The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1961 Page: 3 of 4
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HAPPENINGS
Local No. 481
By DAVID KEELER
State AFLCIQ Official Pypl
Exdusiomff Migrant MdUu
Hoisting and Portable
Engineers Local No. 714
K. L TEDFORD, Bum. Rop.
"Men—You Can't Beat— You can’t
even equal the clothing values at
Stein’s, America's greatest cloth
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Zora’s Liquor Store
BEER - WINES AND ALL
POPULAR BRANDS
OF LIQUOR
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wonderful thermal baths— Superb bathhouse right in hoteL
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UNION MADE
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onry. Willard Belcher is back off
the sick list.
Let’s talk more about Safety
on these jobs. They make machines
that think now, but a machine
can’t “FEEL”. It is up to you
men to make sure your machine
is in good safe working condition
every day. You can’t spend your
death benefit mohey, and your
widow can’t run your rig. Think
Safety.
Carhartt of Texas
LADIES SPORTS WEAR
Smart
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have money to operate on and we
do not know anyone better able
to pay than the ones that are
working and already on the job
the first of a month.
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BASS GARAGE
General Repairin - Brake Service
Sun Tone Up Equipment
Bear Wheel Alignment
Parts and Accessories
4102 So. Lancaster - FR 1-7400
graceful p?opotoM in our state.
Certainly now is not the time to
eliminate the only official state
organization which can study, an-
alyze. and make recommendations
on the overall migrant picture.”
The Texas Council on Migrant
Labor was established in 1957 by
the 55th Legislature following
publication of a study made by
the Texas Legslative Council on
the conditions of Texas migrants.
The TCML was assigned the job
of studying the probems revoving
around the thousands of Texas
farm workers, mostly of Latin-
American descent, who follow the
crops across Texas and into some
38 other states.
President Brown and Secretary
Schmidt, urging the lawmakers to
amend the appropriations bill to
accent on measures
DALE P. BONDURANT, D.O.
Phyaieian uad surzeon
announces tae removal
of his offices to
LORENZ CLINIC
1719 West Tenth Street
(Tentn nt W. Jeferson)
Phone WH G-2193
•test ERPENIERS LOCAL Tews n
include enough funds to allow
an equal
for more
function effectively, said,
hope that you, as our <
dent of the United States who
not only corsiders the j
the citizens' but’ places
schools, hospitals, housing and
other benefits for all Americans.
There are some very important
elections coming up in April of
this year. We need to begin think-
ing about these elections and
talking about them. We ned to
study the issues to be voted on
and find out all we can about
them. Listen and read about what
the different candidates say and
check the voting record of these
candidates in office now. Listen
to your friends and neighbors even
though you may not agree with
some of them. We must work for
the candidate of our choice and be
worthy of the right to vote.
There is a regular meeting of
the Local this Saturday. Try to
attend and help conduct the local’s
business.
Bro. T. K. O’Bryant is in the
Veterans’ Hospital in Waco. Bra,
Jim More is under a doctor’s care
and unable to work. We have
several other brothers in the same
condition. Brothers Paul Cardarel-
la, Jack Matney, Shorty Moore,
Jack Yarborough. Billy McCoy,
Al Long, Roy Bishop. S. E. Davis,
Lee Davis. Charlie Jones, Eroy
Chamness, Willis Day, S. E. Dav-
is, Jim Cole, J. B. Robinson, Jack
Forrest. Sloan Wear. John Webb,
Harry Larsen and Pat Simmons.
All these brothers are on the con-
valescent list and need to be re-
membered by the brothers who
are more fortunate to have their
health and able to work at their
jobs. Try to call on some of
these brothers and cheer them up.
They are facing great problems
every day.
Miss Cain Eunice Hutchens, the
sister of Bro. C. L. Hutchens,
pased away. Mrs. Elizebeth Cole,
the sister of Bro. W. D. Haynie,
passed away. Mrs. Elizabeth Cole,
to extend our deepest sympathy
to both these brothers on the loss
of a loved one.
Bro. Bob Webb is in Methodist
hospital for surgery. He was in-
jured while working on the job.
Bro. Tom Burrows has been
bothered with his legs and unable
to get around the past few weeks.
Bro. Johnny Hogue has been sick
with the flu but was able to visit
the office last week. Brothers
Johnny Hogue and Otto Bernier
received their Life Membership
cards last week. Bro. Metz Taylor
has applied for his and should re-
ceive it soon. Bro. Tom Burrows
will put in for his before the
month is up. These brothers are
to be congratulated along with
several others who will receive
their Life Cards this year. They
have many years of service and
loyalty to the union. We need
to vote to encourage legislation
that would retire these senior citi-
zens when they reach the age of
60. Most of them have worked
hard for nearly half a century and
are certainly deserving of retire-
ment compensation. The Broth-
erhood recognizes this by not
charging any dues after they
reach this period of membership
After a few days of sunshine
it seems our work might be on
the upgrade again. I know this
will be very good news to our
membershp. But don’t get the
idea we are heading for a boom,
because this is not the case.
Our first meeting with the con-
tractors will probably be some
time this week. We want to again
ask the members to attend our
regular meetings as we need all
the support we can get. Our con-'
tract expires midnight. March 31
1961. You need to be kept informed
as to our progress with the con-
tractors ,and the best way to de
that is attend the union meetings
We have been in contact with
the Little Rock and Wichita Kan-
sas locals in regards to the missile
sites in that jurisdiction. I un-
derstand it will be about 30 days
before they will need any men
We will try to keep you posted
as to the progress of the two jobs
Bro Jack Trammel has returned
to work at the North Lake Power
Plant after being in the hospital
for several days. We hope Jack
will continue to improve.
February 20 will be out next
regular meeting. See you then.
Yw «• eto de
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relief vomiension
spokesmen, while meeting your
fiscal responsibilities to airplanes
and quail may also find room in
the budget to meet Texas’ re-
sponsibility to the 105,000 under-
educated, under-employed, under-
pad Texans who yearly perform
the vital task of tending and
harvesting the food we eat.”
The Texas AFL-CIO executives
declared that this year, as in the
past, the state labor organization
would support measures to im-
prove the lot of the Texas mi-
grants. This is in line with pol-
icies established by delegates in
past Texas State AFL-CIO con-
ventions. - •
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Also their benefits are - worth
31,000 at death or permanent dis-
ability. 4gcd,. 4
We havecjust elected a Presi-
AUSTIN.—A move Ci ISA Leg-
islature to deprive the Texas
Council on Migrant Labor of op-
erating funds and thus, in effect,
destroy that agency, was being
protested this week by the Texas
State AFL-CIO.
The Council, set up by the Leg-
islature several years ago to study
and work on problems of Texas
migrant farm workers, is operat-
ing on an appropriation of only
310,000 this year, but even that
amount was denied for the coming
year in the proposed budget sub-
mitted by the Legislative Budget
Board, the two top officials of
the state labor organization de-
clared.
In a letter to members of the
Senate Finance Sub-Committee,
H. S. (Hank) Brown, president,
and Fred H. Schmidt, secretary-
treasurer of the Texas State
AFL-CIO, pointed out that there
has been increasing public cor-
cem over the plight of Texas mi-
grants.
"We were amazed to see that
the Texas Council on Migrant La-
bor might suddenly and arbitrari-
ly be left without operating
funds,” the letter continued.
“When this Council was created
by the 55th Legislature, it was
already long overdue. Texas, hav-
ing by far the largest number
of migratory workers (105,000 is
the latest available figure), has
failed for decades to meet its re-
sponsibility toward these citi-
zens. The migrant problems in
terms of education, health, wel-
fare, transportation, employment
and wages have grown to dis-
I am beginning to believe in
Santa Claus after this morning.
Edwards Transfer Company order- :
ed four operators at one time and
almost gave me a heart attack,
one more job like that and I’ll
have to go pulling levers myself,
it almost cleaned the book.
“Skinny” Jensen called me at
home last night. He is ready to
go back to work after his opera-
tion, but feels pretty weak. “Rip”
Collins is up and about, but pretty
shaky on his feet. Had a letter
from Frank Jones from San Bern-
ardino, Calif. He is ready to come
back to Texas. W. B. Sullivan was
in the office this morning and is
almost ready to take on a little
light work. “Sully” has been off
Sick now for a long time. Harry
Meanor came in for a little while
last week. I hear from Basil Black
every once in a while. Johnnie :
Markey went out to the Power
Plant job at Carrollton today, and
“Red” Powell went out to the
Naval Base job for Western Steel.
There has been no word from
Clarence Wales in Puerto Rico to
date, and I doubt that he will
use anyone from the U.S.A, down
there now. Gene Everhart may go
to Houston with Winn-Lee Mas-
Last Thursday Morning we re-
ceived word that Bro. W. C. Den-
bow had died in route to the hos-
pital. He suffered a stroke some
six or eight weeks ago and appar-
ently was on the road to recovery
when he relapsed. His services
were held at the Cave-Smith Fun-
eral Chapel last Saturday after-
noon. There was an overflow crowd
of friends and a very large floral
offering, attesting to the high
esteem that he has held by all
who knew him. Interment was
in Laural Land.
Bro. Lee C. Batte’s mother
passed away last Tuesday. Her
services were held at the Miller
Avenue Baptist Church at Garland
last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Battes
had been in ill health a long time
and was in a convalescence home
at the time of her death. We were
not able to attend her services
but Understand that there was a
large attendance at her services.
The interment was in the Oak
Grove Cemetary.
Last week we reported Bro. For-
rest C. Collum, in a hospital at
Fort Worth. He is in the Harris
Hospital and not the one we were
told he was in and so reported.
Several of our members have
visited him and they give a very
discouraging report on his chances
of recovering. Any of his friends
who can should try to pay him a
visit.
The sunshine of the past few!
days have let several jobs get
started and some of our members
are back on the job but we still
have an army of unemployed. We
are not too optimistic about work-
ing conditions for this Spring but
it looks much better than it did
some time back.
We realize that working condi-
tions have been bad and many of
our members have been and are
going through a financial stress.
This condition is apparent on our
ledger sheets that show many of
our members behind with their
dues. However, we find that the
steward reports show quite a few
of our members that are working
and could be paid up are signing
the reports and showing them as
paid up when our records do not
show same. Stewards should check
the working cards of all members
the first of each month. If they
are paid up they will be glad to
show it and if they are not paid up
they should be reminded of the
Local By-Laws. The local has to
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