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THIRTY-SECOND YEAR, No. 48
DALLAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 PER YEAR
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organized labor stands for.
May God bless them.”
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the price control program
sidles.
Larry Taylor’s Campaign for
first vice president of the Inter-
national Typographical Union
is growing by leaps and bounds.
Members of Dallas Local No.
173, have contributed generous-
ly to the campaign and a fair
war chest has been raised. Lar-
ryfs many friends realize that
he will have to appear before
many local unions over the jur-
isdiction and many have offer-
ed their cars to Taylor for this
purpose.
present at the meeting and to
take part in its development.
Do not forget the date, Thurs-
day night, December 9, 8 p. m.,
Labor Temple.
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It Is No Secret That All of the
members of the Political League
are going to make an effort to
“clean house,” so far as the
enemies of organized labor are
the benefit of labor-haters and
union employers.
Do this now!
Weekly Increase for
Dairy Workers
Less Government
In Post-War Era
Urged by Woll
Railway Clerks
Win Terminal Poll
Typo Union Vote
Nov. 30 On AFL
California Court
Favors Teamsters
Order Upholds
AFL Union Shop
Women Form Sole
Labor Reserve
100,000 Service
Wives Aided
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Sunday Bonus
Request Denied
Strikers Face
Death in Norway
AFL War Fund
Donations High
Send a Word
To the Wise!
Keifer’s Exhibit of
Furuseth Wins
in Art Exhibit
four hours on the night shift from 7
p. m. to 5 a. m. Employees who work
more than four hours on this shift
are to receive a 10 per cent bonus to
their weekly earnings. Industry mem-
bers of tthe Board dissented from the
decision on this issue.
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The Board also directed a night
shift differential of $3 a week and
wage increases averaging about $1.16
weekly, also retroactive to May 1,
1943, to approximately 125 automobile
mechanics who service the companies’
equipment. The mechanics are repre-
sented by the Automobile Mechanics
Local No. 1 of the International As-
sociation of Machiinsts, AFL.
"There is no such thing as labor re-
lations,” Kaiser said. "There are only
human relations. You are dealing
with people, not impersonal problems
of finance or electronics.
"There are three sides to every ar-
seven children, Thomas R. Jones, Jr.,i ,
Miss Dorothy Jones, Miss Louise' given us the means to win our battles.
The Board’s order also provides for
a $3 a week night shift differential
for employees who work less than
league will hold a general meet-
ing in the Labor Temple, Thurs-
day night, December 9, 8 p. m.
All local unions are invited to
send as many of their members
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The league is composed of rep-
resentatives of the American
House Set to Kill
Subsidies, Forcing
Food Prices Up
Senate Group for
Rail Wage Boost
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providing medical, hospital and nurs-
m , ,, .. - — ing care, as voted by Congress. Colo-
gumentzyour side, my side and the I rado was the latest state to join the
right side. | Federal program.
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
Congress believes that the 1,100,000
funds and should revert to the Treas-
ury if not used for the announced pur-
poses.
Mr. Woll served notice that labor
will request, at the war’s end, that the
transition from overtime war produc-
tion to the normal work week be made
"without reduction in weekly earn-
interference in the renegotiation
Newark, N. J. (AFLWNS).—The In-
ternational Typographical Union will
vote on the question of reaffiliation
with the AFL at a special referendum
election throughout North America,
on Tuesday, November 30th.
According to Lewis M. Herrmann,
New York.—A new Quisling decree,
stiffening military control in Norway,
imposes the death penalty for anyone
who incites strikes or stops work "so
that economic life or industrial peace
is threatened,” the United Nations In-
formation Office reports.
Formerly applying only to "theaters
of war,” military penal law may now
be invoked throughout the country
because "under the conditions of to-
tal war the whole country must be
regarded as a theater of war.”
skill and conscientious efforts have
lowed in conversion will fix patterns
and lines of development for industry
and labor for the next decade or
more,”, he said.
“From the point of view of Govern-
ment, agriculture, labor and industry
alike, policies followed in the termina-
tion of war contracts and the disposal
of Government property and surplus
materials are of vital importance in
the re-establishing of our economy of
free enterprise on a sound basis.
“There can be no sense of security
op the part of labor or industry or
the ability to make plans unless there
are comprehensive policies which can
be clearly understood and which can
represent all interests, not just those
of some branch of government.”
Mr. Woll said that the American
Congress should encourage the estab-
lishment by industry of post-war re-
serves for plant conversion and the
payment of dismissal wages and that
these reserves should be exempt from
Your Congressman and mine are
our servants. We elect them. We
pay them. They are supposed to rep-
resent us.
For that reason the American Fed-
eration of Labor now urgently calls
upon its 6,500,000 members to let their
Congressmen "know how they feel
about pending legislation which will
detrimentally affect the interests of
American Workers and their trade
unions.
Tell your Representatives and your
Senators this:
1—That you demand approval of a
comprehensive subsidy program to
keep the cost of living within bounds.
2—That you insist on defeat of the
tax bill "Joker” which would require
unions to disclose financial data for
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seventh and eighth hours' work on
■Sunday was denied.
Federation of Labor believed
would strike out all subsidy provisions
from the pending bill.
Egged on by the farm bloc and by
powerful groups demanding inflation-
ary profits, the members of the House
appeared determined to ignore all
warnings as to the disastrous effects
of eliminating subsidies.
AFL President William Green, in a
letter to House Majority Leader Mc-
Cormack, declared that it seemed in-
conceivable that Congress should fail
to authorize subsidies at this critical
stage of the nation’s war economy
when destructive inflation menaces the
consuming public.
Secretary-Treasurer George Meany,
in a nation-widy radio address,
charged that Congress would be be-
traying the American people and
treating the Economic Stabilization
Act as a "scrap of paper” if it neg-
lected to pass the subsidy program.
OPA Administrator Bowles issued a
flat warning that if Congress ditches
subsidies prices of many basic food
commodities will be boosted almost
immediately and the cost of living
mount at least another 10 per cent.
War Production Board Chairman
Nelson pointed out that Government
expenditures for all kinds of supplies
and munitions will he increased heav-
house, all signers of the in-
famous Manford Bill No. 100,
which hamstrings labor. These
same members are opposed to
Hatton Sumners continuing in
Congress and avow they will
support any good man against
him. It looks like organized la-
bor means business this time.
They are organized together—
that is all factions are—and
New York City (AFLWNS). — An
all-time record for AFL contributions
to war relief and community needs
is well on the way, according to na-
tion-wide reports on this year’s1 cam-
paign in support of the National War
Fund, now reaching the Labor League
for Human Rights.
In spite of the handicap of in-
creased taxes and the higher cost of
Kaiser Praises
The Closed Shop
New York City (AFLWNS).—Henry
J. Kaiser, the war production wizard,
declared in an interview here that
the union closed shop helps to solve
industrial problems.
Mr. Kaiser, whose famous shipyard
plants on the West Coast are under
closed shop contract with AFL unions,
said that such contracts simplify mat-
ters for management. He pointed out:
"The behavior of the men becomes
a direct responsibility of the union.”
Terming "class bitterness” a dan-
gerous problem, Mr. Kaiser urged
labor and management to eliminate
it by recognizing that there should
be no fear or distrust between them.
He said that it was management's
job "to sell self-respect and trust for
itself to the unions by showing great-
er interest in its people. Is the un-
ion’s duty to get out the work and try
to understand management’s prob-
lems.”
Federation of Labor, the C. 1,
O., the Railroad Brotherhoods
and the Allied Printing Trades
Council. Refreshments will be
served and the regular business
procedure of the meeting will
outlined with a general discus-
sion following. The Political
League is growing by leaps and
bounds and a great deal of en-
thusiasm is being manifested at
the present moment. The pur-
pose of the league now is to get
as many members of organized
labor as possible to pay their
poll tax receipt, to the end that
they will be qualified to pass
judgment upon the merits of
the candidates next July. You,
as a member of organized labor
are cordially invited to be
ings.”
Labor is ready to work with man-
agement in the development of post-
war plans and is alert to dangers
which will face the enterprise system
in the post-war years, such as unem-
ployment and an increase in class con-
sciousness, Mr. Woll declared.
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).__
The War Labor Board has unanimous-
ly ordered that a union shop clause be
retained in a contract between the
Weber Showcase and Fixture Co. of
Los Angeles and four AFL building
trades unions.
The company had claimed that the
union shop clause and the contract
were terminated when the union asked
for a reopening of the contract under
a provision giving either party the
right to serve notice of a desire to
"modify, amend or terminate it.”
The WLB found that, on the con-
trary, the record showed that the
union's intent was not to terminate
the contract but to modify and amend
it. The board therefore ordered em-
ployes who were hired during the pe-
riod in which the company claimed
that it was not bound by the union
shop clauses, to become members of
the union in good standing within two
weeks or seek jobs elsewhere.
Boston (AFLWNS).—Warnings that
the American economic and political
systems will be endangered if too
much reliance is placed on Washing-
ton in formulation of post-war plans
were sounded by Matthew Woll, vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor; Dean Donald Kirk David of
the Harvard Graduate School of Busi-
ness Administration, and Representa-
tive Hatton W. Sumners of Texas,
chairman of the House Judiciary Com-
mittee.
The AFL, Mr. Woll explained to the
governors of New England States
and representatives of New England
business, industry and civic organiza-
tions assembled for the second New
England war conference, "is opposed
to the extension of paternalism and
Government sponsored enterprise be-
cause such activity will create a de-
pendency on governmental benevo-
lence that will tend to eliminate indi-
vidual incentive and rob the American
people of that characterstic which sets
them apart from all other people__
their spirit of adventure.
While war contracts are properly
the primary concern of military agen-
cies, termination of contracts and sim-
ilar programs should be handled by
civilian agencies on which employers,
labor and the Government are' repre-
sented, he declared.
“The policies and procedures fol-
that the House
We are expecting an interesting
meeting Monday, our regular meeting
and election day. We hope to re-elect
Sister Ora Robbins, president, as she
has served very efficiently in the past.
The Carhartt employees had a hap-
py surprise when Mr. Krockman, our
kind boss, came up and ’ announced
that he was giving us a vacation. He
gave us the remainder of the week
along with Thanksgiving and paid us
for Friday which we appreciated very
much,
Sisters Leola Martin, Estelle Lively
and Dogmar Scott are back with us
in the Carhartt shop after being off
for sometime. Sister Lura Spellacy’s
mother is very sick at this writing.
We hope she will soon be better.
Partin, N. J.—A request by the
Hercules Powder Co. here, to grant
a weekly bonus of 8 per cent to em-
ployees working on Sundays was de-
nied by the National War Labor Board
because such a bonus would violate
the order which prohibits premium
pay for Sunday work as such.
The company play provided for pay-
ment of the bonus whenever the work
week included Sunday.
has raised $13,000, an outstanding
gain over last year’s total labor con-
tribution of $2,300.
In Toledo, the iron workers took
first place among the AFL unions of
the city in the early days of the cam-
paign, with a contribution averaging
N'.J' D°Wlndded’ should be treated as
in the mid-point of its campaign. re- - • ■ •
ports a collection of $65,000, an in-}
crease of more than $20,000 over
1942. AFL leaders in Elizabeth are
----living, many key cities from coast to
possible to this meeting, coast have already reported AFL con-
’------ - • * tributions considerably in excess of
There Will Be a War Labor
Board hearing in San Antonio,
next Thursday, December 9, in
the matter of French’s Black
Cat Restaurant and Buffet and
the Hotel and Restaurant Em-
ployes’ Union No. 12, A. F. of
L., to settle the issue of wages.
L. M. Corrigan and Geo. Lusk
of the culinary crafts will rep-
sent the union. Members of the
panel are Dr. John W. Calhoun,
chairman and public member,
Mrs. J. E. O’Neil, industry
member and Wallace C. Reilly,
labor member.
are outspoken in their opposi-
tion to Lieutenant Governor
John Lee Smith, an avowed
spokesman against organized
labor principles. These same
members are also very much
opposed to ALL of our present
Dallas county legislators, i. e..
State Senator W. C. Graves, W.
O. Reed, Jeff Stinson, Preston
Mangum, Dallas Blankenship,
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Washington. — Housewives and
women not generally employed con-
stitute the major labor reserve to
meet the continued demand for man-
power and to offset drains to the
armed services, the OWI said in mak-
ing public a summary of methods
used to mobilize women workers in a
number of labor-tight areas. This
summary is based on reports of sur-
veys of manpower campaigns in nine
areas.
Community-wide campaigns to di-
Thomas R. Jones, 47, 1321 Denley
Drive, a member of painters' local
union for twenty years and a charter
member of Trinity Christian Church,
passed away Saturday afternoon at a
local hospital.
A native of McAlester, Okla., he had
served as business agent for the union
for six years. He also was a member
of the Masonic lodge, of Shawnee,
Okla. He served in the 131st Field
Artillery during World War I and
was I wounded in action.
He is survived by his wife and
elimination of double time for
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers reported that the
Inion had won NLRB elections to
choose a bargaining agency at the
Public Service Company of New
Hampshire in Portsmouth and Som-
ersworth, N. H.; at the Stamford Di-
vision of the Connecticut Power Com-
pany and at the Colgate Division of
the Pacific Gas and Electric Com-
pany, San Francisco.
The brotherhood represents practi-
cally eighty per cent of the nation's
utility workers.
of the country indicate a strong swing
of sentiment for reaffiliation with the
AFL. . This is particularly true in the
larger Typographical Unions such as
New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia,
St. Louts and the 24 typo local unions
of New Jersey.
The basis for settlement of the ITU-
AFL controversy rests upon the abso-
lute guarantee by the last AFL con-
vention of the autonomous rights of
the Printers' Union, as well as can-
cellation of all past indebtedness of
the ITU to the AFL. The Typo-
graphical Unions will pay per capita
tax of 1% cents per member to the
AFL as of the date of readmission,
which involves no increase in dues to
ITU members.
Newark Typographical Union, in
co-operation with 153 other locals of
its International. has carried on an
intensive campaign throughout the
United States and Canada in an effort
to bring back this union to the fold
of the American Federation of Labor.
who have continually voted
Industry members of the Board
here again dissented.
A wage increase of $5 a week for
delivery workers of eight metropoli-
tan New York City newspaper dis-
tributors, retroactive to July 1, 1942,
was unanimously approved by the
Board as allowable under its "Little
Steel” formula. The Board accepted
the award of a Board of arbitration
which conducted hearings on the dis-
pute between companies and the
Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union
of New York City, an independent
union.
Approximately 300 truck drivers,
bundle carriers, and newspaper sort-
ers are covered by the award.
Washington.—Nearly 100.000 wives
and babies of enlisted men in the
four lowest pay grades of the services
have come under the Federal program
for maternity and infant care, Kath-
arine F. Lenroot, chief of the Chil-
dren’s Bureau, U. S. Department of
Labor, reports.
Miss Lenroot pointed out that the
number of wives applying had In-
creased from around 5,400 a month,
in the early stages of the program,
which was initiated in April 1943, to
29,000 cases in October, bringing the
total to 99,336 as of Nov. 1. This ac-
celeration she attributes to more wide-
spread information and gradual addi-
tion of states with approved plans.
All states except North Dakota, Tex-
as, and Louiisana now have plans ap-
proved by the Children’s Bureau for
public office in Dallas county I Watertown, N. y.,
and over the State. Members I ported from only
those made in last year’s campaign,
when organized labor was acknowl-
edged to be the largest single giver
to Community Chests and war relief
drives.
One of the oustanding contribu-
tions so far made for any one plant
is credited to the Consolidated Air-
craft factory in San Diego, California,
where AFL workers donated the rec-
ord-breaking sum of $151,000, in ad-
dition to management’s contribution
of $100,000 to the campaign. AFL
leaders in San Diego have declared
their intention of returning to Con-
solidated Aircraft and continuing their
campaign, and are confident that ad-
ditional contributions will carry the
total employe collection from this
plant to well over the $200,000 mark.
Apart from the Consolidated figure,
the average contribution to the cam-
paign by AFL members in the city
of San Diego as a whole now stands
at $14.52.
AFL workers at the Navy shipyard
in Charleston, S. C., have turned in
a total of $77,723.48, more than three
times their quota of $25,000. The
1,900 employees of the Charleston
Shipbuilding and Drydock Company,
under contract to the AFL, have so
far raised $12,500, exceeding their set
goal by $6,500. The overall goal for
the city of Charleston has been ex-
ceeded by $73,500, and H. W. Hopke,
chairman of the Charleston County
United War Fund, has declared that
labor was "very instrumental in the ,
success of the campaign.”
e 1 , . , added to that total before the close of
Sam Hanna and George Park- i the drive.
Naval Leader
Hails Labor for
Fine Equipment
Washington. D. C. (AFLWNS)—
The Commanding Officer of a U. S.
Naval Task Force which scored a
smashing victory over the Japs in the
Pacific has sent a combat dispatch to
the Navy Department praising the bat-
tle equipment produced by America’s
workers.
The dispatch, sent to Rear Admiral
W. H. D. Blandy, Chief of the Bureau
of Ordnance, testified to the outstand-
ing backing the men and women of
the Production front are giving to the
fighting men of the fleet. It said:
"The ‘X’ Destroyer Squadron and
the ‘X’ Crusier Division have just com-
pleted thirty-six horus of nearly con-
tinuous battle, starting with two
shore bombardments down the throat
of the einenmy, continuing with a
three hour night sea battle against
heavy Japanese forces and ending by
beating off an attack of seventy to
eighty Japanese planes. All this in
enemy waters. Our casualties were
small. The enemy’s casualties in all
battles were large. The enemy was
routed.
"Ordnance equipment worked so
well we forgot about it. Not a single
material casualty beyond burning off
all the paint and canvas. We are
proud of our magnificent seamen. We
are also proud of our equipment. It
hits fast, hard, accurately and, oh,
so effectively.
“Will you convey our appreciation
to the men and women who by their
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
Leaders of the American Federation
of Labor and the Government bom-
barded Congress with strong last-
minute appeals for authorization of a
comprehensive subsidy program to
keep prices in check and prevent the
cost of living from soaring out of con-
trol.
Despite these appeals, it was re-
war contracts. Such reserves,
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Co-operation Between the Employer and Employe for Their Mutual Benefit and Progress and Development of Dallas
are represented by the Dairy Em-
ployees’ Union, an affiliate of the
Teamsters’ Union, AFL. The Asso-
ciated Milk Dealers is an organiza-
tion of 85 member companies and rep-
resents approximately 90 per cent of
Jones, Miss Peggy Sue Jones, Charles
Jones. Miss Margie Ann Jones and
Robert Jones, at present in the serv-
ices in England, and Mrs. Kathryne
Gragg; two sisters in McAlester,
Okla., Mrs. John Riggs and Mrs. Jim
Lawson.
Funeral was held at 2 p. m. Mon-
day at the Trinity Christian Church
Denley Drive, with the Rev. L. B.
Haskins officiating.
Interment was in Laurel Land. Pall-
bearers: Cleve Culpepper, . Loren
Young, A. J. Essary, D. H. Marr, Travis
Lewis, Jack Rasor.
Organized Labor’s Political
New York City (AFLWNS).—A jury
of distinguished artists gave high
praise to the entry of Douglas M.
Keifer of Seattle, Washington, a mem-
ber of the Sailors Union of the Pa-
cific, in the second annual merchant
seamen's art exhibition which is to
tour the United States under the au-
spices of the United Seamen’s Service.
The picture he submitted is a portrait
of Andrew Furuseth, founder of the
SUP.
More than 150 paintings were sub-
mitted by seamen artists for judging
and seventy were chosen by the jury.
The exhibition will open at the Corco-
ran Gallery of Art in Washington on
November 28. After a month in Wash-
ington, the exhibition will tour the
principal cities of the country and a
selection of works from the show will
go to London.
Able Seaman Kiefer who lives at
1628% 43rd Avenue North, in Seattle,
has been working in oils for less than
a year and has had no formal train-
ing in the graphic arst. While many
seamen with similar technical back-
grounds submitted work for the exhi-
bition, which in its final form is com-
posed of works of really high calibre,
the portrait of Brother Keifer was
considered outstanding in its class.
San Francisco, Calif. (AFLWNS).—
The California supreme court revers-
ed a lower court decision which gave
$20,500 damages to George W. Emde
and Louis Marshall, San Joaquin val-
ley dairymen, against the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Teamster in
Stockton, Calif.
Emde and Marshall, operating the
Happyhome Dairy, charged that the
union had ruined their business by a
series of articles in The Stockton La-
bor Journal against the dairy's labor
poHcy.
In a 5 to 2 decision the Supreme
Court refused them both actual and
punitive damages, declaring that
had the same right of free speech as
the union and that they had the op-
portunity to make ap ublic defense, of
which they did not take advantage.
Regular Christmas bonuses may be
paid this year without approval of
the WLB if they do not exceed bo-
nuses given last year, the Board an-
nounced.
The Board reaffirmed its order is-
sued Nov. 6, 1942, which authorized
payment of bonuses if they do not
amount to a greater fixed sum than
previously paid, or, if computed on
a percentage basis, the same rate and
method of computation is used.
Greater amounts may be given where
the same percentage and method are
used to compute the bonus.
Bonuses in excess of the stipula-
tion in the order require approval by
Regional War Labor Boards. Such
applications, the Board said, will be
approved only where failure to pay
the bonus would be unjust to the em-
ployees.
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
An American Federation of Labor ex-
posed an anti-union joker in the new
tax bill now being considered by the
House of Representatives.
AFL President Green protested em-
phatically to House Majority Leader
McCormack against a provision in the
bill which would require labor organi-
zations to file with the Bureau of In-
ternal Revenue an annual return, spe-
cifying all items of income, receipts
and expenditures.
Since labor organizations are
exempt under existing law and also
under the proposed amendments from
paying income taxes, the only possible
purpose of the new provision would be
to force trade unions to throw open
their confidential data to fishing ex-
peditions by anti-labor Congressmen.
The House Ways and Means Com-
mittee’s report on this section of the
pending bill hinted that its purpose
was to discover to what extent tax
exemption organizations, like trade
unions, engage in real estate and other
business activities in competition with
corporations required to pay taxes on
income derived from like operations.
"These reasons are absurd as ap-
plied to labor organizations,” Mr.
Green declared in a letter to Rep. Mc-
Cormack.
Since the House is considering the
tax bill under a “gag” rule which for-
bids amendments from the floor, there
is little hope of defeating this anti-
labor provision until the measure
comes before the Senate.
Washington.—A "Little Steel" in-
rease of $2.80 a week for approxi-
mately 2,000 inside dairy workers em-
ployed by the Associated Milk Deal-
ers, Inc., of Chicago, was unanimous-
ly ordered by the National War Labor
Board, The increase is retroactive
to May 1, 1943.
The employees covered by the order
Other cities have come close to
matching the spectacular achieve-
concerned who are now holding I ments of San Diego and Charleston.
rect women into full-time or part-time
.. .. e. . — -------- jobs in war factories or essential in-
the milk business in the Chicago area, dustries are additionally useful be-
cause they expand the labor supply
without increasing the burden on
housing and community services.
Reports covering womanpower cam-
paigns show response has been great-
est where the women are told of the
relationship between the war and the
job they are being asked to do. Re-
ports also show that best results have
been obtained when all groups in the
community mobilize behind the cam-
paign—women's organizations, civic
and volunteer groups, defense coun-
cils, newspapers, department stores,
radio stations, theaters and the U. 8.’
Employment office of the WMC. Com-
munity action to relieve, where pos-
sible, working women of the problems
that might prevent their continuance
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AFL Exposes Tax
Bill “Joker”
Accident Rates Fall
In Shipyards
—
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
The U. S. Maritime Commission re-
ports a drop of 13% per dent in the
cumulative accident rate for its con-
tract shipyards for the 8-month pe-
riod ending in August.
Covering 79 yards, the report shows
a continuing improvement which has
reduced the accident rate from 37, the
average for 1942, to 32 for the first 8
months of 1943.
The Reports Coming From the
recent conference of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek,
bodes ill to Japan. After each
meeting between the heads of
these great countries —more
especially the six Roosevelt and
Churchill have held — great
strides have been made in the
war effort. Germany is now
licked and she knows it and
Japan will suffer the same de-
feat now that the Allied Powers
have an all-out campaign
against the yellow bellies.
Disregarding these warnings and
the most powerful message ever sent
by President Roosevelt in behalf of
subsidies, the House of Representa-
tives was lined up solidly in opposi-
tion as this edition went to press.
It was reported that sentiment in
the Senate also was in favor of throw-
ing the subsidy program overboard.
If such action should take place, it
is considered certain that the Presi-
dent will veto the pending bill and
send It back to Congress. Then, it is
expected that an attempt will be made
to effect a compromise providing for
limited subsidies.
However, organized labor feels that
unless a real and comprehensive sub-
sidy program is authorized. Congress
will be repudiating its own promises
to the people contained in the Eco-
nomic Stabilization Act of 1942.
That law declared that prices and
wages were in equitable relationship
as of Sept. 15, 1942, and should be
stabilized at the levels then prevail-
ing.
.While the "Little Steel” formula!
has kept wages at last year’s levels,
prices have continued to go up. Re-
jection of the subsidy program would
be the signal for even more dan-
gerous inflation of prices and would
unquestionably force abandonment or
revision of the “Little Steel” formula.
they are going about it in the
right manner. It looks bad for
the boys holding public office , . .. .. .
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against anything constructive I Union No. 103, reports from all parts
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at work once they have taken a job
also facilitates employment of women.
Some of the means for recruiting
women include special recruiting
booths, such as those set up in Cleve-
land, Buffalo and Erie; department
store displays of war material show-
ing women actually at machines, like
those in Portland, St. Louis and Phila-
delphia, and door-to-door canvassing,
as done in several cities. Establish-
ment of training courses for women
has helped greatly.
In Cleveland, 6,000 women were
placed in war jobs in Sept, through
joint efforts of community groups.
Portland, Ore., reduced its workers-
wanted list at the local USES offices
from 35,000 to 17,274 through a cam-
paign lasting several months. St.
Louis referred more than 31,000 wom-
en to wartime jobs during a cam-
paign last summer. Similar campaigns
have been conducted in Erie and
Philadelphia, Pa., Wichita, Kan., Ar-
ron and Cincinnati, Ohio.
. non-operating railway workers, who
.are enrolled in AFL unions, are enti-
. tied to the 8-cent hourly increase in
pay awarded to them by a special
Presidential Commission.
This was made clear and definite
when a Senate Interstate Commerce
Sub-Committee approved a resolution
declaring that such an increase in pay
is valid and in accord with the Rail-
way Labor Act.
The committee held that the con-
tract entered Into on Aug. 7, 1943, by
the railroad operators and the unions,
which Included this pay increase,
"will not disturb the ’Little Steel;
formula nor will it express directly or
indirectly Congressional disapproval
of that formula.”
Thus the committee report flatly
repudiated the charge made by Eco-
nomic Stabilization Director Vinson
that favorable action by Congress on
this question would break the "Little
Steel” formula and force general wage
increases throughout industry.
Both Houses of Congress are ex-
pected to approve and send to the
President . the resolution validating
the railway wage increase. The com-
mittee members who voted for the
resolution were Senators Johnson, of
Colorado; Truman, of Missouri; Wag-
ner, of New York; Shipstead, of Min-
nesota, and Reed, of Kansas.
Their report said in part:
"The President’s emergency board
in recommending the 8-cent wage in-
crease followed the principle and re-
quirement written into the Stabiliza-
tion Act that wage adjustments should
be made when necessary to correct
gross inequities and to aid in the ef-
fective prosecution of the war.
"The subcommittee finds that this
is the fundamental principle involved
in this dispute between Judge Vinson
on the one hand and other government
officials plus the railroad industry on
the other.
"Advice from every competent and :
Informed. source assures us that ap- .
proval of the wage agreement will not ,
weaken but will fortify the hold-the-
line policy of the President.” |
Los Angeles, Calif. (AFLWNS).—
Following an election in which the
employes of the Central But Depot,
operated by the Santa Fe and Bur-
lington Transportation companies,
registered a 100 per cent vote for the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, the
National Labor Relations Board cer-
tified the brotherhood as the bargain-
ing representative for the employes.
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