Owned and Published By and For Labor Lansing Labor News * Official Weekly Newspaper of CIO Labor in Lansing MAIL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 657, Lansing 3, Mich. For A Better America —60,000,000 Jobs LANSING, MICHIGAN — OCTOBER 11, 1945 $1.50 PER YEAR — PER COPY, 5c VOL. 1, No. 30 Behind the Headlines in Washington with IRVING RICHTER Intl. Leg. Rep., UAW-CIO “Bullwhippers of the 79th Congress” is the title De Lacy of Washington pro­ poses for those congressmen who refuse to act on emerg­ ency unemployment compen­ sation. The title arises out of &n anecdote told by Knutson of Minnesota, one of the Con­ gressional leaders of the fight against decent living standards, to explain how he thought displaced war work­ ers should be treated. It was a story about gov­ ernment owned elk who, in time of scarcity, were fed alfalfa during the winter to supplement the natural feed of the range. When spring came, they continued to pre­ fer alfalfa. “We had to take bull­ whips to drive them out on the range," Knutson con- cluded. It was Knutson’s cute way of saying, “We must drive workers back to low wages" The Murray full employ­ ment bill pased the senate. But its language establish­ ing the right to a job was watered down and compli­ cated, and the senate im­ posed a vague and complicat­ ed limitation on what the government may do to sup­ plement private employment. As Glen Taylor, of Idaho, who was once unemployed himself, and has also worked in war plants and held & union card, pointed out, we didn’t fight the war that way. “The congress did not say (We are going to spend so many billion dollars, and if that does not win, we will give up.’ It said that all the resources of this na­ tion were pledged to bring the conflict to a succesful termination." On these two measures, unemployment compensation and full employment, the senate recorded at least four significant rollcall votes. They were (1) the Barkley amendment -restoring some semblance of the original Kilgore unemployment com­ pensation bill (defeatd); (2) the Lucas amendment re­ turning employment service to the state; (3) and (4) two amendments by Hickenloop­ er even further restricting the government’s share in Providing full employment (both defeated). Here are some UAW sen­ ators who voted wrong all four times: Vandenberg Fnd Ferguson of Michigan, Taft and Burton of Ohio, Hawkes and, Smith of New Jersey, Ball of Minnesota, Wiley of Wisconsin, Cape- hurt and Willis of Indiana. As soon as the Ways and Means Committee dropped unemployment compensation hurried into session over rePealing the excess profits tax. The CIO’s tax program, which will soon be embodied in a bill, urges removing the tax burden on purchasing Power, by raising income tax exemptions — instead of on swollen profits. This, too, will have to be fought for. The Senate Judiciary Com­ mittee reports on HR 7, the Anti-Poll Tax Bill, AND a Constitutional amend m e n t for the same purpose. No amendment is needed; this is just a dodge to postpone the whole issue for twenty years sb while we wait around for the states to ratify. See WASHINGTO,N Page 2 ONE-SIDED DEMOCRACY Oldsmobile Bars A Notice From Union Bulletin Boards Though General Motors Corporation buys for itself full public advertisements in daily newspapers to tell the public that labor’s demand for necesary wage increases is endangering reconversion and that the corporation can’t afford them because it hasn’t been making much money, it apparently does not care to have the other side of the story presented to the public that reads those' advertisements. Olds Local 652 Election Monday Polls will be open at Olds Local 652 from 8 a.m., Monday, Oct. 15, to 8 a.m. Tuesday for primary elec­ tion of six delegates from the main plant and two from the Forge plant to the special regional 1-C convention in Flint, Nov. 4 to elect a regional direct­ or to replace Carl Swan­ son, who has reigned. There will also be bal­ loting on a vice president and a treasurer for the Olds local to fill vacancies. General Motors officials have not accepted the invita­ tion of Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO vice president, to discuss union and corporation arguments publicly instead of behind closed doors Locally, the same attitude of having only the company side of the case publicized seems to exist, for the other day Oldsmobile denied Olds Local 652 the right to have the following sign posted on the union bulletin boards in the plant, said R. E. Richard­ son, president. ATTENTION! Members of Local 652 Hollywood Has Unique Formula For Strikers WASHINGTON (FP) — The NLRB was warned against establihing a “Holly­ wood formula” to abolish the right to strike by provid­ ing that an employer can dis­ charge strikers after they walk out, replace them with strikebreakers and have the NLRB hold that only the strikebreakers are entitled to vote in an NLRB election. The warning was sounded by Attorney A. J. Isserman, counsel for Local 1421, Broth erhood of Painters (A. F. of L). nucleus of the seven- month Hollywood strike. AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ABOVE LOCAL IT WAS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO ASSESS OURSELVES ONE DOL­ LAR PER MONTH FOR OCTO­ BER AND NOVEMBER, 1945. THIS ASSESSMENT IS TO BE USED FOR LOCAL PUBLICITY IN STATING OUR SIDE OF THE DEMANDS MADE BY OUR LO­ CAL AND INTERNATIONAL UAW-CIO. 25c OF EACH $1.00 WILL GO TO UNION G. M. DE­ PARTMENT FOR NATIONAL PUBLICITY. 75c WILL BE USED FOR RADIO TIME AND NEWS­ PAPER ADVERTISING LOCAL­ LY. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THIS ASSESSMENT BE PAID WHEN DUE, SO WE CAN EFFI­ CIENTLY INFORM THE PUB­ LIC OF THE ISSUES INVOLVED WITH GENERAL MOTORS COR­ PORATION AND OUR UNION. ONE AND ALL MUST DO THEIR PART TO PROTECT THE AMER­ ICAN STANDARD OF LIVING FOR OUR FAMILIES! YOUR COMMITTEEMAN OR STEW- ARD IS AUTHORIZED TO COL­ LECT THIS ASSESSMENT. SIGNED, R. E. RICHARDSON, PRESIDENT NOTICE SPECIAL MEETING FISHER LOCAL 602 There will be a special meeting of Fisher Local 602 at 6 p. m. Sunday, Oct. 14, to elect an election committee and to nomi­ nate delegates to a special conference of Region 1-C. Webb Ewing Pres. Local 602 Editor’s Note: This notice, sub­ mitted over a week ago, was in­ tended for publication in the Oct. 4 Labor News but was unintentionally omitted. STRIKE VOTE PONTIAC, Mich. (FP) — The national labor relations board strike vote will be tak­ en Oct. 24 in all GM plants where the UAW has con­ tracts under the Smith-Con­ nally act. BLACKLISTS DETROIT (FP) — Michi­ gan corporations have com­ piled a new blacklist of ac­ tive union stewards and committeemen in CIO plants, Pres. Frank X. Martel, De­ troit* & Wayne County Fed­ eration of Labor (AFL), told two score preachers at a se- sion of the Religion & Labor Fellowship. CARPENTERS DETROIT (FP)—The new hourly rate of members of the Detroit Carpenters Dis­ trict Council (AFL) is ; $1.62 1-2 an hour, a raise of 12 l-2c won from the wage adjustment board. It is to re­ main in force until May 1, 1946. Veterans Helped Picket Oil Companies —Federated Pictures Mobilized in the postwar fight for wages, these veterans, members of Oil Workers Intl. Union (CIO), picketed the strike bound Texas Company refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, before government seizure of the oil plants. Action resulted from refusal of company officials to accept government pr oposal for arbitration of strike agreed to by union. NOTICE TO THE MEN AND WO­ MEN OF OLDS: — In the near future there will be important information put in the hands of stewards and committeemen. Ask them about it! Olds Local 652, Educational Committee Do you know the right way? Ask your steward or committeeman! 1,000% MORE PROFITS, BUT- Timber Barons Won't Even Talk About Need Of Wage Increases SEATTLE (AP) — Be-& hind the strike of A. F. of L. lumber workers of five northwestern states is the de­ cision of the northwest’s lum­ ber barons to use their war- swollen power and wealth in a showdown fight against or­ ganized labor and its demand for full employment at de­ cent wages. The tipoff came in the lumber industry’s refusal to negotiate wage demands with the Sawmill & Timber Work­ ers (A. F. of L.) on an in­ See TIMBER BARONS, Page 4 Wage Boosts Certain, Say U. S. Experts By TRAVIS K. HEDRICK Federated Press WASHINGTON (FP) — Top level thinking in this capital Oct. 5 is agreed that wage increases, some healthy ones, are going to be squeezed out of the swollen money­ bags of U.S. industry. That statement will stand as the unanimous opinion of experts in all agencies and departments involved except some people in the Commerce Dept. There are individuals in Commerce who believe that 15% should be the most that increases should be al­ lowed to reach. SEE FULL 30% Most of the others, includ­ ing OPA, the Office of War Mobilization & Reconversion, and Treasury, feel that a boost of 30% in the wage bill can be taken in stride by the national economy with “little if any price increases.” Should price increases be necessary, they won’t be oven 5%, it is said, and this figure is admittedly a concession to political necessity and not to the economics of the question. 5% PRICE RAISE These experts, who cannot be individually identified for obvious reasons but who Fed­ erated Press can say are by no means the lesser lights in policy-forming conferences, state flatly that oil, auto, and steel can afford a full 30% increase on a 40-hour work week without any boost in prices over 1942 levels. The reason for this feeling is that these three industries made vast fortunes during the war, are protected hand­ somely during reconversion by the carry back-carry for­ ward tax law against loss, and are scheduled to make new fortunes by the second quarter of 1946. U.S. SUPPORT Gvernment thinking on the wage problem is not in terms of the needs of the workers for higher wages. That is too narrow an approach. It is ac­ tually based on conviction that the national economy and national interest demand real wage increases now with­ out price boosts, to maintain income at a level that will insure the fullest production and employment figures pos- ible. Putting labor’s argument on that level, rather than the selfish-sounding one of just “wage increase,” is a means of countering industry’s ap­ peal to the public. And popu­ lar support means victory— sooner. Reuther Will Debate Over Radio Tonight Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the UAW-CIO, has finally found someone to publically discuss with him labor’s demands for a 30% wage increase in the auto in­ dustry. At 8:30 p.m. this Thurs­ day, Oct. 11, on radio’s Town Hall program, he will debate George Romney, general manager of the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Though Romney will not be speaking officially for any company with whom the CIO is negotiating, it is presum­ ed he will present the auto industry’s side of the wage story. The program can be picked up on any station broadcast­ ing the American network. Western Rodeo to Be Staged Near Lansing Next Sunday What Does GM Fear, Asks Nadar The main issues in automo­ tive worker’s demands for a 30 percent increase in wages, states George Nader, UAW- CIO Intl. Repr. in Lansing, are these: 1- Has the cost of living risen to where increased wages are a “must"? 2—Has General Motors and other auto firms made enough profits to afford an increase? The answer to both of these, se says, must be a yes —with a capital “Y”. “The cost of living has gone up nearly 50 percent,” Nadar claims. “Surveys made in Lansing using advertised prices from the daily news­ paper substantiate claims made by labor on the in­ crease in cost of living.” As to profits, he said that if General Motors is sincere in wanting the public to know the facts — and not just the facts on their side — why did they refuse to let the pub­ lic in on negotiations, which the union had requested? La­ bor, he said, is willing and eager to let America know why a raise is needed and has facts to support its demands. “Is General Motors afraid to let the public find out these facts?" asks Nadar. “Actually, they don’t dare to try proving publicly that they cannot afford an in­ crease.’’ COPS HIT PICKETS DETROIT (FP) — Two men were hurt when cops swung clubs on a picket line outside Gerald L. K. Smith’s first rally since his return here from his defeat on the west coast. The pickets, who outnumbered the America Firsters inside the hall, in­ cluded more than a dozen preachers and hundreds of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. officials' and members. CO-)P NEW YORK (FP) — Con­ verting their post-war plans into postwar action, more than 200 consumers coopera­ tives in nine eastern states authorized the opening of two new warehouses, expan­ sion of two of the three ex­ isting warehouses and other improvements. The new warehouses will be in Hartford, Conn., and Washington, D. C., making five in all to serve the co-ops in the area, which did a re­ tail business of close to 15 million dollars last year. Larry Spitters, a member of the board of directors and a charter member of the Ingham County Stock Horse Club, is shown on his spirited, fast stepping mare, “Patsy”. Mr. Spit­ ters is credited with being the champion ribbon winner of the organization. He is recognized throughout the state as keen competition in western style riding contests. Lansing folk who were thrilled by the Labor Day pa­ rade horses and ponies from the Ingham County Western Stock Horse Club and by their small rodeo staged on the Armory grounds, will have an opportunity this Sunday, Oct. 14, to see their full size annual Fall Rodeo with horses galore and all kinds of sensational and trick riding. The big event will be at the Lone Pine Ranch, three miles past Deerhead Inn on M-78 and three-fourths of a mile north on the Coleman Road. Signs will show you where to go when you get out that way. True Western style riding dear to the hearts of real cowboys and devotees of the “horse operas” will be ex­ hibited in the bucking horse and calf roping contests. There will be speed and ac­ tion in the varied fifteen events with the added at­ tractions of a trick mule, sharp shooting display, and a fancy roping act by three well known showmen, Joe Mix, Gordon Stocking and Frank Imhoff. Contestants from clubs throughout Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana are expected. Music will be furnished by Al Hill and His Rranch Boys, an organization formerly af­ filiated with radio station WLS. Home cooked food will be served on the grounds. In case of inclement weath­ er, the date will be extended to Oct. 21. Asks Full Employment For World NEW YORK, N. Y. — The goal of full employment is international and cannot be achieved solely through na- ional policies, Sidney Hill­ man, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, states in an article in Colli­ er’s magazine on the function and scope of the newly- reated World Federation of Trade Unions. Mr. Hillman writes that the WFTU, now holding its first conclave in Paris, “shall hold governments ultimately responsible for suitable jobs with adequate pay where private industry fails to pro­ vide them. The proper poli­ cies to produce full employ­ ment are international, not merely national. We shall not make any concessions to those who directly or indirectly support discrimination against any man or woman of any movement because of race, color, creed or sex.” Mr. Hillman emphasizes the program of safeguarding the peace and promoting eco­ nomic security agreed on by the Administrative Commit­ tee of the WFTU at its Oak­ land, Calif., meeting. The complete eradication of fas­ cism, through the destruction of the Nazi and Japanese mil­ itarist idealogy and control; and end to colonial exploita­ tion; “full protection of all veterans of all armies that destroyed . . . Fascim and militarism;” a rise in the worker’s purchasing power, maintenance of price con­ trols until economies are sta­ bilized; “a universal 40-hour working week with no reduc­ tion in present pay;” a com­ prehensive system of social insurance in every country, financed mainly by govern­ ments and employers, and sickness and old-age benefits to be paid by these two bod­ ies, SHOULD THEIR HOMES BE REMOVED? Housing Shortage Forces Families Of Veterans to Live in Trailers The only homes many veterans can find in Lansing for their fam­ ilies are m trailer camps. Shown above in their trailer at the govern­ ment owned camp on North Grand River across from the sugar beet factory is Mrs. James Yager and her two children, Roberta and Frank. They are the family of James Yager, who served five years with the 78th Gun Bat. Coast Artillery in Alaska, Aleutians and other points He is a machinist at Oldsmobile. This family is typical of those of other factory workers, both veterans and non-veterans, who would be virtually without any home at all in the city if the council's action to remove government camps is carried out. LANSING LABOR NEWS, INC. MAIL ADDRESS: P. O. Box 657, Lansing 3, Mich. OFFICE: 109 E. South St. — Phone 2-9621 Entered as second-class matter April 13, 1945, at the post office at Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. A non-profit newspaper dedicated to the interests of the commun­ ity and to the interests of labor here and everywhere. Published every Thursday at the Lansing CIO Council headquarters by the fol- lowing incorporated body, representing local voting to participate. BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT—Ernest Miller (Reo 650). VICE-PRES—Maurice McNaughton Fisher (602). SEC.-TREAS.—Kenneth McCreedy (CIO Council). TRUSTEES— George Jakeway (Fisher 602). MEMBERS—Robert Richardson (Olds 652), Earl Watson, Charles O’Brien (Reo 650), Maurice Mac Naughton (Fisher 602), V. E. Vandenburg (CIO Council), Peter Fagan, Adrian Jensen (Olofsson 728), Arthur Chappell, Woodrow Brennen (Dairy 93), James W. Roberts, Dean Reed (SCMWA 276) Louis Newmark (SCMWA 406); Earl McClure, Melvina Stevens (Hill Diesel 646). ASSOCIATE MEMBERS—Mrs. Robert Atkinson (Olds Aux.), Mrs. Harold Wilson (Olds Aux.), Mrs. William McCurdy (Fisher Aux.), Mrs. J. B. Eno (Fisher Aux.), Mrs. Evelyn Moss, Mrs. Etta Kenyon (Local 93 Aux.). EDITOR — V. E. VANDENBURG SUBSCRIPTIONS — Included in the dues of participating locals. In- dividual Subscription, $1.50 per year by mail. CONTRIBUTIONS—Should be typed double-spaced on one side of paper and signed with author’s name, phone and address. Name will not be used if requested. Notes on news not written up but containing complete names and all the facts are acceptable too. Mail all contributions to Lansing Labor News, P.O. Box 657, Lansing 3, Mich. Difference Between Social Security And Old Age Assistance Explained If you reach 65 and aren’t old-age and sur- eligible vitors insurance benefits, the nearest office of the Social Security Board will tell you how much longer you have to work to be insured. However, you don’t have to keep on working, sick or well. There is another program for old folks under the Social Se­ curity Act. It is called old- age assistance. Under that program folks 65 or over, who haven't been able to acquire insured status under old-age and Survivors insurance — either because they didn’t work Tong enough in covered jobs, or because they couldn’t work at all — can get month­ ly payments if they are in need. Here’s the Difference Well, what’s the difference between old-age and survivors insurance benefits and old- age assistance payments ? The difference is this: Old-age and survivors in­ surance benefits are insur­ ance. You get them be- enough under the program to become insured. It doesn’t matter whether you need the benefits or not; you get them anyway, regardless of need. And the amount of your bene­ fit depends on your “average monthly wage” in covered jobs and on how long you have worked under the system. Old-age assistance, on the other hand, is all tied up with the question of need. You can’t get monthly old-age as­ sistance payments unless you are in need. And the amount of benefits you get depends on how great your need is, on the amount of money a State has for this purpose, and on the number of people in the State who apply for old-age assistance. So get the two programs straight in your mind. The 1 percent social security tax de­ ducted every pay day from your wages is for old-age and survivors insurance. That’s a premium you are paying on your policy with Uncle Sam. If you should fail to become eligible for insurance benefits by the time you are too old to work, then you can apply at the nearest public welfare of­ fice for old-age assistance. Or if your insurance benefits are so small that you are still in need, you can apply for old- age assistance payments to help your insurance out. Support our advertisers. BUY WAR BONDS A SERIOUS SITDOWN MENACE That Guy on the Bottom—He's Joe Worker! Dry-land Newberry Succumbs DETROIT (FP)—Truman H. Newberry, auto magnate and ambitious millionaire politician, who defeated Henry Ford for U.S. senator from Michigan in 1920 and resigned from the senate un­ der pressure, died quietly at the age of 80 on the Detroit gold coast Oct. 3. He was in­ strumental in bringing the Packard Motor Car Co. to De­ troit. Newberry had the rank of lieutenant commander in the navy in World War I though all his activities were on dry land in New York City. Nev­ ertheless his press agents in publicized him as a naval he­ ro, standing on the bridge of his ship in stormy weather looking through binoculars for the treacherous foe. He beat the pacifist Ford by about 4000 votes, running as a Republican while Ford, whose son Edsel had been saved from the draft by Woodrow Wilson himself, ran as a Democrat. No sooner was Newberry elected than charges of cor­ ruption were made and he was convicted in federal court after it was shown that at least a quarter million had been spent. His defense was that he was so busy he did not know what his friends were doing. The conviction was revers­ ed in the U.S. supreme court on the ground that the indict­ ment covered both primary and final election and there­ fore was invalid because fed­ eral law does not cover pri­ maries. But he was so dis­ credited that he seldom sat in the senate and soon re­ signed. The investigation also showed that the patriotic campaign pictures of good old sea-dog Newberry had been taken on dry land in Central Park, New York on a wooden imitation of the bridge of a warship. Many Committees Expect to Continue WASHINGTON (LPA) — About two-thirds of the war­ time Labor-Management Com­ mittees expect to continue after the war, the WPB an­ nounced, when it sent out last week a revision of the Basic Guide, “Ways of Operating a Labor Management Produc­ tion Committee,” that starts out “This is the era of the conference table.” The illus­ trated pamphlet can be ob­ tained from the War Produc­ tion Drive Division, WPB, Washington 25, D. C. WASHINGTON (Continued from Page 1) A majority of Senators have committed themselves to vote for HR 7 — but will they get the chance? Get your Senators on record for the bill, AND FOR CLO­ TURE to stop a filibuster. The un-American Activi­ ties Committee of the House has finally shown its hand — and the hand is the hand of Dies. Investigate Hollywood. Investigate the Reds. Investi­ gate labor unions. Gerald L. K. Smith is making a whirlwind tour; native fascists throughout the country are intensify­ ing their race propaganda; and the indicted sedition- ists (since 1943) have not yet been brought to trial. But the un-American Com­ mittee doesn’t take notice of any of these things — its mind is on strikebreak­ ing. Congresman Frank Hook’s resolution to abolish the Committe (H. Res. 58) has been bottled up in the Rules Committee since January. It should be blasted out by dis­ charge petition before the Congressional dignity sinks to Dies’ level. Buy War Stamps BUY WAR BONDS ARGENTINE FLASH NEW YORK (FP) — The Argentine people will un­ doubtedly stage a general strike as their reply to the state of seige just reimposed on them by the Peron dicta­ torship, four Argentine labor leaders predicted here. Invest in Victory — Buy War and Stamps, Around The Shops Detroit Cops Fail to Foil Anti-Gerald Smith Picketing By George Nader The shop news is very lim­ ited due to shops being eith­ er completely down such as Nash, Chaard, Abrams, Lan­ sing Production, or nearly so, such as Atlas, Hill Diesel, Duplex, and Federal. The picture isn’t as bright as some newspapers and ra­ dio commentators would have you believe. Laid off workers are trying to live on $20. How long this will go on depends on how soon those in a position to make full employment possible go to work. They, not a large pro­ portion of workers, are on a strike.. OLDS—Strike action tak­ en. The NLRB will conduct the final election. They (the workers) will determine the action to be taken. It’s the job of every worker to know the facts (not paper propa­ ganda). It’s their job, the workers’, to act to spread the truth. It’s their battle. Vic­ tory will depend on their ac­ tion. Employment fair but still hundreds laid-off, most­ ly females. FISHER—ditto. The fact is that they are calling back some. NOVO—Things are nor­ mal, production schedule making possible the hire of new employees. LANSING STAMPING — seeking wage adustment. LUNDBERG — four men laid-off, all new employees. OLOFFSEN laid-off some, holding on to balance. JOHN BEAN—hired new employees, picture looks fav­ orable. LAPACO — undecided, be­ ing in explosive production it’s necesary that new work be secured. The overall picture isn’t good. Government and indus­ try have an obligation to American workers and it isn’t discrediting labor un­ ions — it is making jobs pos­ sible through full employ­ ment. —Federated Pictures, Pickets from AFL, CIO and churches stole the thunder from Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith’s rally in Detroit, but two were hurt when cops swung clubs On them. Above photo shows them receiving first aid. There was no other violence. LEWIS & AFL CHICAGO (FP) — A. F. of L. President William Green indicated here that the death of President Edward Flore of Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Al­ liance had opened the way for return to the A. F. of L. of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. FOR SALE Tennesse circulation heater and one oxford grey topcoat, size 38. Phone 5-8364. THE MASTER MIND WASHINGTON (FP) — Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, is­ sued a broadened interpreta­ tion of super-seniority for veterans which would place the returning GI above all union rules and contracts with management and orders settlement of all cases in which there is doubt in favor of the veterans. UAW FILES NOTE DETROIT (FP) — United Auto Workers (CIO) head­ quarters stated Sept. 22 that the General Motors depart­ ment of the union was filing notice for a strike vote under the Smith - Connally act. There were 411,385 GM em­ ployes on the average during the second quarter of 1945. Labor Protest Halts Purchase Of Armored (ar SEATTLE (FP) — A howl of protest from organized lab­ or here against threats to its security brought results when Mayor William Devin an­ nounced that he had with­ drawn instructions to the Po­ lice Dept. to buy armored cars and that he is making a study of the courses now be­ ing taught at the police train­ ing school. Devin announced the re­ versal in a letter to A. A. Noel, business agent of a local of the Amalgamated Assn. of Street & Electric Railway Employes (AFL), one of the scores of organizations to de­ nounce the proposal to outfit the Police Dept. with a fleet of armored cars which are vir­ tual tanks. The protests also hit the bitterly anti-labor and race hate courses taught to police trainees. Contents of the courses as well as a secret plan to reorganize the depart­ ment along military lines were exposed in the New World, labor newspaper, and started the protest movement. Noel’s letter to the mayor said: "The membership of our local is unequivocally oppos­ ed to the purchase of armor­ ed cars for the Seattle Police Dept. and further, our sensi­ bilities have been shocked by ugly but persistent rumors that the police training school is perfecting a strike­ breaking technique that re­ flects a brutal indifference to the welfare of the working man." The issue is the 30 percent wage increase and other de­ mands presented by the union and not granted by the cor­ poration. ity with the strike of A. F. of L lumber workers for they recognize that their own working conditions are de- pendent on the outcome of this showdown fight. The monkey wrench tossed into the reconversion ma­ chinery by the operators is jamming up some of the most important industries in this region and threatening the jobs of thousands: SHORTAGES FORCED The fruit industry, now in its harvest season, will be hit by a shortage of boxes and be unable to pack or ship. Fish has already run into this difficulty. Machine shops cannot crate or ship their pro­ ducts. Building construction, all set for a postwar boom, will have to take a rain check on its plans. Inland boatmen face un­ employment because of the looming shortage of logs. DEWEY SETTLES IT NEW YORK (FP) — Ac­ cepting an arbitration pro­ posal by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Locals 32-B and 164, Building Service Employes International Union (A. F. of L.), ended their six-day strike. The walkout had par­ alyzed elevator service in more than 2,000 office and loft buildings in Manhattan. BUY WAR BONDS Southern Labor Facing Battle BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (FP) — Southern labor faces a tough battle in a tense post­ war situation emphasized by the recent arrest of A. F. of L. strike leaders in Columbia, Tenn., plus the replacement of 90 striking A. F. of L. elec­ trical workers in Texas with men said to be war veterans. “But the south’s trade union movement was built in the face of terrorism insti­ gated by southern officials and southern vigilante mobs” Hardy Scott, native south­ erner and organizer for the International Fur and Leath­ er Workers Union (C. I. 0.), WORLD FED. FORMED PARIS (FP)—The World Federation of Trade Unions was unanimously voted into being here by delegates from unions in 69 countries repre­ senting 75 million organized workers. Headquarters of the new world labor organi­ zation will be Paris. in Asheville, N. C., told me. “The strike of the bosses to stir up servicemen against unions may boomerang in their faces, because the unions, by fighting for full employment, are conducting the only honest campaign for the south’s veterans. We’ll come through this present union-smashing drive with flying colors because south­ ern workers have learned that unions mean the differ­ ence between black - strap molasses and a decent food on the table.” Maritime workers and longshoremen will be hit hard since lumber consti­ tutes one of the most im­ portant offshore cargoes. Aside from these specified instances, the entire econom­ ic future of the northwest is jeopardized by the lumber interests’ anti-union spree, which is designed to make large pools of unemployed and starvation wages a per­ manent feature here. All sec­ tions of the labor movement are expressing their solidar­ Card of Thanks I wish to express my sin­ cere appreciation for the contribution sent to me from my friends at Olds­ mobile. —Melvin (Red) Bailey MAY JOIN CIO NEW YORK (FP) — The Amalgamated Lithographers announced its withdrawal from the A. F. of L, climax­ ing a 30-year dispute on jur­ isdiction with the federation, and said it would probably seek affiliation with the C. I. O. HOOVER DAYS DETROIT (FP)—Cashier stations at the supermarkets are again carrying the famil­ iar Hoover notices—Welfare Orders Redeemed Here. TIMBER BARONS (Continued from Page 1) e basis although dustrywid these same employers have, for three years, negotiated on an industrywide basis with the International Workers (C I. O.). C. I. O. HELPING Expressing the support of the C. I. 0. for the strike, Karly Larsen of Northern Washington District Council 2 of IWA charged that “the operators are utilizing the just demands of A. F. of L. workers to close down the in­ dustry, freeze out small com­ petitors, discredit our state and federal governments, raise a hue and cry against the entire labor movement and force lumber prices up next spring.” Although the C. I. 0. has taken no strike action, some lumber operators with IWA contracts have seized the A. F. of L. walkout as an ex­ cuse for locking out workers, laying off hundreds of oth­ ers, shutting down parts of their plants and deliberately violating their agreements with the union, Larsen said. 1,000% MORE PROFITS While the industry - in­ spired press accuses the strikers of bottlenecking pro­ duction, actual blame rests on the lumber barons them­ selves whose stand is creat­ ing a form of creeping econ­ omic paralysis throughout the northwest. The employ­ ers, Whose profits in 1944 were 1,064% higher than in the 1936-39 period, can af­ ford to shut down operations in a war of attrition against labor, with the added incen­ tive of a government subsidy under the kickback provision of the excess profits tax law. CORRECTION It is only fair to the Voters of the third ward that they know exactly what I said concerning the Lyons Avenue trailer project: This is my statement. Mr. Mayor: “I shudder to think what our returning Veterans will think of the City of Lans­ ing, and the State of Michigan, when they view the nice cow barns, pig pens, and horse stables at the college and then; we ask them to move their fami­ lies into trailers.” RALPH M. WIEGANDT, Alderman, 3rd Ward