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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-26

YESTERDAYS STAR - Nelson Potter Of the St, Louis Browns, who won his 18th game and fifth in succession on Q sparkling two-hitter which shutout the Boston Red SoS and put the Brownies in tie with Detroit for first place in the Amer lean League,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-26
Major League Leaders

Dy United PressD
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A. L. PENNANT PICTURE

New York, Sept 26-CUP)-The Am glance.
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"Ycs" ApOlOEircd the snper. We have no bananas"
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Evening star., 1944-02-06

upon to restore" at one swoop was
$l2O, 900. Back in 1922 fire swept the
business section of Astoria, Ore. Two
weeks later, c. r. Higgins, vice
president of the Astoria Bank. called
on the head of the Redemption Sec
ton. With him he had 18 safe deposit
boxes, recovered from the ruins.
There ought to be 100000 in
these boxes" said the banker. but
the moneys badly chArred. If you
can recover even small amount. it
will give us new start.
Within six weeks. the Redemption
Section had identified all the money.
and the sum recovered was $4,000.
not 500, 900. One Of the Deposition
owners had placed his loss at 5000
Evening star., 1944-02-06

opened an enormous tin box. Inside
were fifteen rolls of currency, each
rolled UP almost as tight as cigarette.
Every roll contained hundred dol
lars. While the bills were badly
charred. they weren't beyond recog-
milton. So I said: Relax, and 60 out
and see the sights. When you come
back, III know what your luck is
when she returned a few hours
later. had one roll positively ident-
fed. And within a week we had re-
stored and redeemed every bill"
But not everyone is 80 fortunate.
Untold thousands of dollars are lost
forever each year by being buried.
Buried money. say the Treasury ex-
Evening star., 1944-02-06

perts. is the hardest of all to identify.
Dampness and decay destroy the en-
graved Identification markings.
There is an infinite variety of
Other ways in,which currency is mutt
lated. Much of it goes through the
nations laundries, in the pockets of
soiled clothing. sometimes turning
faded white and shrinking to three
fourths of its original size.
Small children tear up pFodi-
gious amounts; rats and mice
chew up moro. Frequently hank
notes are rum over by Lawn mowers.
When damaged Or burned currency
is presented for redemption, the
money is first sorted into its separate
bills. Next the fragments of each bill
are mounted on a piece of paper the
exact size of the bank note.
If there is three -fifths Of more of the
original note, the bill is redeemed at
full value. When there is less than
three-fifths and more than two
fifths. one-half of the face value Is
given for the note.
Dolicase. 1lduful WEEK
RARELY do the experts even find it
necessary to use a magnifying glass
They can tell almost at a glance
which of the more than 135 issues
of currency they are dealing with, u
well az the correct denomination.
The biggest amount of money the
currency redeemers ever were called
Evening star., 1944-02-06

$4,000 less than his box actually
contained, because he did not want
his fellow townsmen to know his rsal
wealth. He and the other box holders
got every cent Of their money back.
Should any Of your currency be
burned or otherwise damaged. the
experts Of the Redemption Section
offer these suGgestions:
Do not handle the money more than
absolutely necessary. If the currency
was fat when damaged. do not roll
q fold it. If it was originally in a roll.
do not attempt to straighten it out.
Currency 80 badly burned as to be
brittle should be packed carefully in
cotton. And mail the damaged can-
rency to: Redemption Division, Office
Of the Treasurer. Washington. D. c.
But the best tip Of all is: don't
hoard currency: buy War Bonds.
= jAlEs 1EyM Muller
Evening star., 1944-02-06

worst sea disasters. Records showed
that these boxes had contained S., 500.
And. though the boxes yielded only
pile of dark ashes. "a. 100 was identi-
fed and redeemed.
Many a family hoard has been
destroyed" by fire and miraculously
restored by the Treasury experts.
There was the schoolteacher from the
Iowa corn belt who walked into Re-
demption Section with tears rolling
down her cheeks. She had hidden all
her savings behind the furnace. Some
one lit the furnace and hot SCOT ig-
nited the money.
when she entered my Office" the
head of the Division says, she
Evening star., 1944-02-06

IN A small North Carolina town the
other day a worker dropped his
pocketbook into a machine for
shredding cigarette tobacco. The wal
let contained every cent the worker
owned. and while he looked on help
lessly, the machine reduced his for
tune to finely-chopped excelsior.
Without much hope. he gathered up
"a much of the shredded currency as
he could locate and sent it to the
Treasury Department in Washington.
Some days later. he received new bank
notes for those he had destroyed.
This incident is typical of the feats
Of magic accomplished by a little
group of workers in the Treasury
Department's Redemption Section.
Tsllin1 Fire and YIseA
A1Mosr $4,000 worth of ruined
currency is identified every year by
these experts. Few national catastro-
phes occur without at least a little
money, badly mutilated. burned or
water-soaked, being sent to the Re-
demption Section.
For weeks following Florida hurri-
cane, the fortune restorers received
hank notes from victims. Indescrib-
ably water soaked and mutilated, al
most all of this currency was soon
redeemed for close to its original value.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

Among the most-prized exhibits of
the money magicians are two metal
boxes, blackened and melted beyond
recognition. They are the purser's
safety boxes of the ill-fated Moro
Castle, which burned off the New
Jdsey coast in one of Americas
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
Editors S Mail
Wants Boycott

Dear Sir:
Don't you think that II all
the CIO would 60 on record
to boycott Montgomery Ward
a. Co. and notify them of their
intent that you could change
the stand of this company?
Who is it that buys most of
the things that Montgomery
Ward has to sell? The work
ers. Your paper uses the
UAW-CIO motto on its mast
head, united We Stand"
Why not live up to that senti-
ment and see what we can do
to change the stand of this
labor hating corporation?
w. S. Munson,
r. l.. Y. e. II. No. l42.
In view of the fact that there
IL no Montgomery Ward Com
pany store in Toledo. a boycott
would hardly be appropriate
here. On the other hand, the
law specifically states that
boycott is illegal. However, IL
you or others have been order
ing from the mail order house
and wish to show your senti-
ments, there is nothing to pre-
vent you or others from using
your own judgment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
Our Task

One of the things which labor takes
realistic position on, the one thing upon
which it has concentrated and must con-
tinue to concentrate, is the education OF It's
own members.
Nothing could illustrate the large field
open for union educators better than the
results of the poll conducted by this news
paper some weeks ago, in which the ques-
tion was asked, SHOULD the Dies Commit
tee for the investigation of un-American
activities be eliminated"
Slightly more than 35 per cent OF those
answering the question were favorable to
continuance of the Dies Committee, al
though this paper had carried many stories
about the methods used by the Dies Com
mittee, including the efforts being made
nv il to discredit the CIO Political Action
Committee.
There is no sense in trying to white
wash the results of the poll. The figures
sneak for themselves. Nor should we tind
fault with those who believe, apparently
in sincerity, that the Dies Committee
should he continued. Rather, we should
examine ourselves, our educational pro-
gram, our efforts in this labor newspaper
to enIighten our members and bring them
the true facts.
IL the Dies Committee poll does no
thing else, il should Danish any SNUG feel
ing of satisfaction that we may have that
our educational program is clicking and
that our members are eating II up ana
clamoring for more. Ii should cause all
of us who think we know what the Geo.
nomic and political facts really are, to re-
examine our program and try to reach
those who obviously either have not been
reached, or who remain unCOnvinced.
Perhaps we are being too honest in ad-
mitting that we are not entirely success
full. vet. we believe that the majority who
voted i'm favor of abolishng the Dies Com
mittee are Just as interested as we are In
knowing what is in the minds OF their
fellow workers.
Our educational program must he
stepped up. We must reach a larger pro-
portion of those we apparently are
not reaching.
Every union minded member should
constitute a one-man educational commit.
tee and endeavor to the best OF his or her
ability 10 reach those who still have not
achieved that condition of mind which we
call union -mindedness, Our task Is great
and time is fleeting. Let all of us rededi-
cate ourselves to the great task Of enlight.
ening those among us who still are the
victims of the propaganda Of our enemies
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
Price Control Week

Nav II to "a has been designated as
Price Control Week by representatives OF
labor, farm, educational, veteran and con
sumers' organizations, who met in Wash
ington several weeks ago to devise ways
and means of saving price control.
In Toledo, Mayor Lloyd T.. Roulet, in
eooperation with the CIO, which is taking
leading part in seeking 10 retain effective
price control, has issued a proclamation
naming May IL to "a Price Control Week
in Toledo.
At the present time, the OPA is spend
ing twelve million dollars year 10 keep
check on IS billion dollars expended an
nually by the consumers of the country.
Obviously, the OPA needs considerable
more money to enforce the law. That is
something for us TO shoot at during Price
Control Week.
Principal aim of the consumers OF this
country is TO save price control itself.
This cannot be done by the mere expedi-
ent of asking the members of Congress to
maintain the OPA and increase its ef
fectiveness as an enforcement agency. All
congressman say they are in favor of price
control, the same as the Toledo real estate
interests said they were in favor of price
control when they fought the proposed
"black market ordinance" Congressman
must be nailed down to some specific
principles.
Price control without effective enforce
ment is nothing. We have already seen
what occurred when congress pared the
OPA budget to the point where enforce.
ment has been made difficult due to lack
of funds.
Unless we secure adequate price con-
troll and increased appropriations for en-
forcement, we will surely get, what, in
effect, amounts to wage cuts in the rising
costs of commodities.
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CIO President, Philip Murray, brought out
during his talk at the Civic Auditorium, will
say that was sdeply disappointed at the turn
out of people
Out of approximately so 900 or more CIO
members in this city, there were less than 900
interested enough to attend the meeting and
hear discussion of postwar employment prob
lens. 1t seems scarcely possible that this lack
of interest on the part of workers is because
the philosophy of life of thousands of our
people is summed up in the words Live for
today and take no thought for the morrow"
If the workers have now reached the point
where they are unworried about the future
because of the temporary and unhealthy
prosperity born of wartime production we
have reached sorry state of affairs
EMPLOYMENT
Employment is the most important subject
in the lives of everyone who has to work for
a living Just because man may now be work
ing 48, 50 or so hours week and perhaps
making lot of money while SO occupied, is
no indication that he will continue indefinite
ly along the same line.
When the depression began back in 1929,
there were lot of people working and making
what was considered big money in those days.
They played the stock market, patronized the
bootleggers, purchased bigger and better homes
than their neighbors and expensive cars, anSr
then, without warning, the bottom fell out r al
their world.
Within few years, millions of people weSas-
unemployed standing in lines at relief statoTS 4
or begging for the opportunity to work. Evalo
after the New Deal came 10 power, the eco
nomc conditions Were terrible and remained
or less that way until the war forced us
to work in order to save our country.
save country.
In the face of our most recent past, it does
hat NIT opIU
indifferent to their future that they would not
even exert themselves sufficiently to listen to
man like Philip Murray discuss their most
important problem
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worked Rich man. beggerman,
man, all going to lift together, We were united
going united None would unduy profit from
be protected from management Manage
would be protected from labor.
A DREAM
1t all seems like lovely dream Equality sacrifice
to rule day Labor would set aside its and
only weapon right strike 1t would stick the job and
the War Labor Board adudcate the disputes and differences
opinion would frozen to the country from
bring about sabizaon such the country had
never before known in time of
We were ready willing yes to forget our
differences prudces and get down to the task
winning production transportation political
Forward march, together united
nation.
Lab its plans Yes industry made its plans too
Together happy family producing in
pety things and allies armies needed
down the forces of darkness and oppression.
AWAKENING
bright managerial brain discovered that the War Labor
labor and place OBJ
provocatons in the path of labor Some vndcve
managerial who hated labor Just much after the wagner
perhaps than before discovered that the War Labor
Board was thrown the window by
industrial corporation and the nnumerabe needle prcknss
of labor by management began in earnest
Labor worked overtime money than it had
many The wrinkles in its abdomen place
the obesity extended to the space between
the Compacent giving though for the future
labor ignored the elections in large numbers and the forces VINO
continually prestige and pef elected
willing and compliant Congress
Equality sacrifice exempied by limitation placed
upon the high Pteous whnes of big
business struck responsive and sympathetic chord IN CON
gresona behold Congress order free
enterprise safeguard initiative did with the income
limitation Men high places breathed sigh of relefthe
big formula back.
Special interests farm the farmers
Congress They found receptive waiting
only be asked for favor The asking met with the
quick giving of whose members seemed to
only against the Axis but against
the people who fighting the
spraed the OPA sabotaged shameessly Chise
and black market operators became sought after as the
prohibition booegges Every safeguard which had been
promise broken half broken
grew restive despite the msresment and abuse
which it from unfriendly and the
paid propagandss the powers of pe it stuck to the job
with soppages that detracted less than percent
face of the record since December T. 194 Labor
told that it have faith in and management
must have faith in labor
be- Labor has been pushed with increasing
with each succeeding month"; The faith
which shaken destroyed and
that those who torment and provoke it will
change the and labor its traditional
method of defense.
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force each worker to be on his own with no
organization The method was to smear and
attempt to dScredit unions and to represent
the act of joining one as unpatriotic.
implant the idea that all union organizers
were agents of Moscow.
The American plan offered the workers
no security whatever and was similar to the
modern diatribes against social security, but
the organized propaganda machine which ran
it was huge and powerful organization
1t was backed up by detective agencies
employed to break up unions and yellow
dog" contracts which compelled worker seek
ing job to sign statement that he would
never join union. There were also certain
fake substitutes for job security and living
wages These were company sponsored insur-
ance plans and the plan of selling the workers
stock in the company to make them think
they were employers
The rank and file did not completely
subscribe to these illusory schemes and were
waiting for leadership to fight for real union
security.
STEEL STRIKE
The Steel Workers were especially militant
and in 1919 occurred the great steel strike.
There were "a international unions in steel.
A National Committee for Organizing the iron
and steel industry was set up. President Sam
Gompers of the AFL was chairman and Will
liam Foster then a socialist leader was
secretary.
The full force of the employers was used
to break the strike which occurred when Judge
Gary head of u. S. Steel refused to meet with
the union committee.
Violence a vicious kept press, and gun
men could have been resisted, had the Com
mittee been q united body, but each of the
"a internationals was trying to sign new mem
bers up in their own union, and when the
most powerful one. which was the Anal
gamated Assn of Iron, Steel, and Tin Work
ers withdrew, the cause was lost, At the next
convention the National Committee was dis
banded. Al
The workers of the steel industry in u
"a separate unions and the unorganized ON
needed industrial organization. When this
came with the CIO, the Steel Corporations
were at last forced to deal with organiza
ton which could enforce the demands of it's
members.
To be continued.
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the alleged reckless and wild
expenditure of all this extra
cash that the nation will be
driven into q dangerous infla-
ton. The answer which seems
to be receiving the most atten-
ton is to extract as much OF
the workers dough as possible
and do it quickly and as pain
lessly as possible.
There are several ways of
seeing to it that the worker is
kept stripped of his excess
cash and congress is trying to
use, them all - increased
taxation, killing subsidies and
further crippling of OPA, re-
fusing to appropriate enough
money for proper enforcement
of ceiling prices.
HOW MUCH
Just how much money does
the average working man have
to throw around in luxurious
living after all expenses are
paid?
Unless he happe ems to
be working long hours of
overtime at time and one half
and double-time, or has more
than one member of his fam
lily working, the worker finds
himself caught between two
millstones of constantly rising
prices and increasing taxation
with no relief in sight under
the little steel formula.
There is a very sharp differ
enee of opinion on our cost of
living between statistics re-
leased by the Bureau of Labor
in Washington and the find
ings of the labor committee
on the cost of living,
The Bureau of labor
conte ds that the cost
of living has risen but
23.4 per cent, whereas the la
bor committee finds the cost
at ASS per cent at conserva-
tive figures. The Department
of Agricultures figures for the
cost of living for the farmers
closely approximates those of
the labor committee.
President Philip Murray in
discussing the little steel for
mula cites the plight Of the
steel workers, who with the
aid of government officials
recently made a survey of the
living expenses of steel cor
poration employees. The survey
showed that after the workers
had provided the necessities of
life for their families, paid
their taxes and purchased war
bonds, they actually found
themselves in the hole on an
average of 80 cents per week.
II the steel workers found
their case as expressed by
Philip Murray, the same situ-
alton must apply TO millions OF
others, particularly in the soft
goods industry, such as the tex
tile workers where the aver
age weekly wage is slightly be-
low $50 per week, and the
white collar workers who have
never had the benefit of or
ganization.
Tune In wT0L sunday I2isO p. NJ. =
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m a k | n g
much more
money than
is good for
them or for
society.
The guard
ians of the
national des-
tiny seem to
feel that un-
less S O m e.
t h in 6 is
done to curb
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On The
Beam
BY Clayton w. Fountain

The Montgomery Ward case
is richly refreshing. 1t is a
shot in the arm for fighters
against domestic Fascism, Our
morale ought to be boosted by
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WHY don't we quit throw in the towel, take
the count and turn the world over to the people
who never rest and are continually on the
quest for power, prestige and pelf?
Ultimately my thought turned to the
war as thoughts inevitably do these days and
I remembered the indignation of the American
people when the Japs set off the war with
their attack on Pearl Harbor. / remembered
the great unity, the spirit of national pride
which swept over this country.
All was lovely. We were going to win the
n tnn her
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this example
of American
armed forces
fighting Fas
eisn on the
home front.
B ou quets
for President
r 0 o S e welt
are in order
on this occa-
sion. 1t takes
CUTS to have
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munition, buying bonds and, to
top it all, sending out t hoSe
boxes. I'm really proud of the
entire outfit to say the least.
My sincere wish is that after
this war is over / can get my
job back in the outfit that's so
Red, White and Blue.
My dad worked there about
20 years and I'd like to follow
in his footsteps. Thanks again
for the boxes. They mean a lot.
Sincerely yours,
Pfc. James G.. Velker,
United States Marine Corps.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12
Spending
Your Buck
BY Harold Billheimer,
LEGAL IL Research Director.

One would think from read
Ing the columns of the daily
press and the remarks of the
congressional re c tionaries
that the workers of today are
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-12

a good standard of living,
government ownership of
utilities, taxes based on abil-
ity to pay and projects for
better housing. The workers
would have backed this pro-
gram to the hilt, but the
leadership of the AFL wa
vered before the pressure
by the employers applied for
their American Plan"
THE AMERICAN PLAN
This was simply a drive
IN doctxonr Tho 1lninnn and
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No doubt others who heard
my words were thinking the
same thing that was in my
mind, We remembered back
not so many years when we
were a disreputable crowd of
labor radicals" driven from
pillar to post and looked
down upon by all the "re-
spectacle" elements in this
city.
MURRAY'S TALK
Without going into the
point which our national