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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944.
KEEP THE RECORDS CLOSED
In Washington, and perhaps other
cities, the police complain because the
U. S.
Employment Service will not dis
close the records of registrants who
are alleged to have criminal activities
spread upon the minutes, as it were
Some newspapers criticize the serv
ice for being obdurate and resisting
all sorts of pressure and insisting that
the law makes these records confiden
tial even to another government
agency.
Congress was wise in providing for
USES,
social security and income tax
records to be absolutely confidential.
It is protection to which all citizens
are entitled. It is the only honest way
in which their business can be success
fully conducted.
If we let the bars down for any
reason, even in war time, it will be an
easy matter to let them down later
for another reason.
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CAPITOL
The rulers of the greatest democ
racy in the world employ in their Capi
tol children as page boys, and in order
to evade the child labor laws of the
District of Columbia they provide
so-called school for them, so that their
education will not be neglected.
Federal laws stipulate what^ they
shall be paid for their work, and Sen
ators and Representatives are as
signed a certain number of them as
their patronage. The boys and their
parents use certain forms of influence
to accomplish appointments to these
soft jobs.
week or so ago the mother of
one of these boys made affidavit that
her son, employed in the office of Rep
resentative Richard M. Kleberg of
Texas, by law paid a salary of $129 a
month, was required to "kickback"
$39. In addition it was asserted that
these employes, for the privilege of
working for such distiinguished em
ployers, are required to perform extra
curricular services for their employers
on their own time, with out pay, of
coarse.
Congressman Kleberg, who is the
multimillionaire owner of the million
acre King ranch in Texas and a rabid
anti-unionist, blamed the whole mat
ter on a secretary, who fortunately
for him had recently died.
It is difficult to believe this is an
isolated case, and it might be worth
while for members of Congress to
members of Congress to look into this
matter. Perhaps members of Con
gress, who enact federal laws, will
want to comply with them as they
expect other employers to do so.
A
kickback is a kickback, whether
it is for the purpose of defraying
other office expenses or whether it
goes into the pockets of the emplojfing^
Congressman.
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TEXAS MIGHT SECEDE
Texas politicians declare that if the
e o a i o n v e n i o n n o i n a e s
FDR for a fourth term something
dreadful will happen. Texas may even
secede from the Democratic party.
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WHAT NEXT?
A waterproof match which will give
a fighting man a light in fair weather
or foul, in tropical jungles and in
Artie cold, has been developed by
manufacturers, the War Production
Board announces. The new match
should prove especially valuable, the
WPB said, to service men in jungle
areas where ordinary matches are fre
quently made useless by climatic con
ditions.
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The effect of power and publicity on
all men is the aggravation of self, a
sort of tumor that ends by killing the
victim's sympathies.—Henry Adams.
HATELERS'
PLATFORMS
The hatelers hate the President, the
New Deal, labor, the Jews, the neg
roes, and the alien-born. They hope
that this campaign year will give them
an opportunity to spread their poison
ed philosophies and to realize their so
called political objectives. In some in
stances, they try to use the existing
political parties for their purposes in
other cases they form pseudo-political
organizations of their own in order to
attract the gullible.
Hatelers conceal their real aims in
high sounding, super-patriotic verbi
age. One of their goals is the destruc
tion of labor's power. They propagan
dize against the "wisdom" of unions
in a "republic" exert political pres
sure for the enactment of restrictive
legislation and try to make the word
"racket" synonymous with "union" in
the public mind. Hatelers do this be
cause they know that organized labor
has always been, and will continue to
be, a bulwark against the inroads of
fascism. They want to destroy the
power of labor but, of course, they are
too shrewd to admit it on the con
trary, they profess an ostensible love
for the "working man."
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, who
recently declared his intention not to
run for the Senate in this year's cam
paign, obviously does not intend to de
prive the American public of his nuis
ance value. He has organized an
"American Nationalists' Committee of
Independent Voters." In his monthly
sheet, "The National Record," he
regularly publishes a column entitled,
Five Objectives." One objective is
the registration of all labor unions
and labor organizations with the Sec
retary of Labor. Senator Reynolds'
real &m is to spread confusion and
doubt in labor's ranks, and distrust
for labor outside its ranks. Senator
Reynolds knows this is a necessary
prerequisite to the ultimate destruc
tion of labor's organized structure.
Senator Reynolds from January
1, 1945 onward he will be just plain
"Robert Reynolds" will not have a
chance much longer to continue his
destructive activities. There are others
however, who are only too anxious to
take up the job where he will leave
off. One of them is a utility president
in Indianapolis by the name of Carl
H. Mote, who is running for the
United States Senate. It is significant
that William Dudley Pelley, the lead
er of the defunct Silver Shirts of
America, who was convicted for sedi
tious activities and is now again on
trial in Washington, published articles
by Mote in the February 17, 1941 and
June 16,1941 issue of his hate maga
zine, "The Roll Call." Mr. Mote offers
what he calls "An American Political
Platform" ("America Preferred,
A i 1 9 4 4 a a a 5 o a
platform demands the "repeal of the
entire nauseous program of labor
legislation born of an unholy alliance
between political racketeers and labor
racketeers. ." In a way, Mr. Mote's
frankness is gratifying but he, like
Reynolds and their ilk, will find out
that the American people, labor, and
all progressive forces in this country
will reject their platforms of hate at
the polls.
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RETURNING VETERANS
WHO JOIN THE 1-A^I.
ECENTLY our daily papers m
formed us that an ammunition ex
plosion in Pearl Harbor killed 137
service men and injured 380 others,
including 19 civilians May 21. The
same dispatch announced an explosion
on Oahu with 3 dead and 7 missing.
The same week the House military
committee announced result of an in
vesigation which disclosed that army
officials had contracted for installation
of a communications system with a
German-born contractor, and that at
the time of the Pearl Harbor Jap pic
nic it was still unfinished.
Of course, it was still unfinished. If
it had been completed it probably
would have worked in reverse.
Hirohito must have laffed up his big
sleeves when he heard about that one.
Probably thinks if he waits long
enough those Americans will kill
themselves off.
When army officers and new com
mentators condemn workmen in mu
nition factories for striking for a day
or two they should keep in mind the
fact that organized labor was not re
sponsible for the thousands who have
lost their lives in Hawaii.
While fighting in Noi-mandy goes on
within sound of England and German
planes, pilotless and otherwise, rain
death and destruction on the southern
part of the country, Britain is setting
an example to the rest of the world
by planning and preparing for the
period after the war.
FACING
The
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL
Now that the first flush of excite
ment over the invasion of Nazi-occu
pied Europe has died down, it becomes
increasingly clear that the war has not
been won yet. Not by a long shot.
Progress in the fighting along the
beachheads jof Normandy has been
a i n u y s o w e s e i a y w e n o n e
regards the vast distances still to be
traversed before we can attack Hitler
in his own lair.
We voice these words of caution not
in a despondent spirit but in an at
tempt to kill any wild rumors that
may be circulated among war workers
to the effect that the production pro
gram is about to be cut away down.
Nothing could be further from the
truth.
The gigantic flood of fighting equip
ment and supplies that has poured
from assembly lines in this country
to our bases in England during the
past two years is now in action against
Hitler's troops. According to des
patches from the fighting fronts, the
impact of invasion already has de
pleted these supplies. Much of our
finest equipment was destroyed or
knocked out or sunk in the first phases
of the invasion. All of it, the War De
partment reports, must be replaced if
our troops are to maintain full fight
ing strength and be in a position to
continue their advances.
What Hit the Nazis
The power which the Germans have
only begun to feel was created by
labor on the home front. That power
must be sustained and invigorated by
huge amounts of replacements and
reserve supplies.
To convey an idea of what is still
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A postwar employment program
described officially as reversing the
policy England has been following
ever since the industrial revolution,-"
has been presented to Parliament. It
is well worth the study of Americans
The program, designed to prevent
a postwar slump by maintaining jobs
rather than alleviating large-scale
unemployment, was unfolded in a gov
ernment white paper. It was the latest
in a series of reconstruction plans La
bor Minister Ernest Bevin said were
evolving "the framework on which
Britain can build up a century of
progress."
Labor Minister Bevin and Lord
Wool ton, reconstruction minister, said
the theory that unemployment could
be cured by lowering living standards
was being discarded. Organized labor
of course, has never supported this
theory.
They said the plan proposed:
1. A system of varying contribu
tions to a new social insurance plan
designed to influence volume of
community's purchasing power and
iron out variations in boomtime de
mand for goods
2. Planned spending on public
works to be started to ward off unem
ployment rather than during unem
ployment peaks, and,
3. Concerted action between the
treasury and banks to influence vol
ume of capital expenditure by varia
tions in the interest rate.
needed, we might well attempt to de
scribe what hit the Germans on the
coast of France.
First was the greatest fleet of mili
tary aircraft ever assembled for an
offensive. Day and night, thousands of
American and British bombers ham
mered the coastal defenses of the
Nazis, blasting gun emplacement and
fortifications and terrorizing Hitler'
picked troops who were assigned to
guard the beaches. And when the time
came to launch the attack, 11,000
American and British planes were
thrown into the assault. In one day
these planes flew 27,000 sorties, using
up thousands of tons of bombs, count
less rounds of ammunition and vast
quantities of 100-octane gasoline
This, mind you, was just a single day'
operations. From now on Allied air
activity will be constantly stepped up
Imagine how rapidly these air fleets
are going to eat up supplies!
The invasion itself was spearheaded
by another enormous fleet of naval
vessels and supply ships. Landing
craft, which took thousands of work'
ers many laborious weeks to build
were sunk or stranded in a matter of
moments. Obviously, the Allied strate
gy calls for more landings in the fu
ture, bo^h in Europe and in the Pa
cific. Thus the production program
will have to be maintained at full
blast.
Far above the troop-laden ships
flew transport of the air, carrying
paratroopers who descended perilously
behind the Nazi lines to seize vital
bridges and roads and disorganize re
sistance. These transports numbered
more than three times the total of
planes operated by commercial air
lines in the United States before the
war, in itself a tribute to the produc
tivity of American labor, as the War
Department points out.
An Optimistic Prophecy
The guns, tanks, amphibious vifthi
cles, trucks, half-tracks and bull
dozers which were rolled up the
beaches won by the blood of our cour-
ageous troops were too numerous
to be counted. Much of this equip
ment was knocked out and even yet
litters the ^ormandy shoreline. Al
ready the War Production Board has
sent out new orders for expansion of
tank production.
Radio equipment, produced in vast
quantities by American workers and
including many items still closely
guarded as military secrets, per
formed effectively in the crucial bat
tles. Much more of this equipment,
which is high on the priority list, will
be required before final victory is won.
Millions of tons of food, clothing
and medical supplies were delivered on
time to the beachheads. Naturally,
more supplies must be rushed in as
soon as they can be produced and
transported.
We have listed only a few of the
many items which go to war with our
troops, items which are highly ex
pendable and which must be replaced
promptly and in full measure if we
hope to defeat Hitler.
Prime Minister Church in Britain
predicts that this goal may be reached
before the end of the summer. We
hope and pray that this prophecy will
be as accurate as most of his past
forecasts. But as long as the fighting
continues—in Asia as well as in Eu
rope—our armed forces will need the
precious equipment which labor is
producing in record-breaking amounts
on the home front. And as long as
American soldiers and sailors need
supplies, it is up to labor to keep pro
ducing them steadily and surely.
No matter how long it takes, the
workers of America intend to fulfill
this duty like the true soldiers of pro
duction they have proved themselves
to be.
SCHWENKER
RECEIVES GOOD NEWS
Good news to those with friends arid
relatives in hands of Japanese.
Expansion of the work of War Pris
oners' Aid Y. M. C. A., a participating
service of the National War Fund
may be expected as the result of the
State Department announcement that
Japan has agreed to the purchase of
$25,000 worth of relief supplies
month for war prisoners and civilian
internees in the Philippines, according
to advices received today by Herbert
Schwenker, Chairman Local CIO Com
mittee for American and Allied War
Relief.
The United States Government has
made available the funds to purchase
the $25,000 worth of supplies each
month locally, but administration will
be carried on by neutral representa
tives working for War Prisoners' Aid
Y. M. C. A., funds for which are al
located from contributions to the local
War Chest. The work of locating sup
plies, purchasing, packing and distri
bution will be undertaken by War
Prisoners' Aid, in cooperation with
other neutral organizations.
The State Department in its an
nouncement of this agreement for
limited relief for war prisoners held
by the Japanese stated that "The
United States Government is continu
ing to press the Japanese Government
to grant full reciprocity in this re
spect."
In the event that wider opportuni
ties for work with war prisoners
afforded by the Japanese Government,
War Prisoners' Aid is prepared to ex
pand its program to meet the needs
which authorities state are far beyond
the limited amount of supplies thus
far agreed to by the Japanese Govern
ment.
Announcement has been made
London that the British Government
and the United States Government
have agreed upon a method for ship
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Japan, and it is expected that as soon
opportunity is afforded by the
Japanese Government for distribution
that the work of War Prisoners' Aid
will be widely expanded.
Neutral representative of War
Prisoners' Aid, Y. M. C. A. have been
working in behalf of the war prisoners
held by the Japanese since the out
break of the war in the Pacific.
When you give to the War Chest
this fall you will be giving to War
Prisoners' Aid stated Mr. Schwenker
and I know that this is an organi
zation dear to the hearts of all of us.
Thanks For Contributions
Testimony of the value of "rest
break" homes established in rural
areas of Britain by contributions of
A. F. of L. and C. I. O. unions, for
British war workers has just been re
ceived in a letter to the British War
Relief Society from Mrs. Esther Ry
alls, a munitions worker, which was
today forwarded to Ralph Morning
star, chairman of Local Committee of
United Nations Relief, A. F. L.
Mrs. Ryalls, a factory worker for
30 years in peacetime as well as war
time, was threatened with a nervous
breakdown and sent to "Estcourt" a
rest-break at St. Annes-on-Sea. She
writes:
"My Dear Friends:
"No praise is too high for the good
work done at Estcourt. The staff are
all very kind, food and attention are
excellent. The guest book contains
such messages as 'Two weeks of Para
dise what could one wish for more.'
'There is a piano, radio and a li
brary of good books. During my con-'
valescence I was friendly with a
young woman recovering from pneu
monia. Her husband was killed at
work when his clothing was caught in
the machinery, and shortly afterward
her father and brother, riding to work
on a motorcycle, were both killed in a
collision. Now this poor young widow
is working in a muntion factory. She
seemed to enjpy happiness at Est
court.
"There was also a young girl who
had undergone an operation for the
removal of a tubercular gland in her
neck. She was very happy at Est
court, where she gained much in
weight and strength.
"Two of the women were grand
mothers. They do men's work on mu
nitions. They had gotten very tired
but returned home fit and healthy.
"To you dear friends who have so
kindly provided t^ie money to enable
people to enjoy rest and comfort and
help them regain health and strength,
please accept sincere thanks."
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