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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-07
By GOBIND BEHARI LAL
Noted Science Analyst

uMAN speech has Of the seemingly meaningless
babbng chldlke
to theory of the origin language proposed by Prof Edward
l. Thorndike o Columbia University.
speaking according
of
TnNler Of
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"DDay" work
ing elderly and
what he termed this nations march toward dictator
ship"
spotlight June but minimum of headlines he snead the motives of
matched unbouned hatred
of his Chicago mail house by the federal after he
had the the WLB and the President
bodily the
big public attention his omranys position
against rulings
the
believe
without indignation,
Avery shouted
o question Ramspeck
whether he felt Wards bound by the strike lockout
pointed industry
nd Wards position in fighting its rulings and had charged the
public filled asked
a industry official replied:
Ward"
big corporations, had not served industry very we'll
charged that his showed that the
President force Wards to order known his advisers to be unfair
and Illegal ordered Wards property seized by force
n ezedw
granted him Congress denied him the Constitution he
uphold and defend
public indignation which resulted this investigation This indignation easily
interpreted
afterwards that similar
at Chicago when he carried of the building
did however that afterwards these
walked into voting booths of the NIS and voted overwhelmingly favor
the he condemned and has continued to resist.
Wards told
liam IL Davis Francis
committee that completely false that the
astounding privileges
seizure his defiance the will
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-06-15
MONTGOMERY WARD FIASCO

WHEN THE government seized the Chicago
" plant of the Montgomery Ward Co. because
5he management defied the War Labor Board anC
the government the daily papers gleefully fllec
5he front pages with stories of ridicule
1t was, according to our best columnsts anC
editors, sheer persecution for the federal govern
nent to use the army to compel a recalcitrant ty-
coon to comply with orders of a federal agency
The Smith Connally law, apparently was never IN
tended to apply to employers. 1t was designed tc
keep workers on the job.
Even members of Congress became excited
about this case, because the firm has retail outlets
all over the country and spends millions of dollars
for advertising. Such outfits must of course, be
handled with gloves-carefully, oh, so carefully.
President Of the company, or chairman of the
board or whatever he is called instead of capitu-
lating to government orders, insisted on staying
on the job, and even had his picture taken while
being carried out Of the plant. Movie stuff.
But, after all, we have been unable to discover
any reasonable reason why ma-order big shot
should consider himself above the law, any more
than common ordinary labor officer should con-
slider himself untouchabe.
1t was about 40 years ago when the president
of the mine owners association suggested that
God Himself had intrusted operation of coal mines
to him and his associates.
That declaration, however, has never been
underwritten by God.
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PRESIDENT OPENS SAFETY DRIVE

OPENING a campaign to cut industrial accidents
by 100000 in the next twelve months, Presl-
dent Roosevelt, in a letter to Secretary Of Labor
Francis Perkins, called upon management and
labor to cooperate in the drive.
In his letter the President said:
"As you fully realized when you established
the National Committee for the Conservation of
Manpower early in our defense program, indus
trial injuries account for a great loss in production
time and in lives and limbs as we'll 1t is crafty
ing to note that the energetic work Of the COM
mittee has materially slowed down the rapid rise
in plant accident rate so conspicuousy evident
during the first two years of our intensified pro-
duction effort.
Encouraging as this may be, the fact that the
total loss OF production time actually increased
again last year is cause for real concern, and
prompts me to express my sincere hope that man
agement and labor will join Fundamentally in
to your appeal for 40 per cent re-
duction in the accident toll and thereby reach the
objective of a million fewer accidents in the next
twelve months"
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WHAT IS A PATRIOT?

NOBODY HAS ever been able to say where
~ patriotism starts and where it ends. Most
patriots, especially in war time appear to be com
posed Of about 80 per cent noise.
It's been only few months ago when the
Brewster airplane plant in New Jersey had labor
trouble, which resulted in the government taking
it over and dropping it in the lap OF Henry Kaiser
in order to get production. The workers In that
plant were damned from hell to breakfast because
some brass hat said they were holding back the
war
In fact, some Of our leading citizens wanted tc
cruelty the leader of that union, and it was even
discovered that in his youth he had trouble with
the authorities.
Anyway, Henry j. K took hold, brought order
out of chaos, as the saying goes, and the plant
settled down and produced aircraft
As a matter of fact, it has apparently pro
duced too many aircraft, because recently the
Navy announced that more are needed, and
these trades unonists employed there can now
look for other jobs.
Further than that, the Navy persuaded the
Federal Housing Authority to erect hundreds OF
homes for war workers in this plant, and they are
now and will from now on stand empty because
there will be no war workers in this war plant to
occupy these war homes.
And so, the noisy patriots of a few months ago
are now very very quiet.
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(From the Journal OF Electrical Workers.
HOW FAR the dream of industriaization witt
its higher standard Of living for all the people
has captured the imaginations of all peoples, is
revealed by Dr. Sun Yat-sens modest proposals
for China. 1t should be borne in mind that SUI
Yet-set is now gathered to his fathers, and that
this plan was offered years before the present
war Still it has real significance and charts
trends for the world.
Sun Yat-sens plan includes the building OF
100000 miles of new railroad, and more thar
100000 miles of new highways. 1t includes
building new harbors, and demands the importa
ton of thousands of new spindles, new looms, tons
of new wire and cable, lighting facilities and
machine tools. China has not put this plan into
effect. II points the way to great markets for men
and material on the other side of the world, for
Americans, if they want them
1t is likely, after the war, that scores of ma
tons will want exactly the same kind of de-
veopment. 1t is likely that the world is entering
a new era of industrialization.
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PROTECTIVE TARIFF

SENATOR Brewster, of Maine, believes he has
- hit upon plan that will permit us to have
revenue in sufficient abundance-the plan is the
high protective tariff which has kept out foreign
competitors and thus stimulated the production Of
domestic goods.
The feature of the tariff has been that it pre-
vented foreigners from selling their goods to US
and so deprive them of dollars with which to buy
our goods.
Senator Brewsters idea is to provide them
with dollars by greatly increasing their tourist
trade. With the expansion Of postwar airplane
travel he foresees Americans by the thousands
flying to Europe and other parts of the globe and
spending anywhere from $4,000000000 to $5,-
900, 100000 year
Since our postwar exports to foreign coun-
tries ran to something over $3000000,000 the
services foreign countries would render the tour
lists would more than pay for the goods they
would buy of us.
Besides in the postwar era Immediately fol-
lowing the close of the war, there win be boosted
travel on the part Of Americans abroad as they
will want to make iirst-hand inspection of the
great ruins wrought by the World War.
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COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

/ The only world affairs worth talk
| ing about at this hour are those affairs
! having to do with winning the war.
AS these lines are written the war
is going well.
Every writer who has opportunity to
! the place.
Radio commentators are doing their
best to tell us what it is all about.
Commercially, restarint marks most
of the writings and broadcasts, just as
it marks the utterances of our mill
tary leaders.
We can look at what is happening
and we can, in the light of events, have
high hopes.
But we must keep on being pre-
pared for reverses as long as the Ger
man army remains an intact fighting
force
However, there are some things that
seem certain. To those who have yam
mered impatiently for invasion in the
months past, it can be pointed out that
the bombing preparation seems to have
been well worth the price.
How long can any army get its re-
serves and supplies where they are
needed after it's communications have
been bombed into ruins?
1t seems certain that, whatever may
be the courage of the Nazi troops they
must be hamstrung by lack of rail
roads, by smashed factories, by cir
cumscribed imports.
Let it be repeated to those whose
minds can run only in the old time
channels of earth-bound operations
the invasion, in fact, has been on for
months. The dynamic change is that
and liberation to air forces of pure
destruction.
When air forces have destroyed
enough then ground forces move in.
The invasion by ground forces is the
second phase of the whole war opera
ton. Now we are engaged in opera
tiOnS in that second phase.
Unless we are driven back, this is
for Hitler the beginning of the real
end.
For Hitler and his system FINAL
ITY is JUST AROUND THE COR
NER
1t is probable that there will be
high Nazi suicides in the coming
weeks.
Today beaten tyrants have almost
no place to go. Surely, there is for
them no safe place.
One thing more enlists our interest.
The President rightly calls our army
an army of liberation.
He talks and thinks in terms of lib
GRAFTON, instead of invasion But over
seas, military leaders speak of inva
sion. The army in France is the Allied
Expeditionary Force. That's the way
it comes out in the communiques. Lib
GRAFTON is the better term. Why not
then, the Allied Liberation Forces?
Victory to you, Armies of Liberia
ton
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LABOR FOR FREE ENTERPRISE

Stockholm (lLNS). - The Social
Democratic Party Congress, represent
ing the largest political group in Swe-
den, was opened here with Prime
Minister Per Albin Hanson, the party
leader, as chairman and principal
speaker. He said that he felt that the
present coalition of national union
Government had successfully met its
main tasks. He then stressed that in
Sweden organized labor does not want
to check free enterprise but to CO.
operate with it. Greetings had been re-
ceived from the British Labor Party
and the free labor groups of Germany
and Austria. Both Norwegian and Fin
nish labor leaders were present as
guests.
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THE LEAST WE CAN DO

CURE IT'S hard for us over here, thousands OF
- miles from it, to get the picture of air warfare.
We can't see the faces of those kids our kids
. as they punch the big bombers through ack-
ack. We can't know what's in their heads and
their hearts when shell cracks through and one
of them slumps in his seat. And we never will
know For they'll never be able to tell us all of it
. But can pray and hope :. and help
in the small ways we can like buying bonds.
They ask us all of us :. . to Back the Attack
with War Bonds at least one more bond than
we've been buying. A few dollars more of help
. which we get back with interest. Will we do
it? Can we do anything else and look them in the
face that blessed day of victory? What do
YOU think?
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WARNS OF EXCESSIVE LABOR
TURNOVER in SHIPYARDS

Washington (FP).-War Manpowel
Commissioner Paul V. McNutt- said
June that excessive labor turnover
among shipyard workers, including
those i'm Navy Yards, constitutes Il
serious manpower problem.
McNutt's figures showed that since
September 1912, the monthly separa-
tion rate has ranged from s to IL per
cent of the total force i'm the yards.
He said the situation was especially
bad among shipyard workers in the
Pacific coast, New England, the Gulf
coast, South Atlantic and Wisconsin
areas.
Military separations (draft) bad
community conditions and postwar job
attractions were listed as among the
reasons cited for the quits in the in
dustry.
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NO ANALOGY

William Green, in American FederatonsD
THE MILITARY are pressing analogy OF
obligation between service in the armed forces
and the making of munitions. They neglect to
point out that citizens conscripted for military
duty are under public control, with uniform con-
ditons Of work. and III the public service, where
as men and women conscripted for war produc-
tion would work under varying conditions-for
private employers in business conducted for pri-
vate profit and without public responsibility. In
the last analysis even the Army depends upon CO.
operation to make orders effective. 1t would be
folly to endanger labors cooperation by con-
scrptiOn
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TOWARD A COMMON VICTORY

WITH THE liberation of France now the next
" goal of Allied arms are sure that Qua
readers will feel special interest in the following
message, which was shortwaved to labor members
of the French underground from Britain just be-
fore D-Day:
From the six and one-half million members
> of the American Federation of Labor, through the
Labor League for Human Rights, official relief
arm of the Federation, to the embattled workers
Of France: Greetings!
"In the ordeal which faces the Allied armies,
and their Allies, the French people, we promise
you our answering support, our undying loyalty,
our complete and heartfelt understanding
"The American workers, despite the propa-
ganda of Vichy the Nazis, and spokesmen of re-
action everywhere, have never for one moment
deserted their French brothers. They know that
the workers of France have never faltered in their
devotion to the ideals of liberty, and to the demo-
cratic principles which actuate the free trade
union movements of the world
French brothers! We know that until the
free, democratic trade union movements Of the
world have been re-established, there will be no
real victory, no real peace. TO this end we of the
American Federation of Labor will be your allies
in the future as you are our allies today"
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MERCHANT SEAMEN CALLED
AMONG FIRST TO SEE THE
ISSUES OF WAR PLAINLY

Washington (FP).-Captain Edward
Macauley, deputy administrators of the
War Shipping Administration, in "A
message said the men of the mer-
chant marine were among the first to
see the issues of this war plainly. You
were the first Americans to volunteer
and your brothers of the sea were the
first Americans to die in this fight for
freedom. The landings on the shores
of France are the fruit of their sacri
fice.'
Captain Macauley then called on
every seaman ashore to return to the
sea to finish the task which they be-
gan.
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Malcolm Ross, head of the Presi-
| dents Fair Employment Practices
| Committee is one of the most pleasant
and also one of the most intelligent
persons in Washington.
Malcolm Ross has done lot of good
work in Washington, most of 1t with
the National Labor Relations Board.
But he is stepping now into an issue
hot enough to frighten even the most
hardy soul He can do a lot of wonder
full work, or he can undo lot that has
been done.
His job is to see to it that Negroes
get a fair deal in employment-to see
that discrimination is wiped out.
That's a large order, indeed.
Recently Mr.. Ross over-ruled local
Southern office of PFEPC which had
ordered a Southern newspaper to cease
using the words ''colored" or Negro
in its classified advertising. The order
from Washington, knocking out the
local office, was based on the assump-
ton that the newspaper in question
Il
war" industry.
However, desirable it is to get rid
of discrimination, it can be doubted
if force ever will achieve that objec-
tive
There are conditions and situations
that cannot be cured by orders from
Washington-and the race issue looks
very much like one of those issues.
Every thinking American must hope
for the day when race relations will
come to be based upon something
better than ancient prejudices, but it
does the Negro small service to at
tempt this change by fiat. We don't
want a war within a war!
The American Federation of Labor
has confronted the race issue and has
dealt with it for decades.
The Federation has never tried to go
beyond moral suasion in the struggle
to eliminate discrimination. Negroes
have stormed at the gates annually,
demanding force. But the Federation
has refused to use force And it has
made progress
New York State has drastic laws
discrimination, but everyone
who ever has been in New York knows
that there is discrimination and that
sometimes it is accompanied by eX-
ceedingly dirty dirty work.
Some issues can be settled by force;
some cannot Certain forms of dis
elimination can be abolished by the
committee over which Mr.. Ross pre-
sides; others cannot except through
growth and broadened understanding.
Tolerance cannot be legislated or
brought about by orders from bureaus.
Some determinations today run both
ways 1t may be discrimination to for
bid whites to enter Negro dance halls,
but many city knows that it is a wise
and that it prevents
crime.
We should not know the truth about
lynching unless newspapers were free
to state that lynchers were white,
while the victim was cOlored.
Finally there is one thing that
should be done. Perhaps Mr.. Ross
can't do it, But there should be deep
Investigation to find out whether the
great current wave of racial hatreds
Is caused by enemy propaganda. That
has been delayed too long already.
When Negroes hate and persecute
Jews (and that has happenedD we have
condition that seems to 90 beyOnd
any normal prejudice and to call for
more searching and con-
structive than any mere order from
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FACING THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

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GREEN WIRES EISENHOWER
mot A SINGLE STRIKE
in THE ENTIRE NATION

Washington (FP).-AFL President
William Green sent a cable to General
Dwight ID. Eisenhower saying: ma
tional War Labor Board informs me
that its docket shows not single
strike in nation involving AF'L unions
as of this day. Our million members
are on the job supporting you to the
limit. We hope this information will
encourage you and your brave men in
the grave tasks ahead.
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MORE MEN NEEDED In
IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY

shington.-Asserting that neither
labor nor equipment in the iron and
steel industry can much longer stand
the gruelllng pace, members of the
Iron and Steel Industry Advisory
Committee, meeting in Washington. ex-
pressed serious concern over future
manpower prospects for the industry,
WPB reports.
Further whiting away of the labor
force, industry members said, would
inevitably have an adverse effect on
the rate of production, already five per
cent below that of the second quarter.
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CANADA's ANSWER TO LABOR DRAFT

CANADA not only forbids labor draft; it also
y forbids military draft. No Canadian can be
taken for overseas service excepting that he vol
unteers. The fact that all requirements are met
IN voluntary basis, is Canadas answer to United
States alarmsts belatedly calling for human slav
cry under mock necessity. - Springfield Miners
News.
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"A Pint Of Beer For A Pint Of Blood

at
Each Clipped
o "A
The machnsts all members of Lodge 6s International Association
body each of their blood and then promptly signed
a blood
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w HAT NEXT?

Cooking by electrOnics has been
perfected. You'll get it postwar.
You'll cook roast i'm not over five
minutes; well done at the center,
rare on the outside!
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PresidentJames M Duffy o. Box 6. East LIVERPOOL Ohio
National
Bank Building New
PdntFsnk Hull, Gill Pacific Blvd, Huntington
Par
Mills East Liverpool
Ohio
Zimmer Avenue. Trenton
Merose Avenue. Trenton
New
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Ohio.
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Sebring Ohio
Pdnt-Johua Chadwick, Grant Street. Newell West
Virginia
Ohio.
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w is DO M

am not ashamed to confess that
l am ignorant of what do not know.
Cicero.
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THE
CHERRY TREE

Where With Our Little Hdfchef
We Tell the Truth About
Many Things, Sometimes Pro-
fOundiy, Sometimes Flippantiy
and Sometimes Recklessly.