Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1942 — Page 2
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Charge WLB Wi With stall. ing” in Demand for Dollar
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By RICHARD LAMB Times Spécial: Writer PITTSBURGH, July 7.~The war labor board's “little steel” panel may have difficulty substantiating its expressed conviction that wagerate changes in the steel industry do not. influence the national economy. : !
27. .3. Abolished its information fice, headed by Norman: Kuehne. - NGTON, July 7.—On the| 4 Consolidated its women's service of a drastic slash in its appro- section, which directed industrial) . ; the national youth admin- Sewing, nurses’ aid, clerical work " ‘has fired more than half and other women’s projects, into its entire personnel and effected
division of operations. : Deputy Administrator Dillard B. ne 8 reugMLasiiony Ht was Joey, ail. Sink bus ne
Lasseter said NYA would retain a official
“representative” in each state. "announcement, an - that in the fast 1 few days rhe
cu 1 14000 of its 25,000 em“almost 1000” adt i My bolished its state organiza.
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-' BRAZILIAN SHIP SUNK RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7 (U.P). —The Brazilian government officially acknowledged today the sinking of ‘the’ 866-ton merchantman Pedrinhas by an axis submarine on June 26, about 300 miles off the
and substituted 11 regional . lost.
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While the WLB has been: booting around for six months the C. I. Os demand for a $l-a-day wage increase, union shop and checkofl at the Bethlehem, Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube mills, the C." I. O. has laid the groundwork for a rapid followthrough in the rest of the steel industry and in the auto, aluminum and electrical manufacturing * industries. j In fact, it was not long after Pearl Harbor that the C. I. O. executive board, voicing consciousness of a sharp rise in living costs, urged all affiliated unions to press for increases of $1 a day.
Charge Stalling
Few have been successful—largely, it is felt, because of WLB procrastination on little steel wages. Employers are waiting to see what happens in steel. This fact, corroborated by numerous: government labor-relations men, has precipitated union charges of “stalling” and a considerable number of “flash” strikes. Until the panel came up with the 53-page result - of its six-month labors, it was an accepted adage that “as steel goes, so goes the nation.” With any angry eye on Price Administrator Leon Henderson, the panel says the adage is all wrong. Mr. Henderson became “anti-labor” overnight by arguing that wage increases in Little Steel would cause inflation and ruin his efforts at price control. Taere has been no disposition on the part of the United Steel Workers of America to waive wage-in- | crease demands on other important segments of the steel industry. It is the accepted belief that the union will demand that other steelmakers meet whatever increase is orders in Little Steel.
Cite Weir Raise
How long it would take the momentum of this bulge in steel pay envelopes to be transmitted to the other basic industries may be judged by the wave of 10-cent-an-hour increases which followed Ernest T. Weir's bestowal of that amount on the Weirton Steel Co. workers in April, 1941. United States Steel Corp. then negotiating with the steel workers and reportedly ready to settle for 5 to 7% cents, granted the 10-cent increase immediately. Within a month, every other steel producer of consequences had met the increase and the other durable-goods industries were following suit. Yet the WLB panel declared in its “Little Steel ” findings: “Inland (Steel Co.) has said. that in the past increases in steel wages spread like wildfire throughout the other industries and that the same thing would happen again. The panel doubts whether the exhibit on which Inland relies sufficiently supports this statement.
General Conditions Count
“The panel believes that general economic “conditions are the principal cause of changes in wage rates rather than any specific. change in a particular industry.” While finding that union security in the shape of maintenance of membership, combined with the checkoff of union dues, would “make shop conditions more peaceful,” the panel ran away from the wage increase question, finding only that the four steel companies are “able to pay the requested wage increase of $1 a day.” For several months the C. I. O. union has had before the subsidiaries of U. S. Steel a similar wage demand, which it expects to settle on the same basis as the Little Steel wage. y Weirton Steel has been. negotiating for weeks with the Weirton independent unjon on a demand for an increase of $1.25 a day. The WLB panel has been haunted during its deliberations by the fear that Mr. Weir might grant an increase substantial enough to make any further consideration of Little Steel wages academic. There still is no assurance that he won't.
WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. P.) — Ann Agnes Bernatitus of Exeter, Pa., the only nurse to escape from Corregidor, said today she believed there were about 100 women on the | “rock” when it capitulated to the Japanese on May ‘6.
Miss Bernatitus, who boarded a submarine at night only 48 hours before Corregidor surrendered, said most of the “Americans were army nurses and the others were army wives.
Miss Bernatitus boarded the submarine with 11 army nurses and a
to Australia. Hers was the last party from Corregidor. From | 2¢ until_the night before fell on April 9, she attended wounded soldiers, including| ond Japanese, in'the Bataan field hospitals. Asked what kind of patients|red the Japanese were, she said: “Very, very nice. They appreciated the . things we did for them. 1 remember one who kept apologiz-
The cards are stacked against it.|
‘Iman of the board of directors.
borer. In the next several years he
was elected president of the B. & O.
Corregidor Nurse Says 100 © Women Captured By Japs
navy officer’s wife, They were taken | said.
RAILROAD MEN
MOURN WILLARD >
Colorti Fire Rose From
‘Executive Posts. | BALTIMORE, Md, July. 7. {ism
P.)—Rallroad men throughout , the{Epiliphe Pétain is infervening ~jtheir behalf surely will not. damp: r nation today mourned the death of. ‘the Pope's well-known desire 4
peace,
Daniel ‘Willard, 81-year-old former. president. of the Baltimore & Ohio| railroad. He died at Union Memorial hospital Jost night after a short illness. He had been in failing health for some time. Heart disease was the cause of death. : Mr. Willard’s 63 years in the railroad industry formed a colorful career. He worked his way to the top from the bottom—ifrom track
laborer to fireman, to engineer and eventually to one of fhe country's leading and most respected railroad executives.
Adviser to Wilson
In addition to the presidency of the B. & O., he held directorships in nine other companies, and was an industrial adviser to President Wilson in the first world war. Only last year Mr. Willard resigned his B. & O. presidency, de-
spite vigorous protests of his col- |
leagues, but he continued as chair-
A native of North Hartland, Vt., Mr. Willard left the farm of his parents, spent two. years in agriculture college, and then joined the Central Vermont as a la-
moved from railroad to railroad— working as fireman, engineer, brakeman, machinist, trainmaster and conductor.
Honored by Labor
In 1899 he left his position as superintendent of the Soo lines to become assistant general manager of the B. & O. His rise was rapid— assistant to the president of the Erie, then vice president and general manager. After holding vice presidencies in two other lines, he
in 1910. In tribute to his long fight for enlightened management of the railroads, the labor organizations of the B. & O. in 1930 conferred their own degree on him--“doctor of humanity.” He is survived by his wife and four grandchildren, all of Baltimore.
GRAND AND PETIT JURIES BEGIN WORK
Grand and petit juries for the new term of criminal court were ready to go into action’ today following their selection. yesterday. On the grand jury are: John Cherry, New Augusta; James T. Hamill, 5155 N. Capitol ‘ave.; Harry E. Scott, 6135 N. Pennsylvania sti: R. S: Kiefer, 5210 E. North st.; Alice Franck, Lawrence, and George H. Lilly, 21 E. 49th st. Comprising the petit jury are: Edward E. Woolley, 38 N. Tacoma st.: Henry Heller, Oaklandon; James M. Atkinson, 2854 Washington blvd. ; Leon C. Wooley, 3346 N. Illinois st.; Edward C. Kampe, 69 N. Irvington ave.; Ben Olsen, 7050 N. Delaware
st.; Walt Hartman, 6374 College ||
ave.: Leonard-W. Davis, 5763 Broadway; Mary C. Gardner, R. R. 12, Box 273; Julius P. Pickett, 546 S.
Warman ave.; John I. Avery, 2126
Central ave., and Ernest Dimick, 3538 Brouse st.
Miss Bernatitus told her story at a press conference in the navy building. She was dressed in an attractive white uniform and on
a lieutenant, J. g.
Miss Bernatitus,” who underwent bombings at Cavite, Manila and Bataan before being taken fo Corregidor, said the Japanese prisoners she encountered acted “just like human beings” under similar circumstances. None of the 38 in her hospital attempted to commit hari-kari, she
Miss Bernatitus had less favor-
‘_ | been. condemned to’ dedth by: i [German guthorities for “De. Ga:
her shoulders were the epaulets of
does not hide. the interest. arous
ry fo End Horrors Catholic groups ‘in’ Gérmany 2
last few dion to end: the hor:
[that , Dominican priests h
ism” and that Marshal He
Vatican experts here this mo; i ing, although unable to confi : Cardinal Maglione’s trip, compe it with the European tour in 1 of Sumner Welles, United Siz fo under-secretary of state. 4
_ Open Investigations i
There is no doubt, said one [kpert, that if the Vatican is too vise to launch a peace offensive at fiiis stage of the war, there is nothig to prevent the Papal emissary fi: ma, ‘the same investigations in allied and axis circles as ‘Mr. We did. ‘The Vatican also is showing dep interest in the Egyptian gituatiy
favorably impressed by the It 0= German joint’ assurance of Egy: at's
000 Catholics.
" ENGLISH TOWN BOMBEIL BERLIN, July 7 (U, PJ) (fi orman broadcast recorded by Un led Press at New York). — Geri: planes dropped hundreds of | cendiary and explosive bombs ¢ north England town during @ night and started fires which | ¢ were burning this morning, it|iv announced officially today. IH
France ‘have tried vainly during |
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independence. The only concerts of
aklo {hing to say shod the Japas
50 An the sec~ raid—despite the fact that the Pullaings ware were plainly marked with
said the first attack was an a . ian they did Ik. gain two days later.”
ing for wishing so mush noise, The treatment apparently was a little
nese Who bombed her field hospital
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