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Show AMBKICaN fork citizen VPB Seeks Greater Unify With Invitation to Labor AFL and CIO Representatives Will Work With Management Members to Help Further Production Demands. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. vVNL Service. 1343 H Street, N-W. Washington, I). C. When it was first announced that Donald Nelson had invited the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations Organiza-tions to submit a list of names from which he might choose two new vice chairmen of the War Production board some eyebrows were lifted in discreet doubt. ' Politics." said the cynical. "Nelson "Nel-son is in a tough fight to keep the -mmy and the navy from running away with the WPB. If he makes a generous gesture toward labor it will help him with the administration." administra-tion." Later on, however, some of the labor people, neutral as between CIO and AFL began to pass the word around that Nelson was becoming be-coming sold on a greater participation participa-tion of labor in councils where war production policies are being settled. His agreement to have "a frank talk," they said, was not merely a matter of clever politics. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the military men have by no means given up their struggle to get control of war production and, for that matter, control of ships and hipping, the Maritime commission's commis-sion's domain, but that is another tory. There are many indications that labor is being brought into the fold, not merely because the union officials of-ficials would naturally Join forces with Nelson in any struggle between be-tween mufti and khaki, but because many people are beginning to feel that it will be a healthy thing for the much-assailed capitalistic system sys-tem and the institution vaguely described de-scribed as free enterprise. In ether words, it is better to try o get co-operation between capital and labor by forcing each to share the other's troubles around a table dan it is to depend on fighting it ut on the picket line. Especially when there are a lot of New Deal planners whose plans usually tend to give labor the break. Two things probably have done more to bring about a growing faith In the idea of co-operation at the top instead of strikes and lockouts at the bottom than anything else. One la s phenomenon which has act some of the old-timers in the labor department rubbing their eyeo. It la the way representatives repre-sentatives of Industry and labor n the War Labor board have palled around. A real, mutual respect and admiration baa developed de-veloped among some of the members of these two camps who bare been trained to believe be-lieve that all on the other aide wore horns. As one veteran conciliator put it to me, "We The other thing that has helped has been the way in some instances (not all, by any means), that the labor-management committees have been able to work together. In many places this attempt to have the management -of war industries sit down and talk over the problems of how to increase production has been an utter failure. In many of these cases I am told personalities are to blame. The word "personalities" "personali-ties" covers a multitude of sins and sinners. Seeing Other Fellows' View In this particular case really more than personal characteristics have been the snag. It is a case of finding find-ing men on both sides who not only have the . mental and spiritual breadth to see the other fellows' view. But just plain every day experience ex-perience and training have a lot to do with It, too. When labor first spoke up and said: "We want to lend a hand," many people sympathetic with the labor viewpoint were exceedingly skeptical. They said: "Who will do the lending since labor has not yet developed in its ranks enough "hands,' siifTicienUy trained in . the ui,per-:bracket cate.gpry. of. . compli-. cated administration." That may be true. There are outstanding exceptions excep-tions in both the AFL and the 110, but these exceptions, these .men who have revealed, their. ability to deal with problems above the routine of union administration, ad-ministration, politics and nego BRIEFS Production of gas masks for civilian use will soon be at the rate of 2,500,000 per month. .' Buy War Bonds The 1942 edition of the American soldier is the most educated man in the world today. Forty-one per cent of all white selectees Inducted Into the army during the past two years are either high school graduates gradu-ates or have some college training. tiation are ao loaded down with responsibilities now that they simply cannot take on new burdens. bur-dens. That is one of the difficulties that Donald Nelson knew he would have to face if he had to select two men from labor for his board. He has found it hard to find sufficient men whose breadth of viewpoint equalled their business experience in, the field. of industry. For that matter, it is hard to find men in any field, or in any country; who measure vp to the colossal tasks the war has imposed upon them in business, in government, govern-ment, in the army and navy, If Mr. Green and Mr. Murray choose a man apiece who can live up to the requirements they wilt make a real contribution to the war effort. One government agency which, of its own accord, asked for such a co-worker from the ranks of labor, received one whose record proved to be so unsavory that it took some maneuvering to cloak the incident from what might have been some very unpitying publicity. We have witnessed several similar "mistakes" in the dismissals from the WPB. However, there Is considerable consider-able optimiam expressed In some circles to the effect that labor will be able to contribute Its share. The optimists point to examples of high caliber men representing opposite sides of America's work bench getting their heads together without clenching their fists. They cite the War Labor board as an example. And thcie hopeful observers contend con-tend that this "miracle" which they have seen performed can be repeated. repeat-ed. They even say that it will have to be repeated, for if labor and capital capi-tal continue to fight after the war while innocent bystanders suffer in the melee, there is no escape for America from what they call the "hoosegow of State socialism." Note$ From a Broadeaster'a Diary Two men who had served in the Midway battle were interviewed on the air recently. The broadcaster, as is the custom, talked with them beforehand, wrote out the script and then submitted it to the two men. In the description of the engagement in which the men took part one man turned every "we" the interviewer had written in the script to an "I." The other turned every "I" into a "we." Colonel Lord, a brilliant army officer of-ficer who has been the right hand of Vice President Wallace in his Important Im-portant behind the scenes Job in the Board of Economic Warfare, was recently ordered to shift to the War Production board to take charge of inventions. I ran into him in the club the other day and asked him if he had taken up his new work. He had not, he said, and never might, because' he "thought he was going to be assigned (as all of his ilk would like to be) to active duty in the thick of things. He made no comment but a brother officer sitting beside him and also chained to a desk against his will, remarked: "It's got so now that they tell us we are cowards if, we try to desert Washington to get to the front." I was crossing the park late one night. A full moon spread a coat of silver over silont lawn and sleeping sleep-ing trees. Suddenly I noticed ahead of me on a bench, an officer and a girl. He was a tall, attractive fellow, fel-low, the ideal fighting man, square-shouldered, square-shouldered, handsome. The girl was beautiful in the moonlight. They sat close together, talking earnestly. I stopped in the shadow. I felt embarrassed. em-barrassed. It was as if I were walking walk-ing into a room, an intruder, shattering shat-tering the romance and beauty of thaUscene, They had not noticed nterso instead of walking-past them I turned off and cut across the grass that carpeted my footfall. It was quiet and as I passed behind be-hind them I could not help hearing: ."Dearest," he was saying, "yoU know - perfectly well -that you Can get those extra gasoline ration tickets tick-ets from your office." Buy War Bonds by Daukhage The war. navy and post office departments de-partments have set November 1 as the deadline for mailing Christmas parcels overseas. The Italian press reported that street cars are to be used to deliver food to retailers In order to economize econo-mize on motor uel and save automobiles. auto-mobiles. What the automobiles were to be saved for was not indicated. WEEKLY PWS ANALYSIS Yank Fliers and Subs Blast Jap Ships In Battles for Supremacy in Pacific; Rubber Czar Speeds Synthetic Output; Fuel Oil Rationing Covers 30 States (EOITOB'S NOTE i Whoa ealaleaa are oiereeeed la Caeca eeleaeae, ttey are am of Weetera Newspaper Ualea'a aews aaalyata and aet aaeeeearUy ef this aewe paper.) , Released by Western wrawrwya, ;i . i .. i i . -;.. , v v." V-'v. ' r'-- r -;t1 I 'V William M. Jeff en (right), newly appointed rubber administrator, confers with War Production Chief Donald M . Nelson concerning problem! to be solved In the nation-wide rubber conservation program which he heads. The former president of the Union Pacific railroad called for the co-operation of all Americana In making the program effective. Task number one for Mr. Jeffers la to step up the production of synthetic rubber and increase the capacity of new plants making It. PACIFIC FRONT: Jap Ships Smashed The Japs got a taste of American air and undersea power when aircraft air-craft and submarines struck at widely separated points on the far-flung far-flung Pacific battle front and damaged dam-aged or destroyed 18 enemy ships. In the Solomon islands, American bombers attacking the enemy base at Retaka bay, north of the American Amer-ican airfield at Guadalcanal, damaged dam-aged two cruisers and destroyed vital enemy shore installations. In the Aleutians heavy army bombers and long range fighters inflicted in-flicted severe damage. Included in the American score were two mine sweepers sunk, three large cargo vessels damaged, three submarines hit and trapped and "several small craft" damaged. In addition the-U. the-U. S. raiders set fire to storehouses and supply dumps ashore, destroyed six enemy planes and killed or wounded approximately 900 Jap troops. Elsewhere in the far western Pa cific, submarines sank four ships and damaged four others. The successful suc-cessful attacks on these eight ships raised to 107 the total of Japanese vessels of all types which the navy has reported sunk or damaged by American submarine attacks since the outbreak of war. FUEL OIL RATION: Forecasts 65 Degrees Home owners in the 30 eastern and midwestern states affected by the WPB's fuel oil rationing order were told by Price Administrator Leon Henderson that domestic allotments al-lotments would be pegged to a daytime day-time temperature of 65 degrees under un-der average weather conditions. ' Approximately 3,140,000 oil-burning residential units in the rationed area will be affected by the order. The plan is designed to reduce consumption con-sumption 25 per cent In the designated desig-nated area. Mr. Henderson said the amount of oil allowed each heating unit would be based largely on the floor space and the amount of fuel used last year. In order to obtain coupon rationing sheets, householders will be required to furnish local rationing boards with detailed information concerning the dwelling and furnace. fur-nace. DRAFT: Fathers or Boys? Congress was given it choice between be-tween drafting 1.500,000 youths of 18 and 19 years of age or the same number of married men with dependent, de-pendent, families by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director: " In a statement before the house committee investigating national defense de-fense migration, Hershey said: "We are going to get 18 or 19-yea'r-olds, or 1,500,000 men out of the family." He added that the war, .department has certain reasons for wanting younger men and that industry would be disturbed less by taking the youths. II I G II JL I CUTS LONDON: Home guards throughout through-out England are to have live ammunition ammu-nition for training with the weapons they will use I., the event of invasion, inva-sion, a war office communique said. Within the next few months, millions mil-lions of rounds of ammunition will be released for rifles, Sten guns, Lewis and Browning machine guns and Spigot mortars with which home guards have been trained. Newspaper Union., RUBBER CZAR: Tough Job Ahead Blunt, energetic Rubber Administrator Adminis-trator William M. Jeffers had a big job on his hands and be knew it. War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson knew it too, for when he announced an-nounced Jeffers' appointment, he called it "one of the toughest" assignments as-signments in the whole war effort As recommended by the President's Presi-dent's special inquiry committee, Mr. Jeffers was given full authority over every phase of the rubber program. pro-gram. He was charged with reorganizing, re-organizing, consolidating and administering ad-ministering the government's efforts to alleviate the rubber shortage. One of the new rubber czar's biggest big-gest tasks was to drastically step up synthetic rubber production. The report of the President's committee headed by Bernard M. Baruch had noted that there was "grave dan ger" that construction delays might hold up the present program at much as four months, leaving rubber rub-ber supplies next year insufficient even for military needs. Directness was one of the things Jeffers was noted for as president of the Union Pacific railroad. He showed the same approach when he said: "This means I have a tough job. But it is also a job for all the people of the United States. The biggest stockpile of rubber we have is on the wheels of our automobiles. I ask every motorist, every truck driver, everybody who runs a car, to remember that he is now the custodian of a material more precious pre-cious than gold." RUSSIA: Needs Second Front As the news from Russian battle sectors had become gloomier, the Increasing necessity of an Anglo-American Anglo-American second front in western Europe to take the pressure off the battered Red armies and thus avoid complete disaster was urged by Soviet military experts in London. Although the eleventh-hour arrival arriv-al of thousands of crack Siberian troops at Stalingrad had enabled the Reds to throw fresh reserves against Marshal Von Bock's Nazi legions, the over-all picture remained re-mained somber. The need for a diversion di-version elsewhere appeared as pressing press-ing as ever. Soviet representatives in London were said to believe that Allied invasion in-vasion of western Europe would draw 30 to 40 German divisions away from the Russian front. Meanwhile as massed squadrons of the RAF had continued their smashes at German industrial centers cen-ters in a ' softenln!up';,driye,,Pi;or, duction .Minister Oliver Lyttleton declared: de-clared: "We are approaching the breathless breath-less moment when, if Russia holds a few more weeks, the gathering forces of the greatest alliance the werld has fver-seen will give us the first evidences of .victory." Captain Lyttleton had predicted in July that the next 80 days would be , the war's gravest in the wee fan eta OTTAWA: No relaxation of prices in Canada and no compromise in the fight against an Inflationary increase in prices in commodities wfll be tolerated, tol-erated, Donald Gordon, price control con-trol head, declared. Canada's counterpart coun-terpart of Leon Henderson issued the statement following rumors to the effect that a breathing spell might be accorded to admit an adjustment ad-justment of prices. LABOR DRAFT: Looms Jor Millions .Approximately l&.OOO.OOtf Americans Ameri-cans faced the possibility of being, shifted., hired or -replaced... as. Paii V. McNutt, war manpower director, told congress that the national labor shortage is becoming so acute that compulsory home front service for both men and women appears in evitable. McNutt said the nation must find 4.000,000 new workers between now and 1943 and that a large number necessarily must come from the ranks of women and of men either too old or too young for military service. There were 57,000,000 persona employed em-ployed In June, 1942, he said, and between 62,500,000 and 65,000.000 will be needed by December, 1943, There It no "evidence," he added, that labor la-bor reserves including women, Negroes Ne-groes and other minority groups-would groups-would prove adequate. The manpower chief said he believed be-lieved "the mere existence of statutory statu-tory power to force an individual to serve where he is needed" would be all that is necessary to establish a system -"of labor allocation that would help meet the problem. FARM MACHINERY: On Ration List New farm machinery and equipment equip-ment went on the rationed list when Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wlckard signed an order in Washington. Wash-ington. The present order applies to sales for the remainder of 1942. Mr. Wickard said a permanent order or-der would be issued later governing 1943 sales and production. The curtailment program was made necessary by military requirements, require-ments, the secretary added. "The temporary rationing system for 1942," he said, "is designed primarily to control the distribution of the limited supply of farm ma chinery and equipment now on hand and to assure its greatest possible contribution toward meeting the goals of our food-for-freedom program." pro-gram." BRAZIL: War in Earnest Brazil showed that it meant business busi-ness in its war against the Axis when President Getulio Vargas ordered or-dered general mobilization. With a population of 41,000,000, this nation represented the largest source of untapped un-tapped military power in the Western West-ern hemisphere. President Vargas' military decree ordered all Brazilians to take home defense training. It instructed the GETULIO VARGAS ... 41JMOJ0O0 to 6 topped. government ministers and all other federal, state and municipal agencies agen-cies to take measures dealing with military, economic, scientific and labor la-bor measures necessary to defense. Already in force was compulsory military service for males between the ages of 21 and 45. Men between the ages of 21 and 30 were placed in the "first line" with all others placed in the "second line." Action against Axis submarines was being steadily taken by the Brazilian air force. Internment of Axis fifth-columnists fifth-columnists had been accomplished and Axis-owned banks, insurance companies and other enterprises had been closed. MORE CHICKENS: To Supplement Meat More chickens in every pot were forecast when Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Claude R. Wlckard called on poultry raisers to produce 200,000,000 extra fowl this fall and winter to help counteract a prospective meat shortage for civilian use. National poultry organizations estimated es-timated that moOO.OM addrtional pounds' of poultry "could "be produced for consumers if 200,000,000 birds were reared to a weight of three pounds each. Secretary Wickard was assured that poultrymen and farmers - utilizing, existing- brooder' houses and other production equipment equip-ment not normally used to capacity during the season would participate in the program. MIDWAY AFTERMATH: Taps for Xorktomi Part of the price America paid for victory over the Japs in the Battle Bat-tle of Midway became known when the navy announced that the aircraft air-craft carrier Yorktown had been sunk after the battle as a result of Japanese bombs and torpedo at tacks. Although it had been known that the J.9,900 ton carrier was put out of action during the battle, the actual loss of the vessel had been a closely kept secret IS y 1 '.fllTi Mil q I ULIJLiliJLJllJ Notes of an-Innocent an-Innocent Bystander: The Magio Lanterns: The cinema has gone to war, all the newcomers being armed-to the teeth . . . "Wake Island" is one of the most meritorious meritori-ous of the battle stories. It sticks to the grim facts of the case, with no sugary heroics. It shows the marines are a tough and glorious outfit even with their backs to the wall. Brian Donlevy. Robert Preston, Pres-ton, MacDonaid Carey, et al, snap it up . . . "The! World at War" is a newsreel catalogue of all the outrages out-rages the easy-going world overlooked over-looked for a decade. It shows the snatch of Manchuria as the first act of a Jap plan of stick-up that built up to the surprise of Pearl Harbor . . . "Across the Pacific" is hairy-chested hairy-chested meller of the spy school. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sidney Creenstreet, the aces of "The Maltese Falcon,4, are reunited here to give your spineanother fast Workout Work-out Here again 'the Japs perform their familiar roie of sneaks . . . "Berlin Correspondent" means well, but it's as far-fetghed as anything to come out of thai town since Goeb-bels Goeb-bels opened up hip free service to the dopier U. S. newspapers. The Wireless: Ambass. Grew didn't fool around with any pep talk in his report from Tokyo. The Japs are tough, he warned, and won't quit till they're carried out The ambassador am-bassador seemed a little gloomy about the way too many of us are pretending the war is no worse than a bad cold . . , Rex Stout deserves the biggest public. ' His propaganda spiels are tip-top. There is moxie in his voice as well as his wordage . . . The Goebbels gabble now being be-ing broadcast to the Nazis urges them to "forget how to be unbiased and just" and work up more hate for the enemy, especially the Britons. Brit-ons. Telling Nazis how to be unjust is as unnecessary as telling skunks how to smelL The Story Tellers: Frank King-don King-don takes care of the isolationists who got patriotic after Pearl Harbor. Har-bor. In "Dangers of a False Peace," in Free World, he points out they kept bleating "peace" and "ignored every voice that cried of our danger from those who kill and enslave civilians as well as soldiers." And there are those who are running for congress on a platform of that same ignorance I . . . Elsie McCormick reports "Boston's Fight Against Rumors" Ru-mors" in the Mercury. It is very odd very odd, indeed that so many bits of chit-chat calculated to disturb us in war time, can be traced back to the Nazi shortwavers . . . Pic's editorial, "Coughlin on Parade," is crowded with dynamite. Clark Gable has been praised by the army and the press for doing it The Hard Way nevertheless, Clark is receiving some nasty letters let-ters from females throughout the land . . . Claiming that The Hard Way "isn't starting in as Corporal" . . , The fact is this: Any man entering en-tering the Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach is made a corporal at once. The army does this so that every man starts off equal . . However, as soon as a man begins classes he loses the temporary rating rat-ing assigned him at the Induction aryl from then on, until bis graduation, gradua-tion, he is addressed simply as "Mr." ... In short he is not Corporal Cor-poral Gable, but Mr. Gable ... If and when he graduates he will come out a 2nd Lt. ... In the last war. Gable probably doesn't recall, being a 2nd Looey was really doing it The Hard Way . . . The quip then went: "What's your idea of a good time, soldier?" . . . "My idea of a good time," was the retort, "is watching a boatload of 2nd Lieutenants sinking!" sink-ing!" Typewriter Ribbons: James Coz-zens Coz-zens Gould: He had a mind that hit and ran and got away . . . Ann Hunt: Better to carry the torch of liberty and truth than have it come up and burn you from behind . . . Margaret Culkin Banning: The fire burnt out and slept in its own ashes . . . Correction: Kay Riley should have had the credit for: It's a wise bride who knows whether it's Cupid or Conscription ... Austin 0'Malleyj-i.-Tfa twice as hard -to crush half truth than a whole lie . . . Time: Shoebrush-mustached Tom Dewey . . . Margaret L. Run-beck: Run-beck: The baby opened her little pink mitten of a hand . . . R. L. Stevenson: She sat around flipping me conversation with her eyes . . . M. R. Eliot: She looks for trouble as if it paid her a salary . . . R. L. Martens: Criticism is what you get when you have everything else. .?,ev? fMera Jrora Rudy, VaUee'a orchestra are following him into the service . . . Pefftiohs seeking 10,000 signatures are being circulated among sporting circles here in behalf be-half of former boxer Ernie Haas, doing 20 years for murdering a Nazi attache, He wants his freedom to Join the Canadian Commandos. HCa Canuck . . . James True, the Washington "publicist" (as he "pre-fers "pre-fers to call himself) who hi. h. exploited in Time and elsewhere for nis fascist comments has opened offices in midtown Manhattan. CLASSjf HONEY WAV anoHEST wax uy, !, - ine gaily tnamefaZi't you see on a JgS overseas cap are rJ his regiment.! ahIeft-the ahIeft-the center of u,e S, mental flaR. Army trad; i, on. M - cigarettes. (ftJS tual sales records frZ changes and Sales CaSA ii s me Kin. he rat.ri ratesjD the folks back home, me. iD cib ure ie;rj els to send t Jr)ng carta) servict mi;i Seeking NoTeftf rimy uie JMuer. 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