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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-13
FORGERY
CHAPTER XII

FOR the past few hours, that
embryonic hope which had lurkod
within Pat Friday had been grow
Ing. IL was MI unidentified hope but
n very real ono; n hope that jim
my Carr might think she was u W0.
man 10 trent M u woman, u home-
body 10 bn loved, instend Of u cute
iItEle-glgter somebody t0 b1 tGhBod,
Nat that she dIslOknd the tCn6lng
indeed she loved itl--but now bh0
knew that teasing had been tho
sum Of n oil,
"fIe gave you thbl" she muir
INJURED, BtupchCd, 10 LOrhlne SUI.
art there In the ChlGnB0 hotel
room.
Lorraine didn't answer
1WhHrH did y0u.-thlS order"
Pat wasn't coherent because her
mind WIN Whirllng, And yet, bho
could remember enough,
There had been two hours since
she saw Jimmy Az the great
Chicago airport whore their call.
plane landed, crowds Ind ongulfed
them. Reception committees had
things IN hand Jimmy had hch-
meal aspects Of the night 10 see
ID, reports 10 mako 10 Army ON"
eIals and thG like, while she nGted
more M front tor the public 10
zoe. 10 was u pnrt Of their pre-
arranged plan, And no u had
boon two hours since she left
Jimmy nj the air field
1hat was time enough for To-
Fnlne 10 have followed him and
gotten tho order, OF course, Loo
Faine wins originally scheduled 10
bO jimmy'S passenger, Lorraine
was his flanceo. Of course ,
OF course
can right" Pat breathod now,
whipped, "f'll 20, i--thnnk you,
Lorraine I'm sorry Sorry for
everything, ] mean tho night
II shouldn't have been mixed up
this way, for Jimmy's sake md DO
and yours f--gO0d luck, Los
ralne. III 20 now
She hold on 10 tho Army order,
signed by Captain James Carr him
seld. II ordered her back ~ ell
mira Immediately, In the same
plane that had brought Lorraine
west.
"uood .- good luck, Lornino,"
Pat repeated, not seeing her,
TAKE good care OF Jimmy, Take
GOOD care OF him"
She was out Of tho door again,
and all no once tho fatigue re-
turned 10 her, 0ngulfod her, left
that horrible sensation OF l0neli-
moss intensified. She, Pat Friday,
had no parents, no relatives ex.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Sober Work OF
Labor Press Is
Praised By ALL
Union Papers Helped To
Counterfeit Anti-Labor
Propaganda

BOSTON - Anti-labor propaganda
in the daily press assumed dangerous
proportions" in the past year, the
AL. executive council report noted
praising labor newspapers for their
effective work in countering labor
smears.
Departures from the no-strike
policy by individual unions not af-
fiIiated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor were seized upon as
a pretext to defame and smear the
entire trade union movement" the
report said. s'Perhaps the most
vicious aspects of this campaign was
the attempt to infame the minds
of the men i'm the armed forces of
the nation against organized labor"
The campaign blaming labor for
widespread absenteeism which swept
the nation like wildhre was thwarted
by labor's magnificent war production
record and the sober work of the labor
press, it said.
The labor press ''during the past
year served the cause of the nations
workers even more effectively than
ever BEFORE" said the council, ex-
pressing its "deep gratitude to the
bonafide labor press"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Hartford Gu To
Seek Equality OF
Job Opportunity
Committee Appointed To
Aid Negro Workers And
Help In Getting Jobs

The Hartford Central Labor I'm
ion went unanimously on record at
its last meeting to assist in the effort
of aiding Negroes to secure the
same employment opportunities as
other citizens.
A resolution was adopted placing
the C.L.U. on record to cooperate
with the Hartford Negro Citizens
Council in its effort to gain full en-
ployment opportunities and available
lty OF job training facilities for all
people.
In line with the resolution a COM
mittee comprised of Joseph A. Lom-
bard, Meat Cutters, No. 37l; Her
bert A. Miller, Truck Drivers, No.
$50; and Carmen DiCorcia, Brick
layers, No. l, was appointed to rep
resent the C.L.U. in this eort.
Action on the subject followed the
reading letter from the Citizens
Council asking labor's support in the
effort to secure equal opportunity for
all. A number of delegates spoke on
the subject, and they all favored full
cooperation by the C.L.U.
The committee has been instruct.
ed not only to aid in the effort to Sc
cure job and job training opportuni-
ties, but also to follow the progress
of cOlored workers to see that they
are given equal treatment with
others and equal pay for equivalent
work.
Recognizing the dangers of using
one group of workers against another
in order to break down wage stand
ards the Central Labor Union ex-
pressed its determination to fight all
forms of race discrimination that may
be stirred UP or exploited, and to in
sist on one standard of treatmen for
all workers regardless of race.
Five delegates from Local 100,
Fire Fighters, were seated. They are
Edward McNally, Emil Pouch, Wal
demar Anderson, Fred Sheehan and
Ralph MarrOne.
Vice-Pres. Thomas Garrard, Car
penters, presided, in the absence of
Sen. William A. Scott.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Power Plant Bought
By Missouri Coop

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. = The
Missouri Public Service Commission
has granted permission to the Show
Me Power Cooperative of Columbia
to buy the Missouri Electric Power
Co. of Springfield after a o-month
light against the move by IA privately
owned utilities.
Utility spokesman claimed the pur-
chase, which was to be financed by
the Rural Electrifcation Administra-
ton, was part of an R.E.A. scheme
to use federal funds to "socialize the
electric industry of Missouri" This
reasoning was rejected by the COM
mission.
The property purchased serves IS
central and southern Missouri COM
munities. The price is $2,5O4,OOO, adj
vanced by R.E.A. The cooperative
will operate under the same regula-
tons as privately owned utilities.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13

occupation of the Burma rice area,
is the most devastating in modern
times. Unless speedy action is
taken, 25,OOO,O0O to 100000
people in the Calcutta area and
more than 100000 in Bengal
face death from starvation, AIN.
reports.
With prices of food grains risen
from $500 to 5000, the Kisan Sab
ha and the All-India Trade Union
Congress had demanded government
control of all stock stores in public
warehouses to be under the supervision
of Peoples Food Committees, prices
to be brought within the range of the
average citizen.
So far the British government
has offered only paper schemes to
relieve the famine, while increas-
ing arrests of supporters of Indian
independence, $4,000 in the last
two months, have been thrown into
Jail.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Uniioniists Find
That Army Life
Is Tough Work
Twenty-Seven Laborites Get
Sample Of Training At
Pennsylvania Camp

4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Philadelphia union representatives
have been given a taste of Army
life at Indiantown Gap, Pa, and
all of them arrived at the same
conclusion-it's tough.
The twenty men in the group, rep
resenting ALL, C.I.O., and Railroad
Brotherhood unions, did exactly what
the seasoned soldiers did-hred on the
rifle range, took part in combat prob
lens, went through the night inhltra-
ton course under machine-gun fire.
The seven girls lived with the
WAC. Detachment and were as
signed to regular duties, including
KIP detail.
Dressed in Army uniforms and scat
tered among the various units, the
union representatives could not be dis
tinguished from the soldiers. Some of
them found out how it feels to be
yelled at by a tough first sergeant.
The thing that impressed them most
was the long working day and the
good physical condition of the soldiers.
At the conclusion of the visit, the
union leaders presented formal state
ment to Colonel A. o. King, post COM
mander, saying:
eve feel, after Witnessing and
participating in the training these
men go through, we have better
understanding of Army life. We see
the need now, more than ever, of i'm
creased and uninterrupted produc-
ton of the implements of war. We
intend to convey this feeling to our
organizations"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Mark Anniversary

NEW YORK Mrs. Louis D.
Brandeis, Louis Bromfeld, Thomas
Mann, Bishop Francis ]. Mcconnell
and Edward G. Robinson were among
the $50 prominent Americans who
joined recently in sponsoring the 10th
anniversary of the national confer
ence of the American Committee for
Protection of Foreign Born, held
here.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Patterson Tells Of
Our Pacific Front
"Soldiers Know They Have Millions Of Stalwar Allies
In American War Factories Whose Production
Records Will Make Major Offensive
Against Japanese Possible"

the men and women of the factory
front were measuring up on their end
of the job.
In every harbor American ships
were unloading supplies for our
Army. There were great stores of
food, weapons, vehicles and ammu.
nitiOn-in warehouses or piled ON
the ground. There were no short
ages of any of these things at the
bases we visited. But the appetite
of war is SO strong that these re-
serves would be leveled i'm a few
days of big offensive.
That is why it is necessary to step
up our war production to its highest
possible level. The amount of equip
ment needed simply to replace the ma
terial expended each day is staggering,
and far greater quantities must be
accumulated to start the full-scale at
tack. The rough, roadless jungles are
the natural enemies of army vehicles,
shortening their usefulness and max
ing requirements of this one item alone
a big problem.
Nothing is as pressing, however.
as the need for planes. General
kenney told me that more and
more fighting aircraft were re-
CURED at once in every part of the
Pacific theater. The quicker we get
them the quicker we can really 20
to work on the Japs. A stronger air
force will put more power into the
blows we are striking and will
shorten the casualty lists when the
infantry fights it out on the
ground.
AS our striking power grows, we
will drive the enemy back closer and
closer to Tokyo. We are confident we
will hold the initiative we have won.
but japan will be no pushover. The
steam for the knockout punch must
come from the men and women in
mines, mills and factories thousands
OF miles from the front. None of us
at home or overseas can relax.
Our cause in the Pacific would
suffer an unnecessary, and perhaps
tragic, delay if we should take it
easy on mistaken notion that we
can coast the rest of the way. Man
for man and weapon for weapon.
we have proved that we are better
than the Japs. 1t is up to us to
throw all of our resources into the
fight.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Strikes
Hysterical Note

Continued from Page One)
Lewis as an excuse for voting for
the Smith, onnally Law, although
labOr's adherence to its no-strike
pledge has won the praise of the
country.
Because he voted for the Smith
COnnally Bill, the American Fede-
ration of Labor has listed Mr..
Compton as an enemy of labor.
Here in Connecticut we of crgan-
lied labor also point to his anti
labor, anti-common people voting
record in Congress-, and do hereby
state that we are forced to the con-
clusion that Mr.. Compton is repre-
senting in Congress the privileged
groups, and not the working men
and women of his District
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Labor To Send
100000 Toad
In India
ALL. And CLIO. Move
To Feed Victims Of
Great Famine

WASHINCTON-The sum of
100000 for relief of famine now
ravaging India may be sent immedi-
ately to the famine areas from the
joint A.F.L.-C.I.O. war relief funds.
The National Clio. War Relief
Committee has already voted the
emergency contribution and the
ALL. was expected here to take
similar action.
At the same time, in Bombay the
Punjab Kisan Sabha peasant union)
began collecting fund of 100000 ru-
PEGS (about $35,OOO) to help overcome
the famine in which 100000 men,
women and children are dying every
week, according to Allied Labor Nez0s.
The money will be used to buy grain
directly from the peasant, thereby cut
ting out hoarders, pro6teers and COM
mission agents.
The famine, caused by Japanese
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
By Robert p. Patterson
Under Secretary of War

(Mr. Patterson has just re-
turned from personal Uisit to
american Advance bases in the
Pacific. In the following article,
sOritten especially for the labor
press, he tells american sVOrkers
about the things he sasU.-Edi-
tori
In the hot, steaming jungles of
New Guinea, American and Aus
tralian troops are pressing for
ward against the Jap. Theirs is
an uphill fight against a stubborn
enemy and against conditions
that make life almost unbearable.
But our fighting men are deter
mined to keep going until the last
Jap throws down his arms.
One thing that contributes
to their determination and
strengthens their confidence
in victory is the knowledge
that they have millions of
stalwart allies i'm American war
factories who are seeing to it
that they get the things they
need to win,
A 30,0O0-mile trip to the South Pa
cific combat area, such as / have just
completed, provides a good oppor-
tunity to see frst-hand the conditions
under which our men are fighting and
to learn from them how much more
there is to do before an Allied Army
of Occupation marches into Tokyo.
Our soldiers, from General Mac
Arthur down to the last private off
a troop ship, realize that the vic
tories we have chalked up thus far
represent nothing more than firm
base for the bigger tasks that lie
ahead. The battle of the Pacific is
still a series of local struggles for
possession of harbOrs and airpOrts
necessary for the launching of the
about offensive.
The about offensive will come as
soon as enough men and materials are
ready. The key to that offensive lies
in Americas production, and every
thing we saw in our visit proved that
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Women Fill $1,000
Jobs In Hartford

HARTFORD.-Based on an an
alysis of reports from firms employ
ing over 90 per cent of all the manu-
featuring workers in central Connect
cut, the employment of women work
ers has increased sharply during the
past year, according to State Man
power Director William J. Fitzgerald.
At the latest report women employed
industrially numbered more than
1900, or more than one-third of all
factory employees.
During the fiscal year ending in
July, total employment in reporting
factories increased by S. per cent
the number of male employees declined
perceptibly, while the number OF
women employed increased by SIC
per cent, an absolute rise Of 24,600
The proportion of females employed
varied from 329 per cent in New
Britain to 1913 per cent in Meriden.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Donnelley Hearing
Opens Before NLRB

CHICAGO -Longawaited hearing
of the N.L.R.B. complaint against
R. R. Donnelley & Sons, notorious
anti-union press, opened this week
The company got last-minute post
ponement of one week with a motion
for bill of particulars.
Closed to union men since 1907, the
gigantic concern employing 5000
printing trades workers calls itself an
open shop" because it hired one
union member in 1888. Donelley prints
Time, Life, Readers Digest and slick
paper house organs for many large
industrial concerns.
Charges of unfair labor practices
were filed several months ago by the
Chicago Printing Trades Unions
(A.FL.).
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13

Sixty-five per cent of the world
international communication tele-
graph traffic is handled by, cable,
and IS per cent, by radio.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13

During the fiscal year 1912, over
30 billion pieces of u. S. mail,
weighing over million tons, we're
received, transported, and delivered.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Will Benefit Both
Nation And Workers

WASHINGTON-The ALL.
October Monthly Survey" gives
facts, figures and charts to show
why organized labor is pushing
a new social security tax as the
best way to raise the ten and a
half billion dollars the Treasury
Department says we need to win
the war.
Pointing out that the Wag-
ner-Murray-Dingell social Sc
curity bill, Sl16l, adds only
40 i'm new taxes while a
lO% sales tax would increase
living cost lO%, the survey
outlines benefits workers will
receive under the social secur-
ity tax:
ssTaking a typical case of work
er earning $40 week and support
ing a wife and two children, he will
receive benefits of $50 week for
&c weeks i'm sickness or unemplOy-
ment. If he is permanently disabled.
the family will receive disability
payments of at least $l4 month
while the children are under ID, and
after that he will receive at least
$45 month for the rest of his life.
All his doctors bills will be paid
and he may choose his own doctor.
"All hospital bills for minimum es-
sential services will be paid for him
self and each member of his family
up to at least 80 days for each person
in one year. He will have care of spec
ialists, laboratory work, X-rays, treat
ments, eyeglasses and other appliances
for himself and his family free of
charge At IS his old age benefit will
bring him $45 or more each month to
the end of his life, plus $3.50 or
more for his wife after she reaches
90. If he dies, his widow receives
three-fourts of his benefit and each
minor child one-half up to maximum
of $3.50 month for the family"
A 1919 sales tax, on the other hand,
would do this:
Take 9.48o of the entire in
come of workers earning $500
year.
Take 1875 of income between
$1,000 and $500.
Take 6.2% of incomes be-
tween $4,000 and $500.
But from incomes over &c.
600, 1919 sales tax would take
only 2.l%.
Thus sales tax would place
a burden on workers, earning from
$1,000 to $500 year, three times the
burden paid by wealthy persons, or
even more" says the survey. "And on
the lowest income group the burden
would be four and half times that
placed on the wealthy
The phony argument that sales
tax is needed to drain away excess
spending power allegedly concen-
trated in the hands of low income
groups is nailed down with these
Commerce Department figures:
g.. While the l943 imitation gap
of socalled excess spending power
was $38 billion, actually $50 bill
lion of this was taken up by savings
and only 81 billion was left to in
crease prices"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
ocia Security Bill AFL Backed Best w War Measure
Over 100000 Women
Now In Organized Labor

WASHINGTON-More than g.
100000 women now belongs to unions,
as compared to 245,0O0 in 1910. Sec
Treas. Elizabeth Christian of the
Nat Women's Trade Union League
said this week.
She reported that prejudice against
women's holding office in unions is
disappearing and that more unions are
writing equal-pay provisions into
their contracts.
The Omaha guide., 1943-09-11

S. B. Danley, who will head the
q. S. Employment office 3ome-
where in the Hawaiian Islands left
from an unannounced port IN n
West Coast this week to take Up
his duties. Mr.. Danley and family
were honored last week in Chic
ago at the Alpha House whore u.
s. Treasurer representative Will
lam Pickens directed the farewell
cermony. Pictured above are Mr..
Danley and family. Margaret IS.
left Mrs. Danley. Theresa AMI Mr.
Dainty seated. The family will
leave for Hawaii as soon as. the
government can arrange transport
alton, which it is said within a few
weeks. Acting as special repres-
entativt for L s. Government En-
ployet Service in Washington Cor
the past six months. Mr.. Danley
is well prepared for his new posi-
ton. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity OF Southern California and
has done graduate work at the Tn
versity OF Chicago, Fisk and North
The Omaha guide., 1943-09-11
ID States
Takeup Gov.
Hog Wager

Fourteen states have taken Gov
lernor Griswold UP on his offer to
bet a Nebraska hog against any
state which thinks that it will over
subscribe its Third War Loan quota
by mora percentage points than
does Nebraska. The bets range
laIl the way from a buffalo thrown
in by Governor John c. Vivian of
Colorado to peanuts and tobacco
Eanted by the great State Of Virgin
liza
Some Of these States have a lot
Hover quota than our s103, 600. co."
said Griswold. but knowing the
people of Nebraska as lido, II say
that with any luck at all we should
definitely come out on top"
The States taking Governor Girls
void VI and the Third War Loan
quotas assigned to them by Wash
ington are as follows:
Arkansas, s5S, OOO. 900: Colorado,
s72, 900, 900; Idaho. s25, OOO, 900: Ill
|%inois, 1921 ,oOo, 900; Indiana, $751;
600, 900; Iowa, s1s6, OOO, 900; Kansas
SIP, 600 900; Michigan, s451, 600, QUO;
Minnesota, s216, 600, 900; North Oak
ota, s29, OOO, 900; Oklahoma 500. 600
900; Vermont. $3.50, 900, 900; Wiscon-
sin. s2sS, 900, 900.
The Omaha guide., 1943-09-11
S.
Dies
PIONEER RESIDENT

Mr.. William S. Lawson, age So
years. died Monday morning at his
home, 2511 Corby Street. after an
extended illness. MI. Lawson
came to Omahaf fifty-one years a.
lgo and was former head waiter at
ia local hotel for a number Of years
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson were MARI
led July Is, 1892 and to this union
were born ten children, all vino sur
vive. Last year Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawson celebrated their Golden
Wedding Anniversary. Mr.. Lazy
Ison was a member of Zion Baptist
Church and was a man who was
hospitable and an ideal
lcompanion and a warm-hearted
friend. He is survived by his wife
Mrs. Eva Lawson, seven daughters
Mrs. Blanche Blair, Mrs. Grace
STANLEY, Mrs. Bertha Moore, Mrs
Ruth Rice, Mrs. LaVene DeLispipe
ltheesons , Mr.. William S. Lawson
Jr.. Mr.. Clifford Lawson, Mr.. Lysle
Lawson. all of Omaha, one sister
Mrs. Mildred Parks, Pittsburgh. Pa
twenty-one grand children and
three great grandchildren.
The body lay in state at Ths
Thomas Funeral Home until th'
funeral hour. Funeral services
were held at 2 D. m. Thursday
from Zion Baptist Church with bur
ial at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
The Omaha guide., 1943-09-11
FEPC SCUTTLED BECAUSE
OF CASE

1t is to be remember that it was
he sensational findings Of the FEs-
Pc investigators in preparing for
the original hearings that doomel
he first FEPC. The suspension II
the hearings shocked and N
LIBERALS throughout America. ara
hey formed a coalition Of organ
izations to save an ~dres1ablish ErE.
PC under the leadership of A. Pull
LIP Randolph. whose March on Was
hington Movement had convinced
President Roosevelt Of the nece.
sity Of issuing Executive Order ~.
$500. The Save FEPC Commits
has been successful in getting tie
FEPC re-established. removed from
the jurisdiction of Paul McNutrs
Mnapower Commission. and with
an increased budget Of $40. OOv M.
A significant factor to bear III nina
? InaI despite M temporary SCI
back the firemen experienced, the
asis of their Ease is no less pert
inent today. Instead. it is felt in
some circles, with qualified JUST
fication that the case Is more It'll
portant today than ever befor.
This feeling is prevalent because
of the greater number of facts
which have been compiled. and he
cause a victory for the Colored fire
men at this time when bias against
Negroes and the general reaction
airy spirit it at its highest peak
would hail a smashing defeat on
fhe biased Railroad B-rotherloods
II also might signal by a precedent
turn toward a more liberal atli-
ude in America.
The Omaha guide., 1943-09-11
4 MEDICS TO SERVE
ARMY WIVES

Birmingham. Sept. 9 amp Four
teen Negro doctors here have Civ.
en- their consent to cooperate with
maternal home delivery program
or wives of enlisted men in all
branches of the service. attaches in
the Jefferson County Health de-
partment indicated this week.
Doctors agree to give their ser.
vices for the minimum rate Of ss5
Prospects were doubtful as TO whe-
Their the Jefferson hospital. If
view Of the need OF II nurses
would be able to undertake the
program Authorities expressed
the feeling that provisions woluc
be made for the wives of colorec
enlisted men in the event the hos
pital program was put into oper
alton