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FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1946
GOOD ADVICE FOLLOWED
Showing that the American Feder
ation of Labor has been in the lead
with construction policies, the feder
ation's monthly survey says:
"President William Green's mes
sage urging workers to exercise self
discipline during the OPA emergency
and to increase production met with
immediate response throughout the
country. American workers followed
his lead there were few strikes in
July and production rose to a new
postwar peak. Thousands of business
men throughout the nation's vast net
work of stores, factories and other in
dustries held the price line. This team
work carried the country through the
emergency without disastrous price
increases.
"The federation is pleased to re
port also that in a number of indus
tries where most or all workers are
AFL members, such as cement, brick,
anthracite eoal, paper and pulp and
newspaper printing, preliminary fig
ures show that production per man
hour has already risen well above
last year's level."
The report in the foregoing en
couraging news, proving that Amer-
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DETROIT, Mich.—The two oldest
man and woman employes of Fisher
Body, still going strong at 80 and 88,
respectively, are Miss Matilda Baker,
an office matron at Fisher Body
Ternstedt Division, and Clarence S.
Blocher, left, supervisor of record
stores in the General Offices. Here
they are being congratulated for
their faithfulness to their work by
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329 South Second Street
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Organized labor and the U. S. gov
ernment must recognize the danger in
Communist propaganda and activities,
the American Federationist warns in
an editorial by William Green. The
Federationist says in part:
"The network of Communist papers
in the Western Hemisphere is publish
ing a growing volume of propaganda
and misrepresentation originating in
Moscow. The policy of Pan-American
security by cooperation is assailed as
a manifestation of a desire of thci U.
S. for power.
"These propagandists are danger
ous. They welcome every troubled sit
uation as an opportunity to foment
more trouble, never as an opportunity
to adjust differences and work for
peace.
"The labor movement and the gov
ernment of the United States cannot
ignore Communist activity directed
from Moscow as something with which
they do not have to deal. It is ag
gressively present in all our relations
and is an issue upon which there can
be no compromise."
Twenty-five thousand Parisians who
have been wearing the same battered
and tattered shoes since the war cut
off all sources of leather—and new
shoes—are having their first half
soles and new heels since 1940, as a
result of a shoe-repair project carried
out by the Salvation Army in the
United States.
The Salvation Army recently sent
to France 500 shoe-repair kits, each
of which contained enough material
for the repair of 50 pairs of shoes
The kits included leather soles, leather
and rubber heels, pieces of leather for
ican workers know good advice when
they see it and will follow it.
RECREATION FOR OLDSTERS
The plight of oldsters who have
nothing to do all day but sit looking
out the window has prompted New
York City welfare officials to plan
a chain of day recreation centers for
the aged. Other cities might well take
similar action.
The American Public Welfare As
sociation says that the centers are de
signed to provide day care for old peo
ple in much the same fashion it is
now provided in scores of communities
for the young children of working
mothers.
The centers, the first of which will
be set up experimentally, will provide
pleasant surroundings and medical
care plus recreation facilities tailor
made for the aged. Model for the plan
Life Begins at 80: Still on the Job
Thomas P. Archer, vice president of
General Motors and general man
ager of Fisher Body Division, who
himself has been with v.he auto body
building unit for 27 years. Six
employes of Fisher Body are more
than 80 years old, while there are
many in their 70s still doing a g&od
day's work. More than 20,000 have
had 10 years or more with Fisher.
BIG SOCIAL EVERY FRIDAY AND SUNDAY
COME AND SPEND AN ENJOYABLE EVENING
PLENTY OF GAMES
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Hamilton, Ohio
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the patching of sides and uppers. Each
kit also contained a hammer, repair
knife and other equipment needed.
Several Parisian shoe .cobblers vol
unteered their services to the French
Salvation Army when they heard of
the arrival of the kits, and these men
have been working in the Welfare De
partment of the "Armee du Salut" in
the French capital, taking care of long
queues of French men, women and
children who were invited to come
for free shoe repairs.
Salvation Army officers who just
returned from Europe report that
shoes are about the most needed art
icles in France today. The few new
shoes on sale are not only extremely
expensive, but very uncomfortable,
the soles being of wood, and the tops
of a heavy cotton material. The poor
er people have managed to half-sole
their old shoes with strips of abon
doned tires, and some who have not
even this material are wearing shoes
that are literally tied on.
American labor has a natural inter
est in the relationship of wages and
costs. It has a right to set its sights
on a steadily higher standard of liv
ing, and it will be a bad day for the
country if it ever loses sight of that
objective. But the shortest and
straightest road to this goal does not
lie through sharp wage increases, if
unaccompanied by an increase of out
put, for this merely brings higher
prices to consumers, and wage-earn
ers are themselves consumers. The
right method is increased production,
through higher skill, better work and
the aid of modern industrial science
—Editorial, The New York Times.
is the Hodson Memorial Center es
tablished in the Bronx 3 years ago to
provide an alternative to "old folks
home" institutions and lessen intra
family tensions caused by compact
urban living.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
"We cannot refrain from speaking
out against oppression for fear of
making matters worse. Anyone who
remains silent in the face of manifest
evil is an accessory to the crime.
"Our only practical course is to fight
just as hard and uncompromisingly for
an equitable and democratic peace as
Russia is fighting for her own in
scrutable ends. We call upon our dele
gates to the European Peace Confer
ence to be tough—tougher than Rus
sia—in defense of the principles of
freedom and justice for which our
people fought and produced and sac
rificed during the war."—George
Meany, secretary-treasurer, AFL.
AMERICAN LABOR AND
GERMANY
Thanks to the American Federation
of Labor the trade unions of Germany
are now receiving American official
help. A recent report by President
William Green told of the measures
taken by our civil and military offi
cials to put the German labor move
ment, and with it democracy, back on
its feet.
According to these sources, German
trade union property, confiscated out
right by the Nazi regime or diverted
into the channels of the Nazi-created
German Labor Front, is being return
ed to the rightful owners American
equipment, supplies and other surplus
goods are made available to the
unions a weekly union paper is pub
lished radio time and other means
to assure the proper functioning of
the German labor organizations have
been granted.
This is most welcome information,
and American trade unionists will
gladly give credit where it belongs,
namely to the State Department and
the occupation authorities. Unfor
tunately, the letter from Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, Deputy Military Governor of
the American zone, to President
Green referred to German union lead
ers in a manner likely to disparage
their efforts to rebuild the shattered
ranks of German labor. Commenting
on the appreciation of these leaders
for the heJp given them, Gen. Clay
added, perhaps, unintentionally, that
"they have more liberty of thought
and action than they know what to
do with."
The revival of German labor is close
ly bound up with the question—often
aired in these columns—of the future
of the German people and, indeed, of
the entire political and economic orien
tation
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demand^ immediate constructive ac
tion by the great democracies is the
unsolved problem of drawing the
German people along the road to
democracy We cannot reeducate
the German people by applying Nazi
standards in our treatment of them,
or merely by criticism and punish
ment of their former idols. We must
allot to them not only justice, but
also mercy and hope. There can be
no reconciliation between the Ger
mans and the democratic peoples of
Europe, if we fail to bring forward
concrete proposals for the reincor
poration of the German people in
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German people cannot be kept per
manently in an economic and polit
ical ghetto, however much they may
have merited such treatment
They do not want Communism, but
they want to live, and if the west
ern democracies can offer them
only chaos and starvation, they will
prefer the existence in slavery offer
ed them by the Soviet Union."
The United States has taken an im
portant step to free German labor
from the bondage of the past, but it is
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that more, much more is required fof
real and lasting solution of the Ger
man problem. Without that solution
there can be no peace, no progress*
and no prosperity.
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WHAT NEXT?
Denver is using a new type stafeet
marker built close to the ground
allow drivers to read street names
without taking their eyes from the
road. Denver traffic officials decided
that the conventional signs are too
high off the ground and also too ex
pensive. After lengthy experimental
tion, the city has adopted a vertical
type sign in the form of a triangular
sheet metal post 32 inches high. Light
reflecting letters spelling the street
name are placed one below the other
on the sign. The new marker is lo^
enough to be picked up by auto head
light beams at night.
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tyranny.—Edmund Burke
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