The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-02-10
Union Head Urges
Passing OF Bill
Measure Essential To The
Preservation And Exten-
sion OF Democracy

of the Scanlon-Dawson bill for estab
lishment of permanent Fair Employ
ment Commissions with power to en-
force its rulings. was urged al Il con
ference of leaders of the National
Council for a Permanent FEPC in the
offices of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union here.
President David DubinSky of the
union called upon the labor movement
to get behind the measure as essential
to the preservation and extension of
democracy in this country"
The bill has been introduced in the
House of Representatives by RepreSen-
tativeS Thomas T.. Scanlon of PennSyi-
vania and William \. Dawson of Hi
noiS. 1t will soon be introduced in the
Senate.
The bill would prohibit discrimina
iion in all employment relations sub,
iect to control of The Government.
forbid discrimination because of race,
color, creed. national origin or anceS-
try by any employer or labor union,
and create a permanent Fair Employ
ment Practice of 1G members appointed
by the President, with the consent of
the Senate
The commission would order the hr-
ing or reinstatement of employees with
back pay if discrimination We're found
and obtain the aid of the Federal
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subpoena witnesses and evidence. In
reference with the commission or its
agents would be punishable by S1OOO
fine, Il years Imprisonment, or both.
forced 10 work in labor details Many
work.
At tabanatUan Concentration Camp
in LuZOn, where the Americans We're
subsequently taken, conditions We're a
little better in that there was drinking
water and muddy secpage wells in
which they could battle. But japanese
brutality continued. Colonel DycSS told
how Il looting Jap soldier found Il
watch hidden in some equipment of a
man who was out of the barracks. AS
| was sitting nearby, he punched me
severely to show his feeling at the idea
of Il prisoner still having Il watch
Colonel Dyess related.
At Cabanatuan, men were literally
worked to death. 1t was not unusual
for 20 per cent of Il work detail to be
tn In
per cent were killed that way
Commander Mccoy reported that
two American Army officers and Il
Navy officer, who were caught trying
to escape from Cabanatuan, Wer"
beaten about the feet and legs unit!
they couldn't stand. Their Jap captorS
then kicked the officers and jumped OH
them. The next morning the three
Americans, stripped to their shorts
We're taken out on the road i'm full view
of the camp, their hands tied behind
them, and they We're pulled by rope.
from an overhead structure so that
they had TO remain standing, but benz
forward to ease the pressure on their
arms.
They were kept i'm this position in
the blazing sun for two full days while
Japanese beat them periodically with
Il two-by-four. Any Filipino, unluck%
cnOugllfto pass that way, was compell
ed to beat them too. If he failed tC
beat them hard enough, the JapS beat
him.
After two days of this. one of the
officers was beheadcd and the Other
two were shot.
Workers in Great Britain were af
fected Just as deeply by Foreign Min
lister Anthony Eden's report of atroci
ties against British prisoners capture,
by Japs. His account of the savage
treatment of British soldiers anI
civilians released almost simultaneous
~ with the joint Army Navy report il
this country, aroused bitter resentment
! and demands for retributiOn. Worker.
of tn" two nations We're bound mori
| closely together in their determination
| to see to it that their fighting mel
would have the weapons to destroy the
Jap militariStS.
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