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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-10-11

REPRESENTATIVES, Of the
~ building industry will be called
to Washington to map out volun-
tary program to increase produc-
tion of materials and facilities
needed for home construction ex-
pansion and to help prevent inflat-
ed building costs and real estate
prices. 1t is hoped plan can be
worked out to increase the supply
of scarce building materials, and IL
necessary, price and wage increases
and priorities may be granted.
WPB will endeavor to prevent
boarding, while OPA undertakes
to strengthen price controls of
building materials.
Federal credit agencies will act
to discourage excessive and un-
sound landing on mortgages in con-
junction with the National Housing
Authority which will provide in
formation and advisory service on
home values to prospective purchas-
ers. A building boom is not anti
cipated before next spring.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-10-11
IN MEMORIUM

In loving memory of our wife.
mother and grandmother
~. Katharine Binder
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
Pearl Harbor Politics

Those who seek make partisan and isoaonst propa- ganda out of the congressional Pearl Harbor investigation performing notable disservce to particularly themselves and party.
 Their viewpoint is summed up by coumnist who ,enty wrote that the big issue in the 1946 congressional elections will be th ls the Republic better off today be- it got mixed up in World War II ?? The columnst states that the Republicans ready to investigation findings as political evidence that President Roosevelt pushed this peaceful nation into fighting war;
 We the confidence of the Republican congress- referred to- We doubt that their plans correctly ported approved by their parys responsible leaders And that they misjudgng American sentl ment if they plan to win friends through these plans
 The public knows that the aps and the Germans pushed this peace (and freedom-) loving nation into war But does learn from this Pearl Harbor inquiry whether Washngton-incuding the White House-knew that our entry into the war was inevitable and if it did not how the trend of events came to be miSJ Judged completely.
 The public to know whether Washington realized the tragic inadequacy of armed forces for fighting total and whether the commanders n-cef made the best disposition ot the slim forces at hand It wants to know seemed inevitable whether these commanders did their best prepare forces for the great struggle facing them
 The public asks If not why not?" It wants to know where the responsibility for unpreparedness lay It wants the of 19404 made known that the country profit from those lessons in preparing better national fense against the threat of future Pearl Harbors.
 Instead there have been attempts in this congressional investigation aboe the Jap for all practical purposes of blame in starting the In spite of the secret Jap plans which have been presented to the n vestgatng committed there have been attempts to assign the responsibility to the late President and Cordel Hull
 special and meaningful emphasis has been laid upon Hull utmatum, which simply the United States governments refusal of nonntererence in Japans bloody mperastc conquest of East Asia and the western Pacific
 But this line of argument is bound to backire For intelligent person. Republican Democrat whose memory back 10 and who has read the decoded secret Jap pans will be forced to the conclusion that who attempts to perperate the notion that forced into World War IT. by administration cannot be very intelligent.
 We hope that Republican leaders will repudiate any at tempts to twist the Pearl Harbor investigation into ent for isolatonsm, make it that the COP feels that should have helped to defeat Japan and Germany If they do not is likely that Republican pres tge will not only suffer, but disappear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
By Dre1O Pearson

n contract be arbitrated This would avoid irritating work stoppages which have been the source of much industrial disunity. The Johnston-Sarnoh group strongly favored the proposal However Roth and Mosher opposed arbitration. They had the measure referred back to management caucus and have Kept it buried
 No 2 suIit arose in the committee on collective bargaining The AFL and CIO had presented joint proposal-the only proposal on which both were in complete agreement. However, when the resolution came before the Executive Committee, Roth bullied other management delegates into opposing the res olution He insisted rewriting the proposal to n- clude a suggestion for emasculaton of the wagner Act
 No. split occurred when Roth and Mosher pro posed changes in the antitrust laws and advocated abrogation of the LaGuardia-Norris law which pro- tects unions from parayzing court injunctions Roth knew that labor delegates could not accept his pro- posals. Yet he refused to withdraw them, leading to another stalemate.
 Split No. came at last weeks Executive Com mttee meeting Eric Johnston recommended that Continuation Committee carry on any unfinished business after the conference adourns John Holmes, president of Swift & Company M. W. Clement of the Pennsylvania Railroad; and H. M. Prentiss of Armstrong Cork all opposed In the end, Johnston had to appeal to his colleagues for unity on even this simple issue before the meeting could continue At this writing the question still is not settled
 Gen. Carl Spaatz will definitely succeed Gen. Hap Arnold as head of the Army Air Forces Maj-Gen Edmund H. Leavey will succeed Gen. Charles F. Gross head of Army Transportation This may help to speed troop movements Cong. Hugh Deacy of Seattle demands that all American troops be withdrawn from China immed- ately and that of all American lend-ease for the Chinese civil war be stopped He'll have hard time putting this across as long the policies of Ambas sador Patrick J. Hurley prevail in China. Those very cooperative Swiss have now informed us that we can't the Naz loot Hitler stole and hid in Switzerland-if it stolen before 1940. No, their fiveyear Statute of Limitations has expired, say the Swiss, which means that any Naz who stole from the Allies in the first two years of the and took his booty to Switzerland escape csot free. . Maybe We shouldn't blame the Swiss too much how ever Cong Hatton Summers of Dallas, Texas, has just reported out bill which would reduce the U s. Statute of Limitations to year (not five as in Switzerland when it to violation of national bank laws wage-hour fraud, surplus property scandal.
 Ed Pauley is desperate to stick the political knife into Harold Ickes' back that his close crony Judge Wellburn Mayock, made a special trip to Puerto Rico and issued a blistering report damnng Gov. Rex Tugwell and the Ickes administration of Puerto Rico. Mayock. who his office in Demo- cratic National Committee headquarters to lobby for oil legislation, owes his job to PauleY Both dead opposed to Ickes plan of rescung submerged oil lands-from whence Pauey derives most of his large income.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
By Peter Edson

age of labor.
 ?. Textile Workers Union officials say they have plenty of evidence of warehouses filled with goods being held from the market in anticipation of lower taxes and higher OPA prices.
 The mill owners say, Show us where To which the union replies that 1t will give names, dates and places to responsible Congressional OPA invest- erably.
 It is also weakened by first results of the Civilian Production Administration Investigation In spot check of 25 leading mills said to be good geographic croSssection of the industry, CPA found that mills which normally averaged six weeks inventory be- fore the war now have only two weeks inventory. In some of the rayon yarn mills, inventories were only two three days supply
 At the converter and finishing mill level CPA investigators did find that inventories of goods in process high. Much of it explained by the fact that there has been strike in the New England finishing mls and therefore the goods have not been moving.
 CPA's survey of garment and clothing makers is now in process. It is admitted that cases of hoarding inventories and refusing to sell may be found here because the industry so scattered and diversified Mail order houses for instance have to build up socH-piles before 1t is safe for them to offer items in catalogues. Many firms are mak- ing spring and summer goods when the retail demand IS for winter apparel
 3. Final point of the Textile Workers Union argument is that the mills refusal to sell yarn or down wages that U. S. mills will be able to compete with foreign production This is tied in with industry efforts to prevent increase of minimum wage rates from 55 to 65 cents an hour, now before Congress.
 Few people can understand what goes on in the world cotton market. As farm and mill wage issue ments here are impossible to prove way the other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
By BiH Cunningham

barbaric Japanese, and of how certain we should be that they be held strictly account, especially now when they seem to be emerging wearing halos and folded wings.
 The more the story unfolds, the is it ap- parent that of the greatest Of the Allied com- manders was Adolf Hitler. His dumb decisions made our hard path easier Failing to follow up Dunkirk may or may not have been his personal fault but from the questioning of Goering, it develops that Hitler countermanded his general staff's plans to attack African army through Spanish Morocco, at the general time of failure at Kasserine Pass Those who know say we might have been wiped out there by that Strategem.
 The locally venerated MT. Serge Koussevitsky was quoted from New York not long ago saying the democraces have done anything for music. They've done pretty we'll however for the said Kous sevitsky who seems to have decided at fairly early age that they held considerable promise for bull fiddle player. Gen. George c. Marshall is now out. of job, and if baseball had shown the proper amount of intelligence it would have waited and n stalled such figure the successor to the late Judge Landis My operatives report that Billy Conn doesn't look too hot in his exhibition matches. They say he looks if he learned to dabble in the flesh pots during his military career.
 Red Blaik is reported as planning to retire from his post football coach at West Point Granted that college competition is below normal the experts say this Army team of his ranks with the best if not above the nest of all time and that Blaik has been coaching them on lieutenant colonels salary and perquistes as, or ess his patriotic contribu- tion. The Blaiks have for years been real estate people in Ohio and the gentleman is reported headed for executive status with that firm when and if he lays his sweat shirt and whistle aside l. for one, will have to him do it. My guess is that the Army will demobilize him and retire him as ci- vilian.
 That is remindful that there must be enough souvenir weapons in this land to equip the Chinese Army. All the Germans pistols and lot of their rifles must be on this side their way oyer and the same must go for the Japanese small arms, the CI being souvenir hound that he and is Here's hoping they always stay souvenirs and that none ever shows up in more active role. ..s I'M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29

cllSlVely QlSCuSSeQ III IrdQe press lew eaQerS in the textile and clothing industries have denied the charges, or declared they greatly exaggerated in the particular branch of industry each able to speak for.
 Preliminary results of a textile survey by the Civilian Production Administration fail to show there is any evidence of stockpiling management sit down in the industry, says CPA Administrator Capt J. D. Small.
 The whole question is complicated by side issues involving minimum wage and labor policies strikes in parts of the industry, lack of manpower, broken-down war-weary looms that need replacement and an unsuitable demand from the buying public for more, more, more of everything. Principal points in the Textile Workers Union charges that the producers aren't producing at pacity these:
 l. Most of the southern textile mills now are running only 40hour shifts refusing to pay overtime for sixth-day operation, even though the workers want it to keep up their takehome pay It is further charged that the mills are refusing to operate the third shift because it calls for six to cents hour extra pay.
 To this the mills reply that there is still short
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE
(NeW York TimeS)

(NeW York TimeS)
 If opinion polls are any criterion, and we believe the Gallop Poll is in | this instance, then the House of i Representative is so far behind the ] people on the question of universal military training that it is no con- | test. Most Washington observers say that the sentiment of Congress, and especially of the House, is against passage of such a measure.
 Ten Gallup polls, taken intermit-
 tently since December, 1942, have shown a consistently large, and now an increasing, majority of the | persons boiled in favor of such leg
 islation The latest sampling of public opinion, taken this month, gives result of 75 per cent for, 21 i per cent against and per cent un- decided. In December, 1942, the | percentages were 66, 27 and ', re- spectively.
 Moreover, division of the per- | sons polled into groups by age, poli- tics and military service shows little deviation from the general average. For instance, the political division on the November poll was: Repub- licans-70 per cent for, 27 against and undecided; Democrats-79 per cent for, Is against and 3 undecid- ed. Yet the hard core of the op- position to the measure in the House Military Affairs Committee has been Republican.
 Universal military training is not a partisan measure. The bill pro- viding for it has even been intro duced in House and Senate by members of opposing parties; in the House by MT. May, Democrat, of Kentucky; in the Senate by MT. Gurney, Republican, of South Da- kota. But the Republicans in the House Military Affairs Committee
 apparently are willing to make it a party issuel Had it not been for parliamentary maneuver they would even have postponed discus sion of it there until next year.
 On matters where there is a close division in the country, 1t may often be wise for Congress to go slowly. There seems to be no close division on universal military training. The people generally are for it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
It Doesn't Take Brains

Of all the warnings of imminent by Japan which this government intercepted during November 1941 there which inadvertently smart in its stupidity At least any normally intelligent person. in out of govern men might have been forgiven for thinking that the Jap lords scarcely smart enough to wage after reading transcript of the telephone conversation between the Jap ambassador Kurusu Washington and Yama moto of the Tokyo foreign office.
 That the conversation of Nov 27 1941, revealed during the congressional Pearl Harbor Investigation which referred to President Roosevelt Miss Kmko and Secre tary Hull Miss Umeko. It employed code about matri- monal negotiations and childbirth which any hghgrade with slight familiarity with the background and cir cumstances could probably have broken in five minutes
 And even Kurusu advertised top-flght diplomat, got all confused at point with this simple childish make believe of code and started to ask right from which direction the attack would come
 The level of the Kurus Yamamoto conversation least in translation strictly subsoap opera It dsarmng in it's sness It is extremely doubtful that the stiffness Intentionally subtle that the Japs trying kid one but themselves.
 Nevertheless, Kurusu and Yamamoto made themselves out to sound asnne to appear almost harmless The moral which this country learned bitterly, is that it doesn't take brains to be treacherous.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29

Gen Wild Bill" Donovan) has just set up a very interesting project which will not keep the peace. It is working on a Plan for Order of Battle for War with Russia" The job is under direct super vision of Maj. Raymond Cromwell former TOKYO correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Postmaster General Bob Hannegan has told intlmates that he is genuinely concerned about the admnstra- tions handling of domestic and foreign problems He adds that the President is of the difficulties and will remedy them.
 Labor isn't the only group split wide open at the Labor Management Conference. Management Is in the same boat.
 At the start AFT. and CIO delegates presented a divided front which made management delegates chorte with glee Now the shoe is on the other foot
 Eric Johnston, astute president of the United States Chamber of Commerce ana usually mlo-man nered David Sarnoff president of Radio Corporation of America, both storming mad at the more con- servatve block of management delegates who just don't want to get along with labor.
 Johnston and Sarnoff believe unions are here to stay Also they feel that industrial harmony is essention to reconverson prosperity So they want to the conference get somewhere, have carefully refrained from union batting
 On the other side of the fence Almon E. Roth, head of the powerful National Federation Of Amer1- can Shipping Inc Ira Mosher, president of the tory minded National Association of Manufacturers; and Charlie Wilson. of General Motors.
 The first issue facing the management delegates was on the broad principle of general cooperation with labor Johnston urged full cooperation. So did Sarnoff. However, Mosher and Roth Spearheaded the conservative management group. which wants re- pressive labor legislation from Congress They feel that if the conference ends in failure, antilabor leg iSlation is certain.
 In his opening address to the conference, NAMs Mosher urged that where the conferees disagree they mot gloss over" their disagreementS. Lets state them frankly" To Johnston and his colleagues. this clear-cut bid to Congress to step in vita anti union laws
 Management delegates have revealed four sep- arate splits in the conference thus far
 
 No split a resolution to enforce exist ing labor management contracts. The unions had agreed that all grievances arising during the life of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
Views Of The Press

is not Socialized medicine This is about as logical as to say the bill is not compulsory, when the wording of the bill forces all employees draw ing up to $500 year to pay 4 per cent of their earnings into the So- cial Security Fund, and all employ CTS to pay like amount.
 When Government goes into bus mess, that is socialism. So, when the Federal Government establishes a Syshtem of insurance to which every one must contribute, when it regu- lates the provisions of medical serv- ice through Washington headquar- ters, when it regulates fees that doc tors are to receive when they partici- pate in the system, when it regu- lates those who are to be consultants and when consultants are to be con- suited, that is definitely socialized medicine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
TWO BRIGHT SPOTS
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(NeW Haven Journal-Courier)
 Although the cost of home con- struction remains prohibitively high, there is double bit of hope in the lumber situation and the easing of credit restrictions. More than 80 per cent of current lumber production is now moving freely into civilian channels, according to reports of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. It is estimated that the civilian supply is at least as great as in the preWar period.
 That's good news when coupled with the ruling of the Board of Gov ernors of the Federal Reserve Sys- tenn which has removed all federal wartime credit restrictions on pur- chase of materials or services for home repairs and Improvements. The Board also has extended to 18 months the previous 12-month limit in which to repay loans for pur- chases of items other than those classified as consumer durable goods"
 Here's little easement in the ser- ious housing bottleneck. But more is needed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
One Price to All

Automobile union leaders taking rather odd stand in this matter of wage basng their de mands what they consider the ability of the companies pay, rather than intention to produce and the large increases they asking General Motors point ed to the faacy of this method of wage bargaining in brief handed to the union recently We quote
 Under American system, competition keeps prices low and thus distributes the benefits of increased industrial efficiency to the WHOLE POPULATION. As part of this system have developed the idea of nondscrimnaon in price Everyone who rides railroad train pays the fare for the distance and class of servce all the price for loaf of bread in the all pay the same price for the make of automobile ."
 In other words General Motors does not believe anyone should be forced to pay higher rate for the kind of work that is done for competitor If this situation is forced will widen still further the gap between the auto workers and large nonorganzed worker groups. isn't 1key, hewever that the union member when in the role will welcome suggestion that he pay flor any item he buys in store than does agricultural worker, let say
 In the free American economic system the efficient producers make the most profits and the most competent ndivduals the highest wages industrial has been competent and efficient it should not be penaized hacaasa of that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29
FRATERNITIEs WARNED
Boston PoSt)

The horseplay and initiation pranks of college fraternities are drowned upon by war veterans re- turning to complete their education, several college heads have warned the students. Feeling that they have lost several years out of their lives, the majority of returning veterans will want to make every minute count, Dean Bursley of the Univer- sity of Michigan declares. More than anyone, else, veterans realize the problems which the world is facing. Probably the veterans may be able to instill little more stability into those students who feel that sense- less pranks are a part of college life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-29

both terrible Of content if wonderful in produc ton. You'll need a strong stomach, but you'll have stronger mind as to what the Japs really stand charged of if you can sit through either one. Orders from Tokyo" is the first of these master pieces It's the true record in color of what the Jap anese did, and caused to be done, in Manila. It's historical because it first shown as evidence at the trial of Yamashita the Japanese commanding general who U S. government is trying to convict as having been personally responsible It is the record in color of the fighting, the burning the blood the raped the massacred dead, with the btter-prologue delivered by Carlos Romulo.
 The second is Appointment n Tokio," the offi- cial U. S. Army Signal Corps documentary record of the in the Pacific, evidently intended as com- panion piece to the recently released The True Glory" Appointment in Tokio" is in black and white, and it likewise pulls no punches. In fact the cameras follow the fighting closely that mortally wounded Japs still be seen breathing Both these films distributed by Warner Brothers in the pub lie service program the film industry has been fol- lowing at government request Appointment in Tokio" will go into the theaers appropriately enough on Dec, 7-Pearl Harbor Day.
 Theaters urged to play them and the public to see them because with much emphasis on the European war, few Americans have any real cohcep- tion of what the PacNic war really was, of what terrible crimes are herewith charged against the