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The LCnion Review
Vol. 24, No. 9.
Subscription Price $1.50 Per Year.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1943.
AN IRISH MOTHER’S REVERIE
The Executive Board recommended
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1942
114,091
101,340
88,917
140,318
196,340
65,540
56,105
69,740
162,170
120,000
90,050
84,000
120,000
126,150
44,150
63,150
949,766
68,787
81,155
151,350
86,400
35,595
120,000
85,000
100,731
95,285
120,000
123,184
1941
77,239
91,640
79,150
117,629
179,652
53,308
49,824
50,108
120,960
98,437
55,326
72,000
98,437
101,050
31,600
49,030
704,425
44,424
72,059
127,843
71,850
22,000
90,000
74,442
86,829
75,516
95,250
102,593
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PAINTERS LOCAL GETS
THANKS FROM NORTH
AFRICA FOR “SMOKES
What You uy With
WAR BONDS
My buddy is a member of the Paint-
ers Local 735 at Corpus Christi, so you
see you are helping one of your own
brothers. My dad has belonged to (and
I hope to swear in) the Ironworkers
Local No. 8 way up in Milwaukee.
We just wanted you to know that
we got your cigiarettes . . . and thanks
a lot.
AFL UNION IS CHOSEN
BY ALUMINUM WORKERS
What You uy With
WAR BONIS
Light of my heart are ye,
Though far away,
Joy of my life are ye,
By night and day.
I hear the pattering feet
Over the floor,
I see the little rogues
Behind the door.
What though the ocean wide
Keep us apart,
Ye are all with me still,
Here in my heart.-
Laughter and shout I hear
All the day long,
And the green hills about
Echo ye’er song.
AMERICAN
FEDERATION
OF LABOR
1940
. 75,594
74,378
. 25,000
.110,428
. 91,940
. 47,747
. 35,930
42,882
.120,700
. 91,937"
. 53,370
. 60,000
. 91,937
.101,220
. 23,600
. 31,680
.697,048
. 27,886
. 47,975
.100,520
. 32,010
. 22,000
. 90,000
. 65,000
...86,829
. 48,360
. 60,000
. 60,000
Mr. Woll said. “There was an entering wedge of understanding and tolerance
between the different branches of labor as well as between labor and the
community—a wedge into community isolationism.”
Mr. Woll warned that old antagonisms and suspicions .persist, and that
no overnight transfer of attitude can be worked. But, he added, “hard work,
patience, and the willingness to recognize that the other fellow doesn’t
wear horns” are accomplishing the miracle of “a people united in the factory,
united in the nation, united in a great struggle of democratic ideals against
the idea of tyranny.”
Emphasing that labor was interested in more than fund-raising, Mr. Woll
said: “This common fund-raising effort is something else, something momen-
tous, something which goes far beyond dollars and cents. Our armies are en-
gaged in a vast campaign of moral and intellectual slum-clearance. And re-
member that before you can build houses you must raze slums. Our fund-
raising venture is a national and international campaign of moral and in-
tellectual housing.
By AFL News Service.
New York City.—Declaring that the United Nations “are now definitely
on the road to victory,” AFL President William Green proposed a three-way
security program as a world-wide post,war objective.
Speaking before a dinner meeting of the Economic Club of New York at
the Hotel Astor, Mr. Green said:
“What do the American people want out of this war?
“I believe the answer to that question can be summed up in one word—
security.
“It is my conviction that the security which stands first and foremost
in the hearts and minds of our people is the security of peace.
“Secondly, all Americans are determined that victory must seal the se-
curity of our basic freedoms.
“Finally, there comes social security which means security against want
and fear of want.”
Just as the United States is participating closely with other nations in
prosecuting the war against Fascism, it must also take part with other like-
minded nations after the war in establishing lasting peace, Mr. Green insisted.
He said:
“I assure you that the American Federation of Labor will press unremit-
tingly for the adoption of a program of international action which will ef-
Official Organ of the
Galveston Labor
Security of Peace, Freedom And Jobs
Listed By Green As Post-War Goals
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GALVESTON LABOR COUNCIL
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Before our fighting pilots take to
the air for stratosphere flying they
must be "suped-up."' To do this the
pilot just before he takes off pedals
a stationary motor driven bicycle to
reduce the amount of nitrogen in his
blood. Otherwise gas bubbles would
collect in his blood stream.
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One who will not return
Kneels by his chair,
Ten little voices all
Answer his prayer.
Strings of my heart are ye,
Stretched far away.
Joy of my life are ye,
By night and day.
—Maurice V. Reidy.
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Father and Son In Navy
Meet In North Africa
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Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor
Woll Lauds Support Given By Labor
To Campaign of National War Fund
By AFL News Service.
New York City.—Organized labor’s enthusiastic participation in the cam-
paign of the National War Fund is forming a new common ground in Ameri-
can society, declared Matthew Wolli, president of United Nations Relief of
the AFL, at a dinner of the National War Fund.
Speaking for the six million members of the AFL, Mr. Woll described
organized labor’s prominent part in the drive as “a good thing in a coun-
try where employers complain they have labor trouble and workers say they
have employer trouble. This common ground means that the Axis and the
Fascist philosophy are having American trouble.”
When organized labor entered into agreements last year with Com-
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Skim Milk For Us, Cream For The Rich
ByAFLNews Service.
The fight against inflation is being waged vigorously only on one front
now, namely, in chaining the workers’ wages to the Little Steel Formula
which only permits raises of 15 per cent over the pay at the end of 1940
though the cost of living has risen by about 24 per cent in the meantime.
But there is no such chain to hold back increases in the salaries for the
heads of “our corporations.
Let us look at the record, as given by the American Investors Union of
New York in their April Bulletin.
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Mr. Green expressed the belief that military victory in the war will for-
tify and extend such basic freedoms as freedom of speech, religion and press
throughout the world. He warned, however, that freedom of enterprise, both
for industry and for labor, may be threatened even after the war is won.
“I come before you as a frank advocate of social security for free en-
terprise in America,” Mr. Green said. “I do not mean by that a Government
subsidy or dole for private business. I mean a free and open recognition of
the fact that the freedom of enterprise and the freedom of opportunity are
just as vital te the welfare of the American people as any other of our
precious freedoms, and must be safeguarded for all time.”
Mr. Green advocated close teamwork between free American industry
and free American labor to expand peace-time production, to avert economic
depressions which might breed revolution and to resist Government regimenta-
tion.
“Such a program presents grave problems,” the AFL President said, “but
I am confident that we in America have the courage, the imagination and the-
will to meet Them. On the one hand, industry must not permit itself to be
vanquished in advance by fear which creates panics. On the other, it must
guard against greed which may result in over-production and glutting avail-
able markets.
“It is the solemn duty of industry in America to get ready as soon as
possible to assume its post-war responsibilities. I pledge you the fullest as-
sistance and cooperation of the members of the American Federation of La-
bor.”
While assertng that “no better form of social security is available to
workers than steady job’s at decent wages,” Mr. Green urged the business
leaders to support the AFL-sponsored Wagner-Murphy-Dingell Bill which
would put the nation’s social security program on a post-war basis.
In every case, the increase was a lot more than 17 per cent, and in some
cases it was more than 100 per cent. The increases were to people who did not
need them in any case.
President Roosevelt tried to stop this by limiting salaries to $67,000 a year
or $25,000 net and free and clear after all taxes and other deductions allowed
under the income tax law. But the anti-New Deal majority in Congress, some
of whom seem to hate Roosevelt and the working class more than they hate
Hitler, did not permit him to do so.
Pvt. Harold Schmidt
Co. B 301 Ord. Regt. A.P.O.
700, care Postmaster, New
York City, N. Y.
Sgt. Earl Conner, ASN
20820085, 878th Ord. (HM) Co.
2, APO 700, care Postmaster,
New York City, N. Y.
By AFLNews Service.
La Fayette, Ind.—Employes of the
Aluminum Corp, of America plant here
registered a definite majority for the
American Federation of Labor at an
election held to choose a collective
bargaining representative, Pat Mc-
Cartney, AFL spokesman, announced,
the vote was 1,898 for the AFL, 1,764
for the CIO.
WLB Orders Equal Pay For Negroes
Doing Equal Work With Whites
By AFL News Service.
Washington, D. C.—The National War Labor Board abolised pay dif-
ferentials between white and negro workers performing equal work.
Under the board’s unanimous opinion, the Southport Petroleum Com-
pany of Texas City, Tex., is ordered to grant wage increases to its Negro em-
ployes which would “place them on a basis of economic parity with the white
workers in the same classification.”
Dr. Frank P. Graham, who wrote the board’s opinion, said:
“Economic and political discrimination on account of race or creed is in
line with the Nazi program. America, in the days of its infant weakness the
haven of heretics and the oppressed of all races, must not in the days of its
power become the stronghold of bigots.
“Whether as vigorous- fighting men or for production of food and muni-
tions, America needs the Negro; the Negro needs the equal opportunity to
work and fight. The Negro is necessary for wining the war, and, at the same
time, is a test of our sincerity in the cause for which we are fighting. More
hundreds of millions of colored people are involved in the outcome of this
war than the combined populations of the Axis powers. Under Hitler and his
master race, their movement is backward to slavery and despair. In America,
the colored people have the freedom to struggle for freedom.”
Frequently the Navy, the Coast
Guard and the Signal Corps finds it
expedient to relay messages without
benefit of telephone, telegraph or
radio. That is when the semaphore
system is employed.
munity Chests to eliminate multiple appeals by centering all fund-raising pro- .
grams into a single common drive, “a beginning was made on a new front,” one 1 e you wit a auic victory.
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By AFL N etvs Service.
A year ago James D. White, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, a veteran of of World
War I, reenlisted in the Navy. His son,
James W. White, 17, enlisted in the
Navy shortly thereafter. Each was
sent to separate duty.
A few weeks ago, the father and
son, both engaged on separate ships
in getting supplies to our men reunited
temporarily during the height of the
attack on North Africa.
Prior to reentering the Navy, the
father was secretary of Cedar Rapids
Truck Drivers’ Union of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Help-
ers of America (AFL).
North Africa, May 12, 1943
Dear Sirs;
My buddy and I were passing the
time away, herein a hospital in North
Africa, talking about our past times
back home when we discovered the
cigarettes we were smoking were do-
nated by you. They were given to us
through the Red Cross which is doing,
and has been doing, a really bang-up
job. We wanted you to know that we
wholeheartedly appreciate your efforts
to make things easier for us and we
hope that we can repay you and every-
that each delegate to the Texas State *
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The stationary bicycle is an in-
expensive piece of equipment, but
the vast quantities of this and other
materials of war make it imperative
for all of us to keep our fighting men
well supplied by greater and greater
purchases of War Bonds.
U. S. Treasury Department
June 15, 1943
The meeting was called to order by
President B. A. Gritta at 8 p. m.
READING OF CREDENTIALS
From Musicians Local No. 74, for
Frank Esperson and after a favorable
report the new delegate was obligated
and seated.
READING OF MINUTES
The minutes of the pervious meet-
ing were adopted as read.
COMMUNICATIONS
The monthly report of the Texas
State Federation of Labor was received
and filed.
From George Meany, secretary-trea-
surer, American Federation of Labor,
regarding some difficulty of the Bur-
lap Bag Workers Local No. 20,967 was
referred to the President and Secre-
tary for investigation.
From the Victory Volunteer Commit-
tee, regarding victory stickers was re-
ceived and 20,000 stickers ordered.
From Labor League for Human
Rights regarding a coming campaign
was referred to the Executive Board.
REPORT OF OFFICERS
President Gritta reported that the
Council was unable to get all the ma-
terial needed to finish the downstair
floor of the building at ths time. He
also reported that the Rationing Board
Price Panel have been arranging the
city in zones and soon 21 commodities
would have a ceiling' price of the
March 1942 level and asked all dele-
gates and locals to co-operate and re-
port anyone charging above the fixed
price.
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American Locomotive Co.....................W. Dickerman ...
Armour & Co............................................G. A. Eastwood.....
Aviation Corporation..............................V. Emanuel.............
Budd Wheel Co.........................................E. G. Budd.............
Burlington Mills, Inc...............................J. Spencer.............
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc................R. W. Moore.........
Doehler Die Casting Co.......................H. H. Doehler.......
Electric Storage Battery Co...............R. C. Norberg.....
Fairbanks, Morse & Co........................R. H. Morse...........
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co...............J. W. Thomas
Flintkote Co...............................................I. J. Harvey, Jr..
General American Transp. Corp.........L. N. Selig...............
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co..............E. J. Thomas.........
Kennecott Copper Co..............................E. T. Standard.....
J. R. Kinney, Inc......................................G. L. Smith...........
Lima LocotiveWorks Co.......................J. E. Dixon.............
Loew’s, Inc..................................................L. B. Mayer...........
Munsingwear, Inc.....................................E. L. Olrich...........
J. S. Penny Co..........................................A. W. Hughes
Phelps Dodge Corp.................. L. S. Cates.........
Savage Arms Co........................................F. F. Hickey.........
Snider Packing Corp..............................S. E. Comstock.....
Standard Oil Co. (Ohio).......................W. T. Holliday.....
Swift & Co.................. J. Holmes...............
Union Bag & Paper Co..........................A. S. Calder...........
Vick Chemical Co...................................H. S. Richardson.
Wolworth Co..............................................W. B. Holton, Jr.
Willys-Overland Motors Co.................J. W. Frazer........
Federation of Labor convention be
given $125.00 for expenses. A motion
was made and seconded that the re-
commendation be concurred, (carried.)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Motion made to send a telegram to
President Roosevelt requesting him to
veto all Anti-Labor Legislation recent-
ly passed by both the Congress and
Senate. Motion carried.
B. A. Gritta was elected general
chairman for this year Labor Celebra-
tion and the Executive Board to as-
sist him with the general committee
the Committee was given authority to
proceed with whatever type of program
they thought best without reporting
to the Council.
Motion made that if a program book
was arranged that the same basis of
last year befollowed.
REPORT OF DELEGATES
Delegate H. T. Jett of Painters Lo-
cal No. 585, stated that the Schooner
Bar located at 20th Ave. D. was paint-
ed- by non-union painters.
There will be no meeting of the
Council Monday, June 28, as most of
the delegates will be attending the
convention, the next meeting will be
Monday, July 12.
There being no further business be-
fore the meeting the Council adjourned
after reading of receipts and disburse-
ments.
Fraternally submitted,
F. W. BAVOUX, Secretary
Galveston Labor
Council.
Like a single flag in the "Wig-
wag” system, the purchase of a
War Savings Stamp or Bond, in it-
self has an infinitesimal effect upon
the entire war effort, but when 130
million determined people set their
minds to make our War Bond drives
successful, the result is anything but
infinitesimal. U. S. Treasury Department
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