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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
Million Dollar
Cutter Opens
Path Thru Ice
ABROAD THE U.S.S. MACK

ABROAD THE U.S.S. MACK
NAV OFF MACKINAC is
LAND, Mich, Jan. g. up -
Windrowed ice in the straits of
Mackinaw last night temporarily
stalled the historic midwinter
convoy Of three u. S. Maritime
cargo vessels about a mile off
Mackinaw Island, but with the
powerful aid of this new Sl0,-
100000 Coast Guard ice cutter
the Great Lakes 10 gulf voyage
resumed.
Chunks of ice u TO Is inches
thick which had been piled up
by the wind in the lee of Mack
mac Island halted the progress
Of the cargo ships Hidalgo and
William l.. Nelson. The PENIS
colt and a second ice breaker,
Sundew, had tailed the Mack
NAV about rs miles from Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, during sun
lit day.
The Pemiscott, following close
behind the MacklnaW, escaped
imprisonment in the ice floeS
but it had 20 heave 10 for nearly
an hour while the 10000 horse
power ice breaker returned to
aid the two cargo ships and Sun
dew laying dead in the straits.
When new channel had been
broken for the trio, the south
ward voyage toward the open
water of Lake Michigan was re-
sumed. Commander K. j. Roland
of the MackinaW estimated the
convoy would be out of the ice
field Tuesday morning.
Thereafter the cargo vessels,
which left Superior Saturday,
will continue toward Chicago
and the MackinaW Will go to
Bay City, Mich, to free a Naval
vessel from that ice locked har-
Dor. Although moderate, clear
weather prevailed during the
day the weather forecast for this
area was for wind of upward OF
As miles and hour and temper
AZURE Of 10 degrees below zero.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
BY ENSIGN JOHN H. HARDWOOD, U.s.N.R

There statue of Napoleon in the principal waterfront square
the famed soldier looks out
may we'll be gowering yet surprised
expression his face for he gazing important part OF
of historys most successful military operations
they scued out of Cherbourg after first
blowing harbor installations to smthereens probably
the = time the irony of leaving
Napoleon Hitler might just we'll be riding that horse
parallels that of the French Both set
conquer world both defeated in Russia and both
failed in a cross-channel operation.
MEETS LITTLE CORPORAL
made acquaintance of Napoleon few weeks when
the Liberty ship which make the pokcd
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09

her way through the naTDor
ruins to bring another load of
the stuff making up the funeral
arrangements for Hitler and his
gang. The activity was a sur
prise to me and it must be even
wyaxe astounding TO the Nazis
some 400 miles to the east as
their spies bring back tales of
the mountainous quantities of
supplies which are pouring in at
this most important port in AL
lied hands on the English chan
mel" to use the words of Col.
James A. Crothers, harbor
commander for the Army.
Until the recent great German
counter offensive, the enemy has
limited his retaliation to launch
ing robot bombs and rocket
bombs at England. I have seen
the former and heard the lat
ter, and while they are not COM
Portable things to have around,
they have so far done little
military damage, according to
the English. authorities.
MASSED TRAFFIC
Cherbourg reminded me of
Broadway and 42nd street in
sofar as hustle and traffic is
concerned: but in regard to the
mud - it's more like Uncle
Timothy's cornfield after
spring thaw. To try and carry
on a conversation is almost USE
less as you slosh along on Cher
bourg's narrow sidewalks for the
huge trucks going by in an end
less procession make a terrific
roar, and meanwhile you are
busy trying to maintain foot
ing and to avoid the mud splat-
tered about by the spinning
wheels. German prisoners, many
of whom are not Germans but
come from the Balkans and even
Mongolia, seem a bit dazed by it
all as they repair roads, put up
buildings and help unload ships.
The trucks feed the supply
dumps which are the termini of
The famed Red Ball express high
way, on which some 5000 trucks
roll day and night bringing sup
plies to the front. Two roads
are used - one east and one
west, and only vehicles with the
red ball on their Windshields
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
Power-Steerinq
Seen as Boon
to Big Trucks
BY DAVID J. WILKIE

DETROIT, Jan. 8 - (P) -
The peacetime use of power
steering and multiple plants in
heavy vehicles was predicted at
the annual meeting of the society
of automotive engineers here
today.
Francis w. Davis. consulting
engineers of Waltham, Mass,
told the truck and bus session
that the increasing number and
variety of large heavy duty
motor vehicles having front
axle loads makes manual steer
ing impractical. Power steering.
he said, promises TO provide ease
of control and reduction in driv-
ing hazards, making larger gross
carrying capacity, dual front
wheels and tandem front driving
axles available for commercial
vehicles.
Power steering has been used
on some of the larger military
vehicles.
+. r. Fageol, president of the
Twin Coach Co, Kent, Ohio,
to1N &st transportation and
maintenance session that equip
ping commercial vehicles with
multi-engines reduces initial
cost, improves performance, in
creaSes earning power and en-
hanccs operating reliability.
Fageol said buses equipped
with dual engines are relatively
as agile as passenger cars and
are needed to keep pace with the
fast tempo Of future highway
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
Busting Cherbourg Speeds Men, Munitions to From

Foreign workers who are not
members of organized cells and
who have not already carried out
my Instructions TO go into hid
ing will do so at once.
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have already warned them that
they are in the greatest danger
IL they remain in the factories.
= General Eisenhower's broad
cast 10 Germany
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09

travel. He explained that two
small engines better satisfy
limited space accommodations
and permit tightening of the
whole vehicle structure.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09
Napoleon, On Iron Horse,
Eyes PonopIy Of Warfare

EDITORS NOTE: The following by Ensign John H.
HARDWOOD former Mount
mandns officer Of the armed guard American merchant
Public
Office Third Naval District whose wife lives
Washington editor OF the
Brminsha Eccentric Mich, at the time OF his
time in he NAVY
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-23
IT. WILLIAM FRANK FERskE

Listed here are the iunesSl or
memotli services lor the oiaNe sno
The sub., 1945-08-16

industrial strife; witness the last twelve years.
 This burying of the .hatchet need not be a One-sided proposition at all. Both sides would benefit by it, to say nothing of the public at large. Just the relief from the constant negotiating and squab- bling would make 1t worth while. The usual bone of contention in ne- gotiations between management and labor is wages and hours. Let's look at this for a minute.
 Americas brand of Capitalism rests on the idea that well paid working people, with leisure time, are the purchasers of nearly all the products of Americas industry. A poor family does not buy a new car or radio or house. They simply cannot do 1t. But with decent income and the leisure to enjoy such things, nine out of ten people will buy, and have the money to pay, too. Income lost from strikes does not buy anything. Business lost by the closing of an industrial plant only goes else- where, often permanently. Tur- moil not reaching the strike or lockout stage results in a poor product, spotty delivery and an ominous increase in the influence of the extremists on both sides, to say nothing of the probable crea- ton of another bureau. The shab- binesS of certain makes of cars built during the sit-down strike period in the Detroit area several years ago, illustrates one of the evil results of such warfare. In- cidentally, the role played by the politician in that struggle is well remembered, but not with rever- ence.
 If the will to find and keep the peace is present on both sides the peace can be written and won. Af- ter all, in any given business, the employer and the employee are really partners. Neither can get along without the other under any stretch of the imagination. An experienced, satisfied and ambi- tious team of workers is an inval- uable asset to any concern. A side light on this is the fact that people who are proud of the concern they are part of are always great "push- CTS" of the firms product; unoffi- cial salesmen. in other words. Many progressive concerns have realized how valuable the asset of good
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the long run. The fact that both the CIO and the AFofL list among their assets the power they have in Washington, the power of sev- eral million votes apiece, and the power of fate treasuries, is proof enough for this writer that the poll itician must be frozen out. The impotence of independent unions when it comes to getting grievances settled in the District of Confusion speaks for itself, too.
 Human nature being what 1t is, some governmental regulation will no doubt continue to be necessary. If we must turn to government, let 1t be to . state government, where we can soon throw the ras- calls out'' if they start using our troubles as a political football.
 There Is hardly a case of trouble between Management and Labor that cannot be settled, to the bene- fit of all, right in the Labor-Man- agement Committee. If both part ners would earnestly subscribe to
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and improve upon the rules listed in the Green-Murray- Johnston agreement, and if they would paste up in their minds these words; We, too, long to see the antagontsm between Capital and Labor re- moved by common consent and by an enlightened statesmanship WOr- thy of the Twentieth Century, then America could really lead the world in the most happiness per capita as we'll as the highest stand ard of living.
 Like charity, this should begin at home, right here on the east bank of the Thames.
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''By Common Consent
By EUGENE MITCHELL, Dept. 334

A paragraph in the Declaration of Purposes" of the National Grange contains food for thought. It reads, we long to see the an- tagonism between Capital and La- bor removed by common consent and by enlightened stateSmanship worthy of the Twentieth Century" Here, in a few well chosen words, written by some rural statesman, is the key to the solution of one of Americas great permanent (so far) problems, the antagonism between Capital and Labor.
 Where will we find that "en- frightened statesmanship?" There is only one worthwhile place to look for it-in our own councils. If genuine and dynamic Labor Management committees, dedicat- ing themselves to the goal of peace in industry by common consent could start functioning in some important industry, their course would be followed by the entire country. Most all of us are getting pretty sick of industrial strife. Only the Communists, the Labor haters, and the rabble-rousers want more of 1t, for obvious reasons. They benefit by strikes, lockouts, and slow downs, etc. Trouble is their 1ife-blood. If these birds are ever downed, they will go down fighting, we can be sure.
 The document recently signed by William Green, Philip Murray, and Eric Johnston points out the way for us. Followed through, this Charter for Peace in Industry could well become one of the great turn ing points in the internal develop ment of the U. s. An underlying principle is the proposition that Capitalism MUST be made to work. Another important angle is this; the politician is ignored.
 These last twenty or more years have seen steady increase in gov ernment, in public ownership, and in bureaucracy, until a huge pro- portion of our people are engaged in regulating the affairs of the rest of us, and a fourth or more of the National income goes into taxes to pay the ordinary costs of govern ment, state and local, as well as national. This is definite trend toward State Socialism, and must be stopped and turned back to the point where it is sensible. Peace in industry would start the ball rolling, as much of this dangerous increase has been brought on by
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AFL Directs Plea to Congress

will in their own house is, and have prOspered.
 An article in . recent Readers Digest about the Lincoln Electric Co., of Cleveland, makers of weld ing machines, describes the fine result obtainable when Manage ment and Labor meet each other half way. Employees have high in- comes and the concern has forged ahead of all competition by hav- ing an excellent product at low CT price. The present writer has not been out to Cleveland, but will take the magazines word for it, rather than the word of some agi- tator or labor-hater. These peo- pie can cook up facts and figures to disprove anything anywhere, and we ordinary folks simply cannot go out to see such examples for our selves.
 Yes, peace in industry pays.
 The enemies of the peace are not numerous, but they are powerful and interruptions, and well en- trenched in both sides of the house. Let's look them over.
 Anyone who works with an av- craze bunch of people gets to know certain things about them. He sees that probably ninety per cent of them are on the job to improve their lot in life, increase their use fulness to their concern and to So- ciety, and to enjoy some of the fine things the Twentieth Century has brought forth. And they want to see an end to wars, both internal and external. But the other ten per cent? We all know them. Grafters, lazybones, dissipaters, and lifelong soreheads. The dan gerous ones, though, are those who seek, like scum, to rise to the top in the so-called class war they so eagerly promote.
 On the Management side of the house, there are some disagreeable characters, too, probably about in the same proportion. Some of the undetermined just despise work ing people and their aspirations, having the ancient feudal mental ity of Master and Slave" Some fear the progress labor has made these past hundred years, seeing 1t as threat to their own dominence. Others want to keep wages low and hours long so as to pocket more of the profits themselves.
 Do we, Capitol and Labor, NEED to be led around by these ugly mi norities? Of course not! But we often are. Both can and must clean house. We must get rid of the trouble makers.
 We must also freeze out the poll itician, whose interest is votes, In
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Also, the Council announced
 1t would mobilize all forces
 of the A. F. of L." to defeat
 the BalI-Hatch-BurtOn Anti
 Labor bill. The measure was
 described as "SO thoroughly Ob-
 jectiOnable" as to be beyond
 correction by amendments.
 A housing bill introduced by Sen. Bob" Wagner of New York, which would provide for construction of 100000 housing units annually was singled out for special en- phasis as "the most important step
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to prompt attainment of full en- ployment after the war"
 Also, the Council pleaded for prompt scaling down of war pro- duction to the needs of one-front war, so that reconversion to peace time output may be speeded up be- fore it becomes "too late to avoid major postwar depression.
 "Our country is far less prepared for peace than it was for. war at the time of Pearl HarboP," the Council warned.
The sub., 1945-08-16

II know, I haven't got much say Just my living; And a G. I. pay ain't a general; But I still can think And pop" a Jap As quick as l can wink And this Is how I'm thinking In this hole: Once this Is finished And we've won our goal, wonder Just what kind of welcome will get? For somehow Lying here can't forget My dad Fought overseas in France, And helped To kick the ferries in the pants. He got A big citation and his passage home And settled down there, Never more to roam, Or 80 he thought, Until disgrace Was brought upon him, new peace
 taught
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Executive Council Calls For Legislation Dealing With
 RecOnUersiOn's Human Side

Chicago-The American Federation of Labors Exeeu- tive Council supreme governing body of the Federation be- tween annual conventions issued number of important declarations at its quarterly meeting here last week.
 Outstanding appeal addressed to Congress call ing for prompt action this fall program dealing with the uman side of reconverson Aso President Truman urged to send special message to Congress when sons are resumed, asking for speed on the program
 This legislation the Council said, should include: Higher unemployment compensation benefs 65cent an hour nm imum wage great postwar housing program; expansion of social security and health insurance
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Just a Guy in a Foxhole"

were fighting here And boy! do mean war! Do you Back There Know what we're fighting forf For home and babies And Q job of work! No dole! No guy wants that Unless he S 'jerk"!- know the home folks Think of us And write, hate to tell you That it ain't enough-good-nightl But there 1t is; Just plain horse sense And clear enough To men who ain't just dense we're fighting Here! But who 1s fighting there7 And what will we get, When we do come up for air? It's up to you, our brothers, All good Union men To fight And WNNi That war! Before We're home Asaini
 Rowland BishaD
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That veterans Were not heroes, as we thought! All martial thoughts Were soon discouraged And his boys Gave up their pop-guns And their military toys; Were taught That only savages would fight That dad, Our Hero, Was somehow, not righti .. Depression caught us And my dad, an A. P. F. Marched down to Washington Where "Polls' were deaf To honor and To duty, and To God. Thought more of dough Than of the common clodi Don't sound so good-and Does 1t now? I'm thinking: What will happen After all this row? Will I go home And marry, settle down And find There ainH . Job for me In town?
 Repeated by pepuIaR re4uese
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-15
VICTORY IN SPRING SAYS
 CHURCHILL
Intends 10 Guide Britain Through lis Trials
 and Peace

LONDON, March 15-Prime Min ister Winston Churchill today held out hope of victory over Germany in the spring and pledged the dominant Conservative party to the promotion of free enterprise in the postwar period.
 He served notice he intended to guide Britain through it's trials and the peace. Victory lies before us it is certain, perhaps near" he told a Conservative Party conference and said the war in Europe might conclude before the summer ends or even sooner"
 Two thousand delegates gave the leader a tumultous ovation as he concluded a 45-minute address. He cautioned the Conservative Party against "humbug blandishments" , against bidding for votes for party popularity, "by promising what we cannot perform.
 His temper was obviously taught after recent sharp exchanges with the Left Wing, and criticism in Commons. Churchill struck out at tour Socialist friends for their program for nationa]izing all means of production and distribution"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-15
50vIET5 IN
 ATTA(k50N
 LONG FRONT
zhukov Improves Spring. board for Offensive
 on Berlin

MOSCOW, March IS. - Sporadic Russian attacks from the mouth of the Oder River to the vicinity of Frankfurt has improved Marshal Zhukov's Army springboard for new offensive as operational Silence prevailed along the Berlin front.
 There are persistent German re- ports the Russians have thrust across the Oder in force between captured Kuestrin and Frankfurt but they are not confirmed by Mos COW.
 Other Russian troops have scored additional gains in sectors as far removed as southwestern Slovakia.
 The Slovak campaign is revived with a flourish by Marshal Malinov- sky's army with the capture of zvo- len, heavily fortified German base on the upper Hron River. The army has carried the fight almost to the outskirts of Banska -Bystrica, driv- ing through the wooded Carpath- ians.
 The White Russian Army is clos ing in on Koenigsberg and set the German coastal corridor southeast of the Prussian Capital blazing again under heavy ground assaults supported by swarming Red bomb- CTS.
 Soviet troops have struck at Koen- igsberg and Braunsberg at both ends of the enemy shallow positions along the lagoon.
 Troops of the Second White Rus sian Army, meanwhile, have tight ened the siege rings around Danzig and Gyynia. Enemy resistance mas stiffened in the area, however.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-15
 DISPUTE CAUSES
 STUDIO STRIKE
Fight Over Bargaining Rights May End in
 Theatres Closing

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, March 15- International and local union of- ficials are "in complete accord concerning the conduct of the mo- tion picture strike representatives here. They are not defying any orders of the higher executives, a conference of studio workers de- clared.
 Meanwhile, the steadily spread ing walkout threatened to close thousands of theatres in the nation. Richard Walsh of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage sounded warning mes sage to the unions, which include motion picture projectionists, to stand by for an order to stop handling or exhibiting any motion pictures made by any West Coast producer"
 The Conference of Studio Unions, an affiliate of the local Painters Union, touched off the fireworks in it's dispute with IATSE for bar gaining control of 70 or more $780, a-week set decorators.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-15
Ari,isiiee Is Sought;;(oIdIy
 Turned Down
Germans Reported to Have
 Made Underlover Ap- proathes-N Soap

STOCKHOLM, March 15.-An un- official British statement confirmed reports of German approach to Allied representatives in an attempt a few days ago to obtain their view on possible armistice, but said it was immediately rejected.
 The British statement said the approach was attempted few days ago through a third party to junior members of the Legation Staff" but went on to say the third party was at once told the British Legation was not the least interested in any such approach
 The third party mentioned was apparently a Swedish business man, who, other informants said, had been approached by minor Naz of ficials in the hope of using him as the medium for talking to the Allies. Responsible Allied officials gener- ally regarded the incident as a care- fully planned German propaganda maneuver in an effort to split the Allies by causing misunderstanding and suspicious of double dealing.
 The Stockholm paper, Svensko Dagissadst, winch reported the at tempted contact earlier. said the Germans urged the Allies to begin negotiations for an armistice while Germany was still strong enough to act as a bulwark against the 'Bol- shevik menace"
 The Swedish paper said the at tempt failed because the German representative perdicated his bid on the condition the Nazi govern ment be continued in office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-15
GERMANS DE5TR0Y AMERICAN BUILT
 FIELD, 47 PLANES
Russians and Americans Blame Each Other,
 Says Reporter

PHILADELPHIA, March l5-Un- opposed German bombers destroyed an American built Russian airfield and AT grounded Fortresses, an entire wing, last June 21, in a two-hour night attack which the Americans and Russians blamed on each other, Alexander Kendrick, returned Moscow correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer said.
 The Fortresses, Kendrick wrote, were desperately needed for the support of our beachhead opera tions in Normandy" Two American airmen were killed in the attack. Kendrick said the Russians blamed the Americans for letting German planes come in on their tail to see where they landed. Some Americans grumbled over what they called the lack of ade- quate protection at the field, plac- ing ground security responsibility on the Russians"