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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
West Coast Go
Leader informed

NEW YORK, Oct. 2-CFP)-The
American Committee for Protection
of Foreign Born has announced that
il is trying to obtain the release of
Ernest Fox, west coast Clio leader
who was interned at Bismarck. N.
D., in April 1912 by the Justice Dept.
rs dangerous enemy alien"
Fox was an organizer for the
Natl. Maritime Union from 1888
to 1887 and in 1887 became Clio
organizer for the state of Wash
ington. He has been In the u. S.
for "a years, coming here at the
age Of 8.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
u. S. Report
.Favors Bill To
Kill PoII+ax

Washington, Oct. 2-The United
States won a strategic victory in
the war for democracy this week,
but the enemies of democracy sue
ceeded once again in putting off a
final decision.
The strategic victory came with
the favorable report OF a sub
committee of the Senate judiciary
Committee on HR 7. the polltax re-
peal bill.
The pOstpOnement Of the final
battle on this issue came with q
plan Of the full judiciary Com
mittee. headed by Sen. Van Mugs
3D.. Ind) 10 stall the chance for
q final Senate vote for another
month. This was done by NOV
Ing to hold a debate on the
"cOnstitutionality" Of the bill,
scheduled for Oct. 25.
The bill. Of course. is constitu-
tional. Hearings were held in the
last Congress for 10 months on this
question. and were decided in favor
of the bill. The new debate. as
Rep. Marcantonio tALP N. W
pointed out. is merely "the begin
ming OF the filibus, or" and an OBJ
vious attempt 10 weaken the peo-
pies demand for passage.
The debate" will not be confined
to Senators. Van Mugs announced.
and the Committee 10 Abolish the
Polltax, composed of Clio. ALL.
Railroad Brotherhood and other or
gained groups. will secure the
most eminent legal talent in the
country to demonstrate the consti-
tutionality of IIR Z"
Meantime. the Committee urged
the people not to leave It up to
the eminent legal talent alone.
Keep the wires and letters pour
ing into your Senator's: demand
immediate action on HR Z and an
end to stalllng.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
Ford Output
Flop. JAW
Local Says

Detroit, Oct. 2-Official Spokes-
men for the $4,000 workers now
employed at the Ford Willow Run
Bomber plant declared today in
letter 10 President Roosevelt that
the production record in the plant
is zone of the outstanding failures
of this war"
The letter, signed by Glenn r.
Brayton, president, and Walter
Quillico, plant chairman of the
Bomber Local 80, UAW-CIO, was
also sent 10 Secretary OF War
Henry L. Stimson and 10 Senator
Harry S. Truman. with request
for an immediate and full inves,i-
CATION.
The letter charged:
!. That the plant is deem
Trailing and shifting 10 other
plants the manufacture OF small
parts and assemblies-work which
il is doing best-while planning 10
make the plant a final assembly
plant. 1T is in the final assembly
that the company has fallen down"
the letter alleges.
2. That although the present
huge plant is idle at least six hours
day. the management is con-
.struc,ing an additional large build
ing without any prospect of ohtonI.
ing adequate manpowor
3. That the companys labor re-
lations and personnel policy is re-
tarding production, and that gov
eminent officials assigned TO the
plant are afraid OF the power Of
the Ford Motor Co."
A seven-point program Is pro-
posed by the union leaders 10 inn
prove production in the plant.
Among the proposals are that the
government set up tri-partits
committee. representing govern.
ment. management and labor. ia
have full responsibility for the
plants efficient operation"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04

In q joint statement Issued ms
week. President Murray; James G.
Patton, head Of the Farmers Union;
A. F. Whitney Railroad Trainmen;
Katharine Armatace, League oil
Women Shoppers; Robert w. Ken
nv, Natl. Lawyers Guild; Elizabeth
Christman. Women's Trade Union
League: and William II. HASTE.
Natl. Assn. for the Advancement OF
Colored People, called for;
l. Higher income taxes on up
per and middle levels. plus
$4,000 ceiling on incomes after
taxes.
2. Income tax exemptions at
$3.50 for single persons, 81 800 for
married couples, with $500 for
dependency.
3. Higher taxes on corporation
profits. with n profit limit Of four
to five percent and all lOOphoies
closed.
4. Repeal Of the mis-called vic
tory tax."
s. Closing all loOphcles such as
separate returns. tax exempt Sc
curities. etc.
9. Sleeper rates and lower ex-
eniptiOns on estate and gift taxes.
:. Sleeper taxes on luxuries and
nOn-essentials.
8. No sales tax or anything APP
preaching q sales tax.
Meanwhile. forces favoring a sales
tax and other new burdens on war
workers and low income groups
generally were gathering strength
for big push when hearings start.
RICH GET OFF EASY
Al the same time. they plan 10
pass lightly over the special privi-
leges 10 the rich now allowed un-
der tax laws. Rep. Doughton. Cd.
N. c. announced that the commit
tee had decided not 10 discuss tax
exempt bonds. separate returns and
depletion allowances. which cost
the country hundreds OF millions a
year.
A proposal to bar committee
discussion Of the sales tax was
turned down. DOuShton added.
Rep. Taber, (R., N. W. Republi-
can leader on the Ways and
Means Committee, wants fiat 10
per cent sales tax on everything.
Senator Byrd. tpOlltaxer. Va.)
wants the same thing.
In releasing the Joint program,
the seven labor and progressive
leaders declared:
This program is necessary in or
der to siphon off the most danger
ously infiationary incomes. and at
the same time to prevent further
inroads on the already ominously
low standard OF living Of the men
and women fighting the war in the
factories. the fields and the work
shops.
Such program. through Its
fairness and its adherence TO demo-
cratic tax principles, will contribute
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
Go Warehouse
Victory

Baltimore, Oct. "A 3O9-to-297
run-off election victory was scored
this week at the Montgomery Ward
Mail Order House, bringing APP
proximately 1000 more workers
into the fold of the Init. Long
shoremen's e. Warehousemen's
Union.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04

and industrialists. who gathered at
Fort Belvoir, Virginia. to hear what
makes the Army tick" and to learn
what they could do to help make
II march even faster for the prom
ised invasion of Europe.
The industrialists and labor lead
ers-the latter led by Presidents
Philip Murray of CLIO and William
Green Of AFL-heard a lot Of
speeches that gave them the score
on the tremendous amount of pro-
duction needed for victory. About
10000 words were pounded into
their ears about the strategic de-
mands of this global war.
The orators-like Under-Secre-
tary Of War Robert p. Patterson
and General George c. Marshall,
Chief Of Staff-knew their stuff.
But the real clincher Of the two
day conference was the demon
stration Of actual warfare that
shocked the ear drums Of the
visitors and caused the hair to
bristle on the hacks Of their
necks and their mouths to plOp
open with admiration.
They saw friendly, bungling look
ing tanks that have paraded up
city streets turn into angry tigers,
splitting fire and roaring full tilt
at so miles an hour almost into
their faces.
DARING DEMONSTRATION
They saw a daring demonstra-
ton of the CUTS It takes to stop
these monsters. Combat engineers
snaked field mines across their
paths, Gripping their treads Others
fired "bazookas" and rifle grenades
to smash the moving pill boxes as
they roared viciously at fortified
positions held by our troops.
From q dozen well-placed fox
holes, the u. 8. engineers demo-
iished the enemy. No tank was
too tough, no risk was too much
10 take. The tank crews slammed
their many-ton weapons against
log barriers, only to find them
selves hopelessly trapped and fair
game for the ground troops.
The anti-tank demonstration was
but n prelude to a realistic war
game, the crossing of river well
fortified by enemy troops, who were
entrenched in pill boxes and be-
hind trees, and who menaced our
forces with deadly cross fire from
machine guns and mortars, and
with bombing from the air.
EAR DRUMS SHOCKED
The softening up process was like
slap in the face to the spectators,
as explosion after explosion caused
huge "air pillows" to bounce"
across the river. Blast after blast
shocked the ear drums. Eyes were
blinking in expectation of the next
shock as the visitors wondered
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
Labor Leaders Learn:
YouCdn BefYour
Bottom DoIIurOn
u. s. Engineers
BY FRED d'AVILA

"YOM can bet your bottom dollar,
"Wheres there trouble they sCiH holfer,
"FOr the castles the collar
"FOr the corps Of Engineers!
''Men to build their bridges,
"Cuys to blast the ridges,
"Heady, ready rOmgh-necks, fighting Engineers"
That brothers and sisters, Is bald of the
ressOn made this week by rambunctious gang of u S
ters than 200 of the nations leading labor
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04

audibly how long any enemy could
take such a sustained and damag-
ing pounding.
Suddenly, seemingly out Of no.
where, the combat engineers
roared into view, manning four
assault boats that churned up
the river and swerved swiftly to
port to make perfect landings 20
feet up the enemy held banks.
In quick succession, despite vi
ciouS counter-fire of the enemy, our
troops wriggled and squirmed their
way through barbed wire and into
position, to pour fire and smoke
bombs and hot lead into the enemy
pill boxes.
500 MILES AN HOUR
Enemy planes screamed overhead.
followed by the buzz Of American
fighters which skinned the tree
tops over the visitors at 300 miles
an hour in their chase to ex-
terminate their opponents.
In the furious fire and excite
ment, the engineers moved with
unbelievable swiftness and CO.
ordination to throw pont00n
bridges across the 1O0-foot-wide
river, to repair the heavy pontoon
bridge that had been blasted by
retreating troops, and to force
their way across despite constant
sniping.
The demonstration left the labor
leaders and industrialists literally
speeches. for a few moments, and
then the air was abuzz with adj
miration for the troops-the guys
who'll slog 1t out in Europe against
der Fuehrer's "supermen" and beat
them man for man.
War, the visitors decided, Is .
damned tough business, And
everyone Of them. I'm sure. went
away with the impression that
there's nothing too much that he
can contribute to the cause Of
victory.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04

UNNECESSARILY 10 victory on the bat
tlefields and on the home front"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
Go Win-Wdr
Tax Plan Before
HouseCommiffee

WASHINGTON Oct 2-An ht-point wn-thewar pro-
gram by six other national organizations
offered Congress hearings scheduled begin
In the House Ways and Means Committee Oct. 4.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
ACTION

Wire Rep. May tchmn.,
House Military, all COM
mittee members and your
Representative for HR 3343,
against S 1879 as substitute.
Wire your Senators protest
ing this delay, demand
quick action on vote, oppose
filibuster by clotuTe rule.
Tell your Representative
and Senat tors: no sales
taxes, no new burdens on
the poor; taxes on ability
TO pay.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
WHERE 1T is

Hearings on in House Mill
tary Committee, with pres
sure for meager increase OF
81 a month in bill already
passed Senate IS 1879.
Senate Judiciary Committee
TO debate "constitutionality"
of bill already declared con-
stitutionai, in move TO stall
action. Debate set for Oct.
IS.
Hearings begin Oct. 4,
House Ways and Means
Committee. rep. Doughton,
D., N. c., chmn.)
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-10-04
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Evening star., 1943-06-13

HWajung, the key defense point in the
invaders effort to cut the Chinese rice
bowl which lies around Lake Tungting in
Northern Human Province.
The war was carried to the invaders
also south of the Yellow River north of
the Yangtze, where the Chinese aimed
drive whose objective is the cutting of
the rail line connecting Hankow and
Pelping which still lies some distance
east of the battle front.
The japanese, apparently fearing the
use of air bases in Fukien Province along
the coast opposite Japanese-held Taiwan
Island, carried on number of air raids
OF unreported extent on potential fields.
In the meantime American flyers have
been especially effective in disrupting
the japanese efforts to maintain an un-
broken line to their advance post at
1chang. line which presently is par
ticularly active with men, munitions and
food moving up the Yangtze by boat and
along its banks by land.
The defeat north of Ichang is another
case of a too-thinly- ly-extended line of
supply which is difficult to maintain
against a concentrated attack, Just as
the entire japanese expansion south
ward to the islands of the Southwest
Pacific and to Burma will prove difficult
to maintain with steadily diminishing
naval power and merchant tonnage in
the face of the rapidly increasing Allied
naval and air strength.
Evening star., 1943-06-13

British convoy officer, stated that Ameri-
can and British destroyers now have
the submarines beaten all hollow. adding
that the Allies now have sufficient escort
ships and that once a submarine is de-
tected it has no chance of escape.
Reports received in London indicate
that crews of German submarines in
port for repairs and resupplying are
deliberately slowing down the work,
apparently fed up with their duty with
its risks and hardships. Some in
formants consider that the showdown is
due more to loss of morale than actual
rebellion against the commissioned per-
sonnel.
The huge Liberator bombers which
can fly 1000 miles over the Atlantic
have had big part in curbing the
activities of the U-boats and in bringing
about their destruction. Even on this
side OF the ocean the planes play their
part, one Navy patrol bomber catching
a surfaced submarine and after a brief
battle sinking it with four depth charges,
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Ring Around Japan Tightens
AS Allies Prepare to Strike
Many Vulnerable Points Give Toxic Serious
Problem in Face of Heavy Losses and Thinly
Extend Lines of Communications
By B. J. McQuaid.

fostered by sidelines experts who've been
criticizing the conduct of the Pacific war
on strategic grounds" and asserting
that all operations in the South and
Southwest have been a strategic
waste" The South Pacific war has not
been fought merely for "strategically
unnecessary" objective. Australia is an
essential, strategically, to the defeat of
japan within a reasonable time.
Probe Jap Weaknesses.
We have been hitting at the Japs from
number of points on vast perimeter
extending from Attu in the north, round
by way of the Solomons and New
Guinea to interior China. We will hit
them some more, at the same points,
and at new points. A successful major
breakthrough at any of these points
would instantly and mortally imperil
the whole japanese defensive structure
and transform Tokio's misgivings to
panic. Our Pacific war planners are
taking maximum advantage of Japan's
greatest weakness, which is combina-
tion of her overextended lines and her
shortage of the productive facilities nee
essary to shore up those lines at all their
vulnerable points.
No one should expect decisive results
from this strategy Immediately, nor even
in the early future. We are still fight
ing the Pacific war with one hand, and
that hand partially tied behind us, be-
cause of the needs of Europe. Those
who took Admiral Halseys forecast of
victory in 1943 literally are in for dis
appointment. After talking with Hal
sey, I am sure he did not intend to be
taken literally. He was thoroughly sick
of all the talk about Jap "supermen"
and the "invincible" Japanese fighting
forces. He wished to show his contempt
for the enemy as means both of giving
our own forces lift in morale and of
shaming the Japs out into the open.
No one was more surprised than the
admiral at the deadpan seriousness with
which home-front commentators ac-
cepted his purposely exaggerated state
ment.
Criticism of the Navy's so-called
island by island" strategy in the South
Pacific is particularly misinformed. The
term is misnomer, even when applied
to Guadalcanal. Islands (pluraD by
island (singular," is more accurate
statement. BY the single seizure of
Guadalcanal we secured our hold on
the myriad of vitally important island
groups to the east and south. BY the
seizure of one or two additional islands
we would clear the Japs out of the
Solomons altogether and shake their
present strong grip on the Gilberts and
Carolines and perhaps the Marshalls
as we'll Island by island, it is" said
the naval staff officer quoted at the be-
ginning of this article. well, if the
Japs continue to employ the tactics
they used in the Guadalcanal fight, it
will take one or two or, at most, three
more islands to knock them right out
of this war;"
Copyright, 1943, by chicago Daily News, Incl
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Medical
CONTINUED From Page B-1)

early start in learning the importance of
getting a prescription filled
Because as boss of Uncle Sans Army
drugstore and all the other services of
the medical department., he's responsible
for keeping fighting men we'll whether
they're in the steaming jungles of the
Pacific, i'll the deserts of Africa or the
icy regions of Alaska and Iceland.
Many Supplies Needed.
"And that involves meeting a problem
of medical supplies as well as one of
medical personnel" he says. There are
still number of certain vital items and
supplies that are not yet available It is
going to be one of my chief tasks, in
heading up this great organization, to
they are delivered to the men who need
them.
"And there are other problems re-
lated to supply which require constant
neutrality-suspicious. such as proper pack
aging of medicines that may have to be
borne in canoes along jungle streams.
or hauled by pack mules through noun
tain passes
He said that while the health of the
soldiers is good and the mortality among
the wounded has been kept low by eff
cient surgery, use of plasma and sulfa
drugs, the Army still has "big prob
lem" in neuropsychiatric cases.
1--WE do our best to weed out potential
neurotics when the men are examined
for Army service" he said, but it's
difficult It's easy to tell when man
has poor eyesight or bad heart, but
it's hard to pick out those who will fail
to make frst-line fighting men,"
Gen. Kirk married the former Anna
Buryea of Long Island, N. Y, whom
he met when she was in training as
nurse at Brownsville, Tex. They have
two daughters-Anne, linguist who has
done some work as a Spanish interpreter
for the Government, and Jane, a student
at the University of Michigan.
The general has little Victory garden
in back of his quarters near Walter
Reed Hospital, and his wife says "he'd
raise chickens, too, like he used to-if
he had the time"
He likes music and gets plenty of it
homemade, because his daughter Anne
plays piano and Jane is an accordionist,
1T. N. T. Tommy" used to play quite
ibt of bridge, but he gave it up a few
years ago.
Too many rules!" says Mrs. Kirk.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
European Front

Prime Minister Churchill told the
House of Commons Tuesday that large
scale invasion of Europe is approaching
and that the Allies are determined to de-
stroy the enemy by the air and other
means and he added the comforting in
formation that the submarine menace
is being overcome
Bearing out the Prime Minister'S
promise, big four-engined bombers of
the American and British air forces
broke 12-day period of inactivity bv
tremendous raids Friday and Friday
night. Following their favored daylight
tactics, 200 Flying Fortresses did con-
siderable damage to the submarine
bases at Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven.
the extent of which is still to be deter
mined. Rather stiff fighter defense by
the Nazls was beaten off with heavy
loss to the enemy
In the darkest hours of the night
which followed, the British swarmed
across the Channel to strike again with
the heaviest concentration of bombs on
record on already shattered Dusseldorf.
more than 1000 tons of bombs being
dropped. Muenster some distance up the
Dortmund-Ems Canal also was attacked
though not in such force. The Germans
ADMIT that great damage was done in
dusseldorf with considerable toll be-
ing taken among civilians.
Not the least bit comforting TO the
Nazi high command was a statement bv
Maj. Gen. Eaker that the United States
Army Air Force in England will be
doubled by fall. Losses up to date, he
said, have been only per cent.
The invasion jitters still keep the Axis
on edge. Latest report is that Germany
expects an invasion through Spain, an
eventuality which Spanish Ambassador
Juan Cardenas, landing in New York on
return trip from Spain, declared Spain
earnestly hopes will not come to pass.
That sentiment was expressed also on be-
half of Turkey by President Inonu who
made his statement more pointed by de-
claring that Turkey will defend herself
if invaded
The Axis forecast that an Allied inva-
sion in Spain is projected may be the ex-
cuse for Axis action in setting up air
bases in the republic to fend off Allied
raids on France and Germany. Prece-
dent for such action is had in the jap
anese policy of defense which led to the
invasion of China where the Japs were
determined to defend themselves if they
had to push all the way to Outer Mon
golia to do it.
Internally in German-held territory
trouble continues with hundreds of
Dutch executed in reprisal for recent
strikes, the executions being FOLLOWED
by the assisination of DR. Folkert
Posthuma, Dutch Nazi leader with an
appropriate name
Lord Selborne, British minister of eco
nomlc warfare, declared during the week
that German Industrial output has been
reduced about 20 per cent under last
year because of the heavy raids on her
industrial area, this loss in output con-
trasting with an increase in production
IN this country of 7 per cent in April
over the March production. May saw
the completion of 1000 planes, largely
heavy bombers, and during the current
month it is hoped that the figure will
reach 5000.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Russian Front

Air raids in heavy force led to a belief
that a zero hour is approaching some
where on the Russian front but so far as
only little feeler raids probing all along
the line from the Donets River area to
the Leningrad sector for weak spot,
none Of which either side was able to
locate.
The most significant raid was a heavy
LuftWaffe assault on Cork which lies a
considerable distance back of Moscow, in
fact, $50 miles east on the Volga River.
Cork is an important industrial center
where Ford engineers helped the Rus
slams build their most important automo-
tive plant. The attacks on Cork reached
total OF three over period of five
nights and Berlin claims that 500 tons
of explosives and 100000 incendiarles
were dropped. The Russians reveal few
facts other than that their fighter pilots
had done many acts of heroism in trying
to fend off the invading airfleet.
The Reds took some comfort from
figures of the previous weeks air COM
bats in which it was said that 752 Nazi
planes had been destroyed, to the loss of
212 Russian.
Down in the Kuban area the Russians
claim to have gained air superiority after
exceptionally violent and extensive
fighting, claim which might arise out
of the withdrawal of German planes for
the Cork raids.
Berlin reports great victory in the
Caucasus with the loss of $4,000 Rus
sian troops a report ignored by the Rus
slams and unsubstantiated from any
other source.
AS the week ended there were no i'm
pertant changes in position anywhere
on the long front from the Leningrad
coctar IN tho K,,bo y, pe~;~e,,1o