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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
LONCSHOREMEN GET
WAGE INCREASE

New York City (ILNS)- Increases
in hourly and overtime pay are pro-
vided for 10000 members of the Inter
national Longshoremen's Association,
AFL affiliate, under a negotiated
agreement just approved by the Ma
tional War Labor Board.
The new scale brings the basic pay
of longshoremen to $1.25 an hour, an
increase of 5 cents. Overtime pay is
increased 11a cents, to $1.871a an
hour
In addition checkers of the union
receive 35-cent daily increase, bring
ing their pay to $3.50 day.
Longshoremen on the Atlantic
Coast from Portland, Me-, to Hamp-
ton Roads, Va, will be affected by the
new scale, which is retroactive to
Oct l.
Increases were agreed to early in
October by negotiating committee
representing the longshore association
and another, representing the New
York Shipping Association.
The higher pay was withheld after
the "wage freeze" of October, pending
approval of the War Labor Board.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

only complied with the fair and just
demands of democratic trade unions.
The suspicion that the NLRB is
trying to change the form and struc-
ture of American trade unions by
misinterpretations of the National
Labor Relations Act is confirmed by
it's action in this case.
1t would be different if Mr. Kaiser
were tough, oppressive employer.
But his workers and the unions that
represent them testify he is a model
employer. He has gone the limit in
cooperation with labor. He has in
stilled an enthusiastic, cooperative
spirit among his men. They are pro-
ducing for him as perhaps no other
comparable group of workers are
producing for any other war indus
trialist
No wonder that President Green
denounced the boards action in this
case as the Outstanding Axis victory
of the MONTH"
1t is significant that the protests of
the American Federation of Labor are
echoed by practically every agency in
the Federal Government concerned
with the war effort. Representatives
of the Maritime Commission, the La
Dor Department, the War Production
Board and other key agencies tried in
vain to prevail upon the unrealistic
members of the NLRB not to issue
the complaint against Mr. Kaiser
But these bureaucrats apparently
are Indifferent to any considerations
beyond their own determination to re-
shape the labor movement according
to their own preconceived ideas. THEN
predecessors also made the same mis-
take. They are now out of public life
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
Action By Army To Protect
Negro Soldiers Demanded

New York City (ILNS) Protest
ing against what is charged was the
cold blooded murder of one Negro
military policeman and the beating of
another Nov. by state police in Alex
andria, Louisiana, the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People has demanded that
Secretary of War Stimson take
drastic action.
eve are informed" said t h e
NAACP, "that the slayer was sus-
pended for only one day and has been
restored to full authority. We are
further informed that state police
have told army authorities in effect
that they do not intend to recognize
authority of the army If this be true
state bordering on treason anarchy
exists which you as Secretary of War
cannot ignore"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
AFL METAL TRADES
I'm FIGHT in LABOR
BOARD DECISIONS
Especial Conference Denounces
CIO Raids)

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Rep-
resentatives of unions affiliated with
the Metal Trades Department, Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, meeting at
special conference at the AFL build
ing here, pledged themselves to "ap-
ply all of their resources" for the
purpose of protecting their interests
and their rights from outrageous de-
cisions by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board and the unjustified and
unpatriotic raiding now being carried
on by the CIO against AFL organiza
tionS."
This decision was made as a result
of the action of the National Labor
Relations Board in issuing a COM
plaint against three Henry j. Kaiser
shipyards on the West Coast which
are under contract with AFL unions.
John P. Frey, president of the
Metal Trades Department announced
that the special conference had
created Defense Committee to carry
on the fight against the NLRB ruling
and against the attempted raid on
established AFL unions.
The Defense Committee was en-
powered to take such action as it
deems necessary to carry out its OBJ
| jectives.
Members of the committee named
at the meeting include Harvey w.
Brown, president, international Asso-
citation of Machinists; Robert Byron,
president, Sheetmetal Workers Union;
George Masterton, president, United
Association of Journeymen Plumbers
and Steamftters; Ed j. Brown, presi-
dent, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers and Charles j.
MCGOWAN, vice president, Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Boilermakers.
Other members may be added later,
including a representative of the
building trades unions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

Every now and then, in the midst
of battle reports, there comes the
urge to think of postwar world.
Of course, unless the Allied Ma
tions, or the United Nations, to use
the proper term win complete victory
the postwar world be something from
which to flee, something fearsome to
contemplate.
But the United Nations WILL win
and there WILL be postwar world
of freedom and progress and decency
and of marvellous things for the
use of men and women who no longer
fear the toll of global war.
What sort of life will there be when
this war is over?
Nobody can answer with any de-
gree of satisfaction, or with any de-
gree of accuracy.
But some things we do know and
they are mostly good
We shall have to pay the debt of
war-the price of freedom Perhaps
that will be heavy burden, but it
will not be too heavy.
Beyond that this one thing we
do know: The world we had be-
fore this war loosed it's stream of
blood will never be known again.
Some certain things are ended, fin
ished, done for keeps.
Among those things is the kind of
exploitation that made our earlier
Millionaire barons. That's done with.
And as that thing checks out, there
must come higher level for the 90
percent who never before had any GER
tainly secure level and who, often and
in great numbers, were pitched face
downward into degraded depression,
from the depths of which hope rose
again only because there is an inner
well spring in the human frame that
keeps hope alive, even against all of
the evidences visible to reason
We must expect higher average
level Of life--and we shall have it!
We shall have new beauties in the
things around US, when the engineers
and the chemists and the planners of
manufacture can get back to the pur-
suits of peace.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

in some essential sector of Britain's
war effort
What is most significant for Amer
lea is that Britain's vast mobilization
of manpower has been achieved with
extraordinarily little limitation of
democratic freedoms. Here is strik-
ing proof that an intelligent democ-
racy can organize its resources for
war without losing the precious free
doms for which it fights
Prof. McCauley says there are five
fundamental lessons America can
learn from Britain's manpower expe-
rience. Labor will not agree with all
of his conclusions, notably one that
industrial conscription of both women
and men is an ''inescapable necessity"
1t will agree, however, on the whole
with what he says is the fifth lesson,
which he outlines as follows:
"The fifth lesson is the need for
giving responsible labor leaders a
more significant share in the formula
tion and execution of mobilization
policies. In England, trade union
leaders are equal partners in the top
administration of the war 1t is un-
fortunately true that in America our
labor movement is not unified, nor is
it as experienced in the work of pub
lie administration as is the British
labor movement. But these differences
only add to the difficulties of admit
ting labor to greater responsibility
there is no way to eliminate the task
Gas the restrictions tightens up, as
workers lose their rights to choose
their jobs, to change jobs, to quit
jobs and to work leisurely hours, la
Dor is going to ask and expect thai
its leaders share in the administration
of these restrictions. Probably in M
other way can complete labor conf
dence in the leadership of the war eff
fort be ensured"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
5 Companies, 4 Unions
Fined in Army Cap
Price-Fixing Case

Washington, d. G. (ILNS). The
Department of Justice is giving "seri-
Gus consideration" to the request of
the Workers Defense League that it
investigate the activities of the sher-
ifs office in Spartanburg, S. c., in
connection with the recent labor dis
pute at the Draper Corporation there,
an iron foundry employing Negro and
white members of the AFL Moulders
Union.
In October the company locked out
the men, and later seven union mem
bers, colored and white, were arrested
and charged with conspiracy and held
incommunicado for almost day, it is
alleged. Frank McCallister, Southern
WDL secretary, charged that the ar
rests were part of union busting
campaign of the local public officials
and asked Victor Rothnem, chief of
the Civil Liberties Section of the De-
partment of Justice, to investigate.
These days cheerful idiot is en-
viable
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

We shall have new homes of new
design, filled with new joys, in which
the work of living in homes will be
reduced to point where it will have
lost its drudgery aspects.
We shall have automobiles that will
look not at all like the models we now
nurse along so carefully. In them
will be new power plants and on them
will be a new kind of tires. These
new cars will be beautiful and won
derful
And we shall take to the air, just
for the sheer fun of it; and for the
sake of getting to far places in a
hurry. Danger will be no greater
than in today's cars on the road; per-
haps less. To fly will become as COM
monplace as to ride the roads in the
pre-war days.
Our clothing will change its sub
stance and it will be better The era
of plastics is just dawning and we
have yet to see most of its beauties
and it's utilities. That will come with
the postwar dawning.
And perhaps above all we shall
have learned more about living to-
gether in harmony and helpfulness.
The war is teaching us about our
neighbors, at home and abroad.
There will be a new day for our
Southern states. There will be vast
travel from and to Latin America
Miami may become luncheon stop
on the flight to Rio.
There's a great day coming, when
this war ends.
That it's coming should have to be
preceded by such holocaust is but
one of the great ironies of history.
Birth seems to require its advance
convulsions of agony.
But while we pass through this pe-
riod of shock and pain and loss, it may
help us in our contemplations if we
look now and then at that horizon
over which one day the bright sun of
a postwar tomorrow will rise to greet
us.-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
FRIDAY, DECEMBER a, 1912
POLL TAX WILL BE REPEALED

POLL TAX WILL BE REPEALED
The United States Senate ignored
the popular demand for poll tax re-
peal, a demand that was reflected in
the decisive to l vote of the House
of Representatives for poll tax repeal
only few weeks ago
The Senate capitulated to minority
rule. 1t gave way before the first
assault of appeasement. It capitu-
lated not to guns and bombs but to
words and threats. 1t listened for a
week to words "of sound and fury
signifying nothing" And then it re-
treated.
But the American people will not
retreat. They will not tolerate par
tisanship or bargaining or collusion
with appears. They will not tolerate
obstruction of our war effort.
The American people have pledged
their all for victory over Nazism and
Fascism. They will fight the Axis on
the battlefront. They will fight it's
cohorts in our midst. They will fight
division and discrimination. And they
will repeal the poll tax, sooner or
later. That is certain.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
PROTECT STANDARDS NOW

Vital Importance of maintaining
labor standards during wartime was
stressed in a recent Labor for Vic
tory" radio program presented by the
AFL. Three soldiers were heard talk
ing as they opened packages from
home on Christmas morning. One
soldier, who had explained the bene-
fits of buying union label goods
answered the question of another as
to why preservation of standards was
of interest to men in the armed serv-
ices, saying:
Its darned important for us sol
diers that union standards be main
tanned and not shot to pieces even
with war on. In the first place, you
and | know that our families have got
to get along without our help for the
duration and if they start cutting my
old mans pay, my folks would starve.
"But what we've also got to re-
member is that this war isn't going
to last forever. When it's over, we
won't be eating on the Government
any more All of US are going to
have to find jobs and go to work to
rebuild the world that Hitler and his
gang are trying to destroy.
"And how are we going to feel then
if the only jobs open to US are in
sweatshops, if wages are cut so low
that we won't be able to make up for
lost time and start raising families of
our own?
"How will we feel if while we've
been risking our lives to defend our
American way of life, it's been whit
tied down to bare crust while we
were too busy to prevent it,"
That the argument struck home was
shown by the remarks of one soldier
that ''It would be crying shame if
they did that to u.s. echoed by an
others "You said it"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

REAT BRITAIN has given proof
NJ that democratic nation can or
ganize for total war without losing it's
freedom, says Prof. William S. Nc
Cauley of Smith College in study
prepared for the American Council on
Public Affairs.
In a statement based on the study,
both of which should be required read
ing for American advocates of labor
RECOMMENDATION and other totalitarian
controls, Prof. McCauley points out
that the United States may well bene-
fit by greater consideration of
Britain's policies, problems and expe-
riences in connection with it's man
power program.
The statement is based on an ex-
haustive study of British manpower
developments evidently the most
comprehensive study made in the
field" the public affairs council says.
This country, in framing manpower
policies, can benefit considerably from
Britain's experience, Prof. McCauley
holds.
"For Britain" he goes on to ex-
plain, with her tradition of individ-
ual freedom, her peacetime unplanned
economy and her Independent labor
movement, more closely resembles the
United States than any other great
power. Moreover, Britain, like the
United States, entered this war with
out any effective production plans ant
under pressure of wartime surviva
has been forced to devise compre
hensive scheme of manpower controls
To-day Britain is the most com
pletely mobilized democracy in th'
history of government. Practically al
available manpower-over % million
men and women out of total working
population of 33 millions-is engaged
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

Labor participation in the planning
and administration of the war effort
gives assurance to all workers of the
development of a constructive pro-
gram to assure workers jobs, adequate
incomes, economic security, and eco-
nomic justice when the war is won.--
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
FACING
THE
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

We caught tiger by the tail last
week when we suggested that the
CIO submit an audited report on the
paid-up membership in it's affiliated
unions in order to facilitate the me-
chanics of bringing about labor peace.
In response, the Executive Board of
the United Steelworkers Of America,
CIO affiliate of which Philip Murray
is president, issued torrid blast call
ing us lot Of names. The statement
said we are very ignorant" We
admit the charge and confess we are
still completely ignorant of the dues
paid membership in the CIO after
reading the statement. 1t shed no
light on that mysterious subject.
However, we see no good in con-
tinuing such grandstand quarrel at
time when the peace committees
representing the AFL and CIO are
about to sit down together to try to
work out settlement.
Our purpose in raising the issue
was not to embarrass the peace
conferences but to point the way for
the CIO to cooperate in making them
successful. The reaction of the CIO
to our suggestion does not indicate
any burning desire on it's part to be
helpful.
A Nuisance Raid
Another straw in the wind which
is disturbing to sincere advocates of
labor peace is the attempted raid by
the CIO, with the collaboration of the
National Labor Relations Board, on
the Henry ]. Kaiser shipyards on the
West Coast which are under closed
shop contract with AFL unions.
This is truly nuisance" raid 1t
can do the CIO no good and it can do
the nation great deal of harm. The
AFL does not fear the outcome of an
election in the shipyards covered by
the NLRB complaint but it does fear
the effects of bitter union campaign
in a thoroughly organized industry
where labor management cooperation
has reached the peak of efficiency and
where uninterrupted top production is
vital to the success of the war effort.
Aside from the motives of the CIO
in pressing such a hopeless raid at
this time, we would like to delve into
the motives of the National Labor Re-
lations Board in giving it official ap-
proval.
The crux of the NLRB position is
that it is illegal under the Wagner
Act for an employer and union to
enter into closed shop contract be-
fore any appreciable number of en-
ployes have been hired to work in the
plant concerned.
This Interpretation of the law is
completely unsound and at variance
with the established practice of trade
unions. In the building trades in
dustry, for example, practically all
contracts are entered into by manage
ment and labor organizations before
any employees are hired. In fact, the
union is the employment agency for
the works. 1t supplies the men after
the contract is signed. The same
practice is employed frequently in the
metal trades. And even the maritime
unions follow it through their hiring
halls.
An Axis Victory
Thus the NLRB is striking blow
at fundamental trade union proceed
ures when it hauls Henry j. Kaiser
up on the carpet and accuses him of
unfair labor practices when he has
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
WHAT NEXT?

Collapsible tubes, long made from
tin, are now being made from plas-
tice. The tubes resemble tin tubes
and can be rolled up to get the last
drop more easily than tin could, it is
said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
Agriculture Top War Ranking

Oxford d.-Agriculture must have
top ranking as a war occupation,
Joseph W. FIGHTER, lecturer for the
Ohio State Grange, told the Oxford
Mems Forum. A revision of the par
ity formula is necessary, he said, to
enable farmers to pay what labor is
worth.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
WISDOM

Slow are the steps of freedom, but
her feet never turn backward James
Russell Lowell.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

Edward Flore, president, Hotel and
Restaurant Employees international
Alliance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

Necessity is a powerful stimulant
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THE
CHERRY TREE
THE

Where with cur Little Hatchst We tell
the truth about many things, ometiHes
profoundly, sometimes Hippantly. some
times recklessly- ~.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04

These days a cheerful idiot is en-
viable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-12-04
An Axis Victory

Thus the NLRB is striking blow
at fundamental trade union proceed
ures when it hauls Henry j. Kaiser
up on the carpet and accuses him of
unfair labor practices when he has
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01
Mer(hants0.K.
New Price Act

The new price control act just
signed by President Roosevelt
drew the support of the Retail
Association. Saturday.
Il VIII tend to check the spiral
Of rising prices SAID Charles +
Boyd, association secretary. and
protect both the merchant and
his customers against abrupt shifts
in the supply and cost OF goods"
To-day, retail merchants are
selling below the costs justified
by increased wholesale prices"
Boyd declared. Higher prices
are certain. Properly understood
by the public, the new control
will take the blame from the
merchants shoulders.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01
Britain Sends
Arms TO Fire

DUBLIN. Jan ~ (UP) Britain
has sent large shipments Of arms.
including artillery 10 Ere 10
equip TINS countrH'S army Of go
coo men for defense against a
pOe Siblc invasion a hIgh military
>etfFe+-Sattt tUuay,
Disclosure that the British are
cquipping E.rcS army followed
bitter protests by Prime Minister
Eamon De Valera and tho Ere
government against arrNa! Of
American cxpeditionary forces IN
Northern Ireland
British arms and ammunition
are arriving regularly IN respect
able quantity the military source
SAID.
De Valera. reliable quarters
said, has given assurance 10 m"
United Nations that arms dcliy-
cred Ia the Ere army Will not be
used 10 enforce reunion OF the siA
northern counties with Ere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01
Nazis Nearly Starved
By Raids, Say Reds

NEW YORK. Jan. 81 INSl-
The German armies on The north
crn sector ot tho Russian front
are half starved because Soviet
submarines sank ships bringing
>appheS and rcinfOrCcmontS. the
BrtiSn-radIo quoted radio Mos
COW today
in the waters between TromSoc
Norway and PetSamo. Finland. -
German transports were sunk by
Soviet submarine action. SAID BIC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01
Auto Industry
Shuts Down for
Wars Duration
Closes for First Time
Since 1897 for AN-Out
Armament Manufacture
BY SILER FREEMAN
Times Auto Editor

For the first time since 1897
when Olds Motor Works was or
gained as the first automobile
company in Michigan, the produc-
ton of passenger cars and light
trucks for civilian use was stopped
completely. The end came Of
.ficially at midnight Saturday by
government order
Strictly speaking, the assembly
lines Will not he entirely dis
rupted until February 10. The
industry was given until that date
10 finish production on the Janu-
AIRY quotas.
From now on until the end oi
the war, the industry viii occupy
itself with nothing but munitions
planes. guns and tanks as quickly
as plants and machines can be
converted 10 the new work,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-01
Buy a Bomber
buy Bomber
Marines Begin Drive
To Enlist CoIIegians

Two newly-commiSSioneo second
lieutenantS in the Marine Corps,
Monday. will begin tour of col
lcgeS and universities IN lower
Michigan and northern Ohio 10
secure the promises of college men
that they will enlist in the Ma
rlncS and attend the officers can
didate school upon their gradua-
ton.
The recruiters are William L
Bachelor, p. Of Buchanan, Mich.
and Lincoln Holdzkom Of Roya
Oak