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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17
KroII Appointed
By HiIImon

CINCINNATI (FP)-Pres. Jack
Kroll of the Ohio Industrial Union
Council was designated by Chair
man Sidney Hillman of the CIO
Political Action Committee as re-
gional political director for Ohio,
Kentucky and West Virginia.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17

Chairman of the CIO Poll
tical Action Committee, Hill
man announced at a press
conference that the committees
program was mot a narrow labor"
program, but broad national pro-
gram to give jobs to Americans.
FIRST thing to concentrate on was
winning the war effectively; sec
ond, to plan postwar economy of
abundance and full employment.
This was his answer to Hoffman.
spokesman of big business, who
had said: IF all of US keep talking
about jobs for all, two or three
million people may accuse us some
day of making promises we didn't
keep. If full employment means
a job for every man and woman
who is willing and able to work,
then 1t is not desirable or neces-
sary in a fine functioning econ
omy."
CI0 Answer Given
Asked if there was any possibil-
ity the committee would support a
fourth term for Roosevelt, Hillman
said the ClO had given its answer
to that at the Philadelphia conven-
ton. Right now we are interested
in registration and in mobilization
of all progressives and people wno
are looking toward a program of
full abundance" he said.
Defining, on request, what he
meant by New Dealers, Hillman
said: "The philosophy of the New
Deal is one of an abundant econ
omy, full employment, social Sc
curity" We're not thinking in
terms of candidates, he went on,
but whether we shouldn't have
democracy "that will work toward
full utilization of our facilities"
He included manpower among
facilities, too. "
Asked if he'd met with Wes$
Willkie, he replied, Il haven't, bat
that doesn't mean it's impossible.
| even spoke at a meeting where
| was preceded by Tom Dewey, al
though | took exception to many
of his remarks"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17
WORKERS LEAVE JOBS

RICHMOND, Calf. (FP)-All
machinists and operating engi-
neers at the four Henry j. Kaiser
shipyards, largest in the nation,
left their jobs Dec. 2 in what was
described as a union jurisdictional
dispute.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17
Labor, Consumers
RaIIy For Subsidies

WASHINGTON-Dec 10-(FP)-The pro-subsidy for
on capital hill got fresh Dec delegates from
1O8 AFI, and CIO unions farm, white collar,
church. social welfare and veterans groups met here in
emergency conference called by the Congressional Commit
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17
Hi|Iman Demands
Full Employment

WASHINGTON-Dec 11-FP)-A day after the Natl
Assn of Manufacturers heard Pres Paul c. Hoffman of the
Studebaker Corp chairman of the Committee on Economic
Development out against jobs for ALL Sidney Hlman
gave the apostles of scarcity something to chew on
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17

VOTE BILL KILLED
WASHINGTON (FP)-A coali-
ton of poll tax Democrats and
Republican senators killed the
Lucas Green soldiers vote bill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17

HOLLYWOOD FP)-Explaining that the en-
ergency the Pacific coast the big Fox West Coast
chain of theaers has withdrawn from the Theater Defense
Bureau The FWC know the emergency is because
the lights are on again UP and down the coast
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17

Other Los Angeles theatel
men do not agree with then
and will carry on with the
training of theater personnel in
first aid, fire fighting, panic pre-
vention, with regular safety inspec-
tions of theaters and the showing
of government war films.
Decision of Charles B. Skouras,
FWC bigshot, that the Theater
Defense Bureau was of no further
value to FWC theaters came out
the day after the war activities
committee of the Hays Office had
called on theater men all over the
country to note and pattern after
the fine defense job in Los Angeles
Civilian defense participation was
a factor in winning theaters a
semi-essential rating in the en-
ployment stabilization plan. Maybe
semi isn't essential enough fol
Skouras.
Industrial Symphony
! LABOR SYMPHONY. Sound
track of symphony of industrial
noise recorded in Hibbing, Mimi,
Detroit and South Chicago is back
ground Emusic" for America, the
film King Vidor is making for
Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer
ARMY NEGRO FILM. Civilian
audiences may get a chance to see
the Signal Corps film, The Negro
Soldier in World War ii.
TRIAL BY WAX. Daryl Zanuck
had the script for his film about
Woodrow Wilson completely re-
corded by a radio producer. Now
Zanuck can play the disks over and
listen to his script. Also he can
start the editing without waiting
for the film to be shot.
FREE SAMPLE. A smart agent
went to the man recording the Will
son script and said: 'I've got an
actor who's thinking of playing
Wilson on the stage. He'll read
the part free for you" Now Zanuck
had been thinking of Alfred Lunt
to play Wilson but when he listen
ed to his script he heard Alexander
Knox. p. S.-Knox got the part.
THE FANS DOOLITTLE. Lit.
Col. James Doolittle will be rep
resented on the screen by Spencer
Tracy in MGM's 80 Seconds Over
Toxic.
No Star-Just BOgart
BOGART FOR RICK? Since the
renewed protests from labor TO
Gary Cooper for considering the
Rickenbacker part, Goth Century
Fox admits he won't play it. A
few weeks back w. r. Sheehan
Indignantly denied that Cooper had
rejected the part but said as an
afterthought: "The part is so
strong it really doesn't need
star" Now he's wondering if he
can get Humphrey Bogart to play
it.
MORE FIRE. It'll be interest
ing to see if Goth Century Fox is
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17
DEPT. OF SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERY

WAR WORKERS H We
misunderstanding in The I'm
ion, indianapolis, Ind.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-12-17
IT rs WRITTEN: TOO MUCH
FREDERICK is A DAM
GEROUS THING

The recent convention of the
Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers
heard it's retiring president,
Frederick Coolidge Crawford,
demand freedom from free
doms."
What we really need is free
dom from Frederick.
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
cemetery
DISTRICTS"
May BE FORMED

Senate Bill No. 1872 enacted into law
at the last session of the Montana
legislature, provides for the forma-
tion of cemetery districts and for
their management after they are or
ganized.
The law provides that such districts
may be formed when a petition re-
questing its formation is signed by
81 per cent of the land owners within
the proposed district is presented to
the Board of County Commissioners
in the county in which the proposed
district is located. Hearings by the
commissioners on the project are pro-
vided for, and also an election to
give the people within the proposed
district an opportunity to express
their wishes by ballot.
If the proposed district is approved
by a majority of the voters, the COM
then appoint three trustees
to manage the cemetery or cemeteries
within the district. Each year the
trustees shall present a budget to the
board of county commissioners and
the commissioners must then levy a
tax on the porperty of the district for
the upkeep of the cemeteries. The
tax is limited to one mill on each dol
lar of taxable valuation of the prop
erty within the district.
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
LABOR URGED TO
ORGANIZE CO-OPS

FOREST PARK, Pa.-James Mar
shall member of the board of educa-
tion of the city of New York, told
several hundred guests at Unity
House, the summer resort owned by
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, here June 6, that
consumer cooperation is one of the
important methods whereby the peo-.
pie can preserve and increase their
democracy.
Marshall pointed out to the leader
ship of the ILGWU the essential roles
of education, union organization and
political action and then strongly
urged the expansion of consumer CO.
operatives. He talked at length on
the work of the cooperative in safe
guarding democracy and fighting mo-
nopoly, pointing out that in England,
Sweden, Denmark, and other Euro
pean countries labor has taken an ac-
tive part in building consumer coop
eratives which resulted both in a
stronger labor movement AND a
stronger cooperative movement Mar
shall urged American labor leaders
to do likewise and AT ONCE.
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
COOP LEADER
IS HOPEFUL
FOR FUTURE
United Nations Food Conf.
Sets Up Commission To
Help Solve World Food
Problems; Recommends
Co-operatives.

| WASHINGTON. - The United Ma
tions Conference on Food and Agri-
culture which just concluded its work
at Hot Springs, Virginia, proved con-
clusively that men want to work to-
gether and can work together to ac-
complish common purpose, Murray
D. Lincoln, president of The Cooper
ative League of the USA and one of
six U. S. delegates to the conference,
reported on his way back to Column
bus.
The conference, in developing re-
port on food and nutrition standards
and in presenting plans for the estab-
lishment of a permanent conference
body established a goal towards which
the world must strive and created
machinery to facilitate progress to-
ward that goal, Mr.. Lincoln pointed
out. Among the many important rec
concentrations of the conference was
one on co-operatives presented by the
section on Expansion of Production
and Adoption to Consumption Needs"
and adopted by the food conference
as whole. The statement on coop
eratives is as follows:
WHEREAS:
1. The cooperative movement has
been of very great Importance in
many countries, both to urban and
rural populations, especially in agri-
cultural districts where farming is
based on small units and in urban
areas of low-income families;
2. The proper functioning of COOP
erative societies may facilitate adjust
ments of agricultural production and
as members have confid-
ence in the recommendation and
guidance of their own cooperative or
gan1zations, which they know operate
in the interest of their members and
Of society in general;
3. The democratic control and edu-
catlonal programs, which are features
of the cooperative movement, can
play a vital part in the training of
good democratic citizens, and assist
in inducing a sound conception of |
matters;
THE UNITED NATIONS CONFER
ENCE ON FOOD AND AGRICUL-
TURE RECOMMENDS:
l. That, in order to make it possible |
ior people to help themselves in low
7ring costs of production and costs |
If distribution and marketing:
a. All countries study the possibil- |
ties of the further establishment of /
producer and consumer cooperative
in order to render necessary
marketing, purchasing,
nance, and other services;
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
MIGRATION OF
farm PEOPLE
is STARTLING

The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics in its report for May, states
that there was a net movement of
1,62700O persons from the farm to
cities, towns and villages and the
armed forces during the year 1912
This is said to be the largest move
ment of its kind since the annual sur
veys of the bureau were started in
1920. The total includes $4,000 farm
men who enlisted or were inducted
into the armed forces.
The migration did hot appreciably
decrease the number of farm families
still remaining on the farm according
to the report. Most of the migrants
were young, unmarried persons whose
leaving did not reduce the number of
farm families on farms or the number
of farms which continued to operate.
The population loss through migra-
tion was partially offset by births to
farm families exceeding deaths by
400, 900.
The west south central states had
Iue SItdlcoI lOSS DUH Ill ptICtnld5c
and number of migrants of any region
in 1912, with net out-migration of
354,000 or rs per cent of the popula-
tion living on farms at the beginning
of the year. However, the mountain
states, over two-year period had the
highest loss, having the highest per-
centage in 1941 of all regions and the
second highest in 1912 of SO per cent
The loss of farm population has
been steadily increasing for the past
three years according to the report.
1t is expected, however that the loss
may be decreased in the current year
by several factors. One is that the
large scale migrations of the recent
years had decreased the number of
people in the age group in which mi
grafton is most common; reduction
of entrance of agricultural workers
into the armed forces and the anti
cipated reduction of workers in the
less essential non-agricultural indus
tries or through completion of con-
struction projects.
The report states that while the mi
grafton of farm residents into non
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
WEATHER and
CROP CONDITIONS
in MONTANA

Temperatures more favorable to
crop growth marked the week ending
June 16, while additional light to
heavy rains brought soil moisture con-
tent to good levels in practically all
sections of the state, according to the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
The wet weather, however, brought
more delays to shearing of sheep,
thinning of sugar beets, late seeding
and planting, and summer following.
Corn, flax, beans, and potatoes as well
as sugar beets are still backward and
there has been more replanting of
these crops than usual due to failure
of seed to germinate.
Winter wheat and rye made prog
ress during the week with winter
wheat now coming into the boot, and
rye now headed out. There is con-
siderable mention of weediness in
winter wheat where stands were
thinned out by winter damage. Spring
grains although late are generally
much more promising than the fall
sown grains with the only complaint
being the lack of sunshine during the
past three weeks of almost continu-
GUS daily showers.
The wet weather caused some
losses of newly shorn sheep and in
few localities took some lambs.
Livestock generally has been making
seasonable gains and grass stands
have thickened up considerably in
the past two weeks. Except for al
falfa which in several counties was
badly winter killed and where stands,
in many cases, are thin, the hay
grasses now have good prospects as
a result of the rains of recent weeks.
Some early alfalfa is nearly ready for
first cuttings and some fields to be
saved for seed have already been
clipped.
Farm work demands have been re-
tarded by the continued wet weather
and lateness of crops generally. Sum-
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The people's voice., 1943-06-18

TO try TO preserve CnlS import
ant and practical experiment
in cooperative medicine on the
plains of Oklahoma.
Reactionaries in the field of medi-
cine have made successive attempts
to kill the cooperative hospital in
1881 and 1882, 1886, 1899, and again
in 1913, DR.. Shadid reported. The lat
est attempt has been through the Pro-
curement and Assignment Division,
set-up with close supervision by the
American Medical Association, which
recommends the drafting and assign
ing of physicians to the armed forces.
In all other instances on record, the
drafting of doctors is done after con-
sultation with the hospital staff or
executives. In the case of the Coop
erative Hospital at Elk City, however,
the county medical society said not
only that the doctors under considera-
tion were mot essential but that
1.-THE hospital itself was unessential
and could very easily be dispensed
with"
The co-operatives were unable to
get satisfaction locally so DR.. Shadid
was asked to go to Washington to
present the case to the Procurement
and Assignment Division there. He
has with him petition signed by
$4,000 Oklahoma farmers insisting on
the continuation of the cooperative
hospital and decrying any action
which would be taken to cripple its
continuation.
Dr. Shadid told how the co-opera-
tive hospital was started in 1929 when
farmers in the nearby area put up $50
apiece as membership. The Coop
hospital has grown so rapidly that it
is now a 100-bed hospital and serves
2,400 families and has assets of $780, |
000 This is in spite of the fact that |
the costs are nearly $25 per family |
per year and that teeth are pulled |
for twenty-five cents per tooth, X-rays
are twenty-five cents per tooth, while
the dentist gets $4,000 a year and
the surplus on his earnings go into
the general hospital fund. Doctors
get between $4,000 and $4,000 per
year net and one months vacation
with pay.
The cooperative hospital operates
CONTINUED on Page Four) |
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
Perils War Effort
Lower Food Output
Fact Book Shows

Threatened decline in food output
this year may bring needless disaster
to our war effort. To put the nations
farms on genuine war basis requires
all-out production of essential foods
on every farm unit in the country.
How the urgently needed increase
in food production in 1943 can be
achieved in shown in Labor Research
Associations Labor and the War:
Labor Fact Book l20S pages $125).
It's discussion of Farmers and Farm
Workers" is one of the significant
chapters in this new volume.
Some 100000 low-income farm fam
lilies have been assisted in expanding
their output, especially of pork, milk,
eggs, poultry, peanuts and vegetables,
this study shows. Such small-farm
production can be still further in
creased if the work of the Farm Sc
curity Administration is continued.
Overall planning of food produc-
tion, now possible under the new Of
flee of War Mobilization, can limit
hoh7OooChlidi ClOpS duu COHfeIl ulOIe
land to necessary war crops. 1t can
meet the labor shortages that have
developed in certain areas by draw
ing on manpower from other centers.
And it can carry out more effective
rationing of new farm machinery.
Other chapters in Labor and the
War include facts on the war econ
1my as a whole, taxation, price con-
.rol, rationing, corporation salaries
md profits, small business, strikes,
postwar plans, and many other top
cs. The book may be ordered from
labor Research Association, so East
Il ST., New York City, at slips a copy.
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
ATTY. GENERAL
RULES ON CHILD
LAWS

Because of an increasing number OF
cause of the labor shortage, Attorney
General Bottomly, in reply to series
of questions by the State Labor Di-
vision, has issued rulings covering
many phases of the child labor laws
of the state.
The letter requesting the rulings
and the attorney generals decisions
are published in full below:
June 9, 1943
Mr. R. V. Bottomly, Attorney General
State of Montana
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr.. Bottomly:
Due to the lack of adult manpower
at the present time, and which we ex-
pect will continue for the duration
of the present war, many employers.
parents, school authorities and chill
dren are requesting information and
particularly permission to employ
guage or intent of our child labor
laws, l request your opinion on the
following questions:
l. Because of the wording of Sec
tion 3635, R.CM, 1885, is it not the
duty of the Division of Labor to issue
all age certificates to minors and FOR
employers regardless of the age of the
minor; and also does not this Division
have the jurisdiction over the employ
ment of children in any manner re-
The last part of this question will, of
course, depend whether or not condi-
tions of employment, such as maxi
mum hours of employment, minimum
wages etc, are outlined by law for
the particular industry or occupation.
2. Under Section 3O95, R.C.M., 1885,
is it not true that no child under the
age of 16 years may be employed at
any of the occupations, or within any
of the industries, specifically men
toned?
3. So far as any of our state child
labor laws are concerned, would it not
be possible and permissible for any
child, male or female, 16 years of age
and older to work at any occupation
or within any industry regardless of
the conditions of the employment ex-
cept in respect to maximum hours
daily and/or weekly as the case may
be, provided that such child obtained
an age certificate from this Division
showing him to be at least 16 years
of age?
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The people's voice., 1943-06-18

ceiling from local War Price and Ra-
tioning Boards.
ICE BOX PRICES
Retail price ceilings on new ice
boxes have been established by OPA
by models and states. Present prices
will be lowered in many cases. Three
sets of retail ceiling have been pro-
vided, (1) sales by ice companies and
their stores, prices ranging from
$2675 to $3.50 delivered, (2) mail
order sales, $1S.95 to $5995, (3) all
other sales at retail, $3O.75 to $SS.75.
PRAIRIE BONES
The recently announced ceiling
price of $31 a ton on sales of prairie
bones, loaded on cars or trucks at the
sellers shipping point, applies only to
sales to industrial consumers who use
the bones as raw materials in the
manufacture of bone glue and bone
meal for animal feeding, the regional
Office of Price Administration has an
louhtCd. DolCo VI ~ dii ~ DCAiSo ~
low the stage of sales to the indus
trial consumer for specific uses con-
tinue exempt from price control.
Lower prices than those established
by the new regulation may be charged,
demanded, offered or paid.
DATA ON PRISONERS
American soldiers officially re-
ported as prisoners of war in enemy
countries to date total 1908, the
War Department has announced. Of
these, 11,307 are held by Japan, 1912
by Germany and 2,464 by Italy. How
ever, these reports are incomplete. In
formation in the hands of the War
Department indicates that the basic
diet of an American soldier in Ger
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice., 1943-06-18
SMITH-cONNALLY ANTI

LABOR BILL:
With the development in recent
weeks of the disruptive Lewis mine
strike, poll takers and other obstruc-
tionists in both houses pressed for
stringent anti-labor legislation. Sen.
Tom Connally ID, Tex.) and Rep.
Howard Smith 3D., Va.) began press
ing anew for passage of their respec-
tive anti-labor bills both of which had
failed of passage in the previous con-
gress and had been reintroduced early
this year. John l.. Lewis Haunted
WLB machinery and his strike in
reckless disregard of the tremendous
needs of the war production program
created a made to order situation for
the poll tax labor haters to press for
their disruptive measures.
The Connally Plant Seizure bill was
passed in the senate. When it reach
ed the house a whole set of anti-labor
prepared by Howard Smith
were tackled on. The effect of the
bill would be to break labor's morale,
to cripple the trade union movement
and to disrupt existing labor-manage-
ment relationships which have been
so constructive in speeding the war
production program. The amended
bill then went to conference commit
tee representing both houses. After
three days of bitter wrangling con-
feres agreed upon a bill including:
Permitting seizure of plants by the
President;
Outlawing of strikes on properties