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Roanoke Rapids Herald

Location

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 13, 1943

Page

2

Lesson of unity from North Africa victory and home front duties

A wartime editorial extols unity and coordinated effort among Americans British and French in North Africa. It urges home front sacrifice, warns against coal strikes and rising wages, and calls for savings and continued support for Allied campaigns in Australia China and the Pacific. It stresses preparedness, efficiency and avoiding inflation while awaiting postwar jobs and price stability.

Matuer Bizerte Tunis North Africa Tunisia Australia China Pacific America Singanpore Hong Kong Manila Bay Indian Ocean Manchukuo Russia Thailand Burma Japan Europe Guadalcanal Pearl Harbor Bataan

Look to the West and the U-Boat Menace

The piece notes U-boat losses and German submarine success, stressing that a successful European invasion hinges on checking the submarine threat. It emphasizes public desire for morale collapse among Germans and cautions that invasion requires time to defeat the subs.

Roanoke Rapids U.S Africa Europe Atlantic Menance

Lower Wages After the War Warns Roger Babson

Babson warns a postwar labor collapse as twenty million workers in war jobs face mass layoffs. He predicts a swift crash in union employment, a job panic, higher prices, real estate activity, and possible government wage supports that may fall short of war-time wages.

Roger Babson

Record s of 850000 NC workers earnings reported for 1942 Q4

Reports to the Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina show wage records for more than 850,000 individual workers in the last quarter of 1942. This marks the largest single-period earnings reporting total to date.

Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina

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