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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-22

one old man had q board IN his
hand with an arrow pointing in
the direction we were going with
the word Berlin" written on it.
Seems that the people here
weren't faring so badly under the
Nazis and although they are
seemingly friendly many of them
didn't care whether we came or
kept our mean old guns over in
the States. They had. a better
food supply of any part of France
we have run into yet, for this is
the part Hitler claimed was Ger
man all the time.
Last week l went to the most
unusual dance I ever expect to
see this side of the Pacific. Seems
that the Nazis imported some
Russian prisoners, men and wom-
en-, to this part to work in war
factories. They built crude bar
racks for them to live in and the
men could sleep in different
rooms from the women if they
wanted to. This was the first
contact with the Russians I had
had at close range. They were
very friendly and when we went
to the door they saw us and said,
"Ah, Americans, kom een''. They
had a Russian choir going on
when we entered which was real
ly full of good harmony. Then
they started to do the dances. No
matter how slow the music Zone
funny drum and an accordian)
was they seemed to move their
feet faster than a tap dancers
feet. Sometimes they had only
men on the floor and they would
get down squating and throw
first one foot out and then the
other. Then they would jump
up in the air and click their heels
together several times before
landing. Then the men would
get a girl out on the floor and 60
through something like Utter
bugging but about three times as
fast in movements. Sometimes
the women would come out on
the floor alone and do hip dances
with their hands on their hips and
they would sit on their heels and
throw out their feet but not so
high as the men did.
The Russians didn't seem to
mind our laughing at the dances
so we did plenty of it. There
were some girls there who we
first thought pretty and after
watching their masculine ways
they lost all appeal. They weren't
so tall but were really muscled
up possibly from lots of work.
They were strong looking girls
with fairly deep voices. The wom-
en- didn't seem to have near as
much pep about themselves as
the men. Maybe the girls were
so strong looking that we were
afraid to look interested in them
or maybe we have seen too many
dainty French girls lately. One
of the guys with us got one OF
the danes on the dance floor and
started one of the fast foot races
and seemed to be doing OK but
when the tune was half finished
he came off to the side and said
he had had enough exercise for
the day, too strenuous for him,
for he was huffing and putting.
I have seen just enough ballet
dances in the States to know that
that is not what they were doing.
It wasn't hard to do like the Ro-
mans when in Rome but I would
have some trouble doing like the
Russians if in Russia.
BY the way, don't send any
films if you haven't already done
it. BY hitting a town not too
long after it is taken I find that
there are plenty of films to be
had cheaply as long as they last.
Give Helen and Margaret bottle
of perfume each for Xmas, with
,.o.z er,.oot;noc-if It gets there in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-22
Customs Of French People Are
Described By Howard Sexton

editors note: The following
letter written by Howard Sexton,
of Grassy Greek, is published be-
cause of the graphic word picture
it gives of phases Of army life as
well as the French and other peo-
pie ahroad.)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-03-22

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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-13
WILL HONOR BRADY

Because of the neWSprlr' short
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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-13
Building Delays
Laid 10 Services
Bv JOIN GARIEPY

Not more than 5 per cent 81
building materials stored IN army
and navy der0ts IS on inventory
and IS causing hll1lnE bottle.
TrTr- William 7 GWnan, eNeCu-
tive director OF tho Building Asso-
c,auor of Metropolitan Detroit
charged today
Guran said he would phone
Senator Ferguson IN Washington
70 present specific information
proving hls allegation and 10 ask
for q Senate lnreStlgatlon.
SEEKS AID or VETS
He announced his intention
after q meeting last night with
repre- sent4tteS of the American
Legion and WV ~ which he
sought their support
We have information that
enough hulldIn-- -maLeEiAlA-e HI
kinds are stored IN these de-
pots 10 supply the entire build
ing industry for six months
Gu'na0 asserted
TELLS OF BATHTUB DEAL
cone ~ our builders was Of
iered 1000 haihtuhS from an
army ain force depot through
devious channels Furthermore,
information is that some of the
stored lumber Is about 10 be
sent n France. I happen 10
know that local boat manutaC-
turerS met yesterday m Wash
tugton ~ try 20 keep the lum-
ber here"
Gunan sad he also would out
line 10 Ferguson 2 plan the asSO.
cation has which would provide
10000 new housing UNITS for De-
'rot m 1916
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-13
Wins Probation
Detroit rirst Ph

Miss Patricia Hickey, -, cf
1862 Plquerte today was sentenced
10 tUo years probation by Record.
er's Judge John P Scallan for the
theft of 2 500 diamond rlnz from
her employer. Mrs, Elaine II Hy-
mans of 1880 BriarChffc
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-13
Hill by Timber, Dies

Harvey Johnson, 49, Of 30oo4
Marquette Garden City, 4 ma
chinery mover employed by The
Thomas Goodfellow Co, who vas
injured ny a falling timber Al the
Murray Corp, died yesterday IN
& NTarV-S Hospital
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-13
NewSbOyS Need
100000 Sale

re OlS NevsN-v Ioo1tfi4-Ds
'cdsv co~pl4'eE trsl plans t.r
IL 5rEIAT sale Tues 3sN ot Good
HEow editions a. newspapers
Thev hope the sale VIII raise
'fs S211 000 needed % furnish a
Very Ch~isrr-aS for 80 000 under
yiyIleCed children W0o would
rte7VSr hs forgotten on Christ
rsS morning.
The union times., 1945-09-15
AS WE SEE IT

Continued from Page One) ations are emerging from the war also should make it easier for em- ployers to grant pay hikes while keeping prices down, the Fedora ton maintained.
 Evidence of this was seen in a W.P.B. study, just published show ing that the corporations piled up annual profits more than I2O per cent above immediate pre-war levels-after taxes-and 50 per cent above the previous ''lush'' year of 1929. Net working capital of the corporations more than doubled and reserves, of all kinds reached record heights, the WIPE. added.
 "SIXTY MILLION JOBS'' is the striking title of a book by Secre- tary of Commerce Henry A. Wal lace which has just been released. He considers it the most important writing he has done.
 The problem to which it is ad- dressed-the prevention of unem- plOyment-is declared to be the most important this country has ever faced in time of peace.
 He sets out to demonstrate that full employment is possible, with proper planning and cooperation. The groundwork, as he outlines it, follows substantially legislation now being considered by the Senate Banking Committee.
 THE Gallup (N. M.) Indepen- dent wrote history with this head line:
 LAPS SAY UNCLE
 Severance pay equal to 1925 for each two months of service. and wOrk-week of 30 hours, were the chief proposals of the Government Employees Council (A.F.L.) before Senate Committees Tuesday. Repre- senting 20 unions with members in the federal service, the council believes that severance pay instead of unemployment compensation will enable disemployed govern. ment workers ''to promptly reenter the labor market"
 UNEMPLOYMENT claims con. tinued its steady rise in Connecti- cut last week, when 56,lO6 out-of- work individuals had filed for compensation payments. This is an increase in the State of l6,IO6 over the previous week. The aver. age size benefit check was $I9.7O. Veterans claims tOtaled 3.l43 showing no marked change in that picture as yet. A breakdown of the overall State total by impor. tant cities show Hartford still in the lead with ll,422, a gain of 42.4 per cent over last week.
 REP. Harold Knutson (R., Minn.) hinted at hearings on in. creasing unemployment compensa.
The union times., 1945-09-15
On TheScene
 In Washington
By Travis K. Hedrick
Super-Seniority Again!

Super-SeniOrity Again!
 Unless the 79th Congress moves swiftly to set down a clear and fair definition of seniority rights for veterans, legal tangIe that will do neither veterans nor war workers any good is bound to re- suit.
 The ''super seniority'' idea con- tained in the rulings of the Selec- tive Services legal division and backed up by the American Legion in an effort to recruit veterans is both unfair and disruptive.
 Under super Seniority" a veteran would be able to bump a World War l veteran from job even though the older man had more seniority. What organized labor is asking is simply that veterans get full credit toward seniority for all time spent in the armed services, which, added to sen iority they had on leaving their civilian jobs, would place them on a par with the war worker holding an equal length of service with the em- ployer. Most unions agree that depart mental advancement given to the civilian worker should be granted the man who donned a uniform.
 Under the unions position, a worker with year of service in the plant would get seniority credits for each year spent in the army and come back to his employer as a five-year man if he spent four in uniform.
 In event of layOffs in the plant. civilian with six years of senior. ity would be retained if the choice came between himself and the vet. eran with only five years of ac. cumulated seniority.
 The Brooklyn judge who brought this super seniority doctrine into sharp focus admitted that throwing out the civilian with greater senior ity was not in full equity, but ex- plained he was mot concerned with the equity of the situation nor with whom the returning veterans had tc displace"
 May Hurt Vets
 From that statement 1t would be fair to assume that he realized the trouble his decision is bound to start in industry through out the land. Ii is likely to result in greater injury to the veterans themselves in any long-range view of the situation. The protection of the super seniority prin- ciple continues for just one year, while at the same time throwing out of gear the whole seniority system built up at great struggle by the unions. After a years work, the veteran may find himself suddenly unemployed and with no place to go for adjustment of his seniority problems.
 Labor has built the present fair seniority system only after years of fighting with employers to gain
The union times., 1945-09-15

recognition of its justice to all workers.
 1t has been said that the answer to these problems is the creation of full employment by full pro- ductiOn. While that is generally true, none dare say that there'lI be no jOblessness during the re- conversion period-nOt with over three million already unemployed and some eight to ten million ex- pected to be out of work by the years end.
 Regardless of the full employment bill, the seniority provisions in the GI Bill of Rights sorely need some Congressional defining to undo the tangle into which Se1ective Service has wound them.
 Opposition to clarihaction of the meaning of the laws words comes mostly from the American Legion and from those employers who would use the returning veteran as a weapon against organized labor.
 Most of the returning CI's will see through thlS attempt to use them and their very real need for jobs to break up the unions they and their fathers and brothers helped to build. LabOr's job is to show them the real nature of this campaign and to demonstrate. if necessary, how eager the local unions and international Organiza. lions are to join hands with them in working out a seniority defini. ton that will be clear and will operate without injustice to either the returned serviceman or to the war worker who passed the am. munitiOn.
 Unless Congress is forced to act the long delay necessary to get 8 Supreme Court ruling on the ''super seniority" opinion is bound to mean discord among workers who have every reason to work together in harmony for the at tainment of goals that mean SC much to all of them.
The union times., 1945-09-15
The Reader
 Has the Floor
Madison, Wisconsin,
 5 September, I945.

Madison, Wisconsin,
 5 September, l945. MT. Nathan Sherman, Editor The Union Times
 New Haven II, Conn.
 Dear Brother Sherman:
 George Thorpe, President of our Connecticut State Council, just sent me some clippings from recent is- sues of The Union Times. I have had clippings sent to me earlier by Brother Ranen and others.
 Your assistance has meant and continues to mean a very great deal to us, and I want you to know that we feel keenly about the help you have given, not only through your paper but in personal repre- sentatiOns and work in the labor movement. We are pleased about progress being made in your state. 1t seems to me the way is being pointed there to methods which will substantially improve employ ment methods in governments and the procedures and processes of democracy.
 Government will expand in years to come. This may be dis pleasing to many, but it seems un- avOidable. The organization of the leisure time of millions of people in the way of providing recrea- tiOnal, sports, and public works activities is natural public func- ton. However, the administration should be localized as much as possible; revenue will have to be produced and can probably best be produced through the public operation for profit of actual monopoly endeavOrs like power. As these activities develop, it will be increasingly necessary that there be understanding between the enlarg- ing body of public servants, the personnel managers and techni- clans who supervise the employ ment problems, and the policy makers who represent the whole community. You are contributing greatly in this development.
 Fraternally yours,
 ARNOLD S. LANDER,
 General President.
 American Federation of State,
 County, and Municipal
 Employees.
The union times., 1945-09-15

ton that workers who refuse to take low-paying jobs be driven into them with bull whips. The con- gressman is an expert on bull of all descriptions.
 GOVERNMENT officials continue to insist that present mass unem- plOyment is purely temporary. The question now is how hungry can a worker get without becoming permanently starved.
 J. P. MORCAN's estate on Long Island has been leased by the Soviet government. A strictly mOr- ganatic marriage.
 STRONG point of organized labor in Germany centers in Ber- lin, where about 100000 workers are now organized into l8 unions, including four white collar unions. The 18 Berlin unions are united into Free German Trade Unions, HcducU ny COuHCA1 O1 cASnA HIGH who represent all three of Ger many's pre-Hitler labor federa- tions.. In the days before the Nazis took power there were about 6OO,- 900 organized workers in Berlin.
 THE French General Confedera- ton of Labor (CCT) has called on the voters to turn down a proposal by General Charles deCaulle that his government be given full authority during the period when new constitution is being worked out for France.
 DeCaulIe's proposal is the sec- Ond point in a referendum to be presented to the people at the same time that they vote for representa- tives to the French assembly. The CGT favOrs a new constitution for France, which is the first point in the referendum, but it is urging all voters to reply No to deCaulle's request for power during the in- terim period.
The union times., 1945-09-15
No Extra Pay For
 Uranium Miners

Denver, Colo. (LPA)-Miners who produced the basic source, ura. nium, of which the atom bomb was made, did so often at cost of their own labor and without a cent of pay, according to the United Mine Workers District 50 News. The ore, for which the men were paid only on the basis of its vanadium con- tent by the Vanadium Corp, also contained uranium. The waste pile from which the vanadium had been extracted was then prOcessed- without pay to the miners-by a gOvernment-Operated uranium plant nearby.
The union times., 1945-09-15
Cops" Land Another

Winning in an election by an over whelming majority, the A. F. of L. National Council of Railway Patrol mems Unions was certified this week by the National Mediation Board as bargaining agency for the police force on the Texas & Pacific.
The union times., 1945-09-15

CLEVELAND, O.-The Cleveland Federation of Labor is readying strong, independent political organi- zation, Labor's Non Partisan League, to act in the interests of organized labor in the coming elections.
The union times., 1945-09-15
UNION RESORT

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. = (FP) -AFL unions here have signed 19- year lease with the IVA along the Chickamauga Lake and plan to con vert the property into resort for the union membership.
The union times., 1945-09-15
NEW HAVEN, CONN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Is, l945
Jobs The Slogan For 1946

| The l946 political campaign launched with Pres Harry S. Tu re;era'ns rights correctly making jobs the basic issue before the nation until labo goal of full employ gone things that the has been dvered we to the whe for he ee ris d % m of l948 whether he going bear down and insist With jobs the difficult how Truman and the Congress rather than go people, the We think the Presidents entitled
 Pressur Needed chine he bring about, enough political h White H ee oee v % Hoae as spa @ m as H p % of s 4si R & k S sp po1 e % @ ee h se & " ins ss' % hsy ea figure, and Truman's influence there is real nJ this baes @ T 5 I nS e %s Walter r r George @ @ R Ga " the leading Democratic figures .,. and .,s bn hi: than the DoueRon asgin" it in principle. Both pretend be fearful that millions of American @ ~G Df @ & ven n % nd
 Fight On Senate Floor The Murray Wagner full employment bill entirely likely be made he Over on the Ho1se he powerful Ways nd headed by @ ton and assisted by RP Harold o bill n before M essr ,s gets the o0 George % will accomplish the
 
 So the job ahead is tough will be hard for the Truman equally difficult task for the people if they to in their interest
 Liberalism Is The Test Jobs is the issue Jobs the slogan Jobs will l946 Congesmen who liberals earners in their Rome d'rc Ths 'hns issue s h sns % g n, Ts % a~e @ provide ai the
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 You your abruptly evening"
 dinner already" Mr. Diworth then minute later did doubIeake. "Whats demanded
 principle the State Dept" Little Luther said, "and I'm it works with cake, too."
 Is MT. Byrnes going homemaking?' aghast
 I you're usual" uer gancing paOnatey his father o will refresh Remember could We'll, telling the world beat the Jp and busy proving the war"
 Nonsene Mr. Dlworh "You can't lose war without losing it."
 "That shows how A right the Jap surrendered but they've and they ahead and formed and radios end the war"
 "Oh, all that's perfectly scofed sound like hs troops not bother disarming Japanese civilians Japanese authorities take of them"
 We the truth know people till live generals probab, discovering that the Japanese poe cultured habits who like to drink :"
 1 you'll tell that what happened just another Boston party.'
 "In this world phiIosophicay "you must learn to forgive and forget"
 Wht I'm afraid complained Sis that we'll forgive the Jap mlarsts who started the and forget
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Wc, 6:30-Arrhe tries 10 sell 6inny Simms
on joint concert tour.
W0p. 9:30-A new weekly comedy series
woven around the adventures Of the Webster
family.
VOL, 0:00-BilIy Arnold and Rocky 6rsli.
ano in an eighf-round weIieweighi bout.
Evening star., 1945-03-09

WM, i0:30-Jane Withefs visits.
WOP. i0:30-Ilh Chase. Allan Jones,
Hugh Hsrberi. Peter Lore appear.
Wc, i0:45-"Should the Veterans Approve
Breton Woodsf
W. ti:30-Besinning a four-psh drama.
iizsiion Of ThsekersYs Vanity Fair
Evening star., 1945-03-09

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Evening star., 1945-03-09
on THE AIR TokIsnT

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WhAL, 8:0O-Meuo.soprano Rosalind Ma.
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WT0p, 8:30-The charIesss play tag with
a dead man in The Case Of the 6oofy Ghosi"