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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1942.
Registration of 18 Age
Youths Begins Friday
(Continued Irom page 1.)
Noted Evangelist at
Canyonville Church
there are more than a half-million
in this age group, but many
of them already have enlisted.
The schedule, calling for three
one-week registration periods for
youths grouped by their birth
dates:
December 11 to 17, inclusive
those born on or after .Inly 1,
1H24, but not after Aug. 31, J 924.
December 18 to 21, inclusive
those born on or after Sept. 1,
1921, but not after (Jet. 31, 192-1.
December 26 to 31, inclusive
those born on or after Nov. 1,
1.924, but not after Dec. 31, 1921.
Inductions of youlhs of these
ages wore expected to vary to
some extent depending upon pre
parations made by local boards
to meet draft calls with older
men and also on how rapidly the
boards can classify the younger
group for service.
The war department, mean
time, announced that the order
suspending voluntary enlistment
will not Interfere with the army's
volunteer officer candidate pro
gram. However, men who have
passed their 38th birthday will
not be accepted as candidates al
though those who had been or
dered by Dee. 5 to report for in
duction will be taken for train
ing. Instructions To Youths
The order in which 18-year-old
youths will be classified for in
duction will be determined by
llieir birth dates with the oldest
coming first.
Those traveling during their
registration period will register
with a draft hoard In the place
where they happen to be, but
their cards will be forwarded to
their home boards, which will In
clude the registrants in their
quotas and have permanent juris
diction over '.hem.
Those having more than fne
place of residence will register
wherever they are at Ihc lime,
but may choose between their
residences for purpose of assign
ment to a local hoard. I
Youths who become 18 after
Dec. 31 must register on their
birth dates. This group Is ex
peeled to average about 100,000
a month.
Any 18 or Iflyear-old regis
Irani attending high school who
is ordered to report for induction
during the last half of an aca
demic year mny have Ids induc
tion postponed until the end of
the academic year upon written
request to his draft board.
Problems Still Faced
Addition of the new registrants
to the Ji.sf of draft eligible will
postpone to some extent the in
duction of childless married men,
but their addition has been off
set In part by the recent stoppage
of Induction of those 38 or older.
A number of problems arising
from suspension of voluntary en
listment and adoption of 37 ns
the maximum age fur army
selectees still awaits solution, War
department officials said.
The status of men 37, who are
subject to induction although
they may reach their 38th hii-th-days
long before their military
training is complete, also Is un
certain. Unoffieially, the armv's
attitude was reported to be
against accepting men who will
be able to obtain discharges with,
in a year.
Block-Busters Again
Shatter City of Turin
(Continued from page 1.)
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The Rev. Arthur Slater, above.
noted traveler, evangelist and
composer, is now conducting
special revival services each ev
ening at the Gospel Tabernacle
in Canyonville. The services be
gan Tuesday. Topics of current
and vtlal Interest for wartime
living, such as "Propaganda or
Prophecy," "Itemole Control,"
"Who Put Hitler Into Power?"
etc., are being presented, accord
ing to the Kev. A. M. .Shaffer,
pastor.
Hcv. and Mrs. Slater and stu
dents of the Uiblo academy will
assist in special music. The pub
lic Is invited to attend the ser
vices, which are held at 7:30 o'
clock each evening.
Promoted
vessel off Norway yesterday ami
n Halifax destroyed an e'nemv I
aircraft over the hay of llisray. ' '
Uoth firebombs and explosives !
were employed In the effort I
deal the coup de grace to Turin
once great industrial center on I
the river Po. j
Bombing He.ird 90 Miles I
A Keillors dispatch said walch
ers at Ticino, Switzerland, 90
miles away, saw lightning like
flashes on the horizon and heard '
the thunder of Inlermiitcnl ex-1
plosions, apparently Irom the
super bombs. !
The return lasl nielit lo Turin '
for the sixth raid in less than a
month testified to Ihe KAf's de-.
termination to smash Italian in
dustry in one phase of the effort I
to knock Italy from the war. j
Observers on the southeast
coast said (lie planes streamed
across the English channel for 90 j
minutes unit were subjected to !
heavy anti aircraft fire from tier- i
man batteries on the French 1
coast upon their return this morn-1
Ing from the roundtrip crossing
of the Alps.
Air alarms were sounded in !
Swiss centers and the Swiss tide-
graph agency said that the Swiss
minister in London had been in-;
structed to make n "very firm" i
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Tlie It. S. Marine ( nrps lias an
linunrril the promotion of ItrtjrA
dlcr (elirr.lls Harry Srliniiilt,
tup. Itttlpli .1. 1 1 1 lit-ll, eehter,
and Kmile V. Moses. All have
hern advaiH-rrl to the temporary
tirades of Major (irnrraL
protest against KAI-' flights over
the nation.
II said lie was told to call the
Hritisli government's attention to
"the urgent necossily" of respect
ing Switzerland's neutrality.
VITAL STATISTICS
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
MARRIAGE LICENSES
KXdt.ANIvnom.ITTl.K Al
via 1.. Kngland. Cottage Grove
and Donna ISiolillle, Sullierlin.
WKAVKU WILSON' l-'rank
K. Weaver. Kiddle, and Kthel Wil
son, Kosctmrg.
I BORN
STIiADL'R To Mr. and Mrs.
' M. D. Strader. 11 -Hi West first
' street. Koseburg, at Merc- bos
pit.'il, this morning, IVcemlior 111,
'a daughter. Nancy Cayle: weight
j eight pounds live oumvs.
Creomulslon relieves promptly do-' Taken to Hospital Mi s. Anna
S5SS,i fnSS 2Sh ' ""'' f"IH.a avenue,
Koseburg. has boon admitted to
Mercy hospital lor medical attention.
trnnhln In heln loosen and exiK'l
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
, to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis (
ECOXOMIZK ON IT'EL. Tut a
HEATH. ATI K in the fireplace
and get TIIKKK TIML'S as much
HEAT. For sale at PACE'S.
(Adv.)
MONTGOMERY WARD'S
SISCOuW s
TATE M EOT
TO NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD
The following statement was submitted to the National War Labor Board at its meeting in Washington on December 8, 1942.
The War Labor Board on November 5, 1942, issued an
order that Wards "incorporate" in a contract with a C. I. O.
Union at Chicago:
1. A clause establishing a form of the closed shop, call
ed "maintenance of membership," together with a check-off
of union dues from wages.
2. A clause providing for compulsory arbitration on any
questions the union wishes to raise.
3. A clause guaranteeing in these uncertain times pres
ent wage and working conditions for a year.
Wards rejected this order of the board for these
reasons:
1. The board was without authority. Congress, the only
law-making authority under the constitution, has not em
powered the board to order any employer to do any of the
things which the board demanded of Wards.
2. The order violated the fundamental principles of
liberty. Liberty requires that an employee be free to join
or to resign from a union without jeopardizing his livelihood.
Liberty requires that an employer be free to employ the per
son best suited for the work.
3. The order was in itself illegal. The order required
Wards, first, to interfere with the free choice of its em
ployees to resign from the union; second, to give support to
the union by a check-off of union dues, and third, to discrimi
nate against employees if they resigned their membership in
the union, all in direct violation of the National Labor Rela
tions act.
4. Wards operates in a highly competitive field com
posed of one million seven hundred fifty thousand retail es
tablishments. It is unfair to impose burdens upon Wards and
not upon those with whom it is in competition.
The imposition of the closed shop against Wards can
not be justified by reference to the so-called no strike agree
ment. Wards was not a party to this agreement. Wards
had no voice in the selection of those who, as representatives
of industry, attended the conference in December, 1941,
which formulated this agreement. Wards has never ratified
the results of that conference.
Furthermore, the conference itself did not agree that
the war labor board might impose the closed shop principle.
Those acting as representatives of industry expressly recom
mended to the president that this issue not be considered
by the board. The board, in ordering a form of closed shop
at Wards, has acted contrary to these expressed recommen
dations of the industry representatives.
If Wards had had the right to test the legality of the
board's demands in a court, Wards would have done so, but
Wards was deprived of a remedy in , the courts by the
board's complete lack of legal authority to compel obedi
ence of its order. The court will only act when legal rights
have been violated. The courts have declared that the mere
making of demands which do not have to be obeyed does
not, in the eyes of the law, violate any legal right. The
board's very lack of authority thus resulted in a denial to
Wards, as it has to other employers, of a right to relief in
the courts.
The president of the United States as well as the board
is wholly without constitutional authority to order any em
ployer to do the things demanded of Wards, nevertheless, in
deep respect for the president and his great responsibility
in time of war. Wards said, in rejecting the board s order
"If congress imposes closed shops, compulsory arbitra
tion or contracts for a year's duration on employers, or if
the president of the United States, as commander-in-chief in
time of war directs that Wards accept the board's ruling,
which we earnestly believe are illegal and uneconomic, we
will be promptly obeyed."
The president on November 18 wrote the company,
saying:
"As commander-in-chief in time of war, . . . I . . . direct
Montgomery Ward and Company to comply, without fur
ther delay, with the National War Labor Board's directive
order of November 5, 1942."
Wards immediately answered:
"Your order of November 18th has been received and
will be promptly obeyed."
Wards thereupon altered the general form of its con
tracts with unions and incorporated, word for word, the
clauses ordered by the War Labor Board. This document
was offered to the union. The company has fully complied
with the president's direction and will continue to do so.
The document which the president has directed Wards
to sign is not a contract. The requisite of a contract is that
there be a meeting of the minds of agreement between the
parties. There has been no agreement between Wards and
the union. The document which the president has ordered
Wards to sign affects the rights and liberties of Wards and
of its employees. Therefore, in order that the document
itself may be clear and state the facts, Wards informatively
included these three sentences:
"The following provisions are not voluntarily agreed to
by the company. In the company's opinion they are illegal
and unsound. These provisions are copied verbatim from
the War Labor Board's order of November 5, 1942, and are
incorporated herein, on the company's part, under duress
and only because the president of the United States as commander-in-chief
in time of war has expressly ordered that
they be included."
These three sentences are in all respects true. They do
not alter the effect of the provisions ordered by the board
provisions which Wards will carry out. Nevertheless, the
union has refused to sign the offered document.
Wards will be happy to accept any improvement in the
wording of this statement, but Wards will resist any attempt
to hide the truth by a change in its substance.
On January 9, 1941, the president said:
"In the future days which we seek to make secure, we
look forward to a world founded upon four essential human
freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression
everywhere in the world."
Wards feels that it is bound by the rules of good citi
zenship to make sure that the simpie truth about these pro
visions and Wards' acceptance of them be not hidden from
or misrepresented to its hundred thousand employees, its
sixty thousand shareholders, and its many millions of cus
tomers. The elimination of this statement would serve no
purpose but to conceal the truth from readers of the docu
ment. Wards has cheerfully met with the union and with this
board whenever requested. Wards has promptly obeyed
the direction of the president. Wards insists that its right
to tell the truth not be destroyed.
MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY
Sewell Avery
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