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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-25

There were those of Us who
never were satisfied that the
recent hysterical collection of
kitchen aluminium was all 1t
was painted to be.
Nov. il develops. suspicious were
Justified.
Destruction Of fondly held illu-
sions not necessarily is a pleasant
task
But. after all. housewives who
generously sacrificed pots and
pans. have a right to know. al
belt at a late date, the Why and
vherefor.
Bluntly. the campaign was
a hoax. 1t was pure and SIM
pie ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
designed to awaken and feed
the spirit believed to fit a
nation for war.
We were told, remember. that
the donated aluminium was to be
melted down and used to make
sirplanes for defense.
subsequently. u was learned
nv an inquiring and skepticai
newspsperman that such alum
mum, melted down, would not be
Of a quality that could be used
for sirplane making.
For weeks accuracy Of this find
ing vigorously was denied in gov
eminent quarters.
But now comes to confess
New York's Mayor Fiorello
La Guardia, head of the fed
eral office of civilian defense,
who stage-managed the alum
mum drive.
He admits that the aluminium
donated by Tacomans and citizens
of every community in the nation
can't be used for plane-making.
IL will be sold. ne SAYS, and "the
proceeds" used to buy fighter
planes.
Well, perhaps that's all right
too, but, on this basis, the alum
mum drive. as an aid to armament.
was about as effective as trying |
TO give Mt. Rainier more elevation
with an automobile jack.
The aluminium drive was
designed simply to prepare
the feminine mind for war
to awaken the crusading zeal
for sacrifice.
As propaganda of that type
probably it was success.
But La Guardia's belated admis-
sion that the government, after
all again Just "kidded" us, may
have an adverse reaction on sim
liar future efforts which may be
required-and may be justified.
The whole incident Is another
manifestation of the tendency OF
government-alI goyernments-to
assume that the people are just
a bit too much on the stupid side
to be told the truth.
Harold Ickes' gasoline
shortage yarn also was an an
moving example of the prop
uganda hoax.
East coast gasoline service sta
tons remained closed from p.
m. to Z a. m, but consumers
bought as much gasoline as ever.
Only perceptible result of lekes'
"scare" was that many filling
station attendants lost their jobs
and the motoring public didn't get
service it formerly did get
For gosh sakes, Mr.. r., the
American people are willing to
do or sacrifice whatever is
necessary to achieve victory
and a better world, but please,
please stop tinkering with our
emotions-and tell your boys
to do the same.
We're not too damn dumb"
even if Harry Hopkins did say
xua narof
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-25

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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
Behind A Smoke
Screen

The recent letter of Clio President Murray
denying fantastic press stories about splits.
purges and redhunts in the CLIO. carries with
it a serious warning to the whole movement
to guard its unity against slandermongers
who seek to promote factionaIism and other
forms Of internal dissension.
This type of propaganda campaign is moth
ing new in the history of the Clio. Ever since
its great crusade of industrial organization was
started. the enemies of the Clio have retaied
such garbage to the anti-labor press. and AFL
and company unions have been bankrupt
enough to pick it up in nearly every Labor
Board election campaign.
The contempt with which American workers
regard such lies and ISLANDERS is shown by the
whopping majorities which they have given to
the Clio in every election in which its oppon-
ents have used this type of propaganda
The present press campaign. however. has
more serious elements to il than most of the
previous campaigns. 1t comes at time when
a near-war hysteria has gripped the land. and
when overheated emotions and intolerant
prejudices are more out of hand. It is also
promoted both politically and in the press.
from higher and supposedly more responsible
quarters in the past
Finally, and most important of all. the pres
ent propaganda campaign is the smoke screen
behind which one of the worst attacks in
labor history has been launched upon unionism
and upon all of the democratic rights which
labor has struggled so long to win.
If President Murrays warning is needed,
the current stream OF propaganda, as in the
past will fall like water from a ducks back
without harming the movement. For the Clio
is big enough, strong enough. democratic
enough, and confident enough of its patriotism
and its Amercansm to be able to order its
own affairs and to disregard the SANDER
mongers. which it concentrates upon repelling
the real attacks on labors rights which they
seek to cover up and promote.
THE Clio NEWS
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
Tobial Raids Again

Dan lobin, president of the AFl Inter-
national Brotherhood of Teamsters. is at it
again.
A few weeks after issuing an appeal to the
Government for the protection of his organjza-
ton against jurisdictional raids. he turned right
around and raided the CLOS Motor Transport
and Allied Workers in Minneapolis.
Clio Regional Director Frank Barnhart in
Minneapolis reported to Chairman A. d. Lewis
of the United Construction Workers Organizing
Committee that CLIO truckdrivers in the North.
western city are being subjected to unprece-
denied attacks of violence and intimidation by
not less than 800 hoodlums imported by
Tobin's international.
Tobin apparently got mad because 5000
truckdrivers in Minneapolis exercised their
democratic rights and voluntarily voted to
disafFiliate from the international Brotherhood
of Transfers.
Now Barnhart reports. mobs OF imported
hoodlums are raiding local truck terminals
and warehouses and at the point of knife and
gun forcing Clio employees to wear AFL
teamsters buttons and sign AFL pledge cards.
The leaders of the AFL campaign are working
in open collision with the employers to break
Local 544 CLIO and compel the Clio employees
to join the AL or lose their jobs
Evidently Tobin forgot the statement he
made few weeks ago after President Roose.
welt officially declared his disapproval of inter.
union raids. Evidently Tobin forgot tina.
5000 men exercised their democratic right to
belong to union Of their own choosing
But the 5000 truckdrivers won't forget
Tobin's hoodlums. and Hitler.ke tactics to
force them into the antiquated Teamsters
union.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03

Killers The Reichstag Fire Incident is a
strike (even a little one will do). The Crack
down includes armed force and conscriptive
powers injected into civil affairs. The System
attic Suppression. now being planned in Con-
gress, includes the Connally bill for govern
ment strikebreaking. the Case-Pace and Vinson
bills to destroy the right to strike. and a
dozen other measures.
But American labor is not licked. 1t may
have been surprised by the suddenness and
viciousness of the attack. and confused by
the propaganda smokescreen used to cover it
up But labor is now fighting back and the
politicians are being called to account by angry
labor voters. II you haven't written your rep
resentatives in Congress. now is the timel
THE CLIO NEWS
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03

Has any one here seen $50 jobs@
Last week, 1850 WPA workers did But
today. the jobs are gone. The same disap-
pearance act was put on all over the nation.
and now 4l5,000 workers are hunting for
jobs like Congressman hunted for every excuse
to slash WPA appropriations.
The Congressman hunted long enough,
found the defense program as excuse. and
cut the WPA appropriation to about $780,
900. 900 - just enough to take care OF one
million men and women on WPA.
Dismissed WPA workers will have tougher
and longer hunt James B. Carey, Clio sec
rotary, has said the defense program is not
supplying enough employment for more than
1000 900 unemployed men and women, much
less an additional I 900.
Here in Allegany and Garrett counties in
Maryland, and Mineral. Grant. Hampshire,
Pendleton and Hardy counties in West Vir-
GINA. 1850 workers fired from WPA.
Even with the few large industrial plants in
this sector. it is doubtful whether the $50
men and women can be absorbed into private
industry.
What's the answer for these workers.
Relief Ask the economy minded Con.
gressmen.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03

American workers are getting hit from all
sides.
On the one hand, Secretary of Labor Per-
kins announced that living costs in large cities
rose or per cent between mid-April and mid
May. This advance brings living costs of
moderate income city families to a point "a
per cent above June, $40, and ~ per cent
above August, 1889. she said
On the other hand. the House of Repre-
sentatives Ways and Means COMMITTEES is now
considering taxes. officially recommended by
the u. S. Treasury Department, which would
soak the already oVer-burdened low income
families with new and higher taxes.
Secretary Perkins reported increases in rent.
prices of food men work clothing and gaso-
line. Congress- in the meantime. is reported
considering increases of over 800 per cent on
taxes of low income groups. while only raising
taxes of higher income groups and large cor
porations by Is per cent.
The Clio has shown Congressional officials
that in $40 workers and other people in low
income groups were paying over half the Fed
eral tax burden-55.6 per cent-while the
share paid by the holders of high incomes. by
corporations. by large fortunes declined.
Today, the T. S. Treasury plans to raise
$1,000. 000.0 900 in new taxes. One-thrd is to
come from sales taxes. the rest is to come
from income taxes-with the steepest increases
in the low income group.
The Clio has pointed out that the present
low rates on excess prohts-now being piled
to fantastic heights the arms program rolls
along would be left relatively untouched.
Under these rates, maximum of only $780,
600, 900 will be paid by corporations in $40.
clio President Philip Murray has called
proposed taxation bills wage cut"
Other CLIO officials have said that the new
heavy taxes would wipe out any wage
increases workers obtained in the last few
years.
The CLIO. at the same time. proposed three
major principles to govern a new tax program
at this time;
I. Relief from income taxes of all incomes
below the 1889 exceptions of ST.. 900 and
$500, and the lifting of all excise and sales
taxes from commodities that are not clearly
luxury goods.
2. No additional excise or sales taxes and no
extension of income taxes or surfaces on in
come below 1889 exemptions of S 900 and
$500.
3. All new tax income should at this time
be collected from increased taxes on high
individual incomes. estates. and growing cor
poration profits. This includes taxes on excess
profits. undivided profits tax exempt securities
and inheritanees.
The CLIO offered its plan to Congressman.
and Congressman must be induced to vote fsr
a taxation bill embodying Clio taxation prn-
cipIes, In short, the principles are tax wealth
NOT wages"
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03

ed in the public press about splits.
purges. red-hunts. ETC.. taking
place in the Congress OF Industrial
Organizations.
"As President Of the CLIO.
have refrained from public COM
ment on these stories because
did not deem 1t advisable TO dig
Nifty idle or malicious gossip with
formal denials. nor In any other
way 10 add fuel TO a press cam
paign which was little concerned
with the best interests Of the CLIO.
II am writing to you. and to the
direct representatives Of the ma
tional CLIO. 10 avoid any confu-
sion in your minds due TO the many
press stories. and 10 re-assure you
that there have been no changes
in the fundamental policies of the
CLIO.
The constitution OF the CLIO
calls for the organization of all
workers employed in industry for
the sound and wholesome purposes
Of collective bargaining. To this
purpose. and this alone. We have
steadfastly adhered and will con-
tinue TO adhere. We have no ul-
terror subvers!ve purposes. nor do
We to.erate attempts to divert our
efforts TO these or other ends for
eign to collective bargaining and
the advancement OF labor's inter
estS.
AT the same time, the CLIO
has never engaged in witch
hunting nor lent any credence
or support to the efforts of Ia
boris enemies 10 divide our ranks
by malicious SANDERS Of duly
elected officers; and 10 create
factionai discussion by appeals
TO intolerant prejudice regard.
ing differences among our mem.
bership.
"As President of the CLIO. l
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03

have adhered strictly and will con-
tinue to adhere TO the constitution
Of the Clio and the democratic
principles on which IL is founded.
In line with these principles and
the organizational discipline ne
cessary for the proper functioning
Of any democratic movement. !
have not hesitated TO speak out
when actions were taken that !
deemed detrimental to the inter-
estS of our unions in the present
national emergency.
But neither by word nor by
deed have lent any encourage.
ment to the current SANDER cam
paign against the loyal Americans
who represent the CLIO and its
unions. Democratic and constitu-
tional controls are provided 10 In
sure their adherence TO Clio pol
ices and the wishes Of their men,
bership. and in such few instances
as any may violate these policies
such controls are applied in the
regular functioning Of organiza-
tional procedure.
The CLIO is making tremendous
strides today in organizing the un-
organized and advancing labor's
interests. We do not intend to
allow the unity Of our advancing
ranks to be disrupted by SANDER
mongers who seek to promote fac
tionalism and other forms OF in
ternal dissension. The CLIO Is a
truly American institution. devot-
ed TO sound and constructive
American detectives. and we have
only contempt and indignation for
those who dare to impugn our
patriotism and our Americanism."
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
Frankensteen
Crosses Up FBI
In Bridges Trial
Clio Leader Knocks
Govt. Hearing,
Brought to Close

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-The
second deportation trial Of Harry
Bridges ended with the sam c
dramatic fire that characterized
1t all the way through.
For almost TO the minute that
Judge Charles B. Sears announced
the taking Of testimony was over.
Maurice J. tBlackie) cannalonga
was instantly killed in a head-on
automobile collision. cannalonga
was the most important and most
colorful witness Of the entire
hearing.
The Government. in a last min
ute desperate attempt to frame
Bridges. subpoenaed CLIO aircraft
director Richard FrankenSteen,
and through him. tried to pin the
red" label on Bridges.
But Frankensteen testified that
the North American aviation plant
strike leaders we're not Commun-
lists. and was angrily excused from
the witness stand by Prosecutor
Albert Del Guerclo. Frankensteen
refused TO be dismissed. and de-
manded TO be allowed TO make a
statement.
1T is my considered judgment
that some of the patterns set in
this hearing are ominous ones
for the future Of legal action in
the United States he said. After
one exhaustive trial in which Mr..
Bridges was completely cleared OF
the charges against him. there is
a hollow mockery in this hearing
and a double jeopardy which can
not but prejudice American work
ingmen against their government.
They resent obvious unfairness
and discriminatory practice wheth-
er 1t is practiced by the manufac-
turers for whom they work, or the
government which they respect.
Attacks such as this one. aimed
at a militant leader of labor who
has made outstanding gains for
the members of his Union. and
who has genuinely represented the
interests Of the American work.
ers. exhaust the patience of citi-
zens and causes them TO seriously
question the purpose of legitimate
functions of government which
may be exercised in the future"
Judge Sears reported that de-
cision on the case would be hand
ed down within the next five
months.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
Murray Warns CIO
Of ;SIandermOngers'

Warning against fantastic
stories" OF splits. purges. and red
hunts in the cIo. Phillip Murray
told the Industrial Unions. coun-
ellis in a letter recently to guard
CIO unity against slandermong-
ers who seek TO promote faction
alism and other forms Of internal
dissension.
Murray's letter said:
In the past few weeks. a great
many speculative and often highly
fantastic stories have been print
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
Alcoholists Join CLIO

BALTIMORE. July / - An in
dependent union Of more than
500 workers in the U. s. Indus
trial Alcohol Co.. Curtis Bay. over
whelmingly voted TO affiliate with
CLOS District SO division of the
United Mine Workers. Frank j.
Bender. regional CLIO director. and
Organizer Michael Howard. re.
ported.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
BIiEz I'm America

Hitlsrs tactics have been faithfully followed
in the current domestic bl.zkrieg against
American labor and democracy. First we
have the Menace. then the Incident. then the
Breakdown. and finally the Systematic Sup.
preston.
The Msnaes 10 Red. Of Course. Just Ike
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
Union Songs

A new record album OF songs
called "Talkin' Unlon." has been
issued by Keynote Recordings. 1873
West 44th st.. N. Y. c. Priced at
50. the album contains six union
songs made By the Almanac Sing
ers.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-03
DON'T WAIT

The saying that everything comes
to him who waits may have been
true a hundred years ago, when
people had plenty Of time to wait
for the good things of life. But
today the only one that things
come to. is the man who goes
after them. The best thing in the
world comes to you when you have
our chiropractic health service.
Don't wait. Come in todayl DR..
John A. Crist, DR.. Bertha John
son. Two Offices. 10 N. Centre st.
/ to 2 and Z to 8 P. M. Phone
1925. l!6 Virginia Ave. 10 A. NJ.
to 2 p. NJ, Phone 2772.
Washington Journal., 1941-05-30

ten MiBbanolung zines tpsbrIOfeH
Wsfens fonnte er ni9t rubig 5ufeben.
Mit einem Sprung mar er Bel Dem
Mirt, bottle oiefen Bel Der @urgsl ges
padt, uno I9ittelte i'm, oaB ibm
5Dren uno @s6en persing.
Der 8urf9s mar 10 in Corn gee
rdten. Dab er ben 9Gufer Dienei4t
eroroTslt battle, ipsnn ii9 nt9t abs
ptbreno Die Suno Nfras auf fsinen
Nrm eeIegt bate.
nQaB' i'm, Sans!" faste lie rubis
aber talt, nit .inem f~inftern Muss
Orud ibrss @eiidts. n2uB i'm. ST
neiB net. mas .r tut, 70 betrunten IL
er. l1no fdIieBli9 blei6t er bod
mein Batter.
Die Beriibrung Der MGo9enbano
ernii1terte plDBli9 ben Burden; er
IieB ab bon Der @urgel Ses @6eufaz
les. O1s, obne eia @ort gu Fugen. mad
Der @9ente taumelte. bort pieoer Die
Sdnupsfluf4e ergriff uno lie nit
sinem Iunsen 3ugt halb lserte. Sept
erft f9ien Der Mann ii9 nieoer foz
melt erbolt gu BADEN. odB er nit
gr0blenoen. beiferen 2duten tpeiter=
I9impfte. nit Ser 5auit orobte, aber
Damn bod por3oe. Die Stube gu ber=
lnfen. mo iih elm Diel StGrterer, als
er mar. befanb.
Man bDrte Jpn nod duf Dem 9ausz
fur; Damn muBte ct auf Der Sreppe,
Die in oen oberen Gtod binauffibrte,
einioe Male gefallen iein - oaruuf
fpuroe Is 10 ltiI i'm 5aufe, oaB Die
beioen iungen Meni6en Die bi6t mes
beneinanoer in Der Mitte Der Stube
ftdnoen. g~egsnisitis ibren Ntem bOrsn
tonnten.
Dos @6peigen oauerte ldngere
3eit an. Damn lests 9uns feinen Mrm
iiber Die SduItsl oes nun fin pei=
nenoen MGo9en uno fiibrte es an
feinsn Slid. mo iie fid bsioc, ME
ermattet. auf Der binter oieism ite'
benoen Bant nieoerlieBen.
Cine 3eit lang mar ni4ts gu b0s
rem. ols Dos leife Weinen uno
Ghlubsen Der Itra uno oas Eiden
Der alien @6paropGloer ubr.
Die juneen Meafhen ioBen S6ul=
ter an G6uIter. Damit fdien glei9=
fam Der Meg gsf9affen. auf Dem ibre
lhm.raIiden Gefihle ineinanoer iiber-
aeben tonnten uno oaour6 entitdno
plDbli6 Elm assenieitiaes 8eriteben,
obne Worte. obne Musiprahe.
6ortfeBune folst.
Washington Journal., 1941-05-30

Itsrt uno bod mas 'braHt, 70 fpens
0ierrs Der Wirt".
Die lisBen ii9 erne praris, pie er
lie fOI9en @diten geseniiber oft senug
nit NDrteil 1~npenoete, eben ni9t biez
ten.
Den 6ons sins es ni9ts an. mas
im boot in Ser Gde unter Gluhen,
GGreien uno @9impfen enttpideIte.
Mber es puBte 70 tpenig gu Ieiner
iebigen. pei9en Stimmung, oaB ct
bef1IoB, benz Nuftritt. Der in 9GtIid>
teiten ous5uarten oro6te, elm Gn0e 81
MAIDEN. gr ftdno auf. frat gu ben
StreitenOen unO fragtc febr enersif&,
UNI biel @eIo fi9 Der @treit orebe.
3nei Der Rtrle nobmen aud geget
i'm cine feinOli9e SteIung an un0
brii1tsn inn gu. er fOGe iid sumSeufel
fneren, fie fpiiroen ibre Sadie anein
0usmu9en. Der Dritte aber. Der
msrtte. oaB ser 8urfds nit Ser 5ros
&c pObl etfpas 8eionoeres porbaben
tDnnte, nannte einen 8etrdg bon nee
nigen Grofhen.
Cans sriff in osn Sad uno murf
einen SaIer uuf Ben bei9mubten
Slid.
.3ablt ben @irt!!" REF .r. ~Wus
heroustommt eebOrt eu9. Nber oer=
trinten miiBt ibr's mo anOers. ala
beim QDtpenpirt."
Dos CAB Der Sadie fofort cine ans
Ser. Dsnouna. Mu9 Die 5nei Wi<
oerboariqen nuroen CABIN, be0untten
iih lahen6 nit einem .@elt's @ott!-
Damn bDbnten unO buoeIten fe nod
etnas ben Dirt, Der fi9 bequemen
muBte. beruusaugeben. tpDruuf bic
orei in better Gtimmung nit ibren
idmierigen 8inoeln un6 Ran5en bic
Stube berliebeu.
Der Q0nentpirt brummte ettpds
BON iibermiitigen Gauern, Die einem
Die beiten @Gfte Dertreiben un6 fab
babel nit siftisen GeitsnbIiden nd&
Dem 9ans. Der ii9 fdOn lGngft tpies
Der an feinen plas auriidgeaOseuI
bate. Damn t~OrteIte er an ben S4ents
lifd. mo er ii4 Elm srcBes @lds
S4nups einfdentte unO oisfes dnf
einen 3ug binunterfiir5te.
@ein ni0ertpilig berbaItener Corn
muBte fi9 absr Cuff f9affen un0 ods
gu mar ibm Die 4fru gerd6e redt.
mGauIe. nirrubt 0irn", f8rie er re
an. ~DaFB'n. Maulaff'n fell bolt'n,
oDs is oti Cad! Sigft net, OaB
bort Der gauge Sifd boiler @ldfer
ffebt2 Mart. i6 tomm' un0 BELT
0ir.@
Damit mart Ct fid auf ous fi6 er-
f9redt ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS podte
eS BEL einem Oberorm uno ftieb es nit
FOLDER @eipaIt qeaen Die 3immerede.
baB es. einen Gdmeraensidrei duss
itOBeno, auf ole Diele binidlug.
Dos mai fiir ben 0ans gu piel;
elmer foI6en, son5 uno gar ungsrea-
Washington Journal., 1941-05-30

Gin irtunoIi6er Be-
De 1irettor zines 3oOIogi-
fhen @artens mar i'm urlaub. @r ers
belt BON Teinem MFifentsn einen 8e.
riGt, Der nit ben Morten idloB: Der
Gdimponls trcntelt. @r f8eint iiA
nod einem Rameraoen gu iebnen.
Was ionen mir thun. Biz sic 5uriids
tebreng"