Show The War This Week Miners Wage Demands Dim Effect of Africa Victory News BY EVERETT COOLEY As encouraging news continues to reach US from the actual battlefronts of the world where our boys are giving for our American of the picture is greatly dimmed by what is going on here on the W home It stirs the 1 l blood of Americans to think that one f so essential to the sue- M cess of our war should choose a time like this to make fla- grant demands for a wage Not the I ft wage increase itself but I H the method by which it B was to be obtained is what provokes one to Everett Cooley And to think that some half million miners are being led and taking their orders from John L. who has the interest of not the miners but John L. Lewis at makes one wish that such men as Lewis could be One wonders if there isn't some other motive behind the United Mine Workers' president's action which threatens our war effort so Maybe we should have the Dies committee investigate SHATTERS FORMULA The demand for a a day pay making a day the minimum is one that would shatter the administration's formula which was laid down to settle all wage The danger in disregarding the formula is that the President's the policy to combat inflation would be the United Mine Workers would not only want this two-dollar increase but would soon be demanding another pay boost to keep up with soaring What the U. S. M. would get others would also In a very short time we would have a very nice inflation going on that would be sure to spell our if not during the surely after DICTATOR'S TACTICS John L. Lewis' withdrawal of the dispute from the War Labor the agency especially established by the government to deal with labor smacks no little of dictatorial No wonder the Axis camp rejoices over the All of a sudden they seem to have developed a great sympathy for the American worker encouraging him in his stand toward the government and with Our miners would do well to realize that their actions might well be the cause of the course of events which would bring about the abolition of all labor organizations as happened in Nazi Germany and Fascist When the administration's past attitude toward labor is called to it is easily seen why labor is taking the stand it now Up until the third there seemed to be close cooperation between Roosevelt and John L. now it seems that the pupil is challenging the The question is who will win out in the next 15 POLISH-RUSS BREAK In the diplomatic the Polish-Russian break last week caused a great deal of concern in the Allied This break was indeed a blow to Allied diplomacy which is striving so hard to maintain the desired The break is an indication of the effectiveness of Minister Joseph Goebbels' It is a sad situation that the rift should come when victory is so far from The Yanks hard smashing attacks against the Nazis and their brilliant capture of have brought words of praise from the veteran of the African General The American occupation of brings the Allies to a position only 19 miles from and 33 miles from ALLIED LOSSES The Allies have suffered great losses in their attacks upon the Nazi-dominated hills-The and are the most strongly fortified areas in North so heavy losses are expected by the allied There is no indication that the Nazis are attempting to evacuate their forces from in they are steadily trying to reinforce Every attempt is made to stave off the eventual collapse ot the Axis in It is realized that the fall of Africa will open the gate for tW invasion of |