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BOSS AND WORKER MUST SACRIFICE SOMEWHAT slowly, but surely, we make progress toward *¥ 24-hour war production, seven days a week. Another hurdle has been overcome through agreement of both C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. to waive premium rates of pay for work done on Saturdays, and double time on Sundavs and holidays, even though these days were only part of a 40-hour week. The two big unions are insistent on retaining the 40hour week, with time and one-half thereafter. But, at least, they have made a substantial move to allay growing public criticism by dropping penalty payments on work

done within the 40 hours. This removes one of the big obstacles to continuous,

seven-day production. That is, provided all subordniate unions agree to go along on the policy recommended by their leaders, An indication that management must also contribute

toward carrving out this policy is seen in a statement by the powerful United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers |

of America (C. I. 0.). with 400,000 members. This union offers to waive the premium rates, provided the employers turn back to the government the money thus saved. The union contends that contracts were entered into contemplating the extra pay for Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. If that is the case, as it probably is, the assurance asked by the union is well justified. Employers must not increase their profits through the sacrifice of the workers. 8 x » 8 & » HE matters of slack production and premium wages are not confined to unions alone. Premium profits are equally intolerable, management delays equally bad. If executives are to get fancy bonuses for war production, as a considerable number have, it is inevitable that workers will seek fancy premiums for war efforts. The thing that has been eating on many workers is the feeling that, if they work harder or sacrifice premium wage scales, the resulting benefits will go to the boss in higher profits rather than to the government in lower costs. Whatever the workers sacrifice in overtime scales must go back to the American people, who are footing this war bill, either as an outright return of the uncharged wages or through downward revision of contracts. 2 = » 8

| vessels, in them is subjected to high pressures, such as those | And this |

HIS war is such an immense job, calling for such vast production at such terrific expense, that eventually, we helieve, this country will have to return to the 48-hour week | with overtime only after that period. But, first, the program now agreed to by the C. I. O. | and A. F. of L. should be tried out—and as an essential part | of the success of that trial the government must take ! whatever steps are necessary to see that payments waived | by workers do not go into increased profits. This bogey of unconscionable profits—and, unfortunately, it hasn't always been a bogey—has got to be removed from the workers’ minds. That's a job for man- | agement and government. Once removed, we believe the American worker will | willingly give longer and harder work to save his country.

HURRY—HURRY—HURRY

HERE has been considerable demand that the name of | § ~ “Defense” on bonds and stamps be changed to “War.” | §

Rut that wou'd mean the discarding of thousands of bonds, millions of stamps already printed and ready for sale. In these days of war, the cost of reprinting can be better applied to a bomber. Tentatively, however, the government has set agdate— July 1—when “Defense” bonds become “War” bonds. The rest is up to you. ‘ We can't afford to waste anything now. So let's double up on all purchases of bonds and stamps. Let's use up all those already printed before July 1. The line forms at the stamp and bond window,

HAWAII RATES PRIORITY

N the ceaseless free-for-all over apportionment of military

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equipment and supplies to competing allied fronts, let us not forget that the Panama-Hawaii-Alaskan barrier is | our first line of defense and offense. First things should come first. That is the proper principle upon which Britain has guarded England above all else. We shall be less intelligent than the British unless | we make our Pacific barrier as strong as possible. The safety of our own homeland is at stake. But that | is not all. The life of the British dominions—Canada, Aus- | tralia. New Zealand—also depends on that barrier, as does | Britain herself ultimately. It would be silly for any American to question the policy of sending available equipment and supplies to England, Russia, Africa and the Middle East. But it would be worse for the United States to concentrate on those areas to the neglect of the Pacific fronts, and particularly the Panama-Hawaii-Alaskan line on which the entire Pacific conflict turns. There have been disquieting reports about not only the Alaskan but also the Hawaiian defenses. Readers of Roy W. Howard's series of dispatches from Honolulu will be encouraged by his first-hand report of progress since Pearl Harbor; that present defensés of the main island of Oahu “approach as near perfection as anything vet produced by military” science.” But, he adds: “Meantime, as to the other islands—more men, more guns, more planes! Oahu offers the guarantee that they will not be wasted.” The United States and other united nations should weigh the relatively small cost of protecting Hawaii now, against the later cost of dislodging the Japs if they should gain a foothold on other islands and threaten and blockade Oahu and Pearl Harbor.

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Can We Fly Em?

By Maj. Al Williams

PITTSBURGH, March 26— England and Germany are cone centrating on pushing the speeds of single-seater fighter planes up around 400-plus miles an hour. Some few types are said to be good for about 430. Now, secientists are thinking in terms of whether or not the men who are to fly these planes will be able to withstand the physical rigors of turning them sharply and efficiently. The question arises: Should the pilots of the new superspeedsters be seated in their ships or placed in a prone position? Airmen all know the general causes of blatkout resulting from a change in the direction of a fast airplane. It is the acceleration that causes discomfort and at times injury to the personnel of combat planes. By acceleration we mean the centrifugal forces: that are set up when the direction of a plane is changed. The shorter the turning radius, the greater the acceleration. The speed at which the plane is traveling when the sharp turn is made, of course, increases the acceleration, If the turn sets up an acceleration of three “G" (gravity), it means the pilot is being forced down against his seat at three times the pressure of his normal weight. Thus a 200-pound man would be pressed down against his seat at a pressure of 600 pounds. The physical structure of man can with stand such pressures without discomfort.

Brain First to Suffer

BUT IN THE human body are tiny pipes—blood These pipes are flexibie, and when the blood

created in a rapid turn, they will bulge. bulging of blood vessels is naturally greatest in the lower portions of the body, to which the centrifugal

pressure of the turn forces the blood. Temporarily, | this bulging of blood vessels decreases the amount of |

blood circulating in other portions of the body. With the pilot in a sitting position, it is logical that the head (and its internal machinery—brain and visual nerve centers) is the first to be stripped of its normal blood supply. The first symptom is the loss of vision—the blackout. If the force which causes this discomfort is pro-

longed, the result is loss of consciousness, Luckily the | time during which one is subjected to such centrifugal |

force is limited—just long enough to complete the turn or the pull-out from the dive.

In addition, of course, there is the consideration

of the strains exerted on the internal organs (such as the heart) by centrifugal forces.

Man Can't Be Redesigned!

IT IS A FACT that in the sitting position the human body is in the worst possible position (except standing) to withstand centrifugal forces. Experiments have demonstrated that if the pilot bends forward and raises his legs, he can withstand much higher centrifugal forces. Likewise, his capacity to retain vision and to minimize discomfort is increased if he lies prone, face forward. In the upright sitting posture the average pilot can withstand between 5 and 6 “G" for three or four seconds. Still seated, but tilted backward, he can take 5'2 to 6'2 "G.” Bent forward, legs raised, he can take 6'2 to 8 "G" for three to four seconds. Lying down, face upward, he can withstand the unbelievable acceleration of centrifugal forces to the extent of 14 to 16 "G" for a period of between 120 and 180 seconds. | (Such centrifugal forces exerted on a man seated in the normal position would cause hemorrhages and fatal injuries). Prone, face downward. the same man can take 11 to 15 “G" without difficulty. It is obvious that with the speeds of the combat | planes being increased greatly, vastly increased centrifugal forces will be exerted on pilots. And just as

sition of the pilots. Man cannot be redesigned. so his aircraft will have to be changed to accommodate his physical limitations.

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disogree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

| “WHAT IS THIS ABOUT | ADDITIONAL STATE TAXES?” | By S. R. Boothman, 28 N. Audubon rd. What is this we are hearing about additional state taxes? Fellow citizens, have you heard this? Our state “protectors” are working up the idea that automobile owners should be taxed additional amounts up to $40 beginning next year. Speak up loudly and stop this before it gets any further. We have a national effort to con-| Same as one pays his fare for the centrate on, and as the davs go py | privilege of riding on a train or bus. we will be required to give more | I agree with you that most inand more of our resources and dustries and construction companies energy to insure its success | are recognizing organized labor and Let us think nationally and every person has the same privilege

| thereby be united in our effort to|that I have by paying my little two

make America safe for everyone. | bucks a month. investment I ever made.

We do not sell any votes, brother; 1t is not necessary. We just keep a check on our friends and it looked like we had {quite a few when the Smith bill rcame up and just enough enemies

a : é oars to keep things in a help-Hitler Hoosier, from Kirklin, I am con- ¢.chion Pinch yourself, brother, vinced that he is inclined to be a ,,4 wake up, look around you a real American, but he is very much jiti1a get on the wagon and ride. misinformed about labor unions and | America has a war to win and it their closed shop. ‘has got to be won, and organized Labor unions were forced upon 1ahor has got what it takes to win the laboring masses because t00 jt__bhrains, brawn and money. many people rejected the teachings) F&F # of our Lord and deprived the la- «FARMER IS FALLING FOR boring man of his natural right to MILLIONAIRE'S * : £ , CRUSADE enjoy a fair share of the wealth Be “ ge. "58 a delve that he created by his labor. | “Woodruff place ve: I do not know if the gentleman! can go back about 40 years ag0 ver and Mr. Willkie was that in

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2 2 2 “HIGH STANDARD DUE TO ORGANIZED LABOR" i By D. J. Danforth, president Libby Lodge No. 1432 1. A. of M., 1157 Eugene st.

WASHINGTON, March 26 — Washington taxicabs now carry a poster which reads, “Don’t kill Americans by careless talk! Never discuss military or naval information in a public vehicle.” . . . The average freight train in 194! carried 915 tons, against 804 tons in 1929, the year of heaviest freight traffic. . quently play “On the Square” and “Man of the Hour” — after, of course, the national anthem. . . . The first glockenspiel heard in the United States was captured from a German army band. . . . The demand for civilian pro-

tective equipment is so great that OCD is giving |

priorities to certain vital industry areas, after getting priorities from WPB to get the materials in the first place. . . . Defense trailer housing communities are to get one set of tires for every five trailers manufactured.

Odds and Ends

MANUFACTURERS of folding boxes have been

i asked to change specifications to reduce consumption

of paper board. . . . Department of agriculture suggests shipping the presses from 1400 idle cotton gins to sheep ranches for baling wool. . . Theres a

shortage of sextants, and sales have been prohibited | except to the government. . . . Aluminum paint and | pigment production are now completely controlled by | . » . OCD’s newest publication tells | the store owners what to do in case of an air raid. |

. . Rubber footwear manufacturers have agreed to a maximum price schedule for a Victory line of galoshes and overshoes. . . . WPA inventoried 15.000 auto graveyards in 10 days.

So They Say—

Our allies can be assured that we will not seek a respite until the invader is beaten to his knees — Australian Air Minister Drakeford. =

Only the conviction that we are fighting for our own freedom can make us fight as the Chinese and Russians have fought.—Pandit Nehru, All-India Cone gress leader.

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Politics must not be suspended because of the war. If anyone says it must, then I wonder if he knows what we are fighting for—Mrs. Roy T. Bishop, Portland, Ore., Republican leader. =

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The United States means business and we won't be satisfied until we see American and Chinese ps in Tokyo together.—Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, Aemrican chief of staff under Chiang Kai-shek. * * * No more fundamentally un-American and antiunion organization than the Ku Klux Klan can be found in this country.—George F. Addes, secretarytreasurer, United Automobile Workers. * * » There is no room for tire bootleggers in the business life of a nation united to win a war—John E. Hamm, of office of price administration,

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when I started to raise a family the last political campaign Mr. ‘and slaved 12 hours a day in an in- Hoover referred to his crusade as dustry for 17 cents an hour as a “holy” and Mr. Willkie did not. Mr. machinist seven days a week, Where Willkie frankly confessed that he one did not dare to ask for a raise, made “no pretense to noble moif you did you were told to get out. tives.” He didn't have to—his supThat is just one little case and port of the administration's foreign there were thousands just like that. policy spoke for itself. That is what put me and millions, Whenever a politician refers lo (of others in the ranks of organized his crusades as holy, it's a good ! labor. time to stop, look and listen. Adolf So I can raise my eyes heaven-| Hitler promised the British Clive- | ward and thank my God for the fel- den Set a holy crusade against | lowship of organized labor, believe communism. But he didn't promise me when I say that organized labor when—whether it would be before | is responsible for the high standard jor after an unholy one against the jof living in America today. British. This is the first time in this na-| We all seem to be falling for the | tion that labor has had anything|same thing in this country. The | more than a bare existence. I can|farmer especially seems to regard | see nothing wrong with the closed |the would-be-war-millionaires’ crushop. We deprive no man from sade against labor as something the privilege of working. The only holy. thing is, we ask that each person| The war profiteers’ patriotism who benefits from our services pay seems to be altogether holy. Nobody | his share of the expenses, just the knows, however, when the farmers’

"They're the school aristocrats—each happened to own one good tire when the rationing order went into effect." :

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foreign markets will be restored. In the absence of millions of foreign consumers, the farmer joins in the hue and cry of the money-mad patriots who propose to destroy the farmer's best market at home. It's a mere matter of stomachs. Why flatten millions of stomachs in the interest of a comparatively few that are full enough already? Instead of falling for crusades that pretend to be holy, the farmer should be as friendly toward labor as the cash register is toward the cash. ” ” 2 “HENDERSON'S FIGHT ON FARMERS WAS ENOUGH”

By Edmond O. Foust, editor, The Hoosier Farmer In reply to the article by Mr. Cash which stated, “We will have to fight labor, then the farmer,” may I say that if we can get Mr. Leon Henderson back from his

is enjoying, the fight on farmers will be complete, Just about enough fight was made on farmers when Mr. Henderson took the last vestige of transporta- | tion from farmers by denying them | tires, freezing the price on pork, {canned goods, and numerous other articles. Farmers have furnished free board to the consuming public for 20 years at the rate of a billion dollars per year below parity, and now the “fight with farmers” becomes popular when a statement is sent out for the board bill. Certainly when the only part of American society which can state | there is no shortage in our pro- | duction, as can farmers, there needs {to be no fight directed along that line. Perhaps when some city people are directed to help farmers; \plant and hoe, a greater appreci-| {ation will come when the city fam-| ily gathers about the table.

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“WE WILL WIN, BUT IT WILL BE HARD” By C. R. Clark, New Castle Having been a constant reader of The Indianapolis Times for years, which will be 28 years the 6th day of this July, I read so much where people are fed up on certain articles written by certain writers who are getting paid for writing. Well, chere is only one cure for that and that is just quit reading their column. Right now we are in the war. What we need to do now is not criticize those who know more than we do, but try and do something to help win this war. I am like Mr. Hord of Franklin, Ind. We colored people are in it and we want to do our part. And we are in if to stay until Old Glory is victorious. We will win, but it will be hard. Now when the dark cloud has all cleared away and victory is ours, shall we again have the same thing to face us as we did fin world war No. 1? Well, we hope not. Just a reminder: After world war No. 1, the K. K. K. came out against Catholic, Negro and the Jew, not the Catholic nor the Jew so much but the Negro and they showed it. But if we go to the polls on election day and vote our sentiments instead of listening to the chin music from the office-seekers, we can stop a great deal of it. Give more colored people work so they can buy defense bonds. They want work, not strikes. Let’s win the war. ” 2 2

| «AS FINE AN EDITORIAL AS I HAVE EVER READ”

By Homer E. Capebart, Packard Manu‘facturing Corp. Just a word of appreciation and congratulations on the wonderful editorial you ran, “Wake Up, America—It's Late!” It is as fine an editorial as I have ever read. Keep up the good work.

DAILY THOUGHT

I will heal your backslidings. —Jeremiah 3:22.

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The Revolution! By Gen. Hugh S. Johnson

WASHINGTON, March 26.— “Revolution coming in this country? Hell, we've got it now!”

This was said to me by a labor leader of the old Gompers’ school.

“Maybe we were all wrong in the old days, but we didn't want any part in the management of industry, Old Sam thought that with that would come responsi= bility for the profits of industry and that would seriously eramp us in carrying on the fight for better labor conditions.” 2 He went on then ta show by the utterances of Messrs. Philip Murray, Frankensteen and the Reuther brothers that a voice in management and seats on boards of directors are exactly what at least the C. I. O. group is shooting for, and that the A. F. of L, can't be left behind. Will they get it? It Is his view that they will get almost anything they go after. Count 10 to 11 million members in these two groups alone—four votes to a member. Forty million votes in two ore ganized, disciplined, pressure groups devoted to an administration which looks to them for political power and for their suffrage.

Coming: State Socialization

IT IS ENOUGH to swing any election, and, to make up for such independents as there may be among them, don't forget that these figures do not include the railway brotherhoods and other indee pendent units. Add to them a well-subsidized agriculture, a strong Negro support, and the beneficiaries of various relief, and, at least while the money holds out, you have assured perpetuity .in office. How long will the money hold out? That, according to my friend, is where the revolution comes in—a completely bloodless and almost silent revolution, The government is spending or preparing to spend as much as the entire wealth of the United States. It doesn’t make any difference whether it is taken by taxes or by borrowing. In either case it is a first lien on all that property. If it isn't paid on the barrel-head, the government will take that property. Since nobody will have enough money to buy it al] in at tax sales, the gov= ernment will retain most of it. What it sells will pass into entirely new hands. What it keeps will operate for the good of all—'‘pro=duction for use and not for profit'—state socializaetion of our economic system,

A Case Worth Pondering

THUS THE COUNTRY will be the same as ever —the fields just as green and fruitful, the skies just as blue—but it will be for the benefit of everybody and not just a favored few. Our life, as we have known it, is going, going, al most gone. What is coming in its place may be more abundant and even the war itself may prove to be a blessing. This is a doctrine most earnestly believed by most of the eager young men who have infiltrated into positions of great influence throughout the whole government, and especially in a group that is very powerful around the White House. This they have preached among themselves and to newcomers. Due to such earth-shaking current happenigs as the war the seemingly natural course of events have carried their policies toward the goal at a rate much faster than even they expected. They are already more than half the way to complete fulfilment, Thus, argues my friendly old school labor leader, Is he right or wrong? I don't pretend to know but on the visible facts he certainly makes a case worth pondering.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MAYBE THIS WAR will fore ever destroy the notion that hone orable men must not permit their wives to help support their fame ilies. In periods of peace it's a foolish economic idea. Followed now, it could easily be fatal to our security. The first world war gave wom én a new sense of social importance. Perhaps this one will teach them to realize their value as industrial assets. Thus, for us at least, the dark war clouds have a silver lining. Thinking of ourselves strictly in terms of citizenship, we see that the conflict could easily be lost without us.

The call for women, begun only yesterday, it seems, as a faint plea, is now a positive roar. Not only is our willingness to help encouraged, but we've got to do our share, like it or not. And this change in mental attitudes, mind you has taken place in a few short weeks. -

Never has there been a swifter alteration in the tone of public officials. When we consider that only 18 months ago 40 states had written or were writing laws which forbade married women to work in cere tain professions, we can hardly credit some of the things we hear today.

What Comes With Peace

Mars, with his great black eraser, has wiped those laws away—and the men who were definitely against feminine meddling in business now cry most loudly for us to “come out of the kitchen and get to work.” Employers, who bitterly opposed replacing men with women, are forced by grim circumstance to do so. What will happen. when peace comes can only be surmised. Women's status probably will depend upon the economic situation. In my opinion, it always has. When times are hard, we are shushed into the home; when the country is in distress and there are labor shortages, we are driven forth into industry. Something ahove and heyond our desires shapes the feminine destiny. Yet it should be clear that when millions of young girls have participated in the work of war, and so proved themselves saviors of democracy, they will feel a stronger sense of responsibility for its peacetime progress. Somehow, whatever comes, I feel that American women have attained their majority. They are legally mature and, after the war is over, their service stripes and their wounds of battle should make them eligible to any office or any place of power they can fill.

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