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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
Views Of The Press

Iof the country. Of that, there is no question, because Al Smiths friends are legion and not, by any means, confined to the 1900 who are provid- ing the nucleus of the nationwide committee to function during the campaign.
 The proposed hospital addition will be known as the Alfred E. Smith Memorial hospital. A more noteworthy project could not have been undertaken to perpetuate the memory of so great an American statesman.
 Formal launching of the fund drive is scheduled for October 4 when a committee meeting will be held at New York's Waldorf Astoria. It is expected that representatives of virtually every state in the Union will be present to lend hand in getting the memorial movement started. A total of $150,000 will be raised from the proceeds of the opening dinner meeting and this will serve as the beginning of a fund that unqusstionably will go well beyond the $3,000,000 goal set by the committee.
 The esteem in which the late Happy Warrior" is held is indi- cated by the fact that Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York is flying from Tokyo and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is re- turning from Europe in time to at- tend the first committee meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
Unfinished Jobs

The end of the did not mark the end of the Ma onal War Fund of the p agencies of relief comfort and hospitality for which it SocitS contributions And so this month for the third successive year. the Fund IS aga appealing to Americans generosity and humanity to SUD- port variety of activities that are still urgently needed
 Once again the Fund is operating throughout the country in conjunction with community war funds and Community Chest drives This joint appeal seems partlcu ary fortunate at this time for many of us may have for- gotten that elsewhere in the world the coming of peace has only slightly lessened of the hardships and decie cies which member agencies of the National War Fund are trying to correct. Prisoners Aid and the American Field Service will be great y diminished But there will be corresponding increases in the work of other organizations.
 The USO and USO Camp Shows perhaps more i'm poran than They must put up bigger battle against the boredom and reSeSSneSS which bound to ac the men our occupation forces in Japan and Ger many those other foreign bases and at the convaeS- cents in hospitals and veterans awaiting discharge here at home
 With the oceans cleared of the enemy greater help United China Relief and Philippine War Relief should now be able to do nearly adequate job provided funds are forthcoming to support their work
 Europe where the lack of sufficient food clothing and fuel grows threatening with the approach of win ter there certainly will be job to tax the capacity of all relief organizations The restoration c freedom has brought little If any improvement in physical conditions to many Europeans
 We in this country may not like this that regime at the helm of various other nations of the world But know that hungry kid is hungry kid, matter what gov ernment he lives under We may resent the circumstances that keep member of family in the service long after victory But we realize that wholesome recreation and few extra comforts will make him happier while those circumstances exist
 And because we know these things we should be will ing to dig down for few dollars to invest in little health and happiness for soldiers and sailors and for the decent unfortunate people of other lands that bear the fresh and open scars of war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
Labor Row Backlog
by Peter EdSOn

clash of personalities Kelsey Hayes troubles offer no exception to the rule
 Head of the company is George Kennedy, its pres- ident and principal stockholder and it's chief nego- tiator with its employees. They regard him as tough hombre to deal with. He is a man of strong will and lot of convictions on what he considers right
 On the other side of the picture, leader in the Kelsey-Hayes union is one Chester Moon) Mullins, hothead of the variety that be found in almost every union or club or society ever organized. The Mullins record shows that he has been fired by the company B times for disciplinary reasons Somehow because he was union officer perhaps-in the settlement of Kelsey-Hayes disputes by Reuther, George Adde's or other top officials Of the JAW, Mullins has always been reinStated
 Last April Mullins and dozen of his associates threw supervisor out of the plant The management promptly fired all l3. That caused strike The case went to the Detroit regional War Labor Board which named panel to investigate The panel recommended that all 13 should be renstated to their jobs but when this report to the regional board 1t decided that only nine should be renstated and that three-Moon Mullins among them-shoud be fired The 18th char acter in the dispute apparently decided the thing wasn't worth fighting for and left the state
 This regional VILE decision was handed down Aug 20-four months after the original incident that at Kelsey Hayes hadn't improved any Both the man. agement and the union appealed the decision to Washington and on Aug. g the employees went out on strike.
 The Keisey-Hayes case has today been magnified out of all true proportion It now has national ecos homie and political significance and you are led to believe that 1t is holding up the whole reconverslon case history is spelled out in detail here just to show how trvialities become tragedies, and how ncompe. tent mankind at times seems to be in dealing with them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02

sey-Hayes management has never had formal writ ten labor contract with its employees The employees are organized and they do have union It is a branch 4 the famous Amalgamated Local 174 of the CLO. United Auto Workers.
 This Amalgamated Local TIA is the creation of Walter Reuther and 1t takes in the employees of nearly 100 plants on Detroit's west side which do not have JAW local unions of their own All have contracts except Kelsey-Hayes
 The record shows that the Kelsey Hayes unit of the union has asked management for contract to cover working conditions, and the company has also offered the union contract But neither party has been able to accept the terms of the other, period of years labor relations have been allowed to drag along under armistice that continually breaks out in open warfare.
 When new grievance comes up, settlement must be negotiated By consent it has been agreed that the minutes of these negotiations shall set prece dents for future of the same nature that may arise But there plenty of situations not covered and this leaves the field of dispute wide open.
 Most labor disputes eventually are reduced to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
Schools For Veterans

Every incoming boat percentage of veterans who had not completed their schooling when called to the serv Ice of their country AS they discharged from their par tcular branch in the home camps and from duty over seas the boys, many of them will be receptive for more school training. Already many of them are returning to high schools and colleges.
 The boys went away from home at eighteen, nineteen and twenty at seventeen years of They have had lifetime of experience crowed into few swift tensely dra ac years Now still in hte early twentes it is possible for than the older mento start where they left off,
 It is encouraging therefore to note that many cities are starting schools for veterans only They do not have to go back to the regular schools to fit themselves for the future Embarrassment that might be felt entering classes with younger students will not be likely with this planned schedule.
 Chicago has established three such schools some of them to accommodate and that have already finished high school others for those who have only at tended grade Schools of this nature have also been established the East Refrsher courses well courses contained in the regular curricula will be available.
 This should mitigate somewhat the worry expressed about the placement and the future of redpyed service They continue school in agreeable way along with their comrades fitting themselves for the future in the professions, in business or for trade
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
PRESIDENT EMERITUS BUTLER
(New York Times)


 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler formally retires tomorrow as head of Columbia university to become President Emeritus. No one by long years of service ever earned more fully that honorable title. First among American educators and honored as few have been, now dean of American scholars, he re- mains one of our most forward looking philosophers at 83.
 Dr. Buffers career covers not only a lifetime but an epoch. He was born while this country was still torn by the War Between the States. He grew up in an era of reconstruc- ton and slowly healing wounds. He was president of Columbia for forty-four years and organized its impressive collection of schools as they stand today. It was period of expansion within the educational world as it was within the nation. Now, his work well done, Dr. But Ter lives on into a new age, the age of atomic energy, that thrills the world with both fear and hope.
 Dr. Butler has been one of our great interpreters of the liberal arts, those studies of universal heritage which bind mankind in common kinship. He has been and remains an ardent worker for uri- versal peace and the preservation of that heritage. He believes that at last, after the horror of the past six years, 1t is within our grasp if we will take it. It is per- haps significant that the acting president of Columbia is now Dr.. George Pegram, one of the scientists whose educational researches ush- cred in the atomic age. These sci- entists, imbued with the ideals to which Dr. Butler has devoted his life, offer the world a chance be- tween extinction or a peace more fruitful and productive than hu- rnanity has ever known.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
New Approach

The JAW petition for strike vote at General Motors indicates that government-Sanctioned walkout will be used not last resort in the failure of contract tiationS but threat before negotiations even begin
 This is new approach made possible by the continued existence of that misguided and outmoded piece of wartime legislation the Smith Connaly Act And seems bound to complicate further the immediate problem o speedy reconversion and unemployment
 The Smith, Connally Acts 30day "coo off period can't help but cool off any ndustry desire to schedule and tool up for production of ongneeded goods It will add
 uncertainty to the depressing economic effect of impatient unauthorized strikes now in progress
 Factory workers deserve ana will surely get wage n
 to compensate their loss of overtime in this period of high living costs They have the general promise of friendly administration in Washington to help get them But ndiscrimnate rather than legitimate of the strike weapon at this time aenate tae public cost the work CTS money and prestige and delay the countys return to dreamed-of peace and prosperity.
 Two immediate remedies for this delay seem possible One would be for labor to give much attention to full employment as 1t now is giving to unemployment nslr nce and Unemployment legislation (which wouldn't segn to function until next year) The other would be pr Congress to give as much attention to repeating the nith Connaly Act as h giving to Elliott Roosevets selaulted loans
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
By BiU Cunningham

ever did happen to her. but my impression Is that old and tired but likewise pretty proud.
 After the fighting was. over around those Nor the job was to keep the men and tanks coming in . to the command of similar craft and that was the war-battered baby we were on She was lashed in to the dock, rusty, tred-looking her broad iron decks with sailors in dungarees piling chans work ing around all sorts of odd-lookng equipment.
 Really, she was being cleared for painting. and . lot of her passageways and compartments of various queer-lookng sorts were already white with fresh paint and tartly fragrant of same. Her future as uncertain that of any naval auxiliary craft She probably will be decommissoned and offered for sale. The entire interior of 1t Is like big garage It took tanks or trucks three four abreast and in long
 line rearward These rolled out on the beaches through that electrically lowered ramp in the bow, the bow be- ing composed of two big doors that open outward Then, of course, there's the flat deck above.
 can now see that the LsT was designed as codly impersonal type of truck It took the fight. ing gear in and brought tie wounded men out Tne racks where their stretchers were sung line the curved walls of that internal garage. There are no comforts no frills, and if one ever christened you'd never know 1t now, for they merely wear num- bers-not names. Aa
 The young skipper talked impersonaliy along about decommissoning, breaking up getting out ns if man had no particular affection, for an iron tb of this sort and yet he seemed to sort of stroke the hard iron pipe that served the bridge as . rail- Hs voice Sostened ntte as he tSld hoy she rode. she was a honey. She'll give some man honest servick if she's put up for sale, he seemed to be saying
 Two sailors, shore gon' in their best blues cana strolling down the dock The young shippers Race broke into a smile. "Theyre two of our crew who were discharged this morning" he sad "0uess they're coming back where they know there's good neai
 half dozen EMS in their work clothes started bouncing basketball around the floor of that garage. They've hung baskets enough to make two courts down there The skipper said they had a game on that evening. There was game aehcro too big one. The professional football season Wae teeing oh asked the young man if he would ilks to see it with me.
 NO thanks," he said q guess I'll just sort os stay aboard" There must Dc something abcut saip that take hold Of men who sail her - and fsht her s even # shsh coId-lookine, nhmeeS1 xsr That at lsAst. was the impression [ soA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
NEW ISLANDS
(New Haven Journal -courier)

(New Haven Journal-C Courier)
 If the earth gets crowded, live on the surface of the ocean. Ideas like that may yet be tried out, as a result of the invention of R. M. Hamilton of the British Navy. He has devised a method of floating landing strips and bridges on water like 8 carpet. Aircraft with 5000 pounds of freight have landed and taken of from a test strip 520 feet long and 60 feet wide.
 This means that mid-ocean land- ing bases are feasible. It also en- courages the man who would like a private island to live on and can find none in the market. He can simply make his own.
 Hamilton's device, which he calls Lilly" from its resemblance to lily leaves on a pond, consists of hun- dreds of buoyancy cans with six sided surfaces, linked so that they give to the motion of the sea yet remain firm enough to support Q weight. It is a development of the "SwiSs Roll" or floating pier of the Normandy invasion.
 It looks as If 50 years from now there would be a lot of new islands on our large bodies of water.
 Fuel-starved Switzerland Is press ing production of peat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
By DygsO PsaYs5's

,~r,,r,sr mad. if clear among other things tnet he was absolutely opposed to uhnoAs 2s.. s..r ', Lucas hii returning the U g. EmployMe1ss M s,s s1 Fi government Truman maintained, at least 1o. ss-'s
 Although he didn't say single word wn,cn, ,, % on paper would look harsh the President Was ts.a,y s the members agreed If they nao m sS bsS m Ssusd s lnvitatiOns-they figured they would nave AsNs.' real dressing gdown
 Note-Only Democrat on the committee Meo seemed rrevocaby opposed to reporting out Nas yss a-week KiIeore bill so the House could vote on Y M west of Texas. a Jack Garner Democrat. He sAl0 little but made 1t obvious he was dead OppO'su
 r..,,..,,,. .0r.,,.t.yL with the ways and Means Committee went directly counter to the conl'1sas Z letter the White House had sent to senate - M Barkley of Kentucky in which the $2o-a.wsHn r. ment was listed as "desirable" but noS lnO''p'T ble." .... .,, sc,,nd
 Credit for writing Barkey this letter, nov aSuAS sa to be directly contrary to Trlmans reai s'I . ., \ given to George Aen who s SrrnS ts White House.
 The best story-teller in the Capitol ewlvn '.lS a exception of Chip Robert), Allen was trsnsPa0s T wsshngSn by Sen rst .ca t he was missioner of the District of Columbia iateI ss rs vcepresident of the Home Insurance Oo' "niO'' IT still is. .,.. A,A was to, attach himself to the Truman Vce-PresdentaI cain pagn train last year and become the close puuuy y the man who was to be President Wne sorns Aen travelled with the neglected vice-Presdent amused him and helped write his speeches. . ,,,s...
 So now, Allen is constantly around tne WlIse y House. potent, charming, and very reactonary aa- wiser He was even consulted about the tnres new judges for the Court of Appeals for the DiSIEce '. Columbia-which may be one reason why Lrulla.l .a. picked three ex-supporters of the power compan.ss He was also given credit for working with Leo CrOw- ley suddenly to terminate Lend-Lease. Finally ne credited with authoring the Senate memo wnlcn a u dermined the Kilgore $2S-a-week Compensason 1rn
 whether the Memo was sent without ITumans reading it, or whether he read it too hastily g noC known Either way, 1t proved bombshen Eatner way also some of Trumans Senatorial friends aIe wondering whether the continued influence or tne Gentleman from Mississippi is healthy
 
 Current wise-Crack in the nations capital: Ine Northern carpet-baggers once invaded MissHsppl, but now Mississippi has reversed 1t and recaptured Washington. Not only does George Allen sit at ITu. mans elbow but Sen. Bilbo chairman of the District of Columbia Committee is virtual Mayor" Of Wasn- ington, while the son of the late Sen. Vardaman or Mississippi is Trumans Naval Aide.
 Note-Chief Mississippian missed around Wasn- ington is ex-Cong. Ross Collins, the man who forced the War Department into spending money on the First Flying Fortress and who did so much to stream" line the Army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02

sation features provided in his message must be enacted he sad before he could feel that Congress has done the job the people expect of it. For over 45 minutes, the President sat and discussed the bill with the Congressman, and not single smile cracked his face.
 Closest he came to smile was when he said:
 President Roosevelt always used to rely upon the House to help him out against the Senate thought could rely upon the Senate But" the former Senator from Missouri added 1t looks like I'm having a little trouble there now"
 He referred to the Senates pruning of the orig ina Unemployment Compensation Bill offered by Sen. Harley Kilgore of West Virginia.
 Early in the conference, Representatives Dingell of Michigan Eberharter of Pennsylvania and Forand of Rhode Island told the President that they agreed with his program and would like to see the House vote the $25 and 26week provisions the Senate had knocked out; Chairman Doughton, half-hsarted he the full Kgore Bill glared fiercely, while Forand reminded the President that he had himself intro duced bill calling for everything in the Kigore bill
 Various members spoke up, trying to explain their positions Chairman Doughton had grave doubts whether the $25 would not make the labor situation worse by stimulating ideness However, the President refuted arguments about strikes and states rigntS even before they raised.
 "Ths need of the American people-who worked hard all through the war-for small measure of help in tiding them this winters unemployment has nothing to do with strikes. TodayS strikes are no argument so far as this bill is concerned"
 
 Cautiously he added land I may be doing some- thing about the strikes before long"
 One argument Truman didn't answer in advance was that offered by Rep. Sid Camp of Georgia Camp agreed with several other members-Mlls of Arkan- sas, West of Texas and Gregory of Kentucky-that $25 per week high figure for compensation pay mentS.
 "1n my state, my folks wouldn't feel any too good about that" Camp told his colleagues. Hardly any of them would be able to collect $25 week because they'd have had to be earning twice that much while they were working in order to be eligible for the $25 And $50 week is an awful hign figure for Georgia"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02
AL SMITH MEMORIAL DESERVES SUPPORT
(The springfield Daily News

(The Springfield Daily News)
 It Is truly noble gesture on the part of 1900 friends and admirers of the late Alfred E. Smith, one of the most outstanding American leaders of his time, to launch plans to perpetuate his name and mem-. ory by erecting a l6-story hospital addition to St. Vincent's General hospital on lower New York's West Side, in the district in which the four-time governor of New York grew up and which he loved so dear ly.
 The move to raise $3,0o0,00o in a national fund drive, headed by his lifelong friend, former Postmaster General James A. Farley, will meet with ready response in every part
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02

Cunningham LST which was just about fin- lshed and ready to go.
 But ascertained from the young man that an LST was big brute of ship No tender little repro ducer ripped from some cocktail lounge would do. This thing wanted set of bull horns big enough to for herd of performing elephants or enough nyon, hose to outfit the Russian WACs but you know until you try hauled off and asked in the next ti1stailnent Of th4s daily continued story, whether anybody had one of these outfits practically big enough to service the Yankee Stadium that he'd like to send to war an LST.
 You could have brained me with hard-fung grape when a gentleman with heart and pleasant voice called up next day. said he had one and invited my young lieutenant to come up and take 1t away. The lieutenant took truck and some men and duly made contact And then they merely vanished be- hind the wall of silence that blacked out the water front. That was all ever heard but was free to, and did, that they slipped out into the dark Atlantic within week or 10 days with the skipper cracking his orders over the North Shore gentle mans holoo-horns, or, perhaps, with Bng Crosby grooming, "In Be Home For Chrstmas-If Only Tn My Dreams"
 And that was all I ever knew, until my secretary told me the other day that a It. Judge had been in, that he seemed to be friend of mine and that he wondered If I'd like to see an LST boat. didn't snap too for moment, but all at once remembered. went over to call on the young man on his ship.
 It wasn't sadly, the one we'd fixed up. That one roamed the Atlantic from Norway to Normandy de-
 vering troops and supplies with the loudspeaker sys tenn going full blast It was part of the assault force At omaha Beach, and then it drove back and forth across the Channel supporting the invasion with a the truck horse service of the Hudson ferry n all Ihe exeitement, fcfget lo find out exactly what