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The union times., 1945-12-01
As We See It
 by THE STAFF
proposals.

-.- SWEARING President Roosevelt is the chief aim of the tories on the Pearl Harbor investigating commit tee. In their attempt to blacken the name and memory of this great American, these men have been forced to the point of defending the Japanese for their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The enemies of F.D.R. could not poison the minds and hearts of the American people against him while he lived, and they will not succeed now.
 WE are not publishing "dOpe" stories on the Labor Management Conference in Washington, largely because the conference has failed to produce any effective results. Let's hope something happens this week.
 THOSE Americans who would outlaw unions should read the in- dictment against the Nazis on the charge of destroying the German labor unions, which we print this week on Page l. As long as any country has bona 6de labor Organ- zatiOns, free to speak and act, democracy is safe. Let those Con- gressmen, both Democratic and Republican, who would shackle or- ganized labor, remember that if they succeed, they help to under mine our entire democratic system.
 CONN. State Building & Con- struction Trades Council executive board holds its monthly meeting Wednesday, Dec. 5, at II AM. at the New Haven Labor Temple. The building trades in this state are be- coming a strong, cohesive body for the first time in half a century. There's much more to be done, but splendid beginning has been made.
 OUR OWN JOE TONE will rep- resent Secretary of Labor Schwel- lenbach at the annual convention of the Mississippi Federation of Labor, to be held at Meridian be- ginning Dec. 3.
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1945-12-01
FireFighters In Stamford Flay NewAppoiintment
No. 786 Charges Board Ig- nored Seniority, Expe-
 rience, Examination

Showing once again that unions of city employees are. one of the best safeguards that citizens have in making certain that municipali- ties live up to high standards Ot service, the Stamford City Fire Fighters Association, No. 786, A. F. L., have gone on record against the last promotion in the Fire De- partment made by the Board of Public Safety, charging that senior ity, experience, ana the examlna- ton had been ignored i'm making the promotion.
 Following is the text of the resolu- tion adopted by Local No. 786, which is affiliated with the International As sociation of Fire Fighters:
 ''Be it Resolved: The City Fire Fighters Association, Local No. 786, A. F. L., representing over 95 percent of the members Of the City Fire Department wish to go on re- cord as being opposed to the last promotion in the Department made by the Board of Public Safe V.
 Tn this promotion our fight for promotions based on Seniority, Expe- rience and Examination has been completely ignored and has reduced the morale of the Department to its lowest level in its history.
 ''And Be it Further Resolved: : The Board of Public Safety shall in the future make all appoint ments and promotions on the basis of Seniority, Experience and Com petitive Examination and without regard to political affiliatiOn." ---- Cify Fire Fighters Association.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Interned Seamen
 Press Their Claim

SAN FRANCISCO-FP = The crew of the SS Pres. Harrison, re- fused subsistence allowance and war bonus by the American President Line for the time spent in Japanese internment in Shanghai since the day after Pearl Harbor, has sent a writ ten summary of its claims to the War Shipping Administration.
 The crewnen picketed the company offices here on their return on a hos pital ship until they were given $2OO each against future claims and back pay, according to the Sailors Union of the Pacific (AFL) contract with the company.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Signal Victory By
 Foreman's s Assn.

DETROIT - (FP) = The Fore mans Assn. of America won a sig nal victory last week when an impar- tial umpire held that the Ford Motor Co. must reinstate with back pay two foremen who were denoted in viola tion of the union agreement. The con- tract gave them plantwide seniority so long as they remained plantwide union representatives.
The union times., 1945-12-01
IA German Unions Recognized By US.

FRANKFURT. = Fourteen labor unions expected to represent the ma Jority of Frankfurt's working popula- tion have been granted permission to organize. the Military Governments s labor office announced yesterday.
 Union sponsors have been thor oughly screened and found to be non Nazi or actively anti-Nazi. Many have records of arrest for opposition to the Nazi party. Most of the spon- sors have been elected shop stewards in their respective plants.
The union times., 1945-12-01
Not One Complaint
 On New York FEPC

NEW YORK (LPA).-Since the state law against discrimination be- came effective on July 1, several in huential concerns here have volun- tarily hired Negroes for the first time. According to Henry C. Turner, of the State Commission Against Dis crimination, the Commission is asking for strengthening amendments. The Commission expected to be flooded with complaints" lie said, yet not one has been received from employers.
The union times., 1945-12-01
ARMY FILM DESTROYED

NEW YORK LPA)-The Work CTS Defense League announced here last week that its complaints on Riot Control" (Army film which unionists charged was training in strikebreaking) have been needed by the Army, and War Dept officials, in reply to enquiries, declared that not only had every print of the film been destroyed, but even every still pie ture.
The union times., 1945-12-01
.Feinmark Warns
 US. Employment
 Service Of Facts
Says Recruitment Program Will Fail Unless Decent
 Rates Are Paid

Declaring that if many Con necticut employers offer jobs at "sweatshop" wages, the recruit ment program of the USES. Tn the state would be largely fu- tile" Harold V. Feinmark, Sec retary-Treasurer of the Connec- ticut Federation of Labor in a letter to State Director William J. Fitzgerald proposed labor management co-operation> as a means of facilitating the solution of employment recruitment prob lernS.
 LIST WAGE SCALES
 Feinmark also proposed that the USES. should urge employers to mention in their advertisements tO be placed in conjunction with the U.S.E.S.'s positive recruitment program" wage rates for each job offered.
 We are cOnvinced,'' said the A. E. of L. leader, that the over number of workers who are jObIess at present are eager to accept employment for which thev are qualified at wages that will en- able them to support themselves and their families properly" but. he added, they would not accent 'ssWeatshODF wages.
 lie cited recent study of the U. s. Department of Labor and the Federal Security Agency which disclosed that most of the available jobs were at such low rates as to reduce earn ings about 50 per cent below those which formerly prevailed. and also from a report made public in Wash ington about two months ago regard ing job openings in New Haven, most ot which, he said, ranged between 40 and "A cents an hour. 4
 TEXT OF LETTER
 The letter to MT. Fitzgerald was as follows: MT, William J. Fitzgerald, State
 Director
 " United States Employment Service" "l2 Washington Street"
 Hartford 6, Connecticut"
 Dear MT. Fitzgerald:
 Newspapers have carried an an- nouncement by you of an effort under taken by USES. offices in the state to help employers obtain workers for vacant jobs. It is called a positive recruitment program and is to in- Volye the use of radio and newspaper advertising. As in previous announce ments, emphasis has been placed on the many jobs that are open and of the relatively few placements made through your office since the war ended.
 The USES, as I am sure vou appreciate, is maintained not onlv for the purpose of helping em. PAoyers find satisfactory workers but also of helping workers find suitable employment. Unfortunate. ly' many job openings are at low wage levels. You are familiar m doubt with the recent studv made in three typical cities of inc conn try by the U. s. Department of Labor and the Federal Security agency which disclosed that most ot the available jobs were at such low rates as to reduce earn;nus aDoue SO per cent below those which formerly prevailed.
 About two months ago, more- over, according to a report made public in Washington, of 2.7OO openings listed in New Haven, 400 were at 40 to 49 cents a Rour: '0OO at 50 to "A cents, and only
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The union times., 1945-12-01
GREEN SENDS WIRE

AFL President William Green wired Truman: ''As president of the American Federation of Labor l congratulate you on your vigor- Ous and forward looking message to the Congress on the subject of national health. The 5-point pro- gram contained therein is in com plete accord with the program initiated and supported by the American Federation of Labor. It meets the most urgent human needs of our nation and merits the support of all men of goodwill"
 Cries of "Yes it is" and "No it isn't" arose on the floors of Congress as legislators reacted to President Truman's blunt statement that "This is not socialized medicine" Opposi- tion was immediately expressed to the measure. by Republicans, including Sen. Robert Taft (Ohio), Rep. Charles Plumley (Vt.), and Harold Knutson (Minn.).
 Speaking for one of the groups that has pioneered in the field of organized group medical practices, Harry J. Becker of Group Health Association here said that his organizations prin- ciples Twill be advanced with the im- petus the Presidents message gives to health insurance and related public health and medical care programs to remove the economic barriers to a high quality of medical service for all the people,"
 Hearings on the measures are ex- pected in the Senate by the last half of January, 1946.
 WHY WE NEED IT
 Here are President Truman's arguments for new and vastly en- larged national program to im- prove the health of every man, woman and child in the United States.
 He says: Millions of our citizens do not have a full opportunity to achieve or enjoy good health; mill lions do not have protection against the economic effects of sickness. Even prewar, there were 3l coun- ties in the United States each with more than 1000 inhabitants in which there were no practicing physicians. About 1900 counties, with some Is million inhabitants have either no local hospital or none that meets even the minimum standards of national professional associations.
 Selective Service had to reject five million young men, or one third of those examined An additional three million had to be discharged or re- habilitated.
 In his message, the President re- views the main problems and needs, and he submits a fve-point program for legislative action.
 RIGHT TO THE POINT
 Recommendation I. Construction of hospitaH and related facilities. Federal aid should be provided for construction of hospitals, health centers and other facilities where they are needed. These are essen-
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The union times., 1945-12-01

THE Grace Lines, in huge ads, announce they're about to start a big fleet of tourist ships to all parts of the western hemisphere.
 There's a bunch of CI tourists in Europe and the Pacific who'd be happy to make the tour.
The union times., 1945-12-01

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The union times., 1945-12-01
RIGHT TO THE POINT

RecOnrnaztdatiO I. Construction of hospitaD and related facilities. Federal aid should be provided for construction of hospitals, health centers and other facilities where they are needed. These are essen.
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Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE BLITZ THAT FAILED

A T THAT point the Germans switched almost ex- clusively to night bombing But they kept com- ing in even greater numbers-and their targets were greatly widened
 The civilians took it. A million went underground to sleep in subway stations and stairways. They emerged in daylight to dig out the dead and watch flames roaring through the streets. For days end the skies were black with smoke above London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool Manchester, Shef- field and scores of other places Winston Churchill, chin thrust forward and eyes blazing with anger, stepped among the ruins and made w" sign with his fingers.
 Despite their losses the British could see progress. RA.F bombers were going over Germany and even Italy, striking key industrial targets in the Ruhr, Berlin Mannheim, Bremen, DanZig, Turin Milan and Genoa. Day after day they pounded the ports where invasion barges were massng. Roosevelt gave 50 old American destroyers to reinforce the hard pressed British Navy in return for U S. leases bases like Newfoundland, Bermuda and Trinidad in the western hemisphere
 The air bltz intensified it's fury On November IA 800 Nazi planes converged on Coventry, north west of London They blasted motor factories along with churches hospitals and schoos-and left the city virtually in ruins power shovel dug trench to bury 200 dead in one grave On December 29 record lncendiary attack was made on London. It wrecked square mile area In the city proper, including many landmarks, and started the greatest fire the city had known since the blaze of 1866
 But the British stood to their guns. new device radar-which could seek out the presence of objects even through clouds warned of approaching planes, and the R.A.F. continued to exact toll
 The Germans made mistake in all this, and usual it honey They bombed in attempt to break Britain's morale, as much as to break her industrial system. The morale didn't break; her in- dustrial system might have done had it been subjected to sufficiently concentrated attack.
 Finally in the spring of 1941, the attacks abated Bullet-riddled German invasion boats lay awash along the French and the bodies of Naz troops trained to sail against England hoated in the channel
 The British lost 42950 civilians killed in the blitz Churchill toasted the RAE: 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
 Britain was still alone But Britain was still free
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
HITLER FACES EAST

WHEN the Germans and Russians signed
 w friendship treaty in 1889, veteran studt Europe wondered how long the match woul In "Mein Kampf' Hitler made it plain that garded the Bolsheviks" as Germany's Numb enemy, and almost as inbred in Germans goose-step was the desire to get their hands lush grain lands of the Ukraine In l940 ther periodic rumors-not taken seriously-of minent conflict between the two powers But spring of l941 reports began to multiply that was massing great numbers of troops alo
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE BALKANS GET IN IT

HITLER had won great deal in the West mo, by rattling his sword. Then he turned to East and rattled. Some of the Balkans liked sound.
 In Romania, uprisings of the fascist Iron Gu made the regime of King Carol II so precar that he fled the country with his morganatic W Madame LupeScu, on September G. 1940 and the throne to his son Michael But actually Iron Guard and General Ion Antonescu took power, and as soon as Carol left more Ger troops moved in.
 Hungary moved into the Axis camp. and F garia headed that way too.
 Mussollni thought he had bought off Gree generals and could occupy that country easily October 26 the official Italian news agency char band of armed Greeks had invaded Alba Greece denied the charge. The next night Musso sent an ultimatum demanding the right to occ strategic Greek bases for the wars duration. e. Premier Metaxas rejected it.
 Il Duce sent his warplanes over the Italian der and into Greece. The invaded country only about l50,000 troops and puny navy. Mussolini discovered the generals were not bon
 Holing up in their mountains the Greeks off the invaders and by the end of month chased them all off Grecan soil The British in planes and from coastal bases the RAF. bon southern Italian cities.
 The Greeks kept moving right into Albania Hitler, who had not been advised of Il Duce's clan plans, let his ally stew.
 III CSUl ud1y, 1St1, U6I T uGIlr6T CndQSeQ ms and put the heat Yugoslavia, demanding sage for his troops through that country to Gl and other concessions that would pull the slavs firmly into the Axis, The Yugoslav ca got ready to accept Then undercover resist grew so great that 17-year- old King Peter II the government and formed an anti cabinet. friendship pact was signed with Rl
 Hitlers troops marched into Yugoslavia Bulgaria on April G. In three days they broke g the Vardar Valley, cut the links between c and Yugoslovia, and were at the Aegean Sea.
 The British forces which had come up Africa, tried to stand at Thermopylae. It was less. Nazi tanks rolled through the streets cient Athens on April 27. By then Yugoslavi fallen under, and King Peter and his cabine fled
 Hitler next pulled trick out of the He sent paratroopers floating down over tainous, jagged Crete on May 20. Some of tf vaders wore British and New Zealand battle
 Ten days later the chagrined British admitt loss of the island.
 The swastika now flew from the top of N to the Black Sea. It flew over an empire g than Napoleon's, greater than the Caesars, than Charlemagne's
 But this empire still was not great enoui Hitler.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

Congress to appropriate additional billion dol lars for defense. A vast expansion program to pro vide "two-oceap navy" under way, and in June conscription bills introduced in the Sen ate and House. But itself seemed remote from the United States in mid-1940 as the country pre- pared to elect President
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

THE BRITISH were alone. From the coasts of their tight little isle they could see only Axis nations or Axis sympathizers, Axis-occupied countries jittery neutras fearing to offend the swaggering Reich.
 T have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat" Winston Churchill had told them when he
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-20
Parents, Teachers
Enjoy Garden Show

A large group Of visitors and
members OF the Spencer Parent
Teachers Association viewed the
fine exhibit Of Flowers and vegeta-
bles at the Spencer School We'd
nesday evening, Prize winners for
the regular vegetable exhibit from
first and second grades were SUI
anne Holloway, first; Frederick
Williams. second: Florence Shep-
herd, third. Novelty vegetables,
Jerry and David Eaton. first;
James Wood, second; Rose Mary
Scherdt, third; Bonny Coleman,
fourth; third and fourth grade.
regular vegetables; Sandra Wor-
rail-, first; Janice Smith, second;
novelty. jeanette Gambler. first;
Glen Bueschlein, second; Roberta
Barber, third; Elmer Scherdy,
Fourth; fifth and sixth grade, nov
city vegetables, Theodore Johnson.
first; George Montague. second.
Flowers, Shirley Holloway.
The prizes awarded were given
BY the Parent Teachers Associa-
ton.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-20
Calendar Of Social Events
EASTER War Time)
TODAY

Queen City Tent Hive Of Maccabess. 1880. GAR Hall
Leader Class Methodist Church. o'clock with Mrs George Ross
Junior Chamber Auxiliary dinner meeting $780, at
Mrs. A. s. Mfords cottage, Portage Lake.
Circle Baptist Womens Union o'clock with Mrs Ralph
Kimmel
Ypsanu Commandery Templar special
muncAton, 7:So, full form opening. Masonic Temple lodge
Presbyterian wOmens Union number o'clock with
Mrs Ronald Missy five with Miss Doris Jean Tef
two. cooperative luncheon. o'clock with Mrs William
Winter
Ypsianu Lodge number 54s LooF o'clock odd Fellow
ST. Luke Auxiliary Guild sewing 10 80 luncheon 2M St Luke
Church House.
B. o'clock home Mrs. Gardner Huelett
Naomi OF Womans Society OF Christian Service 745 at
Church House.
Queen City knights OF Pyths card
o'clock, Castle Hall
Wahtenaw Women Ladies Day Washenaw Country Club
Prospect Child Study Club Mrs Margaret OConne
304 East Forest Ave, s o'clock.
League Of Catholic Womens fall meeting at home OF Mrs
pert Miller. $3.50 Bemis Rd. 1880 p m.
FRIDAY
Willing Workers circle of Kings Daughters o'clock with Mrs
Fred Spencer
Foreign Auxiliary dinner Sla
dinner from $3.50 to 700
Carpenter Womens birthday luncheon 10 go bus
ness meeting, o'clock. GAR Hall
Daughters OF the Revolution 1880 OF Mrs
Seamans speaker "old Traveller"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-20
REBEkAHS
CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY

Washtenaw Rebekahs celebrated
their 9Srd anniversary at their reg
ular meeting, Wednesday evening
In Odd Fellow Hall. Visitors from
Ann Arbor and Dearborn Lodges
we're present and introduced. Mrs.
Pearl Raymond gave an interesting
account OF the lodges activities
and a brief history OF the organ
ization, closing with a poem en-
titled when VIII oddfellowship
DIE"
Announcement was made OF the
Officers Club meeting TO be with
Mrs. Donald Lowell. Sept. 81 IN
stead OF Sept. &c. Mrs. Jay Cazier
will open her home for a benefit
party, Sept. 80. Mrs. George Schanz
was selected delegate to Grand
Lodge.
After the meeting. refreshments
OF ice cream, cake and coffee were
served.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-09-20
Along the Street

Mrs. Margaret Greenfield, Clark's
Shoppe, has been of work this
week because of illness.
Congdon's Hardware, ia Pearl
St.. have Clauss Shears In all sizes.
adv.
Raymond Zielinski, former assist.
ant manager OF the Cunningham's
Drug Store, will graduate from a
school OF osteopathy in Chicago,
ILL.,. September %.
Matt Lappinen, Ypsilanu Fish
Market, has returned from q FISH
ing trip in the area Of Lewiston
and Atlanta.
Mrs. NJ. E. Bowden, White Swan
Laundry. has been OF work be-
cause OF illness.
Mrs. Betty Barker is the new
member OF the Office staff in the
AAA headquarters.
Mrs. Alice Boornbos, Ypsilant
Gas and Water Department. is vaca
tioning for two weeks in Chicago
I'll. She is accompanied by hel
husband, Patrolman Doornbos
OF the Ypsilanti Police Department
Jack Willoughby. Willoughby's
Shoe Store. has returned from a
business trip to st. Louis, Mo.
Mrs. Zula Speers. Gauss Bakery
is expecting her sons Pvt. Hugh
Speers and Roy Speers, home, from
a weeks stay in New York City
Pvt. Speers returns to Camp Grant
III.
Best variety and quality fish. Ups
Fish Market, 100 w. Mich.-adv