The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1954 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 22 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
44
FORTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 5
DALLAS. TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1954
SV BSC RI FT ION PRICE UM PER YEAR
Dick Piland, Jim Lacy and Dusty Miller Wm.J Harris Resigns
LABOR
Some 75 delegates from Dallas Local
*f
and
W. J. [Bill] Harris Is Re-Elected
To National Nusician Union Board
conference is "foredoomed to failure.’
t
W. J. (BILL) BARBIS
approved seven percent pay raise for agent while Mr. Tedford is gone. The
21
ion of St. Louis was in Dallas last
eek on business. Arriving on Wed-
Leo George, National President Post
Office Clerks Attends Dallas Meeting
Leo Georse. general president or th. Th. convention opened with a speech
AFL Program
Called Best Way
will visit relatives there. She is a i tion convention* which opened Mon-
native of Dallas.
day.
Runoff Slated This Week in
President's Race Local 59;
Darsey Wins Manager's Post
LEO GEORGE
Other delegates to the convention
are:
re Gene
L
Secretary
Mitchell
Laws Called for as
Convention Opens
and business manager.
Other officere -eleete
Political Action Urged
As State Federation of
Labor Delegate* Convene
Lloyd, vice president (unopposed);
Frank Lloyd. treasurer; Eddie Reitz,
bany-Schenectady-Troy. Pennsylvania
—Erle. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Read-
EMPLE
TOPICS
Along about 1942 we were standing
on Harwood near a small cafe when a
President Hays, from Local No.
Newspaper Printing Pressmen.
Ed Goff. business representative of
Local No. 140, Lather’s Union, attend-
ed the convention in Corpus Christi
held this week and the past weekend
Corpus Christi— (TLPA)— William J.
Harris said in a telegram Monday to
the Texas State Federation of Labor
Convention that he was forced to re-
sign his position as State President
Labor. Management Social
Institute Held in Amarillo
Secretary John W. Haji of th. Dal-
las Central Labor Council, AFL, is re-
el pent of a letter from Secretary L. A.
Wilson of the Amarillo Central Labor
Union which tells of a successful one-
day Labor-Management Social Work
Institute which was held there re-
cently In cooperation with the Com-
munity Chest.
Quoting the letter . . . “About 100
attended the institute . We believe
the Labor-Management Institute has
created some valuable good will for
Organised Labor, and that many ef
our leaders have gained a better under-
standing of Social Welfare services ef
our community ... We recommend
such a program for your favorable
consideration in Dallas.
nesday, he departed Thursday for
Laredo on Union business.
out jobs. The total now stands at 123.
The department said the latest areas
to be placed In the category Included
16 major and 15 smaller ones They
thus became eligible for special con-
sideration in getting Government con-
tracts
The 16 major areas added to the list
“We agreed to the Geneva confer-
ence, a conference foredoomed to fail-
ure. a conference merely to give the
Communists a further opportunity to
spread their propaganda around the
world.”
Meany said this nation is losing its
position as a world leader.
"The time has come," he said, "for
American people to say to our Govern-
ment that we must have a clear-cut
foreign policy, and it must be based
not upon bluff but upon strength.
“As American citizens," hr “Con-
tinued, "we believe we have a right
to suggest to our Government that it
firm up its foreign policy, that it
firm up relations with its allies, and
they meet this threat of Communist
e: from Dallas are Joe Marsh. National
New York-Buttalo, Utica-Rome, Al-1 Vice President. Troy Stokesberry: fi-
J.
Administration
Bungles Foreign Policy,
Says Meany
Atlantic City.—George Meany, AFL
National Federation of Post Office
Clerks, will be principal speaker at
the banquet to be held Friday night
in the main ball room of the Adolphus
Hotel at the convention of the Texas
Federation of Post Office Clerks which
opened in Dallas Thursday.
123 Labor Surplus Areas
Reported by Labor Dept.
Washington.—Thirty -one industrial;
centers have been added to the Labor I
Department list of areas of substantial
unemployment—those having six per- ,
cent or more of their labor force with-
Machinists Attend Corpus
Christi State Convention
Several members ot various Locals
in District No. 126, International Asao-
elation of Machinists AFL. are attend.
Ina the Texas State Federation or
Labor convention in Corpus Christi
this week, International Representa-
tive J. W. Nance has reported.
From Lodge No. 1015 are Mr. Nance
and C. D Murrah, J. E Moore and
John Hooten represent Lodge No. 1404
and A. J Johnson. Lodge No. 1306.
From District No. 125 at large will be
A. M Brown and Bob Calvin, Jr. All
are from Dallas.
From the Ladies Auxillary Lodge
No. S8» of District 110 I.A.M. will be
Mrs. J. W. Nance and Mrs. O. L. Ten-
nant
These delegates were scheduled to
attend the Texas State Council of
Machinists which opened June ISth.
At that meeting they were to elect
delegates to the Texas State Federa-
recording secretary: executive board.
A. F. (Andy) Reltz. V. M. Ballard, Jr.
(re-elected t. Joe Coffer, Frank Wil-
son. Roy Johnson (re-elected) and Bill
Buckley (re-elected).
Winning poets on the examining
board were Roy Reitz, R. M. (Red)
Shatmer, R P. O’Riley (re-elected).
Herbert Rhodes (re-elected) and Paul
O’Daniel, •
In the three-way race for president
B H. Richardson had the most votes,
but not a majority over Jack Rutledge
who ran second end L. B Irving. The
run-off balloting took place Tuesday
night and results will appesr next
ROland Voss, president this year did
not run again.
The Dallas Craftsman Has
Representatives at State
Federation Convention
Bro. Wallace C. Reilly, editor of
The Dallas Craftsman and Bro. Shelby
T. White, advertising manager, are
in Corpus Christi this week as dele-
gates to the Texas State Federation
of Labor.
Bro. Reilly, president of the Dallas
Central Labor Council, is delegate
from that body. He is a member of
Local No 173 Typographical Union.
Bro. White is a delegate from Local
No 46. Commercial Pressmen’s Union.
They were accompanied by Mrs
Reilly, Mrs. White and Gail White.
Mrs. Reilly and Mrs. White are mem-
bers of Local No. 45, Office Employees
Union.
Indiana Evansville, Fort Wayne.
Also Fall River. Maae. Jackson, |
— .. ... — . . ।
.ht • I
I
There will be a run-off in the elec-
tion for president of Local No. 59
International Brotherhood of Electric-
ians AFL, with none of the three in
the race gaining a majority over the
other two in the balloting this week
which took place Tuesday night, June
15th.
< In that election the voting and
counting lasted until past 1 o’clock
in the morning.
The vote gave L E. Darsey a de-
cisive re-election win over Jack Estes
for the post of financial secretary
E. M. (Ted) Tedford, business rep-
resentative of Local No. 714. Operating
Engineers was in Corpus Christi this
week at the Texas State Federation of
Labor Convention.
Basil Black is acting as business
The minority view was signed by
Chairman Edward Rees (R., Kan.),
Reps. Tom Murray (Tenn.), ranking
Democratic member and former chair-
man; and Katharine St. George (R.,
N. Y.), chairman of a subcommittee
on postal operations.
The bill was approved in commit-
To Fight Reds
Chicagor-The AFL program for
wages, better living conditions and
making people happy is the way to
fight Communism, Joseph D. Keenan,
secretary-treasurer of the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
told the AFL American Flint Glass
Workers’ convention here.
“There is a section of our country,
especially in the South, where Com-
munism and Fascism could take over
—where substandard conditions exist,"
Keenan said.
"Communism grows only in misery
and despair. The job we in labor are
trying to do is to make conditions
better for everyone in this country."
Keenan spoke before 400 delegates
and guests at the opening of the un-
ion’s 77th annual 10-day convention Id
the Morrison Hotel.
Keenan said his mother, the late
Mrs. Minnie Keenan, raised a family
of eight children In Chicago on the
635 a month her husband earned as
a truck driver.
“When we reached 14 years of age
we got a work certificate,” Keenan
continued.
“Now because of labor’s program,
the children of working men go to
college.”
Reuben G. Soder strom. president of
the Illinois State Federation of Labor,
aaid that “labor unions are the great-
est power for good that the world’s
workers have ever known."
tral Labor Council; Sheet Metal Work-
ers: Plasterer's Local No. 61; Electri-
cil Workers Local No. 59; Roofer’s
Local No. 123, Iron Workers Local
No. 481, Hoisting Engineers, Local
No. 714; Hod Carrier’s Local No. 518;
Painter’s Local No. 53; Street Carmen
Local No. 1338; Truck Driver’s Local
No. 745, Local No. 1142, Bus Driver’s
Union, all from the Labor Temple and
from many other unions over Dallas.
Press reports form the Texas Labor
Press Association indicate one of the
largest gatherings of AFL delegates
in hostory for this 56th annual con-
vention.
posture of strength rather than a
posture of bluff and weakness.”
On the domestic front, Meany said,
"anti labor forces in the country to-
day”' are trying to “hamstring and
render impotent the trade union move-
ment through adverse legislation." He
said this should be met by union
members seeing to it that lawmakers
sympathetic to labor are sent to state
legislatures and to Congress.
Louis P. Marciante, state federation
president, reported that 46 union
groups had affiliated in the last year.
Affiliations now total 850 units with
300,000 members.
New Construction Reaches
$3.1 Billion for May
Washington.—Expenditures for new
construction rose seasonally to a rec-
ord for May of 83.1 billion, and reached
a peak of $13.2 billion for the first
five months of the year, according to
estimates of the Labor and Commerce
Departments. •
Private spending for residential
construction exceeded 61 billion in
May, after rising more than usual
this spring. Commercial building re-
versed its downward drift of the past
few months with an advance to an all-
time high for May. .
On the other hand, expenditures for
private industrial plants, which have
been falling off gradually since early
1953, continued the slow downtrend,
and in May were 14 percent below the
level a year earlier.
M. W. (Dusty) Miller (in track seat) inspects dashboard instruments,
while W. I. Diek Piland looks over braking system, and Jim Lacy con.
fem with G. P. Greenhall, job steward at Southern Plaza Company in the
Safety Track Check which the Teamster’s International Union sponsors.
Mr. Miller is chairman and director of the Southern Conference of
Teamsters with headquarters in Ballas. Mr. Piland is manager of Local
NO. 745, Teamster’s General Drivers Inion of Dallas. Mr. Lacy is
_
Co-operation Between the Emplopen and Employee for Their Mutual Benefit and Propreu and Development of Dalian
30 Thousand A. F. of L Members Depend On The Dallas Craftsman for Labor News
General Housing
Legislation May
Get Action Soon
Washington—(LNS)—The way was
clear today for House action on an
administration motion to clear the
general housing bill for Joint Senate-
House Conference Committee ‘consid-
eration without instructions to the
effect that public housing provisions
of the Senate bill be killed. The House
will probably act on the motion on
Thursday.
The House Rules Committee, bowing
to administration pressure, Tuesday
reversed its previous postition. From
its rule permitting a vot on the con-
ference motion it deleted a rider that
would, instruct house conferees to
stand firmly against the Senate con-
ferees on the public housing issue.
The House-passed bill has no pro-
vision for public housing, and the pro-
gram therefore would die after the
construction of some 33.000-odd units
now under contract The Senate bill
carries the administration proposal for
building 35,000 units yearly for the
next four years.
The committee action, if agreed to
by the House, would permit amend-
ment from the floor. Any foe of pub-
lic housing could then attach an
amendment similar to that attached
last week on a 9 to 3 vote and deleted
Tuesday. It is expected such an amend-
ment will be offered.
Other amendments that are being
prepared would send the Senate and
House bills back to the House Bank-
ing Committee for more hearings.
Miss Josephine Munoz Goes
To Mexico City on Vacation
Miss Josephine Munoz, financial
secretary of The Dallas Joint Board,
International Ladies Garment Work-
er's Union, left last Saturday on a
two week’s vacation.
She left by car for points in Old
Mexico including Mexico City. She
small pickup truck drove
Delegates are going from Local Un- Pn,- Anti. I ILar
ion No. 198. Carpenter's Local; Cen- •FHF-I Ml III LaUVI
in San Antonio on the way. He was
accompanied by his wife and two chil-
dren. a
While at the convention he was
scheduled to meet with three repre-
sentatives of the Operating Engineers
International from Houston, Ft. Worth
and El Paso.
and its continuance is only giving "the
Communists a further opportunity to
spread their propaganda.”
Meany told the New Jersey State
Federation of Labor 76th annual con-
vention that the Eisenhower Ad-
ministration has "bungled our foreign
policy," failed to meet “creeping un-
William J. Harris, president of
Local No. 147, American Federation
of Musicians of Dallas, was re-elected
to the national executive board, at the
National Convention held last week
domination with an attitude and
Unions are in Corpus Christi this week
seeking to bring the 1955 Texas State
Federation Convention to Dallas.
From the Labor Temple alone 23
delegates from 11 Local Unions were
absent this week attending their State
Council meeting and the 1954 state
convention. There were many more
from Locals over the city who do not
have offices in the Labor Temple.
All had one goal paramount in
mind, to secure enough votes from
other delegates to make Dallas the
1955 convention city. .
Heading the group from Dallas is
Wallace C. Reilly, president of the
Dallas Central Labor Council, John
W. Hays, secretary of that body and
nancial secretary; Ed Wood. John
Harrison, F. B. Rodgers, John Banner.
House Group Approves
Brannan Dairy Plan
Washington.—The House Agricul-
ture Committee approved the so-called
Brannan Plan for dairy products. It
voted 22 to < to direct the Secretary
of Agriculture to give dairy farmers
80 percent of parity Instead of 75 per-
cent the level at which the Elsen-
hower Administration fixed price sup-
porta for one year beginning last
April 1. They formerly were at SO
percent
The difference between what the
consumer paid and what the farmer
received would be paid to the farm-
er by the government to insure Income
at parity. Thia system of production
payments is the same principle as that
advocated by former Secretary of
Agriculture Charles Brannan and
which the Republican Party con-
demned severely.
Parity is s figure calculated to give
termers a fair return on their products
in relation to the cost of things they
must buy.
The vote for higher support levels
in itself was a rebuff to the Adminis:
tion and came on a motion by August
andressen (Minn), ranking Republi-
can member of the committee.
The committee’s 80 percent level
would be effective from next Sept. 1
to April 1, 1050.
The committee granted an Admin-
istartion request for a Brannan Plan
for wool despite a campaign state-
ment by President Eisenhower in
September 1952 which said: “(This
Administration) l» not going to come
out here with Brannan Plans and tell
intelligent farmers how to run their
rarms. Just think of a fellow sitting
at a desk In Washington . . . making
up a plan for your tarm."
Tax Write-Off Mill
Still Grinds Away
Washington- (LNS) — The govern-
ment’s fast tax write-off bill is still
turning out tax grants to business al-
though at a reduced rate.
The Office of Defense Mobilization
announced Monday that from May JO
through June 2 It handed out 62 write-
off certificates totaling $201,085,658.
That brings the total to date to 19,207
grants for a grand total of 629.5 bil-
lion.
Under the program designed to spur
construction of needed plants and fa-
cilities for mobilization programs,
businessmen can write off the cost of
new facilities in five years at large
tax savings compared with the normal
deductions taken over a 20 to 25 year
period.
president, said here that the Geneva in Milwaukee, Ws., according to word
conferenee is "foredeomed tm failure - received here. He was unopposed.
“They lost in a legitimate vote in
the committee. Since they lost, they
are putting in a minority report. It’s
a matter of sour grapes.
"There’s one thing about it however.
The outlook is very bright, and I think
our objectives will be obtained in the
House and Senate."
The three Congressmen said the bill,
introduced by Rep. Robert Corbett
(R., Pa.), would cost almost 6200 mil-
lion yearly and would further distort
a pay scale under which incentive al-
ready is stifled by lack of differential
between pay for routine jobs and for
responsible supervisory positions.
The bill overturns an Administra-
tion recommendation for pay raises '
coupled with a reclassification of
jobs. High Administration sources
bare said that President Eisenhower
may veto the measure if it passes
Congress in its present form.
"This bill.’’ they said, “is unwise in
its policy, virtually impossible to ad-
minister and discriminatory among
various classes of postal employes. It
does not solve a single one of the
salary problems confronting the Post
Office Department.”
of (he convention -^0*1 Gerald Hunt is
ifbhnquet.
Several hundred «Mhtes from over
• state are expecteA attend
tee, 14 to 10. It carries a seven per-
a cent general increase with a maximum
of 6480 and a minimum of 6240 yearly,
except that hourly workers would get
a 10 percent increase.
r»> DaUae Craftons io the OtftM Nmmpnpm of the DaUae Central Labor CoaneU and io Sabecribed for bp it and Ite Affiliated Unique in a Bedp med it Fiphtino for the Righto of Ormmi-d r-*T~
Minority Report Opposes Tedford is Delegate to
Postal Workers Raise Texas State Labor Meet
Washington.—In a minority report
which President William Doherty of
the National Association of Letter Car-
riere labeled a "matter of sour grapes."
the chairman and two key members of
the House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee denounced a committee-
L___
Bethel Signs Shops for
Bartender's Local No. 547
Grover C. (Ace) Bethel, business
representative of the Bartender’s
International Union, Local No. 547.
reports that he has signed up two
more shops into the Local. They are
Fred’s Domino Hall and Bar at Ervay
and Jackson, and Hejl'a Cafe at 1117
Pacific. The latter is near the Times
Herald. All union members are wel-
come at these union places, Mr. Bethel
stated.
John Hays Presides over
Texas Allied Printing
Trades Council Meeting
The meeting of the Texas Allied
Printing Trades Council opened Sat-
urday. June 19 and continued through
Sunday. June 20, In Corpus Christi,
immediately prior to the Texas State
Federation of Labor Convention.
John W. Hays of Dallas, president of
the Texas council. opened the meeting.
From Local No. 173. Typographical
Union of Dallas were Robert L.
Campbell. Hubert C. King. H. Fred
Martin, and Ray L. Wofford who were
not only delegates to the Printing
Trades Council but were also dele-
aatea to the Texas State Federation
of Labor convention. Their apprentice
delegate was Bill Joe Adams.
Shelby T. White, member of Local
No. 46, Commercial Pressmen’s Union,
a delegate to the Council. also, as was
postal workers as unwise, unworkable latter left Thursday planning to stop
and discriminatory. * San *
BUl Would O. K.
Expenditures for
Public Works
Washington—Tiro Democratic Sena-
tors introduced legislation authoris-
ing direct Federal expenditures or
loans to expedite construction of pub-
lic works in areas of substantial un-
employment.
Co-sponsors of the bill were Sen
Earla Clements of Kentucky and
Lister Hill of Alabama. Clements said
the move was prompted “when it be-
came apparent that the Administration
intended to postpone or close its eyes
to the need of a public works program
at this time to relieve serious un-
employment conditions existing in
many locations in the United States."
Mr. Harris has held the national
office for four years. He has held
a number of offices with the Local
Musicians Union for many years in
Dallas, and is now president of the
Texas State Federation of Labor. a
post which he has held for the past
seven years.
The Dallas Central Labor Council
has gone on record to support Mr.
Harris for another term as state presi-
dent in honor of his record as a leader
for trades unionism and also hopes
to get the 1955 Texas Federation of
Labor Convention for Dallas
Peoria, recording secretary -elect; Albert Boy-
l les. Clifford Fremming, trustee-elect ; toastmaster of thi
____ _ _ _____land James Delisle, parliamentarian- S
Mias, Knoxville, Tenn., and St Louis.1 elect. i the
Large Delegation Attending L________________________ _____ . .
State Federation of Labor at Corpus Check Southern Express Truck for Safety FderationnUr LS
Some 75 delegates from Dallas Local L- 8. (Sid) Miller, executive board*------------——— ---------------- “ •
Ing. Illinois—Aurora, Joliet
Optimistic
Washington—(LNS)—“Confidence in
the continued strength of the Ameri-
can economic structure will make con-
struction expenditures in 1954 the
highest in our history,” Labor Secre-
tary Mitchell predicts.
"Expenditures for new construction
so far in 1954,” he said, “and revised
estimates of construction outlays for
the remainder of this year, forecast
a new record q£.$36 billion spent for
building and other types of construc-
tion work. The amount exceeds record
1953 expenditures by almost three-
quarters of a billion dollars, and is 62
billion over estimates made last No-
vember.
“The confidence in our economy,
reflected in the decision of both busi-
nessmen and individuals to build, re-
sults in large part from the fact that
the post-Korea readjustment has been
relatively mild and orderly, although
down from last year's peak, baa held
at levels that only two years ago were
considered outstandingly good. Con-
struction employment today, in fact,
is equal to any time in our history.
Mitchell said that the building of
new homes is exceeding expectations,
and current indicators point to 1,080,-
000 new private non-farm dwelling
units being started this year.
employment." and had a weak legis-
lative record in the 83rd Congress.
Meany said this was a “year of
crisis." He called for more political
action by union members and the elec-
tion of state and national legislators
sympathetic to labor objectives.
"We attend conference after confer-
ence with the Communists,” said the
AFL president, “giving them the op-
portunity to use each succeeding con-
ference as a sounding board for world
propaganda. We announce a world
policy and then forget it . ..
__I___________________________________________
Local Ko. 512 was trying out an
amplifier in their office last week
which once your telephone was con-
hected to it would make a loud speak-
er of the conversation at which time
several persons could enter into a
discussion on it at one time. The per-
son on the other end of the line sounds
just as if he were in the room instead
of some miles away at the end of a
telephone wire.
w. L. (Dick) Plland. business
manager and James Lacy, president
and business agent of Local No. 745.
Teamster's General Driver's Union,
left Sunday for Corpus Christi to at-
tend the Texas State Federation of
Labor convention.
Corpua Chriati—(TLPA)—Calls for
more political action, a stronger state
labor department and repeal of the
anti-labor laws highlighted the meet-
ings of 15 state AFL organisations
holding their conventions prior to the
56th convention of the Texas State
Federation of Labor here.
Some of the speeches and actions
taken by state groups brought down
the wrath of Gov. Allan Shivers who
appeared in Corpus Christi on the
same day that speakers before the
State Building Trades Council blasted
the present state administration.
Shivers raised the cry of “labor
bosses" and "outside agitators." With
regard to the latter, he mentioned
specifically Joe McCullum, Interna-
tional Vice President of the Boiler-
makers, who had addressed the Build-
ing Trades Council. McCullum, de-
scribed by Shivers as an "outside agi-
tator" id a member of the Houston
Boilermakers and was born and
raised in Houston.
• by BenJack Cage, president of the ICT
• Group.
Alvin Gibson of Austin, president of
1 the Texas Post Office Clerk's AFL.
1 presided. Among the other state and
' national figures present were Monte
Deatheridge of Wichita Falls, vice
president of the National Federation
of Post Office Clerks; Charles E
Guinn. of Corpus Christi, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Amy Doublefield of Lufkin,
State Secretary; Douglas H. Middle-
ton. of Fort Worth, treasurer; E. B.
Stewart of Graham, legislative repre-
sentative; and Robert A. Ledbetter,
state representative of MeGregor,
The Texas Women’s Auxiliary will
hold their convention at the Adolphus
Hotel at the same time the men’s
group is meeting Among those present
from (he auxiliary are Mrs. Lester V.
Galbraith, national president of Webb
City, Mo.; Mrs. Marguerite Collier,
of Tyler, national) vice president and
Mrs. Frank McCauley. president of
the Texas Women's Auxiliary of Ama-
rillo Mrs. Billie Rush of Dallas, is
president of - Local No. 732 Ladies
Auxiliary which is host to the state
convention.
Host to the Texas Men’s Federa-
tion Is Local 732 Post Office Clerks of
Dallas. Their delegates to the conven-
tion Include Raymond Morrow, presi-
dent; Sammy Starnes, president-elect;
G L Starnes treasurer; B K. Temple,
vice president-elect; Ed Bauer. R F.
Gradner. R L. Harris, parliamen-
tarian: Walter Graham; J. C. Boyles,
and William Green, sergeant-at-arms.
J. T. Holland is general chairman
"due to circumstances beyond con-
trol.”
An unexpected meeting of the
executive board of the American Fed-
eration of Musicians which Mr. Harris
had to attend was given as an Immedi-
ate cause but it was widely known
that bad health during March and
April of this year was a factor in
causing his retirement
Besides his union duties in Texas
he is on the National board of the
Musician's Union, is city councilman
of Dallas; and has held the post of
president of the Texas Federation of
Labor for seven years. His seventh
term would have expired Thursday of
this week.
E B Powers of Dallas waa elected
head of the State Council of Sheet
Metal Workers and E. R. Thompson
also of Dallas was re-elected head of
the Texas-Oklahoma Motor ('ouch Em-
ployees. and Charles Hunter of Local
1142 Bus Operator’s Union of Dallas,
was elected secretary.
Auditor Visits Joint Board
Garment Worker'* Union
Albert Lakin, general auditor for
"Th* ,, 4, 21 . the Southwestern District, Interna-
report.” «Id SoPert., ".th thatnority tonai Ladies Garment Worker’s Un-
three of the 10 members who voted 10
against the bill in committee signed
their signatures.
parked. It was a Sunday afternoon
and a group of us were standing there
talking. This fellow that got out was
big, about 6 feet 2 or 4 Inchee Ull
and he had a large western 10-gallon
straw hat on.
He was not only big but he was a ’
big talker. His voice boomed like a fog
horn when he spoke. We were stand-
ing there with eyee sort of popping out
since he had a full grown mountain
lion sitting in the front seat with a
chain on it
"Now don’t tease her, boys," he
boomed. “You can look but don’t tease
her.”
We all looked. There wasn’t much
to say in a case like this. The large
man came out about three minutes
later. “Don’t get too close there beys.”
he boomed. “She riles mighty easy.
“I just went in to grab a quick one,"
be bellowed, his breath reeking of
hops and malt.
We all stood around sort of helpless-
ly The big man got in and the cat
playfully put two paws around his
neck. The hig man just pushed them
away and boomed. "Now Minnie,
watch where we’re goin’.” and Minnie
watched while he drove off
We decided the big man didn’t want
to play, too much, with a 150-pound
mountain lion.
Simon P. Oster, president of the
Southwest Division the Commercial
Telegrapher’s Union of North America,
AFL, baa returned to Dallas after
some several months in Washington.
D. C. as a member of the national
negotiating committee.
He returned to Dallas once during
this time to report to the president of
the different Local Unions in the
Southwest on the contract negotia-
tions in progress “This is the first
time I found everyone pleased with a
new contract.'’ President Oster re-
marked. "The employees were pleased,
the negotiation committee was pleased
and the employers said they were
pleased.”
Buddy Howard, business representa-
tive and Ted Hullett, president of Lo-
cal No. 61. Plasterer’s Union, left last
week to attend the State Conference
of Plasterers to be held in Corpus
Christi immediately prior to the Texas
State Federation of Labor Convention.
They will also attend the State Lather-
er’s and Plastering Bureau meeting
while there.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View three places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Reilly, Wallace. The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1954, newspaper, June 25, 1954; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1550198/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .