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Southern Oregon M iner, T hursday, Ju n e 7, 1945 Front With Fighting Leathernecks on Okinawa Stitched Bluebirds In Color on Linens •mi: N..»,,, B y P aul M allon js f Washington. D. C. GERMAN PRISON LABOR Officials are keeping very m un.! ■bout it. but the entire question of using German prison labor to re- ■ ( IO REBUKED AT build Russia and France has been 1 SAN FRANCISCO CONFAB ... ............... . thrown into a a ___ new .............. controversy by a " ASHINGTON.— Here is the story ,ecre, opinjon rendered by Supreme no one could get at San Francisco- Court Justice R,^ ert Jackson, who the inside story of why Sidney H ill has taken over U. S. prosecution of man. Russian labor, and leftists of war criminals. British trade unions , Justice Jackson wrote his opinion happened to assem- 1 to U. S. Reparations Chief Ed ble their new world Pauley, stating that in his opinion labor order on Oa«- , compulsory German labor should ! land. across the not be used to rebuild France and I bay, just at the very Russia unless they have been con- | day of the opening victed of war crimes. of the world peace , conference. a n d ' , " It is not ffiy business what Is to | what they were jp be done with reparations.” Jackson wrote, “but this would largely de to. All inquiries were stroy the moral position of Ameri Sidney H illm a n pushed aside out ca in this war. . . . Compulsory there with the ex- labor.” he continued, “should be planation that this new world labor j required only for convicted war Leathernecks, coordinating with army troops, are shown In action In the Anal stages of the fierce battles power, called the World Trade Union criminals.” that raged in every section of Okinawa island. Island spotted with graves and fallen heroes attests to the Jackson went on to point out that Congress, was merely looking for re high price paid. flected publicity from its proximity German labor “drifting out of Rus to the conference, or something sisn- sian concentration camps in the fu- ilarly inconsequential. ture would tell tales of horror” It is no wonder the story was hid- which, even if exaggerated, would den securely beneath a rubble of ! "arouse sharp condemnation in the | confusing explanations because it United States.” He urged, there would have disclosed a coup de con fore. that German labor not be ference planned by Mr. Hillman used for reparations until they had and his Russian associates—a coup been convicted of war crimes He which was squelched completely in indicated that members of the Ges a secret meeting of the conference tapo and the SS Elite guard undoubt steering committee, despite inter edly were war criminals as a class, vention by no less a power than Mo but the every member of the Nazi party might not be classified as a lotov himself. These are the facts: war criminal. The Oakland labor assembly was Following Justice Jackson’s completely under control of Hillman bombshell, a hurried meeting and the Russians, with the British was called in Secretary Morgen- riding quietly behind them. The thau's office, attended by Ed head of the Russian labor delegation Pauley, Assistant Secretary of at Oakland was also an official dele State Will Clayton, the army, gate for Russia in the San Fran navy. FEA, and other inter cisco peace meeting and the pipe ested government agencies. Sec line between. retary Morgenthau vigorously PLAN WORKED UPON protested this new development. Through him the Hillman crowd It was pointed out by some that worked up a program whereby they the use of German prison labor would all get into the conference and had been agreed to at Yalta by into the permanent peace setup by President Roosevelt himself and, being established as the group to therefore, could not be changed. handle world labor problems. “ If we have to »’ait for the con They succeeded it getting the eco viction of all these war criminals nomic Committee of the conference before we can get German labor,” to approve their entry as consult suggested Reparations Chief Pauley ants. The economic committee in “we may have to wait a year. Mean- cludes strong representation of . , t i while, there may not be enough smaller nations. p a rtic u la r y a in Qerrnans to repair the damage in America. France and Russia.” A resolution carrying out this pur Pauley also made the point that I pose was handed by the economic A ghastly but unforgettable memorial to the hero! m of those who man the navy'n ships and the skill of he had been charged by the Presi committee to the steering commit those who build them, was again shown when the carrier USS Franklin arrived In Brooklyn Navy yard under her dent with the handling of repara tee which is composed of all nations own power. H it by Jap dive bombers, afire and her own bombs exploding and one-third of her crew killed, After some warm discussion, that tions and. therefore, would have to from Jap waters to Brooklyn she returned unaided. Lower left, officers of carrier. Lower right. Chaplain make the final decision himself guiding committee of the conference after his arrival in Europe. After Joseph O'Callahan, one of heroes during battle, and trip home. Right shows how she limped Into port. decided it would not even go into further discussion, however, Pauley the matter thoroughly and defeated agreed to accept Justice Jackson's the resolution. When Hillman saw this coming ne opinion in principle, namely, that got Molotov to champion his cause, only convicted war criminals could and it was the Russian foreign min be used as prisoner labor. This ister who pressed the matter as far leaves the whole, question pretty as it went in the steering committee much up in the air. However, it has been hinted that By his own adroitness, H ill Justice Jackson will endeavor to in man thns outslicked himself dict groups of Germans as a class. and disclosed his hand. That In other words, he may try the Ges Meloiov would champion his tapo as a group, not individually, cause was all-too-obvious evi and decide that every member of dence to everyone on the inside the Gestapo automatically is a war that their fears and suspicions criminal. This probably will be done about Hillman's trade union con with Hitler's SS Elite corps. Wheth gress had solid ground—that it er a blanket indictment will also be was more Russian than worldly. lodged against the Nazi party re A few days later the Oakland mains to be seen. meeting quietly adjourned without • • * taking any noticeable action and TR A IN IN G FILM S DESTROYED. Mr. Hillman went off to southern The army doesn’t want it known, California for a rest. but it has a new way of handling The frustration of the coup repre one type of surplus property. In the sented a victory for Bill Green, the case of training and orientation AFL president, who has been vigor film, it bums old prints According ously fighting Hillman's attempt to a survey made by movie ex since the last election to establish perts, old films last summer were with the Communist a world labor being burned at the rate of 225 tons front. weekly at Astoria. N. Y. WORLD LABOR PLANS Meanwhile other government Green demanded in resolutions agencies, schools and universities passed by his executive council are anxious to buy these outmoded (M ay 8) that world labor be repre prints froyi the army. In fact, the sented in the future world order by U. S. office of transportation had to the International Labor Office, a suc spend $60,000 of the taxpayers' ' While plowing his field the French cessful creature of the old League money to make 10 new reels of its farmer leaves a tiny island in the of Nations. own when the army refused to sell Born in the early spring at Pittsburgh zoo. this giraffe (left) already center of the plot containing the Shrewdly he did not seek the place it the army's excellent series of 20 has grown out of babyhood. His mother was shopping when this photo grave of a British soldier killed In for his own AFL world group which reels for the training of auto was taken. Lower right, Lady Llama at San Francisco with her son V-E, (he early days of "Invasion of Nor is represented by an organization mechanics. born on that great day. Upper right, there was much ado at the Bronx mandy who. like thousands of oth known as the International Federa Sen. Francis Myers of Pennsyi- ! zoo when for the first time in over three years a baby zebra was born. ers, will remain in temporary plots. vania. Democrat, has just written | tion of Trades Unions. He did not seek to steal for him- M aj. Gen. Harry Ingles, chief of the ! self the world authority and power signal corps, demanding in explana- which he would deny to the CIO tion. crowd, but would leave it to an es The making of training films and tablished League of Nations organ orientation films by the army hag ization. His protection was impreg been a major operation. Thousands of subjects have been turned out at nable. I hear that even the British have a tremendous outlay, and produc become suspicious of Hillman's ef tion schedules have been more fort to align with the Communists crowded than those of any Holly in a front which Wf-uld in some wavs wood studio. The films have proved remarkable be as powerful as the peace setup of the nations and—if Hillman's coup training aids, with officers claim- had gone through—able to influence ing that they cut at least in half the the judgment of nations. The Rus length of time needed to »each men sian unions are not free trade unions. such things as first aid, etc. .1 understand that even Sir Walter CAPITOL CHAFF Citrine, the British ultra - liberal leader, is looking for open doors be fl. Aviation enthusiast Rep. Jen hind him to escape politely the nings Randolph has introduced a bill authorizing the government to agreement. T li* British trade unions which repay employees for the use of their were unanimously represented in private airplanes on government that London gathering have now business — just as is now done with split, and I do not ekpect they will automobiles and motorcycles. go very much further with Hillman (I Wyoming’s capable Senator Joe and the Russian effort to capture O'Mahoney has quietly started a A combined radio receiver-trans study of the disposal of surplus war world labor control. Fighting men of the arm y’a 77th infantry division on Okinawa listen mitter for firemen is demonstrated Hillman, by this effort coming plants. He wants to insure maximum to the news * few yards behind the front lines. Their battle-hardened atop his domestic electoral activi- use of our national productive faces indicate the impassiveness with which they received the news real by Atlantic City radio technician Larry Smith. 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