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Evening star., 1943-10-30
Text of Coal Crisis Letters
President Promises to Take Decisive Action
After Davis Tells Of Strikes Spread

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the President BY Mr Dauts:
Mr. President:
The National War Labor Board
regrets to inform YOU that strikes in
the coal mines. which up to now
have been localized principally in
Alabama. are spreading throughout
the Nations coal fields. To date
the officers of the United Mine
Workers of America have cooper
ated with the War Labor Board in a
sincere endeavor to end the local
Stoppages, but without success AS
Of this writing, total of approxi-
mately $4,000 mine workers are en-
gagged in work stoppaces in the coal
fields Of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana
Kentucky. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia.
The National War Labor Board.
in a series of decisions. beginning.
with one on May 25, 1943, has ruled
that the mine workers are not en-
titled to general wage increase
under the wartime wage stabiliza-
bi'LA kJA Os- an VI VIC NIoNtI IlIIltIll.
The latest ruling of the board was
on October 26, when the board by
majority vote. disapproyed the wage
provision Of proposed contract for
the Illinois district, which proposed
to pay the miners on a portal-to-
portal basis The majoritv of the
board found that the wages as pro-
posed in the Illinois contract we're
in excess of what is permissible
under the wage stabilization pro-
gram
However, in its decision and opin-
ION IN that case, copies of which
are attached. the board made GER
tain suggestions for modification
OF the wage provision so that it
would conform to the wage stabiliza =
ton policies. You will note that the
decision and opinion of the ma ior-
lty of the board set forth the rea-
sons for disapproving the proposed
Illinois contract Briefly, the con-
tract, If adopted. would have re-
suited in the miners receiving more
pay for productive time than is due
them under the present contract.
whereas the only increased compen-
satlon they are entitled to is that
compensation for overtime after 40
hours, which results when travel
time is included as time of employ
ment under the provisions of the
Fair Labor Standards Act.
The pnntrap
Illinois area, as modified by the War
Labor Boards suggestions to the
parties, would result in an increase
of at least $40 in the average weekly
earnings of mine workers resulting
from an increase in production time
and pay for portal-to-portal in ac-
cordance with the Fair Labor
Standards Act. Under the board
proposal, if the mines are operated
on full six-day week basis, the
average miner who works full week
would earn approximately $50.
When the board handed down its
decision on October Is it notified
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea that unless the spreading strikes
in the coal fields ceased by today.
october %, and the men returned
to work, the board would report the
situation to you.
The issue is the same clear one
which it has always been since the
beginning of the coal controversy
namely, shall the wage stabilization
policies of the Government be ap-
piled and enforced irrespective of
the displeasure of any group toward
these policies.
Yours respectfully,
WILLIAM H. DAVIS,
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Future of Ersutz Rubber

presumption exists that ersatz
rubber will follow the course of
similar industries.
The history of nitrates is sug-
gestlve. In the beginning, all
nations had to get them from
Chile. Then, during the last war,
Germany built plants of great
expense to produce nitrate from
air. From then on, man. killing
explosives could be made in spite
OF blockades. After the war, the
use OF nitrates in European agri-
culture went long way to ban
ish the Malthusian theory from
Europea calculations. Men
learned to win bread from thin
air. They learned to liberate
themselves from the limitations
of their soil Scandinavia pro-
duced, in 1885, double the grain
from the same acreage that it
did in 1914 If the thinking of
German schoolmasters had kept
pace with German scientific
progress, the hideous passion for
lebensraum might have vanished,
and this war might have been
averted.
Tariff Is Issue.
The question of tariff protec-
tion is a bridge to be crossed
when we get to it. The Presi-
dents position, like that of the
Vice President. is that once
tariff has been established. it
cannot be reduced or removed.
SO, the way to avoid dependence
upon a crutch is never to use one.
But injured men dependent upon
crutches will still need them.
To change the figure to that
of infant industries, the free
trade argument that tariff pro-
lection long outlived the infancy
of its bene1ciaries does not imply
that those industries never
needed protection. Surely, we
have developed sufficient intelli-
eence as a nation to provide for
the permanent growth Of an in
dustry necessary for defense
without permitting that industry
to exploit the consuming public.
In any event, the decision about
the future of our new rubber
industry rests with Congress, not
the President.
tReleased by the Associated Newspapers
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Federal Employees Union
To Sponsor Food Exhibit

The District Department of the
American Federation of Govern
me't Emplcyes will sponsor an ex-
hlbit on Food in War and Peace"
IN Washington sometime next
month, Leroy Westoury, president
of the organization, said today.
The exhibit, arranged by the
Union Label Trades Department of
the American Federation of Labor
and the Agriculture Department,
will be organized under leac0rsnin
of DR.. Mark Graubard, director of
labor education in nutrition and food
conservation for the Agriculture
Department.
Mr. Westbury, recently appointed
a committee to handle the exhibit.
Members are Sam M. Billig, chair
man; c. R. Mccoy, Paul Vogt, Mrs.
Verna Flagg, Mrs. Ida Hines, R. A.
Harries, E. F. O'Hare. and E. D.
Atkinson.
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only slightly higher than we were
paying for natural rubber. But
when I put the same question to
one of the businessmen who went
to Washington that year to
work on production, he answered
brusquely, Artificial rubber is
too expensive" Two years later,
after the dreadful rubber debacle,
raised the question again with
the same man. The answer was
different then: "Oh, that was
Jesse Jones fault"
1t is unnecessary to probe into
the alleged blameworthiness of
Jesse Jones to suggest that from
the first, Washington has done
a powerful lot of premature
guessing on this subject. The
Presidents casual guess the other
day that artificial rubber will
cost SO per cent more than nat
ural rubber shows that preju-
dices still hold the floor in Wash
ington. No one can be positive
about the cost of ersatz rubber
at this stage, for it has Just be-
gun to fight
Price May Drop.
But Of one thing we can be
positive. The more time We give
to such an industry, the cheaper
its product becomes. A dozen
other ersatz products prove that.
And while no one can assign spe-
cifiC price estimates or time
limits now, an exceedingly strong
Evening star., 1943-10-30
This Changing World

Moscow conference, must have
succeeded in convincing his Rus
sian and British colleagues Of
this political philosophy of the
administration.
Before he went to Moscow, he
expressed the view that America
must accept her share in a global
security arrangement. He is be-
lieved, however, to have been op-
posed to any particular frontier
readjustment to the detriment Of
other members of the United
Nations. Mr.. Hull believes that
frontiers and Notifications In
these days, when aviation plays
such a major role, are Of little
consequence to the security OF
any nation.
Real Agreement Seen.
Hence, he told his friends, any
settlement of the postwar prob
lem based on territorial readjust-
ments for strategic reasons would
solve nothing. Quite the con-
trary, they would SOW the seeds
of another world conflict.
1t is to be assumed from Mr..
Roosevelt's statement that this
sound point of view has been
shared by all participants of the
Moscow conference and the blue
print for better and happier
world has finally been devised.
Evidently there has been more
than meeting Of the minds"
at Moscow. The delegates actu-
ally got down to concrete facts
permitting them to draft agree
ments to which the President was
referring.
The strong hope of Mr.. Roose-
welt and Prime Minister Church
i'll that they would meet in the
near future with Premier Stain
will now be vouchsafed. The
Russian Premier, who dislikes
conferences just for the sake of a
get-together, now will likely agree
to meet his two colleagues prob
ably before the end Of the year.
In spite Of their heavy work at
home, Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill have indicated publicly
that they would go to any point
convenient for Stain as soon as
he is able to get away from his
military duties.
A meeting in Moscow or an
other place ln-between seems as
sured, This meeting will be a
historic milestone. 1t will con-
solidate the United Nations not
only as partners in the war but
also in the reorganiza ton of the
world after the enemy has been
defeated.
Evening star., 1943-10-30
I'd Rather Be Rioht-

level, the level of long-range aspi-
ration, the level of words.
1t does not exist on the fighting
level, the level of combat, the level
at which the Senate majority will
give gleeful battle to the enemies of
collaboration: every day in the week.
not just on the one particular pre-
arranged day when history sits fo-
its picture.
The Sense of the Senate.
The immediate job of those, who
want collaborative world is to see
to it that We win a collaborative
victory. I leave it to the Senate to
say whether the antics of its more
publicized members during the re-
cent past have been such as to en-
courage the administration to great
er immediate collaborative efforts
in Europe, or such as to make the
administration seem to have to
apologize for fighting in Europe at
all
The big Senate debates of the last
few months have taken a distinctly
anticollaboration- now tone. These
debates have been led by such men
as Mr.. Chandler, who have demand
ed that we do less, not more fighting
in Europe. The Senate has allowed
itself to be used as a headline-mak-
ing mill, and from these headlines
the public has taken its own sense of
the sense of the Senate"
l have the feeling that millions of
Americans have had implanted in
their minds, without correction, the
thought that it is the sense of the
Senate that we have been doing al
together too much for our Allies.
1t Thinks 1t Thinks.
1t is from the totality of the SEN
ate's behavior that we shall draw our
final feeling of the sense of the
Senate"
You could drive 20 ieeps side by
side through the gap which lies be-
tween a rather elum acceptance of
the theory of world collaboration on
the one hand, and actual, happy,
everyday combat on the Senate floor
for 1t, on the other.
I rejoice that the Senate. at long
last, knows what it ought TO think.
But it will have to prove on the
operational level that it really thinks
it.
One speech, by one Senator, Won
derlng whether we are collaborating
enough, this minute, when the
greatest collapse of the Nazi armies
lmpends, would have more of the
Vltamlns Of slug and victory in it
than the Connally resolution.
Evening star., 1943-10-30

for which the country should work.
Debate on the Connally postwar
resolution on the Senate floor this
week centered at one point in
church announcements. particu-
larly the interfaith statement and
the postwar platform adopted by
the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
Program Read Into Record.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida read to the Senate the entire
seven-point program of the three
religious faiths and called special
attention to the fifth plank dealing
with international institutions to
maintain peace. He said that
through this religious statement the
ministry is pleading with the Ma
tion's representatives to effectuate
the minimum requirements" Of an
international organization.
Preceding the Senate debate
group Of three Protestant. Catholic
and Jewish leaders had attempted
TO obtain hearing before the For
elgn Relations Committee to present
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just and durable peace of the Fed
eral Council of Churches called on
the Senate to put itself on record
IN favor OF a clear and compre-
henslve resolution favoring United
States collaboration with other ma
tlonS in the now-demonstrated areas
OF national interdependence."
A message sent to every Senator
by John Foster Dulles. chairman of
the commission, referred to the
Christian Mission on World Order
the six pillars of peace" state
ment issued by the Federal Council
OF Churches and the recent inter-
faith declaration on world peace as
rejecting the prevailing mind of
American Christians as to the goals
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a united religious viewpoint on the
issue, but were unable to obtain the
audience.
Senator Connally, Democrat, Of
Texas, chairman Of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee, informed the
churchmen the committee would be
unable to grant hearing, but would
be glad to receive material outlining
the stand of the churches. In re-
sponse to criticism from the Senate
floor as to why the religious leaders
were not heard, Senator Connally
said they did not request a hearing
in sufficient time to make it pos
sible
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veil OF secre-
cy shrouding
the t hire E.
power M os-
COW confer
ence by an
n o u n C | n g
that the talks
have been a
l T e m GNQOuS
success a n q
all t h a t re-
mains is the
sig min g Of
agreements.
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Methodist Churches
PIon Hospital Night

Hospital Night an outstanding
event of Methodism in the District
area. will be observed at pm. next
Friday at Rust Hall, 115O North
Capitol street.
Maj. Richard Braunstein. post
chaplain of Walter Reed Hospital
will be the speaker. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Lewis and Mrs. Cloyd Cald-
well will provide musical selections.
A roll of "A churches will be called
with reports to be made on hospital
activities.
Evening star., 1943-10-30
B'noi Birth Anniversary

National AZA Sabbath, celebrated
annually by the Aleph Zadik Aleph,
B'nai Birth youth organization, as
part Of its character building pro-
gram, will be observed by the Wash
ineton council November y. at $50
pm. at Beth Sholom Synagogue,
Eighth and Shepherd streets NV.
Evening star., 1943-10-30

Of course, DO no
such thing.
The sense of
the Senate is re-
vealed by the
way it acts on
any ord n a r y
Thursday after
noon, when the
W orld is n O t
l o o k i n g. The
Connally resolu-
ton will give us
something en-
tirely different;
it will give ns
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the idea t h a t
Britain, Russia,
China and t h e
United S t a t e S
should as S u m e
the leadership in
such a period
before a treaty
Of peace is sign
ed or a world
" ! e organiza-
tion to maintain
peace is formed.
P r e S ! d e n t
Roosevelt, Sum-
Evening star., 1943-10-30

WHdt I II e y
ould d d 0
about ersatz
rubber. Their
answers indi-
Gated, on the
average, that
E / V n two
years W i t h
SOillC dSSul
ance of a
market, they
could supply
the needs of
this country
at, q nric 90
Evening star., 1943-10-30

to be found in
N o a h S best
selling II t ! e
book, the die
t / o n ary. Get
yourself a copy
and turn to his
definition of the
word private"
Noah has this
as the meaning
of t he " ord.
Peculiar to ones
S e If, personal.
a ] ne, secret,
not public, Sc
Evening star., 1943-10-30
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN

oS SoINo NV 11>L Oho"N.
The green light now has been
flashed for an early meeting OF
President Roosevelt, Prime Min
lister Churchill and Premier Sta
lin.
Mr.. Roosevelt has lifted the
Evening star., 1943-10-30
BY RAYMOND MOLEY,

When, in 1910, Washington be-
gan to prepare in earnest for
war, I asked a number of reliable
people in the chemical industry
Evening star., 1943-10-30
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

The theory Is that the Connally
resolution will give us the sense
of the Senate" on the kind of world
that great assembly favors. 1t will,
Evening star., 1943-10-30

WELLINGTON, New Zealand
Oct. 80 R).-Prime Minister Peter
Fraser was operated on today for
internal ulcers. His condition was
reported satisfactory.
Evening star., 1943-10-30

THE opinions OF the Drtter this page on not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions The
Stars effort to ue all sides OF questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions av contradictory oono
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-10-30
Now Is Time
|ToOrgonize
For Peace
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Former President Hoover was the
original proponent of the idea of
a transition period" and also of
Evening star., 1943-10-30
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Evening star., 1943-10-30
McLemore-
Says Army Privotes
Move Like Goldfish

BY PVT. HENRY McLEMORE.
CAMP BLANDING, Fla.-One
thing you can be sure of-Noah
Webster never was in the Army.
All the proof you need of this Is
Evening star., 1943-10-30
What's in a Name?

1t is history in the making that gives it value
and it is the history of the Eberly Organization
that gives to this name and this business the
Obstruction and prestige it enjoys among
Washinstons long active institutions.
From lS49 to 1943-a long span of ninety.four
years - the Ebery business has been
uninterruptedly conducted by one family
direct descendants of its founder, Anton
Eberly. A man who in his day won the
respect and confidence of the public by his
PLAIN, straightforward policy-doine what he
promised; promising only what he could do.
That is the priceless heritage he bequeathed
those who have followed him. A policy that
hes been steadfastly adhered to by each
succeeding generation, nuturing a small
beginning into business of essential
Importance in the expansion of a great and
greater Washington.
An unique and original business, that with its
wide experience meets completely the needs
of the home owner. Still the same Eberys
of 1849 in spirit in tradition and performance.
So when today you send for "Eberly's" to
perform any one, or all, of the many services
tor maintenance and upkeep, you have the
assurance of Eberly sat;sfaction-with the
manner in which the work will be executed;
the moderate price you will pay-and with
the ONE ponsibiity-which is "Eberlys".
Evening star., 1943-10-30

All
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Home
for
Comfort
Insulating
Outside painting
Inside painting and
paperins
Outside repairs
Cutters and down
spouts
Rehnishins floors
Enclose kitchen
fixtures
with cabinet
construction
Kitchen and
bathroom plumbing
Repair sash cord
Replace broken glass
Caulk cracks and
crevices around
windows and doors
Provide storm sash
Repair roof
Repair plaster
Waterproof damp
walls
Repair porches
Look after walks and
steps
Repair shutters
all are included in
Eberly Plan Service
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ADVERTISEMENT.
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Fraser Operated On

DIIICCIIIy yUIIIS,
FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt I
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Evening star., 1943-06-21
Destroyer Launched at Newark
Is Named for Booth, DC. Hero
Mother Christens
Vessel as Father
Watches Exercises

A new destroyer slid down the
ways today at Newark, bearing the
name Of one of the first Washing
tonians killed in this war, Ensign
Robert Sinclaire Booth, jr.
Ensign Booth, who was 26 and
whose home was at 2301 Cathedral
avenue N. w., was killed at Pearl
Harbor December 7, 1941.
His mother broke the bottle on
the bow Of the slim. swift craft
named for her son, while his father,
an official Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, looked proudly
on. He was their only child.
Ensign Booth went to Central
High School and the University OF
Maryland. He was born at Hick-
ory, NJ c., and came to Washing
ton with his parents in 1915.
A second destroyer launched at
Newark today, according to the AS
sociated Press, was the Carroll,
named for 1t. Herbert Fuller Car
roll. jr., killed in the Solomons on
August 8, when the Japanese sank
four Allied cruisers without known
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Walter JacobsonQuits
0PA Printing Post
Inquiry Upheld Charge
Of Inefficiency in Bronch

Resignation of Walter jacobson
as chief of the printing and dis
tribution branch of the Office of
Price Administration. was announced
today after long investigation of
union charges that operations of the
branch were marred by racial dis
elimination and poor management.
The announcement was made in a
memorandum from Edward w. Hay
deputy administrator of OPA's ad-
ministrative management depart
ment, to War Agencies Local No. 203
of the United Federal Workers of
America. CIO.
Mr.. Hay said the charges of racial
discrimination and inefficient man.
agement were upheld by investiga-
tiOn which was conducted by joint
labor management committee He
said, however, that these conditions
were not wholly the fault of Mr..
Jacobson, who inherited many of the
problems from his predecessors in
the position.
The union charges were directed
at operation of the printing and dis
tribution branch during the period
prior to last January IS. Since in
vestigation began, the conditions
complained of have been virtually
remedied," Mr.. Hay reported. He
said that more than 100000 of an
nual payroll expense has been elm
mated in the last few months from
the OPA division of which Mr.
Jacobson's branch was a part.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
BY the Associated Press,


CHICAGO, June 21-Development
Of training machine gun which
provides the soldier with the fun
and fascination of a shooting GAL
tery but doesn't use up expensive am
munition has been disclosed.
The gun, operated by electricity
and compressed air and shooting
plastic pellets, makes a racket like
real one. It's recoil vibration
shakes the trainee's bridgework. An
amplifier in the background fur
nishes typical battle sounds-air-
planes looming, shells screaming,
bombs bursting.
Soldiers practically fight for
chances to use the weapon. 1t elinli-
mates the tiresome. uninteresting
dry" firing-going through all the
motions without firing shot. In
structing ofiicers grin happily at the
boys enthusiasm for it.
Engineers of the Edison General
Electric Appliance Co. perfected the
gun year ago. Since then they've
made many hundreds for use by
trainees Of Army anti-aircraft units,
ground forces, mechanical and air
forces.
The gun is built to actual size
and appearance of a Browning so
caliber machine gun. It's handled
exactly like one. But its operation
is worked out to a scale of one to
80. Thus when fired at miniature
buildings, tanks, trucks or airplanes
as targets 81 feet away it Stimulates
firing an actual gun at 500 yards.
The synthetic" machine gun
fires" 600 times a minute, like q
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Labor Holding Bag,
Clio Aide Declares
Says Government Hasn't
Held Line on Prices
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Testifying on price control before
the House Small Business Commit
tee today, Hoyt s. Haddock, legis-
lative representative Of the C1O
Maritime Union, said 1.-The Govern
ment has not held the line and la
Dor has held the bag"
AS the situation now stands" he
said. labor has been limited to a
IS per cent increase by the Little
Steel formula but wages have &C
tually increased but per cent since
January /, 194l, and the cost of
living has gone up IS per cent"
1T is obvious that this situation
cannot stand" he stated. THE
conclusion to be drawn from this
experience is that we now have a
simple choice: We can hold the
line firmly, or we can have runaway
ipf1ation. and by runaway imitation
We mean further increases in price
OF 49,, so or so per cent in a single
year. The period of creeping infla-
ton is over"
Mr.. Haddock said dollars and cents
prices rules "bolstered by subsidies
should have been put in effect
months ago. but opposed the coffee
subsidy plan on the ground 1t would
not save enough money.
DR.. Esther Cole Franklin, repre-
senting the American Association of
University Women, told the commit
tee the people must have prices
set in definite terms .. This
means to us that prices must be
established in dollars and cents
Each price can be attached TO q
specified quality, whatever the COM
modify. and that the quality be
stated in simple terms on the label