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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
Conn. Federation
OpposesDrafting
OF U.s.. Workers
All Locals Urged To Write
Their Representatives
And Senators

The Connecticut Federation of La
Dor is opposed to a National Service
Act as recommended to Congress by
President Roosevelt, according to ]
J. Egan, the Federation's secretary
treasurer. Egan has sent all ALL.
locals in the state letter urging them
to inform their Congressman of their
opposition to the proposed law.
In letter to Connecticut's Con.
gressiOnal delegation, Egan says
that the State Federation is opposed
to National Service Law on the
ground that the working men and
women of this country have out
produced any country in the world.
Never" he says, ''has production
been equaled per manpower in this
country as has been done since the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
Let's show the country at large
and the world, that Connecticut is
united for Democracy and a free
people; and that we understand the
problems ahead of US and have u
derstood them for long time. That's
the reason why organized labor was
in favor of Selective Service in the
state of Connecticut before the pass
age of the law. That's the reason why
Connecticut made the promise 49,
hours after the attack on Pearl Har-
Dor, that there would be no strikes
in Connecticut. That's the reason why
we have kept Our promise and will
continue to do so.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
As We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

THE news editor on the Lewiston
(Me.) Euening Journal handled the
bombing of Frankfurt, Germany,
by huge force of American bomb
ers in this manner: ''U. S. Bombers
Makes Hamburg Out of Frank
furt.''
IF AMERICAN living standards
are to be maintained after the war,
regular and steady" jobs will have
TO be provided for 10000. 900
workers, at least 100000 more
than before the war-so declared
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
this week.
When the war ends, the nation
will have nearly IS, OOO, 900 persons
in the labor force and armed SER
vices, she said. OF these, about
100000 housewives will return to
their homes; 100000 youngsters
will go back to school and $780,
600 oldsters will retire, leaving
about 6O,OOO,OOO who will want
jobs, she estimated.
To meet the grave problems that
will arise when the shooting stops.
Secretary Perkins called for enact
ment now of an expanded social
security program on the order of
the Wagner-Dingen bill and prompt
restoration of all laws safeguarding
labor standards which were relaxed
during the war.
Among other proposals, she also
recommended the junking of all
War Manpower Commissions di-
receives freezing workers to their
jobs; creation of fund to finance
the return of stranded war workers
to their former homes or other
jobs; strengthening of the u. S.
Employment Service; widespread
housing programs, to be assisted
with government loans.
WIVES sometimes hear startling
news from their husbands i'm the
Army, as is shown by this clipping
from the Lynchburg (Va.) NesOs:
SSgt. Lawrence ]. Hoover has in
formed his wife he received word
recently that he was the father of a
baby girl. He also informed her that
he received her Christmas packages.
He is stationed i'm England and re-
Gently spent furlough i'm Oxford"
WAR WORKERS will have pre-
ference in the purchase of vacant
houses, the Defense Homes Corpo-
ration said in announcing the first
move by the Federal Government
to dispose of war housing. DHC is
ready to consider offers to purchase
any of the Is projects represent
ing total investment of more than
81, 100000. Offers must carry the
guarantee to cOnfine the occupancy
during the war to war workers.
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
GROWING NEED

GROWING NEED
The growing need for adequate
medical care is shown in the COM
mittee's report, which criticizes
the American Medical Association
for opposing the Wagner meas
ure, and for having mo cOnstruc-
tive proposal in this field.
The text of the committees report
follows:
In considering the merits of the
Wagner-Murray- pingall bill for the
extension of Medical Care, the com
mittee of the New Haven Central La
Dor Council first reviewed the need for
such legislation as it exists today and
then examined the provisions of the
bill to ascertain to what degree these
needs will be met. The following is the
result of our investigation.
Present Need for the Extension of
Medical Care
L. At the present time fully one
third of the population of the
U.S.A. do not have the benefits of
adequate medical care. Health is a
national asset and we have seen
from the large number of men re,
Jected by the draft for physical de-
Hciencies the price we are now pay.
ing in ignoring SO long the issue
of medical care.
z No constructive program has been
offered by the American Medical AS
ISOLATION to relieve the present need
tor medical care. In many instances as
tor example occurred in Washington,
ID. C., recently, the American Medical
Association by their attitude and
blocking of cooperative medicine have
indicated their opposition to any plan
which will change the present restric-
tons for increased medical care.
8. The present facilities for medi.
cal care are inadequate to offer any
extension of medical care. Private
prepaid medical plans offer a flu
ture only for the finance companies
and at best can aid an insignificant
PERCENTAGE of the total population
of this country. Hospitals and pri-
vie institutions are being less able
to offer services due to the reduc-
ton in gifts and endOwments from
private sources. This at a time
when they should be expanding ia
cilities and increasing their medical
services.
4. The present basis for the charg-
ing of fees by the Medical Profession
places a heavy burden on one group of
the population all out of proportion to
the actual costs OF medical care.
5. There is an overwhelming need
for bulwark against the anguish and
fear of the financial costs of illness
which contribute to the present ten
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
"Chiseled" $1O5,927
Is Fined Only $4,000

NEW YORK-The old maxim that
Crime doesn't pay scarcely applies
to violations of O. P. A. regulations,
in the light of a sentence melted out
to a price chiseler here this week by
Federal Judge Henry w. Goddard.
Convicted of selling 1908 cases
of tomato paste for a total of $105,-
927.50 in excess of legal ceilings, the
Riverbank Canning Company was let
off with a fine Of $4,000.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
Coopers Union Again
Breaks Into The News

BALTIMORE-One-wee paid va
cations have been granted by the Ma
tional War Labor Board to workers
in the KimballTyler Co. here on APP
plication of the Coopers international
Union (A.FL.). The board said the
proposal was in accord with its policy.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
Consumer To Pay

During February anthracite mine
operators can boost the price of coal
IS cents ton, under an order issued
this week by the Office of Price Ad-
ministration. 1t decreed the hike may
be passed on to consumers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
oass Wagner Murray Bill, Council Says
Self-Explanatory

Mr.. Berard ]. Ceelan, Sec'y
Central Labor Council of
New Haven
l35 COTE Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Dear Mr.. Ceelan:
Thank you very much for
your letter of January 25th
commenting on my statement
regarding Postmaster Walkers
dictatoriaI and arbitrary action
i'm connection with the mailing
rights of Esquire. My mail from
servicemen all over the world
tells me that at least ninety per
cent agree with my action.
Sincerely yours,
Ranulf Compton
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
Skyscraper Cleaners
Win Guaranteed Wage

CHICAGO. = Sl1yscraper window
washers in the Chicago Loop won a
S181.50 monthly guaranteed wage
through Local "a, Building Service
Employees Init. Union (A.F.L.).
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
More Medical Care
Is Greatly Needed
Observation-Disclosures

Passage of the WagnerMurray Dngall Bill before
Congress unanimously asked by the New Haven Central
Labor Council its meeting Thursday. The Councils
acceptance of comprehensive report made by its
Committee Medical Care which consists of Carl c. HO
Musicians No. 1884, chairman ar Burrows, Teachers No.
2O4; and Alfred Murphy, Machinss Elm Lodge 400
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12

Two aspects of veteran character
player Walter Brennan-as himself
and as the indomitable Russian
Vlllager In Samuel Goldwyn's spec
tacular "The North Star" A
grueIling session with the studio
makeup man resulted in his
transformation.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12
Pres. Roosevelt
IsLabor' sChoice
Says Gallup Poll
SO Per Cent Of Democratic
Workers Favor Fourth
Term For F.D.R.

PRINCETON, N. labor is
still overwhelmingly for reelection
of President Roosevelt, analysis of
the most recent Gallup pool
showed.
Most papers tried to give the story
an anti-FDR slant by pointing out
that the Presidents popularity among
union members had dropped few
points in recent months. Question
was: What party would you prefer to
see win the Presidential election this
November?
AFL members voted: Democratic
64%, Republican 800.
Go members voted: Democratic
66%, Republican 1870.
Among those who wanted a Demo-
cratic victory, choices for the nominal
ton showed the following percent
ages:
President Roosevelt ............. 1870
Henry A. Wallace .............. go
James A. Farley .................. go
James F. Byrnes .................. 10
Paul V. McNutt .................... 10
Gen. George C.. Marshall .... 10
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12

sent to the Conn. Congressional
delegation, and the Federal Com
Commission.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12

Mention THE UNION TIMES
when shopping, and help Labor's
Own Paper grow.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-02-12

NNOO QdOdLdTH
uTa LHnOO 3 1HVddIG aLVLS
E1LSMEda SEWN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
The Detroit Time,
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

got to looking up some old photograph records to
send to the army and located wrote myself when
I'm With You, I'm Lonesome"
That's not the story. 1t was wrapped in an old
April a. 1881, newspaper. And there in two-coumn
box right under the plate the front page
article by Cal Coolidge.
Cal had got being president and was con-
valescing rapidly he became coumnist And being
thoroughly copyrighted with all rights reserved he wrote
the charming little Japs:
THE pleasure with which the people will welcome
the brother of the Emperor of Japan, Prince Taamasu
and his wife, Princess Kkuko, will be very deep and
sincere"
If that was written by Cal he should have had his
wrist slapped the hip pockets. If it written
by ghost haunting school for delinquent jerks
Coolidge elected on the slogan, Keep Cool with
Cal" We sure did.
Calls little article the Japanpps proved that writ
ing column is not easy job You cannot go right from
being president to it without any other preparation
From now on / suggest making all exprexies into
directors of life insurance companies Then they
answer talor-made complaints.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
JACK PICKERING

that training will make him a
better officer.
A NYWAY I was saying that
"A OCS is no picnic. It's IL
weeks of the toughest kind OF
training, and when you see a
second lieutenant with his shiny
gold bar and his neatly pressed
uniform, remember that he's
crawled through a lot of mud
and shed a lot of sweat to get
there.
Over at Benning where they'll
transform Brady into an Off
GER, he'll have a lot tougher
time than he had here when it
comes to inspections. A couple
of examples will show you what
I mean.
You know what a cleaning
patch is? It's a two-inch-
square piece of cloth to push
through the bore of your rife.
One Officer Candidate dropped
single thread from the edge
of the patch, and it fell on his
bed. He was gigged for rope
on bed"
Another had a broom straw
Under his bed. That was gig,
too: Log underneath bed" was
what the inspecting officer
called 1t.
I suppose the inspecting Off
GERS have a lot of fun figuring
out what to call a scrap OF lint
or straw: still, this strictness is
what makes officers.
For II weeks, the candidates
will 60 through the same kind
of training that we have here at
Fort Mcclellan, plus a lot more.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
WALTER WUNCHELL b.
On
Broadway

Dictated. Editing for the DEM
mys will be done by Doris Flee
son, John (anti-FDR O'Don-
nell's eX-wife!
The author Jerome Weidmans
the's with London's OVID are
enceinte. She's Peggy Wright,
the reporter
Cynthia Stone. Palm Beach
publicist, wed socialite Court
land Palmer Sat. They'll tepee
at $50 Park.
The Japs are fee-yoo-ree-uss
at some OF our congressman,
who are trying TO take away
their only victory-Pearl Har-
bor-by crediting it TO WASH
ington!
TIIE Late Watch: The Bing
L Crosby program and Carroll
Carroll (who created the de-
lightful formal for the starr
have divided.
It's boy for the 1t. Comdr.
Richard HoldenS (Sue Bosley).
Bill Bendix's playing in
Abroad With Two Yanks" has
won him a long termer with
Ed Small.
Phil Brito's lawyers will sue
his sponsor for emitting him
from their new program. They
had signed him.
Betty Hutton and Boyd Rae
burn are having their own war.
Muriel Morris. who baked at
the altar TO wed Red Shelton,
now says she will marry 1t.
Waller Kane
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
Eaun ENrAuYrH BY
IL AIN LANOOOA Westbrook Pegler

compulsory payments to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's campaign fund
and added nobody is going to
tell me how to vote. My people
have been in this country since
1885"
At that, one of the union Of
ficials said:
"Oh, so you think you are
better than we are"
And Mr.. Hyde made no an
swer.
A few days later, after he
had worked three hours. a BUSH
ness agent put him off the job
and cancelled his union permit.
This means he cannot work
in any other war job under
CLIO control because a man dis
missed for ''ununionlike con-
duct" in one CIO union is
ineligible for membership, or
even temporary status under
permit, in another.
Copyright, 1914. By King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

slice Of humanity. but you can
get all the social significance
your system will absorb with
out ever meeting soon-to-be for
mer Vice President Wallace.
DLEASE let me make clear
L that / have nothing against
social significance as long as 1t
is kept reasonably in its place.
| do not deny President Roose-
welt, nor Gov. Dewey, nor even
Clare Luce-if she feels like it
the right 10 go socially signifi-
cant but I do not want 10 see
Miss Gypsy Rose Lee stop in
the semi-final stages Of strip
tease and tell me the vital issue
of the day is the brotherhood Of
man.
The entertainment field is
particularly guilty. Movie &C
tors sometimes stop talking
about themselves for seconds at
a time to inject gems of thought
on postwar planning.
Capt. Burgess Meredith. who
is married TO Miss Paulette
Goddard. has gotten to the
point where he hardly ever just
chats any more; he lectures.
He almost had 1t. Col. Rex
Smith, the famous magazine
editor, in tears over the poor,
downtrodden. something or other
a few evenings ago. although
1t. Col. Smith could have pulled
rank on him and stopped it.
ND any actor nowadays who
"A plays a socially significant
role is lost beyond redemption.
When Alexander Knox was in
Washington recently he was be-
ing Woodrow Wilson all over
the place and expounding Will
sonian doctrine.
If he always insists on EMU
lating the character he last por-
trayed l hope he never plays
Joan OF Arc because he is due
for a very painful hotfoot.
Washington, naturally, has
social significanters on every
street corner. Every other party
you meet seems concerned with
various phases of it. and also
with international, and some
times even inter-stellar, rela-
tions.
Distributed by Kins Features synd. Inc.
Reproduction In whole OF In part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27

NOW and again the criticism
~ is made of these dispatches
that they are not specific but
general in their condemnation
of oppression of the individual
worker by the union system
which Mr.. Roosevelt built up as
a political auxiliary OF his party.
General charges are protested.
but, on the other hand, specific
cases when they are presented
in detail are minimized as tri-
fling irregularities, painful to
the individual victim but inevi-
table in a system embracing
millions of workers.
At the risk of evoking the lat
ter answer, should like to pre-
sent, nevertheless, the case OF
an American worker on the
San Francisco docks as he told
it TO me during my brief visit
there with Gov. Dewey's cam
paign party.
II is one that could be multi
Piled by thousands and / would
point out, moreover. that the de-
NAL of political freedom and
freedom of speech inherent in
this case affects millions of
American citizens.
The man identified himself as
L. X. Hyde, until recently a
clerk employed to check car
goes going into ships bound for
the war in the Pacific.
MIR. HYDE was a member Of
Nl the Ship Clerks Associa-
ton, a subsidiary of the long
shoremen's union of the Go,
whose president is Harry
Bridges, the Australian Com
muniSt.
Incidentally, Mr.. Hyde. like
many other Americans, has been
compelled to pay two assess
ments of 81 each for the de
tense fund" for Bridges,
although Bridges defense was
conducted by the Communists
employing the services of their
own legal experts and there
would appear to have been only
negligible expenses.
On Sept. II, Mr.. Hyde re-
-eeiped a letter from the exeeH-
tive committee of his local Or
dering him to appear at
the next meeting and answer
charges of "un-unionlike con-
duct" on the job.
Mr.. Hyde appeared and was
charged with having declared
his intention to give S. "a, Tom
Dewey's campaign fund because
he had received two notices af
assessments of 81 each for Mr..
Roosevelt's campaign fund, COL
lected by Sidney Hillmans Po-
litical Action Committee. the
current guise Of the Communist
party.
MR.. HYDES defense seems
Nl TO have been dispirited and
desultory. He merely said he
was opposed 10 the collection OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
By DR.. Logan
Clendening

skeletal defects" the figures for
which / have not seen broken
down. / presume ii would in
clude cases Of residual paralysis
from old polio-myelitis, stiff
joints from old fractures. arth-
rltls. amputations, healed osteo-
myelitis, tortieollis. etc.-about
which group in the majority OF
instances the same thing can
be said--the defects do not
prevent efficient work in civil
life. nor seriously impair future
health.
CTILL another group Of nearly
~ half a million includes con-
ditions that are preventable-
tuberculosis Cl07,OO0), syphilis
(286. 000). gonorrhoea $4,000
and other infections and para
site diseases (4.000). These
would be prevented in civilized
country where the intensive
cultivation Of the health of the
entire population was the obi
cation and trust of the medical
profession.
There remains one large
group about which the possibili-
ties are more speculative. These
are the diseases of the circu-
lation. the heart and blood ves-
sells which made up 26l 500 Of
the rejected.
In the age group examined,
IS 10 81. it can be assumed that
most Of these cardio-vascular
defects are due TO rheumatic
heart disease.
THE rheumatic heart group
L by its numerical preponder-
ance engages our attention and
the question arises how pre-
ventable is this serious and Grip
ping menace 10 youth. For il is
that. To rheumatic heart dis
ease cannot be applied what
was said Of other defects that
II does not constitute a threat
10 health Many of these pa
tients can work during their
early years, but in all Of them
after the age of 30, and GER
tainly OF 40. serious and more
or less permanent impairment
OF health is the rule.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27

Love is getting more wide
awake every day. The fact that
over 200 colleges have been CIV
ing courses on lovemaking and
how to fall in love with the
right person, and in the right
way so it will stick, including
how to treat a lover, wife or
husband is gratifying.
2-To a considerable extent.
yes. Millions of tests show that
fast thinking parents have more
fast thinking children than do
slow thinking parents. There
must of necessity be exceptions.
This explains why commonplace
parents may have child who
is a genius while brilliant par
ents sometimes have a dull or
predetermined child.
3 Psychologist J. +. Janney,
Western University at Cleve-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27

boosting the infantry in the
Pacific all during the war.
4 YOUNG woman of Manhat-
"A tan wants TO know how
many bachelors the war has
taken out of circulation,
All we know is that 66 per
cent of the U. S. armed forces
are bachelors.
Incidentally Is per cent OF
the WACs are married women
and this percentage is rapidly
increasing.
The WACs get first crack at
all those army bachelors.
There's an idea for young
WON c n seeking matrimonial
mates.
Just Join the WACs and mat
rimonial opportunity will. knock
at your door daily.
SIDES-Pennsylvanian says
"A the fastest trolley trip in
the country is on the line from
Pittsburgh to Mckeesport. He
says the cars on this route do
from so to so miles per hour.
-. Saw a snappy looking young
old-timer stepping along the
avenue today. He was wearing
a derby hat, carrying a cane
and had a carnation in his
lapel.
I'll bet he remembers when
Edna May was the toast OF
Broadway and you could get
two fine roast beef or ham
sandwiches tossed in as free
lunch
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
Letters From
A Soldier

They'll work all day and Their
have compulsory study periods
in the evening until 8, and then
they'll have an hour or so to
clean rifles. wash clothes, shave
write letters home and what
ever else you can cram into go
minutes.
CPL. DAVE HENARD is over
~ there, and / got a letter
from him today. "Only Sc more
days." he wrote. They've been
getting some training that
sounds very interesting, work.
ing with dogs, for one thing, and
firing anti-tank guns for an
other.
I'd like to see some of these
war dogs at work. They can
spot enemy patrols as much as
two or three hundred yards
away, and I've heard of one case
of a dog giving an alarm after
spotting an enemy patrol clear
over on the opposite side Of a
hill.
But besides that, they get
their rifle fire, they get their
drill, their marches, their biv-
ouacs. They get their physical
training and first aid practice,
and their feet hurt and they get
so sleepy they can hardly keep
their eyes open at lecture
periods. And some of them are
flunked out, and the ones who
pass have really gone through
something.
So, if anybody wants to know
whether /, at my age, resent
being required to salute shave
tail lieutenants who are 10 years
or more younger than I am
the answer is definite. I do not
resent it. They've earned the
bars on their shoulders, and I
respect them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27

AN EPIDEMIC of social Sig
"A nificance seems 10 have
broken out all over the coun-
try. If not the world, and /
wish l could discover a specific
10 cure II.
The most unlikely people. in
the most unlikely places. go So
cially significant before you can
stop them. They don't even rat
tie three times in warning. The
first thing you know they have
struck. and you are kept busy
removing pieces of splintered
fang for week after.
You don't have 10 move
among political pundits TO get
il. The menace turks every
where. would not be surprised
if our neighbor's year-old infant
came crawling in some evening
TO inform us that life Is grim
and life is earnest.
l hate 10 say this. because il
seems like indicting too large a