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Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
10th CENTURY FOX
OFFERS TO
SUSIDTZE CT AUTHORS

HOLLYWOOD FP)-Any CT with the
urge Of authorship will be given a break
by 2oth Century-Fox. The movie com
pany is offering % or more feIowships
Of S1,500 to men and women of the
armed forces who submit promising story
outlines. Discharged veterans are eligi-
bic too.
The fellowship viii pay off at 500 a
month over a 15-month period During
that time The CT literary fellow is x
pected to develop his outline into a book
or play.
If he can get the story published the
author will receive $l8,5OO more from
2Oth-FoX. If it isn't published but the
company sees movie material in it, the
addition price will be $500.
The movie company explains its offer
as a gesture toward postwar %rehabilita-
ton. The 500 monthly is barely more
than unemployment insurance, of course.
But for a CT with premonitions of
genius there is that gamble on making
it an even $4,000.
Variation-Pvt. Pasqued Ciocco of the
6O9th Tank Destroyer Bn. at Camp
Shelby, Miss, has collected $1,000 from
a movie company for a literary effort
Of simpler nature.
Monogram offered a $1,000 war bond
for a new title for They Shall Have
Uaitb Nioooo ,,o,, tLo ,,rizo Lv, e,,ocoet
ing that the company keep the title I'm
changed.
Nest Egg-A postwar rehabilitation
plan the Hollywood unions are concerned
over hinges on funds of 81, 900, 900 or
more that the Hollywood Canteen is ac-
quiring. The money will come princi-
pally in royalties from the Warner Bros.
picture about the canteen.
Hollywood Canteen was organized, dec
GRATED, furnished and operated as a Joint
war service by 40-odd unions. Rank
and file volunteers have kept the can
teen humming for two years, hardly
noticing the g~lamour-angle publicity that
never mentions unions and leaving ex-
ecutive decisions to a narrowing circle.
Suddenly the unions have become
aware that not only is there going to be
at least 81, 100000 with which to extend
the canteen's service after the war, but
that a plan is in cooking to turn the
money into the hands of nine individual
trustees for disposal,
The movie unions are %instructing their
delegates to attend all executive board
sessions of the canteen. They want the
eanteen's funds used in the %rehabilita-
lion Of Hollywood servicemen, particu-
Iarly the $500 studio workers now in the
armed forces.
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28

, The Indictment for r1min violation
of the Sherman antitrust act alleged
that the Nazi-controlled AMPoT, Borax
Consolidated Ltd. of London and its sub
salaries in California exercised a world
wide monopoly of mining, producing and
distribution of borax, eliminating Amer
lean competition and swallowing every
company which entered the field be-
tween 1899 and 1916.
The conspiracy charges are the result
Of a lengthy secret investigation of the
cartel which began when the alien pro-
perty custodian seized German held stock
Of the American Potash & Chemical
Corp. in 1912 after a Dutch banker told
the Dept. of Justice that the corporation
was German-owned.
The Init. Union of Mine Mill & Smell
ter Workers (CIO) had long since claim
ed AMPOT management acted like Nazis.
The long, vicious a%nti-labor record of
this company reached its high point i
the strikebreaking formula introduced
unsuccessfully in the Trona, Calf, strike
of 1941, when 1850 workers held out for
months in an isolated, company-own-
ed desert town despite numerous back
to-work movements promoted by the
company.
During the years AMPOT was trying
to break the union, the cartel was trying
to weaken the enemies of fascism a.
broad. 1t would not sell rehydrated
5orates to l~end-lease or the British and
purchasing commissions, in
that these agencies buy bulk ores,
Asst. U. S. Atty. Wendell Berge said.
The Chinese government was forced
70 pay SIS more a ton for refined borax
Than the japanese before the war. the
Indictment revealed. The Polish govern
ent paid s133 a ton while Germany paid
s64, it said.
The defendants obtained a $50 mon
3poly of the word supply oi cruoe 15rate
md a 1000 of the world supply Of
sodium borate, mined only in California,
he indictment contends. These miner
lls are essential in the production Of
steel, rubber, optical glasses and air
and balloon fabrics.
Along with the indictment a civil COM
was filed in federal district court
to enjOin further violations Of
he Sherman act and to obtain a receiv-
n to sell the property of Borax Consoli-
lated and its subsidiaries.
Commenting on cartel practices in the
postwar world, Berge said: we can win
military and political victory, but if we
lon't dig into this cartel problem, Ger
many can continue economic control.
We have got to frame a program to de-
troy German-inspired international
rusts and monopolies."
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
HIGHER WAGES need
Not MEAN HIGHER
PRICES FOR GOODS

WESTINGHOUSE Even after the
Little Steel Formulas iron grip on wages
is smashed there is no need to lift prices
for commodities above 1912 levels, econ
omists of the OPA said Sept. 81.
The OPA estimate is based on condi-
tons which would permit postwar wages
of American workers to rise enough to
make up for the loss from the return to
the 40 hour week, or about 25fo.
Meanwhile the Dept. of Labor releas-
ed figures that refute the s%care-head
stories Of fabulous wartime p%aychecks"
in war industries.
The new figures showed that workers
in all manufacturing had an increase in
earnings of 67% in July, 1914, over
July, 194S, with the highly unionized
fields holding a marked advantage over
open shop classifications.
All of the figures including overtime
payments and showed a weekly national
average for all industries of $45.52. This
sum does not include deductions for war
bonus, social security, etc.
Topping all industries was the auto
motive field in which labor organization
is highest, with an average Of $500.
July earnings Of workers in iron, steel
and related products amounted to s50.O1.
Rubber workers got an average Of $49.12,
electrical machinery workers, $47.25 and
other heavy duty machinery 1894.
In the more poorly paid textile ield
which is less widely organized, paycheck
averaged S29.63, while tobacco workers
felt the effects of an organized drive to
reach $1,000, and increase of 1919 over
July, 1913. The food industry as a whole
averaged $3.50 a week.
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
ASKS BRITISH TO
CALL WORLD
LABOR MEET

WASHINGTON (FP) quick action in
calling a United Nations labor congress
was suggested Sept. % by CLIO Pres.
Philip Murray in a letter to Sir Walter
Citrine, general secretary Of the British
Trades Union Congress.
Murray said the approaching victory
over Germany and the need for labor
ito participate in forging unity among
the nations for the peace" make it i'm
perative to call the meeting "as quickly
as possible He suggested converting
the international conference in the early
part Of December.
Originally set for June 6 in London,
the conference was postponed due to
travel restrictions preceding the opening
Of the second front in Europe.
The Murray letter said the approach
ing victory in Europe, "the problems
which have arisen as a result of the
swift march Of the allied forces through
Europe, and the important issues to
which labor must address itself if the
people are to participate in forging a
unity among the nations for the peace,
make it imperative that the information
al labor conference originally called by
your organization be convened as quick
ly as possible.
Even if the new call were to be issued
at the present time by the British Trades
Union Congress, some time must elapse
the necessary travel facilities to be
arranged. Also in this country it will
De impossible for our representatives to
cave at least until after our national
elections and the completion Of our an
lual convention which is being held dur
ng the third week in November. May 1
therefore suggest that your organization
consider converting the international
abor conference during the early part
If December Of this year"
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
CoPs WON'T sTOP ORGANIZING

CHICAGO -FP) Chicago cops refuse
to take No for an answer and are con-
tinuing organization into Local 1855.
American Federation of State County &
Municipal Employees (AFL).
Copies Of an opinion by AFL Atty.
Joseph A. Padway was sent all police
men, UNFOLDING their right to u%nionize.
Commissioner James P. Altman
had forbidden them to join the union.
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28

WASHINGTON FP)- Warning that
there are only five weeks left before
Nov. 7, the Congress Of Women's Auxil-
iaries CLIO. urged its members to get out
and work for Roosevelt and a congress
that will support him. Said the execu-
tive board. Lets slight the cleaning,
leave the mending. skimp the cooking
and give every second to getting every
community 1000 registered before re-
gistration closes and 1000 voted on
election day"
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
ALLIED fS!AT|0NS Being EXPLOITED
.ANTI-UNION FIRM INDICTED AS PART
OF GIANT CARTEL in BORAX PRODUCTION

SAN FRANCISCO FP)-A giant international cartel,
operated by British and Nazi corporations through the
antilabor American Potash & Chemical Corp, was in
dicted by a federal grand jury here on charges Of Great
ing a worldwide monopoly in vital borax, refusing to sell
to Allied purchasing agents and maintaining price diff
~ferentials in favor of Axis nations.
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28

WASHINGTON-(FP) Six American
labor leaders, AFL and CLIO, came back
fro ma tour of the battlefronts in France
with pleas for uninterrupted and accel-
Grated production Of badly needed war
materials and the calling Of a world
labor union conference as soon as pos
sible.
Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
Mildred Babich
Gets Certificate

Mildred Babich of S21h Alabama St.,
Butte, received her certificate in public
health nursing from the University Of
Washington at the close of the short
summer session. There were 1876 degrees
and certificates awarded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-06
CHRISTMAS PAGE CONTEST RULES

lUNlE0l RULED l. Beginning Friday, November 24th, and continuing to Thursday, December 14th, there will oppeor daily in the christmos Shoppers Guide, 6 extra words: Buy An Extro $lo0 Wor Bond" one in each of 6 ads appearing on this page.
 2. The contest will be divided into week Iy periods; each period beginning on Friday and closing the following Thurs day. Each of the six words will appear every doy.
 3. To compete for weekly prizes, you must first find the 6 ads each day in which one of the extro words appears, clip each ud and underline or mark the word. WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE THE COMPLETE SET OF 36 ADS. Then write a letter of 25 words or less on "Why everyone should support the 9th Wor Loan. Moil or bring your set of 56 ads and your Wor Bond Letter 10 Christ mos Contest Editor" at the office of the Waterbury Democrat.
 4. Eoch weeks contest closes on Thursday and all entries for that week must be received not later thon the following Saturday night.
 5. Eoch week cosh prizes of $5 and $Z plus 5 pairs of tickets 10 see current hit show at the STRAND THEATER will be oworded to the persons submitting the neotest entries end the best letters. 6. Every Wednesday, stGrtins Dec. 9th. the winners of the previous weeks con- fest will be announced in the DemoerOt. Decisions of the judges will be final. '. This contest is open to oIl but employees of the DemoeFot and members of their families.
 6. All entries become inc property of the DemoeFot and will not be returned.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13
Rotary Head
Chooses Aides
Dr.. Lloyd Hirth Attends
District Dearborn Meet

UTICA - DR.. Lloyd r. Hirth,
newly elected president of the
Utica Rotary Club presided at
his first meeting Tuesday night.
He reported on the meeting Of
the District Assembly held at
Dearborn Inn on Thursday of
last week. The doctor attended
the meeting in company with
Harold Lindsey, president, and
Clarence Barck, treasurer of the
Mt. Clemens Rotary Club.
The new president also an
nounced his committees for the
year as follows: Club service
Chairman, Sidney Odgers; CO.
chairmen, Rev. Versile D. Bent
ley, Harold Engel; classification
and membership, Henry Gage,
E. John Andrus, William r. Da-
Wis; fellowship and attendance,
Leroy Tyack, Charles Morrow
ske; public information, Charles
M. Foster, Edward w. Havel;
Sergeant-at-Arms, Percy Bunt-
ing; Rotary information, Henry
Scheper.
Community Service - Chair
man, Clarence Church; Boys
Work and Youth Service, DR..
Albert F. TeWs, DR.. Thomas J.
Kerns, James Merritt. Rural Ur-
ban, Rev. FIR. Edward J. DeKey-
ser, Leo Kolowich, Ernest w.
Hahn.
Vocational Service Chair
man, Raymond v. Gilchrist, Ed
ward A. Schwarzkoff, Arthur
N. Chapoton.
International Service-Chair-
man, DR.. D. B. Wiley, George
Eppler.
Aims and Objects - Sidney
Odgers, Clarence H. Church,
Raymond V. Gilchrist, DR.. d. B.
Wiley, William E. Kiekbusch.
Walter Lehner and Ross AK
ford, of Mt. Clemens, and JOS
eph Stanley, of Van Dyke, were
guests Tuesday evening, and E.
w. Hahn has as his guest, Ross
Thorpe, of Flint.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13
Grim Total Almost As Hiqh
As Battle Toll During War

WASHINGTON, July 10 -
R)-The National Safety Coun-
Gil soon will publish a report
showing $4,000 workers were
killed on job-accidents in l943.
This-gruesome toll for only
one year is almost as great as
the total number of war deaths
-20,362-reported to date since
Pearl Harbor by the Navy, Mar
inc Corps and Coast Guards.
1t is a drop of only 3 per cent
from 1912 when occupational
deaths were $4,000. Yet it shows
that progress has been made in
cutting down job accidents.
More people were employed
In 1913 than in 1912 but fewer
deaths occurred from accidents
at work.
But, when considering the
battle casualties since Dec. z.
1941, 1t shows how far Ameri-
can industry has to go In pre-
senting a truly civilized picture
of accident prevention.
A representative of the Safe
ty Council said:
"The very big industries, like
General Motors, has good safety
programs. They have found it
worthwhile to do a first class
Job in accident prevention.
LONG WAY TO GO
But the smaller plants, par
ticularly those hiring less than
100 employees. have a long way
to CO."
He said that when the war
broke out there were probably
less than 100 expert safety en-
gineers in this country.
Since war started Govern
ment inspectors-in plants with
war contracts-have had the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13
jenkins Campers
Leave Here Sunday
Full Enrolment
Backs New Project

Twenty-four local boys be-
tween the ages of nine and Is
years, will leave here Sunday
in charge Of Arthur Jenkins TO
participate in a two-week stay
Camp Rotary, through 1.-The
courtesy of the Rotary Camp
and Training Association, which
has provided the camp grounds
for the project.
Visiting periods at the camp
will be Wednesday and Sunday
afternoons, Jenkins states, in
extending an invitation 10 any
Mount Clemens residents to
view the activities.
A special visiting occasion
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13
Revolt Crushed
in Colombia
President Cites
Healthy Warning

BOGOTA, Colombia, July 13
-P)- President Alfonso Lo-
PEE told thousands of Colon
bans who cheered his return to
the capital last night that the
prompt quelling of this weeks
two-day rebellion was a heal
thy warning" to reactionaries
that this country is ready to de-
fend constitutional democracy.
Speaking shortly after arriv-
ing from Paste, in Southern Co.
lombia, where an Army group
held him prisoner Monday and
Tuesday, Lopez congratulated
the nation on "the rapid solu-
ton of this mad adventure"
through cooperation of the PEG.
pie and loyal forces in the
Army.
The President, showing no i'll
effects from his brief stay In
the hands Of the conspirators,
declared Colombia again had
proved her political maturity by
routing "the agents Of disorder
and evangelists Of the personal
coup d'etat."
Lopez said that with the help
Of God I shall continue to serve
as a faithful and efficiet inter-
prefer Of the desires of the peo-
pie"
Later In a radio address he
praised the Army for helping
put down the revolt and Vice
President Dario Echandia for
directing the dispersal of the
Rebels and effecting his rescue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13

right to 60 into war plants and
insist on safety measures which
otherwise might have been lack.
ing.
This has helped cut down the
accident rate.
But the deaths from accidents
in this country are still stupen'
dous in comparison with the
number of men killed in the
armed services after 2 years and
eight months of war.
For instance:
In the single year Of 1913
there were 94,500 deaths from
accidents on the home front.
But since Pearl Harbor, Dec
Z. 1941, there have been in al
the armed services only a total
number of deaths of about ST.
600.
Those 94,500 deaths in 1913
were a decrease of / u per cent
from the $3.50 deaths in 1912
MAIN CAUSES
Broken down into cause:
they showed:
Motor vehicles: 1943-23,300
1942-28,309, a drop of ID per
cent. There is no reason to be
elated about this. While the
number of automobile accidents
were decreasing, the number OF
automobiles on the highways
was decreasing.
Home deaths: 1943-33,000;
1942-31, 500. an increase of 5
per cent. Deaths from fire were
one of the main causes of this
increase, according to the same
Safety Council representative
who said:
Deaths from dry-cleaning
fluids increased. Housewives
used to non-inflammable clean
ing fluids, didn't know that the
chemicals which had made
cleaning fluids non-inflammable
had gone to war. The fact that
present cleaning fluids are in
flammable is written in many
cases in small letters on the bot
tom of bottles.
Housewives who have been
told in advertisements for 20
years that their cleaning fluid
is non-inflammable, now often
find that because Of war needs
it is inflammable but the warn
ing to them is in fine print
which they never read"
Public accidents-that Is, &C.
cidents outside the home and
exclusive of motor accidents
totaled $500. an increase of 8
per cent over the $4,000 in 1912
This ncrease-such as slip
ping and falling, drowning,
street car accidents, and SO
forth-was probably due to the
increased number of older war
time people now engaged in
daily activities.
There are other factors, too
numerous to mention here: like
trolley car motormen who have
passed their efficiency peak,
older people who don't see well
and thus increase accident haz-
ards, and so on.
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Is 900 Workers Killed i'm Job-Accidents During -

will be Sunday, July %, at 4
p. m, when the boys will con-
duct their own religious servic-
eS.
The Jenkins camp provides
summer activity for the physi-
cal education and swimming
groups he has voluntarily
taught for some time. A full en-
rollment was experienced.
The camp is operated on a
work-and-play basis, with boys
handling camp chores and other
duties. A Boys Court tries and
Furnishes rule breakers and a
capital" offense is punished by
expulsion from the camp.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13

Today we are on Germany's
20-yard line, about midfield on
the other (Pacific) front, and we
have to produce and deliver the
number of men and amount of
materials required to make the
touchdown. - Lieut.. Gen. Bre-
hon B. Somervell, Army Service
Forces chief.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13

More requests for methods of
preventing cannibalism among
growing chickens have been re-
ceived this season by the Uni
versity of Maryland poultry de-
partment than during any pre-
vious season.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13

Q-What Is the largest stad-
ium in the nation?
A. Soldier Field, Chicago;
200, 900 maximum capacity.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-13

Minnows breathe $50 times a
minute.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-30
FUNERALS

ciating. Friends may call at the
funeral home today from Z to 8 D.
m. Burial will be in Riverside GEM
etery. Mrs. Grey died in Miami, Fla.
The funeral of Mrs. Edith Bar
mum, widow of Orrin 8. Barnum,
83 Ridgewood street, was held today
at 2 p. m. at the Anderson funeral
home, 10 Central avenue, with Rev.
Alan M. Fairbank, Bunker Hill Con-
gregational church, officiating. Bur
ial was in new Pine Grove GENE.
terry.
Funeral services for George S.
Russell, TAO North Main street, were
held today at the Anderson Funeral
Home, 10 Central avenue, with Rev.
DR.. John J. Snavely of the First
Methodist church, officiating. Burial
was in old Pine Grove cemetery.
Bearers, all sons of the deceased
We're: Frederick, George, Horatio
and James Russell.
Inc funeral OF Mrs. Emilia (Di-
Lorenzo) Assenza, 40 Union street.
was held Athis morning at 8 o'clock
from the Maiorano Funeral Home,
IS Willow street, to Our Lady of
Lourdes church at where a solemn
high Mass was celebrated by Mcgr.
Joseph Valdambrini assisted by Rev
Edward j. Farrell as deacon and
Rev. Rocco Nadile as sub-deacon
Burial was in the family plot in
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-30
DEATH REMOVES
FATHER OF NUN
Michael T.Lawley, Nauga-
tuck Resident so Years,
Dies at st. Mary's

Naugatuck, March SO-Michael T.
Lawley, 70, of 40 Cherry street,
Naugatuck, died early this morning
at st. Mary's hospital, Waterbury.
He was a resident of Naugatuck for
so years, being born in County
Kerry, Ireland.
Mr.. Lawley retired from the
Naugatuck Chemical Co. six years
ago. He was a member of the Naug-
atuck Division Anvient Order of HI
bernians and of the T. A. B. society
of st. Frances church.
Survivors are: three daughters
Sister Mary Ellen of st. Frances
hospital, Hartford; Misses Heller
and Mary Lawley, both of Nauga-
tuck. Four sons: Patrick of Bloom
ington, Indiana; Thomas and Mich
ael of Naugatuck; James of the U
s. Army stationed In England; -four
grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs
Michael Scanlon and Mrs. John o.
Conner, both of Naugatuck.
The funeral will be held Satur-
day morning at $3.50 from the
Buckmiller funeral home, % Park
Place to st. Fracis' church where
a solemn high Mass will be cele-
brated at o'clock. Burial will be
in st. James cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
home tonight from z to 10 and Fri
day from 2 to 10 p. m.