davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-17
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORI, Aug. 16.-P)- lie
cotton market rallied IS cents to
BIB a bale today on bullish inter-
probation of the statement of Sena-
Tor Bsnkhead concerning full pari-
ty prices to farmers for raw cot
ton.
Ignoring war developments al
most completely, commission house
and mill buying gathered speed
toward the close which encountered
only small-scale hedge selling and
profit taking.
Net
Open High Low Last Chge
Oct - 2l.36 2l.52 21.31 12.49 up 19
Dec 21.16 21.35 21.13 2l.34 up %
Mich = 20.96 21.13 2091 21.13 up "a
May 20.7 1902 1910 20.91 up "a
Jly - 20.52 20.67 20.48 2O.66 up %
Middling spot 22.4n up 10.
n-Nominal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-17
RADIO.
WMFD xi'miagtes
1900 Kc .

THURSDAY, AUGUST II
7:30-Family Altar.
7:45-Musical Clock.
S:O0-Songs by Morton Downey.
s:15-Musical Clock.
S:3o-Blue News Correspondents.
5:45-The Hmnbert Family.
eoo-The Breakfast Club.
1o:O0-My True Story.
10:25-Aunt Jemina Show.
1O:30-Let's Dance.
10:45-The Listening Post.
11:00-Breakfast at Sardi's.
11:30-Gil Martyr, News.
11:45-Cliff Edwards.
12:00-Glamour Manor.
12:30-Farm and Home Makers.
1:00-Leon Henderson.
1:15-Musical Interlude.
1:25-News Wilmington Star-News
13o-Living Should Be Fun.
1:45-Little Jack Little.
2:O0-Kiernan's News Corner.
2:15-The Mystery Chef.
2:30-Ladies Be Seated.
3:00-Songs by Morton Downey
3:15-Hollywood Star Time.
3:3O-Appointment with Life.
4:0o-Organ Serenade.
4:15-Don Norman's Show.
4:30-Time Views the News.
4:45-Hop Harrigan.
5:3O-Treasury Salute.
5:45-Something for the Girls.
5:00-Terry and the Pirates.
5:15-Dick Tracy.
5:30-Lone Ranger.
6:gG-Melody Time.
6:15-Sports.
6:25-News Wilmington Star-News.
6:30-Jerry Wayne.
6:45-Henry j. Taylor and the News.
7:00-Pass In Review
7:30-Sundown Serenade.
G:0o-Watch the World Go By.
8:l5-OPA Program.
s3o-America' Town Meeting of the Air
9:3G-Parade of Spotlight Bands.
9:55-Coronet Story Teller.
lo0o-Raymond Gram Swing.
l0:15-George Hicks Reporting.
lO:30-Joe E Brown.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-17
FOREIGN BONDS
TREASURY BONDS
NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 16-R-
Turpentine 70 IL cents a gallon:
Offerings: IS (50-gal. bbls.; Sales:
$3.50 gallons; Receipts: IS barrels;
Shipments 1856 barrels; Stocks 49,
100 barrels.
Rosin: (100-lb. drums). offer
ings: 606; Sales 1852; Receipts:
1863; Shipments 300; Stocks 49,
952.
Quote: B ATT; D 1856; SAT; F, C
and H $50; l, K and M 552; N
5.66; WIG $50; WV and x GIL.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-17
FINANCIAL NEWS
Stock Market Quotations
tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AL Chem and Dye ------ 148A
AIlis Chal Mfg . 80
Am Can 90B
Am Car Fdy ----- 405s
Am Roll Mill ------------- 1915
Am Smelt and Ref ----- 4012
A T and T ..---- 1872
Am Tob B u
Anaconda ----- 26h
Arm Ill 61s
Att Ref 321s
A CT 1924
Await Corp ----------------
Baldwin 1895
B and O 8h
Barnsdall 1875
Bendix Await OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Al
Beth Stl 624s
Boeing Airpl --.- 14A
Borden 80
Budd Mfg l13s
Burl Mills observation-disclosures 80
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-17
NEW ORLEANS SPOT

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 16-lR-
Spot cotton closed steady 81 a
bale higher today. Sales 1,426, low
middling 1925, middling 21.40
good 1niddling 21.80, receipts 1850,
stick 294, 957.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-17
HOGS

RALEIGH, Aug. 16-lR-(NC
and Rocky Mount hog
markets steady with tops of 1925:
Richmond stronger with top Of
1850.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
NBC Buns
Broudcusfs

WASHINGTON (FP) - The
U. S. radio industry cracked its
whip again May 81 against any
thing that might indicate, direct
ly or indirectly, that people fa-
vorable to the Roosevelt admins
tration are getting free time on
the air. A week previously the
Blue network announced it was
cutting out the daily Farm "
Home Hour" which included 10
minutes of farm news by the
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
Now the Natl. Broadcasting
Co. announces the suspension of
the Sunday radio feature Labor
for Victory" which has been pre-
sented on alternate Sundays by
the AFL and the CIO. The pro-
gram will end June 25. NBC
said it acted because the CIO
has indorsed Pres. Roosevelt for
although no plugging
for the President or the Admins
tration has been included in the
broadcasts.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
WLB S|ashins Union Rates,
Vice-President Reuther CHARGES

DETROIT, June 5 - The
area wage bracket system of
the War Labor Board is a
serious source of unrest lead
ing to strikes, and is inviting
postwar economic catastrophe
for workers and communities
who have made the outstanding
contributions to the war produc-
ton front" Walter P. Reuther,
vice-president of the United
Automobile work kers, CIO,
charged today.
Under the WLB's area wage
bracket system, Reuther said,
the board and its regional offices
have fixed wage rates for skilled
workers in the automotive in
dustry fully so cents an hour
below rates agreed on in union
agreements in the same areas,
Rates fixed by the WLB for
production workers doing the
same work in the same area,
Reuther said, vary in many
cases as much as 65 cents an
hour. AS a result, the UAW Of
ficial said, the workers are call
ing the WLB policy "the bracket
racket"
'The bracket racket system,
Reuther said, mot only denies
workers equity based on equal
pay for equal work, but it actu-
ally destroys the degree of sta
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
G of G Joins
Reilly In NLRB
Vote Plan

WASHINGTON, June 3 (FP)
-NLRB Member Gerard Reilly
gained another supporter June
for his plan to change the reg
ulations of the board to permit
employers to petition for cleo
tions among their employees
Previously Reilly's plan was
supported just by himself and
the Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers.
Now the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce announced that 1t
would actively support the Reilly
proposal. The c of c said 1T
should be possible for an en-
ployer to petition the board for
an election at any time after a
union demands bargaining rights
or starts negotiations which look
toward the renewal of con-
tract"
All organized labor, from the
AFL, CIO. and Railroad Brother
hoods through the independent
organizations, is opposing the
Reilly plan as destructive and
hurtful to the war effort. The
unionists have united in pointing
out that a flood of employer
neitionS would result with the
expiration of every union con-
tract.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

$1.35 to S1.55 an hour. WLB
rates-New Haven, 90c to S1.40;
New London, 75c to $115; Bos-
ton, soc to $1.35; Worcester,
Mass, zoe to S1.20.
WLB Region II:
UAW- General Motors rates
(Buffalo) $1.35 to $1.55 an hour;
(Tarrytown, N. W S1.40 to
$1.60 an hour. WLB rates-Buf-
falo, 81 to S1.45 an hour; New
York City, 96c to S145 an hour.
WLB Region III:
UAW-General Motors rates
$1.40 to S1.60 an hour. WLB
rates-Erie. Pa, S100 to $1.22
an hour; Reading, Pa, 88c to 81;
Baltimore, S1.03 to $1.25 an hour.
WLB Region w:
UAW- General Motors rates
S1.30 to $1.50 an hour. WLB
rates-Atlanta, Ca, 81 to SIPS
an hour; Birmingham, Ala, 81
to SIPS an hour.
Reuther cited similar figures
for WLB regions V and vi.
Turning to rates fixed by the
WLB for production workers in
the Michigan area by the WLB,
Reuther said that the board has
fixed rates that establish a SIS
cents an hour spread for drill
press operators, 55 cents an hour
spread for radial drill press OPP
orators, 20 cents spread for
See REUTHER, Page Two.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Office Workers
Elect Committee

Members of the Spicer Office
Workers Unit of Local IL who
recently voted in favor of the
Local as bargaining agent have
selected their bargaining COM
mittee and are ready to begin
negotiating on their contract.
Following were the officers Of
the Bargaining c. m m i t t e e
chosen last week: William Robb,
chairman; Roger Griswold, vice
chairman; Christine Moll, secre-
tary; John Bolman, sergeant at
arms; William Myers, guide.
Tom Burke, Local IL vice
president who assisted in the of
flee workers organizational drive
was made honorary chairman of
the office workers. Scott Rogers
of the Spicer Unit who was in
charge of the organizational
work named advisor
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

Ohio CIO Political Action
Committee was postponed
after several delegates stated
their belief that action should be
held up until such time that
some of the federal agencies
with which labor has to deal
are forced to change their at
titudes. The NWLB and NLRB
were the two agencies which
were particularly criticized.
Elect Officers
Charles Ballard, former chair
man of the WHY'S Overland
Unit of Local IL, now employ.
ed as an international represent
ative in Regional Director Rich
ard Gosser's office, was elected
by acclamation to the chairman
ship of the political action COM
mittee.
Other officers elected were:
Dorman Brumfield, vice-chair-
man; Norma Craden, secretary;
William Healey, treasurer; An
drew Oravits, sergeant-at-arms;
Max Koralewski, assistant serg-
eant-at-arms; Don Blair, Charles
Johnson and Marcene Biddle,
trustees TO serve for three, two
and one years respectively; and
Dan Sahadi, Walter Klatt, Frank
LIGHTER, Cyril Babione, Bart
Dederman and ROLAND Gagnet,
boardsmembers at-large.
Aid Soldiers Vote
Efforts will be made by the CIO
Political Action Committee to
aid the soldiers in securing their
vote as provided for in the re-
Gently enacted state soldiers
vote bill. A committee was
named to handle the soldier vote
and will begin its duties i'm
mediately. Those on the service
mems committe are: Charles
Clark, Jack Lane, Earl Ordway.
Edward Mills, Walter Darowski
and Arthur Harrick.
0rdway Endorsed
Earl Ordway who won the
Democratic nomination, for state
senator May 9 was given the
unanimous endorsement of the
PAC. Ordway was not endorsed
by the Democratic party in the
See CAMPAIGN, Page Two.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

Bridges


Repercussion from Harry
Bridges proposal made last
week to the international
Longshoremen's Union that
the no-strike pledge be con-
tinued after the war and in
definitely took place in Toledo.
This week when the executive
board of Local 363-Warehouse
Workers met in special session
June 2 to condemn the West
Coast labor leader and demand
his removal as CIO Director for
the west coast.
Expressing its denunciation OF
Bridges in resolution, copies of
which were sent to the Toledo
Industrial Union Council, CIO
President Philip Murray and the
National CIO, the Warehouse
Workers referred to Bridges as
a tool of the NAM"
Calling Bridges strike
breaker and referring to his ac-
ton in the recent Montgomery
Ward case in Chicago, the reso-
luton stated that 5000 ware
house workers in Northwestern
Ohio demand his (Bridges) i'm
mediate removal as CIO regional
director for the west coast.
Thomas Condemns Act
The action of the Toledo CIO
union followed by a few days
the condemnation expressed by
President r. J. Thomas of the
Auto work kers who called
Bridges proposal ridiculous and
defeatist."
Warehouse worker officials
stated that they would be pres
ent at the next meeting of the
TIUC when the resolution is
presented and demand that the
Toledo CIO go on record as con-
demning Bridges and join in its
demand that he be removed
from his position as represen-
tative of the National CIO.
Bridges own Local union con-
sisting of 5000 members of
the International Longshore-
mems Union adopted the pro-
posal of no-strikes after the war
and indefinitely on the promise
that they would be given
security" by their employers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

bility and uniformity which we
had established in our industry
through the processes of collec-
tive bargaining"
Reuther said that the "WLB S
sound and tested going rate was
to be established by arriving at
the community weighted aver
age and by setting the minimum
rate ten per cent below the aver
age community rate"
Even this procedure" he
said, would have been destruc-
tive of our industry wide wage
pattern, but the WLB, in con-
junction with the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, has not been
establishing the area rate on the
basis of weighted community
averages. The WLB has given
as much weight to small shops
that have standard wages
with few employees as it gave
shops with union wages and
t h o u s a n DIS of employees. "
Through this method, Reuther
charged the WLB "corrupts the
application of its policy to the
further jeopardy of our wage
pattern.
Illustrating the undermining
established wage rates by the
WLB, Reuther cited the follow
ing figures on skilled workers:
WLB Region I;
UAW-General Motors rates
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Wards Still Defy WLB

WASHINGTON (FP) - Mont
gomery Ward & Co. told the Ma
tional War Labor Board it would
not accept maintenance of mem
bership, compulsory arbitration
or the checkoff for the United
Retail Wholesale & Dept. Store
Employees (CIO), recently chosen
by its Chicago employees as col
lective bargaining agent. Ward's S
attorney indicated the company
would accept arbitration if
Wards president was the arbi-
traitor.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

departments with a one min
ute silence. Thousands of
Toledo workers visited the
many churches of the city to
attend the late afternoon and
evening prayer services.
In Detroit, r. j. Thomas,
president of the UAW-CIO issu-
ed a statement to the union S
100000 members employed in
the war plants in which he said,
"Our negotiations in Europe
have entered their final stage
1t is the kind of negotiation
that is being carried on with
cannon and machine gun, with
naval batteries and bombers."
For years before 1889 the
forces of freedom tried to
negotiate peacefully and with
persuation. The Nazis and Fas-
cists could not be persuaded.
They preferred the force of arms.
Taking peace-loving peoples un-
aware, they won the first rounds
in the battle.
Tide Has Turned
To-day the tide has turned.
The negotiators of the United
Nations have carried the war
into Hitlers front yard. Before
long they will be giving Ger
many a bitter taste of warfare
on their home grounds.
Union men and women will
understand when l say that
Genenral Eisenhower is our
chief spokesman, the general
staff of the United Nations is
our top negotiation committee,
and the millions of men in Al
lied uniforms our rank and file.
I'VE in the war plants of the
nation are the second formations
of the rank and file who are to-
day invading the European con-
tinent. We must apply ourselves
as never before to tthe tasks of
producing weapons of warfare.
Every man, every woman, every
minute of manpower counts.
Every shell and bullet we turn
out today is scheduled for de-
livery and explosion in the
heart of NaZidom.
1T may be UAW made shell
or bullet that will find Hitler
See INVASION DAY, Page Two.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
james B. Carey
Backs FEPc

WASHINGTON, June 3, (FP)
-Testifying before the House
Labor committee June 2, Sec
Treas. James B. Carey of the
CIO and Ernesto Galarza, chief
of the labor division of the Pan
American Union, indorsed bills
TO establish a permanent Fair
Employment Practice commits
sion.
Galarza said that Mexico had
set up commission to study dis
elimination against Mexicans in
the U. S., charging that 212 mill
lion Mexicans live in this coun-
try and suffer from job discrirni-
nation.
Carey told the committee that
a permanent FEPC "can insure
in the postwar period of job
transfers that minority workers
get the same treatment as other
workers: that mans seniority
and ability are the yardstick of
whether he holds job or gets
another.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Given
Award For
Race Work

CINCINNATI, Ohio, June l.
Jack Kroll, Regional Director of
tie CIO Political Action Com
mittee, is this years recipient Of
the CLOS national award for
outstanding work in combating
racial discrimination.
The announcement was made
by James B. Carey, Chairman of
the CLOS Committee to Abolish
Racial Discrimination.
The ward came to Kroil,
under whose leadership as Presi-
dent of the Ohio CIO Council,
an effective three-year campaign
against discrimination was car
ried out in Ohio.
Carrying out the policy of the
national body, the Ohio CIO
Council convention in 1941 ap-
pointed a Committee. This Com
mittee was remarkably active.
1t sponsored and organized
meetings throughout the state in
centers where racial friction
might have developed.
Ohio's Record Clean
During the period when other
states mixed and cosmopolitan
populations were afflicted with
race riots and other manifesto
tionS, Ohio maintained a clean
record. This state has been free
from such manifestations and
disorders. Accepting the award,
the CIO leader said:
In Ohio we have proud
record of eliminating discrimina-
ton among races, creeds and ma
tionalities. But much remains
to be done. There are still
people who, in an old-fashioned
un- American way, dge a man
by his religion, race or color.
They don't honestly believe in
the Declaration of independence
and the Bill of Rights. -
Among the outstanding people
who have received the CIO anti
discrimination award are Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Most
Reverend ancis j. Haas,
Bishop of the Catholic Diocese
of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Kroll is a Vice President of
the Amalgamated Clio tn n G
Workers of America.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Further Expansion
Of Co-Ops

BOSTON, June 5, (CLNS).-
Cooperative expa n ion into
manufacturing after the war
will be in the fields of appli-
ances, canning, and clothing, /.
A. Tenhune, General Manager Of
National Cooperatives, Inc, told
New England cooperators at a
recent meeting here. This doesn t
mean, he stated, that other fields
will not be undertaken but that
expansion iLto these fields will
definitely be seen as plans are
already waiting for the war to
end.
Tenhune advised local cooper
ators to begin thinking in terms
of one-stop super service retail
outlets, where a family can pur-
chase all its needs. He pre-
dicted that after the war. retail
outlets that are not organized
for complete service will be
under a handicap.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

ton battles ahead of the ma
ton.
Reuther's idea was given to
the War Department, and the
production executive committee
of the WPB with a statement
that present organization of
machine tooling facilities, COM
pelling the individual industry
or plant to rely on their own
tooling facilities results in seri-
ous d elays and tremendous
waste of skilled engineering and
technical personnel.
Under the UAW plan the west
and east coasts would set UP
aircraft tool pools, while area
tooling pools would be establish
ed in such major areas as De-
troit, Cleveland. Philadelphia
and Chicago,
The volunteer technical COM
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

mandos" would be given a guar
anteed work week or weekly
salary, and comprise engineers,
craftsmen, designers. tool and
die makers and skilled main
tenance workers.
Reuther said that as the war
progresses the need for tooling
pools will become greater. He
explained that with the pools
I'VE could be able to work
around the clock and muster
our full resources to make a
quick change-over. maintain
maximum efficiency, and by get
ting products to the fighting
front, actually save lives.
The pools will also be useful
IN advance tooling for civilian
production as the needs of the
war effort diminish. Reuther
said.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
Guild Picks
Page One
Fuvorifes

NEW YORK (FP)-Chosen by
the nations top flight newspaper
unionists for outstanding per-
formance in the fight against
fascism, the following stars OF
public life will receive Page l
Awards for 1914 at the annual
ball of the Newspaper Guild OF
New York (CIO).
Lillian Smith for her novel,
Strange Fruit"
The entire movie industry "for
outstanding job of dramatizing
the war and its issues for the
public"
Commanders Gene Tunney
and Jack Dempsey, two cham
pions who voluntarily donned
uniform to aid their country in
winning the toughest fight of
them all.
Walter Winchell, ''the journal
ist who made the Fifth Column
respect the Fourth Estate"
Philip Murray, for wise and
progressive leadership of CIO in
its mighty contribution to the
war effort
Stage and screen writer Lillian
Hellman; Paul Robson, diStin-
guished Negro actor, the Broad
way show, Carmen Jones; Ac-
tress Helen Hayes; Comedian Ed
die Cantor, who organized the
Purple Heart Circuit; Radio
Writer Norman Corwin; Kate
Smith; the "GTs favorite come
dian" - Bob Hope; Symphony
Conductor Arturo Toscanini;
Journalist Ed Sullivan; Orches-
ira leader Raymond Scott and
Dance Producer Agnes de Mile.
Proceeds of the ball will go to
Labor's War Chest, Guild Serv-
icemen's Committee and Guild
canteen.
-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09

+ las Dull


Under the efficient leader
ship of Vice-Mayor Michael
v. Disable, who presided over
city councils regular Mon
day evening meeting and sup
piled the one and only bon mot
of dull session, city council
hastened through its business in
30 minutes.
Perhaps. it was because the
vice-mayor wanted to hear Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech on the
fall of Rome that accounted for
the well oiled machinery of our
city government; but regard
less, it was snappy session.
To Pave Streets
Most important of the ordi-
nances passed by council was
one to spend S12,750 for resur-
facing of streets in Walbrige
Park. This ordinance which re-
peals a revious ordinance
passed Oct. 4, 1943 to pave and
widen Shadowlawn DR.. was
passed at the request of CITY
manager George N. Schoon-
maker.
Other Ordinances
Ordinances were passed to
purchase 200 gallons Of alum
mum paint and two tons of steel
brush wire.
Contracts for material and
labor to point the sewage sludge
drying beds were approved by
council.
appropriations for $4,000
for a water main and $1,000 for
settlement of a government claim
against the city were given the
official nod.
When the meeting was ad-
journed to meet again on June
IL at 1880 p. m Mr.. Disable re-
marked do you want to add TO
the motion, to adjourn until 7:30
p. m. next Monday, to enable the
interested citizens of Toledo to
attend?" One interested citizen
of Toledo attending the meeting
was so bored that he did not hear
the vice-mayor's caustic remark;
but rose yawning and slowly
walked from the council cham
Der.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-06-09
WLB To Be
Discussed

Lloyd Speidell, member of the
Local IL executive board in
charge of War Labor Board
cases, will speak over radio sta
ton WTOL Sunday afternoon at
1890 p. m. Subject of Mr.. Spei-
dell's discussion will be the War
Labor Board. He will appear on
the weekly program, Labor
Views and News" sponsored and
staged by Local IL.