but should join with labor in seeking to raise the American standard of liv ing. Mr. Johnston—Speaking for the great majority of American employ ers, I want to assure you, Bill, that we're perfectly willing to go along with you on that basis. As practical businessmen, we realize that unions are here to stay in America. To fight them is bad business. It's costly, it gets you nowhere and it merely creates bad relations with employes The employers of America want to work together with their employes based the estimate of the FHA field offices that approximately $3,000, 000,000 of such work will be done in the first 12 months after war limita tions are lifted. 0 WHAT NEXT? Clothlike material made by the same process as is paper, instead of by weaving, and non-shatterable glass with 10 times the tensile strength of malleable steel were cited recently by Dr. H. E. Fritz, research director of B. F. Goodrich Co., as "marvels of science" which industry would pro duce after the war. 0 WISDOM Voluntaryism is the only sound basis for accord and good feeling. John P. Frey. The war has taught them that such cooperation is good business. It brings results. It boosts production. And we know now that high production is the answer to the search for profits. I be liece in high wages and high produc tion. So do most American employers. Profit opportunities in the postwar period will not come from chiseling on wages but from boosting production. As a spokesman for the free enter prise system, I know that America will not gain from high profits on small production. American business men realize that we must work toward a higher and higher volume of production, with lower unit costs. That's the constuctive way to obtain an increase in aggregate profits. Like wise, we know that high production cannot be sustained unless the people of America enjoy a sufficiently high purchasing power to buy and consume the products of industry and agricul ture. That's why high wages mean good business. Mr. Green—Will it be possible in the postwar period for private indus try to attain the big objective we all agree on—maximum production and maximum employment? Mr. Johnston—I am no prophet, Bill, but I can say that w$ have all the tools to banish mass unemployment from our land—raw materials, trained manpower, plant capacity, accumula ted demands. In postwar period, our chief enemies will be lack of courage, lack of cooperation. If industry and and labor and agriculture and the gov ment what I call the Big Four can team up together these enemies will be licked and we will win. If we e willing to forget for the time being the honest differences of opin ion that exist among us and concen trate on the broad areas of agree ment that unite us as Americans, we can do the job. Mr. Green—Thank you, Eric John ston. Speaking for the 6,500,000 mem bers of the American Federation of Labor I can assure you that we are willing to join with you in doing the job. Get Right To 'Pretty Up' Detroit, Mich. Packard Motors plant women workers have the right to "pretty-up" before stopping woi-k. The Regional War Labor Board has ruled 7,000 women workers at the plant could take five minutes off be fore luncheon and at the end of the shift without loss of pay. The com pany had sought to discontinue the practice on the grounds that the women were paid 55 minutes of work each week which they did not not do. Bomb Damage Hushed Up Washington, D. C. German fac tories suffering bomb damage are warned in the German press not to reveal the damage by announcing moves to another location, the OWI European Digest reports. Firms may tell customers and clients their new address, but not their old, and must avoid statements like "heavy damage" or "considerable loss." Advertise in The Press. Though rtEeooes COH- STifi/TlE 9886 OF OOR. 6iiUl iLif. oF ARMY vbbj*TC£RS* 1946-1 X* 1941.75% of COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS I THE letter of the law works an injustice, can the courts intervene to prevent such injustice This, in brief, was the question presented to the U. S. Supreme Court recently in a draft case involving a member of the religious sect, Jehovah's Witness. The august court decided, with only one member dissenting, that the law must take its course, regardless of whether it worked for justice or injustice. Conscripted men must report for in duction before getting court review of their draft classification, the Supreme Court ruled in an 8 to 1 opinion by Justice Hugo L. Black, Justice Frank Murphy dissenting. The opinion was handed won Jan. 8 in the case of Nick Falbo, Pennsylvania Jehovah's Wit ness, who claimed exemption as a min ister. This claim was denied by his draft board. Charging error and prejudice, Falbo did not report for duty, was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison by the federal court at Pittsburgh. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in support of Falbo's con tention declaring: "The decision leaves us just where we were before. It does not relieve conscientious objectors who refuse to go into the army to test their rights It will do nothing to stop the stream to prison men improperly classified by local and appeals boards." Justice Black, for the majority, held: "The narrow question therefore presented by this case is whether Con gress has authorized judicial review of the propriety of a board's classifica tion in a criminal prosecution for wil ful violation of an order directing a registrant to report for the last step in the selective process. We think it has not. "Surely if Congress had intended to authorize interference with, that pro cess by intermediate challenges of or ders to report, it would have said so." Justice Murphy's dissent is worthy of close study by every trade unionist, by every citizen who wishes to see the law and the courts protect human rights. He said: "Common sense and justice dictate that a citizen accused of a crime should have the fullest hearing possi ble, plus the opportunity to present every reasonable defense. Only an un enlightened jurisprudence condemns an individual without according him those rights. Such denial is especially oppressive where a full hearing might disclose that the administrative action underlying the prosecution is the product of excess wartime emotions. Experience demonsti'ates that in time of war individual liberties cannot al ways be entrusted safely to uncon trolled administrative discretion. "It is evident that there is no expli- Compensation Payments Dwindle Columbus, O., Jan. 20.—Unemploy ment increased in Ohio during Decern ber, the first month to show a gain in a year which saw unemployment compensation payments dwindle to total of only $1,520,701 as compared with $14,408,108 during 1942. Administrator Hugh S. Jenkins reported today to Gov. John W. Bricker that benefits totaling $81,957 were paid to unemployed workers dur ing December, an increase of 85 per cent over November when $51,920 was paid, the all-time low for this state. THE MARCH OF LABOR MlSSlSSlpP(-Afl0U-T*£T*« tS% OF STACK'S EUGlSUL VfeTERS io -me POLLS, ViOSmM wmiLB i*West (A/ori-tou.-TAtf) 83% of IllGlBAf VOTERS VbTE., •iJHe TNIAlcflt* VEHICLES oriMfttttftLO WERE PftoMCfDrtf* u*t-retsi?rnss. Bur Bonds.1 as. war FIRST WAV* KILLED 1*1 ACTIO*! WAS A VN\ON MEM* BER- ELIZABETH KORENSKV (LOCAL iss.ag.R.e*.) KULEO irt fcXPLOr SiOri AT HOIZPOUC, VA AIR STATION fbfc quauty-crapts- MAtfSMlP- VAWE HAT? LOOK fOR THIS LABEL (/AtPEft TME SWEATAAHD. SUumoh. cit provision in the Act permitting the aising of this particular defense and that the legislative histosy is silent on the matter. The power to administer complete justice and to consider all reasonable pleas and defenses must be presumed in the absence of legislation to the contrary." Then comes the climax of Justice Murphy's fine dissent, in which he says: 'That an individual should languish in prison for five years'without being accorded the opportunity of proving that the prosecution was based upon arbitrary and illegal administrative action is not in keeping with the high standards of our judicial system. "The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect un popular citizens against discrimina tion and persecution." Union 'Smokes' Drive Boosted Portland, Ore.—Local Union No. 48, International Brotherhood of Electri cal Workers has ordered 440,000 Ra leigh union label cigarettes for send ing to members of the armed forces overseas. The mark set by the local makes it one of the leaders in the nation-wide drive for shipping union label cigarettes to U. S. fighters abroad. AFL Lumber Workers Raise Postwar Fund Portland, Ore. (ILNS). The Northwestern Council, Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AFL, has just re lected John M. Christenson as presi dent for a third term, and has return ed Kenneth Davis, executive secretary, to office for a seventh term. Don H. Reed, business agent of the Blue Mountain District Council, Baker, Ore., was elected vice-president. He is the first member from the pine belt to be honored with an executive posi tion on the five-state council. 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