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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
. SO THEY SAY

The youth of the nation are
doing grand job in the fight
ing forces, and l think today the
one question we have got to ask
ourselves is: Are we going to be
worthy of those boys who are
out there fighting.-WPB Chair
man Donald NJ. Nelson.
Do not despair, for your lib
Grafton is certain. Above all, you
must continue TO have faith in
America, which has kept faith
with every nation, and especial
ly with us. - President Manuel
Quezon TO Filipinos.
Some sort of an international
role for this country is newt
able. World wide war makes
that more certain than ever
heretofore.-Alf M. London.
Our people are just as able as
they (the Japs) and we have
something that the individual
Jap doesn't have. That is native
intelligence and an ability, when
thrown on our own, to work as
individual with more intelli-
gence than the Japs. - Maj
Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift.
There will have to be some
killing before the Germans, who
brought this on themselves, are
purgcd and purified.-Jan Mas
aryk, foreign minister, Czech
government in exile.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
The GREATER MENACE

During the first IA months Of American Portoi-
potion in hstorys most deadly war, more than five
times as many worknoen were killed by accident os
fighting men by bullets ond bombs The number OF
workers injured almost equoled the total strength
Of the greatest army this nation ever put together.
It's an old stoy-isn't it9-obout the tragedy
and wostefuness Of accidents. You're getting pretty
sick Of hearing it, So But there we're 10000
accidental deoths in the "a months otter Pearl Hor-
bor Of which half of workers needed to supply
men in uniform.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
Nv PETER EDISON

Take a good look at the Wash
ington background of this walk
out of Flying Fortress builders
in the Seattle Boeing plant, be-
cause things like this are apt 10
happen again, and it's very easy
to be confused.
You have to go back to the
shipbuilding labor sterilization
plan set up way yonder in the
days when Sidney Hillman was
one of the co-chairmen of the
old OPM. 1t stabilized wages
and working conditions and re-
moved a lot of confusion and
arguing that had been going on
up to the time that labor, man
agement and the government got
together. Since then, you haven't
noticed much labor hullabaloO in
the shipyards, except for absen-
teeism and the A. F. of Lie. l. O.
jurisdictional row in the Kaiser
yard, a row outside the stabili-
zation agreement,
1t so happened, however, that
wage provisions of the ship
builders sterilization agreement
gave higher pay rates than were
prevalent in the west coast air
craft plants. That the case, Ia
Dor naturally tended to drift
from aircraft factories to ship
yards, and the quit rate and the
labor turnover in aircraft fac
tories became a disturbing fac
tor.
Two things might have been
done to remedy that situation.
Labor might have been frozen,
wages in the aircraft factories
might have been raised to the
shipyards' level. Everybody was
afraid, or thought the country
not yet ready to accept job
freezing, so nothing was done
about that.
The aircraft industry en-
ployers were agreeable to have
wages go up. What the heck!
Government money was being
paid for wages anyhow, and if
the government was agreeable
to having its planes cost more
money, the manufacturers should
worry. The only sucker in such
a situation is your old friend the
taxpayer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
EVERYONE WILLING,
BUT NOTHING DONE

But out of this situation there
developed the Los Angeles air.
craft industry-labor government
conference last June. All the
west coast aircraft companies
were represented, A. F. of l.. and
c. I. o. were both there, so
were some government gentle
men from Washington, repre-
senting the War Production
Board and the Office of Price
Administration.
A. F. of l.. and G. I. O. were
clamoring for q wage increase,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

naturally. Management was will
ing, in fact anxious to have
enough of an increase to stabil-
ize their employment conditions.
WPB, charged with production,
wanted it settled. But at this
stage of the game, in stepped
OPA's representatives with an
ultimatum that the industry
could go ahead and raise its pay
rates if il wanted to, but OPA
would not approve any increase
in the cost of thefinished planes
to the government. Management
said that couldn't be done. The
conference broke up in a row
and there was no decision, no
sterilization agreement.
PRODUCTION BOGS
In December, the Boeing
plant at Seattle experienced a
number of slowdowns. inspired
solely by the absence of evidence
that anything was being done 10
reach settlement. Before
Christmas. Boeing had one pro-
test walkout. The day after
Christmas abscnteeism rose 20
"a per cent of the working
force. There was one series of
creeping paralysis tie-ups throw
ing the whole production sched-
ule into a mess. BOeing main
tanned its production schedules
by working much overtime,
thereby tipping costs.
Finally the case got to the
National War Labor Board,
which began consideration of
the matter Jan. 8. The minute
the Washington hearings began,
the Boeing plant quit rate drop
ped. But when seven weeks had
dragged by and nothing had
happened, the unions began 20
get tough. Boeing's contract with
A. F. of L. expired last June, and
negotiations for new agree
ment have been postponed for
continuing 30-day periods ever
since, pending the issuance of
the War Labor Boards direc-
tive that must necessarily be the
basis of the new agreement.
The union demand for so
per cent increase in the starting
rate, from 625 cents to IS cents
an hour, is not taken seriously.
That's merely the old bargain
ing trick of asking for the moon
and taking what you can get.
Thes men aren't heels. Their av-
erage war bond purchases run
IL per cent of the payroll, and
"a per cent of the workers par
ticipated. The plant has been
given two Army E awards for
high production. But you can't
string anybody along for eight
months and expect him to love
you for it.
The War Labor Board Is ad-
mittedly overworked and far be-
hind its docket. It's public mem
bers at least lean over back
wards in trying to be fair. The
board members assigned to the
Boeing case are supposed to
have written half a dozen drafts
of the aircraft directive, trying
to find language agreeable to
management and labor. That ex-
plains their delay.
But where labor should
watch its step Is in trying to
force or influence board de-
cisions. More of that stuff can
only mean passage of the Hobbs
bill or the Connally anti-strike
bill and eventually a labor draft
bill, from which labor itself has
most to lose.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
EARLY: GETS NO BIRD

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.-Dr.
M. X. Wylder reached his pat
tents house with misgiving-he
was six hours late.
Thank goodness" a woman's
voice greeted him. 1--WE found
a doctor who can come the day
i telephone!'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
LIFESAVERS

LIFESAVEho
TACOMA, WASH.-The Cata-
lima patrol bomber, lost in fog.
settled into rough seas south OF
the Aleutians.
"Our only hope was to ride it
out until found" explained En-
sign John L. Sampson. 25-year-
old pilot. Seams were forced by
the landing, though, and the
nine men had to bail or sink.
For two and half days."
pilot Sampson said, I'VE kept
afloat because of paper drinking
cups. For "a hours a day we
kept two-man shifts using them
to bail out.
"The cups didn't dissolve, but
they looked pretty sloppy when
rescue came"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
If HITLER WERE DEAD

Probably Adolf Hitler Is not dead, though he is
weakening politically Probably he is not prisoner OF
the Russons Probably he is more insane than he
hos been from the beginning. 1t is possible to build
up an interesting surise from the circumstances used
by former Ambassador Davies and Others but there
is no use in kidding ourselves.
let's 90 overheard and assume thot Hit
Ter is dead prisoner otherwise removed from the
international scene. Waving wholly human elee,
what would that mean to as beli9erents?
We don't know Certainly Hitler has synboIzed
the National Socialism he formulated and led, in its
most vicious aspects Certainly he has oscertoned in
himself much Of the inspiration for and direction Of its
most ontisocoI activities But he could not have done
that unless there had been in Germany welcome for
the policies he hos personified.
1t could be that there is nobody in the Reich cop
obIe Of picking up where Hitler would lay down if he
were removed That would argue thot he is inds-
pensobIe man. Those who most sincerely believe in
complete democracy contend that there is such
thing on indispensable man, in any nation for any
purpose.
There hos always been in Germany Prussion mill
toy clique which has been responsible for war Of
aggression otter another There still remains on o.
eregotion Of little HitIers, Swallowed by the master
but just os vicious There is the fundamental in
stobity Of the German character, which permitted
Nozism to assume and retain power, and which con-
doned its erondiIoquenty sodstic policies.
There is no harm in hoping that Hitler really is
deod There is no harm in hoping that, if he is, the
war will be shortened
We must not let those hopes influence our oct
vites. On the contrary if it we're proven thot Hitler
we're gone, should thot the generals freed
from his "intutve" guidance, could prosecute the
rest Of the war more efficiently for his obsence
In World War we permitted Germany to coptu-
late without ever learning at first hand the penalties
Of defect. We must not make thot mstoke again.
We must press on until the Reich is completely inn
potent mlitory-not merely beaten, but also beoten
up.
We cont clifford to hove to fight new axis oe-
oression about 1865 or 1870
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
The FREEDoMS

After reading Governor Charles Edison's reco-
pituIotion Of what is happening in Hudson county,
NJ j., under Chairman Frank q am the low) Hague,
one is tempted to wonder why the United Motions
do not use that oreo os laboratory to work methods
of replacing dictatorship with Four Freedoms.
The charges made by Governor Edison are NOT
new Nor we're they partisan, since the governor IS
distinguished Democrat who for long time has
been close to the President He cited few uP-to-the
minute illustrations Of the way in which Boss Hague
has suppressed freedom Of Speech freedom OF assem-
bly,, freedom of religion freedom Of the press.
Surely the people Of Hudson county would well
come those freedoms which for SO long have been
mere scraps Of poper to them.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
GIN RUMMY QUIZ

@. If I hold two kings and
two jacks, and want to discard
one of them, which is safer, the
discard of the jack or the king?
A. The safer discard is the
king as it will fit only with
pair of kings or at one end Of
sequence; while the jack will fit
with a pair of jacks or at both
ends or In the middle of a Sc
quence.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
HONEST MAN

PHILADELPHIA - Temple
Universitys honor sy IN
among students has met the acid
test.
A senior found a one-pound
can of coffee in a vacant class
room and turned it over to the
lost and found department.
A classmate who reclaimed 1t
commented, mo grounds for
complaint"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04

Collector paid $4,000 for sew
eral old books carved in wood.
Maybe he is planning a branch
library.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04

A Nebraska man divorced his
wife and then hired her as
cook. That's one way to make
sure she'll leave him.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
GYPSY 1--WE

Day Victor Young was assign
ed to write the musical score for
For Whom the Bell Tolls" stu
dio executives suggested lots of
castinets and stuff from Car
men," Young said no, stuck by
his guns and wrote score of
Moorish, gypsy and Andalusion
music which now has his bosses
raving Incidentally, there's mu-
sic behind all the dialogue in
the film-something new, even
for Hollywood.
Lucille Ball and husband Desi
Arnaz are denying those separa-
ton rumors again. Arthur
Hornblow Jr. and Bubbles Schi-
nazi, exwife of Wayne Morris,
will become Mr.. and Mrs. some
time this Spring. He's Myrna
Logs ex.
Leo McCarey and Dave But
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04

So George Rats wife, they
say, has agreed to divorce him,
and attorneys are drawing up a
property settlement. We've been
hearing the same story for 10
years, and we'll believe it only
when we see the divorce decree.
Told to milk a goat for a scene
in Universal's Trombone From
Heaven" Eddie Quillan cracked:
We'll, I've never MIXED a goat
but / guess l know what it's all
about. I've MIXED plenty Of
gags"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
. IN HOLLYWOOD

Columbia than meets the eye.
She's trying to break her con-
tract to accept much more lu-
crative offer from M-G-M.
Meanwhile, she's devoting most
of her time to the Naval Aid
Auxiliary, making personal ap-
pearances at Long Beach hospi-
tails.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
BUSINESS AS USUAL


NEW ALBANY, IND. - The
small matter of fire didn't stop
Mrs. Mary Mattox, who operates
a cafe here, from carrying on
business.
Smelling smoke, she discover
ed blaze in the stairway, called
firemen, and then returned to
the kitchen to resume baking
pies for the restaurant while
firemen extinguished the blaze.
PAGE IRVING BERLIN
FORT DEVENS, MASS The
long years Of searching by SOL
diers everywhere has ended-a
field artilleryman at Devens has
found the guy who wakes the
bugler.
He's corporal Francis S. Hard
man, a former Maryland farmer
who has carried the early rising
habit of his civilian days into his
army life.
Up at least an hour before re-
veille each morning, he insists
on waking the bugler-and some
of the boys complain, the rest OF
the men in his barracks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-04
HOLLYWOOD COPY

Gene Tierney's kid sister Pa
tricia is still lodging a film ca
reer despite efforts of several
studios to get her name on a
contract. Writing to Gene from
Washington, D. c., Pat said:
Hollywood was never half as
interesting. l wouldn't leave
Washington even if they offered
to throw in George Montgom-
erV -
Arkansas State press., 1943-09-17

walton, he will have to wait long time.
The great liberal of the middle west deeply con-
cemed with the problems of labor and the farmer and in
dusrial monopoly has far failed to let peep out in
protest against the disabilities of the Negro who in addi
ton to the handcaps which face him farmer, worker
and consumer, has the additional handicap of color and
Some of the great church organizations of America
have passed resolutions which is the very least that
they could do although they might sent representative
committees to Washington in behalf of the millions of Chris
ans who suffer solely because of the color of their skins
American liberalism has been content to let the Com
munsts take the play to make vigorous fight for such
things Negro officers and American merchant
vessels although the party line for victory against
ascsm has led them to subordinate purely racial matters
to the larger objective.
social currents which eddy around the Negro has revealed
attitudes Of racial antpathy widespread deep and danger
1t probably that the very enormty Of the opposi
ton to the Negroes aspiration is the principle factor which
has chilled the ardor of the liberal For the most part
hey have to the conclusion that any great offensive
ganst racial prejudice and antpahy might to
wen greater prejudice.
For that Negro leadership contemplates the
ntre must be cognzant of certain facts and tendencies
American life One is that few Americans committed
complete equality of the Negro Two is that the great
of Americans indifferent to the fate Of the Negro
Three is that there is powerful minority which is
ev opposed to the extension of the citizenship rights
Of the NEGRO and will take desperate measures to halt it.
What then should be the program which Negro lead
ershp should embark Certainly it cannot afford to
pend it's energies vfyng white people Nor it hope
to win by demagogc appeals to emotion and to discomfort
among Negroes. 1t must plan constructive and positive
approach in order to strengthen the Negro from within II
must ecreae the Negro that the of difference
between black and white is measurably reduced
How may this be accomplished? The constant iniunc-
ton of George Schuyler and William f. Burghardt Dubois
to must be Needed and become
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>Readers'
) Views
THE PROBLEMS OF RACE
RELATIONS AND ITS
SOLUTION

A problem Is something pro-
posed to be done. Something
that confronts one that requires
a solution which adds to the well
fare Of the one effected. Indiv-
iduals have problems that meet
them daily. In fact life Is a
problem, a struggle against the
forces that destroys life.
Groups and nations are engag-
ed each day in trying to overcome
some obstacle that threatens their
existence they believe. The strug-
gle Is more acute and intense
when two different groups occupy
the same territory. Racial diff
ferences have been a problem
since the dawn of creation al
most. The first two brothers
had their differences; one keep
er of flocks and the other tiller
of the field. Their differences
did not necessarily mean that one
Shout dhate the other. A just
consideration showed that one
was dependent upon the other
Arkansas State press., 1943-09-17
NOW Is THE TIME

If there ever were time for Negro leaders to
themselves from the state of ethargy that they have al
lowed themselves to drop it is Instead of going
around and constantly crticsng the white for its
tons toward the Negro the leaders better wake up and try
to do little teaching among their race before the
races fnis will be written in blood.
According to press dispatches REPETITION of Detrots
Bloody June narrowly averted this week when gang
Of rough necks attempted to berae prisoner in the custody
Of police officers which necesstated calling out reinforce
ment of officers to dsperse the mob of Negroes who had
gathered The feeling Of resentment in nearly every
industrial city in America is at fever heat All this be-
Negro leaders falling down the job of leading
their people in the right direction
This is excuse for the treatment the Negro receives
at the hands of the white hoodlums. Neither put
ting the Negro all at fault. One is equally guilty
the other The Negro through his years of involuntary
servtude feels certain resentment toward the Whites
and through agitation from these of the erate and less
successful class of whites the feeling mutual and when
two fools meet anything is likely to happen and generally
does.
So, is the time for the Negro leader to take an
inventory Of himsefan not just glance at the surface
of the unrest but deve into the and around
him all the feasible and carry to his people sound
doctrine Doctrine that will bring about mutual harmony
instead of widening the bride of resentment that always
present
Often the young squirt is heard to say eff am to die
just as to die here to die the battle field 1t
is not the death that makes the martyr but the cause
1t up to the Negro leaders, to straighten the race out
and, NOW is THE TIME!
Arkansas State press., 1943-09-17

vital and integral part of the program of national Ne
gro organization The standards of conduct in the Negro
community must be raised by and unremtg ef
fort to dequate policing and by the organization of
groups to combat juvenile delinquency and adult crime The
Negro must place himself squarey and openly the side
of law and order.
The Negro must be urged inspired perhaps driven to
keep the streets and the in which he lives clean of de-
brs and trash insofar as is possible and to rid the streets
of those whose conduct is reprehensible and vicious
The Negro must be guided to pool his in order
to be able to establish and maintain business enterprise
These enterprises must not look like NEGRO business
is commonly called but by service, cleanliness, and ap
pearance measure up to business in other
The newcomer to the North from the South must be
brought in contrast with the odcomer influenced and d
reced to go to night schools kind of school, to
register and to vote.
The decent intelligent Negro must demand that he be
represented by the best in his in political office whether
by appointment election The young intelligent Negro
the DOCTOR the lawyer the teacher must enter politics in
order that they shall have hand in determining the kind
of Negro speaks and acts for him.
These are the minimum steps to be taken to build
strong After all the white folks cannot make the Ne
gro If to survive and attain equality, must de-
serve II and be willing to accept its responsibilities.
Arkansas State press., 1943-09-17
RUTH TAYLOR Says.
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR WORK

In the years since the began, have re-learned
one important lesson the secret that made this country
great in the past and that gave the world goal Of
prosperity and freedom at which to aim This lesson is
there is substitute for hard work.
wise man once said that ninety percent of what
call genius is only talent for hard work And he was
pretty right The great discoveries the great nven
TONS the great deeds acclaim done by with
an infinite capacity for taking pains, by who
easily discouraged who right on working even when
they didn't want to keep at it, who just wouldn't give up
as long as there was something to be done.
There isn't any other way to succeed. Success must
have firm foundation if it is to be permanent and that
firm foundation takes energy and labor and courage
build.
short cuts to what wanted We let wishes govern
actions We hunted mady an Aladdns lamp which we
could simply rub to make widest dreams true We
INDUCED in snap Learn without effort" ere
duce without exercise deng Easy jobs at good pay"
slogans. We didn't want to give up to succeed
but only through efsacrfice not by sacr
ficing others.
Now we have again learned the habit of work. All of
Arkansas State press., 1943-09-17

for freedom for all men. Its
problem is chiefly the denying of
the Negro full citizenship as an
American. Our country boasts OF
christianity, but denies the Neg
no the rights as free men, freedom
owork in capacities in which he
Is fully prepared.
The solution to her problems
Is in the hands of her christian
men and women. 1t will come
when the christian white women
with the christian white men join
hands in the right with the
christian Negro men and the
christian Negro women against
wrong, regardless to creed or col
or. Both against wrong is the
solution to our problems.--A. r.
Cunningham, Atkins.
Arkansas State press., 1943-09-17
WARNING ORDER

State Of Arkansas,
County Of Pulaski, IS.
In the Pulaski
Chancery Court
Tessie Mae Potillo, Plaintiff.
vs.. No. 6S228
Willie Potilo, Defendant
The Defendant, Willie Potillo,
is warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer the
complaint of the Plaintiff, Tessie
Mae Potillo.
Dated Sept. 8, 1943.
Booker & Booker,
Solicitors for Plaintiff.
Jno. A. Hibbler,
Attorney ad Litem.
ii. S. Nixon, Chancery Clerk,
BY Ealy Red. d. c.