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BERT V. NUNNEIEY unon
his birthday anniversary jane :.
HENRY BEQUE, Huron ave
nue.. whose birthday WAS Mon
day, June :
Births at st. Joseph
MIR. AND MRS JOSEPH L.
WESTERMAN, RoSevlllc, a SON,
June 5.
PVT. AND MRS DANIEL 4.
SHAW (Helcn NlN) last Detroit
a daughter, June ! Pvt Shaw IS
stationed at Fort Meade Md
MIR AND MRS. HERBERT c.
w. HIM, East Detroit. a dauch-
ter. Margaret Elizabctl June ).
PVT AND MRS MARVIN
LUNGER (Helen SwigcD East
Detroit, a son Marvin Elmer,
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-08

SHERTN KAY LAWRENCE,
who celebrated her fourth birth
day at a party Yesterday after
Don, at the home OF her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin
Coulon, 1873 Lodewyck Six lit
Ito friends were present.
, 1943-05-27
MAMA Outlines
Incentive Plan

The National Association of
Manufacturers have, as usual, been
big hearted and have come up
with an incentive plan, which,
they say, is Essential to the sue
cessful installation and admins
tration of a sound wage plan"
Following are the five points
which the board of directors of the
MAMA considers essential for a
wage incentive plan:
EDITORS NOTE: The five
points r okay, providing the
manufacturers would live up
to the five-point program, but
we can easily see where man.
agement, locally, would find
plenty of loop holes. It has
been our bitter experience in
the past, that the word of
manufacturers is not to be
trusted implicitly.
l. The standard of performance
for a job must be based on a fair
days work, consistent with health,
safety, quality production and
operating efficiency.
2. Base rates should reflect wage
differentiaIs between jobs based on
their relative requirements in
terms of skill, experience, respon-
sibility, degree of difficult, appli-
cation and working conditions.
3. There must be no limitation
of output of the individual worker.
Management to agree that after a
permanent standard is once set, the
standard will remain unchanged
unless there has been a change
in equipment, work specifications,
method Or design.
4. Temporary standards will
have to be set until such time
as fixtures, methods and work
procedures are fully developed and
standardized and the training of
operators is completed.
S. Employees should understand
the operation of an incentive plan
and be able to compute their earn
ings hereunder.
Moved Lately? Re-register!-
, 1943-05-27
Moore-EostWood
Workers Win
Vocation Pay

The shop committee of Moore
Eastwood, Local 1853, negotiated
their first vacation with pay pol
icy ever received by the workers.
The vacation policy a set up pro-
vides for one year-one week, five
years-two weeks. Negotiations
were handled entirely by the shop
committee and have been approved
by the membership. The agree
ment is subject to War Labor
Board approval and requests have
been made to the War Labor
Board for prompt action. The shop
committee is headed by Tom
Calm, chief steward of the unit.
, 1943-05-27
Theoter Guild
Rides Again

Stopping up in the main hall
at 9 East Fifth street, we editor
was amazed at the activity that
was being carried on, (and I do
NEAR carried on!) In one corner of
the stage was a beautiful girl sing
ing sweet words into the mike. In
another corner ! saw several girls,
and only my finer instincts pre-
vented me from 700 hooing, Tor
bowling like . wolf.)
, 1943-05-27

push mODll1ZatlOn tor total war.
Two large delegations from New
York and New Jersey, came in
during the week, and another,
made up of UAW members from
Indiana, Illinois and other mid
west areas was scheduled for next
week.
The New York delegations organ
lied by the city CLIO council and
led by Michael Quill and Saul
Mills, council secretary, saw Pres
ident Roosevelt, Economic Stabili-
zation Director James F. Byrnes,
Food Administrator Chester Davis,
OPA Chief Prentiss Brown, and
members of the War Labor Board.
The Jersey group, chiefly from
the northern section, was led by
State President Irving Abramson,
UE Vice President James McLeish,
and Regional Director Ewald
Sandner. The Jersey people saw
Davis, head of the WLB; Galbraith,
assistant to Brown at OPA; and
Pritchard, assistant to Byrnes.
In seeing the president, the New
York group presented a statement
pledging full support to the price
rollback drive and to the plan to
subsidize food production for
greater output, and renewed the
CIO no-strike pledge given at the
time of Pearl Harbor by President
Murray.
-Register - Then Vote!-
, 1943-05-27

CHANGING at the center of the
stage, I saw a nan talking to an
other of those lovely ladies, but
the thing that caught my eye was
the big juicy steak that he was
calmly waving about. I could
stand no more, and dashing up to
the footlights, I screamed, What
no, what goes here?"
l received my answer in a few
short words. Out from behind the
curtains stepped G. Harrison Fen
ner, the old maestro of the mask
and wig. "Sirrah, you are inter-
rupting the rehearsing of Victory
Parade" quoth G. Harrison. "The
various actions which ! have wit
messed, have given me more of
the impression of frivolity that
produces nothing for victory"
quoth I, standing on my dignity,
las well as two flat feet.)
my friend" said Fenner pa
tently, "You, such as you are, are
casting a monkey wrench into the
wheels of industry. W. r pro-
ducing a play, the proceeds of
which will help to bring a little
sunshine into the lives of numer-
Gus members of our armed forces
in the form of cigarettes and other
sundry comforts. The name of the
play is Victory Parade We will
present this play on the evenings
of Tuesday and Wednesday, June
~ and %. We will also welcome
all CIO members and the general
public at that time. We will also
welcome your Immediately absent
ing yourself at this time so we
can continue with our work. Il
said that I would 60, and casting
n more longing look first at the
girls, then at the steak, then at
the girls, then at the steak, I
climbed into my little private huff,
and drove off,
DO Your Duty-Register Now
The War Bond drive in the Day.
ton area Is still slightly short of the
goaI-Lets Buy More!
, 1943-05-27
Talk Turkey With FDR,
Tell Him People Want Price Cuts

WASH1NGTON-This was delegations week in the cap
itL with rank and file CIO members coming in to tell congress and
the administration what the workers feel about hold the line" and
what they want done to roll back living costs, end wage inequities and
Askov American., 1943-09-16
SfzAI2XNG the LO4-.
GETTING W70 TIE EZ6f7T

only 6,422 cars. l am reminded OF
the cOuplet, Lest men suspect your
tale untrue, keep probability in
view." Case dismissed.
Brother Weber says we wouldn't
believe the camera. Not the way he
does. We don't believe that a pic
ture Of trucks hauling away 1h tons
of rotten potatoes proves that 1900
of excess potatoes were bought and
fed to cattle. Because so many peo-
pie refuse to sift the evidence, they
believe such ridiculous stories print
ed in newspapers that serve no other
purpose than to undermine the peo-
ple's confidence in their government.
Seldom does the truth travel fast
enough to catch up with falsehood.
Askov American., 1943-09-16
BUD
United States Navy,
August 81, l943.

Editor Askov American:
just received my second issue OF
the Askov American. It was the issue
of August IL, so you can see it does
take some time to get mail and papers
down here.
It is wonderful to get a paper like
the "Askov", especially when a man
is so far away from home and all he
holds so dear. Just reading the paper
alone makes person seem closer to
good old Minnesota and home.
It is true we see a lot of "big"
papers down here. By "big" papers
I mean papers like the New York
Times, Chicago Tribune, Cleveland
Press, etc. But these papers don't
mean anything to us outside of a lit
tie war news, and we get all that
over the radio. The news most of the
boys like is news from paper like
the American. The home town tells
the news we want to hear of our
friends and of the communities and
places we want to hear about.
Just to say again l surely appre-
ciate the paper very much.
F. EDWARD KEYPORT.
Askov American., 1943-09-16

NIT my visiting every locality so it
was necessary for me to select the
points most convenient to those who
wished to see me on matters of i'm
portance to them. was rather handi-
capped on this trip as was without
help of any kind. This necessitated
referring all letters to my Washing
ton office and that naturally caused
some delay, which I regret. Let me
suggest to those who had planned
on seeing me and did not get to do
so, that they write me at Washington
in detail on any matter in which they
may be interested and mark their
letter personal" If there are any
who have not received replies to let
ters written me, If they will write
Askov American., 1943-09-16
A DREAM OF FUTURE FARMING
(Mille Laos County Times)

(Mille Laos County Times)
We are always interested when
somebody looks into the future and
tells us how wonderful it will be.
Just now, we call your attention
to the views of Lewis w. Waters, vice
president of General Foods corpora
ton, who thinks that improved iv-
,ng conditions will attract many
workers to agriculture after the war.
Mr.. Waters believes that farm life
will become so attractive as to draw
many people from the industrial field.
He cites good roads, better housing,
the latest domestic conveniences, in
Guiding air-conditioning and garbage
disposal plants.
Mr.. Waters, will have the ''most
modern kitchen utensils" and farm
equipment will be lighter, with "none
of the back-breaking qualities of
present heavy implements"
That is not all! The gentleman FORE
sees, perhaps, 'the use of portable
radio-telephones, like the 'walkie-
talkie' now employed by the army"
which will ENABLE the farmer to give
quick instructions to his farm hands,
blowing all sections of his broad
acres"
This is an interesting dream which
might come true. There is one catch,
however. Where will the farmer get
the money to buy all the things that
the prophet predicts?
Askov American., 1943-09-16
AFTER THE LONG GREENS

Here are some thoughts expressed
by the well known editor, William
Allen White, of Kansas:
''It is silly to say New Dealers run
this war show. It's run largely by
absentee owners of amalgamated in
dustrial wealth, men who either di-
rectly or through their employers con-
troll small minority blocks, closely or
ganized, that manipulate the physical
plants of these trusts. Also, for the
most part, these managerial magnates
whom one meets in Washington are
decent, patriotic Americans. For the
most part, they are giving American
people superb service. They have
great talents. If you touch them in
nine relations of life out of ten, they
are kindly, courteous, Christian gen.
tlemen. But in the tenth relation,
where it touches their own organiza-
tions, they are stark mad, ruthless,
unchecked by God or man, para
noiacs, in fact as evil In their designs
as Hitler. They are determined to
come out of this war victors for their
own stockholders which is not
surprising.
"But this attitude of the men who
control the great commodity indus
tries and who propose to run them
according to their own judgment and
their own morals, does not make a
pretty picture for the welfare of the
common man. The international COM
binations of industrial capital are
fierce troglodyte animals with tre-
mendous power and no social brains.
They hover like the old silurian rep
tiles about our decent, more or less
Christian civilization like great
dragons in. this modern day when
dragons are supposed to be dead"
Askov American., 1943-09-16
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page u

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march in through the southern part
of the country. And you may be sure
that as far as the west is concerned.
the bombers will keep on taking
care of that.
No Victories.
What makes the Russian picture
look brighter and brighter all the
time, is the fact that the Germans
win no victories on the Soviet front.
They haven't done so for ever 50
many months, and just now they are
in retreat everywhere along the 600
mile front. 1t would be false to say
that they offer no resistance: they
do, and they are strong enough to
slow up the Russian march toward
Poltava, Kiev, Bryansk, and Smo-
lensk, but their resistance does not
seem adequate, for If it were, there
would not be the daily defeats of
Hitler's divisions.
japanese Difficulties.
Behind all the conferences between
Roosevelt and Churchill and their
military and naval leaders, and be-
hind the extensive operations in Eu-
rope, there is always the thought
that Japan is to be defeated, too.
This is something no one in response
BILE positions ever forgets.
And, in truth, Japan is becoming
weaker and weaker all the time; also
it is becoming more and more ex-
posed to systematic bombardments.
One sees glimpse of the
plans: When the last japanese
forces were driven away from
the Aleutian islands, 1t was quite
clear that the United Nations in
tended to use Attu and Kiska as
a base of bombing operations
against Japan proper. and when
a few days ago - Americans
shelled the island OF Marcus, 1t
was equally clear that air at
taeks from that direction were. !
being planned.
The further fact that active Wx
| against Japan is about to begin in
some of the territories she has occu-
pied, notably Burma, shows that
what the supreme command of the
United Nations has in mind is not
merely to continue to stop the Japa-
nese from regaining the initiative,
but also to force them out of the
| islands and countries they have
taken. 1t is probable that this chap
ter of the war will be hard one,
but no one doubts that, in the end.
the enemy will have to follow the
example which Italy set few days
ago, that is, to raise the white flag
as token of complete and uncondi-
tional surrender
Askov American., 1943-09-16
Local Enforcement
OF New Law Asked

Local law officials, the ones in the
best position to check on the matter,
are urged by M. J. Hoffman, Com
missioner of Highways, to hold to
strict enforcement of the Minnesota
drivers license law at all times to
assure its continued successful opera
ton. Those whose licenses have been
revoked or suspended should be kept
from driving during the time they are
being penalized.
"The purpose of the drivers license
law was to improve the safety Of
travel on our streets and highways
by setting up method of keeping
track of the performance of the in
dividual driver and taking proper
disciplinary action when necessary"
said Mr.. Hoffman. ''Since the law
was first passed in 1888, licenses
have been issued to more than
100000 drivers, and it is estimated
that half of these are not now driv-
ing, due to death, removal from the
state, or because they have quit
driving.
Under the old law it was possible
for driver to retain a revoked or
suspended license, and if he wished
to cheat the law he might continue
using it for an unlimited time. With
a view to eliminating this difficult
ty, and in order to clear the records
Of dead material, the 1943 Legisla-
ture amended the law so that all Ii
censes issued before September I.
1943, expire on the licensees next
birthday. Licenses hereafter issued
will expire on the licensees birthday
in the fourth year after they are is
sued"
Askov American., 1943-09-16

again it will be very much appre-
ciated.
Another Tax Bill.
This session promises to be a busy
one. The first order of business is
another tax bill, which will the 18th,
big and small, since the New Deal
came into power in 1888. The Con-
gress is asked to raise an additional
IL billion dollars over and above the
38 billions that are now being COL
lected, which would make total of
SO billion, or about 36 per cent of
our national income. Add to that the
10 billions that are being collected
by the states and political subdivis-
ions and we find that the tax COL
lector is taking approximately 43 per
cent of our income, which does not
take into consideration the many
hidden taxes that are to be found in
everything we consume.
Frankly, do not know where we
can turn for the additional revenue.
1t would seem that the time has come
for Mr.. Roosevelt to make an honest
effort in cutting down non-war spend
ing. The other day I received let
ter from young man who formerly
was member of my office staff. He
is now with the Federal government.
He writes me that the place where
he is employed the help stand around
with nothing to do and that one
third of the number employed could
do all the work. We know that every
department and bureau in Washing
ton is overstaffed. We also know that
a number of these bureaus and in
dependent agencies could and should
be eliminated altogether but when
Congress makes an attempt to do so,
every possible wire is pulled to pre-
vent action. ht r
have in mind the Bituminous Coal
commission which the Ways and
Means committee was instrumental in
having abolished this summer. In
fluential men from all over the coun-
try were called to Washington to
work on their respective Representa-
tives in an attempt to prevent favor
able action. Now they are trying to
make the people believe that any
shortage of coal next winter will be
due to having abolished the commits
sion when, as matter of fact, the
existing shortage is due to strikes
and the failure of Great Lakes ship
ping interests to bring coal on the
return trip after having discharged
their cargo of iron ore at the lower
ports.
Askov American., 1943-09-16
FENCE-FIxING

They say that business rises and
falls in cycles. This can also be ap-
piled to politics. A number of Con-
gressmen have returned from Wash
ington and are now busily fixing
heir fences and they have adopted
old tricks, Sound and tried methods"
Like slight of hand performer, they
are attracting the peoples attention
| away from their actual acts and
deeds, away to something else, such
as the gilded future.
Now many of these Congressman
worked long and hard for the Ruml
plan and it was hoped that they
would take credit for this, but no,
they shy away from it, just like it
was dirty shirt. None of them seem
TO want to take credit for their sue
cessful accomplishments. If the Ruml
plan was such good thing, as they
professed, why not take credit for
it?
When the Farmer-Laborers were
in power, using the state fair for
political fence fixing and bombasting
was frowned on by the Republicans
This has changed since they ran
things. Never have they reached
such heights and the fair is not over
yet. Fairs nowadays are mostly car
nival and all grasp the spirit. The
carnival barkers have something to
learn and the operator of the shell
game could learn something about
painting gilded future, if he would
listen to the politicians put on the
salve. But, the hitch is that always
a person has to give up something
he already has, in the hopes of get
ting whole lot in the future.
The technique is identical. "Give
away the shirts on your backs, good
people, soon you will get much bet
ter ones. Follow us and we will lead
you to the promised land.' Where did
we hear that before? So turns the
wheels of fortune. It is the same
thing all over again. When you have
been plucked to your shoestrings, the
| cycle will move, and you will be told
that we have free enterprise and
to get out and hustle
S. j. SIMONSEN.
| PeaSe, MINI.
Askov American., 1943-09-16

of revolution as well as war. 1t is
something of an achievement for
Norman Angel or, Walter Lippman,
or even for Freedom House to write
a book or draw up declaration
which takes no account in planning
peace for the din of racial and
economic interests which even total
war cannot drown out.
am not arguing that lasting peace
requires one universally accepted re-
ligion, culture, or economic and polit-
ical plan for the whole world; am
arguing that it requires rational ma
chinery of cooperation which will
speed the universal conquest of pow
erty and exploitation. It is emo
tionally and practically impossible
to believe that any international
police force can control a world in
which victors and vanquished alike
are cursed by the spirit of hate and
vengeance or in which the victors
try to perpetuate and increase i'm
perialism and maintain at all costs
white supremacy. The kind of peace
emphatically matters. 1t cannot be
ignored in favor of some vague pledge
of collective security.
1 am not arguing against the use
fulness of an international police of
the right sort. l am exceedingly
skeptical of its usefulness unless there
is general disarmament SO that the
international force is the only force
which will possess the kind of arma-
ment necessary for successful war
fare. Such force / think can best
be formed on the quota principle
elaborated by Ely Culbertson.
But I am not now SO much con-
cerned with the composition of an
international police force as l am
with an insistence that under no
circumstances can it be the corner
stone of a cooperative world. We
shall have a Third World war unless
out of this war can come peace
which will give to all persons sense
of security which no alliance of vic
tors can afford them.
Indeed our hope depends not upon
an alliance for the use of over
whelming force, but upon an extra
ordinary diminution of armies and
arms. This war will have been lost
if the victor nations must maintain
thereafter military conscription NOM
inally for the sake of peace, but really
for the sake of power and glory.
1 can imagine no better single test
for the effectiveness of peace than
that it should be accompanied by the
universal abolition of military con-
scription. Indeed, / should say of
all conscription, for under modern
conditions there is no conscription
for work that will be 'moral equiv
alent for war;" Rather it will be
an aid to building the power and
glory of the state and its government
With the abolition of conscription and
the limitation of national forces to
police uses, the protection of the peo-
Piles of the world against possible
aggressor nation would be compara-
lively easy. But its basis would have
to be a general acceptance of the
ideal of peace, and cooperation of
the peoples of the earth to further it,
not nuclear alliance.-N. T.
Askov American., 1943-09-16
News From The
Victory Front
The following letter was re-
ceived recently by Mr.. and Mrs.
J. d. Slower of Nickerson:
Somewhere in Iran,
August 16, 1943.

somewhere In iran,
August 16, 1943
Dear Folks:
wrote V-mail this morning but
I'll send air mail along, too.
I want you to know that the ac-
Gordon arrived in good shape. The
cardboard box was pretty badly bent
up but the accordion itself didn't
suffer. l also got the camera, so
everything is o. K. now.
The mail is coming in real well
now. You are surely doing plenty of
writing and it's good to get mail.
1t gives you pretty good idea how
things are on the home front. Also
keep the clippings coming; they're
good.
1t would make you laugh and also
make you happy to see me giving
away the old clothes that you packed
the accordion in. They fought like
cats and dogs over them. Some of
them actually cried. If you people
back home could see some of the
sights we see here you would be
speechless. There are funny sights
and pathetic cases, too.
You ask if I wanted bad news, too;
by all means, send it all, good or
bad, as after all, about all the enjoy
ment we have is the mail. Also shoot
me the clippings from the home town
paper.
wouldn't mind seeing some of that
haying weather as that would be cool
for me. The dust storms are so bad
at times
There are no different roads here.
You just drive where you think is best,
just miles of empty space, no trees
except an occasional oasis where there
are plenty of date-palms on which
the fruit is almost ripe.
Time to close so take care of your
selves and keep the home fires burn
ing.
Yours,
BUD.