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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24

souri,, and by golly, we like you even
better as President of the United
States. But when you bless pay boost
for $4,000 a year Congressman even
though they deserve it, and close your
eyes to the problems Of millions of
American toilers who are rearing and
educating families on so, go. and rs
cents an hour, doggone it, as much as
we like you, we're going to have to
protest that you're not seeing things
as straight as we thought you would.
The Little Steel Formula must be
given some elasticity, Mr.. President.
Working people just can't live, pay
high prices for food and high taxes for
victory on wages based upon level es-
tablished in 1941. If you favor increas-
ing the salaries of $4,000 year Con-
gressmen and do not also favor in
creasing the pay of the working peo-
pie of the nation, then we can only
conclude that you have stored away
the New Deal of Franklin D. Roose-
velt and are shuffling an old deal
that you told US you never liked.
How about it, Mr.. President?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
War Dept. Praises AFL
Unions for Work Miracle

Washington, D. C.-The mighty
atomic bomb ended the war in short
order. This was admitted by Emperor
Hirohito in a radio talk to the Japan
ese people. His admission was great
tribute to the American Federation of
Labor and eighteen of its building
and metal trades unions which the
War Department credited officially
for it's record breaking achievements
in getting the atomic bombs produc-
ed.
The War Department issued two
news releases on the subject headed
Labor Plays Vital Role in Secret
Bomb Project" and "Stimson and Pat
terson Acclaim Labor's Contribution
in Developing Atomic Bomb"
The only labor unions mentioned in
the releases were those affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
officially congratulated the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and it's mem
bers who helped to make the atomic
bomb project such success.
He described how AFL unions had
recruited skilled workers from every
part of the country and shipped them
to the project sites in Tennessee and
Washington.
'In many instances" the War De-
partment said in acknowledgment OF
the AFL's aid, "the trade union lead
ers broke down conditions of long
standing so that the work might be
completed on schedule"
AFL Secretary Treasurer George
Meany in a radio talk on the AFL's
Labor USA program, declared the
AFL workers on the atomic bomb pro
jects had performed "a miracle Of
hard work, without which the formulas
and blueprints of the scientists coule
never have been transformed int
bombs" This work, he said, was done
on the largest scale in history, botl
in construction and production.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Potsdam meeting of the Big Three as
a breeder Of war and encouragement
of Russian totalitarianism. The COM
munique on the meeting, the council
declared, was great disappointment
to millions who had hoped it would lay
the basis for real peace in Europe.
Describing the Big Three meetings
as monuments to "autocratic secret
diplomacy" the council said the COM
munique was a eliminating point in
a process of power politics which
leaves the major part of Europe hag-
ridden with hunger and hate and at the
mercy of the only remaining great
power on the European continent, the
U. S. S. R.; it gives undeniable eco
nomic and military control over Eu-
rope to Stalin."
Granting of German territory to
Poland will not compensate the Poles
for what Polish territory Russia has
taken land on the other hand sets up
"a German plague spot and an eternal
feud with Poland" the council said.
The United Nations Charter is not a
perfect document. But at least it is a
good, practical, workmanlike plan for
peace-a very real and substantial ad-
vance on all previous plans for secur-
ity against war. 1t provides for a peace
| with teeth; for a unified front of
peace-loving peoples against future
aggressors; for united front among
the great powers, backed by the forces
of the smaller powers as well. 1t is
for our peace-loving peoples to see
that this great plan is backed with all
their energy, all their heart and soul.
Unless the spirit to operate it is there,
the best plan or machine may fail. The
human factor must play it's part. War
today is total. Similarly, defense
should draft and conscript and organ
ize all the resources of the human
spirit behind security against war
Field Marshal Smuts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24

ated with the American Federation of
Labor are hereby instructed to set
up special committees to aid veterans
to obtain jobs.
2-All affiliated national and inter-
national unions are urged to seek
agreements with employers providing
for training and employment of vet
Grams ON a fair and equitable basis.
3-In order not to penalize veterans
for the time they spent in the ma
tion's service, it shall be the policy
of the American Federation of Labor
to grant them accumulated seniority,
just as though they had remained
continuously in their former jobs.
4-The American Federation of La
Dor will support legislation to accord
veterans full opportunities for educa-
tion and training, to assist them to
buy homes or to start in business and
to provide them with the highest prac-
tical standards of unemployment COM
pensation.
"America will welcome the return
ing veterans with open arms and a
deep sense of obligation. Labor pro-
duced the weapons of war. The boys
who are to return won the war with
those weapons. They and we must win
the peace together.
sOTbo c+olxuor+ opd Golf ro1iopt MON
who fought against the enemy want
no special favors. All they ask and eA-
pect is an even break and the opportun-
ity to make up for lost time. Labor
is determined that they shall have
it."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
WHAT NEXT?

Electrocoaters may displace weav-
ers in producing postwar fabrics, as
the result of a process developed by
the General Electric Co., it is report
ed from Schenectady, N. Y. The COM
pany said that cloth fibers sent
through an electrostatic field become
charged, stand on end and are hurled
perpendicularly against an adhesive
coated backing" fabric. The result is
a new fabric, said to have much great
er durability than woven goods.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
Denied Wage Increace,
Sugar Workers Strike

'se" ork City (ILNS).-Protest-
ing the denial by the War Labor Board
of general wage increase of 25 cents
On hour, 1900 workers in one molasses
and three sugar refineries in New
York and Yonkers went out on strike
Aug. Is.
The workers, who are members OF
the Sugar Refinery Branch, Local 1476
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation, struck against the American
Sugar Refining Company, Brooklyn;
the American Molasses Company, and
it's subsidiary, the Sucrest Corporation
Brooklyn, and the Refined Syrups and
Sugars, Inc, Yonkers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
AFL Painter Wounded
By Jap Buzz Bomb

San Francisco-Three quarters of
a mile from Naha, capital city of
Okinawa, Pfc. Louis Litman, member
of the Painters and Decorators Union,
AFL, Local 261, New York, was hit
by japanese "buzz" bomb while
scaling an S0-foot bluff to assault Jap
defenders of Coral Table Mountain.
"They drove us off three times"
Litman related in an interview at
Letterman General Hospital here,
where he was flown by ambulance
plane to recover from wounds re-
ceived in the battle. eve stayed the
fourth trip. At least the rest of them
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
AFL Takes Steps To
Assist Veterans Get Fair
Break When They Return

Chicago-The American Federation
Of Labor adopted APPOINT program
by which organized labor can aid war
veterans and at the same time called
upon the government to halt further
inductions into the armed forces and
bring the boys in uniform back home
from overseas promptly.
After careful consideration, the
AFL Executive Council decided that
the following steps by labor would
help service men get the fair break
they want and deserve:
ALI central labor councils affili-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
HOW ABOUT IT, MR.. PRESIDENT

(From the Butcher Workman)
United States Congressman and
Senator'S are terribly overworked.
They are also terribly under-paid. They
have decided amongst themselves that
they not only must have an increase
in salary but must also have an in
crease in expense allowance. We are
for them.
But, believe US, our Washington
solons have a system, and coupled
with it, the best union in the world.
All they have to do is to vote for the
increase themselves, and pronto, the
increase goes into effect. No Forms 10
to be filed; no War Labor Board to
disapprove; and no Little Steel Formu-
la to follow. President Truman has
given his blessing to the proposed
increase of salaries and expenses for
the statesmen that we little folks send
to Washington.
Now see here, President Truman.
We liked you as Senator from Mis-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24

Although it would still be prema-
ture in the present situation to speak
of revival of independent democratic
trade unions in Germany, nevertheless
the first modest steps towards this are
already apparent, the international
Federation Of Trade Unions says.
The federation points out that the
first announcement of the founding of
local trade union group in Germany
came as early as March from Aachen.
In Alsdorf and Stolberg shortly after
wards the first miners organizations
appeared. In many mines of the neigh
boring coal district there are pit COM
mittees which function as the repre-
sentatives of the industrial interests of
the miners. The founding of further
local bodies for the metal workers,
dockers and building workers in re-
ported from Hamburg, Bremen, Co.
logne, Frankfurt and Munich. The
first regional amalgamation took place
in the Brunswick district, where the
old ADGB district federation has been
revived
Everywhere the view seems to be
unanimous that the former splitting
up of the movement must not happen
again and that there can only be one
German trade union federation. In
many cases the local officials are at
the same time holders of office in
local administration. In some places
efforts have also been made to draw
up trade union and social emergency
programs. All these new bodies have
come into existence with the approval
of the occupying authorities. On their
further advancement and co-ordina-
tion will depend not only the tempo
and scale of reconstruction, but also
the order of economic and social life,
the IFTU comments.
The Postwar World Council, whose
chairman is Norman Thomas has
condemned the agreement made at
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
WISDOM

Let the bugles sound the Truce OF
God to the whole world forever
Charles Sumner.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24

Pressman's Home, Tenn, Aug. 23.-
Continuing to add to their already
tremendous total of War Bond invest
ments, the International Printing
Pressmen and Assistants Union of
North America have purchased $4S2,-
356.43 in bonds in the past month, ac-
cording to the recent report of Joseph
C. Orr, the Unions secretary treas
urer. The total investments of the
union are now $8,960,805.36.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-08-24
Bartenders, Pressmen
Buy War Bonds

Joliet, ILL.,, Aug. 23.-Selling War
Bonds for the Seventh War Loan drive
amounting to almost 13 per cent of
the total Wills County quota, Local
TIA, Bartenders, Hotel and Restau-
rant Union-AFL, reached record
breaking total for the county of $S01,-
$50. The local has participated in all
past drives with a high degree of sue
cess. Dennis Kelly, Business Repre-
sentative of the local was War Bond
Chairman of the drive.
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The Postwar World Council, whose
chairman is Norman Thomas has
condemned the agreement made at
Laurel outlook., 1945-05-30

The Style ShOppe
Sande Drug Co.
Electric Shoe Shop
Lloyd's Photo Shop
Sawyer Stores, Inc.
Palace Bar
Barney & Hartley Market
Laurel Bar
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Yellowstone Dairy
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Bice Truck Lines
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Gas Coop.
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Hiway Apartments
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Gardner Drug Co.
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Sticks Inn
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Laurel Creamery
Laurel Trading Co.
Chapman Pharmacy
c. L. Galloway, Jeweler
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The Pastime
The Yellowstone Bank
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Chuck Wagon Cafe
Sherrow's Litening Service Static
ROysdon Furniture Store
Thompson Yards, Inc.
Gibson Service Station
Ted's Drive-In Market
TaylOr's Barber & Beauty Shop
Frank Miller Blacksmith Shop
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and to and hear Larry Smith who will be the stage
what he and knew of Japan during his residence there
This is your opportunity and hear him in person.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
cop;hoI alk
by
Peter on

developing at the ends of line,
but not to traffic developing along
the route. The U. S. delegation.
keeping its, shirt, refused to bulge
from it's position that there should
be oscillation of frequencies as traf-
fic developed at intermediate as we'll
as at terminal points. This became
known as the fifth freedom.
The conference was deadlocked on
this point for two weeks and COM
promised by the decision to let those
countries which wished to do so
withhold their acceptances OF the
fifth freedom while accepting the
first two. Third and fourth free
doms, tying in with the fifth, would
permit unloading and loading OF
passengers and freight from or in
the planes home nation.
What the United States did give
up was the right for other nations
to fly over Alaska and Hawaii.
These rights we're given up in ex-
change for the rights to fly over
Canada and the United Kingdom
en- route to other countries, which
rights the United States did not
have. The United States therefore
gives UP its rights in the Pacific
in exchange for rights in the At
lantic. In justification of this swap
it is held that: first, the bulk of
the business will be over the Allan
tic. SO the United States stands to
gain more than it loses; second,
that the logical route for the British
in operating to Australia is by way
of Europe, the Middle East and In
dia-not across America and the
Pacific-so the u. S. has nothing
to lose by permitting the British to
use the Pacific route if they choose
to do so, and could not prevent the
British from flying overland to Aus
tralia even if Hawaiian rights had
been withheld.
NET GAIN FOR U. S.
The net result of the interim and
permanent conventions proposed at
Chicago is that the United States
can now start to do business with
any country that accepts the fifth
freedom document. With other ma
tions, it will still be able to conduct
negotiations for bilateral agree
ments, which it could have done
anyway, so there is no loss there
and considerable gain.
Perhaps the best appraisal to put
upon the achievements at Chicago
Is to judge them as temporary
expedient which gets us going. The
results can be measured best after
they have been put into effect
There is protection in that the
United States can cancel any single
provision on. six months notice OF
cancel 1t al on years notice d
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11

u. S. department of state and
other executive agency technical ex-
perts and delegates to the Chicago
Civil Aviation Conference have re-
turned to Washington prepared to
defend their work to the limit, re-
gardless of whether criticism comes
from congressional or private COM
mercial aviation interests. In direct
contradiction to the idea that the
U. S. lost its flying shirt at Chicago,
they claim that Adolf Berle did a
great job for his country, that the
United States gave up little of value
and gained a lot of rights 1t did
not have before.
Chief of the victories claimed for
u. S. Aviation are the rights to fly
across any country and to land in
any country for refueling and repair.
These are the so-called first and
second freedoms of the air.
Where the United States kept its
shirt, it is claimed, was in refusing
to give in to British and Canadian
demands that postwar commercial
aviation be controlled by an Inter-
national Aeronautics Board which
would have had the absolute regu-
latory power to assign routes and
determine frequencies of flight.
The U. S. delegation view on this
point was that international flying
should be on an unlimited fire.
uuency basis, the number OF sched-
ules being determined only by the
amount of traffic there is to carry
The British idea was restrictive and
would have resulted in a lot OF
uneconomic flying. The U. S. idea
was expansive, to prevent planes
having to fly with empty seats OF
cargo space if passengers or freight
are available to haul.
"ESCALATION"S SUPPORTED
On this issue there arose the con-
troversy over a so-called "escalatol
clause" which would permit inter-
national airlines to increase theil
capacity to carry traffic as it wai
offered. The British were willing
to permit this to apply to traffic
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
Labor Supports
Health Plans

SACRAMENTO. Jan. IL. tUP)-
9. j. Haggerty, San Francisco, sec
retary of the California Federation
Of Labor, Thursday saic labor gen
orally" would support Governor Ear
Warren's compulsory health insur-
ance program.
Haggerty described Warren as
the peoples governor" in speech
before the Sacramento Federated
Trades Council. He said he die not
expect the legislature to have any
serious anti-labor discussions.
The council went on record favor
ing the appointment of Frank j
Burke CT San Francisco as a men,
Der CT the state industrial accident
commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
BowIes Defends
Cattle CeiIinu
tContinued from Page u

ADOAAtAAAdCd AA0lAA EdEG Il
ton into executive orders regarding
the livestock industry.
CITES BENEFITS
Here's how Bowles said each
group would fare:
The housewife will be protected
from over-ceiling prices and will be
enabled TO obtain reasonable shares
OF all grades of beef"
The retailer and wholesaler will
be helped in obtaining their right
ful shares Of all grades of beef at
prices that will allow them to sell
profitably at ceiling prices.
Packers and slaughterers will be
protected from activities of the
small group of unScIupulous oper-
ators through a legal ban on any
slaughterer's buying cattle at high
er prices than permitted" an6 will
be enabled to realize fair and equit-
able returns on sales of meat at
established ceiling prices"
FEEDERS SHARE
Cattle feeders, who buy cattle to
fatten for the market, will be pro-
tected by specific provision of the
directive calling for an overriding
ceiling of SIS per hundred pounds
live weight at Chicago until July
2. 1t is expected that these feeders
will have sold their cattle by that
date. after which the ceiling be-
comes $3.50.
Cattle raisers will be protected
by the fact that the increase in the
subsidy and in maximum prices for
the two top grades not only in
creases the level Of prices slaughter
ers can afforc to pay but also will
help to sustain the average level
of prices for all CATTLE"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
Watermelon Men
Draft Protest
Plans on Prices

Watermelon growers Wednesday
selected a committee to draw up
formal protest to the ceiling prices
set by the Office of Price Admins
traticn to cover the season this
year.
w. c. Wilkinson of Calipatria,
Sam Davidian of Ell Centre, William
Jones of Westmorland, Paul Pro-
calamos of Calexico and Paul Gill
lett of Ell Centro, are on the COM
mittee.
The OPA ceiling fer covered or
early melons was set at $34 ton
up to June 9 and at $23 ton after
that At meeting in Ell Centre
Wednesday the growers declared
they could not grow, harvest and
chip the melons for that amount
of money
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
CARE OF PATIENTS

Senator Nelson S. Dilworth, (R),
Hemet, who authored the service Of
ficers bill, also introduced legisla-
ton increasing from So to 81 a week
the per capita amount the state pays
to counties for the care of tuber-
culoSis bed patients.
Senator Earl D. Desmond, tD),
Sacramento, introduced a bill pro-
viding for the establishment of a
school of food canning and process
ing on the Davis campus of the
University of California at a cost
of S5O0,O0O.
A bill by Senator Ed Fletcher, (RD
San Diego, would permit persons
subject to the state income tax to
carry over business losses from the
preceding year in computing their
returns.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
20-30 Club Sets
Roll Campaign

Plans for a membership drive
were made at the meeting of the 90
80 Club Wednesday night at the
California hotel. Anyone between
the ages of 20 and 80 who is inter-
ested in joining may see Ed Atkins,
president, or one of the members,
it was announced.
Atkins, as vice-president, sue
ceeded John Dubois Jr., who re-
ports for army duty Wednesday, as
the new president.
Rudolph Miller will be the speaker
at the meeting next Wednesday at
7:30 D. m. in the California Hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
COAST SHIPYARD DISPUTE
is CERTIFIED TO WLB

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. CJP)-
Secretary of Labor frances Perkins
THURSDAY certified to the War La
Dor Board a dispute between the
Todd Shipyari Corp, San Pedro,
Calf, and l53 employees represent
ed by the Federation CT Architects
CCIC). The issues were listed as
union security, pay for holidays not
worked, seniority and grievance pro-
ceiure.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
INCOME TAX FILING
DEADIINE NEARS

James Marable, internal revenue
collector, in reminding income tax
payers that Monday is ceadline for
filing required returns, announces
that his office will be open all Of
Saturday and that clerical help will
ce on hand to assist in filings.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
BRITISH GENE...L KILLED

LONDON, Jan. II. (UP)-The war
office announced today that Brit
ish Lieutenant General Sir Herbert
Lumsden was killed by enemy air
action January 9, on the bridge of
United States warShip in the
Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11

America has literally built tankers
by the mile. Lined up end to end on
the Hudson river, new American
tankers built since Pearl Harbor
would reach to Peewskill, over 40
miles. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-11
State Senate Gets
House.Passed
$50 Pension Bill
Continued from Page d

purchasing a small business and
would allow the veterans board to
contract with counties for employ
ment of service officers on the lines
of cost-sharing contracts now avail
able to veterans organizations.
The first proposal was introduced
by Senator Byrl R. Salsman. (RD
Palo Alto, who said that under its
terms the state veterans welfare
board would lend the money at four
per cent interest.