The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1961 Page: 1 of 4
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inite, at present, is that Dallas
will have a Labor Day celebra-
tion,” he declared.
The committees and chairmen
will all be published in a later
story in The Dallas Craftsman.
Members who have relatives and
friends at the Texas Instruments
Co., are urged to call to their at-
tention, that the International Un-
ion of Electricians are in an organ-
izing drive at that plant.
Delegates Hear Walter Fink
Suspending the regular order of
business, the delegates heard Wal-
ter Fink, committeeman of the
Dallas Junior Chamber of Com-:
merce, tell of that organization’s
work in the field of welfare for
victims of lukemia.
He urged each local union, who
possibly can, to underwrite the
aid to one child,who the local could
“adopt” in the fight against this
dread disease, which gives only
There will be no meeting Friday
night. We are taking off because
of the Memorial Day Holiday,
Tuesday, May 30.
Work is better than it has been
in a long time. There are very
few bricklayers out of work and
those who are, have something
that will be ready in the next
couple of days.
We have three or four tuck-
pointers that can’t find anything
to do. I would like to get a call
from some of you contractors for
these men.
Our next meeting will be June
2nd, at which time the nomination
of officers for the year will be
opened. The Bricklayers 1961-62
year begins July 1.
Nominations will be held open
for the meeting of June 9 and
election will be held on Friday
night June 30.
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The Dallas AFL-CIO Council in regular meeting for
May acted upon a number of matters which have bearing
on the overall labor movement in this area.
Frank Garcia, vice president, was in charge of the meet-
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LIFT Operation Explained
All members of organized labor,
who know of anyone, who can
not read or write, were told of
operation LIFT, which is designed
to teach people via TV on these
rudiments of learning. The pro-
gram will be on the air and viewed
on TV from 7 to 7:30 a.m.
Information on the program can
be obtained by calling the council
office, RI 2-9246.
Roy Evans Lauded
John Hays gave a brief account
of the work Roy Evans had done in
the labor movement in Dallas
county. Mr. Evans, a past presi-
dent of the old CIO Dallas County
Council, and long time president of
the largest local union in this area,
Local 893 UAW (Chance Vought),
has just recently been appointed
head of the Texas State AFL-CIO
Public Relations Department.
Mr. Hays said Dallas’s “loss is
the state’s gain.”
Mr. Evans, who will take the
new office on June 1, said mod-
estly that he had been fortunate
enough to work in the labor move-
ment in Dallas for a number of
years. He said he doubted he had
done little for the labor movement,
। but that he “owed everything to
Dallas labor,’ for being in the
work, itself.
Bill Jones, member of Carpen-
ters’ Local Union 198, spoke vig-
orously in favor of the people in
the movement, to work together
and keep things going. Mr. Jones
polled quite a few votes last year,
when he was a candidate for the
Texas Legislature.
Mrs. Virginia Tindall ITU
Aux. Prexy, Visits Here
Mrs. Virginia Tindall of St
Joseph, Mo., ITU auxiliary presi-
dent, was a visitor in Dallas
Thursday. Final plans for the com-
ing 85th National Convention in
August were made. Chairmen of
the various committees met with
her at the home of Mrs. H. M.
Causey, who is general chairman
of the convention.
Mrs. Tindall was on her way
home from Tuma, Arizona, where
she attended the State AFL-CIO
convention. She is also president
of the National AFL-CIO Auxil-
iary.
After the meeting, the hostess
served a plate lunch.
MRS. JAMES RAICOFF,
Publicity Chairman.
Fifty-two thousand AFL-CIO
members in Dallas and Dallas
County depend on The Danae
Craftsman for their labor news
Admendments Give Labor
Day a New Meaning
Washington.—Labor Day will
have a special meaning this year
—and for the next five years—to
the millions of Americans protect-
ed by the Fair Labor Standards
Act. a
The 1961 wage-hour amend-
ments—providing for a $1.25-an-
hour minimum, in steps, and cov-
erage for 3.6 million new workers
—were signed into law by Pres-
ident John F. Kennedy on May 8.
The effective date of the higher
minimums will come 120 days
later, on Saturday, Sept 2.
Thus the actual pay increases
will come for the first time on
the payday following Labor Day.
At that time, presently covered
workers will go to >1.15 an hour,
and the newly covered will start
at the 31 level.
There are some 1.9 million pres-
ently covered workers below the
31.15 level, and some 660,000 new-
ly covered workers making less
than 31. For these more than 2.5
million workers, then, Labor Day
1961 will be the signal for signifi-
cant wage increases.
The step-ups in the minimums,
and the gradual ceiling that will
be placed on hours for newly pro-
tected workers, will go into effect
over the next five years on the
same date—making each labor
Day a constant reminder of the
major breakthrough scored with
the 1961 FLSA amendments.
Washington.—President Kenne-
dy’s investment tax credit pro-
posal “would harm the economy
more than it would help it” and
constitutes “an unwarranted hand-
out of billions of dollars to busi-
ness,” the AFL-CIO has declared.
In testimony before the House
Ways Means Committee on the
Administration plan to allow busi-
ness to subtract 15 per cent of ex-
tra investment expenditures from
its tax bill, AFL-CIO Research
Director Stanley H. Ruttenberg
said America needs “the durable
stimulus of rising family spenda-
ble income” which can best be ac-
complished by a reduction in “the
individual income tax burden.”
It is the "considered judgment”
of the federation, Ruttenberg said,
that neither a corporate tax rate
cut, a further liberalization of de-
preciation allowances nor the pro-
posed tax credit “can achieve the
results that are now being prom-
ised.”
He characterized the 31.7 bil-
lion tax credit plan as a “business
tax subsidy crash program” and
added “we fear it would be an
abortive experiment” that would
not provide for the esseential eco-
nomic growth the nation so badly
needs.
Ruttenberg warned that adop-
tion of the tax credit proposal
“would more likely distort the re-
covery process and hasten the next
recession just as the over-gener-
ous business tax benefits of 1954
over-stimulated investment while
consumption lagged.” This led, he
said, to the recession of 1957-58.
Printing Trades Unity
Subcommittee at Work
Washington— A five-man sub-
committee of the inter-union
group named to design a blueprint
for labor unity in the printing,
paper and related industries spent
a two-day session in Washington
on preparation of a working draft.
Another meeting was scheduled
to begin July 11, probably in New
Tork or Indianapolis, Ind.
Members of the subcommittee
are Francis E. McGlothlin, assist-
ant to the president of the Typo-
graphical Union; Vice President
Alexander J. Rohan of the Press-
men; Vice President Walter F.
Risdon of the Photo Engravers;
Organization Director J. William
Blatz of the Newspaper Guild and
Leon M. Wickersham, aMistant
to the president of the unnffUtafAd
Lithographers. Ellis r. Baker,
ANG research and information dll
rector, is an ex-officio member of
the subcommittee as chairman of
the full committee.
Goldberg Opens
Campaign to Find
5 Million New Jobs
Washington.—An intensive cam-
paign to find jobs through the U.
S. Employment Service and its
state and local offices for the
country's five million unemployed
, workers has been launched by Sec.
of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg.
The nationwde “Hire Now” cam-
paign also is concerned with find-
ing job niches for the additional
millions of workers who will pour
into the labor market during the
Sixties, Goldberg said, and is in
response to President Kennedy's
“urgent directive to the Labor De-
partment to provide better service
through the public employment
service system.
“This job drive is a practical
appeal to employers to step up
their hiring in keeping with rising
levels of economic activity now
under way,” Goldberg added. “By
hiring promptly as vacancies de-
velop and new workers are needed,
employers can help to quickn the
pace of economic recovery.”
Before launching the campaign,
Goldberg said, he had employment
offices take an inventory of serv-
ices rendered, weaknesses to be
overcome and resources necessary
to assure improved job market
services.
“On the basis of this inventory,”
he explained, “each state has pre-
pared a specific plan of action for
every metropolitan area. Agree-
ments have been made with the
states on needed improvement of
service and action priorities. Ad-
ditional staff resources are being
made available too.”
The aid of governors has been
enlisted, Goldberg said, adding
that he has urged employers to
ask for help through USES offices
as soon as jobs open.
“I am convinced,’ he said, «tht
the nationwide job drive is only the
beginning of a major undertaking
for the strengthening and improv-
ing of the public employment of-
fices throughout the country.”
“Even the most generous federal
subsidies cannot long stimulate
private investment in the absence
of adequately rising demand,” he
added.
The Administrtion’s tax credit
proposal is part of its program
to close various tax loopholes on
expense accounts, dividends and
interest income and other areas
where income has been escaping
equitable taxation.
The AFL-CIO has testified in
support of the proposal to apply
withholding to dividend and in-
terest income and special treat-
ment for a portion of dividend in-
come. The U. S. Chamber of Com-
merce and other business groups
have opposed the Administration
program, including the tax credit
plan. Business groups are seeking
a step-up in depreciation allow-
ances, a proposal strongly opposed
by labor.
Labor Sec. Arthur J. Goldberg
told the committee earlier that the
tax credit program is “an essen-
tial part of the Presidents econom-
ic program for recovery and
growth, without which any efforts
of mine to help remedy the unem-
ployment problem will prove dis-
appointing.”
When demand and sales are high,
American businessmen “generally
need little prodding to expand
their productive facilities,” Rut-
tenberg. And even when de,
mand is sluggish, he added, “they
seem ready enough to improve
the efficiency of their capital stock
in order to reduce unit production
costs.”
thenext two years, were announ-
ced Sy Secretary Allan L. Maley,
Jr The members were appointed
by President King, who released
the list for announcement at the
Thursday night meeting.
Maurice Honeycutt was reap-
pointed chairman of the Label and
Education Committee; Al Spring,
chairman of the important Organ-
izing Committee and John W.
Hays, chairman of the Labor Day
Committee.
Mr. Hays, who has been head of
this committee for several years,
immediately announced that there
will be a Labor Day celebration,
again this year. It was recalled
that the Labor Day banquet, hon-
oring the aged members of the la-
bor movement in Dallas, gained
nationwide publicity for Dallas.
Mr. Hays said that the commit-
tee would have to meet before any
details of this year’s plans could
ing, due to the absence from the city of President C. King.
Committees, who will serve for
Local 893, UAW,
To Have Runoff
Election May 31
Three races in the annual elec-
tion of Local 893, UAW, (Chance
Vought) were sent into a runoff
when the offices of president,
vice president and chairman of the
plant grievance committee failed
to find a winner with a majority
in voting May 17.
The runoff election will be held
Wednesday, May 31, with the bal-
loting to be done between the
hours of 11 a.m. on that date, and |
closing at 8 a.m., Thursday,
June 1.
The committee in charge of the
election is composed of Roy M.
Branch, chairman; W. R. Storm,
W. C. Bellamy, H. E. Streetman,
Bob Irby, E. O. Nutt and J. C.
Kirkland.
In the runoff are Billy F.
Owens, Euless and E. D. Beall,
Grand Prairie, president; Elnora
Purcell, Euless and George Miner,
Grand Prairie, vice president; J.
G. Butler, Arlington; and R. R.
Smith, Dallas, for chairman of the
grievance committee.
In the May 17 balloting p. K.
Rhinehart won the post of finan-
cial secretary; T. E. Palmer, John
Trent and F. B. Burnett, won the
trustee offices; and B. C. Sherman,
sergeant-at-arms.
Unopposed were Francis
Stretcher, recording secretary;
and Gus Gross, guide.
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