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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Legislative
Meets Feb.
Ward Groups To Bulwark
Labor's Political Program
AWill Help Get Out
Vote Election Day

A program of activity ON
the Legislative and political
fronts which will extend
through next NOvember's state
and national elections was an
nOunced today by the United
Labor Legislative Conference
of Greater New Haven. The
Conference consists of the
ALL, Clio. and railroad
unions in the Third Congress
siOnal District.
The first undertaking of the
Conference is the formulation of
concrete plans for the establish
ment of ward committees con-
sisting of trade unionists and
friends of labor, which will be
responsible for ward political
action and getting out the vote
this fall. A committee has been
appointed to draft plans for this
program, and has been instructed
to make its first report at the
meeting of the executive board
to be held at 100 Church Street,
on Tuesday, Jan. II, at 8 P. M.
This committee consists of Har-
old V. Feinmark, president of the
New Haven Central Labor Council,
chairman; Joseph Morris, AmaIga-
mated Silver Workers, ALL,
WallingfOrd; L Onard Reed,
Freight Handlersx John ]. Murphy,
Bro. of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen; and Theodore O'COn-
nor, and Doris SchlOssberg, repre-
senting the Clio.
A full meeting of ali locals affiliated
with the Conference has been called
for the second Thursday in February
(Feb. 100 at the New Haven Labor
Temple at 8 P. M. Each affiliated 10
cal is entitled to one delegate. This
Conference will pass on the plans for
intensive political action to be pre-
scented by the executive board; and
will have presented to it set of by
laws which will govern the conduct
and activities of the organization.
The committee which is drawing up
the bylaws consists of A. Simon,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
CLIO; Saul Friedler, Typographical
Union; Bernard Geelan, Retail Cigar
Clerks Union, and Saul Kreas,
Painters Union, No. 1856, both ALL;
and John ]. Murphy.
On the legislative front, the ex-
ecutive board of the Conference
has instructed Secretary Kreas to
send letters to COnnecticut's Con-
gressmen and Senators urging them
to vote for the Lynch Bill, which
would make it criminal Offense to
use the mails to distribute anti
racial and anti-religiOus propagan-
da; to support subsidies; and to
support legislation which will make
it possible for all soldiers to vote
in this years election.
The executive board voted to
call upon us. Senators Francis Ma
lOney and John A. Danaher to vote
to limit debate on the anti-pOu
tax bill, in order to prevent a fill
buster by Southern pOll-tax Sena-
tors.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
More Trucks And
Aircraft For 1914


Observation-Disclosures workers in
1914 will be called upon to meet
greatly increased demands in GER
ain vital phases of Army require
ments, while production levels in
other items are reduced to meet the
changing needs of a fighting force
that has shifted from the defensive to
an about offensive, the War Depart
ment announced.
Emphasizing growing requirements
for aircraft, heavy trucks, artillery
ammunition, steel for heavy construc-
ion of new bases and bridgeheads and
Signal Corps equipment, the War De-
partment pointed out that production
in these fields must be speeded up.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Italian Workers In
Turin, Genoa Strike

Washington-Italian works. in Tu-
rim, Genoa and Milan paraded the
streets with banners demanding high
er wages, according to a British
broadcast reported by Owl. A num-
Der were arrested, but when the jails
were filled the factory management
began negotiations resulting in in
creaSeS of 80 per cent to those receiv-
ing less than 200 lire monthly, IS per
cent for those getting over 200 lire.
Those arrested in Turin and Genoa
were released after their comrades
threatened to strike.
The broadcast concluded with a re-
minder that the great strikes Of Tu-
rim and Milan launched the series of
events which led to the fall of Musso-
lini.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Suggestion" Bonus
Plan Is Approved

PHILADELPHIA-Asu suggestion
box bonus plan for the Jacobs Air
craft Engine Co., Pottstown, Pa,
employing 5000 workers, has been
approved by the Regional War Labor
Board.
The plan involves payments from
$3.50 to 500, retroactive to March
IS, depending upon the value of the
suggestion. Also approved was pay
ment of 1910 of the estimated saw
ing. tor a year on any suggestion
which will save the company sub
Stantial sums.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Green Gives Stand
Of Am. Federation
On Frozen Wages
Asks Why Workers Wages Contribute To lnation And
Profits Do Not-Says Freezing" Has Lowered Living
Standards, And Asks For Economic Justice
By William Green,
President, American Fedora
ton of Labor

For the first time in the expert
ence of America, industry and Ia
Dor are not free to determine
Jointly rates of pay for services
given. Workers have accumulated
experience i'm getting rates which
fairly measure their contributions
to Joint production and have es-
tablished procedures for accom-
pIishing that purpose within the
capacity of industry to pay. When
workers gave the government their
no-strike pledge, they voluntarily
laid aside their reserve reliance in
getting fair wages. For their pro-
lection a board was set up to adj
just disputes.
AS war production expanded and
took over larger proportions of pro-
duction facilities, production of con-
sumner goods dropped accordingly,
while national income increased to
new peaks. Millions more were en-
ployed and earning incomes reached
a number higher than at any previous
time. OPA developed the theory that
consumer incomes in excess of goods
and services available constituted an
inhationary gap and began urging
the freezing of wage rates as an aid
to price control and rationing in the
prevention of runaway imitation. OPA
failed to recognize the fact that work
ers, like all patriotic and prov1dent
persons, wanted to purchase their
share of war bonds and to pay debts
which they had incurred.
The wage freezing formula in
use does not compensate workers
for higher costs of living which
OPA has failed to prevent. Wages
are fashioned according to for
mula which relies upon an index
of retail prices. The index, inaccu-
rateIy named a cost-of-living index.
does not measure costs of living or
increases i'm costs of living. 1t meas.
ures initiation in retail prices and
reflects changes i'm costs of living
insofar as the worker buys the ar
ticles. Costs of living are individ'
uaI and do not necessarily vary
with prices because individuals
may change their buying habits.
Workers incomes are not lnha-
tionary unless spent in way thai
contributes to imitation. Wage in
creases spent for bonds, to pay debts
to buy more insurance and to pay
for medical services, dental bills and
the many other services of which
their families have had too little are
expenditures of constructive benefit
to the whole nation. Since employ
ers have the funds to pay the wage
increases, workers are at loss to
understand why the funds are not as
likely to be infationary when in the
possession Of wealthy corporations
and employers as when in the pos.
session of worker. Many an employ
err has made an infationary invest
ment.
For millions of wage-earners the
freezing of wage rates means
lowering of living standards for the
worker and his family below wha
is necessary for good health and
self-respect. Wage-earners have {
right to a fair share of what they
help to produce. Such right il
the crux of economic Justice.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
As We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

REPORTS out of Germany say
that Hitler didn't celebrate Christ
mas this time. He doesn't believe
in Santa Claus.
No wonder! The way things
have been going lately, he prob
ably doesn't even believe i'm Ma
tiOnal Socialism.
HERE is how the Harrisburg
(Pa.) EUening Nes0s headlined the
apple crop situation i'm Adams
County, Pennsylvania:
LARGE DECREASE FOUND
IN ADAMS APPLE YIELD
WHISKY boarding is going on
all over the u. S., according to
charges made against distillers,
wholesalers, distributors and i'm
porters by state liquor authorities.
The liquor industry denies the
charge, blaming shortages on the
government.
One thing is certain. It's the
producers who profit = with the
skyrOcketing black market prices
they are able to get now, paIming
all their inferior stock off on long
suffering thirsty customers.
BUTTER is going to cost lie and
possibly &c more a pound from
now on i'm all small Independent
stores. The OPA has allowed a
special jObber markup of 2Ac a
pound for deliveries to these stores.
But such a small price increase
doesn't satisfy the producers. At a
recent meeting in Chicago of the
American Butter Institute, General
Manager Owen M. Richards of the
American Dairy Association de-
manded an end to price control and
ratiOning because, he said. s'shar-
ing scarcity goes against the ''tra-
ditiOnal business methods of Amer
ica."
KING PETERS Yugoslav govern
ment-in-exile, wintering in Cairo,
has issued statement calling Mar.
shall Tito and his fighting partisans
''imposters."
Well bet Hitler wishes it were
true.
DEFEAT marked the first at.
tempt by a large corporation to take
advantage of the recent Supreme
Court decision permitting employ.
ers to issue broadsides against un.
ions under the cloak of ''free
speech" The decision was based ON
a New Haven case-the LAM. VS..
The American Tube Bending Co.
On the eve of an election among
its 1000 employees, the Botany
WOrsted Mills of Passaic, N. j..
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
I.L.G.W.U. ASKS RAISE

NEW YORK-The Init. Ladies
Garment Workers Union (AFL) has
opened negotiations for 1919 pay in
creases in excess of the Little Steel
formula for $4,000 members in $500
New York City dress factories. The
union also demanded that new con-
tracts include an anti-inhation clause
based on an "escalator" principle peg
ging wages to the cost of living.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Freedom Of Choice On
Jobs For War Veterans

WASHINGTON - Despite any
priorities set up in local employment
sterilization plans, all honorably dis
charged members of the armed forces
will be allowed to take jobs of their
own choosing, War Manpower Com
sioner Paul V. McNutt announced
this week.
The same freedom of choice will be
given veterans for 90 days after they
have accepted their first job, he said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
LET'S HOPE so!

MONTREAL = The international
Labor Office has voiced the conviction
that postwar employment, can be pro
vided for all who wish to work. 1t ap-
pealed for immediate national plan
ming to make jobs available in the
transition to peace economy.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

KING PETERS Yugoslav govern
ment-in-exile, wintering in Cairo,
has issued statement calling Mar.
shall Tito and his fighting partisans
''imposters."
Well bet Hitler wishes it we're
true.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
China's Triple Seven

accomplish throughout the past seven
years.
If this is done, the heroic and
costly war which China has con.
Quoted against Japan for seven years
will have been III vain, and our re-
cent observance of the anniversary
of that gallant resistance will have
been mockery.
For various and obvious reasons,
the reinforcement and arming and
strengthening of China are difficult
tasks.
They are, however, essential and
vital tasks.
UNLESS THEY ARE PER
FORMED PROMPTLY AND AIDE
QUATELY, CHINA'S PARTICI-
PATTON IN THE WAR MUST
SOON END.
Then we will be foreclosed against
any land assault against Japan from
China.
Then we will very likely be fore.
closed against any further air attacks
against Japan from land bases in
China
Then, in fact, we alone will in our
turn be compelled to fight Japan.
s.
THESE are the ominous considera-
l. tions which should have been IN
the minds of the American people as
they, in all enthusiasm and apprecia-
ton, observed China s triple seven
anniversary.
They were most surely uppermost
in the minds Of our Chinese .Ameri-
cans.
We have amply shown that we
have abundant sympathy and respect
for China.
We are under pressing obligation
to ourselves as we'll as to the Chi
nese-to make our armed assistance
equally abundant, and the time for
that is growing desperately short.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14

THE Chinese residents of the
l. United States, with the enthusias
tic and appreciative co operation of
the American people as whole, con-
Quoted appropriate observance on
Friday, July 7, of the seventh ami,
versary of China s war against Japan.
This was the seventh day of the
seventh month of the seventh year
of Chinas continuing war, and was
accordingly and most appropriately
called the triple seven observance.
Chinese Americans, and indeed
all Americans, have good cause for
enthusiasm and appreciation for
China's long and costly struggle.
TT is war which China was com
i PEELED to fight alone for many bit
ter years.
IL has exacted expenditures of
japanese manpolDer and resources
in China Which otherwise Would
haze been utilized against the United
States.
It has cost China her most useful
and productive territories, and mil
lions of lives.
The capacity of China to stay in
this terrible war all these bitter
years, and the spirit of her people in
the face of tremendous odds and
ruthless devastation and bestial treat
ment, commend her to us and com
mand our respect.
However, there was a sober and
challenging note in the triple seven
observance.
At the moment of this enthusiast.
tic and appreciative observance in
the United States, the GRIM WAR
in China was moving swiftly toward
a TRAGIC CLIMAX.
The japanese were establishing
positions in China which, if con
solidated, threaten to finally accom-
plish what Japan has vainly tried to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
LETTERS To The EDITOR

The great stores Russia has
beer building up for the past
10 or Is years are being saved
To defend herself against capt.
taliSm after the NaZlS have
been routed Russia is using the
supplies and equipment We
have been sending them and
keeping her own for that very
purpose
Do any Of YOU actually be-
lieve that If and when the Red
leaders IN this country tell their
believers 10 begin sabotage.
that they won't do il? Most
of these people are so ignorant
they can neither pronounce nor
understand their own propa-
ganda They only believe that
the world owes them a living.
and communism is their way of
attaining that status.
Oh. sure, we are much TOO
intelligent 10 allow a few mil
lion fanatics TO rule us
This party is growing by
leaps and bounds IN all large
production areas, because these
people prey on the mentally
weak and those who are always
dissatisfied
AZ AMERICAN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
MARK HELLINGER
In the South Pacific

1913, and major in January,
1914. His lieutenant-colonelcy
is expected any day now.
Dick has been wingman for
Colonel Henehry on any num-
her of missions He was wing
man i'm the first WeWak strike
and accounted for his share of
the 324 Jap aircraft that were
destroyed.
To-day. he is The Youngest
commander IN the lombard
mcnt business. He has a total
of 1873 missions. lunches his
shoulders constantly. somehow
never has a radio that works
the way he wants il 10, refers
Solcmnly 10 certain lady
named Mkt. and always insults
his plane when he flies.
Through the day. Henebry
and Ellis talk constantly of
good deals If an order is
transmitted over the phone, the
concluding words are always
good deal. When all planes
return safely. It's a good deal
And Home IN their shack, what
do these two close friends talk
about? Flying. mostly Or Of
their families and their loved
ones.
I Asst night. Jock lienebry
II came in with tremendous
news. He was going back TO the
States on leave! Flying out the
next morning. at 6 o'clock!
Dick grinned and congratu-
lated Jock. and said he'd do his
best TO carry on. Later. many
of the Grim Reaper boys came
up 10 the shack and shook hands
with Jock and kidded him about
Mary Mcguire as Jock packed
his bags. But Dick went 10 bed
very early
Shortly before s o'clock this
morning. those two men were
framed in the doorway of our
shack when | opened my eyes.
They shook hands and stood for
while Just looking at each
other.
Good deal. Dick" Jock said
finally
Good deal. jock" Dick said
quietly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14

WITH THE FIFTH AIR
w FORCE. DUTCH \ + w
GUINEA, July l (delayed)-I
watched two guys say so long 10
each other this morning one
was Col. John p. Jock Hene-
hry. the other was Maj Rich
ard Ellis Both are famous
names in this section and both
have been overseas for "A
months.
Jock and Dick are head men
in the aviation attack unit
known as the Grim ReaperS'
and It's as fitting a name as
was ever tagged on any outfit.
They've lived together long
while, and I've lived with them
for the past three days.
Jock Henebry is from PLAIN
field. III. He is % He graduated
from Notre Dame IN 1910 and
was IN the army the day after
his graduation He was first
lieutenant in March, 1912,
captain in October 1912 A
major IN June l943 a leuien-
ant colonel IN November, l943
full colonel last May
Among men who know, Jock
is regarded As one of the worlds
best attack aviation pilots and
combat leaders He led Straflng
attacks in the Bismarck sea
battle and later commanded the
famed November 2 lombard
ment Of Rahaul.
Col Henebry has A total Of
124 missions. practically all Of
them low level, and YOU have
my gaSplng word that there is
nothing more eXcitingly danger
Gus.
Yet Jock 6 feet , and $50
pounds Is forever grlnnIng
and taking things IN stride. and
dreaming of a certain Chicago
laSSle named Mary Mcguire.
NICK ELLIS weighs only lbs
~ pounds Hos from Laurel,
Del and is - years Of age He
graduated from Dickinson IN
1911 and was IN The army
week after his graduation He
was A first lieutenant IN April.
1913. captain in October.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
Brain Game
An AMERICAN.

| The language of Brazil Is
not Spanish. What is II?
2-What is the chief seaport of
Japan situated on Tokyo
Bay?
3 The Sangreal was the cup
used by Jesus Christ al the
Last Supper. We know this
cup by a more common
name. Can you give il?
4 Only one man has served
two non consecutive terms
as president of the United
States. Was he la Grover
Cleveland. (bD Andrew Jack
son. tc) Theodore Roosevelt
or cd u. s. Grant?
5-In arising does a horse raise
his front or hind end first?
thl Does a COW arise IN the
same manner
6-.Nhat promoter staged the
Jeffries Johnson champion
ship fight in Reno?
(Ansvers on Opposite Pase.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
BE an American!

YOU have lived at Lexington,
Valley Forge, Monmouth. New
Orleans, Gettysburg, Belleau Wood,
Cherbourg and Saipan.
YOU sat in independence Hall
with jefferson and the men of the
Declaration.
YOU were the tongue of the
Liberty Bell as it rang out FREE
DOM.
YOU sat in the constitutional
convention with Washington.
YOU stood beside Abraham
Lincoln when he made his great adj
dress at Gettysburg.
YOU are the continuous SOn of
America. the life principle Of which
is LIBERTY AT ALL COSTS.
BE an American by combating
with all the powers in your mind the
attempts to level YOU to the Wagner
Wallacc-M &c n t o n o-Willkle-
Frankfmter LaSki Hillman inter-
national axis.
BIZ, an American by remaining
passionately loyal to the Washington
Jefferson-M Madison Emerson-Lincoln-
Whitman axis.
BE an American
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
POLITICAL
PARADE
BY George
RothwelI Brown,
ITO THE plea that Gov. Dewey

II 4 y
Il must meet the challenge Of
President ROoSevelt'S argument
of the ndiSpenSability Of the
commander IN chief and do IT
fast there is but one answer:
he has already anticipated II,
and refuted ~
Mr.. RooSeNelt'S SpeCiouS pre-
mise for a fourth-term IN which
he may faSten New Deal radi-
caliSm on the country with still
stronger chains did not catch the
Republican presidential nominee
mapping
He had figured out in advance
the Presidents only defense for
another precedent breaking
campaign. This is how he met
the issue in his speech OF ac-
ceptance:
THE military conduct Of the
war is outside this campaign.
II is and must remain COM
pletely out of politics. Gen.
Marshall and Adm. King are do
ing superb job. Thank God
for both of them.
LET me make II crystal clear
that a change OF administration
next January cannot and will
not involve any change in the
military conduct of the war.
"If there i not now any
civilian interference with the
military and naval commands,
a change in administration will
not alter that status. II there
il civilian interference. the new
administration will put stop
to IL forthwith"
THAT closely reasoned state
l. ment. product of cold,
legal mind, completely, and in
advance. knocked the props
from under the pretenSe of Mr..
Roosevelt's bid foy an indefinite
tenure of office, 10 embrace the
period of the war, and the
period Of the peace-making
thereafter
That paragraph from DewcyS
great speech at Chicago should
be displayed on every billboard,
in every newspaper. should be
carried over every radio. II Is
a Knockout!
Mr. RooSevclN WOULD make
out that his defeat would de-
prlve the country of a COM
mander in chief-in time of Mar
Nothing of the sort, If Gov.
Dewey should be elected preSi-
dent in November. the Republic
would have a new commander
in chief the moment he took
the oath OF office in January.
Under the Constitution the
functions of the commander in
chief are purely civilian in
character. The Constitution
does not contemplate "A military
genius in the White House.
MR.. ROOSEVELT is not a
4'I military genius and has had
no military training If he
should retire from the preSi-
dency the civilian command Of
the armed forces would simply
pass 10 his civilian successor.
The status of the army and
feet high command would not
be altered in the least
II there has not been any
civilian interference with the
military and naval commands.
we'll and good. the military and
naval commands viii carry on.
If there has been such civilian
interference. Dewey, if elected,
Will put an end 10 II.
In other words. he will free
the military and naval high
command 10 WIN THE WAR
THEIR WAY.
Gov. Dewey has stated the
case in words so simple a child
can understand them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-14
Knowledge Test
By DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY


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