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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
AS ADVERTISED

STOCKTON, CALIF.-Wrest-
ling promoter Bill Hunnefeld
placarded the town:
Danger. Ladies and gentle
men who have weak hearts are
advised not to witness this re-
turn match"
During the match a woman
spectator collapsed.
Her death was due to heart
attack, the examining physician
said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
NO SANDWICH?

KANSAS CITY - Mrs. Lee
Stewart, a neighbor, found six
year-old Larry PREF standing
motionless amid swirling smoke
in his burning apartment.
He wanted to stay and look
for toys, but Mrs. Stewart drag
ged him to safety.
Then he wanted to hurry back
inside for a peanut butter sand
witch.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
UP-TO-DATE TRAVELLING

WAINESbOhO, IA. = re-
member the horse and buggy?
Well-noW it's the horse and sta
ton wagon.
H. N. Boehrner fitted a wagon
bed on an auto chassis and in
stalled "a seats. The vehicle
carries him and fellow members
of the Waynesboro Country Club
to and from social events.
Horsepower rating: Two bay
mares.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
CALL OF THE RANGE

LIVIN &c S TON, MONT. -
Twenty-Five lean buffalo were
ambling from Yellowstone Ma
tional Park northward toward
Livingston today, seeking feed
or open range.
Rancher Art Pfohl said he and
neighbors had driven the ami
mails away from haystacks Mon
day, and yesterday the herd had
covered half of the 50-mile trip
here from the park.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
by The Associated Press
TACTICAL MANEUVER

PITTSBURGH Under-secre-
tary of War Robert p. Patterson
agreed to answer written Ques-
tions on important war produc-
ton problems of 800 industrial
lists at banquet.
Have you ever been lost in
the Army's new Pentagon build
ing?" was the first one.
Patterson chuckled:
Eyes, every time ! get three
doors away from my officel"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
RATIONING CUT

NAUGATUCK, CONN. -Jo-
seph Kloc, who received II
Number One Ration books last
May, applied for the Number
Two books, but said he only
wanted IS.
Two of my eight boys have
joined the armed forces" he told
registrars, land now l have
only my wife, six boys and sew
en- girls home with me-"
He agreed to return the Num-
Der one books issued to the two
boys now in the service.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
. IN HOLLYWOOD

al and Director Buzzell gave a
sigh of relief. Lucille blushed a
little. And one of the censors
allowed that for this kind of
work he should refund his sal
airy for the day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR

Concedino thot over-zeoIous subordinotes have
made their errors, the Department Of Justice, thus
far in World War II, has done exceedingly we'll at
keeping hysterio out Of its prosecutions.
The attitude Of the department is we'll summarize
ed by Assistant Attorney General Wendell Buree in
the current issue Of the American Bar Association
Journal.
Matchmaking, he soys build temporary
reputation for public Official in wortime, but "such
O course of cotton is at least misguided patriotism,
and may we'll amount to perverson Of the essential
lectures of democracy and its Judicial SYSTEM for the
continuation Of which the war is being woeed"
Not only prosecutors. but editors and Ioymen
could we'll keep Mr.. Burgess warning in mind Let's
sck to facts and steer away from suspicious and
founded rumors.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

jack of diamonds. Another spade
was played to the ace and the
seven of hearts ruffed with the
queen of diamonds.
The ace of diamonds was
cashed, and now Stone led the
three of diamonds and boldly
finessed dummy's nine-spot. On
the king and six of diamonds he
discarded two clubs from his
own hand. Two more clubs went
on the ace and king of hearts.
Thus he lost only one club trick.
Stone further remarked,
Simple mathematics had to
win four spade tricks, two hearts
and four diamonds. Therefore I
had to get in two ruffs to make
IL tricks"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

to pick up three hitch hiking
sailors. AS talk swung to Hol-
lywood stars - and jeanette
assured them that stars WERE
sometimes seen by chance-the
three passengers stared at her in
the gathering dusk. She looks
like jeanette Macdonald" said
the first sailor. She sounds like
jeanette Macdonald" said the
second sailor. "She is jeanette
Macdonald" said the third sail
or. Il didn't pass those Navy
eyesight exams for nothin'."
CHICLE CHATTER
Rationing of gasoline, sugar,
coffee and canned goods isn't
going to affect Hollywood actors
nearly as much as the shortage
of chewing gum. There, brother,
is a near-tragedy.
Did you ever watch Ginger
Rogers on the set? Or Bling
Crosby, or Dorothy Lamour, or
Joan Crawford, or Spencer Ira
cy, or dozens of other top-liners?
In order to concentrate on their
lines before the camera starts
to roll, they've got to have their
gum.
During filming of Dixie"
Bing Crosby used up six pipes
and a couple of cases of spear
mint. Chews chicle and pipe
stem simultaneously. 1t used to
be said of Margaret Sullivan
that she concealed her gum in a
hollow tooth just before going
into a scene. Once, remember
ing her gum just as scene be-
gan, Roz Russell parked it be-
hind Alien Jenkins ear. Guess
they'll have to go back to chew
ing the scenery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24
UPSIDE DoWkERS

As everybody knows, the japanese people live on
the bottom of the earth, and walk upside down. Aft
er countless generations Of this physical toPsyurv-
ness, what could be natural than that they
should have developed mental hndsdeforeness?
For example, that they dry themselves with the
towel before the main course. Their books open at
the riqht instead Of at the left Their lines run down
the page instead Of They stort in the upper
rioht hand corner instead of at the left They
funny race.
This background is useful in considering Moi.
Gen. Kenryo Sotos explanation to the japanese Diet,
on behalf of the War Office thot the Nips sacrificed
at Ieost 20 600 troops on Guodooono plus scores of
cargo, transport and fighting ships, merely diver
sion to distract American attention while they con-
Quoted q "stroteeic advance to new bases"
The 10000 troop figure is understotement.
Perhaps he found that even in an UPSIDE down world
he could expIoin the loss Of 10000 men more easily
than that Of the far greater number who actually
perished in vain attempt to take back Henderson
Field from American fighting
General Sotos Qualification has gone over SO we'll
that soon we may expect admiral to explain how
it has been possible for the Jops to destroy the same
American fleet - utterly - SO many times, and still
be forced to sacrifice thousands Of and Of
ships as devoys to overt unWelcome attention from
out Navy.
Dictotorships are at their best, at propaganda,
while they ore winning Then the crude truth is suf-
fcient to creote the desired illusion that the dictator
possesses super-humon qualities
1t is when the tides turn, and reverses come, that
the relationships tie themselves into knots OF lies,
seeking to protect Fuehrers and Duces and Shoguns
from the results Of their own folIes.
In democrocies we have no inflated Municipalities
to protect We can stand unpleasant truths because
our strength rests upon the unfoltern9 will Of all the
people.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

Apparently overenthusiostic deooeist went
overheard in the FOR profile in the Office Of War In
formations new magazine, Victory. Unfortunately
Elmer Davis did not read it in advance. He now con-
fesses without reservation that lit indefensbe,"
and promises that 1.-THE unfortunate incident" will
not recur.
Considering the sort Of man Mr. Davis is, we can
accept his assurance thot, if there ore fourth term
plans, he is not party to them and Victory is not to
be vehicle for their promotion.
The magazine itself is designed to drive off neu-
tro magazine racks German propaganda publico-
ton tht does good To beot the Nozis, we must
do better job, produce more ottroctve moeozine
give the Pensioners" what they want If they want
personalities, who in the United Nations has more
appeal than the President
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

GIN RUMMY QUIZ
Q. In most card games, high
deals. Is that true of gin rummy?
A. No, low deals the first
hand. Remember that the ace Is
low.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-24

seacoast cities SO Real estate
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Keep Workweek
48HoursAdvises
OfAFL

MIAMI, Fla.-America's work
week should be kept at 48 hours,
ALL. Pres. William Green said this
week.
"World experience" Green said,
'shows that unduly long hours are
invariably followed by increased
absenteeism due to fatigue or ILL
ness. In England and Germany long
wOrkweeks were found to be the
cause of ineficiency and reduced
output; reducing the wOrkweek
restored production.
I'VE cannot get more by simply
1engthening the hours. Flesh and blood
accumulate fatigue, which slows down
nerves and brairl-and output declines.
''Let us profit by experience and
keep Americas workweeks at 48
hours, so that we can maintain our
production rates and the efficiency
of our producing workers. They
have made a record of which we
may be proud"
Green wrote that last years un-
paralleled' production of ships, planes,
tanks and other equipment of war
twas accomplished on what was
practically a 48-hour standard"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Teachers Form
Commission On
Post War World

CHICAGO.-The executive coun.
Gil of the American Federation of
Teachers (A.F.L.) has announced
formation of a commission on edu.
cation and the postwar world auth.
Orized by the unions convention.
The commissions aims are the
study of the problems of winning
the peace and making appropriate
recommendations for action i'm the
schools and other educational
agencies of the nation.
Among the subjects to be canvass
ed by the commission are: Aims and
purposes of the war; the relation of
the u. S. to the various members of
the United Nations; the choices con-
fronting the American people con-
corning the peace; means of establish
ing a just and durable peace; re-
sponsibility. of education in building
a peaceful world; development of a
permanent program of education in
the postwar world.
The commission consists of DIR.
John L. ChiIds of Columbia Uni
versity; Selma M. Borchardt, AFT.
legislative representative; DIR. Geo.
S. Counts, former AFT. president
John M. Fewkes, AFT. president
and Irwin r.. Kuenzli, AFT. secre.
tary-treasurer.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
AS We See 1t
BY
THE STAFF

JOSEPH X. SHEPARD, who up
holds the best traditions of HOOsier
humor in editing the Indianapolis
Union, oldest ALL. newspaper i'm
the u. S., has written the following
open letter to WestbrOok Pegler
''The Union suggests, that you ap-
ply your vituperative pen and your
exceptional ability at welding
barbed darts to a very pressing sub
ject-not neglecting the racketeer-
ing things i'm labor, of course, not
for a minute.
SsBut too great american indus
tries are guilty of the murder OF
american and Allied soldiers, OF
racketeering on grand scale neUer
eUen dreamed of by your mind SO
apt at dreaming. anaconda Wire
e Gable Co. has been caught red
handed, thrice indicted, for DELHI
erateIy selling defective, inferior
wire and cable to our armed forces
and to Russia. The u. S. Cartridge
Co. has been exposed deliberately
shipping faculty ammunition to
army arsenais.
ooh boy, Peg! Just think ,Uhat
you can do with subject like that.
Doesn't your ink just trembIe in
the bottle? Doesn't that make Pc
triIlO and the labor lords seem
petty stuff in comparison?
''We're waiting anxiOusly, Peg,
and reading every column for the
blasting you're going to give those
boys. We can hardly wait.''
NODDED HEARTS, cupids and
other novelties hare been banned
by the W.P.B. from the candy
counters for Valentines Day. We
eagerly asoait the Hearst editorial
denOuncing the bureaucrGts for this
merciless determination of an
american institution.
JUST AS WE were going to
press, Joe Tone, ConsuItant to the
us. Department of Labor, visited
our Office. Joe has just returned
from a lO,OOO-mile trip through
out the country and Canada. Well
give you full details next week.
While on the trip, Joe attended 81
formal dinners! He's not quite sure
himself as to how many speeches
he had to make.
FOUR CENTRAL LABOR unions
in Connecticut have returned their
presidents to office by unanimous
vote in recent elections. This indi.
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Conference Hears
Leading Officials

Leading State and city officials
were scheduled to attend the City
Wide Conference sponsored by the
New Haven A.F.L.-C.I.O. ManpOwer
Committee held at the Hotel Taft,
Friday, Feb. S.
Among those participating in the
Conference, designed to pool infor-
nation and work out methods where
by the community can mobilize the
maximum number of workers for
war industry work are:
Judge Roscoe Steffen, of the
Yale Law School, acting as mOdera-
tor; Gail E. Smith and Harry Rus
sell, New England Regional Repre-
sentatives, of the Labor Production
Division of the W.P.B.; William
G. Ennis, state director of the u. S.
Employment Service; Mayor John
W. Murphy; Prof. Wesley Sturges,
Administrator of State Defense
Council; A. E. Whitehill, district
representative of the War Man
power Commission Training Within
Industry; and Harold F. Woodcock,
head of the New Haven Defense
Council.
The New Haven Manufacturers
Association declined the invitation to
attend. A letter from Executive Sec
rotary Joseph Whiteside, Jr., stated
that the board of directors "have
reached the conclusion that there
would be little advantage from such
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
2 Conn. Unionists
Help Production

Two Connecticut unionists who
worker out new methods for stepping
up war production, were honored this
week by being interviewed on a radio
program broadcast from the stage of
the State Theatre in Hartford. The
ideas were suggested under the
sponsorship of the Labor Management
committees in their plants.
]. Francis Britt, member of Air
craftsman Lodge, No. 743, LAM,
and an inspector at the Hamilton
Propeller plant, East Hartford,
worked out a method by which
the necessity of drilling holes in
piston gasket nuts could be elm
mated entirely. This saves ii min
utes on each piece. The exact
amount of time, effort and ma
terial effect by this idea is kept
secret for military reasons.
Anthony Bosco, an employee of the
American Brass Co., Waterbury, a
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
No More Dies
Committed Is
Hartford Plea
Central Labor Union Again
Asks Discrimination
Of Committee

For the second time within two
years, the Hartford Central Labor
Union went on record at its last meet
ing as opposing the continuation OF
the Dies Committee Action came ir
response to a letter from the National
Federation for Constitutional Liber-
ties, urging the C.L.U. to use its sup
port in an effort to have the U. S
House of Representatives discontinue
the Committee in 1913 by refusing
to grant it funds.
Second Vice-President John ].
Miller, and vice-president of the
Conn. Federation of Labor made
the motion that the C.L.U. re.
Introduce the same resolution ii
passed in 1912 dealing with the
Dies Committee. The motion was
unanimously passed.
In line with the resolution, com.
municatiOns will be sent to Con-
gress informing them of the
C.L.U.'s stand and asking them to
vote against granting funds for the
continuance of the Committee.
The Hartford Central body op-
poses the continuation of the Dies
Committee because it has fagrantly
abused its powers to launch unjustih-
able attacks upon the characters of
progressive individuals and to smear
labor and liberals.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Selected
For Post On WLB

The Executive Board of the
Conn. Federation of Labor, meet
ing in Hartford last week, discuss
ed its program with the ALL. leg
islatOrs, offered opposition to
number of anti-labor bills, and APP
proved the selection of Frank Nj.
Heavey of Local Blob, Electrical
Device Workers, as candidate for
one of the two ALL. representa-
tives on the New England Regional
War Labor Board, Sec.-Treas. John
]. Egan, legislative agent of the
Federation, told The Union Times
! this week.
The Conn. Federation of Labor is
opposed to proposed bills for incor-
porating labor unions; for requiring
unions to make financial statements
to the Secretary of State or to the
labor department; for giving the
Commissioner of Labor the power
to suspend at his discretion labor laws
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

the Board has not instructed Will
cox to send letters to those former
Iy on relief, it has itself received a
letter of protest from the Middle
town Central Labor Union. This
protest was drafted at the behest
of the C.L.U. by the Legislative
Committee of that body.
Even though it looks like the
Board will not go through with its
attempt to dun the former relief re-
cipients," a spokesman for the CL.U.
told THE UNION TIMES, ''the central
body has decided to go through with
its letter of protest both as matter
of principle and to be on record as
protesting the action of the Board"
Copies of the Gu. letter we're
sent to Mayor Salvatore Cubeta.
with whom the Board was called
into a secret huddle after its action
back-fred i'm the form of public
| Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
No Battle OF.
Sexes Going On
In Bridgeport
Bus Operators Are Getting
Along Fine; Women Are
Invited To Join Union

"All this talk heard in certain
quarters about "a battle of the sexes
among the bus operators has not a
word of truth in it." asserted Lester
Parhtt, President of Division 459,
Bridgeport Bus Operators, this week.
Parfit said that the men are get
ting along fine with the women re-
Gently hired to drive buses on the
G. r. and L. lines in the Park City.
Although not a few of the men
including Parfitt still feel that bus
driving is not Sob for women, -
the men, though skeptical, are gen.
tlemen, said Parfitt, who stated
further that the eight women driv-
ers have been asked to join the
union.
Recently the company has been
able to secure a number of men
drivers, and seems to have lost in
terest in women as operators, said
the president of Division 459.
He said 16 men who had worked
at the Billiard Manufacturing Co.,
and were laid off, with a number of
others, have been employed as bus
drivers. The Billiard company is re-
ported to have put on a number of
women to operate cranes in the plants
where men were laid off, said Parftt
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Labor Papers
ASkRationiing
Be Extended
Press Believes OPA Order
AS "Step In Right
DIRECTION

Labor newspapers, both ALL.
and CLIO, believe the rationing
of canned goods and meat due i'm
a few weeks is step in the right
direction, but even more extensive
rationing is required.
This consensus was obtained by
Federated Press in a survey of the
first editorial reaction in labor news
papers to the new rationing announce
ment. Typical comments follow:
Labor Herald, California C.I.O.:
''The national food administration
and the OPA have made a gesture
in the direction of the overall dem
Ocratic rationing of essential and
scarce commodities but that
gesture is disastrOusly late, incom.
pIete and timid.''
New York Trade Union Record,
ALL: ''Ration all foods and fix
prices so that everyone is able to
get his share of the necessary food
products.
Clio. NesUs: ''The Clio. whole.
heartedly supports all steps for the
extension of rationing. HI. Its only
complaint is that these steps are
still SO small and wavering."
Reading (Pa.) Labor Advocate,
ALL: g. We asserted long ago
that ratiOning is just about the only
way of dealing with scarcity at a
time when the nation is gravely
threatened by forces from without
our borders
AdUance. Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, CLIO: GO. OPA ham
ding of prices and scarcities in
1912 has been incomparably better
than i'm l94l. 1t can be made to
work even better"
Ferre Haute (Ind.) ADVOCATE,
ALL: Congress and the federal
government should render all as
sistance i'm meeting the situation,
but many individuals, if properly
impressed by the threat of a food
shortage, can do something to re-
move the danger so far as it affects
themselves
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

Ia Conference inasmuch as aspects
of the situation which you intend to
cover are already covered by appro-
pirate active committees"
AIMS OF CONFERENCE
The following points were SEIZED
uled for discussion at the confer
ence: CD The existing manpower
needs of New Haven War Manu-
facturers. The possibilities for full!
recruitment of local labor to meet
the need, particularly the recruit
ment of women, Negro workers
and friendly fOreign-born. CD The
adequacy of existing child-care fa-
cilities for working mothers includ-
ing capacity, location, hours, age
span, transportation, etc. CD The
adequacy of the existing job train
ing program, including nature of
training, degree of enrolment, ma
nature of placement following
training.
Organized labor in New Haven in
sponsoring this conference has set a
precedent that might we'll be followed
by other communities as a demo-
cratic approach to a great community
problem. This idea was expressed in
endorsement of the conference by
officials.
Director Ennis of Employment Ser
vice said that the Conference showed
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Printing Trades
Call Conference

NEW YORK A conference OF
100000 AFL workers in New York
City to plan a program to meet the
mounting cost of living and lift the IS
per cent Little Steel formula has beer
called for by the Allied Printing
Trades Council.
Participating in a meeting which de-
cided on this move were the Inter
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
International Photo Engravers Union
International Printing Freshmen &
Assistants Union, International Stere-
otypers & E1ectrotypers Union Gall
AFL) and the International Typo
graphical Union (unafi1iated).
The motion to call a conference was
adopted unanimously after delegates
reported increasing dissatisfaction OF
the workers with the lag of wages be-
hind the ever increasing cost of living