The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1961 Page: 1 of 4
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The Dallas Craftsman is Subscribed for By Dallas AFL-CIO Unions and the AFL-CIO Counci'
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Dallas Craftsman
Forty-Eight Year, No. 3
DALLAS, TEXAS, JUNE 9, 1961
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Fifty-Two Thousand AFL-CIO Members In This County Depend On The Dallas Craftsman For Their Labor News
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Jerry Holleman, assistant secretary, of Labor has rep-
resented the U. S. Department of Labor in talks with Gon-
zalez Blanco, minister of labor for the Republic of Mexico,
concerning a new agreement between that country and the
United States on the "bracero" or Mexican alien migratory
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CARPENTERS' LOCAL
UNION NO. 198
By CHAS. HENDERSON
Hoisting and Portable
Engineers Local No. 714
E. L TEDFORD, Bus. Bep.
Patronize The Dallas Crafts-
man advertisers. They help make
the publication possible.
agreement.
Secretary Holleman outlined the
Department of Labor’s position on
the "Bracero’’ bill, which is Public
Law 78 that was enacted approx-
imately 10 years ago recently, to
a sub-committee from the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
He said in part: "I commend the
problem to the Committees care-
ful attention. This program which
operates for the benefit of less
than 50,000 of the nation’s four
million farms should not be per-
mitted to operate to the disadvan-
tage of farmers producing the
same crops with family labor. In
recommending that the extension
of Public Law 78 be limited to two
years, the Department of Labor-
takes the view that the amend-
ments proposed to the program are
sufficiently fundamental that, if
enacted, their operation should be
reviewed by the Congress in con-
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CURTIS A, MADE
who caused a fruitless legislative ' worker who comes to the U. S.
session in dealing with the finan-
cial needs of Texas.
Gov. Daniel Due
Praise from Labor
AUSTIN. — Texas AFL - CIO
members should be generous in
their praise for Governor Price
Daniel and the fight he is waging
against the "rich and powerful lob-
byists who are pushing for a gen-
era] sales tax,” according to H. S.
“Hank” Brown, president of the
state labor organization.
“We are pleased that the people
of Texas have a governor who will
fight so vigorously for their cause.
Also to be commended,”- Brown
said, "are Speaker James Thur-
man for his courageous vote, the
71 other members of the Texas!
House and the 14 Senators who
resisted the terrific pressures ap-
plied by the sales taxers.”
Brown further stated: "Though
we do not totally agree with Gov-
ernor Daniel on his tax recommen-
dations, we do agree that the big
business lobbyists are the culprits
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for livelihood
by International
Remember fellows, our meeting
night will not be this Friday (as
in the past) but will be Monday
night, June 12. This night is also
for the election of your officers for
the year 1961-1962. President Key
has stated that the By-Laws for
Local Union 714 will be held for the
first reading for approval of the
body this meeting night also.
The Convention Calls for the
Texas State Building Trades Coun-
cil (July 26-27), the Texas State
AFL-CIO Convention (July 31-
August 3), and the first meeting
of the new Southwest Regional
Conference (5 state) of the In-
ternational Union of Operating
Engineers (August 6-9) are com-
ing in, or already here. You will
vote on your delegates to these
conventions (All to be held in
Galveston, Texas) at this June 12
meeting, so it is important that
you come in Monday night.
We had a very nice meeting in
the office of D.C.C.E.A. and major
contractors of Dallas Wednesday,
May 31 in regard to the fork-lifts.
International repre sentative,
George Williams sat in the meet-
ing with me. More on this later.
We are sorry to hear of the
death of A. W. (Spec) Lagow. an
old frienof mine, and a former
plasterer and lathing contractor
here in Dallas. I wanted to attend
the funeral but had previous meet-
ings already lined up for Wednes-
ay afternoon that could not be
avoided.
Education Program
Open to Labor
Members of organized labor,
with friends and acquaintances,
who can not read or write, are
urged to get them to enroll in a
free educational program which
began last Monday over WFAA-
TV and KERA-TV, the school-
house station.
"’Those who are interested should
enroll and they can begin their
lessons at 7 a.m. each morning
over WFAA-TV. Or, if not con-
venient, they can turn to channel
13, KERA-TV at 6 p.m. and get
the same course.
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These lessons are beginning now
and wifi last for the next 5%
months—until about Christmas.
Ladies at the Dallas Section
of the National Council of Jewish
Women, urge anyone who wants to
learn how to read and write, to
send a communication to P. O. Box
8453, Dallas 5, Texas and they will
be enrolled.
The Dallas AFL-CIO Council
has approved this program. Alan
L. Maley, Jr., secretary-treasurer,
has urged all delegates and local
unions of this area to help out
in this Operation LIFT, which
means Literacy Instruction For
Texans.
According to Sec. Maley teach-
ers are needed, voluntarily, and
some groups need to be formed
for viewing TV together, such as
church educational buildings, etc.
since many people in these classes
can not get to a TV.
siderably less than four years.
Such a review after two years
would, we believe, be in interests
of growers and workers alike.
“In closing, I have become con-
vinced that the position of U. S.
farm labor is more than an eco-
nomic problem; it has become a
social problem of first magnitude.
Nowhere is this social issue plain-
er and more clear-cut than in those
areas where Mexican Nationals are
used under circumstances which in
fact prevent improvement of the
abysmally low economic status of
the U. S. farm workers in the area.
“Three years ago, some of these
conclusions were not quite so clear.
There may have been some reasons
then for extending Public Law 78
without amendment, to permit
more careful study. Now certain-
ly the time for study is past. In
the view of the Department of La-
bor and in the view of the Admin-
istration, the extension of Public
Law 78 is acceptable and desirable,
out only if it can be properly re-
vised.”
Mr. Holleman’s testimony cov-
ered some three thousand words
of facts about the "bracero" pro-
gram.
The Dallas Craftsman operates
one of the oldest union printing
ofices in Dallas. Give ds a call
for your union label printing.
Employment continues to be
good and all members were able
to get out on some job last week.
Weather permitting, it looks like
this week will also be good, as we
have several calls this Tuesday
morning and only a few men com-
ing into the office for work.
Attendance at the meeting last
Monday night was very good and
all arrangements were made for
the election of officers this com-
ing Saturday morning and Mon-
day afternoon from 5 p.m. to 8.
From the number of card passers
and slate tickets being passed out,
it looks like we may have a record
vote this year. We have often
thought it strange that many of
our members would get excited
about the candidates running for
public office and be sure to vote
and when the election of officers
that were to run their union came
around, they would not come down
and vote for the people that they
thought would best serve the un-
ion. We are in hopes that this year
will be an exception and we will
have a large vote. I feel sure that
in the above statement, I also ex-
press the sentiment of my two
opponents. In case you have mis-
placed the ballot in last week’s is-
sue, we will re-run in this issue.
President—J. Mike Anderson, J.
C. Karsteter, Billy F. Collins, T.
D. Midkiff.
Vice President — Charlie M.
Greene, E. H. Anderson, J. H. Rog-
ers, Jr.
Recording Secretary—Olen J.
Parson, Reo J. Spencer.
Financial Secretary—Roy Stew-
art, Frank Probst, Chas. Hender-
son.
Treasurer—A. H. Estes, F. C.
Hughes.
Conductor—W, H. Doggett, Jr.,
O. B. Swafford.
Warden—Q. C. Huffstetler, J. C.
Coalson.
Trustee—Place 1—Kenneth Nev-
ill, Tom Gunn.
rTustee—Place 2—P. N. Shirley,
Theo B. Binkee, L. W. Sutton.
Trustee—Place 3—Lee C. Batte,
D. M. Cooper.
Business Agent—Place 1—R. T,
Cowand, V. V. Covington, A. J.
Christian.
Business Agent—Place 2—Joe
Lindenberg, Jas. L. Anderson.
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Carpenter Apprentices Receive Certificates-
At the microphone is County Judge Lew Sterrett, principal speaker
and seated is Cleve Culpepper, State Supervisor, Bureau of Apprentjoe-
ship and Training, U. 8. Department of Labor. Judge Sterrett ad-
dressed the banquet given for the apprentices on May 26, at which
time Mr. Culpepper presented the Bureau’s Certificate of Journeyman
Carpenter to the apprentices, who have completed four years on-the-job
job-and related training in the classroom.
Instructors for the apprentices are Edsel B. Sims, Joe Lindenberg,
and Horace Branton.
The joint apprenticeship committee is composed of A. J. Christian,
secretary, Al Spring and Bud Estes. At the banquet, Mr. Spring was
represented by J. L. Anderson, business agent.
Management representatives are David Yarbrough, chairman; Bob
Carpenter and Hyatt Cheek.
Charles Henderson gave the invocation.
Judge Sterrett outlined the duties of a good citizen, citing that
The Contract Committee for the
Bread and Cake plants will make
its second report to the member-
ship at the regular meeting to be
held June 10th at 11:00 a.m. on
the Third Floor of the Labor
Temple. Negotiations have been
resumed with the companies since
the committee’s report at the spe-
cial meeting on June 3rd. The at-
tendance at the special meeting
was the largest at any meeting
in years and an even greater at-
tendance is expected at the regular
meeting. The Local has always
been operated democratically and
unless the members participate in
their meetings the committee
members and officers will not know
their desires. In order that each
member may hear every word of
the report that is to be given, a
public address system will be put
in the meeting hall. While the
Business Representative has a fair-
ly good speaking voice, it gave out
momentarily at the last meeting
due to the large crowd and meet-
ing room.
BRIEFS: Negotiations are still
in progress with General Mills,
Inc. The Waco agreements are
open and negotiations should be-
gin soon for these plants. Mattie
Page, W. A. White, Louise Keith,
Ann Cox, Ada Martin, Lillian
Mangum and Opal Nesmith are ab-
sent from work due to illness and
a speedy recovery is hoped for all.
In the settlement of a grievance
recently the Union collected
5335.95 for one of its members.
THINK: "For what nation is
there so great, who hath God so
nigh unto them, as the Lord our
God is in all things that we call
upon him for?” — Deuteronomy
4:1-13
"Unscrupulous pressures of the
Third House* have cost the people
of Texas additional money which
in turn must be provided through
additonal taxes.
"We praise the governor for
bringing the truth to the people—
that nearly 90 per cent of the sales
tax burden would fall on the peo-
ple least able to pay. We praise
the governor for pointing out that
of Texas promised the people
whose vote they sought that they
would oppose a general sales tax.
We believe with the governor that
the elected representatives ought
to keep their campaign promises.”
President Brown also urged all
AFL-CIO members to follow
through on Governor Daniel’s sug-
gestion of contacting the members
of the Legislature in the next
month so that these representa-
tives will not feel that the people
are indifferent on the tax issue.
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