ined 6 ‘No Line Can Be Drawn Between Home and Front’ Marshall Decries Propaganda By HERMAN SANDERS NEW YORK—(ALN)—Gen. George C€. Marshall, chief of staff of the United States Army, has sent out instructions to every orientation officer in every army outfit ordering discussions to counteract propaganda against labor and the home front by news- papers and columnists, George Seldes, editor of the weekly newsletter In Fact, reveals in an exclusive copyright story. In addition, according to Seldes the War Department has sent a fact sheet to every army unit giving statistis and official reports which answer anti-labor propaganda since the war be- gan. Gen. Marshall’s instructions, dated August 21, 1944, call on orientation officers to hold dis- cussions stressing: © Our people at home are winning .the production war against Germany and Japan; @ The enemy unceasingly aims to create antagonism be- tween our soldiers and our civilians; : @ In today’s total war, there can be no real line drawn be- tween “home” front and “fight- ing” front. Gen. Marshall’s directive con- finues: “Today 44,000,000 Am- ericans are at work combatting the Axis hhome fronts. Since Pearl Harbor, we’ve built $15,- 000,000,000 of new war indus- tries in addition to converting Qur peace industries to war. Our production front has not only caught up with the Axis; right now our people alone are giving us more weapons than the combined output of Ger- many and Japan.” The Allies have a four to one edge over the Axis, he says. “This giant production pro- eram is not being realized with- out difficulties,” Gen. Marshall continues. “The most sensa- tional of these are strikes. “What is the actual effect strikes have had upon our pro- duction? From shortly before £ A PROGRESSIVE Pearl Harbor until July 1 of this year we have had 9285 strikes or work stoppages, and these have cost about 23,000,- 000 man-days of labor. “Our war effort would be even greater if perfect har- mony had. prevailed and these stoppages had not occurred. On the other hand, so prodigious and, faithful have been the ef-— forts of the great majority of our people that the loss repre- sents less than one-tenth of one percent of the total labor time available. “This bears out the statement by the Secretary of Labor to Gongress that the no-strike, no- lockout pledge of labor and management, has been kept at a rate of 99 percent.” @ (ee fact sheet dealing with anti-labor propaganda opens with the following note to orientation oficers: “Confi- dence in the home front and a feeling of unity with the cival- jan production worker are essential to the morale of the soldier, Few things will under- mine the soldier’s faith in his cause more devastatingly than bitterness about the home front.” Gen. Marshall points out that two opinions held by soldiers— that labor disputes have seri- ously hampered war produc- tion and that war workers are living in luxury——are respons- ible for amnti-civilian feeling. “The serious thing about these opinions,” the fact sheet adds VORK BOOT FOR EVERY PURPOSE Prices, According to Wartime Regulations JOHNSON’S BOOTS 63 West Cordoya Street SOHEN 2 Phone MA. 7612 BROS. 1685 KINGSWAY @ Dry Kindling © No. 1 Fir Sawdust—Bulk or Sacked @ No. 1 Fir Wood “after bonds and taxes, ‘“s that they are misconcep- tions based probably on inade- quate access to factual ma- terial.” é e@ It then cites facts about m- creased living costs, taxes, war bond deductions, moving costs for many war workers and wages, concluding that “the average spendable earnings, of the average factory worker with three dependents exceeded the January 1941 standard by $5.65 a week. The single work- er had 22 cents, enough for two beers, per week more than the cost of his January 1941 earnings.” Pointing out tnat coal strikes accounted for two-thirds of the time lost last year, the fact sheet stresses that AFL and CIO national leadership have not authorized a single strike since Pear] Harbor. Through the raging fires of battle, a Russian woman soldier half-drags, half-carries a wounded Red Army fighter from the Warsaw firing line. Soviet Labor Journalist Castigates Lewis Reasons for Wartime Strikes Reviewe MOSCOW— (ALN)—Departure from USA labor's no-strike pledge have b caused by provocative employers and by “the machinations of individual trade un leaders who in certain instances make trade unions the weapons of their defeatist polic B. Bronsky, Soviet labor journalist, declares in an article in War and the Working Cl Bronsky’s article, entitled “Strikes in the USA”, was written in reply to queries ff Soviet workers on the reasons for wartime strikes in America. 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