Show R 1 14 washington D 0 VS it made headlines headline but a battle royal has been raging between czar donald nolson nelson and transportation czar joo joe eastman over the freezing of steel for the construction construct lo n of railroad cars with les less and less shipping moving along the coast and more and moro more by rail the question la Is one of the most important facing the country what happened was that the war production board froze au all construction materials already on hand in railroad construction shops the ln in was to transfer these theao materials for use in building other types of cars cairs however joo joe eastman claims that these materials chiefly steel already had been bought and cut out for certain cars in certain shapes so tho the order merely will make the mater materials iala go unused with car shops closing down already eastman argues certain plants of pullman standard are idle at a time when all plants should be used to capacity meanwhile railroads are groaning with traffic le sugar is now being hauled by rail as much as possible from florida to avoid submarines oil is clogged up in the producing fields for lack of railroad transportation and with the sin kings of several chilean ore ships more iron ore has to be hauled from in horlor U S iron mines in view of all this eastman coni corn plains plain bitterly bit that nelson wont ro re lease the steel and let the car foundries do tho the job 0 6 influencing EUR EUROPEAN OrEAN LABOR hero here Is one inside reason why roosevelt leans toward labor basically the president always has ham been pro labor and continues to be even though he has become fed up with some labor activities in the past year but in addition U S war strategists are convinced that the chief hope of revolution in europe comes from labor and most of the psychological ch warfare strategy being devised here Is aimed at influencing labor in Germi germany germiane any czechoslovakia austria and the occupied countries although not generally known the nucleus of the old social democratic party which tried to create a real republic in germany Is stal Iti ri tact when hitler came into Po power Liver they moved to czechoslovakia after the seizure they moved to paris after the downfall of parts paris they moved to the U S A fifty social democrats from the old reichstag are now in this country operating cooperating co with U S officials furthermore it is labor in the european occupied countries which is able to assemble or make radios german labor listens to the radio for far more than other classes some labor groups even have published very small underground newspapers on hand presses and these are distributed by hand german labor resents the long hours in munitions fac factories the small pay and the lack of food more than any other group also labor Is about tho the only group which was not taken over completely by hitler the communists his chief opponents now have long been underground but secretly active to european labor roosevelt always has been one of the worlds greatest leaders and one thought in the he minds of war Is to show europe that the rights of labor here will riot not be thrown completely over board during war 0 1 WALLACES FAVORITES the men mefi who came to washington with henry wallace in the early days of the now new deal realize now that they picked a winning horse almost to a man they have moved up to important posts in the government ern ment claude was head of the corn hog section in wallaces AAA now he is secretary ot of agriculture perkins was a lowly assistant to wallace holding down a desk in the outer office today he runs the board ot of economic warfare as important as a cabinet post paul apple appleby by was an assistant in the inner office now he Is undersecretary of agriculture at a year chester davis was head of bf the AAA now ho he Is director of the federal reserve bank in st louis R M spike evens evans was an aide to wallace now licad head of AAA sam bledsoe roy boy hendrickson and whitney tharin were newsmen ro verIng agriculture bledsoe Is now on an assistant to the secretary MERRY GO ROUND secretary of war stimson Is held field in the tha warmest personal esteem by army commanders hardworking hard ilard working and open minded lie he never meddles in military operations and backs up his subordinates per cent slim son soil Is always at his fits desk by 8 a m and rarely leaves until evening when lie he always takes home borne with him A big bundle of papers that lie he works over after dinner dirian r good explanation of 0 your arm army y and how the draft works has been written by george 11 ter of the bridgeport post pos L |