The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-08
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS


Fighting is not the Navy's only job
in the Pacific. When the smoke of
battle clears away and headlines pro-
claim the capture of still another Pa
cifc base, part of the Navy's job is
just beginning. That is the. unsung
task Of surveying the shambles,
patching up here and there, and min
istering to wounded civilians who
through no fault of their own have
felt the horror of modern war.
Caring for shell-shocked and home
less inhabitants is the job assigned to
specially trained Navy military gov
ernment personnel. With the help of
the Advance Base Section of the
Service Force, Pacific Fleet, they
move in, once military objective has
been secured, and start the job of
cleaning and healing.
Primary objective is to make the
population healthy and self-sustain-
ing so that they are able to work on
necessary projects and in order to re-
duce the shipping burden to mini
mum. Thousands of civilians work
for the armed forces and are able to
buy minimum of essential clothing
and necessaries.
1t all adds to the burden of the
war, just as it adds to the burden of
production at home. But it's all part
of the Navy's job in the interest of
humanity.
Subjected to a British press con-
ference, the four representatives of
American women workers visiting
Great Britain, at the invitation of the
British Ministry of Information, SAC
quilted themselves WE'LL" says a
cabled report to the Office of War In
formation.
The women are Mrs. Julia O'Con-
nor Parker, International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, of Bos-
ton; Mrs. Mazda Stewart Springer,
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union of New York; Mrs. Grace
Woods Blackett, United Automobile
Workers, CIO, of Chicago and Miss
Anne Murkovich, American Fedora
tion of Hosiery Workers, CIO, of
Reading, Pa.
To question which puzzled the re-
porters as to the status of the women
that is whether they might be
termed in the British phrase, trades
union officials" Mrs. Springer laugh
ingly replied, "Since am so far from
home | think it is safe to say l am an
official"
The women paid tribute to the
British workers who carried on in the
face of bombings and the blackout,
and Mrs. Parker explained that the
was one Of humble admira
tion.''
Mrs. Parker also expressed the
purpose of the mission by saying that
they came as representatives of the
government in a sense, but also as
of their unions. "Our
deeper mission" she said, sis to find
out how labor unions of the world
,an best work together"
The women agreed that the women
If the United States are not as well
as they might be, and that
he British workers are more union
conscious. Both Mrs. Parker and
Mrs. Blackett gave it as their opinion
hat the majority of women workers
would stay in industry after the war.
Since most reporters at the confer
,nce were women, there was some
discussion on clothes. The reporters
asked whether the four Americans
we're dressed as average American
Told that they were, the re-
,orters next asked about silk stock
ngs. After they had been disabused
IN this point, the reporters were
startled when Mrs. Springer ex
,lained the limitations on yardage,
md trimmings, effective in the United
states.