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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21

to administer first aid to the CIO
whenever it showed signs Of weaken
ing, we felt that fact should be clear.
If there existed deliberate intention
to block the return of non-aAiliated
unions to the AFL and to obstruct the
inevitable progress of labor unity, it
should be brought out into the open.
Well, the showdown came The CIO
backed down. It's pretensions to equal
ity were kicked out the window.
The Bronx Cheer
Naturally, the CIO apologists are
squawking about the outcome. We ap-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21

preciate how they feel. So when they
start throwing insults like "brainless
buster, pigheadedness, dog in the
manager policy" ETC., we charitably
limit our response to the well-known
Bronx cheer.
But we confess to being somewhat
disturbed by the tendency of some So
called liberals to take this sort of
mudslinging seriously.
No matter how clear, consistent and
fortnight the policies Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor may be, the
Communist braintrusters in the CIO
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
LABOR SUFFERING BY
JOB FREEZING AND
LITTLE

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-"Time
is running short. If we are to fulfill
our pledge we must liquidate our
earlier hope of rolling back prices and
proceed to bring wages in balance
with higher costs of living"
Strong words from George Meany,
secretary treasurer of the AFL, when
he opened the attack on the iniquitous
Little Steel' formula at War Labor
Board hearing here on April A.
Meany, member of the board rep
resenting labor, declared that the LSF
has become "an economic thumbscrew
to torment the working people of
America" and he demanded immedi-
ate action to bring wages and prices
in balance
Pledges Forgotten
Meany pointed out that government
officials have repeatedly promised to
maintain prewar living standards and
these promises have been broken by
the economic stabilization program.
AS consequence wage earners have
suffered loss in real income arising
from rigid application of LSF
The President, he said, has the
power to correct this inequity, and he
urged the special WLB panel to rec
ommend that the President
l. Modify realistically that por-
ton of Executive Order 1928 which
limits wage adjustments to LSF.
2. Permit employers to make
wage adjustments without obtain
ing approval in each case from
WLB.
He reminded the panel that workers
have been buying war bonds but be-
cause of rising prices have been COM
PEELED to cash them. Their industrial
production, he said, assures eventual
defeat of the enemy. "They must not
be bled white now and junked after
the war"
Members of the panel include Ralph
I. Seward, representing the public;
Charles r. Hook, Jr., representing in
dustry; and Edward J. Volz, president
of Photo-engravers' International I'm
ion, representing labor. Hearings will
last 3 days, after which the panel will
decide whether to recommend further
action by WLB.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-04-21
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Evening star., 1944-02-28

officers and sailors paid little at.
tention to whether such "passen-
gers" got OF or on when a port
was reached. In that way, rats were
spread to scores of islands where
there never had been any members
of the race before.
Rats existed in Europe in an
cient times, but the worst kinds
have been there less than 1000
years.
The first great invasion" of the
pests into Europe seems to have
taken place during the Crusades.
We are told that they boarded the
boats Of Crusaders in Palestine
and were carried to Europe without
charge.
That invasion was made by the
.so-called black rats" and their
first home is believed to have been
India. 1t seems that they lived in
trees for long time, but found it
more simple to get food by going
to the homes of people.
Black rats killed most of the ma
tive rats in Western Europe. Later
they were taken-by accident-to
North and South America. Often
they got aboard by climbing ropes
or cables which stretched from decks
to piers while vessels were at anchor.
Nowadays it is a custom to place
metal or wooden shields on cables
which reach to piers or docks. II
the shields are made properly the
rats cannot pass them Black rats
do not like water and would not
care to swim to steamer.
The second great rat invasion Of
Europe took place only about 240
years ago. In this case the larger
and stronger brown rats" came
out of the Orient and spread over
the European mainland, also over
Great Britain. To some extent they
killed of the black rats. Brown rats
are not afraid of water and are ex-
cellent swimmers.
North America now has both
brown and black rats. Each year
they destroy grain and other food
to value of hundreds of millions
Of dollars,
Evening star., 1944-02-28

Remove letter from each the word
called for in the last column
correctly inclose, with iron bars " -
Answer Saturdays LETTER-OUT
lR) sTRANGLE-TANGLEs Che gets twisted
tE) GRIPES-SPRIG shoot.
(N) FRIGHTEN-FIGHTER kind of arnane m ,ooa
r ~ eON
(E) DESPAIR-RAPIDS you whirD
CW) SWERVE-VEERS swim side to sde)
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Uncle Roy's Corner

The subject OF rats Is hardly
pleasant, but sometimes we need to
think Of things which are not pleas
ant. II people never had thought
about rats, these animals would be
even more Of pest than they are
now.
As 1t has been, people have done
too little to cut down rat dangers.
In olden days almost every ocean,
going vessel had rats aboard. The
Evening star., 1944-02-28
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Evening star., 1944-02-28

Redbl. Pass Pass Pass
East's double proved to be boom
erang, In that 1t acted as blueprint
for South's play.
West led the club king. The blank
ace won and declarer immediately
ruffed diamond, then led the club
jack and passed it, discarding a
heart. West won and shifted to the
heart king. The ace won and de-
clarer discarded his last heart on
the club 10. Now a heart was ruffed
by declarer, the diamond ace was
cashed and another diamond was
ruffed in dummy.
At this point the average de-
clarer would be irresistibly tempted
to lay down the spade king, in the
fear that West might have one
trump. Actually, that play would
be fatal. 1t would have to be fol-
lowed by heart lead (unless de-
clarer wanted to lose a diamond
trick. East would ruff with the
jack-and declarer would be help
less.
This declarer, however, was not
caught in that trap. He decided
that the bidding had clearly marked
all four missing trumps in East's
hand. Therefore, instead of cash.
ing the trump king, he led heart.
East was hooked" He could do
no better than ruff with the spade
jack. Declarer promptly discarded
his diamond. East's club return was
ruffed in the closed hand and now,
after a trump was led to the king,
there was an established finesse
against East's queen of trumps.
Saturday you were Theodore
Lightner's partner. With neither
side vulnerable, you held:
4 A 109764
082
1892
The bidding:
Lightner Jacoby You Schenken
~ Pass IA Pass
30 Pass 3A Pass
~ Pass ca
Answer-Four diamonds. Your
partner has bid three suits, and
even though you realize he may
simply be showing control in one or
more of the suits-you must show
him which you prefer.
Score 100 per cent for four dia-
monds, go per cent for five diamonds
(Which might make partner over
optimistic), 20 per cent for four
spades.
Question No. 1881.
Today you hold the same hand,
and the bidding continues:
Lightner Jacoby You Schenken
~ Pass IA Pass
80 Pass "a Pass
~ Pass 40 Pass
a Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20

THE American people are demon
i strating their recognition of the
Communist controlled Political Ac
ton Committee, under the mask of
the fourth term presidential candi
dacy, and their dislike for it.
A Republican victory of landslide
proportions has been registered III
the State of Maine, with Political
Action Committee candidates for
Congress buried deeply in the ava
lanche.
Chairman Brownell of the Re-
publican National Committee consid-
ers the entire Middle West safely in
the Dewey Bricker column, and the
soicalled border states veering that
wayAlargely because of public dis
taste for the Political Action Com
mittee and its Communist leadership.
EVEN Chairman Hannegan of the
IL Democratic National Committee
has sensed the fact that the Political
Action Committee, which organized
and assured the fourth term nomina-
ton before the Democratic National
Convention, has become LIABIL-
ITY to the fourth term candidacy.
Mr.. Hannegan, it is true, has come
to be of this opinion somewhat
tardily.
He acquiesced in the domination
of the Democratic National Conven
tion and the humiliation of the for
merly great AMERICAN Democratic
party by the Political Action Com
mittee, which is neither Democratic
nor American.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Fails TO Solve Problems

So, Democratic Congressman Smith and
Democratic Senator Connally produced the
Smith Connally Act which they promised would
solve all problems. Honest men were willing to
believe that nothing could make the situation
worse. So the statute was passed. 1t has not
solved the problem. In the II months prior to
the passage of the Smith Connallv Act there
were 1859 strikes. In the II months following
the passage of that act there were 4,44S
strikes. In other words. the number of strikes
after the Smith Connallv Act was passed in.
creased by one-third
That law-the Smith Connally Act-will
expire with the termination of the war AS it
should. The provisions Of this law and the other
New Deal interferences with free collective
bargaining should never be renewed
The right of workers to leave their Jobs
individually or together-the right to strike
is one of the fundamental rights of free men 1t
has sometimes been abused But what has
caused that?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Right Where They Started

Ten different government Offices all pre-
Stunning to settle one labor disputed There were
four formal hearings in Washington, both
sides had to file seven different briefs and
may add, IS copies of each. Finally, one year
and five days after a union was certified by the
National Labor Relations Board, there was a
final order issued by the War Labor Board. At
last things seemed clear and the agreement was
sent to the printer.
But before the printers proof was re-
ceived, both sides were notified by the National
Labor Relations Board that new petition had
been granted for new election. SO they were
right back where they started.
Is it any wonder, in the face of that record
that the leaders of organized labor have found
their jobs very nearly impossible? Is it any
wonder that the workingmen and women of
this country have felt they had just griev-
ances? With more than 25 federal agencies
pulling in opposite directions, we have been
yanked from crisis to crisis in the field of
labor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Clearance Through Sidney

Sidney Hillman, head of the
Political Action Committee, is RUN
MING the fourth term campaign in
the same dictatorial manner he
ran" the Democratic convention.
He is raising much of the money
for the campaign-by methods pur-
portedly of solicitation and voluntary
contribution, but suspiciously like
arbitrary LEVY against labor union
treasures and dues.
He has already welded the
power of thumbs up and thumbs
down" over the candidates for public
Office presented by the Democratic
party.
He is trying to WELD the same
power over the people themselves, in
their choice of candidates for public
Office.
DUT the people are not being CO.
ID operative.
In Maine, the people WASHED
UP the candidates for Congress who
had been cleared through Sidney"
In the whole Middle West, the
overwhelming majority of the people
are plainly of the same mind and
intention.
In fact, in all of the states where
there is still the instrument of free
choice available to the people, the
intention and determination to
WASH OUT THE NEW DEAL
AND ITS COMMUNIST POLITI.
CAL ACTION COMMITTEE ARE
EVIDENT.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Must Establish Equality

Finally, just as we shall abolish unneces-
sary bureaus and agencies, we shall abolish
privilege for one group over any other group.
We shall see that every workingman and
woman stands equally in that department Gre
ated to serve him, not to rule him. And there
will be no back door entrance to special privi-
lege by one group over any other group Of
Americans
There is no question where we want to go
during these peacetime years for which we are
electlng new president.
We must establish equality between bust
ness, labor and agriculture We must have full
employment. 1t must be at high wage level.
We must have protection of the individual from
loss of his earning power through no fault of
his own. We must have protection of the indi-
vidual against the hazards of old age We must
have these things with the framework of free
and mean free-collective bargaining.
To reach these goals we must increase, not
decrease, our standard of living We must
increase, not decrease our production.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Labor's Efforts Hampered

1t has put untold obstacles in the way of
labors effort to avoid wartime strikes. It has
fostered strife between one labor group and
another. between labor and business and be.
tween both and government.
1t has affronted the wage Garner by re-
ducing his basic rights to the level of political
reward. 1t has made the wage earners pay
envelope and his hours and conditions of work
football of politics.
The labor policies Of this administration
are another reason why it is time for change.
Where are we today in the field of labor?
We are adrift. There is no course, no chart, not
even compass. We move, when we move at
all, to the shifting winds of the caprice of one
man.
Is that the fault of the aw-of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act not for one minute.
The National Labor Relations Act was the
work of bipartisan majority of both houses
of Congress. A majority of the members of my
party voted for il
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
LETTERS To THE EDITOR

TO THE EDITOR:
4 NUMBER Of men have
n asked me if I would ask
your help in obtaining for them
some old washing machines and
irons Laundry facilities are
poor here due 10 the fact that
the base is situated in such an
out-of-the-way place.
Any help in this matter would
be greatly appreciated by the
men Of this base
JOHN !. SECAN,
Corporal, AC,
Special Service Office,
Laurinburg- MaNton Army Air
Base, Maxton, y. {.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Collective Bargaining TO Stay

There be those who would turn back the
course of collective bargaining. They are
doomed 10 bitter disappointment. We are not
going back to anythng-not to bread lines,
not to leaf raking, not to settling labor disputes
with gun fire and gas bombs, not to wholesale
farm foreclosures, not to another New Deal
depression with 10 million unemployed.
We are going forward The American
workingman and his family can go forward.
They will go forward in the size of their pay
envelope, in the improvement of working con-
dtions, in their possession of more and moro
of the good things Of life.
We are going to establish fair, even-handed
government with competent orderly admins
tration.
American working people know that with
the restoration of freedom they will have their
greatest opportunity to build better and
stronger free labor unions They will have un-
precedented opportunity to bring genuine free
dom to the members of the labor movement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Blame on White House

Let's get the answer to this one straight
for the record, too. The New Deal is exclusively
responsible for most of the serious wartime
strikes. The chief blame goes directly into the
White House and to its agency created at the
top of all this chaos of agencies the War Labor
Board
That board has supreme power over the
vital matters of wages and conditions of en-
ployment Whether by design or sheer incom-
petence, its practice has been to stall-weeks,
months, sometimes years-before issuing de-
cisions.
For that reason, too, the workingman and
working woman and their families have had
to suffer.
One month ago today, on Aug 10, the War
Labor Board had pending before it, still unde-
cided, 22,381 cases. One of the Oldest of these
involved the rights and wages of 100000 work.
ers. Another directly affected half million
wage earners. The other 22379 cases involved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Lesson TO Germans and Japs

What this campaign will do is prove to our
enemies that we can fight total war and speed
final victory by changing and strengthening
our administration.
1t will drive home to Japan-and to
Germany also if that country should still be in
the war on Nov. 7th-the bitter lesson that
every day they delay their surrender will make
more onerous by just that much the terms of
their defeat.
This election will also bring an end to the
quarreling and pickering and confusion in the
nations capital which has hampered our war
effort from the beginning to the end
Among the things which have been hold
ing us back here at home is an administration
labor policy which has bred division, hate and
insecurity can say without qualification that
the labor policy of this administration has been
one of delays bungling and incompetence.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Labor Relations Act Good

That act was modelled on the Railway
Labor Act of 1926, measure which was
written, passed and approved by Republican
administration.
The National Labor Relations Act is
good and necessary law. 1t acknowledged the
trend of our times and will continue to be the
law of the land. But that law has been working
badly.
1t has failed to secure the industrial har-
mony we sought 1t has failed because under
the present administration the whms of
bureaucrats take the place of government by
law Why, even on the railroads where an
orderly system of mediation had been pains
taknglv created, we stood last December on
the brink of paralyzing strike. That was only
because one-man government could not keep
its hands off established, previously successful
legal processes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-20
Act Smo+hered by Bureaus

There is another reason why the National
Labor Relations Act has not worked as 1t
should. Our labor relations right down the line
have been smothered under a weller of
agencies, boards, commissions and bureaus.
There's the War Manpower Commission,
the War Labor Board, the Office of Labor Pro-
duction, the Wage-Hour and Public Contracts
Division, the National LABOR Relations Board,
the Cancellation Service, the Fair Employment
Practice Committee, the Retaining and Re-
employment Administration, the War Produc-
tion Drive Division, the National Mediation
Board the Shipbuildng, Lumber, and other
special industry commissions In addition, there
are labor section of OPA, WPB, OES, OWN,
the War Shipping Administration, Selective
Service, and tumble of others too numerous
to mention.