The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, November 28, 1952 Page: 4 of 4
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7 Congressmen Boast
Union Background
18 HOUR 8IBVIC*
Good Luek on Co.
The rent of the story—how he con-
tacted Dallas labor leader, and found
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At least 7 Congressmen who have
been active In trade unions won re-
election to the House of Representa-
tives Nov. 4.
They are: Jack Shelly (D. Calif.),
former president of the California Fed-
eration of Labor; George Rhodee (D.
Pa ), president and business agent of
the Central Labor Union In Reading.
Pa . and an active member of the In-
ternational Typographical Union; John
Fogarty (R.. R. I.), president of Local
1 of the Bricklayers in Rhode Island;
Gardner Withrow (R., Wis.), state
representative of the railroad brother-
hoods; Roy Wier (D., Minn). who has
played a prominent part tn the Minne-
apolis trade union movement; Leo
O’Brien (D.. N. Y.). a former officer
of the American Newspaper Guild, and
John Dingell (D., Mich.), who is a
member of the International Typo-
graphical Union.
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California is the longeet state, be-
ing 770 miles in length.
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. .makes wash day an easy day. No more
lifting heavy baskets of laundry... carry-
ing them out to the clothes Una No mor*
stretching, bending, and pinning... then
stretching, bending and unpinning. No
more worry about cold, rainy days...
brisk March winda.
at this lusty insurance intent. Te
wonder what it will grow up to ha
Cage thinks he known. "It'll be the
biggest thing since baseball”
Am your back a tank.. m yout dectfle awllance Mor ebod an eleetrie elothee dryot
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the problems—and a share of the
profits—of free enterprise. Now many
top Dallas bankers are Cage's and
ICT’s biggest boosters ...
“Soon Cage plans to . . . stamp
every union hall in the U. B. plugging
union-owned insurance companies un-
der Ben Jack Cage management. Says
ba: ’I want to raise ss army, not just
customers. I want to make bellevers
out of everybody'."
2 Southern States
Elect 4 Republicans
Conference to Study
Plasterers Problems
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FLUFF DRY
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Profits Show
Big Increase
LAMAR & SMITH FUNERAL HOME
Complelely *. E Air Conditioned
Orehia Ambulance serotce
Lady Attendant
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JIM MARTIN
ATTORNEY-ATLAW
Formerly at 2001 Mata
Announces Removal st oflees to
Sola to singte botues-in hemdy 6
cartons of Mx botties, er by the
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wonder" and "the infant phenomenon
of the tnsurance world," The Insur-
ance Company of Texaa and its prest-
dent. Ben Jack Cage, made nationwide
news in the past few days through the
pages of Time Magazine and one of the
state's largest daily newspapers, the
Houston Poet
Devoting leading apace tn the No-
vember 10 edition of the Houston Post
to his comprehensive article, Steve
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SUITS DELUXE BBY CLEANED .
FLAIM DBE88E8 DBY CLKAND .
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^Now^ New 94 Octane Gasoline
No Knock, No Clatter---Nothing Better
Save 4 to Sc a Gallon
ALLEN MELTON
Announces the Assoelatlon st
Charles C. Sorrells
In the general practice of elv law
PRospeet-0161
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Na 15—HlWay M and
Profits after taxes, for the July-
August-September quarter of 1*51
probably will be the largest In several
years, according to a survey of both
large and email businesses.
The Wall Street Journal, for in-
atance, reported that a check of 48
firms showed earnings of $207 million
in that period. This was 328 million
more than they made In 1951.
Meantime, U. S. Steel said it in-
creased its profits during the guarter
by 17 percent over the previous 3-
month period.
General Motors reported thst its nst
Income for the quarter ending Sept.
M totaled 1118 million, contrasted to
882 million It made in the quarter in
i951 Its profits for the first * months
of 1*52 amounted to 1378 million last
year.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
increased its net protits by 54 percent.
amade wie fast wimmen epomsored by foe Umion Theme fortenext emtry
b “Om *e Good sip Lewvop" nd marke Sourt etrnighe yurde Imte-
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told essentially the name story In
condensed form under the caption
"Union Shoppers." In addition, to a
resume of the Company's growth, the
Tima article cited Mr. Cage’s remarks
to stockholders at a recent meeting
“ ’Folks, when you buy a hog, you
don’t starve him. You fatten him up.
It’s the same thing with this company.
We've got to fatten this hog. We’ve
got to fatten thia company.’ The un-
appen to
ens who
up car-
ave had
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have it
Thi4
Despite the heavy inroads that Gen.
Eisenhower made into southern Demo-
cratic strongholds, only 4 Republicans
from just 2 states in the South were
elected to Congress in the Nov. 4
elections.
They were Charles Jonas of North
Carolina, and R H Poff. W. C. Wamp-
ler, and Joel Broyhil ot Virginia.
Jonas’ father, Charles Jonas, Br,
served in Congress in 1928-30. His
large district, the 10th. has since had
a large Republican minority.
The 1 Virginians who were elected
to the House on the GOP ticket also
some from districts which have con-
sistently shown heavy Republican bal-
loting. Broyhill’s district the 10th.
voted, for instance, for Gov. Dewey
in 1«4(.
his idea dovetailed into plans they al-
ready had in the mill—how he sold the
State Federatlon’s Board and later the
convention in Galveston—all these
tacts included for the general public
to read and thus become familiar with
the ICT program.
Booke pointed out that the educa-
tional value of union members own-
ing corporate stocks whereby It would
help them "to understand what hap-
pened on the management side ot
businesa." The added factor that un-
ions and individuals could "make a
profit from a company of their own,
carrytag their own insurance" was
also stressed in the newspaper story
Further history of the ICT—the
formation of the ICT Group with the
adidtion of the Continental Fire &
Casualty Insurance Corporation, Life
Insurance Company of Texaa and the
recent ICT Discount Corporation-
ware told. The capital expansion
plans, step by stop. were unfolded.
"In 11 months since Cage got his
big idea to make capitalists out of nn-
Taking its cus from Ite
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sehmtde of foe Bakery and Comtecdomery Workere Iutermadlemal Umion
compame dedga at toe laat tar toe 1953 Femi ma Tur ibl at Beam
corre- that it waa Jut ths reverse; it would
gaztne give workers a firsthand education in
use of advisory committees in key
cities throughout the state. These com-
mittees, made up of union members,
top bankers, lawyers, business lead-
ers. meet monthly, discus ways of
promoting labor-management under-
standing; as they buid their com-
pany "
Local Houston angles were also re-
ported as indefinite future plans were
revealed to establish a regional office
in that city. Figures were used to show
how "Houston figures prominently in
- mug ' auc
Your favorite Beer
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Premium Quoly iaBew
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Four veteran trade unionista, members of Local 166, IBEW, Seheneetady, N. Y, ware homored recently
by their Intermational for corn pktion of 50 years of good • “ - '
seated to (Meted, left tel’"' - - --------~
tions were made by IBEW
•’lusty insurance
An electric clothes dryer does all this back
breaking work for you. Easier, better,
faster. It dries clothes just the way you
want than... "just right” damp for easy
ironing... “bone dry" for fluffy, sweet
smelling towels, diapers, corduroy over-
alls... oil aetomaticaUfl
--_____----------= J steading. Gold pins and serene were pre-
____________ ____'ItoeLatiM^Vtee pTeeideut^oeeph^W. ezzemajzargfckej ,
president of both Local 166 aad the Sehemeetady Federation of Labor (etanding). Wiam. Conklin,
fourth 50-year member, was unable to attend but the presentation was made at his hema
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Labor will have 31 friends in the
next Senate. compared with 40 in the
present one, as a result of the Nov.
4 elections.
A Senator is considered friendly to
trade unionists If he supports legisla-
tion in the interests of organised
labor.
Hers is the box score comparing
friends and enemies In the 82nd and
83rd Congresses:
82nd Congress 1*51-52)
40 friends, 55 enemies, 1 doubtful
Not up in 1*52
28 friends, 34 enemies, 1 doubtful
Elected in 1952
12 friends, 23 enemies, 0 doubtful
83rd Congress (1958-54)
38 friends, 57 enemies, 1 doubtful
tea membera," declared the story,
-premium income has zoomed to *1
millon a mouth, capital aad surplus
for the ICT Group to up to UMI
m.’
(Mag ths vitaltty aad enthustasm
of Ben Jack Cage. Booke’s article weat
M to may, “Although he te constantly
Na 11—414 Corinth , HA **44
AUSTIN—(TLPA)—Plans for er-
pansion of the apprenticship training
program in the electrical industry
were discussed at a two-day meeting
in Austin of the Texas State Joint
Apprenticeship and Training Com-
mittee for the Electrical Industry
Don Kennard Of Fort Worth. Inter-
national representative of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and chairman of the state
committee, said that the committee
also approved new educational ma-
terials for assignment to fourth-year
trainees.
A joint operation by management
and labor, worktag with the Texaa
A and M College Engineering Exten-
sion Division and the U. S. Depart-
ment of Labor, the apprenticeship
committee administers ths training
program throughout the state. In
each city where the program is in op-
eration, local point apprenticship
training committees actually operate
the programs. Materials and over-
all development are subject to the
supervision of the state committee.
Attending the meeting in Austin
were Lawrence Martin, chapter man-
ager of the National Electrical Con-
tractors Association In Dallas; secre-
tary of the Joint committee: Charlie
Scholibo, Southeast Texas N.E.C.A.
chapter manager, Houston: Frank
R. Stewart, South Texas N.E.C.A.
chapter manager, San Antonio, and
T. O. Clawson, Central Texaa N.EC.A.
chapter manager, Austin. and all man-
agement members of the committee:
Marcus Lofis, business manager of
I.B.E.W. Local 520. Austin and Jerry
Holleman, Texaa State Federation of
labor representative in Austin and a
member of I.B.E.W. Local 850 in Lub-
bock The fourth labor member,
Frank Graham of L.B.E W. Local 5*.
Dallas, was not present.
Sitting in as consultants for the
meeting were H D. Bearden, repre-
senting the Texas A. and M Engineer-
ing Extension Service, College Sta-
tion: L. B. "Buck" Baker, coordinat-
or and apprenticeship specialist for
the Electrical Industry, Bryan; George
A. Seaman, field representative of the
N.E.C.A., Fort Worth; W. R. Cate,
state supervisor of vocational educa-
tion. Austin, and Charlie King. field
representative of the bureau of appren-
ticeship. Dallas.
Hailed as
Lansing, Mich.—Delegates repre-
senting AFL locals with more than
2.504 members established the Michi-
gan State Conference of Plasterers
and Cement Masons.
Ths conterence will study organis-
ing plasterers and cement finishers in
state institutions, establishment of a
manpower pool to furnish workers
where needed. setting np a state-wide
set of working rules. establishment of
standards for wages and working con-
ditions. common action on Jurisdic-
tional awards and provisions of medi-
cal insurance plans.
Books, financial editor of the Post, re-
ported the growth of what he de-
scribed as "Labor’s management
taboratory." Ths complete story, from
idea to multi-million dollar enter-
prise, was recounted.
In a fashien to make people sit up
and take notice, Time Magazine used
its entire Insurance section and nearly
two full columns to the ICT story,
now familiar to nearly every union
member in Texas. As special Time
correspondent. Books furnished the
magazine with the source material for
their stylized article.
Booke recounted how Mr. Cage
"collided with ICT's basic philosophy
as he drove past a huge Texas indus-
trial plant and told his companion.
"Wouldn’t it be terrific if we could
sell Insurance to all these people, if
we had something that would make
them want to get their insurance from
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toe capitalists, the story went on,
“promptly approved his plan to buy
or set up undon-owned tnsurance
companies in most of ths 41 states aad
to build a $1,000,000 nive-story build-
ing in downtown Dallas . ..
-When he first broached his Idea,
Texas businessmen scotted at it as a
socialistic proposition in which un-
ions would lose money. Cage tneisted
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