Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1941 — Page 7
KANSAS CITY HIT , BY POWER STRIKE
Town Blacked Out Four | Hours; Five Union Chiefs Are Arrested. (Continued from Page One)
~ $0 megotiate for 200 members of the independent union in new contract Negotiations. - ‘When the night shift of 150 workers was schedled to leave the company’s two main plants at 11 p. m. approximately 15 strike leaders at each plant Jemained behind. At a few minutes before midnight they pulled the master switches darkening the City and then guarded ‘the switches to prevent other workers from restoring power.
Police Evict Strikers
Three hours later police entered the plants and evicted the strikers. They left quietly and joined picketing comrades outside the plant. Inside the remaining workers prepared immediately to restore power and the first lights flashed on again almost four hours to the minute after the city was blacked out. During the blackout a- baby was born by caesarian operation under the gleam of lights powered by a fire department auxiliary unit. Another baby almost lost its life when power to its respirator was cut off in another hospital. The child was saved by hand operation until auxiliary power was supplied.
No accidental deaths in the strike-
conceived blackout were reported and police said that there had been no burglaries. or looting -reported, nor by “some miracle” had there been any serious traffic accidents. After Mr. Wright was released on bond of $200 he was called into conference with Chief Anderson.. Chief Anderson said he told Mr. Wright he considered the strike ¥Communistic and un-American,”
Stand by Union Leader
He quoted Mr. Wright as saying that he was ordered here yesterday from Lincoln, Neb., with instruc_tions to advise the union that their
cause “was blown up,” as a result |®
of the Mediation Board decision. Striking workers said they would not return to work without authorigation from Mr. Wright. At the municipal airport where big coast-to-coast ‘transport planes shuttle in and out all night attendW ants set out gasoline flares to guide *the pilots along darkened runways. Airlines reported their ships alighted’ and took off by these lights. Traffic was thrown into confusion. Crowds going home from theaters hitch-hiked past stalled trolley cars. When the strike started Chief Anderson speeded to the plant in a squad car and addressed the pickets. They jeered and hooted. - Chief Anderson then told them that two-year-old Harold Schneider’s life had been imperiled at Bell Memorial Hospital because of the
strike, The Jeering Stops
He said the child was seriously ill with encephalitis and that the power failure had disabled his respirator. The respirator presumably was being operated by hand or gasoline engine, “How many of you have babies in your .home?” the chief asked. “What would you think of yourselves if you had done a thing like this to them?” There were. no more jeers.” One -striker said: “We didn’t know that. We thought the hospitals had power.” | - But the strikers made no move to return to their jobs. Most of the hospitals had auxiliary power sources for emergency use but the Bell Hospital had none,
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JUDGE PRO TEM JESSIE LEVY today ruled in Municipal Court that drunkometer evidence in drunken driving cases is inadmissable because “to collect such ‘evidence, you force a person to ‘ testify against himself. . She nevertheless Od Robert Bryson, 145 W. 27th St., guilty of @ drunken driving charge on other evidence in the case and fined - him 3a total of $35 and gave him & suspended 30-day jail sentence. She also found Roy Blanken_ship, 421 E. New York St, a cab driver,” guilty on a charge of drunken driving and fined him a total of $36 and sentenced him to jail for 30 days.
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mocracy’s defense. Calls for Defense’ Thought
“You and I and the rest of us must ' make national defense our first thought—the driving force and inspiration of all our days. Long ago, at the very outbreak of hostilities, we of labor knew that the conflict was a gigantic struggle between the resourcesgtools, machines and skills of democracy and the infamous weapons.of the Axis. “You and I know this war is going to be won or lost on the assembly lines of the United States. The steel workers, the auto workers, the rubber workers, airplane workers and ordnance workers will largely determine whether Britain is to survive or perish, whether the Americas are to survive or perish, “All our skills of mind and muscle must now. be applied to quickening the pace of defense production. We in/labor must do everything within our power to avoid work stoppages or any other slow-ups in defense output from whatever cause.
Production Holds Fate
“The right to enjoy the four freedoms which have made us great will be guaranteed in generations to come by what we produce here and now—by how well we do it and how quickly we do it.” He again‘ referred to the im-
is no longer the front line of Dee;
mediate situation.
(Continued from Page One) railroad station. There was a train to take the wounded south. Twenty American ambulances did the work. They werked nearly all night loading up, then in pitch darkness crawling down the winding road to the station and afterwards returning for‘ more.
2 8.» Laughs Too Loud I stayed at the hospital. I went into the operating room and it was very busy. There were two surgeons and three operating tables. A surgeon would look at the wound and then nod to an assistant. The wounded man would be put on the table and an ether cone would be placed over his face. Then his clothes would be ripped off and the surgeons would work quickly, deftly. Each surgeon had three assistants who weren't doctors at all. A "French artilleiyman was on the table waiting and he was smiling gently and talking very fast. “It was good. It was good.” The captain caught my questioning eye and he smiled. “Ten to one we got. There were only a few of us with our. seventy-fives. The tanks came at us and we fired and fired and we destroyed those tanks as fast as they came to us. Each of our seventy-fives got ten tanks before they got us. The general had said, ‘Hold your place or die.’ We did. Only I am left, but each of
Then this captain raised his hand to his lips and kissed it. “I tasted Boche blood,” he said quietly, and then he laughed much too loudly and repeated, “I tasted Boche blood.” He kept laughing and the surgeon put a needle into the fleshy part of his arm and then the surgeon shook his head and motioned to the orderlies to take the captain off the table. It was a pity the surgeon couldn’t have done anything for this man but the surgeon knew what, he was doing. Both surgeons had been doing this 10 hours now and they looked tired. Everything about them was tired except their hands, which were quick and fine and sure, They had run out of rubber gloves and they worked barehanded, oc- _ casfonally dipping their hands into a pail of disinfectant. This operating room had been a playroom when the hospital had been a school for boys. There were pictures painted on the wall. They brought in a huge Senegalese. They lifted him to the table "and his eyes glanced at the wall to his left. Mickey Mouse was playing on that wall and near him was Popeye the Sailor eating a can of spinach. TI caught the eye of the big Senegalese and grinned and he grinned back. Then I looked down at his leg which the doctor was examining and I stopped grinning. It wasn’t a pretty wound. It was just above . the ankle. The surgeon: felt the thigh and nodded. It was firm there. Then he took a pot of iodine and swabbed the man’s thigh with it and at first I didn’t understand. They started to tie the hands of the black man to the table and he didn’t like that. They do that because often the wounded get delirious as they are getting the ether and fhey thrash their arms around. But he let down quietly enough and they put the ether cone on his face.
Allies Must | Win Now Hillman Warns Here: Pleads for Increased Production i in the u. S.
Sidney Hillman
“Now is the time to win the war,” Mr. Hillman stressed. “If we allow the British, Russian and Chinese forces to go down to defeat today, we in the Americas would be left with only a small fraction of the potential manpower available to the Axis alliance. “Our whole creative power and energies would have to be spent in forging barriers of steel and concrete to safeguard this hemisphere.
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for one year or for hwo years or for Severs) years but for decades.
Us 8, Task Called Easy
“Ours 1 relatively an easy task - when we that in England |. er ey oa ary -the great factories of Birmingham and Liverpool carry on, while Heinkels drop death from the air—when - ‘we remember that after the work- » Shift is’ over, the British worker "may hurry to his home to find it a| SIORing Tullh Bis Wile dead, and his re: children crying in the street.
lieve with their hearts and souls in whatithey are defending. Our faith is not less sure. Our goal is theirs. Only if we, too, dedicate ourselves to the cause of freedom, only if we give our best—now—can free labor shape a new world where men-can walk again in SOouY: in dignity apd in peace.”
On Old Friends
Sidney Hillman, co-director of the Office of Production Management, today visited the Kahn Tailoring plant Where he chatted with old friends: He walked back through the shop, shaking hands right and left. The Kahn plant is engaged in turning out enlisted men’s blouses. It also tailors Army, Navy and Marine officers’ uniforms.
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something and he held the man’s thigh with one hand and I walked to the next table. I stayed there an hour, and it wasn’t morbid curiosity because no one in his right mind would be curious about the reactions of men in a first-line operating room. I was there because this was my trade. I mean my trade is to find out everything it is possible to find out about war, One by one, men were brought in and then a little later brought out again and not once was there a sound in the room except for the crisp directions from the surgeons and, of course, the sound of the ‘guns, if you count that as a sound. I left when they brought two women in who had been hurt in the bombing of the home for the aged. Both were very old but neither said anything. The wounded don’t cry, not even the civilian wounded. But I left.
Outside the night was heavy with ‘darkness. Except, of course, for the flames from the burning part of the town. But that was. half a mile away. The darkness paréially hid hundreds of still forms lying on the ground in front of a long shed where the wounded were first. brought. I picked my way among them and went into the shed. Three nurses and one doctor were there. There were 84 wounded soldiers lying on’ the floor, sitting on chairs, on benches, and there were three wounded women lying there, too. The nurses were examining wounds, putting disinfectants on the wounds, bandaging them. They were very wonderful. They gave their patience and their skill in the same abundance to a dull-witted black Senegalese and to a handsome French captain. One of the nurses stopped for a breath and she told me: proudly that she and the other two nurses were from Beauvais; had been born here, and would die here, ” » ®
Train Cars Jammed
Montgomery drove up. Picture audiences who used to watch the dapper white-tied Montgomery wouldn’t have recognized this untidy apparition with blood on his hands and with grease and dirt on Lis uniform. “The train is about full,” he said gloomily. “This’ll be our last load. These poor devils will have to stay here.” I went dowh to the railroad station with“the last load. The long train stood there looking ghostlike in the darkness. Perhaps 200 soldiers were lying on the station platform waiting their turn. But there was only room for the most urgent cases. It was very quiet there at the station. Downs and I helped pull out the stretchers. Then we’d hand them into the cars. We unloaded three of the four from our ambulance. “No more room,” a man in the car said tersely. “We’ll find room,” Jack James said simply. James is tall. and hard. I walked through the cars with him. Each one was filled. There wasn’t an inch of room: left on the train. We had to bring our lone casualty back up the winding road to the hill top.
ery and James.
Then the doctor reached for
. James said, “I havent the nerve to tell him.”
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the power which supplies the chain of metal industries in that part of the middle Ukraine,
The main industrial center of the e, however, still lies ahead of the Germans. It is the Donbass or Don basin at the eastern end of the republic, about 200 miles from Krivoi Rog. It is abunda#it in coal, steel and other raw materials which supply not only its own factories, but are an important ‘source for Moscow and Leningrad. The main industries of the Soviet union are in the west, and in the immediate path of the advancing Germans. The secondary line of in dustry, which has been intensively
and beyond the Urals. Exact figures are not available, but the eastern produce little
developed in recent years, lies along}
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the fuel and metal, and their resources have only been seratched. ‘The region, known as the UralRuzbass Combinat, is described as
Europe in size, stretching from Vologda, northeast of Moscow, to the Yenesei River 1800 miles eastward, and southward to Kuibyshev on the lower Volga. It has vast coal flelds, iron and extensive steel works,
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