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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31
Cost Of Living
To Keep Rising,
Official Warns

WASHINGTON. July l6.-Leon
Henderson. price supervisor for
the Federal Government. warned
last week that the cost OF living
will continue its upward course in
the next few months.
He laid the blame for future
price increases on the emphasis
in defense production. which lifts
purchasing power but does not in
crease the amount Of goods avail
able for consumption. The pos
sible scarcity OF consumer goods
was noted months ago by clio
Pres. Philip Murray. who advo-
Gated the industry council plan as
method of giving labor a voice
in defense affairs and as a means
of assuring full production in all
industries to overcome just such
bottleneck. =
In discussing the price situa-
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31

Davis. chairman Of the National
Defense Mediation Board.
The wage increases were retro
active to March / which was the
expiration date OF the old agree
ment between the CLIO Transport
Workers Union and the bus com
pany.
Davis. named arbitrator by
Mayor F. II. LaGuardia after a
IL day bus strike. also awarded
the union busmcn time and a half
for overtime. the 48 hour week.
and time and a half for special
runs.
Michael Quill, union president,
said the arbitration decision COM
pletely vindicates the position and
action of the Transport Workers
Union"
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31
Local 1874 Gains in
Pen.Mar Ball Fight

The Celanese Local 1874 mug
get nudgers Of the Pen-Mar base.
ball league are smiling again and
they have reason to smile. Close
to a month they we're In the dol
droms but they pulled themselves
together last weekend. popped-up
with two easy victories and set
themselves in line for a first divi-
sion berth.
After winning an easy game
Saturday the Unionites tipped
their way to Eckhart last Sunday.
and in a six inning party curtailcd
by weeping skies. asphyxiated the
hapless Eckharts by the score Of
IL TO o as pitcher Corrigan coast
ed in. AS things stand now the
Union forces are just one game
away from fourth place. now oc-
cupied by Centerville.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31
S POI 7 S
By JACK GALLEN

financial success. packing en- in 10
the caves and with prosperity
dominating the country today. this
year should be no exception. A
classy field Of bangtails. they say.
has been lined UP for the affair.
Dick Newsome. Of the Boston
Red Sox. has more stuff" than
any pitcher in the American
League - so says Joe DiMaggio.
the New York Yankees great out
fielders. According to the Italian
slugger. Newsome heaves sinker,
screwball. knuckleball and curve
good thing Mr.. Heinz and his ~
varieties never heard Of the lad.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31

Al least mats what JACK smith.
versatile sport specialist of New
York, claims and Smith should
know for he only recently signaled
out the Red chieftain for a little
tete a-tete on things baseballical-
~. In fact Smith says. McKech.
ME can't even see where his team
is Just OH the verge Of passing
out. and we mean passing out,
right out OF the National League
baseball picture.
STILL PICKS REDS
McKechnie was asked whom he
thought would win the National
League diamond derby and the
reporter almost dropped dead from
amazement when McKechnie pick
cd his own Cincinnati club. He
quite naturally admits that both
Brooklyn and ST. Louis are strap
ping good ball teams but accord
ing to the reporter. he refuses 10
let their big leads fool him.
McKechnie told the newspaper.
man that his team is a better ar
ray OF ball players than it has
showed TO date. He said the sec
cnd half Of the season would cor.
roborate that assertion and as long
as mathematical possibility re-
manned his consorts would not
give up. Stranger things have
happened. OF course.
RIP STILL RIPS
Ball players come and bail play
ers go but one of the grandest ball
players that you and I nave ever
seen in action. James Ripper
Collins. continues to bat in an
occasional run now and then while
also digging EN- OFT of the dirt
down first base way. The Middle
Atlantic Leagues glowing star OF
other days. now SO years old. IS
holding down a utility berth for
Pittsburgh's suddenly-revived Pi-
rates.
Collins isn't the same clipper
lad he was when he ran amuc.
in the pastures for the Johnstowa
Independents. (semi-prosJ in 1925
and the Johnstown Johnnies mid.
die Atlantic) in 1925 and 1926.
In those days he usually played
centerfield although occasionally
he filled in at first base. He al
ways could field and he always
could hit. Cumberland's baseball
gentry knew that then and they
know 1t now.
The Ripper" rode high with
the Chicago Cubs for years until
he was peddled off two years ago
to the Pacific Coast league where
he all but failed down the fences
with his savage smuggling. 1t was
that smuggling that caused Pitts
burgh to pick him up and while
he may not be a regular in the
corsair lineup. he is. nevertheless.
q good man TO have around.
Grapevine has it that the 81.
Louis Cardinals. through big boss
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31
New York Transport
Workers Awarded
Wage Increases

NEW YORK. July 80 - More
than 3.4o0 employees Of the New
York Omnibus Corp. today were
enjoying wage increases Of from
two to eight cents an hour award i.
ed them under an arbitration de-
cision handed down By William II.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31
Bar.B.Q's

Racing fans and fanettes Of
Cumberland and vicinity will have
their inning. and a big inning 1t
viii be. when the annual meet Of
the Cumberland Fairgrounds hits
the high spots next wee.s. For
years the event has been a huge
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31

ton. Henderson made Il clear
that wage increases in recent
months had not been responsible
for rising living costs.
Factories have been producing
at full or capacity. and as a result
the unit cost Of their products
has been lower than when those
plants are operating at a fraction
of their capacity. AS a result. he
said. manufacturers have been
easily able TO absorb rising wage
costs.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31
Here and There Along
The RialtO Of Sports

Some people worry and people don't and William
(Bl) McKechnie evidently belongs to the latter ilk. While
the of the country seters under bisterng heat
that has everybody from sixteen running
the grzzed old of the Cincinnati Reds isn't seems
worried about anyhng-not the hspess flight of his
proud pupils who down the doldrums and then
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1941-07-31

Branch Hickey. will try to put
OH the heat" for a night game.
Nocturnal baseball. OF course. ism:
a brand new idea but it's never
been tried before in a fall show
and Rickey's suggestion will be
well worth watching to see wha,
co,,,ae NJ 1,
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Colored Fighters
Enable White
British Troops To
Escape Greece

with credit being given in the
right places; nor has sufficient
emphasis been placed on the bril-.
liant rear guard action Of colored
tropps who enabled So large 4
proportion of the white British
soldiers to escape from the Ger
man onslaught.
While Nazi parachute troops
rained from the skies by the thou
sands, like confetti at Il Mardi
Gras ball, and British troops
could not fight and escape at the
same time, the valiant Maoris,
the colored polynesian native
troops Of New Zealand came to
the heroic rescue.
Ironic is the fact that accord
ing to white British standards,
these Maoris are still "primi-
tive" people. If that is so, then
the British now owe a lasting
debt to this trait, for without the
Maoris the British evacuation
would have been bloody and
tragic route.
For these colored Polynesian
troops did not know the meaning
of the word retreat" White the
white troops cluttered the beach
IS awaiting the over-crowded
evacuation ships, the Polynesian
fighters made last-ditch stand
against the German parachute
troops. Shouting their old native
war cries, and dancing Maori war
dances, they bravely faced almost
certain death. BY their very
spirit alone they halted the Nazi
forces
Carefully censored reports here
lcontinusd on page ID
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09

organization
Prior January Straughn had
been active in the Brooklyn local
Of the union. When he was elect
ed pres ident, he said, he imme-
diately laid plans for removing
the stigma that had long been a
drawback" to the union. He
takes credit for having initiated
The move to place both the busi.
ness agent and organizer on the
payrolls inasmuch as he felt it de-
sirable to relieve them Of any
temptation to compromise their
positions in dealing with shop
owners.
Arthur Reid, militant street
SPEAKER and former head of the
HLU during whose time consider
able criticism had been levelled al
the organization, is believed to-
have been an outside influence
upon Allen, knight and Aston.
ssssaassasAsf charges that the aiaians iinl
following course parallel with
that Of the Greater New York
Coordinating committee and the
Manhattan council Of the Nation
al Negro congress, the other af-
filiates Of the bus association, is
putting itself under the domin-
alton of Communists.
II want this organization in Il
position" Straughn declared, $50
that when we take a stand for or
against something, we shall have
the public with us If my friend
lCohsinued ON page 81
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Southern States Seek
To Console Themselves
Over Mitchell Jim Crow
Case: Mitchell Points
Out Their Errors

MONTGOMERY, Ala. tANP)
The opinion Of the white off
cial South generally over the
Supreme court decision iii the
Congressman Mitchell Jim crow
railway case, seems to be one of
passing the buck to the railroads
while hugging themselves with
joy, because their dear and tra-
ditlonal segregation laws remain
untouched Here in Montgomery
where attorney generals Of 10
states were rallied to inteIpose Il
brief IN the defense Of the Inter
state Co IN cree commission
against the Mitchell charges. the
first public statement was issued.
Atty. Gen. Lawson who issued
the call to other southern states
10 rise and oppose liberalization
Of southern customs. is hoping
To be candidate for governor
OF Alabama at the next election.
His gesture may well be regard
ed, therefore, as a bid for atten-
ton from prejudice loving whites
in the state. in the hope they
would look with favor upon his
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
bL LACK FIGHTERS HOLD kAzIS 0NSL LAuGHT
BACK WHILE BRITISH TROOPS ESCAPE
NEW YORK BUS
COMPANIES
EMPLOYING
NEGROES

NEW YORK, May --tANP)
Seven mechanics have already
been employed by the two major
operating bus companies in their
shops, and within one week 10
men are expected to begin as
chauffeurs on the companies
lines, is was announced Tuesday
afternoon.
These developments follow
close on the heels Of the contract
signed week ago eliminating
four weeks Of boycott by Har.
lemites against the New York
City Omnibus corporation and
the Fifth Avenue Coach company
demanding the employment oi
Negroes in all operating cate
gories.
simultaneously, it was ammo
unced that The victory parade
which had been planned for Sat
urday has been called Off entire
~ for the present. The associa-
tion has decided to wait until a
decision lssls been made on tbs
objective Of the groups which nc
lively prosecuted the bus fight
and to hold victory meeting
and ut the same time sound The
opening shot Of the new strug-
pie
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Bill Is Passed For
New College At
N1ilbcrforcc

COLUMBUS, @. - The Gray
bill to create new college OF
education and industrial arts at
Wilberforce university was pas
sed bv the senate last night by
/, a vote of 90 to 13, after Senator
Wayne L. Hays, (D), Belmont,
charged that the measure was in
tended to eliminate the incum-
Z bent president of the university.
Senator T. M. Gray, (R.), Mi
ami said his bill represented a
turning point in the history of a
great institution. He said the
creation of the new college and
/. abolition of the present combined
normal and industrial depart
ment was necessitated by stricter
requirements for the university.
Graduates of the college he
said, would be eligible for de-
grees Of bachelor Of science and
science in education degrees.
Hays contended that the bill
would "legislate the Wilberforce
president out Of a job,
When the effect Of this bill is
fully seen, some members will
regret that they voted for IT, h
| lcantinusd On page s)
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Philip J.. WINFIELD
Takes Position
With Employment
Security Center

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Philip j..
WINFIELD, Dayton, has been APP
pointed to the employment coun-
selling staff Of the Dayton EN-
ployment Security Center by H..
G.. Atkinson, administrator of the
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation. WINFIELD will
serve as a Field Representative
on Racial Relations as part of
the statewide program on Negro
Employment.
He is a graduate Of Lincoln
University, Pennsylvania, whore
he received Master of Arts De-
gree in Guidance and Personnel.
Prior to his appointment as en-
ployment counselor, WINFIELD
served as the Personnel Director
Of the Wilberforce Work Exper-
ience Center, where he success
fully planned and supervised the
vocational activities Of youth
workers. j. i
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Religious Drive
Yields $9,423

DAYTON-The campaign Of
the Sunday School Council Of Re-
ligious Education for $22,500 has
yielded s9,423, according to re-
ports received at the second meet
ing of campaign workers Tues
day night at the Euclid Avenue
United Brethren church. The
next report meeting will be one
week later.
Two hundred and twenty-five
persons heard an address by Dr..
Frank p. slutz On the emotional
life Of tie child. He said religious
education should be given in early
life in order to stabilize later life
Of the child and to furnish need
ed spiritual strength and protec-
ton.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09

candidacy.
La statement made by his as
sistant, Silas Coma Garrett, 3rd,
the claim was made that .'the Ar
kansas test Jim crow test case
was a negative victory for the 10
southern state which interceded. :
The decision is construed as a
negative victory because the court
abstalned from ruling on the con
stitutionality of the Arkansas Jim
crow ear law said Garrett. In
short, Mitchell now has a case
against the railroad but was de-
feated III his prime objective of
inyalidating the jim crow laws.
IF this Interpretation is ac-
curate then, il may be said that
the present mode Of segregation
as practiced iii the South is un-
affected by the opinion. II is ira
vel as usual.
In Chicago, when the Mont
gomery account was read to him,
Congressman Mitchell took ii diff
erent viewpoint.
"Those southerners are just
Continued on page 81
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Shake-Up In Harlem Labor Union
Follows Bus Agreement; Business
Agent, Organizer Fired

citation twas unwilling to demand
thu firing of whites in order to
make room for the Negroes. This
spokesman was critical Of any dis
position on the part Of the Har-
ienites to reach a compromise, IN
spite of the enthusiastic recep-
ton given the final document by
the community who felt a vic
tory had been registered.
While the bus inclacnt precip-
itated the Monday debate, it was
aid that other facts were pre-
sented which mitigated against
the men. Allen, heretofore re-
sponsihile for the organizing of
bars and 2rills, was charged with
having had 400 signs printed cer-
lily ng to conformity to rules and
regulations of the HLU, affixed
his signature, and sold these to
Inc gfIils fof sd y piece. All y n
this is said to have heen done
without the knowledge or APP
proval Of the executive eoInniits
tee whose function ii is to pass
en- such things.
Knight was said TO have fallen
down on his production IN thai
he neither brought in new mem
bers nor adjusted any contracts
requiring attention lie was,
however, regular III appearing
on Friday evenings for his check "
The conduct of both men was
said to be rerrehensibie too be-
cause of their "anti-Semitic be-
liefs, 2 a thing that brought much
embarrassment and hurt to the
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Va. State Library
Science Instructor
Given Yale
f fellowship

PETERSBURG, Va, May -
lANP)The assistant dean of
the graduate school at Yale uni
yersity has informed miss Marie
D. Boswell, instructor in library
science at Virginia State college,
that she has been awarded a
$1,000 fellowship in the division
Of general studies for the AGA
demic year 1941-42. Miss Bos-
well, a 1887 graduate Of Virginia
State who took IN undergraduate
degree IN library science 1T Co
sumbia university the following
year, will be granted a years
leave Of absence from her teach
ing duties.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09

district superin- Rev. Sherard
tendent III the place of Rev W.
II. Williams, Of Columbus, who
was made superintendent Of the
Chicago district Of the confer
cnce.
Miss Evelyn Morrow, youth
leader of Mckinley church was
elected secretary Of the youth di-
vision Of the conference. Jesse
Nimmons represented the church
as a delegate.
Rev l.. w Il. Watson, Troy,
was given Il pastorate in Prince,
ton, Ind, and Rev B. f. Shock
ley, Of Georgetown, KY, was sent
to Troy Rev. Simon P Jenkins,
pastor Of the Wiley Methodist, in
Springfield, for six years, was as
signed to Simpson Memorial cha
pei in indianapolis. Rev. f. p.
Porter, of Dayton, was reappoint-
ed pastor at Urbana.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09

NEW YORK (ANP) - Differ
ence Of opinion over policy and
method Of functioning, par icu-
larly IN connection with the re-
cent successful collaboration of
the organization in the campaign
for the employment of Negroes
on major bus lines hele, last
week resulted in the ousting rom
the Harlem Labor union oi Jo-
seph Allen business agent, and
Quentin Knight, an organizer.
The action comes as the latest
Development In the reorganizing
process instituted by President
Roger Straughn, and took the
form Of motion before the ex-
ecutive committee of the union
to sever the relations of the two
men from the group for Just
cause. The vote was mani
mously approved. Some .ao OF
three weeks ago Columbus A. Ais
ton. publicity director Of the
aitala, WAS ousted.
In the explanation given for
the committees action, it was re-
vealed that these three men dis
approved Of the tri-paltite agree
ment arrived at between the I'm
tied Negro Bus association, with
which the Harlem Labor union is
affiliated, the New York City Om-
nibus corporation and the Fifth
Avenue Coach company, and the.
Transport Workers union of
America. The contract was the
result Of a four-week struggle to
secure Jobs for Negroes as cl.auf
feurs and mechanics with the
companies on population ratio
basis the maximum Of which
would be about $40 men. The
agreement further stipulated the
manner in which these men
would be hired and trained
According to spokesman TO,
the ousted members, immec ate
employment Of Negroes will BE
postponed because the Bus Asso-
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Judges Stewart,
Wolff T AXE Out
New Petitions


DAYTON-Clarence J. stewart
and William H. Wolff, incum-
bents, have taken out petitions
seeking the Republican and Dom
ocratic nominations, respectively.
in the August IL primary election
to succeed themselves as judges
Of the municipal court.
Petitions for clerk Of the city
courts have been taken out by
Roy Ebert, incumbent, and An
drew E. Lowry, Ito Campbell
street, Democrats, and ]. d
Stewart, 425 West Fourth street,
Republican,
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09

lIHTu tdi ouii
day at the an
nual Lexington
conference o t
t Ii Q Methodist
denomination in
Columbus. Rev.
W. II MeC al
lunr pastor ut
I \ z lpa Z / = u
chufch Il & { 0 L &
being sent to i
Gar \ church,
W a s appointed
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
SOMEM HERE IN EGYPT

SOMEWHERE IN EGYPT
(NNS) The story behind the
headlines Of the British disastrous
retreat through Greece before the
advancing grey Nazi hordes has
.lready been told, but not always
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-05-09
Mckinley Minister
Returned To Church

DAYTON = Rev George w
Sherard was named pastor Of the
Mckinley Methodist church, Haw-
thorn and Fitch streets. for q
La gaceta., 1941-01-17

COT; iahuequemosI! va Sabeis
que, mientras estemos aqui, he
mos de cumplir con nuestro de-
Der.
-Yo tengo mas hamhre-gi-
milo Norma con su ingenuidad
de arcangel.
-Ahora comeras, mujer-re-
puso Tony.
Todos salieron silencioSamen-
te del recinto cerrado por las To-
mas.
En- ell exterior, la hierba Gre
cia libremente sobre la plazoleta
en- donde estaban a~campados.
Debia ser una era, donde Sc
trillaba la cosecha de trigo en-
los dias alegres y luminosos del
verano; pero ahora, en- este dia
trist6n de primeros de mario,
SOplaba ell viento rudo de las es-
tepas castellanas, y cabeceaban
los sembrados y las hileras de e.
lamos peasativos que bordeaban
La gaceta., 1941-01-17
n ARMSTRONG Sc
MANTIENE COMO Ell
FAVORITO

New York, Enero l7-Los pc
ritos estiman, Y su opinion pc
sa en- las apuestas, que Henry
Armstrong, el excampe6n del
peso weller, derrotara esta no.
che a Fritzie Zivic, ell nuevo cam
Ee6n, Y rsconquiStara la corona
de las lat libras.
A pesar de las declaraciones
de Zivci, snunciando que derri-
bara Y vencera a Armstrong, Ia
proportion en- las apuestas es de
~ a 5 en- favor del eti6pico de
California.
81 Henry ha reconquistado la
vista, como Sc dice, los expertos
-rean que su triurfo sera facil.
En- los ejercicios ell excam-
pa6n ha demostrado que usara
nuevas tacticas. Esta vez ataca-
"a a Zivic por el cuerpo, no por
Ia cabeza.
La gaceta., 1941-01-17

y que hoy no 10 hemos pin.
tsdo todayia.
-D plntarem0s a Ia yuelta.
-lQueda pintura?
81; la tiene en- el atrezzc
Monsieur Renard.
lanai COZorza, HON.
bre! Aqui estamos solos.
-Entonces nos tendriamos
que dejar De nombrar a noso.
tros como nos llaman en- 81 cir.
co. va no sonos los Hermanos
Fritz.
Nj esta Norma
Nj 70 Ketty, iBeh, bahL..
Dejaros De bromas IN mejor "a
que nos llamemos c0mo quiereD
clos. Adenas. un srtlsta. Ia YER
dsio tiene siemDre m6s presti.
gio ante 81 plblieo geyando un
nombre ingle.
-Diees bien Keuyi ESQ 10 Vi.
mos claro en- Marcia
y en- todas parties.
La gaceta., 1941-01-17

que Sc ofrecian, hinchados como
ubres de vacas bajo los pampa-
nos anchos y verdes que cabecea
ban al beso del viento.
-VamOs hacia el rio-orden6
Tony.
CJPero no ihemos De traer
luego la leha?-inquiri6 Norma,
temeroSa.
-Si-repuso Tony sin poder
disimular su irritation: pero
no ahora. Ahora exploraremos
lie eomarca por esta parte, y III
encontramos algin bosgue. reco
geremos la lena. Y luego ven
dremos a buscarla Dick y 20, Pc
no con Ell carrito de los perros 0
con el caballo Nueva York,
icon el eaballo blancog
ST.
i Bah! Con 81 caballo que
fu6 blanco-eoment6 Dick.
Hay que darle cada dia una ma
no de pintura.
La gaceta., 1941-01-17
SARASOTA INGRESO EN- LA
ASOCIACION DE BOXEO

Anunciaron aver su ingreso
en- la Association de Boxeo de la
Costa Oeste, ell empresario jim
my Finley, de Sarasota, y Ell prs
sidente del comite de boxeo de Ia
Legion Americana, en- esa ciu-
dad, Sr. French.
Pertenecen va a la Association
las arenas de boxeo de Tampa,
Sarasota, Clearwater y San Pc
tersburg.
Dentro de pocos dias Sc le man.
dara una invitaci6n a Orlando.
Por la Association Sc ha esta-
blecido una escala de l~icenc;as,
basadas en- Ell montante de las
bolsaS. Las bolsas de SIP o me-
ros abonaran % cts; las de mas
de SIP hasta 500, so cts, y las.
de mas de 500, ell uno por cien-
to. Directories y arbitros debe :
ran pagan S. por ano. En- Ell
area de Miami los honorarios Sc
ran duplicates.
Acuerdos recfprocos Sc haran
con las ciudades de Miami y
Jacksonville.