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Seattle Boeing Workers -
Show Real Patriotism

SEATTLE, Wash—Members of the International Associa-
tion of Machinists (AFL) whose recent demonstration for wages
.to protect their productive capacity was denounced by the
commercial press, produced eight times as many Flying Fort-

resses in 1942 as in 1941.
‘This was revealed in the annual

financial statement of Boeing
President P. G. Johnson who also
reported that net profits of the
company had increased from $5,-
237,624 in 1941 to $6,118,144 in 1942
despite a large increase in taxa-
tion, Dividends increased from
$4.84 2 share to $5.65 a share.
‘An idea of how Boeing was pro-
fiteering during 1942 may be gained

from the fact that its excess prof-
its tax increased from $12,125,000
in 1941 to $28,600,000 in 1942,
During the period of these in-
flationary profits for the company,
the National War Labor Board de-
layed decision on the workers’
wages while the cost of living was

increasing faster in Seattle than in
any other city in the nation.

Soldier Sends Thanks
To Ladies’ Auxiliary

Currie Barracks,
Calgary, Alta.,
April 10, 1943,
Dear Sister Glady Anderson:

Tam sorry that I was so dumb in
not acknowledging the gift the
Ladies’ Auxiliary sent me at Christ-
mas, Yes, I received it OK and I
thank you very much. I really was
under the impression I had
acknowledged it but when you re-
minded me, I know I had not. This
brings up soniething I know you
ladies are always wondering about.
That is the rumors you hear of
service men not receiving parcels.
I have not met anyone yet who did
not get his parcels. I think it is
that they just don’t acknowledge
them. I have talked to some lads
who are back from overseas for a
course or something and they say
parcels come through regularly.
The parcels are sometimes late.
That is because the men move
about a good deal so the thing has
to catch them up.

There is a large number of
CWAC here, They are training to
take over army jobs that a woman
can handle. They are doing a damn

good job of it in the kitchens here,
too. We had fair food in Vernon,
but boy! it sure wasn’t up to what
the girls give up here. I am very
glad to learn you are having good
success in organizing. It is very
heartening to know the ladies are
all behind us.

Congratulations on getting the
men folk roused up to making a
good job of their union. That is
good news and I am sure the Aux-
iliary had a bit to do with it.

We are in advance training here
and our next move will be for over-
seas, though I don’t know when.
This makes me remember some-
thing. Our officer is an overseas
man, He tells us that smokes are
hard to get over there. The best
way is have a friend send them, so
if you contemplate sending any
more parcels, wait till I get over
and send me smokes. Please read
this to your Auxiliary Sisters.

With every wish for your con-
tinued success, I remain,

‘Truly yours,
K69196, Pte G, W. Peters,

A16, CLT.C.C.A,

Calgary, Alta.

Army And IWA Share
Honors In Baseball

Duncan IWA gathered together the veteran baseball players
of the district on Sunday at Duncan Athletic Grounds and held-
a Dunean army team to a one-run lead. However, for the first
four innings they had the valuable help of Johnny Colontino,
the army’s star catcher. The woodworkers let Johnny return
to the army fold in the fifth, when the score stood at 8-5 for

the IWA. Army won, 9-8.
With Johnny back on the army's
mound things went harder for the
woodworkers. His fast curves were
hard to hit, and in the next three
innings only one man got as far
as third base, Fred Earthy took
over the pitching job for IWA.
Only seven innings were played.

SOFTBALL GAMES.

Afterwards almost the same line-
ups played a 4%-inning softball
game, army winning 7-2. “Shorty”
Bylik and Roy made two each of
the army’s runs, F. Hayes and
Coates scored for IWA.

IWA VICTORIOUS

Last Wednesday evening IWA
beat Duncan Army, 7-4, at soft-
ball. Nokes, IWA pitcher, made a
home run in the fifth. Score after
the third inning was 5-1, but Army

made three runs in the sixth, The
game ended after the first half of
the seventh, in which Army failed
to make a run.

Arrangements have been made
for a return IWA-Army baseball
game this week.

Wartime Nurseries

The thousandth British Wartime |’

nursery where women workers
may leave their children during
working hours opened recently.

COMFORT and

SERVICE
At Moderate: Prices

EDDIE MIXED UP

Between his friends in the fox-
holes and his other friends in the
swivel chairs, Captain Hddie Rick-
enbacker has messed up his think-
ing,

In a recent speech he let loose
this block-buster:

“All overtime wages for work up
to 49 hours a week should be ab-
olished. You shouldn't have to
bribe men for doing their jobs.”

Yet in the same speech Eddie
urged abolition of the $25,000 limit
on salaries, because—

“That's a limit on incentive.”

He wants incentives for captains
of industry in the form of dropsi-
cal salaries, but for workers he
would withhold incentives because
he considers them a “bribe.”

Eddie is mixea up because he's
really two people. He’s a hero,
a great guy, a fighting man him-
self. He is also the president of
a great aircraft corporation and
either an executive or former ex-
ecutive of quite a few other big
corporations.

As an airman, Eddie knows what
it’s like out there on the fighting
fronts. As an executive, he knows
what extra profits a corporation
could make if it didn’t have to pay
overtime to its workers,

There is a great deal of that kind
of patriotism, which ends just
short of pocket nerve, Eddie would,
doubtless, lay down his life for
his country; but he wouldn’t pay
@ cent more to his workers than
they are able to exact.—Aero News.

300 Clergymen
Support Bridges

SAN FRANCISCO.—More than
300 clergymen throughout the
United States have joined Bishop
Edward L, Parsons of San Francis-
co in signing an open letter to
President (Roosevelt asking that he
‘set aside the deportation order
against Harry Bridges, and afford
him the opportunity to become a
citizens of the U.S.’

The letter declared that ‘an ex-
amination of the case against the
president of the International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse-
men’s Union (CIO) and his record
since our entering the war con-
vinces us that his deportation will
be an injustice to him and a
material loss to our national war
effort.’ z

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—You can take this to labor-baiting
Eddie Rickenbacker and tell him to swallow it—and HARD!
If he’s got any kind of a conscience, it ought to bother him
plenty when he learns that an exclusive CIO News survey
showed that within a recent six-months period CIO organized

shops won, on the average, better
than 50 percent of the combined
totals°of Army-Navy “H's” and
Martime “M's,” granted for excel-
lence of war production.

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up, shop by shop and shipyard
by shipyard, in eight major cen-
ters of war production:

CIO, 109 awards; AFL (with few-
er contracts in war industries), 1
Non-union, 47; No information, 3
Independent union, 2

In CIO factories and shipyards
all over the nation, high Army,
Navy, Martime Commission and
other government officials have

praised in glowing terms the con-
tributions of the workers, and, un-
like Rickenbacker, have urged
them on to greater effort by telling
them of the splendid fight they
have been making on the home
front to stamp out world Fascism.

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