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lering for a second front but personally intend to have no part of it, the dodger does not explain, The letter doesn’t even say the sallors were members of the union, but, of course, they could have been, either willingly or under compulsion, and it seems a feeble : boast to say that a lot of men turned to and helped TEs ial er an 8 dstend thelr Wes, tor 2 ie ww : i : v that edi of SUPREME court ruling this week appears to be the (he Word-Telegram dics do right In declining to ‘turning point in what might be described as the | Publish the letter and for reason I thought elical or bin ‘era in the life of the ti jad ad t 50 your attention and then. kick the

abor relations act. Remember the two Smiths and Madden? : or * Judge Learned Hand of the second circuit court held | They Might Be Court-Martialed

following passage of the Wagner law, was contending | 3 ur 0 1° ft taking any

Srhole labor-union subject, or pay a fine or go to jail, or | only difference is that I can't give their names.

fac ican ship. Hee.

use of such threats by some employers greatly con-| uch bringing about the Wagner act, which, | He'll Compare Mash Notes

F co-operation between labor and capital, not to | ™uch to the disappointment of the navy men.”

if em oyers and employees can't talk frankly | men who hold none.

munist front.

executives,

ian invader and famine. Unity may be the price of [Lost Deferment val. Bunt that has not put an end to the violent oe Appeal

south, This week American bombers began destroying | His employer, engaged 100 per cent in war work, aphe railway network at Skoplje, the northern key to that | Pseled his case on the ground of essentiality but he,

‘Vardar route. Marshal Smuts of South Africa, as a then was. kind enough to recommend a man to take ber of the British war cabinet, hints that the allies | the vacated job.

Ey : told by th » th Curran - Italy have cleared the airfields of Foggia and Ports of | ta) “that unless he was mdacted he would nares mab | and Brindisi for a trans-Adriatic assault on the | isfactorily explain his deferment to his son in later

years.” 3

But it is unwise to risk an allied invasion either from fie southeast or from the west, much less a pincers miove-

. ment from both directions, until the Greek guerrillas can We the People

white among themselves and the Jugoslav armies can get

together. By Ruth Millett

€ » » . THUS, Gen. Broz (Tito) of the Jugoslav partisan army THE TALK fumed to war pm, the American gift of four bombers to his rival, Jorkers and what 8 tejriie thing -Mihailovitch, of the government-in-exile, on the ground the partisan army “alone is fighting the enemy.” While says Mihailovitch is a Fascist dealing with the Nazis, ailovitch says Tito is a Communist under Moscow orders, © In Greece, civil war is reported between the Elas

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Partisan (or Red) army and Gen. Zervas’ guerrillas, follow- _ The Browns, Suan 1 similar strife. between the Elas and.a third band under hele Samal a Just Psarros. two of them, live in a nine-room & Here is an immediate and very practical problem for 20 Intention of ever listing. one

the Moscow conference of foreign ministers. If the big| They drive two ~ three agree on a Balkan policy, they may be able to force | cars, just as they did in peace time—though, of Jtersal unity in Jugoslavia and Greece, at least for the am

. SUBSIDIES COST MONEY “THE SMITHS, who agreed that it Was a disgrace

is another reason, in addition to the potential in-| give the same kind of parties they used to give, fringement on the freedom of the press, why ' the | serving the same expensive liquor—and so far as

Bankhead bill to subsidize the newspapers with paid an outsider con see, haven't denied Shemasives any ar 8OV= | ty bonds. ernmental advertising should be slapped down. The ex- a 30 day a was the most upset over pense, we mean. al Wt 4 ui und 418 Suse Wm i) Nar Dispis Senator Bankh is talking about a mere 25 or 30 Buying. IDE ot on dollars a year, which some people regard as chicken re tof pions footwear. The _ Bowaiays. But 1 is still 25 or 30 million dollars—and hasn't Sugsed hay to go in for cheap clothes—and 80 naive as to think that, once congress had set | Probably won : on the Ryu i presently be doubled and “hn aps ah Dow wt en ee er souDica al redoubl : pay checks. Usually are than ‘Already, some of the smaller radio stations have been | ihe. War workers, and Woukin't think of voluntarily 3} in a word: Af the newspapers are to og front SUSING theif wi Living Sundaes, to their duty | the public trough, the broadcasters want to queeze | set the war workers an example in the way of And pretty soon, no doubt, th i rier thrift, = Anc / soon e magazines

tone of voice whether the government athlete’s foot or something, and if not rom the gravy train. And the bill- T irect-mail folks. And. if these,|

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hat an employer had a right under the constitutional guar-| THE LETTLR is credited to T A. Potter Jr, Lt. . antee of free speech to talk with his employees about union | (Jg) U.8.N.R.. and this prompts me to observe that sffairs. The supreme court refused to interfere with Judge | although it is all right for any officer or enlisted man ~ Hand's decision. : of the navy, coast guard, army or marines to write

x 3 : in praise of any merchant crew or of the union, th . That under any normal circumstances shouldn't sound | gon dare -_— for publication sbout cases in rind

go strange or so unusual, but there was a time not so long | cipline or other misconduct. They might not be |- go, in the evangelical era to which we refer, when the | court-martialed for it, but they think they would be

i N.M. U. has no monopoly on letters from in the that an employer had better keep his trap shut about the | nghting services for I have had eh rane oil The

. H tionery, al both. No matter how decent or how corrupt the union, Wosidey TTY. Stal - on et 4D,

the employer was supposed to be seen and not heard. [ships in a South Pacific base, at a very critical time

{In the case just decided it was held that an employer {20d place. There were not enough stevedores so the 3 aL army and tehed in and did ‘well with \ to express himself so long as he does not threaten | yo ary mgd Which ors Joreiatiens ut they

. That, we think, makes much sense. bad trouble the minute they tackled their first Amer- (| Fel de es : , I wholly di

a.Ws-Sunday;t he whites, “0- tise créw wire-igh defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire,

course an | oyer should not be allowed to threaten working and they fried to prevent our bosun’s mates

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ree With chat you say, but will

‘an employee t joining a union. That principle is eum Working the Winches, That was at a time when eS . erican marines were dying at Guadalcanal for in any law guaranteeing collective bargaining. |iack of those materials which were aboard this ship. hn ii AED 10 as By Evereil Fosnol, 1124 N. Tuxedo sb, Today a fellow worker and I were discussing Wendell Willkie's speech, agreeing that he presented a fairly outline of what should be done ose elected to office next year, they Republican or Democrat, I surprised te hear this friend the papers carried a full

an) flaws, represents great progress for.labor.| “THE PROBLEM was solved by telling the union

Are not lily-pure and neither are labor leaders, | man that if he didn't get Sherhall back in His eatin bE : and stay there the officer charge would look the laws are necessary, to restrain undue power. | oiner way and anything the stevedoring satlors did

the public-welfare object of such restraints should | to Him would be out of his control. He did go below,

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on, be able to have the production which must be | for that, but, as T say, I have to protect my corre-

d spondents from the wrath of a politieal administra« if'we are to pull ourselves out of the muck of war tion which would rather shield shirkers and sabo-

-and taxes. | ters, provided they hold union cards, than fighting

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pgether, with threats and coercions and other rough stuff | Another interesting communication comes from & fred, then God help both industry and labor, which after | granted successive. detouments. ty oor or rarint

Hl, in the large sense, are twins—quarreling twins at times, | partner, Second-Front Joe Curran, the vicarious com- |TeAI06: the part explaining risk

capital and free enterprise. Now,

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed, Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times, The Times assumes no responsie bility for the return ot manu. scripts and cannot ‘enter cor respondence regarding them.)

" |port will be found among the patriotic white masses for the state-

To be sure there will be those not representatives of rank and file Americans who will, in the face of

Strength to the C. I. O. and all other forces who would unite the

‘twins nevertheless. mando who is president of this sector of the Com= |; hy sctimation, The Times did

Just what the Republicans will do,

The supreme court ruling should do much to clear the Comrade Curran, you may recall, recently took & {lay “u Sy

toward that better understanding. : summer vacation cruise to North Africa, timing the oe ride, as he said, so as to avoid unfavorable weather, : and because he thus violated the requirements of the draft law, the appeal board moved in and canceled

BALKAN CIVIL WARS : his latést defesment, to the great horror of Comrade as the western allies are ready to give them military i Lagat, ot :

named the -pre~ conditions to a fine world fof us, but, if he can find more than a|® , handful of Republicans who will|rest every trip, every round trip. We

aid, Jugoslavia and Greece are torn by internal strife.| Of. course Comrade Curran: won't ‘actually be Husk Ive Gn HAR -WHp 18 Liot sisaid

se Balkan nations have two terrible enemies—the Ger<| drafted. That will be taken care of in Washington.

occurrence for the opponents of the Car, and a policeman on the present administration to forget [Carn Tia lovis very nd for a5 of. there is a war going on. The ficer thing I tha on [one man takes all on his shoulders scious of it is when they pop up to|!0 respect others, Mr. Dunwoody, I obstruct the winning of it and the peace that should follow.

f . BUT THIS fellow who actually was taken by the nestic- feuds. Eni Lh <7... .... -|same board thai declared that Curran’s Communist . Already Anglo-American forces have moved into some | activity ‘was “essential” and “vital” to the war effort, oF “Dodecanese islands : A . | reports that he was turned down in his application Si the ] ese is » Which control the Aegean for deferment although his wife was undergoing an

time we can tell that they are con.

“MR. DUNWOODY, I AM FOR YOU 100 PER CENT”

too, lost the decision and a member of the board

tr By will ir : : ’ “And,” says the letter, “a father in this camp was will invade the Balkans before winter. Eisenhower's forces To Mz. Dunwoody:

this day of violence, men forget respect to others. - We as people ‘funiverse must take the Bible our daily thought of good only. man has defiled his body

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nance was passed to no smoking on cars and busses, but people must be

laws must be made and enforced.

As a motorman on the E. iichigan car line, there could be an ar

good man and faithful servant.

Brooks Baker, Motorman #18, E. Michi-| “NEGROES WILL BE FAVORABLY INFLUENCED”

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the juke joints, and the. NOWADAYS WOMEN read the ration book and |

anti-Fascist peoples!

“WILLKIE IS CAPABLE OF SELF-EXPRESSION” By Percy Vere, Indianapolis - Few men in public life have ever spoken with such forthright clearness as Wendell Willkie, man has ever evoked such seemingly {irresistable impulses among editors and commentators to garble his remarks, in a vain attempt to make it appear that he said what they wish he had said, instead of what he actually said.

Now we may take it for granted that Mr. Willkie is quite capable

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THE WAR production effort has seen a tremendous increase in the demand by government agencies for statistics on businesses of all sorts. The complaints of office managers over the time they were forced to spend in gathering data for reports to the government 1s now an old story.

Most of the resentment has been heightened hy a general belief that the effort was ‘wasted because the statistics would never do anybody any good. The grand totals may have been useful to some few top policy-making officials, but the members of the ine dustries out in the country never expected to see them, Government agencies were, in fact, in the position of sitting on a lot of business data which are now bee coming increasingly valuable in considering recone

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