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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23

which is not far from southern
CALIFORNIA; famous race track,
Santa Anita.
This proximity is great con-
venience to manager Richard
son, as he can sometimes pre-
vail upon the race track man.
agement to give his baseball
players employment during the
Winter racing season, thus
keeping his team intact and
abating extreme salary demands
on him from the players.
Manager Richardson has been
known to pay a star baseball
player as high as 81 a game.
Only recently he read in
some perturbation that there
was talk that the Yanks were
going to pay 100000 or some
fantastic sum for Johnny Lin
dell of Newark, who is one of
manager Richardson's best play
ers in the Winter.
The manager feared that talk
of all this money might arouse
Johnny's cupidity and cause
him to demand SIS a game with
the Merchants this Winter.
MANAGER RICH ARDSON
V1 raises his salary roll and
the rest of the overhead by
passing cigar box among the
Gus tom ers, who contribute
whatever they fell that the en-
tertainment is worth.
Part of manager Richardson's
overhead is buying a case of
beer for his players, and if
there is any deficit he makes
up the difference out of his
own pocket.
He also pays the umpires. One
time he had Hap O'Connor.
famous as Americas guest. and
ordinarily Hap would have re-
ceived 81, the Empirical scale,
but his decisions against the
Merchants were so villainous
that Manager Richardson re-
fused to pay him a dime, thus
setting a precedent that might
well be followed by other man.
ayers.
Hap was not so much put out
by the reflection upon his UNI
pirical ability as he was by the
fact that they also refused to
give him anv beer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
Accidents at Home

LONE accidents in the United States cost 5000 lives
during 1940 compared with only $500 deaths in
industrial plants Detroters should do their share in
home accident prevention. l.
Falls alone accounted for 5000 of last years home
fatalities while $500 persons lost their lives in home fires
If there are any broken steps leading to Easements
porches of your home fix them If the bottom step
is not readily visible paint it white.
Spontaneous combustion is the of many fires
in homes If you unvenlated closets to store oily
rags rags used in painting newspapers and magazines
you may be the victim of such a blaze.
Watch the drafts your furnace to avoid
firing and overheatng Regular cleaning of furnace and
ue of also prevent fires Check automatic
heating controls periodically And don't leave unat
tended fire in your fireplace unless it is adequately
screened
the preservation of your home-and maybe your life!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
City Editor With Hobby
Found at Last by Runyon
BY DAMON RUNYON

JAMES u. RICHARDSON, city
editor of the Los Angeles
Examiner, is a man with a
hobby. This is unusual for a
city editor. AS a class, city
editors do not have hobbies un-
less you call work a hobby.
Speaking for one, we vote in
the negative. Work is work. A
hobby is relaxation.
One of the few hobby men
we encountered in our harrow
ing experiences among city edi-
tors was Delos Avery. now on
the staff of the Chicago Herald
American.
He was city editor of the
Denver Republican years ago.
and his hobby. at that time was
a diversion called diavolo. You
tossed a little ball up in the air
and endeavored to catch it on
a string, as we remember.
nELOS was up on the roof
~ of the Republican building
one afternoon indulging in his
hobby, having dispatched all his
reporters about their arduous
duties, when Crawford Hill. the
owner of the paper, came look
ing for his city editor.
Some one told him the city
editor was on. the roof, and
owner Hill went up there and
was greatly surprised to observe
Delos committing the rites Of
diavolo, as the Republican was
a most conservative publication.
He accepted Delos resignation
and thereafter carefully inter-
rogated applicants for his city
editorship as to their hobbies,
if any.
Gene Fowler used to play the
saxophone when he was manag-
ing editor of the New York
American, but of course a man.
aging editor is different from
a city editor and besides is the
saxophone a hobby? Some claim
il is a vice.
MIR. RICHARDSON'S hobby
ISI is managing a semi-profes-
sional baseball team viii h
plays on Sunday. his day off.
His team is the Arcadia
Merchants of Arcadia Oaks,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
Watch While YouWaIk'

HE Traffic Safety Association of Detroit in its first
quarterly report has advanced several helpful sug
gestions for reducing traffic toll. .~
Foremost of the suggestions, although not included in
the II points in the program is one advocating strong
ordinance to prohibit jaywaking. This careless habit
has been major cause of traffic mishaps
The City of Cleveland, which has been of the
safest large cities in America for the past few years.
tickets Jaywakers much the parking vioators.
In Washington D. c., the public is trafficconscous
that even civilians halt woud-be jay-walkers and make
them wait for the light.
Detroit is way behind other large cities this respect
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
By BENJAMIN DE CAsSERE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

THOUGHTZAPOPPIN:
L Suppose, by a miracle, Rus
STA should conquer Germany and,
by series of revolutions"
should conquer Europe for COM
munism?
Suppose she should do IL with
English and American help?
The answer: Civil war in the
United States and England, the
end. of which ! do not care TO
predict.
A TALL. scholarly-looking San
"A Francisco-born Chimes
serves me in a chop suey restau-
rant. On his middle finger he
wears an enormous Jade ring
that carries a squatting Buddha
on its surface.
looked into his wise face. a
replica. in its smile and serene
indifference, of Da Vinci's Mona
Lisa. and asked him what he
thought of the war up to date.
His face rounded into a moony
smile as he said:
who Is there can make
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
Union Chiefs !
Blasted
By Pe'gIer
He Says They FIaunt !
, Workers Rights Z
BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER

A ND Furthermore "
- I was arguing against the
use of the term labor leader"
to designate the professional,
political unioneer and the word
labor" to designate a union.
and this is the second half Of
the story.
And furthermore, you confuse
the issue and you make it ap-
pear that the workers, them
selves, are taking action in their
own interest when the reverse
is the case, if you carelessly APP
ply the word labor" to union.
LOR instance. that memorable
L North American strike in
California was a union strike,
but il was clearly shown that
labor" wasn't striking.
The workers were patriotic
Americans, but the union was in
the hands of Communists and
the Communists at that time
were calling the present war an
imperialist, capitalist enterprise
because Josef Stain was an ally
Of Adolf Hitler.
The Communists were doing
their damnedest all over the
United States to sabotage the
effort to put this country n
readiness for war and this strike
was in line with that program.
but the workers had nothing to
do with il.
II was a Moscow strike against
the American nation, not a Ia
Dor" strike, as the workers
proved as soon as Presidents
Roosevelt sent the soldiers down
to chase the Muscovite goons.
President Roosevelt didn't
break the strike.
He gave labor" a chance to
work and when that was done
labor" went back to the job.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
Shoot the Works

IF YOU have son. relative, friend in the army-or
you are just patriotic citizen who thinks something
should be done to boost army moralehis will interest
you
It's the Shoot the Works ball to be given by group
of pubic-spirited Detroit in the Hotel Statler
November II.
Proceeds will be used to furnish entertainment equip
ent such radios motion picture projectors etc. for
the soldiers Forts Custer Wayne Wood and Sheridan
In these four forts the majority of Detroit seectees
quartered.
You may feel the "Shoot the Works" group is dupi-
eating the work of the 1t isn't-
The USO is constructing recreation centers COM
pletey outside camps sometimes far away 30 miles
The "Shoot the Works group will provide recreation
facilities in the camps themselves where they desper
atsy needed.
At present, thousands of soldiers have absolutely
nothing to do when their days work is over and it is
impossible, in many cases, to hitch-hke to the USO
centers.
The boys can't be blamed if their morale suffers if
they feel they have been forgotten the people they
defending.
We have had balls in Detroit recently for large
number of reasons But this is the first ball to help
own soldiers.
The committee hopes to raise enough money so it
won't have ask help again. wants Detroit to Shoot
the Works"
Let's do it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
BAERING DOWN ON TIE NEWS:
Shoot NElA Hide
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Declarations of pretty much like the ethics of
moose hunting. First you shoot your and then
hide his carcass until the opens.
Victory is difficult thing TO achieve. Japan finding
out In China wrote that 20 ago when said you
defeat an army but you cannot defeat people"
In uiumphs Of today you only your rabbit
but you must dye it
There is something ominous in the Something like
dinner music waited from a canniba village in Africa.
But like treste bridge will il in our
stride.
I'm still optimist though I'm fading bit like the
window shades facing south.
By New. r1 y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Oct. 70, 1910

Hitler and General Franco of
Spain hold a conference at Hen
daye on the French border.
.
Reports from Vichy say the
French will not fight against
Britain and that they will not
relinquish the French fleet to
Germany.
United States sends two
squadrons OF pursuit planes 10
the Philippines.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23

MIR. RICHARDSON'S hobby
I'I is managing a semi-profes-
sional baseball team VIII c h
plays on Sunday, his day off.
His team is the Arcadia
Merchants of Arcadia Oaks,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23

DISING prices, confiscatory
IL taxes. with no end in sight,
they can understand and expect.
But the increasing denials to
them of materials, transporta-
ton. power with which to con-
duct their business, even on a
skeleton basis. threaten a SEN
tence of economic death--to
them and many of their en-
ployes.
This is much harder for any
body to understand, and the
stern necessity for il, If il exists.
has simply not been sold" to
them.
Belatedly Mr.. Oldum has been
called in 10 preserve the small
businessman" by spreading de-
Tense orders. Anybody who
knows anything about war pro-
duction is aware that this is a
worthy but almost worthless
gesture.
60 LITTLE sub-contracting
~ can produce efficient results.
So many-by far the bulk of
these people can't take defense
business. They are not equipped
for il.
II is long and difficult task
TO change over a plant from one
type of production to something
different.
Neither can employees trained
in one speciality be easily
adapted to another. In addition.
BY far the majority. such as
retailers. wholesalers and non
metal working shops can't take
this kind of work, at all.
MIR. ODLUM, while being one
Nl of our ablest promoters in
finance, especially of public util-
tiles, has no experience in this
type Of industry or administra-
ton.
No comfort has been found
there. He seems TO be as be-
wildered as the dazed people
who look TO him rather hope
lessly for help.
How long can you do this sort
of thing and how far can you
go? 1 don't know. but people
who talk about so billions of
war production annually and
have no answer 10 the necessi-
tous requirements of our civilian
population except 'let them do
without" would do we'll TO pay
some heed 10 this situation.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
IN THE A4lis-Chalmers strike
u Labor" was in the same fix

IN THE A4lis-Chalmers strike
i labor" was in the same fix.
That also was kremlin
strike against the defenses Of
the United States and the work.
ers were against it but the Com
munists, made American Labor"
join in.
In the Kearny shipyard thing,
again. labor" was acting under
coercion against its own in
terests.
There, the unioneers realized
that they could not keep in line
that proportion of members who
have been frightened into the
union, so they demanded sorne-
thing that they called union
maintenance" which meant that
those who were in the union,
whether voluntarily or under
duress, would have to stay in.
THUS they wanted the United
l. States government to pro-
tect the majority which they
claimed so that when bargaining
time came around they would
still have the bargaining power.
Labor" was TO be deprived
OF the right TO select future
bargaining agent OF its own
preference, and thus labor" like
the employer and the public,
was the victim of the strike.
say ii is a mistake TO call
the first Monday in September
labor" day.
As matter OF fact, labor ,
has many friends among the en-
ployers who are more mindful
and guardful. If such a word as
that there be. of 'labor's" rights
than many of the men whom
we carelessly persist in calling
labor leaders"
Would you call John Lewis
the leader" or the car of those
union coal miners in Pennsyt-
vania who went out on strike
against him because he slapped
an extra tax on their earningsf
Some employers try 10 help
the workers in their struggles to
escape the clutches of the
unioneers but the law is against
il.
A ND II you take a look at mo
"A ranks of labor" in the big
parade on that holiday in
September, whether in New
York or Los Angeles or Seattle,
you will notice many dark and
brooding faces because these
people all are marching under
orders.
They have to march Just as
Mussolini's blackshirts hGve TO
turn out and whoop f>r the
Duce under orders.
II is true that labor" marches
in the labor" day parade but
only because workers fear the
boss unioneers will fine them big
money for failure TO turn out
and may even pick UP their
union cards and bar them from
employment.
Thus they have to make q
demonstration of strength for
their own conquerors when they
would much prefer to be holiday
ing with their families or, posi-
bly,, getting plastered at the
tavern.
Or If the furriers or paintersA
or garment workers donate a
whole days pay to the cause of
the allies, including Russia, do
you think that is voluntary act
of labor? -
II so, you are nuts.
could give you many more
Illustrations but these will give
you a rough idea.
The proposition is that you
give aid and comfort TO the OBJ
pressors of labor" when you
speak of unions indiscriminately
as labor" and the boss union
GERS as labor leaders"
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Oct. 70, 1916

British forces north Of the
Somme advance against Ger
mans toward Bapaume.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-17
NECESSITY HAS
FORCED JAPAN
NT0 WAR MOVE:
BY SCOTT NEARING

Economic forces play major role
in international affairs-driving ma
tions to adopt policies that seem ut
terly irrational if considered out OF
their economic setting. The nazi in
vasion of Russia is one example. The
Japanese attack upon the U. S. is an
other.
On the face of things, the Japanese
stood to gain their objective (the
domination of East Asia) by playing
waiting game and acting only when
circumstances promised sure sue
cess. Such, indeed, has been the
Japanese strategy during half cen
fury.
Each advance into Chinese territory
was timed to correspond with British
American involvement in home af-
fairs. Hainan Island and French In
do-China were occupied with tradi-
tional declarations of Japan's Pacific
intentions. In December 1871, how
ever, the Japanese stepped into the
center of the ring and deliberately
the U. S.
The timing of the move seems to
be singularly inauspicious. Since the
invasion of Manchuria in 1881 the
Japanese armies have been fighting
almost constantly and the Japanese
masses have been living and working
under hardships and restrictions of
war economy. The China incident
has involved four years of exhausting
war and requires the presence on the
Asiatic mainland of huge Japanese
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-17

Pass Resolution Supporting the President,
Buys $4,000 in Defense Bonds and Adopts
Proposal for Six Day Week During the
Emergency.

! BUTTE, December 1.-THE answer
tack was made at last nights regular
meeting of the Butte Miners Union
which unanimously adopted resolu-
tion pledging full support to President
Roosevelt in his announced determi-
nation that the fascist gangsters, who
have banded together to make war
upon the human race, will be de-
feated. The resolution, introduced by
the Unions international executive
board member Bill Mason and signed
clares that the Japanese attack and
the subsequent declaration of war Is
a planned move of the Rome-Berlin-
Tokyo axis, and that the existence of
of fascism in any part of the world
menaces the peace and progress of
all democratic peoples.
Putting teeth into their resolution
pledging all-out support to defeat fas-
cism, the miners adopted a supple
mentary recommendation of their sec
retary-treasurer, Iosy Mason, calling
for the immediate purchase of $4,000
worth of U. S. Defense bonds.
The meeting heard report of the
unions contract committee on a pro-
posal to place the Butte mines on a
continuous operation basis with min
ers working a six-day week for the
duration of the national emergency.
Under this plan all members of the
union will work six days, according
to Jim Byrne, president of the Miners,
who was one of the officers present
with the contract committee discuss
ing the proposal with ACM officials
earlier in the day. No one is to be
laid off. The international board
member and other officers warned,
however, that this action alone will
not adequately increase the produc-
ton of copper for national defense.
They called for the establishment of
a local industry council composed of
representatives of the union and the
Of the company to work for
the improvement of working condi- !
tons with view to enable a greater
output. The heads of the union will |
meet today to discuss further steps |
in this connection.
Board Member Mason reported to |
he meeting that he has called con-
ference of the officers of the 81 locals
and auxiliaries of the International |
Union of Mine, Mill C Smelter Work |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-17
REVELATION
ON RELIGION
in u. S. S. R.

DETROIT. - (FP) - Notions about
the terrible state of religion in the
Soviet Union, industriously circulated
by the newspapers since 1917, came
In for an overhauling December s
when the chief of the Russian Ortho-
dox Church in America came to De-
troit to carry the new gospel.
He is the Exarch Metropolitan Ben
jamin, directly under the Metropolitan
Serge Of Moscow, chief of the church
in the USSR.
Benjamin said there is no persecu-
ton of religion in the Soviet Union.
"The Orthodox Church of Russia" he
said, holds prayer meetings, com
memorates the memory of the saints,
observes church holidays and per-
forms every function of churches
everywhere. People who are so in
clined are baptized, married and die
In the church"
What some quarters abroad regard
as persecution, he said, is the soviet
law that requires priests to pay taxes
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-17
The OBSERVERS
COLUMN
By HI BINDER

WITH THE SUDDEN outbreak of
war the political situation in Helena
took a back seat for the numerous
preparations taken to insure the pro-
lection of life and property in Mon
tana. The treacherous and brutal at
came as complete surprise in most
quarters, but precautions taken early
and defense measures well-established
were Immediately effective.
THE WAR HAS the complete sup
port of united Montana There are
many citizens who have felt for a
long time that the policy pursued in
Washington could not but lead to
war, and for that reason when various
steps were taken such as the passage
of the lease-lend act, these same peo-
pie opposed them vigorously realizing
that such legislation would lead to
war and that If we gave our weapons
away we would not have them to
fight with when the time came.
Now however, that feeling has COM
pletely vanished. We are in the war
for the duration and victory is our
goal. Montanans are just as patriotic
as any other group of people In this
country, and we can be counted on to
do more than our share. The latest
figures show that whereas Montana
Is 10th in population she is 9th in
the number of her citizens serving In
the armed forces of the nation. There
are some 6,723 men in the service at
the present time. In the sale of De-
tense bonds, Montana ranks well
above her neighbors, and in every
CONTINUED ON Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-17

FARMERS IN
POOR HEALTH
Like Low Income Workers
In Industry, the Low-Income
Farmer and His Children
Suffer From Malnutrition;
Physical Needs Preventable.

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Only four
out of every hundred low-income farm
people are in first-rate physical con-
dition, the U. s. Department Of Agri-
culture said here, on the basis of a
health survey covering 2,480 Farm
Security Administration borrowers
and their families in 81 typical coun-
ties in II states. A total of 11,947
men, women, and children were ex-
amined.
"These findings throw an entirely
different light ON the traditional pic
ture that all farm people are husky"
said DR.. r. G. Williams, senior sur
geon of the U. S. Public Health Serv-
ice and chief medical officer for the
FSA.
"The survey show that years of
poor diet and low income take their
toll in rural health. The arresting
fact brought out by the survey is that
many of the physical defects of these
people could have been prevented or
Clinical diagnoses revealed that one
child out of every IL under Is years
of age suffered from malnutrition.
One out of every II had ricketts, or
showed after-effects Of ricketts,.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-17
CONFERENCE OF
CAPITAL-LABOR
IS CALLED
CLIO and AFL Each to Have
Six Representatives and
Industry to Have IL With a
Moderator and Vice Moder-
ator To Be Appointed.

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-Labor rep
atives Of industry here December II
in an effort to formulate industrial
relations policies for the duration of
the war, the White House announced
December H.
Invitations have been sent to the
AFL and CLIO asking them each to
name six spokesman. Twelve spokes-
men for industry will be selected by
William L. Bait, chairman of the Bust
ness Advisory Council of the Depart
ment of Commerce, while the Presi-
dent will name moderator and vice
moderator.
Immediately following receipt of the
invitation, the CLIO called meeting
of its executive board, consisting of
the heads of all its affiliates. The
AFL has meeting of its executive
council scheduled for December Is to
be followed by meeting of the presi-
dents of it's affiliated organizations.
"The first and essential objective
of the conference" the White House
announcement said, twill be to reach
a unanimous agreement to prevent the
interruption of production by labor
disputes during the period Of war.
1T is not expected that there will
be any hesitation on the part of either
labor or industry to accept this basic
condition of the nations safety"
The announcement added, "The
conferees doubtless will find it nee
essary to agree upon machinery by
which these disputes may amicably
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