Washington and the Nation
Washington and THE Nation Capital Madhouse —WMC Claims gbor Shortages, WPB Says No By JONATHAN STOUT •fLf WASHINGTON, D. C—St. Elisabeth's Hospital ¦sy is the local nut house around here . . ....
...The question being asked here Is how much Stalin's opposition to the rebirth of the European free labor union movement has to do with putting enough pressure on Prime Minister Churchill and British foreign policy in order to result in such a wierd p" •formance as Sir Walter Citrine lias lieen putting on lately on this subject...
...We have all worked to win this war...
...Ivaa Subasitch as an honorary member of the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans...
...So far neither Donald Nelson nor manpower csar McNutt has indicated who is going to pay the expenses of workers who are thus forced to leave their *°o>s neighborhoods to go to distsnt cities to accept J»os forced on them by the labor drart order...
...I—WPB Chairman Donald Nelson gives industry the signal for a swift return to peace production by revoking limitations on the use of aluminum and magnesium and says he expects to do the same shortly for steel and copper...
...In December the AFL sent Watt to London for the meeting of the governing body of the ILO...
...Croix Avis and Paul E. Joseph of the West End News have been sent to jail...
...What '.' I'm repeating myself...
...As Worked out by the District Labor-Management Committee, the two-week period from May 15 to June -will be use-1 as the base period...
...The meeting of the CIO Political Action Committee, here last week focussed the spotlight on an aspect of the wage problem that it rapidly assuming critical proportions...
...WASHINGTON'S labor and government circles are •till burring with the surprise occasioned by receipt •f news from London that the International Federation •t Trade Unions, of which Sir Walter Citrine is presi-•*m\ in its recent council meeting adopted the recommendation that: "The reconstruction of trade union organisations and *• restoration of trade union rights ft all countsies is ***+t the first steps toward human liberties and demo-SwMc institutions...
...Tot* ten declared...
...were conducting their campaign agsinst the Little Steel formula because OP A had failed to hold down living costs to the level of May, 1942, Administration leaden were building up a false picture of labor's wages by continually pointing to "take home" pay envelopes...
...The two newspapers expressed public opinion that such a procedure Is contrary to American jurisdiction and typical of Nasi rule...
...We gave the soldier hand-outs...
...Murray expressed vehement dissatisfaction with tin economic policies of the War...
...What the latter deliberately obscured with their talk of take-home wages waa that it was largely fattened by overtime...
...FlRST area in the country to work nut details for me WMC Labor Draft Plan has l*cn the District of Columbia which is rated a No...
...The very name given to the measure which on Wednesday was sent up to the President for his signature is significant of a new point of view...
...HkKK'S an interesting item on Dr...
...Negro Leaders Score U.S...
...Then came the Pliladelphia sessions, and you ran imagine the surprise of Bob Watt when Sir Walter Citrine arose and furiously fought the resolu.lon that the United Nations help rehabilitate the European free trade union movements, especially in Germany...
...Indignation ran so high that the district attorney withdrew from the case and another had to be sum* moned from Puerto Rico, white guards Marched all per* sons attending the hurriedly arranged trial," Mr...
...Well, never mind then . . (hut's enough for this neck...
...That gets the idea across that labor shortages for war traduction must be pretty critical...
...The Hiillthn of March 17, 1944, lists Dr...
...The ten million returning fighters will be a large part of our population, and they will be scattered througout the trades, professions and industries...
...It is understood that the District Committee has Kre*d that three refusals will be the limit permitted • worker...
...Coupled with the estimates made this week by WPB Chairman Donald Nelson in testifying before the Truman Committee that about 200,000 workers will have to lie shifted from their present jobs to wink in foundries, forges and the West Coast waterfront, it is believed by WMC •mcials that placing a ceiling on the number of workers permitted other establishments will force workers who have been laid off by cutbacks and war contract cancellations to accept jobs offered them by the USES in the foundries, forges and on the West Coast waterfront...
...Ivan Suhasitch, the new Premier of Yugoslavia, appointed l>.\ King Petei unilci the pressure of Winston Churchill...
...What he wants—and what everyone wants for him—is the opportunity to lead a happy and productive life...
...When they marched on Washington some of them were fired on within sight of the national capitol...
...Then imagine the next surprise when last week the report of the J FTC meeting arrives here arid Sir Walter Citrine is found supporting the idea of rehabilitating the free trade union movements in the Axis-smashed countries...
...Colonial Rule With all newspaper editors in jail, the native peopk at St...
...And so the argument went on interminably, with the public confused as labor talked about hourly wags rates and Administration leaders talked about weekly take-home...
...A few years later thousands of veterans were unemployed...
...It is the general belief that some sinister arrange* merit was made by those who represent the upper class to speed up an early acquittal for the defendant wha was given a trial without jury and acquitted five day* later by Federal Judge Herman E. Moore, according te Mr...
...Uprising Feared in Virgin Islands...
...Both editors, Canute Brod* hurst of the St...
...Subasitch was appointed Premier of the Yugoslavia cabinet in May...
...This measure and others like it should do much to prevent one sort of curse that has followed other wars...
...At the same time Nelson authorizes manufacturers to start building working models for postwar pro-auction...
...To this end the bill provides for hospitalization and aids to health, for education and industrial training, for help in finding a job, for unemployment insurance, for credit required for going into business...
...Louis, and when the worker refuses it, offer hiin • job in the DEF foundry in Detroit, and when he refuses that offer him a job in the GHI foundry in Sheboygan...
...It may act as a model for other areas, all of which must get their local details woi keil out by July 1, when iht labor draft goes into effect...
...Elisabeth's Hospital ¦sy is the local nut house around here . . . that is, iSPf ^socially...
...That gets the idea across that there are no labor shortages for war production, that the critical shortage looming up in jolts...
...Then we still thought in crude Civil War terms...
...The G. I. Bill of Rights has been criticised by AFL and CIO leaders and liberals as inadequate and poorly planned...
...Elisabeth's high Xs) and the Mat of this town, pfsr iMtaiMa—if your sanity can stand it—try adding apjM following itema of the past week into something mm and sensible: 1—Under the new labor draft regulations, the local War Manpower Commission sets up labor priorities for aiasjafeis snd the rules under which workers must take jess assigned to them by the U. S. Employment Service...
...The Virgin Islands organisation operate ing as a single unit met yesterday to demand intervention by the Department of Justice and Interior...
...They cannot, in the end, be treated separately...
...Unofficially, the average normal-, skW visitor might find- it tough to say what's the ¦Seats) between those inside St...
...I Cynical minds are pointing out that there is nothing, therefore, to prevent the USES from asking a worker In Washington to take a job in the ABC foundry in St...
...That resolution was unanimously adopted by the 3'i members present, including Sir Walter Citrine...
...We call it the "G...
...In answer to Citrine's request for cooperation, Watt at the London meeting introduced a resolution asking the ILO to draft a recommendation to the United Nations to that effect...
...At the CIO Political \ction Committee meeting last week, CIO President Philip Murray blasted government stabilisation agencies and urged a fight for higher wages to compensate workers for earnings lost due to cutbacks and reductions in hours of work...
...I critical labor shortage area...
...Whatever life we all have will be the life that they have...
...Employers, for instance...
...It is a deed for which we have blushed ever since...
...The veteran is not made the object of charity...
...Today we are no longer thinking in terms of handouts...
...The Communist pri-Tito propaganda machine in the Culled States, headed by I.ouis Adamic and calling itself the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, with offices at 1010 Park Avenue, New York, issues a propaganda sheet called The Bulletin...
...Labor Board, the Offlei of Price Administration, the Office of War Mobilization, and the Office of Economic Stabilisation...
...The cablegram received by Totten calls for help front the mainland...
...Will nof be permitted to employ more workers thnii they had on their payrolls durinjr the base period...
...But he expressed continued satisfaction with President Itoosevelt, * * * Sl\ KLIZAHKTH'S HOSPITAL is the Iwal nut Iiojjh* aiound here...
...By treating them fairly from the beginning we shall be doing what we can to prevent their forming- into a separate group for self-defense...
...An Editorial— G. I. Bill of Rights aN this matter of dealing with returned war veterans we have come a long way since the last war...
...But it is important that we should not henceforth be a nation divided—with veterans on one side and civilian war-workers on the other...
...It's either that or go to work in a foundry...
...He charged that "the trouble reached the boiling point on or about May 31 when Andrew Thompson, 60, a poor native described as quiet, unassuming and law* abiding, was shot and instantly killed by Harry Beiitty, another native of the upper class said to be at tht instigation of two white continentals...
...And with that elimination goes a deflated pay envelope, and the weekly take-home is dropping to the point where it is no longer even within view of f Jod, clothing and rent prices...
...Totten...
...When the AFL, CIO and Railroad Brotherhood...
...The industrial picture today is witnessing the virtual elimination of overtime...
...At the same time a resolution was adopted inviting the Soviet Union to send delegates to the ILO meeting in Philadelphia...
...Under the district rules, nothing will hapten the first two refusal, but the third refusal can bring penalties...
...I. Bill of Rights...
...U»t fall, Sir Walter Citrine cabled the AFL, asking Utter to cooperate with the British Trade Union Congress in a move to send representatives of the British and American trade union movements into the liberated areas of Europe to help In the reconstruction of the shattered free labor unions in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Poland...
...Totten stated that "unrest and dissatisfaction' have been brewing for a long time due to the prat tics of Governor Charles Harwood and Administratis Harry Taylor of administering to the needs of the selfish few representing the upper class who oppress the masses...
...But however Inadequate it may be, passing this bill in advance, so as to be ready for the returning Midlers, la a good beginning at least as a preventive measure...
...Virgin Islands, U. S. A., are threatening a general uprising against a Hitler rule which deniei freedom of speech and justice to the masses, according to a cablegram received by Ashley L. Totteii, President of the American Virgin Islands Civic Association ana* recognized leader of the six affiliated units representing 10,000 or more native voters in New York...
...WW occasioned the surprise in the Capitol is that *i« is almost exactly the wording of the resolution offered by Boh Watt, AFL delegate, at the Internstional Office meeting in Philadeuphia last month, and Pto* was defeated titer Sir Walter Citrine led the *g>in*t it • There is a strange story connected with this, and it fif°*» • light on the recent conduct of Sir Walter citrine...
...This is the sort of-help which young men roost need . It is, moreover, specifically designed to compensate for the disadvantages connected with being pulled out civil life just at the period when they are getting their first toehold in the industrial structure...
...Croix...
...The District WMC Labor-Management Committee has Mas bus/ this week and expects to be able to announce by Monday the circumstances under which a worker «y be permitted to'refuse a job the USES want him s» take, how many times he can refuse and what can he done with him if he does refuse...
...Those who actually faced the hazards of 'conflict suffered most and will still suffer a disadvantage caused by the disruption of their livei...
...The main object ia to give him a fair break, a chance to reestablish himself when he comes back to civilian life...
...Oli . . . you mean that's where you came in...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 26
