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Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
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Eureka" cried Mr.. Dilworth, "Iye
found HIM At last we have a man who
can lead the country out Of this morass
of bureaucracy and socialism"
Who's it this time, Pope" asked Little
Luther, YEARLY.
'sewell Avery, son. And mark my
words, he'll go down in history as the
man who s~inglehanded defied a pack of
New Dealers and saved the fair name Of
private enterprise. Did you notice how
he stood up to them?"
It dunno" said Little Luther, shaking
his head. I'm the picture I saw OF him
he was sitting down-between two SOL
diers."
Luther, I don't like your tone" his
father complained. "a man like SeweIl
Avery deserves your respect and inter
est"
isn't he satisfied with the interest
on his 100000 shares in Montgomery
Ward?"
That's not the point, Luther Mr.
Dilworth snapped. Besides, you're for
getting that he's also a stakeholder If
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22

U. S. Gypsum. U. S. Steel, Armour g.
Co.. and Pure Oil. Why, do you realize,
son. that Mr.. Avery is the only man in
America today who's preventing the gov
eminent from taking over the corner
grocery store?"
HAS Mr.. Zilch begun smashing unions,
too?" asked Little Luther, turning pale.
NO, Luther. I was simply using that
to illustrate the great danger the ma
tons little businessmen are faced with
from those wild-haired revolutionaries
in Washington"
rs Mr.. Biddle letting his hair grow,
Pop9"
"Never mind your sassiness," warned
Mr.. Dilworth. "One of these days the
whole country will be singing Mr.. Ayery's
praises"
you mean like this, Pop?" said Little
Luther, singing this song as he marched
upstairs to bed:
Oh, sewelrs become big business
savior.
You can see it all in his defiant be-
havicr
While Biddle and Davis gasp at his
bravery
on, busting a union he's not a bi
wavery.
He'd love to lead us down the roac
to slavery
If only we'd let him, but We won't
Mr.. AyerTl
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22

Labor is already Disseminated against
under the code of the National Assocla-
ton of BrOadcasters on the ground that
any program it broadcasts is 'cOntrover-
sial." 1t is supposed to receive occasion
al free time on this account, at the whlm
of radio companies.
But if labor programs having no
direct connection with elections are
to be considered political" as well
as Controversial" this means that
even free time will not be granted for
them-leaving labor only the right to
buy time at the higher political rates
for an occasional campaign speech.
Even when free time has been granted
in the past, on the ground that a labor
program is controversial and so not
entitled to paid time, there has been an
increasing tendency by some radio COM
panies to object to program content on the
very ground that j. is controversial!
Repeated objections have also been
made to labor programs with are dramatic
in character, using actors, music, etc, to
attract radio listeners who will not listen
to a straight speech.
While labor has been more and
more restricted in it's freedom of
speech over the air, big business in
terests have suffered no similar re-
strictions.
They are free to sponsor common
tators who daily propaganda
against labor, against the admins
tration and against progressive pc
litical policies, and to use all the arts
of dramatization and entertainment
on their programs.
About the only legal recourse labor has
at present against all these discrimina-
lions is to appeal to the Federal Commu.
nications Commission against renewal O
licenses to stations that practice them, OF
the ground such stations are not operated
Gin the public interest. THE CLIO News
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22

license during the time they are home
on furlough.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED tnat we
go on record opposing any increase in
the price Of hunting and fishing licenses
as is now advocated by certain indiyidu-
ais.
BE TT FURTHER RESOLVED that we
go on record asking Organized Labor and
sportsmen to endorse this Resolution by
expressing their sentiments directly to
the State Fish and Game Commission
Very truly yours,
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
SPORTSMAN'S ASSN.
GARFIELD BISHOP, Chairman,
Board Of Directors
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
OPEN LETTER

Following is an open letter to Attorney
General r. V. Bottomly n also a reso-
luton adopted by the Rocky Mountain
Sportsman's Association:
Dear Mr.. Bottomly:
Attached please find copy Of resolu-
ton which we are mailing to all Labor
and sportsman's organizations which il
self explanatory.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-22
A. z. Anderson Files
For L~epislature

A. E. Anderson, candidate Tor the
Legislature on the Democratic ticket, has
a very liberal background, having been
connected with the progressive move
ment and thought for many years He
is a student Of social and economic ques-
lions and firmly believes that humanity
! can create a better social ordr.
Mr.. Anderson was a candidate for
state treasurer four years ago. He lives
at 2S14 Silver Bow Boulevard. Mr.. An
derson's slogn is: Il will serve no in
~terests but those of the people"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Big Task Awaits U. s.

Washington, Dec. 1-(UP)-The tremendous task awaiting American forces in the Far East was outlined by the Office of War Information today in a report estimating that Japan already has 4,O00. .000 men in the field and can easily muster an- other 100000.
 Japanese strength in China alone was placed at 10000, 900 troops, indi- eating the minimum number of AL lied soldiers that may be needed in that theater alone after Germany is defeated.
 Since Pearl Harbor, OWI said, U. S. Troops have killed at least 277,- 900 Japanese at a cost of 21,00c American dead-a ratio of better than 13 to l. But with at least four millions still under arms, Japan is far from any desperate manpower problem, OWI said in detailed re- port based on War Department in- formation.
 Even today" OWI reported, "the War Department says the Japanese can equip and train 100000 more soldiers without seriously affecting war-production manpower reserves. This figure does not include the added millions Who might be ''re- cruited' from subject nations"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
RAF Rounds Out Week Of Steady BIitz

London, Dec. 1-(UP)-RAF heavy boinbers poured hundreds of tons of explosives and fire bombs into the Rhine Ruhr transport center of Duisburg last night, rounding out 8 week of purishing, nonstop bombardment against the German army'S forward lines of supply.
 A smaller, diversionary force stab- bed at Hamburg, while RAF night fighters and intruder formations supported the big bombers and carried out a number of harassing attacks on Nazi fighter stations in western Germany. At least two Ger man planes were shot down. Four British planes were lost.
 Returning fliers reported that their bombs started huge fires in Duisburg, g major harbor and com- munications hub at the western end of Germany's industrial Ruhr val ley.
 The night assault followed ser ies of widespread daylight blows by upwards of 5000 American and British warplanes against Ger many's dwindling oil reserves and the Nad rail system in the west More than 1,250 U. s. 9th Air Force bombers, covered by over 1000 fight CTS, hit four oil plants in the Leip- (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
7 Killed When IVA
 Plane Crash Lands

Los Angeles Dec. 1. (UP)-A tranScontinental and Western Air lines plane bound for New York crashed today as it glided in for a landing at the Burbank airport, killing seven of the g passengers and crew.
 Among the passengers were Mayor Hartley Knox of San Diego, who was not hurt seriously, and Walter w. Cooper, San Diego City man. ager, who died a short time after the crash.
 Knox said the plane appeared to be headed for a normal landing about 3 a. m. when it went into a dive. The mayor saved himself from more serious injury by shielding his face with pillow.
 John billiard, seaman 1-c, another passenger, said he awoke with a start, feeling that the plane was skimming over water.
 T guess we were pulling over the tops of trees" he said.
 Then we slammed down in the open field"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

Boston, Dec. i-(UP) - Postwar planners in every country are pre- pairing Q world based on the very ideclogies against which American armies are fighting. President Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board charged today.
 Keynoting the 2eth annual meet ing Of the Associated Industries oi Massachusetts pr. Jordan said European and Asiatic statesmen are building their postwar world on the foundations of national socialism.
 "(They) assume it as an imperas tive condition for their nnccoss that this country he brought within tho same system permanently after the war" he asserted.
 @After t2 years of exposure. c large part of organized labor and og the business community, co well as the press and our educational
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Nozis Press Neur Bologna

Rome. Dec. 1.-(UP)-A Ger1iaakE attack launched against the Fzftl3 Army front south of Bologna moved into its second day today with @eN tremely heavy" fighting reported south of Mount CastelalrO, which the Nazis captured yesterday, 70 miles southeast of the city.
 During the night the Germans made small attack, supported by artillery and mortars. in the vicin@ ity of Mount Belmonte but were re- pulsed, headquarters said.
 East of Faenza Eighth Arrny troops gained some ground between. the Lamone and Montone rivers.
 Elsewhere on the Italian iron ~ was generally quiet.
 An air communique aaid bad weather hampered operations yester= day and kept heavy bombers groundr ed.
 Medium bombers and fighters and fighter bombers of the Mcdztefs ranean Allied Air Force dew fever than 800 stories. hitting comna'nlt cations in the northern 20 Valley bridges east fo Milan and targets & Yugoslavia and Albania. Four niEe craft were reported missing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Early New Years For Restaurants

Waterbury members of the Con- necticut Restaurant and Liquor Dealers Association have agreed not to remain open after D. m. New Years eve, this year, it was an- nounced today by Harmon Genlot, publicity director for the associa- ton.
 New Years eve falls on Sun day this, year confining its cele- bration to the hours after midnight. However, members of the associa- tion have agreed not to take ad- vantage of the recent ruling of the States Attorney General that the bars may be re-opened from 12 midnight to a. m Monday morn- ing, on New Years day, following their standard Sunday closing from g D. m. to midnight.
 It is the belief of the members, according to MT. Genlot, that the early closing hour will be beneficial to the production program of local (COntinued on Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01

The transport was enroute to New York from San Francisco.
 The crash occurred in the Van NuyS area, only short distance from the old Los Angeles Metropli- tan airport.
 Airline officials said they had no indication of what caused the crash. Police officers said the craft did not explode and there apparently was no fire.
 The ship crashed in muddy field only few blocks from its scheduled landing place and few minutes after radio contact reporting everything normal.
 Residents of the area said the airliner clipped a patch of trees and was demolished as it nosed into the ground.
 Ambulance attendants said the deep mud may have accounted for the fact that 16 persons came out alive.
 Attendants at a mortuary, where the bodies were taken, said all the victims were men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Storm Does
 Big Damage

Boston, Dec. 1-(UP) - storm warnings were hoisted for winds of 50 to 60 miles an hour from Block Island, R. l.. to Passport, Me, today and the weather bureau forecast sub-freezing weather on the heels of semi-tropical stor mthat lashed New England for nearly 24 hours and caused millions of dollars dam- age to waterfront property.
 The warnings were displayed for westerly winds which were expect ed to diminish slowly today and to- night as cold masses of air moved into the region.
 Temperatures were due to fall to as low as 12 degrees in some sec- tions with Massachusetts due for a low of IS degrees tonight.
 More than 300 persons were made homeless by the gusty gale which piled surging seas ashore in many towns, particularly in the Cape Cod area which suffered heavily in the hurricane that took 30 lives in New England Sept. l6.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
King Calls For Debote

Ottawa, Dec. 1 - (UP) = Prime Minister Mackenzie King called for full parliamentary debate today on all angles of his order-in council to conscripJ Canadian youth for overseas combat duty.
 Rejecting suggestion that House of Commons debate on the issue be curtailed to hasten a vote of con- fidence in his government, King said he could not attempt to sin fringe" the parliamentary rights of members.
 Consequently. dozens of French speaking liberals were expected to get on record today disappearing the conscription measure but sup porting Kings leadership. The con- 1ldence vote, predicted earlier as forthcoming today, may be delayed.
 It still was possible, however, that, 0 motion would be offered to keep the house in session over the weekend to clean up the conscrip- ton controversy and terminate the session. Commons customarily Is ad- journed Friday until Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
3 Big Strikes Sharply Cut Production
(Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto)

Detroit, Dec. 1 = (U.P.1 = Three major strikes sharply curtailed pro- duction of aircraft assemblies and engines today and the thinning sup ply of parts threatened production at still other plants.
 Ignoring pleas by union leaders, nearly 10000 rank-and-f1le mem bers of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) refused to end work Stoppages for the third day at the B-29 Super-Fortresses department of Chrysler Corporation, Dodge Main Plant, Briggs Manufacturing Company, Mack Plant and Graham Paige Motor Corporation.
 The Dodge strike of 1900 em- ployes curtailed output of B-29 en- zine parts here and 200 quit work at the Sprawling Dodge plant at Chicago, where parts are assembled into the 23,000-horse power engine.
 Officials said that stoppage may spread if flow of materials is not resumed from the Detroit plant.
 All three strikes involved senior- ity provisions contained in JAW CIO contracts.
 Briggs 4,O00 employees protested against what they said was com- pany demotion of several foremen to production jobs with plant-wide seniority instead of top seniority in their respective departments. The company countered that such de- motions, necessitated by cutbacks in production, were provided for in the union contract.
 The Dodge dispute concerned the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Boy Dies Of Mysterious Shot

Pittsfield. Mass, Dec. 1-(UP)- Edward Sembonetti, 13, of Lee died at a hospital here today of a bullet wound mysteriously inflicted in the family garage last night.
 Medical Examiner George S. Wick ham said the boy was discovered wounded in the head late last night when his father went to the garage for the car to look for the lad. A ssvolver was found nearby, but Dr. Rickham said there were no pow- Ser marks on the child.
 Investigators said the fact that the bullet stopped in his head inc dlcated that the shot was not fired from close range or that the bullet Ticocheted. Ownership of the re- volver was not determined.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Fort Raids Worry Jops

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 1.--(UP)-ln- ceasing Japanese concern over the American superfortress raids on Toyko was see ntoday in fourth enemy attempt to bomb the bases on Saipan and Tinian from which the B-29S take off for the capital.
 The Japanese sent a small force of bombers over the two islands in the Marianas Tuesday in their lat est attack, but caused ''nodamage,' Admiral Chester w. Nmitz an- nounced in a communique yester- day.
 one enemy bomber was shot shot down and another probably de- stroyed.
 Nimitz also reported that 1900 fanatically resisting Japanese troops were killed on Peleliu Island in the southern Palaus from October 20 to November 26 by the 8lSt Army Di- vision. which took over from mar ines when cracked enemy resistance on the island. Another 142 Japan eSe were taken prisoners.
 American losses during the period were 92 killed, 622 wounded and five missing, Nirnitz said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Lady Astor To Retire

London. Dec. 1.-(UP)-Virginia- born Lady Astor, first woman to Sit in parliament, will retire at the expiration of her current term, 1t was revealed today.
 She disclosed her intention not to seek reelection in a letter signed jointly by her and her husband. Lord Astor, on the 18th anniversary of the day she first took her seat.
 The letter said Lord Astor no longer physically able to support her in a contested campaign and it would be difficult for Lady Astor to stand again without his help" Lord Astor, 65, retired last month as Lord Mayor of Plymouth after holding the post an unprecedented five years.
 Lady Astor will continue to sit in parliament for at least another year, however. The life of the pres ent parliament was extended an- othre year last month because Of the war. There has been no gen. eral election for nine years.
 She long ago won fame for her outSpokenness, both inside and out side parliament, on the subjects Of women's rights and prohibition. At a party in honor of her 25 years in parliament yesterday, she said 1t would be a "crying shame" If wo- men were not given their rightful place in the peace and reconstruc- ton after the war.
 The text of the joint letter of Lord and Lady Astor follows:
 'Last winter, after the strain of five years of war with it's numer- ous heavy responsibilities. Lord Astor informed Lady Astor that he did not feel at his age physically able to go through another con- tested election.
 Lady Astor and he fought seven
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Plan To Repeal Johnson Act WEI Arouse Congress

Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson advised q House Committee yesterday that several foreign gov. ernments had requested post-war loans and that the administration desired repeal of the Johnson act, among other things, to make such possible.
 The Johnson act was passed April i3, 1884. It forebade flotation in the United States of new loans in this country by foreign governments ln default on obligations to the United statog. Johnson Intended the act to be considerably broader than the form in whiel it finally passed aa the senator pRo7oaeo it, the oct would have forbidden loans to govs ernments and governmental subdi-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Quick Trials Needed For
 Wor Guilty

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 1--(uP)-- Hitler and other Nazi war crim- inals should be brought to trial as soon as possible after the fall of Germany and, if convicted, should be sentenced to death or long-term imprisonment at hard labor. pr. Sheldon Glueck, Harvard crimin- ologist, declares in his book "War Criminals: Their Prosecution and Punishment" published today.
 Delaying prosecution would invite legal complications and result in loss of public interest. according to Dr. Glueck who served on the commission on trial and punish ment of war criminals of the Lon- don International Assembly.
 No greater historic mistake can be made than to repeat the fatuous policy of the Allied and associated powers at the close of World War r., he said. ''The militaristic dis ease is so dangerous to the health and life of the peace-loying peoples of our modern shrunken globe that political quarantine of paranoidly i'll nations, until they give unmistakable signs of recovery, has become an indispensable meas ure of international public hygiene and safety"
 One of the most serious Nazi crimes, pr. Glueck said, is the use of prohibited methods" of warfare such as the robot bomb, the em- ployment of which shows "a delib- crate determination to violate all conventional and customary laws of warfare that protect Red Cross and hospital installations, churches,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
TANKS OPEN THUNDER0US BATTLES T0 DETERMINE FATE OF RUHR AND SAAR
Destruction Of Industry In These Valleys Would
 Cripple Nazi War Machine
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY

BY J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War Correspondent
 Paris, December l. - (UPl American forces ramlned up to the shell-swept banks of the rivers Roer and Saar today in the thunderol1s opening of battles to deternl- inc the fate of the vital NazI war industries of the Ruhr and the Saar whose capture or destruction would deprive the Wehrmacht of the weapons it must have to stay in the war.
 TWO great battles in which American infantry men were dying for each yard of soil wrested from the Ger mans were in progress.
 One lay along a broadening eight-mile toehold on the west bank of the Roer river where troops of the Ninth Army seized two villages out- side Linnich on the open plains before Cologne.
 The stcond was being fought amid the dragons teeth and concrete ano steel pillboxes of the Stegfried hne on It. Gen. George s. Patton E | Third Army front. Patton's arm0ren troops in bloody fighting hurled the Nazis back to the east side of the muddy Saar river on an eight-mile sector centering around the Sleg- fried bastion of Merzig, five miles inside Germany on the rim of the Saar basin.
 On the eastern banks of both the Roer and the Saar the Germans ;l massed artillery in such coneenFxaa tions that their fire churnea pQs rivers to foam and ratned d0sn 4'a the American-held west banks IT torrents of steel.
 On the Ninth and First Army fronts where the Germans face fne gravest threat to their vital war plants the whole front was splat- tered by action and counter actl0n- : American attcaks were followed by almost immediate Na1 counter thrusts and control of the rubhle- Utterly villages and towns sWayed back and forth indecisively. The Ninth Army asSiled LAnnlcn the northern anchor of the Hoel river line, 27 miles west of Cologne and 26 miles from Dusseldorf, and poured hundreds of rounds ol ar tillery shells into Juichc, sinlilal bastion six miles southeast. Nazi reports claimed their coun- ter-thrusts had thrown the Amer jeans back in the Linnich sectol and farther south on the F1fsl Army front in the area west q Hurtgen forest. The Nazis claimed the First Army losses since tli' start of the offensive had reache< 30,OO0 dead.
 All along the Ninth and Frs Army fronts there was some Of tnG most blazing artillery action Of tn war.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
Destroyer And Jop Submorine 1 Hove SIusfest
RY RALPH TEATsORTH

Limited Press War CorrespOndentt
 Aboard American Destroyer off Leyte. Nov. 28-(UP)-ThiS "can" got the opportunity today that every Pacific destroyer man hopes fora surface slugfest with a Jap aneSe Submarine-and in Is minutes of blazing action reduced the Nip ponese navy by one undersea craft.
 I was aboard during the battle, the first of the Leyte campaign be- tween destroyer and an enemy submarine.
 The destroyer charged straight at the submarine, her guns blazing all the way, while the enemy guns fired directly at the speeding streak of steel
 At the end there was only an oil slicked sea wit ha handful of Jap anese floundering in the water.
 The Japanese quit shooting when their deck was swept clean and there was nothing left to fire. The submarine lost all personnel except the few who were on deck and were left in the water. Not single casualty occurred on the destroyer nor on other warships accompany ing her.
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