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The union times., 1946-02-02
Minnesota's 2d Coop Hospital Being Organized
$1O0,OOO Medical Center To Cost Family $50 For
 Membership

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Two hundred farmers and townsmen met in the high school auditorium at Pelican Rapids, Minnesota recently to organize CO operative hospital and medical center to serve Pelican Rapids and surround ing communities.
 This will bring to ten, the number of cooperative hospitals organized or in the process of formation. in the United States and will provide the second cooperative hospital in Min nesota. The first one in the state was organized a year ago at Two liar bors by group of railroad employees
 TO COST $lOO,OOO
 A modern hospital and medical center, to be operated as CO., operative on prepayment basis. will be built at a cost of $lOO,OOO. The institution will provide hospi- tai and medical care and will en- gage a competent staff of doctors and technicians.
 The institution was incorporated under the name of Pelican Valley Health Center and is to be capitalized at a quarter of a million dollars. Membership will be $50 per family. Ii is expected that construction will com mence in the late winter or early spring.
The union times., 1946-02-02
More On That Great Holdnb!

of this week following wide business obtain refunds for
 
 encouraged ike kesO OrI Iet continue.
 corporations stood b actuaed several of the law which provides that profit during the year refund of previously paid owed to the government profits
 Sen Wayne Morse (R Oe the must being used by KgOre (D w. Va h rebate provisions which permit the h. attacks American workers Rep Eberharter " Pal asserted profits funds heyre to the strike situation"
 Morse that the law permits corporation make claimed that eff these corporations would refund while they closed up be- of strikes then would of them more anxious to
The union times., 1946-02-02
LITTLE LUTHER

elf his feet keep warm, sId beat the off pants"
 father Little Luther reminded him. and besides the law won't permit it''
 shouted angriy kicking the picket sign he logaggng lopsided law! That must have beena a New Deal law"
 for big brute like beat up public won't across with a 3O96 increase in alowance?"
 "Why, obviously unfair discriminatory classconous, what else. Does ii forbid you up? It's oneided only Obviously unAmeican But Sen Byrd will fix that up." sWhas going inquired Little Luther. Even things by passing think I'd mind but don't zee would help out"
 tNo sir my boy' Diworth. He's going law yourself cool you up you brains and in general make things fair for we'll children"
 horsewhip?" asked Little Luther
 bill be introduced by Reps Hobbs Carter Mnasco John Ran kin and Eugene Cox will be- known the Horse~hip Bi
 Sound like the else bill me- said Little Luther think horsewhippng going dc you Neghbor might think much of it, know
 Mir. DiIworh admitted "But honestly the devil end this strike of if don' horsewhip you?"
 think of giving the raise asked fo? queried his
 shovel the old Dworth administered brandy till he revived.
The union times., 1946-02-02

PatrOnise Our Friends!
The union times., 1946-02-02
AS WE SEE IT

Continued from Page One) CARRIAGE for twins, $35. C. L.. Smith double barrel shotgun, cush- toned pad, l2 guage. Apply ..
 NEWSPAPERS that never heard of the manufacturers sitdown strike, which halted production un- til taxes went down Jan. l, are sud- denly full of front-page stories about how strikers are keeping goods off the market. Isn't free dom of the press wonderful thing?
 EXCERPTS from the reports made to the Conn. State Building Trades Convention by Pres. Barry and Secretary-Treasurer O'Kane will be printed in next weeks is- sue.
 WE thank the officers of the State Building Trades Council for their commendation of this news paper in their reports to the an- nual convention. Being human, we feel justified in repeating this sec- ton of Pres. Barry's reports.
 "I want again to thank Nate Sherman, editor of our official or gan, The Union Times. The pulp Iicity he has given the activities of our Council have been an import ant factor in our progress. He is the kind of public relations man labor needs. In recognition of his services, the Executive Board elect ed him an honorary vice-president, an honor which he we'll deserves" {"
 THE threat of the New York transport workers union to strike if the city gave its power plants back to private utilities was dicta- torial, wicked, arrogant, power seeking, greedy, evil, high-handed, power-maddened and unAmerican among other things-according to the daily newspapers. This vi- ciOus organization compelled the city to let the voters vote on the matter.
 Any publisher can see how un- American that is.
The union times., 1946-02-02

President Justice Reyes Winter of New York's municipal court has asked 4O% pay raise for himself and 2O% boost for his 65 asso- ciate justices. That guy must have been looking over Charles E. Wilson's shoulder.
 THE Washington (D.C.) Post reported an unusual development in international affairs: s'France has already informed Alabama that it recognizes the regime there.
 When a labor editor becomes the subject of major article in a ma. tiOnal magazine-it's news.
 Editor K. C. Adams of the Unit. ed Mine Workers Journal is the subject of a 5000 word piece in g forthcoming issue of the Saturda, EOening Post. The author is Elsie Morrow, wife of a Philadelphia newspaperman and former Wash. lngton correspondent.
The union times., 1946-02-02
Here's A Raise
 That Just Isn't

WASHINGTON Un- questionably ''the unkindest cut of alp came when Uncle Sam's letter carriers and other postal employees were ordered back to the 4O-hOur week, writes Presi- dent W. C. Doherty of the Ma tiOnal Association of Letter Car riers (AFL), in the latest issue of the American Federationist.
 The action came just three months after Congress had ac- corded these hard-working pub lie employees long-overdue pay raise which included time-and- a-half for overtime, Doherty said, urging support for HR 5O59 and Sl7l7, introduced in the House and Senate to give postal workers a temporary $500 annual wage increase.
The union times., 1946-02-02

force cut in wages with 300 Pinker- ton detectives.
 Troops and strikebreakers fig ured boldly in that early struggle which formed a pattern for indus try in later years, and in 1919 the companies used martial law, the injunction, company thugs and all the other weapons at its command when the workers went out that September.
 Because the labor movement was none too strong, however, the strike was weakened month by month until in December the steel industry was running its furnaces at 5O% or better of capacity. By January the union cause was lost and the workers struggled back to their jobs.
 The Great Revival
 hen came the great labor revival ot the mid -1o3Vs-organizations grew strong in basic industry and both the AFL and CIO added members by the thousands almost overnight. The Wagner act and the NLRB supported the awakened conscience of America
 Now, with over 13 million work. CTS organized in the major un- ions, the big steel industry is trying to turn back the clock with a united front in auto and the electrical industry that even middle-Of-the-rOad journalists sav looks like conspiracy.
 A southern reporter, Thomas L. Stokes, who writes for the United features Syndicate and whose stor- les appear generally in the Scripps- Howard papers, said it seems more than coincidence that only few days apart, General Motors rejects wage-fnding by a presi- dentlal fact-fnding board and IT. D. Steel refuses a compromise wage figure offered by the Pres;. dent of the U. s. intervening on behalf of the public"
 Stokes declared that the GM and U. ,. Steel actions "seem to add in to just about what the union leaders were charging. That is, a conspiracy by, the big interests to move in and take over, now that the people have lost the champion in the White House who was so quick to detect and ex- pose the machinations of the big fel- low and to rally the people against them" 1A'i''
 The steel strike is linked with the real needs of all Americans. An Of us have a part in this strike be- cause we have a stake in America. We mAst win or see the Iabor movement take a major defeat. We dare not retreat now.
The union times., 1946-02-02
Reporter Seeks Time And A Half
 For Jail Stretch
Newsman's Assignment Called For Spending 9
 Days In Clink

WASHINCTON-OPA)-Time. and-a-half pay for nine days spent in jail isn't provided for in most union contracts but if the Wash. ington Newspaper Guild, CIO, has its way that's what William Blythe, police reporter for the Times. HerdId here, will receive for his stay in the pOkey.
 Blythe was instructed by the city editor to get himself arrested and locked up in order to prove that the District jail, which has had more recent escapes than commitments, was a pushover for prisoners who wanted to smuggle in escape tools. Blythe had himself picked up as an ordinary drunk and after being sentenced smuggled in file, hacksaw blades and acid in his fountain pen.
 Demands Time And Half
 After nine days he was released and with his story written he filed an expense account Under the Guild contract which specifies time-and-a- half for overtime Blythe received an other eight hours at the extra rate But because Blythe was locked up for "A hours a day the Guild grievance committee has demanded IS hours al time and a half, amounting to three days extra pay for each day he was salted away.
 The battle between the Guild and the front office is now in full swing, but Guild officers contend that no matter how the company wriggles, the contract has them manacled.
The union times., 1946-02-02
OnTheScene
 In Washington
By Travis K. Hedrick
We Dare Not Retreat

we Dare Not Retreat
 A measure of the marching stride of America between two World Wars is found in a cOmpari- son of the current steel strike and the next largest walkOut in that in- dustry, back in 1919.
 Then, as now, the ruddy glow was gone over the huge furnaces in Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Bessemer. The big plants were standing stark against the skies. The whole industry was idle. In 1919 the strike involved 365. .OOO who walked out at the call of the AFL. Today, under the banner of the United SteelwOrkeAs, the total is 75O,OOO. The difference is found not in size, but in events.
 Deficiencies
 Although the American labor move ment came out of World War stronger than 1t was in the period be- fore 1917, 1t was not solidly organized in the basic industries. It sorely lacked steel, and the growing rubber and auto industries.
 Labor also lacked the Wagner 1a- Dor relations act, the NLRB and the Supreme Court rulings upholding the right to organize.
 In 1919 industry still had the upper hand. Steel was the battle-ground of bitter labor-management strife as il had been for many decades before Steeps history went back to the 1889 strike at Homestead, Pa. when the Carnegie Steel company tried to en-
The union times., 1946-02-02

Now that civilian products of metal are coming back on the market, put new metal ash can on your shopping list, suggests the National Safety Council, to avoid the danger of a fire in the base ment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05
LOCAL MAN SAYS
ACC HELPED HIM

Mr.. J. T. Parrot of Henderson
says, For e twelve months | suf-
fered from leg ulcers. All medicines
and salVes prescribed for me failed
to heal them-then someone econ
mended ACC Ointment. For two
weeks | used ACC Ointment and at
the end of that time the ulcers were
completely healed. That was in jan
uary 1914, and | have not had any
signs of recurrence since then. l find
ACC Ointment a good household
medicine-not only for leg ulcers
but for other minor skin irritations
as well. You can find ACC ONT
ment in all leading drug stores
Adv.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05
CARD OF

We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness during the
recent loss of our home.
MRS. J. w. kEETON
AND FAMILY.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05
CARD OF

I wish to express with sincere
gratitude my thanks for the kind
ness help and sympathy shown by
all during the sickness and death of
my beloved husband,
MRS. NORMAN B. billiard.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

physically and mentally fit. E~nlistments
may be for ~, 2 or 3 years. Find out
more about one of the worlds best Jobs
from your nearest l. S. Army Recruiting
Station today!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05
Here are the things you want in q

If Won SAT down and made d list OF all the advantages
you'd ike to find in d job. you'd Wind up with something
very close to What the Regular Army offers YOU right
now. If you've ne,er thought Of an Army job that nay,
check o,er these points:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

after 20 wears service. and so on up 10
thrre-quariers pay after 80 years service.
As a civ ilian You would have to pay S81
a month for %annulties to provide such a
retirement fund.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

modern equipment. That's why You get
thorough instruction III one or tt"re el
200 skills. The best trade schools IN the
world fit YOU for a future career.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

anccs FOR dependents. Army service need
not interfere with a happy married life
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05
8. SECURITY

If YOU choose to stay
in the A~rmy.vou can
retire at half pay for
the rest of Your life
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

under the CT Bill of Rights, to further
education after discharge. After a 3-year
enlistment, for example, YOU can have a
fu> course in college, trade or business
school, with tuition up to $500 per ordi-
nary school year paid by the Government.
as we'll a. So5 a month for Ming expenses
500 a month if YOU are married.
for dependents of men who enlist
" |, 1916
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

Every Young man
who joins the Army
before October o.
1910. is entitled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

For bad weather at any time of year. Ladies' /
medium heels. Sizes 6 to 10
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

tainty about Your Army Job. No laN-otfs.
You work eleven months a year and get
twelve months, pay, with a 5O-day paid
vacation every year,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-05

technical experts. If YOU have the ability,
You can carr quick promotion to higher
grades. with more pay. And there's always
an opportunity for qualified men TO be
come candidates for officers training.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Over 72T2 Billions Provided
For Veterans in 10Th Conoress

veterans in need of financial assist
ance to better themselves. The
abuses that have occurred are not
criminal. because they were per-
mitted by the law. The fault was
in a law that was not precisely
Worded.
Il believe that the new law which
Congress has passed and President
Truman signed will cure most of
the evils.
This law sets up standards for
the courses and the training the
veterans are to receive. 1t specifies
the Federal Government may sup
ply the States funds to enforce
these standards"
Ceiling Of S110 Month.
The law also set ceiling of s110
a month on the amount of outside
salary veterans may receive and
still participate in the subsistence
program. If they earn more than
that, their subsistence allowance is
reduced accordingly.
The subsistence program has sky
rocketed SO fast no accurate up-
to-the-minute statistics are avail
able on how much it actually has
cost the Government.
Senator George. Democrat, of
Georgia, told Congress 10 days ago
educational benefits, which include
subsistence payments for college
and on-the-jo training as ma jor
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Mother Weighs Future of Baby
She Left Is Minutes After Birth
Waitress Feared She
Couldn't Support
A Fourth Child
BY the Assoeio'ed Press

DETROIT. Aug. 10.-A slender,
29-year r-old woman, who left her
baby in a physicians Office Is min
utes after birth, today balanced a
little girls future against the per-
sistent tug at her mothers heart.
A policewoman in suburban Dear
born said Mrs Madeline Ford wants
her child back, but feels it will have
"a better chance" if it is offered for
adoption without ever seeing its
mother.
She realizes what she did" Mrs.
Meta Hitchcock of the Dearborn
police said after talking with Mrs.
Ford in the latter's cramped trailer
home. Shed like to have the baby
back but she's afraid she couldn't t
take care of it,"
Mrs. Ford wept. Mrs. Hitchcock
said, as she told of her struggle to
support three other children on her
scant earnings as waitress in a
Dearborn grill.
The woman is divorced from her
husband. the policewoman said, and
does not know where he is.
The dark-haired mother entered
the anteroom of DR.. r. l.. Eilenfeldt
Thursday night, said only that she
wanted to see the DOCTOR" and pa
tiently waited her turn while 20
other patients preceded her
Five minutes after entering the
physicians Office she gave birth to
five-pound, five ounce girl, which
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Grain Control Easing 2,720,0OO Women
Due|fU. 5. HasRecord Desert Jobs in Year
Corn and Wheat Crops To Don Aprons Again

The Agriculture Department last
night predicted easing of restric-
tions on use of grains for food,
provided the corn and wheat har-
vests turn out TO be the record highs
now in prospect.
But. looking into next year. the
department predicted a decline of
meat production Of around billion
pounds. 1t said this drop would
result from the marketings of
larger production of spring pigs
before January l than in past years,
the reduced pig crop expected for
this fall and continued decline In
cattle and sheep slaughter.
Grain restrictions now in effect
are 81 per cent milling limita ton
from last years level, a high ex-
traction rate for -four producing
the present dark bread, prohibition
against use of wheat in making
whisky and other spirits, and linn
itation on use of wheat in manu-
factured livestock feeds
Export Needs Cited.
While the department, in its reg
ular survey of the Nations food
prospects, did not indicate the ex-
tent of easing Of restrictions, it said
that much depended on the world
food situation, particularly the need
for export wheat
Concerning meat, the report noted
that demand was expected to con-
unue strong throughout the re-
mainder of this year and the first
half Of l947 because of the high level
OF consumer incomes.
Until late fall, meat supplies for
civilians will be larger than year
ago, the department said However,
by October, lower production of
beef and lamb than in 1945 and
possible larger exports will bring
civilian supplies below the near
record level of last winter.
Less chicken likewise will be
available for the rest of 1916, COM
pared with last fall and winter. the
report claimed
Also telling of smaller per capita
supplies of milk in all forms, the de-
partment commented:
Should price controls and dairy
subsidies not be reinstated, there
would be shifts in the utilization of
milk in the balance of 1916. In
creased fluid milk prices would tend
to reduce consumer purchases, pos
sibly bringing the average rate of
consumption for the year below the
record rate of l945."
Evening star., 1946-08-11

For 2.720,000 women, it's a mans
world again.
That's the number of women
workers who have deserted the labor
force in the past year, Robert c.
Goodwin, director of the United
States Employment Service, re-
ported last night.
Millions of their sister workers,
however, are still sticking to their
lathes and typewriters. Mr., Good
win said 16,a00, 900 women were en-
ployed as of last month,
While the women have been 60
ing home, the veterans have been
coming back, until now 7 out of
every 10 jobs are held by men.
Despite the back-to-the kitchen
movement, the number of employed
workers has increased by 1850 900
since July, 1945, with $4,000 per-
sons now earning their daily bread.
OF the 12,260,000 World War II
veterans who have come home, Mr..
Goodwin quoted census figures to
show 9,860,000 are now working;
about 100000 are going to school;
100000 aren't looking for work; 30O,-
900 are described as retired or not
employable at this time and $4,000
are job hunters.
Mr., Goodwin pointed out that jobs
have to be found for these 100000
men, for the men who get their
discharges in the coming months,
for veterans with disabilities and for
the veterans who aren't looking for
jobs right now but will be shopping
for work soon.
Another angle of the veteran prob
lem, said the USES director, is the
turnover rate. In many cases, he
explained, veterans took the first
job that came along when they got
out of uniform, an now they want
something more in line with what
they know and like to do.
Evening star., 1946-08-11

costs. totaled $4,000 900 up to
July !.
Congress appropriated 81 500, 900. =
600 as the estimated cost for the
present fiscal year, ending next
June 30.
On July /, l.770,00o were partici
patlng in training program of
which 1.062 900 were attending
classes in educational institutions
and 100000 we're training on the
job.
Cost of the program, for sub
sistence alone, is about $40 per
month per man or more than
500, 100000 per month.
Gen. Bradley said only verv
few dishonest employers and train
ing places, land very small num-
Der" of ''unthinking" veterans are
responsible for abuses.
That is why we are shifting
emphasis from quantity to quality
in the opportunities offered veterans
under the program Congress has
provided" Gen. Bradley said.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
BY ,he Assoeioted Press

The 10th Congress provided
S12 500 ,802,005 for war veterans, or
nearly $1,000 for every soldier dis
charged since We Day.
Almost third of this was in
cluded in a batch of bills that
reached President Truman In the
closing days of the Congress, which
he signed during the last three
days.
Largest single item was the
s2,431, 100000 to pay for the ter
minal pay bill
World War II veterans received
by far the greatest share of the
cash and other benefits. but some
money went to veterans of other
wars.
AS the bills were being signed,
Veterans Administrator Bradley
said America, in dollars and cents.
has provided for its war veterans
more generously than any other
nation.
But he added in an interview that
il 'scandalous conditions" are to be
avoided, the time now has come to
shift emphasis from quantity to
quality of opportunities being pro-
vided the American warriors.
ajor Change in Policy.
This represents major change in
policy of the Veterans Administra-
ton, which was forced to expand it
self many times to take care of the
more than l3,000,0 900 new war vet
Grams turned out by the armed
services since fighting halted.
At recent convention of Spanish
War Veterans in Milwaukee, Gen.
Bradley said that signs of Scan
dalous conditions already have be-
gun to appear in the subsistence al
lotment program under the CT Bill
of Rights.
These monthly allotments-s65
for single veterans and $50 for mar
ried-are paid to ex-servicemen 60
ing to school or college or taking
-the-job training.
He said there was a case where
one man. making $500 a month.
had said he was in training" for
another job paying more money and
therefore entitled to draw s90-a-
month compensation.
"Obviously this was not the IN
tent of Congress" Gen. Bradley
said Yesterday.
This law was intended to help