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his consent, or that of his agency, Braddock’s defeat
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Reports Disclose
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Production Incentive
railway station, and just west of
him.
day lost in production may mean
losing a battle, and a day lost in
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in every factory.
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Flag Is Camouflage
For War Chiselers
About 2,000,000 cotton farmers
of the nation pay an average of
COLORFUL
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Last week I remarked that time
would tell the secret of Tom
the Middle East, to give some ac-
count of what he had seen. Well,
I think we are going to maintain
the lead. Our quality in aircraft,
both in fighters and in bombers, is
London.—France was mobilized
to work for Germany under a de-
cree of the Vichy Government
requiring all Frenchmen and Colo-
nials from 18 to 50 and all unmar-
ried Frenchwomen from 21 to 25 to
work “to facilitate ‘the execution of
and task the Government judges
The way to vote is simple. Re-
gardless of party affiliations, every
worker should vote for those who
support the cause of labor and
gainst those who have manifested
themselves to be enemies of labor.
OPA September 1 pointed to two
court orders obtained in Federal
Court in Richmond, Va., one enjoin-
ing a hotel from charging double
rates for single rooms; the other
requiring the operator of an auto
trailer camp to abide by the legally
CAPTAIN
ARTHUR VERMUTH-
one-third of the United States
Senate is up for election.
We have only to consider the
vast flood of anti-labor legislation
But Time, using wind and water
and cold and heat, was the builder,
naturally.
iced at the closing
■ess to realize how
the most enveloping and decisive
turning point there has ever been,
because for the first time in the
world’s history the entire world is
involved and because the decision
involves the whole future of civili-
zation.
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Wartime Control
Of Manpower
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der powers granted by President
Roosevelt, provides that the Civil
Service Commission may transfer
an, 'Federal employe to another
government job, with or without
Auto graveyards have produced
1,633,369 tons of iron and steel
scrap for the four months during
which the drive to stimulate flow
of scrap has been going on.
and how and whether we can live
in decency with our neighbors. We
can help, all of us, by fighting, by
working, by keeping our courage
You know that along the north-
ern flank of our position there is a
railway, and you have often seen
in accounts of recent fighting men-
tion of the railway station at Tel
el Eiza. There are two or three
small hills which rise around the
German Factories
THE LABOR MESSENGER—ORGANIZED LABOR’S ONLY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER IN HOUSTON
OUR VALLEY OF DECISION
By Louis Bromfield
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of the nation.”
In an official explanation, the
Vichy Government admitted the
Are we too easy? Must we be
spurred to patriotism? Must our
fighting of this war be a matter of
emotional stimulants, or will our
intense desire for freedom for all—
irrespective of class, race, nation-
ality or religion—our belief that
prosperity for all lies in the practi-
cal application of democracy, our
intense hatred of tyranny of any
kind, carry us through to victory?
ao long as the commission feels the
shift will help the war effort.
Workers Allowed Appeal
Workers will be allowed to ap-
peal to the commission against
transfer orders if they think the
change will mean “undue hard-
ject of air. We have always had
superior machines to the enemy and .
leather and a shortage of fur. The
results were “long ears and short
tails.*
by testifying to our confidence in
our own country, our own battle.
Belgians deported to work in a
German factory, says the conditions
there were so intolerable that many
of the men refused to work. They
were immediately marched off to a
forced labor camp where they had
to work from dawn to dusk, were
scarcely given any food to eat, and
were constantly beaten.
Details of an alien’s obligations
cast ballots at the polls. Every
worker who neglects to vetet there-
fore plays right into the hands of
his own enemeies and the enemies
of American democracy.
We wouldn’t get so hot and both-
ered about this except for the fact
that all signs indicate a dangerous-
ly lackadaisical attitude on the part
of the average citizeen toward the
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the payroll.
Federal employes may also be
switched to private industry under
the decree, but in such cases their
consent must be obtained. In both
for which we have as yetbeen un-
able even to find a name. It marks
proving.
Now what do the Russians think
of these tanks ? I have got here an
account by Major Rastopulo, a hero
of the Soviet Union who was for-
jobs of industrial workers is “bound
to come, whether we like it or not,”
he declared.
Navy Yards Affected
In reply to further inquiries, Mc-
Nutt and Flemming disclosed the
new regulations will not only cover
Federal clerical help, but employes
in such institutions as the Navy
yards and arsenals, government-
owned railroads in Alaska and the
Panama Canal Zone, and govern-
ment corportions such as the’Ten-
nessee Valley Authority and Fed-
eral barge lines.
The Hershey order, aimed at
metal miners and loggers, became
known at about the same time -as
McNutt announced his directive." It
profitable horse racing reports.
That charge is\ made by Philip
Murray, president of the C. I. 0.
and he has asked an investigation
i under the new French Labor Draft
laws are to be published later, but
foreigners living in France will
come under these laws.
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TRICE-DECORATED roe his
TREMENDOUS TKun Dug
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spective in these matters.
First, let me say that you must
not think of tanks as being weap-
liberal president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, rep-
, majority of qualified voters, but by
a majority of those who actually
ons miss the convoy and it has to
await the next. So I want to give
Meat Cutters Local 408
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GLENN SLADE
Navy Department
Washington, D. C.—The Navy
Department has established a Pro-
duction Incentive Division in
charge of Admiral C. H. Woodward.
The new division has services avail-
able to joint Lbor-Management
War Production Drive Committees
paralleling for the Navy those also
offered through War Production
Drive Headquarters by the Army.
Admiral Woodward has author-
ized War Production Drive Head-
quarters to offer to allgabor-man-
agement committees participating
in the War Production Drive the
services of the Navy’s new Produc-
tion Incentive Division. On any of
these, services, except as may be
otherewise specified, committees
should direct their requests direct
to the Incenetive Division, Navy
Department, 2118 Massachusetts
Avenue N. W., Washington, D. C.
voting special study in schools to
British tanks, etc. He says:
“At present, much attention is
devoted in the schools to the study
of English tanks whose qualities we
consider excellent. Our friends at
the front are of the same opinion."
When walking, off your shifts, I
hope you can see in your mind’s
eye the blue sky and the glare of
the Egyptian desert, that you feel
yourself part of the chain which is
passing up munitions to the guns
which are fighting the Germans. A
The preliminary action against
the hotel is the first instituted un-
der OU A regulations governing
rental rates which may be charged
by hotels and rooming houses.
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From out of the nowhere, ill
hrough life’s storms and trials,
ind to the very threshold of the
pearly gates, the home town news-
paper carries the individual.
When Doctor Stork deposits six
pounds of pink and shriveled cus-
sedness, squalling, at the home of
Shipyard Workers Win
Praise. From Navy }
Washington, D. C.—Salvage and
repair of the fire-blackened USS
Prairie at an East Coast port is a
striking example of the courage,
resourcefulness, determination and
efficiency of Uncle Sam’s shipyard
workers, the Navy Department
announced.
The destroyer tender caught fire
May 27 while taking on supplies at
a dock at Argentina, Newfound-
land, and burned fiercely for nearly
five hours. Later she was towedo
in East Coast port and repaired.
A CHIP Off THE OLD BLOCK/ -
WERMUTHS LATE FATHER MAS -
A HERO OF THE FIRST WORLD
WAR -FOUR TIMES yeCDRATEO.'__
fashion, enjoying liberty and pros-
perity and human dignity, involv-
ing the futur of the very house we
live in, the happiness and well-
being of our children, the oppor-
tunities of young people and all the
us that the
by the Senate committee headed by
Truman of Missouri. ..7
“This is a new kind of war, a war
“The future of civilization is a
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GAMBLING NEWS HOLDS
UP MILITARY WIRES!
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holding up military telegrams in
order that they may handle highly-
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OPA Secures-Rent
Injunctions Against
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gretted it. I know I haven’t.
The only possibility of insuring
our future is through unity.
A thought for the day: You can
serve your country even if you
don’t wear a uniform. A good way
to begin is to think with a good
clean mind.
says uy Studer, paleonthologsit,
and he juggles hundreds of thou-
sands of years so skillfully in his
—■ conversation that you would scarce-
ly be surprised to see a dinosaur
come lumbering along.
The lighthouse; the profile of
Santanta; the Capitol (you see the
dome and one wing for the
“House,” the other for the "Sen-
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Facing the
FACTS
with
PHILIP PEARL
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was sent to state selective service
directors in 12 states, where the
government last week clamped
down a virtual manpower “freeze”
mandate. r > A
Must Work or Fight
Workers in mines and smelters
on copper and other non-ferrous
metals, as well as in lumber pro-
duction, were restricted from leav-
ing their jobs without a certificate
of separation from the U. S. Em-
ployment Service, because of a
critieal shortage of labor in the
mining and smelting industries of
the 12-state area.
Hershey followed up that decree
by notifying the state selective
service officials that workers who
leave their jobs without permission
shall be turned over to the army.
Captain Oliver Lyttelton
Extracts from the speech made
by Captain Oliver Lyttelton, Brit-
ish Minister of Production, on
British and American War Produc-
tion, t an audience of war work-
ers at Sheffield, England, on Sep-
tember_16, 1942, have appeared in
the American press. In view, how-
ever, of the interest and importance
of this address, we f€l you might
be interested in the full text.
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membership total was 4,569,056.
Thus the Federation has achieved a
gain of almost a million members—
913,525 to be exact—in the past
year.
“These figures include only dues-
paid members in good Standing,"
Mr. Meany emphasized. “In addi-
tion, our unions have an estimated
floating mmebership of some 500,-
000, bringing our aggregate mem-
bership up to six million."
Mr. Meany will report a detailed
memebrship and financial report to
the forthcoming AFL convention in
Toronto on October 5.
This report discloses that some
of the largest gains in membership
have occurred in war industries.
The metal trades union, whose
members work in shipyards, air
craft and munitions plants, made
outstanding advances, especially
the machinists, ironworkers and
boilermakers.
Other unions which scored large
membership gains included the
cpmmon laborers, teamsters, car-
penters, railway clerks, textile
workers and seafarers. Organiza-
tion advances also were achieved in
miscellaneous local unions directly
affiliated with the Federation.
We boys who work for Jews ap-
preciate the fact along about “Yom
Kippur" time.
Red Lyons, who recently under-
went a serious operation for brain
tumor, is getting so fat, instead of
walking he just waddles.
I was sitting right behind Ralph
(he works like h—) Sanders the
other night whena fly lit on his
head. The boy’s hair was combed
so pretty and sleek that the fly ran
himself to death trying to climb
upon top of Ralph’s head.
Brother Bart (he’s our president)
McLendon and I quit cigarettes just
a week apart, almost two years
gress and the State Legislatures
men who will do their bidding and
vote to place labor in a straitjacket.
Elections are decided not by a
Houston Labor Messenger
and
HOUSTON LABOR JOURNAL
This Newepaper Knows No Craft Lnes
as good as anything produced any-
where. All these new weapons are
now in big-scale production. If
they do not turn the tide of war,
which has been setting against us
because we started preparations
very much after the enemy, then
you cannot blame it on equipment.
Of course, we have been faced by
a professional army with the great-
est experience in fighting. The
Germans - had the advantage of a
Few easy campaigns to perfect
their weapons. The last campaign
in Russia has not been easy, but I
can assure you that their future
campaigns are going to be far
more difficult than anything which
they have yet faced. Again our
generals, who trained with the
small army we keep in peacetime,
have to learn their exuerience in
a turning point in world history,
PREMREO H CoopeRATP" WITH US AM DEPT
emphasized success, and under-
realized defeats; that what we need
is martial music, marching men—
and a sight of heartbreak and
tears.
Are we too easy? This war is
almost too great to be grasped by
the mind of man. Are we taking it
lightly for fear of facing what
defeat would mean—the complete
destruction of civilization as we
know it, a return to the barbarism
of the Dark Ages, a reversal to the
rule of brute force, an eradication
of all religions, a domination of all
the peoples of the earth by a group
of sadistic degenerates? Are we
afraid to look that possibility in the
face?
Are we too easy ? Have we grown
soft? This war will call upon the
utmost that each and every one of
us can bring into it of brain and
brawn, of selfless, self-sacrificing
devotion to an ideal. Can it be true
that the progress we have made,
the education we have gained has
weakened our morale and courage,
rather than made us more efficient,
intelligent human beings ?
Are we too easy ? Have we drift-
ed into the half sleep of compla-
cency ? Must we be coddled by only
bright stories? Have we reached
the state of adulating men for do-
ing their duty, and glossing over
neglects and defeats? We are a
young nation—but we are not
childish. We can stand up to defeat
as well As we can withstand the
' dangers of success. Every school
child is familiar with the hazards
: of over-confidence in the story of
merly a tractor driver, who is now
regarded as one of the best tank
men of the Soviet Union, and who
fought in the defense of Moscow
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really sent a letter to Donald Nel- the railway station there is a small .Guderian. He has been training
■ hundreds of Soviet tank men, de-
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high. We can help too, enormously,
h- lending to ourselves the money
which is necessary to win this war, session of Co!
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Are we too eak
people of Amea
this question.
Only you—the
i—can answer
avague and tremendous and ora-
torical phrase. Interpreted and
broken down, it means the freedom
of yourself and myself, whether we, - ,
shallxe allowed to live in a decen# gressmene have told
resenting the business interests of
America, with William Green of the
A. F. of L. and Philip Muray of
C. I. O., marked the beginning of a
new history of America for years
to come. Their meeting was to con-
sider, not their factional interests—
but their mutual interests.
At least one member of Bill Wei-
kel”s family is going to eat. He
purchased two bits worth of meat
from me.
Not much has been said about
Tom Bozon’s report on our treas-
ury. I felt good over the situation.
Not once did the old RED pencil
appear. Indications look favorable
for a little Christmas bonus.
Rabbits used to have short ears
and long tails. Somewhere down
the line they had a surplus of
he told me an interesting story
about the performance of the two-
pounder gun when skillfully used.
ata", and other formations attract _— —,— — - ----- - _
thousands of tourists yearly to necessary in the superior interests
While most employers are
fair in their dealings with
‘ unions, at least “10 per cent
of them are using patriotism
as a camouflage to chisel on
workers’ rights and destroy
labor unions,” I. M. Ornburn,
secretary-treasurer of the A.
F. of L. Union Label Trades
Department, declared this
week.
In a broadcast over the
Columbia network, Ornburn
charged that “the main ob-
jective of these unfair bosses
is to tear down the Ameri-
can standards of free labor
established during the past
60 years.”
Workers here are spending long
hours in the factories at the bench
and the lathe. Under modern con-
ditions workers have generally to
concentrate on some small part or
component of a weapon. Repetition
is monotonous unless we realize
how vital are the efficiency and
durability of every part of your
weapons of war in beating the
enemy and saving the lives of our
men,
There has been far too much talk
in Commons ’and elsewhere about
the quality of our weapons. I can
hardly be surprised if the workers
engaged in monotonous jobs start
thinking along the line:
“What’s the good of my punching
holes in this little bit of brass
when it’s going to be part of the
weapons which somebody in the
Commons describes as inefficient
and no good? Why should,'! have
to work like this when the Govern-
ment and the generals are making
a mess of it?”
Well, I am going to answer that
question squarely.
You have heard a lot of talk
about our two-pounders being no
use. You have heard a lot of
stories of our tanks being out-
Managing Unions
No Job for Courts
Aibany.—It is not the busi-
ness of courts , to manage in-
ternal affairs of unions. That
important declaration of judi-
cial policy was laid down here
this week by Supreme Court
Justice Bergan.
The jurist made the pro-
nouncement when asked to
settle a controversy over the
length of the terms of elec-
tive officers in Local 17 of
the Hod Carriers and Com-
i ion Laborers’ union. The
curt insisted union laws
cover the situation.
“The courts cannot, under-,
take to run labor unions in
detail or interpret their laws
on every point of internal
controversy,” he said.
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AFL Membership
At All-Time High
Washington, D. C. — Secretary-
Treasurer George Meany of the
American Federation of Labor an-
nounced that the total dues-paid
membership in the American Fed-
eration of Labor at the close of its
fiscal year n August 31 was 5,-
482,581, the highest figure in its
history. ?
On the same date last year, the
, ‘prostate with grief.” M.
R Dear old home paper, cheerful,
sopeful, old lir that you are. How
commonplace most of us would be,
were it not for the great, big, char-
itable heart that guides you.
Just imagine that you are travel-
ing along over the Plains south of
Amarillo and east of Canyon. Level
- as a floor for mile after mile in all
directions, the earth stretches out
before you. Then, wonder of won-
dersl—there it is, the Palo Duro
Canyon. You find yourself almost
on the brink, looking down into the
bed of a prehistoric river, far, far
below—walls of rock^huge boul-
ders, granite in aitTands of w6ird
conformations. N
No wonder that the unknown
cowboy who first saw the canyon
exclaimed, “Golly, what a gulch!”
Of course, you want to know
what caused it; every visitor asks
that question. Mason King has an
answer for you. He says:
“An early-day banker in the
Panhandle dropped a nickle in a
prairie-dog hole and he dug all this
AN AMAZWC WARRIOR, THS 190 ■ POUND
EX GRIDIRON STAR WEARS A MAN DYKE
BEARO IN ACTION AND FIGHTS THE WAR LIKE
HE USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL- FEARLESSLY
ANO FOR Kgem A CRACK SHOT ANO A
TERROR AT HANO TO HAND HGHT1N6-HE WAS
WONDEd THREE Times AT BATAAN WHU ’
ACCOUNTING FOR AT LEAST I* Wni
told, all right. Side by side the man
and woman walked down the hedge-
bound walk. September moonlight
filtered through the leaves and
glinted on the straight figures of
the loving couple.
As the path came to an end, they
stood for a minute, tense and mo-
tionless. Her small hand cuddled
snugly in his. With the speed of
a striking snake the man drew his
hand away and with all the strength
he cobld. muster, began pounding
rhythmically upomthe door. Inside
a man silhouetted in a flash cast
from a tiny light in the hall. Voice
from inside: “Who is if?" Answer:
“Tom Bourg.” Front inside, “What
do you want?” From outside: “I
want to get married.’”
Judge Reagan called from the in-
side ,“WeH, that’s (different; come
on in and let’s get it over with-so
the hard school of war. I am sure
that the lesson is being learned and Unit Established by
that daily our skill in the use of
tanks and anti-tank artillery is im-
decree was intended to provide
workers for German war industry
under an agreement which sends
home one French prisoner ol war
for every three specialists sent to
work in the Reich. Despite every
effort of the Vichy Government,
Frenchmen have been most reluc-
tant to volunteer. I That is the non-partisan political
It was understood here that policy of the American Federation
“measures had been taken” to avoid of Labor. It is the policy that has
disturbances which might arise brought great legislative rewards
over the new decree, with police to the workers of this country,
troops mounting guard over goy- We don’t know whether a worker
ern buildings. In Vichy, Berlin
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. ...... « .. private industry, McNutt answered
I don’t think Bart has he- •Yes.» Government control of the
_____. _ __ ______ ship,” but if the commission turns
meeting of Eric Johnston, the new down their plea they must abide by
1 the “marching orders” or be cut,off
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Are We Too Easy?
•a FIRING FROM A TRENCH IN A RICE FIELD,
7am WERMUTH SURPRISED A LINE OF JAPS WHO
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MIEMT OOMI BEFORE HIS ACCURAFT SHOOTWG'
PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE IS HEREBY GRANTED
the factory may mean many times
that delay 4 spare parts or weap-
son inquiring whether' it was all cutting. The action which I am go-
ing to describe took place just
Palo Dqro Canyon.
Heenan Forecasts
Wagner Act Victory
Toronto, Can.—Hon. Peter Hee-
nan, a member of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and pro-
vincial minister of labor, is confi-
dent his proposal for a “Wagner
Act” will sweep the country.
Addressing a labor meeting in
London, Ont, Peter said he had the
backing of the provincial govern-
ment and that he had assurance
that Federal authorities were seri-
ously considering his proposal.
This would be in line with the
the difference between winning or you a slogan. It’s “T. N. T." It
' ‘ “ means "Today, not tomorrow.” I
want this particular explosive burst 165,000,000 yearly for cotton gin-
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• daclaration of the Conservatives
who met at Port Hope this week. ,
It isn’t likely that Premier Kinhg, Pierre Laval, chief of the govern-
as chieftain of the Liberal Party,
have also got our six-pounder anti-
tank gun, the largest numbers of
which are in the hands of our
troops in Egypt and which fought
most successfully in beating off
Rommel’s attack the week before
last. They are a most successful
weapon, superior to the 5 cm. gun
which is the corresponding weapon
in Germany.
We have got a 3.7 gun which was
developed before the war as an
anti-aircraft gun and which can
play the same role against tanks as
the notorious 88 mm. I think the
3.7 gun, which fires a heavier pro-
jectile, is a better weapon. We
have got a 25-pounder field gun
and a 4.5, all of which have few
equals and no superior.
We had to make a large number
of. tanks very quickly against the
possibilities of invasion, and ad-
mittedly have had troubles with
them which are now largely over-
come. I am myself confident that
the new ; production of tanks on
which we are now engaged will
mark an advance on anything
which has so far been produced,
either by the Allies or the enemy.
So this is a little reassurance, I
hope, to you about the quality of
our ground weapons. /
I will not devote long to the sub-
We don’t know whether it was
just a convenient gag or whether it
really happened, but Donald Nelson
says in last Sunday’s paper that he
received a letter from a worker
asking whether it is patriotic to
take time off from a war plant on
Election Day to vote.
“There is only one answer to, that
question,” the War Production
Chief replied. “While I understand
fully the men who think they
should stay on the job, voting is a
duty, not a privilege. The right to
vote is, in short, what this war is
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“It should be one of the very few
exceptions to the all-important rule
of staying on the job and getting
war materials off the production
line and on the battlefronts. The
exception applies to all elections,
national, state or local.
“When you vote, vote fast and
get back on the machine.
“The war worker is first of all an
American citizen,” Nelson con-
cluded, “and the first right and
duty of an American citizen is to
vote. That is the differnce between
us and our enemies."
We agree with every word Don-
ald Nelson said, but we think his
statement should be expanded. The
workers should know why this elec-
tion is particularly important and
why an apathetic attitude' on their
part now may result in bitter de-
l privation in the years to come.
Our Enemies Are Active
I The enemies of labor are par-
ticularly busy in election years.
They have lota of money to spend.
They are anxious to tend to Con-
about there.
These heights Were held by Aus-
tralian troops. They had a number
of two-pounder guns. They allowed
the German tanks to come round
their flank and held the fire of
their two-pounders, which were
protected f.om the flank, or, as the
technical term goes, were defiladed.
These few guns knocked out nine
German tanks in two or three days.
I have here in toy hand photo-
graphs of the holes in the tanks
which the two-pounders made.
Now thia is about the most criti-
cised weapon in the range of our
artillery. I am not saying it is a
gun on which we should primarily
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isn’t a Presidenetial election, so
why bother to vote?”
The reason is that in Amereica
the Chief Executive does not make
the laws but administers them. It
comfort and Security of the old. It is Congress that makes the laws of
- 1, the nation. And this year the en-
tire House of Representatives and
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of the highest. We have the fast-
. . est, most heavily armed fighter
ranged by the German heavy tanks, aircraft, and heavy bombers which
Ti a -a- " " _ a- " at least in speed and bomb load are
the parents, the home paper as-
sumes its helpful watchfulness over
the new-born babe’s destiny . by
adding four pounds and making
him " fine, bouncing ten-pound
boy." ’
When he reaches manhood and
wanders from the old nest and,
through the influence of his Uncle
George, geta' a job driving a bus
for the Insect Inn at Bingville, the
old home paper comes through and
puts him in “a lucrative position of
trusts.”
And' when he persuades some
misguided female to share his mis-
ereable fortune, the home paper de-
scribes him as "a sterling young
business man, brave and hand-
some.”
Then when middle age has
* > thinned his hair and put his waist
ice in the lead, the home paper
rushes the dandruff off his coat,
»bscures the tobacco juice on his
shirt front, -arid makes him “a sub-
stantial citizen.”
When politics geta into his sys-
tem and he tries to get elected to
the legislature, he is again made
over by the same cheerful agency
from the ordinary bonehead he is
into "a friend of the people, whose
-statesmanlike ‘qualities .commend
him to the thoughtful considera-
tion of the voters.”
And finally when his worthless
old carcass is ready to return
whence it came and Satan stands
smiling, ready to receive the sin-
singed soul, the home paper throws
its last bluff and tries to sneak
him past St. Peter with the choic-
est selection of fairy tales to which
his career has given rise. On the
off chance that he might run across
a copy, it even tries to palliate the
niseries of the hereafter by having
is relieved and rejoicing widow
types of transfers, workers will be '•
assured of a return after the war to ■
the jobs they formerly held, or
equivalent positions. The order be- •
comes effective September 27.
Future Holds Answer
McNutt announced the order at a
press conference Monday. • He was
asked whether the plan would prove
a "pattern for what’s likely to fol-
low in private industry."
“That remains to be seen,” the
manpower czar answered.
He contended the order was nec-
essary because a previous program
for voluntary transfers of Federal
workers had “failed.” However, he
was later challenged on this point
by James B. Burns, president of
the American Federation of Gov-
ernment Employes, A. F. of L.
affiliate.
“The voluntary system should not
be abolished,” Bums insisted. “It
should be given a better and longer
trial. In fact, all voluntary means
should be exhausted before the
government resorts to compulsion.”
Whether We Like It or Not
McNutt and Arthur S. Flem-
ming, member of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, both of whom
were the 'target of a barrage of re-
porters’ questions at the press con-
ference, maintained that the “time
for academic discussion” on the
question of manpower was over.
Asked whether that applied to
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go to the polls and make certain to
War Bonds , and War Stamps are vote for labor’s friends. Because
weapons exactly as tanks and guns labor had friends in Congress every
are weapons. Buy now, not tomor- one of these anti-abor bills was
row or next day, but now—to save defeated. If labor doesn’t see to it
what God gave us and what we at this election that labor’s friends
_ have fought for since our country I are re-eleected and its enemies de-
out trying”to recover the nickle!” became a Nation —BUY WAR feated, there may be a different
’ ' ‘ BONDS ” and more tragic story in the next
—U. S. Treasury Department, session of Congress.
| Your Vote Counts
Let’s face the facts. This elec-
tion may result in wage freezing l ons which are primarily intended
for American workers if they don’t to attack other tanks. Guns are the
vote. It may bring about job freez- right thing with which to attack
ing. It may result in the passage tanks. Tanks are used on the battle-
of no-strike laws. It may even lead field in several roles, but I think it
to the destruetion of our trade would be fair to say that their
union movement. great part is to cover other arms
Legislation seeking these das- and exploit successes against the
I tardly objectives was offered in infantry and defended points when
Congress this year. Portions of this the anti-tank defenses of those
program, including the abolition of points are reduced by our own
the 40-hour week, were even adopt- artillery
> wanted to
congtessionai session now rawing ountosfaometho the waphs you
o an en . . ■ make are standing up to the job, so
The only way to prevent the legal two or three days ago I asked a
enslavement of labor in America is colonel who had just come back,
for every worker to exercise his and who had been in the front line
right and duty as a citizen to vote of much of the recent fighting in
on Election Day.
rely for anki-tank defehses. That
is not so. But we do have some of
the most successful guns. We
I can get back to sleep.” So, in
short, late last Saturday night,
September 19, the two hundred
sixty-second day of the year 1942,
Tom and Lois Bourg became man
and wife.
I met an old meat cutter frieny
who at onetipe (before Brother
Hill came along) was known as the
biggest meat cutter in Houston. He
is Edward Kidwell. The old boy.
seems to be doing right well. He is
employed by the city in the engi-
neering department.
Banks Holcott said he was deter-
mined not to let me out distance
him, so he took a job in Pecan
Park. .
Jimmie Kreger, shop manager
for Taylor’s in the Heights, has a
real cute crew. He has a big one,
a little one and a middle size one.
On the job they are called Butch,
Butchie and Butcher Boy. In real
life they are Bill (smoke ’em short)
Komesky, Lee Saeger and Buck
Perry. -
By RUTH TAYLOR
Are we tog easy? In the past
weeks I have* heard many people
say that we are taking this war too
lightly: that we are soft; that we
are lulling ourselves into dangerous
complacency with a lullaby of over-
You see a story of untold ages r. I A
spread before you in the different V 1chy overnment
strata that form vari - colored n * m. 1 _
streaks in the wall of the conyon, Dralts F rench for
$ A
broadcasts said, a new decree in the
official Gazette had.brought , al I right to take time off from a war
military police under the control of | job to vote. Regardless of that, his
.statement should be convincing to
_____ , ment. any worker who may entertain any
will permit the Conservatives to a Belgian workman, one of many doubts on that score.
steal such a popular issue from Belgians deported to work in a To fulfil your ful duty-Mi a
member of organized labor, to live
up to your full duty as an Ameri-
can citizen, make it your business
to vote on. Election Day and see to
it that every member of yourfam-
ily, who is qualified to vote, does so.
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the Houston Labor and Trades Council
by the
Honeton Leber Messenger Publlshing Co.
Office of Pubilcatlon
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P. O. Box 4008
Entered at Soeond-Cioee Matter. March 11.
ms, at the Poet Office at Homston, Texas,
under the Act of Marib S. 1879.
OFFICERS OF HOUSTON LABOR AND
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Plasterers No. 79
vice President.--....................-Ralph Leader
Paiters No. 110
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