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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Both Parties To Vie
For Votes On AFL Show

WASHINGTON,D. Gin fur
therance of its non-partisan po-
litical policy, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor will feature on
its April 2 Labor for Victory"
broadcast appeals for the labor
vote from spokesman designated
by the Democratic and Republican
National Committees.
Rep. Gerald w. Lands, of In
diana, will tell why, in his opin-
ion, workers should vote Repub-
lican next November. Ren. Michael
]. Bradley, of Pennsylvania, will
give the reasons why he believes
workers should vote Democratic.
The broadcast will close with
an explanation of the AFL nom
partisan political policy. Be sure
to listen over your local NBC
station at is pm, E.W.T., on
April 2.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Conn. Machinists
To Attend Meeting
New England Conference, To Be Held In Providence
Will Take Stand On Anti-Labor Officials Chinese
Labor Leader To Give Address

Nearly all Connecticut LAM
locals plan to attend the quarterly
meeting of the New England Con
ference of the International Asso
citation of Machinists, to be held in
Providence, on April Is and 10.
In a call issued to all LAM. 10
Gals in New England, Joseph V. Gro
min of Hartford. secretary-treasurel
of the Conference, says:
''This Conference, the second
last prior to the state and national
elections of 1914, is one which
will be devoted to all the problems
now facing us on the home front
and particularly to the problem OF
making the voice of the Machinists
organization heard in the elections
''The great danger to all organ.
lied labor today lies in the posi-.
bility that we may neglect to mo-
billie our voting strength and SO
allow a return to the Congress OF
the United States, of those anti.
labor, reactionary, political figures,
whose one purpose in life seems to
be the destruction of organized
labor.
cat the same time, in making
our choice of representatives and
senators, and of state and local of.
ficials, we must look ahead to the
postwar period, which is gradually
approaching us.
'We are fortunate, at the Confer
ence, through the efforts of both
Lodge 11o, and our good friend and
associate, Ed Brown, to have with us
Ernest Liu, whose wide experience
in the Chinese labor movement quail
hes him to speak on developments on
the other side of the world.
''May l call to your attention also
the fact that the bylaws of our
organization allow three official
delegates, but do not restrict the
number of delegates who may at.
tend as observers. In this connec-
ton, we hope other members of
your lodge may seize this Oppor-
tunity to attend the Conference
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Unions May Spend
Funds On Politics.
ALL Counsel Saws
Padway Asserts Locals May Garry On Normal Activities
To Elect Or Defeat Candidates Outlines Six Planks
For Legitimate Field OF Action

Labor organizations are free to
engage in any of their usual activi-
ties in political campaigns and to
make the necessary expenditures H.
SO doing" despite the Smith, Con-
nally Act, AL Counsel Joseph A.
Padway asserts in a signed article
in the FederatiOnist, official publ
cation of the AFL.
Coming at a time when labor is
stepping up its political activities
throughout the country, Pathways ar
ticle is an official warning that the
AFL will not be intimidated into re-
linquishing its constitutional right to
campaign for the election or defeat OF
a candidate.
"a careful examination of the
law indicates that 1t does not pre-
vent the direct expenditure of mo-.
neys by labor unions i'm political
campaigns when the sum is not a
contribution" Padway says. SsTO
cOnstrue the law otherwise would
be to deny labor unions their con.
stitutionaI rights of freedom OF
speech, freedom of press and
peaceful assemblage."
Declaring that organized labor will
attack the Smith-C onnally Act in the
courts as an attempt to deprive large
segment of the American people OF
rights accorded to them under the
Constitution, Padway lists the fol-
lowing types of political activity
which can be engaged in without
directly violating the law as it now
stands.
u Expenditure of money for
activities undertaken by union
in its own behalf such as promot.
ing a legislative program-even
though such activities will result
in the election or defeat of can.
didate.
p Spending money for the
dissemination of information, in
Guiding ads in newspapers, pub
location of voting records, speech
es or other statements of candi.
dates.
81 Unions may spend money
in connection with all usual and
necessary activities to elect OF
defeat a candidate if done i'm fur.
therance of their social and eco.
nomic program and to promote
the welfare of their members.
1l TIuinus NAV Turchoeo ro1;o
time to discuss candidates and
their platforms.
81 Officers of unions may
make speeches at union as well
as public meetings. Unions may
pay for advertising and hire halls
for such meetings.
O. A number of individuals in
union may pool their contribu.
tons and remit the money to a
political campaign in a lump
sum.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01

UNBEATABLE TEAM
''Just as surely as America
fighting forces are Outfghting the
enemy" Mr.. Green said, ''Ameri.
cas- workers are OutprOducing the
enemy. Together American fighting
soldiers and production soldiers
constitute an unbeatable team. He
who seeks to divide them or sci
them against each other is an en-.
envy of his own country and a
traitor to the cause of democracy
Mr.. Green quoted from the Tru-
man Committee report atteSting tc
the astounding performance" OF
labor on the production front. Besides
supporting the armed forces in this
respect in our joint and most i'm
portant task, which is to win the
war in the shortest possible time the
AFL leader said, American workers
are buying war bonds, contributing tc
war relief activities, donating to the
Red Cross and promoting every ad-
mlnistrative and legislative policy
which strengthens the war effort"
Mr.. Green then outlined some OF
labor's activities in behalf of the
postwar economic and social Sc
curity in behalf of the millions OF
men i'm uniform who will return t.
private life when victory comes.
He declared that on the econo
mic front labOr's chief battle ha.
been and still is to keep the cost OF
living within bounds. This helps
the serviceman as well as the work
er because ''the returning service
men would be hit just as hard By
initiation as the civilian
Let no one tell YOU" Mr.. Greer
emphasized, "that labor seeks to pro-
fit from the war by obtaining wage
increases. Such adjustments in wage!
as labor demands are for the purpose
OF maintaining and preserving Am
erican standards of life. Obviousl,
our standard of living is bound t.
be destroyed if the cost of living
keeps going up while wages remain
frozen"
The first concern of returning
servicemen, MIR. Green said, vii
be to get a good job. While the Law
is supposed to provide that they
can get their old jobs back after the
war, there are many IOOpholes in
it. Organized labor has succeeded
in plugging up some of these loop
holes, Mr.. Green disclosed, BY
means of union contracts and un
ion policies which protect the Sc
nority rights of servicemen.
Those who did not enjoy the bene-
hts Of union membership before the
war;" Mr.. Green announced, will BE-
welcomed into union ranks if they AID
ply and if they are properly quail,
fed to serve in the various trades"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Office Workers
Win In Stamford

STANFORD, CONN.-The AFL
Office Workers Union won a signih-
cant victory in an election at the Yale
4 Towne Manufacturing Company
here.
John ] Murphy, AFL regional chief
of organization in New England, re-
ported that the AFL union received
262 votes out of total of 354, clear
majority, thus emitting the union to
certihcation as the exclusive bargain
ing agency for all the office workers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
100000 Asked To
Shift Residence

The VINO has announced region
wide campaign to persuade 100000
men and women in the District of Co.
lumbia, Virginia, Maryland, West
Virginia and North Carolina to leave
the communities where they now re-
side and take war jobs in other COM
munities in this section so as to make
a greater contribution toward winning
the war.
War contracts totalling more than
$8,000O00,O00 have been awarded to
this region since the war began,
Henry E. Treide, VINO regional di-
rector, announced. Almost a million
workers must be placed in war jobs
within the region during 1914 if these
contracts are to be filled, he said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Aero News Pleads
For Labor Unity

SAN DIEGO, Calf. - Unions
have another foe, more powerful than
the others. That foe is not man, not
an organization or law, but con-
dition. 1t is the condition that organ
lied labor is in today-divided It is
labor's greatest enemy"
This warning appeared in Aero
News, official newspaper of the Init.
Assn. of Machinists in this area. AT a
time when unions must combat
stern opposition and relentless pres
sure by individuals and organizations
which despises workingmen as a
whole" the editorial said, unity is
utterly Imperative
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
We Fight For Servicemen," Says Green
ALL. Leader Tells
How Labor Helps
Labors First Duty Is To Produce Weapons Of War,
And Preserve And Protect Free American
Way Of Life

President William Green of the American Federation of
Labor this week told nationwide radio audience how labor
is fighting for the in the armed forces.
He declared i'm address AFL sLabOr For Vic
tory program that labor twin responsibility to the
servcemenfrst, to produce weapons of unstntedy;
and secondly preserve and protect American way
of life and the high standards that that way
f that when soldiers and sailors
the final victory they will have every opportunity to start life
under favorable circumstances
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
As We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

COLUMNIST Winchen will be
surprised on reading this headline
in the Somerset (Pa.) American to
see what happened to him:
WINCHELL DEFIES
HOFFMAN AND DIES
WE had a nice visit this week
with Joseph M. Tone, Nelson
Cruikshank, Rev. George Butler.
Joe is i'm charge of setting up a
division of the u. S. Labor De-
partment in Boston, and his COM
ments on Connecticut and national
affairs were as wise and pungent
as ever. Cruikshank, former New
haven clergyman, is now with the
War Manpower Commission.
George Butler is minister of Sum-
merfield Methodist Church, which
Is I'm large part workers church.
SAM BERNARD, Bristol. Va.
service station operator, placed the
following advertisement i'm a recent
issue of the Bristol Herald. Courier:
''If the who stole INV
coat from the rest room of the
Cities Service station ON March 6
will look i'm the inside pocket of
the coat and mail my complete i'm.
come tax return and attached check
to the collector of internal revenue.
he can come back and will give
him the vest and pants. No ques-
tiOns asked
THE Conn. labor fraternity is
losing another member to the
armed forces. George F. Luft of
the StereOtypers' Union local No.
~, is being indicted into the u. S.
Navy Monday, April Is. Luft, who
is an officer of his union which
takes i'm New Haven, Hartford.
Bridgeport and Meriden, sends his
regards to all the brothers.
MRS. ROOSEVELT'S recent col.
umn i'm the NesO York WOrld-Tele.
gram should have been headed
''Tsk! tsk' When she wrote: ssAfter
supper with the men, we went back
to dress"
LABOR'S CLAIM that the Off
cial cost of living index does not
correctly report prices paid by the
housewife was confirmed this week
by a report of the New York Bud.
get Council showing that welfare
agencies have been compelled to
increase allowances for essential
food by nearly so per cent.
The council also declared tho,
the minimum subsistence budget
for family of five calls for an
income of l,83O.4O a year. This
income, it was explained, cannot
provide anything for doctors bills,
temporary layoffs or other emer-
gencies.
In 1888, the council said, the
same family could meet the same
standards with an income of $l.248
There's only one ''buying" i'm
the world that really isn't spending
but saving mOney-and that is
War Bond buying.
A NEW approach to am old prob
lem. as offered under Business
Personnel in the St. Louis Post.
Dispatch classified columns:
''LADIES-Send us your over
worked, tense, tired, nervous man.
My competent nurses trained in
under my direction, relax, refresh
him. Cranger's % years expert.
ence."
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Volunteer Deputy
Registrars Chosen

SAN FRANCISCO In order to
speed up registration, lowest here
since 1880, both the AFL and Go
are swearing in volunteer deputy
registrars who will sign up voters in
union halls, plants and neighbor-
hoods.
Volunteers will be delegated by
their locals. In addition, AFL and
ClO have each named IS fulltime paid
registrars from their ranks.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Five Lies About Labor
In One Tribune Story

CHICAGO-A case study in union
smearing from the columns of The
Chicago Tribune is given by Work,
organ of the Catholic Labor ALI
ance. The Catholic paper analysed
FIVE lies in one Tribune story about
the United Steelworkers (CIO) local
in the Carnegie-Illinois plant on Chi
cago's south side.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01
Troneymen Help
On Social Benefits

CHICAGO = Chicago locals of
Amalgamated Assn. of Street & E1ec-
trio Railway Employees paid out $780,
600 in death and old age benefits in
1913. Since 1912 more than $6,6OO,O0O
has been distributed to benefciaries.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01

Don't assume victory. Help as
sure it. Buy more War Bonds.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01

Patronize Union Times Advertisers
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-01

A NEW approach to am old prob.
lem, as offered under Business
Personals" in the St. Louis Post.
Dispatch classified columns:
LADIES-Send us your over
worked, tense, tired, nervous man.
My competent nurses trained i'm
under my direction, relax, refresh
him. Granger's % years expert
ence."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15

avenue, East Detroit, died in her
sleep yesterday morning at her
home.
A resident of East Detroit for
the last II years, Mrs. Dicken-
son was born in Norwich, On
tario, Canada. She was a mem
Der of the Ladies Auxiliary of
the American Legion Post Of
East Detroit.
Surviving Mrs. Dickinson are
her husband, Bruce; two sons,
Robert and John, with the u. S.
Navy; one daughter, Eunice, at
home; one sister, Mrs. Maude
Glover; one brother, Fred Hart
sell, both of Brantford, Canada,
and her father, John Hartsell.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at 3 p. m. from the
William Clyne Funeral Home in
East Detroit with Rev. II. K.
Duttweiler, of the South Park
Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in the Summit
Hill Cemetery. The American
Legion Auxiliary will have serv-
ices at the funeral home at 3
p. m. tomorrow.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Fred w. DeHOte

Frederick w. Debate, 70, of
Beyne street, Mount Clemens,
died Thursday afternoon at his
home after a long illness. He
was born in Mount Clemens and
lived here all his life.
Surviving Mr.. Debate are his
wife, Jennie; three sons, Vim
cent, of Crosswell, and Dayton
and William, of Mount Clemens;
one step son, Norman Crandell,
of Richmond; and two brothers,
George and Steven, of Mount
Clemens.
Funeral services will be held
Monday at 9 am. at the La
Croix and Groesbeck funeral
home, and at $50 am. at St.
Peters Catholic church. Burial
will be in the church cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Moscow hjects
Smile Into
Foreign Policy

MOSCOW, Dec. Is - up -
Alexander Korneichuk, the am
liable playwright who used to
be a Vice Foreign Commissar of
the Soviet Union, tickled Mos
cow theater goers last night by
injecting a shot of laughing gas
into Russian American relations.
Arrayed in a wrinkled blue
suit, Korneichuk stood nervous
ly in the wings of the Satire
Theater while his newest pro-
duction, threee-act comedy en-
titled Mr.. Perkins Mission to
the Land Of the BolSheviks" was
presented to an audience of 867
Russians and three Americans.
Any resemblance between Mr..
Perkins and any American big
businessman who has toured
Russia in wartime was, of course,
purely coincidental. The three
Americans out front - all jour
nalists - decided that Kornei-
chuk's dramatic potpourri COM
bined a number of ingredients,
including corn, but as an effort
to extract fun from contempor-
airy history the play was a sue
cess. II not only laughed at but
with Americans.
In brief, the story follows the
travels of Mr.. Perkins, sausage
king from Chicago who has come
to see Mr.. Stain and learn the
weaknesses there must be in this
system" In journeying from
Moscow to a collective farm and
a frontline govt he rubs
shoulders in robust friendliness
with every Russian he meets.
The villain of the piece is a
rodent-faced American Journal
list who accompanies Mr.. Perk-
ms on his tour, always skeptical
and sneering at Russian char
acter and accomplishments. He
finally is diSoWned by his mil
lionaire patron, who tells him:
THE only weakness I've found
in the Soviet system is that it
doesn't know its own strength"
The audience was much anus
ed at the supposedly American
traits attributed TO Mr.. Perkins.
When charming girl guide asks
Mr.. Perkins whether he would
like to see Anna Karenina" his
reply, Il haven't time for Wom-
en-" brought howls of laughter
from the spectators, most Of
whom had seen that play here
recently.
The audience was euqally ap-
preciative when a captured Ger
man parachutist slurs President
Roosevelt in MIR. Perkins pres
ence and is promptly knocked
down by a handsome Russian
sergeant who says:
you can't do that in front of
our Allies"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Lobbyist Held for Trial
in Bribery Attempt

Walker contended that the law
prohibits bribing a public Off
cial TO perform an action but
does not forbid payment or offer
of money TO refrain from doing
things. He asserted Handy had
been asked only TO refrain from
helping to release the bill from
committee.
Sigler retorted that "if it is
not corrupt for someone to offer
a bride or a sum Of money TO a
legislator to keep bill in COM
mittee there is no corrupt act
He said there was "only one
way a bill could remain in a
committee and that is by men,
bers not 10 bring it out"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Hail HeHcopter's
Commercial Future

DETROIT, Dec. Is - (P) -
The helicopter has proved its
value as a military craft and has
vast commercial future, in the
opinion of two authorities on
direct-lift airplane.
Igor Sikorsky, chief pioneer
in the field, and Col. H. Frank
Gregory of Wright Field des-
cribed postwar uses of the hell
copter at Michigan Aviation
week observances here yester-
day, but both warned against ex-
pecting too much too soon.
1T will take five or ten years
to develop privately owned types
that can be parked in ones back
yard, but that is coming" Sikor-
sky declared. Don't expect the
helicopters to supplant the more
highly developed planes in the
fields they now occupy, and
don't get the idea that rotor-lift
airplanes will do away with the
need for highly developed air
ports with capacity for huge air
craft.
call will be needed as the
postwar world turns to air tray
el."
Sikorsky envisioned helicop-
tiers that would carry 10 to 20
passengers in the immediate
postwar period and up to 80
passengers within ten years.
Asserting that "on many oc-
casions mems lives would have
been saved if a helicopter had
been available" Col. Gregory
said the Army's chief uses for
the plane are in rescue work,
reconnaissance delivery of secret
documents and communications.
More than 100 of the planes now
are being used by the Army Air
Forces throughout the world, he
said.
Gregory, first pilot to land a
rotor-lift plane on the deck of
ship and holder of a record
450-mile flight from Washington
to Dayton, O., said sportsmen
would find many uses for the
helicopter after the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Mrs. McWhittOn

WARREN-Funeral services
will be held Monday at 2 pm. at
the E. A. Schwarzkoff funeral
home in Utica for Mrs. Lilly
McWhitton, IT, of $500 Muir
thum street, Warren, who died
Thursday night at her home,
Rev. l.. J. Stuckwisch will of
ficiate at services, and burial
will be in the Roseland Park
cemetery in Royal Oak. Mrs
McWhitton had been i'll for the
past three years and was War
rem resident for the last eight
years.
Surviving Mrs. McWhitton are
two nieces, Mrs. Myrtle Rogers,
Of Detroit; Mrs. Jerome Moore,
of Warren; and one nephew, A.
7. Sprong.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
F. EckhOut

NEW BALTIMORE-Funeral
services were held Monday at
st. Mary's church in BEDFORD for
Frederick Eckhout, Al, who
died in Detroit hospital after
an illness of several months. He
was the son of Mrs. Bertha Eek
bout, and was we'll known in
New Baltimore.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15

LANSING, Dec. Is = up -
Floyd Fitzsimmons, a Benton
Harbor lobbyist and sports pro-
moter, will stand trial in Ingham
County Circuit Court during the
January term on Grand Jury
charges that he attempted to
bride Gail Handy, Eau Claire
Republican, former member of
the State House Of Representa-
tiveS.
Judge Leland w. Carr, whose
one-man Grand Jury investigat-
ing state government issued the
warrant, ordered him held for
trial after Circuit Court examin-
alton Thursday.
Handy, 46-year-old farmer,
testified that Fitzsimmons had
approached him in the chamber
of the House of Representatives
in l941 and offered him $500 20
keep in committee bill which
would have revised the law
regulating pari-mutuel betting
on horse races.
The examination of Fitzsim-
mons, Frank d. Mckay, Grand
Rapids politician, and Rep. Will
liam Green, Hillman Republican,
on Grand Jury charges of con
spiracy to corrupt the l943
legislature on similar bill, has
been postponed from today to
Jan. IS. Special Prosecutor Kim
Sigler said the postponement
was decided upon by stipulation
by both prosecution and defense.
Fitzsimmons was released on
a $4,000 surety bond after Judge
Carr rejected the motion of Fred
r. Walker Of Detroit, counsel
for Fitzsimmons, to dismiss the
warrant.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Obituaries
Linda Reese

Linda Arleen REESE, infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Reese, lately of this city, died
Thursday in Brooklyn, NY,
after a brief illness. She was
nearly four months old.
The remains will arrive in
Mount Clemens at the Duncan
b. Hubbard funeral chapel on
Saturday and services will be
held there Monday at 2 pm,
with Rev. Joseph L. Kennedy
officiating. Burial will be in
Clinton Grove Cemetery.
Besides her parents, Linda
Arleen is survived by a sister,
Janet Kay, 18 months old.
Her father, Everett, is a Sea-
man first class with the us.
Navy, stationed at Floyd Bennett
Field, and her mother is the
former Kathryn Knowles, of
this city.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Meot SoIes Suspended
Following 'Overdroft'

DETROIT, Dec. 15-(P)-OPA
commissioner James S. Kennary
suspended meat sales at the Ok
Bow grocery company of Pontiac
for a two-week period yesterday
following hearing on charges
that the firm overdrew its ration
banking account.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-15
Seyens Galore

ALEDO, Ill. -U.R)- A nu-
merologist ought to be able to
make something out of this.
John Longley is IT years old.
He was born June 7, 1857. He
has seven brothers and sisters,
seven grandnephews in the arm
ed forces and seven great-grand-
children. He lives in seven
room house, owns seven farms
and has been in seven hospitals
for seven operations.