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Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
Will Fight Fedora
Anti-Strike Law

New York City.-Following announ.
cement by an unnamed official of the
Department of Commerce that all 300
employees Of the Inland Waterways
Corn. who struck Nov. "a would be
fired under the ~Ball-Russell appropria-
tons bill riders. the Workers Defense
League stated it is prepared to legally
contest the firings. The WDL state
ment was Anade in a letter to Secre'
tary of Commerce Averell Hartman,
Inland Waterways being a federal cor
poratiOn under his department. III
these firings are carried through, the
Workers Defense League is prepared
to challenge them in the courts, since
it considers the Ball-Russell riders
unconstitutional the letter said
"Your departments action bears out
the WDL's position that these riders
put U. S. government employees in
position of servitude.'
Copies of the letter, together witt
an offer Of legal aid. were sent to the
five CLIO and ALL unions whose mem
bers are involved in the firings.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02

ing rather than a receding menace"
Citing his experiences in China,
Johnson said. Time after time | have
seen correspondents of American
newspapers file widely differing stor-
les about the same incident to their
respective employers. tailored to fit
the prejudices and bases they know
exist The American reader is not
presented with facts and invited to
draw a conclusion, but often has his
facts distorted and his conclusions pre-
shaped
Russia, Labor, Chief Targets
Another guildsman. Leon Svirsky,
associate editor of Time. declares that
upon close analysis ii is clear that
Russia and US. organized labor come
out as the chief targets of journalistic
carelessness and outright inaccuracy.
Most of the stories which give clear
proof of garbling of the facts are in
these two fields of reporting"
Peter DuBerg. staff member of the
CONTINUED on Page F0ur)
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02


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Montana labor news., 1947-01-02

have occurred if the British working
class had insisted on collective secur
i'y with Russia.
"Bevin is pursuing the same anti
Russian tactics as Chamberlain Halt
fax and Eden he said The trouble
with the Labor party leadership is that
they fear the Russian type Of social
ism.
Winston Churchill, leader OF the op-
position. quite openly called for an
alliance Of civilized nations against
Russia Reyin and Labor party leaders
refuse to repudiate that statement,
Citizens said.
Hope To Dump Bevin
Although the full impact OF the cam.
pairn against Bevin and the present
leaders Of the Labor party cannot be
l,lt until the party next annual con
gress at Margafe IN May Citizens said
he '~fervently hopes Beyin will be
dropped.
Ii that can be done. the British may
lDe expected To resume the work 81 eX.
terminating fascist leaders through.
out the continent a job that has been
found distasteful to most American
policy makers both III the state de
partment and in our own military gov
ernmenf abroad
The United States attitude broad
is copied here at home to the point
that We find a policy OF forgiveness
toward ~fascists who tried 70 under.
mine army morale. while the full at
~tention OF the government is centered
or breaking strikes. hunting what re
dictionaries call Communists and for
getting entirely the ideals for which
we fought against Hitler and world
fascisin-
Although the L. :. press chooses 10
ignore developments IN Britain, the
good sense Of the British people ap
pears to be forcing an action that may
Sc, an end to the L S..British bloc.
And if Byrnes and Truman lose their
British ally. they may check theil
headlong plunge toward reaction
That would be helpful on the home
front also. because despite some pious
denials. one can't separate domestic
and foreign policy.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
TVA-TEAMSTERS AGREE
ON 20 PER CENT RAISE

Knoxville. Tenn-FP-The IVA has
agreed to wage increases averaging
more than 20 per cent for members Of
International Brotherhood Of Team
sters tAFLl at the IVA annual wage
conference. Increases 90 to truck driv-
ers, helpers, warehousemen, chauf-
feurs, garage attendants, truck fore
men and dispatchers.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02

America must Keep alive lHt
spirit of international co-opera-
ton through which the United
Nations can lead the world to
an era of permanent peace
After discussing the danger of infla-
ton. calling for millions of new homes
and increased production ito bring
about a long overdue reduction III
prices Green said we must keep
wages and purchasing power high so
that industry and agriculture a be
assured OF a domestic market.
These are some of the minimum
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
NEW E BILL TO BE
DRAFTED

Washington-The National Council
for a permanent FEPC has announced
it is drafting a new bill for consider
alton by the S0th congress-. The group
to their rro-FEPC campaign pledges.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
Notorious ropagandistF or
Nazis Is Given Freedom
BY TRAVIS X. HEDRICk

MISUNDERSTANDING in an obscure section Of some Of
the Sunday papers was an item saying that Donald Day. former
European correspondent for the good old Chicago Tribune, had
been released from custody by American military authorities
in Germany.
Day, whose repeatedly disproven stories helped fill the Trib
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02

lnply inSiStcnt demands for sub
stantial wage increases. The
prospect found steel and auto
interests with the worst filters
since the S-hour day fight of Il
generation ago.
Alarm pongs GLANCED II the L ;
Chamber Of Commerce. which ordered
4 referendum on proposed amend
ments to the federal vagehonr act IN
order To halt snow halling claims By
union members
There was htrle hope IN chamber
circle. that business could Stop claims
on past amounts but the Plan is 70
prevent any future liability by en-
LOVERS
A Bargaining Lever,
Although there wa~ no official hint
IL any labor CIRCLES. a rum0r MS
afloar that the retroactive portable
portal suits misht be traded of for
better union contracts and substan
tial pay boosts
First suits filed to collect back pay.
damages and attorneys fees for the
millions uf workers involved e By
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
Travel Time Suits Totalling More Than Sc
Millions Instituted Against ACM

Four suits seeking payment of almost 81 million in back
pay for portable portal time under the Fair Labor Standards
act of 1888 have been filed against the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company by Butte Miners union. the Anaconda and East
Helena locals of the International Mine, Mill & Smeter Work
es, and electricians in the Butte mines, smelter workers at the
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
Freedom Where Is It?
InouireN ewshounds

New York-FP-There seems to be more than a slight
difference of opinion between the men who work on CONNER
cial newspapers and the men who own them as to whether the
press is biased in it's handling of the news.
While publishers generally contend the press is free, def
nitions of that freedom are often revealing. In the January is
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
Portal Suits May Force Quick Wage Boosts
Green Seeks Cooperation
0fLabor, MAJ 4,<::ement

WashingtOn.-(FP)-A call for teamwork manage
ment and labor to bring industrial peace was Is. by AFL
Pres. William Green in his annual New Years message.
Extending ito all members of the AFL and to the American
people as a whole best wishes for a prosperous and peaceful
New Year Green opened his message with a statement that
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02
Timed With Launching OF
New Cost. 0f.Living
Pay Demands

with due bills signed by the l.
5. Supreme Court. organized labor moved at year end toward
the cashiers till of key Industries 10 collect past due portal-to-
portal pay that max mount into billions OF dollars.
The freshly launched threat to tap the bulging profit ac-
counts of big t. 5. corporations was timed with laborS increas-
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02

ut is the business of the
old party politician to get
campaign contributions from
the rich and votes from the
poor on the ground that he
will protect one from the
other. Ameriger.
Montana labor news., 1947-01-02

An economy that relies for
its stimulation on waste and
disaster is taking the road
TO oblivion as surely A. the
dinosaurs, those creatures
that were all bulk and no
brains Stuart Chase.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Former WPB EmpIoye
Hangs Self in Home

John H. Duggan. 62-year-old for
mer War Production Board employe,
was found hanging from pipe IN
the basement Of his Silver Spring
home, Montgomery County police
reported
The Silver Spring Rescue Squad
was unable to revive Mr. Duggan
after his wife, Alice, assisted by a
neighbor, had cut a clothes line
which supported his body.
DR.. Frank Broschart, Montgomery
County coroner, issued a certificate
of suicide. DR.. Broschart said Mr..
Duggan had been in i'll health for
some time and under a doctors
care.
Mrs. Duggan said she was awak.
ened about 3 am. and found her
husband was not in the bedroom.
She searched the house and found
him in the basement.
Mrs. Duggan, who lived with her
husband at 324 Highview avenue.
said they were in the process Of
packing up to return to their former
home at GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Kon-Tiki Crew Leaves
Tahiti on Morse Shin

i. TAHITI, Sept. IA (By Wireless)
Delayed The Balsa raft of the
Kon-tiki expedition and the men
who formed her crew during the
long drift to Polynesia from Peru
today are on board Norwegian ship
bound for San Francisco, where they
are due on September 80.
No eastbound ship was due to
touch at Tahiti until late fall, but
Lars Christensen, Norwegian ship
owner, ordered his 4,000-ton liner,
Thor I, to come here from Samoa
to pick them up.
The two weeks in Tahiti were filled
with enthusiastic welcomes by the
whole population. Every one was
interested in the trans-Pacif1c voy-
age and in the theory that the origi-
nal inhabitants Of this island came
from South America.
(Released by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1947-09-22
ISM. M.p.H. Winds Due
With Falling Mercury

Winds up to Is miles an hour
were expected to accompany drop
ping temperatures this afternoon
and tonight, the Weather Bureau
said today.
Officials said the temperature
would go to so degrees tonight, COM
pared to a low of 66 last night.
Twelve o'clock temperature was 62.
Storm warnings were raised along
the Atlantic Coast as far as the
Eastern snore of Maryland, and
State police alerted all stations to
be prepared for possible storm dam
age. Weather Bureau officials said
no bad wind storm was expected
here, however.
A special warning of frost and
freezing temperatures tonight and
tomorrow night was issued for most
of New England. Frost also was
forecast for the Great Lakes region
and Eastern Iowa.
The weather will continue cool to-
morrow when summer formally bows
out with the coming of the autumnal
equinox at 5:29 pm.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
District Police Lead in SOLVING
Robberies, but Lag on Thefts

Washington police detective work
shows up as better than the national
average in robbery and burglary
cases but less than half as effective
in solving larcenies and automobile
thefts, study Of police and FBI
figures diScloses.
During the first six months of
1947 the Metropolitan Police De-
partment cleared 45.8 robberies for
every 100 reported, as compared
with national average of 37.1
shown in the semi-annual bulletin
of the FBI uniform crime reports,
made public Saturday.
Clearances Of burglaries here
were at the rate Of 297 per 100. The
FBI bulletin showed a pate Of 29.1
nationally.
The rate for solving larcenies
across the Nation during the six
month period was 20 per hundred.
Washington police, however, cleared
only 10.2 per hundred.
The District rate for auto theft
clearances was 14.3 per 100, as
against 28.S nationally.
The figures used In the compari-
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Reds Build 100 Cities
In nExpanding Industry,
Writer for u. n. Saws
Siberian Projects Include
Oak Ridge for Atomic
Energy Development
BY the Assccjoted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-An
article in the magazine United
Nations World asserts the Soviet
Union, unknown to the outside
world, has built or is building
100 industrial centers-many SO
new as to be still "nameless
citieS"-and an immense Siher-
ian industrial region which will
include a Russian "Oak Ridge
for atomic energy development.
The writer, Ellsworth Lester Ray
mond, former chief of the Army's
Russian Economic Section, said this
gigantic effort to transform wilder
ness areas into important new
production centers scarcely has been
publicized even inside Russia. The
tempo of the building has been
stepped up by the current five-year
plan.
just as the Tennessee Valley
Authority helped make possible the
United States, atomic center at Oak
Ridge, so the Russians plan to secure
power from the rapid Angara River
in the Irkutsk region for their
atomic projects, the article said,
Reports Huge Strides.
Mr.. Raymond wrote that the new
cities rising there and elsewhere
throughout the Soviet Union "bear
witness to the huge strides the
U. S. S. r. is making toward rebuild
ing an industrial economy so ter
ribly ravaged by war" He added:
These cities are so new they do
not yet appear on even the latest
maps of the USSR. In fact, only
a few of the 100 new cities have as
yet been given any designation at
all. The rest are known by the
collective name, Bezimyanka - lit
orally 'nameless city'-until Soviet
planners can dream up new varia-
tions of Stalin's and Molotov's
names for their enlarged gazeteers. :"
Declaring the cities are not being
built for propaganda or to impress
travellers, Mr.. Raymond said: "They
are built to accommodate huge new
factories, hydro-electric plants, rail-
way functions, mining plants, or to
provide dwellings for hundreds OF
thousands of workers from all over
(See RUSSIANS page A-57
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Man Due 10 Be Evicted
Is Found Shot 10 Death

Two days before he was to be
evicted from his room for not paying
the rent, Joseph L. Kent, SO, was
found dead this morning, a bullet
in his head and a gun at his side.
Mr.. Kent, who had lived at 636
Fourteenth street NE. for the last
20 years, was discovered at 7 am.
today by his roommate, Oscar
Schreiner, when he returned. from
work. Mr.. Schreiner said the re-
volver belonged to him and that
it had been kept locked in another
room.
Mr.. Kent. employed as a public
building guard during the war, had
discussed his eviction with numer-
GUS neighbors, they said today, and
was despondent over having to
leave his room. His wife died about
two years ago, neighbors reported.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
By the kssoeioted Pres,

NEW ORLEANS. La, Sept. 22.-
Winds up to so miles per hour-only
Is miles below hurricane strength
were predicted today for storm
ravaged Southern Florida as a new
tropical disturbance moved swiftly
across the Gulf of Mexico.
The storm center, already lashing
the coast with rain-laced, squalls,
headed toward the Fort Myer-
Tampa Bay area where it was ex-
pected to move inland tonight. 1t
was only half the intensity of the
great Atlantic hurricane, which
tracked destruction across Florida
and then roared across the Gulf of
Mexico to the rich Gulf Coast and
New Orleans.
The Miami Weather Bureau said
the newest blow was not expected
to be dangerous but ordered new
southeast storm warnings raised from
Palm Beach to Fernandina, Fla, and
storm warnings continued from
Palm Beach southwark over the
Evening star., 1947-09-22
S-konth-0|d Boy Dies
OF Suffocation in Crib

An s-month-old boy died of suf-
location early today in his crib at
se28 Woodland road, Silver Spring
in spite of efforts of the Silver
Spring Rescue Squad to revive him
Mrs. Frank Hodge, the mother
told Montgomery County police that
when she got up about / am. to
look at the baby, Frank, jr.. she
noticed he was cold. DR.. Frank
Broschart, Montgomery County cor.
oner, who issued a certificate of &C
cidental death, said the infant prob
ably died of suffocation from milk
lodging in his windpipe
Mrs. Hodge told police that she
lad come here from Seattle several
weeks ago to attend her mothers
funeral and settle her estate. She
said the boy was an only child.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
1housandstoGet
Retroactive Paw
|nFedera| Jobs
Each Eligible Denied
Promotion in lo45WiII
Receive $l00 to $3.50
By Joseph Young

A ruling granting retroactive
pay to thousands of Government
employees was announced TODAY
by the Civil Service Commission,
The commission instructed Fed
eral departments and agencies to
grant retroactive pay to all Federal
employees who were eligible, but who
did not receive within-grade promo
tlons after July /, l945.
The difference in salary between
the amount these employees would
nave made, had they received the
promotions, and the salary they
actually received will amount to be-
tween 500 and $3.50 per employe,
commission spokesman estimated.
Have Since Received Promotions.
These employees have since been
given their promotions, but until
today's commission ruling, the
agencies have not had the authority
to pass out the retroactive salary
due them.
The commission said failure to
promote the employees was caused
by agencies and departments er-
rors and delay in compiling en-
ployes' efficiency ratings.
Also, the commission said, many
agencies erred in computing the
time employees had acquired which
entitled them to promotions.
In other cases, agencies failed to
act because of the absence of a
responsible official to authorize the
promotions, the commission said.
No Official Estimate on Number.
All Government employees with an
efficiency rating of good" or better
are entitled to within grade pro-
motion and an accompanying salary
increase every IL or Is months, de-
pending on the grade of the position
occupied. The 18-month period is
for employees in upper-grade jobs.
Automatic within-grade promo.
tions stop when an employe reaches
the top level of his grade. For ex-'
ample, CATS employe would not
get within-grade promotion which
would carry him into CAF-6 SAL
ary bracket.
Commission officials said they had
no official estimate on the number
of employees. involved, but that in
dications we're many thousand Of
workers were affected.
d, Commission officials advised all
employees affected by the ruling to
contact personnel officials in their
respective agencies.
The ruling may hurt some agen-
cies which already have been hard
hit by sharp 194S budget cuts. Com
mission officials, however, said they
did not believe the majority Of
agencies would suffer undue finan-
cial hardships.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
Truman Will Present
Regatta Cup to Foster

Earlier Story on Page AID
President Truman will present the
$17,500 Presidents Cup at II am.
tomorrow at the White House to
Danny Foster of Oakland, Calf,
who won his right to it for second
time yesterday before 100000 spec
tators of Hains Point.
The racing speedboat driver won
the trophy by driving Miss Pops v
to victory in two heats during the
Presidents Cup Regatta on the
Potomac River.
Evening star., 1947-09-22
What theRussions
Are Saying of Us:

The Moscow radio, broddcastins
in SUedtSh to Europe last iDeek
said:
"The separate negotiations be-
tween the Americans and the
British regarding the raising of
the industrial production level in
Western Germany have con-
f1rmed the fears Of democratic
world opinion regarding the
Marshall plans true aims. 1t
is now clear that these aims are
as follows: To use the industrial
potential of the Ruhr as an eco
nomic basis for a Western bloc,
and to mobilize the other Euro
pean countries in an effort to let
the German cartels regain their
economic fighting power as soon
as possible, this time under the
regime of the Americans and the
British"
Evening star., 1947-09-22

son include a small number of
cases in each instance which were
cleared this year, although the
crimes occurred In a previous re-
porting period.
Washington statistics for the Pc
riod were compiled by FBI agents,
who were invited by Supt. Robert
j. Barrett to review the Capitals
crime-reporting system. In arriv-
ing at the National averages, the
FBI used figures prepared by local
enforcement authorities in all OF
the other / ,465 cities covered.
District police cleared 80 murders
this year through June 30, includ-
ing four old cases. There were
36 cases reported in that period.
Robberies and burglaries are two
classifications in which the FBI
summary showed Washington has
as high, or higher, crime totals than
much larger metropolitan centers,
such as New York and Chicago.
In both cases, the clearance rates
shown for the first six months of
this year are substantially below
(See CRIME, Page AID
Evening star., 1947-09-22
District Schools 0per
With Enrolment of
$1,000 Anticipated
Ruling on Registration
From County Areas May
Affect Final Figure
pictures on Page BIZ

An estimated $1,000 pupils
trudged back to the Districts
public schools this morning as
rain added the problem of rain
coats and umbrellas to the COM
plications of the first day of
school.
Mothers with children entering
kindergarten and the first grade
accompanied their children to the
schools to see that they were prop
erly enrolled and placed in classes
The auditoriums of the elementary
schools were jammed with mothers
who waited patiently for the prin-
cipals to interview them.
The only documents required
were birth certificates and vaccina
ton certificates
At the junior high schools, senior
high schools and vocational high
schools most pupils went through
opening day routine without aid of
parents because of previous expert
ence with this schoo1-going busi-
ness.
Night Registration Scheduled.
Night school registration will be
held from to 10 o'clock tonight.
At the Veterans High School
Center at Central High, approx
mately 600 veterans former a queue
which stretched out of the registra-
ton office and down the hall. They
were quickly signed up, however, and
classes were under way before the
was over.
DR.. Robert G. Vanderlip, director
of the center, pointed out that the
estimated 600 students was a large
drop from last years enrolment of
1854. He said the greatest number
of veterans completing their high
school education had passed through
the center and that by next year
there probably would be only a few
hundred going to school. During.
the last scholastic year 600 former
service men were graduated from the
center and another 127 received
diplomas during summer school, Dr.
Vanderlip said.
Typical of the scenes repeated
over the city was the one at the
Cooke Elementary School at Seven
teenth and Euclid streets NV.
Mothers and their children enter
ing school for the first time flooded
into the building in time to reach
classes before the o'clock bell rang.
All were wrapped in raincoats and
umbrellas we're numerous as the
rain fell steadily.
Once inside the mothers took their
Evening star., 1947-09-22
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Sept. 22.-An Arab
Office spokesman said today the
Arab world had agreed to make
"a complete economic and cul-
tural break" with Europe and
America if the United Nations
should attempt to partition Pal
eStine.
The spokesman, self-styled Lon
don propagandist for the Arab
League, made his statement after
an authoritative British Foreign
Office source said Britain would
accept such partition if other U. N.
members would help carry out the
project.
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech
Jones leaves by plane for New York
tonight to present Britain's views
to the U. N. Assembly, soon to con-
slider majority report of its special