davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
New Lcbor-
Hating Drive
Shopinq Up

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (LPA)
"A new anti-labor drive may be
in the offing, the CIO Economic
Outlook warns in its current
issue.
Even some business groups
that should know better seem to
be prepared for an anti-union
drive" the publication says,
citing an article carried in re-
cent publication of the National
Industrial Conference B d..
The article, which attacks union
ism as interfering with the ma
tural setting of wages, is quoted
by Economic Outlook as follows:
Fair wages are wages that
are just high enough to attract
the required number of en-
ployees of the desired quality.
No labor unions are required to
secure fair wage rates AS
industrial turmoil increases,
more and more people will see
the evils generated by collective
bargaining, and we should look
forward to the time when all
Federal labor laws will be re-
pealed. Millions of workers
may then be freed from eco
nomic slavery and enjoy the ex-
hilaration that comes from the
knowledge that they are once
more free men, able to advance
according to their industry, in
telligence and skill"
Other signs of anti-union ac-
tivity are constantly at hand,
the Economic Outlook declares,
can organizer for the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers was re-
Gently run out of town in Ten
nessee. Men and women are still
fired for union activity, union
meetings are broken up, lies
about the labor movement are
widespread. In more subtle at
tacks, employers are slowing
down griev vance machinery.
States and cities have passed
laws and ordinances hacking
away at labor's rights. In one
state a union organizer must
register with the Secretary of
State. In a Southern city, he
must pay a $4,000 registration
fee. Several states have just
voted on a so-called right to
work amendment to the state
constitution which is really a
disguised m owe to weaken
unions"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15

One of the military men who
replied to Naval Officer" de-
clared, "It is this ignorance and
blind prejudice that holds the
seed of discord for the future. "
He challenged the claim that
civilians at home are living
lives of ease.
True, it is impossible for
civilians to appreciate what life
on the battlefront is like" he
said. However, very few serv-
icemen have any real apprecia-
ton of what life is like here at
home under wartime conditions
of long hours.
"IIe does not reveal how a
girl can live in luxury on a wage
Of from $40 to $32 a week .
Finally, he does not understand
that the fight overseas is part of
the same fight that is going on
at home-the continuing battle
for a better way of life"
A naval officers wife added
that she was amazed to mind he
concentrated his bitterness on
the striking telephone girls"
He is right that there will be
a day of reckoning" she wrote,
'but are the boys coming back
to reckon with the telephone
girls. Are they fighting only for
the glorious right of anyone to
earn $21 a week and maybe a
raise in 10 years if they're nice
and quiet and don't starve to
death before that?"
Still another officer fired
back that: IF war workers who
buy war bonds are so unpatriotic
as to strike for a few added cents
an hour or for other demands
which seem important to them,
is there any great show of patri-
otism on the part of the en-
ployer who refuses to meet these
demands and thus Immediately
causes the production of vital
war materials to stop?"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
What's S the
Difference?
BY Ruth Taylor

The other day / heard a
friend whose judgment value
say most of our troubles, at
home as we'll as abroad, stem
from the fact that we don't like
anything that is different" -.
Take the prosaic question of
food-though as one who prides
herself on her cooking, l resent
the imputation that food is
prosaic. We are set in our tastes
by what is familiar. My little
assistant can't understand my
fondnss for frog legs - but
doesn't see why anyone doubts
that salt roe and scrambled eggs
are the perfect breakfast dish.
Remember the complaint of the
British Tommy about caviar
''The bloody jam tastes of fish,"
So it is with people. For ex-
ample, there is the famous story
of the Englishman who lived in
Paris for twenty years without
learning a word of French-he
wasn't going to encourage them
in speaking their silly language. "
The poor man rails at the sins
of the millionaire. The rich man
looks at the poor as Weakling.
Labor is suspicious of capital.
Capital fears the strength of
labor. You can carry this on in
definitely.
We are too apt to try to make
ourselves big by belittling
others. Instead of frankly and
freely admitting that we have
a lot to learn that other people
might know, and remembering
its correlative thought that may
be we know some things that it
would do them good to learn,
we shut ourselves up in a mir
ror-lined room. We need to dis
card the mirrors, open the win
dows and see what is outside.
No group is perfect. No group
has all the knowledge. This re-
sentiment of difference is not
just a resentment by the ma
jority.. The minorities are just
as quick to condemn or resent
any difference on the part OF
the majority.
Let us face this problem OF
differences with some intelli-
gence. None of us can know too
much. None of us but who can
learn from others. None of us
but who has something to give
in exchange.
How about it? The next time
you run up against different"
person, whether his difference
be different creed or class or
color, can't you say, Here is
my opportunity" You never
can tell-maybe you'll teach him
as much as he will teach you.
If you analyze the statement
with which I started, you find
it boils down to "We don't like
what we don't know. In that
lies the solution. knowledge is
the key to understanding. It's
hard to dislike someone you
know well.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
WLB Must Okoy
xmuS Bonus Or
Gift Over SIS

ASHIN TON (LPA)-
Christmas bonuses in the form
of gifts with a value of more
than $25 may not be awarded
to employees unless such gifts
were given on previous Christ
masses, the War Labor Board
warned this week.
WLB has authorized the pay
ment of bonuses up to $25 with
out obtaining WLB permission,
but many employers have in
quired about making gifts other
than cash above the value of S25.
Such gifts can be made only with
specific approval by the regional
WLB.
Last Christmas, a WLB Off
cial recalled, a Chicago depart
ment store owner gave $400 fur
coats to each of his sales ladies.
Because he had made such gifts
in previous years he has been
charged with violation of the
wage freeze order.
To obtain permission to pay a
bonus in excess of $25 an en-
ployer must show that his re-
quest Cd Conforms to the prac-
tice prevailing in the industry
before Oct. 1912, (2) Causes no
appreciable increase in cost, (3)
Does not furnish tn basis either
to increase prices or to resist an
otherwise justifiable reduction
in prices, (4) Does not create in
equities in existing rates paid
for similar work, (5) Is not
based on general claims of in
creased work or duties for all
employees.
WLB officials here predict
that there will not be a large
number of requests for permis-
sion to pay bonuses over $25.
The bast majority will be $25 or
under and will not require any
authorization.
Meanwhile the second regional
WLB, covering New York State,
set Dec. Is as the deadline for
employers applications for per-
mission to pay bonuses.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
fasteners Propose
Labor Coop Council

NEW YORK, N. Y. (CCD)-
A Council for Labor Cooperative
Education and Development is
an objective of the Eastern Co
operative League, service and
educational federation for con-
sumer co-ops along the Eastern
seaboard, with headquarters
here. The League is proposing
the Council to organized labor in
its area to clear information be-
tween labor unions and co-ops
and "to promote consumer CO.
operation among union members
and the communities in which
they live" The action was or
dered by the annual meeting of
the Eastern Cooperative League,
held here Nov. IL.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15

telephone trust set up years
ago in the hope of diverting
the employees from thoughts
about real unions and better
working conditions.
What started the first strike at
Dayton was the telephone COM
pany's importation of outside
operators to relieve Dayton'S
wartime load and paying them a
bonus of S16.75 a week as ex-
pense money.
This action was comparable to
that of the railroads, which hired
employees of private contractors
to do track work at much higher
than the regular scale of main
tenance employees, in the hope of
thereby solving its temporary
manpower h orta ge without
raising the permanent pay
scales of its employees.
At any rate, the Dayton oper-
ators took the company's move
in that light. They felt it was
a scheme to head off their wage
demands and walked out, though
they kept enough workers on the
job to handle military calls. The
strike spread to Washington and
other cities, but was finally
called off in response to appeals
by the War Labor Board.
One of the interesting after
maths of the dispute was a war
of words that developed in
Washington newspapers. A writ
er, who signed himself Naval
Officer" without revealing his
identity, wrote a bitter letter to
the Washington Post, denouncing
the "hello girls" as enemies and
traitors"
Il do not know why they are
striking" he declared, l don't
want to know. All / know is
that they were killing my friends
overseas who are fighting and
dying for these girls living in
safety and luxury far from the
battle line"
Immediately, brickbats began
flying in his direction. Other
Naval officers and their wives
wrote to the Post; protesting the
unfair attack on the telephone
girls.
What they resented particu-
larly was the officers bland
declaration that he didn't want
to know what the facts Of the
dispute were. That blind atti-
tude is Characteristic of those
''brass hats" who are not reg
ular officers, but who got COM
missions because of family influ-
ence, telephone union officials
say.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
Big Business
Propaganda
is Nationwide

NEW YORK (LPA)-A high
powered advertising campaign
by big business in daily papers
in every city in the country
with populations of $4,000 and
over began this week.
Financed by the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers, the
advertising campaign is design
ed to convince the public of the
old Hoover formula that if busi-
ness is left alone it will provide
full employment and higher liv-
ing standards after the war.
Under preparation for a year,
the campaign will be pushed
through nine newly established
regional offices throughout the
country.
The MANS campaign is gear
ed to the realization that large
section of the American public
either blames big business for
the depression or believes that
it proved itself incapable of
pulling the nation out of the
slump.
Management didn't have the
answers to the depression in the
thirtieS and it failed to offer
leadership in that PERIOD" de-
clared w. B. WeiSenburger,
NAM executive vice-president.
Surveys show that $50 of the
people favor the free enterprise
system, but they will turn to
government for jobs if business
shows no interest in them"
The NAM ads, according to
Editor and Publisher, will be
12OO-line size except in news
papers which, because of the
paper shortage, refuse large
ones, and they will appear in
foreign language and Negro
dailies."
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
GIFT FROM BAKERS MEANS MORE
III TN Doubt About

His Size or Preference
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
Supreme Court Rules
Union Cont Be Sued

ASHIN GTON (LPA)-
The U. S. Supreme Court has
refused once again to rule that
an unincorporated trade union
can be sued in the courts. Two
Washington lawyers appealed to
the Supreme Court on their
claim for $50, 900 in fees for aid
ing an independent union, the
Electric Utilities Employees I'm
ion, to obtain two contracts with
the Potomac Electric Power
Company. Nearly 81 100000 an
nually had been added to the
paychecks of the union members
as result of the contract, the
lawyers claimed. The Supreme
Court turned the case back to
the U. S. District Court which
had previously ruled that the
union, as In unincorporated or
ganization, could not be sued.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
FDR Committee
Dies Dec. 81

ASHIN GTON (LPA)-
While a big job admittedly re-
mains, President Roosevelt's
Committee for Congested Pro-
due Areas ceases to exist on Dec,
81. AT that time, funds granted
the committee by Congress ex-
pire.
Area offices to be closed on
Dec. 81 are: Detroit Willow Run
Mich; Knoxville, Tenn; Puget
Sound, Wash; Portland, Ore.
Vancouver, WASH; San Francisco
Bay, Calf; Los Angeles, Calf
and San Pedro, Calf.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-12-15
Phone Workers Strike
Dramatized Grievances

WASHINGTON, Dec. II GPA)-The recent strikes of
long distance telephone operators which attracted much
attention in the newspapers, have faded out
They were preciptated by independent" union the
revampe successor of the old company union which the Bell
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
New Manpower Program To
Step Up War Plant Workers

Washington - A new War Man
power commission program in
tended to step up recruitment of
workers for priority projects on
a national basis has been prepar-
ed and probably will be announc-
ed within the next few days.
Preparation of the plan is re-
garded as an indication that the
commission feels there will be no
national service legislation.
It's principal features, which
manpower officials hope will dou-
BILE the number of recruits for
jobs wherever they exist, ara un-
derstood to be:
/. Extension to the entire coun-
try and all male workers of the
commissions priority referral
plan of recruiting workers
through the U. S. employment
service. The plan is in effect
now in only about a dozen areas.
2. Establishment of manpower
priority committees in all the 100
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
IS GRADUATE FROM
MEREDITH COLLEGE

Raleigh - DR.. Gerald White
Johnson, former editor of the
Baltimore Sun, was the COM
mencement speaker at Meredith
College this week when degrees
were conferred on IS seniors.
Exercises opened Friday with
a commencement concert Friday
evening. Saturdays activities in
cluded meetings of~the ttwo honor
societies, Kappa NJ Sigma, schol-
astic, and Silver Shields, leader
ship; and the alunnae association
luncheon.
Sunday events included the
baccalaureate sermon by DR.. ]
B. Witherspoon of the Southern
Baptist Theology Seminary il
Louisville; organ recital by DR.
Harry E. Cooper, head of the de-
partment of music; step singing
Senior vespers; and an informa
reception for visiting parents ane
other guests.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
Mcdonald Thanks
His Supporters

Raleigh - ''My fight has been
for the principals and policies I
believe in and not for an office"
said Ralph Mcdonald here after
his second defeat for the goyer-
norship in eight years.
81 believe that those things have
been advanced definitely by the
campaign. For that reason I am
gratified and have no regrets
whatever. I would unhesitating-
ly make the same fight over I'M
der the same conditions"
eve have fought a good fight.
We have kept the faith" said Nc
Donald's public statement of
thanks to friends throughout the
State. eve shall continue to pur-
sue our course for the welfare OF
the great common people of the
State"
Mcdonald, who is president of
the North Carolina Educational
Association, said he hoped to close
his headquarters here in time to
attend the Southern States Edu-
cational conference at Daytona
Beach next week.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01

group one and two labor shortage
areas. They exist at present in
only about IS of the areas.
3. Extension of the employment
ceilings program to all group one
and two areas. Only about Is
areas are now participating.
Through broad extension of the
priority referral plan, the COM
mission hopes to channel addi-
tional thousands of workers
through the USES exposing
them to opportunities to move
from one part of the country to
another to take jobs in critical la
Dor areas. Under this policy, all
male workers seeking a job
would clear through the USES
and be directed to shortage re-
gions in order of urgency of pro-
jects to be mananed.
It would not be compulsory that
they accept jobs, but VINO ex-
poets that with many more men
clearing through USES, more
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
Brief Review OF World News During The Past Week

Mr.. Murray closed a five-day re-
vival at the Fairview church last
Friday night and Rev. Mr.. Corn
cite is conducting revival services
at Ashley's Chapel this week.
R. w. Eller has purchased a lot
from c. T. Handy and will build
a residence in the near future.
They hope to be able to move in
to their own home in about three
months.
Misses Wylene Ashley, Ellinor
Johnson, Darrell Johnson and
ANGEL Dolinger were visiting in
Lansing, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. r. T. Johnson entertained
a number of guests at dinner on
Sunday. Among those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Gunter,
Mrs. Carrie Carson, Mrs. w. H.
Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. R. C. John
son, Mrs. L. H. Deese and chill
dren, Marguerite and Ellinor
Johnson, Bobby Jean and Sonny
Carson and Sammie Shumate.
Miss Mary Ashley visited Miss
Ellinor Johnson, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Woodie
and daughter, of West Jefferson,
visited friends here, Sunday.
Mrs. E. V. Eller and daughter,
of Jefferson, called on friends
here last Thursday.
Messrs. Roy Walker and Roy
! Ashley returned from a business
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
Conservation
Farming News
Weekly Items OF Interest To
AShe Farmers
Bv 7. r. McEAURIN
By J. T. McLAURIN

R. F. Grouse, county agent,
during a talk with Frank McMil-
Ian, who is farming with his ia
Their, w. L. Mcmillan, of the Scott
vile community, states that Mr..
Mcmillan is really enthused with
strip farming, and the effective
ness of this practice during the
recent hard rains.
John S. Jordan, pastor of the
Methodist church here in West
Jefferson, also was impressed
with strips on Raymond Francis
farm located on clay bank, just
above Smethport. Mr.. Jordan
said Mr.. Francis called to his at
tention, not the erosion which
took place on this field, but to the
relatively small amount of soil
movements on this field during
the hard rains last week and that
Mr.. Francis contributed this to
strip farming.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
ARE TEN YEARS OLD

Callander, Ontario-The Dionne
Quintuplets were ten years old
Sunday and they received a gift
for which they had been clamor-
ing for more than a year-a pony.
Olivia Dionne, their 41-year-old
father and guardian, decided they
were at last old enough for one,
but kept the gift a secret until it
was presented to Yvonne, An
nette, Emile, Cecile and Marie.
Their birthday was celebrated
deliberately, but it was family
affair with the IA Dionnes - the
quints, their parents, four broth
ers and three sisters-their teach
ers and household staff partici-
pating.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
DEMONSTRATIONS HIT
ROME AS ALLIES GAIN

Madrid - Demonstrations and
clashes between Fascists and an
ti-Fascists have broken out in
Rome where the fire of heavy ar
tillery at the front is now heard
plainly, especially at night, ad-
vices which reached here said.
The greatest excitement spread
through the city during the week
end as the artillery fire heralded
the approach of the allied armies,
the advices said
Scores were reported arrested
as the result of student demon
STATIONS in the Venezia and Bar
berini squares and in the Via
Nazionale and the Via Veneto.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
CAMERON MORRISON
WILL SUPPORT HOEY

Shelby Former Governor
Clyde R. Hoey, who won the
Democratic nomination for the
u. S. Senate in Saturdays pri-
mary, received Sunday this mes,
sage from Representative Cam
eron Morrison, one of his oppon-
nets:
''My congratulations and good
wishes. I shall Loyalty support
you and the Democratic party ir
the coming election
Hoey replied:
II deeply appreciated your gra'
cious message. have valued
your fine friendship through the
years and esteem you as a great
North Carolinian and Democrat
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
PLANE CRASH FATAL
TO 10 MEN, SUNDAY

New York - Ten army filters
were killed when a heavy four
engined bomber crashed into the
side of Mount Holyoke, near
South Hadley, Mass, about mid
night Saturday night, the First
Air Force announced.
The crash occurred a few min
utes after the plane took off from
Westover Field on a night COM
bat training mission. The plane
fell into a heavily wooded section
and burned.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01
Warrensville News

Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Johnson
moved to North Wilkesboro, Sat-
urday for a stay of several
months. Mr.. Johnson has been
very ill and will stay in Wilkes
boro for treatment. He will be
greatly missed while away as he
is superintendent of the church
school and a steward in the
Warrensville Methodist church.
His many friends wish him a
speedy recovery and hope he and
Mrs. Johnson will soon return to
their home, here.
Miss Virginia Eller, of Bina,
was the guest of Mrs. K. L. Eller,
Saturday.
Mrs. Ernest Bumgardner and
children visited friends here last
week.
Miss Sally Burkett is visiting
Miss Danford Sheets, of Wagner,
this week.
Mrs. J. w. King has been ill for
few days.
Mrs. J. R. Weaver is ill at pres
ent.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Gunter and
daughter, of Crumpler, w. Va,
were week end guests of relatives
here.
| Mrs. Carrie Carson, of Crump-
Ter, w. Va, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. R. T. Johnson.
w. Lee Jones, of Amy, was in
the village Monday.
Mrs. Charles B. Weaver and
sons, of Lansing, visited friends
in the village, Monday.
Sonny" Carson and sister
Bobby Jean, of Crumpler, w. Va,
are guests of their grandmother
Mrs. Carrie Carson, this week.
Mrs. Roy Ashley has been in
disposed for a few days.
Mrs. Vester Huddler has some
of the largest Strawberries ever
raised in this community. One
picked Saturday measured five
inches across the top and 3 inch
ones are very common.
E. E. Johnson is indisposed at
present, suffering from a near
sunstroke."
Mrs. w. P. Shoaf taught the
Bible Class at the Methodist
church school last Sunday and
Mrs. c. B. Biller will be the
teacher next Sunday.
Rev. H. B. Corvette and Rev
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01

T from millions of American homes
l. prayers go up for the safety of
boys away in the war. From farm
homes other prayers, too.
For aid mthe production Of crops vital
to Victory and the establishment of Peace.
For rains to keep green the pastures
where milking cows Craze. For sun
shine to ripen the grains and folders
needed in the winters feeding.
Increased again this year are
Americas production goals for milk
and transportable products of milk!
The US. Government own require
ment of cheese is estimated at nearly
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-06-01

"Oh, look at that dirty ink spot
on your clean white CLOTH" Don't
be alarmed. Just soak it in pure
ammonia for few minutes and
presto,-it's gone. Now rinse in
cold water. Easy?