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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

in the condition of workers which employers, through civilized methods of conference, decline to grant,"
 Through strike and conference Amalagamated grew steadily. By 1889 it had unionized 95 per cent of the mems clothing industry, raised average hourly wages from 27 cents in 1914 to 77 cents, while shortening the work week from 51 to 36 hours.
 It has been Hillman's willingness to compromise little things to gain big things that has made him the butt of attack from the left. The Communist Party has accused him of being guilty of sewing the seeds of class peace"
 Hillman's pragmatic philosophy, his demand for labor unity, made it inevitable that he should break with his c. I. O. boss John L. Lewis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Cautious, undramatic, analytical, hating futility, Hillman had little in common with Lewis-dramatic, risking all on one throw, unwilling to compromise.
 Hilllnan is a compromiser in everything but personal habits. His day and night work has been the bane of his wife's existence. But Mrs. Hillman, the former Bessie Abromowitz, whom Sidney met on the Hart, Schaffner & Marx picket line, herself has been in the front line of labor's struggles, knows what her susband is up against. Today she is educational director for the laundry workers, an AInalgamated affiliate.
 WHITE HOUSE
 CALLING HOSPITAL
 Perhaps few corporation executives have travelled as widely as Sidney
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
McGibbon Speaks On
 "Three-Ocean Navy

Navy sound pictures were shown by Chief Electricians Mate John w. McGibbon, Waterbury, before a large gathering at the Mill Plain Union church last night. McGibbon spoke on "Why We Need A Three ocean Navy" An open forum fol- lowed the speech.
 Among the films shown were, Service Tn Submarines" "Submar- Ines at Sea-" and "The First Line of Defense", depicting fleet maneuvers, battle formations, conditions on the high seas. and general environment in the Navy. Also shown were scenes from many foreign lands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

he was "post-graduated from Hart Schaffner & Marx"
 REDS DON'T
 LIKE SIDNEY
 To say Hillman is a compromiser does not mean he will be pushed around. He led Amalgamated to victory in the five-month lockout by New York garment manufactur- CTS in 1921. He has used the strike ruthlessly.
 In symposium in an Episcopal Church in New York, during a strike, Hillman best expressed his strike philosophy. Standing un- der a towering gold cross, the hand some young Jew said: "A strike is the weapon of the jungle. But if everything else has been exhausted and We are compelled to strike, then it is our duty to secure betterment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Editor, Tall Tower Topics . Each year grow ing interest Winter Sports that the question is 'Where shall go skiing?" Not as it was few years back ''Whaddayagonna do over the week-end?" So, 'bury" Mark Twans reference to the changeable New England weather by being ready to give upto-the- minute information on snow conditions in the BerkShies the Green Mountains, and the White Mountains. Our plan, at the Mansion House in Greenfield is to keep big blackboard in lobby with all the latest reports on snow conditions in Western Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire The reports will be telegraphed in and checked by morning and evening radio broadcasts as well. Now not asking free advertising! In writing you we simply want you and your friends to know that there this service available at the Mansion House, and it's absolutely free So, if you're headed for the ski grounds drop in to bulletin board get any maps folders you need learn just how cond tos are and how far you have to drive to reach good snow." We're right on the of Routes No. and No. 2 - Where the College Highway crosses The Mohawk Traill" .. And there's warm welcome here for you.. Sincerely, R. c. Hal Proprietor Greenfield Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Mrs. Helen (Pelletier) Barnes of San Francisco, sister of Harvey and Bill Pelleter, is renewing certainly agrees with Mrs. Barnes for she's loveler than ever to look at She left this city about 21 years ago to the in California but today in San Francisco regarded the biggest department store west of Chicago. Time flies fast here claims Mrs Barnes she will not have the opportunity to per sonay visit all her friends much she would like to- the remembers her to that legion of Brass City admirers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
By TOM WOLF

By TOM WOLF
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent One day not many years ago, a notoriously anti-union New York mems clothing manufacturer hied himself down to the ramShackle old Tiffany building which fronts on Manhattan's labor conscious Union Square.
 On the third floor of this squat, high-ceilinged building where once milady bought her priceless gems he was ushered into a small corner office. Its walls were bare save for few testimonial letters, a por- trait of Abraham Lincoln and 8 small bust of Franklin D. Roose- welt.
 Behind clean, unlittered, glass top desk sat Sidney Hillman, gen. eral president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, one of the nations most powerful and most respected unions.
 ''Mr Hillman," said the manu- facturer. T want you to unionize me-"
 Sidney Hillman did not smile in triumph. I'll be frank with you,' he said, in effect. "Your business is in poor financial condition. If we signed an agreement with you and then you went under, Anal gamated would be scapegoat." The manufacturer was equally frank. In trying to get his business back on its feet, he had called in a high-priced production expert The expert found production SC disorganized that he refused tc attempt to right it without helr from gamated-noted for its support of the industries it union ized. "No Amalagamated contract, said the expert, mo help from me. Sidney Hillman changed his mine and agreed to take chance. TWO PRINCIPLES
 GUIDE HILLMAN
 Though an incident such as this is unique in labor annals it speaks typically of Sidney Hillman and the union of which he has been head since it foundation in 1914. (Every individual union member, incident ally, votes bi-annually on the presi- ldent.) For in this situation, Sidney Hillman was following the two principles On which he has so suc- cessfully based his industrial life consciousness of labor's obligation to industry and a willingness to compromise, in the best sense of the word.
 Hillman first gained prominence when he was $10-a-week cutter CT was only a fair cutter~ in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
oHARA's MOTHER SAILS

Maureen O'Hara, the RKO Radio star from Ireland, bade farewell this week to her mother, Mrs. Rita Fitz- simmons who is now on the high seas bound for Lisbon from whence ehe will fly to Dublin There is Q Likelihood that she will return soon with another gifted daughter with stage experience and cinema aspir- aliona.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Hart, Schaffner & Marx. When the famous strike occurred in that plant in Chicago in 1910, it was Hillmans keen analytic ability and willingness to compromise that made him in- strumental in its settlement. He had a hand in the arbitration agreement written into the settlement. It has been the model for industrial arbi- tration ever since.
 As the workers spokesman under this arbitration Hillman gained the reputation which landed him the presidency of Amalgamated. It was formed four years later when two thirds of the membership of the United Garment Workers walked out of the A. F. of L.
 No wonder Hillman has said that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
TodsYs AmsweSs Co 0ARelUA CRACKERS s
Questions on Comic Page.

l. Lietchenstein. with an area of 65 sq. mi. Is the princlpallty bounded by Switzerland and Germany.
 2. Oman is Q kingdom that occu- pies e2.000 Sq. mi. of the Arabian peninsula.
 3. Liberia, located on the west coast of Africa, is that continents only republic.
 (. Salvador Is c Central Amer lean republic bounded by Guatemala and Honduras.
 5. San Marino is e republic site uated within the boundaries Of Italy, near Rimini on the east coast,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
By BILL GARRIGUs

Word trickles over the line from Oxford that when the finance board meets in March, a lower tax rate will be set. Clarence Roberts, member of Newton Post No. 1907, V. F. w., served as First Select man down there and turned in an efficient job. Oxford has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

The name Mary Aspinwall Happen may not mean much to most people but of significance in the Berkshire Hills country. Miss Tappan died the other day as her Back Bay (Boston) home It was she who vals possible for she donated the Tangewood estate be- tween Stockbrdge and Lenox to the Boston Symphony orchestra These festivals which started out modeSty presenting each year of musical programs have grown approximately each year. until the enterprise carried in grand manner and on much larger scale school being conducted that covers all branches of music and the establishment so to speak, of a great music center. Miss Happen was born on the Tanglewood estate which laid out in 1849 by William Aspinwall Tappan and which has had many literary associations Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in little red cottage the estate at time and here wrote his "TangeWood Tales the estate later adopting the Miss Happen and her niece assigned the property to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the project which has now been definitely established, summer colony for music Two music sheds have been built, the last more adequate In her childhood Miss Tappan at Tanglewood such visitors as Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Herman Melville
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
PLAY POSTPONED
 BY WILEY PUPILS

The play, scheduled to be given tomorrow night by the Spanish Club of Wilby High school in the assem- ply hall,- has been postponed out of respect to Miss Daisy Lord( close friend of club members, who was inferred yesterday morning. The play will be staged in the same hall, Friday evening, February 21.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
South Britain Briefs

maybe hatboxes are a part of the new combat pack? Or, perhaps, and this seems the most likely ex- plantation yet, that travelling hat peddlar who used to call on a young lady in the Squaw Rock Country has returned to these parts and decided to join the army? Any information will be gladly received here. If that hat
 peddlar has enlisted, we want to pass the word around for a lot of folks to unload their shotguns. (This column carried the hat ped- lar story some months back. We'll reprint it if anyone is intereSted)
 The greatest difficulty our photographers reported about that march was the gate-crashers that sneaked into the convoy and tried to make believe they were part of the army. Our folks would just get a camera leveIed and lined and set, when a brewery truck or a laundry delivery would arrive in range. Anyway, probably the pie ture mags- will publish 8 few worthwhile shots, even if we mis- sed.
 Nothing is safe any more. Chil- dren get irritated with sumach poisoning, dogs get run over by speeding motorists, and woodpiles get carted away by almost any, body that needs fuel. But names are stolen more frequently than anything else. The latest name lift appears to be from Paradise. NEW HORIZONS" is the label pinned on a program of geography and science over the Columbia System. The REAL NEW HORI- ZONS is the lodge of Kenneth I. and Nancy E. Walton, so named these many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Jimmy Alexander of the post office staff went back to work today after being laid up at home for several days with bad cold. Sergeant George Beck of the Marines is missed these days Blame it the grippe John DePaStinO pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs. Marie Casale of Southington Tuesday morning Cliff Swirski is pinch-hitting these days at the Naugatuck post office. Jane Cipriano local song bird grippe patient at her South Main Street dOm ciIe. Martha Demers is cOnvalescing at her home after minor operation at St. Mary's Hospital
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
EASTERN FIND" GOES WEST

Robert Smith, eastern stock player, arrived in Hollywood to start his screen career with RKO Radio Pictures. On Broadway he was featured in Lost Horizon" Two for the Show" "You Never Know and "Three Waltzes."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Mir and Mrs. James Nolan of Alma Street are send. ing out announcements of the birth of a son at St Marys Hospital last Friday. The proud Momma is the former Mary A. Martin Helen Lahey wants every to remember that February Is the date for the Alpha Kappas second annual dinner dance at Three Cups Inn. . . Mrs. Margaret Ragls of Central Avenue sends along beautiful folder of beautiful HlaIeah Park from Miami, Florida The unique feature of the park, writes Margaret Is its great flock of brilliant 1amingos plniOned to prevent them from flying away
 csood Nlolak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

 tor trucks that came through here from Fort Dupont, Delaware, and was heading for Fort Dev- ems, Mass, (where the latest de- fense program scandal seems to have broken into the cOurts), had difficulty in this region. Over the river in NewtOwn, the driver of a hay truck collided with one of the army trucks. The hay truck driver, George UzailkO, drew a $25 blind. He was a Yorker, not a Fifth COlunnist or pacifist.
 Our squad of patriots gathered at Sand Corner to get pictures of the army in passing, and to en- joy a parade, even if it couldn't afford to go to Washington to catch the big march-past down there. Nat Evarts was there, eyes agleam, wideaWake, alert. MT. Roulston from Georges Hill att tended, watchful for the safety of America. Gregg Cassidy, South Britain's outstanding Democrat, went over with his camera to get get some pictures of the rolling stock FDR has kept for our army. Those pictures will be valuable, Someday.
 That's the Old Glory Road. A lot of troops have trudged that way, going to one war or another. Rochambeau took his gang along that route, followed by a lot of hungry Yankees who sold cattle to the innocent Frenchmen who came here to establish our Democracy. The Indian fighters rolled along that pike, too. The Boys of '61 got over to Danbury and thence to Dixie by what is now U. s. 6. But we will bet that no stranger sight was seen than our lads caught when the First Engineers passed last week.
 Believe it or not, one truck was filled with hat boxes! Now those lads had just come through Dan- bury, and they might have stopped off to collect some stylish head gear for the selectees or the train- ees or the draftees at Devens. Or,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

many advant- 8 g e S t h a t Southbury lacks such as street signs that en- able a stranger to find his way a roun d t h e village without 8 compass. We congr a tulate Oxford on her good showing.
 Just as we feare d, that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

vd Burpee has World Premiere Showing in New XorK GU We're living in exciting times, War news mixed with sports and crimes We learn each day new proper name, We hear each day of an exciting winter game. We follow the headlines big and bold And discover there has been developed marigold Yesterday a new airfield opened up Today skier wins another cup Haille SelaSse is in the news again, Each day new batch of soldiers entrain. Sonia Henie on the ice is sight to behold, And we note the premiere of a marigold In the news appear Tobruk and Port Sudan, In the news is another out-of-t he-meSS plan. American styists busy sewing seams, As the news grows in yards and reams. Headlines appear daily ill type more bold, And we have in the market new marigold.
 -FM EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
IN THE NEWS
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

IN THE NEWS (Jeus Iten The Idabele Margod Developed by David Burpee has Showing ill New XorK Cyl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
Sidney, I've Got a Job For You"
-''KNUDSEl-HILLMAN"
FDR's Call To Defense Post Caps Rise
 OF HiIIman From Cutter To Union Power

This article = fourth of six cOlOrful clOseups of William s. Knudsen and Sidney HiIlman, co-directOr of national defense production - traces the career of Hillman from immigrant pants cutter to labor union power.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28

UTICA-Utica Rotarians are
perfsctint plans Tor their annual
easter sale Of stamps for the
crippled Children fund. At the
80 public clinic held for Grip
I'D cAildren Of c4aeomb county,
-. Puroen 1tated that be found
fovoe one hundred Afty to be In
naed Of medical attention. Lack
To funds. however, put nearly
IN On The waiting list.
! Rotari4ns, while appreciatins
tn help they have always re-
Received, are hoping for . still
! larger response from the people
.}0f Utica. Macy Watkins, county
2ohairman, addressed the Ro-
5tarians At the Tuesday night
Injecting.
1 For the past year. since last
Easter, members Of the club
have deposited all pennies In
their possessionNat each meeting
lin . one gallon glass jar. Tues
day night Sergeant-at-Arms
Percy Bunting took the jar, now
full, out to be deposited In the
hank. The 81 pounds Of pennies
Twill be counted after Easter, the
famount estimated to be more
than Afty dollars. The money
twin 60 to the Crippled Children
fund.
\ Among business transacted
was the decision 70 give Z play
with m entire male cast with
sentative dates Of May ! and 2,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28
Proposal Goes
10 E|e(ioTaie.
$4,000 Proposition
On April J Belief

UTICA - Many more than
the required 100 names Of tax
payers In Shelby township have
besn affixed TO petitions pre-
ssntsd 70 the township board
requesting the submission % the
voters at the annual Spring
elsction. April Z. The matter a
fire protection Tor the township.
The same win appear On the
ballot which will read - fol-
lows:
TOWNSHIP P2ORO0IT1ON
Shall the Township Beard b
authorised 70 purchase and
house fire extingaishing ap-
paratas and eQuipEnent and IN
appeopriation Of ten thous-
and dollars ($lo,o00) b made
there1oet
According 70 law . given
amount must be stipulated. This,
In reality. will NOT boost taxso
- many think, - Il must come
cut of the Gsneral Fund which
en- b spread over Z period a
yoers the same - othee town
nip Expenditure. 0y voting
'yes'' you simply sive IL board
authorixation 70 spsnd the
amount.
The petitioners, by placing
this On the ballot, do not deem
Il = political isgae but Z necoGsity
and expect the man IN okfice
b handle e IN . just and fair
way. An x On TIE ballet would
Be greatly appreciated By the
committee.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28
Defense Areas
Health Threat
Physieisn Describes
Growing pseblsaf

= rORTLAND, Ore, March q
~ llushrooming dsfsnse IN
duStries which are ubanixins
rural areas are throotenino
America with an acute health
problem, Dr.. Kendall Emerson
Of New York, told the Oregon
TubsrculoQis Association. ).
The managing directee q ths
National Tuberculosis Aseoeia-
tion said these regions lacked
facilities . deal with overnight
industriali1ation And IT. eoncon-
tration q population.
A shanfy.town at he eds Of
Portland mitrored, h MD. Z
thing that will b repootod
In many parts Of the country.
War contracts have Z way q
making BIG factories out q IT.
tie ones faster than residential
areas surrounding can expand
to handle the influx Of workers,
Il Il one Of the inevitobles -
and psrials - Of war, h con-
tinued.
The u. s. Public Health Serv-
ice Il coping with the situation.
but state and municipal help 4
needed to safeguard The health
Of The. vital workers and THAR
families who must five IN tentl
and shacks until better housing
can b provided"
Mos migration Of workers u
entailed Ia the problem, incu-
batting social dangers which can
be met only with such weapons
~ educational, welfare and
health facilities.
Unfortunately, Dr.. Emsreon
declared the orderly exponoion
Of any army post cannot - cop
led In the accompanying indus
trt1a expansion. Il = part q
the Obligation Of comnaunitiea
that ret defense work % gy1pple
speedily with the conconnmttani
health and social problem, he
mentioned.
A. % the army, DR.. Emerson,
q major In the British army dur
ing the World War;, said the
health Of young men inductsd
into the service % far was dis
tinctly better than Il was in
10l0.lo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28
Around The Town

Drothsehood meeting In NJ.
Clsmsnb Tuesday and On
Wednesday evening was the
speaker at the Lenten services In
TIE New Haven Meth dist
church.
Miss Tishsy Wilson. Of New
port, Arkansas, b now making
her home With her sister IN
Utica.
Fred Clippord was taken 70
St. Jossph Aespital. NJ. Glenn
en-. this week, very seriously
III.
Monday nleht TIE Utica and
CouAoe Linz 1laoonie Ledge
hold ! 0cheol q lns(xs,etion q
llasonte Han pceco6e1 BY .
dinneg segved - shout - ~
III la6ioe C H. Eastosn Star.
Albeet llarlatt g Mount Glenn
ems diSeeict Deputy Lectursr
was n charge. Center Line
furnished ths eandidate' Tor the
work.
MesAbsrs q ~ Utica xastssn
Star enAsetainod their Aaeonie
DrolhegD q lGoeo0ie Han xAaars-
day svealnS. xhe hleh Light %
~ ovonlng Wae the drill put On
BY the Degree Team of Aochss-
TOR.
0eeepe lGeroan. q Tucson,
AriSoao, n vislttng n IT, hoaae
of 3oAry Heck md Other Utica
James MILKY b rseovering at
g. Joqeph's hogDltal Mount
Clemeno, from a 0peraEion per
formed there a Saturday.
Mis- Arlene 9chul1, daughter
Of M. end lrs UdeDr 0eliulx.
d taxing Z buslDeoD eoilFse It the
rontiae Duslpsss cellAse.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28
RIies Hold Tod,Y
ielsl8 Evans


Aged kiehme~d Wemsa
Dies st Her Meme
oRICIN6OND-llrs, Ida Evans,
IS, who had been III for SEVERAL
years. died Tuesday IN her hcme
on the Memphis Ridge road
north Of this village.
Funeral services were held a
2 p. m. today from the home
with burial In the Richmond
cemetssy.
1Grs. Evans II survived by her
husband; one son, Archie Evans,
d. Anchoeville; one daughter.
MI Roy Ryall, of Richmond
township; two brothers, James
and Archie Wilson, and Two sis-
tern Mrs. Henry Evans md Aiss
Mayme Wilson. Ill Of this com
yniznity.
Mr.. Evans was born in Port
Huron md has Lived most Of her
life n this community.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28
Gov. Van al
at School Dedicaii

oUT1CA-0ov. Murray y. van
Wasouer was tn honoEod gsagt
"Wednesday evening whGn ~
81, 900 addition 10 the Brook
lands school On Auburn evenue
west Of Utica Wa dedieuted.
Sam Beauchamp, 3 former IN
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28

A plsnetarium Is circular
room over .5hich is suspended .
stainless steel dome, serving o.
a screen upon which, by means
Of an intricate protector, it Is
possible to show In . realistic
manner every star or other OBJ
ject in the sky that Is visible to
the naked eye.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28
Armada

Mrs. A. N. Tiffany ana Miss
Christine Rothnsy accompanied
by the Girls q tho ArnAd0 High
School Library Club went %
Ann Arhoe, Saturday - witness
the ShakeSpear play. Much
Ado shout Nothing psat "a at
the univeFsity q MiehiSnn.
AT tlae AGAcomh County exc
cutive board ubeeting, hid at
Hin Banks school, ThlaEDday,
March -. lGfa HARVEY Crull
was elected - DELEGATE - rep
roelnt lGaeomb county q. tae
Michi1in Rural Toachert ~.
location meeting Which viii b
held 1t Traverss City, April II
ana 70.
The North Armada home eco
Monies extension group hid .
moesin1 6 The home Of 1lrs.
Druce 1fooher, Friday evening.
March a. Mrs. Martin Mont
gomsry showed pictures e The
''Cons(ruetion 6 !. Mattress"
TIE group win hold . spscial
meeting @ ~ home q 1Grs.
Joseph Austin Wednesday, April
:. A pot-luclk dinner WIN -
served at noon. Uection q OH
GERS win 10 holA. D
Just-a-mers club VIM NEST
with 1er. anA Ma Ilaflsy ID.
words rfiday svsnins.
llr. and III. hoy Jamlsoa
announce IL birth q N clint
pound boy. boTn Satufday,
tGnreh q. ~ &
Mn 1Gartin lgentD ~ nd
eod lgafllny T., V1ul1oo II. snd
llR Woyne 0kogva CO 3eogtAr
VIVA, oaenrdoy. Nh psuwn aad
boby & aughtep ooes0omloA
thon hoube ~ Wll) w her
parents 81 wosk-
~. - ~ ~ nssrs -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-28

Announcement has been made
OF the approaching marriage OF
Miss Louise Ziehln, Of Utica, and
Robert Roney, of Romeo.