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Local War Plant Continues Vicious
Labor Policy; Production Suffers
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-odrn War Demands
D namic Administration
H AMSTUNG by business interests,
politics and power gluttons, certain
administrative departments are doing a very
effective job of slowing up bur war effort.
Apparently a large number of persons refuse
to believe Prime Minister Curtin's assertion
mhat war news is not encouraging and that the
fight has fust begun. Too many officials in
responsible position with tremendous powers
at their beck and call continue to play politics,
keep business friendships or play with the war
effort as if it were a gam-e.
Prime offender on the latter score is RFC
head, Jesse Jones, the man with too many
hands in too many places. As usual Jesse
Jones is struggling to prevent proper authorities
fro retaking a few of the miscellaneous powers
whic he has seized and allowed to lie around
in maddening idleness.
TfHIS TIME the battle is over powers delegat-
ed to the Board of Economic Warfare by
President Roosevelt. Designed to concentrate
authority in waging this new type of warfare
against the Axis nations, the BEW is under the
competent control of Vice-President Henry A.
Wallace and Milo Perkins. The importance of
this type of warfare cannot be over emphasized.
In the hands of the Nazis this weapon of eco-
nomic pressure has had tremendous effects.
With the powerful weapoi in our hands, not
only can we strilte telling blows at the Nazis,
but also strongly augmnt our alliances with the
many nations who have proclaimed their
friendship. To allow Jesse Jones and the bung-
lirig heads of RFC's Rubber Reserve Corporation
and, Metal Reserves Corporation to interfere
with the action of the BEW is absolutely inek-
cuseable.
A PARENTLY the big Texan is having his
same old trouble, an insatiable appetite for
power. So marked is this tendncy to expand
his control in every imaginable direction that
the words 'Jesse Jones' and 'administrative oct-
opus' have become almost synonomous.
Although much more powerful than most ad-
ministrative officials, Jesse Jones is representa-
tive of an attitude which seems to be prevalent
in many departments. He seems to like play-
ing' the role of a super-executive-idol of the'
'20's-controlling a thousand-and-one import-
ant jobs with his one teeming- brain.
As' great as he may be, every man has limits
to the number of things whichhe is capable of
doing well at one time and qesse Jones as RFC
head, Federal Loan Administrator, and Secre-
tary of Commerce has long since reached his.
But he continues on his merry way, lost in
speculation as to how he can save a few dollars
while important wartime duties go unperformed
or are woefully mismanaged.
It is high time that the Administration woke
yup,
IN MODERN WARFARE, outmoded inefficient
methods have no place. There is no room
in our war effort for costly conflict between de-
patients, for stupid contradictory orders, and
'administrative octopuses.'
Instead we should do every thing in our power
to build up an elastic war machine capable of
efficiently meeting every exigency of this dy-
To The Editor:
WORKERS who leave their jobs in these times
are promptly labeled traitors by irresppn-
sible persons without inquiring into the reasons
for their action. But how do they describe an
employer who fires men for joining the CIO?
--and that is exactly what has happened to
several workers, including myself, at the
Ameriean Broach and Machine C6. Personally,
I don't give a damn. However, this plant is
vital to the war effort and the situation in the
factory is so atrocious that it calls for publicity.
The workers are divided into two hostile
camps. Slightly less than half of the workers
are members of the CIO. The rest are either
members of the "Protective Association" (pro-
tection against the CIO) or are fence straddlers
waiting to see which way the NLRB returns
will fall. The tension in the plant between
these groups is almost unbelievable. Only actu-
ally working there gives one the true picture.
1 HREE OR FOULP MEN will gather together
after lunch to talk union-until some mem-
ber of the Association wanders over. Then one
man decides he needs a drink of water; an-
other returns to his machine, and so on. The
men are afraid to talk. They are almost at
the point of despising their fellow workers. All
of the CIO men are bitter concerning the man-
agement and the Ann Arbor News which has
consistently written anti-union stories on their
activities.
Emotionally the workers are always on strike.
How can anyone expect them to produce a con-
stant stream of war goods under such a nerv-
ous strain? Some small incident may send
those workers out on strike again, and the next
time it won't be settled so easily. No one is
to blame for this state of affairs except the man-
agement. Even though it is war time Workers
still have the right to b treated as hum an
bengs,
Working conditions in the shop are very
poor. Six toilets have to suffice for 250 men
on the day shift. Machines are so close to-
gether that one is in danger of backing into
another machine or worker if he should move
suddenly. The company is so tight they don't
even furnish soap and towels to their men.
But for a small fee you can rent a towel. They
probably make a tidy profit on the transaction.
WAGES? As you might expect they are of a
miserly nature in keeping with Broach
Prohibition Condemned-
For UInobvious easons .. .
T HE WOMEN'S Christian Temperance
Union, the Anti-Saloon League, and
all their sundry associates are on the warpath
again,
Embryo Carrie Nations, content since 1932 to
hold mild meetings and read papers on the
color of an inebriate liver, are beginning to step
out voicind their opinions in public. Okay, you
say, so what?
This is what. They did it before and don't
be too sure they can't do it again. Nobody
thought it could be done in 1918 but the soldiers
returning from ,France had to learn where
Joe's was,
NOW IT ISN'T our purpose to keep the ladies
from having a good time, but when they
start to meddle with other people's very import-
ant business we feel it our duty to point out
the error of such ways.
In the first place the good-hearted ladies
,would no longer have a legitimate excuse for
keeping their maids home on Thursday after-
noons, and thus would certainly add to the
seriousness of the labor problem.
Secondly, with Old Man Barleycorn van-
quished those same virtuous ladies are likely
to turn to vice as the next most promising sub-
ject and we can't let that happen.
THE TRUE FACTS are these: People don't
want prohibition, people won't allow pro-
hibition laws to be enforced, and prohibition
would set back modern medical progress 50
years. Everybody knows a nip in time saves
influenza.
Above all if people want to go to the devil-
an avocation which we look upon with benign
kindliness and comradeship-nothing this side
of hell can stop them.
-Hale Champion
Best U.S. Aerial Bet
Is In Eastern China
0)NE OF THE MOST vital races in the
thistory of mankind is taking place"
in Eastern Asia, and the'stake is all of industrial
China.
On one side are the Japanese with both feet
placed solidly on Chinese soil pushing ever closer
to the subjection of eastern China, and on the
other are the United Nations using every subter-
fuge and tactic they can discover to get enough
war materials and PLANES to the hard-pressed
Chinese.
SO FAR the United States has furnished the
only effective help, but if its amounts of
active aid don't increase greatly, industrial
China may become a Japanese possession.
Let no one underrate the strength of the
two-pronged push from Burma and the sea-
board, for it is a move of desperation which
hopes to prevent the establishment of Ameri-
can air bases in a section of China which is as
close to Japan as London is to Berlin. One
characteristics. In general, wages are from 40
to 70 cents an hour below those paid in other
plants for comparabe work,
Still, wages and 'working conditions aren't
the primary grievances of the Broach employes.
They want to do away with wide-spread favorit-
ism, racial discrimination, distrust and a gen
eral fear of arbitrary management.
Fortunately this kind of employe treatment
has become quite rare. Most employers accept
unions and collective bargaining as permanent
institutions. Just a few plants like the Amei-
can Broach remain to plague the progress of the
labor movement. We can aid the war effort and
help build a better democracy by giving the
workers our wholehearted support in their fight
against this vicious element.
-Art Carpenter
An Axe To Grind
By TORQUEMADA
A ONE ACT PLAY
THE YEAR 1942; the setting Spai. We are
in a room, in which sit two men-one tall,
dark and ascetic; the other short, fat, unctu-
ous. The little fat man whose name is Phillip
the Second Morris is running around the room
looking for his monks' cowl; crying plaintively,
"Cowl for Phillip Morris." As the curtain rises
the two men are talking in hushed tones; the
only sound is the droning of the flies, as they
suck at the large bowl of grape punch on the
table-here they are.)
Phillip: Well, my royal executioner, and what
are the simple little tortures you have devised
for me today to whet my jaded appetite and
rapidly failing senses.
Royal Ex. (bursting into tears): Begging your
pardon, sir, but the iron maiden has Just gone
and pledged Alpha Phi, and I declare to good-
ness, I'm at my wits' ends (here the unhappy
little man jumped into the air, swinging lustily
from wits' end to Wits' end, and shouting the
"Arough-arough-arough" call of Tarzan be-
seeching his mate).
Philip: There, there, now, and doh't you
worry your pretty little head any longer. I
can't figure for the life of me what I'm going
to do with you. Buqt just you leave everything
to your uncle Phillip. (old Phillip had amassed
a tidy fortune with those simple words) and
everything will be all right. Those nasty college
boys, to make my little ittums cry so much.
I know what I'll do to them. I'll place a curse
on them.
Rvyal Ex: Goody, goody.
(Phillip claps his hands thrice, summoning
the royal sorcerer, a little old man who bears an
amazing resemblance to Paul Robeson).
Sorcerer: Yassuh, boss, yassuh, what can Ah
do for you-all?
Phillip: I want you to lay a curse on college
boys.
Sorcerer: Yassuh, boss, ah's got a fine con-
jure right hyar with me. Yassuh, you just leave
it to old man Jones.
(The lights dim, and centre stage an eerie
glow begins to mount, casting a lurid shadow
over .the entire auditorium. A lady screams in
the balcony, and trembling ushers revive her
with Eau d' Cologne. A hush falls over the
audience, as the little o1' sorcerer begins his
wierd Voodoo chant:)
Sorcerer: Dis am fohteen ninedy-two
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As Others See-It
Lahey Says Peglep's Attack On Labor
Reporters Is Unjustified
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think the grocer takes advantage of my inexperience-he knows I'm
a new bride because we don't owe him anything-yet!"
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De king am in a royal stew
De college boys should call de hearse
Fo' dis shall be de royal curse
In nineteen hundred fohty two
Will start de curse of de old voodoo
Let de Phi Psis cuhse, and de Phi
Psis run
When de debbil starts P.E.M. 31.
WASHINGTON-It seems to me
that my friend, Westbrook Pegler
has been a little free with the truth.
As a matter of fact, I think he lies
like a rug.
I take issue with Pegler with con-
siderable misgiving. First, I think~
that a discussion of Peg at this stage
of his career properly belongs tc
psychiatry. From the more prac-
tical standpoint, I have misgivings
because he can outwrite me, he i
widely syndicated, and he fights
bucktown rules.
But he had a column the other day
in which he uttered a lie about a
small group of newspapermen foi
whom I have affection and respec
-including myself.
Dirty Pool
The column I speak of was about
labor reporters. It was built arounc
two false assumptions, one innuend
which. was just plain dirty pool, anc
one unvarnished lie.
The false assumptions were:
1: That the "true character o
the professional unioneer" s bad, i.e.
that being a labor leader is evi
per se.
2: That no one but Pegler has ex-
posed racketeering, venality and cor-
rupt politics in the trade unions.
The dirty pool innuendo:
, Pegler asks "Are they (labor re-
porters) bribed?"
The lie:
"They (labor reporters) also get
taken for free rides to the state and
national (labor) conventions, where
they are entertained and lickered up
as trusted guests of the mob, all at
the expense of the working stiff who
pays the dues, and would feel guilty
of treachery to confiding and hos-
pitable friends were they to squeal
in print."
The lie is printed as an indirect
quote from an unnaingt labor friend
of Pegler's.
The Men He Accuses
In mentioning national conven-
tions, Pegler narrows his allegation
to a small group of newspapermen
who have attended these things since
labor became important news in 1936.
This group includes Louis Stark of
the New York Times, who last week
won a Pulitzer Prize; Joseph L.*Mill-
er, former labor reporter for the
Associated Press, and now labor re-
lations director for the National As-
sociation of Broadcasters; Eddie
Lockett, formerly with International
News Service and now with the Time
Magazine; Arthur DeGreve of the
United Press; Archie Robinson of the
Detroit News;CJim Doherty and Joe
Ator of The Chicago Tribune; Wil-
liam Lawrence, formerly of The Uni-
ted Press and now with The New
York Times; Eddie Levinson, form-
erly with The New York Post and
now press agent for the United Auto-
mobile Workers; Spencer Fullerton
of The Cleveland Plain Dealer; Dick
Lamb of the Pittsburgh Press; Ed
Angly, formerly with The New York
Herald Tribune and now in Australia
for The Chicago Sun.
It is a lie to say that any of
these men, at any time, were "tak-
en for free rides" to conventions,
or were "Jickered up as trusted
agents oT the mob," and Pegler
ought to have the moral courage
to apologize to them.
Far from being pampered pets,
each of these men. I believe, has had
In The Wind
-By Edwin Lahey in
'The Chicago Daily News
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(There is a sudden whirring noise, a falling
sound, and we suddenly come out of the gloom
of the, 15th century into the daylight of the
present-the scene is the president's office of
the University of Michigan. The president is
seated at his desk, and standing before him is
a person whose identity cannot be revealed in
these columns.)
Pres: Well, Fritz, I've been leafing through
my thumb-worn copy of Nostradamus, and I
guess there's nothing we can do about it. We'll
just have to do it, that's all.,
Unknown person: But, Mr. President, it goes
against my grain. Yegods, man, this is the
twentieth century-people just don't believe
thinks like that anymore.
Pres: Fritz, you're a young man. When you're'
a little older you'll' know. There are things
sometimes that even modern science cannot
explain away with its smooth words and pretty
talk. What has to be, has to be, and that's all
there is to it.
Unknown Persont Well, all right, Mr. Presi-
dent, I'll do it, though it hurts.
Pres: There is a higher -.-.
SCENE TWO
(The Place is The Sports Building of the
University of Michigan. Tired students can be
seen, standing in long tragic lines, their feet
festered and sore with the ankle chains bind-
ing them. In the background can be seen a
grim-looking man with a bull whip.)
Man: Next, all right you, over that wall. Go
on, you panty-waisted lounge-lizard.
(There' is a moan as one man' faints neath
the brutal ministrations of his jailer. And such,
denly, high above the stage, there is seen the
wierd figure of the sorcerer, his eyes lit with
WASHINGTON reactionaries ale
proposing James A. Farley as a
successor to Leon Henderson as Price
Administrator . . . Governor Darden
of Virginia, whose record on the
Waller case has been so liberal, may
enter the War Cabinet.
HAROLD E. COLE of Boston, who
is running for Congress against Joe
Martin, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, has been hin-
dered from campaigning in Fall Riv-
er. He was ordered to leave the city
on Memorial Day because his car
carried an electioneering sign and
an obscure city ordinance forbids the
parking of vehicles which display
advertising. '
A WISCONSIN LOCAL of the In-
ternational Typographical Union has
expelled a member because he regis-
tered in the draft as a conscientious
objector. The expulsion order will
be fought.as a civil-rights case be-
fore the unions' highest councils.
THE NEWEST DODGE of the an-
ti-liquor forces to bring back prohi-
bition in practice if not in theory is
a bil lto close all saloons within two
blocks of war activity. A strict con-
struction of "war activity" would, of
course, prohibit the sale of alcohol
everywhere but in a few rural dis-
tricts.
ROGER S. BALDWIN, head of the
American Civil Liberties Union, has
resigned from the International
Labor Defense, a Communist-con-
trolled agency, because I.L.D. is sup-
porting the government in its case
against the Minneapolis Trotskyites.
JUDGE CHARLES B. SEARS, on
whose investigation of the Bridges
case the Attorney General based his
The Storehouse Building will act
as a receiving center for scrap rub-
ber and also metals. Any depart-
ment on the Campus leaving metals
or rubber to dispose of for defense
purposes, please call Ext. 337 or 317
and the materials will be picked up
by the trucks which make regular
campus deliveries. Service of the
janitors is available to collect the
materials from the various rooms in
the buildings to be delivered to the
receiving location.
E. C. Pardon
The following course is being of-
fered during the. Summer Term:
Metal Processing 5, Welding. 2 hours
credit, hours to be arranged with
Professor Spindler, 2044 East En-
gineering Building.
W. A. Spindler
Psychology 31: A new section, sec-
tion 4,'will be given Monday and
Friday at 11 oclock in Room 3126
Np. Building.
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
409 S. Division St., Sunday morning
service at 10:30.1 Subject : "Is th~e
Uiiiverse, Including Man, Evolved by
Atomic Force?"
Sunday School at 11:45.
Free public Reading Room at 106
E. Washington St., open every day
except Sundays and holidays, front
11:30 a.m. until 5 p.m., Saturdays
until 9 p.m.
Graduate Outing Club organization
meeting Sunday, 2:30. p.m., North-
west door of Rackham Building.. It
is essential that those interested in
having organized outdoor activities
for graduate students continue
through the summer should attend.
Loss of old members makes it neces-
sary that summer members take over
the direction of the Club, otherwise
the Club facilities will not be avail-
able at all during the summer. A
picnic will follow the meeting; small
fee for supper. Iva Cornman
The University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Informia-
tion has received notice of the fol-
lowing Civil Service Examinations.
Last date for filing applications is
noted in each case:
Medical Attendant (Male); induc-
tion salary, $1518 per year, June 25,
1942.
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