The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-06

Peter EdsOm chickens IN town
and advise q checkup on local zor-
ing laws before building a pen Or
buying baby chicks.
Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-Amer-
lean Affairs magazine, EN-
Guardia" con Guard), which start
ed out with circulation of $4,000,
is now up to 475,000 for the COM
bined Spanish and Portuguese edi-
tions. Idea of the magazine Is to sell
the U. s. war effort to Latin Amer
lean big shots. The magazine Is not
for sale, but Is free to the right
people that Is, to diplomats, poll
ticians, local officials, and business
men who should be made friends
and influenced.
War Labor Board Chairman Will
liam H. Davis Is one OF the top
flight Washington officials who la
boriously writes his own speeches.
He tries to put something worth lis
tening to in every one. At Boston
the other day he let go Of this one:
"The world is a little topsy-turvey
these days. Here's the Roosevelt adj
ministration bending every effort to
hold wages down, and employers,
standing in line asking the govern
ment to let them be raised.
shouldn't be terribly surprised some
morning to read In the newspaper
that the Communist party had gone
on record against taxes on corpor-
ate income"
PAY INCREASE REQUESTS
Ii the three months since the
wage and salary sterilization orders
were put into effect, some $4,000 in
quiries on pay increases have been
received by regional Offices OF the
Wage and Hour Division, which
handles these matters In the first
instance. Three-fourths of the in
uuiries have come from employers
wanting to raise wages to pay more
money to keep labor or to induce
new workers to take Jobs. One ap.
plication out Of every 10 has come
to the War Labor Board In Wash
ington, which has piled a load OF
1000 more decisions to be made in
the capital. Getting out from under
that burden, the board will soon
open 70 new regional offices with IL
Little WLB's" to handle all labor
disputes.
With this further decentralization,
the War Labor Board in Washing
ton will sit as q sort Of Supreme
Court on labor disputes and wage
issues, handling only those cases In
which employer or employees may
appeal the decision Of the regional
board.
Biggest headache which the War
Labor Board now faces Is the APP
plication from unions wanting to go
above the limit set by the Little
Steel formula of last July, which
authorized increases in wages up to
IS per cent above January /, 1941,
levels.
MAS, MSS, M-7'S
Army ordnance raised the veil Of
secrecy formerly hung over Its MS
light tank the other day and there
by corrected an error. When the
tank destroyer - the self-propelled
rs or los nm. artillery piece mount
ed on tracks-was announced in De-
cember after 1t had helped knock
Rommel out of Egypt, that weapon
too was designated as the Ms. 1t
wasn't the MS at all. 1t was the
MT. The Ms is this new light tank,
an improved model Of the Ms,
which Tommies call the Honey. The
Ms. is its now revealed, has also
seen service in Africa. helped lick
Rommel. It's lighter but much fas-
ter than the MA or General Sher-
man. Swell for chasing Germans
and Italians on the run.
Office of Price Administration
rationing heads fear they're going
to have to do something about the
steak places and chop houses which,
by paying premium prices to pack
ing houses, always seem to have
plenty of good red meat and have
been a haven where beef-hungry
customers have been able to find a
thick one at any time, If willing to
nav,