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UPERFLUOUS, ANYWAY:

HE American. Federation of Labor's in ansept the

Hobbs bill—if amended to suit the A. F. of L—may be clever. We think it is tricky. The amendment (demanded would make legal under

madelegal by previous federal laws. Some of these previous laws, the: supreme court has held, give unions and their

members practical immunity to punishment under the fed-

eral anti-racketeering act.. That is why the Hobbs bill is now before congress. Its purpose is to correct the supreme court's interpretation of what congress intended in enacting

~The Hobbs bill says that" “whoever” obstructs interstate commerce by robbery or extortion, or conspires or attempts to do that, or uses or threatens physical violence with intent to dothat, shall be guilty of a felony under the ederal anti-racketeering act. :

That “whoever” would include officers or members of

or unions found guilty of the offenses set forth, The amendment asked by the A. F. of L., together with the supreme court’s decision, would, in our opinion, leave officers and members of unions, as they are now, immune to federal punishment for racketeering. We do not’ believe the Hobbs bills changers the right of workers | fo. organize, bargain collectively, seek higher wages. or better. working conditions, strike, picket peacefully, or engage in any other legitimate activity. - There-

(From The Stars and Stripes)

(Daily Newspaper of the U, S. Armed Forces in. the European Theater of Operations.)

“NOTHING: disrupts an army as quickly as no news or

bad news from home,” said Brig. Gen. L. B. Hershey recently, and he hit the nail smack on the head. In: this theater many men are working seven days a week to see at home news, good news and “true” news, reaches you to bck old man worry clean out of the vocabulary of Gls in

Part of this job is being done by Special Service ee this publication assisting. The Red Cross. does the rest and their work is vitally important to you. : It has been-found that the worries of most GIs are of a riohmilitary nature. No soldier seem sto worry over being out of step at the last parade; but he does worry if he feels things are going ‘badly at home. To eliminate these fears Red Cross: field directors have been assigned to act as the link between’ the men and their families. These directors have a splendid organization behind them to assist in case of emergency. By cable they can get in touch with your. people. i in .any .community in America, and. the Red Cross chapter there takes over on the home front. ' When a GI consults a Red Cross field director he’s getting the impartial and free advice and help of a lawyer, doctor, chaplain, businessman; philosopher and friend all rolled into one. Not because Red Cross directors are _Superrien, | but because behind every one of them stands gn organization with the knowledge, - power and financial strength eeded to solve your problem. Among the services offered are the following: Relief for soldiers’ families in distress . . . assistance in locating amilies of soldiers or welfare advice for such families , . .

help in securing employment for members of a soldiers’

Family + « « fast communication between’ a soldier and his amily . . , loans to soldiers as circumstances warrant . . These are but a few of the yaried services which the d Cross is glad to render.

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. . P. MORGAN

. FANATIC'S bullets nearly claimed the life of J. P. Mor- ' gan early in the other world war. Mr. Morgan was veto then of power and mystery. He lived on for nearly 8 years, and he remained a symbol, but his world changed most beyond recognition between: that war and this. * The House of Morgan stood“firm while many other tadels of finance declined and fell. But that great house

gely ceased to typify—as it once did in many minds—

pney’s domination of American and even world affairs. ontrols passed from New York to Washington. Governnt policies became more potent than financial policies; Sabiicl and the White. House grew vastly more imthe banks and exchanges of Wall Street. an do not know how much Mr. Morgan himself changed ith the changing times. It is certain that the public's titude toward him altered greatly. : One day in 1983, while he waited to testify before a ate committee, a circus press agent perched a midget Mr. Morgan's knee and waiting photographers snapped.

es. Many thought it a serious affront to the publicity- |"

mning financier, and so it may have been. | But that incident, perhaps, did more than all his phiopies to bring Mr. Morgan liking instead of fear; to > him knowri ‘as a human being, rather than as a Yemots, ous and 3 therefore distrusted power, :

the United States call meetings of the united nabetter war post-war organization, have acted on inciple that the senate is constitutionally concerned business. The \presifient, by consulting with them

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Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, and Helpers of America is. the

and receives tribute from thousands .. ployed in the building of this na~

_. tion's emergency cargo. fleet, entirely at the expense of the tax

life insurance under a group policy issued to the

—{ union, not to the members, themselves, as individuals,

‘by the Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California.

‘premium must be paid to the union as a requirement ot membership. . For this $15 a ‘year the member’ gets protection to the amount of $333.33 the first year, $666.66 the sec‘ond year and $1000 in the third and ‘ensuing years while he remains a member in ‘good standing. :

About 200,000 Members

THERE ARE NOW about 200,000 members. actual figure is a secret held by the union’s national officers or bosses. Section 80 of article 12 of ‘the: union constitution says:

‘surance as provided -in this section is automatically suspended from all rights and privileges of the international brotherhood.” That provision is here cited to prove that the insurance is compulsory. The president of the union is J. A. Franklin, an elderly veteran unioneer, whose name is signed in facsimile on all policies. His home and the inter-

the union owns an office building. The agent who wrote the business is Harold M. Franklin, the son of the union president. He has been writing such insurance .as agent, and receiving a commission on the compulsory premiums, from various companies since October, 1926. In the present

with Jerome S. Kohler, also of Kansas City, Kas,

Deny Son Is the Agent FRANKLIN, THE YOUNGER, and William E. Wal-

ter, the international secretary-treasurer, deny. that

young Franklin is now or ever has been the agent of

J. A. Pranklin, the president, refused to make a statement when invited to'do so. “I don’t make any statement to anyone unless it is their business to inquire into it,” he said. Young Franklin said, “I don’t care to talk about it.

| I was not then the agent of the Occidental when the

policy was signed. I am not now.” , Confronted then with his sworn declaration in various court documents filed by him in litigation over. his share of the 'commissions from such insurance, young Franklin's only reply.was “uh-huh.” . . Walter said the union had never had any such dealings with the son. of the union’s president and ‘had dealt only with, Kohler and an assistant -secretary of the Occidental.

Membership Greatly Iereased

THE UNION membership has greatly increased since the Occidental contract ‘was written in “July, 1941. There were then about 40,000 members and the premiums would *have been $60,000, but it is impossible to estimate the commissions payable to- young Franklin and Kohler because their agreement with the company calls for 6 per cent commission on new members for their first year and 4 per cent on premiums for subsequent years. Between the union .president’s son and Kohler it ‘was: agreed that young Franklin was to get two-thirds and Kohler: one- third of the commissions. In the first year of the contract with Occidental, the premiums were about $1,600,000, greatly exceeding expectations, thanks to the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Inasmuch as this all was new business, the commission rate was $96,000, of which. young Franklin was entitled to $64,000 and Kohler to $32,000.

- (To Be Continued)

= Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, - March 17— Amid all the screaming on’ ‘mangE power shortages, size of the army, i deferment of farm workers, the + Austin-Wadsworth bill for compulsory war-labor service, the : Bankhead-Nye-Thomas bills: to cut the army by two million men, demands for War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt’s handsome scalp, repeated pleas for Fanny Perkins’ head: on a platter, shouts for a new manpower “czar” with guts and .teeth—though . brains ‘are unspecified—and semisecret conferences of a White House kitchen cabinet on manpower policy, one sane, calm voice comes from oe Senate! Truman committee Investigating he ‘war effo This is perhips no:more than you might expect, but it is reassuring to find even one note of sense in all the: confusion. Says the Truman- committee in its second annual report:“Although we can and will obtain several millions of ‘new ‘workers, the principal means by which we can alleviate the manpower shortage is by increasing the productivity of our present labor force . . . “To obtain that efficiency, we must. perfect. our system of allocating raw materials and of scheduling production so that all the necessary materials will flow into the factories. at such times and in such quantities as to enable them to operate to the utmost

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excuse for labor hoarding . . . will cease to Thousands of workers from whose services no present

he knew that a direct result of his absence would be. at the. Aront.” » ‘If Kaiser Can Do =—='

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which amyone should be able to understand as practical an analysis of all this manpower muddle as has ‘yet been offered. In the same breath, it is by far the

nosis and prescriptions on

cure shortage of won't fix things, and will drafting everybody now outside the

army. : Issuing a lot of directives wort do it, and neither will reshuffiing a lot of rSoveTIent ‘bureaus

o ‘RANEAB ORFY.. Mach 17, — re The International Brotherhood of | |,

of American workers em- |

yers ; ; Membership is compulsory on ost jobs, and those who join are compelled to buy

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“Any member failing to pay monthly dues and in- | :

national headquarters are in Kansas ‘City, Kas., where | -

group policy written by Occidental he is associated

any insurance company writing group-insurace poli- | | cies on the members. .

extent that their men and machines are capable }

: gg we can increase the operating efficiency “ee the exist. |

benefit is being obtained will then be utilized . ..|I: absenteeism without cause would tend to decrease... |! “A man who would not brave a snowstorm to | reach a plant where he would lean on a machine for |: lack of material would hesitate to stay: home when:

less production of an article important tot the ie soldiers THERE YOU HAYE in a few well-chosen words !

most difficult solution yet offered, but that is perhaps | i the best commentary on the inadequacy of all diag-

Every solution to manpower thus far offered Bas 4 | been in the nature of a panacea presented by parti- 11 sans. But no one-shot sure-cure remedy. is going to

manpower. Cutting the size of the army by. to: million men neither

union which has jurisdiction over|

The rates are $1.25 a month or $15 a year, This|.

AFEE, who “rules. the TO a | is credited with quipping that the sical] letters” of her organization "stand for “Women Are very. =

* some new importance—even though. fe. loap PADIS WIR, be sult, Lieut. McAfee An indication of this new ime’ Portanes Js’ the wimber of books on. the gublulisrs : spring lists that deal with women and their place in today’s world. . Three of these new books are “Sticcessful Women®

¢ | (Isabelle Taves); “Careers in Retailing for Young

The Hoosier Form.

I wholly disagree with what you ‘say, but will x defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire. Chir

“IT SURE IS A SURPRISE—" By A Motorist, Indianapolis

traffic control and such things, but It “1 know a good thing when I see it and I have the idea that our local police ought to take a few lessons in handling: traffic from those M. P's they've -had around town lately. Yes, I know they look a mite awkward, but they pay attention to business and keeping traffic moving which is a lot more than our OWN: COPPers -ever have done. It sure is a surprise to find a man on the corner who is paying attention to what's moving, instead]. of chewing gum and cussing out some poor devil who is trying to make a left turn. On second thought, I've come to the conclusion that ‘our traffic’ cops not only ought to take lessons from the M.P.s, they

{ought to take lessons, period.

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|“TRYING TO GIVE AIL... - |ro win THIS WAR” i BY Jobin Whitcomb, 1506 8. 18th st., New

In re Rick's Indianapolis speech: "For -25 years I have been an admirer of Eddie Rickenbacker as a great hero. I I still am. . Having never been in any division of the military forces I can only say now that I'm trying to give all that I possibly can to the effort to win this war. I've seen times when it would have been the height of folly to have started out in search of a job, and less than five years ago I worked more than eight hour for $1 per day. In those days I was in debt and had considerablé family, Now half of the family is out of my jurisdiction due to having become grown up and gone away from home, one even to the foxholes of Bataan and unknown: places. ‘I don’t know what Rick's activities were during those months in 1931-2-3 when I was down at Hayden frying to raise a few spuds and beans and wondering if prosperity would ever be inclined to poke its nose around that publicized corner. Times never got so bad but what

Me, I don’t know too much about ;

5 imes readers are invited to. -express their . views. in these columns, religious confroversies excluded. Bacause of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.) - 5

near-capacity crowds would go to the races and a little money would go a long way. Also a lot of money would make money faster than a lot of strong men could make a little money ‘working with their hahds—no matter how many hours. | The system of money begetting money so-much more efficiently than labor could beget money had gradually grown. to such proportions | through various means, not the least. of which wag legislation in favor of money. Why not? Were not most of the legislators men who, had surplus money to invest in pub-| lic utilities, industrial stocks, etc? That was one system. The C.I.0. is another kind of system. one that is trying to procure for labor 4 fair share only of that which. it helps produce. Rick didn’t say that we who produce in the factories are producing great profits for the corporations as well as a few other things. He failed to remind you people of Indianapolis that present war contracts were taken on a basis of time and onehalf over 40 hours and double Sime for a seventh eight-hour day, tha the corporations could make hat and that nearly 100 per cant of the men are willing to work seven days per week. : It seems to me that he ‘got more enthusiastic about the overtime pay idea at just about the same time the solons began to feel sorry for the poor boys who had begun to cry about having to worry along on a measly $25,000 anual Het income. Please excuse me now, It wv 9:30 p. m. and I want to ring my time card before 6:30 a. m. tomorrow. You see, I worked last Sunday and if I get in the rest of this week without being 10 minutes late any

morning or having to be absent, |,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

111 get double time for the seventh day. If I don't lose I can't helieve anyone will,

® & @ “THERE ARE THREE SIDES TO THIS QUESTION”: By H. V. Edwards, BR. BR. 2, Spencer Answering the’ letter of Mrs, Guy Palmer «@+ I want to remind her and “Vice in the Crowd” that there are three sides ‘to the question under discussior, rather than two. The third side is that of the consuming public-—the forgotten side. . “As one who had’to quit school at

25 cents a dey, 10 hours a day, six days ¢ week, my sympathies are altogether with labor. But in trying

‘hard to reason out the: many fills from which our own and other

reason. to condemn the tactics of some labor: unions that are being practiced. For too many years, the policy of government was to give capitalized industries everything they warted; the human side was neglected. Then, with a violent swing to the left, organized labor was given a blank check to do whatever it pleased. Violent swings from right to left or in the opposite direction cause confusion ard are hard on the general public. : You may ask what. adverse influence either of those violent 4 | swings has on the consuming pub-. lic, especially when nearly all union labor is engaged in war work. The answer is: = Capitalized industries charge all labor costs and all their taxes onto the price of goods pro~ duced for either government, or the public. All.costs for capital and labor increase the. distribution price to consumers, including union labor itself. Distribution costs at over 50 per cent tthe government's own

the producers of food on the farms and the consuming ‘public in the citias, and those high distribution cosis are an open ‘invitation to food gamblers to take theirs. It: also maces “black marketing” operations profitable: racket. In one necessity the distribution and processing take amounts to around 66 per cent. Union labor, for its own welfare, must elie commence studying finance and economics or the people are going to force out the present administration and put in power an

. {ulira-conservative administration

which would probably make the cure worse than the disease. : : 2. = ‘# : “WHY CAN'T WE HAVE

he| [A TIN CAN DEPOT?”

[By des. N. Basset, 2. BB, Box 1i0-A

1 have . ,. read several letters to

ths Hoosier Forum about saving tin

15 to start working ina factory at}

countries are suffering, I have much/|

figures) takes a heavy toll between}

Women” (Doris McFerran) and “Mrs. Bogard. Goes on Living” (Frances Blackwood). : iva

Some Realistic Advice ha SUCCESSFUL WOMEN” is a collection of

setting on 31 women prominent in fields tiny ”

from the arts and professions to business and even flying. The homely and intimate touches Miss Taves adds to the sketches make the book as interesting for casual readers as for those with eyes on careers. Lo For. the latter, the book is noteworthy for one piece

of realistic advice—women, in order to make their

mark, have to work harder st the job than men in .

| the same field . , . and they have got to have ‘enough

stamina after a hard day's work to go home and “wash out their husbands’ socks.” “Careers in Retailing” is another of Dutton’s cole

lection of books for young Americans. In behind-thes | scenes fashion it outlines a variety of jobs in the

merchandising field . . . jobs that may ascend from tactfully steering a bulging matron away from a size 16 in red on upto the “glamorous” (and 24-hours-a-day) posts of stylist or executive. :

Recipes to Romance

THE STRUGGLE of English women o maintain vt something approaching normal home life in the face of blitzes, rationing and casualty lists forms the theme’ of “Mrs. England Goes on Living.” Frances Blackwood, its author, is ‘a Philadelphia

newspaperwoman . who does a straightforward job of

reporting on women’s interests in everything from

recipes to romance as she saw them in a six-week

visit in England last spring. ~ Aside from a number of treacle-ish moments, as

| when a cockney dialect expresses thanks for America’s

lend-lease’ shipments of food, her book makes inters esting reading now that America faces ie 4 own severe adjustments to wartime living.

SUCCESSFUL: WOMEN, by Tsabe Isabella ves. tion ‘& . Co.,, New York; 320 pp.’ ’ $3.50. Ts = r. Du : CAREERS IN RETAILING FOR UNG “WOMEN, 2 MeFerran. Dutton. ‘311 ov. $200. Yona , by Doria MRS. : BES ON LIVING, ances ckwood, Creative ie go New York; 321 pp. by Fr Bla

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

' NOT LONG AGO I wrote column saying it was about time -* we quit pretending that the ‘girls

who go to USO dances are hero- :, -

ines. I even went so far as to say ‘I though they were lucky girls to: be going to dances where the men ’ * out-number-them. five to one. Well, some of the girls’ who i regularly dance with soldiers ‘weren't convinced by. the column, They still think that dancing with

soldiers fs hard work and that their contribution to

the war effort should not be taken lightly. Here is one junior hostess’ protest:

“All the girls who go to the USO dances, or at- -

least nine-tenths :of them, work all day long and. : .don’t even have time to go home and freshen up be~ fore. the long ordeal. It really is an ordeal. Sure, we get some pleasure out of it, or we wouldn’t go back for more. © - “But you -feel obligated to dane dier who asks you. Sometimes he is so tall that you can’t see over his shoulder, and then again you get 8 clear view of the whole room over his head. : “I assure you that very few of the boys are Fred

Astaires. But they are all willing to walk around the 13

dance floor, landing on your tired, acing feet much too often. he She's a ‘Commande’ .0 “SOMETIMES TVE: wondered i my poor feck would get me home.’ “You talked about the men outnumbering he’ women as though that were all to the good. I assure

you that since: I've become: a junior hostess, I could go through.a Commando raid with the greatest of

pase, » Lh hig bumped into, ‘pushed around, and Mberally wn from. a Sa a es take it from me, the soldiers, sailors and marines ar really being well fed. They're healthy. specimens— J hard as rocks. One girl I know got a broken tar a reward for an evening’s dancing at a Uso “And then after all this fun, how do we girls get home? In limousines? Nope. We go home | on the bumpy busses and streetcars, and many of us then have several dark, lonely blocks to walk alone, Does all this sound like such a ionic?” sya adds ‘Well, no it doesn’t. Maybe the girls who mend their evenings dancing with service- men are heroines after all. Nope, it’s probably nét a picnic. Not near: as much fun as the plenics our boys had ab Guadal ganal and New Guinea,

To the Point— ONLY FOOLISH people make money 40 they never see it again, . ‘ b > + ® ® [5 2 2a BEING BROKE is no > Joke—yet: ts write home about. 2

CHEER UP! may find a couple a

those things Jou | ve missing ever since fall housecleaning SORT

$ ® * TP YOU MAKE good ue of tie ote on aon ing you can get by on the points.

IF YOU WANT to see our ehip come 1, 0 0

> to the bank—and buy war bonds.

. . ® : : THE BEST ACTING in the movies is done fellow who smiles when you sit on his hat, GERMANY GETS relief from the R. A. P. ing only dure the wonths Javing 8 9)

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