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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Register Police
|nDefenseM Move
1ime. stan Cerrcsronaenl

LANSING, Feb. l. State police
have begun a survey of all law
enforcement agencies in an effort
to determine the manpower of the
state for home defense purposes
Commissioner Oscar G.. Olander
revealed today.
Names and addresses of all Of.
fcers including patrolmen and de-
tectives are being gathered for
filing at East Lansing headquar-
tiers. Olander said.
We've never had the exact
number of Michigan law en-
forcement officers. It's been a
guess proposition. Now we will
be able to determine the weak
points in the state and be pre-
pared to act accordingly should
the situation ever warrant it,"
he added.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Led First Strike
Lost 1t

His first Job was washing dishes
in New York.
A few months later he was in
Chicago. an apprenticcd cutter in
a clothing factory, working y, Is
or II hours a day and studying
reading MISUNDERSTANDING, in the
few hours which were left
Those were the Swcatshop days
in the clothing industry The men
slept on their bundles. no Won
der Sidney Hillman, SO tired he
could drop. will still sill up nights
reading such things as Goldmark S
Fatigue and Efficiency, present
ing the results of studies made
under the auspices of the Russell
Sage Foundation. He knows that
.story)
We're getting along now to 1909
or 1910 TWenty-one nationalitleS
almost every country in Europe
and some in the Near East-are
represented in the big factory
where Sidney Hillman works. His
knowledge. his earnestneSS. his
book-won d u c a ion. his per-
suasiVeneSS and tremendous
capacity for attracting people to
him and holding their loyalty and
respect have already made an i'm
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Vocational Training
His Idea

Put it down in your book that
similar committees will be formed
shortly for the aircraft and motor
industries-with Sidney Hillman
at the helm.
Attached 10 the labor division
of the defense commission is a
labor policy advisory committee
Sidney Hillman in the background
But greater than all these, 10
the average American who isn't
interested in labor questions so
much as in industrial peace and
the success of the defense pro-
gram. looms the fact that in the
months of Americas defense effort
there have been fewer strikes and
far less work stoppage than in any
similar period since organized
labor began 10 find a place in the
American scene Fewer than in
1916. II or Is. Only three strikes
have lasted more than a day
Vultee Aircraft in California, seven
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

working days: New Kensington,
Pa. (aluminum), four days; Sagi-
nav, Mich. the last, as hours.
Out of PAL threatened strikes
in defense industries, BOB were
settled without any work stoppage
whatever.
Vast vocational training projects
meanwhile gain momentum in sew
eral directions - trough the
unions. within industry itself. in
the CCC. the NYA and elsewhere.
You find Sidney Hillmans hand
in all of them.
Half a million Americans will
have been given refreSher courses
or rudimentary instruction in
metal, mechanical and manual
Skills before the year is half done
The personnel experts of American
Telephone and Telegraph. Genera!
Electric. Big Steel and Standard
Oil-the best in the world-are
down here working on the program
with Sidney Hillman. The most
comprehensive ,job-training pro-
gram in American annals.
But why go on? The story really
never ends.
Sidney Hillman, you're bound TO
conclude. is quite fellow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Headed Clothing
Workers Since 1915

But in 1911 his I'm p overs
adopted the Hillman impartial
arbitration plan which has since
served as the model for some of
the greatest industries of the coun-
try, including General Motors, in
their labor relationships. And Prof.
Harry A. Mills of the University
of Chicago-recently made chair
man of the National Labor Rela-
tionS Board was the impartial
arbitrator.
Fix those dates in your mind,
Sidney Hillman came to the United
States an unknown immigrant lad
in 1907. Four years later he had
set the pattern for what is prob
ably the most successful labor
relationship in American industry.
Four more years more. and he
is president of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America. And
he is still president in 1871
proudly loaned by his union TO the
national government for the dura-
tion of the emergency. His salary
from his union is S12 500 a year,
from the government 81.
His Identification with the rcvo-
lutionary changes in working con-
ditionS in the clothing industry,
later with the NRA in the dark
days of 1888. and more recently
with the rise of the CLIO. of which
he became a vice president-an
office he resigned when he entered
the government Service-require
no detailing here. Sidney Hillman
arrived long since. AT 53. today,
he would be rated anywhere. by
any one familiar with industrial
economics and the history of the
country, as one of labor's states
men.
Under his quiet direction, the
shipbuiding sterilization commit
tee was set up not long ago to deal
with frictionS before they reach
the danger point. On it are repre-
sentatives of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. the Go. the United
States Maritime Commission, the
navy, of employers. They are all
working together TO stabilize con-
ditions in the shipbuilding industry
throughout the country. and to
find solutions for the problems Of
iabOr miuTatiOn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

would like TO be a research
chemist, and got a job in the
towns research laboratory. For
three years or so he fused around
with retortS and the smelly things
of chemistry Then he began to
interest himself in his fathers
wooden business.
There was no university nearby.
The youth and his family thought
of Heidelberg for him, and there
was money enough to send him.
But youthful yearnings and am
billions and necessities. including
the adventurous spirit which ami
mates youth always. brought him
finally TO America-SanS friends.
with only a smattering OF broken
English to build on, and no one
waiting to give him start a.
anything.
That was "a years ago in 1907
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Map Plan 10 Aid
JobIess Drdftees

Time. stan Correspondent

LANSING. Feb. IA plan for
helping unemployed draftees find
Jobs when they have completed
their year of military training was
approved today by State Selective
Service headquarters.
Deputy Director Col. Samuel u.
Pepper said he had conferred with
officials of the Michigan re-em-
ployment service and had agreed
on a program for soldiers mus
tered out in a year.
II provides for local draft boards
to furnish names. addresses and
qualifications of all unemployed
selectees to the unemployment
service when they are indicted. If
it works, jobs will be waiting when
they come out.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Both Leaders Come
Of immigrant Stock

And anyway, the man isn't
politician. In the words of one
newspaperman. who has watched
him in action now for II or IL
years. in New York, here and
all over:
ITO me, he isn't even a
labor leader. l know that
sounds strange. but you think
of labor leader ordinarily as
a man who has been some
thing of a politician and
Unanswered or fought his way
to whatever position of leader
ship he holds. That hasn't
been Sidney Hillman's record.
think of him as an industrial
engineer. An industrial engi-
neer who came up on the
labor side as Knudsen came up
on the management side"
And when you look at the facts,
you find there's a good deal to
be said for this view.
Curious. too-and perhaps some
thing to cheer about. since we talk
50 much Of democracy that the
twin heads of the new defense
giant OPM. sitting aStride tht
great American war machine. both
come from immigrant stock knud.
son the Dane. representing indus
try. Hillman the Lithuanian Jew
representing labor.
Each came 10 the United State
a. the same agc-20-althougf
KnudSen was here first. 10 or Il
years. One from the western shore
of the Baltic. one from the eastern
shore.
And here they sit. side by side
chosen from among all the millions
of their countryInen as the ables'
and best fitted of their kind, 10 dc
the job that has 10 be done in thC
interest of American defense. JUS
two immigrant boys from the shut
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Reads, Studies,
Dreams EndIessly

If Hitler really wants to know
whether democracy works. big Bill
Knudsen and why Sidney Hillmah
can tell him. In fact, their job
is to show him.
This isn't Sidney Hillman's sue
cess story. That will have to come
later, after they pin the medal
on him.
II probably ought TO start Once
upon time there was miserable
child in the slums of Zagare-."
And go on from there to picture
the slow. painful. silent struggle
leading 10 fame and fortune in
the New World. But that docsn't
happen TO be true. Life isn't
always like the story books,
No. if you take Sidney Hillman
as he was and is and will be, you
have to get the picture of an in
dividual who reads and studies
endleSsly. yet finds time TO think
his own thoughts. Who dreams
but who can translate dreams into
action. Who before going into
action first gets the facts. And
who. having the facts, knows
what TO do with them.
''Hillman." says another man
who knows him from long OBJ
serVation. sis the kind of a man
who first decides what the prob
lem is, then what the solution
ought to be. and who finally sits
down with those who have to he
convinced and tries with facts,
reason and persuasion to get
them to accept his formula"
Usually he succeeds. Sometimes
he fails. When he fails, there's
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Came to L. S.
Back in 1907

When there's a fight. he usually
wins. But sometimes he's licked.
But the thing about Sidney Hill
man. you learn. is that he doesn't
stay licked. If he did, he wouldn't
be at the top of the office of pro-
duction management, pulling the
labor levers of the American war
machine.
Let's condense the biography:
His folks were not poor His
father was a wooden merchant in
Zagarae. The family name was
Gilman. The boy had rabbinical
education before coming TO this
country. For time he thought he
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Lost lst Strike, He Set
Pattern of Arbitration
Called One of Labor's Statesmen;
Sterilization Committees Cut
Work Stoppage in Defense
By THEODORE 4. HUNTLEY

WASHINGTON Feb. 1.-Some day when it's all over for
few years and Americans again start looking around Tor
pin medals recognition of blood and toll and
they likely find of them half hidden In deep
chair behind the of fvepound book Or hunchd for
conversation with who shares his
and continuing interest
And if the shy bookwom be dragged from
doing long enough to listen they'll be saying to him
was who used his talents to good
advantage,
well done, thou good and faithful serNan-.'
But at that point they'll have stop, for there won't be
much they do except supply few nice phrases for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Veteran News Man Dies

WASHINGTON, Feb. l2-GNS)
Harry Ward, veteran Interna-
tional News Service correspondent
and one of the oldest active news
papermen in the capital, died early
today of pneumonia. Ward was 65
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

epitaph or a geography or to
make a piece Cor the paper.
You can't make Sidney Hill
man president of the United
States, for he was born in
Lithuania, back where the wars
begin.
You couldn't send him to the
Senate. 1t would bore him stiff.
s You can't imagine him sitting
around in Congress.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
Pittsman's Estate $4,000
TENSE PROGRAM

TONAPAH. New Feb. l.
INS)-United States Senator
Key Pitman of Nevada left an
estate in excess of $1,000 to his
widow. his Will on file today for
probate showed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

preston on those around him. He
is the workers leader.
And Sidney Hillman called and
led a strike for higher wages,
shorter hours and better working
conditions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-02

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ming the production program for
the worlds greatest republic.
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He lost.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
LAST OF DRAFT
MISSIONARIES MAILED

The last of the Selective Service
missionaries has been mailed to
registrants, Mrs. Karl Theile, Sec
returned to the Draft Board within
ed today, and must be filled out and
returned to the Draft oBard within
five days. That would make the last
ones due back not later than July
16.
Requirements, set up by National
headquarters say:
unless local board grants an ex.
tension of time, the registrant shall
be allowed five days in which to re-
turn his QUESTIONABLE. Extension
of time may be granted by local
board for valid reason. Penalty, for
will full failure to observe this law is
punishable by fine and imprison-
ment.
Another clause Mrs. Theile point
ed out as absolutely necessary to OBJ
serve was, that any change of ad-
dress of the registrant should be i'm
mediately reported to the local draft
board, and that the registrant must
keep in touch with his local board.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11

JULY 4TH MESSAGE
ONE OF WARNING

HYDE PARK, N. Y, July II -
President Roosevelt warned the Am
erican people they must be willing
to pledge their lives IF necessary"
for preservation of their cherished
liberty
Speaking over the radio, all sys-
TENS ON national hookup. on the af-
ternoon of July 4, from his library
here, President Roosevelt said the
fundamental principals which Amer
leans fought for in 1916 are being
struckdown by tyranny abroad and
this now threatens this side of the
Atlantic.
The President declared: oI tell
the American people solemnly that
the United States will never survive
on happy, prosperous oasis of lib
erty in the midst of a desert of die
tatorships."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
Lord Halifax
Nay Not Return
Says New Chronicle
(By# Associated Pressl

LONDON. July Il - The New
Chronicle, a London newspaper, said
today that Lord Halifax. British am
bassador to the United States, was
expected in London soon and would
not return to Washington
The former British Foreign seere-
tary will resume activities as a
member of the war cabinet" the
paper stated. because prominent
Americans believe he has been ham
pered as an envoy by his attitude at
the time of Munich and during the
Civil War in SPAIN
An authoritative source, however,
called the story a stab IN the back
and said there was nothing to indi-
cate that the Ambassador would not
return to Washington.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
Fishing Outlook
Said To Be Best Here
Since 1885 Season

Wrangell awakened this morning
to the sound of cannery whistles, the
first heard since last year. With the
season opening at Anan Greek yes
terday. cannery boats returned to
Wrangell during the night and ear
~ this morning well laden and the
familiar hum of machinery down
around the canneries was a COCO
sound to hear.
Especially good was the news
brought back BY eannery officials
from the creek that the 1871 season
promises to be the best since 1895.
although they qualified this state
ment by saying catches for the first
day were afair"
A. R. Brueger WrangelPs biggest
operator and associated with O. NeI-
gard in the Burnett Inlet Salmon
Company, and A. L. Dorks. mana
ger of harvest Alaska Company.
both expressed satisfaction at tie
outlook for the season saying that
at least it looked as though it would
be better than the several years
past. Since 1885 seasons have been
notably poor.
Fish brought in were unusually
large for eHumpies." Conflicting
myths, like the German-Russian war
reports, entered into the situation
here. It is generally believed by
fishermen, that when the fish are
big at the beginning of
the run the run will be short, while
natives maintain that signs OF ma
ture, the abundance of horseflies and
berries, all indicate a good fishing
year. Superstitious can take their
choice.
Largest catch reported came from
Burgers ARB which said they had
received 1868 fish. harvest re-
ported 1900 and the Regis IN
loaded S,341 at the Burnett Inlet
plant, a total of over $4,000. All
canneries expected as good or bet
ter catches brought in today.
Gillnetters, who have been fish
ing off the mouth of the Stikine for
the past two weeks also are said to
be getting some good catches.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
JAPANESE
CALL SESSION
OF DIET TOGETHER

TOKYO. July Il - A meeting
of the Japanese Diet was said to
have been called today. 1t was be-
lieyed that discussion of Roosevelt's
latest move in sending troops to Ice
land would be the main topic.
Domei, official News agency said
landing of U. S. forces in Iceland
holds increased possibilities of fur
Their aggraYation in relations be-
tween the U. s. and Germany. The
Nationalist newspaper, Kakumin,
called it de facto" participation in
the war.
No comment had yet been forth
coming from official circles when it
was learned today that part of the
Pacific fleet probably would be
transferred to bolster the Atlantic.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
Russians
Still Holding
NaziS Back
#CBy Associated Pressl

Isolationists and Roosevelt back
ers had a field day nearly every day
this week after last Mondays an
nouneement, by the President. that
American naval forces had been land
ed on Iceland.
Isolationists, led by Senator Taft,
denounced the move as exactly
equivalent to aggressive war while
the other side of the fence main
tanned that the safety of the wes-
tern hemisphere depended upon pro-
tecting its approaches and the way
to fight Hitler. was to Out-Hitler
him.
Angry charges continued to be
hurled back and forth today in the
Senate chamber. Although an an
nouncement came from Britain
branding as false the accusations
made that the United States was
building air bases in northern Ire
land for Great Britain, the verbal
battle in Washington still ragged.
Britain explained that Americans
were employed on the Irish base,
but emphasized that they were work
ing for the British government on
a British project.
Informed quarters predicted that
President Roosevelt would seek in
direct Congressional sanction for
establishment of diplomatic relations
with Iceland by asking an appropri-
alton to open a legation at Reykja
Yek, Iceland's Capital.
In the meantime, on the eastern
stage of war, Moscow claimed to
have held back German reinforce
ments in the Lepel sector where
they reported they wiped out a Nazi
motorized division yesterday. Mill
tary sources also claimed the Red
Army, counter attacking fiercely, in
flicted serious losses and defeat ON
the Germans further south. The Rus
SLAMS were apparently hitting hard
est on the vital 5O-mile Berezen ri-i
Yer, from Lepel to Borisov, guard
ing the road to Moscow.
Rome announced a renewal of as
saults yesterday on Syracuse and
Naples by the Raj after a lapse of
many weeks. Fourteen persons were
said to have been killed at NaplesI
and 80 injured. The High Command
said that British planes had at
tackled an Italian ambulance planet
in the Sicily Channel
The Raj wa sstill pounding to-
day at German ports and vital war
supply centers. Boulogne took an
exceptionally hard beating, but re-
verbrations heard on the English
coast told that the entire German oc-
cupied channel coast was coming in
for its share of Raj fire.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
CHAMBER TO HOLD NIGHT
SESSION MONDAY JULY 81

At the Regular Monday noon
luncheon of the Chamber of Com
merce it was brought out that the
construction of roller, to be used
in laying experimental asphalt on
McKinnon st. was ready and it was
assumed work would start shortly
on the project, according to H. B.
Thornquist, President.
The asphalt is to be tried out,
and if found successful for use as
paving, Front Street and probably
other busy thoroughfares will be
paved.
1t was unanimously decided by the
Chamber to hold their next meet
ing, Monday July 81, in the even
ing instead of at noon. 1t is hoped
that in this way more work can be
accomplished and some of the bus
mess, delayed for lack of time, can
be caught up and cleared out of the
way.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
Mrs. Louis J. LemStra
National President Legion Aux.
To Be In Wrangell Next Week

Leaving Seattle on July Is, aboard
the North Coast, Mrs. Louis J. Lem
stra, National President of the Am
erican Legion Auxiliary, is expected
to arrive in Wrangell the following
Monday. The local unit is making
plans to entertain her and show her
points of interest in and about
Wrangell.
Mrs. Louis ]. Lemstra, of Clinton,
Indiana, who was elected to the lead
ership of the American Legion Aux
iliary's half-million women at the
national convention in Boston last
September, has been nationally
prominent in the work of the organ
ization for a number of years. She
has served as National Vice Presi-
dent, and has just completed two
years as chairman of the important
national rehabilitation commit.
Mrs. Lemstar first gained national
prominence in the Auxiliary in
1896 when she led the Indiana De-
partment to a year of outstanding
success. The following year she re-
presented Indiana on the national
executive committee and was APP
pointed chairman of the national le-
gislative committee, directing the
Auxiliary's support of the Legion's
legislative program. At the national
convention in New York in 1897 she
was elected National Vice President
for the Central Division and given
responsibility for leading Auxiliary
activities in the central states, where
the organization has nearly one
, third of its membership
After o hiehlR aaReeaafnf year III
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
18th OF JULY
TAKES 628 LIVES
IN UNITED STATES

Violent death overlook 628 per
sons in the nation over the long In
dependence day weekend. As the
country looked back at the heavy
toll, it counted among the dead 384
victims of traffic accidents, Il more
than the average for the ordinary
Friday. Saturday and Sunday in
July.
The auto fatalities only slightly
topped the National Safety councils
estimate for a normal weekend and
were far below the councils predic-
ton that 475 would die in traffic
accidents in the past three days.
Rains in some parts of the eoun-
try are believed to be the chief rea-
son the total was not any higher.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-07-11
Let Troops Go
Out OF Western
Zone, Asks Reynolds
(By# Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, July Il - Fol
lowing closely on the heels of sug-
gestions made the past few days by
Army and Navy chiefs that draftees
be kept in service beyond their one
year periods, Chairman Reynolds,
Democrat of North Carolina, of the
Senate Military Committee, intro
duced legislation late yesterday to
lift the prohibition against sending
drafted men outside the western
hemisphere. 1t also asked power for
the President to retain draftees and
National Guardsmen in training be-
yond their one year enlistment.