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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15
BY PETER EDSON

The idea of incentive pay
ments' for war industry work.
ers is being toyed with in Wash
ingtons official planning circles
As something that viii. put more
money in the workers pay en-
velopes, help combat the big bad
cost OF living. beat the Little
Steel formula, increase war pro-
'duction and in general reduce
the public woe in these tough
times.
This isn't 10 be confused with
the incentive payments for farm
ers, which the Department of
agriculture promoted a couple
OF months ago and Congress
kicked in the head. This new
brand Of incentive payment is TO
apply to industrial workers only.
But the War Production Board
is now rcshuffling its Manage
ment-Labor advisory setup, will
probably do something about re-
vitalizing its moribund Labor
Production division, will create
a new labor office under Robert
x. Lamb, former chief counsel
of the dcfunct Tolan House Com
mittee investigating labor migra-
ton, to work with War Man
power Commission. Out of all
this recognizing is supposed TO
come action, one part of which
is the idea OF selling manage
ment and labor on further use of
the incentive payment.
An incentive payment by any
other name is not as fair. In
harsh, pre-,var A m ricanesc,
back in the days before closed
shop became known as "mainte-
nance Of membership" the the
DRY of the incentive payment
was known simply as piece
work" Catcn on?
PIECEWORk VS.. SPEEDUP
Now piecework as such is one
Of the things that the labor
statesmen have been trying to
get away from for years. Piece
work is associated with the
speedup, he Bedeaux system.
efficiency experts, stop-watches,
rate cutting and all that stuff.
Consequently, any effort to take
workers off hourly OF daily pay
rate bases and put them all back
en- piecework is going TO meet
with opposition.
The trick, therefore, will be to
get labor and management TO
ogree and there's war on ana
something should be done about
it. so how abou: adopting incen-
tive payments for me duration!
This may be one of the FIRST pro-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15

Siberia hN-tt1 received piece
of silk from a Jap parachute the
other day from Navy Lieutenant
Charles Carpenter. somewhere
I'm the South Pacific. Attached
was note: We Eipped this
NipS down trip. Dale Ev-
ans. the screen and radio singer,
has sold her sixth song, I'm III
Love With Guy Who Flies in
The Sky Another dual
role for Don Barry. He'll play a
killer and a minister, his brother
and himself in Republics BAD
Man of Sonora" Over
heard: Jack Oakie shooting away
a makeup man on the Winter
time set at FoX-'Go away
To avay-vuu- can make a
racehorSe out of mule.
Luise Rainier, of all people,
would like 30 do a comedy role
for change, preferably with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

positions put up to the newly
constituted /WPB Management
Labor Council, made up of the
presidents of the CLIO, A. F. of
L., Y. s. Chamber of Commerce
and II National Association of
Manufacturers.
Reduce the case for incentive
payments to simple example,
and you come up with some
thing like this situation which
actually developed last summer.
The wife OF leading, well-to-
do citizen in an Ohio town got
patriotic and went TO work in
The local canning factory at the
height of the tomato harvest be-
cause the manager simply could
Mt get enough help TO handle
his war crop. The good lady
call her Mrs. Tiara-was assign
ed to peeling tomatoes, and was
she lousy. One bushel a day was
about all she could do, though
working right next IL her was
nice fresh country eirl-call her
Miss Nimblefinger--WhO could
peel four bushels of tomatoes a
day and never cut finger. But
Under the Fair Labor Stand
ards act, cannery workers must
be paid by the hour, not by the
bushcl. SO Mrs. Tiara gets the
same wages by law tor her one
bushel that IS paid IT, Miss MINI
blofingcr Tor her four, and is
that fair?
THE SOVIET SYSTEM
The same principle might APP
ply TO loading shells, making gas
masks, out, more and more un-
masks, laying bricks, rivcting,
sewing shirts. AS the labor sup
ply thins out more and more UNI
skilled labor will DE used and it
will be paid the same wages as
the skilled. The advocates of the
incentive payment plan say that
there should be minimum basic
wage for a gwen unit of work.
But il any given worker can turn
out two units of work in nor
NAL shift, that worker gets dou-
bic pay.
This is not necessarily cruel
capitalism, grinding workers to
the bone. II you can stand lit
lie dose Of Soviet propaganda
from each according TO his abili-
~. 10 each according TO his la
bort might be recorded that
the Russians have geared up
their war production in just this
way. There is standard unit OF
daily production for every class
of work-ploWing ground, max
ing bread, making bullets.
The workman who turns out a
unit and half day gets pay and
half. The extra producers are
the Stakhanovites, the heroes of
the production line who get their
medals just like soldiers, as we'll
as extra pay. That's the way the
Soviet gets production.
In the United States, the in
ccntive payment is not unknown,
and a numbec of war industries
have bonus plans of one type or
another. Most notorious are the
records of some of tho Cleveland
rugged individualists, l. Ike Jack
and Heintz, j. +. Lincoln of Lin
coin Electric, whose workers
make $4,000 year and up and
are feeling no pain. But the pro-
fessional labor unions don't like
the idea and il will be job to
cell them on it, even as war
measure
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15

War has necessitoted SO n,ony automobile stick
ers, each to be prominently displayed on your WIND
shield that on actual sofety hozord is created Inc
National Sofety Council suggests how the difficulty
con be met.
Hide the federal vehicle stomp and any stick
er necessary enter Army bases, Navy yards or war
plants behind the reor-view mirror. The mileage ro-
ton scker should 90 on the left reor side window
Stote or city registration stickers con be posted on
the bottom edge Of the windshield at the extreme
right Inspection stamps might go in the extreme
upper riqht-hond corner Of the windshield.
The important thing is to let nothing obscure the
drivers vision in any direction in which danger to the
vehicle or to other persons might lie
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15
DID THE JOKES GO TOO?

HOLLYWOOD - Comedian
Bob Hopes show at the King
man, Ariz., Army Gunnery
school ended too late last night
for him 10 get plane or train
sleeper accommodations back to
his Hollywood movie job.
SO his sponsors sent him home
in a hired ambulance
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15
. IN HOLLYWOOD

EAST Coast since MS transfer
there by the Marines. Typ
ically Hollywood Ever since she
orrtved in Hollywood three
years ago, Michele Morgan has
nccn taking lessons TO lose her
French accent. Now she's been
east as a French girl in Two
Tickets to London
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15
CONVERT NOW

This is the time for householders to arrange to con-
vert from oil to COOL Furnaces soon will be out FOR
the summer. Early birds will have first coll on the
necessary equipment on the services OF plumbers,
on the coal they will need next winter. Those who
woit too long may lose out on any or oil OF these
Don't count upon oil being more plentiful next
winter There probably will be full soole war to be
provided with gasoline shipped from the cost coast
There will be little sympathy for those who Poss up
their chance, this summer, if they suffer next WIN
ter ~ //II
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-15
. GIN RUMMY QUIZ

Q. What is schneider
A. A Schneider" is a white
wash in which the winner scores
a 200 point bonus for game, in
stead Of 100.
Q. Are wild cards ever used
in Gin Rumlny?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24
On Behalf Of Children

THERE appeared here recently article deploring
l the increase Of delinquency among children.
This article pointed out that no institution can sub
sttuto for the home in assuring the moral health Of
youth bat that community agencies can assist IN curbng
he havoc Vrough, by war disrupted homes.
The Chadrens War Service has been established IN
avn, County by the federal government and the War
c,es, IN cooperation with boards of education clear
aE house TO handle such problems.
NEXT Nondav the Detroit Board Of Education opens
y II canteers IN neighborhood schools to provide
7vsod play and proper for children to II years
3D. Later when enough registrations have been received
the department VIII open night care center for chill
.-er from 10 "A whose mothers are night workers.
These cantcens and centers will be successful only
receive The fun support of the ctizenry andf enough
registrations arc received
This appears great forward step in the campaign
TO keep abandoned children off the streets, to provide
good food adequate and happy wholesome play for
Youngsters
IF SUCCESSFUL it should eventually do away entirely
with such sad pghs those of 'latch-key float
ng' children who are left to shift for themselves.
The agencies undertaking these projects are to be
llmnlimented By forward thinking citizens,
Busy war workers in need of such for their
children should take advantage of this opportunity by
calling the Childrens War Service 1916 Broadway Ctee
phone Randolph S426) to register.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

CONFUSING Official nav, ac-
Y counts NJ our Erca est
South Pacif~ ar battle agaIrs'
the japanese over Guadalcanal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

4 STRONG new Jungle infil-
"a tration by Macarthur obv-
ously is under way in New
Guinea, and shortly may clean
out the string of Jap bases
along the whole northwest
coast.
The movement was disclosed
indirectly by announcements
that on three successive days.
the JapS had bombed our forces
at point l20 miles beyond our
last known lines.
Macarthur seems TO have sur
rounded the Jap base on Lac
by flank move through the
Jungle up the coast That base
has been getting supplies At
night from small boats out Of
Madang and Wewak The re
ported Jap bomblngS AZ Bena
Bona placed Macarthur nearly
2 week ago al point within 40
miles Of Madang
The army has been keeping
the movement quiet, awaiting
us fun development
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24
Quick Que stions

If YOU received an envelope
marked par avion, by what
method was il sent?
2 In recent months, our sol
dierS in Egypt experienced
the "khamsin.' What is n :?
5 What do we call a six-faced
object?
4-ln what year did MuSSolIni
lead A revolution IN Italy
which resulted in his aSCen-
sion 10 power?
Sin what sea is the Isle Of
Man?
6=What horse won both the
PreakneSS and the WIthers
this year?
: What Is the only nation in
the W. Stern Hemisphere
which maintains neutrality?
C"p rsat lqf3. oy King Features
ANSWERS on Opposite Page
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knowledge Test
By DIR. sABINA II. CONNOLLY

Who is he ca A song
writer whose earlier name
was, Israel Ballne; Cb) born
before Christ, his fables are
read today; CO. born in Yugo-
slavia and wro e The
Natives Return
. In what opera "a The hero
is put in prison vault be-
meath a temple; tb) is satan
called Mephistopheles CO. is
a Japanese girl forSaken by
an American lieutenant?
Sin art what are these fig
ures used 10 symbolic Ia
An anchor; Cb) FISH; Co
dove ?
What do we call. ca The
drum Of the ear. Oh the fluid
part Of blood; tc) the upper
brain?
5 How many soldiers in a; la)
platoon; (b) battalion, lcJ
regiment?
6 What woman was gwen this
nickname Ca Maid Of
Orleans. hi Serpent Of the
Nile; Cc) Pearl Of the East?
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

DURSUING. IN her column.
Il the subject of the Connolly
Smith bill 10 moderate the lar
CcnouS practices OF the union
racketeor, Mrs. Eleanor RoOSe-
welt writes.
I'm writing the other dav
about the section in the anti
strike bill which will not permit
labor unions TO make political
contributions. did not make II
clear that there are restrictions
on corporations also"
No, she didn't. In fact Mrs.
Roosevelt gave the impression
that while unions were forbid
den 10 make political Contrlhu-
tiOnS. big business corporations
would be allowed 10 do so.
And II cannot he represented
on her behalf that she was
miSlnformcd or lnComplCtcly
informed either because She
preceded her misrepresentation
Will illt ~ dlfilltllIt ItdN nv
anii-Sirikc bill through yeSler-
day and that bill contains in
plain language a provision
which forbidS such contributions
by any corporation whatever
That isn't all, either. for the
corrupt practices law already
forhlds corporations 30 contrib
ute 10 political funds and 50 the
New York Zines quickly pointed
out 10 Mrs. Roosevelt.
IT WAS only after the Times
i caught, This mISStatement
that Mrs Roosevelt hedged
away from her original position
with the remark that she did
not make II clear that there IS
restriction on corporations
also
The first story was ihe ono on
which Mrs Roosevelt tossed out
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24
Westbrook Pegler
First Lady eau sht in Error

ODDS and ethics are those Of The
New Deal She offers her sug-
coStlonS IN test public opinion
m preparation for their INTRO
ductlon As New Deal measures
Of government
T RETURN 10 The subject ~
campaign contributions nv
unions II must be understood.
although Mrs Roosevelt would
not go out OF her way 10 tell
YOU As much. that her political
party and the European politi-
cal schemes and governmental
methods which II Is constantly
pressing on the American peo-
pie. arc tho chief and almost
the sole bcnefCiarieS Of such
contributions
People seem 10 think sha,
John L. Lewis Indian gift ~
100000 IN 1896 was tho only
ono and that. with Lewis dis
gruniled, the situation diSSolves.
But that is not 50
Old Dan Tohln. the Tam
many-type holy-Joc Of the
teamStcrS union ambitious for
power and honors. gave literally
out of his unions treasury and.
although ne was Shouldered out
of Tho cabinet by Frances Perl
kinS Mrs Roosevelt'S app0lnteal
he fnallN did sun his vanity for
= spell IN tho role Of assistant
10 the President AZ $4,000
year on top If his union income
Of about $40 600
There arc MANY more m
stances including = vote, Of sid.
neN lIillman'S clothing workers
IN Boston 10 compel 5000 mem-
hers To donate" 10 tho Roose.
welt party funds IN 1910 AZ III.
rate NJ 81 from each man and
80 rents from each woman
Copyrighted b. unrsd Features syud In.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24
British Air Rivals

TRANSPORT arpanes capable of conversion after the
into commercial arlners carrying 200 passengers
under actual construction in British aircraft factory
This fact has been disclosed by Sir Alliott Verdon
Roe British aviation pioneer and one of the commercial
aviation leaders of the British empire.
1t is enormously significant in the proof afforded of
the Importance Great Britain attaches to postwar COM
merca aviation and of the intentions of Great Britain
to dominate that vital field.
British commercial aviation interests obviously in
tend to bid for world supremacy after the and
clearly recognize that such supremacy will be attainabe
only in the gobal arways and plainly not waiting for
the end of the TO lay their foundations.
American interests in this matter great and must
not be obscured by the
Actually gobal airways already exist.
They have been established ALMOST ENTIRELY
By AMERICAN MONEY.
They have been constructed LARGELY BY AMERl-
CAN MANPOWER.
THEY have been DESIGNED AND COMPLETED BY
/ AMERICANS with the foresight and genius to pre-
pare the installations essential to the major part
mercial aviation will play in future world trade.
A readymade commercial aviation network of world
wide proportions will be available when the ends
and is pertinent present understanding of that
fact to emphasize that it is AMERICAN-BUILT.
To whom are the fruits Of this American labor,
They can only rightuIly to the United States
and American aviation nterests-but they will only
do so il make of ii now.
And we cannot make of it now, ever, if our
present national policies pursued
The vast airways and essential aviation bases which
now exist throughout the world by virtue of American
expenditure investment and labor, in large part
continental and nsular possessions the United States does
not control
They have been constructed under terms of wartime
leases and unless specific agreements to the contrary
negotiated during the they will to the nations
having sovereignty in the areas affected
WHY should the United States fail to make
w dton Of this vast American expenditure that peace
Of the arways and bases thus established will
be- assured 10 the United States?
Why should the United States repeat the mistakes
after this war that it made after the first World War?
The United States developed the greatest maritime
Industries and equipment in the history Of the world dur
ug he first World War only to be squeezed Of world
maritime commerce after that principally by Great
Britain.
Now 'hs' the United States has developed the great
aviation industries and equipment the course Of this
war. arc 20 be squeezed out Of world aviation
Amercc at,9 his war? w.
i would be simpe-and entirely reasonable and
5gs'-matter secure American interests in postwar
aviation Grea, Britain and other nations granting
leases ps FOR bases do order win the
war and 10 survive While their interest in that is so
acute why does our stargazing federal admnistra-
consider orgrange American interests at least
rs attentvely as the BRUSH are doing in building 200
e, al -rrc eycr bffG Inc ufor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

authorities in enemy territory which we y
tend to occupy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

have hindered any common ur-
derstanding of that action.
Navy Secretary Knox con
feSSed self-mystifiCation as 10
why the JaDs sent over so many
planes, saying no American con-
Voy was present in those waters.
Next day. the navy announced
a voy had been sailing
nearby and the Japs got two
ships. No one even sought to
clear up the question of why
so many Jap ships would attack
Guadalcanal If a convoy was
nearby
What happened is this:
The JapS detected a convoy
landing with supplies and called
in a heavy force 10 get Our
air force intercepted shooting
down 81 planes with a loss of
two CONVOY ships.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24
Huge Air Battles Point
To Drive on Moscow
BY PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, June % -

WASHINGTON, June % -
" Terse, uncommunicative
Russian and Nazi communiques
have been reporting casualties,
particularly in planes. as a re-
suit Of ineXphCable action
around Orel in the center of the
1000 mile long front.
The Reds claimed 276 Nazi
planes shot down last week,
1895 in the last seven weeks
Complete faith in the figures
is not necessary 10 appreciate
the inner fact that q lot Of UNI
reported major air battles have
been going on over the Russian
front. particularly around Orel.
Htlers intuition led him 10
concentrate not only planes but
troops and supplies i'm front Of
Orel beginning last January and
ending the -n4,aA+e-r,f Afav-Iff'if1r
Reds correctly interpreted this
concentration as fOrcaSting a
main Hitler offensive headlonC
in the direction Of Moscow.
TT PROBABLY would not be
Il aimed directly al the city,
but toward encircling IT from
the south, cutting it of from
the rest of Russia The Nazi
preparations also suggested in
tention 10 feint Al Caucasus
drive from the kuban bridge
head and Side-show seizure of
Lenlngrad
The Reds consequently drew
in Ia face the Orel threat Since
then, constant terrific. but not
specifically reported air battles
have developed The German
planes have been striking AT
internal Russian production cen
tiers wrffc thr Russians have
heen going over daily to bomb
the alrfleldS
These fights do not herald
an opening ~ the promised Of
fenSiVeS on either side. hcnc
merely Air acuons necesS ar,lv
10 he expected as a result Ct
concentration Of strength.
Indeed. since mld-MaV. Hit.
IerS intuition around Orel seams
10 have changed Neither there
nor anywhere else along the
front has there been any cvl-
dence OF Continued aCCurula-
ton Of supplies and men Tor
drive.
ONLY - per cent Of his total
~ combat All strength is now
evident on tho Russian front
more than haif being left 10 face
imminent INVASION from ms and
the British either through Nor
way or Sicily. OF on the central
Atlantic coastal line
II Hitler docs not strike i'm
the esSt within a few days. he
may face an offensive nv the
Russians This openlN-prom, -cd
Moscow move however. IL tkolV
10 be timed simultaneously with
our lnNaSIonS IN order 10 catch
the Hitler sir force scattered.
So far an evidence suggests
Hitler has FCcn forced 10 c1l'
on his Mos, ON drive because nc
has hccn unable so get Supren
acy OF the Dir for II IN the OTel
area lie could not get II. End
probably cannot hereafter. be
cause our Tunlsian success, re-
Quired INN 10 put all the planes
he could spare into Italy. End
elsewhere TO protect hlmSel!
against US
The pcCUHsr complexities
promised hN Churchill IN cju-
neCiion with Russia already
seem 20 be IN operation IN the
air.
CONFUSING Official nav, ao-
Y counts NJ our grca Jest
South pacif~ aIr battle aga'rs'
the japanese over Guadalcanal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

a proposal that political cam
palgns he financed out OF the
public treasury and that can
didateS he limited equally m
their radio time and their adj
Veriislng space.
This Is a scheme that would
enable her husband 20 swamp
any rival through the opera
tons OF the political machine Of
which she Is very aggressive
member, a machine composed OF
countless iObholders drawing
their compensation from the
public taxes. II would permit
him 10 make unlimited use of
the radio on unrationcd time by
the device of styling his over
time campaign speeches fire
side chats and reports 10 the
people and II would establish
the cherished Communist prIu-
clple of limitation of newspaper
advertising.
THE Communist New Deal
L element has been pushing
this proposal from one direc-
ton or another for years for
the purpose Of starving 10
death the free independent
competitive press Of the United
States which is the best press
in the world
But regardless Of whether
they do buy much or little
space, the trick in this proposal
is 10 give the CommuniSt-New
Deal element a beachhead, so
10 speak, IN the campaign 10
demoliSh the American free
press and substitute for II the
corrupt propaganda press which
lives on subsidies wrung from
The faceless masses by union
bosses.
Mrs. Roosevelt Is 2 thorough
politician whose political meth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

II THE plight Of an army and country de-
4 prived Of its usual administration and it's
usual machinery for the enforcement Of law,
only one thing Is worse than divided author.
ity namely the complete absence Of ell
authority over and among the resident popu-
lation.
This is anarchy.
This in fact, is what happened in Siberia,
where | was soldier in the American Ex.
pedtionary Force
II was complicated Allied intervention,
where no responsibility was taken ny any IN
tervening nation or by any military CON-
mander.
II resulted in an indestrbabo conflict NJ
all local authority and in a great suffering
for the Siberian population.