Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Long Expected Defeat on Bataan Cited as Heaviest Single Labor Leaders Present Solid Front To Keep Production at High Peak NOTE When opinions expressed In they ore of news and noi of this d by Western Newspaper Union i j i Chiefs of the and appearing together on a public platform for the first time since the split in labor's ranks in William president of the and Philip president of the are shown shaking symbolizing the national labor unity which they hope to Paul V. federal security looks The Curtain Falls When the gallant stand of American and Filipino forces came to an end on the nation recorded the heaviest reversal ever suffered by an American force in a single engagement with a foreign News of the fall of Bataan was made blacker still when Secretary of War Stimson disclosed that valiant exhausted by short disease and lack of were overwhelmed by a numerically superior The closing chapter of the Bataan battle found the defenders lacking in air and completely battered by ever-increasing waves of well-equipped enemy troops and Stimson declined to estimate the number of Jap troops employed in the final drive against Warn wright's It had been estimated that approximately Japs were used in the Philippine The story of the last-ditch stand on Luzon island is one of the most heroic in On December Jap bombers first struck at Air assaults were followed in the first few weeks by Jap troop landings at five locations in the Pushing on Manila from north and they drove the greatly outnumbered defenders bombing Manila after it had been declared an open The Japs entered Cavite naval base and Manila on January American and Filipino troops withdrew toward beginning their history-making Ten days later the Japanese launched a heavy frontal attack on the Bataan but were For weeks the battle surged back and Early In March Masa-haru the Japanese committed suicide as a result of his failure to crush He was succeeded by Gen Tomoyuki A few days later MacArthur was ordered to Australia and was replaced by Wain March was comparatively and attacks on March 23 and April 2 were On April 4 the Japs began the all-out Although it was a stunning one military correspondent declared that the defense of Bataan has meant butchery in Japanese severe air and naval losses to the It also retarded the advance to Australia until that commonwealth was able to better equip itself for BURMA Io Side-Issue More and more observers were inclined to believe the Burmese campaign of the Japanese to be a major and not just a side-issue with Australia the main Whether it was resistance of American airmen and navy or whether it was the heavy things had been much quieter off while picking up speed in the more western Pacific areas The British had been forced to back-pedal again in drawing ever closer to their Chinese allies under American General Still-well in the That they were leaving important territory was revealed by the prospect that they had destroyed oil and cement properties before withdrawing The British troops were described as being outnumbered 3 to 1 on the ground and 10 to 1 in the The evacuation of followed by the British withdrawal up the addy river were believed to have cleared the way for a drive by the Japs toward and along the eastern shore of the Bay of Few believed the Japanese had the manpower to attempt a real invasion of but certain it was thai j they were heading that way more j powerfully than they were moving into I United Front The and CIO for the first time since hod gotten together on the same platform at had pledged themselves to an unselfish and complete war and to produce all the things America needed for This united front was presented at the time when labor was on the spot because of the effort in the congress to force the administration to abandon the 40 hour President Roosevelt had considerably clarified the issue when he came out with a new which let the hat sit on its proper spot To prevent the proposed 48 hour week from being used as a wage-cutting he asked labor to consider a freezing of wages at present levels on the basis of a 48 hour week which would give workers their overtime for the but to withdraw their demands for double time for Sundays and One of the CI O. the United Automobile at the same moment had foregone the extra pay except when these days constitute a sixth or seventh working which was a partial meeting of the President's The it was might be willing to go along with this and certainly labor would have no particularly if it carried what Roosevelt hinted it a formal recognition of the The President's plan was to have labor recognize the need of 48 hours of to have all workers carry on for 40 hours at regular permit labor to work one more day at time and a but not to permit the seventh day under any William Green labor leader of the said labor was in accord with this Air Victories Claiming more than German planes shot down on the east front in the period of a little more than a the Russians had given figures indicating that the Nazi spring drive in the air was well under but that the British and American added to the Russians' were taking a terrific The British had been cooperating on the other side of the front by bombing German supply and at the same time had estimated that their bombing carried out by from to big planes at a had destroyed the supplies for five The despite the setting in of the spring which had immobilized both sides to a greater or less were still on the with Berlin admitting now and then that the Russians had broken through at several The Red air force's biggest bag of planes had run to more than on a single day in fact on two days they had claimed Some of the heaviest aerial activity had been over the port of on one day planes of the Russians and the Germans having engaged in over the while below them American and British supplies were being NEW The New despite some op-position here and notably in 1 the fields of profits and I was winning Particularly sweet to the While-House was the result of the fight over a senate effort to set a schedule for profits on war Many holders of contracts were returning some excess and arrangements had been made to tax them out of most of such whether paid to employees as bonuses or not Indecision Precedes Action Continuing a we'll do it and maybe we India had kept Sir Stafford Cripps and his associates in Churchill's mission on the anxious seat before they finally evinced a willingness to accept the projected plan for national government for At the same time the powerful Pandit past president of the All-India had temporized once more with the announcement that India would resist invasion by the by any other The chronology of the whole affair showed its heavy and bitter prior to the I had offered India dominion then had renewed this offer during the early days of and when Sir Stafford Cripps was sent there the offer had remained the The finally presented plan called for Sir Archibald P. Wavell to be supreme commander for conduct of the war under an Indian war whose defense minister would be an Nehru had been scheduled to take the defense The sole point which had kept negotiations alive had been the Indians' admission that with the enemy at their it was a bad time to be quarreling with Mother a potentially powerful partner in the defense of Mohammed Sli leader of complicated the issue by contending that his people were ready to fight if Britain would give them a separate That tangled the whole for when Britain said the postwar freedom would be coupled with a provision for certain autonomous hotly and angrily has been united in and we'll be united in By Inland Route It had seemed that perhaps the famous yachters' the inland waterway from Philadelphia to might become one of the main eastern arteries of Cartoonists showed small boats sailing up and down inside a of protective land while the U-boat skippers gnashed their teeth unable to get at Joseph head of the defense said he had un- JOSEPH EASTMAN U-boat skippers gnash their der a plan to hurl a fleet of dredges into that part of the waterway between Jacksonville and southern to increase its depth from 6 to 11 The depth exists all the way from Jacksonville Roosevelt said there are plenty of small shipyards which could build wooden barges at a fast rate to provide more bottoms for the gasoline and oil trade up and down the eastern They have under consideration just such a he SALES Now Opposed President Roosevelt had revealed that even though the wants j to raise seVen and a half billions by various income and excise is opposed to the sales In this stand he had been joined by union labor throughout the the workers believing the sales tax as it would fall heavily on the very and in a lesser degree in proportion to income on upward along the scale of living Many were reporting that mail from their constituents showed a growing favorable reaction to the general sales tax on account of its huge potential and its more or less in that it would be paid by the people a few cents here and a few dollars there without the annual shattering blow of an income |