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The CIO news., 1944-09-25

Some auxlliarles have been doing
q hns Job on ballots for servicsmsn.
The Mins. Mil and Smeltsr Work
srs auxiliariss In the Utah Auxi-
liary Council have set UP booths In
prominent places In their towns
whore boys and girls in UNIFORM can
ret ballot application cards and in
formation on soldier vote laws.
A Q result ot the nns publicity
the women got In the Salt Lake
papers. the State Fair invited them
to operate = similar information
center during the fair-and OF
course the auxiliaries are doing it.
CANVASS BY TOWNS
In addition to operating booths,
the Utah auxiliaries canvassed their
entire towns door to door leaving
ballot application cards with fami-
lies of servicemen to be forwarded
to them. and checking on reglstra-
tion.
The new auxiliary In Ottumwa,
Iowa, has done q fine Job. Their
membership Is small but they
distributed door to door 5000
leaflets on registration.
In Kokomo. Indiana. Steel auxi-
liary women have been appointed
deputy registrars for their pre-
clncts and are planning to go right
to the homes to get the women
They may use the Sum
day mobilization plan proposed by
the Los Angeles Auxiliary Council.
The CIO news., 1944-09-25

Here Il L.:
Get q car. four people and the
deputy registrar Of the precinct,
card table, and chair. Put the re-
gistrar down In the middle Of the
block. Have enc person nc each end
Of the street start ringing door.
bells, working towards the center.
When the registration u done In
that strsst, move on to the next
one.
METHOD URGED
"Soms form should be worked
out to jot down the street and
number Of houses where no one Ii
found at home-and also have room
on the form for the names Of the
members Of the family who are not
at home. the best time to find
them, etc. This information to be
given to the housewives In that
precinct who will volunteer to fol-
low up during the week. A card
with the name and address Of the
registrar In that precinct to be left
at every home visited"
In Covlngton, Kentucky, Gather
ine Davis Of the United Transport
Service auxillaries made q name
for herself when she discovered
that only IL Negroes had voted
I'm her precinct, when she went to
vote on primary day. She got to
work ringing doorbells and ran
the total up to 10.
The CIO news., 1944-09-25

The committees report was pre-
sented q few weeks ago to Price
Administrators Bowles, who In n
recent speech proposed cost-plus
pricing as q protection against de-
f1ation.
Cost plus pricing may be an sx-
cusabls, though graft-rldden. en-
pedient in wartime; It is sure-firs
disaster in pricing for peacetims."
the committee declared.
The committee advocated that
manufacturers resume. ut the
1941-42 price level, the produo-
tion Of articles out of pr0duc-
The CIO news., 1944-09-25

These are just a few of the 101
problems that are presented to the
union counselors Of the CIO Auto
Workers. whose work was praised
In n resolution adopted at the re-
cent convention of the union at
Grand Rapids. Mich.
WORKERS ARE AIDED
Sometimes the answer to the
problem 10 easy. but more often
the counselor does not have the
solution Immediately, but knows
where to send the perplexed
worker. who has suffered q loss of
morale because Of worry.
The counselor knows what
services the various social and
governmental agencies offer, be-
cause officials Of these organl-
sations have explained their pur-
poses during the six-week course
NE counselor took to prepare
him for his work.
The UAW War Policy Division
decided 10 start the counselling
program after absenteeism and
labor turnover showed that the
cause was out-of-plant problems
lack Of housing. transportation,
child care oenters and shopping
hciiities.
OOUNSELORS STUDY
The result Of meeting Of the War
Policy Division In cooperation with
the Michigan State CIO with rep
rssentativss Of the Detroit Council
q Social Agencies was q counsel
Mag course for q small group Of
men and women from UAW plants.
There are management coun-
psaors, bus the union found that
On 100 often tAey were unframed
The CIO news., 1944-09-25

or tried to foster antl-unlOn atti-
tudes among the workers.
Another consideration Of the
union was that not only are the
workers taxpayers. and thus en-
titled to the services Of government
tai agencies. but that-through the
National CIO War Relief Commit
tee are large contributors to the
war chests of the various commu-
mites. The UAW found that many
of its members did not realize the
services offered by these social
agencies receiving their money.
WORK IN IS SHOPS
There are counselors in about So
shops, and experience has shown
that each one can take care of the
needs of between 300 and 400
workers. There is no hard and
fast rule and the UAW Is learning
through experience. The organi-
rational pattern Of the counselling
plan can follow the steward set-up
In plants.
Some Of the union counselling
services own problems have noe
been solved, and 10 may be nee
essary for the bargaining COM
mittees TO ask management to
allow the counselors adequate
time and facilities for aiding the
workers while they are on the
Job.
Particularly helpful In establish
ing the counselling system has
been the Once Of Labor Produo-
tion, War Production Board. The
War Policy Committee points out
that once the counselling system
10 established In a plant 1t 10 i'm
portant that advertising bs used
to acquaint the workers Of the new
service.
mot A WAR BABY"
"Union oounsslllng is not just
q war baby" the War Policy Com
mittes says In Its pamphlet.
During the reconversion period
the need for union counsellors
will increase with the demobiliza-
Of millions Of servicemen and war
workers.
with that thought, o. well 40
the present need In mind, the
UAW convention recommended
tlaat the C1O assist other inter-
national CIO unions. city and
State CFO councils In promoting
the unioa counselling program"
(This article ID based on COR
ventioA action and the UAW Pos-
Icy Divisions pamphlet, "Union
Counssllins," which may bs OBJ
taimed at al w. Milwaukee o..
Dstroik 4 Mich.l
The CIO news., 1944-09-25
Co-0ps
And You

Whether it's bargaining or buy
Ing. It's done collectively BY studs-
baker Local 5, CTo Auto Workers,
On the second floor Of the mod
srn, steel front building In South
Bend, Ind, members decide the
course Of the local. Downstairs
they conduct q credit union and
one Of the towns oleansst. most
modern food storss-a cooperative.
A vivid description Of the frst
door activity 10 given by William
Torma, education director Of Cen.
tral States Cooperative, in his pam
phlst Labor and Coopsratives."
lorna tells Of the spacious, bank
like quarters Of the credit union
ito the left" on the frst door, and
Of the food store, located "on the
right" High on the wall hangs the
locals service nag.
"You see the consumer, produ-
cor and democratic interests Of
the melting pot Of nationaiities
working together-sids By side
in the factory, in the cooperative
store, In the credit union and In
Local 6-an all-Out effort In saw
Ing democracy" the pamphlet
says.
Coming down to cases, he pre-
sents the coop manager, the farm
er who brings in a case of eggs to
trade for grade-labeled coop mer-
chandise; the Notre Dame profeS-
sor who joins the coop; the Ben
dix Local attorney who volunteers
his services to help solve legal
problems.
lorna takes the reader on a tour
Of the store and introduces him to
the factory worker obtaining a loan
10 buy coal which he purchases
the cooperative store.
"This Is America working togeth-
er," lorna says.
Attractive coop display boards
have been placed I'm q number Of
union halls In the Chicago, De-
troit and Minneapolis areas ut .
cost Of SIS for construction and
monthly servicing with changes
Of photos and slogans. At one
hall O cooperative wholesale paid
half of the costs and the unions
paid the other half.
Representatives of organized Ia
,or have been invited to participate
n the Centennial Cooperative Con-
yress to be held October s-13 at
Morrison Hotel. Chicago. The Con-
yress will mark the hundredth an.
of the establishment Of |
the first modern coop at Rochdale,
England. and Is sponsored by the
League of u. 8. A.. Ma
.ional Cooperative Finance Associ-
.tion and National Cooperatives..
Speakers will include Murray d.
Lincoln, Z. r. Bowen and DR.. J. r.
president, general sec
'etary and president-emerltus res
pectively Of the Cooperative
league. and Leon Henderson. for
saer OPA head. and Judge Thurman
Arnold of the Circuit Court Of
nnaala Far fha Diafa.iek ~ Hn.
The CIO news., 1944-09-25
Warming TO OPA
High Prices Mean
Horrible Headache

WASHINGTON, Sept 23-"A major depression" threatens
Office of Price Administration gives the green light to
policy during the period the CLIO Cost Of
Living Committee said In q report this week.
The CIO news., 1944-09-25
UAW Service:
Your Problems
Are Answered

Il can't find q home for my family"
"f can't get somebody to keep my baby shall
give up my production job"
IL not only suffered severe shell shock
the thrust into Normandy just can't stand the my
shop, and I'm afraid I'll have to Quit"
The CIO news., 1944-09-25
BY ELEANOR FOWLER

Ssersfmy.T .Trsasrs, Gro Womsss Aaxiisriss
whole series Of wonderful auxiliary reports end sugges
ons political acon work out Of the recent board
Ing Of the Congress Of Womens AuxIlaries-CTO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07

1 legs high into the air"
 North of Geilenkirchen, RAF mosquito bombers carried out an all-night attack on the village of Oberbruch, center of the German Billeting area for the forces oppos- ing the British Second Army. Doz- ems of huts were left in blazing ruins. A column of 100 vehicles north of Oberbruch virtually was wiped out.
 Canadian Attempt
 A German DNB broadcast said Canadian forces in Southeast Hol- land attempted to cross the MaaS River at Heusen, but were thrown back. There was no confirmation of the report from Allied sources, and it appeared that the Germans were exaggerating small patrol ac- tionS.
 It was on tie American 18th Army group fronts that the main action was occurring. It. Gen. Omar Bradley, commander of the group, said that nthe first six months of the battle of the west his forces had captured 150,00O square miles of territory, including 700 square miles of Germany and cap tured 100000 prisoners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Mobile Forces Sweep Closer Into Forbach
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The German pocket between the Rhine and the Vosges below Stras- bourg also appeared to be collaps- ing. American troops captured Gumar and Ostheim, five miles northeast of Colmar, and one re- port said Colmar itself was being evacuated.
 The American front on the Co., logne plain remained largely static, through It. Gen. Courtney H. Hodg- eS' First Army under cover of dark ness edged forward 450 yards from linden toward Pier, midway between Duren and Julich, and 300 yards southeast from BergStein toward the Roer River.
 Intensity DefenSeS
 From the Ninth Army, sector north of Duren came word that the Germans were intensifying the con- struction of defenses along the east bank of the Roer between Linnich and Julich to ward off an impend- ing American attempt to force that water barrier on the roads to Co., logne and Dusseldorf.
 Two smoke screens were put up by the Germans beyond Linnich yesterday, but American artillery continued to pound heavy enemy traffic on roads paralleling the ri- yer another foot in the past week.
 The German pocket in the Sportspalast on the west bank of the Roer at Julich continued to hold out despite dive-bombing attack yesterday which witnesses said blew equipment, bodies, arms and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07

Continued from Page D confidence that the Chinese, with American aid, would weather the crisis.
 Throughout the history of the United States there has never been an ally abandoned" he said in a blunt denial of the recent gossip that China would be discarded as a fighting ally.
 There is no intention to abandon China on the part of the American Army. I am confident the United States will see China through this crisis"
 Wedemeyer, speaking even as Japanese forces were pushing up through Kweichow Province less than 70 airline miles from the U. s. 14th Air Force base at Kweiyang, said counter-measures already are being taken to halt the enemy drive.
 Wedemeyer said the Japanese push, which constitutes long range but serious threat to both Chungking and the American Air Force headquarters at Running on the Burma Road, has been slowed down in the past few days.
 His statement followed the issu- ance of Chinese communique acknowledging the fall of Tuhshan, 70 miles southeast of Kweiyang, to a powerfully-reinforced Japanese column stabbing up through Kwei- chow Province.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07

tanks roamed most of the city, the British were believed to have full control of less than 25 per cent of Athens.
 Small Arms
 The crack of small-arn1s fire echoed all around the perimeter of the British-held Island" of about one square mile in the center of Athens. Farther southeast, regular Greek army troops were clearing out another portion of the city against some sniper fire.
 While the Elas was incapable of holding any point long in strength, their scattered fire from roottops and windows made it dangerous for those in Allied uniforms to travel except in armored cars.
 Six Leftist ministers who resigned at the start of the government crisis last weekend were revealed to have sent an emissary to the Papandreou government suggesting conversa- tions with a view of halting the conflict, but the government said it was unwilling to confer unless the LeftistS first surrendered their arms.
 Premier George Papnadreou charged in an interview with the United Press that the disorders were the result of long-laid plan of ex- treme Leftists. Only after the Elas began occupying one police station after another and advancing toward the center of Athens, he said, did his government agree to a British plan to defend public order and the peoples libertles.'
 Painful Struggle
 'The struggle is particularly pain full to me-" Papandreou said, But the responsibility lies absolutely with the organizers of the coup d'etat."
 Papandreou predicted speedy res- toration of order.
 I watched the battle for Accrop- olis hill from the roof of the Great Britain hotel last night. The streak of tracer bullets was clearly visible in the night sky as Elas forces fired on British planes overhead. British 25-pounder shells wished overhead and landed with shatter- ing explosions that shook the hotel. Seventy-five millimeter guns also were in action. It was noisier than
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
B-29s .Avenge
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(Continued from Page D said that single Superfortress in. vaded the skies over Tokyo at 6:30 p. m. yesterday T:30 A. M. We'd nesday EWT), but disappeared after hurried brief flight before most Tokyo citizens noticed it."
 Tt is believed that these enemy planes were on a mission of the war of nerves aimed at the people on the home front" Tokyo said.
 The Japanese obviously were fearful that the reconnaissance ol nuisance raids would be followed later today by a full-scale Super fortress attack on Tokyo in re- venge for the sneak attack on the American fleet on Dec. 2, 1941.
 In what obviously was intended as a preventive measure, the Tokyo radio reported that Japanese planes attacked the American B-29 base on Saipan at dawn today and destroyed large number of B-29s including those arrayed on a run. way apparently ready for a sortie.'
 The broadcast admitted the loss Of a few Japanese planes in the raid.
 The war department announced that a large task force of super Fortresses from China had raided important industrial objectives'' Manchuria in daylight today. Tokyo said the raid occurred about 1O a. m. @ p. m. Wednesday E.W.T) ana claimed that Japanese figsters short down several "out of a score of B-29S.
 Further details will be announc- ed later, the war department said.
 Upwards of 100 superFortresses were believed to have participated in the attack, the fourth on Man churian targets by the 20th bomber command since last July 29.
 A Japanese Domei dispatch said southern Manchuria was hit, rais- ing the possibility that the great iron and steel center of Anshan. also raided July 29 and Sept. and 26, again was the principal target.
 The War Department said the raid continued the campaign against Japanese war production. " High priority targets at Anshan in- clude the Showa Steel Works, larg- est Iron and Steel mill in Man churia; Anshan steel materials, manufacturers of rails and struc- tural steel, and the Manchuria Elec- tric Corporation, whose two steam power plants serve most of Anshans industries.
 Anshan lies 55 miles southwest of Mukden on the principal north south railway between Harbin and Dairen.
 The Japanese, meantime, con- tinued their feeble efforts to inter- fere with American raids on Tokyo by attacking the 2lst bomber com mand's bases on Saipan in the Marianas.
 A single bomber was shot down by American flgsters before 1t could drop its bombs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07

(Contlnued from Page l)
 Britain should have followed a pol icy of neutrality in the internal Greek struggle for political power.
 The editorial, entitled Tragedy of Errors, appeared certain to find an echo in the full-dress debate in Commons tomorrow on the Greek situation, which was shaping up as one of the gravest threats to the Churchill lgovernment since the tide Of battle turned in favor of the AL lies.
 The Times said that any British government which claimed to in- sist at time wher popular cleo tioi1s admittedly are impossible, on this or that individual group as alone qualified to conduct the gov- ernment of friendly nation, would accept grave responsibility which accords ill with British tradition"
 Blunder
 rBritish traditions and British in- terests are to try to re-unite the Greek parties and at all costs to avoid taking sides in Greek con- flict," the Times said. For a Brit ish army, the only conceivable role in the face of every difficulty and every provocation is one of strict neutrality and favor to none.'
 The London News Chronicle de- scribed Britain's intervention in the Italian situation as a 'blunder.'
 We claim to have brought free dom to Belgium, Italy and Greece, the News Chronicle said. "All of them must for the time being put up with provisional governments, but it's not for US to decide what their political complexion should be" |"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
E Bond Sales Log Here
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(COntlnued rom Page U
 tary goal-having already surpassed Treasury quota of $655,0OO by $2OC ,OOO, bond officials there ex- pressed confidence with the outcome of the remaining days.
 Enthusiasm
 William V. Hawkes., chairman of the payroll saving division today announced enthusiastic particlpa- tion by many members of his group. MT. Hawkes. todav cited the Bris- tol company, eveY-StTong leaoerS, who have already surpassed an $S6,- OO0 goal by $10,000 and are striv- ing toward a $100,000 mark; the Manufacturer Foundry Inc, who give every indication of reaching their quota as does the Waterbury Farrel Foundry, Inc, the Thinsheet Metals company has already attained its quota and is continuing on.
 Mayor John s. Monagan at noon today praised the efforts of the em- ployes of the U. s. Time Corp, striving toward a $500,000 quota. The mayor spoke at the all-day rally at the Victory House spon- sored by the company today and featuring Pappy Howard and his Hill Billy band as well as a swing band scheduled to entertain through o'clock tonight. Sales at the Victory House at noon today had al- ready attained the $l5,325 mark.
 Victory House tomorrow will be manned by the "city champs" of Sacred Heart high school, who dur ing the last drive were awarded a placque for outstanding achievement in selling. Tomorrowis program will feature Christmas Carols.
 Bonds for Babies will be given impetus today at 6 p. m. when a Walt Disney feature program will be broadcast over VERY 1t has been announced by Mrs. Harry Liebes- kind, chairman Of the division.
 Each bond bought for a child up to and including five years of age will also include a special certificate decorated with the Walt Disney characters dear to chil- dren," said Mrs. Llebeskind. "In addition to receiving the special certificate, every child up to and including two years Of age who has a bond bought in his name will have his name inscribed on the National Cradle Roll in Wash- lngtofi."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Cong. Record
 Storehouse
Continued from Page D
his wizardry.'

his wizardry.
 A Sentence
 That, friends is a sentence. think you'd better read 1t over again to appreciate it fully; the recipes alone are worth $45 page and if you figure it that way, Representa- tive Gearhart's literary performance doesn't cost dime.
 If poetry is your favorite can refer you to Representative Charles A. Plumley of Vermont, who quotes a speech of Lieutenant Governor Mortimer R. Proctor, who quotes an unnamed tombstone poet. If that sounds little complicated, just read the poem:
 Here under his sod and under
 these trees,
 'Is buried the body of Solomon
 Pease:
 But under this sod lies only bis
 pod.
 His soul is shelled out and gone
 up to God"
 Where else but in the Record could you find poetry like that? I tell you, it's Q bargain at $45 a page. Or maybe you prefer exposi- tory writing. Representative Henry D. Larcade, Jr., of Louisiana, pro- vides a monograph titled Just Doesn't Make Sense" He's talking about OPA rules on sweet potatoes.
 Monograph
 Nov comes the OPA and issues a ruling that the shippers must ship the potatoes in 50-pound crates, but they cannot charge but for 45 pounds of potatos," the author says. You can read that sentence again, too, and come to the conclusion that here is one writer who has freed himself from the bondage of the Grammarians.
 Let us consider finally the depart- ment of wit and humor, as exempli- id by Representative Plumley again. He writes:
 "As a post election conviction, I am satisfied that had even Fala run for president, he might have been elected, for as Mime. De Sevigne is quoted as saying, the more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire a dog"
 Shame on the critics of the Con- gressional Record: OAFS with no respect for the finer things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07

NSOAAb444AC0 EdRG
 In the Balkans and especially Yugoslavia, the Russian policy has appeared to be more similar to the British and few persons here would expect either country to abandon such stand unless there were pa- rallel action by the other. Thus it seemed most probable that Soviet Premier Josef Stalin would figure in any discussion of the subject be- tween President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
 It was understood on good au- thority that the plume U. S. state ment of policy originally was to have come from MT. Roosevelt but that, after deliberation, it was is- sued from the state department in- stead. It was made in scope, taking in government of the United Ma tions in their liberated territories" as well as Italy and, according to informed sources here, was pointed not only at Britain and Russia but at pressure groups" in this coun- Ny "AAiSA A1lASA1G DC 1LIC111lGQ CO S1VG support to factions in European po- litical tusSles.
 Eden declined to comment di- rectly on Stettinius' statement, but his reaffirmation of the British policy apparently was precisely what U. s. officials expected. It raised speculation, however, over what the next public step by the state department would be.
 It was evident that exchanges be- tween Washington and London were going on through diplomatic channels in an effort to prevent any widening of the rift, perhaps to maintain the status quo until the Allied leaders get together.
 Because of President Roosevelt's full calendar next month-inaugu- ration, annual message to Congress and budget preparations-the con- sensus has been that February would be the earliest month for a big three meeting. There have been reports of an indefinite postpone ment for undiscloSed reasons but the current Anglo American situa- tion has re-inspired talk of 8 Feb- ruary or March meeting.