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Show Washington, D. C. ARMY DISCHARGE CREDITS Here is how the army will determine deter-mine what men are to be discharged after the war in Europe is over. Special Spe-cial forms have been quietly sent to commanding officers in all theatres, rhey are to be distributed to the G.I.s who will fill them out, try to figure out the number of credits they nave earned to give them a quick return home. The one thing still undecided by lie army is the number of credits necessary for immediate release. This columnist is able to reveal, lowever, that: 1. All credits will be determined deter-mined as of the date the war in , Europe is over. 2. Special credits will be given for overseas service, and overseas over-seas service will mean any service outside the continental limits of the U. S., Including Alaska. Thousands of men who served in Alaska will receive overseas credit. Overseas service serv-ice will be determined from the . day a man leaves a port of embarkation. 3. Combat credit will be given only for those receiving the medal med-al of honor, distinguished service serv-ice cross, legion of merit, silver star, distinguished flying cross, soldiers' medal, bronze star, air medal, purple heart or bronze service stars for battle participation. partici-pation. No other awards or ribbons rib-bons will be Included. 4. Credit will be given for children who are under 18 years of age on the day the war in Europe ends, but for some mysterious mys-terious reason the army will not allow credits for more than three children. . HENRY KAISER CONCILIATES Few people realize it, and shipbuilder ship-builder Henry Kaiser is too modest ;o admit it, but he was the guiding guid-ing genius behind the recently signed pledge for postwar industrial peace just promulgated by Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. chamber of commerce, CIO Pres. Phil Murray and AFL Pres. Bill 3reert. Kaiser figured out the scheme last !all after seeing the terrific bitterness bitter-ness of the election campaign. He first approached Bill Green, told him that if Green was sincere about be lieving in a 60,000,000-job program, management needed assurances of labor peace. Green was agreeable. Johnston agreed to call the first meeting, invited Kaiser, Murray and Green to a hush-hush dinner in his Mayflower hotel suite, debated the entire proposal up, down and sideways. Not content with a bare statement state-ment of unity and pledge of labor-management peace, Kaiser has now quietly proposed that the U. S. chamber of commerce, the AFL and the CIO set up a new, well - financed organiza- . tion which can actively go about the business of contacting contact-ing local labor leaders and local lo-cal business men, preaching the gospel of cooperation on that level. PETRILLO CRACKDOWN Congress is so steamed up about the rambunctious practices of horn-tooter horn-tooter James Caesar Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, Musi-cians, and bushy-browed John L. Lewis, mine workers' chief, that responsible re-sponsible labor leaders are greatly worried that it may pass the Bailey bill. This would invalidate the agreement Petrillo won after defying de-fying the record manufacturers and the government for two years, and which provides that the manufacturers pay his union a royalty on every record made. It would also rule out the 10-cent-per-ton coal royalty Lewis asked after he saw Petrillo get his. Even though many of them have little sympathy for the Petrillo-Lewis Petrillo-Lewis methods, labor leaders see in the Bailey bill far more danger than appears on the surface. For if the bill becomes law, it will knock out not only Petrillo royalty setups, but also numerous negotiated agreements agree-ments whereby employers agree to pay a small portion of their payroll into health funds jointly administered adminis-tered by the union and the employer. These are used to pay sickness and accident benefits, medical costs and death benefits for employes, and more and more employers are agreeing to include contributions to these funds in their contracts with the unions. There have been no complaints com-plaints about these funds, but they will be illegal if the Bailey bill becomes be-comes law. CAPITOL CHAFF C The RFC has named the New York firm of Fuller, Smith and Ross to handle advertising of surplus property to be sold through RFC. This firm is also the advertising representative for- the Aluminum ' company of America, which has a ! major interest in plant facilities to j be sold through RFC. C. Despite the wide publicity ridiculing ridicul-ing him a few months ago. Rep. William Gallagher, former Minneapolis Minne-apolis street cleaner, has won the re-I re-I sect of his colleagues in the hnnsp |