The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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The Dallas C raftsman Is the Official Newspaper of the Dallas Central Labor Council
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Dallas Craftsman
Forty-Third Year, No. 4
DALLAS, TEXAS, JUNE 22. 1956
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Dallas AFL Unions To Be Well
Represented at State Meet
W. 0. (Bill) Cooper Opens
Campaign for Demo Chairman
Pressmen's Aux No. 30
Installs New Officers
W. J. (Bill) Harris
Re-elected in AFM
writing,
present,
in a COPE luncheon meeting for
the top leadership of the AFL-CIO
of Dallas, it was decided to ar-
Burt presented the charter and
Judge Hughes gave the oath of
installation to the officers and
members. Mr. Burt said it was a
pleasure and honor to be able to
present a charter to the auxiliary
of his home local. He is a past
president of Local No. 21.
with their new charter. They are with their
left to right, Loraine Payne, president; Jean
uel DeBusk wrote each of the 11
people that the district attorney
had advised them that they had
not qualified themselves as candi-
dates because they (the 11) sent
in their applications by unregis-
tered mail.
Referring to another ruling of
W. J. (BILL) HARRIS
W. J. (BUI) Harris, who is a
Dallas City Councilman and a long
time labor leader, was re-elected
last week to the executive board
of the American Federation or
Musicians at their annual nation-
al convention. He has held this
position for several years. He was
scheduled to return from the con-
vention to Dallas during the early
part of this week. He is president
of Local No. 147 of Dallas and
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President Hays was master of
ceremonies. He read a letter from
Madam President Payne thanking
him for his services with the aux-
iliary.
Other guests were Nat Wells and
Mrs. Wells. Mr. Wells gave the
principal address. Also addressing
PRESSMEN'S AUXILIARY NO. 30—
Pictured above are officers of Ladies Auxillary No. SO to the
Dallas Newspaper Printing Pressmen’s Union. Local No. 21
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Fifty-Two Thousand AFL-CIO Members In This County Depend On The Dallas Craftsman For Their Labor News
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president and Babe Turner, recording secretary.
Standing, left to right are,- Jack Burt, International Repre-
sentative, Printing Pressmen and Assistant’s Intern aHnnol
Union; Pat Cochran, treasurer; Verbina Chaney, correspond-
ing secretary; John Hays, president of Local No. 21; Pan Jo
Hicks, historian and District Judge Sarah Hughes.
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The Dallas delegation with some
900 to 1000 votes began leaving
during the early part of this week,
with the vanguard to follow on
Friday and Saturday.
Some 160 union representatives
and wives were expected to attend
one or more conventions while in
Austin.
A number of delegations have
already been announced in previ-
ous issues of this paper. Others
who plan to go are Buddy Howard
of Local No. 61, Plasterer’s Union
who will attend a meeting of the
Texas Bureau of Lathing and
Plastering. He is vice chairman of
that group. Ed Goff, business agent
of Local No. 140, Lather’s Union,
is a member of the board of gov-
ernors of that group.
Also from Local No. 61 will be
Buddy Beeson, secretary of the
state Conference of Plasterers, and
Bud Storebeck, Vernon Bird and
Ralph Evans, who are delegates
to the conference and to the state
convention.
Dan Reynolds, business agent of
Local No. 25, Sheet Metal Workers,
will attend the State Council of
Sheet Metal Workers'.
Quite a few other local unions,
who could not be contacted at this
guests, first row,
Kinzer, first vice
Ohio. The vote was unanimous
and followed a long cheering
demonstration by the delegates.
Re-elected also by acclamation,
were Earl W. Jimerson, of East
convention in Cincinnati,
County Judge Lew Sterrett; and
C. H. Monkhouse. International
Rep. who was present with his
wife.
Mrs. Ruby Zainfeld registered
the guests and Mesdames Henry
Rosenfield and Jack Burt poured
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permanent series of
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Sam Twedell Is
Re-elected V-P
Of Butchers Int i
Sam Twedell of Dallas was to-
day re-elected vice president of
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen (AFL-
CIO) at the 315,000-member un-
luncheons to begin the first week
of July, for the purpose of discuss-
ing political problems which arise
from time to time for labor, Joe
K. Nichols, secretary said this
week.
In a meeting held Wednesday,
June 13 at the Travis Hotel, forma-
tion of a Luncheon Club was ap-
proved by representatives of some
16 different organizations and of-
ficers were elected. They are G. H.
Simmons, Jr., president; Grady
Adkins, vice president and Mr.
Nichols, secretary.
Political problems which con-
front unions will be discussed by
the COPE Luncheon Club and
plans for solving the same will be
made at these meetings.
St. Louis, Ill. president; and Pat-
has held that positim for many rick E. Gorman, of Louisville, Ky.
AUTO DIVIDENDS UP
Washington. — The automobile
industry, despite steadily increas-
ing unemployment among its
workers, paid stockholders about
50 percent more in dividends dur-
ing the first five months of 1956
than in the comparable 1955 pe-
riod, according to Comm. Dept.
Dorthea Berry and
Frances Barrett Head
Office Workers No. 45
Mrs. Dorthea Berry and Mrs.
Frances Barrett were re-elected to
the ofices of president and secre-
tary-treasurer, respectively, of Lo-
cal No. 45, Office Employees Inter-
national Union of Dallas, at- a
meeting held Tuesday night, June
12, in the Labor Temple.
Other officers elected are Mrs.
Vida Stotler, vice president; Mrs.
Mabel Chiles, recording secretary;
and Mrs. Lee Parker, sergeant-at-
arms.
Trustees are Mrs. Minette
Wright, Mrs. Louella Kamman,
Mrs. Opal Brown, Mrs. Mary
Luker, and Mrs. Lynn Davis.
In another order of business,
Mrs. Berry was elected as a dele-
gate to the Southwestern Confer-
ence of Office Employees (AFL-
CIO) which win be held June 24 in
Austin; and also was made dele-
gate to the Texas State Federa-
tion of Labor convention which
opens there on Monday, June 25.
The installation ceremonies were
held Sunday in the auditorium of
the Dallas Federal Savings and
Loan Building.
Sam Fox, who recently moved to
Houston and was a former assist-
ant chaplain of Local No. 21, gave
the invocation. He and Mrs. Fox
were present the group was Otto Mullinax, who
International Representative was present with Mrs. Mullinax.
In what promises to be a con-
tinued battle between the conser-
vative 1952 bolters of the Demo-
cratic Party and the loyal faction,
William O. Cooper, chairman of the
Democratic Organizing Ommit-
tee of Dallas County, began a
campaign for County Democratic1
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have representatives
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COPE Starts Luncheons, Adkins,
Telegraphers Sign
Two-Year Contract
A new two-year contract calling
for benefits up to 18c per hour
across the board has been nego-
tiated by the national committee
of the Commercial Telegraphers
Union, which affects 34,000 em-
ployees of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, Simon P.
Oster, of Dallas, president of the
Southwest Division of the Union,
said this week.
Mr. Oster was a member of the
committee and has been spending
much time during the past several
weeks meeting with the company
officials in Washington, D. C. and
elsewhere.
The new wage increase affects
about 1000 employees in Danae
The contract which will be effec-
tive until May 81, 1958, calls for
13c across the board on June 1.
1956 and for 6 c adtosthe board
on Jan. 1, 1957- the frm of
job classifications. It was agreed
upon between the company and
union committee on June 7.
In fringe benefits the employees
will get an increased minimum
pension of $100 per month, which
is $40 more than received here-
tofore.
the district attorney, Cooper
charged that "Mr. Drake and Mr.
DeBusk deliberately misused the
district attorney’s ruling to kick
these good Democrats off the
ballot.”
Cooper accused Drake of per-
mitting himself and his office to
be used as a tool for a statewide
political machine. He charged
that the precinct chairman must
take his share of the blame for
the land and insurance scandals
which have cast a shadow upon
Texas.
"My concept of the office of
County Democratic Chairman,”
said Cooper, “is that it represents
all Democrats and not just a fac-
tion—and especially not a faction
that turns Republican without no-
tice.”
He asserted that the rank and
file has a right to vote for whom
they please in any election but
that he thinks “that party leaders
should stay behind their party, or
honorably resign. And if the time
ever comes when I cannot in good
conscience support the nominee of
my party, I will tell the Democrats
of this county, and I will resign my
party office so that they will not
be denied loyal leadership.”
The various unions of Dallas
who are affiliated with the AFL
Texas State Federation of Labor
girded themselves for the trek to
Austin, where this week council
meetings and conferences preceded
the opening of the 58th annual con-
vention of the state labor group,
which was to open Monday, June
25 in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel.
Wednesday of this week the
State Building Trades convened
with the State Painter’s Confer-
ence following on Thursday.
Others scheduled for the weekend
are the State Council of Machin-
ists, the State Council of Sheet
Metal Workers, the Carpenter’s
State Council, the Texas Allied
Printing Trades Council, the State
Plumbers Council and many
others.
Chairman, in an effort to gain con-
trol of the Party machinery for
the true Democrats, in a speech
broadcast over TV, Tuesday night,
June 12.
His opponent, Ed Drake, who
has been identified with the
Shivers conservative faction of
the Democrat party, as county
chairman for the past several
years, was accused by Cooper of
arbitrarily removing the names
of eleven candidates for precinct
chairmanships—10 of them Ub-
erals—from the July 28 primary
ballot
The conservatives disqualified
the 11 candidates because they
sent in their applications by un-
registered mail.
Earlier in the day, before the
speech, Cooper related that At-
torney Joe McNicholas had filed
suit in the Fifth Court of Civil
Appeals, before Justice Towne
Young, in the name of Mrs. Rose-
mary Roy on the complaint that
the conservatives had wrongly
ousted her, as candidate for chair-
manship of precinct 209. Hearing
in the case was set for Thursday,
June 14.
Cooper told the TV viewers that
Drake and County Secretary Man-
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