Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1943 — Page 2
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Endorsement of War Benefits Plan Seen as Indi-
cating an Alliance .
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer
CHICAGO, Aug. 16—The American Federation of Labor, through its executive council in session here, is making passes toward an alliance with the big “soldier vote” which will come out of this war as probably the most powerful force in na“ional politics. The signs of this are in the coun‘cil’s complete endorsement of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recent declaration in favor of a comprehensive scheme of federal benefits for the armed forces when they are mustered out, plus a declaration that the A. F. of L. “assures our men in uniform it is determined to do everything in its power to protect their seniority rights, to facilitate their return to their jobs, and to give them every opportunity to make up for lost time in seeking economic and ‘social advancement.” ~ How this pledge will mesh with the A. F. of L.'s closed-shop policies, under which it has built up an alltime membership peak of more than six million by gathering in: war emergency workers, is for the future to show. Some’ predictions are
there will be a terrific conflict if those who never belonged to a union find closed-shop contracts
-| barring their way to Jobs.
Other Evidence ‘Another: evidence of. - flirtation
gram submitted to the executive
Legion posts said to be made ‘up of A. F. of L. members . exclusively, calling for a campaign to unify organized labor and the soldiers of world war II. One aim of the cam‘paign would be to combat the idea that union members at home have been living in ease on high pay while the soldiers on many fronts around‘ the world have been suffering and dying. This program will be submitted to the A. F. of L. convention at Boston in “October, and with executive council backing is sure of adoption. “The Boston convention, according to indications here, will be a reaffirmation of the policies under which the A. F. of L. was operating when it was dismembered in 1935 by John L. Lewis, through the withdrawal of the United Mine Workers and the founding of the C. 1. O.
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turned down the application of the mine workers ‘for immediate reaffiliation, and the main question here seems to be why Mr. Lewis doesn’t withdraw his applicaiton, in view of the certainty of a convention debate that would produce much unwelcome publicity for both
They also have made it clear that the C. I. O. cannot expect to write the terms of any reunion. In other words, the A. F. of L. is riding high, wide and fairly handsome. One result of this is that no changes are to be expected in the officers to be elected in the Boston convention. There have been rumors that William Green might be retired as president. But the executive /board members .are said to. take the view that ‘a change in the presidency at this time would
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HARNESS ‘SHOCKED’ ‘BY GAS RATION CUT
KOKOMO, Ind. Aug. 16 (U. P.). —Rep. Forest A. Harness, Kokomo Republican, said today the decision of Harold L. Ickes in imposing a 25 per cent cut in gasoline rations, | had “shocked and disappointed” him, Harness asserted that Ickes had led congressmen to believe he was working with them to prevent the cut. He said a factual report had not been made and the reduction was ordered “purely on the basis of sharing the misery which the famine-stricken eastern seaboard area has been suffering.” “We: believe that our potential production, plus the normal new production which could and should be developed, would be sufficient for all our real civilian and military needs, enormous as those needs
are,” Harness said.
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TENPTS AFL
As Russian troops swarmed into Kharkov to wrest that city
Soviet forces encircled Kharkov and thrust toward he Bryansk and Soviet army offensives were gaining momentum in Poltava.
POSTAL DEFICIT AT LOWEST IN 24 YEARS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. (U. P.. — Postmaster, General Frank OC. Walker yesterday reported an operating deficiency of $3,543,122 for the postofice department during the fiscal year 1943, the smallest deficit since 1919. Revenues for the year, he said,
totalled $961,059,690, or an increase of $101,242,199 over 1942, with expenditures rising $92,960,135 to total $964,602,812. The overall deficit for last year was $11,825,185. Factors preventing the department from showing a surplus, he said; were the heavy volume of penalty, postage-free mail uséd by government departments and agencies, some 2,000,000,000 pieces of mail handled postage-free for members of the armed forces and salary in-
creases authorized by congress.
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AUTHOR W. D. FRANK WED, TO SECRETARY
RENO, Nev, Aug. 16 (U. P.).— Waldo D. Frank, 53, author and lecturer, married his secretary, Jean Klempler, 26, Saturday soon after he was granted a-divorce from Alma M. Frank, New York. y Frank was beaten in his hotel room in Argentina last year during a lecture tour by alleged pro-
|Board to Meet Wednesday
To Select Successor To Neal.
The Marion County Welfare board will meet Wednesday to select a di-
MAJ. SEVAREID GETS STATE DRAFT POST
Maj. Paul A. Sevareid, formerly of the Minnesota state selective service headquarters, has heen as. signed to the classification division of the Indiana state draft headquarters, Robinson Hitchcock, state selecti rvice director, announced
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last night that America is not “defeated.” Capt. Etsuzo Kurihara, new Japanese navy propaganda chief, was making his first speech since taking over the job and he was recorded by the U. S. foreign broadcast intelligence service. “The counter-offensive of the. American’ forces at the present time in the Solomons and New Guinea is extremely furious and the fighting spirit of the men and officers of the American " forces is also excellent,” he said. ‘“They do not give our forces even a moment of rest. However, the ‘counter-offensive of the enemy is what we had anticipated.”
CITES SHORTAGE OF BRITISH SCIENTISTS
LONDON, Aug. 18 (U. P).— Britain's aeronautical industry fis suffering gn acute shortage of scientific and technical men and if the industry is to be maintained at the proper level, “special measures” must be taken, a white paper released by the select committee of national expenditure, said today. The committee reconimended that men of high academic, scientific and technical attainments should not
Suggested formation of a committee
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Bowles “fhdioates hg Half-Gallon Is Most ‘to Be Expected.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U.P). —~ Eastern motorists, even though they" abide strictly by the pleasure driving ban the rest of this month, today. could hope for only another half gallon of gasoline a week— possibly sometime edrly in September, The prospect of the limited ine crease in the value ofg“A” ratio cards—only one-third of the hopedeg ¥ for boost back to the former. A-card
{value of three gallons per week-—
was advanced last night in a radio address by Acting Price Adminige trator Chester Bowles;
Bowles said the one-gallon 'dé« crease in the gasoline rations of Mid-Western motorists—in effect to day—should save about barrels a week which it is hoped can be moved East to end the pleasure driving ban Sept. 1.
gallon more a week for Eastern ' motorists came as a disappointment to those who expected that Petro« leum Administrator Harold L. Ickes’ promise of “equalization” between the East and West would lead toraising of Eastern “A”
to study the problem of training
technicians to fill the gaps.
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