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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
About ChiSelerS

The press populauzcd the tenn chiseler
and usually employed IN cases OF poor
people who obtained relief through false pre-
lenses The term is now coming into pretty
popular use to describe those low minded
stealing employers who defraud their workers
from small minimum wages under the terms
OF the Wages and Hour Act part OF the
Ia: oe he Land
he sordid report in this weeks
columns Of the Baltimore clothing concern
called the B & o Manufacturing Company
Is a case in point
This was example. OF an employer being
ignorant OF the terms OF the law. Rather it
shows a cunning and depraved effort to cir
eumvent that law by classifying records and
browbeating it's employees into aiding in their
own defrauding
Stick up artists. taxi-cab robbers and petty
pilferers worse than a gang such has
lust been fined s. 900 in the Baltimore courts
They disgrace to the honest employers
who are observing the law and paying their
workers under its terms. They can best be
described as parasites on the healthy business
body.
Here. ii would seem. is a situation in which
the Baltimore Association of Commerce and
the other business mems groups could be Of
public service. Why not issue blacklist of
concerns such as the B. & o. Manufacture.
Company and eircularize it to every business
agency and bureau in the country advising
that their product is produced under lawless
and criminal methodist
Ii is interesting to note tina, the same con-
C. Il
Walsh Healy Act provisions
An alert business mems organization owes
ii to itself to tina, such reprehensble con-
Germs are not allowed to further prey upon
both industry and employees. As the editor
Of certain local paper would write public
opinion expects it,
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
Poll Taxes

ihr Democratic Party Will have an OPP
pottunrts 81 s;iik,ns real blow en- behalf ot
democracy a, rs convention he Civil Rights
Committee ii the Southern Conference tor
Human Welfare is in Chicago urging the con.
vea,,an TO include plank n us platform sup
porting abolition 81 the one,aus pol AK.
\ bill is nov betor, Congress introduced
81 Rep lee E. Geye,. Democrat, Ct Gahotnta.
Which ,yolid eliminate the poll tax As . pre-.
requisite d voting IN Federal elections CHR
$3.50
The plank which the Southern Conferenee
s, Human Welfare vii propose reads a.
follows
I'VE believe that the requirement of
the payment Of taxes a prerequisite to
the right to vote is contrary to the basic
principles Of the Democratic Party and
that il creates a barrier to the establish
r,ent Of democracy Of opportunity to
which our party is already pledged We
now pledge our support to the efforts to
abolish this requirement.
8. curse ms plank wl 81 Ought .igo.
-4.N :, such Bourbon Democrats as Gene
-ox u Georgia and Banker Howard W Smith
q Virginia aoih OF whom are continued in
oreress 3, the grace OF he poll FAX But II
me Dcmoefa;, really wish TO 20 into the cam
-altn as the liberal party they sould well
afford to override the Coxe> and Smiths who
.ar'> The democratic labe onl, . harass
democracy
The poll FAX as was amply shown during
hearings held in Washington early IN the year
was written INTO the constitutions OF the va
nous Southern states with the definite purpose
IN mind OF preventing poor farmers and city
workers from voting white or black And as
election figures show. the poll has been
most effective IN barring the masses from the
polling booths Mos, Of the Southern Repre-.
sentatives are elected by the selec, upper crust,
and when the> get to Congress they show their
disdain for the welfare OF the workers. urban
or rural BY leading the attacks against all
legislation OF social significance.
70 the citizens IN the poll lax states. who
must come TO the polls with 4 paid " poll tax
receip, IN their hands democracy = a good
principle preached in the practice Ihey can
not afford to pay the poll taxes therefore the,
do not ,otr Until every citizen , years 81
age OF over has the night 81 franchise the
usua limitations accepted the South will re
RAN outside the american way OF life
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
Dishonest
Advertising

We have looked in vain through the col.
umns OF the local press for any repor, OF the
Fcderal Trade Commission investigation Of
the practices 81 a certain magazine which places
Seal Of Approval on the products Of those
manufacturers or merchants who place adver-
tlsng in their medium
This so.oalIed Seal OF Approval is the
magazine guarantee that the marked and
advertised products are safe pure or OF high
quality and can be bought with confidence by
consumers.
The investigation oil the Federal Trade Com.
mission reveals some interesting and little
known facts ebou, Some OF the products which
carry the mystical seal We commend them
10 good housekeepers everywhere
/. The seal was placed on tuna FISH
canned in Japan without any kind of in
spection of the canning factories.
2. A of corned beef, containing the
Seal, put a whole family in the hospital.
The beef was canned in South America.
3. A can of putrid ham exploded and
the stencil drove everyone out of Fed
eral Trade Commission hearing room.
The ham came from Poland.
a. A bottle of salad dressing killed two
children.
These instances are taken from the Federal
Trade Commission report on its investigation
of an alleged Seal OF Approval placed on
foodstufs by magazine which are allegedly
designed to create public conhdencel
Could anything be more hypocrtiealp
1t is small secret that the advertising racke,
of the modern magazines and newspapers in
creases with the passage Of time. Their hypo-
critical editorials on advertising must make
the angels weep
We write this as newspaper that accepts
advertising.
But may we hope the day will never dawn
when we will sink SO low as to approve
foodstufs which poison little children so that
advertising revenue can be obtained.
The Federal Trade Commission deserves
the commentator of the public. In fact its
findings might properly appear on occasion in
the local press. We emphasize the word
might"
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18

Is not for very long, though. for
we understand he is merely filling
IN while Snufiy is taking an ex.
tended holiday He is up TO his
old tricks again He has told any
number OF vacation seekers that
he could not spare them for their
vacation but that he would give
them the week of II they wanted
II Don't sound logical to me,
Talent
Zembowef Lynch and Lepley
are thinking Of joining the Locals
baseball team These boys know
their Wav around a ball field and
Il IS certainty that they will add
strength 10 an already strong
team SHOW them how Down
TwiStcl does the JOB boys Leplcy
had better not tell them about the
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
THE WESTERN MARfLAND VOICE on INDUSTRIAL LABOR
Profits and Patriots

The Congress has seen TT to levy some
small additional taxes for the purpose OF pro
vidine 1.-THE OF the sums which beng
ordered spent for national defense.
And there is so much talk about the need
for sacrifice on the part OF the populace in
these uoublous times. Up until recently the
....s !..i LS>.. making :::::ch = = ah"..
VIVA, they were pleased TO term hidden taxes.
They took the view that unless every loaf OF
bread is marked with the 81 forms OF taxes
tina, goes into reckoning OF the retail ptice
the people were being gypped They cared
no, whether city. county. state. federal, un.
employment insurance. social security. income.
profit and every other form OF tax was levied
in the sum total these people took keen de
ligh, IN trying to create public dlstrust and
dissatisfaction Al having to pay the taxes that
we're Icgtimately levied BY public and duly
constituted authorities for essential services.
he recent. additional tax on beer has been
the subIee; b. a couple OF editorials The local
press Which raised the prec 81 It's papers by
htty pet cent because they forced TO pay
their reporters the scale 81 the Newspaper
Guild =
he burden j the editorials is tha, although
the tax increase Is onl, an approximate eight
cent, per ea.r i twerts tour bottles tut one
third ot a cn' per bo,tIe) that the oeal beer
tavern operators are IN many cases boosting
til. price, .r8.n onr cent % h,e cents per
bottle
W. w-hne> toin in condemnation " this
prohtceung procedure but IN addition We
Noua ike % recommend solution
n lax talse Is an approximate one.t third
o, one cen, pei bottle As the lowest denoml.
nation q coinage Is one cent 1t is apparent
that any increase IN the retail price OF ten cents
per bottle of ocal beer will be gypplng the
consumer
Why. we ask, are the local bre~eries
not patriotic enough to share or accept
the entire burden OF this extra taxation of
one-third OF one cent per bottle of their
product?
j, lar from Dcief ;ha, their financial con.
dition is not able to carry this tax And after
all the brewerles should remember ;ha, there
must be sac rihees during the period OF the
current feaFmament program
No doubt. the papers who write much
abou, sacrifices must inevitably mean tina,
the other party should make them.
Now. in view OF the great interest the local
papers have taken in this matter II seems
strange that they have not though, oil adj
vancing the suggestion that the breweries and
their stockholders do some sacrificing
The VOICE or LABOR hereby proposes
tina, the local breweres give an object lesson
OF their sincerity and willingness to make sac
rihees by either absorbing this small tax OF
onethird OF one cent per bottle themselves
or sharing i, three ways with the distributor
and the retailer
II such proposal is accepted the consumers
will then be able to boycott any local retailer
who has the gall to try and ask more than the
ten cents per bottle from customers
We will welcome readers expressions OF
opinion this proposal
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18

sholIo D. pidte0 u ~, huitiy
Collector
DICK knippenbc.r raUs. 5. say
~ pencils foi ;hoS, .tec ooys
j! his He aas heea o.ieetlrp
lhem witt unurar "o., .oi the
past th:ee months som, II MS
priced possessions az .ll.t.ves
from the * Dictator
Negotiations are nc subject Of
the whole Down Twist aepart
ment The subject CT vase ad
iuSimeni Is being dis used by
each and every member Every
member mas rs oWn conception
.: what the lob is worth and they
ali agree that It IS no: c!ly more
money but much more money that
We deserve It's hiRt M nat
Ne stopped making IA. bonuses
for the heads Of tbs company
Down Twis; wants zeal wage
adjustment and they vii! % hard
to satisfy With anythinr ina, don
seem far Don't sell n. >hCs; ,a..
time Mr. CelaneSe'
The Dicta;Cr walk ora:. i,
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
REMEMBER WHEN:

I've had To ask the charge
hand for a washroom check and
had TO return IL within five min.
utcs?
2.-Compuls0ry donations were
the order of things bosses we'd
dings. Xmas presents for the fore.
man. Community Fund. and man,
other ideas that the petty boSscs
thought would get them a feather
in their cap?i
3.-The C.A.A. needed financial
support and we bore the brunt Of
the expense?
4.-To sit down for minute
was inviting furlough?
5.--On payday We would try to
deciphcr the complicated code Of
the Bonus Slips?
6.-The Celanesc Topics gave
the company a lot of free public
ity. at our expense?
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
DOWN.TWISTINC PERSONALS

In The course Of WORKING three
shifts Down Twist has found that
Il Is extremely difficult TO obtain
any adjustment Of grievances on
the Cat Eve IL, shift !; seems
a. though The petty members Of
the supervision declare Roman
holiday for themselves ana give
Il the Ole chant Of take !; high
er on This sniff /. ms policy
continues !; can nave Au, one
anal reSui; We are coinr to &c
mand .ime ard one half :or The
time spent N waiting 10 take i
higher Tn. mas o. the com
pany oesir, for II Is veil
known FAC; that Stiff Card Car
riers are PAID for the time tney
Spenc IN me plant after : 90 m
VERY favorable report nave
been rolling n on The fine work
Of Committeeman Harry Bas!cy
on 3 shift, Block Harrl mas
gwen John Nea. excellent support
on this shift and deserves . big
hand for II Having worked Nth
Harry IN Block not so ions ago
can fully realize the value o; his
AID II IS reported that Harry
has yer, special way with
Snufv
Who is the new arrival on
Down. Twist who asked a charge
hand for "anti.standard travel.
erS"" Don't let II worry Won
too much. Sic0demus, that same
Stiff Gard Carrier did not know
that there wasn't any difference
until he went to the Office and
asked the Junior Assistant Sub.
Foreman.
The bucks who work on
Down Twis, c shift Block are
getting quite a kick on, Of several
OF the girls who work on the exam
tables Ii seems as though during
the cold and Wintry months these
members OF the fairer sex came to
work CARRIED III light and drafty
dresses. With the coming OF sum
mer mot Indian summer. either
they switched 20 the hoi and stuff
Stacks.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18

fireball specialist who struck you
out the evening OF the brawl.
The meeting in the Union Hall
IN Cumberland was long and
lively affair The boys had many
things TO say about the suggested
points in the new contract" and
very instructing point of view
was finally reached The meeting
was called TO order by Chairman
Ji5o!!... :;,a. C a;;s.;!c csse.. &C.
bert recorded the minutes Duke
crabtrec gave report for the
carnival committee
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-07-18
A white Hope

Down Twist has a fight impre
sario of their own In the person
OF Gene Kelly. c shift. Block 5
He has discovered any number Of
white hopes and has many
young fighters under his wing At
present he has one who can't miss
It seems as though the lad weighs
over two hundred and has a build
just like wedge 'same descrip-
ton as all OF the others and can
knock bull over with one punch
Keep 1t up. Gene. you never can
tell when you'll find a gold mine
in w Va.
Imagine the ohargehand's
embarrassment when he was
stopped from trucking loads
into Block 5. IT'S funny TO just
what end some men will 60. In
order 10 get . coveted feather
for their cap. They will even
keep another man out Of n job
BY doing the job themselves. n
they don't have enough 20 do
Evening star., 1940-02-22
The Political Mill
Washington Realized Silence on Third Term
Led Public to Infer He Would Run Again

could not be q candidate for third
term. But he went much further
than that explanation. He set down
solid advice regarding the conduct
of affairs at home and with other
nations. In view Of the situation
confronting the country today, both
at home and abroad, Mr.. Roosevelt
might have a good deal to say.
The impatience with which many
Democratic leaders await q state
ment of the President on the third
term question is quite revealing. In
the first place, many Of them are not
anxious to see the President run
again-that goes for many of them
who today are saying for publica-
ton: "Of course, If the President
wishes 1t. he can have denomination
and we will 60 along with him." In
the second place, some of them have
candidates of their own-or are can
didates themselves-for the presi-
dency.
Factors In Boom.
The third term boom for Roose-
welt is getting impetus from Cd the
omceholders in the administration
who love their jobs and don't want
to give them up; CD the political
leaders who don't know where to 60
what candidate to support as long as
Roosevelt is a possible entry; CD
Democratic members Of Congress,
Senators and Representatives, who
are up for denomination this year;
"a the polls taken from time to time
which show the President far out
distancing all other possible candi-
dates for the Democratic. nomina-
ton.
The prediction has been made on
a number Of occasions that II the
President is not a candidate, Vice
President Garner and Postmaster
General James A. Farley will 60 into
the coming Democratic National
Convention with large blocks of dele
gates pledged to them-that their
combined strength may be more than
majority of the total number of
delegates.
Mr.. Farley-the head of the Demo-
cratic national organization-has q
raft of friends in all parts Of the
country. He has entered in the
Massachusetts, preference primary
and slate of Farley delegates has
been picked. In Connecticut, David
E. Fitzgerald, national committee
man, has promised that the entire
delegation to the national convention
will be pledged to Farley.
Pledge With an "If."
In both States, the leaders have
emphasized the fact that If Presi-
dent Roosevelt runs, then they will
have to be excused from supporting
Mr.. Farley. However, it may be said
quite correctly that some of the
Democratic leaders in these States
who give this lip service to the Presi-
dent do not wish to see the third
term tradition overturned, nor Presi-
dent Roosevelt renominated. They
are just going along because they,
for one reason or another, have not
the courage of their convictions.
They are, apparently, able to rise
above principle and let political
expediency have its way. Indeed. so
far only Vice President Garner has
had the courage to say he will run no
matter what Mr.. Roosevelt does.
And only handful of Democratic
Senators, like Smith of South Caro-
lima, George of Georgia and Van Nuys
of Indiana, have declared themselves
Evening star., 1940-02-22
BoItic-Americon
Society Plans Dinner

To celebrate Esthonian and Lithu.
anian independence days the Baltic
American Society Of Washington
will give dinner at the New Co.
lonial Hotel at pm. Sunday.
The dinner will be followed by .
musicale at which Reino Luoma,
Finnish pianist. and Alexander Wes-
ley-Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian con-
cert tenor, will perform.
Speakers at the dinner will in
clude Senator King of Utah, Jo-
hannes Kaiv, Esthonian Consul
General in New York, and DR.. AL
fred Bilmanis, Latvian Minister.
The entire Lithuanian member
ship of the society will attend high
mass in st. Dominic's Church at
10 am. Sunday in commemoration
of the winning of their independence.
Evening star., 1940-02-22

and ease it through the narrowing
diplomatic channel of the Altmark
crisis.
Regardless Of the merits or de-
merits of the Altmark seizure, DR..
Koht, a prolific writer and Unsuitable
student Of history and diplomacy, is
credited with vast range and depth
of precise knowledge pertinent to
such incidents. Whether or not
Norway can continue to balance on
the knife-edge of neutrality, she is
assured of the best white book in the
postwar European library.
From 1909 to 1887 DR.. Koht was
professor of history at the University
of Oslo. He became foreign minister
in 1885.
He has made several visits to this
country, and in 1881 he was quite
disturbed about us. He said we were
developing caste system. In 1887.
greatly alarmed about the general
drift in Europe, he came over here
and had heart-to-heart talk with
President Roosevelt He earnestly
urged an organization for peace"
Capt. Carter May Be Cleared.
For the first time in AZ years Of
battling to clear his name, it ap-
pears that Capt. Oberlin NJ Carter,
SO years old, now has chance for
exoneration from the Army fraud
charges which sent him to prison
in 1898. Last summer the House
Military Affairs Committee approved
bill to set aside the court martial
and the same committee in the
Senate is now considering it.
In 1889, he was the handsomest
and the smartest lad in West Point.
Only Robert E. Lee had surpassed
him in scholarship. When he was
later stationed at Savannah. an
ecstatic newspaper account of the
day said he had beautiful, curly,
black hair, a handsome flowing
mustache and IS suits of clothes"
He was the matinee idol OF the
Army, when. to the cheers OF the
Southern chivalry. he went to Lon
don to help man the teacups in the
American Embassy. His successor,
Comdr. E. Gillette, jerked him back
to answer questions about the dis
appearance of SO 1000 900 in a Savan-
nah harbor building project. He was
convicted by a court martial held
in New York. the court being en-
barrassed by mobs of excited women
who agreed with Capt. Carter's
charge that he had been framed"
Released by Consolidated News Features)
Evening star., 1940-02-22
Nuzis Promise Hands Off
Red Cross Aid for Poland
BY the Associated Press.

Norman H. Davis, chairman of the
American Red Cross, announced yes
terday the German government has
given assurance that relief supplies
for German occupied Poland would
be used exclusively for the civilian
population and would "at no time
be at the disposal of or claimed by
the German authorities"
American Red Cross representa-
tives will be permitted to go to the
territory, Mr.. Davis said, to receive
and distribute the supplies through
the Polish Red Cross and other
representative Polish and Jewish
agencies, in conjunction with the
German Red Cross.
The Polish Corridor and other
regions which were a part of Ger
many before the World War will not
receive aid, as they have again been
incorporated in the Reich and the
German government early in the
present war declined the American
Red Cross offers of assistance.
Evening star., 1940-02-22

be able mobilize
believe
to do 50.
In connection with this believed
sumner Wee who now his Europe will be received
with codaty Berlin
made the sounding board for this aemp
TO such plan.
The only real truth Of these that
the other would move
must be genuine and sincere 1t
will see through these German
the toaitarian expansion without boodshed
Evening star., 1940-02-22

DclIlS HOG Idr
distant, and the
time actually ar
rived, when your
thoughts m u 8 t
be employed in
designating the
person. who is to
be clothed with
t h a t important
trust, 1t appears
to me proper,
especially as it
may conduce to
q more distinct
expression of the
pu lie voice,
that I should