The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-04-20


American Labor Editors
Write Forward to New MIRA
Booklet, March OF An Idea
Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Mil
lions of men and women today are
anxiously looking for a world that
works after the war is won. This
time all we have fought for, worked
for and longed for must come true. }"
With these opening words in their
forward to The March of an Idea, the
colorful new pamphlet describing the
worldwide advance of Moral Re-Arm-
ament, editors of American and Can
adian labor papers and international
union journals voice the feelings of
the great mass of American workers
about the postwar world.
Fred Hewitt, Machinists' Monthly
Journal, Washington, D. c.; Thomas
R. Downe, Brotherhood of Mainten-
ance of Way Employees Journal, De-
troit; Oliver E. Carruth, International
Labor News Service, Washington, D.
c.; Lewis M. Hermann, New Jersey
Labor Herald, N. j.; George j. Sim
mons, Progressive Labor World Phil
adelphia; Harry F. Petty, Kentucky
Labor News, Louisville; D. W. Harter,
United Labor News, Canton, Ohio;
Freeman M. Saltus, Maine State La
Dor News; Norman S. Dowd, The Can
adian Unionist, Ottawa; Paul M. Coss,
Los Angeles Citizen; Harry l.. Gill.
Potters' Herald, East Liverpool, Ohio,
are among the labor editors who in
troduce The March of an Idea to the
nation.
War Service of MIRA
''ro build that new world" they con-
tinue, Twill take the same faith, cour
age and sacrifice that we are fighting
with on the battle front and breaking
all records with on the production
front,
LEADERS of American and world
labor are fighting in this battle for
the moral re-armament of the ma
tions. AS editors of labor papers,
we are happy to introduce this timely
article reviewing the war service of
MIRA and how it is contributing to the
kind of postwar world that every
worker wants to see
Between its attractive red, and
black covers, this handy pocket-size
booklet carries pictures, stories and
news from many countries of MRA's
work in strengthening the democra
cies and inspiring resistance in Nazi-
occupied countries
labor unity being built on the sure
foundation of moral standards and
caring for one another, in place of
the false and shallow unity paraded
by forces who appear to fight for
the rights of workers but whose real
aim. the booklet declares, is to use
labor to get control for their own
ends,
Labor Leaders Pictured
Pictures of President William Green
and Philip Murray of the AFL and
CIO; Walter Nash, now Finance Min
lister of New Zealand's labor govern
ment and chairman of the 1914 lLO
Conference; and Lockheed stop ste
wards with P-38 pilot, appear in the
pages of The March of an Idea. John
R. Steelman's evaluation of MRA's
essential part in labor management
teamwork is given in full,
President Carl j. Hambro of the
Norwegian Parliament is pictured with
Frank Buchanan, founder of MIRA
whose work, he says, went beyond
any expectations" Hambro attrib-
utes much of Norway's heroic and sue
cessful resistance to the unity brought
to his country by MIRA. The back
cover of the booklet consists of red
and black montage of official pro-
grams of the conventions of the AFL,
Canadian Congress of Labor, United
Steel Workers of America, The Trades
and Labor Congress Of Canada and
other unions and labor-management
committees that have presented the
MIRA program to their officers and
thousands of union members and their
families,