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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
To the Men in the General
Machinery Corporation Plants--

great many industrial establishments.
However, we continued the work, year
after year, until the 8-hour day be-
came reality.
During all these years, we kept leg
islative committeeman in all state
capitols as well as in the National
Capitol at Washington, to secure for
you most of the good laws that are
on the statute books today. When we
started, there was no such law as
Workmen's Compensation, ld-Age
Pension, Unemployment Insurance,
Miners Qualification Law, Safety
Standards in Machine Shops, Safety
Appliances on Railroads, Building In
spection, 8-hour Day for Municipal
Employees, Child Labor, and many
other laws too numerous to mention.
The bulk of these laws was secured
by the Railroad Brotherhood, the
American Federation of Labor, and its
laws was secured without the aid of
the CIO. Many of the present leaders
of that movement, who are now pos
ing as authorities on the labor move
ment, were not even heard of. while
others were active at that time, just
as they are today, in secretly trying
to tear the American labor movement
to pieces. They were following Com
munism and similar brands of un-
American doctrine; while we stuck to
the ship and kept continually improv-
ing industrial, social and economic
conditions for the working men and
women of America.
In 1915, / was sent into Hamilton
to lead the fight for an S-hour day.
The men were practically on strike
when l arrived here. first conferred
with the local and national officials of
Continued on page 2, column g.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
CHINESE SEAMEN
ARE UNDERPAID,
ASSN. HEAD SAYS

New York City (ILNS) Tens of
thousands of Chinese seamen en-
ployed on vessels carrying war sup
plies to the United Nations are
grossly underpaid and compelled to
work under conditions which would be
utterly unacceptable to British and
American seamen," it is charged by
Chu Hsueh-fan, president of the Chi
nese Association of Labor. Chu came
here to attend meeting of the In
ternational Labor Organization.
Accompanied by H. T. Lin, secre-
tary of the Chinese Association of La
Dor, national association, Chu con-
ferred with officials at the British En-
bassy in Washington in an effort to
obtain improvements in the wage and
working conditions of Chinese seamen.
Most of them are employed on British
and Netherlands ships as firemen and
in other hazardous jobs, it was said
Chu directed attention to the Incl
dents recently at a Brooklyn pier,
where a Chinese seaman was shot and
killed by the captain of freighter
during mutiny by II Chinese sea-
men, and the subsequent less violent
outbreak at Stapleton, S. l., when 81
Chinese fought their way off another
ship in a futile effort to obtain shore
leave. Chu said these outbreaks were
the consequence of the impossible"
labor conditions on ships employing
Chinese seamen and the obstacles i'm
posed upon them in the matter of
shore leave.
''The fact is that not more thsln 800
to 500 Chinese seamen given shore
leave have deserted their ships in port
since the outbreak of the war, as COM
pared with thousands of other ma
tionalities," he said.
Chu said that the average wage
paid the Chinese seamen is only $40
month, plus SIS as food allowance.
This, he said, is s'but fraction of
the pay and bonuses given to others"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
Facts Made Public
To Aid War Effort

Pointing out that labor demands I'M
mediate use of idle plant capacity in
the war effort, the federation explains
that it publishes the facts because
we want to see America win this war;
because we see plant capacity, des-
perately needed, standing idle while
war work is delayed; because we want
our boys at the front and other United
Nations armies supplied with fighting
equipment before it is too late"
The federation reports that the fol-
lowing are typical letters from COM
panies able and eager to do war work,
who have been denied contracts:
"The above bids were lost (listing
II bids). Hundreds of items have been
thoroughly analyzed during the past
year (work which the company was
we'll able to do but could not secure.)
This company wants to direct all its
facilities to war work, but cannot get
enough war contracts"
Union Letters Cite
Idle Factories
Another company writes: "We have
lost the following bids (listing sew
eraD. We have 10 power presses and
other sheet metal working machinery.
We should fit in somewhere in defense
work. We want to help win the war. "
This is another typical case where
capacity stands idle, the federation
comments.
The federation says it has letters
from one international union citing
more than 20 companies we'll fitted to
do war work but unable to get con-
tracts. Another international cites 19
cases where sorely needed capacity
and machinery are idle but war work
cannot be secured. 1t adds that a
steady stream of requests for war
work is coming from local unions
whose members are idle because their
employers have tried without success
to get war contracts.
Government Agencies
Urged to Act
The federation goes on to demand
action, saying:
"All these plants can be used and
are desperately needed in the war
production program. The federation
calls upon the responsible government
agencies to see that this capacity is
put into production at once"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
Federation Unions Report That Hundreds of Plants Able
to Do War Work and Eager to Convert Are Standing
Idle as Willing Workers Are Walking Streets.
WNU Service)

Washington, D. c. (ILNS). .-Charg-
ing glaring delays in contracting for
war work, the American Federation of
Labor declares that plants eager to
help and equipped to make many
needed articles are still being denied
contracts.
"Typical examples" and extracts
from letter from companies and unions
are cited to back the charge, made in
the federation's monthly economic re-
view.
"Reports from federation unions
show that hundreds of plants able to
do war work and eager to convert are
still standing idle or partly idle, their
workers walking the streets, because
they cannot get contracts" the fed
GRAFTON says. 1t gives examples as
follows:
"The stove industry has been cut to
60 per cent of it's civilian production;
stove plants have been desperately
trying to get war contracts to fill their
idle capacity. They are eager to help
in war work Their stamping and as
sembly facilities and foundries are
admirably fitted to make the simpler
items needed by the Army and Navy,
such as field stoves, bomb carriers for
airplanes, ammunition boxes, and
scores of other things.
Bids by Stove Firms
Not Permitted
"Yet in the last month a contract
| for field stoves was awarded to an
automobile company which already
had hundreds of millions of dollars of
war work on its books; stove compa-
nies were not even permitted to bid
A large contract for bomb carriers was
awarded to an electrical manufacturer
overcrowded with half billion dol
lars of war contracts.
"Stove companies were denied
the simple type of work they can
do; companies able to do complex
work were overcrOwded, delivery
delayed.
"Our unions report many Other
cases where companies able to deliver
Immediately have been denied con
tracts while the work was given tc
large companies, already overcrowded
who could not deliver until a date
months later"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
ten HOLDERS OF BIG.
WAR CONTRACTS ARE
CALLED ON CARPET
Government Cracks Down Because of
Discrimination Against Workers.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - In a
drive to stop discrimination against
workers in war plants because of race
or creed, the Presidents Committee on
Fair Employment Practice has cracked
down on ten big holders of war con-
tracts in the Chicago and Milwaukee
areas.
The committee ordered the concerns
to cease refusal to hire negroes or
Jews, or both, and to cease other dis
elimination because of race, color,
creed or national origin. The order
was sent in Findings and Directions"
based on two days of public hearings
held January 1S and 19 in Chicago.
Since January, the committee, of
which Dr. Malcolm S. MacLean, presi-
dent of Hampton Institute, is chair
man, had studied the record before
taking action.
The companies involved in the Chi
cago area are: the Stewart Warner
Corporation, the Buick Aviation plant
at Melrose, ILL.,, unit of General Mo-
tors Corporation; the Bearse Manu-
featuring Company, Simpson Manu-
featuring Company, and the Stude
baker branch factory. Those in the
Milwaukee area are: the Nordberg
Manufacturing Company, A. O. Smith
Corporation, He'll Company, Allis
Chalmers Corporation and the Har
nischferger Corporations. The com
panies have millions in war orders.
One Company Praised
One company, Majestic Radio Cor
poration of Chicago, was commended
for it's prompt action in correcting dis
criminatory practice in it's hiring. Ac-
cording to testimony by H. A. Gates,
Majestic president, he discharged two
of his supervisory employees after he
had checked and found the charges of
discrimination made by the committee
to be valid Gates took this action
even before he appeared on the wit
ness stand at the Chicago hearings.
The complaints filed against the
several companies included allega-
tions that they had refused to en-
ploy either negroes or Jews, or
both; that they had given restric-
tive orders to either public or pri-
vate employment agencies, asking
for only white or only Gentle work
ers; that they had advertised in
newspapers for help and specified
Gentle" or "Protes tant" or
white" or that they had refused
to give workers of certain races and
creeds opportunity for promotion in
keeping with their qualifications.
The companies for the most part
denied that they were discriminating,
but in each case the committee found
that the evidence supported the
charges of discrimination.
Reports Must Be Filed
'The findings and directions will
give the committee continuing juris-
diction over the employment practices
of these industries, which hold con-
tracts for war implements and ma
terial, as each concern has been asked
to file reports with the committee
showing the extent to which steps
have been taken to bring the com
pany's employment policies and prac-
tices into line with the national pol
icy," DIR. MacLean explained.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
AFL Union Wins Election
In Utica's Textile Plant

Utica, N. Y.-An American FEEDER
alton of Labor affiliate, the United
Textile Workers of America, won its
second National Labor Relations Board
election to determine collective bar
gaining representation at the New
York Mills division and Oneida Bleach
cry of the A. D. Julliard & Co., Inc.
Tabulation of 1,727 ballots cast by
eligible workers showed A. F. of L.
United Textile Workers, 991; CIO
Textile Workers Union of Amer
lea, 663.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
A. F. of. Charges Glaring Delays in
Letting War Contracts; Put All Plant
Capacity to Work, Federation Says

the Nazis, | hail the courage of the
people of your country. Both in Nor
way and at the side of the forces of
the United Nations, they have fought
increasingly for the restoration of the
rights and liberties of their demo-
cratic country"
Green declared the conduct of Nor
ways workers Challenges the adj
miration of the whole world"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
Green Halls Courage
OF Norwegian People

Washington, D. C. .(ILNS).-In a
letter to Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen-
stierne, the Minister of Free Norway
to Washington, President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor, said:
"On this day, two years after the
treacherous invasion of Norway by
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
Record Farm Help Demand

Chicago. - The U. S. Employment
Service estimates that this year the
farmers of the country will be calling
for many more thousands of workers
than they employed in the boom year
1929, the peak year for food pro-
duction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-04-24
BAD ECONOMICS

1t is bad economics to reduce the
standard of living of persons who even
now are not able to purchase enough
consumers goods to maintain their
productive efficiency. Randolph E.
Paul, Assistant to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
Famous Song Writer

The bridegroom is famous
throughout musical circles,
Having conducted a nationally
known band and written many
top-fiight songs.
He began his career writing
student operas for the Univer-
sity of Michigan and is also
credited with composing many
of its most popular college
songs.
He wrote Ladies First and
'1er Family Tree" for Nora
Bayes and special songs for
Elsie Janis.
During his career of song
writing, he set the nation to
humming with Just Like a
Gypsy" Honey" "All of Me-"
"Breezin' Along With the
Breeze" Tie a Little String
Around Your Finger" and The
One / Love, Can't Be Bothered
With Me"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

Spirit-liftinu styles that
defy you 10 look less than
your best -. debonair 10.
heeiers that see you
through active days =.
distinctive b ow pumps
that puretuate an coca.
sion. 81 de. smooth or
embossed black and
new browns.
KiiHe'i-TbIrd Floor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

Coats Of the very highest
type >. including the very
new peg-top fashions and
military versions with frog
closings. Coats with gor-
geous fur Tuxedos. with
stunning fur collars. with
elaborate fur tab borders
The new Hollywood
rainbow colors and the
ever popular black.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
Fentons 10 Honor
Their Son, Robert

Mr.. AND MRS. BEN B.
FENTON of Boston boulevard
will hold open house from s TO
IL o'clock Saturday night in
honor of their son, Roberts con-
firmation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

CAPT. AND MRS. CLIFFORD
c. JONES of Washington. D. C.,
have been the house guests this
week of Mrs. James NJ. Luke of
Dexter boulevard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
Costume Taupe Wool

The bride. who will be given
in marriage by her father, will
wear a taupe wool costume suit
with black accessories. Her hat,
designed TO complement her up
swept couture. will be a ruffied
black velvet puff. with taupe
toned cascade veil.
For her daughters wedding,
Mrs. Waldman will wear a black
crepe afternoon frock with
black sequhn trim and a large,
black felt hat.
A small reception for the i'm
mediate family will be held
after the ceremony and the
bride and bridegroom will leave
on a wedding trip to New York
City.
On their return they will
make their home in Wildemere
zUpriip
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
seymour
oimons
viii Wed

A WEDDING of interest to
IA local society and music
lovers everywhere takes place
this Sunday at 4 when Miss
Sylvia Waldmsn. daughter of
DR. and Mrs. Joseph Valid
man of Belleville, ILL.,, becomes
the bride, of Seymour Simons,
son OF Mrs. David w. Simons
of LaSalle boulevard.
The ceremony will be SOLE
emnized in the home of the
bridegroom's brother and sister,
in law, Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Simons of East Boston boule-
ward, with DR.. Morris Adler of
Shaarey Zedek. officiating.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
Be.. .,.e C... Sale o. Inc Se....
500
GO
aa...s
Goats That We Would Reg
ularly Price Very Much More
-. In This Sale for
COATS of Beautiful Quality WOOIens
Trimmed With LuxurfOusIy Fine Furs

Goats trimmed with luxurious Mink ...... sB8
Goats trimmed with handsome OesIof -. s8B
Goats trimmed with fine Silver Fox .... s88
Goats trimmed with Silver Cross Fox .... s88
Goats trimmed with Golden Beaver ..... .s88
Goats trimmed with Persian Lamb ...... s88
Goats trimmed with NorweesnDyed Fox. 49,. .sB8
Coats trimmed with Sebe-Dyed Squirrel w s88
Goats trimmed with Tipped Skunk s88
Goats trimmed with Fine Dyed Foxes s8O
Costs trimmed with Sable Dyed Mushsi -. '8B
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

Coat sbot--Kiise''-Fonrt5 Floor
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-08-21

Washington, D. c., August 21.-
1t took the combined talents of
Senator George Radcliffe and
Frank Shook, secretary of the Tri-
State Gamers Association, to save
the Eastern Shore canning indus
try from financial ruin not, as
many were led to believe, Con-
gresham David Ward.
Ward never even bothered to at
tend a special meeting in Rad
cliffe's office ten days ago when
OPA officials were forced to back
track on an arbitrary price for
canned peas and tomatoes.
However, Ward heard about the
victory and wasted no time in
flashing" the news to the indus
try on the shore via a series of tel
egrams which stated that the in
dustry would be glad to know that
I'VE" won the day. Yes, David is
a candidate for reelection.
The meeting, incidentally, was a
rough and tumble affair with no
holds barred. 1t resulted in the
Office of Price Administration mod
flying it's infamous Formula E
which would have caused a tumble
of individual price ceilings. These
threatened ruin for a large section
of shore Gamers who would have
been obliged to post as their stand
ard prices certain low, depressed
or emergency prices they had sold
at from time to time in the past.
Chief object of the canning in
dustry's wrath was OPA Baker
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-08-21
DISPELLING THE FOG
CHARLES NICHOLSON
PUBLICITY DIRECTOR DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE

This is the open season for critl-
cism of our armed forces. 1t, is a
stage reached in every war. Per-
haps it comes a little earlier in the
present struggle because the ad-
vance of the enemy has been more
rapid. and because our people had
the opinion - common, incidental
ly, to every country - that one of
it's soldiers could lick half a dozen
Of the foe.
Why haven't we begun with a
second front against Hitler, to re-
lieve the pressure on our Russian
ally? Why haven't we driven those
10000 Japs off the western points
of our Aleutian Islands? Why has
not the DOOlittle raid on Toxic been
repeated with a still more destruc-
tive result?
The impetus to impatience for
victories grows stronger with every
restriction, every limitation, every
new burden imposed by the neces-
sity of devoting the nations whole
activities to winning the war. Few
of us are able to withstand the
temptation to substitute our indi-
vidual judgment for that of the
men we have retained to handle
such problems. NV fellow column
lists have succumbed to it in a
large degree. | do not know the
answers to all the questions put
forth above. If | did | would not
be permitted to publish them, but
out of my ignorance, which is
probably as vast as that Of the fell
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-08-21

visibility of an Eastern campaign,
so far as his country is concerned,
than we are.
Then, take the Alaskan situation.
No American can be happy at the
spectacle of Japanese army in
possession of those Aleutian points
even if they are mere fog bound
desert rocks, unfit for a military
base. They are only thumb S
breadth on the household globe
from Dutch HarbOr and so far. ap-
parently, the only result of the Oc-
cupatiOn has been the destruction
Of an assortment Of Jap destrOyers
and supply ships For all | know
our forces are tolerating their pres
ence as bait for the continued am
bushing of their munition ships,
transports and whatever else the
enemy sends to sustain the impu-
dent expedition. On the other
hand. maybe Japan has them there
as decoy to provoke an American
assault or one of our West Coast
ports, while vital elements of our
naval and air strength were divert
ed to the distant north.
We may remember that the
theory was advanced that the
whole Dutch HarbOr episode, of
which the occupation of the far
Aleutians was part, was intended
as a cover for their attack on Mid
way, that ended so disastrously
for the Japs.
We must take it for granted that
Continued on page -
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-08-21

Labor Unity Conference, comprised
of an equal number of representa-
.tives from the AF7L, the independ-
ent railroad unions and the CIO.
has challenged the authenticity of
the joint better legislature program
Of Mayor Howard Jackson Of Bal
timOre and Governor Herbert R.
O'Conor. They challenged it on
the grounds that very few if any
Of the capable candidates favored
by labor will receive the support
of the politicians" and that "all
that talk about improving the quail
ity of the legislature seems to
have been merely talk"
A casual observer might never
suspect this attitude if he witness
ed either Of those two mild-appear-
ing CIO agents Sidney Katz or
George Meyers chatting glibly with
Mayor Jackson or Governor Her
bert O'Conor. They become just
as suave and glib as even the
Mayor and the Governor. However,
it is said that katz and Meyers
know how to take a pulse so quiet
ly that the patient never knows
it."
Just how seriously the Mayor
or the Governor look upon the
growth of this new labor influence
is not apparent on the surface. But
it is apparent that candidates both
to the legislature and to Congress
are taking labor more seriously.
Fact is, one congressional candi-
Continued on page 81
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-08-21

lows who are venturing their Opin-
ions, | might guess.
The Immediate Second Front
ers visualize the landing of a cOu-
pie of million of the Allied Forces
in France, in Scandinavia, in
Africa or the Middle East - and
the diversion of the Nazi forces
now hammering at Russia. and the
consequent advance of the Soviet
armies. etc. They do not take into
account the difficulties of transport
and supply, that the Army and the
Navy strategists must be worrying
over. They perhaps. do not realize
that an essay Of this sOrt-one
without adequate preparation, or
made prematurely - might be any
thing but an asset.
Not An Amateurs Job
Presumably we will have to
take the risk ultimately, but it is
no job for an amateur to fix the
time, or place, or method. Russia,
naturally, is eager for the advent
Of an attacking allied force on the
German flank and, | suppose, we
are equally eager that Russia
should terminate her neutrality
with Japan and turn the Siberian
army loose to cooperate with the
Chinese and give Nippon something
to think about in that section. If
she did, we could base our bomb
ers in Siberia and repeat the Doc
little episode with frequency and
effect. Possibly, however, Stain
may be a better Judge of the ad-
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-08-21
MARYL AND MERRy-GO-ROUND-
- BY DREW PEARSON ---
By DREW PEARSON

Who found himself pinched be-
tween the senatorial suavity of
Radcliffe and the belligerency of
Frank Shook. Shook laid on to
Baker and his theories by such
gentle parlor talk as: when you
stop your theoretical dribbling,
I'll come to the point. But | doubt
whether you have enough brains
to know what I'm talking about"
So it was a pretty good thing
that the diplomatic Radcliffe was
present to cool the boys down. Rad
cliffe subtly reminded Baker that
he occasionally breakfasted with
his boss, Leon Henderson. And at
such times, the senator pointed out,
Mr.. Henderson had always assur-
red him that in dealing with OPA
men he would find nothing but the
fairest and most cooperative spirit.
**#*#
LABOR UNITY
Unattended by any fanfare, the
labor unity front launched jointly
in Maryland by CIO and AT of L
State labor leaders bids fair to be
a political wedge of some signifi-
canoe. 1t is expected to affect the
State Legislature. While it's full
impact may not be felt at this
years polls, there are signs that
once it becomes better entrenched
it will be force to reckon with in
a State that usually has considered
labor a problem for more-industrial
lied areas.
Already, the sO-called Maryland