P 0n m EU VOL. HLII iH WASHInGTOD, D. C. JnulnERY, 1943 no. i J - ...- - ---- --------------.... A CREED~~~~~~~~~~~. =~~~pom U)414ro 0#ki/ Oya 4 m.edInTTERnnATIGUAL ELECTRICAL WORKERS and OPERATORS PUBLISHED MONTHLY q. M &u#i4 cdu" 1.20 oOo4 eeehS4.A.,*/ajhMj1c,. C. eankaett Page Frontispiee -- Embattled Washington 2 Planning for Post-Watr Gets Great Impetus 3 CHAT TVA Labor Relations Celebrated on Radio 5 One might WI]'e an extelsive artice Only Federal Ownership Can Save Private Industry 6 on the suhject, "Main Street extends .roundIth woirhlh." A .. e.ica s ,, ac- Practical Tips on Making Income Tax Returns 9 tive in every country of the globea, Planning for Peace in War . -. 10 soldiers, as experts. Tiis i; just an- Beveoridge Report Has "America on Its Ear' - 11 other idlijeaion of the swiftly-shink- Two New, Practical Books for Shop Use - 12 big size of a world that us.. to seem First Member to Join WAAC's Lauded 13 too large, Isolation is destroyed for- Central Selling Office for Bonds in West 14 ever. Fight on Paralysis Indicates America's Vigor 15 Employer Tells How Unions Keep Faith - 15 One of the iritereslihn Iublctions Member Decrees Dinner to Celebrate His Death that have come to par desk is a little 16 newspaper called "'the Outpost,' pub- Seabees Put On Equal Status for War 17 liheed by Americans in Griat Britain, Editorials - 18 It carries the late line of Lorln. It Woman's Work 20 is a newsy publication and will do Women's Auxiliary - 21 much to kilt.l ... atred forces ill 22 Great Britidi tagathl, wvith th, folks Correspondence . .... at home andI alli with British citi- In Memoriam 38 zens and Bitish soldiers,. All articles Death Claims Paid 40 of "The Outpostl are writen by Cooperating Manufacturers 42 Americans. The list of officrs of the Official Receipts - - 51 publication tontain.so... will knlown * This Journal will not b, held reaponsible for views expr.essed by correspondent,. The Brst of each month Is the closing date; all copy most be in oir hands on or before. It is A lively puhlica .ioandI much to help Americans ViS ialize (.on- ditions in England. For example: EXECUTIVE OFFICERS "HORSES have rution car..s ow. Tirt" itinni P]reident, EDWMW J. Blow', Tlnternational Sltrtre tny, G. M, BI,{NI AZET, To get one the horse must prove that 1200 J5th Stt, N. W., Washington, D. C. 1200 Ihth St., N. W., Washinton, 1). C. he is useful. Ihatarnilat/ja.l Treasurer, W. A. HOGAN, 47 "CULTIVATED LAND has in- South Sixth Ave., Mt. Verlno, N. V. creased 60 per cent. VICE PRESIDENTS INTERNATIONAL "ALL WOMEN bornbetween 1897 Fit st El trt FE.I;LS, EX EC UTIVYE (COUNC( , and 1922, except those in the lervices IIRIt, Lo.d.nl, OhL, (a.l. l ( II1ll.Ea M. PAUL SI;N, }llli . .... have now registered for firewatehing. SecondI ~istrhit [OIhN J,[. AN 4927 W. Culir Ale, Chilas., IlL "BARE IEGS or na ly- are co,- Rm,. 124. Parkal uaro Btl, Boston., MIa. Fill, ])i~tit ] [ VAN A.,,,~L, Jt Tlug Cor mel, too. Satk will be livE, 1:l0 E. 25th SI, New yo, , N. Y. Third Dislitr t WIlLiAM ]). WALKERo inches shorteri 2225 Rhwnn St., ['hiladelphia, Pa, SecnrI Distriet F I. KLiE'i it...th sDktri'L A.Rriijit BENNgTT !5 [Blauin Si., I[yde l'trk, M.ass, "TAXIS. People going in the same Iijal, 1I17, N, D. C. BWlg.. Cleveland, Ohio I hirll DIstriet W1ll IAM (, SI.)R, direction share them if they (an find Fifth E)istlictr; X. BAX[ ,IZ; 2101 5 LEw & jiua.(le Bhld, l'itslurgh. In. one." l/lII WYomdw.,HflBdg,, lbiroli,,gl~ha1 Ala. ['Ctut District '. [F. ........v 2025 2n[ St,. N E., WFiton, W. C. gill District M 4,Jt.)riF, The ElECTRICAL WO1KERS' JOiRNAL I,00Lak, Shore Drive, Chie.,w, li. Fifth Dist riDt I)AiNANN d NO has just placed on its complimentary S!evl th District W. TNGI{.M l30 N, WelIN St.. I hiwago, Ill mailing list 1,f00 115O, Army and 241] [galnhlor, St., Fort Worth, Texas Sixth D[strict D. W. [AllC Navy Ree rati on Centerto This means IKil hth hirtri,'1 t. W. li, Eddystone ApartD. vDIs, Wts}liigani,, BE. C, that if our mereber 5(04 [}rver r[hentre Ildg., lD.ver,,C o. inlsovice fail to Seventh, I listrit Cl JI.ESF,],OEInN get the ,O(R1N'AI, thly can go to till Ninth Iistri,.t I,. SetD MILNE 201itlrrerSt., S., a'rjIIwmel,, (alir. lbraryand ead iI. Cheerio! 910 CentralT ower, Sain F Calif.aranciso, Eighth District J l. ilI Ralttrc'Ard, .1JJ, Di Iv ;5 .JIarl0 5 tI, a, Call~ l 330 South Wells St,. Roomg 600. IN ...e.... Ill. Our cover photo is by the U. S. 0 7 Army Signal Corps. The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operalors YMBATTLED WASIINGTON THE JOURnAL OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS Aflo OPERATORS OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELEtTlICAt WOPIKtRS Air~e lo i F>A. 2G ~ CSNA.~h,I 1 l ~ I 1 . ~ il .NF' .Th~. ArVAN( I'ryAI; P 1I1 7I VOL. XLII WASHINGTON. D. C., JANUARY, 1943 NO. I ro'e, at ensu'ingm avimum produc- tion with mn [nun CiISuniptiHL Maximum production Was achieved PLANNING qoP%4-W by a complex syste, of cut-thr,it competition for cbeapness, both within tiao ittern.ation- olly. The nation whih could mindce its workers to accept the smallest reward for their labour in reltiobln qettqutealT""~ to their efficieny could, ,ther things being equal (e. g. equipment, trans URTNGOast the year there has been a Hitherto invisible port, volume of output), undersdl the other natieons and co el themtip sideationgetsl ofof post-warbehind-the-scenes situations con-ant activity of many groups begins lower the oages of their worhers problems More than 110 private and to show itself. America and under threat of los, of markets and public agencies have set Up committees u nemployment. In this way a down- and have been making surveys, gathering England vie ward poll was exiteid on the tand- data, making analysts and promoting ten- ard of Hiving of the n.asse. in the tative prograrns. This vast nlerlying The Beveridge report announced in this advanced nations. 0n the othe had, network of activity bas ttcelved very country early in .iemberaroused great the volumeof .utpu ,n... I, prssible little publicity because the plan.irs have public interest. This report had been inl by power production was exerting an not wih,hd to iopair war effort or to the making for 18 months, and at the upward nI.ll as it was clear.y .eees- operat, a sideshow that night attract samte time the report of the American sar to increaseplu the chasing interest frOlal the nailn elcu IT,[any in- NatolnMl Resources Planning Committee power of the masson in order Io p..- dustries have taken part ill this move- on Social Security, which had been in the ride buy('s, without idc, the ment. Railroads, the electricalidustry, makinv three years, dovetaitled remark- goods wektdd~ not. for long, Uc pro- steel and I Ihers havehad their enin.eers ably with the Brisitb report. The report quietly at work on post-warp lldones. on trnsportaitin will be reviewed in a As the analysis hals prIoceded, it hits de- In 1903 the Chicago Federation ef future JOUnNAl.. Thel Uthwatt report Was Labor publisbed a panlphlet by Frank veloped that wI planning and pst-war reviewed in J)ecenhbr. It is apparen.t planning are of one piece. They arc dove- K. Foster. This pamphlet was called "The that the Englishi spaking peoples, so (!au es of ldustrial Panics in th I aired tailed, ad the plannersexpect ..o marked closely allied hdmig the war, are taking break between planning for war and the States." The pamphlet expre e ed xact ly steps forward in cu.structive planning hi the anmepoint of view as the Ltno coining pif the peace. the sane direction. Chamber of ('olInun(* it llht2:1 'S longI. i1s those who produe wealth dI not Ie- GUIDEPOSTS TO FUTURE LABOR'S TENETS UPILELD ceive for thei labor a ,etiltmi sufficient to Now great impelus has been giver to The groat news fi, Aome.icn labor in cnnable them to, buy back thu equivalnt this veiled moveIen by ptublication of of what they themselves, l .oduce, eon certaini inportant reports both in the theseeomplex a. tivfiti s rests tpon the fact that the ton tertion of Amierican stion i is inevitable atrI.l dpresseio.nill United States and Great Britain. looking labor for the last 50 yeas that purchasing recur. Thee depressinnsv i wi -ry ftc, toward immediate* changes and future poweris the key tI Iprosperity is being qt.en.y and intensity in direct ratio to changes, gertdIIy acceptedi. This davelopnent is the discrepancy between values earned nltI received." GREAT BRITAIN aptly put in the London Rep[rt of the Chamber of CenntrotIce. The Beveridle Report on Social Se- PRIVATE ENTERPRISE-YES curit- "The limitien factor in the pro- A serondPry dVeIPpment in post-war Tie Utthwatt Rtport on Housing (re duetion of reel wealth hit*, however, plrnnnlnhg appar to rlat, to the *stab- viewed in the ,eeniberissue. been the faibe to distribute to lished conclusin that prvate enteprise The Report of the LondonE haber would -be conls unicels enloughb .... ney to will and mu..t Io on, S....ner l..Is. of C(omerce, o G..eral Prin- buy the potential output, aml goods / ndersecjetltry il'f State, who cal by a1 ciples of Post-War Ecoaconly.