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Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
UNION LEADERS
SILENT ON
LABOR DRAFT

NEW YORk.--(FP)-A majority Of
AFL and CIO officials throughout the
nation were reserving comment on Pres
ident Roosevelt's call for a national
service acC January 9 pending definite
action by their national organizations,
while the lew unionists who did comment
indicated opposition to the proposal
In Los Angeles Sec. William j. Bassett
of the Central Labor Council agreeing
with AFL President William Green's op-
position to a labor draft, said: up
grading labor in those industries paying
wages rdiculously out Of line is the only
way to increase production and attract
new worker To introduce forced
labor to convince our allies and Germany
that we mean business seems a totally
unnecessary step at this stage of the
game.
Pres James c. Thimmes of the Cali
fornia CIO Council likewise said there
was mo necessity" for a labor draft. He
said he could see no reason for chang
ing the position Of opposition to a labor
draft as formulated by Philip Murray
last January"
Reflecting the failure of previous
civilian manpower controls to provide
needed workers, 41O soldiers arrived in
Los Angeles January on 12O-day fur
Tough" to help produce combat truck
tires under military jurisdiction at the
Big -Four tire plants They will work a
7-day week at civilian pay rates. 1t.
Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, army supply
chief has allotted 600 soldiers to the Los
Angeles area, which is second only to
Akron as a tire producing center.
In Austin, Tex, AFL, CLIO and railroad
union leaders interviewed by Federated
Press all said that any action under
taken on a statewide scale for or against
national service act would be prema-
ture at this time.
In ST. Louis Sec. oscar Ehrardt Of
the Industrial Union Council reaffirmed
the councils opposition to a labor draft.
War plants can be manned successfully
without compulsion, he said, IF govern
ment agency heads get together on what
they want and cooperate instead Of work
ing against one another"
Ehrardt cited the shortsighted layoff
of thousand of workers at the U. S. Cart
ridge Co. in st. Louis last spring as typ
ical of lack of coordination among plan
ming agencies. u S. Cartridge, largest
small arms plant in the world, was cut
back to a fraction of peak production
when the War Department decided there
was an ample supply of small arms am
munition. Production has now been re-
sumed to meet the current shortage of
plant is a major problem because the
laid-off workers have scattered to other
cities or taken more secure jobs, he
pointed out
The needed workers can be obtained,
he said, by hiring women and Negroes,
guaranteeing workers who take short
term war jobs seniority on their pre-
vious jobs and providing dismissal wages
to assure the workers of some security.
Regional Director A. J. Kaietinsky Of
United steelworkers CCIO) said steel
workers have consistently fought labor
draft, adding that release Of boarded
labor in large plants in st. Louis and
Kansas City would go a long way toward
filling job vacancies. One Kansas City
aircraft plant employing 10000 workers
could spare 1900 workers without miss
ing them" he said.
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
SOVIET PUSH DREW
TANKS NEEDED
AGAINST The u. S.

WASHINGTON (FP) For perhaps
the first time there has been an Ameri-
can admission that the Russian drive
toward Hungary is a major operation
that has the Nazis worried stiff.
The concession came January u in
the syndicated column Of Maj George
Fielding Eliot, noted military analyst,
IN. Y. Herald Tribune, Washington
Star, etc. who said in part.
"The stubborn German resistance in
Budapest and the decision of the Ger
man high command to send considerable
forces of armored and other elite troops
to attempt to relieve the German garri-
son in that city, indicate the importance
which the Germans attach to the Rus
sian campaign in Hungary
Incidentally of course, this decision
which must have been an extremely
painful one for the Germans, consider
ing the fact that Won Rundstedt must
at that moment have been planning his
attack in the west-attests the sound
strategic judgment of the Russian high
command in deciding to make the long
difficult detour around the Carpathians
and up through Hungary
Enots piece said there seems to be
some lack Of understanding "of what
the Russians have been trying to do"
and that Occasionally there appears
some comment to the effect that the
Russians may be delaying their cam
paign for political reasons" He then
finds the drive into Hungary is the best
possible attack and concludes:
IF anyone who entertains doubts on
this subject will ask himself what might
have happened if Won Rundstedt had
possessed, in his initial attack toward
Liege CBelgium), the armored divisions
which must even then have been as
sembling for the counterattack northwest
of Budapest he will have reasonably
satisfactory answer to his uncertainties"
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18


Oil Workers International Union, an af-
filiate of the CIo of which Thomas is a
vice president.
Carrying the case through the Texas
courts, Thomas lost in the Supreme Court
at Austin and the U. s Supreme Court
held two hearings on it.
Justice Wiley Rutledge wrote the ma
iority decision, joined by Justice Hugo L.
Black, William o. Douglas and Frank
Murphy, with Justice Robert Jackson
writing a separate concurring opinion
The four dissenting justices were Chief
Justice Harlan Stone, Justices Owen J.
Roberts, Stanley F. Reed and Felix
Frankurter
The majority opinion said that 1T was
not by accident Or coincidence that the
rights to freedom in speech and press
We're coupled in single guaranty with
the rights Of the people peaceably to as
semble and to petition for redress Of
grievances.
1t was agreed that the state has power
to regulate labor unions with a view to
protecting the public interest, but the
court said such regulation whether
aimed at fraud or other abuses, must
not trespass upon the domains set apart
for free speech and free assembly"
Admitting that Thomas went to Texas
expressly to make the speech prohibited
by the Texas statute, the court said that
there was restriction .on Thomas right
to speak and the rights Of the workers
to hear what he had to say, there can
be no doubt. The threat of the restrain
ing order, backed by the power of con-
tempt, and of arrest for crime, hung
over every word. A speaker in such cir
cumstances could avoid the words solicit,
invite, join It would be impossible to
avoid the idea"
THE statute forbids any language
which conveys, or reasonably could be
found to convey, the meaning of invi-
tation (to join a union) That Thomas
chose to meet the issue squarely, not to
hide in ambiguous phrasing does not
counteract this fact.
The court then pointed out that the
Texas law forbidding solicitation of union
membership without a license compels
any speaker to hedge and trim" but
that Thomas was faced with three
choices: Il. to stand on his right and
speak freely; 2. to quit, refusing entirely
to speak; g. to trim and even thus to
risk the penalty. He chose the first
alternative. We think he was within his
right in doing So
In winding up, the majority said. I'VE
think that a requirement that one must
register before he undertakes to make a.
speech to enlist support for a lawful
movement is quite incompatible with the
requirements Of the 1st amendment" Ito
the Constitution guaranteeing free speech
press and assembly,.
Finally the court said the Texas re-
straint lis not small when it is con
sidered what was restrained. The right
is national right, federally guaranteed.
There is some modicum of freedom of
thought, speech and assembly which all
citizens of the republic may exercise
throughout its length and breadth, which
no state, nor all together, nor the nation
itself. can prohibit, restrain or impede.
If the restraint were smaller than it is,
it is fro mpetty tyrannies that large ones
take root and grow"
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
MURRAY AND PRESSNIAN
HAIL COURT DECISION

WASHINGTON.-FP)-CIO President
Philip Murray and Gen. Counsel Lee
Pressman hailed the Supreme Court de-
cision in the Thomas case as a great
labor victory January 8. Murray said,
"The Christian American campaign to
cripple labor unions was dealt an effec-
tive blow today. We believe that the
CIO, in testing the right OF Mr.. Thomas
to speak, has advanced the cause Of lib
erty everywhere"
Pressman pointed out that organizers
" do not lose their constitutional rights
to speech when they solicit workers to
join union. A second source OF i'm
portance in the opinion is that it stresses
the constitutional significance of the
right of peaceable assembly"
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18

In an important 5-4 decision, the court
found that a Texas anti-labor law, used
as pattern for similar statutes in Kan
sas and Florida, violated the constitution
al guarantee Of freedom of speech and
assembly.
The case came to the high court on
appeal by Pres. R. J. Thomas of the
United Auto Workers (CIO), who was
convicted in September, 194S, of having
addressed a union meeting at Baytown,
Texas, without having first obtained an
Organizers registration certificate from
the Texas secretary Of state Thomas
spoke at the meeting on behalf of the
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
Public Invited to
Townsend Club Meeting

Townsend club NO. 6 meets each Mon
day evening at 8 p m. at their hall at
G South Arizona street, with Mrs Flor
ence Moore presiding All meetings open
to the public.
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
NOTICE

The Trades and Labor Council
will convene at TOO o'clock instead
of 500 o'clock at its next meeting
Tuesday, January %, 1945, in order
to accommodate the annual party.
The meeting and the party will be
held on the second floor Of the
Carpenters hall.
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
Low Wages Blamed by
.AFL for ManpOwer Crisis

WASHINGTON-( (FP) P)-Blame for the
current manpower crisis was laid by the
AFL January II on the thin pay en-
velopes given workers in the plants in
volved.
The situation was covered in the jan
uary issue of Labors Monthly Survey
which said:
Most of the manpower shortages are
in plants where labor conditions are sub
standard. Low wages are the chief prob
lem.
In many Of the plants converted from
civilian work, wages were low before the
war, and the plants, caught in the WLB
wage freeze, have not been permitted to
raise their wages to adequate levels. Sit
uations of this kind can be corrected if
the WPB certifies to the WLB that low
wages are interfering with war produc-
ton"
Other causes cited by the Survey were:
Inadequate housing, inadequate trans
portation, impossibility Of getting ade-
quate meals and food, home duties fore
ing housewives TO leave their work.
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18

CLEVELAND - (FP) - CIO workers
here gave $4,000 to help victims of the
recent Ohio Gas company fire disaster,
which took the lives Of 131 people and
injured 23O Clevelanders.
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18

Everything for the Boys" Maestro
Dick Haynes says he knows a jockey
who eats so much he can't ride any more.
What you might call putting a la carte
before the horse.
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18
TEXAS <}NTI-LABOR LAW REBUkED
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT in EPIC
DECISION FAVORS UNITED AUTO WORKERS

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Le dynamite Of the Q. s..
Supreme Court blasted the hopes Of the fascist Christian
American Association that it could hogte the labor
nent i'm q maze of registration tecmicaties IannalN
Montana labor news., 1945-01-18

Orchestra Leader Gordon jenkins OBJ
serves that some men thirst after know
ledge, some after fame-and some after
too many salted peanuts
Evening star., 1945-01-16
Baby Bedding Needs

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95e
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Waterproof mottress Covers blue
Kleinert Dry Down Sheets, 27x3e 90
Plymouth Rubber Sheets. woeprooed; 5ex54 size---l.50
Arooe Filled Boby Pillows, royon top 80
Evening star., 1945-01-16

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Time
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led by Detroit, might ignore the
Legislative mandate and hold
to Eastern War (EST) time.
A Bill "to take the Depart
ment of Agriculture out of pol
tics long sought by farm
groups-was passed in the Sem
ate over opposition Of Governor
Kelly. 1t would place the de-
partment under a bipartisan,
six-member commission ap-
pointed for staggered terms and
which would appoint a $1,000
a-year director.
The Senate also approved
companion bills to grant the
State Conservation Commission
discretionary power to fix bag
and season limits on game and
fish, now fixed by statute. The
Michigan United Conservation
Clubs sponsored the measures.
A proposed Constitutional
amendment was filed to extend
the terms of Governor, other
State officials, legislators and
county officials from two to
four years.
A bill to eliminate the present
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army-built dyke extends around
Selfridge Field on the north side
of the river, capable of arresting
swollen river waters which or
dinarily would flow into the
army reservation north of the
river.
ADD TO PERIL
"This alone will add about a
foot to the normal flood waters
south of the river and foot of
water on top of flood conditions
can raise havoc with homes and
property" Rosso said.
'The damage might run up to
500, 900 from a fair-sized flood"
he pointed out, "when the loss
of top-soil and damage to roads
is considered"
Rosso said that War Depart
ment and Congressional leaders
had promised a thorough study
of a U. S. Engineers report on
the Clinton River scheduled to
be made on Feb. 1. Similar as
surance was given Drain Com
missioner Harper in his appeals
to Washington.
However, Rosso pointed out
that the survey in question was
made years ago before Warren
Township was highly industrial
lied - with factories and home
adding greatly to the drainage
problem. He said he doubted
whether it incorporated surveys
made after the 1913 flood, or
the effect on the Clinton River
caused by the comparatively
new Selfridge Field dyke.
HEAVY ICE
Lungerhausen, speaking prin-
cipally for the property owners
of the north bank of the Clin-
ton, east of the jefferson avenue
bridge, said that tests of the ice
made recently revealed it to be
thicker than for many years -
"a sure recipe for bad ice
JAM, he commented.
A quick thaw will create a
jam and rising waters will sweep
away docks, boat houses and 9TH
err property, the attorney point
ed out.
Lungerhausen said he is now
preparing petitions to be sent to
the War Department or district
engineers, even though no i'm
mediate benefit could be obtain
ed. Other petitioners, including
Rosso, Harper and Pettingill
have the same attitude. They aim
at prevention of future floods.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Only Foolish 6I's
Use Captured Guns
Sound Would Bring
American Gunfive

LONGVIEW, Tex. - W.D -
There's a good reason why CTS
seldom use captured enemy
guns.
Sgt. Albert l.. Cook, former
Texas theater man who is re-
covering at Harmon General
Hospital from wounds received
in France, says the sound of its
bark tells a soldier whether a
machine gun or rifle Is friend
or foe.
ANY fellow silly enough to
start using an enemy gun would
find himself full of American
bullets" says Cook. "The boys
would know it was a Jerry gun
the moment he opened fire, and
they'd shoot at the sound"
Cook landed in Normandy on
D-Day and spent 81 days in
France.
The strangest thing about the
invasion to him was the fact the
American soldiers he saw had
plenty of money-and no place
to spend 1t.
eve got paid in French
francs" he said. "But every
where / was stationed all the
business houses had been de-
stroyed by shells"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
SeIfridge SweIIs
Paralysis Fund
by $1.453.20

First community" unit to re-
port returns in the 1945 Infan-
tile Paralysis drive, Selfridge
Field this week revealed that a
total of $l,453.28 has been con-
tributed by army personnel and
civilians to the national charity.
The amount is almost three
and one-half times that collect
ed in the 1914 campaign, accord
ing to Capt. Carl E. Abbott
service officer and base chair
man for the drive.
In thanking those who helped
achieve the recor d-breaking
financial total, Capt. Abbott
praised the complete coopera-
ton between civilian and mill
tary committees, plus the eff
forts of the MOO and Officers
Club governing boards who
staged dances and parties to
raise additional funds"
Capt. Abbott lauded the eff
forts Of AZ civilian women en-
ployes, Is WAC members and
four enlisted men who spon-
sored a Tag Day" and tagged
base residents for total of
$486.15.
The largest single donation in
the Selfridge contribution was
S316.84 from the Officers Club.
A dance at the MOO Club
brought in 1883.
F. Scott Burke. county chair
man of the 1945 polio fund
drive, expressed gratitude to the
AAF base officers, personnel
and civilians who made the gift
possible. He referred to it as an
outstanding example of char
ity."
Burke said he is now compil-
ing returns from various COM
munities in the county and ex-
poets to reveal the complete sue
cess of the drive next week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Baby Born 10 Mother
Alone In S!eiq h
Conadisn Soldiers Wife
Beers Child in Zero Weather

SOUoOsoU SVuOuSu VU0
Beers Child in Zero Weather
SAINT JOHN, N. B., Feb. g.
R-A baby girl was born to
Mrs. Murray B. Waddell Thurs
day while she was alone in a
horse-drawn sleigh on the way
to a hospital.
Mrs. Waddell. whose husband
is a soldier, set out alone from
Moss Glen in sub-zero weather,
Harvesting the horse herself in
the middle of the night. She in
tended to cross the ice of the
Kennebecassis river to Saint
John. She aroused Leslie Merritt
at Moss Glen, asked him to tele-
phone doctor to meet her and
then continued on her way
alone.
The baby was born before the
doctor could reach the sleigh.
and Mrs. Waddell then turned
the sleigh around and drove
home with her newborn daugh-
ter. The doctor reached her an
hour and a half after she had
carried the baby into her home.
Both are doing well.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Fined $50 for Sale
|of Liquor 10 Boys
TeovfuI Pleo Wins
lenianey from Court

UTICA "A fine o. $50 and
costs was levied by Judge Frank
E. Jeanette in justice court on
Thursday afternoon against Mrs.
Mabel Deeg for serving liquor
to minors at the Oxhorn Tavern
of which her husband Otto is
proprietor.
Tearfully pleading not to be
sent to Jail, Mrs. Deeg admitted
that beer was served to a IL.
year-old boy at IL p. m. Wednes-
day, when State troopers of the
Romeo post entered the tavern,
but claimed that another 49,
year-old with beer in front of
him was not served by her, and
that two juveniles, age IL and
is, were present with an older
brother. Prosecutor Wilbur F.
Held presented the states case.
1T will never happen again"
Mrs. Deeg promised the court.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
OAR Cancels State
Meet in Grand Rapids

HILLSDALE, Mich, Feb. g.
R-The Michigan state confer
ence of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, scheduled
for March 20 and FL at Grand
Rapids, Mich, has been cancel
led, Miss Laura Cook of Hills
dale, state regent, announced
today.
The cancellation was made in
cooperation will the govern
ments request to curtail travel.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
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not locate Koenigsberg and left
the impression that the capital
of East Prussia was meant. Lat
er Berlin broadcasts identified
the town.
Schrpeter was sentenced in
court at Schwedt, 80 miles south
of Stettin.
This was the third in a series
of east front civilian executives
announced by the Germans.
Previously the deputy mayor of
Breslau was executed and the
Police President and other. Of
ficials of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg)
the fallen fortress in Poznan
Province, were executed "for
cowardice."
The Paris radio said some
foreign slave workers had risen
against the Germans even as
Heindrich Himmler organized
German Guerrillas for last ditch
resistance against the Allied in
vaders.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Awaits HearinS
i'm Morals Case

Edgar Sass, 20, of 272 North
Walnut street, has been bound
over to Circuit Court to await
an appearance and plea on a
charge of taking indecent liber-
ties with a minor child.
Sass, war plant worker,
waived examination on his sec
ond appearance this week be-
fore Justice Frank e. Jeanette.
Police allege that the annoy
ed a l0-year-old Mount Glenn
ems girl in theater.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
The Winner-Spinach

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - W,P) -
The strength of Popeye the Sail
or's spinach was proven when
grocer Arthur H. Lillienkamp
used a can of spinach to thwart
a Would-be robber. A customer
entered the store and ordered a
cocoanut, tomato juice and then
spinach. AS Lillienkamp turned
to get the spinach, the custom
err" drew out a lead pipe, hit him
on the head and told him to stay
down. But the grocer dazedly
reached for the can of spinach
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Earl Buss Seeks
New Justice Term
Clinton Incumbent
Would Retain Office

Earl F. Buss, 81, incumbent
justice of the peace of Clinton
township. reveals he will seek
reelection on the Republican
ticket.
A native of Clinton township,
Buss lives at 4440 South Gratiot
avenue and is active in Repub-
lican circles. serving as presi-
dent of the Young COP, and as
executive secretary of the
county committee.
The candidate attended Mich
igan State Normal College from
1884 to 1887. majoring in COM
mercial law.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-09
Davis Seeks Court
Post in Clinton
Young lowyer Enters
Township Contests

Louis M. Davis, who lives at
Gal East Scott boulevard, an
nounces his candidacy for NOM
ination for the office of justice
of the peace on the Republican
ticket in Clinton township.
Davis, a graduate of Wayne
University College of Law, has
been practising law in Mount
Clemens for a number of years.
He is a member of Macomb
County and State Bar Associa-
tons, a member of knights of
Pythias lodge, and president of
B'Nai Birth Jewish brother
hood.
This is Davis first entry into
township politics. He is mar
ried and has one daughter.