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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09

TO Britain by sea, and said that
these ranged from 40 per cent to
more than half. He then quoted a
high defense official as saying,
they were nowhere near 40 per
cent and were getting less constant
ly."
However, it was still apparent
that Britain preferred to send
American aircraft across the ocean
by air rather than on the water, and
the President backed up this effort
by announcing he was asking for a
survey to get all the commercial
air transports possible, presumably
to ferry the pilots back and forth
who were in the transatlantic ship
ping of warplanes to Britain.
That this was big industry and
getting bigger was seen by the new
revelations of the prices being paid
to American pilots for doing the fer
rying. Some of these salaries were
quoted at 81 500 trip, which didn't
seem so much, but it was a good
deal for days flying, and some
of the bombers were making it in
IL hours.
Of course, there was the wait be-
fore you got back to earn another
81 500, but the pilots we're getting
astronomical waiting salaries" as
well. But there were signs that as
American production was stepped
up, this business was beginning to
get out of hand, and that there was
a woeful shortage of planes capable
of bringing the pilots back to Amer
lea.
There also was revealed another
British immediate request for a
quantity of mosquito torpedo boats,
and also the fact that American sup
ply was short, for Secretary Knox
said, wen let them have some,
and more as we finish them up"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
CONVOY:
Argument

The anti-convoy and pro-convoy
Tight in the senate picked up when
the Tobey and Nye resolutions were
given formal consideration in COM
mittee.
Both resolutions we're defeated in
committee, but only by a vote of 49,
10, and this showed what strength
the non-interventionists had gained.
The resolution would have tied the
Presidents hands most effectively,
In the question of using the Amer
lean navy to protect shipments to
Britain and other defending democ-
racies.
Both would have demanded that
the President get congressional APP
proval for any conveying that might
be done, and pledged congress to
give or withhold it within IA days.
This would have slowed the pace
of the naval commander-in-chie to a
walk. There was little repetition,
however, of the charges that con-
voying already was being done.
Senator Nye, in some of his
speeches, began to give figures of
U. S. losses of equipment en- route
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
WNU Service, 1343 II. Street N. W.,
Washington, ID. CO.

""Shhistou, ~. Vel
WASHINGTON. - America faces
its second crisis under Roosevelt.
Whether America knows il or not
and by the time this reaches print
the last doubt may be removed-the
President knows it now. The first
crisis was the peak of the economic
panic. The present one is the valley
of allied fortunes.
The WPA and the MIRA were two
OF the institutions which the Presi-
dent created to meet our economic
problems in 1888. Since then many
an outstanding member of the New
Deal palace guard has had his hour
to strut and fret upon the stage and
then be heard no more. General
johnson and his blue eaglc-now
mere columnist; Donald Richberg,
his successor, back with his law
books; the professors, Raymond Mo-
ley, once in the state department, to-
day behind an editorial desk in the
seat of the scorner, and Rexford
Guy Tugwell, still loyal, but silent,
partner of industry We might
60 on.
But two men, one veteran of
MIRA, another of WPA, have been
chosen to sit at the right and left
hands of the Chief in crisis II:
Harry Hopkins, head of the program
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
Early Morning
In q Nations Capital

Six o'clock in the morning.
From a Saturday to q Monday
spring changed to summer In Wash
ington, buds turned to blooms and
bare branches burst out into full
leaved green.
In a city. the first walk under
this newly spread canopy of green
is strange delight. There is
nothing quite like 1t. Leafy curtains
shut out the harsh, cold stone and
steel about you as a drawn shade
shuts out the night from a lamp-lit
room.
Washington does not wake early.
AT six in the morning there are SO
few people on the streets that the
folks you pass seem as friendly as
neighbor you meet on a lonely
lane. The red and green traffic
lights still have their eyes closed
and only the yellow bulbs blink Sleep
lily at you as they have all night. But
these days the sun is well I'D and
as you walk west to east the light
strikes you square in the eyes. 1t
always reminds me OF a prairie
town and that always reminds me
OF how was reminded OF nv prairie
town when we used to be marching
eastward In the dawn Of a murky
French morning when the sun sud
denly burst on us and made us long
for the old, wide-brimmed cam
paign hat instead of the little cloth
rag OF an overseas cap. You don't
see many campaign hats any more.
AS l came down the avenue this
morning almost-empty buses passed
me. l saw colored man watering
a pathetic little patch Of lawn in
front OF his two-story cottage. The
rest OF the family we're still asleep.
the bedroom windows were open. /
saw an old-fashioned ornate oil
lamp in one.
All rooms seem to be bedrooms in
Washington. The fine old resi-
dences are turned into roorninp
nouses-many OF them-and early in
the morning the windows are open.
In an hour thousands of govern
ment workers will be hurriedly
dressing behind carelessly drawn
shades, then jamming the now
empty buses with all the roomy
comfort of steers in a cattlecar.
Between old, transmorrified resi-
dences rise the new apartments.
Here and there are a few that
sprang into being when 1917 filed
the city with war workers.
They are frequently impressive
looking on the outside, built to sup-
gest a French chateau. Inside. tiny
little boxes of rooms with low cell
lngs that the third floor windows can
hardly see over the stills of the sec
ond floor Of the residences next
door
But the modern apartments that
are springing up like dandelons
these days do not go in for French IA
cades. They are the same boxes in
SIDE. Outside, there are ugly fiat
walls with plenty Of glass, the whole
entrance is glass They look too
much like modern Moscow to please
my old-fashioned eyes.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09

Rural Boys Make Good
As Presidents Advisers
Harry Hopkins and Leon Henderson Have
FDR'S Confidence in Policies Vital
To U. S. Welfare.
BY BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator

during the World war, with the Asso-
citation for the Improvement of the
Poor in New York, where he got to
know Governor Roosevelt. and then
with the relief organization of the
federal government
Hopkins. lean. slight, amiable,
grew up with the New Deal.
So did Leon Henderson but he
reached the inner circle by more
roundabout way He is thick-set
and dynamic and he clustered into
the confidence of General Johnson In
the MIRA, as an economist who could
punctuatc his theories with the salty
eXplctives that appealed to Old Iron
Pants.
When the blue eagle folded it's
wings, Henderson plowed his own
furrow and got out of the way when
he was not needed but always man.
aged to bob up when he had q
chance to say something important.
He predicted the bust as he
called 1.-THE slump Of 1897. In 1895
he warned against price rises. He
kept warning Prices went up. Now
he is car over prices.
Like Hopkins, Henderson worked
his way through college. Like him,
too, the jobs he has held since his
maturity were all outside the marts
OF trade and commerce.
These two self-made rural boys
see the same dreams OF America
when they look out of the White
House windows side by side with the
Hyde Park Squire.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Edward C. Wayne
Y. S. 'Aid-to-Britain' Shipping Losses
Brings Convoy Issue Into Open Debate;
$4,000 British Soldiers Are Saved
AS Nazis Complete Balkan Campaign

are hose opinions
Released by Western Newspaper
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
GREEK:
Bill Presented

The debacle in Greece seemed to
be small potatoes" as far as men
and munitions were concerned, as
compared with Dunquerque, but the
pattern turned out to be almost iden-
teal
There was little question but that
the fighting had been as hard at one
place as at the other, with probably
more successful work done by the
British in Greece than they did in
France. 1t seemed that the Greeks
were better co-operators than the
French, whose morale was utterly
shot long before the British began to
fall back, and had to contend with
clogged roads and fleeing millions.
But Churchill let the commons
have the Greek bill' of expenses as
soon as he knew what it was, and
announced he would permit full
debate on this motion:
A vote of confidence in the con-
duct of the war by the British gov
ernment-and vote of approval on
the giving of aid to the Greeks.
Churchill said the British had put
$4,000 soldiers into Greece, including
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
RUSSIA:
1t Crossroads

Indication that Soviet Russia is
facing situation that is becoming
less and less healthy for the Soviets
peace of mind came when it was
olflcially announced by Moscow that
1900 German troops, well equipped
with tanks and heavy artillery, had
moved into Finland by water with
the evident intention of staying
there
The official announcement coupled
with this move by the Nazis, at
least former allies of Russia, with
the decision by Russia not long ago
not to permit further shipments of
arms and munitions over her rail
roads or through her country by air
or land.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09

one division each (about half of the
total force) of Australians and New
Zealanders.
He said that of this number there
were about 5000 casualties (killed
and wounded and missing), about
$4,000 "got away to fight on other
fronts" and $4,000 were still un-
accounted for. This, presumably,
included those left to screen the re-
treat (suicide battalions); and those
lost at sea in Sunken transports.
The prime minister said British
losses were small compared to the
losses inflicted on the Germans, who
on some occasions for two days at
a time were brought to a complete
standstill by forces one-fifth their
number"
He said, further, that the conduct
of the troops, especially the rear
guard, merited the highest praise,
and that the British demonstrated
that prolonged air bombing by day
and night had no power to shake
their discipline or their morale.
Some members of the house want
Gu 10 KNOW ii the 40 ,UUO had fled to
Crete or had reached their own
bases. Churchill said he believed
the latter to be the case. He adj
mitted that the army in Greece had
been forced to abandon or destroy
all of its heavy equipment, which
could, of course, not be removed.
He was highly positive, however,
not only of the escape of as, 900 men,
but limited that the other $4,000 "un-
accounted for" probably would die
or be taken prisoners-but might,
possibly, escape somewhere else
temporarily.
The Nazi communiques announced
the Greek war over, the formation
OF a new government" similar to
that of occupied France, and the af-
fair officially at an end
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-09
Highlight
in the news

Washington: President Roosevelt
himself opened the governments
multi-billion dollar defense savings
campaign by buying the first bond
himself. The ceremony was broad
cast from coast to coast.
New York: Jesse Jones announced
that the government debt would go
to 80 billions, and that America,
which had no sacrifices as yet,
would be making them land plenty
of them"
London: Belgian circles reported
that Germany is holding 129, 900 Bel
gians prisoners Of war.
, 1941-10-15
. Brown-B r0ckmeyer
School days
oqoin at BIB

The management of BIB has
issued a set of rules that are to
be memorized. These rules are
to be recited in school boy style
when ever requested by the fore
man or the management.
Now here is something that the
former and the management
should memorize and say each
morning when getting out of bed
article l, Section ID and (2)
of the agreement between the
Union and the company" II man
agement would memorize that,
their problem would be much
easier.
, 1941-10-15
Let's Make MGR Next!

At the request of John Thomas
of the Organizational Staff and in
line with the general policy of
Industrial Union Councils all over
the country, a permanent OR
~GANIZATTONAL COMMITTEE is
being set-up under the chairman
ship of Robert Bennett of MGR.
The committee will consist of one
representative from each plant
and will have as its first assign
ment the planning and execution
of a city-wide campaign to or
ganize MGR.
It is the intent of the Council
to extend all possible aid to any
group of workers in any industry
that desires organization.
, 1941-10-15
Montgomery
Industrial
Union Council
Notes
Delegates To Council

At the last meeting of the gen.
eral membership of Local 753 the
following members were elected
to serve as delegates to the
Council for the ensuing term: ~
Joseph Kavalaskas of National
Foundry, Lonnie Fryman of
Simonds- Worden- White and Cor
nelius Grottke of Egry Register.
The best wishes of the Council
are extended to these members.
, 1941-10-15
MGR
&l4
AND
QoMnW

Some of the plans of the EIU
seems to have fallen through, as
they always do, and the poor
boobs who work for Creamer &
Co. had to stand out in the rain
FRIDAY.
X
Some of these days the men
who are now working for the
company union will wake up and
realize that they are in the wrong
Why is it that the new men get
the best jobs when the old men
had to learn their jobs the hard
way.
X
Why is it that some job-foremen
are SO hard to get day-work out
of. Perhaps it is that it cuts down
on the budget, and also cuts their
yearly bonus.
X
In the last issue of the Dayton
Union News an employee of the
MGR was overheard to say that
he reads the news and laughs at
it. Now this same man cannot
at the fact that CLIO goes
out and gets what it wants for
the men.
X
One thing that we of the CIO
have to say about Creamer is; hat
he has a good thing and he knows
it. The company put him in this
position, and as long as the EIU
has the bargaining rights at the
MGR all Fl and high water
will not get him out of it. If you
don't believe us take a look at
the election that is being held at
the plant.
X
We would like to remind the
of the plant that they are
not supposed to be spies of the
If these men want to
watch their workmen why don't
they do it out In the open?
, 1941-10-15
ALI Recording Secretaries
Please Note!

A request for names and ad-
dresses of all delegates, officers
and committeeman and stewards
was sent out by this office. We
r in urgent need of this infor-
nation in order to more effec-
lively coordinate the work of the
Council. Also any literature and
pamphlets you have that would
be of value to other CLIO members
would be welcomed.
, 1941-10-15
Metal Finish
election to
be held soon

The patience of a handful of
UE members in the AFL-Metal
Finish Department of Frigidaire
is soon to be rewarded by a Labor
Board election.
In February, 1910, the AFL won
an election, uncontested by the
UE, because of its insistence that
industrial unionism should pre-
vail in Frigidaire. The repeated
rebuffs which this isolated craft
unit met, at the hands Of a power
full corporation finally convinced
many employees in this depart
ment that their best interests lay
in uniting on an industrial basis
with the other employees. The
winning of the 100 an hour raise
by the UE, with permission by the
ALL to speed-up production of
employees in this unit, topped
off mounting resentment. A lively
organizing move was initiated
which brought a majority into
Local Sol.
The hearing was held last
Thursday and Friday. The AFL,
recognizing it would 60 down to
defeat, fought bitterly and tried
every trick to extend the hearing
ITO six months" as their repre-
sentatives put it. The proceedings
now have been sent to Washing
ton where the Board is expected
to adhere to its past practices and
hand down a decision ordering an
election.
When seasonal layoffs hit this
AFL unit, the contract made it
mandatory for employees with
from Z to Is years plant-wide
service to be laid off. If this de-
partment had been part of the
plant-wide unit, a job would have
been found for all these m
ployees somewhere in the UE
unit.
This AFL policy is in sharp con-
trast with seniority negotiated by
Local 8O1 which sets January /,
1888 as the date when plant-wide
seniority becomes effective. The
recent layoff in Frigidaire cut
down to employees up to S years
seniority. In negotiations last
week, the Shop Committee and
management entered an agreement
that all employees hired before
January |, 1888, will be returned
to work somewhere in the plant
before November LIST.
, 1941-10-15
Delegates To CLIO
Convention

The two delegates who were
approved by the Executive Board
of the Council to represent us at
the Ohio CLIO convention in
Youngstown on October 1913 and
10 were: Tressler Lewis of Local
755, Delco and Irwin Barkan of
Local SO6, Amalgamated.
, 1941-10-15
A CALL TO ACTION!!

The United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers in
Dayton have grown to recognition as a vital and deciding
factor in business and public relations. Major, industrial
business in Dayton is nearly entirely on a basis of friendly
cooperation with our great organization.
Soon another large and important body of workers will join
IS. The Figidaire Cup Plant will hold a National Labor Relations
Board election very soon.
There is, however, a major thorn in the side of organ
lied labor. A blot upon the record and conscience of every
worker in Dayton who has benefited through collective
bargaining. The National Cash Register Company is the
last of the great manufacturers in Dayton where real colec-
tive bargaining must be established.
Under the oppression OF a company union, the uOorkers
at the Cash haze missed all the advantages that men and
Uomen in F~rieidaire, Delco, Inland and the many smaller
shops are privileged to enjoy. The management has COM
pIetely dominated this imitation Of q union to such an
ertent, that aoorkers are subjected to conditions tohich are
nnheard of in UE organized plants.
Hours, wages, and working conditions are the primary
interests of the working man and woman all over the world.
At the National Cash Register, favoritism and ~toadying to
the wishes of management have taken the place of these
interests.
The dawn of a new day is coming to these workers! Aroused
by the adverse conditions under which our fellow workers perform
their daily tasks, the rank and file membership of Daytons United
Electrical Radio & Machine Workers, have pledged to bring MGR
into the fold.
Every organized aDorker in Dayton is asked to help.
This situation is the problem of all of u.s.! Our 1cages and
standards of livimg are vitally affected by such a large group
Of unorganized oorkerst They need our help to better
their conditions of employment. We need their help to
maintain our standards!
Workers of Dayton, we must free these workers from the
yoke Of company unionism! Contact any worker at National Cash
Register and ask them to join Local S7 Of the United Electrical,
Radio & Machine Workers of America Maintain your standards by
eIeyating theirs!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-15
Impure Butter
Seized Here

Charging It contained "decom-
posed substances" which could
have been detected by closer in
Spection, federal food and drug
today seized 1900
pounds of butter from the ware
houses of Armour & Company and
Swift e. Company here.
approximately 1000 pou n d s
were seized from Swift and the
balance from the Armour COM
pany. Yesterday, food inspectors
325 pounds of butter
from Armour & Company All
of the butter had been shipped
TO Detroit from Chicago.
Assistant United States Attorney
John G.. Ray said the butter was
made from cream which also con-
tanned "decomposed substances"
'Tt Is not at all difficult to
discover these impurities" Ray
said. "a closer inspection of the
cream should have been made
by both companies before they
churned IL into butter"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-15
AFL Warned
In DSR Row

A warning to the AFL street
car mems union to think carefully
b Tore calling a transportation
strike in Detroit, was issued to.
day by Mayor Edward j. JeffrieS
Jr.
THAT strike would be pretty
easy to lose" he said.
Mayor Jeffries spoke during 9
meeting with representatives OF
the union in which he refused tc
give the AFL sole bargaining
rights for DSR employees. Strike
h re a [ s were muttered several
times during the session.
'T wouldn't grant sole bar
gaining to any group" he said.
Its against the theory of good
government. You've got good
product To sell, why don't you
20 out and sell it,"
The AFL complains Of "union
raiding' by the Go and has sought
to freeze out the competition. The
Go now claims a majority OF
maintenance men.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-15
Medidtors Hear
Copper Dispute

HOUGHTON. Aug. 15.-Ways
and means of averting threat
.ened copper strike TO keep the
flow Of Michigan red metal steady
into national defense caldrons
were sought today by Governor
Van Wagoner's special mediation
commission investigating differ
.ences between Upper Peninsula
mine operators and employees.
In the first of the series Of
meetings between representatives
of the Copper Range. Isle Royale
and Quincy Mining Company and
officials of the mine. mill and
Smelter workers union (CIO).
state and federal labor officials
weighted demands of the union
for wage increases and recognition
OF union shop.
The Go affiliate had served 30
day notice of intention to strike
on August l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-15
A Dogs Life
Insurance Strikers Use
II in Picket Line

The strike of the United Office
and Professional Workers Union
against the National Life and Ac-
cident Insurance Company looked
like dog fight today.
Fourteen dogs appeared in a
picket line in front of the com
pany's offices at POO Park ave-
nue.. The dogs ranged in size from
a tough airedale to A one-month-
old hairless puppy who did his
picketing from a coat pocket.
Jerome Shore. midwest repre-.
sentative of UOPWA, said:
Selling insurance. doing Of
flee work and supporting car
on $50 n week IL dogs life"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-15
'UniOnist Faces
Warrant in Fight

hief Assistant Prosecutor Julian
Macintosh today recommended a
warrant for assault and battery
against Arthur M. Stringari. bust
ness agent Of the State, County
and Municipal Employees (AFL).
The charges, brought by Ar
manda Giannetti of 1928 Lamont
avenue, grew out of a fight be-
tween ALL and Go employees of
the water board last Tuesday
morning.
The State. County and NUM-
Cipal Workers (CIO) charged that
Stringarl led a group of ALL men
who refused 10 let Go employees
into the yards of the water board
at Fullerton avenue and the De-
trolt Terminal Railroad.
Meanwhile, at the suggestion of
Mayor Edward JeffrieS Jr., il was
decided that bulletin board privi-
legeS will be denied all unioniStsI
among water board employees.
Laurence Lenhardt, water board
manager. and Elmer =. Grierson.
board vice president, meeting with
the mayor, also agreed TO curb the
epidemic of halting work to take
protests to higher ups.
Workers will be notified they
will not be allowed to leave their
jobs TO press complaints without
permission from their foreman.
They should he notified that
the mass demonstrations are at
the expense Of the mass demon
stratOrs," JeffrieS said.
In accordance with this policy
the CIO delegation Of Is workers.
who visited the mayor recently
Will be locked for their protestingI
hours.