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, 1942-02-04

Recently, 62 Ohio corporations
have been given permission by
George Strain, Director of Indus
trial Relations, to violate the
law. The extra-legal action on the
part of the Director of Industrial
Relations brought such a storm
of protests from both the CLIO
and the AFL, that a conference
was called by Mr.. Strain, last
Thursday, January 18th, in Col
umbus. This conference was at
tended by delegates from CLIO
locals, Industrial Councils and
international Representatives.
Large delegations from AFL
Unions all over Ohio, representa-
tives from the YWCA, League of
Women Voters, League of Women
Shoppers, and the Association of
American University Women at
tended.
Delegate after delegate told Di-
rector Strain that their organiza-
tons were unalterably opposed to
frightening the hours of en-
ployed women, while thousands
of unemployed women YER
frantically seeking jobs. UE
women delegates from Dayton
pointed out to Director Strain
that frightening hours increases
the accident hazard and also in
creases fatigue, which DE-
CREASES production! The dele
gates stressed the fact that while
there is competent help available,
it is not necessary to exhaust
those who are on production. Bebe
Dinner, a UE delegate from the
Master Electric, reminded Di-
rector Strain that the morale
problem concerning suspension of
the Act, is a very substantial one,
because while some women are
being worked to the point of
dangerous fatigue, other women
are anxiously looking for jobs,
and in their need will seriously
question a policy that prevents
them from having employment
and a share in the War production
work.
We know there are plenty of
unemployed people available. At
the present time in Ohio, there
are over $4,000 continuous I'm
employment Compensation Claims.
On top of this, new applications
are being filed by unemployed
persons at the rate of 5000 a
day. Lengthening the hours of
those already employed, is NOT
the way to solve unemployment.
We know that women, many of
them UE members, have been
thrown out of work here in
Dayton, due to the curtailment
of consumer goods. Why can't
these women be given jobs? Why
should the health of the women
already employed be endangered
by longer hours?
"The Woman Worker" of Jan
uary, 1912, the publication issued
by the Women's Bureau of the
U. S. Department of Labor states:
1T is highly conservative to say
that available women would
much more than take care of the
labor supply requirements, with
out frightening hours, and would
do SO EVEN IF PRODUCTION
Of SOME INDIVIDUALS BE
MEWHA BELOW THE
Before considering
hours for the workers,
should be put fully to
work, with three eight hour
, 1942-02-04
Dayton UE
Women Protest
Longer Hours

Marinell Ambrose, Emma
Pickett, Louise Shaffer, Margaret
Thomas, Bebe Ober, Louise Trim
BILE, Pearl James and Ann
Beasecker, representing eight UE
organized shops in Dayton, ap-
peared before George Strain, Di-
rector of Industrial Relations in
Columbus, January 29th, to pro-
test the suspension of the Ohio
Female Hours Act.
Margaret Thomas of Delco Local
755, and Bebe Ober of Master
Electric, Local 754 spoke against
the lengthening of hours for
women, and Marinell Ambrose,
Local 8O6 presented the follow
ing resolution from her Local.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio
has approximately $4,000 unem-
ployed, many of which are unable
to receive unemployment COM
pensation, and
WHEREAS, the increased &C
curacy and quantity of production
which could be gained by train
ing workers for skilled jobs is
well worth the expense involved,
and
WHEREAS, we cannot achieve
success in the National Defense
effort without quality production
as well as quantity, and
WHEREAS, the Nazi and Fas-
cist ways of life which we are
fighting through the National De-
tense effort practice oppression
of labor and suppression of DEM
ocratic rights, we strongly oppose
any legislation which would
jeopardize labor's democratic
in the United States,
THEREFORE, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED, that Local 806, repre-
senting $500 workers in the Day.
ton area, 60 on record as oppos-
ing any legislation for the in
crease of laboring hours as long
as there remain unemployed
who can be hired and
trained.
, 1942-02-04

Join Local 75S
, 1942-02-04

HOWARD L. BEv1s, President, o. S. U.
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RUSSIA:
KhdrkOu Claims

While local encounters were being
reported on the Kharkov front In
the Ukraine, the operation was con-
sidered as having resulted in two
vital factors:
The Kharkov battle drained Ger
man reserves and diverted mini
mum of SO German divisions which
had been massed for an about OF
fensive against Rostov.
A Russian communique stated
that while attempting to improve
their positions, the Germans threw In
large reserves for three days in
continued counterattacks. All coun-
terattacks were repulsed with great
losses to the enemy"
Claiming a brilliant success in the
19-day Kharkov campaign, the Rus
slams admitted the loss of $4,000
troops, 900 killed and 10000 miss
ing. However, a Red army COM
munique claimed the capture or kill
ing of 10000 Germans.
The same communique pointed out
that Soviet offensive operations in
the Kharkov region were started
only in order to forestan the an
ticipated blow of the Nazis. The
Russian plans did not include the
capture of Kharkov. The communi
que concluded: "Now that these bat
ties are nearing their end, it car
be said that the main task put for.
ward by the Soviet commando
forestall the German blow-has beer
completed.
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Wheat: Department of agricul-
ture experts estimated probable win
ter wheat production in the nine
important producing states at
436, 3O5, 900 bushels. Also announced
was deferred payment plan for the
new three-year crop insurance con-
tract offered wheat growers the
first time this year will permit pay
ment of the premium in annual in
stallment (about harvest time).
Whiskers: The War Production
board announced Victory safety
razor with plastic handle, a zinc
cap and zinc or plastic guard. This
model viii go into production in a
few months and will be offered to
the public when the present supply
of razors is used up. Existing razors
will 60 to the armed forces.
Housing: Congress was asked by
the President to appropriate an adj
ditional $500, 600, 600 for housing an
estimated 1900. 900 war workers ex-
pected to move into war produc-
ton centers in the fiscal year begin
ling July /.
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BIG BUSINESS MIRACLES

No one ever would have suspected
it, but Harold Ickes, the New Deals
most violent batter of big business,
has been performing some quiet
miracles in obtaining big bust
ness cooperation.
Not only is he now on good terms
with the moguls of the oil industry,
including such bitter political OPP.
ponents as Joe and Howard Pew,
leaders of Pennsylvania Republican
ism, but he has also been getting CO.
operation from the railroads and
trucking companies.
This is one of the few good things
that has come out of the war
Ever since trucks began hauling
freight, the feud between them and
the railroads has been the toughest
problem faced by the Interstate
Commerce commission.
But now Petroleum Co-ordinator
Ickes has persuaded the ancient RI
walls to make friendly division of
the tremendous oil transportation
business whereby the railroads with
drew from short hauls, and turn
business over to trucks, thus releas-
ing tank cars for the longer and
more economic hauls.
For instance, a railroad tank car,
with capacity of 5000 gallons, OPP
Grating between Whiting, Ind, and
the west side of Chicago, requires
six days to make the turn around. !"
But tank truck, capacity $500 gall
Ions, can do the same turn around"
in five hours.
Thus, one tank truck, working "a
hours, ,(and all such equipment is
on a 24-hour basis) would relieve
the equivalent of Is or 20 tank cars.
These cars, in turn, are being placed
on the longer hauls from the Gulf to
the East coast.
Result of such economies and
overtime operations is that railroads
which normally move practically no
oil to the East coast, are now NOV
ing CSC, 900 barrels day. Tankers
(ships) normally supply 95 per cent
of the East coast requirement, but
with the withdrawal of tankers, tank
cars are being rushed into the
breach.
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4 GOOD GUEST

Do you ,Uant to be popular?
Do you tUant to be included in
everything your crotod does?
Then be a good guest. There are
those-like the Bob and Belinda
of this story-,oho giue more
than they get. And there are
Others tUho let the host and host
ess shoulder all the responsible
ity for their entertainment. They
are neuer asked anywhere, and
they ,oonder why.
To be a good friend, Kathleen
Norris says, is a fine art. And to
be a good guest takes an equal
amount of skill and patience, but
you will find it ,UeH north the
effort.
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PRODUCTIONS:
Meeting Goals

Undersecretary Of War Patterson
stated that President Roosevelt's
goal of $4,000 planes by the end OF
the year would be surpassed by a
substantial margin"
At the same time he reported that
tank and ammunition production
was keeping pace with schedules.
He said that two years ago ord
nance deliveries were at the rate of
a million dollars a month, but that
month before last deliveries were
"458 times that amount -"
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wrungout rag when they leave. They
do nothing for party but wreck it.
Muriel always is the best-dressed
woman present; she somehow
makes the other women feel con-
scious of old clothes. She is a rerv-
Gus, critical, proud woman who keeps
everyone else in constant state Of
fear that Muriel isn't having a good
time. Any interruption of q story
that Muriel is telling fills her with a
sense of deep pity for poor Jean.
jeans dreadful servant, jeans trou-
blesome baby, jeans responsibility
for the salad dressing, the door bell
and the telephone cause Muriel to
say admiringly, "My dear, I don't,
see how you put up with all this. It's
simply dreadful"
Annoys Her Hearers.
If any man or woman she doesn't
happen to know well, and approve,
is sitting neglected for a moment in
Jeans parlor, Muriel never makes
the slightest effort at entertainment.
She lowers her long eyelashes and
looks at the floor. At the table she
contributes nothing to the converse
ton, and when small mishapS occur
she looks deeply peined-sorry
again for poor Jean! When anyone
mentions a play or a book Muriel
brushes it at once; she says it is
rather like a much better play or
book that only she has seen. If she
can possibly correct anyone's pro-
nunciation she does it by immedi-
ately using the mispronounced
word; if she can annoy her hearers
by employing French or Italian
phrases she never spares them.
Her husband has one topic, sport.
The shooting of deer, doves, rabbits,
the catching of trout and steelhead
and marlin are Guys sole interest;
it never occurs to him that other
men have better things to do. After
several cocktails Guy becomes noisy
and tactless and he and Muriel quar-
rel. This is the simple truth of it,
though it sometimes takes their
friends months or even years to dis
cover that neither Guy nor Muriel
really adds anything to the general
pleasure of any group.
If young couples just starting out
in Life could study their list OF
friends carefully, and weed out those
who are only trouble-makerS, only
destined to become more and more
of a burden, much later discomfort
would be spared all round.
Unfortunately, when man and
woman first are married, each one
brings to the partnership legacy
of dear old friends. No one ele'
ment in marriage is more danger
Gus than these same jolly persons
who refuse to recognize the fact thai
anything is changed, and want tt
60 right on with the irresponsible
old round of restaurants, night
clubs, dances, ball games and col
lege gossip. One of the newlywed.
likes this sort Of thing, but to the
other it is apt to be gall and worm
wood.
This accounts for the sorrowfu
fact that the friends of any sue
cessfully married couple, after tel
years of wedlock, are often discov
cred to be persons whom neithe.
one of them knew in single life.
To be a good friend is fine art
To be a successful guest mean
to take as much trouble to be agree
able and amusing and considerat
and useful when you are being en-
tertained as when you yourself ar
in the position of hostess. A fey
careful lessons in this art will b
of immense value to you rchildreu
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James Nj. Lands, left, director OF
the Office of Civilian Defense, talks
with Stanley w. Donogh, assistant
regional director OCD director in
Seattle. Speaking at Portland, Ore,
Lands said: "This is a priority
region, tops in our strategic think
ing. I've directed (civilian defense)
equipment here to the anger Of other
regions"
tack which Secretary Of War Slim
son considers likely.
Gas mask pouches made their APP
pearance in coast cities from Seattle
to San Diego. Mass distribution OF
masks to civilian defense workers
was begun at the same time.
The defense activity followed Slim
sons warning that a reprisal raid
by Japan for the Tokyo bombing
is a distinct possibility.
New shipping precautions were
taken along the Gulf of Mexico when
night shore lighting from New Or
leans to Brownsville was ordered
blotted out by the army.
SMALL BUSINESS:
T,Uo MoUes
The house of representatives has
passed and returned to the senate
legislation setting up Small Bust.
ness corporation to make loans
which would enable small firms te
obtain war contracts.
Meanwhile the commerce depart
ment was issuing suggested pro
cedures for establishing Business
Wartime clinics to aid local business
men in working out current prob
lens of dislocation and changes II
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ROOSEvELT'S MAIL

Despite the crushing burdens Of
the war, the President still manages
to squeeze in time every day to
read mail from the general public.
There is a hefty stack of it on his
desk each morning, culled from the
thousands of letters that pour in to
the White House.
A mother proudly telling about her
sons in the fighting forces a lit
tie boy or girl reporting on the prog
ress of a war savings stamp drive
in their school small BUSH
ness man discussing his problems.
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MEXICO:
Po,Uer for Canlacho

With Mexico'S proclamation OF
hostilities, IL of the 81 American
republics became aligned in the
war against the Axis. In addition
to the United States, war has been
declared by Costa RIGA, Cuba, Qua
temala, Panama, Haiti, the Domin-
lean Republic, Nicaragua, Ell Sal
vador and Honduras. Eight other
Western hemisphere nations have
broken off diplomatic relations.
In paving the way for war on the
Axis, the Mexican senate approved
a bill to suspend IA constitutional
guarantees, including freedom of the
press and the right of habeas cor
pus. The vote was So to 0.
Gen. Salvador Sanchez, chief OF
Mexican general staff, announced
that a supreme national defense
council with Camacho at its head
was being established to mobilize re-
sources and manpower. The high
command has ordered strong army
units into positions on the gulf and
Pacific coast.
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS

n lost persons go to a
MI party to have a good
l v L time. The host and host
ess are supposed to see that
they have it.
To tea, dinner, cocktails,
dances the guests crowd eager
ly. Somebody else is taking the
responsibility; all they need do
is have fun.
The host and hostess divide
their guests into two classes.
The large class that takes; the
very small class that gives. To
which do you belong?
Among my friends are a couple
who are not in any way distin-
guished by position, achievements,
looks or wealth. They are in the
late thirties now, Bob and Belinda;
for Is years they have been eagerly
sought as guests, and for the
remainder of their lives they need
never worry about invitations to
anything that is going on in their
large and hospitable group. They
are asked everywhere.
People are always begging, them
to come down to Florida; to save
two weeks in July for Lake George;
to promise the weekend; to remem-
Der Thursday the fifth; to think
about the California plan.
And the reason is, in the slang OF
the day, that they GIVE.
Share Hostess Troubles.
When Bob and Belinda come to a
party they quite inconspicuously
keep an eye on their hostess, and
they share her troubles. They pick
out the least amusing of the guests
and work on them. Belinda's gale
of joyous laughter is echoed by the
hosts hopelessly dull, heavy, silent
partner; Bob's nonsense makes an
impression even upon the hosts
grim mother.
A gap in the table conversation
is broken by Belinda's voice: "Have
we ever done this gamer" A flaw
in the service is filed by Bob with
tray of canapes, going about in
as buSinesslike a manner as though
he were one of the caterers men. 1t
the telephone rings Belinda may
quite casually answer it; if coats
slide off the chair in the foyer
Bob restores them to place.
Bob and Belinda never drop In on
young married friends at about five
in the afternoon and remain until
ten minutes of eight, when the bride
groom is savage with hunger and
the bride frantic because it is now
no longer practicable to have the
artich0kes and roast pork for dinner
If they do come in for late after.
noon cup of tea and chat they al
, ways relieve the anxious minds Of
the newlyweds by definite state
ment: Were going at six; we have
an iron-bound date"
Keep Their Word.
No, they don't begin at this poin
that detestable vacillation tha
breaks the hearts of the household
ers. ''We could stay, suppose
: Bob? We could telephone Alice
Bob and Belinda say when they
are going, and they 60. And offer
they drag with them some othel
friend or friends who are upsettin,
all Jeans dinner plans and drink
$ ing up Joe's gin. Come along. Hell
e en-" they say hardly, "Jean ant
Joe didn't ask us to stay the week
S end and she has to get dinner start
0 ed"
On the other hand there are tn
: Bakers, who are asked nowhere
= The Bakers have the advantages o
$ money and position, and they ar
$ really concerned not to find them
: selves popular. But the truth
n that Muriel and Guy are Difficult
guests, and the hostess feels Ike
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Dlaqa,
|heRRfGO-QQullD
| III t@E S6sEHaNEEsI:N
Washington, ID. G.
HENDERSON'S WARNING


Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son told the house ways and means
committee a lot more during his
secret testimony than he afterwards
disclosed to newsmen. Here are
some items which weren't made
public:
Henderson predicted that If the
current levels of earnings are main
tanned, the total national income this
year will approximate lit billion
dollars, or 25 billions more than In
1941.
On the other hand, due to the
enormous war production demands,
the supply of consumer goods will
be &c per cent less than last year.
This wide disparity between pur-
chasing power and available con-
sumner goods, Henderson warned, IS
the great inhationary explosive"
factor. With a lot more money In
peoples pockets than supplies on
which to spend it, a competitive
situation develops that may set off
a catastrophe price runaway I'M
less drastically controlled.
17-BiIliiOn Excess.
Illustrating this problem, Hender-
son pointed out that about 81 billions
of the estimated 117-billion national
income will be absorbed by taxes
and savings, leaving Sc billions in
spendable money. However, there
will be only SO billions of consumer
commodities.
This 17-billion excess, he declared,
is what must be kept in check
in order to prevent it from setting in
motion an inflationary spiral that
would smash the nations economic
system.
Tough as this problem is, Hender-
son predicted that the situation will
be even worse in 1943. He estimated
that by next year purchasing power
will be three times greater than In
1882 while the supply Of consumer
goods will be only the same as In
that year, the pit of the depression
The price administrator told the
committee that the only way disas'
trous imitation can be averted is by
the most stringent government con
trolls.
He said he fully realized that
such measures as rationing and
price ceilings might cause boot
logging and "blackmarkets."
But he expressed the belief that
patriotic public opinion would
powerfully initiate against such
Iawbreaking.
'In England" Henderson pointed
out, "bootlegging of food and othel
scarce commodities is causing 81
much public resentment that man.
are demanding that those who bu!
or sell on the black market b
taken out and shot"
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GULF:
Frontier Command

AS the submarine menace contln-
ued to mount in the Gulf of Next
co, the u. S. navy created gulf
sea frontier command and the army
at the same time placed the coastal
region along the gulf in military
area. This would mean that the dis
trict along the gulf coast from Flor
ida to the Rio Grande would be SUBJ
iect to dimouts and blackouts.
Rear Admiral James Laurence
Kaufman was chosen by the navy
to command gulf sea frontier and
Lieut.. Gen. Walter Kruger, head
of the southern defense command
for the army, was in charge OF the
land fighting forces in the district.
No evacuation of citizens was or
dered and the army emphasized that
civilians within the military area
would not be restricted except as to
lighting.
Headquarters for the navy forces
fighting the submarines in the area
will be at Miami.
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GASOLINE:
R1ttOning

After WPB Automotive Division
Chief Kanzler had stated that gaso-
line rationing on nationwide scale
would help in relieving potential rub
Der and automotive replacement
parts shortages, Board Chairman
Nelson said that administrative diff
ficulties will make it impossible to
start a rationing system before
July /.
The Office of Price Administration
meanwhile was reporting that the
June ration quota of new passenger
automobiles will be 10000, plus
carryover of unused quotas from
March, April and May.
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WIG WAGS

The war department has asked
congress for a $40 month pay
raise for West Point cadets. Pres
ent rate is sos, the department says
il ought to be SIS because the pres
ent class will be $250,000 in debt
when it graduates.
The marine corps is urgently in
need of Japanese translators and in
terpreters. If you have working
knowledge of Japanese, get in touch
with the corps at once, either by
writing to Washington or visiting the
nearest recruiting station.
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POISON GAS:
Hats Chinese

"Poison gas" was the cry from
China as the Japs were reported to
have resorted to this method OF
fighting to stem sustained drive
by the Chinese to capture fallen
Kinhwa and Lanchi in the Chekiang
province.
This was not the first time that the
Chinese had accused the Japs OF
using poison gas. Last fall at
Ichang, a Yangtze river port, it was
officially charged that gas had been
used. Also in recent fighting in Bur
ma, the Japs had used gas when
hard pressed, the Chinese had re-
ported.
This time, an army communique
from Chungking said, the Japs had
used this method of fighting only
after stubborn resistance by the
Chinese had threatened to turn the
| Chekiang offensive into Jap de-
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CIVILIAN DEFENSE:
Vest Coast

The equipping Of West coast police
and firemen with gas masks gave
evidence that the Pacific seaboard
is bracing itself for an enemy at