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Evening star., 1944-04-23
Women Scholars Honored
american University Women
Make Fellowship A1Vards
By Gretchen Smith,
Women's Club Editor


Announcement by the American
Association of University Womel
that fellowships totaling S22, rs
have been granted by the Commit
tee on Fellowship Awards for ad
vanced research by women scholar
for the coming year, is of particula
interest to Washington, as three ou
of the fifteen women extended thes,
honors have done much of their pre-
paratory work in the Capital.
The announcement made toda,
lists the grants, most of them TO
$500, as including four for studie
in American literature and history
three for students with inter- Ameri
can interests, two for research il
biology; three for scholars in arch
aeology and the history of art; ont
for research in the history of music
and two for studies of the Eliza
bethan period.
One of the two awards for bio
logical research will go to Miss Jane
Oesterling, now teaching at ths
School of Medicine, George Wash
ington University, who will carry or
experiments on the, action of the
hormones of the anterior pituitary
and adrenal cortex at the Yale Uni
versity School of Medicine.
Miss Oesterling, who is teaching
and doing graduate work under DR.
Joseph Roe, head of the biochemis-
try department at George Washing
ton University. holds A. B. and M. A.
degrees from the University of Illi-
nois. She will receive her PHI. D.
from George Washington University
at the end of the. current academic
year. Before receiving her M. A.,
she was laboratory technician in
the hospital at Champaign, ILL.,,
where she made her home after leav-
ing her birthplace in Pennsylvania.
Biochemistry.
The young scientist received her
first interest in biochemistry when
she visited the laboratory at the
University of Illinois with her aunt,
a chemist, who demonstrated her
work.
THAT way I got interested in bio
chemistry generally" she explained.
Nov. consider it the most inter-
esting field, although most medical
students would rather specialize in
surgery or in research on diseases"
In spite of her serious-m minded vo-
cation, Miss Oesterling is far from
''book-wormish" in appearance.
With large, dark eyes and dark hair,
she reminds one of the recent cine
ma portrayal of Nine. Curie. She is
socially inclined and confdentially
admits that next to harmones, peo-
pie are her greatest interest.
Her fellowship was largely won
through the recommendations of
professors that she possessed the
ability to continue productive re-
search.
The only scholarship to be award
ed for research in the history of
music goes to another resident of
Washington, Miss Sirvart Poladian,
who lives at 1910 w street Sc. Al
though native of Syria, Miss Pola-
dian has been a naturalized citizen
since 1929 and is now carrying on
research at the Library of Congress.
She holds her B. A. and M. A. de-
grees from the University of Cali
fornia. and has done graduate work
in musicology at Columbia and Cor
nell Universities. A former teacher
OF music in the public scheols OF
Oakland and Berkeley, her study OF
Armenian folk songs was published
The union times., 1944-07-22
Collapse Of BLS Figures Seen As Danger By COfC
Business Group Worried About Statistics Attacked
 By A.F.L., CLIO.

The Chamber of Commerce of the U. S., in its bulletin Business Ac- tion," sounds a warning against the collapse of the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics' index as a measure of the cost of living. The BIS Index has long been accepted and is now under a point AFL-CIO attack.
 What the US. C. of C. says is: ''If it be accepted that the BIS cOst-Of-living index reflects price changes adequately but not overall costs of living, and therefore is not suitable for use in the Little Steel formula, there would seem to be reason for shifting simultaneously from a straight time, hourly wage to an actual weekly earnings basis. Such change, however, is not de sired by the labor groups who real ize that overtime pay will moi be a factor indefinitely"
 The Chamber says that if the WLB should be sufficiently impressed by the CIO figures to permit increases in straight time hourly wage rates over those prevailing in January, 1941, by more than 1870, the limit fixed by the Little Steel formula, it would mean a further boosting of average weekly earnings far beyond any claimed in crease in the cost of living"
The union times., 1944-07-22
State Federation Convention To Be
 Held In Bridgeport
59th Annual Session At Strat6eld Hotel Sept 891O; Resolutions Due First Day; Elections On
 Sunday-Make Reservations Early

at the Stratfeld Hotel, Friday, Sat urday and Sunday, Sept. 8, 9 and 10.
 "The convention will open at 10 o'clock war time. Nominations will take place Saturday and elections will take place Sunday. We will have to be out of the convention hall by 5 o'clock Sunday. A three-day conven- tion was decided upon, because it is impossible to get accommodations for four days.
 Please note the Call states that reservations at the hotel shall be made through the secretary. Please have your delegates make their res ervations through this office. The hotel has reserved thirty double rooms for our delegates; therefore the dele gates will have to double up or take double rooms. We hope to be able to arrange for a few additional rooms, but that's questionable at this time.
 Resolutions must be introduced on the opening day of the convention and must be submitted in triplicate No resolutions will be accepted after the closing session of the first day. Please send duplicate copies of your credentials to this office as soon as your delegate is elected"
The union times., 1944-07-22
Complete Victory Is First Plank In Labor or'sPlatform
Then Comes Job Security, Which Will Also Help
 Business

All of labor's hopes for the fu- ture are based upon complete vic tory in this war. That is now Ameri- ca's first order of business. So writes AFL President William Green in the leading article in the Am erican Federationist.
 ''Victory," Green wrote, ''is not a controversial question. It is the united objective of all the Ameri- can people, regardless of race, creed, color or political affiliation." :"
 From that opening, the AFL lead CT pointed out that it would be dan gerous to be unprepared to meet the problems of peace and that the AFL platform for both political parties rec commended 3 basic forms of security for the American people: security against future war, security against mass unemployment, and security against the dangerous ups and downs of an unstable economy.
 ''To obtain job security, the AFL realizes that a program of maxi mum production for peacetime needs will be required in the post war period. In order to facilitate and encourage such a production program, and in order to protect human rights as we'll as property rights during the reconversion pro- cess, we recommend specific legis- lation along the following lines:
 '1-Creation of a central office of economic mobilization and reconstruc- tion, with representation for labor, industrial management and farmers
 "2-Prompt repeal of wartime re- StrlctlonS on manpoWer, wages and industrial expansion as soon as feas- ible after the close of the war.
 "3-Establishment of an emergency unemployment fund out of which temporary benefits can be paid to dis employed war workers and demobil- zed soldiers until they can find gain ful employment.
 "4-Enactment of veterans legisla- tion which will accord demobil- zation payments, educational and training opportunities and adequate medical care and rehabilitation aid for the injured and disabled.
 "5-Adoption of clearcut provisions to assure fair terms for cancellation of war contracts, to guarantee prompt settlement of industrial claims upon the government, to expedite removal of government property from plants and to dispose of surplus government supplies and property in an orderly manner designed to protect our home economy"
 The AFL leader explained that ''labor is interested in these meas. ures helpful to business because they are calculated to stimulate large-scale expansion of peacetime production upon which workers must depend for jobs.'
The union times., 1944-07-22
RobotC Camerasln Landing Barges
 Filmed Invasion
Fifty-Seven Had Cameras, And Forty-Seven Were
 Smashed

HOLLYWOOD first cam era crews hit the Normandy beach 30 minutes after H-HOur. But you (if you saw the D-Day newsreels) were crOuching in one of the first landing barges on the very stroke of H-HOur. You wondered if those bleak square houses fronting the shore were as empty as they looked. The ramp dropped and the men jumped out and waded up the beach. They bent low and ran up the sandy slope and some of them dropped and didn't move again.
 How were you able to take part (via newsree1) in this historic mo- ment, 30 minutes before the camera men arrived?
 Fifty landing barges had been fitted with robot cameras. Each was loaded with 100 feet of movie negative. A man in each barge had been told :: "When you reach the beach, push the button"
 Forty-seven of the robot cameras were smashed or the film damaged. But three of them recorded the ac- tual landing. Three little rolls of negative reached the navy message centers on the beachhead, went into a press sack marked Urgent and went back to England in a fast boat.
 The film was precessed in labora- tories waiting for the photographic records from France. Censors reeled the film through Hoviola viewer and punched the margins of scenes not to be used. The British Ministry of In formation notified the newSreel dis patchers to come and get it. A few days later in New York newsreel editors had the brief footage that gave every theatergoer an idea of what it was like to make a beachhead on Fortress Europe.
The union times., 1944-07-22
34 Negro Women Saved By AFL Local

An AFL federal union in New York saved the jobs of 34 Negro women employees whom the Pinaud Cosmetics Co. tried to fire in a dis crimnatory action which violated se- niority principles. Segregated on the night shift by management, the wo- men had protested both their segre- gation and unusually poor working conditions, to which management re- piled with announcement of discharge of the entire shift.
 The workers went to Business Manager Benjamin Pross of Cosmetic Soap & Perfumery Workers Local 20646, who promised full union pro lection. And union action made man. agement back down. Seniority was enforced, the Negro women were kept on, the union offered to place in other shops the Y women who had been hired to replace the Negroes, and now there is no longer a segre- gated night shift at Pinaud's.
The union times., 1944-07-22

The fifty-ninth annual conven- ton of the Connecticut Federation of Labor will be held in the Strat- field Hotel, Bridgeport, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8, 9 and 10, according to the official call issued by Timothy M. Collins, president of the Federation.
 A letter sent to ali affiliated locals by John J. Egan, Federation secre- tary, gives the following details:
 Tt was necessary to change the dates of the convention because it was impossible to find hotel in Con- necticut that could accommodate the delegates. When we found we could not hold the convention on our regu- lar dates we then tried to pick out dates on which we could be taken care of by hotel. We found that the Stratfeld Hotel could accommodate us on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8, 9 and 10, as far as rooms and the convention hall were concerned.
 "We tentatively accepted the offer of the Stratfeld Hotel and notified our executive board. Then a meeting of the board was called for Monday, June 26. The executive board, after going over the entire situation, unani- mously voted to hold the convention
The union times., 1944-07-22
BookbindersCive 4O,OOO Decks Of Cards To Army
A.F.L. Unions Membership Paid For Gift By s
 Contributions

Forty thousand decks of playing cards, donated by the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, were received this week with enthusiasm and appreciation in Army station hospitals throughout the United States, on Army hospital ships and in overseas Army installations, an avalanche of letters to the unions offices here show.
 Inscribed on the back with the name and seal of the unioi,, the cards were sent by John B. Haggerty, union pres ident and originator of the idea. They were purchased through voluntary in dividual contributions from the union membership. A quantity of the cards were sent to the Canadian Red Cross Society for distribution to Canadian servicemen.
 Letters from commanding officers and from Red Cross personnel on duty in Army hospitals indicate that dis tribution of the cards was largely delegated to the Red Cross. One let ter follows:
 ''The playing cards which the members of the International Bro. therhood of Bookbinders sent to the Station Hospital at Fort Ord have been received, and are already being used in our Hospital Red Cross building. You can be assured that the gift is much appreciated and that the cards will give a great deal of pleasure to many patients Please extend our thanks to the members of the Brotherhood" It Anne M. Potter, WAC, Asst. Ad jutant, Station Hospital, Fort Ord California.
The union times., 1944-07-22
Packers Hauled Up

CHICAGO-Three of the nations largest packers-Arniour, Swift and Wilson-are charged with violation of O. P. A. regulations in criminal complaints filed in Federal court here this week.
 The specific charge-the basis of scores of counts-is that these firms compelled retailers to accept unsafe able products in order to obtain choice meat cuts. To break even, it is as serted, retailers were compelled to charge black market prices.
The union times., 1944-07-22

REGISTRATION DRIVE
 A meeting of the executive conn mittee of the Political Action Com mittee was held at the Labor Tenn pie Tuesday. It was unanimously voted to recommend to the session i. to be held July 27 that the union ists in this district concentrate on having their membership on he vot- ing lists. In order to achieve this aim, each union will be asked to submit a list of its members. These will be checked with the voting lists, and a special drive will be made in each ward to register those who are not voters.
 As part of this campaign, the Po- litical Action Committee plans to open an information booth on the Green, where complete information on how and when to become a voter will be available. Literature giving the aims of organized labor in con- nection with the election will also be given out from this point. A letter to the Board of Park Commissioners, requesting permission to set up the booth on the Green, near the Ben nett Fountain, was sent this week by Harold V. Feinmark, president of the Political Action Committee, and head of the. New Haven Central Labor Council.
 The committee in charge of plans for the booth consists of Stanley Creising, Plumbers Union; Bernard J. Ceelan, Retail Store Clerks Un- ion; Saul Kreas, Painters Union; Richard Buckley, Warehouse Work CTS Union. and President Feinmark.
 Radio and newspaper publicity will be used extensively by the Political Action Committee A special Radio Committee, consisting of David Strauss, Stenographers and Bookkeep- CTS Union; Joseph J. Egan, Typo graphical Union; and Leonard Reed, Railway Clerks, has been appointed by President Feinmark. Publicity during the campaign will be handled by a committee consisting of Bernard J. Gee1an; Nathan Sherman, and Jo- seph J. Egan. A Speakers Committee will be selected at the meeting to be held July 2.
 ssWe are planning our work in a careful, systematic manner," Fein- mark said today. s'Our chief con- centration will be to make sure that the members of organized la- bOr and their families are on the voting lists. We are greatly inter- ested in the candidates that the Republican and Democratic parties are considering, and soon will have something very definite to say on the type of candidates our people will vote for.
 "We are nOn-partisan, and are not bound to any political party. We will judge candidates by the principles they stand for, by their past political and legislative rec ords.
 "Organized labor is determined to elect a Congressman from this District who represents all of the people, not handful of special in. terests, as Compton does. By doing this we will help re-elect President Roosevelt, and will send to Wash ington from this District a Rep. resentative who will have the re- spect and confidence of his con. stituents."
The union times., 1944-07-22
CAN START NOW


 Surveys show that munitions cut backs have already caused some unemployment, the report states. and there is no reason why the recOnversiOn process should not be started.
 Slackening off of employment in New York, where the Department of Labor recently announced unemploy- ment insurance benefits are due to start climbing, is but one example. Employment in that state has hit its ceiling, an official of the Department said, and has already started to slide down.
 While Nelson and the labor members of WIPE point to unem- plOyment already caused by cut backs as proof of the available manpOwer and production faciE- ties to at least start on the recon version process, Army and Navy officials fear that such a program might interfere with the newly ex- banded production orders for tanks, trucks and naval troop trans- port.
 The program as set forth by Nelson and the labor representatives would in no way attempt to put civilian pro- duction ahead of war needs. It merely urges the full employment of the na- tion's manpower in either war work, or where war workers have been laid off and can not be shifted to other war jobs, in peace time produc- ton.
 Nelson summed it up this way:
 'FOr the immediate future, all we can reasonably expect are some relatively small increases and de creases in specialized segments of the munitions program, as battle experience proves that we need more of some weapons, less of Oth- CTS.
 "But those so-called 'cutbacks' and program adjustments must be clearly understood in proper perspective. They are desirable developments, for two reasons they will free man. power and facilities for more urgent war work, and they will gradually but only very gradually-permit the nation to produce more of the essen tial civilian goods for which there is widespread need. :"
The union times., 1944-07-22
aborMenAskReconversionStari
A.F.L. Committee To Meet Thursday
Intensive Registration Drive Planned By Political Action Group Booth On Green To Give Information On
 Voting-Radio, Publicity Committees Appointed

The United ALL Political Action Committee of the Third Congressional District will hold its first regular meeting Thursday July 27 PM the New Haven Labor Temple, and will plans which will formally open the AFLs drive reelec President Roosevelt and elect candidates Congress and offices who sympathy the aims of the broad of the people of the Third District
 The Committee made up of unions New Haven Meriden Branford Walingford, and other towns
The union times., 1944-07-22
Shipyards Need Men

Fitty thousand more workers are needed for the nations shipyards to meet enlarged work loads soon to be placed on the yards, Chairman Emory s. Land of the Maritime Commission declared this week. He said military operations are to be stepped up on the European and Far Eastern fronts and that much more shipping space will be needed to carry supplies.
The union times., 1944-07-22

OFFICIAL explanation. of why American soldiers must salute Nazi officers at American prison camps is that international conventions re- quire this; otherwise German sol diers wouldn't salute American officers in Nazi prison camps. And wouldn't that hurt our boys feelings!
 ODE TO A FOE (Which might have been written by the worlds greatest apple
 salesman.)
 They shoot our Allies down in
 droves
 (But, oh, they are such honest
 coves).
 They fight right on at Hitler's
 side
 Gut, oh, they have their bloom
 i'm pride).
 They murder Russians, SIavs
 and Let's
 Gut oh, they pay their honest
 debts).
 Let's forgive them all their sins. The honest, bloody, fascist Films. ON THE brighter side of the pie. ture this week was a report pub. lished by the Department of Labor. based on data prepared by the Ma. tional Labor Relations Board. which showed that in more than two-thirds of the cases where the board has cracked down on anti. labor activities of homogeneous and outlawed dummy unions. signed agreements with bona fide unions have followed.
 A Memphis Commercial Appeal head adds another one to SDeath and Taxes":
 DAM WORK SEEMS SURE CIVILIAN employees of the War Department through participation in the ''Ideas for Victory'' program saved the government an estimated $22,242,197 during the first 12 months of the program and were rewarded $23O,714 for their prize winning suggestions, the War De partment announces.
 During the first year, employee. submitted lO9,Oll suggestions. Oi this total 9,884 were adopted. CasE awards ranged from $5 to $I,25( with three employees receiving the top award. One suggested a method of doubling the load of boxed ar
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1944-07-22
Green Offers Planks
 To Dem. Convention

CHICAGO - President William Green presented the American Feder- ation of Labor's platform recommen- dations to the Resolutions Committee of the Democratic National Conven- ton here on July IS.
 The proposals, identical with those submitted to the Republican conven- tion last month, call for a three-way security program, reorganization of the Department of Labor and repeal of the Connally- Smith Act.
The union times., 1944-07-22
Veterans Vote Against
 Anti-Labor Amendment

LOS ANGELES. = The Veterans of Foreign Wars in their annual en- campmelt here passed a resolution hatly opposing the "right-to-work' amendment sponsored by the anti labor Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
 The VFW branded the measure, which would wreck all existing union shop contracts, as a potential incite ment to industrial warfare. if en- acted.
The union times., 1944-07-22
Modest Beginning Can Stop Hardship
Unionsts On War Production Board Agree With Nelson That There Is No Reason Why Reconversion Should
 Not Start Now To Prevent Unemployment

modest but immediate, civilian and time output be made using plant facilities that longer used for prOduction the two labor vicecharmen of the War Production Board de- clared in report issued this week.
 The report which supports the stand taken by WIPE Chief Donald Neson issued by Joseph Keenan of AFL Clinton Golden of the CIO
The union times., 1944-07-22
Chicago Bakers Wages
 Are Increased To $68

CHICAGO = Firsr-hand bakers wages go up to $68 a week under a $1.50 increase negotiated by Local 237, Bakery & Confectionery Work CTS Intl. Union (AFL).
The union times., 1944-07-22

JUSTIFIED PICKETINC!
 CHICAGO-Pickets patrolled the LaSa1le St. building in which Chicago Bar Assn. was banning four Negroes from membership.
The union times., 1944-07-22
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

THE inadvertent substitution of the word Ceremony for sport- rait" gave this amazing suggestion in the NOrfOlk (Va.) Ledger-Dis- patch:
 POSTPONE BRIDAL
 CEREMONY UNTIL
 AFTER HONEYMOON
The union times., 1944-07-22

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

PVT. JOHN PAUL WELLS. %,
Aug. %. in France. He had been
wounded two days previously. In
service since November, 1913. Pvt.
Wells went overseas last May
with a tank division. He leaves
his wife the former Jacqueline
Galloway, 1921 Mohawk, Royal
Oak; his parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Walker Wells of Banlear. KY,
two sisters. and five brothers, one
of whom is in service.