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Show Friday. May 31, lit 1 i Tafie Threo Dictatorship In America And ahy this menace to the nation's entire economy? It can be I nl on tiie doorst-'of on man John L, Lea is. President of the United Mine Workers, He called the striker out despite the faol that the operators offered tiie miners an addition 1 wage In crease of 18 cents an hour and a shorter work day more pay for an day than the miners aere receiving for a day. And ahy did Leals do this? Be. a use tiie coal producers refused to agree to pay him a royalty of ten cents on each ton of coal mined, or between 850 and $60 m.l-- 1 lion a year, to constitute a , 'atifure" fund to be used by Lea-Ifor rather Indefinite purposes. Mr. Leals ,.nd hi j Georg Pet k Ir. pruu By the time this the coal strike mill be oer. I hope so. Every day of tlie lke the miner are loom approximately five million dollars in of aages; the nation's atock-pU- e coal mas below normal alien tiie strike started; production of badly needed goods Is being curtailed or halted; and millions of aorkers In manufacturing, transportation and distribution industries are losing or will lose working time and By an'!' sin-cerr- ly t wage. ed s various unions have been collecting brtaeen H to t!0 million a year In dues for many years and have very large cash resrnle at tiie prr.w-ntime. As far as I have been bie to discover, practically nothing has been spent by the union for any aelfare purpose; no relief or strike benefits have bren paid by the Union; and there Is little lihell- hood that any of the funds In their treasury will be paid out as strike benefits to the striking men du.-Ir.- g tills current r.rlke. It Is common knowledge List t j , I hiiUisn of collars aere iwd fro n ;lie niineij fund to organise iia? CIO; end tint largo amount n. uwd for pol.tical eoiitribumiu. Tiie public has every reason to fear that Leals suites to grab this extra 50 to $60 milion a yes. in order to further or extend his poser m state and national government affairs. But don't banw Jchn Lra; because he has tills poser o.cr the hies of all of us. He gets this power by virtue of the Wagner and acts; and the supreme court's cons ruction of the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Tru- st acts. In exempting labor un Norrts-LaOuard- j join from the anti-truLa which makes poax.bl the li of munoMli.S and combinations of V br and Its leader. Tills has brought national bar gslr.mg in he cor I Industry lo the point a here employees and employers of any gum mine or company have no powet to nego Ule their own contracts and aotk-In- g a here approxl-naiul- y conditions ten thousand employer have no voice In dealllng as lilt their oan employees, and hundreds of thousands of Industrious and patriotic emplo) ees in the coal Industry are In the slave position of being told alien to work nr.d st cn-iU- ; alien to be idle. The government seems to be ld to take over tiie mines for far U t la-a-l will defy It. Con-grt.and the government have evare er) right to be afraid-the- y i aping the ah'rlalnd of what tliey have sown. Tliey made U jxMbl fiy labor leaders Eke Mr. Isals, literally to thumb thela noMs" at Uve government, the Congress und the public. Perhaps a word to your sman alll stiffen hla backbone and Induce him to bestir himself proptsung or backing legislation that abolish this dictatorship in America. af-fra- vs to-aa- rd a-l- ATOM BOMBS MAY DO WHAT JAP NAVY COULDNT! The tests will le conducted by an group under the Navys Vice Admiral V. II. I. Blandy. In early May, an will be exploded above the ships, followed by a surface test in early July, and a r explosion later. Total personnel strength for feci the detractive force of the atomic Lomb! are seven of the 97 target thips to be tested in Operation Crossroads, atomic bomb tests scheduled for -July. The scene will he Ilikini Atoll in the Marshall Island group. Theyll the operation will reach 37,000, the Navy crews of the operating and target ships constituting the majority. Tin's is the first of a scries of layouts on ships of the target unit. Represented here arc each of the combatant-typ- e ships to lie used in the tcts. Army-Navy-Citil- b deep-wate- Official V. S. Navy Photograph of the Pacific the Sims-cladestroyer USS Anderson ha a proud World War II record based on participation in the Battles of Midway, Coral Sea, and Santa Crux, and in support of the landings at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Kwajalein. Kiska, Sansapor, Morotai, and Leyte. The vessel also rescued more than 1.000 oflicers and men from the sinking carriers Lexington, York town. Wasp, and Hornet. The Anderson was damaged heavily twice during the war, by ahellfire and Kamikazes. Battle-vetera- n ss - je r. yrwrjflw i: I l. ' a.tW'., i At.;,. r ;v; 7- " , V - yin rt, ft- feH e , , r", - ' s i t rKihvk fm Oil fr ikn I ' ' ,V r' a. n miHl Official U. S. Navy Photograph veteran USS Nevada. One of the four United States battleships In the target unit will be the two-we targets, nearby Jaluit, For the Nevada, this test will be a return Xo the scene of one of her Atoll During the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nevada was the only capital ship to get underway, and since then she has lent her firepower to invasions at Attu, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. She performed 52 missions at Normandy and five more at Cherbourg in the invasion of South-- i ar war-tim- x Official U. S. Navy Photograph Navy today, is one of two carriers to undergo the tests. The Sara, seven times announced sunk by the Japanese, has been in 17 major engagements or air strikes, from the early attacks on Guadalcanal to the final blows against the Japanese home islands. She was torpedoed twice, and at Iwo Jima sustained the heaviest Kamikaze attack on a single ship to that date. Ihe aircraft carrier Saratoga, oldest In the era France. ... , , i ' s X ,' v V v 4 s V v ,'-- . s I, - . - ' , $' v' s V - s , - ' ! I ' W ; . , x ' '' , 5 4 - x s t' V'. UV & v A' x N. y ' r s ( ;4, fI .. v s r 4 . x s !' 3 .x i , v ' ' jfx t " V-- ' 3"-- - r '. 'Is ' e , '' M , f Vj ' 4 ' T- JoAfv. , ( i?; - ' f '' i The Japanese battleship Nagato, flagship for Admiral Yamamoto at the outbreak of the war, was one 1930, battlewagons. She was commissioned In 1919, and modernized incarrier-planeJapans two heaviest pre-wfought in the battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944, and was heavily damaged by U. S. Navy while she lay at the Yokosuka naval base in July, 1945. of h Oficitl U. S. Navy Photograph War One heavy cruisers, the USS Pensacola, commissioned the United States cruiser, one of two being sub-- d en route to Manila when the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, The to" the tests, fought in the Pacific from the Battle of Midway to Okinawa, participating in 12 and Hornet, and Lhe Pensacola operated with such famed aircraft carriers as the Yorktown, Wasp, been torpedoed and shelled without success by the enemy. second of post-Wor- ld ar s 130 . mm " r K pu- y C V- MV4 - . - v vV,'3 v . ipr' t w ;r, tt , . r; t . 4 . . Official U. S. Navy Photograph Uommissioned In January, 1941, the submarine USS Tuna made 13 war patrols. She sank and damaged tin estimated 75,000 tons of Japanese shipping and completed three special assignments In 687 days at too. Ail but three of her patrols lasted over 50 days, and she is credited with 11 Jap ships sunk and seven damaged. . ?. Official U. S. Navy Photograph , us The Prince tug en, second of the Admiral Hipper class of heavy cruisers built by the Germans for in-- 1 English Cnanrei, in World War II, fought several important actions in the Atlantic, Baltic Sea, and sinking of the Bismarck. She also accompanied eluding the engagement in 1941 which resulted ininthe eseap- their flight from the English Channel in 191- -.been Gernnui battleship Srhainhorst and Gneisenau but has yuj Ing u Norway. The esel was later damaged several times by bombs and torpedoes, a repair tor the sMuicg Bikini lest tni , |