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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24

posed to investigate accidents only
and they ended up hunting Japa-
nese colonies. They brought us q
lot of information that was already
known to the FBI, the State De-
partment. and the Military Affairs
Committee-in fact we know more
about 1t than they"
Protests to Be Made.
Chairman Lea and Representative
Bulwinkle, Democrat, of North
Carolina of the Interstate Com
merce Committee served notice that
they would take the floor tomorrow
to protest the Aviation Committee s
formation with the argument that
matters affecting civilian and COM
mercial aviation properly belonged
with their committee.
Representative Mott, Republican,
of Oregon of the Naval Affairs
Committee agreed with Mr.. Martin
that most of the minority mem
bers would support the Aviation
Committee provided it did not seek
jurisdiction over the air arms of
the fighting services.
Great problems concerning avia-
ton must--be settled in the next
few years relative to our world
routes, and the House must be pre-
pared to deal intelligently with this
vital problem. England, Canada
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
Sedition Indictment
Critics Advised 10
Reserve Judgment
Berse Urges Congress
Members and Others to
Await Trio. Result 81

Members of Congress and others
who criticize the District grand jury
sedition indictments should reserve
judgment on their validity and the
nature of the Governments evil
dence until after the cases have
been tried, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Wendell Berge, in charge Of
the criminal division, declared in
speech at Chicago yesterday.
The fact that our courts are
functioning as usual, the fact that
the rules of evidence for the pro-
lection of defendants are still ap-
plicable, the fact that in order to
obtain conviction the Government
must still prove guilt beyond rea-
sonable doubt-these facts make all
the more remarkable the recent
tendency Of some persons to seek
to try in the newspapers and on
the floor of Congress the seditious
conspiracy case now awaiting trial, y
Mr.. Berge declared.
Declaring that numerous charges
already have been made publicly
that the Government does not nave
case, Mr. Berge added:
Il suggest that it would be appro-
pirate to reserve judgment on such
questions until after this case has
been tried. Certainly the likelihood
of fair trial for the defendants
is greater in a court than in<any
other forum.
Mr.. Berge's comments on the Dis
trict morale case were made in an
address on Civil Liberties After a
Year of War" before the Chicago
Civil Liberties Committee
Warning that civil liberties are
facing a crisis, he said the crisis
stems not from any present inva-
sions of our rights at home, but from
the world wide menace which we
must conquer to remain free"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
Martin Urges House
Aviation Group for
Postwar Promotion
Strong Opposition
Immediately Comes
From Democrats

BY the Associated Press.
Minority Leader Martin came out
yesterday for establishment of a
standing House Aviation Committee
to promote American dominance of
the worlds airways after the war.
He expressed belief that most Re-
puhlicans on the Military and Naval
Affairs Committees would support
the proposal
But strong opposition, stemming
principally from the Democratic
chairmen and members of the Mill
tary, Naval Affairs and Interstate
Commerce Committees, mapped a
campaign to block the plan. Mem
bers Of the latter committee con-
tended that aviation matters be-
longed to their jurisdiction and Mill
itary and Naval Committee members
likewise feared usurpation of their
powers.
Hearing Tomorrow.
Eight separate resolutions to set
up an aviation committee await a
hearing before the House Rules
Committee tomorrow.
Representative Nichols, Democrat,
of Oklahoma, author of one of them
and chairman of special commit
tee to investigate air accidents,
claimed a bare majority of the
Rules Committee favored a stand
ing committee
Chairman May of the Military
Affairs Committee declared that he
was opposed to committees of that
kind, because they usurp the juris-
| diction of other committees" and
criticized the work of the Nichols
| group.
Members of that committee" MI.
May said, went off on a junket to
South America. They were sup
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24

after the presidential election Feb
ruary IS.
The Social Democrats pointed out
that their members hold only one
fourth Of the cabinet seats. whereas
they have nearly half the seats in
the Parliament.
Conservative and agrarian papers
immediately opposed the demand
on the ground that wartime gov
eminent ought TO be non-partisan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
Finnish Workers Seek
More Cabinet Posts

Ey the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Finland, Jan. 23.-
The Social Democrats, representing
Finland's working class, have begun
press clamor for a greater voice
in the coalition cabinet headed by
Premier Jukha Rangell and Foreign
Minister Rolf Johan Whiting, sug-
costing that a shake-up be made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
Victory Tax Doesn't
Hit Retroactive Pow
By the Associated Press


The 5 per cent victory tax need
not be deducted for approved re-
troactive pay increases covering
work done in 1912, employers were
advised yesterday by the War Labor
Board and the commissioner of In
ternal Revenue.
In statement the two agencies
also held that employers desiring to
pay the 5 per cent tax for their
workers must first gain approval of
the WLB, since that would consti-
tute a pay boost for the employe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
| Sick Logger's House
Hauled 80 Miles to
Hospital by Tractor

By the Associated Press.
RIMBEY, Alberta, Jan. 23--
They couldn't get Alexander
Swanson, frostbitten logger,
safely to a hospital any other
way because Of snow-blocked
roads, so they just hitched a
tractor to his clubhouse and
hauled it. Swanson, bed and all
the SO miles to Rimbey.
Swanson. frostbitten while
working in the woods, was car
ried from his bed into the hos
nital after the bunkhouse was
dragged to the hospital door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24

and other countries are planning
for those postwar days and we
must be just as alert" Mr. Martin
said.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Letter Unanswered

At this time ! wish again to call
your attention to my letter to you
of December 81, 1912, in which /
submitted certain basic elements
for a program to effectuate a total
mobilization Of manpower. To date
I have received no reply TO this
letter.
/ do not believe that there can
be any real manpower mobilization
on a piecemeal basis which has
been the approach of the War
Manpower Commission 10 date. l
take this opportunity of repeating
the proposals which I had made.
U If there Is to be maximum
mobilization of available man.
power resources there must be
q complete correlation of the ac-
tivities of those agencies which
have jurisdiction over procure
ment, the issuance of contracts
and disposition Of raw materials
with those in the ManpOwer
Commission.
1t would be futile to continue to
have haphazard methods of having
a contract agency issue contracts
so as to create crises of manpower
and then seek TO utilize the Man.
power Commission solely as a fire
department squad to meet those
continuing crises.
Contracts of available material
must be correlated with the man.
power requirements and supplies.
Total mobilization cannot be re-
stricted TO manpower but must
embrace mobilization of material re-
sources as well. AS Chairman Of
the War Manpower Commission
there has been imposed upon you
both the responsibility and au-
thority TO achieve this goal.
(2) All available manpower, such
as Negroes, or racial groups and
women must be utilized. We must
have an end TO the utterances of
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

fact that in critical areas where
sterilization agreements have been
thought necessary, employees will be
permitted to transfer from one job
to another in accordance with the
provisions of such agreements, all
of which are based upon the single
test of whether the transfer aids in
the prosecution of the war.
On the other hand, In all other
areas In the country where
critical manpower situation has
not developed, and therefore no
sterilization agreements have
been thought necessary as vet,
employees are prevented from
transferring from a job In one es-
sential industry to a job in an
other essential industry at high
err rate of pay even though such
transfer may aid I'm the prOsecu-
ton of the war.
How can the War Manpower
Commission justly attempt TO freeze
men TO their jobs while at the same
time employees are being discharged
because of no available work?
AS you know, in hundreds of
plants throughout the nation men
are being laid off, having worked
themselves out of jobs by produc-
ing too fast and too much" No
provision has been made to assure
continuity of work for these en-
ployes. Your directive under these
circumstances can only serve TO
destroy the morale and efficiency
of workers.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

On behalf of the Congress OF
Industrial Organizations, wish
TO express our serious disagree
ment with certain provisions OF
the recent directive order that
you issued, dated April 3, 1943.
pertaining to the transfer OF en-
ployes from one job to another.
Also, 1 call your attention to GER
tain very basic shortcomings In
the administration Of our man.
power problems.
Your recent directive is addressed
10 a single point. namely, TO prevent
employees from transferring from
one Job TO another where in so
doing they may receiving a higher
rate of pay. This approach does
not even purport TO have any re-
lationship with any manpower
problem but is intended solely TO
impose most unjust burden upon
the workers.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Asks Policy Change

For these reasons the Congress
Of Industrial Organizations must
Insist that your directive be re-
placed by a policy whereby en-
ployment sterilization will be
governed solely through the OPP
Grafton of Joint lab0r-manage-
ment sterilization agreements
to be put into effect wherever
they may be needed and which
shall be predicated upon the fol-
lowing basic principles:
(a) Investigation of plants TO
be covered so as to be certified
that they are complying with ~
health and safety requirements:
(2) wages, hours and working
conditions prevailing in the area
or industry as determined through
bona fide collective bargaining;
(3) requirements for adequate
training facilities; and az re-
quirements for maximum utiiiza-
ton of available manpOwer in
the plant.
(b) Employees in the covered
plants should of course be per-
mitted to leave their present
employ for the purpose of seek
ing employment elsewhere IL the
employee is doing SO to obtain
employment where he can be
utilized at u higher skill or for a
greater number of weekly hours
than he is enjoying at his present
job.
(c) Employees, for remaining at
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

sweated or substandard wage
which can only benefit the en-
ployer In terms of inflated prof
It's, will necessarily be devastat-
Ing.
Any program of stabilizing en-
plOyment to prevent unnecessary
migration must be correlated with
an appropriate national wage
policy that would assure employees
who remain at their present jobs
that they will receive the wages
and be employed ut such hours
and working conditions prevailing
I'm the area or industry as deter
mined through bona fide collec-
tive bargaining.
Your recent directive actually
negates the democratic procedure
established through the employ
m ent sterilization agreements.
your directive fails 10 meet
the problem of how TO stabilize
employment for the purpose OF
all available manpower at
the highest level of skill in order
10 achieve maximum production.
The sterilization agreements did
fhic 0hiective
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Murray Asks
Use acknowledgement Pacts
To Stabilize Munpower Setup

their jobs, should be guaranteed
that as long as they are ready,
able and willing to work, and do
report for work, they should re-
ceive o minimum weekly wage
equal to their average earnings
of 40 hours. Where an industry
or a plant has been requested to
operate on a longer week, the
employees therein employed should
be guaranteed a minimum weekly
wage based upon such longer
work week with premium pay in
accordance with outstanding col
lective bargaining agreements,
statutes and the Presidents Ex-
ecutive Order 9240.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Not Aid TO War

Further in those areas where
sterilization agreements are in op-
Grafton, your directive superimposes
a condition that employees may not
leave their place of employment
because their rate of pay is Sub
stantially less than that prevailing
in the locality in the same OF SUBJ
stantially similar work"
How can it be urged that such
condition can possibly aid in the
prosecution of the war? The i'm
pact on the morale and efficiency
of the employees who are thus
compelled to remain at work at q
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

ers of America held here last week.
end.
Pres. Murray, who Is also head
of the CLIO Steelworkers, was
given a tremendous ovation by
delegates and visitors to the con-
ference, held by Districts SIS and
Sc. Sec.-Treas. David Mcdonald,
of the USA-CIO. and Lee Press
man, CLIO general counsel, who
also spoke, were included in the
ovation.
Noel Beddow, Southern director
of the union presided at the con-
ference.
10000 IN FORCES
Urging union members to give
their entire cooperation In seeing
that war material be kept moving
to speed the winning of the war,
Sec.-Treasur. Mcdonald called at
tention to the fact that already
$4,000 members Of the union were
now in the armed services.
Pres. Murray told the confer
ence delegates that the union
now had more than 10000 gricv-
ance committeeman, 25,O0O local
union officers and 80 district d.
rectors In the bargaining serv-
Ice Of the members. .....
1.-THE democratic principles and
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Halls Work
Done by Joint
Labor Groups

st. Louis, Mo-, April 24-Labor-
management committees have con-
tributed millions of man-hours tc
war production, but for maximum
effectiveness their duties must be
extended in production, and their
functions must go beyond the &C.
tual production job, William Sent
ner, general vioe-president OF the
United Electrical. Radio and Ma
chine Workers of America, Go,
told the regional meeting here OF
the National Conference of Social
Work last week. Sentner was
the main speaker on this subject
at the meeting.
Sentner also cOntended that
the production program must go
beyond this valuable labor-man-
agement cooperation, and that
"it Is Iaber's belief that there
must be established one single
organization that will plan, CO.
ordinate and direct the war pro-
duction and economic stabilza-
ton program for the nation" as
embodied In the Pepper-TOlan-
Kilgore bill.
After reviewing the operation of
the labor-management committees
and pointing out that more than
n year before Donald Nelson of
the WPB called for establishment
Of these committees, the proposal
had been made by Philip Murray,
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

methods used In the running OF
our union have commanded the re-
spect of the nation" he said.
BACK FDR
Declaring that the CLIO has given
whole-hearted support to Pres.
Roosevelt in his fight to win the
war. Murray bitterly attacked
those interests in Washington that
are more interested in fighting UNI
ions than in fighting the war.
CLIO labor has placed It's full
weight behind q program to roll
back living costs to the level OF
September, 1912, Murray said, as
part Of Its support Of the Presi-
dents executive order stabilizing
wages. He called for the <limina-
ton of excessive profits and for
price control as necessary to an
effective war program.
At the Saturday afternoon ses-
sion, Lee FRESHMAN, who Is general
counsel for the USA as well as
for the CLIO, spoke at length on the
legislative problems of the union.
and urged members to keep their
congressman informed of their
stand on Legislative measures
benefiting workers. go c@rEs
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Protects Earnings

(c) Protection of the earnings
of the men at their new jobs so
that they will be equal to those
received on the jobs from which
the employees were transferred.
(d) Protection for the men so
transferring so that they will be
able to return to their old job
on the basis of their accumulated
seniority and all of their rights
and privileges provided for under
the collective bargaining agree
ments covering the place of their
original employment II they had
been continuously at work.
The CLIO has consistently APP
preached the manp0wer problem
on the basis of what has TO be
done to assure the fullest mobili-
zation OF our manpower resources.
We merely request that all steps
be taken which will meet the
needs of our nation by assuring
the maximum production of war
materials.
We are firm in our belief that
that can be done only through
the protection and maintenance
of the health and morale of the
America workers and not through
the imposition of arbitrary direc-
tives which do not meet the prob
lem but rather merely seek to
punish.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

pious hopes in regard to this policy
and enter into a field Of action
whereby employers will be COM
PEELED TO accept this available
manpower. Complete equality of OPP
portunity for employment must be
made available to ali workers and
under the basic principle of equal
pay for equal work.
tS) Labor recognizes that to
meet some critical situations en-
ployes should transfer to plants
which have a serious shortage of
available manpOwer. We are
anxious to do so I'm order to aid
the effective prosecution Of the
war. But where transfers are to
be made, certain safeguards are
essential.
We believe that the ManpOwer
Commission should address itself
to this problem and make adj
equate provision for:
(a) The payment Of travelling
expenses.
(b) Health, housing and child
care facilities for the transferred
employees.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

Through the democratic pro-
cedure of joint labor-management
cooperation there have been adopt
ed, with the approval OF the War
Manpower Commission, employment
sterilization agreements in those
areas where it has been deemed
necessary to aid the war effort.
These agreements, as you know,
have proved to be exceedingly
successful and have stabilized
employment and discouraged UNI
necessary migration. This has
been true because these agree
ments have had the single APP
proach, namely, how best to
utilize all available manpower at
the highest level of skill.
Your recent directive negates
the democratic procedure es-
tabIished under these stabiliza-
ton agreements. Further, your
directive merely seeks to prevent
workers from obtaining a fair
wage for their work regardless
whether this absolute fiat de-
stroys the morale and efficiency
of the workers and thereby pre-
vents the achieving of maximum
production.
The crazy quilt approach of your
directive is demonstrated by the
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Murray Asks:

CIO Pres. Philip Murray this ,ceek urged Man
porer Chairman Paul Y. McNun to replace his recent
lob freeze order ,ch policy proriding that emPiOy-
ment qualification M be governed solely through the
operation of joint labor management sterilization
agreenents containing proper safeguards for cork
ers. Murrays COM Iete statement tOllOirs:
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

president of the CLIO. Sentner said:
1.-THE general work of labor-man-
agement committees has resulted
In contributing millions OF addi-
tional man-hours to production. No
estimate or facts can be obtained,
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

but the sum total output Is in
creased on individual jobs by 10
to 400 per cent. Multiply this by
the millions of workers involved
and the figure becomes stagger-
ing" ~,st..
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26
Murray Hits Crowd
Out to Smear Labor

BIRMINGHAM, Aa Apr Z4-Interests in washington who
dstactng attention from winning the and creating
confusion by prosecuting organized labor severely criticized
CLIO Philip Murray speech made at the district
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-04-26

Clio TANKS ROUT AXIS: M MI tank sa';. kill Ill
members of the United Steeworkers of America the Sche
nectady n w. plant of the American Locomotive Co., helped
rou Remmel at the critical battle AIamen
the statement made this week at ctide celebration hon
orng the soldiers of production by Maj Gen Russell Max
WELL commander of u S. forces In the Middle East and by
Col. Alan G. Cole, of the British Eighth Army.
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