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GAL'S PREFERENCE
TO STAYJDN JOBS
Want to Continue Working
But.Those Last Hired are
First Fired.
By Genevieve Scott
United Press Correspondent
Detroit (U.R) Rosle the Riv
eter probably will change her
glacks Involuntarily for a post
war housedress unless unprece
dented peacetime production Is
achieved In the automotive in
dustry. Interviews with high-ranking
officials of leading automobile
companies and wit'i labor repre
sentatives showed one thing
clearly that the woman war
worker, the lowest In seniority
rating, will be the first to feel
the blow of large contract can
cellations. Cutbacks already approximat
ing $2,000,000 have caused a
drop of three per cent in wo
men's aptomotive employment
since January, 1944, according
to figures of the automobile
council for war production. At!
the present time, 27 per cent, or
DOT
Service foreman, $300.00 guarantee, and two mechanics
$250.00 per guarantee. Permanent positions. Ford ex
perienced preferred. Bird hunter' paradise. Let us
hear from you.
Write
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Quality shoos for the if .. i Ufytyttf&f
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200,000 of the workers, arc wo
men, compared to 7 per cent in
pre-war automotive production.
A survey by United Automc-
Diie workers (CIO), showed 85
per cent of the women answered
yes to the Question:
"If a Job is available, will you
continue to work outside your
nome after the war?
Similar queries by the Thomp
son Products Co. and Bendix
Aviation Corp. showed affirma
tive replies from 84 per cent and
64 per cent of the women re
spectively.
Lest Hired, Flrts Fired
Top representatives of labor
and management say that under
provisions of union contracts,
women workers, the lp.test hird,
are placed at the bottom of sen
iority lists. Consequently, they
are the first fired when produc
tion falls or contracts are can
celled. Officials of Ford, Packard,
General Motors, and Bendix
pointed out that many of the
women will return to their
homes, having accepted war
work as a wartime duty. Others
will join returning veteran hus
bands and many are expected to
leave when the $53.66 average
weekly wage is lowered by
abolishment of overtime.
But the women who had not
worked before the young girl
on her first job and the women
without children are expected
to remain. Some maintained
they liked factory work, did not
find it physically hard and
found it more interesting than
pre - war feminine occupations.
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"If we are going to reach a
high national income, there must
be more women employes," said
Ernest Breech, president of
Bendix Aviation. "Women have
become accustomed to making
high incomes and it is hard for
them to quit and go back home.
, it's a laudible embition to keep
; as many women employed as
possible."
i Essential In Radio
Breech said he would not ex
j pect women to be kept on heavy
labor jobs, but that they would
prove essential in the radio di
i vision of the company, a small
nrp-war division, whirh he sain
will become a vital part of the ,
organization. I
Plans of General Motors, asiwomen Wl11 be back in the tac-
summarized bv C. E. Wilson, i
president, would provide main
tenance of employment of 400,-
MONJGOMERY WARD
plus shoe
ration stamp
la Sallsi suit rne to a T'l
Block custom toft
for drest and
4m))
Captured British ParacKutisTs
York from StocKftoIm Fressens Blld Agencv, shows, according to original
with pain. Is supported by lus comrades.
000, compared to th 284.000
figure before Pearl Harbor. Ten
per cent of the pre-war employes
were women while the corpora
tion now employes 135,000 wo
men workers or 30 per cent of
the total.
Ford and Packard shoed a
percentage of women employes
of 34 and 28 per cent respective-;
i..
'Women will be at the bottom
of the seniority list and the re
turning veteran at the top," a
Ford spokesman said, "If there
is a turn to all-out production,
to maintain a high national in-
come, there will be a great
shortage of labor when industry
drives to meet the demand. Then
lory.
R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO pres
ident, predicted a lay-off period j
for women immediately follow
ing the war. I
"But if the capacity produc-!
tion is maintained as soon as.
normal output is resumed," he
declared, "there will be jobs for
all. We must have maximum
utilization of our nation's mach
inery, labor power and natural
resources. Management ennnot
forget the lob women have done
In this war and there won't be I
any seniority trouble If there is
plenty of work.
"After the last war, women
went into the office. After WorM I
War II, they will
plant, to stay."
go into the
GIFTS FOR BOYS
Burrillville, R. I. (U.R) This
town of 8,000 persons Is plan
ning a very practical welcome
celebration for its veterans of
the present war. The town is
planning to raise at least $52.000 1
to make gifts to its 900 boys in;Sgt. ORborn was employed
the service. Une ol the recent the Crater Lake Motor
money-raising events- was nlpany and he has served
white elephant sale to which !seas for 18 months. He
citizens contributed everything
from rabbits to oil paii.tings
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Soldier In center, his tact
Med ford Brothers
Meet By Chance in
Overseas Service
Two Medford boys, sons of
Mrs. Edith Watson, 71814 West
Main street met while in France
recently and had a two hour
uisi, BPPnrit,a t
"
by their mother in a letter. They
were Pvt. Jack Watson and his
brother Pfc. Glen Watson.
Pfc. Watson, who was award
ed the Purple Heart mednl aft
er being wounded during the
invasion nf th KiirntMion rrnln.
, anri hnri h , h,
company from a hospital In
England. Seeing a military
policeman with a shoulder
patch of his brother's outfit he
inquired as to their whereabouts
and the brothers were soon re
united for a short visit.
Pvt. Watson had been over
seas about a year and prior to
entering the army was a logger.
His brother has been overseas
only two months.
Talent Sergeant
Wins Battle Star
Talent, Oct. 5 TSgt. Elmer
I. Oyborn has been awarded an-
other campaign battle star ac-
cording to information received
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. I. Ogborn of Talent. The
fergennt already wears an Air
Medal and Oak Le.if cluster
won in the North African, Sici
lian and Italian campaigns. He
is now in France and is with
the headquarters squadron of
a transport command.
Prior to his enlistment in the
air
corps in January of 1941
by
com-
over
is a
high
graduate
school.
of the Talent
Use Mall Tribune WAnt Ada
URE Spraying with Z""'''
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Medford, Oregon
LIFE IN PACIFIC
IN ROTARY TALK
Interesting hlgh-Ughts of life
In the South Pacific combat area
were told the Medford Rotary
club Tuesday by Major R. L.
Burdlc of Ashland, recently re
turned from three years of army
service. Speaking at the Hotel
Medford, Major Burdlc describ
ed the exciting early days of the
war when his first assignment
was on Kauai Island of the Ha
waiian group. The island people
firmly believed that the Japs
would come after the Pearl Har
bor attack but soon settled down
to normal living with the reas
surance of American troops gar
risoned there.
Swimming, fishing, lobster
diving and hunting pheasant and
wild boar somewhat relieved the
monotony of army life on Kauai,
Burdic said.
Major Burdlc's next post was
on Guadalcanal after It had been
conquered from the Japanese.
Mosqultos In the Solomon island
area were more dangerous than
the Japs, and accounted for the
bulk of American casualties, the
speaker said. Various tropical
diseases, with which American
troops contended in the earlier
phases of the Solomon campaign,
were described.
The few Japanese prisoners
taken In the South Seas opera
tions were treated with full con
sideration. Major Burdlc was
especially Impressed with the
stocism of these prisoners when
being treated for wounds.
In concluding hla address,
Burdlc described the topography
and climate of the South Sea is
lands and gave a verbal picture
of the interesting natives who
inhabit them.
George Buchanan, represent
ing the Toastmastcrs club, spoke
briefly of the alms and objec
tives of the Medford community
chest and national war fund.
U. S. Girls Smoke
Pipes Say Japs
By United Press
Listeners to Japan
broadcast wer told Wednes
day "thr i a shortage of
cigarettes" in th Unltd
States and that "some Ameri
can women hav alraady
taken up pip smoking."
Th broadcast was recorded
by th Federal Communica
tions commission from a
broadcast directed to Europe
by th Japanesa Dome! news
agency.
Cloatng time for Sunday Too UiU
to CIkmK; 6 SO Saturday afternoon
Pleasa remember.
MONEY
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Thursday. October !, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Medford Couple Get "Inside" Tip
War Will Come To End On Oct. 26
If the war ends on the 26th
of this month, Mr. and Mrs. H.
G. Wilson of 7 Chestnut street
will have "something to talk ;
about for a long time to come,
for when the Wilsons were re
cently in Seattle, a very inter
esting episode climaxed with
the prediction that the war
would be over Oct. 28.
The Wilsons, with a friend,
were in a Seattle depot about to
buy tickets for Everett, Wash.
The friend asked for her ticket
and was considerably startled
when a strange Chinese gentle
man offered to purchase it for
her, remarking that she had no
money. After a search proved
this to be true, the Chinese
stranger further Informed the
woman that her purse was home
on her dressing table.
"If you are able to determine
such a thing as this, tell me
when the war will end", the
Seattle woman inquired, and the
Ralph McGonagle
Awarded Infantry
Combat Insignia
With the Fifth Amy, Italy
Private First Class RUph D. Mc-1
Gonagle, whose home is on i
Route 2, Medford, Ore., has j
been cited by his regiment of
the 88th Infantry Division and 1
I awarded the Combat Infantry-1
! man Badge for actual participa-
i tion in combat with the enemy ;
i on the Fifth Army front in j
Italy.
Pfc. McGonagle is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McGonagle
of route Z, Box 46. His wife re
sides with her parents, Mr. and j
Mrs. Paul Sparks, Ross Lane, j
Other relatives in Medford in
clude his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. William McGonagle,
Howard avenue,
( Mali lTlouna Want Ada
r " y I f ly
I'M the guy who looked ot you from a U.S.O. poster
some time ago. I'm the guy for whom you and millions
of others gave and gave so generously. I'd like to tell
you what was done with your money.
The money you gave Inst year helped give the boys
the tonic of entertainment ... a personal appearance by
Jack Bonny In Africa ... by Oary Cooper in the South
Seas . . . and by lovely women stars in remote places
where just the sight of a feminine face is enough to make
up for weeks and months of loneliness and isolation.
Your dollars made possible the U.S.O.-ln addition to
many other great services at home and abroad-3,000
U.S.O. clubs and U.S.O. Camp Shows.
The job is bigger this year . . . much bigger. Won't you
be bigger than ever this year, too, and give generously?-
Give Generously to the
MEDFORD
Community Chest
and
National War Fund
They Support the U.S.O.
Published As a Public Service by
Snider Dairy & Produce Co.
Home of Fine Dairy Products
Chinaman replied, "the war
will end Oct. 26."
Since the friend's money was
found on the dressing table, the
Wilsons now are anxiously
waiting for the 26th to arrive.
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