Show I I I I I I I e 7 OR W EA ON Washington D D. D C. C I LITTLE PIGS GO 10 MARKET Agriculture officials are staring with bulging eyes at the telegrams I received from the livestock markets The number of hogs killed in a single sin sin- sinI Igle I Igle gle gle day has passed the figure of and is still going up I November has already set an allI all- all time record in hog slaughter of federally inspected DC DC- i II I cember will go still higher Cattle slaughter also set a record in NoI November November No No- NoI I vember but is now tapering off Not so with hogs Nothing like this has ever happened happened hap hap- in the history of the world Nature plus a low ceiling price on i icorn corn com and the delay in putting a ceiling ceil cell ceiling cellI I ing price on hogs is now scattering scattering scattering scatter- scatter ing pork all nU over the landscape This will continue through January February February February Feb Feb- and into the month of March In spite of the pork flood however I j there is no surplus and officials Insist in In- insist I that there must be no holiday j from rationing OPA and War Food administration agree on this They have had many differences in the past but the they stand together on the matter of red points Fact Is they have debated removing removing removing ing pork from rationing but ran Into so much prospective grief that they gave it up For if it housewives could buy pork without stamps they would use their stamps for beef and butter which are still short Or if OPA tied the points to the product I making separate stamps for pork others for beef and others for butter butter but but- ter etc there would be outcries from different groups such as Jewish Jewish Jewish Jew Jew- ish people who ban pork Conclusion is that the ration books must be left alone and the thc only way to solve the bounty problem is to tomake tomake tomake make federal purchases he heavier vier and move them more rapidly Army purchases of beef were extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex heavy in the beef months of September through November Today Today Today To To- day Lend Lease purchases of pork are growing heavy and will hold up through the hog run now flooding the market But this does not always take the meat out of storage Lend Lease shipments to Russia can be made only when Russia is ready to eat the pork since they have no storage space Britain on the other hand can store pork and is taking shipments shipments ship ship- ments meats faster than the rate of use With livestock production high and submarine low more beef and pork are getting to Allied fighting forces overseas than ever before MORE STRIKES AHEAD There are a lot more strikes in inthe inthe inthe the country than the public is aware of The government has abandoned the policy of regular announcements of the number of strikes and the number of man-hours man lost Thus the strikes do not get into the news news- papers But here are some figures which reveal that tha t the no strike no-strike strike pledge of labor organizations is not very effective ef ef- In November alone there were strikes The December figure willbe will willbe willbe be only slightly lower In the week before Christmas man-days man were lost in plants engaged in war production Two days before Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas people were out on strike and a number of critical items were behind schedule Some of the strikes have no relation relation relation rela rela- tion to wages Take for example the strike which Washington officials refer to as the Baltimore backhouse backhouse back back- house bouse strike The Western Electric plants at Baltimore are arc producing such highly important items as marine marine matine ma ma- rine tine cables and radar wire But white workers went on strike because because because be be- I I cause white and colored workers did I II I not have separate toilet facilities I II I The war department was obliged to step in last week and take over the plants solely plants solely because of toilet trouble Workers began coming back slowly but four days after the plants were taken over over half hall the workers were still out Unfortunately there is every probability probe ability that strikes will increase rather than decrease in the future Next in line demanding wage Increases in increases increases in- in creases will be aircraft steel and shipyard workers John L L. L Lewis' Lewis I victory broke the line has stimulated stimulated stimulated demands for increases In many I industries After Alter the President yielded to Lewis George Harrison railroad brotherhoods chief visited the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House and said For sake you give it to your enemies why not to your friends MERRY MERRY-GO ROUND MERRY ROUND C. C President Rios of Chile recently told newsmen he expected to visit the United States Stales This plan is now set aside due to the grave situation in Argentina and Bolivia C. C The Germans now make mines of plastic which cannot be located by magnetic detectors They are reported reported re rc- re- re i ported to have sowed a dense minefield minefield mine mine- field along the coast of France to head off the second front C ct Army has a special course of Instruction instruction instruction in in- for cooks serving in cold I climates climates Alaska Alaska Iceland etc C. C Senator Wiley of Wisconsin reI recently re re- re I leading a visitor through the labyrinthine subway of the Capitol building bunding said Ill take y you U through the catacombs catacombs and and they might really really real real- ly Iy be the catacombs to Judge by the smell I |