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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-03-28

buUCII1HS VI newspaper mOthCt
As a direct result of this film
showing our Local Union 1874 Tex
tile Workers Union Of America
voted to adopt a striker and 9th.
er locals affiliated with the West
ern Maryland Industrial Union
Council are extending generous
financial aid or making arrange
ments to do so.
Adoption
The adoption" Of a striker is
not exactly physical matter. i:
means that We send Five Dollars
each week to the Hearst Strike
Committee at 27i South Welles
Street, Chicago. We have receiv-
ed letters from our adopted strik.
err. His photograph hangs on our
bulletin board at the Union Hall
as a reminder that. VIC. the work.
ers of Western Maryland have
common cause with the strikers
against the mighty power OF Will
liam Randolph Hearst in Chicago.
Other Unions
The strike is now in its six
teenth month. Through all this
time the ranks have held firm
against intimidation. sluggings,
thugs, dumping Of sound trucks,
evictions and all the COON work
which the Hearst organization
practices so perfectly against those
who will fight for a decent union
to represent them.
"-ver a call goes UNDECIDED By
the United Mine Workers OF
America and the locals OF Western
Maryland are coming through
generously. This past week the
miners locals from Barton. Eek
hart, Homecoming. Westernport.
Frostburg and Mt. Savage have
responded with donations.
The Brick and Clay Workers OF
Mount Savage have pledged a
monthly donation of four dollars.
The CLIO Council
The CLIO Council has a supply
OF buttons and stamps which it
sells to the delegates at each meet
ing. The Cumberland Newspaper
Guild is aiding its brothers.
The next meeting Of the West
ern Maryland Industrial Union
Council will make canvass to see
II the delegates themselves will be
able to adopt a striker.
Here are two suggestions for the
Union members Of Western Mary
land:
% Sec that both you person.
ally and your local union are ia
miliar with the Hearst Chicago
strike and will aid financially;
t2) Tell your friends that the
Hearst papers are on the Unfair
List of the Western Maryland
Industrial Union Council until they
settle the l6 months strike at Chi
cago.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-03-28
Local 1874 Adopts
Hearst Striker To
Aid Chicago Guild
Miners and Brick and CLAY
Workers Help Too
BY z. VAN METER
Local 1874 TWUA

The hearts of Western Maryland unonss touched by
the gallant fight Of the Hearst Strikers Of the Chicago News
paper Guild shown by their dramatic movie. STRIKE
This film shown in Cumberland the Celanese work
union hail. showed the spirit and determination and the
suferings Of Newspaper workers and their families.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-03-28
CHG "M.. \Notes
Collins 1. ,sident
After Two Ballots
Bob Gaitens MStdLLs
New Officials
PRICE TWO CENTS

James B. Collins. president of Local 10 Brick and Clay
Workers Mount Savage elected the Presidency OF the
Western Maryland Industrial Union Council last meeting.
following three way usse between the incumbent Harry Z.
Castle Thomas 'Siddle'' Hanna and Collins.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-03-28

Has Your Local Union
Taken Action on the Plea
for Aid to The Chicago
Newspaper Guild Strike
Against Hearst?
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-03-28
PROJECTIONS OF the TIMES"
"Ihe Times is Om OF joint: oh. cursed spite.
That evcr ;cas born TO set ii right"

while Thomas 6. Post is damned.
All. me! THE TIMES Is OUT
OF JOINT!
Signed by r. T. K.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-03-28
Asks Miners to
Register Ready
For Primaries

John T. Jones. president Dis
trict l6. United Mine Workers OF
America this week sent a commu-
nication to all locals Of the UMWA
asking that they prepare for a full
registration of members and their
friends on Registration Day,
April 30th.
The letter read as follows:
March IS. 1910
TO ALL LOCAL UNIONS.
DISTRICT i6. UMWA.
GREETINGS:
In conformity with the policy OF
the United Mine Workers of Amer.
lea. and Labors Non-PartiSan
League 1t is important that all
members Of our Organization and
their families who are eligible to
vote. should see to it that they
register in their respective voting
precincts so as to vote In both
the primary and general election.
The last day Of registration is
April 30. 1910. Primary day will
be May 6.
The year 1910 must be made an
historic year by the Labor Move
ment. I am therefore suggesting
that your local union name com.
mittee TO assist your members and
their friends in completing their
registration.
I sincerely hope that I NAV
have your fullest cooperation in
this most important matter.
Very truly yours.
John T. Jones. President.
District l6. UMWA
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Buy A Bangle Today

The high school girls who will greet you
smilingly as you reach the business district
today are engaged in one of the greatest
campaigns against a public enemy that has
ever been undertaken in this country. They
will offer you bangles without stipulated price
and will thank you for whatever You deposit
in the receptacles they extend, of course there
is no limit to what you may give, and by
the same token the girls will be hoping that
no one passes them by.
The bangle sale is a part of the annual
Christmas seal campaign conducted by the
Anti-Tuberculosis Association to raise money
for its noble crusade against the Great White
Plague which, while it has been brought under
partial control and claims an ever smaller
number Of victims, is still far from eradicated.
Probably you have already purchased the
little stamps which the association offers year.
ly to be placed on letters, but that fact does
not exempt you from patronizing the bangle
girls today. The extra dime or quarter or
hall dollar that you can spare will enable
the association to increase its help to tuber-
cular patients and do its part in restoring
some sufferer to health.
In large measure the contributions you make
to the association are for the support of the
local crusade, for rs per cent of all funds
thus collected remains at home. Only Is per
cent goes to the national organization. It will
be vastly to Wilmington's credit if this davis
tale sets a high mark. It will contribute tn
your individual happiness if you help some
Wilningtonian stricken with the dread disease
10 regain health.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21

strffs for home and army consumption, at the
expense of conquered nations, and Britain def
initely refusing to open the blockade for food
deliveries. But this is pot a circumstance to
the suffering that will come with continued
warfare.
For this reason, and because of the burden
of feeding millions in Europe when the fight
ing finally ceases, American. farmers will be
confronted with the duty of producing excep-
tional crops, and if they are to perform this
service it is quite apparent that restrictions
not enforced by the crop-curtailment program
of the AAA will have to be either removed or
materially lightened.
In this section of North Carolina particular
". it will be necessary to relieve the truck
farmers of the handicaps which have literally
hamstrung them in the past and bid fare to
prove as great an obstacle to remunerative
production in the future. If they are to play
their proper part in the agricultural program
which the war and its aftermath will create,
they must nave an equal break with planters
of other crops, and equal market development
and protection.
There is a duty in this for the federal de-
partment of agriculture which cannot be neg
lected without injustice to southeastern North
Carolina truck farmers and injury to the
whole program of economic restoration.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21

,,,sar federal license. The company believing
+h.+ # was subject only to state control De-
cause of previous Supreme Court DECISIONS
resisted. 1t won its case in the federal district
court and the federal court of appeals. NOW
Il has lost in the court of last resort.
Tn order to reach this finding the Supreme
court had to upset previous decisions touching
IN navigability and to establish a new doctrine.
IT is no longer necessary that a stream be
navigable. the court now holds. If it can be
made so. by a reasonable expenditure, that
is sufficient. AS Justice Roberts pointed out in
his dissent, the question now is how any little
runlet can be found not navigable.
However, the majority did not stop at tribes.
Justice Reeds opinion holds that the control
of the federal government over the waters OF
the nation is not limited strictly to navigation
but is broad as the needs of commerce"
This is to say that it is practically without
bounds of any kind.
Clearly, another long step has been taken to
enhance the powers of the central government.
The problem of when to stop the process, it
it can be stopped, has been made still more
acute.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
F. R. APPOINTS
NEW DEFENSE
HIGH COMMAND
Continued From Page One)

and Stimson the buyer-user-ln
this case the army and navy.
The President said the new set
up probably would not be effective
for perhaps ten days pending the
drafting of the necessary executive
orders.
The present defense commission
will be retained, Mr.. Roosevelt
asserted, but he indicated its &C
tivities would be overshadowed by
those of the production manage
hent office.
The seven defense commission
ers, he said, will - responsible
for coordinating the civil life of
the nation with the work of this
new office.
The four-man agency, Mr.. Roose-
welt declared, will have full power
to make decisions and carry them
out without first ->ferring them
back to him for approval. He add
ed, however, that if a decision
were made that went wrong, he
would call the quartet in and talk
it over with them.
He indicated that he was dele
eating to the new office all possible
powers under the constitution
which a President could turn over
to. subordinates.
Speeding Up
Asked whether he thought the
new set-up would bring about a
material speed-up in the defense
program, the chief executive de-
clared he would not say that be-
cause every "a hours produced a
speeding up.
The office for production manage
ment will be a part of a division
Of the White House established un-
der an executive order issued Sep
TENDER II, 1889, which provided
that there should be within the
executive office Sin the event of
a national emergenc--, or threat
OF a national emergency, such Of
ice for emergency management
the President shall determine"
Under the language of the gov
eminent reorganization act which
in the issuing of the order,
Roosevelt said he thought he
ilao ample authority to take the
step he announced today.
n first reaction among the few
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
WARPLANE DROPS
BOMBS ON IRELAND
Continued From Page One)

The town is in Dublin county.
seven miles from the city itself,
and is a mail packet station for
communication with Liverpool and
Holyhead.
Bombs also fell in MONAGHAN
county, which is near the frontier
of belligerent northern Ireland.
The bombs-the first of the war
anywhere near neutral Fires cap.
ital-sent a wave of excitement
through gayly decorated Dublin,
where a round of holiday parties
was about to begin.
The suburban incident occurred
about 7:30 pm. d:30 pm. EST
and about half an hour later the
same plane or another loosed two
bombs in the rural district of Coun.
ty Monaghan, injuring a farmer
and damaging two farmhouses.
The Dun Laoghaire plane flew in
low from the harbor and dropped
a flare. Then the first b o m b
crashed into a busy thoroughfare
and blasted out a crater IS feet
deep and 80 feet wide. A smaller
bomb fell in the back garden of
a home about 40 yards away from
the road. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Deserve Equal Chance

Whether Hitler attempts invasion of Eng
land during the next three months as expect
ed, whether Italy is forced out of the war by
Britain and Greece or the Nazis attempt it's
rescue; even if the war takes a definite turn
IN Britain's favor and Empire forces succeed
in launching an invasion of the European
continent in the spring, it is apparent that
hostllities cannot end soon. There would have
to be a series of Axis defeats in the field and
destruction Of tremendous stocks of supplies
before peace could be restored.
With the war continuing through another
crop planting season and millions of men still
diverted from Europe's farms to battlefields,
the food situation will become more and more
acute with widespread starvation inevitable.
Continental Europe is having a hard time
feeding its people this. winter, with the Ger
mans confiscating much Of the available food
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
SPEEDING UP DEFENSE
Durham Herald

General expectation is that the President,
now that he is back at his desk, will waste
no time in putting new drive behind the
national defense program, probably by reor.
ganizing and revitalizing the defense COM
mission and certainly by blasting away hinder.
ing red tape.
Our guess is that he will not, however,
yield to those who urge him to proclaim a
full emergency and thereby multiply the legal
weapons at his
Not an inconsiderable part of the delay
Defense Commissioner Knudsen confessed in
his recent speeches, and many not SO we'll
informed have publicized, is not so much delay
and it is formerly discounted but not ines
capable facts.
Production in certain fields, notably air
planes, is below forecasts made months ago
and naturally there is disappointment and
complaint. But most of the trouble goes back
to over-optinism on the part of the fore
casters.
What everybody knows, however, is that
we have not, as yet, thrown our full effort
into national defense and therefore have not
attained the capacity or the speed of which
we are capable. We have. as a matter OF fact,
tried to super-impose the entire defense pro-
gram upon our normal production and, of
course, haven't completely succeeded.
1t may be that the business as usual
uACOIy, WHICH WI6CkeU EIduCe dLo ASoAAJ
wrecked Britain, is so firmly entrenched in
vital industrial and labor circles that nothing
short Of firmness born Of a full state of
emergency proclamation can blast it away.
If so, we shall have to declare the emergency
and apply the full weight of Government
coercion.
There are strong indications, though, that
the President doesn't want to resort to hard
boiled procedure, thereby giving critics a
chance to revive the dictatorship issue. And
there are just as strong indications that even
those who have thus far treated defense as
something that can be taken in stride are
not so complacent as to think they can afford
to haggle if the Government says 'haggling
is OUT
Anyhow, the people are convinced that the
defense program is moving in second gear,
so to speak. when high gear is the least that
should be tolerated, and whatever steps are
necessary to shift to high gear are just before
being taken.
So any and everybody with a hand in de-
tense goods production who has thus far held
back because it has been easy an dproitable
to do so had better git in line and quickly.
The pressure is going to be applied and with
JGloveless hands e..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Editorial Comment
REAL
Raleigh News and Observer

North Carolina is fortunate in the quality Of
real leadership displayed by the State Legls-
lative Council, representing nine Statewide
organizations.
This council, which is comprised OF a num-
Der of civic and religious organizations, adopt
ed a 10-point program. Each point mas as It's
objective a forward-looking step by the State.
The order in which these detectives was pre-
scented is important because it reveals a sense
of proportion.
Al the very head of the list, where it be-
longs, is a State = supported, uniform nine
months school term. The time has come to
stop talking about the desirability of this step
and make it a reality. Entirely too many
North Carolina children are being deprived OF
adequate schooling for those who place the
interest of the children first to be content to
permit this wrong to be righed through the
slow and uncertain process of local action.
The State has assumed responsibility for the
education of it's children. The time has come
when the State is in a financial position to
meet that responsibility fully. That can be
done only through a uniform nine months
school term.
The council places second on its list State
labor laws comparable to those already passed
by Congress. This is another forward-looking
step which is already overdue and should be
delayed no longer.
OUlCI OOJSSI1fCS SlUO1oCo " 1S JUN
are:
Increase in compulsory school age from IA
to Is years.
Protection of young men called to military
service by prohibiting sale of intoxicating liq-
uor in training centers or adjacent territory.
State aid for extending public library serv-
ice.
Provision for an industrial training school
for Negro girls.
Promotion of highway safety through the
reissuance Of drivers licenses every three
years.
Retirement and tenure laws for teachers.
Extension of health service to all counties.
More adequate care and treatment of men
tally defective children of both races.
All of these detectives are worthwhile. The
kind of leadership North Carolina needs now
is leadership which will result in the attain
ment Of such detectives. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
The New River Ruling

In application, apparently, the Supreme
Courts decision in the New river case means
that any stream justifying a power develop
ment Of some importance is navigable enough
for the purpose Of bringing the enterprise
under federal regulation. The c~orcllary is that
the states do not possess the authority they
thought they had over waters not navigable
IN fact.
The case arose out Of an attempt by the
Federal Power Commission, moving under the
federal power act of 1920, to compel the
Appalachian Power company to operate its
sl2,o 00.O 900 power project on the New river
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Not A Transit0ry Thing

We hear heated discussion these days, since
the rearmament effort moved into our midst
with the Holly Ridge project, to the effect that
anything done now to improve our economic
situation will have but fleeing value, that the
whole defense program is a transltory thing,
and that as soon as the emergency passes
life will return to its old status and leave us
as debated as any boom leaves the area 1t
had affected.
This is false doctrine. Defense is a long
lived undertaking. Government agencies, with
indisputable information, are planning their
activities for a decade ahead.
There will be no sudden disarmament as
there was after the first World war. The United
States, along with nations now in combat with
the Axis or conquered by the Nazis, at last
know the folly of unpreparedness, The nations
still free from the yoke of Hitler are not likely
to make that g~revious mistake again. Certain
ly this country. a leader in disarmament In
the early 20s has no intention of laundering
again as it did then.
It is safe to believe that the United States
will perpetuate is defense effort, at least until
there is positive assurance that peace is on a
firm foundation and will not be disturbed for
many years to come.
On this grounds, therefore, Wilmington
should set itself to the task of improving its
situation, not with the expectation that the
boom will collapse with suspension of hos
%tilities, but with approximate certainty that
conditions created by the defense program will
continue for not less than 10 years and per-
haps for many years longer.
Improvements undertaken, industries start
ed, social, moral, spiritual, economic, edu-
%cational programs should be drafted with an
eye to the future.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
BRITAIN APPEALS
FOR MORE SHIPS
Continued From Page One)

old American ships were almost
exhausted, that it would take a
year for American shipbuilding 10
be substantially Of help to Britain,
and added:
Perhaps the United States can
spare us something from her exist.
ing ordinary services. Also there
are a number of enemy ships il
the United States. l naturally cast
a covetous eye on those vessels.
These are the only ways I can see
for replenishments of any conse.
quence."
All this was part of a discussion
OF the inroads of the submarine
and long-distance plane on British
shipping. This, said Cross, still
was the greatest threat to British
life-blood, and it can be overcome
only by increasing the numbers of
~destroyers on convoy and patrol
duty and by new shipping.
Cross did not go into the aegalis-
tic aspects of obtaining such ships
OF Germany and Italy which are
refuged in the United States, a
matter which naturally affects
American neutrality.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
EMPTY STOCKING
REACHES $1,000
Continued From Page One)

Continued From Page One)
ever. the sponsors pointed out that
this amount still falls far short OF
meeting all the requests of parents
for something for their children
at Christmas.
Among the contributions yester-
day was $34.O5 from the Empty
Stocking midnight benefit show al
the Bijou theatre for negro patrons.
Requests from the homes Of the
needy of the city and county for
some gift for their children are
far in excess this year of former
years and to fill all demands a
much larger amount than that do
mated will be needed.
You can help provide a small
bit of Christmas cheer for some
unfortunate child by making a con-
tribution today. You will find that
it will help make your Christmas
more enjoyable too.
Contributions may be made either
to J. Henry Gerdes, treasurer of the
fund at the Peoples Savings Bank
and Trust company, or at the STAR
News office.
All contributions will be acknowl-
edged.
The fund 10 date.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
DEFENSE COUNCIL
TO LIST HOUSING
FOR CAMP WORKERS
CONTINUED from Page One)

third will be kept at the N.
C. S. E.. S. office in Holly
Ridge. In each of these places
they will be filed under such
headings that if a workman
comes in and asks, "Where
can I get a room or rooms
for three men," cards f
places with such accomoda-
lions can be taken from the
file and given to the man to
copy.
He will make a list of the places
with available space and the cards
will be returned to the file. When
he rents a place both he and the
landlord will be requested to notify
the Houses For Rent Committee
that the property is no longer
available and that card will be put
in a deferred file.
Houses will also be listed on
similar cards (the same coupon
in this issue may be used for fur
nishing the committee with this
information) and should show the
location of the house, the number
of rooms and the rental.
These cards will likewise be filed
and used for reference.
Most of the workmen who will
be engaged at the anti-aircraft fir
ing center will report to Holly
Ridge and it is there that the
most of them will be referred to
the rooms and houses in this sec
ton which are available.
The committee in taking this
step to prepare this section for
the advent of thousands of work
men, stressed the point that in
order for the plan to be of benefit
either to the owners of property
or to the working men it will be
necessary for every person within
a radius of IS miles of Wilmington
who has rooms or houses to rent
to list that property with tn e
Houses to Rent committee SO that
it may function effectively.