Labor Messenger (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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which violate your wartime
commissions and did not include the
incomes of such titans "as Henry
Ford and John D. Rockefeller," Jr.
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or of scores of others whose in-
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ommended that meat be rationed.
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Tightened by Government
Federal Authorities Assume Right' to Tell
Nation’s Employes Where They Must Work
Proposed Meat
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came to such “luxuries” as tea, he
was dependent on gifts from this
side, and now gifts were being
Wartime controls over the na-
tion’s workers were screwed tighter
by Federal authorities this week.
vine the American people that the
nation’s workers are slackers and
have hampered armament output.
moving picture mgul, topped the
list with an income of $704,425.
The Treasury list covered only
incomes from salaries, bonuses and
Britain Bears
Up Under
Strain of War ,
Viscount Bennett
Says Health of People
Has Never Been Better
Ottawa, Can.—Viscount Bennett,
now a member of the British House
of Lords, but once leader of Can-
ada’s Conservative Party and. for
suxance benefits for partial unem-
ployment which become payable on
and after November 30 of this year,
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tional 10,000 pamphlets will be sent
to Houston for use in this program.
1981 square blocks have been in-
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- ness establishments were found to
Thousands of Aircraft Workers
Adopt Payroll War Savings Plan
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After six Weeks of heavy think-
ing, the Food Requirements Com-
mittee of the W.P.B. this week rec-
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94 per cent of the company’s 32,000
employes in the payroll war sav-
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Benefits Set Up for
Partial Unemloyment
in New York State
Albany, N. Y.—The Division of
Placement and Unemployment In-
surance, State Department of La-
be harboring this mosquito.
Five hundred city firemen have
volunteered their services, and each
station will work a three-block ra-
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ment is proud of you.”
The Lockheed achievement was
the most spectacular of a number
of War Bond labor-management
campaigns reporting programs in
aircraft, railroads, rubber, hosiery
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Executive Director of the Division.
"We have set up what is teachni-
cally known as a day-base plan,”
continued Mr. Loysen. “This plan
entails measuring employment in
terms of individual days, instead of
weeks of seven consecutive days. It
makes it possible for- part-time
workers who are ready, willing and
able to work to qualify for benefits,
provided they do not earn more
than $24 a week.”
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craftsmen toil under the lash
of the slave driver,”
Nelson’s speech was one of the
most important that anybody has
made during the emergency. It
smashed into smithereens the lies
and calumnies of labor-haters who
what jobs they must take.
Another order, handed down by
Selective Service Director Louis B.
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roads, refrigerator companies and
a contractor providing services nor-
mally performed by railroads, to
bring them into line with standards
set up for most of the nation’s rail
carriers.
The employes involved, the emer-
gency board said in a report to
President Roosevelt, are chiefly
maintenance-of-way and shop craft
workers. '
O. R. Smith
W. R. Evans
C. J. Barnhart
N. E. Hughes
Will Sisco
Fred Gourly
Eli Feinstien
H. H. Lindsay
G. N. Doyle
W. W. Burton
W. W. Wheeler, Jr.
M. C. DeVries, Jr.
C. A. Lowe
W. G. Wilkerson
L. H. George
G. C. Downing
Earle Hunnicutt
T. J. Gallowav
K. P. Kanavel
R. J. Cornelius
T. A. Goodman
H. G. Simonton
L. G. Thomas
R. R. Albertson
L. Brock
C. A. Anderson, Jr.
A. W. Elstner
W. R. Tully
G. D. Williams
V. R. Haynie
G. N. Thompson
W. F. Chandler
R. E. Doyle
Gene Ford
E. L. Crutcher
Eugene Anderson
Frank J. Owen
P. J. Doghtery
W. E. Thronton
J. R. Thomas
\ E. W. Carsten
. Jessie Canizaries
A. L. Chandler
D. L. Nelson
Bin Walters
J. W. Phillips
O.W. Swink
Sam Yent°
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Health Department 8:
7 Receives Reports
- Of Dengue Fever
Official Newspaper of
Official Representa
Its report followed by a few days a
statement by President Roosevelt
that this step was imperative.
In face of diminishing supplies
and soaring prices, the O. P. A. in-
dicated that-rationing will be put
off for four months, but gave no
explanation for the delay.
The meat ration proposed by the
committee will work little if any
hardship. It allows for 2% pounds
of meat per person weekly. Brit-
pledges” and said “we must resort
only to peaceable means of settling
A few cases of dengue fever
have been reported to the Health
Department by Houston physicians
and an all out effort is being made
to eliminate the mosquito respon-
sible to the fever, according to Dr.
Austin E. Hill, Director of Public
Health.
Dr. George W. Cox, State Health
Officer, is supplying all available
dition to the meat ration.
abor in Houston
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Maybe‘you have a loi more than that around your place.
But is doing nobody any good there. It will do hundreds of
millions of people good IF it is turned in to the government.
Ask yourself what you can turn in on this scrap metal drive.
Pile it up where it will be available when it is called for. Then
call Preston 1667, the telephone of the Houston Labor and
Trades Council, and let the world know you have some scrap
. . . Today America faces the most dangerous foes in
history. This is a people’s war—a workers’ war—evei
we have is at stake.
and submit their grievance to the
National War Labor Board for
decision.
Mr. Green coupled his orders to.
the local union with' a stinging con-
demnation of the company which,
he charged, was actually respon-
sible for the strike.
He pointed out that the company
had repeatedly discharged the pres-
ident of the local union, who used
to work in the plant, and had re-
fused to reinstate him even after a
special United States Army Com-
mission had recommended such
action.
“Under the circumstances,” Mr.
Green* said in a public statement,
“the employes are forced to the
conclusion that the real purpose of
the company is to wreck their union
organization. That is how the strike
came about.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Green directed
the local union to end the strike
without delay because the plant "6
engaged in vital war production.” •
He urged the employes to let the
War Labor Board consider their
There Is’No Community Chest
In Axis-Controlled Nations!
vestments, including tax-exempt
zecurities.
7 days. Router cards and instruc-
tions were furnished each fireman,
and a record will be made of all
places found to be harboring this
mosquito.
Several Boy Scout units have vol-
unteered their services and have
been trained in Mosquito Control
Work. ’
Organisations and ‘clubs whose
membership can devote two hours
time each week to this control work
are asked to communicate at once
with Mr. Helmer, Chief Supervisor
McNutt followed up his drastic
edicthxttlinguhe Honstammi.
pulsion is also on the way for work-
ers in private industry.
Legislation will soon have to be
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Hershey, placed 00,000 metal and
lumber workers in 12 Western
states under “work-or-fight” regu-
lations. ,
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treasurer, J. J. Hornack, Toledo,
Ohio. * The country was divided in
enemies. j
Our most valuable possession, of course,
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many cases the increase is 100 per
ces or more, La Follette declared.
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Members of Painters Local Union No. 130
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The Military Service'
Lockheed-Vega Aircraft Corpora-
tion in Burbank, Calif., more than
97 per cent of the 60,000 employes
signed up in the payroll war sav-
ings plan set aside 10.9 per cent of
. the company’s gross payroll for
War Bonds every payday. This re-
sult was achieved through the
teamwork of the company and the
International Association of Ma-
chinists, Local No. 727.
In congratulatory messages to
the union and the company Secre-
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Labor Cited as Obstacle to Greater Production I
There has been a great deal of talk about a “secret weapon"
on which our military leaders rely to overwhelm our foes.
We have one,- all right—but it is not a plane, a tank, a gun
Senator Rebert M. La Follette,
Jr. (Prog., Wis.) asserted in a Sen- ,
ate speech that a “new crop of mil- •
lionaires" is being created aa a re-
sult of a “perfect orgy” of salary-
hiking by executives of corpora-
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We thank them for their faith in us. The least that we can
do is to keep that faith as well as they. We can give of our
plenty, because, believe me, the least of us still hive Aplenty’
compared to those gallant people who have lost all.”
He is right, too. We, all of us, hav plenty in comparison
to the peoples whose lands are being overrun by the Axis
‘Secret Weapon’ to Defeat
Axis, Says Production Chief
George L. Googe, Southern States Director of the American Federa-
tion of Labor, and James F. Barrett, of the Labor Section. War Savings
Staff, took over one of. the campaign devices being used to stimulate
War Bond purchases among A. F. of L. members in their territory.
They expect workers in their area to’ help top the Federation’s billion
dollar War Bond pledge. From their headquarters at the A. F. of L.
regional office, 415 Hart Building, Atlanta, this joint "A.F.LTreasury”
team will enlist the full cooperation of the A.F.L. members behind the
Treasury Department’s “10 per cent of payroll in War Bands” Quota
Campaign. Their territory includes Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ar-
kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas."
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Union (AFL). a
He urged the unions to '‘exercise
iater self-control to avoid strikes
Here and There
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“What we can call our secret
weapon,” he declared, ‘is the
initiative and intelligence and
‘know-how’ of the free Ameri-
can workman. We can prop-
erly call this our secret weap-
on, because it cannot be made
to serve the enemy whose
Green Halts
Chemical
Plant; Strike
Western Cartridge
Company Accused
Of Forcing Walk-Out
East Alton, Ill.—Prompt inter-
vention by President William Groen
of thefAmerican Federation of La-
bor endd a strike by a local union
of chemical employes at the local
plant 'of the Western Cartridge
Company.
After receiving orders from Mr.
Green to return to work immhedi-
ately on pain of having their char-
ter revoked, the members of the
union voted to go back to their jobs
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Green Voices Hope
For Results from
Unity Conferences
Cleveland, Ohio.—William Green,
president of the American Feder-
ation of Labor, said he Ws "hope-
ful of concrete results this winter”
in joining forces with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations.
"Preliminary exploration will be
necessary in the early stages,” he
declared. “There is much ground to
cover, but our committee is ready
for a sincere endeavor to bring the
two great houses of labor to-
gether.”
Unity conference between offi-
cials of the AFL and the CTO will
be held late this month.
Green was principal speaker at
the opening sessions of the national
conventions of the Journeymen
Plumbers and Steamfitters Union
(AFL) and the Heat and Frost In-
sulators and Asbestos Workers
or other mechanical gadget.
The secret was revealed this week by Donald M. Nelson,
war production chieftain, in a speech to employes of the
“Men, women and children of
Britatin are bearing the strain of
war extremely well,” he said. “The
general health of the people has
never been better, and while there
undoubtedly is some strain—in
many cases an unconscious strain
in living dangerously all the time—
their morale is untouched.”
He apologized for his failure to
be more hospitable to Canadians
visiting Britain, but he smilingly
Hold Convention
In Cleveland
Cleveland, O.—The convention of
the National Council of Railway
Patrolmen’s Unions here was at-
tended by 85 delegates representing
local unions on various railroads
from coast to coast.
The speakers who addressed the
convention included W. T. Wihston,
general chairman, Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks, and Phil Hannah,
secretary - treasurer, Ohio State
Federation of Labor.
Indianapolis, Inde, was chosen as
the convention city for 1943. Jo-
seph Gillis, organizer, AFL, of
Baltimore, was elected president.
Other officers elected are: Elxecu-
tive vice president, Lawrence Far-,
mer, Upper Darby, Pa.: secretary-'
perts” had estimated that Ford’s
plane plant at Willow Run, Mich.,
would require 150,000 workers,
while 60,000 have been found to be
bor, has revised its procedures and Urged to Raise Wages
operating methods in preparation • D
for the advent of unemployment in-
In a joint drive in Seattle the
Boeing Aircraft Company and the
Aero Mechanics’ Union, Local 751, five districts and ten vice presi-
outline procedure necessary to
eliminate the mosquito.
Have you looked in your attic and garage lately? Are you
positive you know what you have in those places and under
the house and stuck away in closets? . - (
Practically everyone has put things away—out of sight—
and forgotten about them. Now is the time to take close
inventory and find out what you have4 that Uncle Sam needs, rsturngd for a Visit to the land of
For his needs are as important to you as they are to anyone his 1
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is the right to do
weapons of attack. It’s the dead young Russians, and the
slaughtered Dutch, the British pilots, the starving Greeks,
• the stubborn Jugoslavs, and the courageous Chinese whom
we must thank for the time which races now in our favor.
“I am glad to report tonight,”
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War Manpower Commission, the
The “Minute Men” of Concord and Lexington, who gave us
« liberty, were workers, too. Just as today, they fought with
T tools and guns alike. ' mon
Washington, D. C. — An Emer- cu„pgu,..
gency Railway Labor Board recom- by Paul v MeNutt, chief of the
mended adjustment of wage and — " “
. ..vacation schedules .’for some em-
according to Miltei• oyself, ployes of thirty shrt-line rail-
as we want to do. If we would keep that right, we must see
that we do the right things. Sharing with the less fortunate
through the/Community-War Chest is one of those right
things. Don’t fail to do your part.
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in winning the war. Altogether, it amourted to more than a limited,
x hundred pounds of meal. And that is enough to do some good.
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dents were elected to supervise or- .
ganization. Resolutions supporting T
$75,000, and 62 who received more
than $200,000. Louis B. Mayer, more than.enoush.
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cases over-estimated the need
workers in new arms plants. (
As an example, she said the
child’s wagon, in other parts of his homestead. He had them
all out of sight and out of mind until his wife searched explained that “rationing” had
them out. his household and that when
Now, that' is not an especially impressive list of item. But
tary Morgenthau termed the at- _ _
tainment of the 10 per cent goal "aieent of the gross payroll.
Washington, D. C.—In a five-day victory in our battle on the home
labor-management drive at thesfront,” and added “your govern-
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If you lived in a country dominated by the Axis powers,
you wouldn’t be asked to icon tribute to the Community-War
Chest this year. You wouldn’t be asked—because if you had
anything the government wnated, the government would take
it. If you put up an argument, you would b# jailed or beaten
or killed.
It is because you live in a free country that the needs of
your fellows are called to your attention so that you can help
them out. It is a voluntary donation on your part and it
means everything in the way of welfare and health to our
unfortunate civilians and it means comforts and entertain-
■ ment for our soldiers and sailors.
The Community-War Chest this year takes over the financ-
ing of the U. S. O. and various war relief organizations while
it retains the essential local health and welfare bodies. A few
of the civilian agencies were dropped, those which had no
programs necessary to a community at war.
But in spite of our being at war, it is necessary that we
guard the health of our people and provide welfare facilities
for those who would not have them except through one of the
welfare agencies.
No one will question, either, the necessity for maintaining
the U. S. O. centers for pur boys in the fighting services. The
need for them is too obvious to require discussion.
Added to these agencies are those organizations which
handle relief cases in the stricken countries of our Allies. As
RaymondMassey recently said in an address in Cincinnati,
Ohio: “We can thank our Allies for giving us time to grow
and train our army, and to build our ships, and our new
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Union Exists 44 Years
With No-Strike Record
New Brighton, Pa. — Manage-
ment and union employes of a war-
production plant here celebrated an
enviable record—44 years of friend-
ly and peaceful relations without a
sign of trouble.
The union is Hone Nail Makers
Union,-No. 7073, chartered in 1898
by the American Federation of La-
bor, whose members work for the
Standard Hone Nail Corporation. ,
The company, which employs
several hundred workers, makes
machine keys, taper pins, foundry
chill nails, horse nails an other
steel specialties needed in war.pro-
duction.
G. B. Sheen, vice president and
general manager of the corpora-
tion, said there hasn’t been the re-
motest suggestion of a strike since
the company entered into.colective
bargaining relations with the union
in 1898.
Many of the charter members of
the union are still employed by the
company and a majority of these
average more than 78 years of age.
A number of present employes have •
succeeded their fathen in the same
positions.
Besides the Federal local, the
AFL Internationa] Association of
Machinists also holds an agreement
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Two Lose Posts for
Perpetrating Hoax
The last chapter of the
celebrated air-marker hoax
perpetrated last month by a
former Hollywood press
agent was written this week
by Secretary of War Henry -
L. Stimson.
He directed that Colonel
Dache M. Reeves be relieved
of his command of the First
Air Force at Mitchell Field,
L. I., and that his public re-
lations officer, Major Lynn
Farnol, be sent back to civil-
ian life.
Farnol was disciplined for
sending out the yarn and
Reeves for not preventing its
publication.
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Fabulous
‘Wages’Paid
Executives
Salaries in Excess
Of $75,000 Listed
In Treasury Report
A Treasury report this week
gave emphasis to President Roose-
velt’s demand that no American be
permitted to claim an annual in-
come over $25,000 after paying
taxes. . .
it revealed that in 1940—when
the war effort was just getting
started----775 persons filed tax re-
turns showing sajaries in excess of
else in this world.
HE NEEDS SCRAP METAL OF ALL KINDS RIGHT
NOW!
This writer was amazed when he found an old bed spring
over the rafters of his garage, a pair of old bumpers under
his House, an old generator and a disabled starter and a
broken\water pump concealed in his garage, and various other
f, metal parts, including two old tricycles and a broken down
Report by Nelson Reveals
Amazing Results Attained by
Labor Management Committees
Employers Who Still Refuse to Cooperate With
ho -f,3d-
phased giving the government au-
thority to “draft” workers for any
jobs where they arg -host needed
for the war effort; MeNutt/‘insisted.
Such “big stick" power will be re-
quired to meet manpower short-
ages, he declared.
Secretary of Labor-Frances Per-
kins took sharp issue with the man-
power chief. She contended there
will be no need for Congress to en-
act such legislation, and that volun-
tary methods will do the job.
Shortages Exaggerated
Secretary Perkins also challenged
claims that critical manpower
shortages will occur. "She said gov-
ernment experts hate in many
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ishers get only 12% ounces, Bel-
gium 5 ounces, Germans only 4 apd
Frenchmen even less. I of Dengue Contrbl, and an instruc-
Poultry and fish are not ah- tor will be sent, night or day, to
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