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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

and was stopped by the officer ac- companying her. These men are in pretty bad condition, Miss Miranda, he said. You may find 1t too de- pressing" She went in, nothwith- standing the warning, and gave her act. only to find that every man in from her. T guess they didn't like it." she said after she'd finished. You're wrong, Miss Miranda" her guide told her. They were crazy about it. They turned away because every man in that ward is faceless. They're waiting for plastic surgery"
 Bob Hope is getting laughs with his story about the Army sergeant, detailed to the staff Of a camp pa per. who rushed into his Captain just before press time. Sir" he. said, T refer here to Betty Grable as The Legs Do you think every- che will know whom I mean?" Tie Captain, a man in his forties, looked dubious. I'm under the impression that The Legs refers to Marlene Dietrich" he objected. Lets ask the Colonel" Into the great ones office they strode. and propounded the question The colonel snorted disgust. Any fool knows who that expression refers to- he ruled. "Clara Bow, of course!"
 A publicity dispatch reports that Oracle Allen has been named official pin-up girl of the San Francisco police I'm wondering whether she should be flattered-or demand an explanation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
7te Noctoad Naugltton4
 By FAITH BALDWIN se-x..ssr
coPVRf6HT, NEA SERVICE. ING.

the older girl, Get the children out of the room. Where's the nearest telephone?"
 There was a store, down the street.
 She asked. Who's your doc- tor?' but Mrs. Reman shook her head. She didn't have no doctor, sch said She'd been going to the clinic, because of the coming baby. Shed have it in the hos- pital, her husbands sister was to look after the children. Her hus- band, she added, had been dead for three months.
 Emily spoke to the little girl. She gave her coins and wrote 8 number on slip of paper.
 Do you know how to use the telephone, Gloria?"
 Gloria nodded.
 Then call this number and ask for Doctor Thompson. Tell him Emily wants him to come right away. Give him your address. Let me know at once if he isn't there"
 Waiting for Gloria to return she did what she could. Mrs. Reman hovered about, crying at intervals. She asked, in 8 terrified whisper, Could it be that - that -" She swallowed, she could not say the words infantile paralysis. But she had heard of it, she said, someone in the next street had had it
 Emily said, we will have to wait until Doctor Thompson comes" She looked at the pitiful, flushed child, with the heavy lids. Jim, she thought, Jim, hurry
 (T0 Be C0ntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

remains that they are between the devil and the deep blue sea. Their first duty is to their stockholders and to the public, and the job im- posed by that duty is the task of keeping their studios open and functioning if they can.
 Idol Chatter: Bette Davis tear jerkers are usually serious. but it would be mistake to call them dry Smile-alikes: Dan Dur yea and Glenn Ford To an actor playing opposite Jeanne Grain, that Hays Office rule against long kisses must seem rank injustice. Add signs of the times: The poster, in Hollywood butcher shop, announcing: 'Closed-until we meat again" When Susan Hayward starts biting her lower lip, it's time to run; the little lady's mad Wondering muse: Why don't pro- ducers give breaks to Freddie Bar tholomew, kid who's never turned in bad performance? Edward Everett Horton seldom gets top bill- Ing, put many a star would gladly trade paychecks with him.
 A trade paper story reports that juvenile hoodlums are on the ram page again in Omaha. Nebraska, theaters-that they have been tear ing up theater seats, tossing lighted matches from the balconies on first floor patrons and writiAS ribald comments on theater walls. Theater managers. the article states, don't know how to cope with the situation. I'm reminded of the experience of a friend of mine. Not long ago, his 16-year-old son gave party More than hundred young hoodlums crashed the gate and, within five or ten minutes, converted the house into shambles. My friend armed himself with baseball bat and de- livered an ultimatum. You can either quiet down, or get out of here, or take the consequences he announced The "delinquents" quieted down.
 This isn't nice" story, perhaps but it's one that should be told. Carmen Miranda, entertaining in a big army hospital back East, at tempted to enter one of the wards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

Mrs. Jones is always available for any kind of committee. You'll find her name on the list of prac- tically every club in town. It has been war work lately, but before that it was something she consid- cred equally important.
 How does she manage so much time away from home? Well. the six and eight-year-old children roam the neighborhood, and some seventh or eighth-grader she wouldn't think of trusting with any other job around the house looks after the baby. Or during school hours the baby can be pushed of on the cleaning woman.
 When the Junior JoneSes en- certain, the kids are left with Grandma
 FAIRLY TYPICAL
 The Junior Joneses aren't just an especially heartless and unsee- ing couple, either. They are fairly typical of young parents today.
 They believe in having families. But they don't believe in letting the kids interfere with their way of living. And by pushing the kids out, instead of drawing them close into the family circle, they
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

New York - Masquerading as long, dramatic gloves, the sleeve adds another chapter to it's varied fall story.
 Aiding and abetting in this dis guise is the black dress, which is sleeved in color or carries a bright chevron below jutting or bolstered shoulders to put the illusion of gloves across. This masquerade is gayest when sleeves of palette pink, sand beige, red or turquoise, carry their vivid color all the way to the dngertips of short, matching gloves
 Such dresses give a completely covered arm and hand, and, some times for sheer contradiction a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
Selected Poem

AQUARELLE (Mary Atwater- Taylor in The New
 York TimeS) Rushes and reeds and water cress Darken the shallow pool, The uncurled ferns along the bank Blow wet and green and cool. Over the mirrored surface On shimmering steel-blue wings Hovers droning dragonfly. Above. catbird sings. The lucent. sliding water With silken undertone- Laps gently as 1t polishes Each silver-lichened stone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
WE, THE WOMEN
Children Haue q Right To More OF Parents Time

don't have to settle down to being parents.
 It may be fine for the Junior Joneses, but it is hard on the kids. As the juvenile judge says, they just don't get enough living with their parents-which, after all, Is the one thing that kids, rich or poor, have natugal right to.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
Rotorions to Heor Achilles Tomorrow

Rotary club members will hear w. M. Achilles of United States Rubber Company, Research and Development Department of Chi cago at meeting Tuesday at The Elton. The speakers subject will be Synthetic Rubber and Its Appli- cation in Tires"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

young parents W h o S e living pattern follows t h a t of the junior JoneSes.
 T h e 1T kids are never al- lowed to inter- fere with their lives. And they get a lot of p r a i s e from t h e ir friends for how little difference hav- ing c h il d r e T makes in their S c h e m e of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
OUTING POSTPONED

The outing scheduled for yester- day by the Mems club of the Fidst Lutheran church was postponed un- til next Sunday, according to an announcement by Robert Hoebel, a member of the arrangements com mittee. It will take place at the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Southbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

neckline that's completely uncov- cred. They carve clean V's into yokes or plastrons of color, which create, according to Fox Brownie who sponsors this theme, block of Tight" that balances a block of shade" in the best traditions of abstract art.
 The black crepe dress, left, which has hand-smocked yoke of palette pink and long, dramatic "glove sleeves" of the same color, is a style leader of this collection.
 On the black crepe dress, right, the illusion of arm climbing gloves is created by chevron shoulder stripes of turquoise blue jersey, 8 color repeated in the plastron front which is belted to make peplum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
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 LUNCHEON: Frankfurters, po- tato salad, toasted rolls sliced to- matoes. peanut cookies, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Hot chicken and to- mato broth in cups, soda crackers. curried sea food salad, herb spread sandwiches, vanilla ice cream with sliced peaches, white cake, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

my baby at home-it is a safer place to have baby than any such mal-administered institution is.
 All Legs Are Crooked
 Daughter. eleven months old, has legs like mine. Mine are a little on the crooked side. Her legs do not seen to be strengthening out. Doc tor said they will when she begins to try to walk. .. (Mrs. w. L. O.
 Answer-Perfectly developed wom- en, and everybody else for that matter, have legs a little on the crooked side. The best you can do for your daughter is to see that she receives daily feeding of say, 1000 units of vitamin D, exposure to sunshine limited only by care to precent sunburn, mad every en- couragement to walk, run and play as much as she wants to.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
By RUTH MILLETT

'There is not enough living with the children on the part of many modern parents" says a Georgia juvenile court judge.
 True or false?
 We'll, there are thousands of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20
JIM IE FIDLER h HoHy1Dood
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.

Hollywood, August 20 - If you've read this column for any appreci- able time, you must be aware ot the fact that I criticize the big moguls of the movie industry just as freely as I do anyone else in the business. I've never been. and never will be, the kind of bootlicking col umnist Hollywood describes as a producers man." But because the position of the studio heads in the current strike is being misunder- stood by many people, I'd like to say a word in their behalf.
 The strike is, firs!rAo last, a jur- isdictional battle between two AFL unions, the LATSE and the Confer ence of Studio Unions and Guilds. The producers are in the middle. If they yield to the strikers and rec ognize THEIR union as exclusive bargaining agent for the IT decora- tors who are the hub of the con- troversy, they will face an even more crippling strike by the IATSE, which controls not only the major ity of studio workers but also all theater projectionists, without whost services every theater in the United States would be forced to close.
 I presume that every producer in the business has his sympathies in the current battle Most of them, I understand, are friendly to the IATSE, but that friendliness is not enough ot condemn them. The fact
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-20

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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
Draft
Solves


WASHINGTON, July II
(LPA)-- The nearest solution
to the cutback problem that
has been found by any gov
ernment agency was disclosed
last week by Selective Service,
which said that it had ordered
its $500 local boards to draft
war workers under 30 who have
been disemployed by cutbacks.
Director Lewis B. Hershey said
that most of these war workers
have had occupational defer
ments.
WPB's. solution of the recon
version and cutback problem
has amounted to nothing more
than lifting the controls on in
dustry while wage controls re-
main intact. WPB, however, is
not alone to blame. Congress has
been sitting down on bill that
would speed reconversion thru
a study of the nations industry
and its capacity to make quick
changeover.
During the week cutbacks hit
more than 500 plants through
out the country. How many were
laid off is not known either to
WPB nor the War Manpower
Commission. More often than
not, workers do not receive ad-
vance notice, although this was
promised by WPB several
months ago. Three thousand
workers turning out BITS at
Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach
Cal, were notified this week
that production would be stop
ped Immediately. Five hundred
were thrown out of work in a
single plant in Springfield, o.;
more than $4,000 in Chicago
and another 10000 in the me-
tropolitan New York area.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

chain of II papers syndicated an
editorial calling this "A Real
Anti-Labor Bill The editorial
asserted, I'VE think it is mis-
chievous proposal, designed to
appeal to prejudice and to make
trouble between veterans and
home-front workers"
Labor leaders believe that
Rankin's measure is a bald-faced
union busting job, as Celler de-
clared. In addition it would
lend itself to the idea of super
seniority which labor leaders
have fought with the aid of
many government officials and
impartial arbitrators. Eleanor
Roosevelt last week took organ
lied labor's side on the super
seniority issue In her daily
column Mrs. Roosevelt said that
Seniority becomes important
when jobs are scarce and men
are being laid off. The unions
are more interested than any
other group in seeing that re-
turned veterans get every posi-
BILE benefit and protection"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
UAW-CIO
Convention
Is Cancelled

DETROIT, July 16 "The
application of the UAW-CIC
to hold its Convention sche-
duled for September 10 has
been denied by the War
Committee on Conventions
George r. Adde'S Secretary
Treasurer of the Union said to-
day.
No reason was given by the
Committee" Adde's said, "other
than in their opinion it should
not be held at this time" Adde's
ruled out, as not a solution to
UAW-CIO problems approval of
the Committee for the holding of
local meetings with not more
than so people from out of town
in attendance.
Provided BY Constitution
The UAW-CIO Constitution
calls for a Convention each year,
and tentative arrangements had
already been made to hold it in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, the
same place it was held last year.
Approximately $500 delegates
from local unions in the United
States and Canada were expect
ed to attend.
The ODT was asked to recon-
slider its decision because of "the
urgent need for the formulation
of policies pertinent to the Ma
tional problems affecting war
production, civilian production,
wages, and the no-strike pledge
of our Union cannot be disre-
garded" and because 1--WE see no
justification for the denial of our
Convention at a time when pub
lie transportation facilities, air
and rail, are being used for
pleasure purposes"
Adde's said he had no idea now
when Convention would be held,
but said the Union would con-
tinue its efforts to obtain ODT
approval.
The International Executive
Board of the Union is meetings
this week in Minneapolis, and it
is expected that the whole mat
ter will be fully discussed at that
time.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

for insult when he was fired by
the management of the French
Oil, Mill and Machinery Co. of
that city.
The management gave "ab-
senteeism' as the reason for fir
ing Slonkowski, but his past
two months record shows that
he worked an average of so
hours a week.
Prior to his entrance into the
armed forces, Slonkowski had
a good employment record of
ten years, but it seems that this,
plus the time during which he
served his country, means no
thing to the French Oil, Mill,
and Machinery Co., when they
are ready to discharge one of
their unprotected employees.
Many employees of this COM
pany, which is undergoing the
process of being organized by
representative of Richard Cos
ser's UAW-CIO, Region 2-B Of
flee, are incensed by the COM
pany's action toward this Am
erican veteran.
Our boys in the armed serv-
ices have fought and some have
given their lives to rid the
world of dictatorship, and this
type of dictatorship" which
the company is displaying is
very displeasing to those who
are compelled to work at the
French, Oil, Mill and Machinery
Co.
The organizers report that
since this obnoxious incident,
many of those working in
the plant have signified their
intention of being organized
by the Region 2-B men to pro-
tect themselves from occurrences
of such actions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
We Shall
/! ,,k!seIp Them

Everyone by now has heard
of the large number of men be-
ing discharged from the armed
forces with what is termed
"Neuro psychiatric disability" f"
Some people, hearing the term
for the first time, have been
frightened by it, believing that
it meant insanity.
Because of this misconception
they have written articles tell
ing the public that there is moth
ing at all the matter with the
discharged veteran, that the
whole problem lies in the minds
of a few malicious psychiatrists
and that all the veterans need
is to be given a good job and
left alone.
The truth concerning the
"Neuro psychiatric" disability
discharge is that the great mai
ority of people so diagnosed are
not insane and never were. They
did, however, develop emotional
difficulties while in the service,
difficulties which in many in
stances do not disappear the
moment the man is taken out of
uniform. These difficulties take
the form of increased tension,
nervousness, feeling of dread,
lack of self-confidence, or in
ability to make decision.
On the other hand, the ner-
vousness may show itself in con-
ditions which look like sleepless-
ness, diarrhea, poor appetite or
People with diff
culties of this sort have always
held jobs and can hold them
now, but there may be certain
work conditions which at the
they should avoid.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

not yet belong to PAC, ac-
cording to Chairman Rusch'
1--WE believe that this is the
best time to put on the member
ship drive in view of the issue
of PR and the election of city
council" said Mr.. Rusch. Tom
Burke, incumbent councilman,
who is vice-president of Local
II. UAW-CIO is a candidate for
reelection and has been given
the unanimous endorsement of
the PAC.
Opposed to PR
Opposition to the PR system
of electing city councilmen Is
one of the principal objectives
of the Toledo PAC which is cir
culating petitions throughout the
shops to secure sufficient sigma
lures to place a referendum to
repeal the system upon the bal
lot for the November election.
Chancs of getting the repeal
referendum on the ballot are
believed to be good despite the
fact that $500 valid signatures
are required. PAC is seeking to
obtain 10000 names to insure
the referendum.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

Fails

The failure of the MESA
organizing committee to i'm
press the Packard CIO pro-
duction workers is becoming
more apparent as the weeks
60 by.
Alter the assinine attempt by
Earl Streeter to confuse the
Packard employees by passing
out handbills at the plant which
state that the MESA negotiated
for vacation pay for the CIO
and MESA members, Streeter
had to admit under oath that
the statement is not true.
What Streeer failed to state
was the fact that it was the
inquiry made by the UAW-CIO
to the War Labor Board asking
for an Interpretation of the CIO
contract vacation pay clause in
which the CIO contended that
the vacation pay clause was also
payable for 1945 and the WLB
so ruled. Copies of the letters
are posted on the CIO bulletin
board.
This is another attempt by
MESA to cover their failure to
negotiate for themselves. That
being the case, how can they
negotiate for anyone else?
For such trivia as this, the
MESA organizers are spending
their time and the members
money to gain doubtful success
when they had better look to the
betterment of their own So
called union. Just what can
they offer to anyone else after
such miserable failures on their
own part to promote unionism
amongst themselves?
1t is said by some of the dis
I'll ST e d and disgrountled
MESA members that if they
were able to rid themselves of
their weak and buck-passing
leaders, they could achieve
greater success for their union
and perhaps regain their losses.
Rumors are going around
which infer that the MESA has
not as yet renewed their con-
tract which was to expire June
20, l945. If this is the case, they
must be working without con-
tract. Can't they negotiate a.
contract?
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

Membership growth of PAC
while not spectacular in the past
six weeks continues to be salts
factory according to PAC Off
cials. The goal set by the organ
ization early this year has not
been reached, however, and it
is to accomplish tbis purpose
that the new drive will be in
agurated August l..
To Announce Plans
Plans for the new drive will
be announced and every effort
made to contact and sign every
member of the CIO in Toledo
according to Mr.. Rusch and
other members of the PAC
executive board.
Petitions for the PR repeal are
being returned to the PAC head
quarters. Mr.. Rusch has request
ed all those circulating the petit
tions to return them to the PAC
office as soon as they they have
been filled. This will enable the
headquarters to determine their
exact number and permit ade-
quate time to prepare for filing.
The petitions for the PR repeal
must be filed by August 8.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

tail the reconversion price policy
adopted by the OPA and the
formula which will be used to
figure the new prices of COM
modities which have been out of
production during the war. 1t
declared that the formula took
into account certain alleged
cost increases which have taken
place since 1941 but made no
allowance for costs which may
have gone down. IF the figure
arrived at through this formula
is higher than his 1912, price,
manufacturer may adopt the
higher figure as his present
price ceiling. But no manufac
turer must reduce his price if the
formula comes out lower thar
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