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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28
ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
By HARVEY O'CONNOR

II unionists don't know what's be
ing done in this country to win the
war; it's hardly the fault of the labor
morale section of WPBs labor pro
duction division. Andrew j. Biemiller
formerly with Kenosha Labor and
other Wisconsin labor papers, and a
staff of Is send news reports, pic
lures, mats, posters and charts to
nearly 700 labor papers from coast
to coast-without charge.
Biemiller's corps also sends speak
ers to labor meetings, arranges con
facts with Army and Navy, provides
any service that will help unions UNI
derstand better the functioning OF
Uncle Sans formidable war machine.
Nearly every war agency in Wash
ington concerned with public con-
facts maintains special labor rep
resentatives. Office of war informa-
ton has labor desk, under Herbert
Little, that clears news between the
government and the press. Herman
Wolf in the Treasury department
heads the labor war savings bond
drive. Ed Lahey in the Navy depart
ment acts as liaison between labor
and the Navy. Col A. Robert Gins
burgh does a similar job for the Army
and appears at all important labor
conventions. Such government agen-
cies as War Manpower, OPA and
WPB have labor advisory committees
Life magazine is scheduled to carry
a 9-page feature on the heroic mem
bers of the Natl Maritime Union
(CIO) who man the Atlantic mer-
chant ships. With 1000 already gone
to Davey Jones locker in line of duty,
the merchant marine has a higher
casualty rate than any armed service.
Unionists, remembering that Life is
printed in the worlds biggest anti
union shop, can read the story in the
library and give the dime for a war
savings stamp
A oman labor-management produc-
ton committee has been found in the
opdl ing uudCulu6 SHOP Ill bay ClJy,
Mich. The proprietor, co. and his EN-
ploye, 70, have turned out $4,000 steel
flanges for war machinery. Their
shop heads the list of 1900 labor-man-
agement production plants.
Labor, management and the govern
ment are winning their battle against |
mounting accidents in war industries, |
reports Secretary of Labor Perkins |
For the first time, the accident rate
is turning down.
Savannah, Ga, down where manu-
facturers brag about low living costs
and low wages, is the most expensive
city in the country for workers to
live in, says the bureau of labor sta
tistics. Kansas City is the cheapest.
Washington Local 203, United Fed
eral Workers (CIO), is protesting
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Washington Scene
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| 4
before the November elections.
Labor is demanding that the senate
correct the soak-the-poor bill which
the house has passed The usual
Bourbon Democratic reactionary Re
publican alliance has decided to turn
the pockets of the poor inside out SO
that children's bellies can finance the
war. They have ignored labor's de-
mand that profit-swollen Golfers OF
corporations and fat purses of the
$5,000-and-up suburbanites be tapped.
But labor has been successful so far
in downing the $50 sales tax so cheer
fully advocated by the Natl. Assn. of
Manufacturers.
On the administration side, these
| factors lower morale:
| l. OPA has got itself snarled up in
an impossible mess. Leon Henderson
has set himself up as a wage czar.
That was inevitable as soon as it be-
came apparent that OPA did not in
tend to ration the necessities of life.
Now meat threatens to disappear
from the wage earner's table because
Henderson prefers to tamper with
wages rather than set up the machin-
cry which would assure every citizen
equal access to limited supplies. Day
by day OPA pierces price ceilings.
Day by day it retreats before the
threats of manufacturers, wholesalers
and retailers.
2. The war labor board has manu-
featured for itself another of the
country's leading snarls by attempt
ing to set up a Little Steel iron-wage
formula. Already it has had to dis
card the formula in the General Mo-
tors case because Ford, by union con-
tract, paid more than the Little Steel
formula would have given 225,000 G.
NJ employees. The formula won't fit
the copper miners, either. Some 3d.
600 aluminium workers say they have
been gypped by the formula.
g.. The war production board has re-
labors cry for a national economic
council is finding support throughout
Washington. Artificial bottlenecks
by monopolies, favorit-
ism exhibited by dollar-a-year men,
Army and Navy brasshat usurpation
of WPB powers, have contributed to
the cry that the President step again
into the picture as he did when he
scrapped Knudsen and his OPM.
The administration cannot dodge
for the OPA-WLB-WPB
snarls. The gnawing discomfort |
among millions of Americas soldiers
on the production lines which has |
broken out in sporadic wildcat strikes
must be stopped at it's source. The |
source lies in the feeling that the dice |
are loaded against labor. The equal |
ity of sacrifice" slogan has turned |
sour. Labor alone is called to take
the brunt of an iron-wage and mount
ing living costs while employers gloat
over the power given them by the
unions sacrifice of the right to strike.
It's time that the President, deep
within the White House, be told what
Americas workers are thinking and
feeling
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Co-operatives
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fundamental and natural inequality
If the people are to become increasing
believers in and supporters of polit
ical democracy, then the democratic
principles of equality and justice mus
be applied to the economic sphere Of
their lives as well"
The co-operators' program was
based on a novel, but an entirely ma
tural and sound premise. With 6
chart and statistics, Bowen demon
strated the obvious but generally un
thought of fact that "the people al
ways balance the budget in produc
ton of goods" He insisted then that
the budget could be balanced in terms
of money. Only through balancing
the budget, avoiding excessive debt,
and paying as we go, can initiation
be avoided, he made very clear.
Generally speaking, the people
have been so long taught the fallacies
of a finance economy, that they do
not fully recognize the truths of a
physical economy" he said "Yet a
physical economy is basic and ma
tural.
'In terms of goods we always pay
as we go. We cannot live or fight a
war with anything but the goods
which are produced as we consume
them for civilian or military purposes.
We must change our thinking from
a dollar or money economy to goods
or physical economy Goods are
what we fight a war with, goods are
what civilians are fed, clothed and
housed with. The first necessity to
prevent initiation is to think in terms
Of goods, rather than money"
Bowen said the Cooperative League
and it's consumer cooperative mem
bers had embarked on a long time
program to help the people to under
stand the basic truths of taxation and
government finance. He admitted the
difficulty of having consumers at this
time grasp the intimate association
of debt and initiation.
1--WE know that the effort we are
now beginning is a long pull" he
Sdlu. IL Involves 6NOluIlOudTy 6uuCd-
tional work, but we are glad to tell
you members of congress that con-
co-operatives have organized
for education. Today and tomorrow
and next week and thereafter, this
will go forward You mem
bers of congress can now be encour-
aged by the realization that consum
back home, in your states,
will begin to know why a general
sales tax can never be defended as
equitable, or in the public interest,
and the basic reasons for an equitable
and adequate personal income tax.
We hope and believe that with this
they will be able to help
you in deciding on those questions.
We hope and believe they will en-
1eavor to help you back home, as well
as here in Washington"
Bowen laid down President Roose-
velt's seven point program against |
initiation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28

again to WPB personnel officer!
about jimcrow practices in war agen
cies. Negroes can't get jobs in the
day shifts and are denied promotion
says the union. Data have beer
/ turned over to the Presidents fair EN-
ployment practices committee
With prices for food not covered by
ceilings going up $50 last month
OPA warns that a 300 increase in the
year is not unlikely unless something
is done about it.
When the CLIO moves into the pala
tial white building on Jackson Place
| fronting the White House, it will add
one to the long list of handsome struc
lures owned by labor in Washington
The ALL of course has had its own
stately structure on Massachusetts,
avenue for years. The Machinists,
Electrical Workers, Miners and La
Dor, organ of the railway brother
hoods, all have imposing buildings.
The building of Labor is opposite the
Capitol, and handy to the Senate and
House Office buildings. On the other
hand all Phil Murray has to do to
see President Roosevelt is to saunter
across Pennsylvania avenue.
Washington fact and fancy: Re-
wards of $25 and $50 are being Of
fered for information leading to the
renting of an apartment in Washing
ton. A messenger boy is alleged to
have entered the Armys colossal Pen
tagon building, largest in the world
early one morning, and got lost. That
evening he came out-a colonel.
Postwar planning division in the
Labor department had offices in the
air-cooled Labor department building.
In came War Manpower, and the post
war planners had to move uptown to
an office building where sweat is
added to toll. First things first.
NEW YORK.-FP)-Three editors
of cooperative publications have
joined the armed services. Oscar
Cooley of The Cooperative Builder,
Superior, Wis, Joined the Signal
Corps; r. II. Lamberton of The Co
operative Consumer, Regina, Sask.,
has entered the Canadian Army; and
Richard Korns of The Cooperative
North Kansas City, is in
the Naval Reserve Aviation
WASHINGTON OPP A bill to
increase salaries of $4,000 federal
workers in lower brackets was passed
by the senate July 81. 1t raises the
lowest minimum from $1,000 to $1,000
a year.
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Farm Bureau

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bership thousands of negro and white
tenant farmers and sharecroppers, in
establishing safeguards whereby
checks are delivered only to the per-
son named.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28
More Fat Jobs
(Contfnued from Page One)

tana. If such is the case and he per-
forms in the same manner that he did
in Montana as regional official in
the NYA, it may result in another
failure of an agency intended for the
public good, misdirected by manage
ment not in sympathy with or wholly
understanding its purposes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28

Here's how we are saving copper
for war weapons: 10000 tons from
building materials, 800 tons from bur-
ial equipment, $50 tons from office
supplies, LIPS tons from amusement
machines, 305 tons from juke boxes,
1924 tons from musical instruments,
1900 from clocks and watches and
25 tons from golf clubs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28

WASHINGTON (FP) A bill to
increase salaries of $4,000 federal
workers in lower brackets was passed
by the senate July 27. 1t raises the
lowest minimum from $1,OSO to $1,000
a year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28
Dollar-a=Year-

CONTINUED from Page One)
and business-as-usual," the union re-
port added.
WPB Chief Donald Nelson was
urged to adopt a realistic approach
to the entire question of providing
our expanding war industries with an
adequate supply of materials to main
tain maximum war production sched-
uIes"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28

U. s. production of steel in the
first half of 1912 amounted to 42.5
million tons or just fifth below the
output for the full year 1917, the big
gest steel year in World War 1.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-08-28

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., ma
TONS oldest radio station, must bar
gain with the American Federation of
Radio Artists (AFL), the labor board
has ruled
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Tin Conservation Order Battles
Small Canning Plant Operator
Complicated TobIes and Involved Wording
Make WPB Ruling IncomprehensibIe

indicate the only sized cans which
may be used for packing that prod
uct, except that such product may,
subject to all other restrictions i'm
posed by this order, be packed in
cans larger than the largest size
specified therefor"
But If you couldn't understand
what was meant by the largest sizes
specified -.
Mr.. Upper finds toward the close
of the order, that it was based on
this: "P. D. Reg, /. as amended, 6
F. R. $3.50; WPB, Reg. /, Z F. r..
561; E. O. 1920, 7 F. r. 329; E. o.
9040, 7 F. r. SGT: E. o. 9125, 7 F. R.
2719: sec. 2, (a) Pub Law 671, 10th
Cong, as amended by Dub. Laws 80
and 507, 77th Congress.)"
Which. of course. makes the whole
thing simple.
Query Is Hopeless.
Mr.. Tupper appears. an hour later,
seated across the table from the
firms part-time lawyer, Col. Wayne.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.


The fellow studying his trade
paper with an harassed. mystified
expression is T. K. Tupper, who
runs a small canning factory out in
what metropolitan residents smugly
call the sticks.
Mr.. Tupper has before him re-
print of War Production Board
Conservation Order M-81 as amend
ed December 8, 1942. The trade
paper has tried to summarize
the order for him. 1t seems, in
general. the order limits the use
of tinplate. terneplate and black
plate for packing food and other
products In cans; that it specifies
the can products which may be
used for each purpose; that it es-
tablishes quotas for all the items
covered.
But Mr.. Tupper figures he'd bet
ter read the order itself. No use
getting in bad with WPB. The
order covers five large, closely
printed pages, interspersed with
tables showing in detail how each
canned product is affected. After
wading through the definitions"
he comes to this:
mo person shall sell or deliver
any can except under purchase or
der or contract validated by de-
livery to such person of a purchaser
certificate, manually signed by the
purchaser or an authorized official
of the purchaser, in substantially
the form attached hereto as Exhibit
A. No person shall manufacture,
sell or deliver any can which he
knows or has reason to believe
will be used in violation of any
provision of this order
Restricted Further.
Apparently that's up to can manu-
facturers. But listen to this:
mo person shall, during the cal
endar year 1943 Cor the seasonal
year 1942-1943 when specifiedD pur-
chase, accept delivery of or use for
packing product any can except
to the extent permitted in Schedules
I, II and III attached to this order"
That hits Mr.. Tupper. He
glances at the schedules. He finds,
on Schedule I, certain products,
like peaches, which he packs on a
modest scale. He finds, among the
required can sizes, these notations:
"2-3-cly-l0" and "6-z". Whatever
they may be- How the heck is he
going to know whether the factory
sends him "2-3-cly-10" or "6-z" or
something else. He hasn't the hazi-
est idea what those crytic symbols
mean. He knows can sizes, in gen.
eral, but not this stuff. The sched-
tlles define also the tin content of
each. How is he to know that?
He reads on. Eventually he finds;
"This order and all transactions af-
fected thereby are subject to all ap-
plicable provisions of the priorities
regulations of the War Production
Board, as amended from time to
time"
That seems to cover a multitude
Of tins-and about everything else
They could get you on that provis-
ion, Mr.. Tupper, If they didn't have
anything else on you. ....
Skipping back over the order, ne
re-reads this: THE sizes of the can
specified for particular product
Evening star., 1942-12-18
to get an Interpretation Of Federal

to get an Interpretation Of Federal
order.
The Senate Small Business Com
mittee, for instance, has had stocks
of such complaints from merchants
and manufacturers. They write that
they can't understand orders affect
ing their lines and can't find any
body who does. AS a result, they
don't know whether to 60 ahead
doing business as they have or take
some other tack.
One of the best-informed men in
Washington on small business prob
lens, former Federal official, sug-
gested:
These WPB and OPA orders
should be codified, so that lawyers
over the country can study them
intelligently and refer back to
previous orders which are being
amended. And it wouldn't hurt any,
one to simplify the orders. to make
them intelligible to those whom
they govern"
Evening star., 1942-12-18

gifts and = drive to collect gifts
donated by members of the commu-
nifty has been started by the USO.
Gift boxes have been placed at
both Peoples Drugstores in the city
and at j. c. Penny's, the G. C..
Murphy store and the USO at 1905
Cameron street to receive the gifts
which will be distributed at the
party and also sent to men sta
toned nearby who are unable to
attend the party.
Evening star., 1942-12-18

headquarters star here and Miss
Deborah Bankart, widely known ski
instructor, will be the speakers
Their remarks will be illustrated bJ
motion pictures.
Maj. Tappin, an authority on
parachute and, ski warfare, Is not
appearing in an official but In q
personal capacity. Miss Barkart was
the third woman in the Nation to
win the status of a ski instructor.
Evening star., 1942-12-18

The colonel also has studied the or
der. Mr.. Tupper suggests a letter
to Washington. Perhaps at least
they'll interpret those can sizes, and
what priorities regulations issued In
the past are applicable.
"Well," the colonel observes, 'you
know what happened the last time
I wrote to Washington, the time
asked for an Interpretation Of that
OPA order that hit you?"
Mr.. Turoser recalls the reply from
Washington. It was even more COM
plicated that the order which pro-
voked the correspondence. The
reply left the colonel in a state OF
profane indignation and without
enlightenment.
Situation General.
Many small business men-manu-
facturers, jobbers, retailers - have
complained that they can't under
stand the orders that emerge from
WPB, OPA and other agencies.
They call in their lawyers, and the
chances are the lawyers don't know
little more. Letters to Washington
are reported usually to produce the
same result that brought choler to
Col. Wayne. The little business
men can't afford to send high
priced legal counsellors to Washing
ton. Even If they could, it's not so
easy, say those who should know
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Maj. Iappin TO Lecture
On Chute and Ski Warfare

Parachute and Ski-Our Army's
Newest Weapons" will be the sub
ject Of a lecture sponsored by the
National Geographic Society at BIS
o'clock tonight in Constitution Hail.
Maj. John Tappin of the Army
Evening star., 1942-12-18
AIexundriu USO PIuns
Gifts for Servicemen

Servicemen attending the Christ
mas party at the Alexandria USO
will receive gifts as result OF the
Christmas gift plan devised by that
organization.
The Girls Service Club Of the
USO has asked each member to be
responsible for collecting 10 small
Evening star., 1942-12-18

l4-lkCH ideal" DoLL-Beau-
tifully dressed in crisp organ
die lace-trimmed frock, slip,
panties, shoes and sox and frilly
bonnet. She cries and has
sleeping eyes and long lashes.
La gaceta., 1942-08-07

so, continuaba en- su puesto, fin
giendo, con una arteria muy
bien calculada, que ignoraba
d6nde habia estado su sonora.
Joaquina dijo que Sc marcha-
ba de viaje, y como habia paga-
do esplendidamente por adelan-
tado a la criadita, que Sc llama
iba Mercedes, 6sta continuaba en-
su puesto, encantada.
al yer a SUI sonora, la mucha-
cha, que era una gallega lista y
aviSpada como ella sola, fingi6
Embellishments una algeria
que estaba muy lejos de sentir.
Joaquina contest6 con sonri-
sas y con palabras crispadas,
mientras sc iba despoiando del
velillo y de los guantes:
i Muchas gracias, Mercedes,
mujer!... 70 tambi6n me ale
gro mucho de verla tan buenal
Escuche:
-iMandeme la senoral
La gaceta., 1942-08-07
victoriano Manteiga, Editor
OEPORTE
BOBO HA PERDIDO LA VS.
IA DE UN OJO

Filadelfia, agosto lei pre-
sidente de la Comisi6n Atletica
del estado de Pennsylvania, Leon
Rains, firm6 aver una orden pro
hiiendo al pdgil Harry Bobo, del
peso complete, ell boxear de nue.
vo en- ell territorio que la Conf
sion domino. Bobo, seg1n Rains,
perdi6 va la vista de un ojo.
Sc habia contratado al negro
para pelear con Bob Pastor en-
la primera semana del mes de
s~eptiembre.
mo me importa esa afirma-
ci6n de que la pelea produciria
nn million de pesos. No permit
re que Bobo suba al cuadrilatero
en- condolences - manifesto ell
preSldente de la COmlSlOn.
Bobo llevaba % victorias por
nocaut, en- un total de 33 bouts,
hasta que combati6 con los italia
nos Melio Bettina y Gus Dora
zio, que lie maltrataron ruda-
mente.
Bettina sc levant6 del tablado
luego de una cuenta de 8, pa
ra recuperar terreno y derrotar
lie por puntos en- ell mes de JUNO.
Venci6 despues Bobo a Dora
zio, pero no Sc lie volvi6 a conce-
der otra pelea con Bettina.
La gaceta., 1942-08-07

es Ell mismo mundo, aquel q es-
'e!.'. iPensar que esta en- la tie
ira ell inferno de la vida, las
carceles, la exploitation de unos
homores por otros, la impie-
uad''p y que aqui, aqui mismo,
en- esta misma terra, esta Ell pa
ralso de la vida, 81 hogar confor-
.aoie' la casa alegre y Tranquil
a. los muebles bellos, la CANA
uulce y limpia como un altar,
81 progreso, que nos rodea la vi
ia de refinamientos y comfort,
81 reSpeto y la consideration de
los hombres, la mesa opulenta,
los viaJes los libros, la mdsica.
4oS teatros, TODD 10 que nos hace
amaoie la existencia y nos lie
ma oe risas ell alma Y los labios!
III TODD es ell dinero, ell dinero,
ell maldito dineroll... iPor 81,
SOLO por Ell somos felices o des-
graelados, nos vemos persegui-
dos como lObOs por los Otros
La gaceta., 1942-08-07

La muchacha, luego de soltar
los frigos, habiase dirigido a la
cocina, encendiendo ell gran hor-
no de gas.
Y ahOra trasteaba por la alec
ba de la sonora, diSponiendo la
ropa de su anna.
Joaquina Quiso mostrarse a.
mable y dGctil, para que esta
chica no pudiera sospechar 10
que tramaba.
Y mientras Sc desnud6, dis
poni6ndose para ell baho v Sc
echaba luego una bata por los
hombros, habl6 con la gallega de
las novedades ocurridas duran
te su ausencia.
-iNo vino nadie Mercedes?
Made, sehora. Solo aque-
los Sehores del juzgado, para ell
asunto que listed me dijo, V Sc
unos papeles.
va 10 sc. ~ de amigos. de
La gaceta., 1942-08-07

-Prepareme Ell bano. Saque-
me ropa interior, medals, unos
zapatos negros, los de ante, ell
traje morado, un sombrero que
este bien.
II La sonora va a salir?-Se
asombr6 Mercedes.
-Luego, si-repuso en- tono
un tanto cortante la duena de la
casa, como dando a entender a
la muchacha que no estaba dis
puesta a dar eNplicaciones.
La galleguita comprendi6 full
minantemente, y sc march6 ha-
cia ell fondo de la casa, a prepa-
rar ell baho.
Joaquina, taconeando fuerte,
Sc dirigi6 a su vez a la pieza CO.
Quetona que la servia de despa-
chito, Y donde ella habia man
dado colocar un lindisimo ba-
redu de sonora.
ALI, comenz6 por colocar So
bre el lujoco mueblecillo los le-
La gaceta., 1942-08-07
Ell PROGRAMA DE


Nrecera hoy su acceptable pre-
grama en- ell parque Cuscaden
empezando a las $40 de la no
che, el empresario Jim Downing
La empresa ha pasado invita-.
clones a John Garfield, Harry
Carey Y otros artistas que traba
jan en- la pelicula "Fuerza Ae
rea."
Una invitaci6n especial Sc ha
extendido tambien a Freddie
Steele, el ~excampe6n del peso
mediano, y Downing pedira a la
de Boxeo que lie permi
ia actuar de arbitro en- uno de
los combates anunciados.
Intervendran ELI ia pelea prin
cipal Buster Carroll, ell gladia-
dor veterano, Y Ras Carroll, e.
favorito de los soldados.
Rey Bryan, de Plant City, Sc
1atira con ell soldado Joe Smith
ars, del campamento MacDill.
Buster Carroll lleva sosteni-
las mas de IN centenar de pc