L.T> - SUNOCO. MONDAY^ NOVSI^IBER 17. 1941 GOODEVENING EVERYBODY: As you no doubt know tonight the country seems to be facing a labor struggle of the utmost gravity, the Administration has ^ on its hands one of the toughest Jobsit has faced since the President settled the banking crisis in Nineteen Thirty-Three. The strike at the Captive Coal Luines of the Steel ccmpanies is on. All the Captive mines have shut down but one. Alinost fifty- three thousand miners are idle, only three hundred in those captive mines working. And several that are no^- captive mines are closed by sympathy strikes. But that isn»t all of it. Ominous news comes from Detroit where the Congress of industrial Organizations began its Fourth Annual Convention. And the first action of that convention was to I vote the unqualified support of the entire C.I.O, five million men benind the deiaand of the United L^lne Workers for a closed shop.c i i ! LEAD _ 2 The latest is that the sympathy strikes are spreading. ten thousand men out in commercial mines* There has been actual fighting in West Virginia; fist fights between pickets and men 'Tf who didn^t want to strike. Captive Coal Llines are closed in Pennsylvania, Alabama, W^ct Virginia, Illinois and Kentucky. J^hn L. Lewis made the charge that the steel magnates would be stationed at the mine heads to protect any miners who that any considerable body of men were willing to go against the Union. Lewis had also made the statement that all the companies except U.S. Steel had been in favor of meeting his terms ’the-iieede-^f the i;tool componl^^ bz:sJ^ denied. Eugene Grace, head of~B^thl^heSi,was an absolute falsehood. Bethlehem, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and U.S. Steel are all resolutely opposed to any union shop '3k r were standing pat because they expected the President to break the || strike with the Army. But, as the Union leaders pointed out lastjweek, soldiers can*t mine coal. The assumption is that troops \ wanted to go back to work. However, there was no indication today p i lii LEAD * 3 The steel heads issued a warning today that their mills will have to close dovni if this keeps up for many more days. The Union leaders, on their side, are threatening mass picketing in the mining areas. In Washington it is reported that the Army is making preparations to send soldiers to the mines and quartermaster troops in Pennsylvania are under orders to deliver supplies to the troops if necessary. But there has been no official announcement as yet about using the Army. Congress was boiling with disseniion about this /s coal crisis. It was reported that a group of Southern Democrats are getting ready to kick over the traces and push for stringent laws to regulate strikes Speaker Sam Rayburn announced that"the House will have an opportunity to pass on labor legislation at the earliest possible date." Congressman Cox of Georgia, Acting Chairman of the influential Rules Committee, declared the coal strike was a mutiny and insurrection in the ranks of labor and that if some action isn»t taken, his Committee will put the lid on all other legislation ^ iv until laws are presented to regulate s>^rikes. ; LEAD - 4 Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois declared that the President has been tolerant, patient and more than fair in this dispute and, as he put it, ^the time has come to find out whether J hn L* Lewis is bigger than the American Government.*^ And he said fHxgch further: ”Mr. Roosevelt must keep the Captive Min^s open even if it means the sending of soldiers to every mine.** The Senator did not explain how soldiers without training as miners. could get the coal out. /nd Senator Tom Connally of Texas introduced a special bill authorizing the President to seize and operate any plants. facilities or mines which may be needed for defense production when they are tied up by strikes. According to Connally*s bill. the terms between the workers and the Company would be frozen. and pay scales would be fixed by a wage board. As he presented this bill, Connally declared: **Li^wls is taking advantage of the nation*s peril to accomplish things which he could not do in normal times,** and he added, **This is a question whether the Government of the United States is to be at the V/hite House and the cspitol, or to be ({pminated at the office of John L. Lewis.” I LEAT - 5 At a late hour this afternoon, no news was forthcoming from the White House. But a statement from the President is expected at any moment Mr. Roosevelt has cancelled his Thanksgiving journey to V/arm Springs, Georgia. mS [uite a while since we We heard from Congressman ^ C<7V vo 2- q ^ Dies, ehairman of the Un-American CoEiinittee. with something that has a bearing on the news of the day. Dies A declares that he is about to send President Roosevelt a list of fifteen thousand active Nazi sympathizers who are at work in defense industries, actually employed in defense plants. He adds that all j of these fifteen thousand either are or have been regular members. paying dues to Nazi organizations in this country. Later on, says Dies, he will supplement that list of fifteen thousand with’another list of twenty thousand Nazi sympathizers. All of them, he declares, -----------— work in airplane plants, shipyards and similar places, « so^ of them have government jobs I ii 1 Six billion dollars more for the Army, yes, billions That^s the gist of a message from President Roosevelt to Congress today. To be exact, he asked for six billion , six hundred and eighty-seven million , three hundred and sixtynine thousand and forty-six dollars. And that wasn’t all. The President also wanted Congress to set aside three hundred and eighty millions more for our Navy. That would include a hundred and twenty billions to be spent for putting cannon and other weapons on merchant vessels, now that the Neutrality Act has been revised. Of that six billicxis odd for the Army, the sum of three billion, seven hundred and niiieteen millions is to be paid out for ordinance,^artillery^■feo^yoi®* The Air Corps gets a smaller slic ^ ice, sev9n hundred and seventy-nine millions CRASH ^ The Wasatch Mountains in Utah have caused not a few airplane crashes. Today they got one of' Uncle Sam’s Army bombers and two men, a ma^or and a sergeant. T^ie major was commander of a squadron stationed at Fort Douglas near Salt Lake City. He had bailed out but his parachute caught on the tail surface of the plane. The sergeant was trapped inside the bomber and burned to death when it crashed against the side of Iron Mountain in the » i middle of a snowstorm. The rest of the crew, five officers and men. bailed out safely. &\rRAO--AD0RS There»s a happy ending tonight to the story of the missing ambassadors, ourLawrencw; Ar. S^einhardt, Uncle Sam’s Ambassador to Moscow, and the Soviet’s Maxim Litvinov, Stalin’s new Ambassador to the United States. For several days they were had either crashed or maybe been hijacked by a Nazi warplane. They A they landed at the Tehran Airport, m the same plane was Quentin Reynolds of the staff of COLLIERS, and -Quent should have an interesting tale to tell about that trip* C They had been on the way for five days kkkh without once having clear v/eather, ■until they came within a hundred miles Iran’s capital. They had to battle blizzard after b izzard and ^ had held them up at Baku, rainstorm after rainstorm. On© blizzara wherTtTe ^fe^s eTights. Last Sunday they were A ii; overdue at Tehran, the capital of Iran, and it was feared they jj left Kuibyshev several days ago on their way to Washington. Today ^ « 4 4-A-i nilot found himself with only flying through hea'vy rain until their p n To-r-t- rnv ten minute's’ more flying. He made a enough gyw gasoline left for zen mj.ii immediately after he landing at Pahlevi, and not any too soo , A _ j "fT) zero. In addition to came to ground the ceiling close o ________ 1U Q C THJ Quentin Reynolds and the two Ambassadors, Maaame Litvinov was w-. | her husband. 5 WAR Hitler’s armed forces tonight <J>r the Caucasus, thei^:piroud announcement from Berlin, A A The Nazi spokesman declared that the capture of Kerch, the Russian fortress at the east end of the Crimea, wa»^ one of the most importj 7 "^ German victories. It gives Hj^tler complete control of the Sea of K ^ Azov, and cuts off the Soviets at Rostov from getting supplies by sea. f As a fortress, Kerch was at least as formidable as Sevastopol, more important as a step on the road to the Caucasus. and ltost^s==3lor^^vi-n a military sense it means that Rostov is outflanked. A However, the Nazis are not yet across the Straits of Kerch. A short distance to the north of Kerch is a place called Yenikale, controlling a narrow arm of the Straits into the sea of Azov. Yenikale still is held by the Red Army in a strongly fortified position. T: b guns of. Yenikale not only command the Straits, but the flat, lands on the other side of the,Straits, and the Nazis have still a big figat ahead of them before they can get across to the Georgian mainland. on the central front, the Nazis claim to have captured the key City of Tula, a hundred and ten miles due south from J 1 9 WAR - 2 Moscow, but the Reds declare that the Invaders are only in the suburbs of Tula, that fighting is going on in the streets, and the Geroans haven't won the place yet. Furthermore, the R d Array has d broken up tank attacks by which the Nazis were trying to by-pass Tula.yThe Reds claim to have recaptured several villages to the west of Moscow, and they report that the snow-covered fields near Volokolansk are just littered with the wreckage of Nazi mechanized units. announce th^t the threat to Moscow has riot diminished, the Germans are bringing up fresh forces, new formations of troops, motorized infantry and tanks moving into the Nazi front lines And nereis an interesting report from the capital of Turkey concerning the war. It purports to ^uot4 a remark made by German Ambassador von Papen to a visitor from Spain, a leader of the Spanish Falangists. Von Papen is reported to have said in crushing the Soviets ,Europe will be so Exhausted ittfckxx that a However, the Reds are making no attempt to minimize ^ ii the force of the German attacks. The official coinmunications to the Spaniard that when, as and if Hitler will have succeeded j i I WAR “ 3 general armistice vvill be imperative. Ijj such a case, added con Papen, Turkey will have to play a big part as the mediator. unofficial, though interesting “ / jktttkaliti American merchant ships are once jiore free to sail to any port in the Sevensgeas.\ That is, if they can get there,i5drr_a^exxf^'^sunk by^"German subMLrla® first. What»s mercantile more, the Havy has^^>Wrted putting guns on our marine. The signal for this was the signing of President Roosevelt’s name to that bill passed so excitingly by the House! last Thursday, the bill repealing Imtimmx Sections Two, Three and Six of the Neutrality Act. The first of our armed merchantmen will start in a few days across the oceans, facing all hazards of u—boats. bombers ann raiding warships. They will sail directly to British ports and some of them to Russian ports. i! 1 flag Early this morning, -yvc heard the somewhat astonishing announce me nt by our Navy Department thatjone of* Uncle Sam*s cruisers had nabbed a German freight ship somewhere in the Atlantic, near the Equator. What’s more, that German freighter had been flying A the flag of the United States. '.Vhen this was reported in Berlin, a spokesman said the Nazi authorities knew nothing about it but that if a Gerinan freighter nad been so disguised, that was nothing new. an oM naval A. practice invented by the United States as a good friend of Great Britain. It is presumed by that, the Nazi meant the recently established device of putting American ships under the flag of Panama to evade the one-time provisions of the Neutrality A^t. ;* Later on in the day the story became much more interesting. ^ i That United States cruiser sssx steamed into the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, escorting the freighter ODENiiVALD of the Hamburg-America L^ne, and she turned out to be a real prize. She was jammed full of rubber, three thousand tons of it both raw rubber and automobile tires made in th^ United States. The ODETR/ALD was taking them from Yokohama to Bordeaux. Tires made in America on their way to be used by the Nazis I flag - 2 Later on, the Navy made public an eye-witness account, reported by somebody aboard the cruiser. At dawn on November Sixth, the lookout on the American man-o-tvar sighted the freighter about eleven miles away. The cruiser approached and signalled by searchlight, got no answer, i approached closer, saw the name ^Willmoto” of Philadelphia painted i on the side of the vessel. Wliat*s more, she was flying the s|ars j . j and Stripes at the stern and had another on the counter, on both sides^ ! of the ship. VThen the cruiser got within megaphone distance, the deck ; of tm so-cilled WILLMOTO replied that wai> on her way from Capetown to New Orleans. The deck officer didn^t answer the warship»s question, ^Why don»t you answer our signal?" At that moment, the American officer of the watch noticed bundles being throv/n overboard. Then the captain of the cruiser ordered a boarding party to Investigate. Thereupon, the so-called WILLMOTO hoisted the international code flag that mea.ns "I am sinking, please send boats." The WILLMOTO also began lowering lifeboats. J^st as the c ruiser»s boarding party reached the ship. FLAG - 3 V tnsr6 two Gx^losions art and a straam of* sniok©. llGverthelGss^ the American sailors boarded and found the ship was actually the Hamburg-American ODENWA.LD. They questioned the German crew, but got no information except that the ODSir.VALD would sink in twenty or thirty minutes. The Germans were so terrified, that a couple of them fe jumped into the ocean sooner than wait to get into the lifeboats. the officer in command of the boarding party reported to the captain that she was a German ship in disgiiise and that the crew had been scuttling her. Thereupon the cruiser^s captain sent a repair party. It soon developed that something had gone wrong _ with the scuttling, although tb* smoke was pouring out so tirtckly. Av that the boarding party was unable to go below and make a search, But after a while, the salvage party of American sailors was able to start up one of the ODErr/ZAiD*S engines and g^tt her under way. The cargo that the crew had .jettisoned was mostly automobile tires, and almost all of them were recovered. _ _three thousand tons At any rat^, «c» Unde ^ of rubber to the good