WOLL DESCRIBES TEN NEW
LABOR WAR RELIEF PROJECTS
FOR BRITISH WORKERS
MORE THAN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS CONTRIB
UTED BY AMERICAN LABOR WILL BUILD TEN NEW WAR
RELIEF PROJECTS FOR BRITISH WORKERS IN 1943, IT WAS
REVEALED IN A JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY MATTHEW
WOLL, PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS RELIEF—AFL,
AND IRVING ABRAMSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL
CIO COMMITTEE FOR AMERICAN AND ALLIED WAR
RELIEF.
AUGMENTED BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE
RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS, THEY stated THE DONATIONS OF
ORGANIZED LABOR WILL ENABLE THE BRITISH WAR RELIEF
SOCIETY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BRITISH TRADES UNION
CONGRESS, TO PROVIDE “REST BREAKS,” HOSPITALS, REST
HOMES WEEK-END-CAMPS, AN DMOBILE RELIEF UNITS FOR EM
BATTLED BRITISH WORKERS. . „ _ _ .
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LABOR OFFICIALS, BERTRAM
DE N. CRUGER, REPRESENTATIVE IN GREAT BRITAIN OF THE
BRITISH WAR RELIEF SOCIETY OF AMERICA, GAVE A GRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW PROJECTS.
MOST IMPORTANT. SAID MR. CRUGER, ARE EIGHT “REST
BREAK” HOMES FOR MEN AND WOMEN THROUGHOUT ENGLAND,
WALES AND SCOTLAND. THESE MEN AND WOMEN, EXHAUSTED
AND WORN OUT AFTER NEARLY FOUR YEARS OF LABOR UNDER
NERVE-SHATTERING CONDITIONS OF WAR, ARE GIVEN A BRIEF
RESPITE FROM THEIR EXACTING DUTIES AND ARE ENABLED TO
RETURN TO THEIR JOBS REFRESHED AND INVIGORATED.
“THIS IS HOW BRITAIN MEETS THE PROBLEM OF ABSENTEE
ISM,” COMMENTED MR. WOLL. "THE PROBLEM WAS INITIALLY
ATTACKED WITH A HUE AND CRY BY PUBLICISTS AND OTHERS
WHO IMPUGNED THE PATRIOTISM OF BRITISH WORKERS. LABOR
MINISTER ERNEST BEVIN INSISTED FROM THE BEGINNG THAT
ABSENTEEISM RESULTED FROM SICKNESS, FATIGUE, AND OVER
WORK; IN TIME THE REST OF THE COUNTRY FOUND HIS
ANALYSIS TO BE CORRECT.”
AGRICULTURAL
ASTORS ARE
HIJACKING
OUR CONGRESS
—V—
The Agricultural Astors of the na
tion, big cotton plantation owners, and
other wealthy farmers, well repre
sented in the “Farm Blocs” of Senate
and House, are determined to keep
prices up, and little farmers down.
In 1942, some 60,000 farmers had
an average income of abdut $19,800,
while millions of farmers had under
$600.
From March 1941 to March 1942
the selling price of farm lands in
creased nearly two billion dollars.
The Agricultural Astors got the
big incomes, and most of the increase
in farm land values, as well as most
of Government conservation payments
in the past.
The battle is on between the Agri
cultural Astors—who want higher
prices for farm products, and con
sumers, who want subsidies to small
farmers for essential high cost pro
duction.
The Farm Security Administration
is helping the small farmer, and the
consumer.
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—V—
This story is dedicated to labor
baiters everywhere ... His name is
Jose Martinez, 50-year-old member
of the National Maritime union. . . ,
He is guilty of absenteeism, and he
will be absent for a long, long time,
... We think the congressmen now
framing antilabor bills should know
about it.
Martinez sailed as a fireman on a
ship that was torpedoed. . . After 19
days in a lifeboat with 11 other sea
men he was rescued. ... . When Jos*
came ashore no newsreel men or re
porters came to interview him. No
body asked him his views on any
thing. . . . Even had he been asked
what he thought of things he woulc
not have said much. He was a quiet
sort of guy, who didn’t blow his horn
. . . And after resting a few weeks ir
a Baltimore hospital, and feeling
that he wasn’t doing enough to wir
the war, he went to the Baltimore
branch of the Red Cross and gave a
pint of his blood.
Then Jose sailed in a convoy t<
Murmansk. For eight days it was
bombed. The ship he was on was hit
but it made port. Then, after return
ing to the U. S., he shipped out again
and this time the ship he was on was
sunk, and Jose was lost with it. . . .
The other day the National Maritime
union reported that Jose Martinez,
who had no living kin, had made the
Red Cross beneficiary of his insur
ance policy. . . In the sum of $5,000.
—Walter Winchel’s Column.
Soldiers Buying
$21,000,000 of War
Bonds A Month
—\—
American soldiers are buying more
than $21,000,000 worth of War Bonds
each month, the War Department has
revealed. Approximately 60% of all
those in the service are bond buyers.
Sale of bonds to military personnel
began a year and has shown a sub
stantial increase every month. The
latest report was for February be
cause, with forces in all parts of the
world, some reports are necessarily
slow in getting to the War Depart
ment.
Civilian employees in the War De
partment purchase $10,345,000 in
bonds during February, also an in
crease over the previous month.
New Eligibility
Requirements For
Enrollment WAAC
—V—
Candidates for enrollment in the
WAAC, under new educational and
intelligence requirements, must have
completed at least two years of
high school and must score at least
60 in the WAAC mental alertness
test in order to be eligible. Previous
ly there were no fixed educational re
quirements, and the minimum score
in the mental alertness test was 50.
-V
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“LET’S GO U. S. A.—KEEP ’EM FLYING”
YOUR COUNTRY IS IN PERIL!
By GERARD P. MEYER
Your country is in peril Listen, bud
This is no movie you can see or miss,
No newsreel of some other country: this
If you, and not some dream from Hollywood—
And if you lose this war, my friend, your blood
Will streak across the screen, while Nippies hiss
Their keen delight, and Nazis in their bliss
“Heil Hitler,” while he stamps you into mud.
Get on that old assembly line right now—
Now, while the getting’s good: for if you don’t,
There’ll be no later show, no second chance.
Bend to your task, or be prepared to bow
Your neck to Nazi boots: and, Mac, they won’t
Wear rubber soles, but spikes! . . .
Remember France?
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