The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 26, 1943 Page: 3 of 4
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Roll Back Prices;
Don’t Raise Wages
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duction problems than heretofore.
Navy Reveals
Outstanding Job by
Organized Labor
In explaining the function of the
Little Steel formula in the wage sta-
b’lization policy, Davis pointed out
that while workers in the basic indus-
tries had received increases up to or
exceeding 15 per cent of their Jan-
uary 1941 wage level, a great segment
of American wage earners in the low-
Vast Damage
In Belgium
Is Disclosed
163 New Cargo
Vessels Delivered
Any attempt to match wages with
prices is a "will o’ the wisp” chase
that will result only in bitter disap-
pointment for labor, he said, because,
"prices would continue to rise at least
as fast as wages and probably fas-
ter.”
Military Use of
Doctors Outlined
PERSONAL • COLLATERAL
AUTOMOBILE
Prices Soar in
The Netherlands
house furnishings, which has
been surveyed.
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The report points out that this list
does not include damage to personal
property, such as automobiles and
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ing to a report on Navy production
from July 1, 1940, through July 1,
1943, just released by the Navy De-
partment
training with the troops. Doctors
who enter the Army also, on volun-
tary basis, train to accompany para-
troopers. The bulk of commissioned
Washington.—American merchant
shipyards in October delivered 163
cargo vessels aggregating 1,675,311
deadweight tons, bringing the total
1943 deliveries to 1.524 ships, totaling
15,501,624 deadweight tons, the Mari-
time Commission announced.
October production surpassed that
of September by three vessels, 22 540
deadweight tons of ships. During the
month, yards delivered 98 Liberty
Ships, eight C-type cargo vessels, 16
standard tankers, 19 emergency tank-
ers! modified Liberty Ships). three
T-1 or coastal tankers, two private
coastal tankdrs, five seagoing tugs
one ore carrier, three concrete barges
and eight special types for military
use.
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“The trade union movement fosters educa-
tion and uproots ignorance; shortens hours
and lengthens life; raises wages and lowers
usury; increases independence and de-
creases dependence; develops manhood and
balks tyranny; discourages selfishness and
establishes fraternity; induces liberality
and reduces prejudice; creates rights and
abolishes wrongs; lightens toil and bright-
ens man; makes the workers’ workshop safe
and brighter; cheers the home and fireside
and makes the world better.”
tempt to match wages in the heavy
war industries point for point with
the cost of living index.
“So far as I am concerned,” Davis
said, "I have not begun to surrender
and do not intend to surrender any
part of the wage stabilization pro-
gram. As Chairman of the War La-
bor Board; I am bound to adhere to
and apply that policy, and as a citizen
I belleve it is essential to the Ameri-
can worker and I have just begun to
fight for it”
curement and Assignment Services.
Army requirements have been
"pared to the bone” to offset civilian
needs, the report explained, pointing
out that the ratio of doctors had been
cut from 8.5 per 1000 men to 6.6 per
1000 In combat areas, 4.6 in non-bat-
tle areas, making a total of 53,000
physicians in all, for the Army and
Navy.
While minimum needs sometimes
seem high, it was pointed out, they
are aimed at making adequate prep-
aration for all battle emergencies,
and include reserves for emergencies
or for expanded operations as well as
However, he said, the coal contro-
versy had Injured the WLB policy in
handling labor disputes. It had also
dealt a blow to those responsible la-
bor leaders who had adhered to the
Butter costs $13.50 a pound and
bread $1.60 a loaf on the black mar-
ket in Holland, the Netherlands News
Agency reports on the basis of a let-
ter rLom a Dutch woman to a friend
In, England. The letter added that
it is impossible to live on the rations
that everyone is listless and weak
from lack of food, and that children
in particular are suffering on the ra-
tioned allotment of only half a liter
of skim milk per week.
no-strike pledge, he asserted. The
Board's policy of not handling dis-
putes white strikes are in progress is
firmly establfshe1, he said, and will
be firmly maintained.
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cent approval of the wage agreement
between Secretary Ickes and the WM
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Groups Extended
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Good humor is the health of
pre-organization of hospitals which
may be set up on foreign soil.
"The Army believes,” OWI said,
"that the civilian population is willing
to make any sacrifices necessary to
insure the minimum care of the
wounded.”
Doctors commissoined into the
Navy reserve may be assigned direct-
ly into service or may be given a 9-
week indoctrination course in tropical
and naval medicine. They may be
assigned general duty or volunteer
for work in aviation, submarines or
with paratroopers, in which case they
attend specialist schools, and, for
paratroop detail. r •-----' • ■
Of the dwellings damaged, the re-
port says, 5.87 per cent were entirely
destroyed. Other figures for total
destruction are given as follows: fac-P
tories, 13.09 per cent; public build-
ings, 6.34 per cent. The textile in-
dustry suffered most severely, the re-
port says, with 815 establishments
damaged ,of which 143 were complete-
ly destroyed. Civil engineering works
destroyed or damaged included 1,342
bridges, 131 aqueducts and culverts,
90 sewers, 28 locks and 76 miscel-
laneous works.
formula, he said, holds the door open
for "those people who, because of
their posit on in the social and indus-
trial fabric, have not been able to
have their wages increased with the
THE DALLAS
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CoMMERCE ST. at MURPNY
Further evidence of the rapid rate
of, increase in Navy plane production
is the statement that production of
planes quadrupled In the 18 months
between January 1, 1942, and July 1.
1943. In the 12 months of 1942, the
production of Navy combat planes
oubled-and redoubled. Then in the
first six months of 1943 it approxi-
mately doubled again.
The Navy report also shows out-1
standing accomplishments of ord-,
nance workers. Firepower of the
Navy’s ships and planes has been!
greatly increased, while production in
the three-year period of Naval ord-
nance has been stepped-up 24-fold.
This includes the guns and mounts,
ammunitions, underwater ordnance_
torpedoes, mines and depth charges
and aviation ordnance—bombs, fuses;
and aviation fire control.
Expansion of Navy facilities kept
pace with production increases in I
other Navy activities. The report
showed sixty per cent of the Navy's I
industrial facilities construction was I
for shipbuilding and repair while the |
other 40 per cent was divided about |
nnuPlly between ordnance and air- I
craft.
would be the first to suffer, through
increased
Davis laid in an interview that the
price of ‘ ‘
ciston in ho way impaired the Board’s
wage stabilization program.
Washington.—An additional 7,000
medical doctors and 800 dentists are
not mean he warned, that wage rates
should be increased to match the cost
of living since Sept. 15, 1943
labor—the hourly wage—in
industries has been stabiliz-
ed as of Sept. 15, 1942, while the price
of some of the things that labor buys
has not been so stabilized. This does
Washington, D. r. (AFLWNS)._
Three thousand and twelve Labor-
Management Production Committees
covering more than 6,000,000 workers
in war plants, shipyards and mines
are now registered in the War Pro-
uct'on Drive, it was announced by
the WPB. y
I may be wrong, but it seems to me
that not one of the ancient civilized
nations restricted the freedom of
thought—Vol taire.
The addition of 212 new committees,
established in the last two weeks to
handle difficult wartime problems af-
fecting output and manpower require-
ments, brings to 1.012 the total num-
ber of new committees registered in
the nation-wide production drive
since June—or a 50 per cent increase
ovet the 2,000 registered at that time
These new committees, indicative
of the spirit of joint co-operation be-
tween management and labor to win
the war more quickly, have been
up in plants in every region of ..
country, in all types of industries and
in every size plant from less than 100
to more than 40,000 employees
War production officials are grati-
fied not only at the increase in the
number of committees, but at two defi-
nite trends that have taken shape dur-
ing the last few months:
.. . —> 1. The number of new committecs
go through jumping is increasing at an accelerating rate
e troons 2 officially registered committees
increasing the tempo of their
work, meeting more frequently, as-
suming more duties and responsibili-
Of the total deliveries, 76 ships were
delivered by West Coast yards; East
Coast yards turned out 51 vessels, 29
vessels were delivered by yards on
the Gulf Coast, and seven ships were
produced by Great Lakes builders.
October deliveries put the Commis-
sion within 3,388,376 deadweight tons
of Its announced goal of 18,890,000
deadweight tons of merchant ships for
Army doctors., receive orientation ties, and handling
training at Carlisle Barracks, where I. '• »««««
they learn military procedure, sanita-
tion, army methods of keeping rec-
ords, supply problems, and, in Field
Medicine an1 Surgery, emergency I
problems of the combat area and use ’
of new techniques and devices avai-
able to troops.
Washington.—Bringing prices back
to the levels of September 1942, not
increased wages, is the answer to the
Omission at an employee’s account
number on a social security tax re-
turn may jeopardize that employee’s
assurance of receiving fun credit for
all of his wages when a laim is filed
by him or his family.
"The report is an outstanding trib-
ute to free American labor which is
fighting an all-out battle against the
forces of aggression,” commented
Rear Admiral C. H. Woodward, USN,
Chief.of the Navy’s Industrial Incen-
tive Division. "It is the story of a
proluction miracle that could take
place only in a nation where free
workers are ready and willing to
make every sacrifice to remain free.
"The size of our huge new Navy
is exceeded only by the job it must
perform. As we and our Allies un-
dertake even greater mtilitary of.)
fensives, even more ships and planes
will be needed. This will mean even
extra effort on the part of labor The
Navy is depending on the men and
women of the production lines to
provide the ever-increasing number,
. of ships, planes and weapons needed
to attain final victory. I am con-
fident American labor will come
through in the future in the same full
measure that it has in the past."
In three short years American work-
ers have transformed a fleet of 1 076
vessels of 1,975,000 tons into a giant
armada of 14,072 vessels of almost five
mllion tons. This huge tonnage fig-
ure has been attained, according to
the Navy, despite the loss of 484 521
tons of vessels In battle, by conver-
sion to non-combat uses, or ships
turned.over to other Allied Nations.
Ability to build this huge new
Naval force—and to continue to build
at the present rate—is one of the
foundation stones of our military
strategy,” the Navy report states "It
underlies our amphibious attacks in
he Pacific, the Atlantic and the Medi-
terranean. It protects our long, ex-
terior supply routes running across
thousands of miles of ocean. Most
important, it makes feasible a
strategy of attack, with all the risk
it implies. Ability to build—or if
necessary, to rebuild—on this scale is
one of the basic advantages which
the American Navy holds over fleets >
of all other nations.*
During the three-year period 15,376
new,sh ips of all types were completed
for the Navy, a fleet of more than 2,-11
200,000 displacement tons.. This in-
eludes 333 combatant vessels aggre_ 11
gating 1,117,054 displacement tons, I
274 mine craft air patrol craft, 151 |
auxiliaries, 654 yard and district I
craft, and 12,964 landing craft. I
Labor’s production miracle was not I
confined to the building of ships I
alone, the Navy’s report showed. Dur- I
mg the same period 15,567 planes of I
all types were completed for the I
Navy, bringing the total from 1 744 I
on July, 1940, to 18269 on July 1. I
113. Three years ago in July the I
Navy was receiving about 25 planes I
a month. Production was stepped up I
and during 1941 a total of 1.598 com- l
bat planes were delivered to the Navy I
During the first half of 1942 the fig l
ure rose to 1,911 and during the I
first halr of 1943 the production of I
combat planes exceeded the entire I
production for 1942 B
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The efforts of American labor on
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Montreal.—The magnitude of the
task o reconstruction that is faced
by European countries devastated by
the war is indicated in a report of the
General Commissariat for the Recon-
struction ot Belgium with headquar-
E. ters.at Brussels which has reached
Ie the International Labor Office here.
As a result of the 18-day conquest
of the country by the Germans and
two years of war conditions, the re-
port says, damage was caused to 195 -
355 dwellings, 3,430 factories and in-
dustrial establishments, 4,196 public
buildings, 6,229,044 square metres of
roads, and 1,787 civil engineering
works. The report classifies this dam-
age as either slight, serious or com-
plete destruction.
Washington.—The emergency regu-
lation governing the retail distribu-
t'on of bituminous coal has been re-
vised to permit dealers to deliver, and
householders to accept, bituminous
coal If the householders have less than
30 days supply on hand. No restric-
l ion is placed on the amount that may
be delivered to householders who
have less than a 30-day supply. The
new regulation, announced by Solids I
Fuels Administrator for War Harold
L Ickes, replaces one which forbade
deliveries to consumers who had more
than 10 days supply on hand.
problem of inflation, WLB Chairman
William H. Davis declares.
not yet : Every social security account num-
ber has nine digits in it, divided Inta
three grounds, as 000- 00- 0000.
It 'sal ways a big crowd in these
war days. But the Long-Dis-
tance operator keeps the calls
moving quickly unless they
just get too many for the cir-
cuits. • if she says the cir-
cuits are busy, you can help
by canceling your call if it
isn’t really important. But if
you can’t cancel, the opera-
tor will request — "Please
limit your call to J minutes."
It’s the work of war we are
trying to speed over the wires.
SOUrHWESTERN BELLA,
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In the age long struggle of the submerged
masses of mankind to attain some measure
of security, of freedom of thought and ac-
tion; the right to the ordering of their lives
and to a broadening education for their
children, the struggle fostered little benefit
until the founding of the labor movement
by Samuel Gompers. Not until then was
there a cohesive movement of the worker
surging forward with ever-increasing
massed strength to a definite goal.
Samuel Gompers in summing up his life
work said:
underprivileged workers
in commenting on the Board’s re-
.Washington.—A decrease and a re-
istribution of the civilian population
of the United States since the begin-
ning of the war is shown in figures
released by J. C. Capt, director of the
Bureau of the Census, Department of
-ommerce, based on the number of
registrations for War Ration Book
Two. The total civilian population,
because of the increase in the armed
forces, shows a reduction of 2.4 per
cent below the total for 1940. But the
total civilian population in the 237
metropolitan counties, which contain
more than half of the Nation’s civilian
population, increased 2.4 per cent.
The remaining counties, numbering
more than 2,800, dropped 7.3 per cent
in civilian population.
The total civilian population of the
United States or on March 1, 1943, is
estimated at 128,231.363, compared
with a civilian population April 1.
1940, of 131,323,136, a drop of 3,091,-
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Decreases in civilian population are
shown by 36 states, of which North
Dakota sows the largest percentage,
15.6. Montana with a drop of 14.2
per cent comes second and South Da-
kota is third with a reduction of 12 9
per cent.
Increases in civilian population are
shown by 12 states and the District of
Columbia, the District leading with an
increase of 26.7 per cent. Nevada fol-
lows with 25.7 and Arizona is third
with 16.4.
Among the metropolitan areas the
largest increases were registered by
Mobile. Ala., 64.6 per cent, the Nor-
folk-Portsmouth-Newport News area
in Virginia, 45.2, and the San Diego
area in California, 40.
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