The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-01-04
YOUR TOWN.. S. \.
BY j. Il. Jones

I
of the UAW- CLOS strike as INST
General Motors and OF continaed la
| Dor unrest in other sagmonts CT the
great automoti,e industry.
Most of the news originates in De-
troit, but actcally the impact of tie
various strikes now affecting, OF
threatening to affect, the automobile
industry will be felt in almost eY cry
community-big and smal---from
| Maine to California, from Wisconsin
to Florida--back and forth across
the country. Taken in broad sense
these strikes are strikes against the
public rather than against any rarti-
cular industry or company
In fact, the automobile strike stor-
les could very Well carry the date
line: Your TOWN.. S. A.
Here's why: The automotive in
dustry, tanning out from Detroit,
| generates 100000 jobs-one out
of every seven jobs in the country
| There's much more to the industry
than making cars, parts and accea-
activities which require 70O,-
900 persons
1t takes 100000 men to sell and
service cars.
1t takes nearly 100000 men u
| drive trucks and buses.
1t takes another 100000 to build
and maintain highways.
And even more people-men and
/ WON nun tourist hnr,ac f,,cfr,
| courts, roadside stands and markets
enterprises whose existence depents
upon the auto.
Moreover, the automotive industry
stimulates and benefits factorie :,
farms and mines throughout t1e
country. Automobiles use 70 per cent
of all plate glass, four-ffths of all
| the rubber produced and Is per cen
of all the steel
Therefore, when the CLOS United,
| Automobile Workers call a strike
against General Motors, the effect is
immediate and widespread. GIN
workers alone lose nearly $4,000, OGu
| in wages every week, and the who!
| national economy is thrown out Of
gear.
And all because of tie JAW lead
ers' insistence upon So hours pay
for 40 hours work-3o per cent, or
else! They are demanding more than
theim members got during the war
when they averaged ass hours week
y-not the 4S hours they claim. Be
fore GIN workers were called out on
strike, the UAW-CIO refused GINS
offer aimed to increase wartime take
home pay by at least 10 per cent, and
meet the Government estimated 33
DER cent increase in the cost of living
,ince January, 1941.
The srtike continues. Meantime,
he country is crying for more pro-
1uction.
Keeping The World Out OF War
Both the Senate and the House
have finally put the stamp of approx
al on the so-called United Nations
legislation. Approval has been al
most unanimous in both branches of
Congress. The President has been
| empowered to invoke economic sane
| lions against aggressions and to use
| United States troops to back up the
\ lecision of the Security Council.
| Congress scuttled the League of
Nations and the vision and states
manship of Woodrow Wilson, after
World War 1.
1t looks very much as though the
United Nations Organization may
succeed in carrying out the great
:harter for peace for which the two
terrible wars have been fought.
But let us not forget that the Uni
Ted States is the leading Nation of
the World, and the most powerful
Nation of the World, and that it is
about the only big Nation that is un-
elfish in its desires for World peace.
To our credit it may be said that we
are not trying to grab the Philippines
or Argentina, or any other piece of
territory that does not rightly belong
20 us. All we Lave asked for are
bases that may be used for the de-
tense and the maintenance of peace
IN different parts of the World. The
deal of PERMANENT PEACE" is
the ambition of the American Nation,
and we might say of the Western
Hemisphere, from the tip of Cape
Horn to the North Pole.
The people of the United States
have opposed war so vigorously that
1t times some of it's best and great
est citizens have been called 'isola-
Iionists' and otker nasty names.
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