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Phone Strike’s Director Plans Peaceful Methods Female Pickets Will Play Important Roles In Stoppage Strategy by beverly r. young MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 24.—Wl— The man designated to direct what may be one of the most paralyzing itrikes in labor history said Sun day he would resort only to “peaceful—but effective” methods to enforce the demands of his union membership for higher wages and shorter hours. He’s Carlton W. (Union cronies call him “Slim”) Werkau of Wash ington, D. fc. The six-foot, five-and one half inch Werkau, secretary treasurer of the strike-bent Nation al Federation of Telephone work ers, is the independent union’s strike strategy director. The federation, 250,000 strong, has set 6 a.m. of March 7 for a nationwide silencing of ‘phones of the far-lung American telephone and telegraph system. Female pickets and strike work ers will play important roles in the planned work stoppage strategy. The federation's membership is 60 percent -women. 'Just as the men, they will ac cept the responsibility of carrying out all strike duties," the towering, 38-year-old co-ordinator said. Werkau feels that strategically and psychologically, the presence of women on the picket lines and in bargaining conferences will strengthen the labor organization s hand. Strike action was voted by repre sentat:,7“‘: of the 50 autonomous af filiates at a four-day session here. The federation, composed of opera tors .manufacturing and production workers, and craftsmen and cleri cal employes, demands a $10 week ly wage increase, a minimum of 65 cents an hour and a 40-hour work week. The executive board Thursday or dered a general walkout of 17 af filiates which had filed strike no tices, simultaneously announcing the remaining affiliates would re spect picket lines thrown up by the strikers. Federation president Joseph A. Beirne, 35-year-old New Jersey Irishman, directed an immediate cessation of all individual bargain ing. He said all company offers failing to meet the union’s “not-to be-modified" wage - hour demands would be rejected any any settle ment must apply to all of the 17 ! striking affiliates. Werkau indicated a new picket ing wringle—using the wires of the telephone company, itself, as a picket line—may be unveiled dur ing the strike. It's designed to ease the effect of possible anti-picketing injunctions. “Suppose, for instance, we sta tion one picket in front of the A. T. & T. building in New York. The wires from the building radiate throughout the United States. That, so far as our federation members are concerned, constitutes a nation wide, bona fide picket line and each one of us will respect it.” He predicted the strike would not be “an easy one." “We’re preparing for a tough struggle — and so are the com i panies.” STUDENT GATHERINGS DEMAND WITHDRAWAL OF RUSSIAN TROOPS ___ SHANGHAI, Feb. 24—!JP>—Agita tion for withdrawal of the Rus sians from Manchuria, boiled up in North China Sunday as Moscow presented what appeared to be the first Soviet reaction to the storm of protest. More than 1,000 students in a Peiping mass meeting heard speakers denounce “Russian im perialism” and assert that Chi nese Communists were “Soviet puppets” leading a fifth column in Manchuria, Mongolia, and in China proper. Students at Nanking, which will be restored as China’s capital shortly, scheduled a demonstra tion for Monday in which mer chants and' representatives of labor promised to join. Amid the uproar, the Moscow Radio declared that remnants of Japanese forces had made wide spread "bandit” attacks on Rus sian troops in Manchuria and “many of the bandits, arrested by Soviet authorities, declare they are members of the Kuomintang (Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s party.”) The broadcast asserted the Ja pan had “the help and leadership of reactionary elements in China,” which were sent into Manchuria “to develop their activity against the Soviet Union.” Chang Lan, leader of the mid dle-of-the-road Democratic League China’s third party, told a press conference in Chungking ‘‘the in tegrity of Manchuria must be respected.” The ancient Egyptians are said to have performed amputations and various operations on the eye. This Funny World | ALFRED -<N'*o*tit STmliale, !«€.—© Colli, r’. * HUMPREvnxS f "I’m sorry you’re disappointed, Alfred, but we just couldn't WAIT fo you to put on your bathing suit and rescue the man overboard.” Tiny Mother Only Wanted Someone To Keep Johnny WASHINGTON, Feb- 24.—(U.R) —Congress will lend ' an ear Monday to the plight of an at tractive 29-year-old brunett divorcee who gained some lo cal fame by advertising for a husband. Mrs. Verone Moreno, tiny, 89-pound mother of a four-year old ooy, Johnny, admitted Sun day night that her newspaper plea for a mate was "face tious.” But it brought her hundreds of phone calls from interested males and a chance to testify before a Congress ional committee. Mrs. Moreno, who came here from Oklahoma and is a secre tary at the Agriculture depart ment. said this is her prob lem: The city’s children cen ter, where Johnny stays during the day while she works, is to close this week, along with others throughout the country because federal support is to stop. Tile question is what to do with Johnny. ■•mey told me that n 1 would advertise for a husband, it would be a good story for continuance of the nursery school,'’ she said. ‘‘I agreed for the good of the cause.” The story, complete with pictures of the brown-eyed Mrs. Moreno, who is part ioux Indian end a good rhumba dan cer, attracted several suitors, including a Latin with a ranch in California. It also brought her to attention of Rep. Ned R. Healy, <D., Calif.,) who has asked her to be a witness Mon day before the House District committee. The committee, Healy said, will not help Mrs. Moreno get a husband but it wants her as a "real life example” of what will happen when the child-care centers close- As to getting a husband, he added, she will have to “work out her own methods for that.” She is hopeful* that Congress may provide funds to keep the district centers open. She said that on her government salary of $2,300. she cannot afford to send Johnny elsewhere or hire someone to take care of him. As for the telephone suitors, Mrs. Moreno said she was not and does not intend to see any of them. She added that while waiting for six swains who made dates by phone last Sun day, “I ran a temperature of 101 and had to go to bed.” Queen Mary Sails With War Brides, Bank Leader SOUTHAMPTON, England, Feb. 24—UP)—The Queen Mary sailed Sunday for New York carrying 2, 000 American soldiers’ wives and children and Lord Keynes, a gov ernor of the International Mone tary Fund and of the International Bank for Reconstruction and De velopment. Lord Keynes will at tend the first meeting of the gov ernors, March 3. Japan’s Silk Industry Now 12 Per Cent Normal TOKYO, Feb. 24—UP)—Japan’s 2,000-year-old ratv silk industry, trying a comeback after a nearly complete blackout in the Pacific war, new is operating at about 12 per cent of its best pre-war ca pacity. A representative of the Industry said Sunday Japan expected to produce 150,000 bales of raw silk next year Pre-war Japan ship ped about 420,000 bales yearly to the United States and elsewhere. Supreme headquarters reported that 50,000 bales of raw silk were ready for export now and first shipments to silk manufacturing countries were expected to begin shortly under Allied supervision. U S. Army engineers devised a wide track for tractors, for use in rice paddies of Japan, that prac tically eliminated the anger ol getting stuck or turned over. Track was made of planks four inches thick, six inches wide and five feet long. ’_ Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service Your Gi Rights Questions and Answers On Servicemen's Problems BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — (NEA).—Veterans are intensely in terested in the all-out emergency program proposed by Govern ment Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt. Here are some ques tions regarding the practical as pects of the program and how it will directly affect the individual veteran: Q. My wife and I are inter ested in getting one of these ready made houses the Government is talking about. We have a lot out in the country where my father lives. When we can get a house about how much would one with three bedrooms cost? A. Under the proposed program the house you want shouldn’t cost more than $5000. This doesn’t in clude freight from the factory and cost of erecting it, however. Q. Suppose a veteran has the money and can buy a prefabri cated house. How will he be able to put it up alone if there is no body available to help him? A. It is proposed that before a manufacturer is allowed to of fer a prefabricated house for sale he must guarantee to have the services available for delivering it as well as putting it up. Q. Both my brother and I are veterans. We have several acres of land just outside of town. We want to have it used for emer gency veterans’ housing but it doesn’t have sewer or water con nections. Will the Government help us get the utilities to our land? A. As the Government program now stands, it will be up to the community to help get utilities to outlying lands and generally to provide the space for the houses. But if your particular problem, as applied to the rest of the country, becomes serious, the Government will probably have to step in on that angle also. (Questions will be answered only in this space—not by mall. James B. Hamilton, Jr., Said Killed In Action BURGAW. Feb. 24—Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hamilton, Sr., of Atkin son, have been notified by the War department that their son, First Lieut. James B. Hamilton, Jr., who was reported as missing in action on December 16, 1943, has been presumed as having been killed' on that date. Lieutenant Hamilton entered the Army Air Corps during the sum mer of 1941, after having com pleted his junior year at N. C. State college. He served for 26 months in the States, then was sent to the southwest Pacific, be ing based in southern New Guinea. Here he served for one month with Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney’s Fifth Air Force. , . _ ... Information in the .hands of the War department indicate that Lt. Hamilton was a crew member of a Liberator bomber on an armed reconnaissance mission to Gas mate, New Britain. The plane was to patrol the coastal area and kept radioing its position at intervals. The eighth report was broken, no further contact was made. today and ttjesT “THUNDERHEAD” SON OF FLICKA In Technicolor mRd°owall footer1 RITA JOHNSON Plus~ news and cartoon • Today and Tuesday THIS ROARSOME FOURSOME FIDDLES WHILE CUPID BURNS! Technicolor Featurette “ORDERS FROM TOKYO” Facts To Hang the Japs! LMVAI BSSS^SSSSSSSI LAST DAY r^AVNfSSr ! WILLIAM, -Extra Latest News Events. 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I CALLED ON THE COLLEGE PIPE-DREAMS,] V'"SOi!!l(l ^ PRESIDENT, BUT HE AJUDY-mra 1 f \ WOULDN'T SIGN UP. / Y^Y V DR. BOBBS— by ELLIOTT and McARDLE YOU GET AN "A" FOR EFFORT, 1 AND - IF I HAD MV STRENGTH - I A BOOT- FOR BEING SUCH C A FIRST CLASS HEEL- TRYIN' T'MESS up the LIFE of a NICE JOE LICE DOC BOBBS/ -S WOW ABOUT My LIFE, YOUS POOL / NOW YOU'VE SPOILED —-—7r^ EVERYTHING !f‘ 5 J SKIP IT, DOC >> r1 MV BAG IS PRACTICALLY v—^ PACKED/j WELL,UNPACK IT AND GEvI UP TO ROOM 790 r~— IN A WURRV/ c=ir THE GUMPS— SMILE OF WEALTH i ' 1 KEEP PINCHING MYSELF. WHAT'S HAPPENEPTOME JUST ISN'T REAL! BECAUSE I ONCE PiP YOU A SMALL FAVOR 1 FlNP MYSELF PPE-Pl'pENT OF VOUP COPPORAFIOM' ^ii i■ i. VERA. MV LOVELY' OA-&T YOUR BAEV-BLLlfe EVE£ ON THi$ MAcSIC OARPETL our owe-way Ticket TO THE LAWP OR EMERALPB AWP BABLE^h rrs Jon stardusts wipes entire fortune/ i told you that if you stuck with me. you'P be living off the FFFHEAP& OF THE LAHC! LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE— ROADBLOCK B1 STARTED UP JUGHT ID NEVER rcH HER-THEN .LONG™ M ' '_I Mgf IT WAS NICE OF YOU OH, SANDY DID TTHAT ■ "TO HELP GET HEP BACP I HE'S PRETTY SMART ■ ^ INTO THE BARN— / AT HANDLIN' CATTLE- J| AND IT WAS MIGHTY NICE O' YOU TO ASK ME IN OUT OUR WAY— By J. R. WILLIAMS / WALK? WHY, THIS \ ( THERE'S SOME THINGS \ / IS JUST THE EDGE \ THAT SHOULD NEVER J f O' TOWN.' IT'S FOUR U BE OUT OF IT—IT'S J BLOCKS TO SCHOOL- J \ FUNNY ■PJR. AUTO \ V WE'RE HARDLY < l WON’T START ON I \ OUT O' TH’ COUNTRY V COLD MORNINGS.’ J j „ ,, ---„ YET.' ^ >—v. * ■'T.W 2*25 CJ*«^-Wll.U*AM3 BORN THIRTY VEAR.S TOO SOON {ffl"A?™*, ,, OUR BOARDING HOUSE ^ith MAJOR HOOPL* | >-'■ MRS. HOOPle, we the BOARDERS HAME MOTED THIS OFFICIAL COOMTER-PROPOSAL TO YOUR 25 PER CEMT BOOST —'-TO QUOTE : " WHERE AS j AS AM ARBITRATlOM BOARD OF THREE, IT HAS BEEM DULY DECIDED THAT IO PER. CEMT WOULD BE MUCH SEEMS'! TO CML FOR another. MEETING, 6OVG -
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