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Evening star., 1944-12-07
Krug WantsLaw
To Keep War
Workers on Job
Seeks Legislation
To Prevent Shifts
To Other Plants
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK P. - Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower told
manufacturers that a con-
slant flow of heavy ammuni-
ton, tires, trucks, guns and
planes would reduce the
great sacrifices American
fighting men are compelled to
make" in message to the
National Association of Man.
ufacturers convention.
Earlier story on NAM con-
vention on Page A-6.)
By the Associated Press.
Chairman j. A. Krug of the
War Production Board today
called for legislation to enable
the Manpower Commission to
enforce regulations designed to
keep workers in war plants.
He told the Senate War Investi-
eating Committee he favored laws
with teeth in them" to:
/. Prohibit workers from going
from war plants to less essential in
dustries and to bar less essential
industries from employing them.
2. Prohibit civilian industries from
hiring workers in excess of quotas
assigned them by the ManpoWer
Commission.
While the Manpower Commission
has regulations covering both pro-
hibitions, Mr. Krug testified, it lacks
statutory authority to enforce CELL
ings on civilian production hiring
and its certificate of availability
program.
| There is NOV way to prevent a
worker from going to work in ci-
william industry without a certificate
of availability showing he is no long
er needed in war plant, except that
of indirect pressure, he said.
Some Confusion on Bonus
/ He attributed manpower short
! ages to Congress refusal to enact
a national service law but said he
did not believe it would do much
{ SoOQ INV. UCCduSC AZ WOOlSl ldhC
too long to get it functioning.
Mr.. Krug said there has been
some confusion about his reported
advocacy of postwar bonus to war
workers who stay on their jobs for
the duration
That is Just one of my sugges-
tions that we have had about in
$N
he told reporters after the hearing.
I'VE know that greater produc-
/ ton can be had from workers who
, stay at their jobs" he explained.
The incentives may vary from
> region to region or even from
plant to plant.
I'VE are now engaged in a plant
by-plant survey to determine the
best answer to the turnover prob
lem in each case. We aren't sure
there is an answer that would ap-
ply across the boards all over the
country"
Denies Implied Agreement"
Under questioning by Senator
Ferguson. Republican, of Michigan
he sharply denied that there has
been IAN implied agreement among
officials of the WPB, the Manpower
Commission and the Army and Navy
not to criticize" each other
He said there are 100000 less
workers in war plants today than
year ago, and attributed $4,000
of the loss to armed force induc-
tions.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
told his news conference, meanwhile,
that the War Department wants
full mobilization of the Nations
manpower.
Asserting that our position ON
it has never deviated," Mr.. Patter-
son recalled that Secretary of War
Stimson urged passage of a national
service act before a Congress COM
mittee last January, and added that
! (See PR0DTTCTTON pace A-dl
Evening star., 1944-12-07
B-29s Hit Manchuria;
Tokyo Bombed Twice
On Reconnaissance
Damage at Mukden and
Doiren Admitted in
japanese Broodcosts
BULLETIN.

TWENTY FIRST UNITED
STATES BOMBER COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Saipan (P).
Two Super Fortress bombers
on weather reconnaissance
flights bombed Tokyo last
night and early today in sepa-
rate strikes seven hours apart,
the United States 21st Bomber
Command announced today.
Both planes hit approx
mately the same target area
the Y-shaped industrial heart
of Tokyo, bounded by the wa
terfront and by the Sumida
River to the west and Ara
River on the east.
By the Associated Press.
American B-29s today attacked
industrial targets in japanese.
dominated Manchuria, the 20tl
Air Force announced here, while
the Tokyo radio reported tina
other Super Fortresses dropped
incendiary bombs on the Japa.
nese capital.
The report of the raid on Tokyo
which the Japs said was carried ou
by three or four B-29s," was not
confirmed.
A brief Goth Air Force communi.
que said large task force of B-29'
of the Goth Bomber Command con.
tinued the campaign against Jap
anese war production with a day.
light attack today against impor
tant industrial detectives in Jap.
anese dominated Manchuria.
More Details Promised.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, command.
ing general of the goth Air Force, il
his announcement said further de.
tails would be announced later.
A japanese broadcast recorded by
the Federal Communications Com.
mission said the Super Fortresse!
hit the southern sector of Man.
churia. Tokyo said the raider
struck between 10 and 10:30 am.
The Japs claimed Is Super For
(See SUPER FORTRESS Pp AIN
Evening star., 1944-12-07

TlDo additional men from the
District area haUe been re-
ported killed in this Udr. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page Az.
Evening star., 1944-12-07

(See SUPER FORTRESS, Pg. Al,
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(See WAR BONDS, Page AID
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(See STETTINIUS, Page A-4
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(See PATTERSON, Page 4
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(See SEDITION. Page A-l8.
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(see GREECE, Page A-40
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

ton is quite contrary to what most people seem Co think--tha with the end of he war on Q certain day the men will thereupon be returned Co their homes.
 Another point to consider ls that the President has recommended one year of compulsory military training for boys of ie. He did not say how long they should serve after they 70. ceive their year's training. Of course, the size of the force which must be maintained after the war will have great deal to do with this.
 For example, there are only about B60,O00 boys who reach the age of iB each year and who are physically and mentally qualified for armed service. If our post war forces are to he i,700,000 men for the Navy, Army and Air forces, it would take two annual classes of $50, 900 each to make Up that number unless there were volunteers or eilligtees suffi. cient to fill the ranks. If our post war forces are Go be 3,400,000, ob- viousiy that is { times Q one-year class. l point out these facts be. cause the nature of the many lets ters receive on this subject indi. cates that the average Connecticut mother and father is looking for such 9netg,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Democrats Cite COP Vote
 Record on Preparedness iAs Obstruetionist
} thA nNmooratlo Natl0nal Commlttee

FROM tho day he took office in 1888. President Roosevelt began repairing our national defense, so publican administrations,
 Finding the Navy far below par, the Adminis- SSn meoseeE HnSerSOSS soSS SSS oO 0s sroS M EVA tunds seven times the amount spent under Hoover the previous year, Subsequently, WPA was naval % T instailations' docks barracks, etc.
 To the Republicans all this was "boondoggling" In 1885, with war clouds gathering the President expanded the Army to l6S000 enlisted men as recon mended by General Douglas Macarthur, then Chief of stan.
 sand Congressman Everett Dirksen, Republican from Illinois, now one of Candidate Deweys chief spokesmen: II would feel little recreant to my con victims If did not register my protest at this increased expenditure"
 IN 1884, as Hitler prepared to attack Czechoslo- Vakla and Austria President Roosevelt delivered at Chicago his famous quarantine" speech, urging the
 For his pains he was denounced by the Repuh- NcanS as "warmonger,"
 The President said in that speech We are de- terMined to keep out of war, yet VIC cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of and dangers of Involvement We are adopting such mea- sures as will minimize our risk of involvement"
 It was this very quarantine" speech rom which Candidate Dewey quoted at Oklahoma City, lifting passage out of conteXt-lke some shyster lawyer-in his attempt to prove the Presidents want of vision and neglect of national defense,
 Such pettfogging tactics, such blind partisan op- position, are typical of the Republicans whole pre- paredneSS record.
 By their votes, you shall know them;
 THE Republicans voted against the fortiticaton of ouan-againSt additional appropriations Tor tne Army Air Foree-against providing stockpileS of tin, rubber, and other strategic raw materials-agalnst lifting the arms embargo,
 The Republicans were against Selective Service against arming our merchant Ships-against Lend Lease which Candidate Dewey wildly denounced as designed ito end free government everywhere"
 Just four months before Pearl Harbor, with Gen. anal NkoaM tact extension of Seectve Service came before the Congress, with the Republicans snlping as usual Tho vote wNs
 Democrats; Senate-S to 1 for
 HOuse-6 to for
 Republicans: SenAte-2 to 1 against
 HOuSe-6 Co against
 m AN fairness which party did Its best to pro- n,ose national defense and which did everything pos sibls to obstruct itP
 There are none 30 blind as those who refuse 70 see.
 And yet these same men would nov have us enthrust them with national defense and all the conn pex affairs of state-matters of life and death to each and every one of us'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Roosevelt Failed 10 Focus Nations Energy on Need For Defense. COP SoYs

By the Republican National Committee
 WHY we were caught unprepared in lsAi will not be very hard question for future historians to answer
 We were unprepared because President Roosevelt had neglected the most important factor in modern total war; the focussing of national energy toward the single object of national defense.
 We were not told the facts of our foreign affairs in the plain blunt kind of language we best under stand and to which we always respond Until nearly a month after the fall of France whatever informa- ton the President gave us on events abroad was Sandwiched between thick slabs of purely domestic New Deal boasts and New Deal promises.
 Public attention was deliberately diverted from the real and increasingly ominouS facts of interna tional relations Instead t was shrewdy centered on the gitterng illusions of New Deal prophets.
 PRACTICAL measures for defense were equally neglected, From 1922 to 1883 expenses for our armed forces averaged 20 per cent of our annual govern mental costs, BUT IN 1884, these vital expenses were cut to less than per cent, and at no time during the next six years did they reach 20 per cent again.
 The defense of the United States was from 1888 to 1s41 in the eyes of the Roosevelt administration secondary consideration. The whole mponderable m- fluence of the administration was thrown AGAINST preparing the people of the United States for war
 On December 4 1889, after Poland had been in- Vaded and partitoned and all Europe stood to arms, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau told press con- ference;
 ITO make it perfectly clear, We are certainly not going to give advantages to anybody who IS making munitions rather than peacetime materials. If 1t were left to me, would give the peacetime manutactur- CT Q break over the war manufacturers"
 Asked If "a the stores of tax concessions to war order manufacturers are out2" MT. Morgenthau ar- Swered;
 'NOompletelyl If 1t rested with me as to whether Q fellow would get a break because he had munitions contract, r afraid he would fare rather badly.'
 YET Mr. Morgenthau must have known that mu. nons are essential to defense and that the Chief of staf had just warned "The Army machine Is prob- ably less than 25 per cent ready for immediate ac- tion" Only munitions manufacturers could supply the missing 7S per cent
 The Budget Bureau, always under administra- ton guidance In November and December, 1889 rad. icaly reduced the sums asked by the Orny and Navy for necessary defense preparations
 President Roosevelt endorsed this policy Of in- sufficeney in his budget message of January g. ls4o in these words:
 'This is an increase over the current year, but 1t is far less than many experts on national de- fense think should pc spent though IN MY JUD0- MENT TT IS A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT FOR THE COMING YEAR."
 Tn plain words President Roosevelt rejected the advice of men who knew. preferring to follow his own judgment"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
ENGLISH MISSION | TOOPEN TONIGHT.
Men, Women and Children
 Invited tO st. JOseph's N Church Services
Brooklyn News

|, Sermons will be conducted in Eng- Iish at Q mission which will open at st. Joseph's church tonight At 2 o'clock. Men, women and children are cordially Invited.
 Republican Rally
 Congressman Joseph Talbot wat principal speaker ct c social spoEl- scred by the Lithuanian Republi- can Club ct it's cliibroon1s on Bank street Saturday night. John Mi- sunas, candidate for state repre- sentative, was among others who addressed the gathering.
 The organization will hold open house again next Saturday. Anthony
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
, major political parties,

the first series of National AaaSn two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

nered four tons picked up through out the entire section of Robbins street, extending to the 0akville Members of the West Side club picked up the remainder on 62 streets In the latter section of the city.
 A scheduled collection on all streets in the northwest section of the city, to be conducted by street department members was postponed due to the fact that many house. holders in that area withdrew their bundles from the street when the rain came down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
COLLECTION NETS
 NEAR NINE TONS

Undaunted by c soaking rain that poured down Saturday afternoon, members of the Bunker Hill Mems League and of the Mems Club of the West Side Methodist church collected c total of eight and one- half tons of scrap paper.
 Members of the former club gar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

-Petrosky Photo
 JOHN MIsUNAS Lazdauskas is chairman of the enc tertainment committee.
 Pre.ElectlOn Party
 About 100 attended the pre.elec. ton party of the Lithuanian Wo- mems Democratic Club yesterday afternoon ct the home of MT. and Mrs. Anthony orantaS of Washing- ton avenue.
 Mayor John g. Monagan headed the group of speakers, who included: Probate Court Judge Patrick Healey, Edward Egan, candidate for state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Protestant Churches
 Pledge United Aid
Dr. Warnshuis Going to London to Plan for Future
 With Ecumenical Leaders in Liberated Areas

can be of service to humanity around the world. All the major de- nominations have worked together in carrying on their program of over seas relief during the war years. Their sending of an commended ernissary to survey and report upon probably needs of the immediate future is evidence that they intend to carry over this spirit of coopera- ton into their post-war programs"
 A new factory in Spalding, Eng land, dehydrates 30 tons of cab- bages daily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
Generalization Tremendous Undertaking Says Danaher

Hartford oct 2s-nemcblzon forcea as postwar care so he men upon teE return w be senecu u- first in series Of daily wahng reports which he pans 10 give nnu unhn nanr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23


 Senator Danaiier spoke from his experience as Q member of sub- committee which handles veterans iegislaticn and quoted General Her. siiey, director of the gelective serv- Ice, on the magnitude of the prcb- lem.
 General Hershey, he said, 're- gently stated that when we inc creased the size of our forces to H.. 100000 men, the increase required a period of 90 months, which means that men were being drafted ct the rate of 1000 per hour every hour, every day. ae also said that it would be difficult to see how the men could be defnobilized tt a rate faster than 2.0O0 on hour. Obvious- ly, this would require l6 months ct that rate. This startling tFlfornia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23

senator; Patrick wallace, candidate for state senator; State Representa- tive Daniel ]. Mahaney, Deputy Sheriff Albert Francis, Alderman Edward La1ky, Town Clerk Mary Kilmartln; Attorney Floyd zailckas, Mrs. Agnes Mitchell, member of the Democratic town committee: Miss Ann valunas, secretary of the woe mems organization, and Mrs. John W. Lasky, chairman Of publicity, Mrs. John zailckaB, president, served as master of ceremonies.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01

ter George Cd. Ca.). Aside from
trimming the bill still further,
freezing social security rates at %
for another year, and approving an
anti-union rider, the committee
voted big business a gift of several
billion dollars in the form of So
called amendments to the renegO-
tiatiOn statute.
Through its power to revise hastily
entered war contracts, the govern
ment has been able to recapture about
S. billion. This authority is virtually
wiped out in the amendments adopted
by the committee.
The above are just few of the
issues which will form interesting
topics of conversation between
union delegations and their con-
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
Continued from Page One)

Jewelry sales i'm nine large cities
broke all previous records by 2O%
to 1000. At Tiffany's i'm New York,
executives were buying real pearl
necklaces for $4,000 Ca cheap
string could be had for $4,000 to
SIS, OOO.)
Exclusive shops advertising $50
neckties, 500 pocketbooks, $50 to
SIS bottles of perfumes, ran short
of stock by Christmas eve. Women
were fighting over $4,000 mink
coats-if they couldn't find ones
that fit, they went home with ones
that didn't fit. Sales girls at cos
metic counters in stores on Michi-
gan Ave, in Chicago and Fifth Ave.
in New York reported that GUS
toners wouldn't look at compacts
under $25. In fashionable night
clubs all over the country ST 900
parties were not uncommon. So
remember, if you haven't had a
raise-don't ask for it. 1t will lead
to imitation!
NORWALK Gu. has sent $780,
600 cigarettes to our boys and girls
in the Armed Services. We doubt
if many central labor bodies in the
country representing cities of this
size can match that record.
THE Ottawa (Ont.) Erening Citi-
zen recently reported this strange
phenomenon:
AS he did every morning before
going to his work in the Jackson
building, Mr.. Harris entered the
Royal Lunch, at 8:55 am, and
collapsed after ordering his break
fast"
HERE'S WHAT the ''Wall Street
Journal thinks about the ability
of railroads to meet their employees
wage demands:
''MOst roads are in the excess
profits brackets anyway, and those
which are not have made provision
for higher pay rates. The remainder
will switch Bic out of tax accruals
for each dollar increase i'm payrolls
Many have Over-accrued federal
taxes for that reason. Management
would gladly settle for the 8c-an-
hour increase (for incorporating
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01

tricks likely to be pulled by the poll
takers.
Most fragrant example of con-
gressional nose-thumbing at the war
effort is the story of the long over
due tax bill. Although willing
enough to foist sky-high prices on
consumers, the house in fit of
demagoguery decided the people
and incidentally, the big corpora
tiOns, are too poor to pay taxes and
passed misery 81 billion revenue
measure, instead of the IO1a bill
lion asked by the Treasury.
But the house action was mild
compared to what has been going
on in the senate finance committee,
presided over by the staunch de-
fender of corporation profits, Wal
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
As We See It
empIoyes) refused by the Office OF
Economic Solicitation

employes) refused by the Office of
Economic StabiIizatiOn."
WHEN Barnes Hospital of St.
Louis recently received a grant of
SIS, 900 for research on causes and
cures of headaches, the St. Louis
StGr-Tinies carried the following
headline:
$4,000 GIVEN
FOR HEADACHE
RESEARCH HERE
WHILE no publicity was given
out on results of the meeting be-
tween John L. Lewis and the ALL.
on the subject of the United Mine
Workers reaffiliation with the
ALL, it was understood most of
the session was devoted to sparring
over jurisdictional differences that
must be irOned out before the A. F.
of L. will put up the welcome sign
for the half million members of
Lewis union.
Nearly 40 affiliates of the Fed
Grafton have filed complaints that
the UNIV. has infringed on their
jurisdiction. Nearly all involved
District so, the Miners ''catch-all''
section, which has taken in just
about any craft of workers willing
to join.
Most of the meeting was devoted
to debate on these complaints, and
it was reported Lewis is to be given
an opportunity to study them, after
which another parley will be called.
OVER story on Senator Bridges
investigation of the diaper dearth
in this country, the Boston Her
aid recently put this headline:
B r. IDC ES IN 3-CORNERED
OTHER
OVER DIAPERS SHIPPED TO
ARABS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is
''reaIist" i'm speech as well as in his
viewpoint of Premier Stain accord
ing to the Associated Press story. 1t
said of him:
pressed by a feminine reporter
to tell us about him. (Stalin), the
President said he Didn't Write No
Society Column"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
LITTLE LUTHER

TTS socialism, That's what isl" exclaimed Dworth
wrathfully, throwing down his evening paper.
Youre right Pop" replied Luther socialism
all right Probably always will be. Music Philosophy
is philosophy and Hoover
"Shut up! I'm losing my patience This country going
to the dogs"
"Why, Pop You said nobody straight any Any
way, maybe the dogs like it,
"Young man, you're getting big for your brches You
know good and well what mean'
sSure! You somebody's getting living wager"
"No, dont. mean these labormanagement committees
the War Production Board is setting up They're nothing
communism
"A minute ago, you they were socialism They GER
tainy move fast, don't they?'
Don't get with young TIL your hide'
swatch out for the tanners union Pop"
unions! Unions! That's the trouble business today
Too unions Now they setting labor
committees It's pure tommyrot."
"Maybe it comes under the pure food and drug act''
'Pretty companies won't own indus
tries"
"You said the other day they all owned by widows
and orphans, anyway
$50 did, But somebody has to manage tbemo
Oh you mean the labor management commitees?'
'No, don't That's Encouragement. You can't manage
business with a committee
GLOW about a board of directors, Pop?''
s'Thats different"
different people, you mean'
Certainy Workers don't know anything about factories
Why, you said in speech that labor backbone of
the country
"When?"
Con Labor Day.
"Oh, that
"Ddnt you mean it, POp?"
"Of it. Workers the backbone of the
country. Without workers.
'Withou workers there wouldn't be any profit"
"That's right. And without profits"
'There wouldn't be any Republican party"
"Dont the Republicans, boy. They will
house in order"
"YOu mean the dOghouse."
"No. mean that with like Hoover and Landon and
Sem Nye at the helm the ship of will march straight
GLOW does a ship march, Pop?"
II the march will ship sraight-Oh you've got
mixed up.''
'No You the doghouse will hoover around the
helm and andon the ship of That's pretty nigh it. Any
way, Happy New Year, Pop
"And Happy New Year you my darling son.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-01
Machinists VIII Waive
Initiation Fees For Vets

WASHINGTON-Veterans of this
war will not have to pay initiation
fees to join the Init. Assn. of Ma
chinists, providing they can show evil
dence of honorable discharge from
any military branch of the u. S.,
Canada or Newfoundland, lam Pres.
Harvey Brown announced this week.
gressmen. With a real display of
unity between labor, farm groups
and consumer groups, congressman
should return to the capital with
a brand new set of New Years resO-
IutiOns that match the peoples will
to make 1914 the year of victory.