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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13,1944
DON'T MAKE V-DAY A SPREE
DAY!
How do you plan to celebrate V-Day
when Germany surrenders?
There are two ways to do it. One is
to drop everything, rush out and have
yourself a rip-roaring time until you
pass out or drop from sheer fatigue.
The other way is to do your re
joicing in a sane, sensible manner
in an attitude of thanksgiving for
what has been done, and of prayer
for the speedy and successful com
pletion of what still lies ahead.
If you are a professional celebrat
er, you may choose the first way.
But if you have felt the impact of
war at first hand if a son or a father
or a husband or a brother has fallen
in service if a loved one is in the
Pacific, still carrying on against the
undefeated Jap—then the chances are
that you are not going to be in the
mood for much hat-tearing or back
whamming.
Victory over Germany will mean only
one thing—that we have won the first
round of a hard fight, and that a
knock-down, drag-out battle still re
mains. The middle of a fight is no time
for a nationwide carousal or for con
duct that brings violence, accidents
and destruction of property.
The National Safety Council offers
a V-Day suggestion that makes good
sense. It is: "Don't Make V-Day a
Spree Day!"
TIME LABOR BOARD ACTED
Although a year has passed since
Western Union absorbed Postal Tele
graph, nearly all the 44,300 employes
are working under AFL maintenance
of membership agreements while 4,
000 ex-Postal employes are still cov
ered by a CIO closed shop agreement.
Until National Labor Relations Board
election clears up this chaotic situa
tion, telegraph workers are confront
ed with what is perhaps the most
complex labor problem which has ever
been faced in any industry.
With conflicting labor agreements
covering employes in the same offices,
doing similar work, with different
wage scales, different methods of
computing seniority, different hours
of work and different vacation and
pension provisions, Western Union
employes under AFL agreements have
been urging the NLRB to order a na
tional election at the earliest possi
bit moment to put an end to the
thousands of problems arising out of
the merger of the two telegraph com
panies.
The CIO favors only city-wide and
district-wide elections.
The labor board has had the case
before it since April, when hearings
on the AFL petition for an election
closed after 64 days. The examiner
Small nations have an outstanding
champion in Walter Nash, president
of the 1944 International Labor Con
ference, Deputy Prime Minister of
New Zealand and former Minister of
Finance of -his country's Labor gov
ernment.
At a time when the four big powers
are being charged with seeking to
dominate any future world organiza
tion that may be former, leaving the
small nations with virtually no voice
in the making of decisions, Nash di
rects emphatic attention to the im
portance of the small powers in the
preservation of the peace. His views
are made public in Postwar Planning
for Peace and Full Employment, an
important pamphlet cf the League for
Industrial Democracy.
Close cooperation between the four
powers, Nash contends ,is in the na
ture of the case, "the first pre-requi
site of world security." But, he adds,
"even the most complete understand
ing that may be reached between these
powers will not in itself be sufficient
to guarantee security permanently.
The smaller powers must also
be given the opportunity, and be pro
vided with the means of having their
voices heard in decisions that are as
vitally important to them as to their
larger and more powerful partners
amongst the United and Associated
Nations
"Although small countries may have
little power to initiate international
policies, experience has clearly shown
that they possess considerable capac
ity to influence such policies, and their
ability to obstruct, if their wishes and
interests are ignored, must not be un
der-rated. Unless therefore steps are
taken now to check the growth of sen
timents of suspicion and resentment
which naturally develop when small
countries find themselves persistently
kept at arms length, the execution lat-
made his recommendations in July
for division-wide elections covering
seven units. In the meantime, with an
average of but one ex-Postal worker
out of every 10 Western Union em
ployes involved in the integration of
Postal offices into the Western Union
eystem, an apparently endless series
of disputes over seniority, wages and
hours is threatening the smooth ope
rations of the vital communications
industry.
WHAT NEXT?
A portable mechanical smoke gen
erator for use in jungle trails, main
tain passes and beachheads is the
newest smoke-screening device de
veloped by the Chemical Warfare
Service. It is small enough to be car
ried in the back seat of a jeep or
other similar craft. With favorable
wind conditions this midget fog ma
chine can blot out an area 5 miles
long and about 200 yards wide. It is
about one-twentieth as bulky as the
Army's large M-l smoke generator.
WISDOM
For mere vengeance I would do
nothing. This nation is too great to
look for mere revenge. But for the
security of the future I would do
everything.—James A. Garfield.
UNION EXECUTIVE
COURSE FOR
PHILA. WORKERS
Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS).—A pro
gram "of training for the occupation
of shop steward, union executive, and
other personnel for the trade unions
of Philadelphia" has been announced
by the Philadelphia Board of Educa
tion.
The instructors teaching the courses
will be members of the labor move
ment. The purpose of the courses is
to train and develop the rank and file
shop committee members into compe
tent shop stewards, by teaching them
the techniques and skills involved in
handling grievances and carrying on
collective bargaining processes be
tween their shop people and manage
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
er of plans that in themselves are
clearly in the best interests of the
world as a whole may be rendered
difficult, if not impossible."
All nations, he writes, are expected
to share in the sacrifices connected
with the maintenance of peace. "All
must be allowed to express themselves
and to enjoy a measure of authority
as well as responsibility in its achieve
ment.'*
The New Zealand statesman con
tends that world security depends up
on the development of economic secur
ity, justice and the spirit of democ
racy within each nation. "If the seeds
of aggression allowed to sprout within
the economic and social fabric of any
nation," he asserts, "that nation, in
spite of any international police force
will sooner or later be a menace
to the peace and security of any other
nations."
He calls attention to the danger in
volved in declaring one's own people
a race or nation inherently superior
to other peoples. "If inside the United
States of yours, in European coun
tries or India or inside China, the idea
is allowed to sprout and grow that
they are a superior people, that they
are chosen by some power beyond our
ordinary understanding to dominate
and control the world, there is no
peace for the world."
He demands that social maladjust
ments, "the real source of imperial
ism and aggression," be ruthlessly
stamped out. He maintains that unem
ployed labor, unused skill, undevelop
ed resources, idle factories and ma
chines, cannot be tolerated by a na
tion at peace any more than by a na
tion at war and makes an eloquent
plea that the nations with high living
standards should assist those "oblig'
ed to live on much lower standards un
der the shadow of insecurity, unem
ployment, poverty, ill-health, disease
and destitution."
Senator Promises Inquiry
Into Charges Negro Workers
Were Falsely Arrested
New York City (ILNS).—Senator
Claude A. Pepper of Florida and W.
Gerry Miller, Broward County, Fla.,
prosecutor, have promised an investi
gation of Workers Defense League
charges "that 49 Negro workers were
falsely arrested for vagrancy in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and fined without
trials as past of a general attempt to
have Negroes continue working at
the same menial tasks they had before
the war."
The mass arrests followed an en
forced labor decree by Sheriff Walter
Clark, under which persons found idle
on the city streets were subject to
arrest, the WDL says. About half
the arrested Negroes were members
of Local 1526, International Long
shoremen's Association, employed reg
ularly at Post Everglades, a commer
cial harbor at Ft. Lauderdale. The
Negroes obtained release from the
county jail after paying fines arbi
trarily imposed by the sheriff's office
without ever appearing before a judge
or having an attorney to defend them
it is charged.
Fourteen men and women were ar
rested Feb. 9, 1944, when they re
fused to pick beans on the farm of
Mayor Dewey Hawkins of Oakland
Park, north of Ft. Lauderdale, after
they determined that the vines had
been picked twice before and were
not abundant enough to make the
work profitable to them.
In another case which the WDL in
vestigated, approximately 35 men
were arrested in the Negro business
district of Ft. Lauderdale during their
hours off from work, and fined by the
sheriff's office.
The Workers Defense League is
preparing legal actions against the
officials responsible for the alleged
false arrests.
Read The Press.
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Kaiser Asks Agencies To
Workers Time Off For Both
Registering And Voting
New York City (ILNS).—Henry J.
Kaiser, famous shipbuilder, who heads
the Non-Partisan Association for
Franchise Education, Inc., has asked
federal procurement agencies to work
out plans for giving war workers time
off to register as well as to vote. Laws
in many states require that employes
be given sufficient time off to per
mit them to vote on election day, but
none require the granting of time off
to register.
Kaiser's request was contained in
a letter directed to procurement of
ficers in 10 federal agencies in which
he said that "the vast number of our
citizens now working in plants ope
rating under government contracts
makes it more than ever necessary
that specific provision be made for
them to exercise the right of fran
chise."
"All of us who are concerned with
the importance of getting out the vote
are gravely troubled by the fact that
many millions of Americans engaged
in war production may be deprived of
the voting privilege," Kaiser said.
"I am wondering whether the pro
curement agencies of the federal gov
ernment have given definite thought
to this issue. Have any plans been
devised which will assure war work
ers sufficient time to get to and from
the registration booths and polling
places? Will the labor-management
committees take the initiative?
"The fact that a vast number of
our citizens are now working in plants
operating under government contracts
makes it more than ever necessary
that specific provision be made for
them to exercise the right of fran
chise. They must have time for both
registration and voting."
Kaiser also made direct appeals to
the Secretaries of War, the Navy, the
Treasury, and other federal officials
asking their assistance in the matter.
Married Women's Right
To City Jobs Upheld
In Massachusetts
Boston (ILNS).—The State Sup
reme Judicial Court has upheld the
right of married women to hold mun
icipal jobs, ruling unconstitutional
the dismissal of 6 married women em
ployed by the water and public wel
fare departments of Somerville.
"These women", the court said,
"were not removed for proper cause,
because the (city) ordinance was in
valid inasmuch as it deprives married
women of their constitutional right
to equal opportunity for the selection
of public employment or service."
The court's decision, however, point
ed out that the ruling did not conflict
with a previous opinion which held
that married women might be banned
as school teachers.
"School committees have discretion
in the caase of teachers because mar
ried women in some public employ
ments may be considered less quali
fied than unmarried women," the court
said.
The 6 Somerville women were dis
missed in May, 1938, and carried their
fight through the courts for rein
statement with back pay.
The clock in the Old South Meeting
House in Boston, after being in use
115 years, is still ticking away.
A seaplane can rise from water that
is slightly rough more easily than
from a smooth surface.
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RAIL LABOR CHIEFS
PLEDGE VOTE TO
F.D.R. RE-ELECTION
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Presi
dent Roosevelt has the strong sup
port of railroad workers for re-elec
tion, heads of four rail labor unions
and President Harvey W. Brown of
the International Association of Ma
chinists told the President during a
White House call.
George M. Harrison, president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks,
acted as spokesmon of the labor group
when they left the White House. Har
rison told reporters that he had as
sured President Roosevelt the rail
road men were still his friends and
were doing everything possible to re
elect him.
Wages, reconversion and postwar
problems were among the topics dis
cussed at the meeting, Harrison said.
He added he thought it could be as
sumed the railroad workers favored
revising the Little Steel formula to
permit higher wage rates.
In addition to Harrison and Brown,
the other visitors were D. E. Robert
son, Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen E. E. Milliman,
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employes and Harry W. Fraser, Or
der of Railway Conductors. They were
accompanied by Daniel J. Tobin,
president of the Brotherhood of Team
sters and head of the labor division
of the National Democratic Commit
tee.
David Dubinsky, president of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union and vice chairman of the Lib
eral party, was another caller. Dub
insky asked President Roosevelt to
use his good offices to have Vice Pres
ident Wallace and Senator Truman ap
pear together and address a Liberal
party rally in New York Oct. 31.
He expressed the belief that New
York State would be "definitely in the
Roosevelt column" in the November
election.
TAG SALE NETS $330
The sale of tags conducted Saturday
by the Navy Mothers' Club netted re
ceipts of $330.16, according to a tab
ulation made. Mrs. Alice Eicher and
Mrs. Joseph Brendel were cochairmen
of the sale.
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RATION TABU
SUGAR
Stamps 30, 31, 32 and 33 (Book 4f
valad for five pounds indefinitely},
stamp 40 (Book 4) valid for five-?
pounds for home canning through
next February.
Spare stamp 87 must accompany
application (Form R-323) to board
for additional home canning sugar.
SHOES
"Airplane" stamps 1 and 2 (Book
3) are good indefinitely.
CANNED GOODS
Blue stamps A-8 through Z-8, and
A15 through R-5 (Book 4) are valid
indefinitely. Worth 10 points each.
MEATS
Red stamps A-8 through Z-8 (Book
4) and A-5 through K-5 are valid in
definitely. Worth 10 points.
TIRES
Tires of commercial vehicles mvuit
be inspected every six months or
every 5,000 miles, whichever is first.
Passenger tire inspections are re
quired only when applying for tire re
placements. Inspection records must
be retained for use when tire or sup
plemental gasoline applications are
made.
GASOLINE
A Coupon 13—Valid for 4 gallons
through December 21. B-4, B-5, C-4
and C-5 stamps are good for 6 gal
lons each until used.
B-3 and C-3 coupons are invalid
B-3 and C-3 coupons are invalid.
Coupons issued for use beyond Sep
tember 30 may be exchanged at local
ration board.
Mileage rationing records must be
retained and forwarder to the board
with supplemental gasoline applica
tions.
non-highway-use coupons are
good for 5 gallons each and E non
nighway-use coupons for 1 gallon each
until invalidated.
FUEL OIL
Periods 4 and 5 coupons are valid
through September 30. Period 1 cou
pon of 1944-45 heating season is valid
indefinitely. All coupons have 10-gal
lon unit value, with most coupons
worth several units each.
All change-making and reserve cou
pons are now good.
LIQUOR
Current period expires Oct. 14,
with whisky and domestic gins as the
only spirits rationed.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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"What Is Your Job
Worth After the War?"
USED FATS
Each pound of waste fat is good
for two meat-ration points.
Edgar K. Wagner
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WHAT IS your job worth after
the war? That depends on our
keeping the wheels of industry
turning at wages which will per
mit the worker to buy the prod
ucts he makes. Reconversion
from war to peace time produc
tion must be on the basis of wide
spread employment at a high
wage level not on a basis of
mere existence on the dole. We
must recapture our faith in America's power to build
and buy so that we can live happily, prosperously and
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