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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27
FACI N G.
THE
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

| Without any intention to disparage
we are forced to the conclusion that
the outstanding thing about the re.
cent CIO convention in Boston was g
curious omission.
This ommission consisted of the
failure of the officers of the CIO to
submit to the delegates any report or
paid-up membership or finances.
It's hard to believe that any labor
movement worthy of the name could
get by with that sort of thing.
But it's very easy to understand
why the officers of the CIO deliber-
ately neglected to give the delegates
an official report on this vital subject.
They didn't dare.
The whole effort of the CIO in the
past few years has been to achieve
equality with the American Fedora
tion of Labor. CIO leaders have
striven desperately to obtain recog-
milton on an equal status with the
AFL.
Of course, equality can be de-
termined only on membership basis.
And that's the reason why the CIO
leaders haven't dared to make public
a membership report or even submit
one to the delegates at their conven-
ton. They just don't have the mem
bers.
Cards On The Table
If the CIO were to disclose its true,
paid-up membership, its claims to
equality with the AFL would be ex-
posed as sham. The detection of
the United Mine Workers, which paid
the CIO per capita tax on 100000
members, although it doesn't have
that many, has cut heavily into CIO
membership rolls. Any estimate as to
the actual, dues-paid membership of
the CIO at this time is clancy, but
informed labor observers are Of the
opinion that it doesn't exceed 3,OO0,-
600. The paid-up membership in the
American Federation of Labor is in
excess of 5,500.000.
Now, while such comparisons are
interesting, they would not have any
special significance at this time except
for the fact that peace conferences
between the American Federation of
Labor and the CIO are due to be re-
|sumed in the very near future.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-27

tive power of the left-wing conpira-
tors who know that the American
Federation of Labor now and always
will resist Communism.
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Dec. 30,-(UP)-The
Red army cuts its way through
$4,000 German troops southwest of
Stalingrad today, seized a divis-
ional headquarters, and rolled on
toward the Rich prize of Rostov
key to the Caucasus.
Four big ammunition dumps fell
tc the advancing Russian and large
numbers of AXIS prisoners begun
trudging toward the rear lines
lines from Kotelnikovski, captured
by the Russians yesterday
CThere were indications that
there might be another Russian Of
fensive soon on the northern end
of the 1,100-mile battle line. A
Berlin dispatch to the Swedish
newspaper Nya Dagigt Allenhan-
Ga reported that Soviet trucks were
streaming across the frozen Lake
Ladoga, restoring land communi-
cation with besieged Leningrad.
German artillar' was Smelling the
ice. the dispatch said)
Tanks led the night assault that
defeated the 10000 Germans south
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Armies Bog Down
In Afyicara Mud

German trans-ocean agency dis
match. recorded by United Press
from radio Berlin, said merely that
British American forces has COM
pletely evacuated the position.
The allied high command said its
forces had withdrawn only after
inflicting heavy casualties on the
German and Italians.
The french reported they were
Observation-Disclosures slowly, 1t was
dicated-betWeen Pinchon and
Kairouan. SO and 30 miles, respect
ivclv. southwest of the important
east coast port of Sousse.
Some of the heaviest axis coun-
terattacks were being delivered in
this area. and with fresh troops,
but the French were smashing
them oil with new anti-tank guns
and strong British and American
air support,
Radio Morocco quoted French
Headquarters that so German
bodies were left on the battlefield
after one unsuccessful counterat-
tick, and neutral sources SAID the
French had knocked out at least
10 German tanks with their new
anti-tank guns.
German propaganda broadcasts
said winter rains had started again
i'm Tunisia after several days sur
cease, anu <ioOp movements were
almost impossible, however, the
Ccim2ns salo air activity was
heavy despite rain.
IN this, at least, the Germans
were confined by the allied high
command. which said that an al
most around the clock blasting
Of axis ports, supply lines and |e-
hicles went o:lead without letup
on MondaJ.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Editorials and Comment
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
IN PLANNING

Chicago Real Estate News1
The business community Of the nation.
if it should want 10 avoid grave and IN
Surmountable difficulties, will do well
to give the subject of postwar planning
its most earnest consideration.
The so-called Government planners
place a major emphasis upon government
control and direction of our national
economy during the transition or recon-
struction period They propose perma-
nent programs of government spending
and credits in order to supply the neces-
sary purchasing power and provide en-
ployment. They are aided and abetted in
this by large number of men in every
walk of life who have lost faith IN private
enterprise and are seeking suceor in the
hands of the government.
We are of the opinion that the regen-
erative forces of a dynamic private enter
prise will have to be depended upon and
fully utilized in the transition from war
to peace. Postwar planning that assumes
as its central theme the premise that gov
ernment-controlled and government-plan-
ned economy can be substitute for an
intelligent private enterprise economy.
betray rank ignorance of the underlying
factors involved
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Planes Sink Two
Jap Cargo Ships

WASHINGTCN, Dec. 30-'JP'
The navy announced today thu
American aircraft carried o.. t~f
attacks on enemy cargo shippirP
in Wickham anchorage on TIE
southwest coast Of Vangunu Island
in the New Georgia group CT the
Solomons on Dec. 20 soatA - ii
time. sinking two enemJ craft.
"A navy communique also dis.
closed that On Dec q army ar
msrine corps troops in two eH.
gagementS killed between i55 arr
1866 Jap5i1ese on Guadaicand WI
the loss of Only four American
killed and one wcpnded.
The communicate did not state
the origin of the air attacks OF
the japanese shipping but pre-
sumably the planes came from
Henderson field on Guadalcanal.
Vangbnu Island is about 100 nau-
tical miles northwest of Guadal-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
STRATEGY UNCHANGED
By ROBERT, DOWSON

LONDON. Dec. 30. tUPD-A neu-
trail power informed the Czechoo!o-
vakian government in exile today
that all relatives of its president,
DR.. EdUard Benes, were seized by
the Germans last october and sent
TO a concentration camp in Ger
many.
That was one of the newly re-
ported instances OF NaZi terrorism.
The Polish gC0eInment in exile
received fresh eVidnce Of wholesale
executions and deportations. Ten
persons. II said, we're recently hanged
in Snopenicc; 40 IL the Plock dis
trlct. IA at Pr .lary; % at Jewel,
and 10 a. JasZunV.
rEOPLE. DEPORTED
The German garrison in the Luz
lin area was in the midst Of a
plan TO systematically eXtermmate
the Polish population. They began
by completely cvacuating the dis
tricts of Zamosc, KrasnoStaW, and
KrubieszoW. after which the popu-
lations of the Tonaszow, Pulway,
and Lublin districts were deported.
The Gestapo and special Ukrain-
ian attachments disposed peasants
and herded them into special camps
behind barbed wire.
Children. particularly those UNI
der six were deDorted 10 Germany
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
British War Review Sees
Great Offensive Coming

view said. but still on all fronts
the Axis tide appeared still to be
in flood, the Germans threatening
to swing north toward Moscow and,
in conjunction with the Afrika
Korps to strike through Suez to
the Caucasus Oil fields.
INITIATIVE PASSES
Then Russian resistance stead
lily stiffened. the review said, and
Field Marshal Erwin Rommels
great attack was smashed in Egypt.
The Germans failed to reach the
Caucasus oil fields and in mid-Au-
gust the Russians counterattacked.
Allied forces meanwhile launched
successful operations against the
Japanese in the Solomon ISLANDS
and New Guinea, the review said,
and on october % the British army
attacked in Egypt.
"On November advanced ele-
ments of the British first army
with American assault troops land
ed near A!gierS while United States
forces began to occupy Oran and
Moroccan ports, the whole eXpedl-
ton being under the command OF
Gen Eisenhower" the review said.
II reviewed the Northwest Al
RIGA operations as in two phases,
consolidation of bases and the at
tack on the Axis North African
forces from Algeria.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
OUT OF POLITICS
pomona Progress-Bulletin)

pomona Progress-Bulletin)
Friends of Herbert Hoover are now
firmly convinced that not again will he
accept any post in this or subsequent adj
ministratlons. One of his friends asserts
that he considers himself as too elderly
to engage in the rough and tumble of poll
tics. Certainly no one could blame him
if he declines to again stand up and be
'crucified.'
1t appears from Washington reports
through reliable sources that Herbert
Hoover several weeks ago was asked by
Mr.. Roosevelt to take over the old job
which the former President ran so sue
cessfully in the first World war. He con-
sidered the matter for a couple of weeks
and then turned it down with the sugges-
ton that FDR pick one of his own friends
At the same time he submitted to the
White House 1700-word memorandum
which summarized the organization of
the earlier aid project and outlined plan
for the current undertaking.
Governor Lehman was itching to get
into some big position in the federal gov
eminent. So, when Herbert Hoover re-
fused to serve, the head man killed two
birds with one stone by appointing the
Albany official. When the governor
learned about the Hoover situation, he
consulted the Republican leader immed-
lately regarding the details of the pro-
gram which the humanitarian had left at
the executive mansion
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Ncziis Intensity
Terrorism Drive

protested.
PEASANTS SHOT
Peasants resisted in many cases
and we're shot-170 in the village of
KitoW. Germans from Russia and
Rumania were settled in the evacu-
atcd villages.
The Germans apparently were
trying to provok a real insurrec-
ton to provide an excuse for WHIP
ing out the whole Polish nation, the
Fetish government in exile said
Similar conditions were reported
in Lithuania by the Stockholm
newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Lithu-
anians were being robbed of their
farms in a German effort to efface
their national life and replace them
with Germans and Dutch.
Resistance was increasing, how
ever. Dagens Nyheter said. OF 5000
Lithuanian students, only 500 were
willing to go to German universe
ties. The Nazis then closed the
universities Of Kaunas and Wilno
and sent so professors and students
to concentration camps.
Unrest was reported increasing
in Austria, and the British Broad
casting corporation said seven Aus
TRANS, one a woman, had been ex-
ecuted for resistance to the, Nazi
regime" BIC said the executions
were announced by the NaZiS them
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
WALLACE DREAMER,
BUT NO EXECUTIVE

The world will rightly cheer Vice-Pres-
ident Henry A Waliace's preliminary
blueprint of the world to come, envlslon-
ing the fullest international cooperation,
a world council and a world court, and
freedom for all men everywhere
Walace's theories have always been
good-as to obi ectives 1t has been only
in the administration-in the factual
working out of his theories-that he has
fallen down. When he was secretary OF
agriculture, he had grand objective on
behalf of Americas hog farmers = he
wanted to assure them fair prices. No
body could object to that, without admit
ting personal selfishness. The objective
was beyond criticism. Administration
the method of reaching the objective
was different. Remember how all the
little pigs were liquidated?
This is not written in criticism of Wal
lace. The world needs his kind of men.
Without them, there would be no prog
ress, nothing but stagnation The dream
ers, the Missionaries, play a vital part in
the advance of civilization. Among them,
Wallace is one of the ablest. The goals
he sets up are the goals all mankind
wants to reach.
The hard-headed realist is, too often,
unaware of the far distant goal, too in
VOlved IN personal consideration and WOr-
ries of the moment. Yet it is the realist,
in national and international life, who
gets things done. 1t is he who keeps prog
ress flowing smoothly, without the jerks
and stops and new starts by which the
visionary must move.
Wallace can do an historic job by sell
ing his goals to the realists, by establish
ing things to be accomplished. His voice
should be heard, and needed, when he
speaks of the shape of the future.
But it would be a mistake to entrust
such a man with the actual working out
of the program he sets up. That is no
reflection against him. 1t is simply hui
man shortening that the best planners
are often the worst doors.
We must recognize that, often, we need
one set of men to plan and another to
accomplish, if we are to make progress
as speedily as we wish.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30

tory of Ell Alamein, the British in
fantry coming once more into its
own-no longer the plodding mud
encountered poor, bloody infan-
try of passchendaele tin the last
war;. nor the Intellectual fighting
men swept back by the weight OF
metal to the beaches of Dunkirk,
but a mobile infantry, master OF va
ried and effective weapons, conf
dent it has now the measure OF the
enemy"
CRITICAL WINTER
The review pointed out how crit
ical last winter had been, when
Singapore. the Philippines, The
Netherlands East Indies and Bur-
ma fall; how the Axis pushed the
British back into Egypt, how the
Germans in Russia cver-ran the
eastern Ukranian and the DonetS
Basin and reached Stalingrad.
But. the review pointed out, the
Russians retired fighting and in
perfect order and, in a battle on
a smaller scale the British stopped
the Germans in Egypt; and Malta
held out.
Further. it was said, the Allies
firmly held such key cOmmunica-
lions points as Iceland, Gibraltar,
West Africa and Iran.
The Allies gained vital time to
prepare counteroffensive, the re-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

n there Is an unusually heavy
fan az what looks ike snow all
over the United states this win
Ter. laFge part Of 10 may turn
cut 90 BE- stuff that doesn't melt
but Ru bum. They will be letters
rvtn workers asking In Cfact,
How do I go about getting a
raise" or they Will be letters from
EMPLOYERS saying. 1t Is next TO
impossible for as 10 keep old work
erS on get new ores az the exist
inc vqle levels which have been
put unde- control % government
order. How 90 We so about in
creasine wages 10 meet these condi-
tions7'
All such letters and variations
thereof will be queries for more
information on the governments
wage sterilization program-one
Of the least understood of all the
wartime controls. vet the one
which will affect every wage
Garner I'm the country. Indirect
IL IL affects every member Of
every family right down to the
sub-deb's allowance.
The reason wage Sterilization
isn't yet fully understood is that
IL has been In effect only since Oc-
tober 3. and hasn't given enough
time for people TO want pay raises.
Briefly stated, the reason wage
stabilization is necessary is that
wages represent the biggest single
item in the total cost of the war.
The government is now spending
for war AZ the rate of Sc billion
month. or 5000 million day. Since
approximately 70 per cent OF the
national income is wages and sal
aries. 1t is fair to say that 20 per
cent of the war cost is wages. That
amounts to s4.2 billion a month, or
Sl40 million a day.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
TRUTH PROPAGANDA

The best propaganda the United Ma
tions could g& into Germany or the oc-
cupied countries would be the truth.
If an example is needed, it may be
found in North Africa. German prison.
ers captured by the Allies there stand
open mouthed when they see American
tanks go by. One among group of pris-
oners was heard to mutter, at is the num-
Der of them We can't beat that"
What could be more discouraging to
the German people as a whole than a
knowledge of gigantic United Nations
war production?
Almost all of the German prisoners
taken in North Africa refuse to believe
that Stalingrad in Russia, is not safely
in German hands. They were told by
their commanders last summer that Stall
ingrad had fallen-and they still believe
it. Whatswould happen if the uncaptur
ed Germans found out the truth sudden
ly-that they have been told an outright
lie by their commanders when there was
no ostensible reason for a lie?
The truth-that the axis is on the
downhill grade-would encourage the
downtrodden people of Europe, and
wear away faster the resistance Of the
Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
India Storms Take
Toll of 10000

BOMBAY. Dec 80 up APP
pcaling for relief tor victims OF the
october cyclone In Bengal, Pand!t
Malaviay. Indian leader. revealed
today that 40 900 persons were killed
the storms.
The cyclone rose IN tho Bay oil
BENGAL on october Is and swept IN
and. devastating a considerable area
TWO Bengal districts. II was ac-
a.nparied by heavy rain ana ma
,v. .Gdt oUecs we're severely dam
tpnd or destroyed.
The Bengal government. report
NJ Nov. 4 on the storm. estimated
hen a death toll OF 10000 IN Mid
.apur. west of Calcutta, and Mid
arur wfe only one of many area
stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
BY LANES ROPER

LONDON, Dec. 80. - (U.P0-
Allied armies have held the initia-
tive in all war theaters since the
end of october, the British War
Office said today in a review of
the war on land in 1912.
Holding that year marked a turn
ing point in the course of the war
on land, the War Office said last
fall witnessed the passing of the
strategic initiative to the United
Nations.
At the close of the year Japan
is fully occupied and on the de-
fenSive in its own sphere, isolated
from Germany and Italy, and Eu-
ropean members of the Axis are on
the strategic defensive. the review
said, with Italy threatened by the
Allies in Africa.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
9Th Army Smashes
One of3FinaI
Lines for RomnneI

CAIRO, Dec. 80 - (UP) British
Eighth Army patrols have broken
across the Wadi Die Ell Chebir, first
of the remaining possible lines Of.
defense on the Libyan coast, am ~
are slashing into struggling Afrika
Korps transport, a communicate of
the Middle Eastern Command said
today.
Operating in lightning columnS Il
the British patrols were reported
haraSsing the enemy both in his
rear and on the land flank, and the
communicate said some enemy We
hicles had been destroyed in fight
| ing yesterday.
The Wadi Del Ell Chebir is SIS
miles west of Sirte and 1875 miles
east of Tripoli.
ONLY TWO LEFT
1t was long believed that If
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel tried
even a delaying stand, it would be
based on this Wadi, or dried river
bed, and the Dads Zemzem and
Sofeggin which slash the Axis line
of retreat in the MisUrata area, 100
miles from Tripoli and zoo miles
from. Tunisia.
Hence it was indicated that the
possibility of an Axis delaying
stand had materially lessened, and
it appeared that Rommel was inM,
tent only on getting his broke. ,
forces to Tunisia for the Axis last
ditch stand on the African CONT
nent.
DIT aNCc INaCTIuC
Todays communique reportet II
little air activity in the Libyar
battle area but it said naval tor
pedo carrying planes had attacked
and sunk a southbound merchant
ship, laden with supplies for the
Axis African forces, off Italy's Pam
telleria island between Tunisia and
Sicily, Monday night.
The same night planes based on
the Middle East successfully at
tackled docks at Tunis and Sousse,
the communique said
Allied fighters shot down junk
er-88 plane over the central Medit-
erranean, it was said.
All Allied planes returned from
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
Py EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON. Dec. 30-CUP)-The
BIRTHS h9th army maSsed armor and
artillery west of Sirte today, and
with both sides begged down in
the Tunisian mud. it appeared thar
the next Allied blow in Africa
would fall Oh Marshal Erwin Rom
mel's wear, rerteating Afrika Korrs.
British patrols broke across Wadl
Bel FL Chebir, 1876 miles east OF
Tripoli, middle eastern command
communicate announced, and the
Afrika Korps yielded one Of the
three possible defense positions on
the L:b"an coast.
RAINS INTERFERE
Heavy rains redced land and all
activity in Tunisi2n to the min
mum. but it appeared certain that
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
advancing eighth army would get
in the next big punch against the
axis.
Front dispatches reported a
heavy flow of German and Italian
supply columns from Tripoli into
Tunisia. limiting strongly that the
axis would not attempt a dcfen1e
of Tripoli which already has becn
smashed up by allied air attacks.
Allied North African headauar-
ters acknowledged yeste: day that
British and American forces had
withdrawn from n hill position SiI
miles northeast Of Medje2- Ei~Bab
which they had taken The day be-
tore Christmas.
STRATEGY UNCHANGED
Competent obseryeys said, how
ever. that the allied position as a
whole was not materially affected.
Inc axis .yas not inclined to
make much Of the withdrawal. A
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-30
All Raider Kills
Four in Britain

LONDON. Dec. 30-tUP1-Four
persons. including two women ana
child. were killed and several
thr~s we're injured when three
FacGe-W ulf-l90 fighter planes
Lcmbed a Southwest English coast
al town from low level today.
The Germans also swept the town
with machine guns and cannon. A
block of tenements ,Sas shattered
and several more victims were be-