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afternoon opened at 2 o’clock and
Harry H. Young, Lee Satterwhite
house from 7:30 p. m. to 12 mid-
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there would be bidding for votes
information that enabled Hitler to
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out the 75-millimeter cannon in the workers want jobs and not
dared too dangerous.
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automatic pistol, all valuable ad-
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The life of the law has not been
Justice Oliver .Wendell Holmes.
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BUY MORE WAR BONOS
pause, and then five shaken Ger-
mane appeared on top of the fort-
leasing others to the extent that
their production is not needed for
Fought To
Bitter End
eight. Several influential members
expressed to me the view that they
did not want to consider at this
time a bill liberalizing the benefits
because they feared if such a bill
6761 cases
1874 cases
2318 cases
3066 cases
Specialist Groups
Reduce Strongholds
After Long Battle
27,621 eases
15,780 eases
12,249 cases
As to reconversion after V-E
Day, the Byrnes plan declared that
1916
1981
1943
1944
Something A
Working Man
Appreciates
groups which reduced the islands
of Levant and Port Cros reaeched
their rest area after 6 hours of un-
broken, sleepless combat which
started six and one-half hours be-
5,000 Teamsters Lose Jobs Because
Tires Are Withheld, Says Tobin
Links With Nazis Exposed
Lieut Gen. William H. Simp-
Frncbouna iXS
army against the Nazis. Along
with the First, Third and Seventh
armies, they make'the mightiest
army America has ever assem-
bled.
: unem-
he de-
digestive tract.
Death Rate is Filling
night.
The convention adjourned after
the business session Sunday.
British Labor To
Face Crisis In
Next Election
London, Eng.—When Hitler takes
The 30th week this year ended
July 29. Peaks of past outbreaks
occur around the 85th week. In the
last four yean the peaks have
ranged from the 34th to 37th weeks
inclusive.
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Barber, El Paso; E. J. Bettencourt,
Galveston.
Cruikshank To Direct
AFL Security Drive
Washington, D. C.—Nelson H.
Cruikshank, formerly an official at
the War Manpower Commission
: American companies signed away
, their right to sell essential mate-
rials to their own government and
to England and Canada, while sup-
plying German concerns with the
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a midnight assault. . I However, Byrnes made n men-
Battleship Clinches It tion of the necessity of increasing
At nightfall, a cruiser offshore hourly rates of pay to maintain the
was considered at this time just
prior to a Presidential election,
University of Texas; Marshall W.
Arms, U. S. housing authority,
Fort Worth; Joseph Tone, federal
department of labor; Talbert D.
Jessup, national Red Cross repre-
sentative; Robert McKinley, Texas
and Joseph S. Myers, U. S. depart-
ment of labor conciliation; the Most
Rev. Robert E Lucy, archbishop of
San Antonio; Joseph Keenan, na-
tional war labor board; Thomas H.
Meany Opens
Attack
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age of the workers’ previous wages
or $20, whichever is the lower,
should be paid for as long as twen-
ty-six weeks and the coverage be
extended to include workers where
the number of employes is less than
alization could be enacted. I earn
estlythope this will be done.”
General Somervell
Pays Tribute To Labor
Scarcely noted by the press was
a disclosure this week by Lieuten-
ant General Bhehon B. Somervell,
chief of the army service forces,
that American workers boosted
H. Hill, president of the Austin
Trades Council, acted as master of
ceremonies.
Highlight of the Tuesday after-
noon program was an address by
Gov. Coke Stevenson.
vention at the DriskUl hotel, Aus-
tin, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday to iron out the prob-
war procurement agencies will keep
only the best qualified plants and
McKee, Dallas OPA office.
Following the Tuesday meeting
delegates and guests went to Bar-
ton Springs for an old fashioned
barbecue. Thursday from 4 to 6
p. m. women delegates and guests
were honored by a tea at the gov-
ernor’s mansion. A dance in the
Crystal ballroom of the Driskill
Thursday night concluded the pro-
gram.
State officers of the Federation
___with Churchill, but they may yield
sum-1 to Hie pressure from the rank and
First National Bank
in Houston
MAIN AND FANNIN AT FRANKLIN
vEouMAL oeoeI muunance consomnon
. In his new duties, Mr. Cruikshank
will organize support throughout
the country for enactment of the
Wagner-Murray-Dingell BUl, which
tacorporates many necessary
amendments to the Social Security
Act Mr. Cruikshank will function
in dose cooperation with State Fed-I
erations of Labor and city central
bodies, whose aid he will seek to
enlist in the campaign for the pro-
posed legislation.
tion, declared that links between
American and Nazi firms seriously
interfered with the defense of this
country and its allies.
Reconversion
Keynotes State
Convention
Attracting state-wide interest
this week is the Texas State Feder-
ation of Labor’s 47th annual con-
file and take a chance on making a
straight-out fight.
are also unable to obtain, Mr. To-
bin added:
“If necessary, we will bring the
seriousness of the situation before
Congress, so that it may be debated
in the Senate and House.”
The problem of the heavy auto
truck industry will be the major
subject for discussion at the broth-
erhood’s conference, scheduled to
meet in Washington on September
22, 23 and 24. President Roosevelt
will address the brotherhood on
September 23.
was adoped by the congress of all
labor organizations of liberated
Italy at a meeting here.
Luigi Antonini, representing the
American Federation of Labor, and
British labor representatives at-
tended the sessions and pledged
their countries’ labor organizations
to support the Italian trade union
“I still hope the Congress will
reconsider its action in rejecting
the plan suggested by me that the
L ...
Additional testimony along the
same line, equally shocking, was
placed before the committee this
That brought output figures to
the highest level since last Febru-
ary, overcoming a summer slump,
Somervell said. He paid tribute to
workers for ‘putting their backs in-
to the job of getting out enough
arms and equipment, on time.”
Most magnificent, he revealed, is
that the chief increases were in
items that had been acutely short.
“The response has been most grati-
fying,” he said.
nouncement—-48 German survivors
marched out.”
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hyde. The new method thin
mer uses ultra-violet light. In the
laboratory such vaccine seems to be
When reactionaries contended
that there are “fundamentals” to be
considered before action can be
taken on safeguards for workers,
Aiken retorted:
"It seems to me thar, is
nothing more fundamental to
the welfare of the country than
the welfare of human beings
who make up its population.”
We are all fighting to make the
kind of a world that we should like.
Others will fight and die to make a
different world with equal sincer-
ity and belief.
Keep On Buying War Benda-
Keep the Bonds You Buy.
Polio Spread
Worst In
Many Years
No Known Cure Or
Preventative; High
Hopes Come And Fade
New York.—Infantile paralysis,
despite 30 years of effort to com-
bat it, has been more widespread in
the first 30 weeks of this year than
in any other since the epidemic of
1916. There still is no known pre-
ventive or cure, not even any medi-
cine.
There is only rest and nursing
care, with the treatment of Eliza-
beth Kenny, the Australian nurse,
rated at the top.
The record for the worst years: _
let 30 Weeks Total for Year
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Allied Printing
Trades Hold Two
Day Convention
The two-day convention of the
Texas State Allied Printing Trades
Council opened Saturday at the
Austin hotel. Delegates arrived
from various parts of the state Fri-
day afternoon. Registration opened
at the hotel at 5:30 p. m. and was
resumed on the mezzanine floor at
8:80 a. m. Saturday.
The opening business session was
called to order at 10 a. m. Saturday
in the sun room by C. E. Soder-
berg, president of the Austin Allied
Printing Trades Council, who pre-
sented the Rev. Charles F. Pannell
for the invocation.
Following the pledge of allegi-
ance to the flag and one minute of
silent tribute in memory of the fall-
en members of the allied craft,
Acting City Manager Walter E.
Seaholm delivered the address of
welcome. Rueveil Sanders of Hous-
ton delivered the response.
The business session Saturday
of the coalition government reply
t that it is all very well to talk that
sidered upon its merits. They
thought that after the election leg-
islation providing reasonable liber-
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and Joe T. Steadham.
The program Saturday was con-
cluded with a Dutch lunch and fel-
Among the companies named as
“silent partners” of the Nazis are
U. S. Firms
Charged With
Aiding Axis
Congress Hears Sordid
Story Of Dealings
W ith Enemy Industry
Unless Congress severs ties that
bind American industrialists to
Nazi monopolies, the blood of our
boys now drenching French and
German soil will have been shed in
vain.
So declared Senator Harle M.
Kilgore (Dem., W. Va.), head of
the Senate War Mobilization Com-
mittee, after listening to a week-
long story of dealing among Amer-
ican, German and Japanese indus-
trialists that came pretty close to
treason.
Prepare For Next War
While our armed forces are win-
ning brilliant battles, he said, these
industrialists are working behind
the scene to continue the cartel ar-
rangements which enabled the en-
emy to arm for this war and which
may, conceivably, pave the way for '
another war. . i
and the proposal would not be con-
a covering fire at Lestissac, while pensation “our first line of de-
an assault platoon began cutting fense against unemployment” He
the wire. They were almost through warned :
when the Germans in the fort open-1 "In view of the failure of the
ed up with machine guns and pis- Congress to provide for more lib-
tols. The attackers burst through oral benefit payments by the Un-
the wires, stormed across the draw- employment Compensation systems
ity of the nation.
With regard to qualified pro-
ducers, the following factors will
be considered as to priority or re-
lease:
1. Privately owned plants, not
normally engaged in production of
a military character, will be given
first priority of release from war
production in order to facilitate
their reconversion to civilian pro-
duction, due consideration being
given to the wishes of the con-
tractors.
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Washington, D. C.—Daniel J.
Tobin, president of the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Teamsters, an-
nounced that 5,000 members of his
union, drivers of heavy auto trucks
engaged in interstate commerce
have been laid off because truck
owners cannot obtain tires.
He said thousands more face un-
employment if the Government does
not heed the demands of the indus-
try, and he threatened to seek help
from Congress.
He made the announcement at
the headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee in the Bilt-
more, at his first press conference
as chairman of the labor division of
the Democratic campaign com-
mittee.
Asserting there was a surplus of
heavy truck tires, and other heavy
automotive parts that truck owners
protecting animals.
Physicians know that human car-
Reconversion
Plans
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publicans and two members of mi-
nor parties supporting it.
On the Federal workers’ pro-
posal, 67 Democrats lined up with
107 Republicans to deny relief,
while 100 Democrats and 54 Repub-
licans voted for it.
These record votes seem to
indicate that the reactionaries
are pretty weU divided between
the two old parties, and empha-
size the wisdom of the rail
unions' position that workers
should disregard party labels
and vote for their friends in
November.
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The end was in sight. In the ernment, there will be some States
morning the cruiser started throw- in which the payments will be very
ing 8-inch shells, digging chunks 2 inadequate particularly in view of
or 3 feet thick from the fortress the increase in the cost of living
walls. Shortly before noon, the since such payments were estab-
fighting top of a British battleship lished by those States.”
showed over the horizon. The weekly benefits were estab-
While the aircraft bombed, the lished several years prior to the
battleship cut loose with 15-inch war. If they were adequate then,
shells, ‘walking” them inexorably they are inadequate now. The State
toward the fort until the eighth systems have during the war, as a
shell struck the fort squarely, pene- result of increased contributions
trating both walls, Maj. Albert Tate and reduced expenditures, accumu-
of Moosejaw, Sask., said. lated reserves of five and one-half
“There was a few minutes billion dollars. That is fortunate.
H.
bor has a right to expect this board
to give favorable action now upon
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that polio was contracted only the Labor Party must fight____
through the nose, in the nerves of independent party or sacrifice prac-
smell. But it was found that polio tically all its influence.
also can be contracted via the Those leaders who are members
This is subject to modification in
the case of a plant located in an
isolated section with no opportu-
nity for displaced workers where
the exercise of wise administrative
discretion may prompt other action.
3. In so far as practicable, the
release to civilian production of
competing units of the same indus-
try should be simultaneous.
4. In scheduling the release of
plants and industries, due consid-
eration is to be given to cushioning
the shock of unemployment.
5. In scheduling the release of
plants or industries, due consider-
ation is to be given to:
(a) Security considerations.
(b) Considerations affecting pub-
lic transportation, such as accessi-
bility to the sources of labor, raw
materials, components, depots or
storage facilities, and ultimate des-
tination.
(c) The relative unit cost to the
Government.
(d) The welfare of smaller busi-
nesses.
6. Where practical considera-
tions make it possible, companies
responsible for the development and
engineering of specialized products
will be retained in their manufac-
ture in preference to those com-
panies which are merely licensed
for their manufacture.
mission; Byron Mitchell, U. S.
chief budget examiner; Ted Morrow
wages.
"We cannot afford to wait until
we are suddenly thrown into the
post-war period to decide what to
do about wages. Unless we act be-
fore victory has been achieved, the
question of wages in the vital re-
conversion period will be left to be
decided by the economic forces in-
volved. Strikes, strife and economic
chaos will result We feel that la-
unemployment compensation com-
Friday, September 29, 1944
Italian Labor
Renounces
Politics
Germans had cut-through the dry by War Mobilization Director
underbrush they came under heavy Byrnes in a report on post-war re-
fire of 20-millimeter Oerlikons and conversion.
machine guns. . ( His plan set a peace-time goal of
They deployed in the underbrush national income and employment at
on approaches to the forts as the current high levels.
Germans settled down to a heavy When V-E (victory in Europe)
defensive fire with mortars, rifles, comes, Byrnes said, war produc-
grenades, machine guns and an oc- Hon will be cut 40 per cent and pri-
casional shell from an old 75 in vate industries whose contracts are
Fort de L’Eminence. cancelled will be given every en-
The chateau and Lestissac each couragement by the Government to
held about 30 men, and LEminence return to peace-time production as
held 50 with a good supply of arms, soon as possible.
ress wall with a white flag,” he
related. “At 1:80 p. m.—60 hours
after the assault, 54 hours after the
its patents by other concerns, but
was told that it would be necessary
to obtain permission from Ger-
many.
When permission was not forth-
coming ,the Department of Justice
filed an anti-trust suit against
American Bosch and the agree-
ments with Germany were voided.
However, before this was accom-
plished, two years of valuable time
had been lost.
Aid Germany In Every Way
Martin related how three Nazi-
linked concerns in the United
States — Transmares Corporation,
Chemnyco, Inc., and Krupp Mirosta
Corporation—were administered by
naturalized Germans and aided the
Nazi government and Nazi indus-
try “in every way possible, includ-
ing the supplying of valuable infor-
mation on the state of our national
economy"
Summing up his indictment of
American business, Martin as-
serted:
“Before the war these firms were
able to serve the Nazis under cover
of what appeared to be normal
business operations. During the
war they preserved American mar-
kets for German industry. Unless
they are disrupted after the war,
there is every indication they will
be used once more to prepare Ger-
many for the next war and to
weaken us.”
attending the meet are J. R. Stubbs, . B xuv
Xi Abbsse/arrgsChiwBa, its request.
El Paso; C. R. Sears, Amarillo; Al-
fred L. Bailey, Fort Worth; C. A.
Swink, Denison; W. L. Holst, Beau-
mont; B. F. McClellan, Houston;
But the objective of the system is
to provide a defense against un-
employment, and not merely to ac-
cumulate money. The States should
act now to liberalize the benefits
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peculiar people, and some of them
find their way into legislative
halls.”
movement as long as the principles
embodied in th® non-political reso-
hition are honored.
Another resolution adopted by
the Italian convention here appeal-
ed to the trade union organizations
of the United Nations to consider
Italy as a friend, not as a former
enemy.
Mr. Antonini’s trip here included
xisits to_all of southern Italy and
Sicily. He came here by appoint-
ment of AFL President William
Green to pledge the Federation’s
full support in the rebuilding of »
free, democratic trade union move-
ment in Italy. The British labor
delegation is operating jointly with
him.
However, it appeared that noth-
ing definite can be accomplished a
until such time as the industrial •
sections of northern Italy, where
the strength of the pre-war labor
movement was centered are liber-
ated.
Despite the resolution adopted by
the convention, a strong political
tinge adheres to the Italian labor
groups. The Communists wield a •
considerable influence and the So-
eialists, under Pietro Nenni, are at
present working closely with the
Communists.
The New York vaccine was made lieved they are inclined to go along bridge, smashed the gate and push- of Hie States through supplemental
by killing the virus with formalde- with Churchill, but they may yield ed into the courtyard. 1 ' . .. — - -
Sprays were founded on the belief way. They take the position that
A Beachhead in Southern France. ..°
American and Canadian specialist
When American Bosch refused to Emily Jordan, San Antonio; L. M.
produce for our armed forces, the ~ ' ---
navy asked it to permit the use of
The third great hope was nasal government, but most of the mem- mered the objective preparatory to dared in his report,
sprays, alum, picric acid and zinc, bers °t the party don’t see it that
Last week testimony of Depart- lente of post-war reconversion and
ment of Justice officials was re-
The present cases occur mostly in lowship meeting at Zilker park club
North Carolina, Virginia, New *
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ken-
logic; it has been experience.— maximum weekly benefit should
Ft "" - ------ not be less than a stated percent-
the Bendix AviaHon Corporation,
the Sperry Gyroscope Company and
.________ the American Bosch Company. All
contractors on war production, re- these concerns manufacture deli-
cate instruments for airplanes and convention program were Col. Wil-
other weapons. "
Horn H. Nelson, chief of the Eighth livingsttana "ag»nimmaintainluu
Service Command labor branch; "nstandards".intheirabsence:
Homer P. Ramey, president of the
stricken, will recover without
paralysis.
Miss Kenny claims that 88 per
cent of those taking her treatment
recover without paralysis. This is
the highest rate, but not greatly in j
excess of other treatments.
premature ‘mission completed’ an- and make the State system serve
- - their true purpose.
Tried To Break Blockade
The Bendix Company even
went so far as to make an ef-
fort to break the British block-
ade to get blueprints of secret
war instruments into Germany,
Martin charged.
The plan was frustrated only by
the vigilance of the British navy,
which seized a ship carrying the
blueprints.
Bendix was declared to have re-
ceived royalties on its products
manufactured in Germany as late
as March, 1941.
The Sperry company was said to
build up his war machine, Martin
- revealed.
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Ancient Forts
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munitions and food. At the same time, he urged,
On D-day plus one, the chateau workers should go back to the 40-
was assaulted by one platoon. The hour week.
two forts rejected ultimatums after “This will give jobs to those who Hie defeat of Japan and the
production of munitions and sup- _________ ...... ..
plies l°r the army during August gardless of their party affiliation,
by 10.7 per eent. was adoped by the .1
2. Government-owned plants will . . . _ ________
be kept in operation or reserve un- have supplied its German partner
til their production is clearly no with "exact details” of artificial
longer required for military needs, horizons, directional gyros and
tacky, with some in Louisiana, and
mild outbreaks in Ohio and Michi-
gun. California and Texas had
flare-ups which appear to be sub-
ziding. The figures are from the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
High Hopes Fade
AR the high hopes of cures of
former years have faded, one by
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Working men are enthusiastic
about our new Checkmaster
checking account plan. It saves
their time, tires and money. It
enables them to deposit by mail,
to pay bills by check, to help fig-
ure their income taxes, to help
budget their income and to keep
their money safe in the bank
without excessive monthly service
charges.
★ ANY AMOUNT OPENS AN
ACCOUNT v
* MINIMUM BALANCE
REQUIRED
*NO MONTHLY SERVICE
CHARGE
★ ONLY 10c PER CHECK
DRAWN
You, too, will enjoy the con-
venience of a Checkmaster check-
ing account. Come in, write, or
phone for complete information.
Rome, Italy.—A resolution to
keep politics out of labor and to
unite all labor groups on a program
for the betterment of workers, re-
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Aiken's Vigorous Protest
."Weare told," Aiken said,
"that there is not time to eon-
aider protection for jobless
workers. It seems rather pecu-
liar that men can work day and
night over property and dollars
-------- and cents, but cannot give con-
and before that associated with sideration to human beings.”
AFL organizations in New Eng- ‘That does seem peculiar,” replied
land, has been appointed Director Senator Alben W. Barkley (Dem.,
of Social Insurance for the Ameri- Ky.): “but there are many types of
can Federation of Labor. peculiar people, and some of them
one, although since 1916 more and a nose-dive, there may be a general
more effort has been directed to- election in England. It should have
ward finding a cure. been held long ago. No Parliament
The first high hopes were for is supposed to hold on for more
convalescent serum, the protective than five years. This Parliament,
anti-bodies of those who recently controlled by the Conservatives, has
had the disease. But after thou- extended its own life from time to
sands had been treated, it was time. That kind of thing can be
found that those with no serum hsd done in England because this coun-
just as high a recovery rate as the try hasn’t anything like Uncle
others. I Sam's written Constitution.
Next came vaccines. One from If Churchill decrees a general
the New York City health depart- election, what will the Labor Party
ment was made of the killed virus do ? That question is being debated
of infantile paralysis. When 20,000 wherever politically minded citizens
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juncts of airplanes, while the
American firm got nothing from
Germany.
That statement was an an-
swer to the contention of
American industrialists that
their arrangements with the
Nazis have been advantageous
to this country.
Diesel Production Hamstrung
The cartel between American
Bosch and a German concern came
close to hamstringing American
production of Diesel engines, Mar-
tin declared.
riers probably spread polio, they
know that the virus is found in
sewage, and in flies, and that ap-
parently a fly doesn’t carry it more
than a couple of days.
That is about all, and it sums up
to the appalling fact that there
isn’t any protection against infan-
tile paralysis, except to keep away
from infection. That involves the
impossible thing of keeping away
from every other human, and from
» lot of unknowns in nature be-
sides.
On the bright side, the polio
death rate has been falling for
years. The mortality was 25 per
cent in New York City in the great
1916 epidemic. Now rates ate be-
tween 5 and 10 per cent, and some-
times lower, even to a fraction of 1 Alter the House voted, the legis-
per cent lation was returned to conference,
Another bright side: Statistics and the Senate conferees surren-
are piling up to show that half, and dered.
probably more than half of those | Leaders on both sides of the aisle
talked about more genemnyt treat-
ment of workers when Congress re-
convenes after election, but few
took the pledge seriously, least of
all Senator George D. Aiken (Rep.,
Vt) who predicted that nothing
would be done.
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While first results looked good, | Left to themselves, these leaders which 8-inch naval gunfire knocked | are left without employment. The
after a summer’s trial It was de- would probably be content to rock
_ - —---- President of the Federation is
James S. Martin, chief of the de- Andrew S. McBride of Houston.
partment’s Economic Warfare Sec- Welcoming addresses officially
opening the convention Monday at
10 a. m. were given by Mayor Tom
Miller, Judge George S. Matthews,
Tom Martin, City Manager Walter
E. Seaholm, Police Chief Raymond
D. Thorp, Sheriff H. W. Collins,
Chamber of Commerce President
Dr. John H. Frederick, District At-
torney Benton Coopwood, Joe Am-
stead, Constable M. M. Thorp.
Driskill Manager Paul Melton. R.
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lobbed a number of white phos- wage income of workers who will
phorus smoke shells behind which lose the overtime they now rely
companies advanced to assault posi- upon to meet increased costs of
tions. . living.
At midnight, two platoons hurled Byrnes called unemployment com-
vaccinations were of record, there get together. For the greater part
was a brief time when success was of this war, the Labor Party has
confidently predicted.. Afterward it been part of the coalition govern-
was abandoned as useless. ment and several of its leaders oc-
Then came a second vaccine, this cupy high positions in the cabinet,
time of live, but attenuated virus, including Minister of Labor.
Currently, there is one glimmer way, but that no party can hope to
on the medical horizon. That is a defeat Winston Churchill if he goes
new vaccine, based on the singular before the electorate wearing the
fact that sometimes the method of laurels of victory.
killing micro-organisms makes a A party conference will convene
difference in their protective, or in December. Chiefs of the big
vaccination value. trade unions will control. It is be-
-__I_____rehabilitation.
ported disclosing how our indue- A crowd of between 1,800 and
trialists had resorted to devious 2,000 labor leaders and government
tricks to supply war materials, and agency representatives, including
~ militaf? secrets, to the enemy. 400 official delegates are in attend-
ance, Harry W. Acreman, state ex-
ecutive secretary, announced.
Registration began Sunday noon
at the DriskUl hotel.
fore H-hour. _"mu
These men came off Port Cros | •e
where for more than two days— P EI-
after a premature message ‘Island. I "
cleared,” had been sent — they D
fought ferociously with ridiculous- | "TF
ly light weapons to reduce 800-
year-old forts whose walls with- "nmem.emn
of Levant and Port Cros reached | .
speakers included Harry Acreman, stood the fire of 8-inch naval guns. g .
- - The formation, commanded by e.' a.c
Lieut. Col. J. F. R. Akehurt, Kirk-
land Lake, North Bay, Ont., hitdddhpdbdmtz-o-u i —
Port Cros at 1:30 a. m. and rapidly
overran the entire island except a Th® slit trenches that cut up an area “some place in Italy” in a
high peninsula on the north side of wafflerlike pattern are being used by the Air WACs stationed near
the main harbor of Port Cros. force in Italy. This new type of trench
The force signaled that the mis- frm dir offer considerable more protection, and is harder to hit
sion had been completed and that * <
the island’s defenders were unable ----------------—................. , —.......... „ ___________
all hell broke thosendings Then Prompt End To Manpower Controls
from an old chateau, star-shaped Urged By byrnes in Post-War Report
Fort de Lestissac farther north and r
Fort de LEminence on the highest Washington, D. C.—Abandon-
point, half a mile inland. ment of present stringent manpow.
The invaders made a forced cnnt..i. i0 021 ,
march to reach the forts. But when ® . * ® immediately after the
they crossed a fire line which the defeat of Germany was promised
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case against the wage-freeze,
charged that it not only has re- |
duced the real income of the na-
tion’s wage earners but that it is
unjust to the millions of workers
now serving in Die armed forces
“who have every reason to expect
their government to honor its prom-
ise that it would maintain their
•" -' emo1m2
‘The long delay that has ensued
since the filing of this petition by
the American Federation of Labor 8
members of the Board merely com-
pounds these injustices that the
nation’s workers and fighters have
suffered,” Mr. Meany added.
Mr. Meany laid special emphasis
on the disastrous effects of the
wage-freeze on post-war economic
conditions. Full production and em-
ployment after the war ends, he in-
sisted, depends entirely on the
1 maintenance of the purchasing
" power of the nation’s consumers,
which is impossible with inadequate
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