Red Cross Asks
To Cover
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Confronted
with responsibilities of unprecedented
proportions, as the war enters its
most crucial stage, and with a stagger
ing task ahead in the post-war period,
the American Red Cross opens its
1944 War Fund appeal March 1, con
fident that the American people will
respond to the limit of their ability.
President Roosevelt, president of the
American Red Cross, Norman H. Davis,
chairman and active head of the vast
organization, and Leon Fraser, na
tional War Fund chairman, join in
urging the people of this country to
help Red Cross reach its national
objective of $200,000,000 because of
the vital part it must play within the
next twelve months.
Chairman Davis, in opening the
campaign, will stress the fact that
with the decisive stage of the war at
hand, the Red Cross must assume a
greater burden than ever before, and
at the same time must provide aid to
servicemen being returned in ever
increasing numbers.
Red Cross operations over the entire
world during 1943 have dwarfed Its
activities during the first two years
of war.
An even greater burden will be
placed on Red Cross services in 1944.
Thousands of American men and
women are now in Red Cross service
with U. S. troops at home bases and
overseas. Field directors, hospital,
club and recreation workers are with
American armed forces in virtually
every command, Mr. Davis asserted.
Both in Europe and in the Far East,
Red Cross workers have either gone
with invasion forces into new combat
areas, or have followed within a very
limited time.
On the home front, the Red Cross
has broadened its service tremend
ously. Field directors are serving In
AFL Giving Rises
Hovering about the half-million
mark were Philadelphia, Boston,
Seattle, St. Louis, Milwaukee and
Washington, D. C. Sixteen additional
cities, including Providence, Cleve
land, Memphis, Houston, Pittsburgh
and others, avei-aged contributions of
$250,000 each.
The general trend in the National
War Fund campaign, Woll says, has
not only been towards a rise in the
AFL's standard of giving, but
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When the Japs hit Pearl Harbor we
got pretty much the whole story right
hot off the griddle. The devastation
was hardly completed by the hated
Nips before the radios of the nation
was blaring forth the awful truth.
Army censorship hadn't hit its
stride Navy censorship didn't yet
know how to sit on the lid and the Of
fice of Censorship hadn't been created
The result was that the American
people went blue mad over the whole
thing and the war against Japan has
been a hating war ever since.
The people knew the full truth, as
sessed its meaning and made up their
minds what had to be done.
Maybe that's why most Americans
do their hating in that direction—that
is, they hate harder and more deeply
They got the full blast of truth at the
outset, while the guns were still smok
ing.
Then censorship stepped in and we
got our news late and we got a lot of
it toned down. Bad news came espe
cially late.
Victories of small size were played
up losses were played down.
$200,000,000
Wartime Needs
every sizable military establishment
and camp throughout the country, and
recreation and social service workers
are located in Army and Naval
hospitals.
One of the most Important and
necessary war-time Red Cross func
tions has been the collection of human
blood for plasma. Thirty-five blood
donor stations are now operating.
The dramatic story of the Red Cross
Blood Donor Service, through which
thousands of soldiers and sailors have
been saved from death, began in Feb
ruary, 1941, when the Surgeons Gen
eral of the Army and Navy asked the
Red Cross to procure 15,000 pinto of
blood. Last year more than 3,700,000
pints of blood were collected for the
Army and Navy. This year the goal is
more than 5,000,000 pints.
With major battles of the war yet
to come, the Army has asked the Red
Cross to supply many millions of sur
gical dressings. American men wounded
in battle will depend acutely on the
vast Red Cross surgical dressing pro
duction program.
Numerous other Red Cross home
operations, such as Prisoners of War
packaging centers, where more than
a million parcels for war prisoners
are prepared each month for shipment
overseas, are supported by citizen
participation in the Red Cross War
Fund.
So extensive Is Red Cross service
during this war that every American
civilian can contribute something to
at least one of its functions. To con
tinue this gigantic work, all Americans
must assume their share of the re
sponsibility of carrying on this far
reaching service.
American Federation of Labor Pledges
$15,000,000 To Red Cross Drive
Minimum of Four Hours' Pay Is Asked of Individuals
Record-Breaking Total Is Being Raised By Unions
Throughout The Entire Country,
New York City (ILNS).—The
American Federation of Labor's goal
for the forthcoming Red Cross war
fund campaign is $15,000,000. Feder
ation officials have recommended a
minimum of four hours' pay as the
individual AFL Red Cross contribu
tion. At the same time, it was re
vealed that AFL members had con
tributed more than $25,000,000 to the
recent National War Fund drive.
These figures and the Red Cross
pledge were made public by Matthew
Woll, president of the Labor League
for Human Rights, AFL official relief
arm.
The record-breaking total raised by
AFL unions in 850 cities for the Na
tional War Fund, Woll further re
vealed, was in part accounted for by
an honor roll of 25 cities in which
union members contributed 10 million
dollars. Heading this list of cities were
New York, Chicago and Los Angeles,
each with more than one million dol
lars to their credit.
The $200,000,000 quota will enable
Red Cross to alleviate suffering and
pain at home and abroad, and to carry
on its vast military welfare service.
WqII
Says
Full Support Urged
In urging that AFL central labor
bodies in 850 cities extend full sup
port to the Red Cross drive, Woll
declared:
There may be some among us who
grow weary of appeals and extra
services to the war effort. But, com-
of some 15 million dollars."
ers to give us the full picture of our|
war.
Ernie Pyle probably has given us
more truth, more earthy facts, about
the war than we have had from the
"straight news."
a kick against news handling that
dling that plays strikes up out of all|
proportion to their importance and
that doesn't, meanwhile, give us the
cheering picture of the enormous pro
duction job that has been the marvel
of the whole world.
day must follow war.
The American people have
enough brains to maintain a de
mocracy they have enough brains
to know what to do about the
facts of war—IP, they can get
them.CMW.
LABOR HATERS
PLANT TIME BOMB
WATT CHARGES
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
vis, of OWI, is as good as could be|
got.
The best of them seem unable to|
break through the wall of military
bureaucracy.
When we know about the war as it I extent of the increase in wartime liv
moves along daily we feel closer to it ing
we feel a more intimate and com-|
manding responsibility.
We get mad about the enemy.
Stale news never gets anybody
very mad. Crusades are not borne
on the heavy wings of late and
uninspired reporting, muzzled by
e n s o s w o s e a i n i n e e s
seems too often to lie in keeping
secrets under their hats.
hate against labor were accused here
by Robert J. Watt, AFL international
City-County Park Planned
Atlanta, Ga.—Cobb county and
Marietta, Ga., will construct a 40-acre
recreation park to cost $250,000. The
one-story building costing $100,000
will house an auditorium-gymnasium
pared with the sacrifices borne by our I with two basketball courts, a stage
sons, brothers and kinfolk who serve I and collapsible seats. There will be
in the armed forces and those of our I dressing rooms, three clubrooms, a I
allies, we have been called upon tol kitchen, snack bar, game room,
do little in the world-wide struggle I lounge, library and reading room. An
against totalitarian aggression. I athletic field, children's playground,
"Our fair share for the Red CrossI six tennis courts, picnic grounds, a
this spring should be at least 4 hours'I swimming area and a parking lot also
pay. If we all do our part, the con-|will be constructed on the property.]
tribution of the members of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor to the Red
Cross will reach the impressive total|
I WINKLER RECEIVES
Only in the field of labor relations! N. R., of Hamilton, Ohio, received a
is the bad news played up. I certificate at the University of Michi
If there's a strike we get the newsl gan Saturday, February 26, showing
quickly and we get it just as bad as it I that he had completed an eight-month
can be made to look. I course in naval ai'chitecture at the
Censorship is perhaps getting morel University. Rear-Admiral E. L. Coch
intelligent than it was. There's been a I rane, chief of the Bureau of Ships,
running fight on to get the truthl Washington, D. C., presented the cer
through to the people without more| tificates at a ceremony held on the
than necessary delay.
But we still are getting too
much water in the milk of our
news and too much delay.
It remains pretty much for the
commentators, the columnists, the
magazine writers and the book writ-
UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATE!
Lieut. Frederick J. Winkler, U. S.l
campus.
Foundry Wins Star
For 'E" Pennant
The Hamilton Foundry and Machine
Company has been awarded a star to
affix to the
Now, however much we thank Ernie Middletown Ohio. Middletown
and others ol his tribe, we still have
check for
AFL-CIO ASKJPOLL OF
HOUSEWIVES ON COST
OF LIVING INCREASES
Every now and then we get wire
stuff straight from the battle field. I Washington, D. C.—Organized la
Such incidents are refreshing. They|bor challenged the government to
relate us directly to the war itself.I submit the controversial issue of the
costs
The Anzio beach head is a case inl bor was conservative. The BLS, which
point against dopey censorship. I
pu
The more fully we get the truthl had called the joint AFL-CIO figures
while it is hot and on fire, the betterl "absolutely wrong." Meany and Thorn
will we fight this war, abroad and atl as retorted:
home and the more intelligently wel "The Bureau of Labor Stastics dis
will act about the peace which some| torts our findings, as it has continu
ously distorted the rise in wartime
living costs, and does not answer the
basic data and major conclusions of
our report.
"No group of government bureau
crats have ever before had the audac
ity to insult America's millions of
housewives, by telling them that their
experiences are all wrong and that
they should instead try to live on BLS
statistics."
Chicago, 111. Industrialists andl "The AFL-CIO report found living
politicians who are trying to arouselcos^s
Watt made his blunt charge before
an audience of 2,000 employers at a
national meeting of the American
Management Association
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Army-Navy "E" pennant
in recognition of continued efficiency
in war production work.
Quota Easily Beaten
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John
makes this condition possible. I director, announced following a Ana
We have a kick against news ban-
'"Kwersen, sales
results'
If strikes are inexcusable, that is no| visors told the board that some whole
reason for a shameless distortion ofl
Total
and
corporation
"dividual
sales was
705,166.
MUST BUY BIBLES WITH BOOZE
San Francisco.—J. J. Sullivan, a
member of the City Board of Super-
sa^e
either their nature or their numbers. I tailers to buy a dozen Bibles at $16.50
It is probable that Byron Price, as|l*rf°re they would deliver the spirits.
chief of censorship, is as good as could
be got. It is probable that Elmer Da-
liquor dealers were forcing re-
Advertise in The Press.
to a poll of the nation's
housewives.
AFL Secretary Treasury George
Meany and R. J. Thomas, of the CIO,
labor members of the President's
Committee on the Cost of Living,
bluntly rejected the estimates made
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
They insisted that their own estimate
that living costs had increased "at
least 43.5 per cent" since Pearl Har-
ts the increase at only 24 per cent,
The labor leaders proposed that the
following question be submitted to a
public opinion poll of American house
wives
rose
representative, of "planting a time| confirmed by your own experiences?"
bomb against our democratic institu
tions.
towards a spread in the number ofI had not labored hard and well, therel New York City.—A proposal* that a
labor contributors to local community! might not have been the heroic storyl course in labor relations be given to
chests. This is shown by comparisons! of Stalingrad. I teachers to fit them better to teach
of total results and of average perl "Despite all this, there are a lot ofl the subject to their pupils with the
capita contributions during the 19421 people, including the top button push-l aid of the textbook on the subject now
and 1943 campaigns. I ers in Washington, who think the wayl being prepared under state auspices
A contribution of one million dol-l to beat Hitler is to put labor in a| was made by the Rev. William J. Kel
lars from labor in a single city hadl straitjacket." I ley member of the State Labor Rela
never before been recorded in any re-1 Those on top who are preaching the I tions Board, at a conference of 100
lief drive, Woll pointed out, and veryl "class struggle" against labor are| high school teachers here
few cities, in 1942, had reached the I playing Hitler's game and laying the
half-million mark. In 1943, however,! ground for Fascism in this country,
New York City doubled, and Chicago| he declared.
quadrupled, their 1942 results. In the! The only real way to preserve de
case of othei's of the 25 cities cited mocracy after the war is for labor and
for outstanding achievement, the in-1 management to start cooperative
crease in several instances reached planning now for post-war stability,
the spectacular rate of 150 per cent.| Watt contended.
43.5% since January 1941.
The BLS reports that they rose only
'23%. Which report most closely is
Without the American army of
production soldiers there could have|a^°
been no successful assault in the
South Pacific, no invasion of Africa or| Labor Relations Course Asked
Italy," he said. "If American workers
Pi-omising "a full analysis of the
BLS confessions and laments," the la
bor members termed the BLS study
the most insulting document to or
ganized labor that has emanated from
the Department of Labor since its
creation more than three decades
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Washington, D. C.—Employers are
increasingly accepting the principles
underlying the National Labor Rela
tions Act and employes are using the
National Labor Relations Board's
machinery more, rather than resorting
to direct action and strikes, Dr. Harry
A. Millis, chairman, said in submitting
the board's eighth annual report to
Congress.
Fewer charges of employer unfair
labor practices were i-eceived than in
any of the five preceding years. Re
quests for secret ballot elections ex
ceeded the total for any year since the
boai-d's inception. Dr. Millis declared
that the unprecedented recourse to
orderly elections was all the more
noteworthy, since 75 per cent of all
elections wei*e one-union situations.
The total of 9,543 cases filed was
the third largest in the board's his
tory. Of these, 6,140 were election
cases, and 3,403 were unfair labor
practices.
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BLOOD DONORS WANTED
(From International Molders' and
Foundry Workers' Journal)
The American Red Cross still needs
blood donors for the purpose of sav-^
ing the lives of wounded members of
our armed forces in the world-wide
battle arena. Seldom a night passes
that you don't hear some wounded
man, home on a furlough, tell about
about the number of lives of our boys
that have been saved through blood
transfusions.
Pictures of emergency field hospi
tals, where these blood transfusions
have taken place, are shown on the
screen, in magazines and newspapers.
All of them tell a graphic story of the
heroic measures put forth to save a
life and why it is necessary that mors
blood be donated for this purpose.
We know various good reasons why
every one can't give blood, but we ap
peal to those who can to go to their
Red Cross and make a blood donation.
Read The Press.
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