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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Record
Output
Wasted
Lack of Planning
Blamed
BY Federated Press

LORAIN, O.-This is a story Of
how workers record-breaking pro-
duction efforts are wasted by the
lack of centralized war planning
Members Of the United Steel
Workers (CIO) at the National
Tube Co. here were proud when
they smashed all records by turn
ing out $50 miles of 24-inch pipe
in less than four months for a new
oil line between Texas and Illinois
that would help relieve the eastern
petroleum shor,agc.
The pipe delivered ahead of
schedule and the new line from
Longyiew, Tex, to Norris City, H.,
was to have opened Dec. Is. But
it didn't. The reason:
Something went wrong in the
manufacture of pumping equip
ment without which the line is use
less, Petroleum Administrator Har-
old Ickes said. Although all $50
miles have been laid, it won't be
in operation until Feb. Is.
And if this story of bungling
wasn't enough, Ickes added that a
substantial number of $4,000 rail
way tank cars, which could be used
to transport the vitality needed oil,
are still carrying grapefruit juice
and other such things.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Fink Official
Shows His
chrisfmas Spirit
BY Federated Press

PATERSON, N. j., Dec. 2l-The
Wright Aeronautical Corp. says it
needs 10000 women workers des-
perately for its New Jersey plants
but can't get them because wom-
en- are too busy Christmas shop
ping.
This claim was made by Company
vice president Phillip B. Taylor, in
a special story in the New York
Herald Tribune, Dec 18, supposedly
designed to attract women to the
Wright employment office.
The falsity of Taylor's claim was
attested to by New Jersey labor
officials. They said there were
plenty Of women who wanted jobs
and had no money to do Christmas
shopping.
Wright's inability to find suffi-
cient workers also may be ascribed
to it's preference for non-union la
Dor.
Illustrative of the kind of anti
union propaganda put out by the
company is the following dialog
Taylor says he had with woman
applicant.
@. at is terribly noisy in the
machine shop?"
A. "Yes, it is, but you become
accustomed TO it.
@. "The thought uppermost in
my mind is: Will have TO join a
union? ?"
A. "No, you won't"
Q. "And / won't be heckled by
union people? ?"
A. "No, wen see to it that you
aren't"
New Jersey unionists believed
that the Herald Tribune story may
have something to do with an
NLRB election to be held soon at
the Wright plants, which the Unit
ed Auto Workers (CIo) hope to
win.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Steel A+fock on
NWLB Called
Sabotage by Union
BY Federated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 21-"Union-
busting as usual without regard to
utilizing all manpower to win the
war" was the accusation leveled
against Inland Steel Co. Dec. Is
by the National Maritime Union
(CIO).
Jack Lawrenson, N. M. U. vice
president, charged the company
with launching an expensive cam
paign to sabotage a unanimous
recommendation of the National
War Labor Board panel for stabil-
izing the Great Lakes shipping in
dustry.
Reminiscent of its six-year fight
against recognition of the United
Steel Workers (CIO) is Inland's
consistent discrimination against
NMU members in hiring for it's
ships, Lawrenson said.
The NWLB panel recommended
that Inland and three other COM
panies give the NMU preferential
hiring. Citing the excellent record
of the union, the panel said: at
has contributed to a vast improve
ment in the working conditions of
the seamen who constitute its mem
bership."
finland Steel's attempt to paint
the panels order as an attempt to
force a new and untried system of
hiring manpower is ludicrous," :"
Lawrenson said, referring to the
company's resistance to the union
hiring hall system. "This attempt
to bludgeon by pressure the Ma
tional War Labor Board should be
resisted and this anti-union bias
against manpower stabilization in
a vital war industry must be COM
pared to actual sabotage of our
war effort"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Army Hires
Negro Women

FORT WORTH, Tex, Dec. %
(FP)--In line with the announced
Army Air Force policy to mobilize
all available civilian manpower,
the Tarrant Field Sub Depot here
has initiated a class for eight Ne
gro women mechanic learners.
Ranging in age from II to 80,
the women were classified as of
"very high caliber" by their COM
manding officer, each having at
least a high school education and
several being college trained. The
U. S. Employment Service, which
acted as recruiting agent, is hiring
additional women as quickly as
possible.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Morgenthou
Praises
Workers

WINSTON-S SALEM, N. c., Dec.
10, Specialize workers of Amer
lea are helping ito finance this
Peoples War and the Peoples
Peace to come" by their whole
hearted participation in the volun-
tary War Savings Program and
the Victory Loan Drive, Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the
Treasury, declared this week.
The achievements of labor and
management, working together as
a team in the Payroll Savings 1910
Drive, has established a new re-
lationship which is setting the pat
tern for the postwar years." the
secretary said. He spoke at cele-
bration where Treasury "T" flags
were presented to the leaders of
labor unions and of employers in
North Carolina who had topped
that 1870 in War Bond purchases
through regular deductions every
payday.
Warning his audience that "we
as a nation are just beginning to
fight" Mr.. Morgenthau sketched
briefly the major accomplishments
of the Payroll Savings Program
throughout the country.
Unsung heroes on both our war.
time production and War Savings
fronts are thousands of workers
and employers in every state OF
the nation, the secretary pointed
out.
In less than two weeks, the Sec
retary revealed, the country hao
raised more than two-thirds of the
nine billion-dollar Victory Loan
which the Treasury had set as q
special December Embarrassing cam
paign. This is the largest sum
ever raised in so short a time by
any government in the history OF
the world.
This gigantic financing achieve.
ment "is magnificent response
another proof of what a free, en-.
lightened and democratic people
can do when their country calls
upon them," Secretary Morgenthau
stated.
More than 50,000,000 men and
women invested in War Bonds dur
ing 1912, the secretary said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
NWLB Ruling
Causes Wolkouf
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2,-Three
thousand workers in two plants of
the Electric Storage Battery Co.,
Philadelphia, stopped work Dec. l6
in protest against National War
Labor Board ruling.
Requests of the United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers (ClO)
for a union shop and checkoff and
a wage increase of 1212 cents an
hour were denied by the board.
Van A. Bittner, assistant to the
president of the United Steelwork-
ers (CIO) and Editor Fred Wewitt
of the Machinists' Journal, organ
of the International Association of
Machinists (AFL), dissented. The
board majority voted against the
standard maintenance of member
ship clause on the basis the local
had a record of seven work stop
pages from May 80 to July II, one
of them while panel was consid-
ering its case.
In telegram the board urged
the men to go back to work and
said orderly procedures were es-
tablished for petitioning reconsid-
Grafton of orders. 1t didn't repeat
the orders clause that the case
might be reopened on petition in
80 days.
The NWLB warned the workers
that it Cannot and will not enter
tain such a petition while produc-
tion of vital war materials is
halted in defiance of the boards
orders" :"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
War PIonf Guard Wins
RIGHT To Join Union

HAMMOND, Ind, Dec. % (FP)
Proof that war plant guards
have a right to join a union was
demonstrated for the Sinclair Re-
filming Co. when it discharged Rob-
ert Mccall, a plant guard, after
warning him not to join the Oil
Workers international Uni o n
(CIO).
Local 210, OWIU, filed a COM
plant with the NLRB and two
months later Mccall was rein
stated in higher-paying job plus
$130.48 back pay.
Army regulations do not pro-
hibit plant guards from joining a
union, although the Army has sug-
gested guards be taken into sepa-
rate units from production and
maintenance workers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Look What The Scrap
Drive Turned Up
BY Federated Press

AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. 22-Texas
"cigar-smoking, poker-playing, la
bor-hating, evil old man" has been
busted off and put on a pedestal.
Apparently hunting for scrap, of
ficials found two busts of John
Nance Garner, former U. S. vice
president, resting rather ignomini-
ously among the dirty bottles and
sweepings of the capital cellar.
One was sent to the museum of
Texas University. The OF h r,
scrubbed up for the public and for
posterity, graces the governors re-
ception office.
just why the two Garner busts
were discarded in the basement was
not explained /. but perhaps some
on thought they should come out of
hiding now that his political line is
being revived.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
President Allows Dies
Access To Tax Returns

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS (FP)-
The Dies committee was author
lied to have access to income and
Arxcess profits tax returns in a
Presidential order Dec Q, a peru
sual of the Federal Register for
Dec. II revealed.
Although the committee has had
such powers bestowed on it in other
years-likewise quietly as in this
,instance--a new order was neces-
sary to permit it TO examine rec
ofrds under the internal revenue
code Of 1889.
The committee apparently is
planning some new smear to pre-
cede the effort it will make to be
revived in the 18th congress. The
executive order will be good only
until Jan. 3.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
cooperufives
Win Time
On Radio
Union Papers Thanked
For Help
BY Federated Press

NEW YORK, Del. 21-The Co.
operative League, with the help of
unions and consumer organizations,
has won its battle to buy time on
U. S. radio networks and stations.
This was announced Dec. Is after
a two-day conference between a
league committee and the code
committee of the National Asso-
citation of Broadcasters.
The broadcasters had refused to
sell to cooperatives on the ground
that their programs were of con-
troversial nature and therefore in
violation of the NAB code. This
refusal brought thousands of pro-
tests from all over the nation and
a u. S. senate resolution by Sen.
George w. Norris (Ind. Nebr.) for
an investigation of the broadcast
res action.
It was made clear in joint
statement by the league and NAB
committees that radios acceptance
of cooperative program would not
affect the Norris resolution, which
suggests that the federal communi-
cation act might be amended to
prevent broadcasters from denying
radio time to cooperatives or other
public organizations such as labor
unions.
The leagues program, Let's Get
Together Neighbors, Transcribed
series originally scheduled for 3C
stations, probably will be on the
air by the middle of January, Asst
Sec. Wallace Campbell said.
A tribute was paid by Campbell
to the unions and their newspapers
for the way in which they rallied tc
the co-op's assistance in this fight
which began Oct. a.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Reufher Offered
Imporfanf WPB Post
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-Vice-
President Walter Reuther of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
has been offered an important post
with the War Production Board as
assistant to Charles E. Wilson in
charge of production.
This is the first significant move
of the WPB in the direction of in
volving organized labor in the
shaping of policy. Heretofore, la
Dor has had no share in the plan
ming of production except through
labor-management committees in
the plants.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
LondIork Strike
Denounced By G. Of G.

VALLEJO, Calif.-The Vallejo
Chamber of Commerce has repudi-
ated the strike of the Greater
Vallejo Landlords Assn. against
rent ceilings, calling it's defiance
of the OPA "unAmerican" and add
ing:
Thousands of patriotic citizens
of Vallejo have been subjected to
unfavorable and misleading publ
city. These actions of the associa-
ton do not reflect the true atti-
tude of our people.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
400, 900 Production Ideas
Developed BY Workers

CHICAGO, Dec. 19-More than
practical production suggestions
have been made by American war
workers since Pearl Harbor, Chief
A. G. Nordholm of WPB field op-
erations told the first annual meet
ing here of the Natl. Assn. of Sug-
gestion Systems.
So important are some of the
suggestions from a military view
point, they can not be divulged at
this time, Nordholm said. One
workers suggestion resulted in a
device which already has saved
the U. S. Army Signals Corps the
equivalent of 81 years work.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24
Roil Wage PorIey Heads
For Mediofion Board

NEW YORK-Representatives Of
Is incorporating railroad unions
have asked the Natl. Mediation
Board to step in after three-eay
wage conference with rail manage
ments ended in a deadlock here
Dec. 18.
President Bert NJ. Jewell of The
Railway Employees Department
(AFL) said that union demands in
cluded an increase of 20 cents an
hour, with a minimum of 70 cents,
and the union shop.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1942-12-24

NEW YORK-The 200th ami
versary of Thomas Jefferson's birth
on April l3, 1943, will be made the
occasion of a nationwide celebra-
ton, the Bill of Rights Sesqui-
Centennial Committee announced
Dec. 15
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

Of the hidden Nazi airdromes Holland number
Of planes destroyed the ground never learned
British officials, checking against their espionage
reports estimate that approximately 1900 Naz soldiers
killed last Fall when Parmentier blew up munitions
carrying troop train estimated 5000 more German
soldiers killed and several thousand wounded the
Flying Dutchman's "a raids Naz military barracks
Accurate dive bombing Of the type that blew up the
Uboat in the Amsterdam harbor enabled him
two speedy German torpedo boats to the bottom
North Sea- How long this flying fool keep going is
anyone's guess. He's been at since June 1910
his flying comrades hope his luck will last.
Not only do the Germans want to stop him for the
devastating work he is doing personally bring
end to the sabotage that he is directing within Holland
itself He has organized entire nuisance squads" which
do much damage to German military plans. typical
of these squads is to change sign posts Nazi
troops march twice far necessary then fail
arrive at their destination experience that doesn't
help German morale.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

Within few months he had organized spy ring that
blanketed all Of Holland. The name Parmentier was
the tongue of every Duchman He the hero of all
Holland. Everybody working for Parmentier who,
week. sometimes oftener would fly to his secret
rendezvous gather up information about German military
and then streak back for England with the precious
documents.
The next day Parmentier would return-but this time
with bombs. Knowing exactly what the Nazis were up
where stationed he could do devastating damage.
The British Government and the Dutch Government-n-
exile in London questioned his operations They gave
him full power to carry he pleased.
Parmentier did not always work alone. When he
found task much for manand he was big enough
to admit his limitations would pass his information
on Raj bombing command which would take
1t months for the occupatonal forces to catch
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

LONE Raj plane crcled high above Nazi-occupied
"a Amsterdam Like huge hawk wheeling for a
kill the plane banked in wide its wing tips
gistenng the early morning Below in the city, the
afraid siren walled its warning Sleepy German
pulled boots and tumbled the barracks racing
for their anaircraft batteries the doube-quick.
Then suddenly the plane winged In another
second diving straight for tho harbor below, its
motors roaring and wires screaming like giant ban
shee. The ground batteries opened hunderus barrage
The white puffs of bursting shells dotted the sky like
many punches OF cotton the threw their
tain Of shrapnel But there stopping this plane
Like a meteor It shot down down. down Gunners
cursed this mad" pilot.
Then suddenly, when less than 200 feet above the
water the plane pulled out. Bombs dropped from its
rack There giant explosion The water shot up
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19
||| Still Puzzled By The Mystery Z
= | ==== OF The Three-eyed Fish Z

at the Fisheries Experimental Station
at Halifax reported that the myster-
ious surgeon does a painstaking job.
The fact that the fish in which he
inserts a third eye apparently all live
is further proof Of his skill
His reasons for the strange opera
ton are as unknown as his identity
or the place where he performs It,
Perhaps he is a doctor with a per-
verted sense of humor. or a mentally
twisted fisherman with knack for
surgery. But whoever he u.s. he's fast
becoming a legendary figure among
these fisherfolk.
The taking of fish to fool scien-
lists or landlubbers is nothing new
One European case is on record where
a fisherman confessed that he inserted
a third eye in the heads Of dead
founders to get fancier prices from
who were quite properly amazed.
ljority of taking cases, however, the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

~OMEWHERE along the bleak
stretches of the North Atlantic
- coast, perhaps in some isolated
inlet or cove. there lies a mad sur
geon who performs weird operations
on deep-sea fish and then throws them
back into the sea.
For years, the hardy men who fish
the cold, blue Atlantic off the Cana
dian provinces have been astonished
more than once to find in their nets
the operated-on, still-living victims Of
this mysterious surgeons scalpel.
The favorite trick of the mad doc
tor OF the Atlantic" is TO insert third
eye into the skull of haddocks. Cana
dian authorities, who have performed
autopsies on the three-cyed fish that
have been sent to them by the baffled
fishermen, report that this eye-graft-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

Koene D. Pamentier-the one-man flying bitzkrieg, the
whom Hitler has posted $4,000 reward dead
alive.
Parmentier is no figure of fiction. He's real-lhe
Raj pilot who has probably done damage single
any other flyer in this When the Nazf
troops first swept into Holland Parmentier was crack
pilot for the Royal Arnes In the fierce Lufwaffe
bombings several members of his family kiedand
Parmentier vengeance.
He made his way to England pleaded with Raj Off
Gals to give him plane and free hand to carry his
private Government authorities surprisingly
enough What Parmentier has done since the day he
British flying wings is almost unbelievable Play
and fearless hand this Dutchman has caused
Nazis trouble than half of squadrons,
first to build up his espionage corps
Holland Then he would fly to his native land during
the night and land in open fields remote stretches
of sandy these lone sortes he would contact
his and learn of the German military Then
would fly back to England former high Dutch officials
and the remaining members of his own family
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

with the Flying
Dutchman's" oper-
atoms. Then the
Nazis began throw
ing his wn
friends into con-
centration camps,
right and left.
But IL was too late.
Parmentier h a d
done his work well.
HIS organization
as nationwide.
The Nazis were at
a loss TO find out
who was and who
was not working
for the one man
airforce.
Offici al Raj
records show that
up until early 1941
this lone pilot had
destroyed an entire
troop train, blown
up "a military bar
racks, sunk two
torpedo boats and
one submarine. de-
stroyed a score of
ammunition dumps
and shot down II
Nazi planes in
aerial combat.
All the foregoing
feats have been Of
ficially confirmed.
The number of his
one-man victories
not officially con-
firm e d probably
equal. If not ex-
coed, that amazing
score, For exam
pie, It is known
that Parmentier
literally blasted to
Kingdom Com O
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

Only recently two of these threeeyed haddocks
caught by fishermen St Andrews, New Bruins
wick, line traw by c. YounS of the Atlantic Bio
logical Station, while the other OF trap by
=. Howley of lngonish Cape Breton Island.
Both fish had been grated in tho same way Experts
&, 1892 by American Weekly Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

curious customers who quite properly amazed
In the great majority of taking however, the
operation is performed dead fish-when il is
paratively simple to make any desired alteration But
another matter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

aAANO -
white mushroom.
Shattered bits of
steel rained on the
nearby docks. In
a minute 1t was all
over, and the lone
RAF plane was
again high In the
sky.
German soldiers
rae ed for the
docks to see what
had been struck. A
giant oil slick COW
cred h e w Il e r
where only a few
minutes before a
Nazi U-boat had
b e en- tied to a
mooring.
The sol die T s
looked up into the
sky. The Raj
plane, amere speck
now against the
blue, was tracing
out a huge letter
with the whit e
smoke-like conden-
sation from its ex-
haust. It formed
a snowy "P."
The German COM
mandant s w ore.
It's Parmentier!"
The word literally
exploded in h / s
mouth. N G ar b y
Dutch dock work.
ers grinned. By
nightfau, all Hol-
land knew that the
lone wolf had
struck again. An
other chapter had
been written in the
strange sag of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

Great Britain Rights Reserved
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-26
TROOP 9 SCORES
 HIT AT STADIUM
Hill Boys Make Creditable Rally Showing; Farley
 Next Sunday
Washington Hill

Troop g, Washington, Park Conl- munity Club Boy Scouts, made a very creditable showing at the war rally held Sunday afternoon at the Municipal Stadium, being among those picked for the best results with 8 or 9 other troops out of all the great number participating in the events.
 The South district is also invited again to take part in the first aid meet to be held this year at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,, sometime during the month of June. It will be remembered that Troop car- ried of the honors at the first aid meet held last summer at IStorrs College.
 Next Sunday nightt wo members of each troop in south district will meet again at 2 o'clock at the Com- munity House. Everett West will be the invited guest to make further plans about the frs taid meet, Boy Scouts meet every Wednesday eve- ming from ' to o'clock at the Community House. Scoutmaster Frank sacco is in charge.
 Regular business meeting of Washington Park Community club will be held this evening at SIS at the Community House. Reports will be heard from the basketball team committee who ran such a very fine successful dance Saturday night at the Community House. Also final details for the Memorial day celebration will be heard from Chairman Frank 4. McGrath.