The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-02
POLICIES OF THE
WAR LABOR BOARD
RIGHT OF UNIoNIZED WORKERS
TO BARGAIN WITH EMPLOYERS
is UPHELD BY IT.
BETTER CONDITIONS SOUGHT
Great Storage Lumber Depot Opened
at GiImerton, va.-conservation of
Kerosene Is Urged-Ailies' Bombing
Planes Now Work in Squadrons.

(From Committee on Public Information.)
Washington.-The war labor poll
cies board has made no rulings, it is
announced, making it impossible to
change rates of wages or working
conditions in industry during the
Standardization of such pay and con-
ditiOns for war work. The board does,
not seek to place restrictions on labor.
but is striving to better conditions
that will make for satisfaction and
greater efficiency.
Enunciating it's principles the war
labor policies board is committed to
the right of workers to organize into
trade unions and to bargain cOllec-
lively with their employers: continu-
ance Of existing union standards with
the right of the workers to obtain bet
ter conditions, wages and hours under
decisions of the national war labor
board; equal pay for equal work.
whether performed by men or by wom-
en-; recognition of the basic eight-hOur
day where law requires it but settle
ment of all questions of hours of work
with due regard to government neces-
stiles and the welfare of the workers;
maintenance of the maximum of pro-
duction; due regard for labor stand
ards, wages and other conditions in
particular localities; the right of all
workers to living wage, insuring
health and reasonable comforts.
Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the
war labor policies board. makes this
further explanation of the resolution
of the board setting forth its princi-
pies: "Inasmuch as wage stability was
recognized as the essential need by
labor and by the government the pur-
pose Of the resolution was to prevent
changes in the standards which had
been created either through an adjust
ment board such as the labor wage adj
justment board of the emergency feet
corporation, or the arsenal and navy
yard standards, or the standards which
govern the cantonment adjustment
board, but under no circumstances was
it intended to prevent the lifting of
wage scales in specific instances up to
the standards"
There were no aerial bombing Or
CARNATIONS in the allied flying corps
during the first year of the war. Prac-
tically all the work in the air was in
the nature of observation. No pilots
could be spared for anything else. To
day probably 25 per cent of the aerial
arms are bombing squadrons of II
machines per squadron.
The first bombing was done by vol
unteer pilots who flew over the Ger
man lines and dropped three or four
bombs, made from artillery shells, on
concentration camps and cantonments
Showers of small steel arrows were
spilled sometimes on conveys, troop
trains and bodies of massed men. The
Germans began day bombing of cities
in 1915, and the allies bombarded
Karlsruhe in reprisal later in the same
year. Since then evolution in organ
lied bombing developed rapidly and
the French began night bombing, but
this was not undertaken by the Ger
mans until August, 1916.
At the present time large groups,
including several squadrons of bomb
ing machines, go over the lines from
time to time and completely destroy
their objective, be it city or a camp,
a column of troops or a trench system.
Unfortunately the allies air forces
have to travel for many miles over
hostile territory defended by anti
aircraft guns to attack Germa ncities,
while the enemy can attack French
cities by flying only a short distance
beyond the allied lines.
The allies are developing large
bombing planes which carry sufficient
fuel for long excursions and armament
to protect them when they are at
tackled by fighting airplanes. Bombing
SquadrOns are escorted usually over
the lines by fast fighting squadrons
of IS planes to squadron, and then
left to their own devices. for the fight
ers seldom carry sufficient fuel to per-
NIT them to accompany the bombers
on the round trip.
The dropping of the bomb Is SINH
lar to shooting a rifle. First you set
your sights and wind gauge, you hold
the rifle properly, and finally you pull
the trigger at the proper moment. If
your ammunition is standard your
sights correct. you hit the target. So
with bombing. If you set your sights
correctly. fly your plane correctly over
the objective and drop the bomb at the
proper time you will hit the target. If
the ammunition manufacturers gave
you good bombs the objective will be
destroyed.
The United States will be short of
potash next year. Estimates for 1918
show an available supply of about
100000 tons of potash salts, or only
about half of the normal imports be-
fore the war. Commercial fertilizer
concerns must bear the brunt of the
shortage.