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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
SerViCennen'S S
Letters
Helps With Smokes
Mr.. Richard Gosser:

Mr.. Richard Gosser:
Just dropping you and
everyone at the WHY'S Over
land a few lines of thanks for
the boxes that / have been re-
ceiving.
There really isn't nice
enough words, to thank you
and everyone at the WHY'S
Overland the way that
would like to. I'm still in
the States and enjoy getting
my box every month, and
know that the boys overseas
must enjoy them more than
we could possibly think of.
The boys here at camp enjoy
my box just as much as do.
l myself don't smoke, but
there is always somebody
broke around here, 50 I.just
help them along until another
pay day rolls around.
/ have told them how many
boxes the WHY'S Overland
sends out each month. They
Just can't understand how
they can keep it up. l told
them if they belonged to a
Union like we have at the
WHY'S Overland they soon
would understand how it's
done.
In my last box, | received
a card to remind me of Elec-
ton day. Thanks a lot Dick.
l have already written for
mine and voted.
Wei that's about all have
to say for now. So here's
wishing you and everyone a
Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year and that we will all
be together soon in the Civic
Auditorium on the first Fri
day of each month for good
old Willys Overland union
meeting.
One of your brothers of Local
No. IL.
Brownie.
Pvt. Albert V. Brown,
ATS 131
mead, Miramar
San Diego, California
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17

IHE NEW CONOhESo
With a new congress beginning its duties
early in January, are looking forward with
hope to a legislative program which will en-
large upon the gains made by the workers.
Many of the new members of congress will
be there as a result of the effective action of
the PAC. They have courted our votes and
accepted our support. Now, we want and need
their support for the advancement of the So
cial legislation needed by the workers.
Our President has often referred to the
"full" life, which means that people should
have a decent living and more security. Now
is an opportunity for congressional majority
favorable to the president to go along with
him on his program for giving greater
security.
IMMEDIATE AIMS
Included in the immediate aims of labor
is social legislation to increase unemployment
benefits, to enlarge old age pensions and to
give the country some type of medical and
disqualification insurance.
Old age sickness and unemployment are
the triple threats to the men and women of
this country who work for a living. Not per-
son living can avert old age or sickness if fate
so wills it. Most of us cannot avoid unemploy
ment. Since these evils are unavoidable for
the majority of the people of this country,
and because the country is capable of doing
the right thing by those who grow old. be-
come sick or are laid off from their jobs, it
seems to me that some beginnings should be
made to ease the worst phases of these un-
avoidable conditions.
am not going to argue about "socialized"
medicine or the question of control. do say
that sickness is great contributing cause of
poverty and misery and untimely deaths and
that something should be done, in all justice,
for those whose incomes have never permitted
them the luxury of extended even occa-
sional sickness. R
OLD AGE & UNEMPLOYMENT 49,
Old age benefits have been discussedS j
me on so many occasions that need not say
much here. think that it is rank injustice
to the aged to be handled as they are in a
country which calls itself civilized. believe
old persons who have worked all their lives
and contributed to the building and main
tenance of society worthy of better treat
ment and that their pensions should be in
creased to the point where they can live in
decent comfort as befits their service to their
state and community.
Unemployment insurance certainly can be
raised to a much higher level and the time
limit extended beyond that which now exists.
If the idea behind the insurance is sound,
namely, that it maintains a certain level of
purchasing power for the workers, then the
idea of increasing this purchasing power
should tend to end employment sooner and
restore our economy to healthier condition.
These are but few of the things for which
labor looks to the 10th congress. We are wait
ing for January 1945 with interest and anti
cipation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Political
Action
BY
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman

The Toledo Times of Thurs
day, Nov. 9, 1914 carried a
story which purported to
prove that the CIO and the
PAC had little if any effect
on the recent public election.
They made much of the fact
that Earl Ordway of the CIO
and Otto Brach of the AFL
who were endorsed by the :
PAC for State Senators were
not elected.
1t is true that our candi-
dates for State Senators were
not elected. 1t is also true that
they pulled very heavy vote.
The election was close, so
close that little more effort
on our part can clinch the
election of our candidates in
the future.
We lost all the endorse
ments for State representa-
tives except one, but this elec-
ton was close too.
We elected the governor.
We failed to defeat Taft, but
by such a narrow margin that
if we follow through and build
up our organization we can
certainly defeat reactionaries
from here on.
Of the five PAC endorsed
candidates for the judgeship
four were elected.
PAC SMEARED
All during the campaign the
PAC was smeared as a dan
gerous un-American element.
Now suddenly we are told we
are an unimportant group
with no influence.
We do not mind criticism,
but certainly we cannot be a
Big Bad Wolf and an Insight
ficant Nuisance at one and the
same time.
Enough of rebuttal to our
critics. The best reputation
of all the criticism leveled
against us is for us to do job
of assuring the election of lib
eral and progressive people to
public office.
In this objective, victory
can be achieved, but it will
take lot of work.
Our drive for members in
the PAC goes on unabated
into the 1945 campaign. Let
us be much better prepared
for the 1945 elections.
There are lots of opening
for people who wish to be-
come active in our ward and
township clubs. More details
on the organizational struc-
ture of PAC will be given in
subsequent columns.
We invite and urge every
one interested in Social Legis-
lation to join the Local Area
PAC.
Membership is one dollar
per year. Come up to our
office in Room 410-425 Win
throp st. and take out men,
bership.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-17
Regional
Views
By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B, UAW,ClO
THE NEW CONGRESS

THE NEW CONGRESS
With a new congress beginning its duties
early in January we are looking forward with
hope to legislative program which will en-
large upon the gains made by the workers.
Evening star., 1944-10-13
Community Chest Of
WoshinQton

includes Prince Georges County, Md
Barney Neiohborhood House
Boy Scouts Of America. National Copito
Council
Boys Club Of Washington
Bureou Of Rehabilitation
Comp Fire GrIs
Catholic Chorities
CothoIic Charities Of Prince Georges Coun
Child WeIfore Society
ChiIdren's Country Home
Chdren's Protective Association
Christ Child Fresh Air Form for
ConvoIescent Children
Christ Child Settlement House
Community Chest Headquarters
Council of Soco Agencies Of the D. c.
Vicinity
Dento Fund
Department of SocioI WeIfore-Woshnotc
Federation of Churches
Episcopal Home for Children
fomiH Service Association
Summer Outings Committee
Department for the Blind
Florence Crittenton Home
Friendship House
Georgetown House
Girl Scouts OF D. c.
Girl Scouts of Prince Georges County
Hebrew Home for the Aged
disqualification Fund tsee motel
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
Jewish Community Center
Jewish Social Service Agency and Jewish
Foster Home
Juonito koufmon Nye Council House
leeol Aid Bureau
Northwest Settlement House
Phyllis Wheotey, Y. w. c. A.
Rebecco Rhoods Service Mems Club
Soint AIMS Home
Soint AIMS Infant Asylum
Soint Joseph's Home and School
Soint Roses Technical School
Sont Vinoent's Home ond School
Salvation Army
Social Hygiene Society
,ocoI Service Exchonee
,ocoI Service leooue of Prince Georges
County
outheost House
outhwest Community House
toddord Boptist Home
roveIers Aid Society
welfth Street Y. M c. A.
'oshineton Animal Rescue leoeue
oshinoton Criminal Justice Association
oshneton Heort Association
oshineton Home for FoundIines
oshinoton Housing Association
ashinoton Institute of Mental Hygiene
,shneton Society for the Hard Of Hearing
lshineton Urban League vi
Ifore Department Of the American Legion
ing Mems Christion Association
no Women's Christion Association
Evening star., 1944-10-13
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Other Local Services

Blood Plosmo Bank, Chldren's Hospital
Boys Club of the Metropolitan Police
Citizens Committee on Roce Relations
D. c. Society for the Prevention of Blindness
Foster Doy Core and Counselline Association
Junior Army Navy Guild Organization
Shoe and Rubber Fund Of the Congress Of
Porents and Teachers
Shoe and Rubber Fund Of the Federation of
Porent-Teoeher Associations
Evening star., 1944-10-13
United Nations War Relief
Community Chests and Other Local Welfare

disqualification tsee motel
Maternal and Infont Core
Mclean School Health Clinic
RecreotionoI Projects ..
Religious Education Non -Sectorion
Summer Comp for Children
Venereol Disease Control
Evening star., 1944-10-13
Foirfox County Community

Boy Scouts
Comp Fire Girls
Child Core-CIothine, Milk
Child Guidance Clinics
Community Chest Headquarters
Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation
Eye. DentoI and TonsiIeetomy Fund
All Clubs
Follow-Up and Placement Service
Girl Scouts
Home Nursing Service
Evening star., 1944-10-13

Arlington Council of Girl Scouts
Arlington War Recreation Center
Boord of Public Welfare
Boy Scouts of America
Bureau of Nursing Service
Community Chest Headquarters
Instructive Visiting Nurse Association
Negro Seectve Service Committee
Social Hygiene Boord
Evening star., 1944-10-13
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Alexandra Hospital
Arlington County General Hospital
Children's Hospital
Columbia Hospital for Women
eostern Dispensory and CosuoIty Hospital
Emergency Hospitol
Episcopal Eye, Eor and Throot HospitoI
Eugene lelond Memorial Hospital
Sorfield Memorial Hospitol
Georgetown University Hospital
George Washington University HospitoI
Montgomery County General Hospitol
Montgomery County Suburban HosptoI
Prince Georges County General Hospital
Prince Georges HeoIth Center
Providence Hospitol
Sibey Hospitol
Sonitorium
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Evening star., 1944-09-19
Brest Nuzi Commander Defies
Yonks With Wordy Hate SpieI'

| National Socialism and our Fuehrel
Adolf Hitler.
"3. In reality, America today, as
once before. is fighting into the
hands Of the international Jew, who
resides in Wall Street and who from
there, assisted by Russian Boil
shevism, wants to conquer the whole
world.
q. Inhabitants OF the United
States of America do not belong tc
one single race All races of the
globe are represented-good ones
and inferior ones. Among the latter
are especially the colored and 6
great number of half-castes.
IS. In spite of the fact that the
Americans have declared repeatedly
their treatment of prisoners of wal
and wounded will be in accordance
with international law, it must bt
expected that these inferior ele.
ments in the American Army viii
disobey the above orders and. obey.
ing their baser instincts, will mis-.
treat defenseless prisoners of wal
just as much as the colored vassals
of England have done in innumer-
able cases.
TO such treatment, in contradic-
ton with existing law, you will op-
pose your pride as a member of a
nation of old culture and of the
glorious German race"
He concluded with instructions to
his troops how to act as prisoners OF
war, citing the Geneva Convention
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Colby N. Chester Will Head
1o45 Red Cross War Fund

Appointment Of Colby M. Chester
OF New York, chairman of the Ex-
ecutiye Committee Of General Foods
Corp. as national chairman Of the
1945 Red Gross war fund campaign
next March was announced today
by the Red Cross.
Basil O'Connor, Red Cross chair
mar, termed the campaign "one of
the most important" since the he
ginning Of the war and said the
goal would be about the same az
last year.
Mr.. O'Connor said the Red Cross
was extremely fortunate to obtain
Mr.. Chester's services. Mr.. Chester
has been closely identified with the
Red Cross since 1912, when he Le-
came vice chairman of the Board
of Directors of the New York Chap
ter. In March, lS43, he served az
chairman of the Red Cross cam
paign in New York City.
Mr.. Chester began his career as
a lawyer in 1900 and in 1919 became
assistant treasurer of the Postum
Cereal Co. which later merged into
General Foods Corp.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
By the Associated Press.

WITH AN AMERICAN. INFAN-
TRY DIVISION AT BREST, Sept
IA Delayed Maj. Gen. Hermann
Ramcke defled American troops be-
sieging Brest today in an order OF
the day telling his soldiers that
every American soldier marching
against us is one less threat against
home"
I'VE are going to defend the
fortress Of Brest to the last grenade
committing our very lives, and shall
cede this important military port to
the enemy only as a pile of ruins,
the order said. Through our ten
acity we are tying down consider
able enemy froces. Should we
however, after heroic resistance
have to surrender to numerical su-
periority of the enemy, it must be
done in An honorable way"
(The evacuation of Brest was
acknowledged today by the Ger
mans in radio broadcast.)
"Our opinion of the American op.
ponent can be expressed in a few
words:
81. Already once in 1917 and 1915
he has, without necessity, interfereo
with strictly European concerns ir
spite of his principle of America fol
the Americans and then made q
statement that he was fighting
Prussian militarism and the Ger
man Emperor.
%. Now, presumably he is fighting
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Finland
Continued From First Page.

all the United Nations at war with
Finland on the one hand, and a
delegation of the Finnish govern
ment on the other on the question
Of concluding an armistice with
Finland.
"The following took part in ne
gotiations on the Soviet side:
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslay
Molotov, Marshal Klementi Y. Voro-
shilov, Andrei A. Zhdanov, V. G
Dekanozov, Maxim Litvinoff, Gen
Shchemenko and Rear Admiral AL
exandrov.
"On the British side the ambassa-
dor, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, ano
the counselor, Mr.. j. Balfour.
'The following delegates of the
Finnish government attended the
conferences: M. Enckel, Gen. Kar
Rudolf Walden, Gen. Heinrich ane
Gen. Enckel.
THE negotiations were concluded
with signing of an agreement ol
armistice with Finland on Septem.
Der 10.
THE agreement on the armistice
was singed by Col. Gen. Zhdanov or
behalf of the governments of the
U. S. S. r. and Great Britain. Or
the Finnish side the agreement was
signed by M. Enckel, Gen. Walden
Gen. Heinrich and Gen. Enckel.
The contents of the armistice
agreement will be announced later.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Barbara Hutton Says
ReventIow Hit Son
By the Associated Press.

6y tne Associated PreSS.
WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. 49,
Barbara Hutton Grant, 5-and-10-
cent store heiress, filed a new legal
action today against her former
husband, Count Haugwitz Revent-
low, alleging that in "fit of tenn
per- he struck their son, Lance,
over the head when the child was
2 years old.
The suit, filed in United States
District Court, asked a temporary
injunction Immediately restraining
the former count from benefiting
from a s1,50O,000 trust fund which
she established for him when they
separated in 1898. In the same court
two weeks ago she sued for a perma-
nent injunction.
Mrs. Grant, now the estranged
wife OF Actor Cary Grant, said Mr..
Reventlow struck Lance in their
Paris apartment in April, 1898, just
before they separated.
Mrs. Grants attorneys said the
immediate reason for her effort to
stop payments to Mr.. Reventlow was
his alleged violation of a custody
agreement under which, she says,
Mr.. Reventlow should have re-
turned the son to his mother last
June 30. Instead, the attorneys al-
lege, he took the boy to Canada.
Evening star., 1944-09-19

Department in 1902 with the Ma
tional Bank Redemption Agency
After serving in various capacities
he became superintendent of that
agency in 1920.
BY presidential appointment he
was promoted to assistant treasurer
in 1929 and in 1888 was designated
as executive assistant to the treas
urer. He was advanced to the posi-
ton of assistant to the treasurer in
1910.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Joanna
Kane Barnes, he is survived by
three sons. George A. Barnes, now
serving with the Office of War In
formation in London; 1t. Edward
o. Barnes, serving overseas with the
Army, and Coast Guard 1t. Eugene
K. Barnes of New York, and two
daughters, Mrs. Mary Condor, Pan
anna City, Fla, and Mrs. Joanne
Koch, Washington.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
|Anfonescu and Aides
Captured by Russians;
Punishment Pledged
Bs the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Sept. 1e.-With Ro-
mania's fallen dictator, Marshal Ion
Antonescu, and a host of German
overlords in the Balkans in the Red
Army's hands, Soviet Russia today
reminded the Allies that Axis war
criminals must bear "full punish-
ment for their monstrous crimes"
The Soviet press. rejecting wide
spread belief here that part OF
the British American attitude NAV
prove softhearted, demanded that
Germans Of the new wars" be
eradicated.
The Russian policy which. 1t is
understood here. the United States
and Britain will be asked to sup
port fully, is twofold:
1. A warning to all neutral coun-
tries that they must not afford
asylum to Axis war criminals.
2. The arrest of all such criminals
found in territory occupied by
Allied armies.
Yesterday, in Romania, the Rus
slams took into custody their largest
bag Of Fascist personalities to date.
In addition to Antonescu, the group
included DR.. Karl Clodius, German
economic envoy to Bucharest;
Mihail Antonescu. former foreign
minister and a relative of the de-
posed Premier; Gen. Constantine
Pantazi, former defense minister:
Vasiliu, former inspector general of
police; Elefterescu, former prefect
Of Bucharest police; Gen. Hansel,
chief of the German military mis-
sion to Bucharest; Admixal Telefsen.
chief of the German naval liaison
headquarters in Romania, and Mai.
Gen. Stagen, who was with the Ger
man command in Warsaw earlier in
the year.
Clodius is Germany's chief expert
on Balkan economic affairs. He
was responsible for all trade agree
ments in that region, and was the
man who delivered Romania's oil,
Hungary's corn and Turkish chrome
to the Reich.
Meanwhile, Russian newspapers
published full-page report of an
investigation committee that 1OO.-
900 Jews in the Minsk ghetto were
tortured and killed during the Ger
man occupation and 10000 inmates
OF a Minsk concentration camp were
aSphyxiated by German "gas"
wagons.
The committee declared that in
another camp 6 miles from Minsk
$500 persons were killed and their
bodies burned while 10000 were shot
In trenches at third point.
Altogether the Hitlerites killed
300, 900 Soviet citizens in Minsk and
its suburbs" the official report said.
Evening star., 1944-09-19

so. all will 60 we'll, and when we
toast Herr Hitler's ghost,
well, you'll be around and so
will l."
Singing and speaking in German,
French, Danish and English, the
Tennessee star started rolling for
eign phrases across with ease. This
was her spoken message to the
Germans:
German soldiers, here talks Di-
nah Shore. I have just returned
from Paris where I sang for Ameri-
can troops. Meanwhile, our boys
entered Germany to re-establish
order, freedom and justice. I hope
they will succeed real soon for then
Evening star., 1944-09-19
AGENCIES
Continued From First Page.)

functions as they possess, ~ the
reduction of Government personnel
to a peace footing, and 90 the
simplif1cation and adaptation of the
administrative structure to peace
time requirements.
In general, recommendations
should include the methods for
effecting the proposed changes and
the appropriate timing of these
changes. Immediate attention should
be focused on the adjustments
needed upon the termination of the
war in Europe"
The latest available figures from
the Civil Service Commission show
total civilian employment of 1888 ,602
on July 81, with 270,502 in metro
politan Washington. Senator Byrd
Democrat, of Virginia, head of the
Senate Economy Committee, earlier
estimated July employment arounG
3,365,000.
The Byrd figures include employees
on terminal leave, those outside the
United States and experts employed
on a per diem basis, but do not in
clude the thousands of volunteer
workers aiding the OPA.
When the arms program was
= started in May, 1910, total employ
ment was just under 1000 900, with
$4,000 employees located here. AT
the end of the last war, local en-
ployment was 10000, and in the
field, approximately 100000.
In his recent outline or recon-
version plans, War Mobilization Di-
rector J. F. Byrnes said cutbacks
and relaxation of controls after the
defeat of Germany should make the
release of some Government en-
ployes possible.
Some administrative officials of
the Government who have studied
this subject have concluded that
peacetime civilian force ultimately
will be stabilized-at least for long
period-at about 100000 persons.