55 N. U. PROFS ASK BILLION TO ASSIST ALLIES
55 N. U. Profs Ask Billion to Assist Allies Favor Repeal of Johnson Act; Big Loan to Britain, France CHICAGO. 111.—Fifty-five members of the faculty of Northwestern university urged congress last...
...111.—Fifty-five members of the faculty of Northwestern university urged congress last week to pass measures extending aid to Great Britain and Fiance...
...I. H. Hull of the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Assn...
...Maytag Bows to NLRB Findings WASHINGTON, D. C—Settlement of the dispute between the Maytag Co...
...All subscriptions whether for a 10-week trial or for a year, count eauallv...
...1 Bessie M. Thorp, Portland, Ore...
...The permissive amendment of the neutrality act, he added, would facilitate volunteering by Americans...
...Dearborn Pleads for WPA Projects WASHINGTON, D. C.—A delegation headed by Dean Ned H. Dearborn, vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL) called at the white house last week and made an earnest plea against reductions In the WPA education projects...
...Accordingly, at the present time, when the British commonwealth of nations and the Republic of France aer engaged in a desperate struggle of independence against an aggressor that threatens to destroy the peace of the world, we urge you to use your influence in congress in order to secure the enactment of legislation before the adjournment of the third session of the seventy-sixth congress to effect the following : (1) The repeal of the Johnson act...
...Jobless Women in Civilization Talk WASHINGTON, D. C—Less frequently mentioned aspects of "western civilization" were publicized here as women WPA workers and wives of WPA workers and unemployed told their story to a "jury" of prominent women, including Mrs...
...The refinery employs 60 workers with an annual payroll of $100,000...
...Arthur Capper <R., Kan...
...The latter three lynchlngs were allegedly staged by the Ku Klux Klin The letter recalled a report published by Sen...
...Twenty quiet lynchings occurred in Mississippi alone in 1939, the Natl...
...Later the committee revealed that he charged that Russia and Germany "maintain large, well-organized spy systems in this country, getting military and Industrial secrets...
...of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching that the first whole year without a single lynching ended on May 8, the Intl...
...Labor Relations Board...
...All European coal shipments in 1938 went to France...
...Quoting figures assembled by the bituminous coal division, Ickes said the U. S. shipped 112,338 gross tons of bituminous coal to European nations in March 1040, as compared to an average of only 833 gross tons a month in 1938 and no shipment at all in 1939 prior to September, the month the war started...
...2 the grant or gift of $1,000,000,000 to Great Britain and France for the Immediate purchase of aircraft and aircraft equipment, and (3) the amendment of neutrality legislation to permit the enlistment of volunteers for the armed forces of Great Britain and France...
...The skimming plant is one of the most modern of its kind and provision has been made for the addition of a cracking unit as the...
...An intercnange of power between Bonneville and Seattle is to be established near Renton, on the outskirts of Seattle...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...This week's list folows: G. S. Wilson, Detroit, Mich........5 G. F. Neikirk, Forest City, III...
...The compainy further agree that 36 workers would be reinstated without prejudice and that the company will pay $5000 to workers found by an NLRB trial examiner to have been discriminated against...
...Assn...
...PAUL, Minn.—Organized labor has thrown its full support behind the St...
...Labor Aids Sales In Co-op Store ST...
...Robert Wagner (D., N. Y.) and Sen...
...Power deliveries begin under this contract when Bonneville's Western Washington transmission system, now under construction, pushes into the Puget Sound area...
...need develops," said Ralph Booker, manager of the refinery...
...1 Say 5 Lynch in gs In Lynchless Year NEW YORK CITY—Describing as false a recent statement by Exec...
...Johnson Act Repeal Prof...
...In March 1940...
...Jessie D. Ames of the Assn...
...Kenneth Colegrove of the political science department explained why repeal of the Johnson act was proposed...
...Vernon, Ind., where it has the double advantage of being close to the newly discovered Gibson county oil field and yet can get crude oil by barge from the Texas field if necessary...
...1 W. S. Martin, Altadena, Cal.......5 E. J. Corigan, Calais, Me.......5 Mrs...
...Result: The store's sales have increased 20 per cent in two weeks...
...Honor Roll THE Progressive in Its "Honor Roll" column prints the names of persons who have sent in one or more subscriptions to this publication...
...The message .mplied that the proposed action, if taken soon enough, would be the wisest alternative to sending an American army to Europe...
...S. A. Chase, Atascadero...
...He said: "Economists feel that the rapid liquidation of American securities which have been held by British, French, Dutch and Belgian owners is depressing American markets...
...Great Britain has taken over American securities from private owners in exchange for government bonds and is liquidating the former to obtain foreign exchange in order to pay for aircraft and equipment...
...They told of large families huddled Into one or two basement rooms, of how they live on $4 a week, of children going barefoot to school or studying away from school because they had no clothes, of starvation and disease, and of cuts in WPA wages and WPA rolls...
...for the Advancement of Colored People found...
...Paul eligible to display the union store card, which is Indicative of fair and honest dealings with Local 2, RCIPA," said Local Pres...
...Repeal of the Johnson act would permit credit arrangements which would make for a more orderly liquidation and help stabilize markets, and at the same time would prevent the hysteria produced by too rapidly falling markets...
...AFL...
...and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (CJO) Wi-.ich resulted, in 1938, in a bitter strike and the Invoking of martial law, was announced here by the Nat'l...
...Exports to Argentina, Brazil and Chile accounted for practically all of the increases in South American shipments...
...Shipments of coal to South America also have increased heavily since the European war...
...Five deans and the president emeritus were among the signers of telegrams to the senators and representatives at large from Illinois and the representative from the district which includes Evanston...
...Says 5th Column Here Is Menace WASHINGTON, D. C—If a witness before the Dies committee investigating un-American activities last week Is to be believed, Russia and Germany have established a "fifth column" m this country which is a real menace...
...Paul Co-op store, only shop In town to display the union card of the Retail Clerks Intl...
...Shipments since the war have been going to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Russia and Iceland...
...Protective Assn...
...Owned and operated by the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperatives, the refinery represents a total investment, of $330,000 of which $200,000 was for the refinery proper, $100,000 for a 25-mile crude oil pipe line system, and $30,000 in transport trucks and a truck base...
...This Is the only grocery store in the city of St...
...American mines shipped 148,441 gross tons to South American ports as compared to shipments averaging 18.494 gross tons a month In 1938...
...Second Oil Co-op Refinery Begins INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The second co-op oil refinery in the U. S. has already swung into operation and is producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate and tractor fuel from 2,500 barrels of crude oil each 24 hours, said Gen...
...The committee called Dozenberg to testify publicly, but he insisted this would place him in personal jeopardy...
...Paul Raver, Bonneville administrator, linking the city to the Bonneville network...
...Here's leiegram The telegram read as follows: "The undersigned members of the faculty of Northwestern university believe that the foreign policy of the United States shoud follow the principles that an American army shall not operate in Europe, that the national defense of our shores shall at all times be adequate and that the United States shall cooperate with all States of good-will in the maintenance of peace...
...Labor Defense stated that there were at least five lynchlngs in that period...
...They proposed a grant of $1,000,-000,000 for immediate purchase of aircraft and new legislation to permit credits and the enlisment of American volunteers for armed service with the Allies...
...Nicholas Dozenberg, who was born In Latvia and who claims to be a former Russuian Ogpu agent, is said to have placed facts before the committee in secret session that shocked its members...
...charging that a new quiet lynching technique has been adopted throughout the south since introduction of the present anti-lynch bill...
...The company and the union signed a stipulation, agreed to by the board, declaring that there will be no interference with the union, the union will be recognized as exclusive bargaining agent, and the company will meet with the union and bargain in good faith...
...3 Mary E. Houghton, Fayette Peoria...
...Ray Grecngard...
...In the period covered by your survey there were at least five lynch victims—two Negro, Texas Red' and Richard Johnson, and three white, Sarah Rawls, Benton Ford and Isaac Gaston," the ILD said in a letter to Miss Ames...
...4 Wayne Snider, Bloomington Ind.'.3 W. J. Lovorn, Portales, N. Mex...
...Each member of organiied labor should make it his duty to patronize this store, for when doing so he is loyal not only to the labor movement, but also to himself...
...Coal Exports to Europe Increase WASHINGTON, D. C. — War - torn Europe has been providing a market for bituminous coal produced in the U. S. for the first time in many years, according to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes...
...The plant is at Mt...
...Seattle Part of Bonneville Plan SEATTLE, Wash—Seatle has joined the Bonneville generating and transmitting system, the department of the interior announced...
...of Newton, la...
...A ten-year contract has been signed by Mayor Arthur B. Langlie of Seattle and Dr...
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