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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
SIS Million Strike Fund For
JAW CIO Urged By Macy
Would Avoid
Costly Strikes

DETROIT CLPA) - Immedi-
ate steps to establish a SIS mil
lion strike fund have been urged
by Emil Macy, secretary-treas-
urer of the CIO United Auto
Workers.
Such q fund, he said, would
help avoid many costly strikes
since many m a n a g m e n S
would hesitate to force us into
strike situations if they knew
our union was capable of taking
care of the immediate needs of
our members"
The "soundest approach" he
said, would be to raise dues
from the present S1.50 a month,
lowest of any major union in
the country, to $3.50, with so
cents earmarked for a strike
fund. Higher dues, he said,
would end the need for strike
assessments. During 1850, ne
pointed out, most of the mem
bers paid an average of $3.50,
including assessments, without
Hardship to our members" who
are among the highest paid
workers in America" The so
cents earmarked for the strike
fund would bring in IS million
a year.
The union has total resources
of more than SIS million, accord
ing to a report submitted by the
unions trustees and printed in
the current edition of the United
Automobile Worker, officia
JAW publication. The fully de-
tailed financial statement is dis
tributed to the entire member
ship of over one million.
The report listed liquid assets
as of May 81, 1850, as S3,537,-
807.90; and fixed assets as ST.
$40, 2E78.98; compared with fl
cures as of November 30, 1949,
of So, 1859, 1905 in liquid assets,
and $1,o68,371.11 in fixed as
sets.
In a statement accompanying
the audit report, Macy said "A
careful analysis clearly shows
the inadequacy of our income to
meet normal operating expendi-
lures of our Union" He said the
increase in liquid assets was due
almost entirely to a surplus left
from collection of the emergen-
cy strike assessment levied dur
ing the three-month Chrysler
strike. The increased fixed as
sets figure includes an invest
ment of $436, 210.14 in the
UAW-CIO's new headquarters
building in Detroit, now under
construction.
The UAW-CIO now has zoos
active local unions. Average per
capitas paid to the International
during the year was 908 410.
But, Marcy pointed out, more
than 100000 members paid no
dues during the Chrysler strike;
and many more, in strike and
other emergency situations,
paid no dues for varying peri
DDS. The actual total of active
dues-paying m e m b e S, Macy
said, is well ever the one mil
lion mark.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

imanpower dislocation and pro-
mote about production.
Cowan described as ''union-
busting" an amendment by Sen-
ator Bricker Or, Ohio) which
would set aside and repeal col
lective bargaining rights, by pro-
hibiting any changes in wages
and working conditions in plants
seized by the government under
the Act. Were this amendment
to be adopted" he predicted,
"anti-union employers would re-
fuse to negotiate, hoping that
the amendment would make a
mockery" of the bills intent to
safeguard the maintenance and
furtherance of sound working
conditions, including collective
bargaining"
He called for defeat of an
amendment by Senator Taft (R,
Ohio) which would permit the
President to allocate scarce ma
terials or plants only to war
agencies or government defense
departments. IF this amendment
were adopted" Cowan declared,
"the President could not allocate
scarce materials to essential CT
william purposes. High-profit uses
of scarce materials would cap
ture the lions share of the short
supply 49,. Housing and COM
munity facilities, even for de-
tense production areas and mill
tary personnel, could not be as
sured a supply of building ma
terials, unless a government
agency concerned with defens
undertakes to build them -
which Senator Taft would then
attack as socialism,
1.-THE trend of these amend
ments is to convert what pur-
ports to be a price sterilization
bill into a bill to guarantee prof
its. More and more special in
t~erests will demand exemptions
and guarantees. The floor under
profits will become stronger than
the ceiling over prices. The cost
of living will continue to rise
by act of Congress"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

The Administrator of the
Federal wage and hour law has
authority to supervise the pay
ment of back wages owed EN-.
ployees, under certain condi-
tions.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21

speech that endears him to all of
America. Any one can ponder the
conflict between labor and capital,
but only a Carl Sandburg could
write:
II hold, if the Almighty had
ever made a set of men that should
do all of the eating and none of
the work, he would have made
them with mouths only and no
hands"
The Singer
Carl Sandburg's father has been
dead many years. And so also
have passed on a generation of
Swedish immigrants. All of them
came to America armed with
elaborate parish certificates CIV
ing their whole past history.
Usually the record was one of
good behavior. Their vitality and
realistic turn of mind is part and
parcel of our American culture.
Sandburg, the poet, wrote Of
Lincoln but what he said might
have been written of countless
early Swedish pioneers. Only one
who had lived the simple life of the
immigrant could sing thus:
In the short and simple an
nails of the poor it seems there
are people who breathe with the
earth and take into their lungs
and blood some of the hard and
dark strength of its mystery. Dur
ing six and seven months of his
life, Abraham Lincoln had the
pads of his foot soles bare against
clay of the earth. 1t may be the
earth told him in her own tough
gypsy slang one or two knackS
of living worth keeping. To be
organic with running wild-fire and
quiet rain, both of the same
moment, is to be the carrier of
wave lines the earth gives up
only on hard usage"
This is a reprint of an essay
appearing i'm the book, THE Will
to Succeed"
(The book The Will to Succeed"
is a collection of stories chosen
from a group entered in a literary
contest sponsored by the Swedish
American Line in commemorative
of the Swedish Pioneer Centennial
of 194S. 1t is published by Bon
nier's, sos Madison Ave, n. "
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21

called the terrible Swede' and
he has the Swede's innate love of
singing - singing rousing Swedish
songs. And still he is thoroughly
American. He has risen above his
early hardships and his poetry
teens with Americanism He men,
tons American cities by name
and his poetry is rife with smoke
belching chimneys, machinery, in
dustrialism.
In his poem Smoke and Steel
he writes:
Smoke of the fields in spring
is one,
Smoke of the leaves in autumn
another q.
And always dark in the heart
and through it.
Smoke and the blood of a man.
Pittsburg, Youngstown, Gary -
they make their steel with
men.
A truly American poet, Sand
burg seethes with tremendous
energy as he describes the city of
Chicago in his Chicago Poems.
MANY have accused his work of
being course and brutal. His de-
tractors forgot that Sandburg was
only brutal when dealing with bru-
tally, that beneath his toughness
he is one of the tenderest of living
poets. Sandburg's poetry has al
the strength and roughness, all
the sympathetic tenderness and
beauty that characterize the lives
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21

1t is significant that the Swed-
ish immigrant had a passion for
work, he was likely to be thrifty,
serious-minded, honest beyond any
doubt. The immigrant Swede was
apt to be stubborn but adaptable.
Perhaps some of Carl Sandburg's
greatness lies in his ability to re-
member his own fathers hard and
bitter life, his struggle with pow
erty, his frugality and his bitter
accomplishment of what he set out
to do.
One of Sandburgs earliest men,
cries harks back to the times
when he was small boy. His
father was Swedish immigrant
who worked a ten-hour shift, six
days a week, sweating among the
blazing railroad FORCES in Gales
burg, Illinois. He was sober and
honest and earned IA cents an
hour. On those wages he managed
to support his wife and their seven
children, give of his hard-eamed
wages to the Swedish Lutheran
Church and by some miraculous
manner managed to lay aside some
savings. With heroric patience and
frugality through the long, slow
years he was able to buy home
for the sum of $4,000, and knew
for few brief weeks the satisfac-
ton of owning his own home. But
there was something wrong with
the deed, some legal question
about the possession of the prop
erty. The facts are not now clear
~ known, but we do know that
he was victim of his own ignorance
of the. English language or of
someone's greed. Somewhere along
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21

earthliness. They both had known
the same hard poverty, the same
hard labor, Sandburg wrote of
Lincoln, but he traced his own
youth along with Lincoln's.
"He lived with trees, with the
bush wet with shining raindrops,
with the burning bush of autumn,
with the lone wild duck riding a
north wind and crying down on
a line north and south, the faces
of open sky and weather" 1t was
Lincoln, blowing, hoeing, cutting
and shocking, again his bare feet
spoke with the clay of the earth"
But in reality it was Sandburg re-
membering his own boyhood days,
helping his father build house,
backing shoes, trying to learn a
trade but running up against a
wall at every turn, reading at
night, reading fast and furiously
everything that was poetic and
beautiful. It was Sandburg re-
membering his affection for words,
his sympathy for the underdog,
the calluses on his hands. It was
Sandburg driving a milk wagon,
portering in a barbershop, work.
ing at pottery, washing dishes,
working as farm hand, painting.
These homely tasks brought him
elbow to elbow with the working
people and their problems.
Called Terrible Swede"
Many critics have called Sand
burg a Swede who has somehow
grated onto American culture.
True his father could not write
and could read English only with
difficulty, true that the children
in the Sandburg home knew the
Swedish language as well as the
English, Sandburg at college was
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21
Carl Sandberg Candidate For Nobel Prize

of the common people in the Mid
die West as Sandburg knew them.
He writes about factories and
noise and slums and smoke, shop
girls, pitchforks, biscuits, the open
prairie, the wind - about all the
details that are part of common
life.
There are few school children
who have not learned his timber
and delicately written Fog"
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
1t sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent launches
and then moves on.
His words make music as they
flow and fill the readers mind
with vivid pictures.
Wrote Fairy Tales
Only Carl Sandburg has given
America it's native fairy tales. His
| two books of 'Rootabaga Stories
/ have become familiar to almost
every child of school age in Ameri-
ca. Carl Sandburg explained: Il
wanted something in the American
lingo. I was tired of princes and
princesses and sought the Ameri-
can equivalent of elves n d
gnomes. I knew that American
children would respond, so I wrote
some nonsense tales with Ameri-
can fooling in them" These books
are full of gay and foolish char
acters who do the same sensibly
foolish things that all Americans
do.
And so the terrible SWede,'
is truly American, more American
than the raw, big listed rough
neck Americans that he is wont to
describe, more American than the
poor, down-trodden common peo-
pie of whom he sings.
But it is in his biography of Lin
coin that Sandburg reaches his
true greatness. We find his owr
prairie reflected in this greatest
of biographies. In his closing lines
of the book we find: And the
night came with great quiet. And
there was rest. The prairie years
the war years, were over"
This writer of poetry has giver
to us the truest and the most
beautiful of all the biographies
of Abraham Lincoln. With Sand
burg's love of this land of de-
mocracy he could evaluate the
worth of such a man as Lincoln
And Sandburg has given the same
musical flow of words to the prose
of this biography that is the charm
of his poetry. He himself has felt
with his sensitive spirit what he
writes of Lincoln, the boy. "And
one night this boy felt the south.
west wind blowing the log-fire
smoke into his nostrils. And there
was a hoot-owl crying and shak'
ing of branches in the beeches anc
walnuts outside. so that he wen'
to the south opening of the sheo
and looked out on a winter SIX.
with a quarter-moon and Whit
shine of thin frost on the Ions
open spaces of the sky
Found iucolu HE
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21
His Life. Work :. And Soul
By Signe Lorimer

There is in both United States
Carl Sandburg of Americas Unique poets
poetry
outstanding biographical Abraham
navan American takes pleasure presenting the following
recognition
navan whose life should be all
tradition
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21

Export of Norwegian frozen wild
berries to the United States will
be tried next fall.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21
Poor But Rich

Sandburg has lived close to the
laundering people 1t was Sand
burg who at thirteen years of age
was solemnly brought into church
membership. All other boys II the
confirmation class of the Swedish
Lutheran Church in Galesburg
wore black suits. But he did not
own a black suit and the family
could not afford to buy one. Per-
haps this explains his present
aversion to formal attire. Per-
haps this is one reason why Sand
burg spent so many years study
ing his hero Lincoln. 1t well may
be that the Sandburg of the Illinois
prairie and the prairie President
were kin to the same feeling of
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21

the line someone had taken ad-
vantage of this honest immigrant
who could not sign his own name
but whose sons name has been
emblazoned in thousands of books
throughout the world. The elder
Sandburg was allowed to keep
the house but was told he would
have to pay for it all over again.
The impression this whole unhappy
incident made on Carl Sandburg,
the small child, has never been
erased AS an adult he saw in it
the inhumanity of man to man,
and has spent his life in the fierce
championship of the common per-
son, the fumbling little man, the
unlettered and the poor.
Sense of Enduring Values
But few Swedes set out to make
money for moneys sake. Their
sense of enduring values was
strong. Few lost perspective. In
spite of privations, or perhaps be-
cause of it, they were hardy and
strong. They had knack of
mechanics, a love of education and
music - especially singing. Carl
Sandburg's early training shows
itself in his later life. Many BIZ
ographers have written in scholar
ly fashion but Carl Sandburg when
he writes his Abraham Lincoln"
speaks from the depth of his own
personal experience. Page after
page he quotes Abraham Lincoln,
and Lincoln's words when shaped
in the poetic style of Sandburg,
become marvellous poetry. There
are lines by Lincoln that might
be Sandburg and Sandburg lines
that might have been spoken by
te prairie President. This is Sand
burg at his height, the man who
collected material on Lincoln for
thirty years before he wrote one
of literature's prose masterpieces
in inimitable poetic style. This is
Sandburg who, at the end of the
book, sings:
The People will live on.
The learning and laundering
people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold
and again sold
And go back to the nourishing
earth for rootholds,
] The people so peculiar in re-
newal and comeback,
You can't laugh off their ca
pacity to take it =.
In the darkness with a great
bundle of grief the people
march.
In the night, and overhead, q
shovel of stars for keeps
the people march:
Where to? What next?
Poor But Rich
Sandburg has lived close to 1.-THE
laundering people" 1t was Sand
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-06-21
Found Lincoln His
Counterpart

Sandburg has heard the trees
pray for their leaves in the rain
and the whining wind" And his
vivid imagery he can convey to
his reader. We can hear with
Sandburg the upward push of
the coming out of the new grass. =
and VIC eaten our breath as we
hear with him the rustic of a
single falling leaf as it lets go
a whisper that a listening ear can
catch"
1t must have been that Sand
burg found in Lincoln his counter
part. Could it not be that as he
writes of the boy Lincoln his own
silent years of waiting are re-
vealed And so he grew. Silence
found him; he met silence. In the
making of him as he was the
element of silence was immense"
1t is Sandburg's LONELINESS of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-22

In the District Court for the
 Territory of Alaska Division Number One, at Juneau IN THE MATTER OF THE REGULAR JANUARY, 1851 TERM OF THE DISTRICT COURT, AT JUNEAU.
 PUBLIC NOTICE
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That pursuant to an Order of the Court dated November 18th, 1850, a Regular January, 1850 Term of the District Court for the First Division of the Territory of Alaska. will be held in the courtroom of the Fed eral Building at Juneau, Alaska, beginning at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of Wednesday, January 3rd, 1851.
 In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the above entitled court to be affixed at Juneau, this 29th day of November, 1850.
 J. w. LEVERS,
 Clerk of the District Court. First Publication: Dec. 1, 1850. Last Publication: Dec. 22, 1850.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-22
MORE DECORATED
 WINDOWS SHOWING

It was just before Christmas when nearly every shop window in Juneau blossomed forth with at least something in the way of Christmas decorations. Not all were competing for the Chamber of Commerce window prizes but taken all together it adds much to the over all festive spirit of the holi- days.
 Jacobson's Upholstery Shop on South Franklin Street has a min- iature living room with a tiny Christmas tree, wee gifts, floor lamps, furniture and family en- gagged in usual Christmas activities.
 Alaska Electric Light and Power Co.,, has huge, gaily lighted tree with two live Scottie puppies in pen nearby which are attracting the attention of many kiddies and have been named Merry" and Christmas"
 A huge 12-foot diameter hemlock wreath with 75 lights hangs above the marquee of the Capitol Threa- tre.
 The Elks Club has gone festive with lights around its marquee. The Imperial Cafe has small tree with an angel and Santa on skis for variation and gingerbread house.
 A lovely nativity scene is in the window of the Vanity Beauty Shop, complete with singing angels on soft cloud Toy Musical instruments and Harmonicas in front of tiny church decorate one window of the Alaska Music Shop.
 Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Co.,, has a simple, effective display of a potted poinsetta with two huge lighted candles on either side.
 Nearly all the other stores have something surrounding merchan- disc displays that is p keeping with the season.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-22
CHRISTlNS0N FUND
 FOR CHRISTMAS IS
 NOW GOING OVER TOP

The Christmas rund set up for Helvig Christinson, who lost his feet as a result of the sinking of the fishing boat Dixie, has exceed ed $500 locally from contributions by individuals and organizations.
 Alaska Coastal Airlines donated a ticket to him so that he may spend the holidays at his home in Pelican. The Volunteer Fire De- partment has donated the use of the ambulance to take Christinson to the plane. The ambulance driver is giving his time to drive the am- bulance.
 Funds have gone over the $500 mark in Pelican for Christinson and Mrs Fred Wetche, it is learned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-22
RADIO .lo6

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 Sign On. 7:00-Sunr,se Surprise.
 7:30-Morning News.
 8:00-Morning Thought.
 8:10-Headline News.
 8:25-Weather report. 8:30-ARCHIE -NBC. 9:0O-Music for the Missus. 9:25-Weather. 9:3O-INvITATION TO LEARN
 ING-CBS. 10:00-News. 10:05-Just Jazz. 1o:30-SATURDAY AT CHASE
 CBS. 11:00-Kids on KINY. 11:45-Singers of Songs. 12:00-Weather. 12:15-NewS. 12:30-COAST GUARD CADETS
 NEG. 1:OO-CAPITOL CLOAKROOM-
 CBS. 1:30-ChriStian Science :45-Excursions in Science. 2:0O-HEAR IT NOW-CBS. 3:0O-MEET THE MISSUS- -CBS. BROADWAY IS MY BEAT
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-22
MILK DELIvERY-CHRISTMAS

On Monday, Dec. 25, milk deliv- cry will be made at regular time, but only to those who have their bottles out. Only once over the routes, so have your bottles and tickets out! 689-2t
 MERRY CHRISTMAS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-12-22

CHRISTMAS BAKE SALE
 At Sears Roenuck, Dec. 23, II am. BP.W. 688-4t
Evening star., 1950-12-25

say: You know what stinkers
they are"
The original line was much
stronger. but the new one does
little to weaken the charm of
Harvey" as memorable movie
comedy.
Evening star., 1950-12-25
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Ambassador - Lets Dance;
sos. Sis, 1920 and 9:35 pm,
Capitol-"Watch the Birdie;
II am, 1:40. 4:25, 7:10 and IL
pm. Stage shows: $40, 6:25 and
9:15 pm.
Columbia 1.-TWO Weeks With
Love-; lis, 1925, 5:35, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Dupont-"Bitter Rice; /. $40,
SIS, 1880, e:40 and 11:5O pm.
Keith's-"Harvey";; 1:2O, $40
5:25. 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Little-"Cesar";; /. $40, $40,
1880 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan Emergency
Wedding; $40. 5:55, $40 and
11:15 pm.
National - "All About Eve;
1855 am, $50, $50 and 8:45
pm.
Palace-"Mr. Music: 2:05, 4:40,
ITO and GAS pm.
Pix-"Here Comes the Co-Eds";; !;
2, 4:40. 1920 and 10 pm.
Playhouse-"Trio"; /, 3:05, $40,
7::35 and $50 pm.
Piaza-"Ballet Festival; /, 2::25,
4:20, 6:10, sos and 10 pm.
Trans to Fame;
1:15, 3, 4:45, $50, $40 and 9::55
pm.
Warner LETS Dance; $40,
Sis, 1925 and 9:35 pm.
Evening star., 1950-12-25

than most leading men who dance.
Il should be at Goth where they
have Dan Daley. or Warmers
where Gene Nelson is" says Ann.
Cor they should be at Metro"
Joan Evans might be our next
young bride-if the young actor,
Carleton Carpenter. can persuade
her.
The Ronald Colmans will go
to England next summer
less" says Bonita, There's a war"
Daughter Juliet has reached the
toothless stage. She is years
old. And blond beauty, even
without two front teeth.
The most candid newcomer to
Hollywood in years is Scotsman
James Justice. He will tell you
at the drop of a question what
he thinks of columnists in this
country. You have to have
strong system to take it. James
has big role with Gregory Peck
in David and Bathsheba."
North American Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1950-12-25
Dances BY
F. Astuire
These Are Good,
Little Else Is
In Let's Dance

LETS DANCE" q Paramount release,
produced by Robert Fellows. directed by
Norman q. Macleod, screenplay by Allan
scott. suggested by story by Maurice
Zolotow. At the Warner.
Evening star., 1950-12-25
Hollywood Diary
Ava Gordner's Punishment
To Be Biggest BuiIdup Ever
By SheiIoh Grohom

hoarse whispers-"I have laryn-
gifts. The children have had it
too. But we leave this week end
for Sun Valley" She adds that
she gained 10 pounds during the
recent trip to Gotham. Looks
good.
Pola Negri is going to turn her
talents to discovering and train
ing new aspirants for the screen.
Pola's school is sponsored by
Henry Guttman, and in partner
ship with Eugene Leontovich.
X k.*%
The Sam Spiegels may call off
their big New Years eve party,
because of the death of the agent,
Johnny Hyde. HE was a close
friend" says Sam sadly. Johnny
was close friend of many stars
he catapulted to fame-like Lana
Turner and Rita Hayworth. He'll
be missed.
Ann Miller's big dancing prob
lem at Metro is that she is taller