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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
Editorials and Comment
WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST 20, 1o41
THIS WAY DOES FREEDOM PERISH

union. lie works in shipyard, where
the management has agreed to the main
tenance of membership" clause in its con-
tract with the union. Possibly Richard
Roe was one of the strikers who helped
force the company to accept the clause.
Later, he becomes disgusted with those
who operate his union. He says to himself.
Il am an American. don't have to stand
for this sort of thing" SO he stops pay
ing his dues-the only way he can effec-
lively resign from the union, since most
major unions these days refuse to reeog-
nize the right of an individual to resign.
When his dues no longer reach headquar-
ters he is suspended from the union. The
employer is notified, and the employer
fires him.
Richard Roe has an ace in his sleeve.
He joins CIO union and goes to work in
another factory, where the ClO holds
bargaining contract. He pays little atten-
tion to the fact that the ClO, too, has
maintenance of membership clause In
its contract. Being the hard-headed type,
Richard Roe discovers something wrong
with the Go union leaders, and again he
stops paying dues. Again he is suspended.
and fired.
Now he is blacklisted by both major
unions.
He obtains job in another factory.
Union members in the factory are told he
must not hold job there. Their bosses
order them to strike in protest. They do.
The employer is forced to fire Richard
Roe to end the strike.
By this time Richard Roe is broke and
hungry. So he applies for job insurance
benefits. Officials ask if he is willing to
work He says he is, but cannot get a job.
Tl,o 81
at Richard Roe severely. Legally they
tell him, you have refused to accept en-
ployment, because you refused to conform
to terms of the employment, which includ-
ed payment of your union dues. We can
not allow you any benefits This has
actually happened in California;
So Richard Roe starves.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
UNCHECKED POWER
PRESENTS DANGER

The simplest way to designate the
growing threat is that it lies in the un-
checked power Of unscrupulous dictators
gained through one-man rule over labor
unions. Yet that designation fails to state
the case, for it leaves the impression of
an attack on labor unions as such. Actu-
ally the danger is grayest for the men for
whom labor unions are the most import
ant-for the laborers themselves.
Unions were originated to protect the
worker from oppression by employers, to
give him strength in collective organiZa
ton. Willful mismanagement by selfish
individuals is pushing the unions toward
another goal-toward slavery for the
members in organizations which by their
very numerical strength and dictatorial
control over millions of individuals are
potential embryos for a dictatorship
worse than Nazism or Communism.
Concentrations, you say. So let us be
specific.
The labor racketeers have devised new
weapon which at once proves the unsound-
ness of their present control over their
memberships and proposes to establish
control which no power on earth can
break. 1t is the maintenance of member
ship clause in contracts with employers.
1t provides that every union member
working for the employer must remain
a member Of the union as long as he works
there. If he stops paying dues, he is fired.
Now, let US set up hypothetical case.
Richard Roe is a member OF an ALL
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20

finished pictures they must pile up
to do business under the government
selling decree, began 20 worry about
having enough players. Today every
studio is preparing features in
which littleknoWn actors and act
reSses will have featured billing.
Miss Coleman and Miss Verne
have important roles in Kings
Row. and the latter is dividing
her time with second film, AL
Through the Night
Born in Germany, educated in
Berlin, Kaaren Verne won schol-
arship at the Stats Theater She
was progressing famously in that
noted theatrical training center
when suddenly there was added to
the dramatic qualifications OF the
Stats players a new demand: they
must pass an eXacting political ex-
animation in order to retain their
Dlacec
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20

This is no brief for unScrupulouS III
dustrialists and pinch-penny employers
Wherever they exist-and they do exist
they deserve all that is coming to them
Waste no sympathy on their type, for they
themselves created the mess they land
lot of innocent persons, too) are III.
Nor is this condemnation OF LABOR
of the men who work with their hands.
Theirs has been a hard enough lot III
wears nast; they are entitled to whatever
share they can fairly get out OF the pfoIils
of production.
This is a warning-a warning to en-
Movers who will be the first TO fall VIC
tim. and a warning to labor, whose mem
bers will be the last and greatest victims.
In it you may find an indictment OF rack
eteers. whether in management or labor,
and a condemnation Of the dictators VINO
are even now building up power greater
than any this country has ever dreamed
and building it under our very noses, III
our own country, with our own knoWled9e.
Don't seek here any hint of threaten
ed Nazi dictatorship, nor any threat OF
a Communist rule from Moscow, nor yet
the threadbare cry that President Roose-
velt or any other national political leader
is seeking supreme power. America needs
not look to foreign soil nor political par
ties for plans of dictatorship. Why must
we blind ourselves by adherence to the
platitude that all which is politically and
socially bad must originate on an alien
shore, or within the framework of an eX-
listing party?
Where, then, does this danger origin
ate?
Before the question is answered, let
us say again that this is no denunciation
of labor We want the laborer to read
this, to think of it, to study the grave pos
sibilities it presents. We want him to real
ize that we are not condemning him; we
are merely trying to awaken him to the
action of which only he is capable. There
are some in Imperial Valley who will not
like what We say. There are some who
will misunderstood willfully, and some
who will misunderstood unintentlonally.
We are sorry.
We are sorry, because we believe this
thing merits the consideration of every
one as something endangering all the
people-not as a menace to one class or
another, one group or some other group.
1t is a common peril.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in Washinqfon

might expect, and their cases had
to be reviewed Changes were made
Then 300 appealed to Secretary lex
es, and more changes were made.
Three of the 300 made appeals to
federal courts, and finally the price
schedule was in effect.
GOES ON FOR YEARS
Today, Bituminous Coal Division
finds itself with two problems on
its hands. It is empowered to fix
both minimum and maximum
prices. On the one hand, it has
about 100 cases on Its hands, charg-
ing mine operators with selling coal
below the minimum prices, allow
ing unauthorized discounts, failing
to add actual transportation charg-
eS to delivered prices, and failing
to keep records. There must be a
hearing, a trial, and a decision on
every case. Mind you, these are for
violations of minimum prices.
On the other hand, prices of
some of the special Goals are going
up. There is a shortage of Goals for
coke and steel making. Also the
demand for industrial coal has shot
up the demand for coal cars. Trans
portation of coal for domestic uses
may be pinched. 1t may be up to
Bituminous Coal Division to set
maximum prices before long.
This sad story is told here to
show the utter folly of trying to
fix maximum prices and prevent
initiation by any complex methods
of boards and hearings.
The only way to fix prices. Some
few people may get hurt in the
process but their wounds can be
licked. In the meantime, millions
more will be kept from being hurt
The second moral of this piece is
that if you burn coal in your fur
mace, the coal consumers counsel
says would better fill up the bin
now, while there's coal and before
the price goes up. But maybe you'll
figure you can keep warm by burn
ing government red tape this WIN
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
by Paul Harrison ;.
HoIlywoods Fads, Fancies and Foib|es

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20 This
IS the day of opportunity for new
comers to Moyietown, and players
such as Kaaren Verne and Nancy
Coleman can be glad of it.
Miss Coleman was here before,
but was told to go back to the
stage. That was only year or SO
ago, and the actress presumably
was talented enough. She appeared
with distinction in Susan and
Cod, and after Hollywood sent
her away she became the leading
lady in a Theater Guild production.
So it wasn't that anybody doubt
ed her ability Production was slack
at the time players were plenti-
ful, and studios didn't feel like TAX
ing expensive chances with new
people.
FACED DEPORTATION
Kaaren Verne had similar ex-
perience only last spring. Came to
Hollywood on a Metro contract and
soon was dismissed when no roles
were found for her. She didn't re-
turn to the theater she had known
because an attempt to do SO prob
ably would have landed her in a
concentration camp. Miss Verne had
played in Germany, finally skipping
to Sweden and coming to America
by way of England.
She entered on a work permit
which was good only as long as
she was employed When Metro
fired her, the future looked not only
bleak but desperate. She faced de-
portation.
Then the situation in Hollywood
began to change. Executives, look
ing ahead to the big backlog OF
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20

One-seventh of the earth's total
land area is taken up by Russia.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 = Along
with consideration of the price con-
troll bill now before the House COM
mittee on banking and currency,
there has been some congressional
chatter about handling price ad-
ministration with a board, and put
ting in prohibitions on the fixing of
prices before there had been ample
in general follow the safe, sane,
opportunity to hold hearings and
cumbersome routine that character
ICES the normal procedure of Con-
gress.
It would be nice if there were
time for all this slow poke red tape,
but if you want to know how crazy
all these proposals are, just take a
look at the Bituminous Coal Di-
vision, which is now involved in
about as many price-fiXing cases as
government agency can be. Bed
is responsible for only one commod-
ity-soft coal.
You might think its problem re-
latiVely simple, as there are only
some $4,000 coal mines to worry
about. If, however, you were to
multiply BEDS grief by the hun
dreds of thousands of similar agen-
cies that would have 10 be set up
to administer prices on hundreds
or thousands of other commodities,
you can easily see just what a mess
the country would be in.
20 MONTHS ON THIS JOB
For bit of background, you may
recall that the present bituminous
coal act was passed in 1897. In the
spring of 1888, the old Bituminous
Coal Commission began hearings on
the establishment of minimum
prices for the coal industry. In July,
1899 the old commission was abol-
ished and the job was turned over
to the BituminouS Coal Division of
the Interior Department which,
however, continued the hearings
and retained about the same per-
sonnel. Those hearings continued
until January, l940-or more than
20 months.
(Wouldn's it be fun today, with
initiation at the door. to hold hear
ing for 20 months on whether OF
not to put maxinums on the price
OF wheat, corn or cotton?)
Anyway, the hearings didn't settle
the matter. When the BED had al
it evidence, literally million ol
pages of testimony, it had to &c
into retirement for nine months be-
fore giving birth to its schedule oi
prices. That schedule saw the lighi
of day Oct. l, 1940-just 212 years
after the hearings began.
In other words, if the government
began today under this full hearinl
procedure, you could expect price
schedules on silk hose or rubbe.
tires-well, With luck you nigh
have it by New Years Day, 1914.
Even when the coal code pric'
schedule was published, the matte
wasn't settled. There were actual!
thousands of prices, and nobody
even today knows how many price
there are in that schedule. Their
was price for practically ever
ont of the 5000 mines, for ever
one of the 5000 mines, for ever
qualities of coal, ana the min
price was different for every mar
ket.
Six hundred mine operators founi
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20

A common language is the most
powerful social cement known TO
man.
--Dr. Marion n. Traube, Pennsyl-
vania State College.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
Thought for the Day

The heart of him that hath understanding Seeketh
knowledge but the mouth of fools feedeth foolish
ness-Proyerbs l5l4
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
Famous Sayings

But far more numerous the herd of SUCH who
think too little, and who talk too much.-Dryden.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-20
SHUNS SWASTIKA

Miss Verne couldn't quite under
stand what acting had to do with a
knowledge of the tenets of the Nazi
party. She didn't study, she failed,
and she was suspended for six
months with orders to prepare her
self for a new quiz. instead, she
sought refuge in Denmark and
made her way to England.
Film scouts grabbed her there
and she made few pictures, then
came to Hollywood. Her first role
here to any consequence on loan to
Warmers recently was in Under
ground If you've see that you'll
appreciate her presence in such a
picture did nothing to endear the
talented fugitive to the Gestapo.
Evening star., 1941-04-17
Negro in Business
Will Be Subject
OF Conference Here
Commerce Department
Sponsors Session Which
Opens Tomorrow

Under the sponsorship of the
Commerce Department, a conference
on the Negro in business will be
held here tomorrow and Saturday
with high Government officials and
Negro business leaders as main
speakers.
Albon L. Holsey will preside at
the opening session tomorrow morn
ing at the Commerce Department
auditorium. Speakers will include
William A, Bailey, Negro business
specialist, Bureau of the Census;
Prof. Walter R. Chivers, Morehouse
College, Atlanta, and M c. Clarke,
president, Dunbar Mutual Insurance
Society, Inc, of Cleveland.
Federal Agencies and the Negro
In Business" is the subject sched-
uled for discussion at the afternoon
session tomorrow. Booker T. Brad
shaw will preside. Government Of
f1cials who will address the after
noon session are Carroll L. Wilson,
director of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce; Abner H.
Ferguson, Federal housing admin
istrator; Emil Schram, chairman,
Reconstruction Finance Corp; DR..
Wilford L. White, chief of regional
research, and w. H. Meserole, eco
nomic analyst, Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce.
Tomorrow night, Undersecretary
Of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Tay-
lor will be the principal speaker at
a mass meeting at the Mount Car
mel Baptist Church. Perry H. How
ard of the Washington Negro Cham
ber of Commerce will deliver an ad-
dress of welcome. Other speakers on
the program include Sidney Hillman,
associate director, Office of Produc-
ton Management, and L. G. Blount
of the Great Lakes Mutual Insur-
ance Co. Negro spirituals will be
sung by w. P. A. Community
Chorus, under the direction of
Arnold L. Lovejoy.
The subject for discussion at the
Saturday morning session is "BuSi-
1lCSO GdANdpAOAA hAAA tllC 4NCBlOs
Prof. Jesse w. Lewis will preside,
and the speakers will include H. Elsie
Austin, national president, Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority; DR.. v. v. Oak,
professor of sociology and economies,
Wilberforce University; Irene c.
Hypps, head Of the department of
business education, Washington
Public Schools, divisions 1913, and
DR.. William H. Bell, president, AL
corn A. and M. College, Alcorn, Miss.
National Defense and the Negro
In Business" is the subject for dis
cussion at the final session Saturday
afternoon. Carlton w. Gaines will
preside, and there will be two speak
ers, Leon S. Wallace, president of
the Colored Civic Association, Baton
Rouge, La, and Robert L. Mehornay,
chief of the defense contract service,
Office of Production Management.
Evening star., 1941-04-17
TOMORROW.

Luncheon, Reciprocity Club, Hotel
Mayf1ower, 1890 pm.
Buffet luncheon, District of Co.
lumbia Bankers Association, Will
lard Hotel, 12:45 pm.
Meeting, Pan-American Student
Chain, Carlton Hotel, 2 pm.
Meeting, Danes of the Loyal Le-
gion, Hotel Mayf1ower, 3 pm.
Meeting, Trial Technique Practice
Clinic, Annapolis Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Lambda Chi Sorority,
Wardman Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Ladies Auxiliary, An
eient Order of Hibernians, Hotel
Mayf1ower, 8 pm.
Meeting, Federal Employees Union,
No. 2, Willard Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Irish War Veterans, An
napolis Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Henry w. Lawton Au-
Hillary, No. 9, U. S. w. ", Pythian
Hall, 1912 Ninth street NV, 8 pm.
Dance, Episcopal Young Peoples
Fellowship, Carlton Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Delta Theta Phi Legal
Fraternity, Wardman Park Hotel
10 pm.
Dance, Massachusetts State So
eiety, Wardman Park Hotel 10 pm
Meeting, National Youth Admins
tration, Hotel Mayflower, all day.
Nineteenth annual convention
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, Willard Hotel, all day.
Convention, Children of the
American Revolution, Lafayette Ho-
tel, all day.
Evening star., 1941-04-17
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Evening star., 1941-04-17
City News in Brief

Reception, Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, Hotel Mayhower, 5 pm.
Buffet supper, District of Colum-
bia Certified Public Accountants,
Carlton Hotel, 6 pm.
Dinner, Beta Theta Pi Alumni
Association of Washington, Hamil-
ton Hotel, 6 pm.
Meeting, Lambda Chi Sorority,
Wardman Park Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Edmonds Post, Ameri-
can Legion, Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, washington Section,
League of Laymen's Retreats, Will
lard Hotel, pm.
Motion picture and buffet supper,
University of North Carolina Alum
nj, Willard Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi Legal
Fraternity, Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Lido Civic Club, Hotel
Mayf1ower, $3.50 pm.
Dance, washington Hairdressers'
Association, Hotel Mayfower, $50
pm.
Card party and dance, D. G. Chap
ter, Catholic Daughters of America,
Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Nineteenth annual convention,
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, Willard Hotel, all day.
Meeting, United Service Organ
ization for National Defense, Will
lard Hotel, all day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-18
CITY SET FOR
CHRISTMAS FUN
Free Dance, Shows, Program,
Candy Announced; Santa
Schedules Visit.

Ely youngsters will be well enter
tanned during Christmas week through
arrangements made by recreational de-
partment and local theatres.
Also on Friday night the Funsters,
with the aid of the recreation depart
ment, is sponsoring a dance for high
school and college students at the
Community Center. Admission is free,
and the dance will be a gala affair
with noise makers and hats. Students
from Tower-Soudan, who will be here
for the Memorial high basketball game
are being invited The dance committee
follows: Margaret Shega, chairman;
lilly Gregorich, Ebba Salo, Caroline
Lundein, Virginia Mattila music and
floor show, Mary Zgainor, chairman;
Virginia Mattila Dolores Haapala, and
posters, Clara Tonkovich. Eugene Ma
rines band will play.
A Christmas program for children 7
years and younger, will be conducted
in the Community Center auditorium
next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
Parents are also invited to attend
Santa will be present in person for
microphone interviews with the chill
dren. An accordion selection will be
played by Tony Perushek Clara and
Eva Tonkovich viii sing Silent
Night" Anthony Brimsek will speak
Joy Volt will give a recitation, Vir-
ginia Mattila will give reading. Arthur
Murphy will sing, and Iona Mills will
play several piano selections.
At 3 o'clock Santa will present a
sack of candy to all children of this
territory to and including the ninth
grade.
The Ely theatre will give its annual
free show for children Monday at $50
a. m, according to Dick Davis, man
ager.
The State theatres free show is set
for Wednesday morning at $50 o'clock
Ralph Swanson, manager, SAYS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-18
On This
Occasion
A Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial by
the Editor.

The nation on Monday observed the
150th anniversary Of the Bill of Rights
with ceremonies to keep this document
fresh IN the minds of the people Re
dedication Of the principles and prac-
tees guaranteed by the charter, the
first ten amendments to the constitu-
ton was pledged throughout the
nation. The amendments insure free
dom Of liberty, press, speech and as
sembly, and the right to petition the
government for redress of grievances.
The Bill Of Rights has acted as a bar
TO the unholy acts and thoughts of class
conscious pharisees, and so-called
gestapos. It has given the people the
rights Of a trial by jury, and the
privilege to worship their God in any
manner they deem proper. Under its
provisions, the people are the govern
ment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-18
1941 Season to Dec. ONLY
Slightly Under Record
Set IL Years Ago.

Tonnage of iron ore shipped from
the Ely mines to Dec. reached the
highest point since 1880, the million
ton" year of the Pioneer mine Ship
ping, except by the Zenith mine to
the Interlake Furnace company, Du-
luth, ended the first week in the
month
A total Of 1,655,711 tons were shipped
up to the first of the month, as COM
pared with 1,744,055 for all of 1880, or
a difference of 1884 tons
Total for the Vermilion range, which
includes the Ely and Soudan mines,
was also at the highest point since
1880. Tonnage shipped by Dec was
1,832,7l1, or 41,818 under the 1874, 529
for 1890
Marking the season just ended was
the shipping of 1900 tons to Sydney,
Nova Scotia, which many believed were
consigned to England, although this
report has never been confirmed. It
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-18
Money In Defense Treasury is
Second Best Way to Hit
at the Enemy.

An intensive defense bond and stamp
sales campaign is being planned for
Ely by the local defense committee to
put this city over the top in investing
funds for the nations defense.
Money raised by the defense bonds
and stamps goes directly into bombers,
fighters, guns and ammunition, and
battleships to help win the war. Every
nickle is an investment in the future
of America and democracy, and is
second only to bullets as an effective
means of hitting at the enemy.
Defense bonds provide a sound in
vestment not only in the nations
security but an investment for the fin
ancial security of the purchaser.
Following are series of questions
and answers that explain pertinent
facts about defense bonds and stamps:
@. Where can I purchase defense
bonds and stamps?
A. In Ely at the First National
Bank, at the postofice, and stamps
only from several local merchants.
@. When can I start purchasing
them?
A. TODAY. The sooner you start the
better.
@. In what denominations are serie:
E bonds available?
A SIS, $50, s100. $500, $1,000
| (maturity value).
@. How much viii my bonds b,
] worth when it natures?