Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

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MR.. PICKERING sick of hav-
ing people
think that all workers are
slackers. We notice in the Sem
tinel, the paper published by
workers at the Murray Corpora
ton. that they are compiling a
list Of employees who haven't
missed a day since Pearl Harbor.
There are so many that the list,
begun month ago, isn't finished
yet.
The slackers get all the ink.
and the people who stick TO
their jobs just get taken for
granted. Usually, that Is. But
this copy OF the Sentinel must
have been edited by somebody
who was using his head TO think
with. He put the emphasis on
the people who do things, instead
OF the ones who don't.
Take a couple OF other ex-
Amples-there's picture OF
Mort Allen. a production worker
who is still on the job although
he is 78 years old and is a great
grandfather.
There's picture OF Julius
Yurgen, an aircrafter who
bought a $1,000 war bond. and
photographs cf-joiTr -frftcnick.-
Geraldine l.. Hullier and Royce
Rodenbaugh, all OF whom have
invented various tools TO speed
up the process OF riveting.
Notice that one OF these inven-
tors is a girlD
Carl Thomas IL written up
because he figured out a method
20 reduce, by Is seconds, the
amount of time IL takes for n
worker TO get his lunch check
added up In the factory cafeteria
There are photographs OF Murray
workers who have gone into the
army or navy, and, for the first
time, girl gets in-Dorothy
Chojnach who quit the assembly
line 10 Join the WAACs.
There's an interesting sidelight
on Capt. Arthur Wermuth, the
''one-man army who is Jap
prisoner after first having proved
himself 10 be one Of the dead
lest fighters on record.
II seems that, at Murray,
there's a worker named Dave
Dimitri Dimitri says Wermuth
was the first guy 10 treat me
swell" Wermuth was a lieuten-
ant when Dimitri, newly arrived
from Rumania, went into a CCC
camp.
War was breaking out in Eu-
rope. Dimitri Wondered what
was happening 10 his parents
and his brothers. II was Wer-
muth who raised the money 10
send a cable 10 Rumania. Gives
you an idea Of what fighting
man is like underneath.
Another incident makes you
feel proud OF n fellow named
Joseph Kolch. He's a little guy
who has been suffering from n
chronic ailment for 20 years. His
body is wracked and twisted. but
never mind. He wanted to do
his part.
Somewhere, he scraped up the
resources 10 take a course In
riveting - 81 hours. But Joe
wasn't strong enough for the
steady factory grind.
He must have been half heart
broken when he couldn't get a
production job, but an instruc-
tor, Roland Owen. gave him a
job as sweeper. Joe didn't
sneer at the Job. He took II. And
he's a good sweeper.
But" he said, I'D really feel
like n war worker IL l had a
badge"
That's all ne wanted-to be a
war worker. Instructors Owen,
Slavin and Elves (says the Sen
timely saw TO II that Joe kOlch
got his badge.
Give the abSenteeS the con-
tempt they deserve, but let's
remember not TO stumble into
assuming that all war workers
are absentees. That's pretty I'M
fair 10 the rest of them.
The other day, was on n
CharIevoix car filled with war
workers-you could tell by the
badges.
A drunk got on. You know
how IL ls--a drunk always gets
a gOod-natured laugh on n street
car. Don't ask me why.) They
laughed at this one, and kidded
back and forth.
They laughed, that Is, until he
boasted:
II went 10 work today, but
they gave me my pay and sent
me home"
A chill settled over the car.
This Is a factory town. This
r. n working mans town. But