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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1941)
Strikers Make Use of Satire The coffin represents the Allis-Chalmers company. It is perched on • Junk wagon, and a striker, wearing a gas mask, gives a satirical address showing the connection. This was one of the lighter angles of the Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee, Wis., as recorded by the News of the Day Newsreel. Trailers for Defense Workers The first of 2,000 trailers purchased by the Farm Security adminis tration with funds from the $5,000,000 urgent deficiency appropriation voted by congress to provide temporary shelter for homeless defense workers are shown leaving the nation’s capital for Wilmington, N. C. They will be used to house defense shipyard workers. Fifty trailers were In the group leaving Washington. Inspects Shelters sw. v.x -s Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle, wife of the U. S. ambassador to the Euro pean governments in exile, in Eng land, Inspects some British bomb shelters in London. She is studying the women’s services during the war. U. S.-Mexico Pact mmxsmsssss! msmuM&mBmesm. America and Mexico signed a mu tual defense pact giving the V. S. the right to use Mexican air bases, and vice versa. L. to R., Sumner Welles, who signed for the U. 8., and Mexican Ambassador Senor Dr. Najera, who signed for Mexico. Drake Relays to Be Big Event BILL WILLIAMS Wl*COO$«« P ol« V*uli z& H Ai TOM QUINN, Michittn Normtl Milt Run The thirty-second running of the Drake relays at Des Moines, Iowa, April 25 and 26, will feature special events commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Drake university. Big Ten, Southwestern, Eastern and Big Six teams are expected to enter the running. Three outstanding performers who will compete are shown above. Red Cross Holds Convention More than 3,000 delegates representing 8,250,000 members will attend the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington, April 21-24, to commemorate the society’s sixtieth anniversary. Norman H. Davis (inset) will preside. Red Cross headquarters, scene of the con vention, Is shown above. Skating Tourney More than 1,000 men, women and children will compete in the Nation al Roller Skating championships to be held in Cleveland April 23-26. Miss Harriet Nielson (above), leading contender for the ladies’ crown. Heads NEA Roy A. Brown, who will preside at the convention of the National Editorial association at Jackson ville, Fla., April 21-23. More than 2,000 newspaper men are members. As Strike Closed Ford Plant The gigantic River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company at Dearborn, Mich., largest single Industrial plant In the world, where from seven to eight thousand striking C.I.O. auto workers threw 85,000 employees out of work. Inset: One of the men Involved in the battle between pickets and workers, shown as he tum bled into the gutter after being struck by one of the many flying missiles. Sabotage—and Then Uncle Sam Takes Over With dramatic suddenness the U. S. seized 69 Italian, Danish and German merchant ships in harbors throughout the country. At left is photographic proof of sabotage. The main air pump of the Italian ship, Al berta, is shown shattered and useless. Right: Chief Mechanic Alston of the Coast Guard at Port Newark, N. J., examines broken parts of the slide valve on the Alberta. Demonstrate ‘Blackout Machine’ at Capital j Two New Jersey inventors demonstrating a “blackout machine” be fore Sen. Morris Sheppard, chairman of senate military affairs commit tee. The inventors said the device could shut off power in every Amer ican city. L. to R., Senator Sheppard, Col. D. Watt, E. C. Pomeroy and R. M. Franklin of the Radio Signal Products Corp., the inventors. And Now Frenchmen Give Nazi Salute! A year ago Frenchmen used to mock the upraised arm salute of the Fascists and Nazis, but things have changed In France. Above is shown a great gathering of French war veterans saluting Marshal Petain, French chief of state, In a rally at Le Puy. The aged marshal Is on the dais In the background. *. Battles Jungle Maj. R. E. Randall of Swamp* scott, Mass., Albrook field executive officer, who was forced to cut hla way through 25 miles of Panama jungle after bailing out of his dis abled plane. He is shown here at Ancon, Canal Zone. Jugoslav Premier Gen. Richard Dusan-Simovlcb, staunch friend of Great Britain and army ccnimander, who has been named to the post of premier of Jugoslavia. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewtd by CARTER FIELD Strikes in defense in dustries causing labor to lose public support . . . Hydroelectric power probably Roosevelt's par amount interest in St. Lawrence seaway project. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.I WASHINGTON. - Strikes holding up national defense had become the toughest kind of problem before the mediation board was appointed, and the first publicity the board had did not help much toward convincing the public that a solution of the prob lem had been reached. This first publicity — ignoring the picture taking, the appointment of the mem bers and the formal organization— i was that the board could take up ! only strike situations which had been certified to it, so to speak, by the department of labor. Most of the senators and repre sentatives on Capitol Hill who have been criticizing the policy of per mitting strikes to interfere with na tional defense work have always dis trusted Secretary of Labor Perkins. This is made slightly milder by the fact that both congress and the corps of Washington newspaper men have a great deal of confidence in John R. Steelman, who is the chief mediator in the strike situations for the department of labor. If it be comes known that Steelman thinks any particular thing is all right, that carries a lot of weight. But this modification scarcely af fects the public. Hence it does not affect the mail pouring in on indi vidual members of congress. The public is very definitely—if one may construe anything from this mail— convinced that the government has been fiddling while Rome bums on this whole business. The mail shows conclusively that there is very little sympathy for the stand labor has “been taking. •LABOR* LOSES SUPPORT This comes on top of several de velopments, which have paved the way for a less friendly audience for labor's side of the story. One is the pounding that Westbrook Pegler has been giving the labor racketeers and the union leaders for not doing something about it. The other is the widespread publicity given to the initiation fees charged laborers who wanted to work on some of the gov ernment cantonment contracts. When such a friend of labor and a hater of most capitalists as Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska takes the floor to warn labor, things have really been moving. Just what will happen is anybody’s guess. But one thing is certain. II the delay to defense work continues, there will be such public clamor that congress, already boiling about the situation, will not only investigate the strikes, but will do something more drastic. It may not be the wise thing to do, in the long run, but whatever it happens to be is going to be very unpleasant. • • • St. Lawrence Seaway la Six-Year Project So far no one has suggested one of the most appealing economic rea sons for the St. Lawrence seaway— it will enable salt-water ships to rid their hulls of barnacles, because j scraping the hulls of ships of these foes is simple in fresh water, almost , impossible in salt water. But even the'most earnest advo i cates of the St. Lawrence project admit that it will be at least six years, maybe seven, before the sea way can be opened to traffic. Mean ing. of course, six to seven years after it is started. Then assuming the war is still in progress, and hence that the nation al defense justification for the canal held, a few well-placed bombs would cripple navigation just as effective ly as they would at Panama, where that danger is resulting in the con struction of another set of locks. PRESIDENT SUPPORTS MEASURE Why does the President press this measure, knowing that it will be at least six years before the seaway can be completed? Why does he talk about the need for ships, and the possibility of drawing both merchant and warships from Great Lakes shipyards, now that all the shipbuilding ways on salt water are jammed with orders? The answer to all this is simple. The President has never been really interested in the seaway project per se. He is interested in the develop ment of hydro-electric power on the St. Lawrence river. That power can be produced, the experts insist, three years after work is started. Of course, cheap power could be ob \ tained in a shorter time than that by building steam plants, but it would not be as simple to put the building of government steam-power plants under the national defense mantle. Everybody knows that privately owned utilities would be very glad to build additional power plants if assured of a market. Incidentally that strike at Milwau kee has put off the time for any ; number of power plants being i brought into operation. It alone makes the turbines for power plants and warships.