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Montana labor news., 1944-05-04
this Is THE RECORD.
FORGET IT

For those who have lost confidence in
the President as champion of the COM
mon man, we list below % important
social, economic and governmental re
forms sponsored by the Roosevelt adj
m%inistration since 1888, We print the
list merely as a reminder for those who
may have forgotten.
1. Establishment Of a sound banking
system.
2. Creation of a Federal Deposit In
slrance Corporation to guarantee bank
deposits.
3. Organization of the Home owners
Loan Corporation to save homes from
foreclosure.
4. Saving farms from foreclosure by
establishment of the Farm Credit Ad-
m~inistration.
S. Rescuing agriculture from disaster
through the AAA and the Soil Conser-
yation Act.
6. Providing truth in the sale Of Sc
ourities and protecting the security of
investments through the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
7. Stun clearance.
8. Reduction of farm tenancy.
9. Old age insurance.
10. Unemployment insurance.
II. Federal aid TO the crippled and
blind.
IL. Public works projects, carried on to
provide works and to build thousands of
permanent Improvements.
10. Distribution of funds through the
Federal Emergency Relief A%dministra-
ton to save starving people who had
reached the end of their resources.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04
EUROPE,s CHILDREN

Our ad wIiters-the only romanticists
left in America in this third year of var
have been hammering away at a vision Of
the future, in which dishwashing has
been eliminated, the air teens with hell
copters, all girls are pinup girls, and there
is no pink toothbrush. We would like to
show these r|omanticists and any other
unreasoning optimists, a book Of photo
graphs called "Europe's Children" by
Therese Bonney.
These photographs were taken in
France, Spain, England, Sweden and Fin
land. They were taken in the early
months of the war and illustrate only the
beginning Of a tale of wreckage and deya-
station. Even 50, the pictures do not show
merely people and places. They show
Nightmares.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

two years ago by the present world con-
flict which naturally must be given first
consideration and which is being handled
so magnificently by our President whose
defeat, should he run, would be hailed
by Hitler as a major victory.
It is only the money lenders. the large
business interests, and the utility com
panies DESTROYS of high interest and ex-
eessive profits M rates, and their
stooges, that from a purely selfish stand
point can find fault with his record and
clamor for the return Of the good old
days Of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.
1t is up to the common man, who asks
only for equal opportunity and no spe-
cial privileges, to see that he retains
the ground he has gained. This cant
be accomplished by registering and vot-
ing for his best interest.--The yellow
stone.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

1t is impossible to remain complacent
about the future of Europe, or the future
of humanity, when you know what has
already happened to so many of u next
generation. The starved and deserted
children with famine-distorted legs and
bodies, distended bellies, and hopeless or
terrified eyes who stare back at the reader
from the pages of Miss Bonney's remark
able book, will grow up to be citizens
the "brave, new world" we are supposed
ly fighting for. We know what perma-
nent harm has been done TO them physic-
ally. What can we expect from the minds
and hearts of those who have never
learned mercy, humanity, generosity or
hope, because none of these attributes of
humanity and civilization have ever been
shown them?
This is not the kind Of future for which
labor has been giving its strength, its
SONS, its savings. We are proving on the
battlefield the vanity of Hitler's boast the
the Germans are a superior race. Twenty
years from now, we may yet find that our
shortsighted neglect of the children in
Nazi-dominated Europe has indeed made
of the Germans the master race of the
continent, physically if not morally.
Many of these children can still be res
cued. They can be fed, clothed and cared
for by the International Red Cross, the
Quakers, or other reputable relief organi-
cations, and safeguards can be set up to
ensure that there will be no misuse of re-
lief funds. If through inertia, cowardice
and stupidity, these children are to be for
gotten, written off as a dead loss by the
governments Of the United Nations, the
American Federation of Labor wants to
record the fact that it has net forgotten,
has never consented, and is not resigned.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04
MILLION-MEMBER
JAW PUBLISHES
FINANCIAL STATUS

DETROIT. 49, OPP The semiannual
financial statement of the United Auto
Workers (CIO), always made public
without legal pressure. shows that for
the six months ended December 81, 7943
the dues-paying membership averaged
$780, 6 Sec.-Treas. George F. Adde's, re-
ports. Adding men and women members
in military service the total membership
rises to around 100000.
Union income average 1928, 1867 per
month. Union outgo average $469, 099.89
per month. There are IT'S local unions,
averaging 1878 members each, but the
huge Ford local 600 in Dearborn alone
has over 10000 members. more than most
international unions in the CLIO.
The UAW-CIO paid $3.50, 5O6.2 in per
capita tax to the CLIO in the six months,
on an average membership Of 968, 354,
figuring sc per member per month. The
union also contributed 100000 to the
CLIO political action fund, Adde's reports.
Total assets December 81 were 81 ,947,-
1855. compared with s439,663 April 80,
1871, and with $1,622,622 June 80, 1913,
an increase of $S24,532 in six months,
The JAW holds 1888, 900 in war bonds.
Affiliated local unions Adde's says,
have also purchased as many bonds as
their treasures would permit and the
membership of our union have nobly re-
sponded in every drive launched by the
government. In other drives, such as the
war chest and American Red Cross and
many others, the UAW-CIO has every
right to feel proud of the contributions
made by its membership.
so it is with all phases Of our a
TONS war effort. In the donating Of
blood, in the establishment Of child-care
centers, in suggestions to improve pro-
duetion output, in fact in everything
which would alleviate the horrors and
sufferings of war and bring about a
speedy victory, the union is actively
participating"
Analysis of the total expenditures Of
S2,8t4.467. 30 in the 6-month period
shows that S266, O26. 20, or almost 1919
was spent by the editorial department,
of which $3.50, 7O4.94 was charged to
printing the JAW paper and mailing.
General and administrative expense,
$729, SOL .09, was the largest expense
group, including convention expense.
The aircraft department, which carried
the heaviest burden of organizing, spent
$435, Ass 9 The Washington office, the
unions listening post and pressure fun
mel in the national capital cost Ssh
467.87. The Medical Research Institute
cost SIG, 1874, of which $l1,512.3O was
for medical consultants' fees.
On education the international union
spent s86,147.22 in the six months, on
research s22,7O2.56 and on recreation
$1O,47448.
Adde's renews his regular plea for a
postwar security fund for the union, say
ing:
we have always commended that a
labo reorganization during periods Of full
employment and particularly during a
period such as we are at present going
through, should save at least 200 Of it's
income. In our particular case this
would have called for a saving of $780,
900 or approximately 5000, 600 more than
we actually were able to set aside
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

IA. Enactment of minimum wages and
maximum hours laws.
Is. The Civilian Conservation Corps
and Reforestation.
16. The National Youth Administra-
zion, aiding thousands of underprivileged
young people.
II. Legislation abolishing child labor.
10. Reciprocal trade agreements.
10. Stimulation of private home build-
ing through the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration,
20. Breaking up utility %monopolies
and protection of consumers from extor-
Tomato rates.
81. Resettlement of farmers from mar
ginal lands that cannot be cultivated
profitably.
2. Getting electricity out to the farm
ers through the Rural Identification
Administration
%. Water conservation programs.
"a. Drouth control and drouth relief.
25. Crop insurance and ever-normal
granary.
26. Assistance to farm co-operatives.
27. Conservation of natural resources,
%. The National Labor Relations Act.
The record speaks for itself.
This is the record Of the New Deal
promised to the common people. In the
matter of social, economic and govern
mental reforms, it cannot be matched by
all previous administrations combined.
When you hear anyone criticising the
New Deal, ask him or her which n Of
these reforms should be repealed. Every
banker, depositor, home owner, farmer,
investor, Stun dweller, tenant farmer,
old person, unemployed, crippled, blind,
laborer, youth, user of gas or electricity
should give thanks to Providence for
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
This matchless record was halted some
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

WASHMGTON-FP)-The AFL, CLIO
and the Railway Labor Executive Asso-
citation fought jointly for re-enactment
of the price control act without wreck
ing amendments at Senate banking
committee hearings as rank and file
nionists from all over the U. S. ap-
peared on Capitol Hill to demonstrate to
Congress the peoples demand that price
control be saved.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04
Virginia Machinists Urge
Joint Political Action

RICHMOND, Va.-FP)-United Ac-
ton by all sections of organized labor,
regardless of %affiliation, to defeat re-
action in Congress and big business was
urged here by the Virginia Council Of
Machinists (AFL).
Overriding Pres. William Green's cir
cular letter banning joint political
action, the council in adopting its unity
resolution also went on record as favor
ing passage of a similar resolution by
the convention of the state federation of
labor, which meets here in May.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

NEW YORK-FP)-Aroused by the
silent filibuster against the anti-poll tax
bill in the Senate, the National Negro
Congress urged prompt and uncompro-
missing action" in a wire to Senator
James M. Mead DIN. ", proposed
leader in the Senate figh tor HR T..
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

Congressional u executive balm for
war profiteers is no boon to the morale
of the soldiers in uniform or the soldiers
in ~overalls.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04
Ed O'Keefe Elected Head
Of Butte Police Officers
Protective Association

Patrolman Ed O'Keefe was elected
president of the Butte Police officers
Protective association at the annual
meeting Of the organization Monday
night. Following the business session,
held in the city hall, the officers enjoyed
a dinner party in Meaderville.
Other officers elected include John
O'Mara, vice president; Bill Whipple.
secretary; George Tonkin, treasurer;
John Lyden, sergeant at arms. and John
Gardiner, John Moriarity and Roy
Beadle, delegate committee.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-04

Those who twist with obvious malice
the labor news sent to our fighting men
are playing into the hands of our enemy
by pitting Americans against Americans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
Group OF Craze Diggers
Luckiest Men In muasion

laundry marks in his clothing if
there is any doubt about who he
is.
There were so many dead and
SO few of us-only 18-that we had
the engineers use a bulldozer to
scoop out long trench four feet
deep. Then we dug individual
graves a foot deep in the TRENCH
carefully marking them with tenn
porary stakes to which dog tags
were attached. Another dog tag
was left on the body as an identity
safeguard The location of h
grave and the identity of the body
on each side was charted in our
records.
ut is a hard, tough job to col
lect and bury dead properly-one
nobody wants and which we didn't
ask for. But somebody had to do
it and we were assigned to it.
THE first few days it was
plenty risky, too, because every
body was in the front lines. More
than once some of our boys dig
ging graves had to jump in them
and use them as foXholes because
of German sniper fl y"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
.FWA WILL GET
HOSPITAL PLAN

Plans for construction OF
q service building at James Walker
Memorial hospital, which have
teen revised for the second time,
will be submitted Wednesday to
the Regional office of the Federal
Works Agency in Richmond, Leslie
Boney, achitect, said yesterday.
The revised pia1s, which we're
asked by the FWA in a letter re-
ceived here Saturday, call for no
material change in the building,
just the reassignment of space"
Boney said.
Plans have been required to be
changed for second time to meet
FWA requirements in order for the
hospital to receive a government
crant to construct the As by 120-
feet service structure.
The revised plan calls for the
oullding'd first floor to contain en-
ployes' dining rooms, linen, diet
a-y, and bulk storage rooms; and
the second floor to have three cold
storage rooms, staff dining room,
kitchen to serve the entire hospital
and diet kitchen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
COUNTY SCHOOLS
NEED TEACHERS

The Board of Education is hav-
mo .4he most difficult time it has
ever had' in getting teachers to
staff New Hanover county schools
for the next school year, Assistant
SUPERINTENDENT of Schools j. w.
Grise said yesterday.
New Hanover county has been
fortunate, even in the previous war
wears, in securing personnel, Grlse
declared. But this year, the story
is different. 81,
"At the present time we have II
vacancies in the white grammar
schools. The designations are still
coming in. We had three this morn
ing" he reported.
The difficulty is attributable
Grise believes, to the fact that 50
many teachers have quit the pro-
fession to go into other work, and
also to the fact that only small
number of students in the 1914 col
lege graduating classes prepared
themselves to teach.
In the face of the teacher short
age, the county schools ~-e expect
ING an enrolment from 500 to 9Ou
HIGHER than the record enrolment
of last year, when there were A.
700 pupils.
Schools will open on Monday,
September 4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
MOSCOW SETS UP
LIBERATION GROUP

LONDON, July "a Up -Estab-
lishment of a committee OF nation
al liberation to take over CIVIL ao-
ninistration in Russian liberated
areas of Poland under the Polish
national council was announced
over the weekend by the Moscow
radio. and Immediately it drew the
fire of the Polish governmental
exile in London.
A spokesman for the exile gov
eminent described the Liberation
committee as a 'body OF left wing
radical intellectuals' and declared
it would not receive the backing
of the Polish people.
'They have no representative OF
the Polish masses among their
number the spokesman said.
Moscow said the liberation COM
mittee would be headed by Ed
ward Osuska -Morawski as chair
man and director for foreign al
fairs. Among the vice chalrmen
was Wands Wasilewska, president
of the union of polish patriots IN
Moscow, which has challenged the
authority of the exile government
in London.
The Moscow broadcast said the
Polish National Council would take
over the union of patriots n d
"also organization, cultural and
welfare activities in t Polish
colonies in the Soviet Union"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
TRUCK DRIVERS
WARNED BY 0DT

Operators of commercial motor
vehicles were warned by the Will
mington District Office of Defense
Transportation yesterday that The
manner in which they operate and
maintain their vehicles in confor.
nifty with good maintenance prac-
tees may be factor i'll determin-
ing whether or not they are entitled
to new equipment.
There continues to be evidence
that many motor trucks and motor
truck tires are being abused and
prematurely worn out by some
truck operators even though the
great majority of the operators
are doing very good job in con.
serving their equipment, George T.
Musselman ODT District Manager
at Wilmington, N. c., said.
With the new streamlined pro.
cedure for allocating trucks by the
ODT district offices, each of which
has a maintenance specialist or
its staff, the ODT is considering
an inspection of the condition oil
old trucks which are to be replac,
ed with new trucks, in order tc
determine if the past maintenance
work has been ample, Mr.. Mussel
man explained. Operators mus
conserve their present trucks, he
emphasized, and operators who dc
not do so should not be granted
new vehicles.
Many items can be used as cri
terra in judging the quality Of
maintenance on an old vehicle, he
pointed out. An operator who has
very poor results with tires car
be assumed to be serious offend
err insofar as overloads and speeds
are concerned. Evidence of insult
ficient and irregular fabrication tc
be observed directly on the old
vehicle. The operators purchases
or requests for new parts to re.
place parts which have been brok.
en- or obviously abused may be an
other indication of poor mainten.
ance and abusive operation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
WPB RELAXES
EQUIPMENT SALES

WASHINGTON, July 24-RHThe
War Production board today re-
Taxed restrictions On the sale of
26 types of construction equipment
as a result of improvement in the
supply situation.
Volume of production is not at
fected by the order which makes
the equipment available under a
lower priority rating of AA-5, eff
fective Aug. 3. Previously the ma
terials could be sold to war agen-
cies without restriction and to
other purchasers only upon spe-
cific authorization by WPB.
Items on which restrictions were
eased include bulldozers and an
gledozers, concrete surfacing ma
chimes, some types of construction
material conveyors and rock drill
ing machines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
BY HAL BOYLE

WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN
NORMANDY. July 20.-Delayed,
-(R-The luckiest outfit to land on
Normandy's shellswept beaches on
invasion day was a group whose
job was not to fight but to bury
dead.
1--WE were just lucky-we didn't
have a SINCE casualty said Pvt.
James F. White, 23-year-old for
mer railway electricians helper of
Louisville, KY, who waded ashore
at 4 pm. on D day with the
Graves Registration Unit.
The beach they landed on was
the hottest along the whole land
ing area. For more than IL hours
they were helplessly pinned to the
shelter of an abandoned German
trench. 1t was between two con-
crete shelters which they were
afraid to enter because of posi-
BILE boobytraps.
1--WE saw men all around us be-
ing killed." said Platoon Leader
1t. Robert E. Berry, &c, Whining
ton, Del. An undertaken in civil
life, he had helped bury some
Pearl Harbor dead while stationed
in Hawaii.
White told of the horror of those
first blistering hours and days in
France as he and three comrades
Sgt. Chester Schram, Gladstone.
Mich, Pvt. Alfonso Ortega, Los
Angeles, Calf and Pvt. Cecil c.
Deel, Clendening. w. Va.-sprayec
white paint on a group of crosses
in the first American cemetery in
France.
II was glad I was six feet one
and a half inches tall when we
slid into water up to our shoulders
and started wading ashore carry
ing our carbines," said W h t e
''But when we hit that beach
would have been glad to have
been a midget.
eve were pinned down imme-
diately by sniper and 49, fire and
couldn't move until the following
morning when our troops h &
pushed inland. We started to work
Immediately.
II never in my life saw any
thing like that beach and hope
never do again. Our boys hac
paid terrible price to get ashore
although I guess that the mum.
Der of dead actually was small
considering the number of men
landed.
eve buried 457 men from that
stretch of beach in three days
The first thing we did was pick
up filters washed up after them
were killed on the way to the
beach.
"Most of our dead had been
killed by hits in the chest and
head. They had been caught in a
crossfire from German positions
before they could get across the
sand. We picked up the bodies
and laid them in rows in a field
that the engineers had cleared Of
mines.
Then we started processing the
bodies-that is, identifying them
fully and removing personal eff
fects for shipments home. We do
everything possible to check the
dead mans identity-even list the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
PROMOTED

Second Lieut.. John J. Patrick,
of Wilmington, has been promoted
to first lieutenant in the Chemical
Warfare service at Pine Bluff arse
nal, Ark, where he is serving as
chief of the fire department at the
munitions center. Called to activ
duty with the National Guard in
September, 1941, he later attended
the officers candidate school of
the Chemical Warfare service at
Edgewood Arsenal, Md, getting his
commission in December, 1912.
Lieutenant Padrick was formerly
employed by the city of Whining
ton with the police radio patrol.
His wife and daughter, Gloria, live
at Pine Bluff
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
BOMBARDIER

Warrant Office (Sg) Francis c.
Buck, son of w. F. Buck. of Winter
Park land Mrs. C. E. Buck of Sl3
North Fifth street, Saturday COM
pleted bombardier training at the
AAF training commands bombar-
dier school at Carlsbad. N. Mex,
Army Air field. AS an officer in
the Army Air Force ready for &C
tive duty, his destination is not dis
closed. His wife is the former Jean
E. Greer of Newport News, Va.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
Hospitals, Schools Get
$500 Carloads OF Eggs

CHICAGO, July 24-AR-The War
Food Administration said today it
had disposed of $500 carloads OF
eggs for school lunches, hospital
and other institutional uses, to
driers and for other purposes since
Jan. /.
The eggs were part of 100000
cases (about 10000 carloads) OF
shell eggs bought for price sup
port between Jan. l and July 10.
Purchasing of graded shell eggs
is being continued under the pro-
gram, but at reduced volume be-
cause of generally improved auc-
ton conditions. the WA reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
CHAMPION

CAMP LEJEUNE, July 24.-P)
Pfc. Ben Lewoncyzk, duration
golf champion of Newington, Con-
necticutt, is the new Camp Lee
ieune champion. He defeated 1t.
(JG) Wallace J. Gardner, of Alba
ny, N. Y, and 2. Earlier Lewon-
cyzk won, the title in the enlisted
mems division while Gardner had
taken the officers championship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
BOMBER MECHANIC

Pvt. Julian M. Riggs, who en-
tered the B-24 Liberator bomber
mechanics school at Keesler Field,
Biloxi, Miss, approximately II
weeks ago. was graduated Satur-
day. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. C. Riggs, ST., of us North
Tenth street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25

1t. Edwin x. Warren has COM
pleted training as a member of a
combat crew of a B-29 Liberator
bomber and is spending a short
leave with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. F. Warren, at 1907 Ann
street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
EACH WAR is BLOODIER

There we're $4,000 casualties in
the Russo Japanese War; 785, 900
III the Crimean War; 100000 in
Tie Revolutionary War; 100000
IN the Napoleonic wars; and 49,
00C, 900 in World War I.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25

eral months. Three brothers also
are in service, Pvt. George T.
Ramsey; in New Guinea; Pvt. FL
mer F. Ramsey at Camp Davis;
and Seaman Second Class Samuel
Ramsey, Shoemaker, Calf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
LELAND MAN HURT

Mf. ana Mrs.
!: Robert H. Ram
: sey, of Leland,
has received word
from the War
Department that
their son, Staff
. Sgt. Robert w.
Ramsey, h a S
been wounded in
England. He is a
member of the
infantry and has
served overseas
for the past sew
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
OCEAN WAS BR1DGED. BELIEF

Some scientists now think that
Nova Scotia and the British Isles
cnce were linked by land bridge
ever W h c h elephants reached
America.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
WOUNDED

) g t. Bryant
Henry Sanders of
Hampstead, w a S
reported wound
ed in action in
North Burma on
June Is while
with an engineer
battalion. His mo-
Their, Mrs. o. L.
Hansley, has re-
ceived word he
was wounded in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25

the stomach and hip BY machine
gun bullets, but is improving. Ser
geant Sanders was sent overseas
in November, 1913, and has been in
service since December, 1912.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-25
BARRIERS NEED WRIST POWEl

Strong wrists are said to be es-
sertial to a first-class barber, so
rlen are said to be more popular
and successful than women as hair
C.ressers.