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Henry Weber is a onetime Northwest logger, foreman in a Vancouver shipyard and, by his own account, a man "with a revolutionary mind." He belongs to the elderly, radical and minuscule Socialist Labor Party, which is against capitalism in any form. Holding that wars are fought to maintain capitalism, Socialist Laborites are against...
...shoo more men into factories, the Army upped its January and February draft quotas one-third. In New York, where war plants were short 73,000 workers, WMC's pert, tough Anna Rosenberg sent draft boards the names of 1,200 men who had been deferred as shipyard workers and had since left their war jobs...
Norman Littell was particularly harassed, he said, by a Justice Department fraud investigation of Savannah Shipyard Co., represented in Washington by Corcoran...
...shipyard barracks were quiet- too quiet-and on Sunday night rain drummed on the roof. Otto Stephen Wilson, 33, a fry cook in the yard commissary, looked at his face in the mirror. He could see why women smiled at him. With his black hair and neat mustache he resembled Robert Taylor, the actor. And women had no way of knowing what he was thinking, so secretly, when he smiled back at them...
Left-Winger. New Representative from Washington State's First District is young Hugh De Lacy, 34, ex-college instructor and left-winger, who once called the draft a "fascist-like measure." Now a shipyard worker, De Lacy methodically changed clothes after work each day to campaign, because, he said, dungarees and tin hat "limit your appeal...