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FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945
BIG LABOR VICTORY
Organized labor and the other real
ly progressive and liberal forces of
the nation have won a great victory
in the decisive defeat of the compul
sory manpower bill by the Senate.
The bill, it is true, was supported by
some who call themselves liberals.
But in many ways, "totalitarian lib
erals" would be a better name for
them, as they favor progress by con
stant extensions of government pow
er, which can only end by severely cur
tailing, or actually extinguishing lib
erty. Those liberals who.believe that
the most lasting and fundamenal
progress comes from voluntary action
by the people vigorously opposed the
manpower bill.
The President and the group around
him which backed the futile dx*ive
for compulsory manpower controls
were ill-advised. If the time and en
ergy they had expended in pressing
for forced work service had been di
rected toward obtaining more efficient
working of the present voluntary sys
tem of manpower recruiting they
would have served their country bet
ter.
The same thing can be said of Con
gress. The months devoted to talk
and wrangling over the various ser
vice bills could have been far better
spent on working for improvement of
the existing system.
It is to be hoped the Senate vote
has ended the drive for what would
bring a virtual system of forced labor
and that no more will be heard of the
matter. Probably, however, that is
too much to expect. Labor can not
afford to relax its vigilance and must
be eternally on guard against revival
of compulsory service proposals and
schemes.
DO WE FIGHT FOR THIS?
It is not, perhaps, exaggerated to
say that the question of whether or
not a state may impose a tax as a
condition of voting in a federal elec
tion and authoritarian ideals of gov
ernment.
The American dream has been gov
ernment of the people, by the people,
for the people. It may be justly ques
tioned whether or not any "bar to suf
frage is not a bar to government of
the people by the people.
The whole history of the franchise
in the United States has been toward
removal of artificial obstacles to suf-
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FISHER BODY DIVISION
One of these German tubes, how
ever, fell into the hands of a Signal
Corps officer and was rushed to the
United States, where it was turned
over to the National Defense Research
Committee. Shortly after, NDRC
placed contracts with different firms
for copies of the sample, some of
them approximate copies made from
parts and materials already on hand,
the others exact replicas duplicating
all the separate metal and glass parts
that were in the German tube.
The firm manufacturing approxi
mations of the German tube rushed
through the first 8 tubes in 3 days
and delivered an entire lot of 1,000
in 3 weeks. The firm which made ex
act replicas constructed 1,000 in 5
weeks, a feat which called for ex
treme technical care.
frage and extension of the right of
franchise. The states first abolished
property qualifications. They brought
about direct election of United States
Senators. They adopted the 19th
amendment to the constitution to ex
tend the suffrage to women.
There is active discussion every
where of the propriety of laws which
would penalize a failure to vote. Geor
gia already has adopted, and legisla
tures in other states are considering,
acts to lower the legal voting age to
18.
Still, in 7 Southern states the act of
voting—not the failure to vote—re
mains under penalty. A citizen who
performs the duty of voting must pay
for it.
There is further defeat of popular
government when Congress fails to
exercise its constitutional right to es
tablish qualifications of voters in fed
eral elections. A legislative proposal
clearly favored by a majority of all
members of Congress—the anti-poll
tax bill—cannot be brought to a vote,
except by the devious methods of a
discharge petition, because a handful
The selection of Hamilton, Ohio, as the location for a new
General Motors post war plant was announced today by T. P.
Archer, Vice President of General Motors and General Manager
of the Fisher Body Division. The new plant will be operated by
the Fisher Body Division of General Motors and will be used for
the production of body stampings and sheet metal components
used in body assembly.
The plant will ultimately provide work for about 3,000 em
ployes and the product will be shipped to the many Fisher Body
assembly plants for inclusion in the final production of General
Motors passenger cars.
The plant will be located on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at a point approximately 3 miles south of Hamilton at the junc
tion of the old Dixie Highway and Symmes Road. A site of ap
proximately 145 acres has been obtained and construction of the
necessary buildings will begin as soon as Governmental regu
lations covering the use of critical materials and manpower per
mit.
The plant to be erected will consist of about 1,200,000 sq. ft. of
usable floor space and, generally speaking, will be of one story con
struction. The equipment to be used in the plant will be made up
largely of heavy stamping presses, some of them the largest
now designed for such work. In addition, a moderate sized tool
and die shoe for both the anufacture and maintenance of dies and
equipment will be included in the plant proper.
This new plant will be one of 5 stamping plants operated by the
Fisher Body Division for the fabrication of body stampings and
components. Similar plants are located at Cleveland, Ohio, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, Flint, Michigan, Pontiac, Michigan and Detroit,
Michigan. The plant will be modern in every way with special at
tention given to facilities for employes' personal use. These will
include a cafeteria, individual lockers, plant hospital, and other
facilities of like nature.
Formal announcement of the final decision of the Fisher Body
Division to locate at Hamilton was made Friday, April 6, at a
luncheon at the Elks Club. The following General Motors of
ficials were in attendance: T. P. Archer, Vice President of General
Motors and General Manager of the Fisher Body Division George
C. Paterson, General Manufacturing Manager of Fisher Body Di
vision and J. J. Wallbillich, General Factory Manager for Fabri
cating Plants, Fisher Body Division.
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
American war production, by bring
ing victory to the United Nations, is
world news, if anything is. Here's an
example of its far-reaching effects, as
disclosed by the Army's Office of the
Chief Signal Officer, which tells how a
fast production job at home, largely
by union workers, helped outwit the
Nazis on at least one occasion in
France.
When the Germans withdrew from
France they left almost intact the
auxiliary phone equipment which had
been installed to supplement existing
civilian systems. But they took pains
to remove or smash the vacuum tubes
which are essential to the telephone
repeaters, tubes needed to overcome
the weakening of the voice currents
as they pass over wire. The German
intention was obvious. They believe
that we could not replace these tubes,
which were of a German type different
from ours, and that we could not use
their equipment.
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The perfect copies, as fast as they
were produced, were shipped to Signal
Corps representatives in France.
They worked as well as the original
could have worked, and the telephone
system functioned efficiently.
Patriotic workers at home were thus
responsible for foiling the Nazi plans
and putting back into operation tele
phone communications sorely needed
by our combat forces.
Plenty of nonsense is being talked
about the punishment of war crimi
nals. Labor, organ of the railroad
unions, takes a crack ot one idea
sprouted by people who ought to know
better, "We Must Not Lose Our
Heads," Labor warns, saying:
"Of course, war criminals should
be punished, but it is possible to car
ry that idea too far. Congressmen
Cecil R. King (Dem. Calif.) suggests
that the world is 'waiting for the Unit
ed States Congress to use strong
words on the subject.' Mr. King
would have Uncle Sam use force, if
necessary, to compel neutral countries
to surrender war criminals to tribunals
set up by the Allies. Only the most
arrogant dictators in human history
have ever done anything like that.
"After all, there is such a thing as
'national sovereignty.' The smallest
state possesses it, and the strongest
state should respect it. It would be
much better to permit some war
criminals to escape than to have
Uncle Sam make war on a little na
tion like Switzerland because it dar
ed to grant asylum to someone.
"'Mr. King should remember that
we did a good deal of that sort of
thing when we were young, and the
nation which attempted to take a re
fugee off American soil would have
found itself in quite a 'pickle'."
of willful men, entrenched in commit
tees by the poll tax system, will not
bring the bill to the floor.
Is this what we're fighting for?
WHAT NEXT?
Hundreds of small mobile floor mills
are being made in Manchester, Eng
land, for use in European relief activ
ities. The emergency mills will be
rushed to places where established
mills have been damaged or destroy
ed.
WISDOM
All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke.
Strike Losses Again
Reported On Decline
Washington, D. C.—Strike losses
are still running below last year. In
February, man-days of idleness due to
stoppages amounted to 412,000, or
only 6/100 of 1 per cent of time put
in by the nation's workers during the
month, the Department of Labor re
vealed this week. For the same month
of 1944 the loss was 410,000 man-days.
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No Applications For Home
Canning Sugar Before 15th
Local War Price and Rationing
Boards will not be able to accept appli
cations for home-canning sugar be
fore April 15, it was announced today
by John E. Robinson, Jr., Cincinnati
OPA District Director, as he appeal
ed to the public to be patient and not
to call the local boards.
Reports from local War Price and
Rationing Boards indicated that they
were being deluged with calls from
consumers inquiring about canning
sugar applications and from local coal
dealers interested in obtaining the
consumer declarations for obtaining
next winter's coal supply.
There has been a delay in printing
the forms for coal dealers, Director
Robinson was advised, and they will
be forwarded as soon as they are
printed. OPA has no function in con
nection with the coal program except
to distribute the forms to the dealers
in each community. They will call for
the forms at the board and get them to
their customers to encourage early
buying of coal for next winter.
An all day OPA Consumers Con
ference will be held in Cincinnati at
the Gibson Hotel under the auspices
of the Consumers Advisory Commit
tee of the Cincinnati District, April
30.
Dr. Esther Cole Franklin, Chairman
of the National OPA Consumers Ad
visory Committee will be the chief
speaker for the conference. Various
phases of the program including ra
tioning, rent control and price con
trol will be discussed.
Methods to be used by retailers in
preparing their pricing charts under
the new retail regulation have been
revised to eliminate the use of mark
down prices that may have been of
fered to customers on the base day,
the Office of Price Administration an
nounced today. The regulation cov
ers retailers of most textiles, apparel,
furniture and house furnishings.
The regulation (Maximum Price
Regulation 580), originally issued on
March 20, 1945, requires retailers to
list on the charts their prices for
goods offered for sale on the base
day, March 19. Each offering price
is to be listed opposite the net cost
at which the retailer purchased the
article from his supplier. On and
after April 20, 1945, the deadline for
filing pricing charts with OPA Dis
trict Office, the retailer prices each
piece of merchandise according to
mark-ups derived from his chart. This
has the effect of freezing his mark
ups as of March 19.
An amendment issued today permits
the seller, in preparing the chart, to
substitute his original offering prices
for any markdown prices at which he
was offering items on March 19. The
seller must, however, indicate on his
chart, by the letter "M", original of
fering prices that have been substitut
ed for offering prices of March 19.
The amendment also privides that if a
seller is unable to ascertain the origi
nal offering price for an item he has
marked down, he may ignore the item
in preparing the chart. Of course,
even though such an item is ignored
in preparing the chart, its ceiling price
must be determined under the chart
after April 20.
The action is being taken, OPA ex
plained, to prevent discrimination
against particular sellers that might
arise from the provisions of the regu
lation as they now stand.
Shipyard Accident Rate
Drops Sharply With Big
Saving in Productive Time
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).Ship
yards are giving another illustration
of the fact that industrial accident
rates can be cut.
A drop of 29 percent in the accident
rate for yards building new ships un
der U. S. Maritime Commission con
tract was recorded for 1944, Victory
Fleet, publication of the Maritime
Commission, reports. The rate was
brought down from 32.9 accidents per
million manhours in 1943, to 23.4 in
1944. Yards working on War De
partment contracts also reduced their
rates by 29 percent, from 39 in 1943
to 27.6 in 1944. Navy contract yards
came down from 26.3 in 1943 to 21.6
in 1944, a reduction of 18 percent. The
overall rate for all yards was 23.2, a
decrease of 23 percent from 1943.
Among construction yards holding
Maritime Commission contracts, those
in the Great Lakes region had the
lowest rate in 1944, though the Gulf
rate was only slightly higher. The
average for the Atlantic and Pacific
regions were practically identical.
The improvement achieved in the wood
and concrete construction yards was
considerably greater than in yards
building steel vessels.
If the frequency of accidents had
been the same in 1944 as it was in
1943, there would have been about
19,000 more disabling injuries, and
550,000 more non-disabling injuries.
In the aggregate this represents a
total saving of productive time during
1944 of about 462,500 manhours, or
time enough to have built nearly 7
Liberty ships.
THE MARCH OF LABOR
Senator Johnson continued: "It has
been understood all along that this
was very definitely war legislation and
not, as its opponents contended 'for
the permanent regimentation of Am
erican manpower.' The conference re
port is dead."
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the government intended to use the
powers contained in labor draft legis
lation after the war is over and dur
ing the reconversion period was a big
factor in Senate defeat of the com
promise bill.
Johnson Turns On Bill
When Senator Edwin C. Johnson of
Coloi'ado, who wrote the compromise
bill, heard of the government's inten
tion, he declared the compromise was
"dead." He told reporters:
"Justice Byrnes has effectively de
stroyed all chances for Senate adop
tion of the manpower conference re
port by his grotesque statement that
'the need for manpower legislation
continues not only for war production
but also for the production of essen
tial civilian goods and later, to facil
itate reconversion'."
The statement was made in the of
ficial White House summary of
Byrnes' report to President Roose
velt and Congress.
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Civilian Requirement Study
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
fourth consumer requirements survey,
in which consumers will be interview
ed on shortages in household and ap
parel items, is being made by enume
rators from the Bureau of the Cen
sus of the Department of Commerce,
the WPB Office of Civilian Require
ments announced. The field inter
viewing will cover 4,500 families In
68 communities in 45 states and the
District of Columbia. Persons will be
asked to provide the information that
WPB needs in programing essential
civilian requirements considered nec
essary to maintenance of the war
supporting economy.
War-Service Appointments
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Of the
approximately 2,800,000 persons cur
rently working for the federal gov
ernment within the continental limits
of the United States, about 2,000,000
—or about 71 percent—hold war-ser
vice appointments that will expire
within 6 months of the date on which
the war is officially declared ended.
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