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PAUL A. SICK
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The
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL
The other day we had a chat with an
Army General, an old-timer well
versed in matters journalistic as well
as military.
This General sought to assure us
that the Army's attitude toward labor
is basicly friendly and sympathetic.
Furthermore, he advised us not to
get too excited about reports that the
soldiers in the ranks are unduly hosT
tile to labor. He insisted these reports
are not true.
"A soldier isn't happy unless he's
got something to beef about," said the
General. "Of course, during the coal
strikes, the boys got all het up about
John L. Lewis. They still are to some
extent.
"But as far as labor unions gener
ally and the American workers as a
whole are concerned, they need not
worry about what the average soldier
thinks about them. He thinks they are
doing a good job in supplying him
with the weapons of war and in help
ing to defeat the enemy. The soldiers
know that American labor and Ameri
can industry have won the battle of
war production. That knowledge
makes them more confident than ever
that they're going to win the actual
fighting and that they are going to
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come back home safely."
What Is Labor News?
These words were highly encourag
ing to us. But then the General added
a footnote. He said:
"Besides, there has been so little la
bor news in the last few months that
the soldiers are forgetting about labor
and -beefing about something else by
now."
That remark made us sit up and
take notice. We asked:
"What do you mean there has been
no labor news?"
"Well," he replied, "there's been
very little in the papers about strikes
recently."
That's where we sounded off. The
idea that labor news consists only of
strikes is one of our pet hates. It is
an idea fostered by the newspapers
which seldom give labor news any
prominence unless it is destructive in
nature. News and trouble seems to be
synonmous with most editors. Accord
ing to this type of reasoning, happy
marriages do not constitute news di
vorce does. Compliance with the law
is not news crime is.
As earnestly as we could, we tried
to convince the General that the pau
city of strikes in the past few months
constitutes a most constructive and
important labor news story for the
Army and the millions of soldiers who
read its publications.
Somewhat shamefacedly, the Gen
eral agreed. one of his aides, who
participated in the conference, hasten
ed to show us the material being pre
pared for the forthcoming May 1 issue
of the Army's Newsmap which is dis-
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
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played on all camp bulletin-boards and
is seen by practically every soldier in
the ranks. This newsmap is going to
tell the story of war production and
tell it in forthright language, acknowl
edging the fact that the success of the
war production program is due pri
marily to the hard work of American
labor.
A §oldier Writes
Isi addition to these heartening de
velopments, we received the assurance
that the War Department would coop­
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HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS
Trades and Labor Council 2nd and 4th Puesdays, Hall No. 1 H. H. Howard, 621 Main St.
Trades and Labor Council.... Wiley A. Davis, Custodian. Phone 233.
Bakers' Union No. 81 2nd Saturdays, Labor Temple Albert McDaniels, 1330 Shuler Ave.
Barbers' Union No. 132 2nd and 4th Mondays, Hall No. 4 E. R. Legg, 326 South Seventh St.
Bartenders 169 1st Mon., 2:30 p. m. 3rd Mon., 7:30 p. m.f Labor Temple Chas. Elble, 2764 Benninghofen.
Bricklayers No. 11 1st and 3rd Fridays V. M. Lackey, 219 Eaton Ave
Bridge & Struct'l Or. Iron Workers....
1st Tuesday, Labor Temple Orville Burnett, 24 Lawson Ave.
Building Trades Council 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Ralph Morningstar, 794 Symmes Ave., Ph. 1529-W
City Fire Fighters No. 20 1st Tuesday, T. C. Hall No. 4 Edward Toerner, Engine Co. No. 6
Carpenters and Joiners No. 637:...........2nd and 4th Thursdays, Labor Temple....Ralph Morningstar, 794 Symmes.
Cigar Makers' Union No. 123 2nd and 4th Mondays, Labor Temple....A. Lombard, 813 Vine St.
Culinary Employes & Hotel Service Workers, Local 700....1st-3rd Wed., Labor Temple Agnes Hammond, Secy.
Electrical Workers No. 648 1st Wednesday, Labor Temple J. E. Wanamaker.
Labor Legislative Committee 2nd and 4th Wednesdays Eugene Erbs, Sec'y., 1243 Campbell Ave.
Lathers' Local No. 275 Meets 1st Wednesday, Labor Temple..Sherman Clear, Secy., 1050 Central.
Letter Carriers 3rd Friday Night Ralph E. Wieland, 1332 High St., Ph. 1089-R
Laborers and Hod Carriers, No. 770 J. W. H. Crafton, 202 Owen St. Ph. 33.
Machinists' Union No. 241 2nd Sun.-4th Wed., Labor Temple A1 Breide, 824 Central Ave.
Metal Polishers No. 43 Alternate Wednesdays, Labor Temple....G. Brandel, 1833 Pleasant Ave.
Milk and Ice Cream Drivers and Helpers 3rd Friday, T. C. Hall Ed Dulli, 2255 Noble Ave. Ph. 1635-M.
Molders' Union No. 68 Every Monday, T. C. No. 1 James V. Nutt, 332 No. Tenth St.
Molders' Union No. 283 2nd and 4th Fridays, T. C. No. 1 Mack Holland, 1303 S. Thirteenth St.
Musicians' Local No. 31 1st Sunday Morning, Labor Temple....Charles E. Fordyce, 903 Millville Ave.
Paint., Dec., Paperhangers No. 135 Every Thursday, Labor Temple Stanley Sloneker, Labor Temple.
Paper Makers, No. 49 Ralph Lee, Sec., J. W. Bailey and J. C. Furr, Int'l Rep Headquarters, Labor Temple.
Pattern Makers 2nd and 4th Fridays, T. C. Hall Raymond J. Leugers, 1216 Vine St.
Plasterers and Cement Finishers No. 214 Labor Temple Ed Motzer, 322 Harrison Ave.
Plumbers' Union No. 108 1st and 3rd Mondays, T. C. Hall Albert Johnson, 931 Ridgelawn Ave.
Retail Clerks' Union No. 119....1st and 3rd Wednesdays, Labor Temple Sam K. DanefF, 801 Corwin Ave.
Roofers No. 68 4th Wednesday, T. C. Hall David Lyttle, 507 So. Fifth St,
Sheet Metal Workers No. 365 Alternating Tuesday at Labor Temple....Douglass Rowlett, 337 Pershing Ave.
Stationary Engineers No. 91 1st Monday, T. C. Hall Wm. Eichel, 1304 Haldimand Ave.
Stationary Firemen No. 98 2nd Thursday, Labor Temple O. P. McCormick, 723 Ross Ave.
Street Car Men's Local 738 3rd Wednesday, T. C. Hall No. 1 B. B. Siple, 116 No. St.
Stove Mounters' Union No. 8 1st and 3rd Fridays, T. C. Hall Carl Reiter, 2120 Elmo Ave.
Stage Employes-Operators, No. 136.... 1st Monday, T. C. Hall Tom C. Smith, 618 Cleveland Ave.
State, County & Municipal Employes, No. 357 Ed. Buckel, Sec., 1176 Shuler Ave.
Truck Drivers' Local No. 100 1st Sunday, Labor Temple, Marion Davidson, R. R. 1, Hamilton, Ph. 5669-R
Typographical Union No. 290 Labor Temple Martin Schorr, 701 Gray Ave.
Woman's Union Label League Every Other Tuesday, Labor Temple..Mrs. Lottie Butts, 737 Ludlow St.
MIDDLETOWN LABOR UNIONS
Allied Printing Trades Council .'....Wm. J. O'Brien, President.
Trades and Labor Council Alternate Thursday, Trades Council Hall Sid Dutcher, P. O. Box 226.
Middletown Fire Fighters, No. 336 1st Monday and Tuesday, T. C. Hall....Ed. Beatty, Bellmont St.
Barbers' Union No. 228 4th Monday, Trades Council Hall R. G. Miller, 9 No. Main St.
Musicians, No. 321 1st Sunday, Trades Council Hall...... Earl Mendenhall, Sec., 720 10th St.
Electrical Workers, No. 648 Hamilton John Wanamaker, Hamilton.
Letter Carriers, No. 188
Printing Pressmen No. 235, 1st Friday, Trades Council Hall, Henry Zettler, Sec'y., R. R. No. 3, Hamilton, Ohio.
Carpenters, No. 1477 Every Monday, Trades Council Hall....Earl Ottervein, Sec., 12 Harrison St.
Plumbers and Steamfitters, No. 510 2nd Tuesday, Trades Council Hall Earl Conover.
Painters and Decorators, No. 643 2nd Friday, Trades Council Hall
Stage Employes, No. 282 Alternate Saturdays, T. C. Hall Otto Kaiser, P. O. Box 54.
Steam and Operating Engineers, No. 924 Wm. Smart, Dayton, Ohio.
Typographical Union, No. 487 1st Monday, Trades Council Hall Harriett DuErmitt, News-Journal.
Laborers and Hod Carriers, No. 534....Alternate Wednesdays, T. C. Hall S. J. Anderson, 125 South Broad St.
Truck Drivers Trades Council Hall Sid Dutcher.
Building Trades Council Alternate Monday, T. C. Hall Sid Dutcher.
Pulp and Sulphite Paper Mill Workers, No. 310 Moose Hall Mabel Whittaker, Charles St.
Sheet Metal Workers, No. 141 John Focht, Jr., Cincinnati.
Auto Mechanics Trades Council Hall W. Fox.
DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS
Molders' Conference Board....Chas. L. Huter, 419 Roosevelt Ave., Piqua, O.
Sta. Engineers Frank P. Converse, 216 High, Cleveland, Ohio.
HAMILTON BUSINESS AGENTS
Bartenders Chas. Elble, Labor Temple.
Building Trades Council Joe Spaulding, 901 Minor Ave., Ph. 2852-W.
Culinary Employes & Hotel Service Workers Charles Elble.
Electrical Workers Frank Vidourek, 145 Pershing Ave., Ph. 1024-W.
Molders Jerry Galvin, 605 W. Norman Ave., Dayton, Ohio.
Carpenters Joe Spaulding, 901 Minor Ave.
Lathers' Local No. 275 Sherman Clear, 1050 Central Ave.
Machinists No. 241 H. H. Howard, 621 Main St. Ph. 4443.
Milk & Ice Cream Drivers & Helpers..Ed Dulli, 2255 Noble Ave. Ph. 1635-M.
Painters Ed. J. Engler, 425 S. Thirteenth St. Ph. 3970-R.
Pattern Makers Trades Council Hall.
Plasterers & Cem. Fin., No. 214, Ed Motzer, 322 Harrison Ave., Ph. 1133-J.
Roofers' Local No. 68 .David Lyttle, 507 So. Fourth St.
Plumbers Raymond P. Keck, 231 Washington St.
Stage Employes Neil Johnson, 201 S. Monument, Ph. 2620-J.
Moving Picture Operators..Eugene Stempfley, Overpeck, Ohio. Ph. 191-M-3.
MIDDLETOWN BUSINESS AGENTS
Carpenters Wm. Crispin, Wionna Drive, Avalon, Trades Council Hall.
Building Trades Sid Dutcher, P. O. Box 226.
Painters Ed Engler, 425 S. 13th, Hamilton.
Movie Operators Ben Francis, 119 Moore St.
Stage Employes Clarence Long, North Broad.
Electrical Workers Frank Vidourek, Hamilton.
Truck Drivers Sid Dutcher.
Laborers and Hod Carriers, No. 534.... S. J. Anderson, 125 South Broad St.
INT1SRNATIONAI. ORGANIZATION
STATE ORGANIZATIONS
Ohio Fire Fighters, R. M. Lukens. S.W.T). V.-Pres., 507 Lincoln Ave.
erate with us in efforts to make copies
of the American Federationist, the
AFL's aggressive monthly magazine,
available at camp libraries and Army
schools for those interested in learn
ing labor's point of view on war and
post-war problems.
And then, when we returned from
the Pentagon Building to the office, we
found on our desk a letter sent to AFL
President Green by a first-class Army
private, stationed in Italy, named
Thomas E. Coll.
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LaVerne J. Knox, 1008 Hughes St.
PFC Coll stated bluntly in his letter
that "only a few stupid fellows" in the
A'-my "are misled by the plain bunk
we get about the labor situation in
America." He also inclosed a letter to
the editor of the Pittsburgh Press
from which we quote the following ex
cerpts:
"If we believed what we read, we
would think that the American work
ing men and women—our own families
and friends—stay up nights figuring
out ways to lose the war. Personally,
I think the news wc- get. and the pic
tures they send us are downright in
sults to our intelligence.
"The overseas soldier will not be
influenced to bitterness by anti-labor
bunk. We need you as much as you
need us. To win the war we must all
work together.
"We are also aware of the sacrifices
the workmen and women are making
on the home front. We are proud of all
you are doing. The little Army and
Navy "E" pin you wear in your lapel
is as much a symbol of your unselfish
ness and duty as the various ribbons
the soldier wears above his left pocket.
Remember that!"
We'd like to gets lots of letters like
that every day.
Molder's Five Sons In Service
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.—Ollie Prior,
member of Molders' Union No. 193,
employed at the Iowa Steel and Iron
Works here, in addition to doing war
work is represented in the« armed
forces by five sons and two sons-in
law, who are scattered through all
law, who are scattered through all
branches of the services. Three of the
sons were employed by Iowa Steel be
fore entering the service.
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can readily understand w y the di
rector of Economic Stabilization and
other officials directing top policy
have decided as a standard procedure
that all corporate profit information
in the hands of the government should
be kept from the public through rigid
censorship.
"It is a fact that reports on corpo
rate profits compiled by the govern
ment for specific industries have been
withheld from publication. This in
formation had been gathered through
public channels. The public is cer
tainly entitled to have access to it.
Could it be that those responsible for
the top economic stabilization policies
felt that mere publication of these
facts would challenge the fairness of
the overall economic stabilization pol
icy, which leans so heavily on rigid
wage control while evading many
basic price and profit issues?
The spokesman demanded full de
tention of the rent control program
as part of the OPA. He denounced
real estate interests seeking to wreck
this program.
He informed the Senatorial Com
mittee that the AFL, the CIO and the
Railway Brotherhoods had joined in
urging Congress to renew the Price
o n o A w i o u w e a k e n i n
amendments.
Other -witnesses appearing at the
public hearings for the AFL included
Boris Shishkin, staff economist Mrs.,
Mae Lowe, Pi-esident of the American
Federation of Women's Auxiliaries of
Labor Edward H. Weyler, Secretary
of the Kentucky State Federation of
Labor, and Joseph J. McComb, of
Camden, N. J., representing the Re
tail Clerks' International Protective
Association.
LIBERTIES UNION
SUPPORTS APPEAL
TO SUPREME COURT
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—The
appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court of
W. D. Lyons, a Negro convicted in
Oklahoma of a triple murder in Jan
uary, 1940, was backed by an Ameri
can Civil Liberties Union brief asking
a reversal of the conviction on the
grounds that it was obtained by a
forced confession. The appeal was
taken after the Oklahoma Criminal
Court of Appeals sustained the Negro
farmhand's conviction in a lower
court. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
conducted the defense with asp'stance
by the ACLU.
Signed by Gomer Smith, of Okla
homa City A. S. Cutler and Morris
L. Ernst, of New York City, the
union's brief charges that the 22
year-old Negro was convicted on a
second confession which should have
been ruled out "for the same persons
vitiated the first," obtained under
similar circumstances. The trial judge
had refused to admit the first confes
sion, finding "that the defendant may
have been frightened into making the
confession. ... by long hours of ques
tioning and placing of bones of the
purported bodies of the deceased per
sons on his lap during the question
ing."
The brief declared the defendant
testified that after his arrest he was
beaten, "his hands tied behind him
with his own belt he was knocked
down and kicked by the officer he was
struck across the head with a piece
of one inch board he was told that
he was going" to be burned, killed by
degrees if he failed to confess. "His
head was bumped against a tree he
was hit in the mouth with the jail
house keys he was beaten with fists
kicked in the stomach and ribs his
eye was blackened and closed scaln
'busted' face swollen."
Twelve days later, after a night
long beating, the original confession
was obtained after a pan of bones
had been placed in the defendant's lap
as he sat hand-cuffed to a chair. The
second confession, the brief asserted,
was obtained several hours later and
admitted "in the mistaken notion that
it was given several days" later.
The union, charging that the Negro
was convicted of murder on a record
bare of any evidence against him ex
cept an alleged confession," asked the
Supreme Court to "place its stamp of
stern disapproval upon any such stra
tagem used by public officials to en
snare the ignorant and the helpless."