American Workers Shortened War Says Green in Sanity Blast
AFL President William Green declares American workers shortened the war by record production and silenced Hitler propaganda. He refutes claims by an unnamed high official, later linked to General George C. Marshall, about rail and steel strikes delaying victory. Green asserts no strike interruptions and pledges no labor disruption in 1944 as war material flows to fronts.
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Washington, D. C
AFL
William Green
Hitler
George ©. Marshall
U. S. Army
America
William Shiver
CBS
Marshall
Washington
Green
General Marshall
United Nations
War Department
Mr. Green
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Capitol Hill
Robert M. LaFollette
Germany
Readers Digest Critique Sparks Debate Over Propaganda and Labor
Analyzing a 1930s Readers Digest style digest, the piece accuses the publication of condensing foreign articles and shaping political views. It claims favorable bias toward fascist leaders and anti labor sentiment, while noting wartime praise for American workers and criticism of Roosevelt policies.
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Eaders Digest
Franco
Mussolini
Hitler
Roosevelt
Organized Labor
Dewitt Wallace
Gardeners Too Mark For Victory in 1944
Middletown's victory garden program for 1944 will begin taking shape this week as the Victory Garden Committee of the Defense Council holds its first meeting of the new year. Chairman Paul G. Swayne said an interest announcement for gardeners would follow the session. Time and place of the meeting will be announced later.
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Middletown
Ohio
Victory Garden Committee of the Defense Council
Paul G. Swayne
Swayne
Bank deposits rise in Hamilton for 1943 totals
Hamilton banks report 1943 deposits up by 5 556 857 94 with totals across First National Bank and Trust Company Second National Bank and the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company reaching 36 701 031 38. The 1942 year end total stood at 91 144 073 44.
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Hamilton
First National Bank and Trust Company
Second National Bank
Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company
Colombia unions rise in 1942 amid Latin American report
Washington based TLNS reports 809 labor unions in Colombia at end of 1942 with 91,521 men and 10,502 women members, up 67 unions from 1941. The prior year had 742 unions and 95,443 members.
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Washington, D. C
TLNS
Colombia
Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs
Detroit Votes 20 Percent Tax on Utilities Revenue
Detroit adopts a 20 percent tax on gross receipts of privately owned gas and electric utilities. The levy aims to raise 10 to 14 million dollars yearly to fund an eight-point postwar improvement program.
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Detroit
ILNS
Co op To Elect Trustees At Rural Cooperative Meeting
The Butler County Rural Cooperative, Inc. will elect nine trustees next Saturday at 12 80 oclock in the Fenmont Recreation Hall.
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Butler County Rural Cooperative, Inc
Fenmont Recreation Hall
Tobacco Rationing Looms As Demand Surges
New York analysis notes tobacco like liquor may become rationed items as demand rises. Cigarette supply is replenished in part, unlike whiskey which has had no production since Oct 8, 1942. Newsweek reports retailers miss 20 to 30 percent of needs and leaders foresee days with no cigarettes in many areas next summer.
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New York
Newsweek
United States
Cone
Smash Million Dollar Liquor Ring Arrests
Federal alcohol tax agents arrested seven men in New York amid a sprawling black market liquor operation. They seized thousands of cases of whiskey stored across Connecticut Massachusetts Kentucky and Maryland. Simultaneous raids were conducted in Kansas City St Louis and Minneapolis. The Hotel Astor tipped off authorities about the scheme at over-the-ceiling prices.
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New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Maryland
Kansas City
St. Louis
Minneapolis
ATU
Hotel Astor
May Offer Bill to Require Job Before Army Discharge
Philadelphia PA senator James J. Davis proposed a bill that would require servicemen to secure private employment before they can be discharged from the armed forces. The comments came during a speech at Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
ILNS
Elkins Park
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
A Free Country Emphasizes Personal Liberty And Equality
An essay extols freedom as the right to work learn and govern oneself. It declares freedom for opportunity knowledge courtesy friendliness integrity belief and self-determination under the law while warning against coercive control by others.
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Berty
Letter to the Editor on Americanism and labor in Maud Ohio
A reader named J. T. Davison from Maud Ohio writes in defense of American freedoms and patriotism. He praises workers while criticizing labor leaders, urges loyalty to God and country, and expresses sympathy for those overseas and on the home front.
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