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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE; KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29; 1944
Retention of Little Steel Formula Curbs Wage Increase Demands
Labor took a wage jolt Saturday night when William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, announced that the C.I.O. United Steel workers' demand of a basic pay increase has been refused by a decision to retain the Little Steel formula. With this decision the president's main bulwark against inflationary trends remains firm and the door has been closed to threatening wage increase demands in other industries.
The announcement came after a long and bitter fight. In July, W.L.B. conferred almost daily with representatives of C.I.O. and the four opposing steel companies, Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland, to decide whether employees of the four Little Steel companies should be granted a dollar-a-day wage increase. C.I.O. leaders upheld the board's report compiled by a fact-finding committee, which declared that the companies could afford the increase in wages, and that granting such an increase would cost the companies practically nothing because 94 per cent would come out of a decrease in taxes. The union requested the increase for the 157,000 employees of the four companies for, it reported, the cost of living (in July, 1942) had risen 13 per cent since the last wage increase April 1. In addition, the committee found that their weekly earnings were 7.8 per cent below the average wages in other durable-goods industries.
With no arithmetical factors prohibiting approval of the increase, WLB. produced the formula for the
Letter to the Editor
The Three Little Monkeys and the Sour Owl
Editor's Note: All "Letters to the Editor" must be signed. The name will be held from proof of upon request, but the proof is known later. All letters must be limited to 250 words.
Our lot is on the very verge of degeneracy. The campus intelligence, behind closed doors, read obscene literature, laughing with deprived delight. Filth! Suggestive! Dirty! Ye gods!
This terrifying scene confronts us. The campus newspaper reads "Mass Chuckles Sweep M. Oread as the Sour Owl Is Once Again Distributed." What happens? Those upstanding gentlemen representing human decency and moral propriety don their white robes with the battle cry—Raw, Raw, Raw—advancing to the nearest puddle to sling mud at the vulgar perpetrators of the crime. Make the rogue submit a public apology, not just on the campus, but also in the "Kansas City Star," since it is a territorial issue, cry the indignant forces. Strong punishment is recommended.
This element represents the backbone of moral stability who believe that only the motto of the three little monkeys should prevail here at K.U. Furthermore, it seems to be their ardent contention that the students should be protected from the more smutty aspects of the world. To facilitate this policy, they bring to us and loudly proclaim such fine cultural plays as "Porgy and Bess," the essence of moral integrity and lily white decorum. Such an example is in direct line with the three little monkeys.
Please be kind enough to arise with me, fellow students, and applaud these gentlemen for their open minds, consistency of moral policy, and beyond all else—the salvation of our souls.
The Defender
"Little Steel" case July 16, 1942. They reasoned that "the real wartime increase in living costs started at the beginning of 1941 and reached 15 per cent by the time the President announced his anti-inflation program in April. Therefore United Steel workmen should have received a 15 per cent pay increase in that period to maintain their standard of living. But only that period should be considered; for what has happened since, only workers at substandard wages can ask relief."
Compromising between workers' demands and the danger of inflation, W.L.B. gave Little Steel workers 44 cents a day increase, raising wages 17.4 per cent over the January, 1941, level. The additional 2.4 per cent was granted because the board declared that "living costs had risen faster in steel towns than in the nation as a whole."
In January, 1944, C.I.O.'s United Steel' Workers of America began a dispute with the 500 firms, with which its contracts soon expired, covering approximately 700,000 employees' contracts written to conform with the terms of the Little Steel formula. The union demanded that the rates specified in the formula be raised a flat 17 cents, or 15 per cent over the industry's average wage. The recent discovery of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, that living costs have increased 24 per cent over Jan. 1, 1941, aided C.I.O.'s case.
With the final settlement of terms, W.L.B. and the President have maintained the yardstick for settling the growing number of disputes over comparable demands which are being advanced by organized labor along the industrial front. J.V.
Stephenson Speaks To Law Students
Troublesome and omitted provisions of wills and trust agreements were discussed yesterday in a talk to University law students by Gilbert Stephenson, director of the Trust Research department of the American Bankers' association.
Mr. Stephenson emphasized law which controls administration of trusts, authorizing investment in common trust funds, and stressed the problem of providing for change of compensation with consent of adult and competent beneficiaries.
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, said that the lecture "stimulated the imagination of the embryonic lawyers."
Detroit, (INS) — The day is approaching when Japan will be bombed as often as Germany according to Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the army air forces.
Japan to Equal Germany
Washington University is conducting a Red Cross nickel drive.
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
For the past few days, we have read anti-Sour Owl articles in the Daily Kansan. Now I believe it is time we take a look at the other side of the picture.
Haven't we Kansans got a sense of humor? The Sour Owl is about the first sign of old school spirit that has been shown on Mt. Oread this year. Are we to be denied school spirit, humor and freedom of the press? Are the jokes in the Sour Owl any worse than those printed in
Rock Chalk Talk
Question of the Week: Sigma Chi's Bud Wantland and Don Rillihan want to know what the Yingling convertible was doing in the local cemetery at 3 a.m., not long ago. And, we'd like to know what Don and Bud were doing there.
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Wanted: two telephone lines for the Sig Alph house. Sig Alphs and Phi Gams stay at odds over the telephone shortage in their habitat. Four Phi Gams, led by Eric "The Angel" Eulich, removed one Sig Alph from the phone by force the other night, while he was chatting with his girl at the Alpha Chi house—and just because there were four of them who wanted to talk to Barb Sherard in the same house. And to further complicate matters, there's the Hargiss-Johnson feud over Nancy Slater, Kappa. The Sig Alphs are threatening to make the Phi Gam's new address, 1301 West Campus Sidewalk, if some changes aren't made, and quickly!
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Ma! He's making eyes at mc! Sigma Kappa Mary Holtzclaw, enroute to visit a friend last weekend, found the bus so crowded that there wasn't even standing room. So the obliquing bus driver (blonde, blue eyes, 6 feet) offered to share his seat with her, and Mary rode all the way to her destination with the driver. And they arrived there safely, too! On the way back, Mary's chum greeted her at a stopover: "Can you cook? Can you sew on buttons?"
the Esquire (by the way, our Student Union subscribes to the Esquire).
By PAT PENNEY
Why did the anti-Sour Owl faclotion let us innocent Jayhawkers attend "Porgy and Bess"? Why do they let such literature as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "For Whom the Bell Toll's" remain in Watson library? Obscene is hardly a strong enough word for this literature.
Most of us students read the Sour Owl, laughed and forgot it! Why can't the other "few" forget it, too?
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Mary Belle White
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Wednesday, Nov. 29, 1944
Notices due at News Room, Journalism Building, at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
The Quack Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Robinson gymnasium. Members will swim and are requested to attend.
All old members of the Zoology Club please report at the zoology storeroom if you are interested in going to the initiation banquet Dec. 6.-Marilyn McEwen.
Le Cerule francais se reunira mercredi le 29 novembre a trois heures at demie dans la salle 113 Frank Strong. Tous ceux qui s'intessent au francais sont invites.
Clyde E. Jacobs, Secretaire.
You can? Well, if you have the time, I have the nerve." Yes, he did, didn't he? P.S. Mary is back at 1625 Edgehill, happily away from the more aggressive wolves of the open road.
Little Mr. Moffett is about to get his wires crossed—and good! The big trouble lies in the date, December 16. The Kappa and Chi O open houses are both that night. Use your magic to get out of this one, Mof.
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Sigma Chi Bud Wantland, ace waiter of the 'Hawk, is doing a good job as acting Dean of Women for Miss Meguiar during her leave of absence, according to his lodge brothren. Bud, it seems, is busy testing the character of all the sweet young things at K.U.
"Things is tough all over," as Max Shulman would say, and Sig Alphas Dumont Reed, Bob Jones, Plunky Jones, and Dave Hall decided to rejuvenate their personalities by peroxiding their hair. And what a lovely job they did, too. The color is what might be called a passionate pink!
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Sign outside the Union Activities office: "Lost Anything?" Some forlorn male penciled the reply, "Yes, where is she?"
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KFKU
Wednesday, Nov. 29
9:40 p.m. Living Books "The Revolt of the Masses" (Ortega).
Thursday, Nov. 30
2:30 p.m. Book Review Program.
*Played, the Market*, Zafir
Gleesed are the Meek (Zolina K
Kaplan) reviewed by Rev. Ernest
S. Snooddra.
2:43 p.m. Food Makes a Difference.
3:00 p.m. Kansas Unlimited. "Research Programs at Kansas State College Sponsored by KIDC
College Sponsored by KIDC."
45.0 mn, Legends of Women, Voters
College Sponsor 9:45 p.m. League of Women Voters
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FOR SALE: Bruning German made drawing set. Complete set of instruments in good condition. Call Elwood Miller at 2087 for information. +51
LOST: A grey-blue suit coat 'about a week ago in Fraser hall. Will finder please notify Vich Hogg, Battenfeld Hall. -50
LOST: Blue Parker fountain pen,
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LOST: Gold-barreled life-time Shea-
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