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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
NEW HAVEN CONN.,, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914
A Crisis Averted

president ROOSEVELT and the leaders of
and steel unions be congratulated the prompt
i'm which they moved end the threat of eups
both vital industries.
The demands of the rail satisfactorily
ing Immediately accept FDRs decision The us Army will
the roads from that i'm the Presidents Words
smaor military oensves, planned will mot be de-
layed by the interruption of vital transportation faciles
The demands of the steel workers for pay
increase they be granted have been accepted
War Labor Board, again after FDR's Intervention.
Regardless of the justice of the workers demands strikes
could be tolerated in either industry Even though Ma
tiona Economic Sterilization Director and certain
members of the War Labor Board have been gambling
national security by giving in the demands of
union employers
You don't burn dOOn house get rid of You
don't trOtO UictOry Europe in 1914 promised by
General Eisenhower, by being provoked strikes
Organized labor has shown that realizes fact Now
it is job that these crises wages
do not happen again-so that get main
job of winning the
revision of the Little Steel Formula, for sterilization of the
cost of living, for fair program Without relaxing
minute production for victory show
busters and Tory Congressman that country
stand for their sabotage of national security.
Our best ally in this fight FDR-who himself laid down
the sterilization policies labor campaigning the
best way help FDR do the Job on the Home
Front, he is doing the to steer
clear OF the for by the reaconaries
agents: strikes and threats of strikes.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Your Dollar
BY CONSUMERS UNION
GLOBES

GLOBES
War has bred new interest in
maps and globes. Only a globe can
accurately show the relative sizes Of
all areas, the true distances which
separate them, and true directions.
Although fiat maps are useful and
necessary for detailed study, globe
is needed for an understanding of the
true relationships.
Here are some. of the globes
which Consumers Union considers
give good value for the money:
Polar View Globe, No. 6O4. inches
diameter, ST. from Weber & Cos
tellO, Chicago Hts, Ill. Cram
Universal Globe, Model $50 1917
inches diameter, on fixed axis,
$2.79 at map stores. Liberty
Globe, C8O5M. 8 inches diameter,
universal mount, 1895 from De-
nOyer-Ceppert Co., 5241 Ravens
wood Ave-, Chicago 40, Ill. Rand
McNally Air-Age Globe. IL inches
diameter, universal mount, $6.95
at retail stores.
QUALITY ON THE SKIDS
LoW-priced goods are disappearing
from the market, Bread & Butter,
GUS weekly, reports. Manufacturers
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launched vicious campaign
against the Textile Workers Union,
despite previous lower court order
directing the company to end init
midation of unionists on its rolls.
Claiming the right of ''free
Speech" the company's president,
Charles F. ]. Johnson, appealed to
the employees over the factory's loud
speaker system to reject the union;
printed a vicious anti-union article
i'm the cOmpany's ''house Organ,"
and pushed ahead payment of
Christmas bonuses so employees
would get them "a hours before
they voted in scheduled National
Labor Relations Board election at
the plant.
These tactics failed, however.
When the votes were counted, the
union had won by 1877 to l,545.
Nevertheless, the N. L. r. B. an
nounced it would seek a court
decree holding the management
in contempt" The company said
it would resist such a decree, and
SO the case may reach the SUI
preme Court for a new ruling on
how far bosses can go in fighting
unions under the guise of ''free
speech"
in A recent edition of the DIAL
las (Texas) Times Herald, ap-
peared the following classified ad-
vertisement under personal No
tices':
''Not responsible for accounts
made only by myself. W. E.
Brown
FIGURES played up i'm news
papers to the effect that workers
have had big increases in saver
age hourly earnings" we're brand
ed ''phonies'' by the A. F. of L.
this week.
Actually, basic wage rates, which
are the real yardsticks of how
workers are faring, have gone up
an Insignificant amount, the Fede-
ration said. The published figures
conceal the fact that the increases
were secured only by working long
er hours, by upgrading to better
paid jobs, by incentive plans, or
other such means, the A. F. of L.
pointed out.
''Such increases are earned by
the workers skill and by greater
production, just as the farmer
raises his income by managing we'll
and producing mOre," the Fedora
ton stressed.
s'They do not affect prices,
they are not general wage rate
increases and are not cOmpar-
able with price increases"
HOLLYWOOD OUTPOST: Some
thing new in an official U. S. Ma
rines assignment is Hollywood cor
respondent. Sgt. Bob Myers was
sent from Washington to take that
post for the official magazine, The
Ledtherneck. myers used to cover
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

are no longer making low-priced
women's coats, dresses and blouses.
Garments still made have been up
graded all along the line.
RayOn dresses retailing for $3.50
last year now cost $3.50. $8.75's
now sell for $lO.75. WOmen's slips
which used to wholesale at $6.75 a
dozen now cost SIS. CheesecIoth
which used to be used for chair
bottoms, at DC a yard, now whole
sales at 35c a yard for use in
blOuses, the trade says.
When quality depreciation is count
ed in, Bread & Butter says, it will be
found that actual increases in living
costs are far higher than the official
figures indicate.
PHONOCRAPH RECORDS
You can still find many good record
albums on the market, Gu says, in
spite of manpoWer and material scar
cities. A dealer may receive one ex-
cel1ent shipment of a certain album.
followed by bad one. Records within
single album may vary in quality.
It's necessary, therefore, to try out
every single disk for surface defects.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

Buy U. S. War Bonds and Stamps
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

TYPICAL of the great part play
ed by union workers on the fight
ing fronts, as well as the prOduc-
ton fronts, was the disclosure this
week from Machinists' officials that
nearly 100000 members of that
organization are serving in the
armed forces, either in uniform,
or as civilian mechanics.
They are not only wearing the
khaki of the army, the blue of the
navy and the olive green of the
marines, but thousands are on the
job keeping equipment and muni-
tons in shape at the far-fung bases
America has acquired during the
war in many parts of the globe.
Many are serving, too, in the
"Seabees," the famous construction
corps of the navy, members of
which have often been forced to
drop Their tools and take up arms
during enemy attacks.
"WHY DOES an editors blood
run cold?''
Because the circulation is
frozen.''
Mary! the smelling salts.
THEN, there the fellow in the
bomber plant who walked up to me
and said: ''My names Enrol Flynn.
What's your hobby"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
As We See It

Hollywood for Associated Press and
quit to get into the war;
THEM NAZIS is getting to be
sissies according to the caption un-
der photo in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat recently. A group of cap
tured tanks is shown and it stated
''at the left rear is Mary ILL.,"
YOUNG girl reporter on Tes-
arlsana Daily NesOs turned in a
story to Managing Editor ]. Q.
Mahaffey.
Mahaffey glanced over the story
and told her: eve have already
carried this story"
The young girl reporter replied:
''But not recently
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Shoveled Way To Job;
Must Get Full Wage

An ''act of Cod" like a snow
storm, is no occasion to cut the
wage rates of workers, the Ma
tiOnal War Labor Board ruled
this week.
In case involving the ]. NeiIs
Lumber Company, Klickitat,,
WASH, the board held that en-
ployes who shovel their way to
their jobs during the blizzard
must be paid for such work at
the regular rates they receive in
side the mill. The company had
sought to pay them only COM
mon labor rates for the snow
digging.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

they will Enthusiastically lead this country national social
ISM There, what do you think of that?'
Last time answered that question, you washed my
mouth with SOAP"
'Cet your mind up out of the gutter'
Oh, you mean out of the Hearst paper? Anyway, what
does Mr. Byrd say?"
HE much the thing Mr. Brcker. They both
brilliant gentlemen'
Bricker and Byrd. They sound like Hoover Hearst
Why not boy, why not? They all learned politics the
hard way.''
'Yeah But of them weigh much' Luther sing
ing:
"Bricker and Byrd,
"Bricker and Byrd,
"WithOut MIR. Hearst
"Theyd never be heard"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Soldiers Vote Bill
ACTIVITIES Labor

WESTINGHOUSE aroused has
labor over the country become on the
soldier vote issue that locals which
never have taken any political action
heretofore are now petitioning Con-
gress.
Local $40, the Ford local at Dallas,
Tex, of the United Auto Workers
wired chairman Eugene Morley of
the house elections committee, re-
questing that he push the Lucas
Green bill $50 our soldiers can vote
in the next summer primary and gen
eral election for our Congressman,
Senators, Vice-President and our
President" The last two words were
underlined.
Sec. Frank Overturf of the Farm
ers Union of Texas wired Worley and
Speaker Sam Rayburn, "The Texas
Farmers Union wants soldiers to
vote" and suggested if Congress
wants to legislate against red tape and
bureaucracy this was a good time to
do So He also congratulated Rayburn
on his recent speech on national unity
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
PICKET CHISIERS

NEW YORK-Bronx housewives
have taken the job of policing price
chiselers into their own hands. Banded
together in an organization known as
United Housewives, with 200 men,
bers so far, they are picketing stores
that violate OPA ceilings.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
Almost So Billions
Spent In November

WASHINGTON-War expendi-
lures for the month of November
went to new high of $7,794,000,000,
an increase of $68900O,OOO over Oc-
tober, or nearly 1919, the War Pro-
duction Board reports. Previous high
was %,688,O00,0OO in June. Average
daily expenditure was close to $780,
100000. These are the latest avail
able figures.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08
100000 Awarded
Crippled Brakeman

CHICAGO-A record award of
100000 was won by Tracy J. Crop
per of Columbus, Ohio, brakeman
on the Pennsylvania, under a verdict
handed down by a jury here this
week in the court of Superior Judge
John F. Haas.
Chopper, the father of three chill
dren, lost an arm and leg during a
collision between two trains on a
switching track at Columbus, Ohio
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-08

Mention THE UNION TIMES
when shopping, and help Labor's
Own Paper grow.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
BLAZE DAMAGES
APARTMENT HERE

Considerable damage was caus-
ed Friday afternoon when fire was
discovered in the Sorosis apart
ments, next to City Hall.
Chief j. Ludie Groom reported
that the alarm came in at about
4:45 pm, calling out Headquar-
te..s company, Company No. 8, at
4th and Campbell streets, and the
hook and ladder truck, which an
swers all calls IL the downtown
district.
Firemen reported that the blaze
apparently started on the top floor
of the brick building probably from
a cigarette left smouldering on the
bed in an apartment belonging to
E. D. Montgomery.
Most damage was caused by
smoke which penetrated the upper
floors. However considerable dam
age was caused in the bed room
Of the Montgomery apartment,
where the fire started, according
to Chief Groom. -.,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
CHlLD'S CUSTODY
CASE CONTINUING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-P) -
The five-year fight over who
should have custody of 10-year-olo
Joan Langan, daughter of former
movie actress Joan Manners, took
a double twist today with the mo-
Their winning court action only
to have the child taken away by
the father, John Langan, later in
the day.
Langan, declining to disclose his
whereabouts, told the Washington
Post by phone tonight he had de.
cided not to turn his daughter over
to Miss Manners until he had ex.
hausted every legal recourse ir
the District of Columbia.
Miss Manners won the latest
court action in the long custody
dispute in the Montgomery coun-
ty, Maryland, circuit court at
Rockville at two o'clock this morn
ing. A few hours later Judge
Stedman Prescott issued an order
to require her former husband to
show why he should not be held
in contempt for taking the child.
The actress reported the father
walked away with Joan while the
three were having breakfast al
the Ambassador hotel.
Louis Lebowitz, counsel TO,
Langan, announced during the at
ternoon he had advised his client
to abide by the court decision and
that he was attempting to effect
meeting of the divorced parents
t" discuss the child's future. This
conference did not materialize.
Until the Maryland court hear.
ing Joan had lived with her ia.
Their in Chevy Chase, Md, and she
testified yesterday she preferred
to stay there because IT love my
father"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
DEMURRER FILED
IN CHAPLIN CASE

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.-tP)-
Charlie Chaplin's attorneys filed
demurrer today to indictments
charging the actor with Mann Act
violations, on the ground that the
Federal laws was intended to pre-
vent commercial vice and traffic
in women, and not to govern pri-
vate acts.
The attorney, Jerry Giesler, al
so filed motion to quash the in
dictments, charging that women
were Disseminated against in not
having been permitted to serve
on the Federal Grand Jury which
returned them.
He cited a five to three decision
of the United States Supreme
Court in which the minority held
with his contention concerning the
purpose of the Mann Act, and
quoted Rep Mann of Illinois, au-
thor of the law, as declaring such
was his intention.
U. S. Dist. Judge ]. F. T. O'Con-
nor continued the hearing on both
the motion to quash and the de-
murrer until tomorrow Go a. NO.
U. S. Atty. Charles H. Carr de-
clared his willingness to stipulate
that there were no women on the
Grand Jury which indicted Chap
lin, but refused to stipulate that
such omission of women consti-
tuted discrimination against them.
Judge O'Connor suggested that
Carr and Giesler meet with the
clerk of the court and the jury
commissioner and seek to reach
an agreement as to whether such
discrimination existed.
Chaplin is charged with having
transported Joan Berry, his 23-
year-old former protege, to New
York and back to Los angeles for
improper purposes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
RUSSIAN ARMIES
DRIVE ON PSKOV

LONDON, Saturday, Feb. 28.-
Up-German commanders hurled
fresh achievements into IA coun-
ter-attacks north of Rogachev in
White Russia yesterday but their
effort to repair the gap torn in
their lines guarding the upper Dnl-
eper River and Minsk failed with
a loss of $500 men, Moscow an
rfounced today.
AT the same time advancing
Russian forces in the north rolled
the Germans back on Pskov In a
great arc reaching points 20 miles
on the northwest, % miles on the
northeast and so miles on the east
One Berlin radio report that
Germans had evacuated the White
Russian citadel of Vitebsk was ap-
parently premature for neither the
subsequent German and. Russian
communicates made any mention
of the area.
In the fighting for Rogachev,
captured by the Russians Thurs
day. Moscow announced that 5000
Germans we're killed, and 26 of
their tanks and self-propelled guns.
So field guns, and 40 trucks de-
stroyed. The Russians said they
captured 68 guns, more than 1000
rifles, 80 trucks, eight tanks and
many stores # munitions and
food.
Advancing northward from this
town yesterday the Russians met
determined German resistance,
bolstered BY large numbers OF men
rushed into the area. But the
broadcast midnight communique,
recorded by the Soviet monitor,
said several populated places
were captured and the Germans
thrown back.
A quantity of German equip
ment was seized by the Russians,
including 10 tanks, 40 guns and g.
900 mines, the bulletin said. and
many prisoners were taken.
In the north another LOO Ger
mans were killed as the Russians
captured 81 localities in their
march on Pskov. In the northwest
and north they were 20 miles away
from that great communications
center at Erekhneva, and % miles
away at Lutovo and Ploschina. In
the northeast they captured the
railway station of Lapino So miles
away and also reached Kebska,
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
new TAX RATES
EFFECTIVE SOON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.- Up -
Effects of the $2,315, 1000, 900 new
tax bill enacted by Congress today
over the veto of President Roose-
welt will not be felt by most PEG.
pie until March 26 when local let
tiers will have to carry three cents
postage instead of two.
The first tax to go into effect,
however, is 20 per cent retailers
tax on luggage. Replacing for
mer 10 per cent manufa cturer's
levy, it is effective March ] and
applies to travelling bags, suit
cases, trunks, toilet cases, hand
bags and wallets.
Most of the other excise taxes
higher levies on movie admissions,
club dues, liquor, cosmetics, etc.
become effective April /.
The legislation contemplates a
total annual yield of 1,051, 900, 900
from Increases in such 1evies.
The remainder of the total to be
raised by the bill is divided in
this manner:
Individual income taxes - upped
1854, 900, 900 on 1914 income. Present
rates remain unchanged but elini-
nation of the earned income credit
and removal of deductions for ex-
else taxes paid out will mean in
creased tax payments for most
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
Industrial Deferments For Young
Men May Be Ended, Hershey States

NV mASHlNGTON, Feb. 25.- R-
t s.Ore than half the draft regis
sr ail's now being called up are
ti " the physical tests, Selec-
il ~ service said today, and hence
drs nts become necessary to take
TS StiV steps to meet Army quotas.
vs anlS IS the situation, Congress
MOI a1ie armed forces need 1900, 900
II aoo 70 O. reach the desired goal of
con TvO' ooo by July l. They must
defoe e rom the father group, those
a., 1feo because of their Jobs, the
And =. VINO car do limited service
w. 'ile Youngsters reaching 10.
ara @nen all the normal possibilities
he ne ,e exhausted, the total still will
NV aoo'ooo short. So
ovar 90 oe1erments granted men
WEI u in industry may be can
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26

celled soon. The minimum age
may be raised to 26.
Farm labor must be screened
again and those who cannot show
they are producing substantially
to the total amount of food for
the nation are to lose their defer.
ment.
The problem was outlined to the
Senate Agriculture Committee by
Major General Lewis B. Hershey,
draft director, and to a House Mill,
tary Subcommittee by his aide,
Lieut.. Col. Francis V. Keesling.
Hershey said the 4-F situation
had complicated the problem great
ly of late. There are 100000 men
now classified thus, which means
t h ey have defects mitigating
against military service.
I'm sorry to say that number is
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
|FOREGONE CONCLUSION
Vote OF II To IA Sets
Capstone On Great Re-
bellion

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-RA
The Senate set the capstone of the
great Congressional tax rebellion
into place today with u to IA
vote enacting into law the revenue
measure which President Roose-
welt rejected with scornful lam
guage.
An anti-climatic close Of the d.:a-
matte revolt found only 10 DEM
ocrats and one Republican-Sena-
tor LANCER of North Dakota-vot-'
ing to sustain the Presidents veto.
The outcome had been a fore
gone conclusion since the House
voted 299 to 95 yesterday to over
ride, and with completion of the
Senate vote at 12:49 pm. (EWT)
the tax bill-second wartime rev.
enue measure-became law.
The legislation boosts the in
come tax taken from individuals
and business firms, raises some
postal rates, and increases taxes
on liquor, fu-s, cosmetics and
many other items, effective April
l. Congressional tax experts esti-
mate it will return $2,315, 900, 900
a year; raising the Treasury's an
nual income to over $42, 1000, 900, 900,
but President Roosevelt disputed
the prospective return.
Seeming drama, a noisy crowd
filled the Senate galleries fo- the
final act of the White House-Con-
gress battle but got practically no
show at all.
An interested spectator standing
in the rear of the chamber was
80-year-old Rep. 'Muley Bob"
|sDoughton, North Carolina Demo-
crat, who led the House turn
against the President on the tax
issue.
Senator Pepper %. -Fla.), an adj
ministration stalwart, launched in
to a protest, his voice heavy with
emotion, against the rebuke to the
President which most of his Dem
ocratic colleagues were ready to
deliver.
He was afraid, Pepper said, that
the defeat of the chief executive
on the tax issue might alter the
permanent course and character
of our party
Whatever mood Pepper may
have hoped to create in the Sem
ate was swept away. however, by
that interruption and a following
brief speech from Senator Lucas
O.-Illo, usually a firm supporter
of administration policy.
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-26
SENATE MINORITY
LEADER SUCCUMBS
Charles L. M c N ary, Top
Ranking COP, Dies
In Florida

WASHINGTON, Feb. rs Up -
Charles L. McNary of Oregon, the
69-year-old leader of Senate Re.
publicans, died today in Fl. Laud.
erdale, Fla, where he had gone
several months ago to rest after
an operation to remove brain
tunor.
The death of McNary, who had
been reported to be recovering,
came as a shock to many of his
colleagues and apparently left wide
open the choice of a successor in
the leadership post.
Senate Republicans only yester-
day completed reorganization in
which the reelected McNary chair
man of their conference and mi
nority floo.. leader but provided for
a full setup of officers for the first
time since 1886.
At that meeting, Senator Vanden-
berg (R. -Mich.) was elected vice
chairman of the conference and
Senator White R.-Me.) was chosen
assistant leader and acting leader
during McNary's illness. White has
served in that post since McNary
was stricken. Vandenberg, White
and Senator Taft R.-Ohio) were
most prominently mentioned as a
possible permanent successor.
Known to politicians from coast
to coast, McNary was a confidant
of presidents and those who aspir-
ed unsuccessfui1y to the Presiden-
cy. In 1910 he reluctantly accepted
his party's nomination for the vice
presidency on a ticket headed by
Wendell L. Willkie.
Appointed to the Senate in 1917
to succeed Hairy Lane, who died
in office, McNary gained national
attention in the years after the
First World Wa with his co-spon-
sorship of the McNary-Haugen
farm relief bill. He became Senate
Republican leader in 1888.
His death reduced the minority
contingent 10 36. but since Cover
nor Earl Smell of Oregon is re-
publican he is expected to appoint
a successor who is a member of
that party. Smell himself has been
mentioned as a possible senatorial
aspirant and thus may appoint a
successor inclined to serve only
until an election is held. McNary's
term expires in 1949.