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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

President of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists, appeared be-
fore a Congressional committee with
plan for easing cutbacks in the air.
craft industry and preserving jobs in
that industry when the war ends.
The AFL Metal Trades Department
submitted to the War Production
Board detailed program for gradual
reduction of shipbuilding activity,
when the time arrives, in order to
cushion the shock of sudden shut
downs.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, showing wise
foresight, endowed school of cleo
tronics at Marquette University to
teach members of their union the
tricks of new industry which prom
ises to offer many job opportunities
when peace comes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
WESTERN COUNCIL OF
TRANSFERS RAISE FUND

Los Angeles-The Joint Council of
Teamsters, under the leadership of
Dave Beck, has launched drive to
raise a million-dollar peace and pros
perity fund to promote full employ
ment and high national income.
The Council outlined the following
five-point program:
Ito rally all Southern California
AFL unions in support of the post
war effort.
2-To conduct public relations and
educational campaign.
3-To promote the objective of full
employment by direct planning and
participation with business and agri-
cultural leaders.
ITO establish permanent, centra-
lized coordination of labor-manage-
ment-farmer efforts in matters of
community and civic interest.
5-To obtain full cooperation from
State, county and municipal govern
ing bodies in postwar programs.
Mr.. Beck said failure to create full
employment after the war would
usher in a period of bitter feeling be-
tween all component parts of our in
dustrial society" and cause needless
suffering throughout the nation and
+bro,,0bo ont tho world
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
Brown Offers Constructive Program
10 Protect Employment in Aircraft
Cutback To Take Terrific Toll AS Demands For Supplies
Decreases; Postwar Planning Vital Now To
Save Staggering Unemployment Later

He suggested that reductions be so
arranged as to avoid creation Of ghost
towns, and that wherever possible,
cuts should be made in government
owned plants before privately owned
factories.
Workers who must transfer because
of loss of jobs or redistribution of
contracts should have their transpor-
tation costs paid. Liberal unemploy-
ment benefits should be provided to
keep up purchasing power, Brown
added.
Above all, Brown asserted, employ
ees should be notified of cutbacks in
advance and at the same time as their
employers, SO that they, too, can make
plans for themselves.
workers should not be considered
second class citizens" he said. "The
military chiefs Of staff are going to
discover that workers will leave war
work in even greater numbers, if,
through false rumors or improper in
formation, they get the idea that the
need for war production is over and
they do not see any well-thought-out
plans being adopted for planning ci-
william production"
The l. A. M. leaders also called for
the creation of government expert
mental research committee, stated by
Americas best aeronautical engineers,
to "work out program on how air
craft facilities can best be utilized in
the manufacture of civilian items"
Some of the aircraft plants, he
urged, should be maintained by the
government itself after the war, both
for experimental purposes and to
make sure the country will never
again" be caught short on aircraft in
wartime.
"Our government cannot permit the
aircraft industry to go to seed," he
said. owe cannot gracefully bow out
of the aircraft picture and hope to
regain supremacy at the eleventh hour
as we did during this war"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
GENERALS BLAST
ANTI-LABOR CANARD

Washington, D. C.-The ugly and
oft-repeated canard that American
troops have suffered from lack OF
equipment due to strikes was blasted
to smithereens by two high-ranking
Army generals at official press con-
ferences arranged by the War Depart
ment.
The questions put to these generals
follows:
"Has there ever been an instance
in which our soldiers and sailors found
themselves without munitions to fight
the enemy because of strikes or stop
pages at home"
The reply of the first general, an
expert in military strategy who holds
regular press conferences to give
newspapermen background material
and who, in accordance with the War
Departments practice, remains
anonymous although his comments
may be quoted, follows:
incTc NSS never uccH CdSC, So
far as we have heard, where our men
lacked ammunition due to any strike
or other lag in production at home" ."
The same question was put to Major
General Lucius D. Clay, director of
materiel for the Army, at the first
of series of conferences with repre-
sentatives of the labor press. He said:
eve have met every demand for
munitions and supplies since the be-
ginning of the war. We are grateful
for the production effort the country
has made up to the present time
In further explanation Of his state
ment, General Clay added:
"In production, we aim to keep at
least six months ahead of operations
We endeavor to forsee all our needs
that far in advance"
In other words, before American
troops go into action a tremendous
backlog of supplies has been prepared
for them in advance so that it woulG
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28

Washington, D. C.-CuJpacks are
due to take a terrific toll of jobs in the
aircraft industry unless proper PLAN
ming to maintain employment is un-
dertaken now, President Harvey w.
Brown of the International Associa-
ton Of Machinists declared.
He voiced the warning in testimony
before the war contracts subcommit-
tee of the Senate Military Affairs
Committee and presented thorough
going program for easing the shock
of cutbacks.
Brown, whose organization is domi-
nant in the aircraft field, declared
bluntly that the slack of long-range
planning is appalling"
"If the German war should end to-
morrow there would be chaos and con-
fusion in American industry" he said,
"since no organization has been set
up with authority and power to or
ganize the economy for peace as we
have organized for war"
The Machinists' chief suggested,
first of all, better coordination be-
tween one branch cancels an aircraft
contract the other can step into the
breach with other work that remains
to be done.
AS pruning becomes essential, con-
tracts should be transferred from
companies with large backlogs to
those plants facing completion OF
their war orders, Brown urged.
Also, cuts should be concentrated,
he said, in those companies and areas
where the released manpower and
facilities can most readily be adapted
to other production uses.
Companies which have subcontract-
ed heavily to small firms should be
the last to suffer and when they are
finally ordered to cut back, they
should be required to distribute the
cut fairly among all sub-contractors
so that all are treated alike, Brown
insisted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
Nelson Beats Brass Hats;
Reconversion Start 9. KID

On the West Coast, Dave Beck
launched drive to raise million dol
lars among union groups to stimulate
public interest and cooperation in as
suring postwar prosperity.
In Washington, Harvey w. Brown,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28


concern in labor circles throughout
the nation over the impact of produc-
tion cutbacks and the danger of wide
spread postwar unemployment, Off
cial Washington staged dramatic
row over reconversion plans with VIC
tory going to the proponents of i'm
mediate action.
Despite the combined opposition of
military leaders, whose attitude seems
to be that no postwar preparations
should be undertaken until the last
shot is fired, War Production Board
Chairman Donald M. Nelson won his
point which is that reconversion to
civilian production be permitted by
the government wherever and when
ever it will not interfere with require
ments of the war program.
Fighting from a sickbed with the
support of the American Federation
of Labor and it's representative on the
WPB, Vice Chairman Joseph E. Kee-
man, Mr.. Nelson obtained a decision
from War Mobilization Dire t or
Byrnes to go ahead with the begin
ming of his program. Parts of it, how
ever, were ordered postponed until
August Is to placate the military au-
| thorities.
Production of wide variety of
I'm INN,
made possible for the first time since
1912 under the first order issued by
Mr.. Nelson under the new plan. Alu-
minum and magnesium, of which sur
plus quantities are available, were re-
leased for civilian purposes provided
that manufacturing processes do not
require manpower, facilities or other
materials needed for war needs.
Much Of the opposition to the Nell
son plan came from big business in
terests now fully occupied with war
contracts who feared that some Of
their smaller competitors would get
the Jump" on them if they were al
lowed to reconvert for civilian pro-
duction now. These big business
spokesmen took the position that all
competitors in an industry should
start reconverting at the same time
and on an equal footing. This would
mean that plants whose war contracts
are cancelled would have to remain
idle until the war ends, thus aggra-
waiting unemployment.
i Despite the fact that cutbacks are
increasing monthly and more than
four million workers may be thrown
out Of war jobs by the end Of the year
even if the war is not over by then,
War and Navy Department chiefs is
sued gloomy statements insisting war
production is not up to schedule. They
showed sharp resistance to any plan
for releasing materials or manpower
| for civilian production-at least at
this time.
i Meanwhile, union leaders in various
industries and sections Of the country
began bombarding government and
| industry with specific demands for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-07-28
American Federation of Labor Unions Offer New Job
Plans AS WPB Program Is Launched

immediate action to stave off post
war industrial collapse.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24
Scholarships
To Six Veterans

Six veterans are enrolled IN the
Wayiie University College Of
PHARMACY under $3.50 annual
scholarships provided by Cunning
ham Drug Stores. II was an
nounccd Saturday.
The participants in the grant
work part time m Cunningham
stores and full-timc employment
with the chain * guaranteed
them on completion OF the four
year course.
The scholarship list includes
one Michigan man. Dale FlShwild
Of Keeeo Harbor. 4 second group
viii enter the college under the
scholarship plan az the opening
of the spring term next February.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-24

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
Tonks Within
 Doy's Ride |Of Frontier

Supreme Headquarters. AEF August g. fUPD - Powerful American tank columns pounded eastward within a days ride of the German frontier today, striking for the key railway hub of Troyes in a bid to close the last direct escape route for all the Nazi armies of southern France.
 It. General George s. Patton $ tanks and motorized infantrymen had broken contact with headquart- CTS in their dramatic strike toward the frontiers of the Reich. and headquarters maintained strict secrecy on the whereabouts of the advanced American spearheads,
 Front dispatches revealed. how ever, that the Yanks were driving at break neck speed beyond the al- cient fortified city or Sens. which they captured yesterday after a 65- mile thrust around the southern suburbs Of Paris. and heading dS- rectly for Troyes, l30 miles west Of Germany.
 With the American break-tbrough into eastern France, headquarters
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23

Washington, Aug. 23 luPD -- The blonde Republican congress woman from Connecticut, Glare R00the Luce, warned today that a peace treaty Is pretty much like a marriage certificate it's no guars antee that the sieners will live hap' pily ever after.
 We can't agOid peace fOf the first five years or so after the shoot ing stops" she said. That's the honeymoon period, and people are too busy building houses and buy- pots and pans 10 fight"
 But in treaties among nations as well as in marriages, she said. y0u mast watch the honeymoon period because its then that you establish the habits that ean crop up lD tlie later years as InaFTiaee-wFecSlne quaFrelS.
 Al Of which. Mrs. Luce, said,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
Trick Aided Paris Win

London, Aug. 23-0UPD A superb ly-timed strategieal maneuyer as old as the history of war trieked the Germans into eyacuating the buls Of their garrison from Paris and enabled French patriot forces 10 lib- crate the city unaided. military 0b- servers said today
 With 50000 well-arnled men ins side the capital, supported by iigllf artillery, machine guns and anti. tank weapons dropped by Allied planes and cached in secret aTsen- als, the French withheld their up- rising until the American army reached the suburbs Of the city.
 The American eolunnf famed out swiftly on three sides Of Paris, bui carefully left open a marrow gap to flle east Then they began squeez- ing iB slowly on that gap, tricking the enemy into believing they inr tended 10 surround and assault the city, and the Nazis decided te eel out.
 By Saturday morning French Gen
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
Luce Sees Peace Treaty As Marriage Certificate

makes her more opposed than eyel to eDtTnsilng even the earliest post war period to President Roosevelt and the present administration,
 We've been conducting our f0r- eigp policy OD a Louis XIV leYel, she said. louis XIV said I am the state and that has been President RO0seyelis attitude"
 Declaring that many people fell that MF Roosevelt had made { secret, private, personal aftair" 0i foreign policy, Mrs. Luce who res buked the administrations foreign policies ai the Republican e0nyel. lion, said that only a Republican victory ln November could 'el0se the gap created by the Neg Deal"
 She warned that any treaty gonIf be only q scrap 0g paper unless I
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
Robot Blows Grow Fiercer

London. Aug. 23-(UP)-Waves Of flying bombs were fired across the channel early today and t was igls dicated that the Germans intend to throw every robot on London before abandoning the launching platforms in the Pas De Calais area,
 Coastal observers reported defense gnntire was heavier than ever
 Judging by the number 0f his flying bombs and the Fapidity and frequency with which he is sending them over" one observer said, 'the enemy Is anxious to get rid Of them while the going is good. For an hour this morning there vas one continuous roar.
 Nothing like t has been seen 0l heard before, The baTgage vas n0D' stop and so thnndeT0ns it almost slA0there0 the explosions Of the flying bombs themselves as home were shot out of the air and feil either Into the sea or on land,
 ''60 fast and furious were the fly lng bombs sent over that there was no respite for our gnnners,"
 Although Allied troops were elos- ing tn rapidly on the flying bomb launching sites, competent obsegy- CTS saw no early end to the 'me' ehanieal battle Of brItain," Even
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
Planes Rip Fleeing Foe

London, Aug. 23.-tUP)-Allied warplanes hammered fleeing Ger man troops along the Seine in clear ing weather today and Nazi radios reported that Allied b0mberS from the Mediterranean. which smashed back into occupied Europe last night after suffering the greaet stlosses in a single day since the North African campaign, were approaching Austria this morning.
 British and American fighters and fighter -hOmbers struck through broken cloud banks over northern France ot rake the enemyS Seine escape route with bombs, cannon shells. machine-gup bullets and fiefy rockets.
 at every type of German water transport from steamers ana pafg- es to fragile rubber dingilleS whien were cut to sllreds.
 The Italian based night atiack was eentered on military obJeetiyes at MiskOlo, Hungary, 40 miles northeast of Budapest, and t0llogde heavy raids early in the day on oil Fefineries in Germany and Austria where 39 Allied bombers were lost
 Six other aircraft were missing from Italian based operations.
 The Germans threw approAlioalely 200 fighter planes iD to the ar the largest force l ntgo weeks, m a desperate effort to halt the Alllae formations. This nlanebier ildi' eater that the Nazis were ilshtiag only when the Allied bombers had threatened the Reich proper
 Fitty-seyen Gelpan plahes were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
French Fight For TouIon

Outside Toulon, August Ss, ~ UP - Lean, tough French Infan- trymen are reclaiming their great naval base of T0ulon foot by to0i and house by house today i9 some of the bl0Odiest street fighting since cassinO.
 AS ip the Italian city, the Ger mans are fighting for every brick wall and the lighting Is with bay- Onets, Tommy guns, greDades ana knives.
 French forces Of the interior are extremely active, leading troops around mine fields in the outskirts and guiding them into ille best houses from gIieh to fight, Many Of the PET men are lighting side by
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
BuIgOv Peace Hopes Ebbing

London, Aug, 23 poo ,bPl ~T pul' gaTisis prospects for an early afnllss tiee with Great Britain and me United States faded today following Foreign Minister PaiYan DfaganoN : demand that she be permitted to retain territory stolen from Greece
 Dragan0y told the s0uanle lpafT llamentl yesterday that bnIgaila was "dolng her utmost 10 make peace with the western allies, phl Insisted she never would yield hel ancient and ''Figbtful' claim h Thraee,
 He had been expected by inform cd Allied sources in London to an' n0unee Q break iD relations VIII Germany, but instead reiterated h'' e0untFy's friendship for both Ger many and Japan,
 Allied observers. obviously dlkall' pointed said Great Britain and ihi United states would demand Iron Bulgaria. as from all Axis partner (continued on Page Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
RoiIroOds In Hot WOter

Washington, August 9. - tUP) .-- The Department of Justice tooay charged the Association of Amerlcan Railroads, a7 western carriers ana their chief executives. and two banking houses with violations ol the sherman Antitrust Act m collusiye rate. fixing and by diseour. aging improvements in service ana equipment.
 The banking houses of J. ?. Mar gan Company. and Kuhn, Loeb ~ Co, were named in the complaint
 Attorney General Francis blane. gho is on the west coast. announced through his office here the tiiing of A civil complaint against the roads in Lincoln, Neb,, federal dis' trlet court.
 Named also as defendants were the officers and directors Of the American Railroad Association, ule Western Association of Railway eE' ecutiyes and 3l other individuals,
 The 40-paee e0mplalne charged that the defendants, beginning about ie32 and continuing to tne uresent time, have been engaged lll an unlawful combination and con. splvaey in restraint 0f trade and commerce in the transportation ol freight and passengers among the several states and with foTelgn na' tlonss and "are parties to contracts agreemenis, arrangements. and an, derstandine. ln restrain Of said trade and egSAmeFce,"
 The TestFlints were aeeompllslleo and continued to be accomplished
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23

Washington, Aug. 23--lUPD-In- formed military observers doubted today reports Of Allied lanaings a Bordeaux area and other points on the French coast along the Bay of Biscay.
 They said that neither Bordeaux or any of the other ports on the Bay of Biscay were necessary to the olD- erations now going on in France and that the Allied high command would hardly risk ships and men that might be employed to betetr ad- vantage elsewhere in France.
 1t was possible. however, observers said, that an American column which more than a week ago stabbed sOuthward from Nantes and has not been mentioned since, may be oper- aling toward the Bay fo Biscay.
 The Allied drive toward Sens, southeast of Paris. protects the right and most exposed Allied flank from a possiblbe German attack if the enemy could, by some chance. ore ganize for such a maneuyeT, it was said. Also. it places the Allies in a position to swing north on another large pincer movement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
French Tcke Perpignon

London, Aug. 23--fUPl-The AL giers radio said today that French Interior forces had occupied the aIl- cient fortress city Of Perpignan, on the Mediterranean just north Of the spanish frontier and across the southern tip of France from Area chon, on the Bay of Biseay, where une0nflrnled reports said Allied troops landed this morning.
 The broadcast said the Ocenpa- ton of Perpignan, gateway from France t0 Spain, was completed afs ter three Allied planes landed there with a mission which established liaisop with French Forces of the Interior.
 Frontier reports from Madrid, AlgleFs said, confirmed that the Germans had evacuated the PyFe- nees after destroying q depot at the port Of Vendres and the yladlct at Ranyuls, both 0f which are between PeTpignan and the spanish border,
 c0-ineidental with the reported evacuation, the Swiss radio said the German Luftllansa airline service between Berlin and Lisbon had been suspended,
 Reports still une0nllTmed said Al. lied troops landed on the Bay Of Blseay, near B0rdeauE, in a drive to join American columns, which last were reported two weeks ago Sl Nantes on the Loire river.
 Although supreme headquarters refused to comment aD the situation, h0ih the British radio and the Lons don Daily Express carried reports Of the landing, which would be the third invasion Of France,
 BRO said is received nDe0nllBmed reports from the spanish frontier that the Allied troops landed at
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-23
ADVANCE TAO MILES ACROSS FRENCH ALPS

Rome, August g. - (UP)
 - American tanks and mo- tOrized infantry drove into GrenOble, only 5S miles southeast of the major city of Lyon, today after a spectacu- lar 140-mile advance across the French Alps from the Mediterranean coast.
 (A London broadcast said the Americans had ''liber- ated' GrenOble and were 24O miles from Allied armies below Paris.)
 (Radio France at Algiers said Allied patrols had reached the gates of Avignor, in the Rhone valley. 52 miles northwest of Marseille. That would represent an advance of more than l4 miles west ward from the last Allied po- sitions at Apt.)
 cFhe German DINE news agency said a "smali'' force of American troops. supported by French Par. tiSaFls, had landed at St. Jean Dc Luz. six miles north Of the Franco- Spanish frontier On the Bay Of Bis. cayD.
 Tine sensational thrust inland. which carried to within 27 miles Of the last railway linking France and Italy and 90 miles of the Swiss border, liberated dozens of towns and villages and outaanked the heavily defended lower Rhofe Val ley.
 Allied headquarters had kept the progress of the drive secret to con. fuse further the enemy and Tilted the cloak of secrecy only after the Americans had entered the largest French city yet penetrated in the eighk-day-old invasion.
 While the Americans were light" ing to clear Orenoble of the last remnants of the German garrison, other Allied columns virtually com"
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