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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Dorothy Thompson
Denounces Drive
By Rickenbacker

WASHINCTON.-Dorothy ThOmp-
son, noted newspaper columnist
and recognized expert on the tech
niques of Fascism, cOurageously
denounced Capt. eddie" Ricken-
hacker as a spokesman for those
'whO are seeking to take advan-
tage of this war to crush American
labor unions" In a syndicated
column, Miss Thompson wrote:
although he denies it in words,
he attacks the very basis of organ
lied labor; those laws which seek
to bring some order and stability
to the rights of workers, organized
or unorganized; and the whole
structure which makes labor or
ganization possible.
Sand for all the faults i'm our
war production, he blames the
workers and blames them excIu-
siveIy.
''While our men are fighting in
Africa and the Pacific, Captain
Rickenbacker is organizing their
lives for them on their return. He
is planning that they shall be used
to break the trade union system.
''The men i'm the hell holes do
ing the fighting are not largely
corporation executives. They are
mostly the sons of American
workers.
''Certainly, when the soldier
comes back to the nation, which
he has risked his life to protect,
he will demand a share in the
wealth of that nation. And he GER
tainly won't get it if he is aligned
against the workers who were kept
at hOme."
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Hartford Gu
.AsksPayHike
For P.O. Men
Seeks u. S. Senate Support;
And Sets Up Local
OPA Committee

The Hartford Central Labor
Union, at its last meeting, endorsed
S.B. 800, which would grant pay
increases to postal workers amount
ing to $500 annually, and set up al
advisory committee to work in co
operation with the O.P.A.
S.B. 800, introduced by Sen
james Mead of New York, is the
counterpart of the O'Brien bill.
passed by the House of Represen.
tatives last week. These bills pro.
vide $500 annual salary increase
to post office workers for the dura-
ton of the war.
The C.L.U. notified Sen. John
A. Danaher and Sen. Francis T.
MaIOney of its action and asked
them to support the measure when
it comes up for consideration by
the U. S. Senate.
In response to a letter from Pres.
William A. Green of the ALL,
which pointed out that Price Ad-
ministrator Prentiss M. Brown has
asked that members of organized
labor be selected to serve as advisory
committees to rationing boards, the
C.L.U. voted to empower Sen. Will
liam A. Scott, president of the body,
to appoint such committee to work
with the O.P.A.:
The O.P.A. Advisory Committee is
as follows
Herbert A. Miller, business
agent of Transfers, $50.
Carmen DiCorcia, business
agent, Bricklayers, l.
Nicholas Simeone, business
agent, Building LabOrers, 23O.
Anne Dussault, Electrical De-
vice Workers, Blob.
Pat Dillon, Aircraft Lodge,
LAM, 743.
Richard Kervick, president of
Machinists, $50.
Michael Barry, business agent,
Carpenters, 43.
Frank Devine, business mana
ger, Electrical Workers, IS.
William A. Crosscup, Jr., bust
ness agent, Painters, All.
John McCovern, Cigar Max
ers, AZ.
John ]. Smith, business agent,
Bus Operators, 425.
Joseph Lombard, business
agent, Meat and Provision Work
ers, 81.
James McCraw, Musicians,
400.
Charles Ryan, Post Office
Clerks, 147.
Paul Willnauer, business
agent, Steamfitters. 2l8.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03

hours, there exist now desire to in
crease their working hours.
One company as it was previously
pointed out by this paper has gone off
the 24-hour operation basis increasing
its daily hour schedule for women
workers.
''The States have adopted flexible
and efficient methods of adjusting
labor standards to meet the coun-
try's needs during the war. They
have encouraged employers to re-
turn to legal hours standards as
quickly as possible" reports the
Division of Labor Standards of the
Federal Labor Department, which
further states:
''Many of the State laws require
48-hour week, an eight-hOur day,
one day rest i'm seven, and adequate
rest and meal periods" The War,
Navy and Labor Departments
recognized in January, 1912, that
these standards promote maximum
sustained production.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Air Spoilers
SoreIyNeeded
In Fair Haven
Volunteers Wanted To Fill
Places Of Those Taken
By War

Officials of the Aircraft Warn
ing Service came forward today
with another appeal for spoilers to
man the post in Fair Haven. Men
are being lost continually to the
armed forces, it was pointed out,
and others have been forced to leave
because of changes i'm their work
ing hours.
The officials stated that by vol
unteering for this type of defense
work, men and planes are released
for other military duties.
Men in the war plants who are
doing a fine job as soldiers in pro-
duction and who are patriotic enough
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
the CLIO did seek a determination
as to the validity of AFL contracts
with Kaiser yards.

the CLIO did seek determination
as to the validity of AFL contracts
with Kaiser yards.
Sen. Joseph H. Ball Or. Mimi
who has introduced bill to freeze
wages at the 1870 Little Steel level
settled down to work on Green, but
Green remained even tempered during
the question. Likewise did both Muir
ray and he when Sen. H. H. Burton
(R., o. solemnly lectured them on the
runaway spiral of imitation"
The previous days sensational
testimony on the Carnegie-IllinOis
fakeries included statement by a
supervisor of inspection at the Ir-
vim, Pa, plant, George E. Dye. In
it he said that he was ''aware that
the mill was shipping badly lam
mated and piped plates to U. S.
Navy and U. S. Maritime shipyards
and that defective steel was being
supplied on U. S. Treasury lend
lease orders"
The tanker Schenectady, which
broke in two after its launching at one
of the Kaiser west coast shipyards,
was brought into the questioning OF
Pres. J. Lester Perry Of Carnegie-llli-
nois, who had claimed the higher
management" was not involved and
said he deeply deplored" the falsifl-
cation of tests and records at Irwin.
Observation-Disclosures believes at this
point said Perry, that the steel
i'm the tanker came from our Home
stead, Pa, plant"
Earlier two metallurgical inspec-
tors at the Irwin plant had testified
that inspectors at the Homestead
plant ''knew how to cheat on
tests, but said they had no actual
evidence that records there were
falsified.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Liberalize UCAct
surance from the Federal Gov.
Continued from Page One)

surance from the Federal Gov.
eminent. --s---~--
The proposed act would strike
out the words master" and ''ser-
vant'' and replace them with ''em-
pIOyer" and ''emplOye" in U.C.
Law.
At the hearing before the Labor
Committee on the bills to amend the
Act, employers representatives and
Henry S. Beers, chairman of the Ad-
visory Committee for the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act, vigorously
opposed both the increasing of the
maximum benefit payments to $22 a
week and frightening the compensate
period as proposed by the Conn. Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Wages Are Frozen
As Cost OF Living
Continues To 60 Up

Continued from Page One)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03

When it comes to settling the
peace soundIy, American Labor
must insist that all social groups,
forms or traditions in the Axis
countries which have contributed
decisively in fomenting World War
Ill must, in the interest of last
ing peace, lose their predominant
influence.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Labor's Radio Leads
Drive For Lost Cruiser

CHICAGO-Station VIGIL, radio
voice of the Chicago Federation of
Labor scooped the nation on the cam
paign to raise enough money through
war bond and stamp purchases to re-
place the cruiser Chicago which was
lost in a battle off the Solomon
Islands, with another cruiser bearing
the same name. The radio station
pledged its thousands of listeners to
the cause on the same day that the
announcement of the loss was made
public.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
George F. Parkinson
Promoted to Sergeant

All the friends of Sgt. Parkinson are
very proud to know of his promotion.
George entered the service Jan. LIST,
l943. and took his basic training at
Miami Beach, Fla. After a months
strenuous training he was transferred
to Gulfport Field, Miss, and entered
the technical training command as an
airplane mechanic student. Upon sue
cessful completion as a honor student
in his class he was transferred to the
flying training command to be trained
for an aerial gunner at McCarron Field,
Las Vegas, Nevada.
After six weeks of living with guns
and taking the most strenuous exercise
and long hours of school, he has receiv-
ed his Gunner's Wings and rank of
Sergeant in our fast growing and mighty
Air Force.
He is now at Salt Lake City, Utah,
awaiting assignment to a bomber squad
ron for overseas mission. We are proud
to have boys like George that ave what
it takes to sink the Rising SUM-" He
will be among the best to man those
guns spouting flame of destruction to
our heartless enemies. Our prayers and
best wishes go with him wherever he
goes.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Holmes Co. Temperance
Union 10 Meet

There will be a mass meeting of all
who are interested in voting beer and
wine out of Holmes county, Sunday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock in the Holmes
county courthouse. At this meeting the
petitions that have been circulated will
be checked and everyone who has a
petition is urged to get as many names
signed to it as possible and to come
to the meeting and bring the petition.
In order to call an election, we must
have at least 20 per cent of the quail
fled electors to sign the petition. We
believe that we will nave more than the
20 per cent by Sunday afternoon. Every
one is urged to be at the meeting Sun
day afternoon. Many things will be
discussed that will be of interest to all.
Many of the counties of the state
have voted beer and wine out-Why not
let good people of Holmes county have
the opportunity to say by their ballot
whether or not they a beer and
wine excluded from our county? Surely,
there are enough good people in this
county who believe in the finer things
of life to 60 to the polls when the oppor-
tunity is given and say by their ballot
that they want this "Damnable Curse Of
Humanity" excluded from our midst. A
very prominent Judge of Chicago said
recently. "Booze is the Mother of Crime.
It gives life and sustenance to slums,
dives, brotheis, gambling dens and pay
off joints. 1t nerves to his deed the
homicide, the stick-up man, the bur-
gler, the thief, and the thug. 1t fires
the brain of the prostitute, and the
pandered. 1t feeds and inflames the
passions of the weak-minded and the
degenerate"
Recently, Lauderdale county voted
beer and wines out by an overwhelming
majority. The Supreme Court has ruled
that the election was a legal one. The
Mayor of the City of Meridian, county
seat of Lauderdale county, has stated
"That since beer and wine was voted out
of the county, our law violation has
been so per cent less than when we had
beer and wine." He also said, THAT
the money that has been saved in
prisoner board bill will equal to more
thar the revenue that they would have
received from the beer and wine."
Surely, this tells everyone Of us that
beer and wine Toes not pay.
We urge every interested person to
meet at the Holmes county courthouse
this Sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Thank you,
THE COMMITTEE.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
S343. Is e" Bonds
Sold IN Holmes Co.
Third War Loan

A breakdown showing the type of War
Bonds purchased by citizens Of Holmes
county during the recent Third War
Loan was released this week by the Mis-
sissippi War Finance Committee.
Holmes county, which had a quota of
1867, 1871 rs, the report showed. Of this
amount, county citizens purchased s343,-
406.25 in the individual "E" bonds, or
35.5 percent of the county total. The
rest of the sales were in F and G ac-
counting for $l33,966 or 1873 percent of
the sales; $441 500 or a5.6 in 2Ro bonds
sales and 5000 or 6 in 21a percent
bonds; $43, 900 or as in tax notes and
NE certificate sales.
Mississippi was the only Southern
state to reach it's "E" bond quota, $751;
900, 900, the type bond stressed by the
Treasury Department. The state is tied
with three states for seventh place in the
nation for az" bond honors with 1880
of quota as compared with the nations
average of $40.
Final treasury figures on the Loan
showed Mississippi bought $50, 130, 275.25
or 12a percent Of the SO million dollar
quota. The average state bought 122
percent of its quota.
The average county in Mississippi pur-
chased 1923 percent of total sales in
the "E" bonds.
Each county is to be congratulated
on the splendid record made in the
Third War Loan, especially in Sc
bonds" Rex /. Brown, chairman of the
Committee said. mississippi easily led
the South, and rates high in the nations
list of individual bond buying states.
Only through hard work on the part of
each county was this record possible.
This fine record is no more than the
aggregate of the hard work and patri-
otto service given by thousands Of cit
liens in the eighty-two counties, each
of which exceeded its quota"
mo word of praise can be too high,
no word Of c~ommendation can be too
great. Of the campaign organization in
Holmes county under the leadership of
H. H. johnson, War Loans Drive Chair
man, Max Scobey County Director, and
Miss Dorothy McBee, Chairman Of the
Women's Division, whose untiring eff
forts wee responsible for Holmes
co~unty's achievement"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Presbyterian Group
Conference Held
In TchuIa 21st

The 10th Annual Group Conference
of the Durant District of Central Mis-
sippi P~resbytery, was held at the Tchula
Presbyterian Church on Thursday,
October 81, 1913.
Mrs. J. H.. Bennett of Kosciusko,
chairman, presided at this meeting.
Greetings were extended by Mrs. Gillian
Gwin of Tchula. The worship period
was in charge of Mrs. Robert Ham of
Durant. Reports were heard from all
Presbyterial secretaries, telling Of the
work done in the past church year, in
each phase of the work. Each number
on the program was interesting and in
spring.
The Presbyterial President, Mrs.
Robert Wilson, Of Leland, gave a report
of the Adult Conference at Montreal,
N. c., in July.
Lunch was served on the church
grounds, buffet style. This hour Of
fellowship was enjoyed by all.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Rubber, Metals Added
To Scrap Pile

The Durant Lumber Company has con-
tributed 17,450 pounds of metals and the
Peoples Service Station, Of Lexington,
has accumulated 1000 pounds of rubber
to go INTO Holmes county's scrap drive,
according to announcement today.
Every business firm and every in
dividual is being urged to ransack his
premises for scrap metals and rubber
that car be used to swell the nations
supply of badly needed scrap.
School children throughout the county
are being asked to take the lead in
bringing in all available scrap.
Any person or firm having scrap they
want picked up should contact County
Chairman Norman Weathersby in Lex
ington or his community chairman who
will contact Mr.. Weathersby and make
arrangements for the salvage to be
hauled.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
H. f. Barrentine
Passes Friday

Funeral services were held Sunday at
Oregon Memorial Church for Henry
Everett Ba%rrentine, who passed away
Friday afternoon at his home on the
Tchula Road. The Rev. Homer w,
Robertson and the Rev. A. Y. Brown
officiated.
Mr.. Barentine had been i'll for some
time and had recently beer in a JAG
son hospital.
He was born August 1879 in Car
roll county but spent practically his
entire life in Holmes county. He was
married Nov. goth, 1902, to the former
Laura Cecil Heard.
Surviving are his widow and four
daughters. Mrs. James W. Townsend
Mrs. Phillip V. Bellina and Mrs. Blaise
S. D'Antoni. of New Orleans. and Mrs.
Douglas E. Gilmore, Lexington; three
sons. Jesse Clifton Barentine, Lexing-
ton; Pvt. Ben r. Barrentine, Camp
Shelby; 1t. James R. Barrentine, Fort
Leonard Wood.
Two sisters. Mrs. W. NJ. Evans and
Mrs. T. II. Frost and one brother, T. A.
Barrentine, also survive with three
grandchildren: Billy Gilmore. Patsy
Barrentine. and Joseph Bellina.
Interment was at Odd Fellows with
Southern Undertaking Association in
charge.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
What Holmes County
Formers Are Doing
In Soil Conservation
By A. r. Carroll

b. II. Maxwell Of Pickens community
has planted 100 acres to white Dutch
clover for permanent pasture. Mr.. Max
we'll applied 500 pounds of lime and $50
pounds of dallis grass and 8 pounds of
lespedeza last spring. He states that
he waited until this fall to plant the
white Dutch clover to give the dallis
grass a better start as white Dutch
clover will have a tendency to shade out
first year dallis grass in the early
spring.
DIR. H. NJ. Terry of Goodman commu-
nifty has just completed fertilizing and
seeding IL acres of permanent pasture.
DR.. Terry applied 500 pounds of lime,
$50 pounds of phosphate per acre. disked
these minerals in and planted ~ pounds
Of dallis grass and 3 pounds of white
Dutch clover per acre. He will plant s
pounds of common lespedeza per acre on
this pasture next spring.
George Mitchell of Goodman commu-
nifty has planted 3 pounds of white
Dutch clover per acre on 40 acres of
permanent pasturse. This 40 acres were
fortified and seeded with ~ pounds
dallis grass and s pounds of common
lespedeza per acre last spring.
Mr.. Mitchell used a shovel pillow to
lay off this field in rows approximately
4 feet wide and planted the dallis grass
in these burrows with a one row planter.
He states that the dallis grass came up
much better when planted in a furrow
with a planter than when broadcast on
top of the soil.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Can Still Send Some Gifts

Christmas packages for soldiers over
seas which have been returned to the
sender because of an improper address
may still be mailed, according to the
War Department. The original wrapper,
bearing the Endorsement, Return to
Sender, insufficient Address. must be
submitted with the correctly addressed
package to prove it originally was mail
ed before the Oct. Is deadline. Christ
mas packages also may be mailed to SOL
diers going overseas between now and
Christmas. When the sender presents
his package to the post office for mail
ing he must bring the Change Of Ad-
dress Form containing the APO address
to which the package is being sent.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Flash Prices From
LocuI OPA
LIVE HOGS: Ceiling price S14.15 a
Hundredweight.

LIVE HOGS: Ceiling price $14.15 a
Hundredweight.
Exempted from price control, hogs
weighing less than 40 pounds sold for
feeding for mere than one month, hogs
sold for breeding or for serum.
Sellers must provide buyers with an
invoice, or accept from the buyers a
receipt, or both, showing the names and
addresses of both persons, the place at
which the hogs sold were weighed, the
weight and number of the hogs sold and
the price charged or received for them,
including any allowances or payments
for services performed in connection
with the sale. Where the seller gives
no invoice, the buyers receipt is bind
ing.
Every buyer and seller must keep
accurate records of every sale or pur-
chase.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Urgers Farmers To Collect Scrap

In support of the about "Victory
Scrap Bank" drive to collect iron and
steel scrap, Marvin Jones, War Food Ad-
ministrator, has urged farmers to comb
their farms for all possible scrap. Point
ing out that next to industry, the great
est source of heavy scrap is the Amer
lean farm. Mr.. Jones said,-"American
farmers are doing the greatest food pro-
duction job in history. However, if we
are to insure ample steel for wartime
production, millions Of tons Of scrap
and steel must come from our farms
in the next six weeks."
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Pvt. Ben Borrentine
Is ColIed Home

Pvt. Ben F. Barrentine was called
home this week because of the death of
his father, H. e. Barrentine, Of licking
ton, Route 2.
Ben went into the army about two
weeks ago and is now at the reception
center at Camp Shelby. He will be
assigned to a medical corps unit
eventually.
His friends will be interested to know
he received his doctors degree in Bio
chemistry in June before entering the
army.
Ward, of Starkville.
His many friends wish him success
in his army career.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
BY Hazel Brannon

There is more liquor in dry" Missis-
sippi than in the liquor stores at Men,
phis. The shelves Of the liquor stores
in that city are frequently completely
bare of whiskey while every bootlegger
in Mississippi has a good stock of almost
any kind Of whiskey you want on hand.
The reason for this is that Missis-
sippi bootleggers can go to the whole
salers and pay them the legal ceiling
price on their products and then slip
them an extra $40 per case or more for
some Service" or anything they want
to call 1t. The bootlegger can add that
extra price on his product and get it
in "dry" Mississippi where the sky is the
limit in liquor prices.
The result is the drinker in Missis-
sippi gets his liquor and folks in the
wet states are rapidly learning to do
without.
II the good church people want to
deprive their drinking %neighbors of
whiskey the best thing for them to do
is stop cooperating with the bootleggers
in maintaining the farce of prohibition.
II liquor was legal in Mississippi our
present supply would be unattainable.
Speaking Of liquor . II does look
like the professional reformers who are
getting paid good money for keeping the
prohibition issue alive in Mississippi.
would get rid of whiskey before they
tackle beer as they have in q cur
rent campaign in Holmes county.
The answer to that, Of course, is that
they have failed to get rid Of liquor be-
cause there is no earthly power that
can force a man to stop drinking liquor
as long as he wants it. And as long
as men want whiskey there will be men
to sell it to them.
Whiskey is the greater Of the two
evils. Why not get rid of whiskey
first?
As for beer IL an election Is called
in Holmes county and beer is voted out
there will be a new illegal racket to put
more none in the pockets Of boot
leggcrs. Beer is now being sold in re-
spectacle cafes and places Of business
at legal ceiling prices, prices no higher
than before the war.
If legal beer is voted out the result
will be hat men will go out of the
state and get beer and pay premium
prices for il and tile folks back home
who want beer will pay the increased
price.
The other difference will be that in
stead of going to respectable establish
ments to get one or two bottles of beer
they will drive out to the edge Of town
and drink q half of dozen. or more to
get started ON something a little stronger
and end up drunk.
When are Mississippians going to
grow up and be able to take a few
drinks in their stride without getting
drunk? We've travelled in nearly every
state in the Union and have never seen
as many DRINKS in any city night club
as we see most any Saturday night on
the streets of Durant.
Not until it is sold legally amid re-
spectacle surroundings will taking a
drink Of liquor cease to be an occasion.
To say that we cannot have temperance
and responsibility is admitting that we
are children and not grown up.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-28
Lloyd B. KilIebrew
Promoted to Corporal

CAMP LEE, Va, October 25, Especially
Lloyd B. Killebrew Of Cruger, Missis-
sippi, has been promoted from Private
First Class to Corporal in Cam Lees
Quartermaster Replacement Training
Center.
Corporal Killebrew is a cook and Is
assigned to Company L of the 18th
Quartermaster Training Regiment. He
was formerly a chief clerk at the Nat
ional Biscuit Co, at Greenwood.
Cpl. Killebrew was indicted at Camp
Shelby on Dec. 23, 1912, and arrived at
Camp Lee, Va, on Jan. 6, 1943. His
wife. the former Miss Ruthie Dell Far
IRISH, prior to their marriage in Deem
Der, 1898. is living at Cruger.