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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

informed on labor situations in all plants having defense orders, and 1t does not attempt to inter- fere with the work of the Depart ment 10 Labor, its Cancellation Service, the Office of Production Management, National Defense Mediation Board, or the various state mediation agencies. LOOK AT
 THE RECORD
 It is from the War Department records, however, that the real picture of the seriousness of even the smallest strike or lockout Is obtained, and the picture shows one thing altogether too clearly there IS simply too much tend. ency to minimize the importance of work stpopages.
 Records of the War Depart. ment show these totals of man. days lost on army orders 50 far
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14
BOARD OF WORKS
 HEARS PETITIONS
Numerous Requests Filed for Improvements
 phone to Install Conduit

Requests for . number of public Improvements were received by the board of public works at its meeting last night.
 Mrs. George R. Bailey of i07s Cooke street asked that sewer ser. vice be extended on Cooke street from Wheeler to Boyden street to correct dangerous conditions caused by overflow of cesSpoolS.
 Attorney Harry Krasow asked that Eldridge street be accepted by the city and that poor drainage coll- ditions there be corrected. Surface water flows down the street, he said, adn there k Q hazard, especially to children. The complaint was refer. red to the sewer committee and Supt. Herbert Scott-Smith.
 Improvement of Romford street was also asked, and the request was referred to Q committee.
 Supt. Scott-Smith and the street committee were authorized to con. fer with the Southern New England Telephone Go. on the companys ap- plication to install an underground conduit on Grand street, from Canal to Leavenworth street.
 It was voted to secure offers for the removal of buildings on land purchased recently by the city at Milton, near the Morris water sys- tenn.
 Proposed layouts and grades for Peach Orchard road were referred to the engineering bureau for title searches.
 It was reported that waivers have been obtained from all but one prop erty owner for sewer extensions on Mount Vernon avenue.
 The board set down June 3 for hearings on improvements to Bun- ker Hill avenue, and Manor avenue.
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and particularly the Caribbean bases, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, and Trinidad - to say noth- ing of Alaska, where mosquitoes are big as bombers. Production Is shifted from bohinette to tri. cot which Is just about as good, except for the fact that 1t shrlnSs.
 Then along comes 8 strike in the tricot mills and because of :his little daisy cham of events, the defense forces in the tropics run the risk of yellow fever epi- demic or at best, bad morale through having to stop to scratch mosquito bites or loose sleep through trying to swat the pesky things in the dark.
 Those few typical cases give a remote idea of the seriousness of even the most insignificant of work Stoppages In the defense ef- fort - seriousness which no set of statistics can possibly reveal. Right now, these statistics look pretty fair, though when you say that, you touch wood, keep your fingers crossed, don't walk under any ladders and stay away from black cats.
 WAR DEPARTMENT KEEPS INFORMED
 The coal strike Is as good as settled, But & General Motors strike means 8 wallop to U. S.. defense production worse than the loss of the Atlantic fleet, for the big General Motors system has 100000 men working on S726, 100000 worth Of defense or- ders-tatlkS and planes and ma- chine guns and parts and hun dreds Of other things needed every hour. A c. M. strike means the curve of nian.days lost through labor troubles must be reised ten or elveen times higher than 1t Is now, and three times as high as 1t was at the peak on March 25 of this year, when Bethlehem and AlliS Chalmers disturbances ran the total up to 4b,000 men out of work per day.
 It iS not comfortable to think what the coal strike would have done to defense productino either, If 1t had gone on for another week. The country was pretty lucky on that one. Even though there were 100000 men out of the mines for a month, coal piles were high enough in nearly all defense industry plants to keep them going, or stock piles of materials produced in coal con- suming plants were big enough to maintain deliveries. Some steel mills did have to bank their fires, and some others used tho strike pcrido to let the fires go out and to clean mad repair the furnaces. Now they can go ahead uninter- rupted, for most of the railroads and steel mills own their own mines and can make up for lost time in short order, they hope.
 War Department policy on la bor matters has, since the middle Of December, been guided by Edward P. Mcdrady, former as- sistant Secretary of Labor. but now Q special advisor to the as- sistsnt Secretary Of War. All the department does now Is to keep
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

sigh pressure 50 that the castings were more like forgings. There was real bottleneck and this lit- tie strike caused g delay in six big west coast airplane plants: Lockheed, Douglas, Cultee, North American, Northrupp and Boeing, At Boeing, men had to be laid off mad that threw another monkey wrench into Boeing's own labor troubles which were none too happy to begin with.
 The strike at the Standard Tool Company. Cleveland, O., affected only 600 men, but this plant is one of the four leading laanufac- turers Of large twist drills, as well as of special reamers, cut ters and taps. Defense produc- ton of thirty really important army contractors was held up by this insignificant strike. including firms like Glen L. Martin, Gen. eral Electric, General Motors, Diesel, Douglas Aircraft, Allison engines, Continental Motors, Brew- ster Areonautical, Curtiss.W Wright, Boeing, Springfield arsenal, Rock Island arsenal, FTnakford arsenal. It was Q Q. !. O. closed shop strike. After 6S days of wrangling between labor and management, army ord- nance switched some of its contracts to other plants.
 HOLD UP ONE-THIRD
 OF ARMY BOMB PROGRAM
 The case of an alloy steel con- pany was given at the beginning. This was the famous Universal Cy- clops Steel Company of Bridgeville, Pa. The strike involved only HOO men, but this plant is one of only about I5 special steel producers !n the country, and there are no sub.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14
WATERBURY NAMES
 ON FIRMS PAPERS

Rita M. Quinn, Antoinette E. Ciminera and Marcus H. Weismsn of this city are listed as incorpor- ators of the New England Roofing Supply Company of Thomastor, ac- cording to papers filed ct the office of the Secretary of State at Hart ford.
 Authorized capital is 1io,000, and the firm reports $1.000 at the start of commencing. Stock of the cor~ poration has a par value of $2O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

was not used for such puFpcsos but was instead diverted Co the Italian government b violation Of the neu- trallty act.
 John Slvilla, local president, said that about e4,300 had been collected since the drive started here In Eeb- ruary. Local solicitors have turned in their Identification cards, he said, and have ended their activities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14
CHARTER PRESENTED
 COLORED COP. CLUB

A charter from the Connecticut Young Republican organization has been received by the Young Colored Republican Club of Waterbury.
 The presentation was made at ceremony attended by guests and club members, the guests including Harold K. Hadley, former president of the Young Mems Republican Club: Samuel Mihailoff, present president; and Attorney Maurice Gruslkay. Each of the three con. graduated the club on It's activity.
 The club will send a delegation to q county meeting of Young Republi- cans at Seymour Friday night
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LOST: Through Strikes -1, ,567 ,616 Man-Days OfWork on Army Defense Orders Farthis Year

American Plating O., Des Moines, IT,; gas mask cannisters at Conti- mental Can, Jersey City, N. J.: windshield wipers at E & A Labora- tories, Inc, Brooklyn, N. r.: or two million dollars worth of surRi- cal instruments formerly made in Germany but now on order with J, Sklar Manufacturing O., Long Island City, N. Y.
 The conclusion is that no one has yet found how to make a la- Dor disturbance of any kind, strike or lockout, so small as to be insignificant in a national de- fense effort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14
ITALIAN VETERANS
 END COLLECTIONS
Secretary HuII's Criticism Causes Cancellation of
 Appeal for Funds

The drive for funds which has been underway by the Waterbury chapter, Italian World War Vet erans, has been ended as e result of the action by Secretary of State Cordell Hull in revoking the resis- tration of the national organization.
 Funds were being collected for "Italian war orphans and widows, l" but the state department claimed that the money, on reaching Italy,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

Production of special alloys for Curtiss. Wright'S propeller plant was held up.
 Steel bullet production at Frank ford arsenal was stopped.
 Assembly of machine guns at General Motors was held up be. cause they couldn't get special spring steel.
 One hundred and ttirty.one strikes in the first four months of the year tell similar stories, whether the production was for socks at Black Hosiery Mills, York. Pa.: belt buckles at the
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 Total, l3l strikes ..... 1,667,6l6
 Those figures don't include the stoppages of production for the Navy, the Maritime Commission or the British. They include no non-defense strikes, nor do they include figures for the coal strike, or the strike at the Ford plant.
 The coal strike Just missed and the Ford plant had only one real rainy order, contract for 1900 bantam cars, 750 of which had al- ready been delivered. Work on the other 7S0 was scattered all through the Ford River Rouge plants and represented such an indefinable fraction of total Ford capacity and production that 1t was impossible to compute a time loss on this one order.
 Incidentally, the army can pat itself on the back for having had no other contract with Ford. The labor situation there was obvi- ously none too good and with trouble almost certain to develop, " WOuiu nave peeu H paQ FISK 70 put too much work In the big River Rouge Plant. With clarification of the Ford labor situation in sight, Ford's other army contracts, the new aircraft engine plant at Dear. born and the bomber sub.assemhly at Ypsilanti can, hopefully, he com. pleted on schedule.
 But here again Is emphasized the importance of labor as a de- fense production factor. In let ting Q major contract, the army gives preference to the plant where labor relations are good, and where production can bc continued without interruption.
 Even the smallest contract stop- page can riccochet off the largest and cause unlimited confusion. Take the case of the Harvill Die Casting Company. Loe Angeles. It was only q ten-day strike, affecting 400 men. But Harvill had 6 special process for making big alloy castings, forcing the metal Into tho mold under
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

stitutes for these alloys. In addition to the T. N. T. stoppage referred to, these are some of the other tieups this insignificant strike hit back on:
 One-third Of [ he armys entire program for the production of bomb and high.explsoive steel fuses was held up.
 Production of superchargers for Continental Motors aircraft engines was held up.
 High carbon steel for General Electrical war contracts was held up.
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RECORD OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS DOES NOT INCLUDE PRODUCTION FOR NAVY OR AID TO BRITAIN
BY PETER EDISON NEA Service Washington Correspondent

WashnSton May l4A minor strike in alloy steel min ties much difference in the economic picture but happens Stua potts are going into construction of an ordnance plant making equipment to manufacture touol for Q therefore sets back the production high explosive
 Take another couple of bobne That shouldn't make much difference but bbn best mosquito netting and the quito netting for the troops the yellow
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-03-28

The recreation field of Mt. Zion
Is almost reality. The lots adj
jacent the church have been ac-
quired for some time and are be-
ing graded preparatory to the in
stallation of modest playground
facilities for the children.
There are numerous events
planned for the benefit of our COM
munity by the ever alert and pro-
gressive members of Mt. Zion
some of which are a Fellowship
family dinner on Friday, March
%, at $3.50 to which all members
and friends are invited; and a Tea
Hour which will be observed on
the last Sunday of each month
Immediately after the evening SER
vice, beginning March 30th. The
purpose to have the members be-
come better acquainted. The hos
tesses for the first tea will be
Mesdames Nellie Wilson. Jessie
Shields, Lucille Morton, Beatrice
Lewis and Mable Gardner. All are
cordially invited.
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YAKIMA
BY Parker Harris

The Pastor of the A. M. e
church spoke on the Price OF
Jesus" last Sunday morning. The
high point of the sermon was that
just as Judas sold Jesus, so dc
people sell him today. Not for mon
etary value so much but for world
ly pleasures.
Rev. and Mrs. Robinson, Evan
gelists were guests at the morn
ing services of the A. M. e. church
and gave a musical number.
Mrs. Louise Tolliver entertain
ed the ladies of the Mite Mission
airy society last week, after a short
business meeting. Mrs. Ruth Pat
terson led the discussion on chap
ter 5 of the book, Through Ira
gedy to Triumph" Afterwards a
delightful luncheon was served.
Rev. and Mrs. Robinson of Co.
lumbus Ohio, gave an inspiring
nuraber at the BYPU of the Mt.
Home Baptist Church last Sunday
evening.
Members of the Mt. Hope Bap-
fist church and the A. M. E.
church enjoyed union service last
Sunday eve. at Mt. Hope church
with Rev. Patterson delivering an
inspiring sermon ON the subject
THE Man Within The Man" The
congregation was given an oppor-
.tunity to express their views on
the continuation of these union
services and all expressed their
desire for them to be held more
often.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank the many
friends for their sweet presence,
smiles, and kindly words, on the
passing of our beloved husband
and father, Stephen A. Young.
For the beautiful floral offer
ings, the beautiful solo by Mrs.
Emma Chainey and the consol-
ing words given by Rev. L. R.
Hayes.
We are especially grateful to
Mrs. Fannie Cook, Mrs. Cor
rine Greene, and Mrs. Mildred
Staten for their thoughtfulness,
Mrs. Ophelia Hall, for her spe-
cial resolution to the family,
Professor McGruder and the
choir of the First A. M. E.
Church for their message in
song. These kindnesses and to-
kens of love have been our
strength in our time of sorrow.
Mrs. Elsie Young, wife
Mrs. Corrine Jones, Mrs.
Dorthea Scott, Misses
Edith and Donetta Young
daughters.
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What Shall 1t Profit A Nation?

they have imposed upon those ma
tons over which they have so
ruthlessly swept-still, their is the
greater devastation, for they have
suffered a moral and spiritual de-
graduation more horrible than any
thing endured by their victims.
The Church, the school, the
press of Germany have lost their
places of leadership because they
have ben dominatd by tn Nazis,
in their insane, INSCRIPTIONS, i'm
moral plans for world domination.
Their people have been brutal
lied by the moral degradation sys-
tematically cultivated by their
leaders. The sanctity of their
homes has been violated by the
doctrine of the supremacy of the
State. The minds of their children
have been warped by the teachings
of hatred, by the false doctrine
that might is right, that the out
side world owes them, as a master
race, subservience and everything
else thy want, and that they should
satisfy their wishes at the expense
of all others, regardless of the
laws of right and justice.
When the war is over, instead
of being uplifted by the stories
of holy conquest in which the
fallen enemy was dealt with mer-
cifully, they will hear only mel
ancholy tale of rage unbelievable.
Pitiful indeed is the devastation
of the German people = their
minds and morals heap of ruins.
Born to at least a measure of
freedom, they have become slaves
of tyrannical rulers.
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Tacoma, Wash.
Nettie J. Asberry Host
To Glover Leaf Club

On Thursday afternoon, Mrs.
Nettie J. Asberry was hostess for
the Clover Leaf Art Club, at a So
cial meeting. Members and guests
assembled into the music room
from the walls of which hung rare
pictures and photographs the lat
ter of colored celebrities many of
which are autographed. Promi-
nent among these was one of Ro-
land Hayes the world-famous te-
nor who was house guest of Mrs.
Asberry several years ago, when
he came to Tacoma to give con-
cert. The following program was
rendered: Song, 1.-THE Women's
Federation; Club Prayer, Keep
us, O God, from Pettines"; Song,
Lifting as we Climb; Reading,
Power of the WILL" Mrs. Flor
ence Jones Bayers; Poem, BE
ginning Again." Mrs. Ella Kellum;
Piano, 1.-THE Fountain" Mrs. AS
berry; Biography, Mary B. Tai
bert" Mrs. Mary Moore; Soprano
solo, How Great are thy Dwell
ings." Mrs. Joseph Williams.
AT the conclusion of tho nro.
gram, all filed out into the din
ing room, the table of which was
lace covered and centered by
cluster of artificial red and white
roses into a sparkling cut glass
vase. The flowers were presented
to Mrs. Asberry on her recent trip
to California by a time honored
friend, Mrs. Esther Morris of Los
artist and teacher. To be
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Y. W. C. A. Notes
Idell G. Vertner
Executive Secretary

Members and friends of the
Branch are asked to make Their
reservations for the Lenten lunch
con as soon as possible. A very
interesting program has been ar
ranged for this annual event,
which will be given April 8: mu-
steal numbers will be rendered by
Mrs. Grace Leftridge, Mrs. Blanche
Stevens and Mrs. Bessie Hadcliff.
tickets may be purchased by men,
bers of the Committee of Manage
ment or at the Branch.
The committee of Management
will meet Friday evening, April 4,
at 8 o'clock. with Mrs. Pearl
young, the chairman.
GIRL RESERVE NEWS
Jewel Wells was elected Pro-
gram Chairman for the Girl Re-
serve House party to be April 10
and IL at cambridge Island. Myr-
tie Jenkins is chairma no fthe all
city affair. All girls interested in
attending this Girl Reserve activi-
ty are asked to register at the
Y. w. G. A. or with Myrtle Jen-
kins.
Clara McCurdy and Izetta
Spearman are chairman and CO.
chairman of the Silver tea that
will follow the Sixtieth Anniver-
sary Service of the Girl Reserves.
This service will be held at the
Grace Presbyterian Church, Sun
day, April 20. Following the SER
vice parents and friends of the
Girl Reserves are invited to at
tend the tea at the Branch. The
hours will be from 1 to pm.
Negro History Week March 80
to April will be observed at the
Branch in connection with their
Health Month Program which is
held from the middle of March
through the middle of April.
Monday, March 81, the Phyllis
Wreatley Junior Girl Reserves will
hear Miss Honoria Hughes, of the
King County Anti-Tuberculosis
League. She will discuss with them
Health Habits" This meeting is
at 4 p. m.
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l = BY DIR. Charles stelzle

During recent weeks, as news
boys have cried the "extras" on
the street, we have known it meant
some new horror visited upon the
people of the British Isles. We have
listened with increasing dread to
the accounts of the devastation of
the peaceful countryside, the quiet
villages and the garden homes of
England. We have mourned the
destruction in London of places
whose inheritance is that of every
free-born man and woman-places
that stood for milestones on the
road to democracy.
We thought we were satiated
with horror, as one by one the
free countries of the world fell
before the Nazis. We had mourn
ed each with increasing sorrow
and now we stand silently watch
ing the last great democracy of
Europe fight for it's life. But with
every blow at England we feel
pride in the English people
in the way they are standing up
to it as united nation, living up
to their great traditions of cour-
age and steadfastness. The monu-
ments of their past may be de-
stroyed, but they are building new
and greater monuments of the
spirit that will live in song and
story through all time.
But what of the greater devasta-
ton of Germany? Though they
have not been invaded as other
European countries have been, nor
their peoples subjugated and SUBJ
jected to the bestialities which
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Helena, Montana
By HEX

Daniel Parker, a Helena resi-
dent for some time is no doubt
the Casanova of Montana. His de-
sire to be something like that
unique character landed him be-
hind the bars of the county jail
last week, in lieu of $4,000 bond.
1t was like this. Parker is gifted
with a beautiful Spencerian Chi
Biography and behind his quilldriv-
ing ability, lies a brain though
seeming of center, is as fertile in
its fantasies as ever discovered.
Mrs. Irabelle Dupree, of Newark,
N. ]. arrived in Helena last week
in answer to letters from Parker
in which he promised her every
thing from a castle on the river
Nile to becoming the ranking dame
Of colored sWankies in Helena.
She told the county authorities
he led her to believe he was rich
and wanted a wife for his own
comfort and to take care of his
home" At Parker's request she
shipped her furniture here at a
cost Of $95.26. When she got to
the city she had So and gave Par
ker S4 of it to get the furniture
out of storage. His fine home turn
ed out to be a cabin on Tower
Hill without single home con-
venience. Parker, it seems, seeks
his victims in advertisements in
colored papers and this is the
fourth woman he has caused to
come to Helena. He married one
and the others returned to their
homes upon seeing conditions.
Since he entered Jail, another let
ter has come to him on the same
subject.
w. H. Thompson died Thursday
of last week and was buried Sat-
urday at o'clock. Services were
conducted by the Rev. ]. Abram
Hayward at Opp and Conrad fu-
neral home. Burial was in Forest
vale. The pallbearers were H. j.
Baker, John B. Reid, A. L. Stitt,
Lawrence Howard, C. H. Harrell
and Logan Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Johnson and
Mr.. Robert Mudd of Missoula were
in Helena Sunday. On account of
the storm that came up after their
arrival in Helena they had time
to visit only the home of the J.
B. Reds while here.
Mike Mundy of Missoula is in
the city and is working at the Re-
cord during the illness of Edward
Johnson.
The Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Hunt
were in the city Sunday but did
not stay to hold services at the
church though Sunday was the re-
gular day for services, End and 4th
Sunday in each month.
Edward johnson is ill at his
home.
A. l.. Stitt has sold his home
on Park Avenue to Logan Allen.