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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02

Cumberland.
Elections Board
The actual date of elections will
be announced following the nam
ing of the Official Election Board
which will be elected by the
membership next Wednesday i'm
mediately following the closing of
nominations.
In addition. said the local Off.
Gals. the meeting will vote on
some proposed amendments to tho
Bylaws.
In past years the annual cleo.
ton has provided some lively
tussles and the coming ballotins
is not expected TO prove an cA.
ceptiOn. Full democratic pro.
cedures prevail. with open flour
nominations for all Offices and
an elected Elections Beard Ia
assure all eligible members
vote and properly supervised
count.
Only members in good stand
ing. Of course. are eligible for
nomination or entitled TO vote.
Present local Bylaws require a
candidate to obtain a majority Of
all votes cast for the Office to en-
sure election when more than two
candidates compete. Last yesr
this neceSsitated "run-offs" for
several Offices.
IncumbentS
1ncumbents of the principal
Offices during the past year are:
James A. Dundon, president:
Clyde d. Lucas, business manager:
Earl J. Luther. vice-president:
George A. Meyers. Jr.. recording
secretary.
. Executive Board Members are:
Naomi Sheet: NJ. o. Blake: Fred
C. Dick: John Fatkin and William
E. Meagher. Trustees are Edgar
Athey. Charles K. Graham. George
Layman. Allan Morton and E. Van
Meter.
II is expected that the pollin"
date will be set for a day near
the end OF January. A complete
list OF nominees will appear in the
next issue of the VOICE Or
LABOR.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02

letter from a non-existent Mai
colin Hale; Local 1874 Annual
Picnic held at Minke's: Celanese
local opens contract discussions
with management; City Council
passes another illegal ordinance
prohibiting distribution Of news
papers between S p. m. and Q a. m.
Local press keeps mum.
August: Steve Cesnick named
to Mine Examiners Board: Gel
anese management stalls in negO-
tiations: Roy Davy is delegate to
rubber workers national conven-
ton: Willkie wants to meet the
champ: VOICE OF LABOR three
years young.
September: Labor Day parade
In Homecoming: Celanese plant
stoppage and settlement; Union
men fired and later rcinstated
by dictators on Savage River
Dam: local press prints ficti.
tious letters from George ID.
Aiken" non.existent Celanesc
worker.
October: Mysterious radio pro-
grams from Machinists Union Of
ALL. speaker afraid to reveal
name: Western Md. CLIO Council
endorses Roosevelt: Unionists razz
Willkie at Queen City Station:
County School strike ends.
November: Roosevelt reelected.
Cumberland News prepared edi-
torial hits wastebasket: Byron
carries Allegany County: National
CLIO Convention in Atlantic City:
Celanese profits near sky.
December: State CLIO Conven-
ton at Hagerstown; Ralph Beard
named to Draft Appeals Board:
Open CLIO organizing drive il
Hagerstown: O'Conor calls labor
laws parley: Byron declares
against industrial police forces.
1871: CLIO TO press organizing
drive and State Legislative pro-
gram TO make a prosperous New
Year for all.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02

ties to improve wages. hours or
working conditions. Reactionary
local authorities would try to in
woke the penalties Of this bill upon
the ground that labor union ac-
ton resulted in interference with
national defense production.
Would Close Streets
The bill would allow state and
local authorities to declare streets
adjacent to industrial plants I'M
der military control. a provision
that could be used to deny pick
cts. union organizers. leafiet dis
tributors all access to the plant.
This would be a denial of ele-
mentary American rights that only
recently were upheld in a series
OF recent Supreme Court decisions.
he added.
Prevention and punishment OF
sabotage is necessary and desir-
able. Murray pointed out. and has
the full endorsement of organized
labor Sabotage is amply covered
by present Federal law. he pointed
out. and the Attorney General has
announced that he will ask for
amendments to tighten the law at
the next session OF Congress.
In view OF this Federal legis-
lation." he wrote, any proposed
state legislation at the present
time is entirely unnecessary and
carries with it serious danger that
1t will do more harm than good.
The experience in l9l7-l92l
showed that laws Of this kind re-
quire centralized Federal enforce
ment to prevent abuses"
Home Guard Bill
The proposed model" home
guard bill contains equally serious
threats to organized labor. Muir
ray wrote. since 1t leaves these
units completely free from any
civil responsibility for their acts
by making them subject to mill
tary law only"
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
Legislature
COnyenes

Governor Herbert r. oConor
last night delivered his address on
affairs Of the State to the men,
bers of the Maryland General As
sembly and formally open the BIZ
ennial ninety day session.
Earlier in the day he party
caucuseS were held and were fol
lowed at 400 p. m. by the Cover
nor's reception to State Senators
and delegates.
The Governor announced that
he had completed his draft of the
l942-l943 budget and would pre-
sent ii to the Assembly during
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
$2l,247.OOO in
JObless FundHoard

BALTIMORE. Jan. /. - Stats
tics compiled by the Maryland Un-
employment Compensation Board
show that UP TO September last
the benefits paid to the unem-
ployed amounted to 67.s per cent
Of all the Boards receipts from
the beginning Of its administra-
ton. These receipts included. In
addition to the required contribu-
tons from employers. the interest
on the Boards deposits In the
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
Murray Warns On
Sabotage Bills

Philip Murray. national CLIO
president. has sent a letter to all
CLIO Councils and afiiliates urg-
ing them to be vigilant and ex.
press opposition to Model State
Sabotage and State Guard Laws.
Writing on the sabotage bill
President Murray said:
The sabotage provisions OF the
bill are OF such a nature that
they could readily be used to SUP
press strikes or other union activi-
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02

U. S. Treasury. which amounted
to worthwhile sum.
Benefit payments from January
to September Of 1910 were SOS
per cent Of the amount collected
by the Board in this nine-months
period. while there remained in
the reserve fund held in the U. S.
Treasury on November 80. to
meet demands Of the unemployed.
the sum OF sal .247.000
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
Notice!

Important meeting of
the Western Maryland In
dustrial Union Council
will be held Thursday, JAN
uary 9th at 500 p. nj. at
the Rubber Workers Hall.
James b. Collins.
President.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02


When President Roosevelt. a few
years ago. introduced his social
security program. after a national
health survey and pressed upon
Congress and the country its ne
ceSsity 1t was reasonably expected
that we should soon have a nation
wide preventive public. health
program in operation. But en-
trenched privilege. stupidity. and
bigotry were too strong.
The need for a national public
health program for our country is
abundantly established by insti-
tutional. expert and govern
mental reports in these recsnt
years. The statistics OF these
various surveys reveal a condition
that calls loudly for remedy. Large
areas Of the country. rural and
urban. are almost entirely with
out medical care and large rural
areas-to be specific. rs of the
counties of the country-are en-
tirely without public hospitals.
Not only is the medical service
largely wanting in these poverty
stricken areas Of city and coan-
try. but what there is is often
pitifully incompetent. Expert di-
agnosis. skilful nursing. preventive
medicine. sanitary and health in
struction. are almost entirely I'M
known. On each OF these matters
I can be specific to anyone's salts
faction and quote you reports OF
unquestionable authority.
Inadequate
Let us take a rapid view OF the
health of the nation and OF this
inadequacy Of medical service as
revealed in recent government
documents. / shall feel a little
sorry for you. my auditors. as I
lombard you now with astronom-
ical figures. but I cannot spare you
and do my exposition justice.
Here goes. Twenty-Five million
cases Of disabling sickness every
year lasting on an average 81
days: 100000 cases OF the more
serious receive no medical care:
% per cent Of the children in
cities-not in rural areas-but in
cities - suffering from disabling
diseases. received no medical care
whatever. National annual loss
one and quarter billion days
from work. school. and the usual
activities OF life. This Is conserv-
atively estimated as a social money
loss OF ten billion dollars annually.
one-eighth OF the national in
come. Six million persons In the
u. S. are daily unable to go about
their customary occupations. Only
% per cent of even city people get
hospital service during disabling
sickness. You can imagine what
the rural folk get. Out Of every
100 people in the U. S. two are
partially or wholly crippled. de.
formed. or paralyzed-the total
thus handicapped being 1900. 900
persons and this extent Of de-
formity and disablement is largely
due to the lack Of a physicians
timely care. Twenty-three million
people in the u. S.-more than
one in six Of the population-have
some sort Of chronic disease or
permanent ailment. Because Of
% chronic diseases the days lost
to their victims is 1000. 900 each
year at least one-third of the pop
ulation Of our country has wholly
inadequate or incompetent medi-
cal service.
Poverty
What are the factors under
lying these statistics OF made
aiiacY2 First. and doubtless FORE
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02

The Medicos
Heard comment from some
who were present ut the DIR.
Fishbein lecture Of the Forum
that scurvy treatment was
handed out 10 q member Of the
audience who wished TO pose
questions and make statement.
Victim was DR.. Robert T. Ker-
lin, outstanding educator and,
I believe, the only man in Cum
berland with a doctorate Of
philosophy Of Yale.
Some Of the F0rumites have
said that DIR. Kerlin had DIR.
Fishbein on the run - hence
the suppression. The incident
doesn't sit well. Perhaps the
sponsors would like 70 explain.
For What?
Some Of the boys at the union
hall were talking about the re-
ported proposal of Commissioner
Orr to license bookmakers. They
were puzzled at the suggestion and
asked why do the Cumberland
bookies need permits when they
are doing so nicely without them?
Others indicated that II the
Commissioner gave a little atten-
ton to the illegal handbill ord
nance and the anti-picketing ord
nance he might be able to say
he is q union man who has the
furtherance of union principles
at heart. Vox Pop agrees with
them.
The Parties
Local 1874 Christmas Party ap-
peared to have brought out half
Of the children Of the county and
at Barton the United Mine Work
ers treated TOO children from the
community and whereabouts.
It Is reported that the most
elaborate lighting effects in the
Celanese plant decorations was
the illuminated rat trap under
the Electric shop Christmas Tree.
b. e. o. Traffic
A check by the City OF Cum
berland shows that the B. g. o.
Baltimore Street crossing means
the blocked and open" crossing.
It is surprising TO find the check
showing the crossing is closed UP
an average Of 81 per cent during
the ten hours between 8 A. M.
and 6 p. M.
For an organization which does
not pay State taxes the b. 81 o.
Il certainly getting away with a
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
Act: regulation Of private pn!ic"
and changes in the Wora1I
Conversation Act.

Employer groups have a..
expressed hostility TO any l!bur
ization OF the joblcsS Law, a" !
have eyes OH using the huge hJa.'d
of the Unemployment Compel
ton Board for a reduction n
taxes. The usual opposition Il"
the labor relations and wages ALI
hours bill is expected.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02

most. tremendously big ard
monstrous one. Poverty: the sec
ond is almost as monStrous. and
that's Ignorance; and the third
is more and most monstrous. for il
is utterly inexcusable. and that is
the failure Of the medical pro-
feSSion in its one duty: TO keep the
people well by preventive medi-
cine and adequate care. Well
take these up in order. And note
first that We have here a notori
Gus vicious circle! Poverty is the
underlying condition OF ignorance
and ignorance of poverty: and
pay 'ly and ignorance of sickness.
and sickness OF poverty and SO on.
Write these three words Poverty.
Ignorance. Sickness. around a cir
Gle and you have an amending
series OF courses and effects-the
most vicious of all vicious circles.
Let us look for one moment at the
poverty OF this wealthiest of all
nations.
In the United States today 40
100000 persons-one-third Of the
population-live in families with
incomes under $500 year. Studies
Of current living costs make clear
that when the average family CT
four is supported by this sum, life
Is lived ut an emergency level. II
sickness. strikes. doctor bills and
medicines mean cutting down"
on food. clothing. or shelter.
These 100000 do not get
medical care - scarcely the pre-.
tense Of it-except a modicum OF
charity attention. AS for an ac-
curate statement permit me 20
quote DR.. Winslow. Professor Of
Public Health of Yale University:
THE economically less for.
tunate half OF our people actu.
ally receive only less than half
Of the physicians care, only
three.quarters of the hospital
care, only one.fifth OF the dental
care. and only one.tenth OF the
special nursing care utilized
and wisely utilized on a higher
economic level. That Is the In
dictment Of our present made.
quate system"
Social Burden
The economic system that has
produced our billions OF wealth
has produced also this unacceptable
arraignment OF its beneficence:
Millions of families. from ten 10
twenty million. in such destitu-
ton that they cannot afford
health: Malnutrition. or in plain
Anglo Saxon. bad food and too
little. wretched novels for home.
cheap clothes and nasty. this is
their lot. Poverty written upon
their wretched habitations and
their more wretched faces and
upon all that Is theirs: Stuntcd
children. underfed and deformed
adults: half-alive people. inefh-
cient. a liability and cost to So
ciety: socially worthless members
Of any community-all their po-
tentialities OF happiness and use
fulness crushed. And the Amer.
lean Way. we are told.
Now. I can expose the ignor-
mace that goes with this poverty
by a few more statistics. We as
q people spend twice or thrice as
much on cosmetics as on medi-
cine: That is. II we can't grow a
complexion. wen buy It at the S
and 10 cent store. We spend
$l25 100000 on quacks OF all
kinds; $500. 100000 for patent
medicines: and 81 for prevention
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
POTP0URRI by vox pop

From talk along Baltimore Street gather that
ment is underway have the Easter decorations which
used for Christmas left up until the appropriate time next
Easter Il has possibilities at that
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
Election Boz 'tO
Name Polling Date
AndArrangements
TWO CENTS

James a. Dundon. president and Clyde d. Lucas business
manager yesterday informed the VOICE OF LABOR that
nominations of candidates the Annual Elections of Local
674 will be made the regular membership meeting next
Wednesday, January g. 94l 81 North Mechanic Street.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
The Case for Health Insurance
BY DR.. ROBERT T. KERLIN

BY DR. ROBERT r KERLN
is
The second will IN
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-01-02
Poverty

What are the factors under
lying these statistics of made
quacy? First. and doubtless fore
Evening star., 1941-07-11
Lady Halifax
Continued From First Pageo

Counsels Offices and went to the
cell block in the basement to see
the bull pen and the black
Maria
She saw it all and commented
that administration of justice here
and in England is very similar"
Il was very impressed" she said
"snd while I am not deep student
of the law I think the operation OF
English and American courts is
very similar"
She said she had not presided over
many cases in England having only
recently been appointed.
Earlier this week. she visited with
Judge Fay Bentley of Juvenile Court
and with Judge Ellen Raedy and
Nathan Cavton of Municipal Court
Lady Halifax explained that in
her court she handles much the
same type of cases as are handled in
these inferior courts here. passing
judgment on criminal, civil and
even traffic cases.
Court Clerk Walter Bramhall con-
Quoted her today on her tour of the
court. In the party was Thomas j
McFadden. a law partner here OF
Col. William J. Donovan. who said
he had been with Lady Halifax on
her tour of the courts and also OF
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
offices Wednesday. Also along were
daughter -in-lav, and Mrs c. o
Harvey OF England, house guest OF
Lady Halifax.
Evening star., 1941-07-11
Red Army in Asia Reported
Turning Japan Southward

BIZ the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. July 1.-THE Jap
anese government has decided to
stay clear of the German Russian
war for the present. but may make
a move against French Indo-China
in the near future. reliable persons
arriving from Toxic reported today.
These sources said the Japanese
have been influenced in their policy
by estimates that Russia still has
80 divisions on her Asiatic front. IL
of them mechanical. and despite
the Russian Japanese neutrality
pact has moved but three divisions
west.
Fourteen of these divisions were
said to be concentrated at Vladivos.
tok, seven in Outer Mongolia and
the remainder near the Manchukuo
frontier.
Despite the intensity of the war
in Eastern Europe, it was reported
that Russia still has a sizabl air
force in easy range of Japan's vul-
nerable centers of population.
The Japanese are reported to have
but 220, 900 men in IL divisions in
Manchukuo, only two of them mech
anized.
Evening star., 1941-07-11
Beer Business Nets
S14,598
Profit in I Months
Wholesale Receipts
Amount to Sl30,662
In May and June

A net profit of s14.59S.78 from the
first two months operation of the
new wholesale beer business of the
Control Board was announced yes
terday by the boards accounting di-
vision.
Total sales for May and June ran
to sl30,662l4 with gross profit of
s20.9l5. Operating expenses were
listed at s7,236O6.
1t was said that dispensary sales
by the boards wholesale beer branch
during the two-month period were
lower than would have been expected
under ordinary circumstances as the
majority of the retail dealers had
been fully supplied with beer stocks
by private wholesalers who were
forced out of business by adoption of
the county monopoly plan.
However. it was said that the
figure could be used in estima ting
a yearly profit of ss7.5s2 since pc
riods of increased sales would be
offset by off-season periods. A
profit of approximately $4,000 was
predicted by officials in support OF
the county beer sale plan before the
county Democratic Congress and
General Assembly.
The plan was worked out by
Ralph H. Chase, former executive
secretary to the president of the
board of county commissioners, and
now in charge of the operation of
the countys wholesale beer unit.
Evening star., 1941-07-11

French lines south of Beirut, Leb-
anon, was launched at 3 pm. yes
terday and the latest reports said
fighting still was raging, an earlier
dispatch from Vichy declared. Com
munications from Syria, however,
have been SLOW
The French said they were hold
ing against the assault and reported
shooting down four British planes
and damaging another at cost to
themselves of only one Vichy said
the British had advanced to the
outskirts of Beirut.
In Damascus British military
spokesman lest night asserted that
an Australian detachment had ar
rived in the immediate suburbs of
Beirut.
Reply Delayed in Transmission.
A London source said the terms
of the British reply to the French
armistice request were DELAYED in
delivery because of difficulties of
communication.
The Dentz request. the source
said. first was forwarded to Wash
ington by the United States Consul
General at Beirut. Lebanon. From
Washington. il was sent to London.
The British Governments reply
was returned to Washington. but it
was found impossible to communi-
cate with Beirut.
Washington. this source said. then
tried to telephone United States
Ambassador William D. Leahy in
Vichy. but that proved in vain. The
reply was cabied then in code to
the American Embassy in Yichy.
Closing in on Beirut.
The British Near East command in
Cairo reported British forces still
were closing in on Beirut and ad-
vancing also toward Aleppo and
HONS. the only other important
positions still held by Vichy forces
in Syria.
A British column moving west
ward from Palmyra was acknowl-
edged by the French TO be about &c
miles from Hons, junction of rail-
ways leading TO Beirut from the
north. Tripoli and Aleppo. A French
Information Office dispatch said an
other ITO British prisoners. includ-
ing 10 officers, had been taken or
the Damascus-Be road.
Beirut Declared Open City.
The British reply had been dis
patched but not received when the
French official news agency said the
demand of the British commander
in Syria. Gen Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson. that Beirut be declared an
open city. had been met halfway.
The agency said Beirut had been
declared an open city, and said the
defending forces outside it would
be sent to the north without fighting
inside the town if they could not
hold their present positions to the
south.
The French indicated they would
avoid the use of artillery around
the beleaguered capital.
Evening star., 1941-07-11
Fort Meade Sets Up
New Repair Agency;
Division Plans Show
ToIent Search Begun;
Infantry Regiment
Demonstrates Weapons
By the Associated Press


FORT GEORGE G.. MEADE, Md
July 11.-Col Gilbert NJ Allen, Fort
Meade post commander. yesterday
announced the opening of new pos,
clothing and equipage repair shop.
Commonly referred to as the &C
&, E. Shop" it functions in four units
shoe repair, clothing repair, tent
age and canvas overhauling and the
rebuilding and renovation of mat
tresses and pillows.
In addition to the necessary ad-
ministrative and supervisory person
mel. the shop employees % shoe re-
pairmen. % seamStresses, tentage
repairmen and 4 mattress makers.
The ll5th Infantry, commanded
by Col. D. John Markey. staged a
demonstration of infantry weapons
for 500 r. o. T. c. students under
going summer training here
The weapons demonstrated. be-
sides the MI rife, were the light
machine gun, the Comm mortar and
the 8l-mm. mortar.
A talent hunt will get under way
Monday evening in the 10th Field
Artillery recreation hall. Capt. Sam
uel r. Turner, division morale officer,
announced.
All soldiers who can sing. dance,
produce rabbits from hats or other
wise entertain are urged to partici-
pate in the talent contest. A civilian
master of ceremonies will handle the
show.
Winners of regimental contests
will participate in 29th Division
show.