Evening star., 1942-11-09
Army Planes Bagged
141, Lost Only 10,
Patterson Tells Clio
Cites October Score
As Proof u. S. Labor
Is Doing Good Job
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Nov. 9.-Robert P.
Patterson, Undersecretary of
War, announced today an Octo-
ber box score of al planes to 10
for United States Army airmen
in battling Axis forces.
Throughout October" he told the
opening session of the CIO conven-
ton, "on all fronts, the Army Air
Forces. destroyed al enemy planes
at cost of only 10 of our own.
That is good shooting. That is good
building by American labor"
Mr.. Patterson promised second
front in Europe in 1943, and dis
closed that the British have based
Royal Air Force units in Russia to
protect conveys to Murmansk.
Sees 1943 as Fighting Year.
"The flow of munitions to the
Russians, to the British and the
Chinese" he said, must continue to
increase despite hell and high
water"
Looking forward to the second
year of the war, the Undersecretary
declared:
This much can be said with as
surance, the year l943 will be a
fighting year-a fighting year for
American troops. We will be fight
ing in Europe and Asia and Africa
and on the seven seas. We will seek
out the enemy wherever we can find
him-not on one front or on two
fronts-but on any front where
Nazis and Japanese can be engaged
in combat"
Lauds United States Workers.
Among the primary objectives
of l943," he said, are these: Con-
quer the submarine menace, retake
Burma, and reopen the Burma
road"
Speaking of the Italians, he said,
"weary though they be of the con-
fiict, impoverished and looted as
they are by their Nazi masters, the
followers of Mussolini are due for a
good licking from us, and they'll
get it,"
Uttering only praise for labor, Mr.
Patterson reported: In Libya 80 OF
our light tanks-the kind CIO men
build-went through whole month
on the battlefront with only II
minor mechanical failures. Before
that, five to ten days continuous
operation of a tank without an
overhaul was considered unusual"
A statement adopted by the C1O
Executive Board in pre- convention
meeting amounted to an acceptance
of the wage policy Of the War La
Dor Board as enunciated in its OFF,
cial directive last week, but objected
to oral interpretations of it given
TO the press by Chairman William
H. Davis and Vice Chairman George
W. Taylor.
Organized labor members who
have one-third of the IL seats on the
tripartite Industry labor public
board subscribed to the official di-
rective. Announcing it, Chairman
Davis said it would be pretty
tough"
Dangerous Trend Seen.
Without quoting the remarks to
which it objected the CIO board
said the statements of Mr.. Davis
and Mr.. Taylor evidence dan
gerous trend toward serious warp
ing of the wage principles which
are actually embodied in the Presi-
dents executive orders and in the
boards own declarations.
The President has uniformly
recognized that freezing of the
wage levels in the Nation would
seriously impair national morale,
would mean the preservation in
many instances of wage standards
which imperil the health and ef-
ficiency of war workers, would mean
widespread wage cuts to dangerously
low levels because Of Spiraling liV-
ing costs and would preserve unjust
wage inequities and inequalities with
resultant danger to labor morale.
The statement said the executive
orders of the President and the
boards own official statements con-
formed to the basic principle OF
flexible policy which would correct
Embellishments and inequities.
Under these circumstances" said
the CIO statement, "the announce
ment that any principles of rigldlty
of wage freezing would be applied
in the construction of the boards
policy is utterly unwarranted. 1t is
unWarranted not merely by the
terms of the boards own statment
of policy, but by the spirit and let
ter of the boards objectives and
duties.
Assails Careless Statements.
"Organized labor throughout the
Nation has carried out and will
continue to carry out successfully
its objective to MAINTAIN and i'm
prove uninterrupted production for
the war" the statement added, The
success of the boards operations
as the machinery for adjustment
of labor relations during the period
of the national emergency has been
largely attributable to the strength
and discipline and will of the Or
ganized workers of America par
ticipating in the boards function
and cooperating with its policies.
Careless statements by individual
members implying departure from
the wage policies which the board
has announced as body can only
serve to promote unrest, make more
difficult the task of responsible lead
ership, and threaten the effective at
tainment of the objectives for which
the board has been established
Asks Production Integration.
The annual report of C1O Presi-
dent Philip Murray called for the
integration of war production and
all manpower mobilization, includ-
ing selective service, under single
unified command.
Mr.. Murray said debate over COM
pulsory or voluntary methods was
incidental to the drafting OF an ef-
fective national plan; declared his
confidence in judgment of the Com