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40 & 8
• • In World War I, when American doughboys
traveled to the front it was in small French freight
cars. Each car carried 40 men and 8 horses. Today
with the world locked in a war which makes 1 look
like an infant, we find American doughboys in the
Solomons, Australia, China, India, Iceland, Eng
land and now in Africa, holding their noses again
against 40 and 8.
Labor unions in America are still demanding
peace-time standards of a 40-hour week with time
and a half for all overtime. The mere suggestion
that it might be patriotic to work war plants
straight time another 8 hours throws labor leaders
and organizers into Hitlerian frenzies of carpet
gnashing. Do not touch, they say, this sacred right!
A 40 hour week is all an American union man or
woman should work. After that time, they say,
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extra pay can keep them going. 40 hours a week.
How about it, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer and all the little
farmers? How about it, Mr. and Mrs. Little and
Big Business Man, and your office help? How
about it, you fruit growers in California and Flor
ida when the fruit is ripe ? How about it you police
men and firemen in thousands of small towns?
How about it, you folks who are giving your ser
vices free to Civilian Defense and drives for funds
and one hundred other civilian efforts to win the
war? Do you stop at 40 hours per week? Do you
say this is all I can do, exhausted physically, men
tally and morally, I must quit right now unless
there is some added monetary inducement to forti
fy my tired soul and body?
We wish we could print the one word which
would best answer the union claims about their
holy 40 hour week. As near as we can come to
printing it is to say It Stinks. Those 40 & 8’s didn’t
smell so good either, did they fellows? What did
you do when you had been on duty and fighting 40
hours in one week? Did we say week . . or 2 days
of a week?
For the benefit of those who want to know the
facts and to confound those who would twist facts
we print the basis for the above: AVERAGE
WORK WEEK IN WAR PLANTS AND ALLIED
INDUSTRIES:
u. s. 43 hours
Britain 56 Hours
GERMANY 60 HOURS
RUSSIA 66 HOURS
JAPAN ALL HOURS
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THIS WAR IS NOT WON
© £ Many who are squirming under war time re
gulations which cramp all natural styles would
think that the war is won with the news that our
armed forces have been successful in West Africa.
This war is not won by a long shot. In fact, it has
just started.
We are proud of the way our boys have started
it and of the way all branches of the services are
co-operating. We are proud of the fact that all this
could have been pushed up a week or so and proba
bly made a difference in the political outcome and
it wasn’t.
But we would remind the poet or poetess who
would now pen the Victory poem, one swallow does
not make the Summer or one swallow a Summer
does not make or whatever way they put it: one
victory does not win a war. Some wise general
once said he would let the enemy win the skirmishes
but he would win the battle. Others later followed
with the idea to let the enemy win the battles but
they would win the war.
150,000 of our men are in Northwestern Africa.
That is a small percentage of a proposed ten million
man army and navy. They must be reinforced;
they must be fed and clothed and supplied with am
munition and replacement in fighting equipment.
That is why we say the fight has just begun and
why those who would slow down or sit down now in
America are just kidding themselves. Now is the
time to put on the extra steam and pressure all up
and down the line. Our fighting men have given us
something to work for.
They are the avengers of Pearl Harbor and
Wake and Midway and the Philippines. At Guad
alcanal and Australia and in all the far flung Pa
cific our boys are fighting and dying against odds.
On every continent and all the Seven Seas we are
waging war.
This war is far from won. It can still be lost
on the home front which must supply our men and
allies with all those things which must be had be
fore victory is ours.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY
None but dumb Democrats could argue oi
doubt there was a Republican victory in the U. S.
on Nov. 3 with the record showing the following
gains in Congress and States:
Present Senate: 66 D — 28 R
Next Senate: 57 D — 38 R
Present House: 268 D — 162 R
Next House: 222 D — 209 R
Present Governors: 28 D — 20 R
Next Governors: 24 D — 23 R
To say it’s going to be as tight as Dick’s hat
band is putting it mildly, when that new Congress
meets after Jan. 1. Honest and faithful Democrats
hope and pray that crack-pots and college profes
sors and leftists of many
creeds and colors, all
good American theorists,
but lacking that touch of
good old American prac
tical horse-sense and
judgment, have not ruin
ed a good thing.
Much-maligned Mil
lionaires and Big Busi
ness, if smart, will not
gloat or take the spot
lights over what they
might think a personal
victory and vindication.
They did not win the elec
tion. It was the people
who voted and changed
the picture. It was the
people who thought it
out for themselves. And
nobody but those who
live with the people know
how they feel and how
they might vote. With
all due respect to other
leaders of our party, we
still believe that Jim Far
ley kept his finger on the
pulse of the average
American citizen better
than any man in the last
generation, including Dr.
Gallup. What President
Roosevelt needs is anoth
er Jim Farley if the Dem
ocratic Party is to con
tinue to be the majority
party.
20 MILLION NEW
TAXPAYERS
The Federal income
tax man will be looking
for 45 million taxpayers
next March 15. This is
double the number of
people who have been
paying Federal income
taxes in the past. The
new revenue law is a war
tax measure which even
now is not enough to
meet war demands and
running.
Every man, woman
and child in the nation
will soon be faced with
a heavy tax bill which
will mean a painful drop
in the old standard of
living and less profits for
every business.
We might just as well
face the cold facts and
begin saving now for the
tax man. He comes first.
This war cannot be won
on hot air and windmill
ing. It can be won only
with cold cash and cold
stool.
Among those who
have been let off light in
the past by the Federal
. income tax man have
been the farmers. Under
the new law the farmer
' will pay income taxes
which mean something.
Boys and girls, now with
good jobs at $100 per
month, will find that Un
cle Sam demands a
month of that salary for
income tax. The man
with a wife and two chil
■ dren, making $3,000 a
5 year, who paid: about $60
, income tax this year,
must pay $327 income
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