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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Unions Donofe Blood
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON - AFL Presi-
dent William Green, CIO president
Philip Murray and president A, F.
Whitney of the Bro. Of Railroad
Trainmen approved plan where
by Red Cross blood donors will be
recruited and their donations re-
corded by unions in "a cities, the
Red Cross announced Jan. IS. The
plan provides for the election of
blood donor chairmen in city CEN
tral bodies and affiliated locals.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
War Workers
Need Breakfasts

War workers should "eat good
breakfast every day." urges the
Nutrition in Industry Section OF
the Nutrition Division of the Office
of Defense Health and Welfare
Services.
The war worker, particularly
when food is rationed, says the Of
fees Technical Advisor on Nutri-
ton in Industry, DR.. Robert S.
Goodhart, must "select the most
nutritious of available foods in or
der to protect his health"
Scoring the habit of going with
out breakfast, or Of eating made
quate morning meals, DR.. Goodhart
pointed out that food effects the
efficiency of a war worker, as well
as his health.
The food expert declared that a
z a. m. breakfast Of coffee and
doughnuts served in West Coast
plant to thousands of days shift
workers, some of whom travel 30
and 40 miles to work, is made
quate.
Similarly, the pastry and coffee
meal served in large
foundry along the Atlantic Coast
and consumed by the workers while
they tended their machines is poor
practice, DR.. Goodhart added.
The National Research Council,
he said, has listed the daily food
requirements of war workers. "Cof-
fee and doughnut" breakfasts are
not on the list.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
CIo-AFL UNITE IN N. J.

NEWARK, N. ]. (FP)-A per-
manent committee for political ac-
tion has been established by the
AFL and CIO in Essex county.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Pay Tribute TO Norris

NEW YORK-The theme of the
Happiness and destinies of the
common man" ynoted d the
speeches of prominent government,
AFL and CIO leaders, who joined
in paying tribute to the long and
fruitful career of Sen. George w.
Norris of Nebraska at farewell
dinner in his honor here.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Goose Creek
Proves Gooseless

GOOSE CREEK, Text was
a fine giving away a goose
as a door prize at meetings of the
Oil Workers Init. Union (CIO)
here. There was just one catch.
Nobody in Goose Greek had a
goose-or even gander. Clyde
Johnson, southern director of the
Oil Workers Organizing Campaign,
had to drive 30 miles to Houston
for the fowl.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
Thomds Cites Underlying
Reason for Strikes
BIames NWLB And
Recommends Discipline
Of Those Who DisObey

DETROIT, Jan. 1.-THE reasons
for the furry of unauthorized
strikes in Detroit war production
plants are easy to understand when
you view the whole situation. They
do not justify unauthorized strikes
but they explain why they happen
now and then, according to presi-
dent R. j., Thomas of the UAW-
CIO.
All of the causes he mentioned
could be eliminated in large part
but most of them are not in the
power of labor to remedy. Among
causes beyond labor control Thomas
mentioned.
1-Chaos in the Natl. War Labor
Board with a huge logjam of un-
settled cases.
2-Government refusal to equal
ize wage rates for the same work
in the same area, as for instance
the 15c differential in wage cell
ings in tool and die jobbing shops
and socalled captive shops, owned
by large corporations that don't
want pay Of their men brought up
to standard.
3-Manpower scandals with some
plants working only 8 or A days a
week and others paying men to
come to work but giving them prac-
tically no work to do, resulting in
lessened morale and other person
rel difficulties.
4-Incompleteness and ineffi-
cheney of rationing. Thomas called
rationing "almost a complete flop
so far"
Recommends Disciplining
Rule Breakers
Thomas outlined the procedure
under which members guilty of
starting unauthorized strikes can
be disciplined and said he would not
go about expelling members be-
cause the union constitution pro-
vides regular machinery for trial
and punishment Of those who break
the rules. He declared that auto
workers are the most patriotic
citizens in the country.
General Motors plants have had
a great deal Of trouble, most of it
provoked by management in the
view of local union members. Local
union officers in as widely separat-
ed GIN plants as Flint, Chicago and
Detroit have been suspended or
fired outright by the management
in the face of longstanding griev-
ances.
There is widespread suspicion
among union workers that man
agements besides GIN are regard
ing the war emergency as good
time to disrupt the unions, which
are comparative youngsters in col
lective bargaining. The Ford con-
tract is only a year and a half old
and GM and Chrysler contracts
date less than six years back.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-01-22
ACW BUYS BONDS

NEW YORK-While its members
purchased $15,OO0,O00 in war bonds,
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers (CIO) gave $4O6,973.H to the
Red Cross, USO, Army and Navy
Relief and the Russian, British,
Chinese, Greek and Polish relief
agencies in 1912, president Sidney
Hillman and secretary-treasure
Jacob S. Potofsky announced in an
annual report here.
Evening star., 1943-03-31
Circus Leaves Florida
Today for New Season
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SARASOTA. Fla. March u.-Ihe
Ringing Bros. and Barnum d
Bailey circus will pull out OF winter
quarters here today for New YORK
where the big show will open Its
le43 season in Madison Square Gar
den April 9.
Performers, administrative per-
konnel and menagerie stock will
make up the first section leaving
at l o'clock. With an estimated
three days to be required for the
run, stops for feeding the animals
will be made at Florence, S. c., and
Washington
The second section OF the show
will leave here May % with the
big tent and other equipment used
on the road. The first performance
under canvas will be given in Phila-
delphia May 81.
Evening star., 1943-03-31

Cne Germans Dorothy thompson.
in the Russian frontier fortifica-
tions; and now by the British at
the Mareth Line.
On a much smaller scale the
taking of the Mareth Line re-
peated the German maneuver in
France. For the Germans made
a breach in the line at one point
and a f1anking movement behind
the line rendering useless the
long-prepared fortiflcation sys-
tenn. The Braitish took the
Mareth Line in the same way.
They made breach in the coast
al sector and a flanking move
ment from the desert.
The demonstration can have
effects in the war OF nerves, and
1t is to be hoped that we are max
ing the most OF it.
For the German propaganda
during the last months has been
stressing the "impregnable fort
ress Of Europe" and has put all
its emphasis on defensive forti-
fications. That it is possible to
get foot hold on the continent
was demonstrated In the Dieppe
raid, costly as it was, and high
officers who participated in 1t
have since been quoted as saying
that had their orders been to
stay, they could have done so.
Nazis Feel Allied Power.
Rommel was defeated, in spite
of his superior defensive position,
by superior forces, and by enor-
nous concentration OF materiel
on the ground and in the air.
Ten days ago, Gen. Dietmar, the
official spokesman for the Ger
man general staff, made speech
for home consumption in which
4lC SStlu OI1oU Vic 1C1 al lily
would not be seduced into bat
ties of materiel."
Obviously the German soldiers
and people apprehend that now
the weight OF materiel is against
them and that If there is compe-
tition in this field the Germans
must eventually lose. So Gen.
Dietmar alluded to evasive tao
tics, to retreat rather than the
making of too heavy sacrifices.
This is what Rommel Is doing.
But it is not by this method that
Germany won her great victories
in this war, but by the weight and
power of constantly mobile offen-
sive armies.
Must Clear Mediterranean.
In some circles the North Atri-
can campaign has been criticized
as strategical mistake-a minor
Evening star., 1943-03-31
Baby Born in Lifebout Receives
Gifts on His :irst Birthday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 31.-Jesse
Roper Mohorovicic, who came into
this world in a lifeboat and spent
the first perilous "a hours of his
life in the wave tossed craft, cele-
brated his first birthday anniversary
yesterday.
To Jesse it was just another
routine day of meals, nap and play.
But DR.. Leonard H. Comfy of New
York, ships doctor of an American
cargo vessel torpedoed on the North
Atlantic, remembered the anniver-
sary Of that narrowing experience
and sent Jesse a gift and hearty
birthday congratulations.
Jesse, named for the American de-
stroyer, the Jesse Roper, which res
cued him and his mother and sister,
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Mohorovicic. His father, who was
secretary of the Yugoslav State of
Croatia, had left his family early in
March last year to take up his post
in the New York consulate of his
Evening star., 1943-03-31

AS 10 NUMBERS, IlleIe are more
than a hundred alleged experts
within the administration at work
in Washington on postwar plans
Most of these are payroll New
Dealers who are referred to-though
with slight foundation-as econo-
mists. In addition, there are at least
half a dozen official committees
and outside OF Washington scores
of unofficial agencies, bent on shap-
ing the future.
The current issue Of the Saturday
Review Of Literature lists SO books
and some so pamphlets on the sub
ject, including those Of Vice Presi-
dent Wallace, Milo Perkins, Nor
decai Ezekiel and other White House
favorites.
No Co. ordination Of Ideas.
Though largely Of the same politi-
cal school and, therefore, not far
apart on their general objectives,' u
all of these writers, workers and
speakers are on their own. There is
among them neither coordination
cohesion nor cooperation. Not
withstanding this and regardless OF
the vagueness Of their ideas, practi-
cally all OF them start from the
same point.
Their basic assumption Is that
following the war, there will be q
great popular upheaval against
established economic customs and
an insistence on the part Of the
people at home and the soldiers re-
turning from abroad that the
Government provide them with q
better and brighter world along
socialistic rather than capitalistie
lines. The general idea is that
whether you work or not govern
ment, much more paternalistic and
protective than now, will look out
for you from cradle to grave
On this theory the Administration
planners are all set to expand the
New Deal far beyond the earlier
dreams Of it's most ardent advocates
Labor and Government are to be-
come a part of industrial manage
ment. Not only are jobs to be guar
anteed and the individual aducated
at public expense, but he Is to be
guarded against all forms Of ad-
versity and bad luck from birth to
death.
Few Counting Cost.
Few, If any. Of these New Deal
planners stop to count the cost or
figure where the money is to come
from for the Utopia which they are
so busy blueprinting. What they do
figure, however, is that the popular
appeal will be such as to insure
another election triumph for the
New Dealers whether the President
runs again or not.
To this end they have the noisy
support Of the radical press and all
the professional liberal writer's, who
assume that they reflect the senti-
ment OF the people and are just
ahead Of the procession. Many
thoughtful men think they are mis-
taken. Those In best position to
Judge are convinced that the New
Deal planners completely miscon-
Evening star., 1943-03-31


hands of Gen. Bernard L. Mont
gomery, is attempting to rush
through the gap between the
sea and the positions held by
Gen. George S. Patton, jr., as
quickly as his highly mechanical
forces permit. The occupation
of Gabes Is an important stra-
tegic success for the Allies.
Military observers who are
watching the situation closely do
not dare hope that Rommel's
forces will be trapped. He gave
up the wen-fortified positions
when he realized that his chances
OF holding the British back were
negligible.
Sacrificed Italians.
He sacrificed most of the Ital-
Ian Centuria Division, which,
supported by some Nazi units,
fought a desperate rear-guard
battle, while Rommel's remain
ing three divisions are now rush.
ing northward in the hope Of
joining Col. Gen. Jurgen von
Arnim's forces.
1t will be difficult, If not i'm
possible, for Rommel to replace
the losses he suffered in the 10
day battle which led to his defeat.
Besides the 5000 prisoners he
already has left in the hands of
the British, it Is estimated that
he must have lost at least half
as many men in killed and
wounded.
On the other hand, the strength
OF the Allies is increasing every
week.
Now that the roads have be-
come passable and the Luftwaffe
Is engaged in a defensive war
over Tunisia itself, our lines OF
communications are much better
and safer.
During the lull which prevailed
since November, when we landed
in North Africa. important CEN
ters have been organized behind
the fighting lines. Nearby conveys
with troops and war material
protected by the air force and the
Navy have put in on the Allan
tic and Mediterranean ports.
Aided by Naval Superiority.
The lines OF communication in
the winter were unsatisfactory,
but men and supply replace
ments were concentrated in Al
geria, near the Tunisian border.
The Axis must use what 1t has
managed to transport during the
same period OF time but cannot
hope to get much in the shape OF
replacements.
Evening star., 1943-03-31
The Great Game of Politics
Resentment Against Bureaucratic Regimentoton
May Defeat Varied PIons for 'Utopio' in u S.

! ceive the situation. Their aforesaid
basic assumption is wrong.
1t Is true that the people are
overwhelmingly in favor of some
form OF international organization
after the war in which we will as
sumo our responsibilities and play
our part to make peace permanent
and freedom real. In that respect,
it is held, the planners will have
full support, but this does not mean
popular enthusiasm over, or even
acquiescence in, the plans for the
expanded New Deal at home-far
from It.
Resentment Seen.
Instead Of being eager for a gov
ernment which will extend It's pro-
tective arm over every man, woman
and child and further regulate and
control private business, the conten-
ton is that the people as a whole
are now deeply resentful toward
bureaucracy and very tired OF gov
ernmental waste and experiments.
So far from desiring further reg
imentation, there is a real revolt
against that kind Of thing and
desire to get away from it. So far
from wanting labor to have a
greater voice in management, 1t Is
held that millions of soldiers will
return resentful over the strikes
in the war plants and the use of the
war by labor leaders, with admin
istration support, to force higher
wages and obtain greater power.
In brief, 1t is held that at the end
Of the war, neither the administra-
tion, the New Deal, the labor lead
ers or hazy schemes for distributing
wealth and happiness will be In
favor.
Actually, there is profound con-
viction that the people will want to
go In the other direction. Borne
down with heavy taxes. and dis
illusioned as to the worth and sub
stance Of the groups which have
been running the country for IL
years, the reaction against them
and against their costly and i'm
practical proposals will be strong.
People Fed Up"
That is the way the more clear
headed observers here see things
and it must be admitted there is
considerable evidence to support
their view. Nor is the evidence con-
fined to the Republican gains In the
last election nor the recent action
OF two States-Kansas and Texas
in passing legislation regulating and
restraining labor unions.
AS the New York Times recently
said, There Is developing a grow
ing impatience with the advocates
Of foreign systems and the Utopian
dreams based on them. And there
Is a growing revolt against govern
mental regimentation and usurpa-
ton of power which is especially
manifesting itself in the new Con-
gress fresh from the people," All
of which is true.
1t isn't that the people are re-
dictionary. They do not want to set
the clock back and return to the
days of Harding, as some insist.
But. they are fed up on waste, in
competency. bureaucracy and three
thumbed reforms They want to get
back to a stable government and
common sense.
Evening star., 1943-03-31

nation. Mrs. Mohorovicic and her
2-year-old daughter. Vesna, followed
him on the cargo vessel.
On March %, 1912, U-boat tor
pedo struck the cargo ship. Mrs
Mohorovicic and her daughter
boarded a lifeboat with % others
With 15-foot waves battering the
little craft, DR.. Comfy, injured and
using only the boats simple med
ical kit, brought the child into the
world, wrapped 1t in a woman's
turban, and kept it safe until the
survivors were rescued by the de.
stroyer.
Neither mother nor child suffered
any i'll effects from the experience
When Jesse grows up, his fathe,
said, he may choose for himself
whether he will be a citizen Of Yugo-
slavia or the United States.
Evening star., 1943-03-31
Italian Speaker
Complains at
|Loss of Officers
BY the Associated Prsss

by the Associated Press.
NDON. March 3l.-Aldo
Valor1, a Rome radio political conn
mentator. complained on tho air
Yesterday that Italians are not bedno
informed Of what Is going on and
declared:
AS in the last World War, We hold
the world record for tho number of
fallen generals"
The broadcast was recorded by the
Associated Press.
The commentators remark about
the generals followed his Statement
that yesterday We were told that Ia
OF our generals, two OF our admir.ls
an air marshal and An air briradier
had fallen in this war"
only snatches Of nevx h,,
reached US from the Tunisian front !.
ne said. "and We only have . slight
Idea Of the he'll our soldiers are
going through"
Evening star., 1943-03-31

gas stove, but 1t
h as happened
here in Belfast
where there isn't
enough gasoline
to take spots of
q wren's waist
coat.
One m a J or
means of trans
portation Is by
cars which oper-
ate on coal gas.
Please don't ask
me how this
Evening star., 1943-03-31

ners that a state
Of really awful
| confusion exists.
The OF er Is
t h a t in t h e
domestic field
the direction in
which the plan
ners point is not
that in which
the bulk of the
country wants to
60. At least that
Is the view of a
good many OBJ
servant persons.
Evening star., 1943-03-31

taxes and which
ones want to go
along with the
idea of double
taxation.
The House had
a roll call on the
various plan n s
and the people
can tell, for in
stance, which of
their Represen-
tatives in Con-
gr ess favored
and which OPP
ose d the So
called Ruml plar
Evening star., 1943-03-31

namely, that
modern wars
are W on by
ar m ! e S and
not by forth
fcations. This
W a s demon
strated at the
Manner h i'm
Line in Fin
land, by the
Russians; by
the Germans
at the Magi-
not Line; by
tha rarv,o one
Evening star., 1943-03-31
Air Marshal Harris
Raised to Aetna Chief
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
LONDON March 31.-Air Mar.
shal Sir Arthur Harris, whose lead
ership as chief of the bomber com
mand has sent the RAF over Naz
Europe In string of destructive
forays, was made acting air chiei
in promotions announced yesterday
Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Con
ingham, now in North Africa. wa.
promoted to acting air marshal, anc
Air Commodore E. B. C. Belts wa!
named acting vice marshal
Evening star., 1943-03-31
Monteomeys Victory at Moreth Line Proves
Wars Are Won by Armies, Not by Forts

operation IN an mdec1s1ve theater
of war. To that must be said that
nothing involving the Mediter-
ranean area has even been con-
sidered indecisive by any of the
great military strategists Of
Europe including Napoleon and
Gen. Ludendorff.
Our first objective has not yet
been reached, but must be the
opening of the way through the
Mediterranean to the Near East.
Up to now we can only move
conveys under high risks. We
have managed to move reinforce
ments, nevertheless-for instance
to the defense of Malta-but at
a high price. Our main way to
the Near East is still around the
Cape of Good Hope. The cam
paign in North Africa has as its
chief object the opening Of the
short route to the Near East.
This has not been reached yet.
But the second objective has
been accomplished - namely to
put a strain on German resources
and men and force them to fight
in a place where their communi-
cation lines are almost as bad as
ours. The clandestine German
short-wave station Gustav Sieg-
fried Eins'-if il is German-said
a few days ago that every gun
and tank used now In North
Africa must be multiplied by the
same figure and sometimes more,
of guns and tanks sent to the ,
bottom of the sea by British
U-boats and American planes.
This station said that If the Ger
mans had not sent men and
materiel to North Africa they
would have double their amount
in Russia, and quoted Marshal
Won Mannstein as saying '"Tunisia
will be our second Stalingrad."
Troops Gain Experience.
Certainly the German general
stan does not underestimate the
Importance Of North Africa.
Gen. Ludendorn once predicted,
"the next war will be won or lost
on African soil"
A third objective Is to season
green troops against veteran
armies In a theater Of war where
temporary disasters will not be
decisive for the basic attacking
forces. The setback that we suf-
fered some weeks ago in Tunisia
belonged to the normal training
of our troops, and did not prevent
us from gaining great victory.
But had we suffered such reverses
in tentative invasion OF Europe,
the damage could not have been
so easily made good.
The recent events indicate
great progress in fighting power.
Finally the African campaign
Is a preface to the invasion of
Europe, and makes 1t necessary
for the German general staff to
consider an almost unlimited
number Of possibilities-of dan
gers from a great many angles,
all of which must In some meas
ure be prepared for, and all OF
which entail dispersion OF
forces.
In the five months of the Afri-
can campaign, We have i'm
mensely improved our position,
and the war plans Of our generals
are thus far wholly justified.
(Released BY the Bell Syndicate, 1nc.)