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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
Straight From
Washington
Ry STEPHEN NJ. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

Washington. - Chief of Staff Mar
shall and Lieutenant General Somer-
veil recently stated to Il Congressional
rrGup that during the last forty days
American war production exceeded the
entire war production of all countries
involved in World War l, including
Germany and her allies for the entire
wears of 1917 and 1918. You may take
pride in this remarkable achievement
in the production of guns, shells, planes,
and tanks and other war material. We
are peace loving people but in the
entire history of the world, no people
have ever done so much in so short a
time. That war production in America
is going great guns is due to the
American way of free enterprise.
Youth @
Great wars have always been won
by youth The Union Army under Gen
eral L. S. Grant in April 1865 averaged
nineteen and half years of age. The
Confederate Army at AppomattoX
averaged about year younger. These
figures Indicate that many thousands
of American soldiers in the War be-
tween the States were less than nine
teen years of age. Would we say that
the men who fought with Grant and
Lee were not good soldiers? The facts
are that it was the qualities of endur-
ance exhibited by youthful soldiers
which enabled young men to have the
resiliency and stamina to stand up
under heavy punishment through long
and arduous campaigns Older men had
dropped out of the ranks before the
war came to an end. Nor could it be
said that the experience of these
Youngsters in cur Civil War days bru-
taliZed them or made them unfit to be
good citizens after the war. Veterans
of both armies proved later to be
the very best citizens. We may safely
look ahead to the toll and strain we
must endure in this war waged against
us, and looking ahead, it is safe to
assert that being necessary to cause
young men of eighteen and nineteen to
be trained for service in our armed
forces, these youngsters will make the
very best kind of soldiers. Their ag-
greSsive spirit will endure and grow
stronger as they endure The American
Army as Il whole will be more efficient
for their presence. We will win the war
the more quickly and then in civil life
during the next few decades these
young veterans will become leaders
in business and government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
Brituin Widens Aid
To Injured Workers
Everyone Included In War
Measure Of Training
In Other Jobs

London. - Great strides have berll
made in the social rehabilitation OF
severly injured industrial and wal
workers whereby. instead of existing
ON a pittance granted by the govern
ment in compensation or being force'
to seek charity, they are trained foi
other jobs at full rates of pay, accord
ing to George TOmlinSon, Parliament
airy Secretary of the Ministry of Labor
Announcing this i'm the House OF
Commons, Mr.. TomlinSon cited the
example of workers blinded in theli
former jobs who have been taught new
ways of earning Il living and now are
doing inspection work in engineering
plants where delicacy of touch is re-
quired.
He admitted, however, that much re-
mains to be done in the rehabilitation
of industrial workers. |. j. Taylor
LabOrite, estimated that about l,W"
industrial workers were injured daily
in this country and said u pei, cent OF
them needed rehabilitation.
\ former government plan, designed
to provide compensation for certain
classes of war workers. has been eX-
tended to cover all types of industry
Mr.. TomlinSOn said. OF 41,OOW cases
interviewed. 10000 have received new
employment and 1900 have received
Spcia training for other jobs In many
i,,i
turn to their former dutrlieS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
War Has
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tion for victory-must outweigh sec
tional interests"
'"The regulation of collective indus
trial relations in wartime" the study
says, brings out the deep-Seated unity
of the war economy, the close inter
dependence between the social problem
of remuneration and the economic
problem of production. Hence the
centre of gravity of trade union action
must be shifted more or less from the
social field of Industrial relations to
the field of production.
"By admitting that their conditions
of employment must be SubOrdinatetl
to the requirements of the war econ
omy, the occupational organizations ac-
quire the right to take an active part
in framing and carrying out the pro
gram of production. In actual fact all
the democratic countries engaged in the
war have made Il point of aSSOciating,
more than ever before, the organized
forces of labor and production with the
State"
The study points out that "where Il
war economy is in process of total
mobilization, the forces of supply and
demand cannot be left to operate with
out control; certain fundamental eco
nOmic freedoms must be sacrificed, or
at least their exercise must be SuS-
pended; and the methods of regulating
conditions of employment must be
adapted to the special needs of war.
These methods, Mr.. BesSling shows,
differ i'm the various democratic coun-
tries, but he notes that in all of them
iZatiOn Of Industrial relations which has
involved the extension of collective
agreements to whole industries and Oc-
cupatiOns. the surrender of the right to
strike and lock out, and the voluntary
acceptance of arbitration. In some
countries, the study shows, the Coy
ernment, in consultation with the occu-
patiOnal organizations, have establish
ed principles of wage policy that will
protect the interests of the parties and
also those of the community as Il
whole"
The study describes in detail the
methods used throughout Il number of
the ma jOr democracieS to solve the
problems of industrial relations i'm n
war, economy. These problems arise
Mr. ReSSlinp shows "hecnllSn the In.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
Textile Workers Union
Charters l8 New Locals

Washington, d. C-AnthOny Valente
secretary-treasurer of the United Tex
tile Workers Of America, AFL affiliate
reported to the executive council OF
the union in session here that the or
ganiZatiOn has chartered eighteen new
locals in the last quarter, representing
an approximate new. membership OF
10000 members. Ten of these new 10
cals.are situated in New England, two
in the Middle Atlantic States, and six
in the South.
Mr.. Valentes report showed that the
membership of the UTWA has more
than doubled in the last year, and that
out of the 119 international unions af
tiliated with the American Federation
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29


Stitutions of the free market, and. in
particular, the methods by which prices
are determined, can no longer play
their normal part as regulators OF
economic life" 1t therefore becomes
necessary, he explains, for Govern
ments to set up, lin place of unre-
stricted competition in wage fixing, "A
rational industrial relations policy
which must, of course, be an integral
part of Il general coordinated program
of economic control covering all the
factors of production"
Mr.. BeSSling finds that wage policy
ION more or less the same lines and
has been inspired by the same funda~
mental principles" He points out that
i'm Australia, Canada and the United
States the stabilzation of wage rates
has been regulated by law, whereas in
Great Britain it has been achieved by
strict measures of indirect control and
by voluntary agreement between work
ers' and employers organizations. He
notes that I'm no country, however, has
wage stabiliZatiOn meant the absolute
freezing of wages
These wage control measures the
study shows, have resulted in ma jor
reforms which have long been sought
by the trade union movement. Wage
control authorities in the ma jor democ-
racieS now are authorized to fix mini
mum living wages, the study notes
while in the United States and Canada
the principle OF equal pay for equal
work has been recognized. Mr.. BeSS-
ling points out, moreover, that Govern
mentS must now assume the reSpOnSi-
bility of adjusting wage diflerentals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
Fears Collapse
| OfWonen Toilers
Better Nutrition. Fewer Hour
Changes Urged On Hedlth
Education Institute

st. LOuis.-AIaSs postwar physical
breakdowns among women war work
ers under current nutritiOnal and work
ing conditions were forecast to the
Institute of Public Health Education.
Reporting on a survey of war plants
in Bridgeport, Conn.,, DR.. Joseph H.
Howard chairman of the health divi-
sion of that city's Civilian Defense
Council, gave the warning as the insti-
tute met preliminary to the annual
convention of the American Public
Health Association.
War plant employers must imm.,-
diately make their shift changes about
three months apart, instead of every
two weeks" DR.. Howard asserted.
1T is extremely hard for girls TO
get used to changing shifts every two
weeks. They haven't had time to get
properly adjusted before they are
changed again. Their eating, sleeping
and working hours are not settled long
enough to permit their bodies to enjoy
good health"
To add to the danger, he continued,
women war workers, now buoyed by
the excitement of increased wages and
war hysteria, generally did not seem
to know how to select their own food.
They bring for their lunch n dry
sandwich and buy soft drink, diet
poor in nutrition" he explained "All
plants should give their employees,
free, mixed salad ut lunch. 1t is
cheap in cost and an excellent invest
ment in energy, increased output, less
absence from illness and fewer acci-
dents"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

the five-member committee to make the
inquiry after Il resolution was intro
duced by Senator ROila Coleman Sept.
II. charging that some labor unions
were preventing "employment Of com
petent labor in many industries, includ-
ing vital war projects"
Inquiry "WelcOmed'
"Organizcd labor, as expressed by
the American Federation of Labor, the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
and the Railroad BrotherhOodS wei
come the opportunity of making avail
able to the committee and the research
bureau such factual information that
may assist the committee and bureau
in bringing about Il complete investi-
CATION of any alleged Irregularities in
vOlving organized labor" the statement
said
"OrganiZed labor is not unmindful
of the purposes creating the committee
to which these remarks are addressed.
1t believes, and properly SO, that ul-
terror motives, political and personal
prompt this inquiry. :"
Excessive Fees Reported
"Shorn of all the fanfare, organized
labor is deeply mindful of its reSpOn-
sibiity throughout the state of Kansas,
as we'll as the communities thereof,
and realizes that perhaps in isolated
cases, certain abuses have been in
evidence, but since ii has not been ap-
prised of specific charges or factual
information, it must proceed from the
premise of doubt
Coleman'S resolution declared there
We're reports of excessive fees
charged by certain unions.
Dues Held Justified
The labor statement asserted Dues,
as well as membership charges, are
predicatcd on the general overall cost,
of most if not in all respects. The
counties and states are saved the tre-
mendous costs of maintaining men and
women, who otherwise would be deSti-
tute, but for these fine institutions or
ganized labor has erected and is main-
tanning from these fees"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
NAMED WLB GENERAL COUNSEL

Washington, ID. G. GLNS).-Lloyd
X. Garrison, dean of the University of
Wisconsin law school, has been named
general counsel of the War Labor
Board.
AS associate public member of WLB
Dean Garrison was chairman of the
first National Labor Relations Board
set up by President Roosevelt i'm 1894
before Congress created the present
board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29
Ulterior Motives Prompt
Kansas Investigation OF
Labor Union Activities
Welcomes Opportunity To Assist Committee In Bringing
About Complete Investigation Of Irregularities
Involving Organized Labor

Topeka QNS)-Strkng back at investigation of
activities by Kansas legislative council committee
all organized labor of the state charged that tenor moves
political and personal" prompted the inquiry
In statement signed by representatives of the AF, CIO
railroad boherhoods labor welcomed the opportunity of
making available facua information will assist the
Gil The statement public the committee began closed
hearings.
The council an interim working group legislators directed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

of Labor the UTWA is now in the 3Sth
place with only 81 international unions
reporting larger membership.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

Some people cast their bread upon
the waters and expect it to come back
with IA hot dog and ssustard.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

When people have made what they
call their last effort they should al
ways make just one effort more.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-29

Ask for Union Labeled merchandise
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11
LOSSES ARE HEAVIER
ON THE OFFENSIVE
Don't exnect too little.

Don't expect too IJJIe.
This is good advice to the folkS at
at home now that our army and navy IN
the Pacific have taken the offensive Tor
the first time since the war started.
The advice. however, does not pertain
TO results. 1t pertains to losses. DO not
he shocked if the Solomon Island attacks
fail to repeat the story of the Coral Sea
and Midway. They were defensive bat
Ties. This one is offensive. Those times,
the enemy came within range OF our de-
fenses This time. we've gone within
range of the enemy'S defenseS.
Condition yourself to expect heavy
losses when our side takes the offensive,
because offensive fighting is more costly
than defensive fighting. We cant have
our victories and our isolation, too. 10
win this war, we've got to go out looking
for trouble - and we at home cannot
scream imprecationS at somebody II we
find trouble more costly than we had
anticipated.
Naval and military men of the I'm
tied Nations undoubtedly weighed their
chances closely before they ordered the
Solomon Island attack. They undoubt-
edlv expected heavy losses and were
prepared to accept them. In their ludgH-
mcnt. the victory to be gained must nave
been worth the anticipated losses.
Our assumption must be that their
Judgment is better than ours until prov
ed otherwise-anG even if such proof
existed. we would not be in position to
evaluate it until after the war Is over
and the whole tactical picture is clear
Therefore, for all practical purposes, we
must assume that regardless of the los
ses which may be announced later, the
gains we will have made will be worth 1t.
TIE Japs and their Axis partners will.
beyond a doubt, try to magnify our losses
even beyond whatever they may be. and
by so doing discourage any future ad-
ditional United Nations offenSlves. But
we're all pretty much used to that
They've "annihilated' us so many times,
according to them, that the war ought
to be over by now But we're still in the
battle, and stronger than ever.
We do not say gloomy news will be
Forthcoming; we say only that it may be
on the way. But whatever gloom may be
spread around by our losses, we believe
will be offset by our gains, for we be-
lieve the military and navy men in the
Pacific know their business.
If they're willing to take the losses for
the sake of the gains they can make, it's
no right of ours to complain about them
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11

and of plants we are called upon
to make choice-cither ships to
be sunk at sea, or planes to take
their chances in the air. We can't
have both in adequate quantities.
Nobody can predict certainly what
the Germans and japanese would
be able to do TO interfere with air
cargo. Aviation experts are convinc-
ed that losses would be much less
serious than they arc by sea.
Kaiser, whose achievements thus
far entitle him to respect as a
prophet of production, believes that
nine shipyards, turned to making
70-ton flying boats, could begin work
in six months and be in full produc-
ton in 10 months.
ThencefOrth Kaiser believes. those
yards could make the air freightcrS
at the rate of 5000 a year
Others, even more unconventional
but fully conversant with aerOnau-
tical science, urge that we cOncen-
trate upon 200-ton air freighters.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11
MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of correct
social usage by answering the fol-
lowing questions, then checking
against the authoritative answers
below:
l. Which ranks higher in the
Army, a major general or a briga-
dier general?
2. In the Navy does a vice ad-
miral rank above a rear admiral?
8. In the Navy does an ensign
rank above a junior lieutenant?
4. In the Navy is a fcaman
first class of about the same rank
as a corporal in the ArmE?
5. Is it all right for a girl to
send cigarets to a young man she
used to date, but who is now in
the armed forces?
What would you do if
You live near an Army camp and
would like to invite a soldier or
two to your home
(A) Feel that if you feed then
we'll and make them feel at home
they will enjoy themselves?
ANSWERS
l. Major general.
2. Yes.
8. No.
4. Yes.
5. Certainly.
Better What Would You Do
SOlution-(A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11
S. Burton Heath
Writes:

Undoubtedly there is a strong
sentiment in favor of expanding our
present small air cargo program.
This is true not only of la. men, who
are intrigued ty the sensationaliSm
if the idea, but also among many
top men in our planning organiza-
tions.
Grover Looming, aeronautical en-
gineer who is conSultant to the War
Production Board, has been talking
air freight as a solution for our
shipping problems for some time.
The real psychological impetus
came, however, when Henry j. KaiS-
er, wonder man of the shipbuilding
industry, proposed that we turn 9
shipyards into air freighter plants.
Donald Nelson. telling Kaiser to
go ahead with 500 flying boats des-
pite reported opposition from the
Navy, has given the program its
bi5SCCI JGoIi. 4NClOoIl nav odiNA biidb
VIC could have action any time pro-
ponents of air freight demonstrate
that they can obtain the necessary
raw materials without interfering
with bomber and fighter plane pro-
duction.
1t may prove to be significant
that, in that statement, Mr.. Nelson
did not reject the diversion of ma
terials from water craft to air
freighters.
If we are to go into an air freight
program, to avoid submarine acti-
vities, it can be done only at the
expense of the merchant marine
In view of the shortage of materials
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11
PRAISE PLUS PROBLEMS

Of were here, I am sure
he would tell you that ca Long
before Pearl Harbor the peanut
brittle industry had lined up for
all-out production of peanut brittle
brittle to win this war. Or Cbl To-
day the peanut brittle industry faces
9 crisis.
"I want to remind you that (hcre
remind them of something)
"But my purpose tonight is to
tell Won about the work of our di
vision bureau, branch or office
and TO show you how we arc try
ing to make your problems our
problems and our problems your
problems. FOllow here with a
long and involved explanation of
red tape organization, co-ordina-
tiop and Iiaison)
"I do not need to remind yoJ
that this country as whole faces
a crisis. CAt this point, discuss
the rubber situation, sugar, gas ol
fuel oil rationing, being sure tc
mention no fact that is not al
ready known
What this all boils down to is
that we are going to have peanut
brittle made the American way, ol
the way Hitler tells us TO make 1t
pause for applause
"In the words of GnSert here a
statement from George Washington
Roosevelt or Bartlett'S Familiar
Quotations. Follow with references
TO Midway, Coral Sea. Bataan, Sing
apore, cur gallant allies and specu-
late a little-but not too much
on the second 'front.'
I'VE must face this situation
squarcIy. The contribution OF
labor must not be ignored. The
smoke from the factories Is the
smoke of battle.
"In closing, let me make this
final point. i know, and your gov
ernment in Washington knows,
that ii can count on this industry
never TO let our boys get stuck
for peanut 5GittIe."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11
TOO MUCH OPTIMISM
Berkeley Gazette)


Three British newspaper correspon-
dents have been called home from Egypt
to be taken to task for their reports
They erred it seems, on the side of over
optimism, telling their Egyptian readers
what vast reinforcements of men and
munitions had reached the British COM
mander in Libya, Gen. Auchinleck.
The effect was to give the feeling that
everything was going splendidly, and
that Egypt need make no particular war
effort. Although Marshal Rommel had
been halted for the time being, no SEN
sible person would say that the war in
Egypt was going splendidly. Also, every
effort that can be made to resist the Axis
in North Africa will be none too much
These British correspondents yielded
to a very natural temptatiOn to play
up items that would please the readers.
1t is human to like favorable news. with
its suggestion that present discomforts
will not last long. The headlines of some
of our own newspapers sometimes show
this tendency tC give undue prominence
to the bright side Of the news. To do
so is not always to do the best service
The British correspondents who were
recalled from Egypt probably pleased
their readers They did not help their
country
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-11
Legal ADVERTISEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL
RESOURCES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ORDER CLOSING AREAS To
HUNTING

For the purpose of further pro-
tecting the birds and mammals WIN
which the Fish and Game Com
mission has stocked various areas IN
this State, of inSuring their larger
growth and better means OF propa-
gation and to the end of improV-
ing hunting conditions generally
throughout the State;
Now. therefore, upon the recon-
mendation of the Fish ana
Game Commission of the State
of California and pursuant to
and by virtue of the Authority
vested in me by the provisions
of Chapter 730, Statutes of 1888, 1t
is ordered that the following areas
within the State of California. be
and the same are hereby closed to
the hunting, taking or killing OF
any DEER therein or therefrom
from and after the date hereof and
during all times and seasons until
such time as new legislation is en-
acted by the State Legislature or
by further or other order OF the
Director of Natural Resources:
All of Monterey and San Ben
ito counties, and those portions
of Merced, Fresno and Kings
counties within Fish and Game
District No 3,
All of Fish and Game Dis
tricts 3l2 4, 4 1-8 and "a.
1t is further ordered that in adj
dtion to the publication of this
order as provided for by Section
1853 of the Fish and Game Code,
State of California, a copy hereof be
posted at the Courthouse of each
County hereby affected at the place
where notices are posted pursuant
to the provisions of Section ZOO
Of the Probate Code, State of Cali
fornia, or some other conspicuous
place.
Given under my hand and seal
this 31st day of July 1912.
Kenneth I. Fulton.
Director of Natural Resources
(. I, Culbert l.. Olson, Governor. do
hereby give my consent to the above
and foregoing order.
Culbert l.. Olson,
I GOBERNOR.
! No, 8 (Aug, 4th-llth)