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The union times., 1944-05-20
Picture To Be Restricted To Members Of Organized
 Labor

Complete plans for the showing of the motion picture, ''Actual War Scenes,' at the meeting of the New Haven Central Labor Council on Thursday, June l, were announced today.
 The motion picture, which was made by the government for presenta- tion to members of organized labor, will be seen by delegates to the Coun- Gil, the officers and executive boards of the various locals, and invited guests. Because of the fact that the motion picture is restricted to mem bers of organized labor, the general public is not invited. There is no ad- mission charge.
 The meeting will open at 8:l5, with President Harold V. Feinmark presiding. Brief addresses will be made by John J. Murphy, New England Regional Director of the American Federation of Labor; John J. Egan, secretary of the Conn. Federation of Labor; and John H. Van Vaerenewyck, A. F. L.. representative who is on loan to the War Finance Committee. The picture will then be shown. It is planned to have the meeting close not later than 10 P. M. There will be no War Bond solicitation at the showing of the picture.
 A similar program will be held at the Hartford Central Labor Union on June z; Bridgeport, June IA; New London, June IS; and New Britain, June 21.
 Dates for program in Waterbury, Meriden, and Middletown are being completed this week.
The union times., 1944-05-20
"Joey'' Feinmark Completes Training

Joey Feinmark, son of Harold V. Feinmark, president of the New Ha- ven Central Labor Council, has been graduated from the Navy's Electri- clans Mate School at Naval Training Station, Sampson, N. Y., and now awaits assignment to sea duty or to a Navy shore station.
 Joey, who has just turned Is, and who has been in the Navy since No vember, has just taken his physical examination for submarine service.
The union times., 1944-05-20
Prices Not Affected
 By Increases In Pay

WASHINGTON - Chairman William H. Davis told The Sem ate Banking and Currency Com- mittee last week that the War Labor Board has not shut the door on making recommends tiOns to President Roosevelt for upward revision of the Little Steel formula if convinced it is creating gross inequalities"
 Davis declared that wages have remained substantially unchanged'' since Oct. 2, l942, the date the second price control act went into effect. He also made clear that wage increases have had practically no effect on increased prices.
The union times., 1944-05-20
From Plumbers,
 Stean1ftters, 349

If the delegation that mailed a letter to the Executive Board of Local 349, New Haven Plumbers and Steamftters, on May 8, and failed to sign it, will appear in person at Local 349's office, on the lst floor of the Labor Temple, l37 COffe St., on May P at 7:45 P. M., they will have the opportunity to press charges to the financial secretary, Duncan McArthur.
 STANLEY GRIESINC.
 Secretary Of Board
The union times., 1944-05-20
Kenosha Labor Wins

MILWAUKEE - Kenosha Labor. AFL-CIO newspaper, has won the award for outstanding editorial writ ing in the Wisconsin Press Associa- tlon contest.
The union times., 1944-05-20
New War Loan Drive

Americans are to be asked to kick in" with 16 billion dollars for the Fifth War Loan drive, which is ex- pected to be launched in June, the Treasury announced this week.
The union times., 1944-05-20
Prefabricated Houses
 Not Desired By Americans

CHICAGO - Prefabricated houses are not the kind Americans want for their homes, according to Pres. Pat rick J. Sullivan of the Chicago Build ing Trades Council.
The union times., 1944-05-20
Independent AFL Political Action Voted By Council
New Haven Central Labor Body Calls All AF.L. Unions To Conference On June 22ILetter To Green
 Stresses Need For Vigorous Political Drive

Important developments the field of legislative political by AFL in Greater New Haven have taken place past week announced today by Harold " Feinmar president of the New Haven Central Labor Council follows
The union times., 1944-05-20
War Films To Be Labor Indorsed Shown In New Candidates Win Haven On June 1 Primary Election
Mayor Of Cleveland Wins Smashing Victory-Holt
 Goes Down To Defeat

CLEVELAND-United labor's po- litical doorbell ringing paid dividends when Democratic primary day rolled around last week.
 Indorsed by AFL, CIO and rail- road unions and the United Mine Workers, Mayor Frank J. Lausche won the Democratic nomination for governor by an unprecedented ma- Ority over the total votes of his four opponents. Lausche scored l78,56l votes as against 63, ,44O votes for his closest opponent, Mar tin L. Sweeney, reactionary ex- congressman.
 Lausche's statewide popularity with labor IS based on his hard-hitting win-the-war policies and his espousal Of labor management committees in this city's war plants.
 CHARLESTON, W. Va.-The de featist voice of ex-Sen. Rush Holt was squelched in the Democratic gubernatorial primary here. Holt, who was elected to the Senate with the backing of organized labor and then turned sour on unions, lost the Democratic nomination to his labOr-indorsed opponent, Circuit Judge Clarence W. Meadows. Mea- dOws supports the policies of Pres. Roosevelt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Turks Cut Off
Nazi Chrome
Act In Wake
Of Allied Demands

ANKARA, April 81 - Ode
layed) - Turkish chrome ship
ments to Germany and her al
lies will be halted at 7 p. m. to-
morrow in response to Allied
requests.
Foreign Minister human Men
emencioglu announced the gov
ernment's decision to the Ma
tional Assembly today, explain
ing that the action was being
taken in the light of Turkeys
position as an ally Of Britain.
He said that formal requests
that the chrome shipments be
halted had been received April
ID from the British and Amer
lean governments. The notes. he
added, said that Turkey hence
forth would be treated as neu-
trail rather than an ally if she
failed to comply.
Menemencioglu emphasized
that the Turkish government
does not regard Turkey as a neu-
trail.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
ADMITS CHARGE
Curtain Goes Up on Junior
Play at 8:l5 This Evening
June Nod Wins Applause Of
900 on Opening Night

The comedy element was ably
handled by l2-year-old, persist
ent Milly Lou, played by Isabel
Millar, and the harried maid,
Effie, as presented by Sally
Frink.
Others in the cast of the high
ly amusing play were: Arthur
Reese, Jack Porter. Charles
Towne, John Houck, Blair West,
Eleanor Smith, Bob Leonard
and Mona Noe all of whom clev-
erly re-enact their parts this
evening.
Call girl was Barbara Purton.
MNsic was furnished by the
high school orchestra before
and during the performance.
Tickets for tonight's presen-
tation may be purchased at the
door B. MacL.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
243 Made Idle
al Tank Plant
Disputes Slow Down
War Production

A series of disputes at the
Warren township tank arsenal
operated by Chrysler Corp,
rlade 243 employees idle today.
Company spokesman said SO
maintenance employees refused
to work when they reported at
the arsenal this morning and
were joined later by 104 tool
room employees and Al macnihe
repair men. The spokesman said
the men gave no reason for
stopping work.
Thursday night, com pany
spokesman said, 83 tool room
and maintenance employees quit
work in dispute over a change
in their lunch period from tbs
TO 8 p. m. They said the change
was made in order to have the
lunch period during the middle
of the nine-hour shift.
Edward Johnson, president of
Local 1913, United Automobile
Workers (CIO), with which the
workers are affiliated, said the
management was doing every
thing possible to pro woke
strikes" and said the employees
last night were sent home by
the management after they pro-
tested they were not given time
for lunch.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21

More than 1000 persons last
night attended the first per-
Torrance of June Mad" Mount
Clemens Junior Class play,
which will be repeated at 8:l5
tonight in the school auditorium
with Jodie Place carrying the
star role of Penny Wood. splen-
didly portrayed Thursday eve
ming by Joyce Randolph.
The play, story of adolesc-
ent love, was directed by Miss
Jean Hubbard. high school
speech teacher, and by Norma
Mettler, as student director.
In addition TO the fine per-
Torrance of Joyce Randolph.
Jeni Buckley and George Har-
greaves impressively portrayed
the parts of her penny Woods
parents.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Human-Torpedo
Proves a Oud
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT
ANZIO, April FL - (P) - A
German human torpedo ran
ashore north of Anzio today.
From his explosive craft IT.
year-old Kriegsmarine sailor
was lifted TO safety by two Jew
ish American soldiers.
The blond, blue-eyed German
youth told 1t. A. NJ. Berstein,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Pvt.
Joseph Hectoman, 4087 Glenn
ent ST., Detroit, Mich, that he
ran out of gas"
The apparatus consists of one
regulation torpedo about II feet
long, on which another steel
case of the same size rides piggy
back.
The top torpedo" is virtually
a midget submarine with a small
hatch near the head. The hatch
is covered with a glass dome
making it alright. The skinny
young sailor lay lengthwise,
loking out through the glass for
shipping in Anzio Harbor and
hoping to make an attack by re-
leasing the lower torpedo. Then
he hoped TO submarine" to the
beach behind the German lines.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Halifax Urges
Economic Shift
Soys Allies Must
Revolutionixe Plans

ANN ARBOR, Mich, April II
-(Pp-Viscount Halifax, British
ambassador to the United States,
asserted today that the Allied
powers must "revolutionixe"
their attitudes in postwar ap-
proaches to world economic
disorders"
In an address before the IN.
nual honors convocation at the
University of Michigan, Lord
Halifax declared that "the gang.
sters with whom we are at war
are no freaks of nature
they were the kind Of people
who, sooner or later. were like.
ly TO appear in the economic
disorders of our time.
They did not create these
disorders, though they fully exc
plotted them: and II we are %
protect ourselves against the ap-
pearance Of other ganssters, ~
have got to get rid Of the de.
orders"
This, he said, involves peoeo-
time cooperation In trade. cur.
rency, development Of industrial
backward or bankrupt eeun.
tries, adjustment Of rev mote.
rial supplies and problems g
communications.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Maxi CoPtives at Fl. Custer
Celebrate Birth of Fuehrer
Bond Concert Serves as
Salute to Gevmon Dictator

FORT CUSTER, Mich, April
FL - (R) - Evidence of fair
treatment accorded Nazi prison.
ers Of war in this country was
presented at a special celebra-
ton here late yesterday-Adolf
Hitler's 55th birthday.
Smartly attired in the uni
forms they had worn as men,
bers of the German Luftwaffe
and the Afrika Corps, several
hundred captives attended a
band concert inside the prison.
er camp. The conductor of an
orchestra which formerly play
ed at a arge Berlin hotel led
the band.
Maj. Z. F. Richter, camp COM
mander, said the prisoners nor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
5,040 Tons
Of Explosives
Daze Cities
Americans FoIlow-Up
with Deadly Stob
at Coost, Bucharest

LONDON. Apr. 21-(F-The
German radio reported a major
attack today on southeastern
Europe by American heavy
bombers, and the air ministry
announced the Raj last night
dropped the heaviest bomb load
of the war more than 5,040
tnns-on four railroad centerS
in Germany and occupied coun-
tries.
A German broadcast said
Bucharest attacked by the
American bomberS. apparently
from bases in Italy.
More than LOO bombers-
the greatest force Of these
planes ever dispatched by the
RAF-took part in last nights
smash against Cologne and
other centers.
Is BOMBERS LAST
Only Is bombers were lost
in the tremendous night opera
tons, includinga mosquito raid
on Berlin. which quickly fol-
lowed yesterdays dusk attack
on Adolf Hitler's Atlantic wall
by fleet of $50 to 1000 Flying
Fortresses.
An air ministry communiqus
said great weight Of bombs
was dropped in the four-ply as
sault, suggesting that it might
have exceeded the 4.480 tons
deposited on French rail tar
gets by a l,000-bomber flet on
Tuesday night when the Raj
marked up record up to that
time in bomb tonnage.
In less than ~ hours Allied
air invasion forces in Britain
had seat over 5000 planes roar.
ing against the European for
tress with close to $4,000 mixed
tons Of explosives on rail juno
tons which tie the invasion
coast with the Reich. defending
airfields, plane factories. and
coastal defense installations in
an unprecedented pattern Of de-
struction obviously designed
flatten a path for Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower's troops.
SHUTTLE SERVICE
This pattern was continued
today as bomber formations, in
Guiding American Marauders.
skipped across the channel. Con-
tinental radio tationS closed
down, and Spitfires harassed
the military detectives in north
ern France that were hit by
$500 tons of explosives
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
BY SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGkING, April 21- (P)
A new threat to China, in
Guiding the possibility of a man.
made famine affecting 20,000,-
900 civilians and hundreds of
thousands Of soldiers, developed
today as strong Japanese forces
drove across the Peiping- Han
kow railway In northern Honan
Province.
A Chinese Army spokesman
said the japanese offensive,
embracing between $4,000 and
10000 troops. was spearheaded
by contingents from Manchuria
where until now Japan has kept
the flower of her Army.
The Chinese surmised. the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21

mally were allowed to wear
their Nazi uniforms off duty, but
their own leaders had made "a
special request TO wear them
on that occasion.
They seemed to want TO make
sure" Mai. Richter explained,
that we wouldn't take offense
il they seemed in a party mood
on Hitler's birthday"
Their uniforms we're freshly
pressed in off-duty hours, and
the concert was held after the
prisoners had done a full days
work. Only those celebrants
whose uniforms had not been re-
turned from the cleaners were
without party garb.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Paper Pickup
i'm Precinct 4

The regular weekly wastepa-
per pickup in Mount Clemens
will continue Saturday. with
Precinct 4, (Welts and Jones
street area) due for collection.
Boy Scouts of Troop IA. of
the Methodist Church, under
Scoutmaster Fred Walker, Jr.,
will meet at 10 a. M, at Lincoln
School, where city trucks will
start the collection. Scouts will
also accompany the trucks TO
the Levine yard for unloading.
All papers, magazines and
heavy paper should be bundled
separately and tied. and placed
at the curb if possible.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Key Political
FigureFaees
Ration Count
indicated with
Former Clerk Of
CopitoI Board

DETROIT, April 21-P-A
Federal Grand Jury today ip-
dicted Ed. A. Nowack, publisher
of a political weekly at Lansing;
Mrs. Dorothy Gertrude Martin,
former chief clerk of a Lansing
ration board, and her husband,
Frederick j. Martin, former
Lansing theater manager, on
charges of conspiring to violate
rationing regulations.
They are charged with con-
spiracy to transfer and assign
and to accept transfer and as
signment" OF stolen gasoline
coupons.
Named as ,co-conspirators but
not defendants were two De-
troiters alleged to have pur-
chased coupons from Mrs. Mar
tin. They are Alfred Belasco,
former gasoline station operator,
and Howard Bruce, theatrical
booking agent.
NOW IN CUBA
William G.. Fitzpatrick, spec
ial assistant U. S. attorney,
said Nowack now is in Cuba,
having left Lansing about Jan.
IS. He said Federal agents be-
lieved Nowack responsible for
arranging a Detroit market for
large numbers of coupons stolen
from Ration Board 3 in Lansing.
Extradition proceedings will
b started il necessary, Fitzpat-
rick said, to return Nowack to
face the Indictment.
In a separate indictment Mrs.
Martin was charged with sell
ing 10000 CO coupons to Be-
lasco for 1920 at her Lansing
apartment the night of March
6, and with selling $4,000 b.
and CO coupons to Bruce and
Belasco on Feb. 10. Fitzpatrick
said the payment for these
coupons w a 5 approximately
$4,000.
ENORMOUS LOOT
Secret service agents who en-
tered Mrs. Martins apartment
Immediately after the March 6
transaction arrested her and she
had been released under $4,000
bond for the grand Jury. The
agents said they found more
than 10000 coupons in her
apartment. Later, an audit Of
the ration board she had served
as chief clerk since Nov. /. 1913,
was reported to have disclosed a
shortage of 407206 coupons
good for BOBCATS gallons Of
gasoline.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
PistoI-Paekin'
Gen. Patton Now
in Great Britain

LONDON, April al (P) -
Pistol-packing 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton Jr., who commanded
the American Seventh Army in
Sicily, has arrived in the Eur
opean theater of operations for
duty, it was announced offic-
tally today.
The General had last been re-
ported in Cairo in the Middle
East where it was rumored,
See GEN. PATTON-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Blood Donors
Swamp Clinic
100 Turned Awoy
Here on Thursday

Due TO an abrupt change In
policy of the national blood bank
limiting the daily quota to about
200 pints- a policy revision
which came too late to be pre-
pared for here-close TO 100
registered donors were turned
away from the local blood
bank Thursday, and many who
telephoned to register Wednes-
day and Thursday were diclin-
ed, according to Mrs. Walter G..
Fenton, county blood bank chair
man.
Out Of 243 registrants on
Wednesday. 232 pints were OBJ
tanned, and on Thursday only
223 pints were taken from 335
See CLINIC-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
COP Selects
Presidential
Electorate

DETROIT, April 21-- R-
Delegates to the Republican
State Convention named Mrs.
Fred w. Green, of Ionia, widow
Of the former governor, and
John Talbot, of Detroit, as pres
idential electors at large at clos
ing sessions Thursday.
Other presidential electors,
selected at district caucuses, in
See ELECTORS-Page z
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Hull Warns Romania
10 Get Out OF the War

WASHINGTON. April FL -
(P)-Secretary of State Hull to-
day advised Romania to get out
of the war at the earliest ops
sible moment.
Asked at his press conference
whether he could confirm a
London dispatch stating that
Russia has sent armistice terms
TO Romania and that the terms
have also been forwarded to
Washington and London Hull
decliped direct comment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21


A little later the company
notified the union-Local 200 of
the United Automobile Workers
of America &C. /. O.)-that it
was terminating the collective
bargaining agreement in effect
here since Jan. IS, 1912.
BREACH OF CONTRACT
The company said in state
ment the general strike" was
breach Of that contract.
Ford's president, Wallace r.
Campbell, asked police to break
up the picket lines, calling the
strike illegal, but police said
no additional officers would be
sent to the plant until "the strike
has been proven illegal"
The Windsor police commits
sion said their policy would be
one of caution and would be
directed toward protecting the
interests of all parties concern
ed.
The commission chairman,
Judge j. j. Coughlin, declared
he had told chief of police
Claude Renaud to advise the
Ford Company to file IAN in
formation alleging the strike to
be illegal and to attempt to have
it proved as such
Union members decided at a
mass meeting yesterday to con-
tinue the walkout unless the
company acceded to demands
for the reinstatement of four
suspended union stewards and
continuation of the Union-Com-
pany contract.
SEEK RETURN TO WORK
The locals president, Roy
England, told the meeting he
had been talking to executive
officers of the national wartime
Labor Relations board at Otta-
wa and they had asked him TO
recommend that the men re-
turn TO work.
Il told them l could not do
this unless we had contract.
We have no contract. l worked
for seven years in that plant
without a contract and l would
not want to work again under
those conditions.
Announcing cancellation of
the contract, effective at once,
the company told employees:
Notwithstanding cancellation
of the union contract your
standing as Ford employee is
not altered.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Duck Dinner
Costs Driver
$18 q Pound

He didn't know II at the time.
but when Donald Brown, 81, of
3l06 Lycaste. Detroit, sat down
TO a duck dinner a few days ago.
it cost him S1837 per pound, or
S9l.85 for the duck, pin feath-
ers and all.
That is what he paid Justice
Frank f. Jeanette here today in
fine. costs and restitution, in
connection with the illegal
slaughter of domestic livestock,
to wit. one common white barn
yard duck, weighing about five
pounds, owned by farmer Sam
Kagelman, of 92l French road,
northwest of Mount Clemens.
ADMITS CHARGE
Brown, factory worker,
pleaded guilty TO the charge
placed against him by Conserva-
ton Officer Earl Golf.
Although explaining 10 Goff
that he shot the duck only after
See DUCK-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
100 Raj b0MbERS STAGcER EUROPE
pi(kets RinQ
Ford Fa(tory
in Windsor
Showdown Between
Union. Management
Appears at Hand

WINDSOR, Ont, April 21-
Rl-Picket lines ringed the
huge Ford Motor company of
Canada plant here today and
plant operations were at a
standstill, with about 200 en-
ployees affected.
The work stoppage started
yesterday when day-shift work
ers left their jobs at IL a. m. for
a "half-holiday' in protest
over grievance procedure.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21
Jap Drive IrnperiIs
20 Million Chinese

spokesman said the Japanese
offensive, embracing between
$4,000 and $4,000 troops, was
from Manchuria
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21

DETROIT. April 21-(P)-
The United Automobile Work
ers -(CIO} wilI-do every
thing possible" to end a strike
at the Windsor plant of the
Ford Motor Co. of Canada, &C
cOrding to r. J. Thomas,
president of the Union, despite
what he termed the "high-
handed" attitude of manage
ment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-21

Impartial Coverass
Of All loeol News
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-05-26
Former Nurse of This
Community Pays Visit

Miss Lucille Wright, former
school nurse of this community,
visited at the Robert Starr home
from Friday until Monday, be-
ing on her way to Minneapolis to
visit her parents. From Minneap-
oils she will 90 to Everett. Wn.,
where she will accept a position
with the Washington Stat e
Health Department.
Leaving Browning in 1888, sh e
went to Alaska, where she was
engaged in government health
work with offices at Nome. Dur
ing a trip by dog team to an in.
land village she suffered a near
tragedy when she took the wrong
trail and was lost for days,
When rescued she was almost
frozen to death and it was fear.
e d that h e would have to
undergo an operation for ampu-
tation of both feet. However, she
made favorable recovery follow
ing long disqualification and has
normal use of both feet.