Owned and Published by 
and for Lansing Labor

Phone 2-9621

OFFICE: 109 E. South St.

VOL. 1, NO. 19

Lansing Labor News

Official Weekly Newspaper of CIO Labor in Lansing

MAIL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 657, Lansing 3, Mich.

LANSING, MICHIGAN — JULY 19, 1945

Subscribed by a Majority 
of City War Workers

5C COPY

$1.50 Per Year by Mail

ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY

CIO COUNCIL ASKS FOR A 30-H0UR WEEK
Congress Petitioned 
For Annual Wages

Hill Diesel
Votes For 
Newspaper

“LOCK-OUT”

TRAVIS K. 
HEDRICK

WASHINGTON
NEWS
NOTES

For Federated 
Press and
Lansing Labor
News

By

Havoc, Unlimited

It is pretty commonly known 
that the nickel or pennies you 
pay for your daily newspaper 
are simply a gesture that pays 
the newsboy and possibly the 
promotion expenses of the cir­
culation department. The real 
sugar in newspaper publishing 
comes from the advertisers.

With Lesson I in newspaper 
economics finished, it is time to 
turn to the reasons why most 
papers and particularly the 
more powerful chains such as 
Scripps Howard, Hearst and 
the McCormick-Patterson axis 
are blowing their horns for the 
Ball-Burton-Hatch labor strait­
jacket bill. 

One of the most potent for- 
ces moving in the shadows 
back of the measure to force 
compulsory arbitration and 
foul up the Wagner act is 
the so-called Automotive 
Council for War Production.

This organization, domiciled 
in Detroit, is simply the war­
time face of the Automobile 
Manufacturers Assn. It ishead- 
ed by a danger­
ously zealous 
figure, George 
Romney. During 
the war he is 
managing direc­
tor of the Auto­
motive Council 
for War Produc­
tion. In peace­
time George is
general manager of the Auto­
mobile Manufacturers Assn.

Romney operates in the name 
of the council, but his tactics 
are mostly those of General 
Motors and the Chrysler Corp.

This group is hell-bent to 
bust unions and is patriotic­
ally waving the flag for the 
Ball-Burton-Hatch measure. 
And when Romney talks, he 
makes sounds that the count­
ing rooms and advertising de­
partments of many a news­
paper understand. There's a 
lot of important lineage, 
many a major advertising ac­
count back of him — Ply­
mouth, Chrysler, Chevrolet, 
Pontiac, DeSota, to mention 
Just a few. You haven't seen 
much of these names of re­
cent years, but the advertis- 
lng departments remember 
the full page space they take 
at handsome rates. That kind 
of cash fills many a till.

So the publishers exercise 
their freedom of the press and 
toot loudly for what the auto­
mobile advertisers desire — the 
smashing of the unions.

Although official and con­
servative U. S. figures dem­
onstrate that strikes in the
See WASHINGTON, Page 4

Several hundred more sub­
scriptions and the support of 
another CIO local were given 
the Lansing Labor News last 
week when Hill Diesel Local 646 
voted at their regular business 
meeting to affiliate with the 
paper.

Named to represent their lo­
cal on the paper’s board of di­
rectors were Earl McClure, fi­
nancial secretary of the local, 
and Melvina Stevens, steward.

The new delegates were im­
mediately on hand for the meet­
ing of the paper’s board Friday 
at the CIO Council hall and 
heard reports of the paper’s pro­
gress and plans.

Any labor group is eligible 
to elect to take this paper for 
all members at a blanket cost of 
six cents per month per dues 
paying member. Further infor­
mation may be had from any 
board member (list in first col­
umn, page 2) or at the CIO 
Council hall.

Tin Shortage 
May Slow Up 
Reconversion

LANSING — Disclosing that 
the nation’s stockpile of tin has 
been depleted 70 per cent since 
Pearl Harbor and that not only 
current war demands for the 
metal are greater than in 1944, 
but reconversion will be serious­
ly handicapped unless its re­
quirements are met, the War 
Production Board has called up­
on the Michigan Office of Ci­
vilian Defense for immediate in­
tensification of tin can salvage.

The problem is two-fold," 
said Everett C. Swanson, 
Regional Manager of the 
Conservation and Salvage 
Division of WPB. “First, we 
must provide adequate am­
ounts of tin for war needs, 
and second, we must provide 
tin to assure prompt recon­
version of the automotive 
and other industries in order 
to facilitate re-employment."

Upon receiving the urgent re­
quest of WPB, E. J. Anderson, 
Chairman of the State Salvage 
Committee of MOCD, said:

“This is the first time the Ci­
vilian Defense volunteer salvage 
workers of the State and our cit­
izens can contribute both to war 
purposes and their future civil­
ian economy. I know that our 
citizens will also consider tin sal­
vage to expedite reconservion as 
a patriotic duty, just as has been 
and is our obligation to save tin 
cans for war purposes. With tin 
requirements for war having 
priority and with the necessity 
for providing additional amounts 
of this metal in order not to de­
lay reconversion, Michigan citi­
zens have every reason to save 
all the tin cans possible.”

Political Action Is 
Getting Big Results, 
Says Council President

By CLYDE PERKINS

The research work and the steady lobbying done by CIO mem­
bers in our nation’s capital is showing some very evident results.
For several years now our national representatives have pro­
duced both facts and figures to our .congressional legislators in 
support of their claims that the—
minimum wage law should be 
adjusted upward, that the “Lit­
tle Steel Formula” is incompat­
ible with the rise in the cost of 
living, that price and rent con­
trols should be maintained.

ly ten million underpaid 
workers in America,

The point of all this is ad­
dressed to those few leaders in 
the CIO who oppose Political 
Action for one reason or anoth­
er and to those workers who do 
not try to understand or are un­
willing to make an impartial 
survey of the possibilities of 
constructive long-range political 
action programs by working 
people.

It makes real good listen­
ing to have someone tell you 
what wasn't done in the past, 
what isn't hang done in the 
present and what won't be 
done in the futwe.

Price controls have been 
extended and now a Senate 
Labor Committee has recom­
mended the raising of the 
minimum wage to sixty-five 
cents per hour.

I believe that the credit for 
this favorable report must go 
to our representatives in Wash­
ington and to those Internation­
al and Local Unions who have 
sent multitudes of resolutions 
and personal delegations to law­
makers in our first city regard­
ing these problems.

Let us hope that this latest 
recommendation by the Senate 
Labor Committee will be passed 
upon faborably by Congress.

This Soldier 
Doesn’t Want 
Rankin’s Aid (?)

WASHINGTON (FP)—A re­
cent issue of the U. S. army 
newspaper, Stars & Stripes, car­
ries a letter from a soldier serv­
ing in France commenting on 
the proposal of Rep. John E. 
Rankin (D., Miss.) to give pri­
vate serving abroad the rank 
of private first class before re­
turning home.

The soldier, Pvt. John Hos­
mer, with a hospital unit, % 
APO 562, P. M., New York, 
wrote the editor as follows:

“I see where Congressman John 
Rankin wants to give me and all 
other privates another stripe. Well 
now, I’ve been in the army almost 
three years and I’m holding my 
own; I came in the army as a buck 
private and by the Eternal, I am 
going to stay a buck private and go 
out that way. I don’t want a stripe 
from that rabble-rouser Rankin.

“I may be the forgotten man of 
this war, but I’m not forgetting 
Rankin’s didoes over the soldier 
vote or his countless attempts to 
stir up racial or religious hatred 
from the floor of the House.

It’s a lot easier to destroy 
than it is to build, and let me tell 
you that there is plenty of the 
desire to do the destroying, al­
though many times such desire 
is covered up by throwing a long 
curve. Don’t let those curves 
strike you out. Keep batting for 
those things you know are for 
the real benefit of a great ma­
jority of our own workers and
See POLITICAL ACTION, Page 3

“I am a Missouri Democrat and 
|I am ashamed that he is of my par­
ty. I am not of very foreign extrac­
tion. My family buried several gen­
erations at Concord, Mass., before 
the Revolutionary war started 
there. I am not a negro or of the 
Jewish faith, so that the distinctive 
demagogus from the canebrakes 
can’t, as is his normal requital, 
throw any dead cats at me. No, 
Rankin, I don’t want to owe you 
anything. You typify all I don’t 
like at home.”

The WPB revealed for the 
first time that only 30 per 
cent remains of the stockpile 
of tin that had been accumu­
lated for a period of 18

See TIN SHORTAGE, Page 3

However, I am ready to 
guess that there will be tre- 
mnedous pressure exerted 
against such a law by those 
who desire to profit unjustly 
from the labor of apprixate-

Collier’s Mag 
Gives Plug to 
Annual Wage

The Lansing CIO Council in its regular monthly meeting last 
week passed a resolution asking Congress for a 30-hour week and 
an annual wage, $25 a week minimum unemployment compensa­
tion and immediate revision of the national wage policy with pay 
for the shorter week “uphold-
ing a standard of living this 
country can be justly proud of.”
Realization of the annual 
wage, the resolution said, would 
give the fullest assurance of a 
peaceful and expanding econo­
my, which would establish free­
dom from fear and freedom 
from want — the essence of 
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic 
Economic Bill of Rights.

The guaranteed annual wage 
got a big plug in this week’s 
Collier’s Magazine. Pointing to 
Procter & Gamble, Nunn-Bush 
Shoe and Hormel Packing to 
the three outstanding practi­
tioners of the annual wage, the 
editorial says:

“Admittedly, the problem is 
a complex one, because so many 
industries experience wide sea­
sonal fluctuations in volume of 
orders, or cyclical fluctuations, 
or both. But these problems 
have been solved by these three 
well-known companies, and by 
an impressive number of less 
prominent ones in various lines.
“Given determinations and co­
operation on the part of both 
management and labor, guaran­
teed annual wages seem feasi­
ble for many a company, large 
or small.”

Advertising 
Manager Quits

Odell Z. Lamb, appointed ad­
vertising manager of the Lans­
ing Labor News a month ago, 
has resigned from that position 
and also as a member of the 
paper’s Board of Directors.

Named to replace him in rep­
resenting Nash on the paper’s 
Board is Earl “Doc” Watson.

It was explained that Lamb’s 
action was motivated because he 
planed to leave Nash local. He 
resigned Monday as financial 
secretary of the local.

The paper’s advertising de­
partment will continue and any­
one interested in working on 
selling advertising at liberal 
commissions should contact the 
editor or call at the CIO Council 
hall, 109 E. South St.

Runoff Election 
Slated For Seattle

SEATTLE (FP) — A runoff 
election will be held between the 
incumbent James A. Taylor and 
E. M. Weston to determine the 
presidency of the Washington 
State Federation of Labor.

While Weston received 15,150 
votes to Taylor’s 13,435, he did 
not receive a majority of the 
votes cast as is Required by the 
constitution. I. A. Sandvigen 
was eliminated in the race with 
2,463 votes.

Taylor was- under fire from 
a number of AFL unions for 
supporting Thomas E. Dewey in 
the last presidential election 
and more recently for opposing 
an industrial insurance bill, 
which was defeated despite its 
backing by the Joint Labor Lob­
by, a political action group rep­
resenting AFL, CIO and rail­
road unions.

It emphasized that employers 
should recognize their responsi­
bility and in good faith enter 
into collective bargaining with 
unions for the purpose of assur­
ing security of employment on 
an annual basis.

Text of the resolution is on 

page 4.

Officers 
Resign at 
Nash Local

Resignations of Paul Gardner, 
president, and Odell Z. Lamb, 
financial secretary of Nash Lo­
cal 13, were submitted to a 
special meeting of the executive 
board Monday.

Upon acceptance of the resig­
nations, Vernon “Pat” Roach, 
vice-president, became president 
and Earl “Doc” Watson was ap­
pointed acting financial secre­
tary.

A special meeting of the local 
will be held Saturday to elect an 
elections committee and receive 
nominations for the office of fi­
nancial secretary. Roach will 
serve out the rest of the year’s 
term as president without an 
election to fill that office, the 
Labor News was told.

Gardner said he resigned prin­
cipally because he had been on 
war leave from the Lansing Post 
Office and had been called back 
to his job there.

“I thoroughly en joyed 
working with everyone at 
Nash, both in the plant and 
the union office," Gardner 
said in expressing regrets at 
leaving. “I met lots of peo­
ple I would like to keep as 
friends from here on in."

He started on his old job 

there this week.

Teaches Journalism

MONTEAGLE, Tenn. (FP) — 
The annual course in labor jour­
nalism at Highlander Folk 
School will be conducted Aug. 6- 
13 by Carl Haessler, managing 
editor of Federated Press. A 
veteran labor reporter and edi­
tor, Haessler will teach both un­
ion and nonunion students how 
to put out a labor newspaper. 
He will also lead informal dis­
cussion groups on current 
events.

LANSING LABOR NEWS, INC.
MAIL ADDRESS: P. O. Box 657, Lansing 3, Mich.
OFFICE: 109 E. South St. — Phone 2-9621

A non-profit newspaper dedicated to the interests of the community 
and to the interests of labor here and everywhere. Published every Thurs­
day at the Lansing CIO Council headquarters by the following incorporated 
body, representing locals 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 Jake­
way (Fisher 602), William Treanor (Olds 652). MEMBERS—Robert Richardson (Olds 
652), Earl Watson, Roy Newton (Nash 13), Charles O’Brien (Reo 650), Maurice 
MacNaughton (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

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Notes on news not written up but containing complete names and all the facts 
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Lansing 3, Mich.

Fads About Fascism

By H. DEAN REED

I believe Fascism can be defined as a system by which the po­
litical-social-economic-religious order of a capitalistic nation is 
maintained by military force. It arrests and turns back the normal 
forward movement of civilizatiion toward a true democracy.

The strength of Fascism rests upon, and is directly proportion­
al to the strength of the privileged classes of the world. The 
Fascists unalterably oppose
any change in the world order 
which would make the world 
more democratic.

Senator Taft, Representative 
Woodruff, Mich., and others.

Fascism originated in west­
ern Europe, but it has spread 
to, and taken deep root in near­
ly every country in the world, 
including the United States.

Fascists agents have even op­
erated in Russia, but during the 
period of 1935 and 1940 she 
purged herself of them. We 
have to do the same thing here, 
if we are going to have a true 
democracy, a government by and 
for the common people of this 
country.

One of the main duties of the 
Political Action Committee is to 
fight fascism. This is done main­
ly through propaganda and ed­
ucation of the people.

The leading Fascist organiza­
tion in the country is the Na­
tional Association of Manufact­
urers. Second, I believe, are the 
great chain publishers Hearst, 
Howard, Patterson and McCor­
mick, and the clerical Fascist 
leaders, Father Coughlin and the 
Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, and 
the elements of the Christian 
Front and Ku Klux Klan which 
follow them.

In the political field we find 
Senator Tom Connally, the Tex­
as poll taxer of anti-labor bill 
fame, Representative Rankin of 
Mississippi, Senator Wheeler, 
Senator Bilbo, D., Miss., and

GOES PLACES

Monroe Sweetland, one of the 
organizers of the Oregon Com­
monwealth Federation, which 
enlisted the political support of 
practically all that state’s trade 
union movement, has been Red 
Cross representative in the 
China-Burma-India theater for 
nearly two years. As secretary 
of the Commonwealth Federa­
tion, Sweetland, now in Okina­
wa, helped build that pro-labor 
group into a political organiza­
tion that held the balance of 
power in Oregon for several 
years and helped elect many 
friends of unionism to the state 
and national legislature. Before 
joining the Red Cross, Sweet­
land was national director of the 
CIO War Relief Committee. 
(LPA) . .

Fascism will be stamped out 
completely if all of the progres­
sive groups will finally merge 
and form a great united demo­
cratic front, dedicated to the 
purpose of spreading democratic 
ideas all over the world by ed­
ucation.

If this happens — and there 
are many good reasons for be­
lieving that it finally will hap­
pen — the world will slowly but 
surely be transformed into a 
pure political-social-economic- 
religious democracy in which 
there will be equality of oppor­
tunity for everyone and where 
no exploitation of human beings 
will be possible.

Then the human race will 
have the four freedoms, and 
heaven on earth will be a reality 
and not a dream.

In Congress 
35-Hr. Week, 
75c Minimum 
Wage Asked

WASHINGTON (FP) — One 
of the new California liberals, 
Rep. Ellis Patterson (D., Cal.) 
has introduced a bill calling for 
amendment of the federal wage 
& hour law to provide a 75c min­
imum wage and a 35 hour week.
The bill, HR 3719, broadens 
the definition of “commerce” to 
include all employers engaged in 
trade, traffic, commerce, trans­
portation or communication 
among the several states so as 
to cover thousands now barred 
from federal labor laws.

Patterson’s bill would pro­
hibit child labor and bars the 
inclusion of tips, board, 
lodging or other facilities 
customarily furnished, i n 
figuring wages. It calls for 
payment of time and a half 
after 35 hours unless by con­
tract or NLRB order an ag­
reement has been reached for 
employment of up to 1,000 
hours in any 26 week period 
or 2,000 hours for 52 weeks.
To attain the 75c minimum 
wage, industry committees com­
posed of labor, industry and 
public members are to be set 
up to recommend minimum rates 
so that, without curtailing em­
ployment, the objective of 75c 
will be reached as rapidly as 
possible.

Tax Relief?

WASHINGTON (FP) — Tax 
relief for big corporations, to 
the tune of some $5 billion 
annually was approved July 12 
by the Senate finance commit­
tee. It had previously passed the 
 House.

—Labor In—
ONE WORLD

By FEDERATED PRESS

What About Greece?
Settlement of the Polish ques­
tion pushes the future of Greece 
up to top place on the agenda of 
the Big Three meeting, being 
held in Germany. Reports from 
inside Greece indicate that 
events are rapidly reaching a 
crisis there, with the monarch­
ists plotting a seizure of power 
to reinstall King George, favor­
ed boy of the British.

Activities of the Military 
League and the monarchists 
show that the coup is danger­
ously close. Police are raiding 
the houses of democratic citi­
zens and mass arrests have be­
gun in several quarters in Ath­
ens. In the army, navy and avi­
ation corps, special officers are 
drafting lists of “dangerous” 
Communists, democrats and 
neutrals. •

With a new reign of terror 
beginning in Greece, it is point­
ed out that to hold elections un­
der such conditions would be 
mockery of democratic proced­
ure. The Greek-American Coun­
cil, to which a number of AFL 
and CIO unionists belong, is cir­
culating a petition addressed to 
Pres. Truman urging him to­
gether with Prime Minister 
Churchill and Premier Stalin to 
prevent the development of an­
other Greek tragedy, like that 
which shocked the world last 
December when the British 
turned their guns against Greek 
partisans.

Work In France

Official approval to the use of 
German prisoners of war for 
French reconstruction was giv­
en by the French General Con­
federation of Labor (CGT), Al­
lied Labor News reports from 
Paris.

The CGT outlined safeguards 
to protect the jobs and living 
standards of French worrkers. 
Employers should pay the same 
costs for German labor as are 
paid to French workers, it pro­
posed, and the difference be­
tween the sum actually paid to 
German war prisoners and the 
normal wage should be paid into 
a special fund to aid French 
prisoners of war.

Discussing the problem furth­
er, one CGT official said: “Ger­
man prisoners of war should be 
employed in the first place on 
heavy or dangerous work such 
as mine-clearing. It is scanda­
lous that French workers should 
lose their lives daily in clearing 
mines while POWs, including SS 
men and officers, take it easy in 
the camps.”

Germans In Spain

Issuing a blast against the 
“outrageous Falangist regime” 
in Spain, the Russian newspaper 
Pravada revealed that about 5,- 
500 industrial corporations or 
groups in Spain are under direct 
or indirect German control or 
have German directors or capi­
tal behind them. The newspaper 
also charged that Gen. Franco 
had conferred Spanish citizen­
ship on at least 30,000 Germans 
in the past few months.

Labor In Norway

The prime minister of the 
newly formed Norwegian gov­
ernment, Einar Gerhardsen, 
Labor party member, still be­
longs to the Roadworkers union, 
where he got his start in politi­
cal activity. When the Nazis in­
vaded Norway Gerhardsen was 
the mayor of the capitol city, 
Oslo. He was promptly arrested 
by the Nazis and spent the next

POLLUTED

Hitlerism Again
Anti-Jewish 
Directory Is 
Started in Ill.

CHICAGO (FP) — For $12 
you can buy a book that cost the 
publisher only 25c but is price­
less in the eyes of a fascist.

It’s the first issue of the Gen­
tile Business Directory, publish­
ed by Eugene R. Flitcraft “for 
gentiles who prefer to do busi­
ness with gentiles.”

The directory, a 152-page 
booklet printed on cheap stock 
at a cost of about 25c a copy, 
contains more than 10,000 
names arranged by Illinois coun­
ties, cities and trade and profes­
sional categories. Every other 
page in the booklet carries this 
statement: “As reported to us, 
and to the best of our knowledge 
and belief, the retail firms list­
ed on these pages are gentile 
owned.”

Businessmen in Chicago also 
quickly disclaimed the directory. 
The Anti-Defamation League of 
B’nai B’rith issued a statement 
pointing out that it had check­
ed with several of the firms 
whose names are listed.

Oil Men Ask 
52 Hours Pay, 
40-Hour Week

HAMMOND, Ind., (FP) — 
Faced with reconversion prob­
lems, Dist. Council 6, Oil Work­
ers Intl. Union (CIO), voted in 
conference here to ask 52 hours 
pay for a 40-hour week to main­
tain the American standard of 
living after V-J day.

The conference urged the in­
ternational union to consider a 
Smith-Connally strike vote to 
strengthen the union’s bargain­
ing position. It came out 
against universal military train­
ing and the anti-labor Ball-Bur- 
ton-Hatch bill and urged that 
the United Nations charter be 
confirmed by the Senate. The 
district council represents about 
15,000 workers in cities and 
towns from Ohio to Illinois.

USO Labor Canteen

HARRISBURG, Pa. (FP) — 
More than 350,000 service men 
and women have dunked dough­
nuts, danced and made merry at 
the USO-labor canteen here, 
jointly sponsored by the AFL, 
CIO and railroad brotherhoods. 
The canteen celebrated its first 
year of operation recently.

four years in German concen­
tration camps.

The new cabinet includes ev­
ery major party, from right to 
left, with the Laborites holding 
a majority of the seats. The La­
bor party is reported working 
out a joint slate in the coming 
elections with the Communist 
party, which has two represent­
atives in the cabinet.

Support our advertisers.

7-Point Program 
Is Adopted by 
The Lansing PAC
A seven point program of ac­
tion for its PAC division was 
adopted by the Lansing CIO 
Council last week, as follows:

1. Revise and bring up-to-date 
card file index of membership.
2. The Lansing CIO Council shall 
follow the program, recommen­
dations and the policy of the 
National CIO Council.

3. The immediate objectives of the 
Political Action Committee shall 
be to work towards the election 
of the approved candidates in 
coming elections in Lansing.
4. We shall immediately take steps 
to further implement the CIO 
program by making special ef­
forts to coordinate the work of 
the women’s organization, com­
munity and fraternal organiza­
tions, the negro and other minor­
ity groups, small businessmen, 
farmers and professional work­
ers.

5. The full facilities of the Council 
and Lansing Labor News shall be 
utilized toward publiciziing the 
issues involved in the coming 
campaign.

6. We shall supplement and coor­
dinate establishment of a per­
manent ward and precinct or­
ganization and assist in the regis­
tration of all citizens in the com­
munity.

7. That a record be kept of all with­
drawals of all Local Unions so 
that the Political Action Com­
mittee can keep in touch with all 
union members, past and present.

Deny Raises

PORTLAND, Ore. (FP) — 
Despite a critical manpower 
shortage which, according to 
government and army officials, 
may prolong the war in the Pa­
cific, west coast lumber bosses 
are opposing any raises in the 
industry’s substandard wages.

OUR ADVERTISERS WILL 
APPRECIATE YOUR PAT­
RONAGE.

WRONG LINE

“We are advised," the lea­
gue said, “that not only was 
the listing of these firm 
names unauthorized, but that 
the firms had no knowledge 
whatsoever of the Gentile Bus­
iness Directory " It voiced 
deep concern with the pos­
sible injustice done to those 
firms whose names are inclu­
ded in this directory but who 
do not suscribe to the purport 
of the statement quoted"

Flitcraft is the organizer of 
the Gentile Cooperative Assn., 
whose charter was revoked re­
cently by court order. He is also 
the publisher of a monthly tab­
loid, Gentile News, which usual­
ly carries articles by Gerald L. 
K. Smith and other native fas­
cists. Flitcraft has promised fu­
ture editions of the directory 
and said he planned to issue 
similar ones in other states.

Streamlined 
Wage Cutting 
Is Outlined

CHICAGO (FP) — Acting on 
advice freely handed out by 
Chairman George W. Taylor of 
the Natl. War Labor Board, em­
ployers here are attempting to 
use a downgrading device to pro­
vide themselves with plenty of 
cheap labor.

The device is very simple. All 
an employer has to do is reclas­
sify his employes downward, lay 
off the workers in the higher 
wage brackets and rehire them 
at the lower, minimum rate. The 
technique was explained by Tay­
lor in a recent speech before 
the Chicago Assn, o^ Commerce.
“A considerable amount of 
downgrading and reclassifica­
tion of employes is to be expect­
ed as a normal aspect of the re­
conversion period,” Taylor 
blandly told the businessmen. 
“I emphasize that this process 
and similar ones mean that 
wages paid to the average em­
ploye for an hour’s work will 
go down in many cases without 
any change in the wage rate 
schedules.”

Two Stabbed 
In Newspaper 
Strike in N. Y.

NEW YORK (FP) — In a 
statement implying violence 
would occur, the Publishers 
Assn, of New York announced it 
would break the strike of news­
paper delivery men as the walk­
out went into its 12th day.

Its motive, the association 
said, is “to lend assistance to the 
War Labor Board to make its 
decrees effective.” The News­
paper & Mail Deliverers Union 
(unaffiliated) contends the pub­
lishers’ motive is to save money 
and avoid signing a contract.

The publishers’ warning was 
issued after the WLB had ord­
ered the Union to go back to 
work or suffer suspension of its 
closed shop and any retroactive 
benefits. The association said it 
intended to “restore normal dis­
tribution” and to make “every 
effort” to “protect the public in 
this endeavor.”

It did not state what the 
public was to be protected 
from, but shortly after the 
statement was issued, two 
strikers were stabbed near 
the Daily News building as 
they questioned boys taking 
out bundles of papers. They 
were taken to hospitals for 
wounds in the adomen, chest 
and arms.

From closed meetings of the 
Publishers Assn., a report leak­
ed out that it was obstinacy o' 
the Daily Press, a member of 
the Hearst -McCormick-Patter­
son newspaper axis, that pre­
vented a settlement of the 
strike. The association has a 
rule that decisions must be 
unanimous.

The day before the stabbings, 
a Daily News editorial attempt­
ed to set veterans against the 
strikers, and warned that “some 
500,000 young New Yorkers will 
be home from the war before 
long,” many of whom “have had 
experience at driving gasoline 
vehicles and many of them will 
be wanting jobs.”

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Night Thoughts

A World PAC
TAMIMENT, Pa. (LPA) — 
The newly organized World Fed­
eration of Trade Unions, of 
which the CIO is the American 
affiliate, was characterized here 
last week as “an international 
Political Action Committee” by 
Louis Waldman, N. Y., labor 
lawyer.

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RONAGE.

Federal Health Program
'Nuts', Say the Medics

DENVER (FP)—Along with the American Medical Assn., 
state medical societies are organizing against the federal health 
program embodied in the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill.

The strategy, as laid down at a western doctors conference 
here by Sec. L. Fernald Foster of the Michigan Medical Society’s 
council, calls for setting up of coordinated state plans which 
will nose out the federal plan.

“The program works fine in Michigan," Dr. Foster told 
the delegates, “but unless there is a coalition of medical so­
cieties in all states, we can’t stymie the boys in Washington.

“I can describe this proposed federal legislation in one sen­
tence. It’s nuts, period. The proponents of socialized medicine 
argue that lots of people don’t receive adequate medical care, 
but the number has been greatly exaggerated. Many persons do 
not want medical care for one reason or another.”

Plant Police 
Back Pay 
Is Finally Won

SAN PEDRO, Calif. (FP) — 
Back pay amounting to $250, 
000 has been assured approxi­
mately 450 members of Plant 
Protection Local 1155 (AFL), 
working at Consolidated Steel 
and Western Pipe shipyards, Lo­
cal Business Mgr. Ray Doran 
said.

Doran stated the union is 
starting legal action to collect 
$150,000 in back pay for mem­
bers working at the Calship 
yards. Shipyard workers at all 
three yards are members of the 
AFL Metal Trades Council.

Unionists in Gov.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., (FP) — 
Both the AFL and CIO are now 
represented in the Illinois Dept, 
of Labor.

Pres. John Henneberger of 
Local 1009, United Steelworkers 
(CIO), has been named assistant 
director of labor by Gov. Dwight 
Green (R). He is the first CIO 
member to hold a major state 
post and fills a vacancy created 
when Robert L. Gordon, a mem­
ber of Bro. of Painters (AFL), 
was upped from the post of as­
sistant director to director. The 
department was formerly head­
ed by Francis B. Murphy, polit­
ical coal merchant, whose ap­
pointment was bitterly opposed 
by the state AFL and CIO on 
the ground that he was not a 
member of organized labor.

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Expressing fear that the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill would 
lead toward a socialist government, Dr. E. F. Sladek said: "We 
are not so much against socialized medicine as against political 
or federalized medicine.”

The conference concluded with a resolution for a meeting of 
presidents of state medical societies to formulate further plans 
to combat federal medical care. Another resolution called upon 
each state to file the name of its medical society president with 
the Michigan Society, which will provide a master list to all the 
states.

Sponsoring the conference were the California Medical Assn, 
and the Colorado Medical Society. At the end of the meeting the 
Colorado society announced it would set up a plan similar to 
those existing in California and Michigan.

Award Extra 
Meat Points 
For Miners

Coal miners in the San Fran­
cisco and Denver regions are 
getting extra meat, fat and su­
gar rations under an OPA test 
plan. The plan, which exempts 
those served by on-the-job eat­
ing places, is based on a special 
study which showed that the 
heavy, muscular work done by 
miners calls for an unusually 
high intake of calories. If the 
plan works out in the test area, 
it will be extended nationally to 
cover all coal and ore mining 
regions.

Already getting extra rations 
under earlier OPA actions are 
loggers, deep sea fisherman, 
seamen on inland waterways, 
miners and some heavy con­
struction workers who are fed 
by their employers under condi­
tions of isolation.

Political Action

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the community in which you 
live.

It will cost each and every 
one of us a little more time, 
money, participation and un­
derstanding to continue to 
build for the future, but the 
ultimate end certainly justi­
fies the means.

Your sons and daughters, and 
future friends and neighbors 
will no doubt be the beneficiar­
ies of the constructive founda­
tions you. help to lay in the pres­
ent.

Off to Paris

WASHINGTON (FP) — Full 
participation of the CIO in the 
September meeting of the World 
Trade Union Federation in Paris 
was vote din a resolution adopt­
ed by the executive board here 
July 13.

Workers Wanted?

LOS ANGELES (FP)—With 
cutbacks and layoffs continuing 
in southern California, the cla­
mor for more workers at lower 
wages goes on.

Ray Krah, acting manpower 
director for southern California, 
said Los Angeles war plants and 
war supporting industries need 
more than 40,000 workers. Fig­
ures are not available on. wage 
rates offered in new jobs but 
average is lower than pay rate 
on jobs from which workers are 
released.

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vertisers have to say?

RECONVERSION

Steel Company 
Stalls Trial

WHEELING, W. Va. (FP) — 
The Weirton Steel Co. won a 1- 
month delay in its trial on char­
ges of using WPB priority ma­
terials to outfit its swanky 
country club.

In the absence of objection 
from the U. S. district attorney 
prosecuting the case, Judge Wil­
liam E. Baker granted the com­
pany’s request for a postpone­
ment of the hearing until July 
26.

Earlier the company entered 
a plea of not guilty to a 25-count 
indictment charging violation of 
Interstate Commerce Commis­
sion regulations in the hauling 
of copper and brass for shell 
easing between its Weirton plant 
and Youngston, 0.

The indictment returned on 
the WPB complaint accused the 
company of getting WPB pri­
orities for an air-conditioning 
unit and other materials for its 
hospital and then diverting 
them to the Williams Country 
Club, which is company-owned, 
for the use of officials and vis­
itors.

Against Licenses

WASHINGTON (LPA) — 
Any attempt to require a license 
fee for union organizers is “as 
odiously restrictive as to forbid 
a religious congregation to seek 
new members,” according to the 
Washington Post in a recent ed­
itorial. The paper assailed a 
move by the city of Alexandria, 
just across the Potomac from 
the nation’s capital, to prohib­
it union organizing in the city 
without a permit. The city 
fathers forgot about the action 
of the U. S. Supreme Court in 
declaring unconstitutional a 
similiar law adopted in Texas.

Elliott Roosevelt 
Anti-Labor Record 
Is Recalled Again

DETROIT (FP)—The strike­
breaking record of Elliott 
Roosevelt is recalled by the 
CIO Councilor, organ of the 
Detroit CIO Council, which 
says:

“There is no need for the CIO 
to dig into the dirt in which 
Elliott Roosevelt sprawled 
when he got the unsavory 
$200,000 ‘loan’ from the head 
of the A & P chain, paying back 
only $4000. The CIO knew Elli­
ott as a bad egg at the time of 
the 1939 Chrysler strike, when 
the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, 
the Rev. J. Frank Norris and 
Father Coughlin led wouldbe 
strikebreakers; in a futile at­
tempt to break the solidarity of 
the UAW. Joining those anti­
unionists was young Elliott. 
The United Auto Worker of 
Dec. 6, 1939, described the sit­
uation as follows:

“‘An elaborate attempt at 
strikebreaking by the AFL, 
outlined over the radio by a 
repudiated former interna­
tional officer, assisted by a 
notorious radio priest, a Lou­
isiana swamp rat, the Detroit 
dailies and, curiously enough, 
by a former Hearst employe 
who is a son of Pres. Roose­
velt, fizzled ingloriously.

“ ‘Speaking over the air 
sponsored by the scab Emer­
son Radio makers, Elliott 
Roosevelt attacked . . . the 
UAW-CIO position in the 
Chrysler strike. He was ad­
vertised as main speaker in 
the Detroit church of a 2-gun 
evangelist Nov. 28 but was 
mysteriously yanked off the 
program.

“ ‘Gossip said that Pres. 
Roosevelt called up the boy, 
who was in Chacigo, spanked 
him soundly over the long 
distance wire and sent him 
crying back home at Ft. 
Worth, Tex., where he sobbed 
over the air that evening 
about racketeering in the 
AFL.’"

Tin Shortage

(Continued from Page One)

months previous to Pearl 
Harbor.

Swanson also indicated that 
the tin crisis will continue for 
some time even if the Japs sur­
render this year. If the war 
ends in 1945, he said, imports 
from territory now controlled 
by the Japanese and which for­
merly yielded 90 per cent of our 
tin supply, will be only 6,000 
tons by the spring of 1947, and 
only 13,000 tons the following 
year.

Substitute For 
Meat Outlined

WASHINGTON (FP) — Even 
though you can’t get that sir­
loin steak, the children’s bu­
reau of the Dept, of Labor said 
July 3, “everything that meat 
has that children need in their 
diet is available in other foods 
that are more plentiful.”

Nutritionists off the bureau 
said the protein in liver sausage, 
hot dogs, tongue, and canned 
luncheon meat, “compares fav­
orably with that found in prime 
rib roasts.”

On top of that, they found a 
quart of milk a day supplies all 
the protein children up to 1 year 
^4 of the needs for ages 1-3, and 
at least half of the needs for 
those up to age 13.

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Text of
Lansing CIO Council's Resolution on
30-Hour Week, Annual Wage

WHEREAS: The political action committee of the Lansing 
CIO Council has carried on an extensive political 
action program in the last year, and

WHEREAS: The affiliated unions of the Lansing CIO Council 
are undergoing a period of reconversion and un­
employment, and

WHEREAS: If a man works .8 hours a day, five or six days a 
week, he does not have the time to make himself 
a well informed intelligent citizen and voter, and

WHEREAS: The future of our country depends on that kind 

of citizen.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

That Congress should immediately enact the ne­
cessary emergency legislation, requested by 
President Truman, to provide federal supplement­
ary unemployment compensation payments to 
war workers rendered unemployed during the re­
conversion period so that a minimum of $25.00 
per week for 26 weeks be provided; and that the 
President should immediately revise the national 
wage policy and confer the necessary authority 
upon the National War Labor Board to make such 
wage adjustments as may be necessary and which 
will not substantially affect the cost of living, and 
that security of employmen on an annual basis is 
a burning aspiration of wage earners; and at the 
same time, its attainment would be the fullest 
assurance of a peaceful and expanding economy; 
and that no more important issue is before the 
American people today because the successful 
achievement of this objective would effectively 
establish Freedom from Fear and Freedom from 
Want—the essence of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 
historic Economic Bill of Rights. Employers 
should therefore recognize their responsibility 
to their employees and to the nation and in good 
faith enter into collective bargaining with the 
unions representing such employees for the pur­
pose of assuring security of employment on an 
annual basis.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:

That a program on an annual wage be worked out 
on a 30 hour work week basis, with pay uphold­
ing a standard of living which this country can 
be justly proud of, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:

That copies of this resolution be sent to Presi­
dent Truman, Representative William W. Black- 
ney, Senator Homer Ferguson, Senator Arthur 
Vandenberg, War Mobilization Director, Econom­
ic Stabilization Director Davis and the Public 
members of the National War Labor Board.

Unions Help 
Southerners, 
Says Booklet

Organized labor is a vital 
force working constantly for 
betterment of the average 
Southerner and his family, the 
Southern Conference for Hu­
man Welfare declared this 
week.

In a pamphlet, “For Your 
Children, Too,” published re­
cently, the Conference asserted 
that much of the long-range se­
curity and welfare of Southern 
workers depends on the 
strength of organzed labor be
low the Mason-Dixon line.

“Tomorrow’s world — The 
world of our children — will 
depend in large measure bn 
our protection of the rights 
of labor organizations and on 
our cooperation with these 
organizations in pursuit of 
our common goals” the pam­
phlet states. It concludes, “If 
you are a worker, join a un­
ion. They work for you and 
your children, too!”

The Southern Conference is 
composed of business, labor, 
farm, civic, church and profes­
sional leaders who seek to mo­
bilize the resources of £he south 
for greater benefit to that re­
gion and to the nation.

It is actively working for the 
abolition of the poll tax, for ab­
olition of the freight rate dis­
criminations against Southern 
industry, for the protection of 
the rights of labor and racial 
and religious minorities, for the 
I extension of Federal aid to

Washingion News

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auto industry are 80% below 
what they were in peacetime, 
Romney is crying aloud for 
relief from the irresponsible 
unions in the industry.

Romney has been throwing 
his weight around so much that 
there is a well-authenticated re­
port here that at a meeting of 
the Natl. Assn, of Manufactur­
ers this spring, some of the 
NAM hoard members got so 
tired of him they asked him to 
leave. Romney is not a member 
of the board, but had a habit 
of sitting in.

This Roymey has a co­
workers Pres. C. E. Wilson of 
General Motors and Vice 
Pres. H. L. Weckler of Chrys­
ler. Other auto-manufactur- 
ers are with him in name and 
spirit, but some are less than 
enthusiastic about his activi­
ties. Among these is Pres. 
Paul Hoffman of Studebaker, 
who is working hard to sal­
vage something from the 
plan to implement the Labor- 
Management Charter signed 
by the U. S. Chamber of Com­
merce, the AFL and CIO.

farmers, and for better medical 
and educational facilities for 
the south.

The alignment of this liberal 
southern group with organized 
labor marks a long step for­
ward towards the strengthen­
ing of organized labor in the 
south,

Photo Flashes of the News

Breaking International Bread

Leaders of Spanish and French union movements met with American 
labor leaders recently in New York. Much of their discussion dealt with 
eliminating racial prejudice of every kind in their respective nations. 
“We will cleanse France of anti-semitism,” pledged Leon Jouhaux, gen­
eral secretary of the French Trade Union Confederation. Left to right

are- President David Dubinsky, Int’l Ladies Garment Workers, AFL; 
AFL Vice President Matthew Woll; Adolph Held, chairman of the 
Jewish Labor Committee, Jouhaux L. Grand, Jouhaux’s translator; B. 
Tomas, President of the Spanish Trade Union Federation. (LPA)

Rankled Rankin

NATIVES MOVE FROM PATH OF WAR

—Federated Pictures

Veteran Reuben Schafer went 
from New York to Washington on 
his own to tell the House veterans 
committee that Rep. John E. Ran­
kin’s veterans’ open shop bill is a 
phony. Rankin (D., Miss.) was too 
busy to talk to Schafer, called a 
cop, told him: “Take this man 
away—he’s insane.” An AFL mem­
ber, Schafer here calls up a fellow 
ex-service man to tell him what a 
great friend of veterans Rankin is.

A GI helps women of the Ryukyu Islands evacuate a village in the range of fighting.

—Federated Pictures

GLAD TO BE THERE

THE RIGHT PLACE

Chairman Sidney Hillman of CIO Political Action Committee, left, 
is greeted by NMU Pres. Joseph Curran at'5th national convention of 
Natl. Maritime Union (CIO) in New York.

Federated Pictures

Poles—Freed by Poles

After looking over the literature rack in Oil Workers Inti. Union 
(CIO) headquarters in Richmond, Calif., veteran Fred Miller decided 
he was at the right place. So here he fills out an application for union 
membership while Mary Gillis looks on. No initiation fees, of course, 
for ex-service men.

—Federated Pictures

KEEPING TAB ON 'EM

(United Nations Photo)
THESE THREE PRETTY, young Polish underground fighters are smiling 
through the barbed wire of the camp in Germany where they were imprisoned 
for their part in the Warsaw uprising of 1944. They were liberated by Polish 
troops, who gave them not only freedom but clothes, Girls are wearing uniforms 
of Polish sergeants, with the Polish eagle insignia, In the underground their 
only uniform was their courage.

Exec. Sec. George Woolley of the political action committee, Local 9, 
Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers (CIO), checks 
state legislators’ voting records with Marcelle Gray of Los Angeles 
CIO Council on a big chart put out by the council.

—Federated Pictures