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The union times., 1943-04-17
Union Shop By Akron Mayor
George J. Harter Condemns Rowing Rickenbackers'
 As Promoters Of Strife

AKRON-"The union shop is just as American as our government it. self, where the rule of the majority prevails" That was the challenge flung to Akron's reactionaries by Akron s mayor, George J. Harter.
 Harter, who was elected with the full support of organized labor, spoke at a banquet honoring his administration. Sponsored by the Akron Industrial Union Council, it was attended by representatives of all C.I.O., A.F.L. and Railroad un- ions in the area.
 Praising labOr's whOlehearted de- sire for complete cooperation with management for maximum war production, Harter pointed out that ''labOr in Akron is willing and ready to settle arguments by ways of reasOn."
 He contrasted with this the actions of Eddie Rickenbacker and others whose utterances, he said, accomplish no good purpose except to excite those upon whom we depend for production .
 'The rowing Rickenbackers who seek to divide class against class, ; the mayor declared, ''couId accom- plish more for the war effort if they attached governors to their Adams apples and sought a place alongside willing workers in pro- ductiOn.'
The union times., 1943-04-17
US. Seiizes Wormy Peaches Of Grade Label Opponent

WASHINCTON.-One of the elO- quent pleaders for the cause of the big canners who was chosen by OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown to go with him when he confronted the farm-bloc-packed house agri- cultural committee recently, prob ably will not be so valuable to the canners next time he's witness.
 The subject of his testimony was grade labelling, and the witness, Dan Gerber, of the baby food GerberS, was against grade labelling.
 Two hundred cases of Cerber's strained peaches for infants con- sumption were seized recently by the Food and Drug Administration. Reason: they contained worms.
 The current American Medical As Sociation bulletin to its Council on Foods brings up the matter and sug gests that the AMA ought to de- eide whether it should allow its en- dorsement of Gerber's baby foods to stand.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Labor Department
 Local Elects Three To Central Bodies

The Connecticut Labor Depart- ment Local No. 649, State County and Municipal Employees, at it's last meeting elected two delegates to the Hartford Central Labor Union and one to the New Haven Central Labor Council.
 Frank Morris, president. and Miss Sylvia Sachs, recording secre- tary, were seated as delegates to the Hartford C.L.U., at its last meeting. |
 James Rosen was chosen as a dele gate to the New Haven C.L.C. It is expected that he will appear for seat ing this week.
 Morris, who is secretary of Hart ford central body, as delegate from Local 368, Highway Department Workers, transferred his delegation status to the Labor Department Workers.
 Benjamin Green, secretary of the Newington Veterans Hospital, Local No. 4O7, of the American Fedora ton of Government Employees, was seated by the C.L.U. at its last meeting.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Hartford Labor
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(Continued from Page One) together with the CI.O. and the Rail road Brotherhoods for common ob- jectives, but we will also work for labor participation in pressing civic and social matters
 Labor has a great stake in such things as the reduction of absentee ism to the minimum, as securing adequate child care service for working mothers, as safeguarding the ratiOning program and looking after consumer interests.
 ''These and other pressing mat ters of vital concern to working people that will arise, can best be tackled by our Committee, "~ LOm- bard explained.
 Timothy Crowley, delegate from Local 400, Hartford Musicians, and a longtime labor leader, urged the C.L.U. to give its unqualified en- dorsement to the Committee, which for the most part is comprised ot the same labor representatives whicf served on the Joint-Election group
The union times., 1943-04-17

 Of Painters Will MeetNextSunday

Delegates from 2l locals affiliated with the Connecticut State Conference of Painters, Decorators and Paper hangers, are expected to attend the quarterly meeting to be held in the Carpenters Hall, Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Sunday, April IS.
 Michael White, general organ izer of the Brotherhood for Con- necticut, New Hampshire and Maine, will be the principal speak CT. He will discuss state and na- tional legislation affecting painters. Alfred J. McKeon, former business agent of Bridgeport Local 190, Paint CTS, is secretary of the Conference. James Donahue, business agent of Local 4ol, Waterbury, is president.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Men Who Lead Labor:

Brigade of New Haven and in the High School Orchestra. At the age of Is, he was fulI-fedged mem. Der of the Ancient Order of United WOrkmen's Band, and through his association with the Order he be. came an ardent unionist.
 MILITARY BAND
 He was one of the organizers of the New Haven Military Band in 1907, and in 1910 was a member of the committee of three which negotiated the induction of this organization into the Foot Guard. It is now the Second Company. Governors Foot Guard Band.
 Benson was member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra for 20 years. In 1929 he was a member of the band which visited the battlefelds of Europe at the invitation of King Albert of Bel. gium, and Marshal Foch of France.
 He was from 1881 to l936 a member of Merchant Marine Or. chestra which furnished music on passenger ships. Before that he played for fifteen years at The Olympia which is now the Para. mount Theatre of New Haven.
 DORSCHT LODCER
 Benson was three times a dele. gate from Local 25f to the Ma. tiOnal Convention of the American Federation of Musicians. From 1920 to 1881 he was financial secretary of the Local. During the same period, he served as secretary. treasurer of Dorscht Lodge No. 2. which in those days was a highly exclusive organization for finished musicians.
 lie Is now secretary-treasurer of of the Connecticut Conference of Musicians. Benson, who was born on Blatchley Ave-, Fair Haven. Nov. 9, 1886, is married and the father of three children. His son. Larry, is a member of the U. S. Army.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Homemaker Service
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 Families will be considered eligible for the homemakers service where their needs fit i'll with the service offered and where there are no re- sources which could be utilized to meet these needs. Families will be expected to meet full or partial cost of the homemakerS' wages li If they are able to do so.
 The Homemakers Service is not classified as a domestic service, the hOmemakers' main job being to attend to the welfare of the children and to be an understanding mother substitute during the emergency of the mothers illness. The home maker will do all the tasks the mother has been accustomed to performing, such as simple care of the sick child, assisting the father in running the household on the accustomed budget, marketing, pre- pairing and serving the meals, dO- ing light laundry for the children, mending for the children and father, and general routine house. work. Emphasis is placed on child care and personality relationships for the preservation of home values.
The union times., 1943-04-17

Harry L. Benson, recording secretary of Local 234, New Haven Federation of Musicians, has been pioneer in general ventures that turned out to be thriving success.
 In 1902 when only l6, he signed the petition for charter that trans fered the unaffiliated New Haven Musical Protective Union to a local of the American Federation of Musicians.
 Ten years later, Benson was one of the first persons to bring the saxophOne to New Haven and one of the first local men to master that interesting instrument.
 At the age of 9, he took to play ing the clarinet. Miles Land, a great uncle, who was popular in the l88O's as an orchestra leader and square-dance prompter, was his teacher. Benson played in the Boys
The union times., 1943-04-17
Job Discrimination
 Group Plans Anti Poll Tax Meeting

The Bridgeport Job Discrimination Council is arranging to hold a public mass meeting to protest the poll tax. The meeting will be held in connec- tion with the observation of "I Am An
The union times., 1943-04-17
Improvement In U. (. Laws
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 State Workmen's Compensation Acl was scheduled to be reported out oi committee to the House of Represen- tatives this week The bill was auth oritatively said to contain Compro- mise provision to the Conn. Fedora tion of Labor's proposals of increasing the maximum amount of payments for time lost through industrial accidents
 Against the Federation's proposal for tipping the payments from 50 per cent to 66 2/3 per cent of the injured workers weekly wage and increase the maximum payment to $35 a week, the bill scheduled to come out of committee offers a $50 maximum to replace the pres ent maximum weekly payment.
 Both proposals were stoutly opposed by the manufacturing and commercial interests at the hearing by the Com mittee.
 The increase in benefit payments for permanent phy sical losses as proposed by the Federation and concurred to by all parties at the hearing were approved by the com- mittee and were scheduled to be included in the bill. These are:
 Loss of arm, idemnity pay
 ment equal to 275 weeks wages,
 increased from 225 weeks;
 hand, from l75 weeks to 2O8 weeks; thumb, 60 to 75 weeks :;
 first finger, 38 to 48 weeks; and
 second finger, 30 tN 38 weeks.
 Funeral benefit payments for vic tims of fatal accidents agreed upon by all groups at the hearing would have permitted the funeral grant of $20O to be increased to as high as $500 at the discretion of the Compensation Commissioner. This was not accepted by the Committee. The proposed measure is said to raise the burial ex- penses in all cases of fatal accidents to $25O.
 The proposal to pay funeral benefits of workmen who die of accidental in dustrial injuries six years following the accident instead of two years afterwards as IS now the case, is pro- vided for in the proposed measure.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Your Dollar
 By CONSUMERS UNION
WHITE AND KHAKI SHIRTS

Prices of almost all mems shirts have gone up, Consumers Union found in purchasing B brands for test. There also are many hidden price increases, in the form of skimpy measurements, poor workmanship and seconds sold at the price of frsts. It's best to unfold and examine every shirt for defects in workmanship and weaving to be sure 1t IS not a second.
 Best Buys of white broadcloth shirts are Leeds De Luxe (Schulte Cigar Stores, $l.88); Van Heusen ($2.25. A best buy among national Iy advertised brands althOught it does not compare with the other in value.). It should be noted, how ever, that the Leeds $l.57 shirt sold in Schulte stores was the poor est quality of all white shirts tested. The much advertised Arrow and Manhattan shirts at $2.25 were far down. There were many better shirts at lower prices.
 GU found no khaki shirts of out standing quality. Penneys Towncraft at $40 and Van Heusen at $250 were about the best. But if the shirts are for a soldier, GU advises letting him do the buying through regular Army sources.
The union times., 1943-04-17
SHIRT LABOR

Jayson, Leeds DeLnFe, CooberatiUe Distributors, ManhattNr aud TrmVal shirts are mion made, under contract 7uith the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The same IS true of many but not all, ArrozV and Fruit of the Loom shirts. VN HeuSen and Hor- toms Collarite shirts are union made under contract uIth the United Gar ment Workers.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Manpower Tactics
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 This committee backed by the Chamber of Commerce devised plan by which non-residents are not to be employed by Dayton firms. But the War Dept. Is going right ahead ad- vertising for migrants to work at Wright and Patterson Fields.
 E. A. Deeds, chairman of the anti union Natl. Cash Register Co.,, has warned other Dayton industrialists not to criticize the War Dept. for its dis ruptive policy. In return, Deeds ex- poets the War Dept. to put in a good word" with the W.M.C. to have Dayton removed from the No. 1 criti cal labor classification.
The union times., 1943-04-17
yislat1e May Restore Hour York Authority To Gooernor
American Week." May 2 to 8.

American Week." May 2 to 8.
 The exact date and place of the anti-poll tax meeting will be decided upon by the following committee per sons who have been selected to ar range the affair: Atty. Margaret Con- nors, Chairman, Rev. A. J. Cuffee, and Rev. William Sullivan
 Representative of Bridgeport AF.L. and C.IO., were among the fine turn out of members of the Council who attended the recent meeting of the Job Discrimination Committee which met in the Phylic Wheatley branch of the Y.M.C.A., and proposed the anti-poll tax rally. Mrs. Minnie Cederholm. Chairman of the committee was in charge.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
S38,466 NEEDED
TO REACH QUOTA
Volunteer Workers Can
vassing To Raise Last
Money In Drive

With the 100000 mark behind,
volunteer workers of the Communi-
ty War Chest campaign are can
vassing for the final $38, 1864 they
must secure to attain the goal oil
S145, 1912, it was announced at
headquarters.
The next official report Of the
drive is scheduled for next Tues.
day night, when it is hoped by Of.
ficials that the chest will bulge with
more coin than the quota stipulat.
ed
E. A. Laney, associate general
chairman of the campaign, has re-
ouested that all workers and team
captains continue their daily re-
porting.
The Shipyard again lead the
days report when they added an
additional SIT, 542.71 to their prev
ious report of $14,348.73 for a total
of 1914. This covers only con-
trlbutions made and audited from
November 9th to November goth.
The Schools Division, making one
blanket report, became the first
entire divisions in the campaign to
go over the top. With a goal Of
81, 1880. the schools reported 81
066.05. Negro schools have not
been included in this amount; but
When this report is receivedd, the
school total should hit at leas1
81, 10000, H. M. Roland, Chairman
Of the Schools Division said.
AS the Community War Chest
Campaign enters its closing week
they are faced with real chal-
lenge in raising the total of $780,
10000 within the next five days.
However, many of the divisions
we're nearing their division goals
and their leaders were hopeful that
the firms in their divisions. as
well as the volunteer workers,
would accept this challenge which
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
CHINESE ENCIRCLE
JAPANESE TROOPS
More Than Five Thousand
Enemy Soldiers Are
Reported Killed

CHUNGKIN Nov. % Up
Chinese Troops have swung around
and completely encircle newly
strengthened japanese force just
outside Changteh, in northern HUI
nan province, after wiping out
more than 5000 enemy soldiers
who had penetrated to the out
skirts of the northewe, gateway to
Changsha, the high command an
nounced tonight.
A communique said the Japanese
''resorted to the use of poison gas"
as they moved on Changteh under
cover of planes and artillery, but
the Chinese defenders performed
so well they were eulogized in an
order by Generalissimo Chang
Kia- Shek.
Japanese reinforcements arrived
in the Changteh area Tuesday
morning and promptly launched a
vigorous infantry attack, with
heaviest fighting occurring east
and west of the city.
Several fighting NUTS got to the
outskirts, and the communique
said "all were annihilated. Four
high Japanese commanding Of
ficers were reported killed in ac-
ton.
Japanese meanwhilc: attempting
to bypass Changtea on the east,
to cut the highway to Changsha,
suffered heavy losses. Chinese
planes took part in severe battle
in that sector and Chinese troops
recaptured a strategic point in the
path of the Japanese advance, to-
ward the road.
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
SENATOR DEMANDS
PATTON Be TRIED
War Secretary Intends To
Leave Case Up To
Eisenhower

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-LP-
A demand that Lieut.. General
George S. Patton, Jr., be tried by
court martial came today from
Senator Bailey (D-NC) but Secre-
tary of War Stimson made clear
he intends to leave the case en-
tirely in the hands of General
Dwight D. Eisenhower who alrea-
dy has marked it closed.
Bailey said Pattor's slapping OF
a shell-shocked soldier during the
Sicilian campaign last August was
'inexcusable and objectionable. !"
The Army ought to act. he added,
despite the fact that Eisenhower,
commander in the Mediterranean
theater, rebuked Patton and the
latter apologized to troops OF his
Seventh Army command.
81 never heard Of general so
valuable he can get away with
such conduct Bailey told report
ers. 81 think he has lost his use
fulness, whatever it may have
been"
Stimson told a news conference
that:
l. He has received from Eisen-
hover only general report on
the incident and not of the details.
2. The War Department does not
approve of the statement issued at
Allied headquarters in Algiers
Monday which said Eisenhower
had not reprimanded Patton and
implied that the report of the
slapping incident was not true.
Stimson said he did not believe
Eisenhower approved it since cor
respondents next day were allow
ed to send the full story. The
Tuesday dispatches explained Pat
ton was not reprimanded in the
technical Army usage of the word
but said Eisenhower informally
gave him a dressing down.
8. The War Department knew
about the incident when it rec
commended Patton for promotion
from the permanent grade of col
onel to the permanent grade OF
major general. President Roose-
welt sent this nomination to the
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy and
Slightly warmer Friday and Friday night.
Saturday increasing cloudlness and
slightly warmer; occasional light rain
in the mountains in the afternoon.
eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
l 80 a. M, Al, 80 a. M, 80, 80 p. m
81, 7 80 m, So. Maximum 50, Minimum
81. Mean SO, Normal So.
Humidity
1 80 a. M, IS, 7:3 Ga. NJ, IS, go p. m
Is. 1880 p m, SO
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880
p. m, 600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
0.62 inches
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
u S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington - 8:45a 3 :26a
8:56p 3:57p
Nasonboro Inlet - 6:29a IL lila
6:36p II sop
Sunrise, 6:55 a. M. Sunset, 5:04 p. m.'
Woonrise, Al a., Moonset, o:29 p.
Cape Fear River stage at Fayetteville,
QCS
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
BERLIN BELIEVED
DESTROYED CITY
Speedy Raj Mosquito And
Bombers Attack Capi-
tai For Third Night

LONDON, Nov. Is. -(Pj- The
RATS two saturation assaults on
Berlin, followed by swift Mosquito
bomber stabs last night in a third
consecutive night of raiding, raised
the prospect tonight that large Sec
tons of the >epital may be aban.
doned.
MARITIME Bormann, deputy chief
OF the Nazi party and one of Hit
ler's designated successors, was re-
ported to have told gauleiters in
German reception areas to prepare
for 100000 to 100000 evacuees.
This is practically the entire popu-
Iation of Berlin, but it was not
made clear whether Bormann re-
ferred only to evacuees from the
capital.
German radios shut down again
tonight indicating new Allied forays
into the reich. The air war was
continued by daylight today with
blows on France, spearheaded by
U S. fighter planes carrying bombs
fer the first time in this theater.
The fighters. covered by PAT
Thunderbolts, laid bombs on air.
dromes at St. Omer-Fort Rouge
and st. Omer-Longuenesse, while
other Thunderbolts and Lightnings
patrolled the Pas-De-Calais area.
Lightnings downed two German
planes, while two American fight
ers were lost.
The Pas-DesCalais area and
Cherbourg peninsula also were
bombed during the day by Boston,
Mitchell and Typhoon bombers,
and Mosquitoes bombed detectives
in Normandy. The Cherbourg docks
were attacked by Whirlwind bonn
Eers escorted by Spitfires. Five
aircraft were lost in these British
operations, and one enemy aircraft
WIS destoyed. ..-.
London, forewarned by the Ger
mans of reprisals, had its first
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Compromise Is Spumed
By Anti Subsidy Solons

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is Up
Confident they have the votes to
smash consumer subsidies, Sen
ate foes today spurned admins
tration attempts to win a compro-
mise lease on life for the Presl-
dents. cost-of-living control pro-
gram.
'There'll be no compromise" de-
clared Senator Cmith (D-SC). mot
for me there won't. If you try to
compromise with evil you get evil
and nothing else!"
Even Administration supporters
admit privately that they see scant
hopes Of mastering the votes to
save food price subsidy program
which the House trounced earlies
in the week. Oppone,rsn:s say they
have the strength to override a
vsts should the President use that
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

lNlIIlltL IndC our nOlQS on IaraWd.
Maxim and Abemama in the Gil
berts have been completely Sc
cured.
These authorities are certain the
Marshalls cannot be held by the
enemy without daring and sue
cessful fleet action on their part.
And no one here believes the
enemy will use his fleet now at
the risk of his whole strategy,
which is to fight a war so long as
to discourage the American peo-
pie and produce a compromise
peace.
Main Jap Base
The main Japanese base in the
Marshalls, a much larger group
OF islands than the Gilberts, is
Jaluit. The island. with nearby
Wolfe. is the eastern anchor of a
line of enemy navay bastions rum
ming east and west across the
Equatorial Pacific. The western
anchor once was Palau in the
western Carolines. Now the Japan
csc probably regard Singapore as
the western anchor.
Jaluit is only a little more than
$50 miles northwest of Tarawa.
That is easy bomber range and a
working range for land-based fight
ers.
AS was the case with Kiska in
the north Pacific and various jap
anese bases in the Solomons area,
Jaluit-Wotje can thus be virtually
isolated by American land-based
aircraft any time they are not
under attack by naval planes and
big guns.
More Severe
The M ars h alls campaign
undoubtedly will be more severe
than that in the Gilberts and take
longer. But top strategists are con-
WINGED that it will roll smoothly to
a successful conclusion. Once the
Masshalls are cleaned up, Wake is
land, which the Japanese captured
almost two years ago, probably
will fall of its own weight.
But beyond the Marshals stretch
the Carolines, studded with strong
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U. S. CASUALTIES
MOUNT STEADILY
War Secretary Stimson Is
sues Report On Ac-
tivities In Italy

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. - (R -
american casualties in Italy are
increasing steadily as Allied for
Cts come to grips with what Sec
rotary of War Stimson says is
heavy resistance by German
troops in the mountains.
Stllnson reported today that cas-
ualties since 1t. Gen. Mark Clark S
Fifth Army landed on the beaches
at Salerno On September 9 are
1873 killed, 6,361 wounded and
1855 missing. a total of 1869.
On November II Stimson report
ed that the casualty list stood at
1925 killed 4,764 wounded and g.
497 missing.
In a press conference review to-
day, Stimson said enemy rein
.orcements have reached the bat
tic line and stiffening OF resis-
sance has resulted" Little progress
was made by the Allied armies dur
ing the last week, Stimson noted,
adding that foul weather, with
neavy rains, seas of mud, rivers in
flood and bad roads" has greatly
restricted operations.
Casualties among British ele-
ments OF the Fifth Army were
slightly less" than those Of the
americans, Stimson said.
In the Pacific theater, ''some
tough fighting was encountered
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