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_ MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1944. _
THE EXODUS PROBLEM
Last year Seattle faced the problem of
getting enough workers for the Boeing
plant.
That problem was solved, for the
time, as the result of cooperative action.
Increased wages helped a great deal.
But the coordinated efforts of the com
munity, including the Boeing manage
ment, labor organizations and federal
agencies represented here, proved a big
factor, both in bringing about better
wages and in meeting other phases of
the problem.
Today, not only the Boeing plant, but
the shipyards, the navy yard and various
other war operations are suffering from
an exodus of workers.
This is not merely a local situation. A
similar phenomenon is reported from
other Pacific coast cities. Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego
all are suffering heavy labor losses.
The exodus is attributed, in large
measure, to a highly erroneous opinion
that the war is about over.
To whatever extent this opinion is
responsible for workers giving up war
jobs, it must be dissipated.
The war is not nearly over.
A mere landing upon the western coast
of Europe will not end even the Euro
pean phase. There will be bitter and
probably long battles to hold and ex
pand beach heads. This country and
its allies still have to meet the strong
and experienced German armies, which
fought four years in France, in World
War I, before they were beaten.
After the European phase of the war
is over, the Pacific phase will still have
to be fought. And with attention con
centrated on that war, Pacific coast war
plants and ports will have to intensify
their efforts.
This region will, to a greater extent
than before, be the center of war activ
ity.
Army and navy authorities have un
dertaken to make this plain. There is
still need to hammer home to everyone
the word that the nation needs more
linen and women in war plants.
I That can be done most effectively
when every community undertakes a
!laree share of the responsibility, just as
seattle did a year ago in meeting the
Boeing problem of 1943.
Let us get together upon a commun
ity-wide basis, to meet this new prob
lem.
Let us meet, head on, the fallacious
' argument that the war is “about over.”
And if any other factors are responsible
for the exodus of workers, let us find
^ \t what these reasons are and also deal
with them.—(Seattle PostTntelligencer)
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FOR THE WHITECOLLAR BOYS
Sen. Elberit Thomas of Utah, has
spoken but once more for the real for
I gotten man of this war—the whitecollar
worker. Senator Thomas has been
heard before on the subject, since he is
j chairman of the Senate committee which
•has studied the plight of these fixed-in
'come workers. Nothing constructive
has yet been done while the debate over
cost-of-living statistics rages and no one
knows exactly how much of a beating
these 20 million workers have taken.
But it is obvious that they have taken
ja beating. Even as loyal an administra
tion soldier as Senator Thomas admits
that they have been squeezed between
! frozen incomes and rising prices. He has
| recommended that the War Labor Board
at least remove controls on wages up to
'$200 a month for family heads and $150
for single persons.
Even before all the returns are in it
would seem that this can be safely done.
The whitecollar workers are paying
their share of taxes. Their food costs
them as much as it does the highly-paid
| war plant worker or executive. They
are buying war bonds, too. And Senator
Thomas’ recommendation carries no
threat of inflation. Easing the ceiling as
far as he suggests would be nothing
more than common justice.—(Anchorage
Times).
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
"THE FIRST LADY CHATTER
LEY". by D. H. Lawrence
(Dial; $2.75).
In the winter of 1929-30 I was
living in a villa just ou'side the
village of Vence, in the Alpes
Maritimes between Nice and
Grasse. On the other side of th#
village, a very famous man lay
dying. His death was affecting,
and one of the most affecting
things was that he was very poor;
part of his support came from the
sale of a badly printed and worse
bound novel called “Lady Chat
terley’s Lover.” It was banned,
I think, in all English-speaking
countries, published first at Flor
ence, at once pira4ed all over the
world. For sixty francs it was
possible to buy an authorized
dirty thing. The public was prob
ably less sntckerful than Law
rence thought, and Lawrence’s
fictional tract was probably less
effective.
Now one of our energetic pub
lishers has dug out the first draft
of the book, and is publishing it
in America as “The First Lady
Chatterley.” Frieda Lawrence
has written an introduction. The
publishers declare vehemently
that this is a better novel than
the third version, which is the
one readers already know. They
are right, too, but “The First
Lady Cha'terley” is still not the
equal of Lawrence’s best work—
1 to wit, “Sons and Lovers.” It is
too talky, and although the char
acters are really characters, they
still take 'hemsetves with that
uncompromising, humorless ser
iousness that afflicted Lawrence,
particularly in the last half of
his working life.
And the class struggle , which
is a large share of the book, is
self-consciously managed. It is
intelligently managed, for all
that, and the author’s sincerity
is unquestionable.
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"IKE" FOOLED SCHOOLMATES
FILER, Idaho — <AP> — Mrs.
Earl Ramsey remembers School
mate Dwight D. Eisenhower as a
sandy-haired, quiet, retiring high
school senior at Abilene, Kas.,
who had little time for girls. The
class prophecy tabbed Eisenhower
; as a future history professor ra
' ther than a man who would help
make history.
OFFICERS ON K. P.
HILLL FIELD, Utah —<AP) —
| When several enlisted men re
ported for kitchen police duty,
they found the chores being done
by a first lieutenant, a master
sergeant, a technical sergeant
and five staff sergeants. The offi
cers said they wanted to prove
they could handle the job.
FOURTH OF JULY
COMMITTEE NAMED
Mayor Edward Anderson has
been busy the past few evenings
gathering his Fourth of July .com
mittee, and reports satisfying re
sults in spite of the fact that
everyone is very busy. The com
mittee will meet soon at the call
of the temporary chairman, A.
Polet.
Following is listed the members
of the committee: Judge Mori
, son, Frank Bingnam. A. Polet, W.
Boucher, L. Leach, Lt. S. R. Mor
gan, L. Dunnar, M. J. Walsh,
and Major Phillips.
As in the past, each succeeding
celebration ♦ries to outshine its
predecessors. This year’ wll see
a truly grand and glorious
Fourth of July. Let’s keep it that
way in the future. Buy War Bonds
to assure that we will.
WEDDING— 1*44 STYLE
CAMP BUTNER, N. C.—<AP)—
When Lieut. Warren R. Turner,
of the field artillery, and Miss Lil
lian Stubbins, left the Chapel
here after being married, they
passed under an arch of grim 4.5
howitzers, instead of the tradi
tional arch of sabers. Their wed
ding carriage was a jeep, deco
rated with wild flowers. And—a
husky lieutenant caught the
bride’s bouquet.
PERCY IPALOOK FLYS
TO KOTZEBUE
Percy Ipalook, the government
teacher on St. Lawrence Island,
passed through Nome this week
enroute to Kotzebue, Alaska,
where he expects to spend about
three weeks of his vacation. He
will then return to Nome.
Subscribe to The Nugget.
cheap edition published with an
introduction by Lawrence at Pa
ris, and that I bought.
For qui'e a while it seemed to
me a useful book, but its useful
j ness thinned a bit with the years,
or perhaps this came about when
the shock of the four-letter words
: was forgotten. It now seems to
me that the famous gamekeeper,
Lady Chatterley, and Lady Chat
i terley’s husband were merely car
penter’s horses to support an ob
session of Lawrence’s, which was
that it was his mission to argue
the public out of making sex a
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