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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
An+i-Defense Strikes Like
Mark Twain's Weather Plant
By GEO. ROCKWELL BROWN

industrial states stretching from
Massachusetts to the Mississippi
Valley, keeps the political part
of the coalition in power.
MOREOVER. if the labor
AVA part. of the coalition should
desert the politicians in the COM
ing congressional elections, the
latter would lose their grip on
the fat offices, the spending of
the defense and relief billions.
and the immense patronage
which. under the New Deal
bureaucracy. goes with the po-
litical power.
When John L. Lewis, with an
effrontery and boldness amazing
even in this king boss of or
gained labor, called a strike
against defense industries for
the sole object of obtaining the
closed shop, he had a pledge
by President Roosevelt TO sustain
him in his fatal course.
The President had pledged
that the defense effort would
entail no sacrifice of social
gains" Among these social
gains" as considered by the New
Deal. is collective bargaining,
under the Wagner law.
THE sole object of collective
Il bargaining. from labor's point
of view. is the closed shop. III
the Wagner Act should be de-
clared to deny that labor would
lose all interest in il.
John L. Lewis wants the closed
shop and the check-off, the sys-
tenn by which the employer
deducts the unions dues from
the employees pay envelope. and
pays it into the treasury Of the
union.
Mr.. Lewis has financed, gen.
erously. Mr.. Roosevelt's cam
paigns in the past. He may be
expected to finance others-if he
gets what he wants. Here is the
vicious circle which the Ameri-
can people must smash in the
congressional elections of next
year, unless they want to wear
labor's yoke indefinitely.
Labor unions must be prohib-
tied by law from financing poll
tical campaigns. Political parties
must be prevented from sur
rendering Americanism to labor
dictatorship.
The only way to accomplish
this is 10 break the coalition be-
tween labor and the Democratic
Party, until this is done Gene
Cox Of Georgia can continue TO
make speeches of protest. but he
will accomplish nothing. and the
desire TO take John l.. Lewis
out of circulation" will remain
dream.
Special to THE DETROIT TINES
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1o.-The

WAsHINGToN' Nov. 1o'-The
w strikes of unconscionable
labor dictators against the ma
tional defense are reminiscent of
what Mark Twain once said
about the weather-everybody
complains, but nobody does any
thing about it. y
Day after day, in Congress, our
great statesmen rear up on their
hind legs and illuminate against
John L. Lewis's eyebrows.
When Clare E. Hoffman, OF
Michigan, plaintively demanded
in the House the other day the
explanation of why nobody did
anything. he swept the demo-
cratic side of the chamber.
There sat just three Democrats
out of the 265 who constitute
the majority party. For the rest.
the democratic side of the House
of representatives was a desert
of empty benches.
OF these three Democrats who
were on the job, one rose in his
place, and shouted that so far
as he was concerned he would
like to take John l.. Lewis "out
of circulation" Then he sat
down, and that was that.
DEP. GENE cox, Democrat
~ OF Georgia, bitterly assails
the labor leaders who defy their
government and make war upon
it by calling strikes against the
national defense. But while Mr..
Cox talks, the great mass of his
party remains immovable.
There's a reason. and there Is
but one cure--a complete change
in the political control of Con-
gress.
1t is typical of Washington
cynicism that the idea was uni
versal that the national defense
mediation board would sur
render to Lewis in the matter of
the closed shop strike in the coal
mines owned by the steel COM
panies at work on basic defense
materials.
The cynic knows that the
country is being governed today
by a coalition between both
groups of organized labor-they
are as alike as two peas in the
same poland the so-called
Democratic majorities in Con-
gress.
The labor part of the coali-
ton. with its votes in the great
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
Ten Thousand Houses

A PPROVAL of President Roosevelt a 10000-unit
housing project for defense workers is the best Of
for Detroit.
Although the defense upswing is just beginning here
houses already at premium. tn another year. the
situation could easily be critical has been pointed out
in, current series of Detroit Times stories
Approving the project President Roosevelt praised
the foresight of the UAW-CIO in presenting it Well
of other booms in which Detroit has filled with
floaters who have contributed nothing to the city itself
the union aims to give workers opportunity to buy
their homes and have real stake the continued
of the community.
Congress should take necessary action the housing
project that work be started quickly possible
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15

HERE is a little incident
Al which,. standing by itself.
doesn't amount 10 much, but Is
characteristic. When OPM was
first installed, Big Bill Knudsen,
in charge of production asked.
"Who IL de boss"
The President answered that
he would be the boss. Recently
Mr.. Hillman, head of a labor
union and deep in labor politics.
said positively that he alone is
responsible for labor policies.
and Mr.. Leon Henderson con-
firmed that in some congress
sional testimony.
Look back over the record and
consider the federal organiza-
tons set up 10 deal with labor.
We start with Madame Perkins
and her Cancellation service.
That was such a flop that we
set up two national labor rela-
tons boards, - one after the
other. The second was so full
OF favoritism and so grossly
unfair that. until reorganization.
IL was stencil TO the skies.
Much of its work was by
passed 10 the new mediation
board, OF which Mr.. William
Davis is chairman.
LIE HAS a brilliant mind and
IA an eloquence in ordinary
conversation that could charm a
bird out of a tree. But at least
when had him in NRA in
charge of compliance. il took all
the time in the calendar to get
a decision out of him, and when
II came it was usually some kind
OF compromise that made every
body mad.
When you boil this down TO
the essence you get the answer
of any administration problem.
You've got to get men-compe-
tant and determined men. With
out them the best plan and
organization chart in the world
won't work.
With them you don't need any
organization chart. You just set
them together in a room, tell
them what's to be done and not
TO step on each others toes, and
give them enough authority and
responsibility to do the job.
This administration has never
done that.
II isn't killing a few thousand
American boys that will speed
this country up. 1t is competent
management of the operation.
Distributed by King Features synd.. Inc.
Reproduction in whole or in part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
Deer Have Horns

MEMO to Michigan hunters:
lVA Deer have four legs.
Deer don't bright colored jackets and four-day
boards
Deer rarely smell of whisky and they stagger only
Slter you shoot them.
Deer have horns.
Those other wldings of the woods the guys you
played stud with last night in camp.
Spare them if possible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
Reasons
Blasted for
U. S. Entry
johnson Says Advocates
Would Not Be Fighting
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

THERE are several reasons
advanced by those who
want us to get clear in this war
up to our eyebrows and send a
new AEF-maybe TO France,
maybe to Burma Road. They
don't seem to care much, and il
is worthy of some note that
none or few of them would
ever have TO do any actual
fighting.
Among these reasons are
England is fighting our war;" or
Russia is now our battle line"
and I'VE can't stand for Hitler
ism in the world" even while we
hold our nose at communism and
swallow il.
1t seems to me that there is
a sufficient answer to all these.
hut there is-no space for that
here. Let's take another one
which is a honey. 1t is:
"Our people won't do their
best In war production and sac
rifice until we got some of our
bows killed I'm battle. We should
declare war tomorrow TO speed
up our effort"
low anybody has the face TO
IL say such a murderous thing
is beyond me and l am. or, for
more than 40 years was, a
soldier.
The delays in our production
can be traced TO two causes
the woefully inept administra-
ton itself and the determination
of some sections in organized
labor to get all they can out of
this crisis while the getting is
good.
This also is in part the fault
of the government. II has be-
labored industry and coddled la
Dor for years--sowing the wind
today--to meet the whirlwind.
There is only one hand that
can help this situation. and that
is the hand at the helm--the
Presidents. Perhaps no man
could have completely prevented
early industrial delays due 10
an unready organization. but a
man with the Presidents pres
tige and popularity could have
done much to avoid it by better
organization and administration.
Perhaps no man could have
averted some strikes, but a firm
executive hand could have made
many unnecessary.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
/ letters TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

IT is difficult TO understand
the leaders of organized labor.
Labor having gained so largely
its objective in establishing
recognition of unions, having as
sumed definite responsibilities
in contracts, as well as fixing
rights, one might have expected
a period of relative peace in in
dustry.
1t had always been claimed
that once management recog-
nized unions, collective bargain
ing could and would obviate
strikes and all the other I'M
happy incidents growing out of
industrial warfare.
Whatever this expectation
might have been in normal cir
cumstances. TO see labor now,
through its leaders. carrying on
in recalcitrant, truculent
fashion at a time when world
civilization is at stake, is some
thing indefensible.
Aside from the obligation OF
labor to exhaust every possible
means of settling labor disputes
without stoppages and slow
downs, the present war emer-
gency makes imperative that
there be no Interruptions in the
production OF war goods in order
that the foe that menaces the
liberty of the world may be de-
feated.
British labor, with true labor
craftsmanship. has recognized
its larger obligations to the
country as a whole.
1t has, therefore, voluntarily
suspended not only the right to
strike, but many other hard won
rights which ii had procured
so laboriously through many
years.
British labor is second TO none
in Britain in the support Of the
war effort.
British labor recognizes that
If Hitler wins. there not only will
be suspended temporarily, but
permanently, what they regard
as necessary to proper living in
a civilized community.
1t is difficult to justify what
may be charitably described as
a backwardness on the part Of
leadership of American labor.
Is il possible il lacks the per-
ception, the understanding and
the realization of the fact that
unless the country is safe, no
one within the country can be
safe?
1t is my personal conviction
that the time for temporizing
and indecision is over.
If American labor. through its
leaders, does not have the in
telligence TO voluntarily do what
common sense and proper re-
gard for ones own country de-
mand. then the entire people,
acting through their constituted
and elected representatives,
should. for the duration of the
emergency, prohibit any further
interruptions of production.
The writer cannot and will
not believe that the great mass
of American labor is less patri-
otto and less concerned for la
bor'S own welfare than the
British workman.
II American labor will not
voluntarily cooperate with the
American government, then il
is about time that the Ameri-
can governme nt take such
proper action as the circum-
stances warrant and demand.
LARRY s. DAvIDOw.
Book Tower Building.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Trouble BOiLS Deer
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER
The fellow who said a watched pot never boils was
bad Judge of distance bloodhound chasing turnp.
We're watching that European pot and it's boiling like
moonshine in mountain still.
It's not our pot, it's not kitchen, it's not
and it's not soup.
But we will watch the first go into the second potter
around the third and sample the fourth I'm certain
how we get into those European messes. All know is
that trouble has its mailing list.
This war doesn't worry much. It's the
that has me grounded.
Distributed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
NoV. rs, 1910

British warships sink the Ger
man freighter Helgoland in the
Caribbean Sea.
The industrial city Of Coven-
try. north OF London, is at
tackled by more than 500 German
planes. bombs rain from the
skies for 1917 hours; 1000
casualties are the result of the
worst air raid yet inflicted on
Britain.
Greek army pushes farther
into Albania and captures 700
Italians in their advance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
Tempest in a Teapot

HE squabble over proposed new city airport
to have resolved itself into tempest in teapot
After the pros and cons had spared few rounds it
developed there money available at present and
probably would not be for another year to build the
airport
Perhaps by the time funds are available. there will
be site different plan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
Nop. rs, 1916

Germans push back French on
the Somme front near Saillisel
and Pressoire.
Reports from Berlin say the
Germans will hold all armed
ships as legitimate prey, and will
sink all neutral ships carrying
contraband.
Russians recapture positions
near the Narayuvka River, in
the region of the heights, east
Of Lipnicadona. in Galicia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15
Ceiling on Spending

MIDST the current Enthusiastically high rate of federal
"A spending. Senator Byrd has himself athwart the
road to national bankruptcy.
Through his farsighted efforts the Congress in an
amendment to the new authorized joint economy
committee composed of members from both houses the
secretary of the treasury and the budget director
Senator Byrd has been designated chairman of the
committee which has been charged with examining pro-
posals from the budget director for cutting between
S1O00OO0000 and $4,000 100000 out of nondefense
expenditures
In an interview with Mr.. Rukeyser of the Hearst
newspapers Representative Wesley E. Disney of Okla
homa paraleed Senator Byrds economy gesture
in the lower house, insists that the committee and
should cut the full $20OO0O000O out of the budget
Likewise, Mr.. Disney wisely proposed that the tenn
porary Byrd committee be perpetuated into lasting
organization in behalf of national sovency.
The representative in envisaging permanent organi
zaton asks for the creation of budget committee in the
House consisting of members of both the appropriations
and the ways and committees, that the right
hand of spending will know what the left hand taxing
is doing
THE task of this instrument would be to put the
nations financial housekeeping in order. 1t would
each year ceiling total expenditures and force all
the grabbers OF special favors to remain WITHIN the quota
1.-THE proposed budget committee" says Mr.. Disney,
would have jurisdiction to take into consideration the
whole financial structure Of the nation and to determine
overall budget for the House of Representatives above
which committee the House could vote appropra
TONS The budget report of such committee would be
mandatory upon its filing with the clerk Of the House. and
any appropriations in of its overall recommended
ton would be subject to point of order to be Overruled
only upon vote of twothirds of the members of the
House of Representatives"
Mr. Disney points out that under the present archaic
setup the lawmang department has virtually voted itself
of power by entrustng colossal expenditures to the
Executive. AS remedy he proposes that "the appro
pfiatons committee, the proposed budget committee
should have large staff behoden only to the Congress
and to the departments for the investigation of the
needs the wants the departments of government
Unless such reform is adopted the traditional
~ American system of checks and balances will be in
evitably succeeded by dictatorship by the Executive
And until congressional agency is authorized to set
annual limit total federal expenditures, SQUAN-
DERMANIA will continue to waste the substance of the
people and to the instruments making for national
progress
The Byrd idea is too vitality valuable for one-time
shot.
AS Mr.. Disney recommends, it should be converted
into permanent mechanism for undermining and limiting
the spending and taxing of the government.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-15

Published every Week Day Evening ana
Sunday Morning by The Times Publishing
Company at i22s Times Square. Detroit.
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Evening star., 1941-09-07
Amateur Astronomers
Re-eleef Stephen Macy

Stephen Macy was reelected pres
ident for his fifth term at the first
meeting of the fall season of the
National Capital Amateur Astrono-
mers Association at the National
Museum last night
Other officers elected we're U. S.
Lyons. vice president: C. A. Peter
son, treasurer, and R. M. Mcclellan,
secretary. Appointed chairmen of
various committees were J. w. Scho-
field, observation; Paul Flaherty,
membership: R. c. Masters. publi-
cations, and Misses Helen Lyons
and Grace ScholZ. co-chairmen of
the Entertainment Committee.
The association will sponsor lee
lures throughout the fall and winter
season at 8 pm. on the first Satur-
day in every month at the museum.
Beginning early next month, Mr..
Macy will give instructions in grind
ing telescope lenses at night classes
at Langley Junior High School. The
dates of the classes will be an
nounced later.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Priority Requested
For Homes Needed
In Defense Areas
Builders Committee Asks
S. P. A. B. TO Set Up
Regulations at Once

Declaring that uncertainty on the
whole subject of prioritles is delay
ing construction of needed homes
in defense areas, committee of the
Home Builders Institute of America,
meeting here yesterday, urged the
Supplies, Priorities and ALLEGATIONS
Board to set up regulations immedi-
ately and arrange for their admins
tration.
In a letter to Donald M Nelson,
board director, the committee, COM
posed of builders throughout the
Nation. pointed out that construc-
ton of badly needed housing in
many defense areas has come to
virtual standstill because builders
are uncertain they will be able to
| obtain materials.
New Group Appointed.
The committee made number of
recommendations to Mr.. Nelson de-
signed to define specifically the term
defense housing" and clarity it for
| builders. They made suggestions on
the administration Of housing priori-
| ties, A committee was named which
will meet here from time to time
to receive or offer suggestions with
respect to priorities. price controls
| and substitute materials.
The committee will include John
McC. Mowbray, Baltimore. chair
man; Waverly Taylor, president of
the Washington Real Estate Board;
Fritz Burns, Los Angeles; Edmund
Kuhlman, Detroit, and z. L. Grain,
Houston.
The group suggested that priori-
ties for housing in defense areas be
given on homes up to $500 in value,
based on building costs as of Sep
tember /. with authority invested
In the defense housing co-ordinstor
TO establish maximums for com.
munlties in conformity with varying
local costs. The Priorities Board
had set $4,000 as a maximum cost
for defense housing"
The committee pointed out that
the home building industry is local
In character and said the admin
istratlon Of priorities should be de-
centralized as far as possible. They
recommended that some existing
Federal agency. such as the r. H.
A, be used for administra ton of
regulations, as that organiza ton
has Offices operating in all areas.
Parity Rating Sought.
Priority ratings on a parity with
that issued for defense housing
should be given TO any residential
construction already under way. the
committee stated. It claimed this
was necessary if the investment Of
the individual owner were not to
be destroyed.
I'VE recommend" the letter to Mr..
Nelson stated, that a preferential
priority rating be given to private
home builders who are building
needed housing in defense areas
and who can demonstrate their
ability and willingness TO continue
to supply such housing as against
priorities issued to Federally sub
sidized or Government financed
housing. We make this recon-
mendation because at this time the
entire Nation is fearful that small
business may be completely de-
stroyed unless our Federal Gov
ernment gives 1t adequate considera-
tion and protection"
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Crucible Steel Workers
Vote TO End WoIkout
By the Associated Press.

50 ~AA0 @>S9e~AnSca fTesS
HARRISON. N. j.. Sept. Ga
three-day walkout at the Crucible
Steel Co.'S Atha works ended TO-DAY
when crane operators voted. "a to
n. to accept a company proposed
incentive bonus plan.
A. E. Van Cleye. plant manager.
said production would be going full
blast by Monday, with some workers
returning on shifts tonight and to-
morrow.
Hating work by 5000 other en-
ployes on millions of dollars of
munitions orders for the Army.
Navy and British. 500 maintenance
men and crane operators walked
out Wednesday.
Maintenance workers voted YES
terday to accept an incentive plan
under which the wage scales will
remain unchanged but workers may
earn more by keeping the plant at
peak efficiency Pipe filters receive
80 cents an hour and all other main
tenance men get 9312 cents.