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WEDNESDAY, MARTH 26, 1941

LABOR ARGUING ° «FOR HIGHER PAY

Both A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. Deny Prices Must Rise

With Wages.

By LUDWELL DENNY

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Wage rates already

can Federation of Labor

manded further general ereases without

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must prices

tivity. tory rates

Mr. Denny

employer's labor because production per

ing to the Federation's Monthly Survey.”

Statistical arguments for a larger | in the defense doliar also advanced by the C. I. O “Economic Outlook.” that wage in-

current the same argument

creases are possible without rises, the C. 1. O. cites steel as an

example: “A 6 per cent profit 20 per cent. duplicated in the other dustries of the nation, fectly clear that very

Demand Larger Share

Unless labor

disproportionate profits

idends will contribute to an

nomic breakdown, the gays. Its figures show share (wages total national 63 per in 1932. last two in 1938 to 62 per to an estimated 61 per

imcome.

March 26.—With rising thorugh negotiations and strikes, the Ameritoday de- |

price boosts. same demand is | peing made by the |

in its Using

would be | available if the wages were increased | This situation in steel, major inmakes substantial wage increases can be made without the necessity for price rises.”

| gets a larger share and “‘ecoC. I. 0, that labor's and salaries) of the which cent in 1929 and 77 per has been falling during the vears—from 63 per cent in 1939, and cent last

What looks like silver | sea looks black on snow. that queer black streak

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burst it on the stone in the hope that it would make a silver shine on the rock. The wind took the powder and flung it out from the rock on the snow in a long streak. on the It was |

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caught Jim Allison’s eye when he |

flew over.

wreckage, sticking out of the snow.

yards away, waving.

inThe | factor of my rescue.

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Each Had a Hunch

that moment.

had failed

Lan al the others, the | new territory to cover.

Allison, was somewhere in ready covered. were | | criss-cross of covered, moving one-half price When he passed over first

the air journey, eral hours in the air. returned. westward,

perand saw that rious black streak on the The streak the wind had made.

n nN » Message to Trappers miles away, planes that

Two many

spotted

| across a lake, was

fen) grave Harbor. had about 50 trapped during their from the Harbor

cent |

It was that streak that ! caused him to bank steeply | turn and look. Then he saw the the tail of the plane And, on | his second circle, he saw me, 300

It was the Newfoundland wind | that made that mark on the snow. And there was one more strange

Jim Allison, who saw that wholly accidental mark in the snow, no business being where he was at

For three days thorough check had been made by all the planes searching for us. had seen several of these planes pass very near, vet my signal fires

He had declined to move to a new area and was making a slow the area already

one of gathered had two men hauling a sled These were Walter Hicks and Dalton Abbott of MusOn their sled they rabbits they week away village of Musgrave

; | was a ghastly sight.

This fourth day, Jim, along with | had been assigned | But there | on the ground was I, full of the hunch that Jim Allison would find me, and there in the air was Jim | full of the hunch that I the area al-

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| which

dragging their empty sled. Tt

and went to it. pear, going at incredible speed on their snowshoes. and examine the wreck. Then they shouted. I sat up and shouted back.

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Flew Over the Snow

If ever I need help again, T |

hope to see men coming as those |

two came.

I called to them that |

1 was all right, to take their time, | They slackened their pace for an

instant and then came on faster than ever, flew over the snow. Tt is impossible to describe the

It seems to me they |

seized hold of the situation and

made their plans for my rescue. In the wreckage they had seen the bodies of my companions. I My was bound with blood-caked bandages, the injuries to my nose

had bled down and I had feared |

to remove the dried blood. But with indescribable tenderness they made sure of my condition, and almost befqre I could

got to make Smith Pond before | dark,” was the other.

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‘Literally Carried Me'

In my sleeping bag, I was lashed

with poles to support me. The runners cut deeply in the snow,

me but literally carried me bodily, sled and all, the 10 miles over Newfoundland rock and ridge and spruce-packed gully Pond, which we reached just at dark. The

runners would break

through snow crust, the sled would | | strike boulder or stump, but not | once did they upset me, not once | exciteq fury of those men as they

did they hurt me or permit any

slightest harm to come to me. |

Thed had to cut trails through gullies, over ridges. “Make Smith's Pond dark,” of the four. Because, as I learned after, they had a trail cut frgm

{ Smith's Pond into the village of

understand what was taking place |

one of them was speeding off on his snowshoes to get his other two companions, took his axe and went bush nearby. It could hardly have been five

into the

dragging three trees with him,

Musgrave Harbor. And make Smith’s Pond we did, just before

dark, where nearly 50 men from |

Musgrave Harbor met us.

I understand my flying friends |

| in the rescue planes gave Mus-

while the other |

grave Harbor a fright. They had come diving furiously dropping

messages and leaflets, and for an |

instant Musgrave Harbor thought minutes before the one returned |

he proceeded to cut to |

poles to lash to their sled for a |

stretcher, all the while speaking

to me softly and reassuringly that | Not one | instant did they waste in any idle | That to |

they would get me out.

questions or curiosity. me was a marvel, the furious and

| direct action of these men.

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They Worked Rapidly

I have since learned much about Newfoundland and its people. I know they have lived in simplicity and strength on the sea and beside it for centuries. They have known trouble and danger and disaster all their lives and they meet it with courage and action. They gauged that here was a wreck four days old, with three men dead and one man remaining. And their job was to get me out.

While the one prepared the lit- | tle three-foot sled with poles for |

a stretcher to bear me, the other returned in what surely was less

there was a bombing attack in progress. But that

off, except by a radio station, from all the world, went into action to the last person. It was just dark when we arrived at Smith's Pond and met the big rescue party coming out.

They had sleds and implements

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{ parties met, | on. ahoard the little sled fixed up |

| low our and these four men did not haul |

to Smith's |

They had to | | lift me over windfalls. head | before

endlessly urged the leader |

of every sort. You would suppose our exhausted party would have stopped on meeting friends, in order to discuss the news. What I never can forget is that when our

As we went, the newcomers ran heside us and plans were made on the run for the big party to fol-

companions. ” ”

Take Out the Bodies

It was about 11 p. m.

was only about 2 a. m,

following our trail in and out, re-

turned to Musgrave Harbor with | the bodies of Sir Frederick, Snail- |

ham and Bird. Of such stuff are these Newfoundland men. I was rushed at once to the house of Frank Whiteway, J. P.,

where Nurse Parsons lives and |

has her medical office. Nurse

Parsons is the public health nurse |

and only medical authority in all this country for many miles, the nearest doctor being 50 miles away, without roads or other communication. Nurse Parsons took my injuries in hand immediately and put me to bed; and the following day,

suspecting infection in my head |

injuries, sent out by radio for an air force surgeon from Newfound-

{ land air station. wonderful | little community, completely shut |

The kindness and consideration of everyone in the village was wonderful. Their service in honor of my dead comrades was most impressive and moving, before their departure by plane. I was most anxious that every article of importance be returned to me for the authorities. I got

we plowed straight |

trails back to the plane | and bring out the bodies of my |

{ that we | | arrived in Musgrave Harbor. It three | hours later, that this larger party, |

| Jump by

| guess is as good as mine.

A Black Streak of Powdered Aluminum Brings Mackey's Rescue

every scrap of paper, every map | and document, less bits of metal that some of the

| young ones had picked up as |

souvenirs.

The instant I let it be known |

that I was anxious about papers

and other items, however insig- |

nificant, it was amazing to me,

| who knows how in most parts of | (2e world a wre2ked plane is torn |

to shreds in no time by sightseers,

how this village acted in my be- |

half. A sensational event crashed into

| the quiet life of Musgrave Harbor.

They handled it with courage and complete humanity,

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Why Did Passengers Stay?

One point remains to be restated. Why Sir Frederick Banting, Snailham and Bird did not ‘parachute will remain a mystery. jump were given to Snailham and were acknowledged. I did not give those orders until I was sure we were over the land. They were given at a normal

| altitude at which such orders are

given, about 2500 feet.

Whether they preferred to take |

their chance by riding on down with the ship, to jumping over what they knew to be at least the

winter wilderness of Newfound- |

land, merest

if not the ocean. is the

speculation,

including value- |

| contacting | the following day.

always | My orders to |

Anybody’s | It is |

TO EASE MISERY ‘OF CHILD'S COLD 'RUBON rn—

ICKS

VapoRms |

The FUTURE

Unquestionably + h e past is linked with the future . . . success of based

upon the anticipation

| my opinion now that if they had || jumped they would have been |} saved. | It is true they would not have been together. The ship would | have gone a distance of perhaps | six or seven miles. The three would have fallen some distance | apart, depending on how quickly | they had followed one another. | But i: is my belie: they would have fallen within calling distance of one another and despite | the cold and the long night, they could have contrived some way of the searcing planes

ess 1S

any busine

of future requirements

of one's business.

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But whatever their decision, all we know is that by the law of chance which, in times of stress such as ours at that moment is incalculable, their decision was the wrong one. THE END

MORTUARY 2238 N. MERIDIAN ST.

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than half an hour with his two companions, Harold Hicks and Tobias Moland. Without a single | instant’s delay, they set to, like | sailors in a storm, to lift me and | lash me aboard the sled. I asked them to go and pick up | some of the things the many res- | cue planes had dropped. I told | them to help themselves rather than waste all this stuff. But they | told me they would take only the | very minimum of what was required for the journey, with |

year To prove that increased produc-| tivity of machines and men can}

a “ an ~ . . result in the desirable paradox of panions, Harold Hicks and Tobias higher wages and lower prices, the|

| Moland. These men had sur- | nl c . f JQ - . a ny L. takes a te Nal mised that there was something Yoo rie nh pia oe 0ard.| ctrange happening because of all iz ey or rh baron oan: the aircraft they had seen in re2UI0R, HOM WalCA Bt Sonciupes: cent days. But they had no word From 1929 to 1940, factory wages of the wreck - } « rOce 2 . (av . : Pa ie » per or ae Down on Walter Hicks and Dalduced by sf rt i “oY Sy ol ton Abbott dove a plane and SO YopD peri dropped them a message, telling Cov), Bnd 8 of living dropped 19) them that two miles away, in the : ; per cent. Why? Because workers’ | direction indicated by the flight enough to last them overnight in production per hour rose 40 per ; pt . | case we had to camp out. » ta) : of the plane, was a wrecked plane ” cent. Labor is vitally interested in! and men in need of help It was just about noon Jim placing these facts before the public From what I have since learned | Allison spotted me. You can figso there may be no misunderstand- Sais ~ , ure for yourself how these men " Hicks and Abbott simply dumped va ; : ing. It is a crucial issue. . | worked when I tell you that it i all their rabbits, guns and geal > , a b ; fi their sled and started. On was just 2 o'clock when we startAdvertisement SR i : ed off on the sled—they had been

iy DIGESTION | their showshoes, they must have | located, had come to find me, had

flown across the ridges and gu. returned for their companions. lies intervening, following the | oo". the poles and prepared may affect the Heart sounds of the planes diving and | 0" for the journey, all in less V Gas trapped in the stomach or gullet may met like a circling above where Ww Jay. 1 than two hours. ir-trigger on the heart. At the first sign of distress ? ’ w N smart mop and women depend on Rell-ans Tablets to 1 Jey , of my hi pi ie PR One of the Hicks brothers aset x= free, No laxative but made of the fastest- planes roared over head. ver the sumed command of the expediBong edicmes known fur acid indigestion, If the | pidpes and rocks and the endless | ' Ruy Firs r ROSE Aout prove’ Bell aor petter, Fotars tion. I shall hear his voice to my

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