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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
ILO Meeting Studies Labor's
Transfer to War Production

Montreal (ILNS). - Labor, indus
trial and government officials of the
United States and Canada met here at
the call of the international Labor Of
flee to discuss redistribution of labor
in the two nations for the most eff
fective production of war materials.
An ILO press release quoted one
delegate as saying that Great Britain
had "fumbled the situation almost
fatally but has now achieved more
realistic procedures" Another spokes-
man was quoted as urging the for
mutation of independent policies for
countries on this side of the Atlantic.
Labor spokesman urged waiting
pay" for men out of work while their
plants were being converted to war
time production.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
SIX MILLION WOMEN
ARE AVAILABLE FOR
WORK In INDUSTRY

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Nearly
100000 women can be recruited this
year for work in war industries and
other essential services, Miss Mary
Anderson, director of the Women's Bu-
reau, U. S. Department of Labor, said
here.
"One-third of this number can be
drawn from the 16,500,000 women in
the 1874 age group, who are now
engaged in own home housework,
without drawing into the labor market
mothers from families with children
under ten," she said.
Before this group is considered, she
said, factory woman from converted
or curtailed consumer goods industries
and approximately 100000 women
unemployed and registered with public
employment agencies in December,
1941, should be absorbed in the war
program.
100000 From School Available
"In addition" Miss Anderson con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

multitude of labor problems that came
with the war and that present so many
difficulties in other parts of the demo-
cratic world.
The Commonwealth Cancellation and
Arbitration Act became law in 1904,
just three years after the various self
governing states had been federated
into the Commonwealth of Australia
The act has been amended more than
dozen times since then in the light
of experience and to meet varying
conditions, both internal and world
wide. But its keystone-that arbitra-
tion should be a substitute for direct
action and should be founded on the
principles of responsibility, fairness
and justice-has remain unchanged
The Transport Workers Federation
explains that the Australian system
works thus:
When an employer and his workers
are unable to settle their own dispute,
there is neither a lockout by the en-
ployer nor a strike by the workers.
Either side can take the case before
the arbitration court where, first, con-
citation is sought. Failing that, fair
and acceptable arbitration is awarded
by the judges, after hearing both sides
and investigating their contentious.
This does not mean that the Au-
stralian industrial machinery is per-
feet. The Australian workers have not
sacrificed their right to strike. But the
average loss of working time through
industrial disputes has been SO small
since the outbreak of the war as to be
almost negligible.
In the forefront of Australias g.
100000 workers stand the powerful
transport unions. They have shouldered
the frightful load of war and are do
ing their utmost to stem the tide of
reverses that are sweeping the Pacific.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
CALF. COURT BACKS
new PICKETINC BAN

San Francisco (ILNS) The Cali
fornia State Supreme Court, by a
4-to-3 decision, has upheld an injunc-
tion against all picketing in labor dis
putes where violence has been recur-
rent.
A minority opinion declared the
courts action would tend to prohibit
all picketing in California.
The decision was handed down in an
action of the Elm Oil Company, Long
Beach, against the Oil Workers In
ternational Union, CIO. The Supreme
Court upheld part of a Los Angeles
Superior Court injunction, including
an order against all picketing by the
oil workers against the company.
"Where past picketing has become
SO irrevocably blended with acts OF
violence, physical intimidation, ol
other unlawful conduct as to give rise
to justifable belief that future pick
eting is likely to result in continu
ance of the illegal act," the majority
held, "an injunction restraining a la
Dor organization from any and al
picketing lies within the equitable
power of the court and does not con
stitute an infringement of the righ
of free speech"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13

escape the indictment, which says that
in such agriculture, employment rela-
tions have been left in the 'unfettered
control of employers groups and as
sociations" with results almost be-
yond belief
"Unemployment, underemployment,
disorganized and haphazard migrancy,
lack of adequate wages or annual in
come, bad housing, insufficient educa-
ton, little medical care, the great bur-
den of relief, the denial of civil liber-
ties, riots, strife, corruption, are all
part and parcel of this autocratic sys-
tenn of labor relations which has for
decades dominated California's agri-
cultural industry" the report points
out.
No wonder the report favors no half
way measures but recommends that
such employers association conspira-
cies should be fatty outlawed."
This action is long overdue. The
sooner it is taken, the better for hu-
manity and civilization.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
Soaring INDICTMENT

Facts revealed in the report of the
Senate Civil Liberties subcommittee
on defiance of labor legislation and
war on unionism by certain California
employers constitute one of the most
blistering indictments of employers
ever made.
Private conspiratorial assaults on
the right of organization and collective
bargaining" are described in all their
ugliness and their menace to the ma
tional welfare clearly shown.
Industrialized agriculture does not
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1912.
SCOTCH SMEAR" CAMPAIGN

Union spokesman and government
officials are fighting a smear" cam
paign in newspapers against organized
labor and labor lews.
Chairman Mills of the National La
Dor Relations Board has denounced a
United Press story charging that
NLRB investigation of company
unionism" in Curtiss- Wright plants
are delaying airplane production.
Chairman Davis of the National
War Labor Board has assailed another
United Press yarn on the union shop
in Little Steel and general distortions
of the current strike situation by de-
claring:
''The fact is that since early last
November the interruption of war
production by strikes has been re-
duced almost to the vanishing
point"
A Department of Labor reply to ex-
aggeration of strike figures by the
National Association of Manufacture
ers in the New York Times and other
dailies said:
1--WE have been publishing accurate
figures on strikes for the past eight
years. No newspaper ever mentions
these, however. But when the NAM
releases lot of inflated figures, news
papers fall over themselves to give
them big play"
News stories, editorials and column
lists outpourings in nearly every daily
newspaper testify to the extent and
virulence of the "smear" campaign. II
is evident that labor must be alert to
fight the drive at every turn ano
scotch" it before it does perhaps ir-
reparable damage, not only to the labor
movement but to national welfare anC
morale as well.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13

HIRDING for an invasion, the Au-
" stralian labor movement has sent
the following message to the working
men and women of America:
"If there ever was workers war,
this is it. Everything the workers of
the world have stood for, everything
they hoped for, is at stake. If the Axis
wins we go back to serfdom or to out
right slavery.
"Every worker is fighting not only
for his rights to industrial happiness
but for his very life, and the lives of
his family and friends. So, we in Au-
stralia determined long ago that every
effort should be made to preserve in
dustrial peace and continuity of pro-
duction."
"Such a message carries particular
weight at time when the Australian
extending over territory
of more than 100000 square miles
and with population of less than
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DIS t1le last udIIici
between the onrushing tide of Jap
anese aggression and the desperately
fighting democratic powers" the Inter
national Transport Workers Fedora
tion comments.
That Australia was capable of con-
verting herself into a we'll prepared
democratic defense line is in no small
part due to the prominent position of
organized labor in the commonwealth
Employer-la relations have for long
been shining model to the rest of the
world. They have been governed for
nearly four decades by compulsory
arbitration and conciliation system ad-
ministered by a federal arbitration
court composed of 8 employer and s
labor representatives.
This system, bolstered by power
full, responsible and united trade union
movement, has helped to overcome the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
1t is a fact that too many think life

1t is fact that too many think life
can go on normally.
We are in the most deadly serious
time our nation has known.
In all the long story of the world
there have been few more crucial
hours.
We are engaged in the most des-
perate kind of war for the highest pos
sible stakes.
+ We have got to be united; we have
got to work; we have got to sacrifice;
we have got to fight; we have got to
forget everything that is of lesser i'm
portance than victory-and YOU try
to figure out what it is that COULD
be of lesser Importance. c. M. w
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
WHAT NEXT?

A table shelter is the latest in
"blackout items"-a table so sturdy
that it affords protection against fall
ing walls, plaster, glass, ETC., during
air raids" says Forbes Magazine
Added features are: Racks for food
containers, frst-aid kit, an alarm to
summon help if you're imprisoned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13

tinued, 100000 women up to "a years
of age now attending school VIII De
available for entrance into the LABOR
market this year."
It was pointed out that 5OO,ooo
women were already in the total war
labor force in January, 1942, and that
such total is expected to increase from
5000 900 to 100000 by 1943.
Miss Anderson said that Women's
Rureau estimates of the woman war
labor supply took into account federal
legislation whose provisions widely al
feet employment in war industries.
Laws Limit Employment
The Public Contracts Act prohibits
employment of girls under l8 IN manu-
facture of goods for the government
when the contract is in excess Oh
$4,000. The Fair Labor Standards Act
prohibits the employment of children
under 16 in manufacturing for inter
state commerce, and restricts the en-
ployment of children 16 to 1S years
in occupations determined to be haz-
ardous.
The Importance to home and com
munity of hiring women whose homes
would not be upset, or additional re-
sponsibilities placed on the community
by their employment was emphasized.
at should be borne in mind, how
ever" Miss Anderson concluded, chat
many women now in the labor force or
seeking work have dependents, and
they should be given priority employ
ment."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
THE -
CHERRY TREE
Where with our Little Hatchet we tell
the truth about many things, sometimes
profoundly. sometimes fippantly, some
times recklessly.

So-we shall have to pay more taxes,
do more work, buy fewer unnecessary
things, do without some necessary
things-AND watch more and more
thousands of men march away to war.
We shall have to bear the bad news
of more ships sunk, with their precious
freight of human lives. We shall see
men and women moved here and there
on our domestic industrial checker
board, so that the wheels of produc-
tion may turn with ever increasing
speed.
All of this will change our lives
more than we can yet fully realize.
While we pay higher taxes we shall
pay more for many things that we
buy.
AS the President has said more than
once, this war is going to cost us
heavily. And, as Secretary Morgen-
thau said when he offered the new tax
proposals, it is better to pay heavily
and win than not to win.
Better any cost to win, than to lose
at any cost. Because if we lose we
lose more than money-we lose free.
dom, which money can never buy.
But the point to all of this at this
moment is that, we KNOW the cost
will be heavy; we KNOW the sacri.
fees will be heavy and agonizing; anc
KNOWING these things we must
throw into the war everything We
have, so that we may be sure to win
We shall have to yield some of oul
customary privileges. We cannot stane
on our high horses and say we will
not do this or that.
What we must do is to win this wal
so that in the peace to come we car
go forward in freedom to greater ben.
efits and advantages. THAT is the
course before us; that is the Obliga
tiOn upon us.
Not one of us can now claim to bt
a free agent. Every one of US is OBJ
ligated to ALL of us, for a really
united effort!
That, it seems to me, gives us al
something very serious to think about
We have, each of US, US Ameri-
cans, a responsibility to ALL of
us--to this nation Of ours.
We can't go around with chips OF
our shoulders, boasting that we will
do this or that, or will not do thi
or that.
In peace time we could wrangl,
among ourselves all we liked and, al
long as we didn't break laws, we hat
right to do it.
But today something much NOR
controlling than law binds US to re
straint of our quarrels and to exten
sion of every last ounce of effort t.
win the war.
It's that obligation to ALL of us
1t is the strongest obligation tina
can be put upon men.
Upon how well we realize it an
! keep to it depends the future Of tn
race.
1t is fact that too many Ameri
cans do not yet realize how serious i
this war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
December Factory Pay Up

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Aver-
age hourly earnings of factory work
ers advanced 0.8 per cent from mid
November to mid-December, to reach
level Of 1877 cents, Secretary Of La
Dor Frances Perkins reported. "This
rise resulted partly from increased
overtime and partly from wage-rate
increases" she said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13
WISDOM

We ought not to look back unless it
is to derive useful lessons from past
errors, and for the purpose of profit
ing by dear bought experience
George Washington.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13

If man has to pay out $4,000 a
year in interest, taxes, and insurance
premiums, he discovers eventually that
he can't balance his budget by eating
30-cent lunches.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-13

Recent Limitation Order L-20 which
limits the use of cellophane and SIM
liar transparent materials derived
from cellulose permits usage for the
window patch in correspondence win
dow envelopes. Bureau of Industrial
Conservation
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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
ElI L.. 4LA MiddIatnwn Trades
Evening star., 1942-04-15

would never have taken on the
English-speaking world II Hitler
had not precipitated a war in the
midst OF Western civilization.
All japanese advantages derive
from this fact and retreat when
ever a decision is reached In the
west.
Japan has still large fight
ing front in China, a small fight
Ing front in Burma, centers OF
unrest on most OF the islands she
has conquered. And Japan has
naval war with advantages.
Our situation in Europe is bet
ter, There are unanimously
favorable reports about the Rus
sian morale. the latest, oddly
enough. coming from Japanese
sources.
The German radio is saying,
apropos their own spring Often
sive. I'VE are successfully oppos-
ing the Russian thaw as we sue
cessfully opposed the Russian
winter In other words, the
spring offensive has not begun.
Yet we know that huge reserves
of fresh German troops have
been thrown In, and their quail
ity seems indicated by the fact
that the offensive, though slowed
down, is still In the hands of
the Russians.
Soviet Superior in Man Power.
e The Russians also, while eager
ly asking aid from us, and admit
ting inferiority in tanks, claim
air and man power superiority.
The latter claim is certainly 50.
The German Army of Super
men" was probably never more
than around 5000, ,000-the in
tensively trained troops first
called up In classes In 1895,
whereas the Russians have had
universal military training by
classes for 20 years out of a
population more than twice as
large as the German.
The claim of air superiority
seems surprising. The Russian
air force. however, has been con-
sistently underrated except by a
few German military experts
whom Hitler. apparently, chose
to ignore. Six years ago Gen. Won
Buelow, German air attache In
Rome and regarded as a leading
German authority in matters of
air power, wrote in the German
military publication "Militae-
rurssenschaftnche Rundschau":
The air army Of the Soviet
Union recently has been in
creased and has become the
strongest air force In the world.
It is not to be assumed that any
other country will ever be able to
surpass them"
Blitz Founders.
The presumption of the Ger
man attack was that, taken by
complete surprise, this air force
Evening star., 1942-04-15

food, fuel and cotton goods for
the populations Of Morocco and
Algeria.
Until the Pearl Harbor, Java
and Singapore disasters the pres
tige of the United States and the
memory of what we did in the
last war kept the aged French
marshal and his associates more
or less neutral. But after Pearl
Harbor, and especially after the
collapse of Singapore and the
Netherlands Indies, Marshal Pc
tain and Admiral Darlan began
to doubt that the United Nations
would obtain a quick victory, and
Admiral Leahy's pleas to the
Vichy government to maintain
strict neutrality within the limits
of the armistice agreement no
longer made any impression.
Sees France In New Role.
On the other hand, Pierre
Laval, who expressed himself
frankly year ago as hopeful of
Nazi victory to which France
should make an effective contri-
button, gained strength. Accord
ing to available reports, the four
or five talks the new Vichy leader
had with Marshal Petain In the
last 10 days convinced the aged
chief of state that the time had
come for France to declare her
self on the side of the Axis and
the new order in Europe.
Laval is reported to be con-
vinced that Hitler will make
France his foremost associate in
Europe, since Premier Mussolini
and Italian naval, air and land
forces have faded from the pic
ture.
Dramatic developments are ex-
pected now as a sequel to Laval's
re-entry into the French cabinet.
The French feet will not 60 over
to the Nazis In spectacular style,
with brass bands playing the
Horst Vessel Lied and with the
Swastika flying from the main
mast. But II Is feared that the
Evening star., 1942-04-15
The Great Game of Politics
Congressional Showdown on Legislation
To RequIote Labor Certoin 10 Come Soon

the beginning. but there is no use
talking about that now. As to labor
legislation. the sole reason none
has been enacted and the country
is still without a labor policy is
because the labor lobbyists and the
President. working together, have
prevented it
Legislators Prodded.
But the demand persists and in
creaseS Members of Congress have
been prodded by their constituents.
They are hearing from home" on
the subject. And they are facing an
election. All of which is working
toward the aforementioned show
down, the imminence of which has
spurred the labor lobbyists into
their advertising campaign. induced
them to offer certain concessions.
and caused White House advisers
to urge upon Mr.. Roosevelt some
step to stall of a congressional
vote-if he still wants to keep labor
policy wholly in his hands, which
quite obviously he does.
Recent White House conferences
on the subject have been held and
announcements are forecast. The
best judgment is that sometime
soon the President will shift his
stand and declare in favor of "freez-
ing wages" because pressure on him
for this move Is very strong within
his own administration and the in
fiationary threat has become really
alarming. But. when he does this,
1t is said, he will link 1t with recon-
mendations for 100 per cent ex-
cess profit tax. still further lower
ing Of tax exemptions and a general
limitation on individual incomes
that will make millionaires things
of the past, to none of which is
there sound objection.
These things Mr.. Roosevelt will
do, his friends say, but he will not
yield on the 40-hour week nor will
he agree to any action prohibiting
labor leaders from pushing toward
their closed shop goal, war or no
war. If action on these two points
Is to be had Congress will have to
take 1t In the face of undiminished
presidential opposition. Neither
public opinion nor congressional
threat will move him on these. His
view on them Is that the news
papers have misrepresented the facts
and that the people misunderstood.
To more fully convey this view, 1t is
said, he may make another fireside
chat the last of this month. That,
his aides assert, will cool these
Congressman Off" Perhaps they
are right, but a lot of them are
pretty hot at the moment.
(Copyrisht, 1942)
Evening star., 1942-04-15

to sea on few hours notice. The
other battleships. the Jean Bart
and the Richelieu. have not yet
been completely repaired. The
Jean Bart Is at Casablanca about
10 per cent ready, but the Richie
lieu, which was badly damaged
In her encounters with the Brit
ish in 1910, cannot be repaired
at Dakar. The Germans appar-
emily expect to bring her to Tou-
Ion. where there are great repair
facilities, as soon as they can
get her through Gibraltar. This
would indicate that they will at
tempt TO clear the British out Of
the Western Mediterranean this
summer.
There is, however. one bright
point which is being emphasized
here. The French people have
not been and will not be won
over to collaboration with the
Axis. They may be forced to play
along with the enemy for a
while. but the day that the pic
ture brightens for the United Ma
tions, the population Of France
will be ready to stab the enemy
within her gates, regardless Of
who rules from Paris or any other
capital.
Until that day, however, we
must reckon on a French gov
ernment subservient to the Axis
and dancing to the tune Of Berlin
and Toxic.
Evening star., 1942-04-15
This Changing World
Petoin's Surrender to Berlin Indicates Nozis
Are About to Begin Mediterranean Drive

French ships now at Toulon and
Oran will undertake to police the
Western Mediterranean and may
engage in a shooting match with
British naval forces.
Shift to Paris Seen.
II Is also expected the NaSiS
will take a full share in the
protection" of French North
African possessions and will Of
ficially transform the important
naval bases at Dakar and Cas-
aolanca into Axis naval and air
bases.
For several weeks the Vichy
government has been moving the
archives of its principal depart
ments TO Paris and 1t Is believed
now in well-informed Washing
ton quarters that the entire gov
ernment will be transferred to
Fdils, NAltIt IL Ndil uC Llibl z CaSAAy
controlled by the Nazis.
According to reports which
reached Washington early in
March. the Germans have agreed
to organize a French aviation
corps to defend French territory
against aggression" This agree
ment means that the Nszi Luft-
waite will entrust to the French
the defense of France against
British air raids, while the Ger
mans have their hands full In
the Eastern Mediterranean and
in Russia.
One Bright aspect
The French feet is reported TO
be ready for action. The battle
ship Dunkerque and a number of
cruisers and destroyers can put