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CTAR'C VICIT. Members of the CIO United Auto
* mobile Workers crowded around to
hear when John Garfield, popular movie star, made an im
promptu speech during a visit to the Willys-Overland plant
iii Toledo, Ohio.
Local 26 Wins Vacation
Pay for Kelly Workers
CUMBERLAND, Dec.. 31 —A 4 per cent vacation bonus,
gained directly through the efforts of Local 26, United Rubber
Workers of America. 10, was in the hands of all Kelly-Spring
field Co. production workers this week.
The bonus, amounting to as high •
as S3O in some eases was given to
every production worker who had
worked during the year at the
plant. Four per cent of the yearly
f*grnin° r g /?.* th* amount p.wsrdod
r= NOTICE =i
To All Our Readers
The shortage of gasoline and tires has forced llic Western Maryland (JO
News to discontinue distributing the paper at the gates of the Celanese plant.
Instead, the Western Maryland (110 News is mailing every issue to all
Celanese workers whose addresses we have been able to obtain from lineal
1874. Every Local 1871 member whose correct address is in the hands of
the union, therefore, should he receiving the Western Maryland C'lO NEWS.
Loral 1871 members who are not receiving the paper should write out
their correct address and give it to a Local 1871 committeeman or chair
man or take it to Textile Hall. 31 North Mechanic St. Committeemen and
chairmen should turn in all addresses at the union hall.
A post card containing your correct address, sent to the Western Mary
land CIO NEWS, Cumberland. Md., also is a good wav of making certain that
you get every issue of the paper. v
Remember, every Local 1871 member is entitled to receive the Western
Maryland CIO NEWS. You do not have to pay a cent for it —Local 1874
takes care of your subscription through your dues.
If you are not receiving the paper, take a minute, write out your name
and address and hand it to a committeeman or mail it In on a penny post card.
If you want a soldier, sailor or marine to get the paper, send his address
in, too.
10% in WAR bonds]
January 4, 1943
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undpr the vacation pay negotiated
by the union.
The pay was given in lieu of a
vacs' ion.
3c a Copy, $1 a'Year
WESTERN MARYLAND
Edition
THE CIO NEWS
Formerly Tho Voico ol Labor
Mol Fiolro. Editor
lohn G. Thomas, Socy-Troao.
Owned and Published by tho
Western Maryland Industrial
Union Council
t''Ji!or!>l (iflficc: I* s. Mechanic St..
Cumberland, Maryland
Phone 47! or 1652
Postmaster: Send Form 3578-P to
Western Maryland CIO NEWS.
Box 299, Cumberland, Md.
The Spirit and Spark
Of This People’s War
Bv MEL FISKK
CUMBERLAND, Dec. 31—If all the people on the home
front could take war-time sacrifices as well as Mrs. Margaret
Stitcher our fight for freedom would be half-won.
For Mrs. Stitcher took the big-*
gost sacrifice of all—Riving her son
in the defense of his and her and
our country—with the same bravery
that was undoubtedly displayed by |
Pvt. Carl A. Stitcher as he manned '
a tank gun on the hot desert sands
of North Africa.
I talked to Mrs. Stitcher a day
after she received word from the
War Department that her son had
given his life in this people’s war
against fascism. As she spoke, her
hand occasionally slipped to her ■
eyes to wipe away a tear.
LOCAL 1874 MEMBER
.Her son had been a member of 1
Local 1874. He had joined the un
ion a few days after beginning work
in the waste silk recovery depart
ment. He fought with and for the •
union against fascism at home in
much the same way he fought it 1
out with the Na?.i fascist* on for- 1
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1874 Opens
Nominations
January 13
CUMBERLAND, Dec. 31—Nominations of candidates fot
Local 1874 offices will be made at a regular general membership
meeting of Celanese Local 1874, TWUA, Wednesday, January
13, union officials announced today.
The meeting to be held in Textile Hall, beginning at 8 p.m,
will also select an election committee to superintend the election.
Other union business of importance, union officials declared,
will be discussed at the meeting.
At the same time, Local 1874 officials requested that each
member give his or her correct address to the union, either at
[ the union hall or to a committeeman or chairman. The request
was made to insure the receipt of ballots by each union member
when the election is conducted by mail.
—~—■ * Present Local 1874 officers, elect-
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eign soil.
His mother, holding to the mem
ory of her last glimpse of Carl, told
of seeing hpr 21-year-old son the
day he left with his tank battalion
for Ireland and the second front
against the Nabis. "He was impa
tient to get inside his tank and get
into action." she related.
"I can still hear him saying.
'Mother, If 1 don't get back. I've
fixed It so that Dad and you won't
have to worry.' That was Carl.
He never worried about himself,
always about others.”
She told of his school work, his
love for unions and his fellow
workmen. She showed me snap
shots of Carl in Ireland and in the
U. S. She told me of another son.
Cpl. George “Bud” Siteher. a gun
nery instructor in a Las Vegas,
Nev., Army airfield. She seemed
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THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES:
Seaman Joseph B. Allen, former Local 1874 members, were
killed in action in North Africa and the South Pacific a*
they moved forward against the Nazi fascists with their
fighting comrades. Pvt. Stitcher, a gunner in America’s
new M-4 tank, was killed on the desert sands of North
Africa. Seaman Allen, killed by a Japanese shell which
struck his ship in a battle off the Solomon Island, was
buried on Tulugi Island. Both unionists enlisted a short
while after Pearl Harbor. Their death Is mourned by all
of Local 1874.
ed in 1942, arc: President, George
A. Meyers; vice-president, Boyd E.
Payton; secretary-treasurer, John
G. Thomas; recording secretary,
! William K. Meager.
Executive Board members: Wil
liam O'Rourke, William Boyd Cole
man. Janet Castle, Earl J. Luther
and Joseph Nolan. Members of the
Board of Trustees are George Lay
man. Edwin Van Meter. John Dere
mer, Charles E. Jones and Joseph
Leasure.
The Auditing Committee is com
posed of James Chappell. Earl R.
Nixon and Connie L. Shuck. Mem-
I bers of the Finance Committee are
J. W. Barnhart, Vincent Jones and
Scott D. Schaffer. Roy C. Rob
erts is warden.
glad to talk because talk relieved
her saddened heart.
Mrs. Stitcher spoke and millions
of American mothers spoke with
her. She told of her son’s unselfish
ness and impatience of millions of
American fighting men was re
corded.
The Mrs. Stitcher’s and Pvt. Carl
Stitcher's are the spirit and spark
of this people's war for freedom.
They are the people, making sacri
fices, spilling their life's blood,
manning the home front—for Vic
tory.
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