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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
DEATH OR POVERTY
THE ONLY WAY OUT

The labor union racketeers have devils
ed new method for depressing the labor
ers they claim to represent.
1t is called the "union security" agree
ment, the absence of which from new
contracts has caused several of the ma
tional defense strikes which are now
gaining headway throughout the nation
at so alarming a rate.
The average person, reading through
news dispatch and seeing the phrase,
"union security agreement, almost auto
matieally takes it to be some sort OF
agreement whereby the union members
will not be penalized for having partic-
ipated in a strike. The name is mislead-
ing. It should be the union blackmallN
agreement.
For the so-called union security agree
ment is nothing more than conspiracy
between employer and labor racketeer
to guarantee that every man Is men,
Der of the union, and who works IN the
employers plant, must continue to pay
his dues to the union as long as he works
there. If he attempts to resign from
the union, or does resign from the union,
he must be fired by the employer.
A labor union which must hold its
members by such tactics must be rotten
agency which tolerates such abuse of the
rights of individual laborers is guilty of
violation of the public trust placed IN
it. A manufacturer or business man
who enters into such an agreement makes
himself party to one of the worst forms
of coercion.
Certainly it is only the crazest twist
ing of the Wagner Act that such an agree
ment can be justified under its terms.
The Wagner Act at least when it was
passed by congress and before 1t was
extralegally amended by the National
Labor Relations Board and the New Deal
courts. had as its basic principle that
workers should not be interfered with in
their right of self-organization. The So
called union security agreement surely
violates that principle.
What if the men of factory, all OF
them members of the same labor union,
became one hundred per cent dissatisfied
with the unions leadership and could
express their dissatisfaction only by re-
signing and, possibly, forming or joining
another union? Under the blackmailing
new weapon of labor organizers, they
could not do it, for the company would
be forced to fire every one of them.
The thing that is most disgusting is
this: that a union organizers demand
for such clause in a new contract can
tie up airplanes, tanks, ships, even guns,
in the factories where they are produced.
And still congress and the administra-
ton do nothing about It.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
by Paul Harrison =.
Hollywood S Fads. Fancies and Foibles

to be in Crazy House" with Olsen
and johnson for the Shuberts.
Recalling that her own Holly
wood stardom had followed her
Broadway success in Streets of
Paris" and various plushy night
clubs, Carmen decided Aurora must
begin there. too She would go into
the Copocabana Club, and with her
would go Garments pride and joy
her own personal orchestra, the
Banda da Jua.
Then there would be a spot for
Miranda No. 2 in another Shubert
show. And after that, Hollywood.
Carmen and Aurora will return
early in 1912 when the former does
her fourth musical for 20th-Fox. BY
that time, there will be top roles
in other pictures for the kid sister.
A hundred week-poof! Also
phooeyl
SISTER KNOWS BEST
Aurora next year will be what
you call it, hot in Hollywood said
Miranda No. l confidently. rs all
a matter of using the right psyche
logic for the beeld-up. My seester
do not onnerstand thees; but me,
Carmen, know thees what you call
angles
Meanwhile, Aurora had some in
tensive grooming, with daily visits
to the weekend in Havana" set,
explanations of movie technique,
dancing practice, and English les
sons under Carmens coach and in
terpreter, e. Yaconelli. Not until
the other day did Miranda No. 1
learn that Yaconelli teaches English
with an Italian accent, but he
teaches it very well, anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
AXIS PREPARES TO
TWO-TlME THE U.S..

(0roville Mercury Register)
Just little doubtful as to whether
the United States will fight if the Japa-
nese move farther south or into Thailand,
Japan and Germany may be planning
simultaneous moves designed to startle
the United States into inactivity, If one
can be startled that way.
It looks as though the Germans will
move into Dakar while the Japanese are
moving into Thailand so that the Axis
will have us looking both ways at once
and feeling impotent to do anything in
either direction.
Such strategy would have in mind
the full use of the isolationist minority
in the L. S. These have been saying that
we can't do anything because we don't
have a two-ocean navy. The simultane-
Gus moves would make it plain that two
ocean navy would be necessary to handle
the two situations as they developed. Of
course, we now have two-ocean navy.
The question is whether it is large en-
ough. 1t is not as large as it will be
few years hence, but a nation seldom can
say just when it shall fight and seldom
Is at its top strength when the fight
starts. There are experts on both sides
of the question whether our navy is large
enough to do what would be expected of
1t in both the Atlantic and the Pacific
in case of war with Germany and Japan
As matters are shaping up it becomes
rather obvious that Germany will make
some sort of a threatening gesture in
Africa to hold our attention while Japan
is moving closer to Singapore.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. IA = This
autumn, senhoras y sennores, there
will be two Mirandas on Broadway.
And next year there will be two
Mirandas in the movies. They'll be
individual stars, too, and not sis
ter act.
Carmen has decided this and Au-
rora naturally has approved. The
kid sister came here for a career,
and the established star is acting
as Aurora's agent and manager. No
matter that Carmen still doesn't
speak enough English to argue
fluently with producers; they find
her eloquent enough when she
shrugS and says simply, No.
1t began about six months ago
when Carmen Miranda, working
then in That Night in Rio" wrote
to her 20-year-old sister Ito tell
how wonderful ees Hollywood. So
Aurora, who was a considerable
success in the singing and dancing
business in South America, wrote
she also wished to come to the
movie capital.
AURORA ARRIVES
When the sleek, black-haired Mi
randa reached New York movie tai
ent scouts with interpreters and BIZ
lingual contracts were swarming
around her before she could un-
pack. They offered tests, stocks con-
tracts and specific roles, one being
a SPOT in Panama Hattie" So Au
rora hotfooted it west, made screen
tests and was ecstatic with delight
when she got two offers at 500
a week
That was the first time Carmen
Miranda shrugged and said NO.
Aurora, she exlained was here for
vacation. In Rio, in Buenos Aires
Aurora is beeg star. In Hollywood
veesitor.
Studio offers climbed swiftly but
Carmen still said no. She had a
plan. Late in August she would fin
ish her role in weekend in Ha.
vana," and then go to New York
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
by Willis Thornton -.
Justified But Unfruitfu| Resentment

trouble? BY no right, clearly-and
yet they came.
This is no plea for taking the
world as we find it. AS we find it,
it isn't good enuogh. Our job is to
make it better.
But it is as we find it, and it will
not be made better by sullen re-
sentiment which shoulders and
glows consuming fruitless energy
and constructive spirit until the
heart is ashes and all driving force
is gone. The world will be made
better only by resolute determina-
ton to stand up against "a sea
of troubles, and by opposing, end
them"-never by an inert and
brooding resentment against "the
sings and arrows of outrageous
fortune"
Resentment against an existing
situation is a barren and fruitless
emotion. Nothing was ever changed
for the better simply by resenting
it.
We have a beautiful, spacious,
free land to reserve, defend and
improve. Our clear duty and ad-
vantage is to bend resolutely to
those tasks with minds and hearts
uncluttered by resentment and self
pity. Only SO can we hope for a
world in which there will be less to
resent in the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
NO FACTIONS IN The
CULT OF FREEDOM
[ Enid. Okla. Eaglel

enid, Okla, Eagle)
Freedom, the one word which best de-
scribes the spirit which has made the
United States the greatest nation on
earth, is also unconsciously responsible
for relapses in effort to protect that
great principle of democracy which has
cost so many American lives down
through the years.
And so today, as in 1861-65, years later
in 1898, and again in 1917-18, America
Is given cause to cherish more those
rights of human beings which have come
to represent the American way and the
spirit of republicanism.
As we join with each other in the pledge
of allegiance today we should do so, not
IN the spirit of an "interventionist" or
''isolationist' we should for the moment
forget the heated arguments that are
manifest over the situation abroad and
think mainly of what the United States
of America means to each individually,
believing that such contemplation will,
IN the end, work to produce an all-power-
ful public opinion which will sooner or
later lend itself to the greater problem
of national welfare
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

WASHINGTON, Aug. Ia = The
whole U. S. Department of Labor
for the Territory of Hawaii came to
Washington on leave the other day.
but before you conjure up any men
tai image of a boatload of bureau
Gratis on a junket, please be advised
that the department in Hawaii con-
sists of Mr. Howard Durham
which is pleasing variation from
the usual pattern of a government
office holding anywhere from a
couple of dozen to a couple of hun
dred.
Durham, a young lawyer of 35,
went to Honolulu from San Fran
cisco few years ago as an in
spector for the wages and hours
division of the department, but
when he got there the department
started shooting other problems at
him. Before he knew it, he was
representing not only the wages
and hours division, the child labor
division, and the conciliation serv-
ice but he was also administering
the Walsh Healy act covering con-
struction projects for Army and
Navy expansion, and starting an
apprentice training program for de-
fense industries.
The interesting thing about MIR.
Durham is he seems to have won
the confidence of both the employ
ers and employees of the islands
industries. and in a manner which
shows what can be done in ad-
ministering these new labor laws,
in seeing that everybody gets
square deal.
Even Samuel Wilder King. the
Republican delegate from Hawaii to
Congress since 1885, admits that
DurhamS management of these
controversial matters has been well
done.
ORGANIZERS FOLLOW UP
King points out that while the
general impression has been that
the big estates in Hawaii have been
exploiters of labor the opposite has
been true because the constant
shortage of labor on the islands
has necessitated the importation of
labor from the mainland. That has
made it necessary to pay bonuses in
many cases, and has meant i'm
portation of labor organizers who
have done what labor organizers
usually do, even among the polyglot
population of Hawaiians, japanese,
Chinese, Filipinos, Portuguese, and
mainlanders.
The influx of more skilled labor
ers from the mainland for new
Army and Naval base construction,
housing projects and public build
ings work meant there were con-
flicting rates of pay and working
conditions on Army and Navy jobs
and considerable confusion all
around. Even island paradises seem
TO have labor troubles.
There were five strikes and 109
reported violations of labor laws
among apparel manufacturers, curio
shops, food professors, perfumers,
wholesale houses,k transport lines,
construction companies, and SO on.
Only the companies which were in
interstate commerce-that is, busi-
ness with the mainland-or on gov
ernment jobs were affected. Purely
Inter-island business went on as
usual. one New York apparel man
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

who thought he could move his
factory to the islands and employ
cheap native labor in the manu-
facture of Hawaiian souvenirs
found differently.
NO FUSS OR FURRY
Getting back to Mr.. Durham, his
method of handling these situations
was to go quietly to the employers
and explain the laws, then help set
up working conditions that brought
operations within the scope of the
labor statutes as to minimum wages,
overtime provisions and hours. More
than 5000 individuals got nearly
S160,000 in extra pay, but the pu-
blicity on the awards and settle
ment of the cases was kept at a
minimum. Nobody had any chances
to crow about great victories or
defeats.
Longshoremen's and SteVedores'
disputes gave most trouble and the
biggest feather in the Durham Ha-
waiian cap was the working out,
with a Maritime Labor Board med
iator, of what is now referred to
by Delegate King as a model steve
dore labor contract for the Castle
& Cooke Terminals. Ltd, one of
the biggest factors in Hawaiian in
dustry.
Under the terms of thsi contract.
for the first time under the Amer
ican flag, if not for the first time
in the world, stevedores are given
a guaranteed 40 hours of work a
week, year in and year out, Whe-
ther work is available or not. The
way this worked out, Honolulu
stevedores received a guaranteed
average wage of $2140 a year in
1910, and all uncertainty as to en-
ployment was ended.
The company, for its part, though
it assumed an additional liability
of 100000 a year, found that by
regular employment it could speed
the turn-around time for loading
and unloading ships, and SO made
a saving. And the company now
boasts, according to Delegate King,
that it has labor relations which by
comparison make the HORNED, Num-
Bush, and other guaranteed en-
ployment plans look reactionary.
WASHINGTON BYWAYS
If President and Mrs. Roosevelt
were forced to file a joint income
tax return under the proposed in
come tax bill provisions, it would
cost them $4,000 more than if they
filed separate returns. The British
supply council has taken over an
other Washington hotel and an
other apartment house for office
space. The British now have 100
employees in Washington. u. S. Navy
has issued new style book" Of
uniform regulations showing that
an officer can wear % different
uniforms, though not all at once. The
book also tells how to remove the
shine from blue serge pants. Have
an experienced tailor steam the
spot and then rub gently with 90"
sandpaper or emery. aircraft
gunners now use rose-colored glass
es so as to see tracer bullets the
better. The 100000 men on Army
maneuvers this month will eat 112
tons of bread day. u. S. forest
products laboratory is experiment.
ing to find wood paint that will
resist incendiary bomb fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

We felt that the best way to act
was to thwart Hitler in his inten-
ton of destroying the French peo-
pie through starvation.-Mrs. Caro-
line R. Hill, Quaker European re-
lief worker.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY, AUGUST Il, 1941 -um

EDITORS NOTE: The following
edit oriaIs are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elseIUsere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
ANSWERS

ANSWERS
|. The Lincoln Highway runs
5000 miles from Atlantic City, N. j.,
to San Francisco, Calf, over Routes
80, 30S, 40, and SO.
2. The Santa Fe Trail, following
the old trail of that name is Route
&c from Chicago to Los Angeles.
8. The Roosevelt International
Highway is Route 2, running from
Bangor, Me, to Montreal, across
Canada to Sault Ste Marie, Mich,
and across northern United States
to Bonncrs Ferry, Ida.
4. The Dixie Highway is Route
41, from Michigan to Florida.
5. The Oregon Trail is Route
BON from Ogden, Utah, to Portland,
Ore; the Arrowhead Trail is Route
81 from Ogden to Los Angeles; the
Old Spanish Trail is Route 90 from
Jacksonville, Fla, to New Orleans
and Ell Paso, Tex.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

You can get price but you can't keep
it. but when you get mortgage, it stays
with you.-Leon Henderson, price admin
istrator, to farm leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

Many, many nations have found they
cannot skid right up to the brink of war,
and then stop. Japan will make the same
discovery, unless she halts now.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

Certainly I'm the miracle man of Wall
Street. Look, in the last two years
haven't lost any money-Georgie Price
comedian, turning again from street to
stage.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

Seventy is the time of life when man
who collects treasures should share them
with the world.-Christian Brnton, in
giving his art collection to the public.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Cranium Crackers
u. S. HIGHWAYS

Most drivers know u. S. high
ways only as number in shield.
but many of these roads have
names dating from before the sys-
tenn of numbering began. Give the
number for each of the following
named highways and tell where it
runs
l. The Lincoln Highway.
2. The Santa Fe Trail
3. The Roosevelt International
Highway.
4. The Dixie Highway.
5. The Oregon, Arrowhead and
Old Spanish Trails.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
Bal'bs

Starting fires with care is fine
theory but in just a few months
you'll find out you need coal.
An eastern church burned-and.
for once, the congregation was
there.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
Californie Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in Washinqfon

who thought he could move his
factory to the islands and employ
cheap native labor in the manu-
facture of Hawaiian souvenirs
found differently.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-14

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-28
CBy Associated Pressb

Washington. July 2s-AP-- The
federal government is cunning for
the ghosts that make ghost
towns.
Determined that the end OF the
defense effort shall not be marked
by hundreds OF stranded communi-
ties with tumbledown buildings,
the defense housing agencies have
turned to a type of dwelling that
can be put aboard a railway car or
truck after the emergency, to fol-
low the workers to localities Of
stabilized employment.
The Public Buildings Admlnistra-
ton said that 1000 such homes
had been built or were under con.
struction.
And, facing the prospect OF pro-
yiding houses for more thousands
OF defense workers. the agency an-
nounced a plan to prove the NOV.
ing qualities OF the prefabricated,
demouniable structures.
At lndianhead. Md, II manufac-
turers supplying demountable
dwellings we're asked to put on a
demonstration. to show the speed
and cost at which they can take
down their houses and establish
them elsewhere. Each manufactur.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-28
Clio Contract
For City Asked

City Attorney John p. Kirk IL
coDsidering legality OF a Go con-
tract, seeking wage and hours reg.
ulstIon for city employees, which
has been submitted 10 Mayor RIOS,
X. Bower. A letter accompanying
the contract. signed by X. V Rice.
local ClO chairman. asked that rep.
resentatlyes OF the grOnp meet with
the city council Aug. 3.
Principal considerations are;
first the legal tl9htet has city to
enter into such contracts, and sec
ond. how 20 raise money for In
creased wage scales demanded. in
View OF the fact that the budget for
the coming year has been adopted
and spread on the city TAX rolls.
The city budget was adopted IL
June after conferences held by
various commissions and boards
The tax assessments we're approved
by the Board Of Review and TAI
bttiis are matted.
Comment on government con
tracts Is contained IN an opinion
just released by Attorney General
Herbert RHsaton. He says strikes
against the government are Illegal
and that no arm Of the state. county.
or local government can legally
sign labor contracts.
This question Of proper municipal
procedure for Ypsilanti has bee.4
referred 70 City Attorney John P.
Kirk for recommendations, Mayor
Ross X. Bower stated today
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-28
Portable Homes I'm Defense
Areas Plan of Government

err will take down one OF his struc-
lures, haul the pieces to a communi-
ty nearby, reconstruct it-then
take IL down a second time and
haul it back to lndianhead. there
putting It up again in condition for
occupancy.
The demountable houses, bolted
together. come in one and two
family sizes. A one-family unit
cinsists of living room. two bed
rooms, kitchen. dinette and bath.
PBA indicated It expected the
manufa cturers TO take apart a one
family unit, haul 1t to another To-
cality. and put It up again, all in
one day.
The first demonstrations probably
will be held at Indianhead tomor.
row. The PBA said It was not
planned for the manufacturers 10
put on a race" in one or two
days, but that each would have his
allotted time to show government
officials the take-down and put-up
qualities Of his product.
One government official foresaw
the possibility that In making the
defense construction flexible entire
towns might be put aboard cars or
trucks and moved almost overnight
like a circus!"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-28
Recluse Dead,
Found detained

Central City, Colo. July 2S-UP
Sheriff Oscar Williams said to-
day that Joe Snyder, 55, a recluse
tEapper with an abundance of enc
niles, was chained to the rafters
Of his cabin and left to starve.
Henry Toll. a Denver attorney
who owns land and the cabin, near
an isolated mine tunnel, discovered
the body OF Syder yesterday. 1t
lay on a bunk, fully clothed, except
for shoes. One end of a heavy
chain was wrapped around his
wrists. The other end was looped
over q rafter, brought back to the
bunk, wrapped around his wrists
again and padlocked. The key TO
the lock was missing.
Williams said Snyder undoubted-
ly had starved. and could have
been tortured. II was impossible to
tell Immediately. because he had
been dead at least two months. and
the body was badly decomposed. A
pathologist will examine 1t at sn
autopsy today at Idaho Springs.
"He was an eccentric recluse
who had plenty OF enemies the
sheriff said. He was always shoot
ing at people to keep them from
his hut"
Possibly, he said, an enemy tied
him to the bunk for revenge. plan.
ming to return later and release
him, but became pahic-stricken and
left him to starve.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-28
Japs Concerned by
Purchasing Rush
by United Prey

Tokyo, July rs UP 49, The
Yokohama silk exchange remain
ed closed today. silk, rayon and
cotton interests conferred In the
great industrial center Of Osaka,
and Tokyo police ordered women
TO stop forming queues In front OF
food stores as government spokes-
men announced that the American
and British freezing orders
world have iittIe- effect GA Japan.
The finance ministry applied
retaliatory freezing regulations
10 Canada and American posses
siens and Japan's satellite state
Manchukuo. formed out OF Chin
ese Manchuria, froze American.
British and Canadian assets in
Japan.
Japan's retaliatory freezing or
der against the United States be-
came effective today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-28
Dick Ohling.er
Derby Winner

Dick Ohlinger won the sixth an
nual Ann Arbor Soap Box Derby by
scooting down Broadway Hill Satur-
day in 34.3 seconds. Dicks striking
car, painted red, white and blue,
won over the other six entrants in
Class b and then vent on to trim
the winner OF seventeen cars In
Glass A which gave him the much
priced NJ. +. Coyle Trophy This
Is Dicks third year at racing and
be viii now compete IN the national
contest at Akron. Ohio, Aug. II.
Class p boys are II and IL years
old and Class A are 10 to Is inclu-
sive and this Is the first time a
Class B boy has won the champion
ship in Ann Arbor. Three years ago
Dick was the Ypsilanti' city cham.
pion during the American Legion
celebration and the same year
placed fourth in Ann Arbor in Class
B. Last year be placed fifth.