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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-18
It's News
To Me
By 0. J. Pecmd
THE WORKER

Joe is swell Everybody in the shop likes him. He
automatic SIPS per hour base
He has wife three kids weather beaten Ford
house. of the doctor bill for his last
kid and belongs to the union soH taE
Joe is exactly religious guy but he attends church
nearly every Sunday it's church than
it to stay home and get in the doghouse with his wife when
he doesn't Sometimes when he isn't too drowsy he hears
part of the sermon sometimes especially after he's been
out late drinking Saturday night the gives him
opportunity to snatch few winkS of sleep
While Joe isn't exactly Joiner" he does belong to
fraerna organization which has bar He likes to the bar
meet his friends from who there Sometimes he
takes his wife along but for other he doesn't
enjoy himself much when she goes along
HOME LIFE
At home Joe average He comes home from work
hungry sits his wife in
syllables, talks with the kids
He gances through the lies down the davenport
and proceeds to His wife the kids to be quiet
her dishes and wonders why life has
Sometimes Joe takes her and the kids show but not too
often because he tired his often falls asleep
misses the where the hero the wolf
down who seeking to and win the heroine by fair
foul.
HIS UNION
Joe likes his 1t gives him feeling of security
which didn't when he worked open shop the
old While Joe isn't trouble maker doesn't take any
the lip and the who thinks Joe
work respectful because he knows Joe's
tough customer in settling grievance.
Sometimes Joe attends union meetings especially when he
there going good argument. He has
to hit the floor with motion his only
a meeting question" AYE" and mo"
hears his union officials talking about contracts claus
concaton lot of other things in which mildly
interested but his greatest interest is when the chairman gets
wages Then Joe p, up at i'll his place
ineny with his cooked he won't miss of it,
When Joes wife had her last baby the welfare committee
her flowers. That swell When Joes dad died.
his shop sent its burial squadron bear the remains the
grave Joe believes in his
POLITICS
Joes father Democrat Joe has always been Demo
except back in 1892 when he voted for
Thomas because he didn't trust Roosevelt ard hated Hoover
doesn't ike the no-strike pledge like to
income tax deducted from his check he thinks
War Bonds while good investment should
10 per cent out of his wages
So things have been said about the
JoeS district against them He
knows that they both enemies of labor
up vote against them. He union
man? But, Joe is not registered
On October 9th Joe the Board of Elections reg
ister He told that registrations He
disappointed He hrugs his shoulders and goes Ch we'll
he thinks Roosevelt will win anyhow He always has.
On November 2, ROOSEVELT is DEFEATED!
On January 3, Joe is laid off he going
to do So do thousands of other
Moral: Register now and vote in November.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-18
From The Desk
Melvin Schultz
President,
Local IL, UAW-CIO
JAW CONVENTION

Soon it will again be convention time Mo-
mentous decisions will have to be made by
the delegates to the 1914 U Nv Convention.
by the international situation and its roper
cussions of the home front, calm and deliber-
ate judgment must be used to formulate the
program of our Union for the coming year.
Our position on the Little Steel Formula,
Price Control, the OPA, reconverSion COM
pusory arbitration and Political Action are
all important issues, but Il ey are less con-
troversial than many which will occupy the
minds of the convention delegates.
Among the more controversial issues will
be the No Strike Pledge, Incentive Pay, and
procedure OF reinstatement of members
RESPONSIBILITY
The responsibility which falls upon con-
vention delegates is year round one for it
is quite certain that any policy adopted at the
convention will not meet with the full ap-
proval of all the membership On certain
issues some criticism will cnsue regardless of
the decision.
On the No Strike issue alone, some mem
bers want to ban any and Il strikes including
civilian procedure for the duration, while
some others would like to rescind the pledge
completely.
All in all the task which faces the dele
gates is challenging one. | convinced
that our Union will emerge from the Conven-
tion more strongly fortified and better able TO
oppose the forces of reaction than ever before.
The UAW CIO has surmounted the task
of making difficult decisions before and we
shall delevelop program adequate to the
need we always have
Henceforth however we shall encourav
the workers to be active on the political fronI
also by voluntary joining and supporting
Local and National Political Action Commit
tees Thru the efforts of such committees on
the political front and the Union and Con-
sumers Co Ops on the economic front we can
succeed in achieving full employment for the
American workers.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09
COIored Priest
Asks Fair Deal
For His People

NEW YORK - A plea that
colored people might be given an
equal chance with their fellow
Americans to enjoy fair play was
made here by the Rev. Vincent
Smith, S.V.D., at the bi-monthly
Communion breakfast of the
Catholic Laymen's Union, held at
the headquarters of Catholic In
terracial Council. 1t is believed
that Father Smith is the first
colored priest to act as celebrant
of an interracial Mass here and
as guest speaker at the discus
sion following.
Father Smith defined an GALL
American" as one who is fair
minded, patriotic and willing to
give everyone a chance" The
Negro, he said, has given his
quota in every war from Crispus
Attacks at the Boston massacre
in 1875 to Dorrie Miller, but too
often he has had to fight for
the chance to fight and then die
on a jimcrow battle line"
1--WE are not asking white peo-
pie to throw their arms about
u.s." he continued, "but to give
us only our just rights - an
equal chance to earn living
wage, to build our homes in the
place our means Can afford, and
to take our places in the public
life of our country according to
our ability"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09
Drug Used to Violate
SeIeCtive Service Act;
Is SeIecteeS Jailed

WASHINGTON - The Federal
Bureau of Investigation an.
nounced the arrest of IS Wash.
ington men. including an or.
chestra leader and two postal en-
ployes, in what it described as
widespread attempts" to violate
the Selective Service Act through
use of drugs producing high
blood pressure.
Director j. Edgar Hoover of
the FBI said the selectees took
drug shortly before reporting
to the induction center at Fort
Myer, Va, and the drug pro-
duced abnormally high blood
pressure for several hours, caus-
ing the men to be rejected for
military service. The Justice De-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09
Why Shouldn't | Buy 1t?
(Contlnued from page b

Continued from page y
we like today. Not if We want
prices to stay down. There just
aren't as many things to buy as
there are dollars to spend. If we
all start scrambling to buy every
thing in sight, prices can kite
to hell-'n'-gone.
"You think L can really keep
prices DOWN."
If you don't who will? Uncle
Sam cant do it alone. Every
time you refuse to buy something
you don't need, every time you
refuse to pay more than the cell
ing price, every time you shun
a black market, you're helping
to keep prices down.
''But 1 though the government
put a ceiling on prices"
You're right, a price ceiling
for your protection. And it's up
to you to pay no more than the
ceiling price. If you do, you're
party to black market deal.
And black markets not only
boost prices-they cause short
ages.
Doesn't rationing take care of
shortages?"
Your ration coupons will-if
you use them wisely. Don't spend
them unless you have to. Your
ration book merely sets a limit
on your purchases. Every eou-
pom you don't loose today means
that much more for you, and
everybody else, to share tomor-
row.
''Then what do YOU want me to
do with my money!"
Save it, Put it in the bank!
Put it in life insurance! Pay off
old debts and don't make new
ones. Buy and hold War Bonds.
Then your money can't force the
prices up. But it can speed the
winning of the war. 1t can build
a prosperous nation for you, your
children, and our soldiers, who
deserve a stable America to come
home to. Keep your dollars out
of circulation and they'll keep
prices down. The government is
helping-with taxes.
"Now wait! How do taxes help
keep prices DOWN."
We've got to pay for this war
sooner or later. It's easier and
cheaper to pay as we go. And
it's better to pay more taxes
NOW-while we've got the ex-
ira money to do it. Every dollar
put into taxes means a dollar less
IN hoost prices SO.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09
No Discrimination

NEW YORK-The U. S. CIR
cult Court of Appeals has ruled
that the Selective Service Ad-
ministration practice of requisit-
ioning separate quotas of whites
and Negroes does not constitute
illegal discrimination.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09

art, one of those arrested, has
been charged with aiding and
abetting evasion of military ser
vice.
Everett M. (Washie) Brachter,
28, orchestra leader at a Wash
ington hotel, another of the
group, admitted to FBI agents,
Hoover said, that he had taken
the drug before his examination.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09
Use 1t Up Wear 1t Out =
Make 1t Do, Or Do Without
Help Keep Prices Down
Funny Advertisements

For sale, bulldog, will eat any
thing, very fond of children.
Lost, a watch by man with
a cracked face.
Lost, an overcoat and several
other articles of wearing apparel
by a poor lad wrapped up in
brown paper parcel tied with
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09

partment said Is of the Is are
Negroes.
One registrant, according to
Hoover, became violently i'll after
he appeared for physical examin-
alton. The inductee reported,
Hoover said, that he had pur-
chased the drug for $40 from
Samuel Albert Stewart, 38 years
old, Negro mail carrier. Stew
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1944-02-09

white string.
Wanted, a capable housekeep-
er, able to milk cows, to keep
house for one.
Lost a fountain pen by a man
full of ink.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

is by far the most important island
of all this region. containing more
square miles of solid land than all the
Islands around it within 1000 miles
put together. 1t would form an in
valuable air base and general point of
support for air and naval operations.
and we have particular interest in
recovering it, as we have in Wake. too.
because it is United States territory.
A direct assault On Guam, if success
ful, would bypass and isolate Truk
just as the successful assault on
Kwajalein has by-passed and isolated
Jaluit and the other Eastern Marshalls,
In fact, at Guam we would stand
squarely between Truk and TOXIC.
OF course, we are long way as vet
from any such accomplishment; but it
is clear that we are developing a
technique of attack and a concentra-
ton Of amphibious power in the Pacific
which permits us to think in far more
ambitious terms than has hitherto been
the case. Under the command Of Ad-
miral Nimitz. our Navy, Marine Corps
and Army commanders and STATS are
working out a system Of making war
which permits the full development of
American ingenuity, mechanical re-
sources and initiative. It will be strange,
indeed, if the progress we shall make
in the future will not be at a more
rapid pace than during the past years
of preparation and anxiety.
(copyrisht. 1914, New York Tribune, Inc)
Evening star., 1944-02-07

has been its elasticity. For instance,
Canada, may make treaties with the
United States without committing
Britain. Australia and New Zealand
may come to agreements between them
wealth, furthermore, does not consist
Of contiguous areas. This is just why
the various governments of the domin-
ions, unions and commonwealths in
creasingly demanded autonomy. BY this
development the British Empire became
the one worldwide power, with all
shades and degrees of contacts and con-
nectionS
The new structure of the Soviet Union
makes it possible for it to play similar
role. The deepest reason behind it is
that the Soviet Union foresees all shades
of socialist experimentation in various
areas of the world after the war. New
economic developments are unlikely to
reproduce the pattern of Russian Com
munism-the recognition of this is i'm
piled in the dissolution of the COMM
tern. But developments in numbers OF
states may be such as to make collabo-
ration with a socialist state more at
tractive than with capitalist neighbors.
We may assume, for instance, that
few modern and self-conscious states
will wish to turn over their national
resources to development by foreign cap
ital. Yet there are States-and after
this war there will be many such in
Europe-Where private national capital
has all but been destroyed by the Nazis
or, the nationals who have maintained
it, have done SO through collaboration
with the Nazis
Such states may be led toward some
form of state capitalism by national
ism plus necessity. If they are opposed
in this by the Anglo-American powers
and supported in it by Russia, they
would only be restrained in drifting to-
ward the power protection of the Soviet
Union by considerations of sovereignty.
No Frenchman, for instance, wants
to be ruled by Moscow. Nor by Lon
don nor Washington) But given the
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Pacific COffenSive

(4) Nauru Island. an isolated position
due south of Kwajalein and west of
Tarawa, which can hardly be left in
japanese hands any longer because it
commands the sea lanes between the
Gilberts and the Solomons and forms
a valuable outpost for the Japanese in
the Carolines.
1t may be said that the capture by
our forces of Eniwetok and Wake would
definitely put an end to any possibility
Of Japanese air or naval interference
with our activities in the Marshalls,
except of course by the ever present,
and never to be forgotten, possibility
OF the Japanese deciding to bring about
a major fleet action. The capture of
Kusaie and Nauru would cut off all
possible communication between the
Japanese positions in the New Britain
area and those still remaining in their
hands in Jaluit, etc.
Now look at those four positions on
the map from north to south-Wake,
Eniwetok, Kusaie, Nauru-and you will
see that they form a slightly convex
line, bulging westward, facing the Jap
anese outposts at Marcus Island, in
the Marianas and Carolines and in
1>CW ol1Cdul Ills Lille becomes CQuS
an outpost position, covering our pos
sible concentrations of force in the
Central Pacific and facilitating the de-
velopment of our further offensive
operations to the westward
What course these operations may
take, is naturally something we shall
all have to wait to find out. But one
or two general remarks may be of
value. At Eniwetok, we should be only
300 miles and at Kusaie only about
800 miles from Ponape, the principal
island Of the Eastern Carolines Ponape,
in turn, is only 375 miles from the
great Japanese naval base at Truk.
This would seem to be the easy stages"
approach to Truk in this direction. We
must remember this in connection with
the operations against Truk from the
southwark, where its outpost Eabaul
Is under very heavy attack.
But also, at Eniwetok we are only
about 1000 miles from Guam. which
Evening star., 1944-02-07

installations on Kwajalein Island.
What results are to be expected from
this bold advance into the heart of the
enemys territory?
First of all, the by-passed positions
Jaluit, Mill, Wolfe, Maloelap-will i'm
mediately feel the pinch. We are astride
their line of supply For the Japanese
to attempt to send planes or ships to
these islands now becomes an opera
ton of great hazard, almost impossible
of accomplishment. It may be pre-
sumed that the garrisons have con-
siderable stores, but these cannot last
forever. 1t may be worth while to clean
out these islands at once, or it may be
thought better to let them alone for
the time being. Our real direction of
advance is westward not eastward
So considered, the positions which are
of immediate interest are Cd Eniwetok
Atoll, about $50 miles west of Kwajalein
and one of the principal staging points
for air traffic between Japan and the
Marshall Islands. co Wake Island
about 600 miles north northwest of
also staging point for air
traffic and very valuable outpost posi-
tion. 90 Kusaie Atoll, perhaps 375
miles southwest of Kwajalein, and
forming the connecting link between
the Marshall and Caroline crowns.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Jupun's S Dilemma

With the main Marshall Islands
now safely in our hands, it is to be
expected that the enormous forces
assembled for that operation will
lose no time in launching new blows
against Japan's defenses in the
Central Pacific. And this assuredly
will create the most difficult prob
lens for the japanese, whose hope
OF fighting holding war" is being
rudely shattered.
Except for the efforts of garrison
troops, and they were surprisingly
ineffective, Japan elected not to
fight for the Marshalls. Her feet
avoided the battle area, and it
seems too late now for any naval
challenge of the American occupa-
ton. Nor did the Japanese air force
enter the combat in any appreciable
numbers. Perhaps the hammering
of its bases by our own planes
made this impossible, but a more
probable assumption is that Toxic
strategists, faced with a hard deci-
sion, concluded that the risks of
attempting to fight for the Mar
shalls were too great. 1t is difficult,
however, to see how they can con-
tinue to avoid a decisive battle.
Japan's principal chain of island
defenses extends from the homeland
through the Bonins, the Marianas
and on to the Carolines. Our con-
quest of the Gilberts and the Mar
shalls leaves the eastern side of this
chain open to attack, except for
Wake and Marcus, both of which
have been virtually neutralized.
Thus, with the initiative in our
hands, Japan must soon choose
between deploying her naval forces
for defense along the entire length
of this chain, which would spread
her strength dangerously thin, or of
assembling every available warship
and plane for final showdown.
Undoubtedly, 1t was the realiza-
ton that this decision is being
forced upon him which prompted
Premier Togo's latest warning that
the increasing ferocity of the Amer
lean assaults has created situation
in which the fate of Imperial Japan
will be decided. Whether our next
major move is into the Carolines or
against some vital point along the
chain to Japan, it is quite likely to
force the Japanese main feet to give
battle. And, as Togo we'll knows, the
loss of that battle would spell the
end of the ocean empire that has
cost so much in blood and treasure.
Evening star., 1944-02-07

ber, a speech of Field Marshal Smuts
was published in which he proposed
that smaller Western Europe democra-
cies, should enter the British Common
wealth The British Commonwealth is
an attractive proposition 1t combines
mutual protection with economic ad-
vantages and national sovereignty. It's
constituent members maintain their ma
tional armies and offices of foreign af-
fairs, and even have the right OF seces-
sion
Field Marshal SHUTS speech was an
open bid for the extension Of perma-
nent British influence upon the con-
tinent Of Europe and, throughout the
European empires upon the Far East.
And l think it wise to face the fact
that the transformation announced in
Russia is a competition for the same
thing. AS far as outer form is con-
cerned, the lines of the new Soviet
Commonwealth closely follow the Brit
ish But the content of the one is cap
italist, and of the other socialist. Mr..
Molotov, in his speech, reiterated the
answering fidelity of the Soviet Union
to the socialist idea.
The advantage of the British Empire
Evening star., 1944-02-07
French Policy Evolves

Recent developments indicate the
growth of a better understanding
between the American and British
governments, on the one hand, and
the patriotic elements represented
by the French Committee of Ma
tional Liberation. on the other.
This improved trend is due both to
the general military situation and to
the political evolution which has
taken place inside the committee
itself. The time has long passed
when military exigencies compelled
the Allies to deal with whatever
French authorities happened to be
in power in North Africa, regardless
OF their previous political records.
Those deals have been justified in
practice, but they could not appeal
to stanch French patriots who had
never compromised their principles
by collaborating" with the Ger
mans. This was pre- eminently true
of the original Free French"
group OF exiles gathered around
their uncompromising leader, Gen.
eral Charles de Gaulle. To these
men who had kept the faith in the
darkest days at the cost of every
sacrifice, reconciliation with even
moderate Vichyites seemed unthink-
able. On the other hand, the Free
French, like all exiles, had increas-
ingly lost touch with the homeland,
which was to a large extent an
enigma, especially in the early days,
when the organized French under
ground" had not been well estab-
lished.
The first result of this unsatisfac-
tory situation was the clash between
the factions behind Generals de
Gaulle and Giraud in the newly
established provisional regime set
up at Algiers after the Allied inva-
sion of North Africa. But, as time
passed, conditions broadened and
ceased to be mere conflict of per-
sonalities or restricted groups. An
increasing number of leaders,
escaped from France itself, entered
the regime at the same time that
other personalities too deeply
stained with the Vichy taint were
dropped. Coincidentally, the end of
the Tunisian campaign and the total
expulsion of the Axis from North
Africa removed the factor of mill
tary necessity. The Committee of
National Liberation, supplemented
by a consultative assembly, now
fairly represents all shades of patri-
otic opinion, in metropolitan France
as we'll as in North Africa and other
sections of the French colonial en-
pire. In short, there is evolving
true provisional government with
which the Allies can deal and which
Evening star., 1944-02-07
DisgrucefuI Uniqueness

In his valedictory as chairman of
the Senate District Committee,
Senator McCarran referred again to
his belief that the District of Co.
lumbia was not intended by the
founders to be State. But, he said,
There comes question why eligi-
BILE citizens of the United States re-
siding in the National Capital should
not have the right to cast their vote
for President and Vice President"
The Senator is right. The Dis
trict should not become a State.
The District should remain under
the legislative control of Congress.
The people of the District should
vote, not only for President and
Vice President, but for their own
representatives in the exclusively
controlling Congress. Can the peo-
pie of the District thus vote without
making the District State? They
could, with proper amendment of
the Constitution to give Congress
the power to extend to the people
of the District these rights, limited
as Congress chooses to limit them.
A District, represented in Con-
gress and the electoral college but
not possessing the powers or status
OF a sovereign State, would be
unique. 1t would be something new
under the sun. Is that any reason
to believe that it would be improp-
er? The District is now unique
unique in manner that makes it
living contradiction of the very
fundamentals of democratic govern
ment. Its uniqueness is disgrace,
which makes sham of fine phrases
as to our moral obligation in respect
to self-determination for other peo-
pies in other lands. The District
may always remain unique, as far as
the established pattern of statehood
goes. But there is no reason why
that uniqueneSS should continue to
carry with it an implication which
shames every principle OF Ameri-
canism.