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Show Listen! John Lewis By GEORGE PECK There may be a silver lining in the dark cloud the coal strike or threat of same may be the beginning begin-ning of the end of John L. Lewis as any sort of a power in the labor movement. Would-be-dictators generally over-reach themselvesthey them-selvesthey either march their armies into Russia, or they pull a dastardly coal strike while the nation na-tion is at war. If Lewis' treacherous act has the cleansing effect' of eliminating him from any position of authority over the coal miners or any other workers, then those miners along with every other worker in this nation have every reason to re joice. Lewis has been a liability to unoinism rather than an asset, and his passing out of the picture will constitute the removal of a bushy-eye-browed menace to the labor movement. May he rest un-ouoii-ir in that, snot to which he is gave great joy to Tokio and Berlin. Ber-lin. UAW workers at Detroit and employees of the New York Central Cen-tral Railway have shown the Japan Ja-pan azis that the American worker is in this scrap to his last dollar, to his last atom of energy, and to his last drop of blood. Are you still listening, John Lewis? banished. In contrast to Lewis and the coal strike and such unpleasant things, two very delightful things in connection with the workers of this country came to our attention within the past few days. Do you recall that visit made a few weeks ago by 270 leaders of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) of Detroit to Camp Atter-bury, Atter-bury, Indiana, and the return visit to Detroit of 85 non-commissioned officers of that camp? There was a splendid example of worker and soldier getting together to-gether so that each could see the accomplishments of the other. Well, there was a most pleasant epilogue to those exchange visits in addition addi-tion to the good-will, mutual understanding un-derstanding and inspiration engendered en-gendered by them. The recreation funds of the 83rd and 92nd Infantry Divisions are $10,700 richer as a result of gifts made by the union members of the TJAW during the visit of the noncommissioned non-commissioned officers from the two divisions to Detroit war factories fac-tories on April 17-18. As a going-away going-away gift, Walter P. Reuther, U AW vice-president, turned over to the soldiers a check for $10,000 to go into the recreation funds of their outfits. For added good measure meas-ure the following day, workers at, the Continental Motors plant chipped chip-ped in an extra $700. Are you listening, John Lewis? And the other pleasant thing is the good news that "New York Central", the B-26 Marauder Bomber Bom-ber will continue in service behind the lines in North Africa. No doubt you remember this bomber. It was given to the army by New York Central employees who contributed con-tributed $250,000 for this purpose. It went into combat on January 2, 1943, and completed its 13th and last mission on February 24. In that period it took part in engagements en-gagements over Gabes, Sfax, Tunis, Bizerte, Kairouan, Medinine, and Sardina. The plane's hydraulic system was shot away on its final mission and it made a crash landing. land-ing. Although Air Force inspectors decided that the bomber could no longer be used for combat assignments, assign-ments, it will remain in use back of the front lines. It numbers among its crew Sergeant Ser-geant Anthony J. Gibbs of Peeks-kill, Peeks-kill, New York, who as N. Y. Central Cen-tral worker, contributed to the original or-iginal purchase fund. Gibbs' father fa-ther is an electrical inspector for the railroad at Harmon, New York. Are you listening, John Lewis? Lewis in calling the coal strike |