Show r ii Entered at the postoffice at Ogden as second class matter according to Act of Congress Marcn 8 1879 Member of The Associated Press United Press NEA Service and A B C the use credited per and Associated Press is exclusively entitled to for republication of all news dispatches to1 it or not otherwise credited in this paalso the local news SUBSCRIPTION PRICES - By Carrier 90c a month $980 a year when paid 80c in advance By Mall— Must be paid in advance and Nevada Idaho Utah in a year a month $860 Wyoming All other States $100 a month $1200 a year ’ Merry-Go-Roun- (i By Drew Pearson and Robert & Allen Thli li a momentoiii week WASHINGTON ' ‘Ji for the war labor hoard It’s been kept under cover but this key war agency is in the throes of a serious Internal clash which is due for a showdown any day now The result may be an explosion that will blow the lid off The issue ia over the' charge that certain employer members of the board are deliberately stalling disposal of major labor cases affecting jWar production Is showdown the of Dean Wayne Precipitator d Morse of Oregon university law school plain-talkin- g the? board public representative on Principal target of Morse’s fire is Walter C Teagle tali bulky chairman of the board of Standard Oil of New Jersey and an employer member of WLB The controversy came toja head some days ago in connection with the International Harvester case This case had been pending for nearly a year Finally Morse demanded lbat the WLB render a decision threatening to resign and issue a statement bluntly telling why he qu unless the board acted Under this’ challenge the board got down to business After most of a day of dickering Teaglja finally proposed that the matter be held over thelfollowing week-en- d on the possibility that a split decision could L be averted This was agreed to j j ’ week-en- d most memof the that During employer bers of the WLB had a secret pow-woiat which they debated what stand to take on "union security” the basic issue involved in the Harvester ancj a number of other pending major cases Participants in this conference later told other WLB members that an agreement on the compromise "union membership maintenance” formula could have been beached but for Teagle j j j It was stated that the oilman vigorously 'objected to accepting this proposal and blocked an fiipord When the WLB resumed deliberation j ion the Harvester case Teagle again proposed a delay He urged that the controversy be returned to the complaining union and the company for another attempt at negotiation j j Note: WLB members claim that Fowler McCormick head of Harvester expressed private Willingness to accept "union membership maintenance” in I his plants f The Showdown Morse blew up at the Teagle plan and (waded In j with both fists flying He bluntly accused the oilman and his ' eihployer associates of dilatory tactics that were hampering the war effort Morse concluded by charging them with acting not as impartial arbiters but as manj agement agents The scorching blast drew Indignant protests from Teagle and George Mead president of thd Mead Paper Co They contended that their function was to represent management Morse's reply tpjthis argument was to quote a statement made by another management member Roger Lapham president of the Amerlcan-Hawaiia- n Steamship Co sthat the WLB was the “supreme court of war lahdr r j two-fiste- - New Code Needed The fight between railroads and trucking companies once had only e interest for those academic and ' on the outside Now-thcontroversy or more imspecifically its effects has become very ‘ long-standi- ng long-rang- e portant 1 ! - Restrictive state laws enacted often to 'protect railroads against the competition ef-of trucks are interfering seriously with the fective utilization of trucks tires gasoline and manpower in moving war material The question now is not whether railroad or truckmen shall get a particular moving job The problem rapidly is becoming one of finding means of moving vital war products inaj hurry Also insofar as we must and do use trucks there is the need for making every pound of rubber every gallon of gasoline every hour of man and car usage produce a maximum of results It becomes then the patriotic duty of its trucking stat-every state to utes and determine which restrictions can safely be lifted if only for the duration of j re-exami- the war f ne - The situation has been rather thoroughly publicized Illustrations of the existing confusion are plentiful sometimes dramatic and typical rather than individually unique For example: " Five hundred truckloads of roofing ‘material had to be moved from Birmingham Ala' to an army depot under construction just outside Atlanta Ga In Georgia each truck could carry approximately twelve tons net In Alabama each was limited to about seven tons and a half net Result 200 unnecessary truck trips from Birmingham to At- lanta ' t j long-smolderi- ng 1 w ! ’ J lems” “It was my understanding that we all with that” said Morse “Now you tell me thatagreed ydii aren’t judicially-minde- d arbiters but special pleaders If that's the way this board is to operate then you I can Again several days could have been count me out” Morse had his way The board Issued A “union saved by rucking roof trusses from Los Anmaintenance” decision by a spilt vote of geles to San Diego for the navy destroyer membership 8 to 4 — the four public and four labor members base being built' there But the trusses were making the majority and Teagle and the three other members the dissenting 15 inches wider than state laws permitted on employer jj But this didn’t end the matterminority1 His dander up the roads The highway department could Morse demanded an immediate showdown! ton the have waived the limitation It wouldn’t be- contention that Teagle’s group should operate as employer spokesmen cause trains rim between Los Angeles and "Let’s have it out once and for all” More declared “just what our policy Js going to be — whether we San Diego So a naval base yas delayed sit as a judicial body or as groups representing speA trucking company wasted a whole day cial interests That goes for labor as well! 4s management I’m not Interested in representing: any pegetting permission to haul' a dal group here I believe we should all act as repre lathe over Delaware and Pennsylvania high- sentatives of the government of the United and decide cases solely on the facts as bt confrom A to Bethlehem Wilmington ways to : us” cern specializing in 600-t- o 1000-mil- e hauls Coming on the heels of the exdtement ( ver the between New England and the south has year-ol- d Harvester case this 'challenge was too much for the other board members to to underload its equipment regularly because tackle Pleading for time to think the matter over about 40 miles of the trip is through Dela- tMead prevailed on Morse to postpone actioij until this week ware whose laws are less liberal than those demand What happens next is anybody’s guess f of other states along the route Note — The same day that Teagle voted the decision the national labor f relations There are only a few out of hundreds of boardHarvester Issued an order directing Standard Oil of authenticated illustrations — often more New Jersey to "disestablish three d employe associations”' dramatic than the qnes mentioned but inUpset Champ J describable in the space available here — of Former heavyweight champ Gene Tunney the statutory confusion that exists navy’s athletic director but on the basis’ of an inSome states already have recognized the cident that occurred the other day it loolh as If he could do with a little more personal practice of emergency by liberalizing their statutes It what he preaches I is time all states got together on a uniform Tunney isn’t telling it but he was almost! floored by Vice President Henry Wallace older and much code as liberal so far as war shipments are slighter built than the dapper fighter It was all In fun and happened while? concerned as reasonable regard for highthe two men were posing for a picture in Wallaces joffice way safety will permit The customary pose didn’t the I j I j 1 j gun-turni- j ng j bare-knuck- le is j company-dominateit 1‘ I t By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON April 22— Paraphrasing a Will Rogers crack of the last war what Washington needs is more women who will do anything for the cause ' except marry a coordinator The way Will said it was that some girl "confessed she’d do anything for her country except marry & second lieutenant” But that was the last war which was won by second lieutenants and In this one the question so far as Washington is concerned is whether the war at home can be won by coordinators or will it be czars? Don’t call them commissars yet Commissars are still supposed to be nasty men The drift In Washington since the war began has been away from the coordinator and toward the idea that what the country needs is more czars or in plain words bosses The office of defense housing coordinator has been abolished Charles F Palmer held that one as long as he or perhaps anyone else possibly could trying to coordinate the activities of 17 assorted government housing agencies without having any authority In Palmer's place is a boss an administrator John B Blandford Jr who heads a national housing authority that has say-s- o Lieut Gen William S Knudsen was little more than a coordinator when he was head of the late OPM though his title was Either way he had no authority and in his place today there Is the war production board with a boss Donald M Nelson What’s In a Name? In addition there are several high-u- p administrative jobs run by coordinators though they aren’t called that Archibald MacLeish Is director of the office of facts and figures but has no authority and the best he can do is try to coordinate the dozens of government information services all over Washington Milo Perkins is director of the board of economic warfare but hasn’t any check book and consequently no real authority It has been reported BEW would like to absorb lease-len- d and others A few new top jobs in ton are in the making Washinghowever and whether they are to be run by coordinators or czars may make a lot of difference There is to be a new top organization to head up all the agencies dealing with food and a new organization to direct the information services and a new organization to direct manpower mobilization Discussing the manpower mobilization the president has indicated he is debating whether a new setup will be ereated or whether supervision over the old agencies be possible through a small may coordinating committee Half a dozen existing departments now have their mitts in the manpower melange department of labor WPA the labor division of WPB the U S employment service of the federal security agency the selective service boards and the several manpower training agencies Maybe they can be made to pull together by a "coordinator” although the president is said to dislike the word now and the internal row among most of these agencies as to who is to be boss makes one of the livelier serial stories now running around inside the palace walls Anything Can Happen Anything may come out of the reorganization of government information service Army and navy apparently will be left autonomous b tuhow all the others can or will be pulled together no one has yet decided Creation of a single agency to administer the food program as in the last war is also being talked of Currently lease-len- d administration board of economic warfare Standard-Examin- tor - non-milita- ry v department of agriculture administration civilian supply price and ze s News from the seven seas becomes increasingly distressing Axis submarines are sinking our commercial tonnage f aster than we can replace it Germans and Japanese have whittled away our naval superiority Vichy collaboration an immediate possibility would strengthen Hitler’s’position at sea Under such circumstances we may have to reconsider priorities on war production and allocate more of our materials and manpower to ships We can’t win a war by training and arming men unless we can transport them to the scenes of action and main- tain them while there If the more than seven million of New Yorkers can be moved around the big city’s 300 square miles of territory without unbearable hardship by deconcentraing their travel then there is hope for other cities when private cars no Ipnger are in use An Tennessee woman has never seen an auto That's one way to live that long Batching is that summer period a man looks forward to and is darn glad when it’s over 80-year-- ’ 4 Baseball season and army camps remind us that being beaned too often will make ' anybody plate-sh- y college student arrested for intoxication blamed mince pie he had eaten Mid-weste- rn Pie-eye- d? hand-wrestli- ng fill i I 1 I -- ’ i SO THEY SAY: military I went right out and got a Job when I heard that Wake island was captured — Mrs Marvin Fisher Denver mother whose husband was on Wake island now working in war plant I I I is j AJCVAriz April 21— On a little promontory overlooking the vast Infernal pit of the New Carnella copper mine there is a small green plot marked by a bronze plate as the grave of Jack Greenway who was a great Yaler in the of the Ivy league when Yaleheyday Harvard and Princeton monopolized the football teams as selected by Walter Camp Greenway played football along with Frank Hinkey and was a star catcher oh the baseball team He was a rough rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was a daring patriotic and spectacular man but the most sensational exploit in which he participated in a life of considerable action was one of the bitterest episodes in the history of labor relations in the United States This was the Bisbee deportation of 1917 in which a posse of mine executives foremen and the like rounded up 1140 communists then operating as the I W W or Industrial Workers of the World and known commonly as the Wobblies and other workers herded them into a train of boxcars and shipped them over to Columbus N M From there they dispersed and a strike was broken which was curtailing the output of copper necessary for the American army and the allies in the first World war Bisbee was a tough mixed town dominated by the companies There were Turks Armenians Mexicans Cornishmen Welshmen Irish and those middle Europeans who were called bohunks commonly or hunkies and a lot of native Americans The wobblies like the Browder communists up to the hour of Hitler's attack on Russia were all-Amer- ica t pro-Russi- and an anti-Americ- an and were trying to sabotage American war industry knife the A E F in the back and extend the Russian revolution to the whole world They had agents all over the northwest and all the bums and itinerants in the hobo jungles had to carry wobbly cards They were very dangerous men and their mission in Bisbee was hostile to a country Involved in war with the most powerful military nation the world had ever seen up to that time - i The strike which the wobs fomented lasted a month until such men as Greenway who were pretty tough babies themselves put their heads together and simply decided to run the wobbly leaders out of town Men who took part in the roundup and ‘deportation admit now that they made a very1 bad mistake in failing to discriminate between wobblies and others and they marvel that they got away with the deportation ax planned instead of kicking up a first class civil war They made enemies of many good men who will not forgive a shoving around and they would have had a terrible problem on their hands If the men in the ball park had just sat- - tight and refused to budge Greenway had a machin gun on a roof commanding the park and some of the other vigilantes were armed but some relied only on their fists or clubs The situation dissolved however - when a boss singled out a big foreigner who seemed to be one of the leading communists and roared at him to get going The wobbly obeyed and this set the procession in motion but the bitterness which was engendered that day will not die until the last of the deportees is gone The Germans' might have had a hand in the strike although the wobs were When Greenway was called to Washington and Newton Baker who was secretary of war bawled him ’ out for his part in the outrage he said he would be very glad to send out and bring all the men back If Mr Baker so desired But he added that if this was done Mr Baker would have to go without copper from Bisbee They were not brought back thereafter Shortly Greenway went back into the army to fight in his second war for the United States and went to France as a combat officer He was hit twice and came back to Arizona where he lies in a grave which is strangely similar in outlook over the mountains 'and desert to Boot Hill at Tombstone Mrs Greenway known all over the state as Isabella was in congress a few years ago and you may recall that in the early days of the new deal her close friendship with Mrs Roosevelt was the subject of much mention v Mrs Roosevelt had been her maid of honor or vice versa I forget just which She is now Mrs King and one night I met a miner from Bisbee in a little sandwich Joint' 'way up in the mountains where the air is better who said Mrs King had got him a steady job up there for his health when he developed T B and allowed that the widow of Jack Greenway was the finest woman in the world bar none pro-Russi- an -- Draft Violators To Face Charges Two Nazis Held BOISE April 22 (UF)—Thomas In Escape Case Edison Jackson Wyo and Mack am now more than ever convinced that we are going to get on the offensive and do so at the earliest practicable moment — Secretary of War Henry L Benham St Louis Mo were to S Stimson " j leave for their home state today to answer charges of draft law violations Some manufacturers evidently think more of their patents and their profits than they do of the war The men were arrested by federal of investigation agents and program — Sen Homer T Bone Washington Dem- bureau were ordered removed for ocrat chairman of senate patents committee hearings by federal court Edison arrested In St Maries We can participate either in an European ictory was charged with failure to notify or a British defeat — Marcel Deat pro-axParis his draft board of his change in i editor address and Benham picked up in Pocatello was accused of ' failure Will of the probably speak present bally- to History for physical examination hoo as the Second World war but every war While andreport to keep his draft board failure It lasts Is THE war — - George Bernard Shaw Informed of his new address 1 Mr Enough er hand-shakin- Ships That Go Down c You See Did “Boy! Captain Easy Today?” Coordinators Czars? Asks Ace Commentator the WPB have fingers in the big j meat and vegetable pie All these agencies try to work together when their interests conflict and liaison men between g satisfy are everywhere trying to agencies photographer keep everyone ' Informed on what "Let’s get some action into this” heur everyone else is doing But it’s an effort to cooperate Wallace asked Tunn&y a big government and to be guilty "Have you ever tried ?’ j a gross understatement of “What’s that?” inquired the former champ to run it by coordinators trying hasn’t "Oh we used to do it all the time when1 I was been exactly Utopian of symbolic a youngster In Iowa’' said Wallace "Ypd stand toe to toe clasp hands" an i try to pull the other fel- of the perfect statecraft Maybe more bosses are needed low over Here let me show you” J j The next thing Tunney knew he was spinning Truck Patch headlong across the floor in the direction! of a Senator Truman of Missouri says grandfather’s clock He just missed the doci and private motorists need have no fear fetched up against a table which he grabbed to re- of cars their having commandeered his balance gain or tires confiscated But he Grinning sheepishly he said: "I thought! We were adds "No one can foretell what just going to pose that way I didn’t kndw you might happen as a last in resort meant business" ij j war times Use of lead in but“I’m extremely sorry” apologized Wallace! who tons and jewelry has been prohibkeeps in top physical trim by 'playing tennis ievery ited WPA now puts national to work morning and walking i I at 36 millions unemployment “You’re sorry Mr Vice President!” f exclaimed Executive of the govdepartments the cameraman “Say I just missed one of! the best ernment issued 7850 proclamations pictures of my life That would have been a1 sen- orders rules and regulations in the j i sation” fiscal year 194L Use tacks 1942 United Feature in shoes has been orderedofcut (Copyright by Syndicate 20 Ten yellow to brown per cent dyes are hereafter reserved for the ex-pri- WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 22 1942 By d ' STANDARD-EXAMINE- R Will War at Home Be Won The Washington PUBLISHING COMPANY The THE OGDEN DETROIT April 22 (AP)— Federal agents! warm on the trail of a nazi flier who escaped from a Canadian concentration camp held a German-bor- n cafe and a woman today as proprietor alleged accessories while pursuing their hunt for the fugitive The F B L seized Max Stephan naturalized American and a woman of German descent accusing both of unlawfully concealing and harboring Lieut Peter Krug combat flier of the German army LIPPMANN’S ? Today and Tomorrow The Forgotten Men With the appointment of Gover--so- n nor McNutt and the war manpower commission we can perhaps begin to see in a new light and somewhat more clearly the many labor questions which the country has been discussing A long step has been ' taken toward universal service for warGovernor McNutt is specifically directed to recommend the legislation which will be necessary to supplement the pow ers that Major General Hershey has already developed in to deferment under the draftregard law Now when a country moves toward universal service the peace-tim- e labor problem is transformed into the war-tim- e manpower problem As that change takes place all the stock issues in industrial relations are changed and many of these issues are superseded It is therefore not only reasonable but very necessary for congress and for the public to pause for a reappraisal of the actual situation In the broadest terms the essential difference is that the old labor problem in war industry has revolved around the hiring of men and women by private employers whereas the new manpower problem will revolve around the conscription of men and women by the government for service to the nation The difference is so that it will take us all some time to adjust our ihinds to it Yet what has happened recently in the agitation about the forty-holaw shows how confusing It is to think as we have usually thought about the labor problem From all parts of the country there is a very strong attack on the law as an obstruction to the war effort At the same time the responsible officials in Washington have been unanimously opposed to a change in this law and the heads of the war industries have taken little or no part in asking that the law should be changed This is surely a very odd situation and it has produced a rather bitter and excited controversy Yet it is I think a case where the advocates on both sides have been right but there has been no meeting of minds because they have been different talking about The war production ofthings ficials have been talking about plants which have war contracts it is quite true that in these plants the law does not hold production down to 40 hours a week It merely increases the weekly wage A repeal of the law would mean an actual reduction of wages The war production officials look upon repeal as a dangerous nuisance which would open up a new cycle of labor demands to bring total weekly wages- - back to the present level For In these plants money Is not a consideration to the employers because the government pays the wage bill This explains why Mr Nelson and all the other officials do not law distuned want the and it is not necessary to invent other reasons as for example that they are being dictated to by the labor union officials On the other hand the agitation against the law which is so strongly reflected in congress has its own valid basis It is not necessary to invent reasons for it as for example that it is some sort of anti-labThe agitaconspiracy law does tion against the not arise from the war contractors but on the contrary from the industries which do not have war contracts and must therefore pay their own wage bills I feel sure from letters which teach me and from letters to congressmen which have seen that the complaint comes from the smaller business men who do not deal with Mr Nel- - far-reachi- ng ur 40-ho- 40-ho- ur 40-ho- 40-ho- ur ur or with the POLICY MAPPED war-procurem- agencies From‘ them the WAR MANPOWER law Is & real impediment to a longer working week and to the more complete use of their machines and plants For them the law works — as in the days of the depression it was meant to work— namely as a severe penalty on longer hours in order to compel them to hire more men Their complaint is a real one They are not paid by the government They cannot raise prices or Mr Henderson will putsa ceiling over them They cannot easily' ' hire more men because men are being drafted Into the army or lured into the war industries where they get deferment and also higher pay The feeling in congress comes from them and it is no accident that the feeling is strongest in the south and southwest where there are relatively few war contractors relatively more small business men who are caught by frozen prices rising taxes shorter supplies of materials and labor and finally penalty payments for working more than 40 hours It is plain I think that as Mr Nelson proceeds with the conversion of industry and as Governor McNutt and General Hershey proceed with the mobilization of manpower more attention must be“paid than any one in authority is now paying to the problems of pro ducers who though outside the war effort itself are nevertheless very necessary to the country At the peak of mobilization for total war they will probably still represent something like 40 or 50 per cent of the national economy Even after all the civilian luxuries vand conveniences and gadgets have been stopped or convertfd to war there will still remain a very large civilian industry that must be kept going and must be encouraged Because they do not have war contracts and government subsidies they need separate and different treatment in regard to prices wage policy and taxes What is a good and workable policy for the war industries is almost certainly not going to be a good and workable policy for the other industries And while they must of course give the right of way to the war industries' on priorities of materials and manpower the very fact that they have given the right of way makes it all the more nec essary that they should be specially considered and protected No one in Washington is really making this his preoccupation Every one is so preoccupied with war Industry that no one is wholly concerned to look after other Industry and speak for It at the treasury In the formulation of labor policy and in the operation of price control j There are many obvious reasons Induswhy the essential non-wtries tnust be protected There is one Teason which Is perhaps less obvious that Is worth emphasizing As more and more materials and men are mobilized for war there is an ever Increasing need to develop substitutes to keep the' life of the country going These sub- 40-ho- ur -- ar WASHINGTON April 22 (UP)— The new war manpower commix sion will set up a labor prloritle system to distribute manpower f0I lunA- America’s war effort "on a tary and democratic basis” Commission Chairman Paul V McNutt said today McNutt intimated to his first press conference that If the voluntary system should fail he wou’d ask for authority to assign men and women to specific) jobs But he saw no immediate need for such compulsion He said also that he rtiay ask selective service which under his jurisdiction blanket group deferments for men working in certain war industries McNutt struck hard at “pirating of employes among war production plants which he said already are facing "a serious deficiency" 1 of skilled workers “It is absolutely foolish for one essential industry to take skille workers from another essential in dustry” he said Skilled workers he said must be hired "through an orderly process guaranteeing that factories engaged In the most urgenton war the production receive first call this said available supply” He would necessitate establishment of a system i labor-prioriti- Young Demos to Meet June 26-2- 8 BALT LAKE CITY April 22 (AP) Representatives of young democratic clubs from 11 western states will meet here for a regional confer8 ence June Clyde L Miller anchairman arrangements nounced Joseph C Carr of NashviLe Tenn president of the young dem ocratic clubs of America is ex- " pected to attend 26-2- stitutes can in many cases be or 40-ho- ur by pre-empt- ed I think I have never before seen so active demand for women bookkeepers as at present So many men called to service and industry so increased and new tax regulations have caused particularly keen demand for women as bookkeepers and accountants Learn accounting for a profitable career and to help keep American business running smoothly Start now Day and night classes Ogden Business College 2437 Kiesel Ave 1 dis- the govcovered and suggested ernment But by pnd large this is ana a field where the inventivenessenterthe and private initiative prise of the people can do much and are in fact indispensable Where we do not have to regt ment for war we ought I believe as a matter of deliberate policy to put a premium on private enter it can solv prise in the belief that the governwhich many problems ment is too busy to think about For that reason we ought In our laws to favor enterprises whicn develop substitutes out of materials for war that are not We ought to revise the labor laws to promote these enterprises And we ought to" think carefully about price ceilings in this field so as to be sure that in the rush to freeze everything we do not freeze out the incentive for invention anr Ingenuity and 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