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Friday. April 23,1943
THE LABOR MESSENGER—ORGANI
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♦ NEWS of LOCAL UNIONS and AUXILIARIES..
United Garment
News Notes from
Painters' Union 130 Workers Local 31
bay more bonds. So says Secretary
No. 68 will meet Monday, April 26,
are
at 10:30 a. m. at
Labor Division in this campaign.
examination would take place and
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"suh." Good luck to you’all, Fred.
No. 87, and was employed in several
quorum, and that after he had gone
the boys who need our help. They
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different kinds of preservatives). been suffering with neuritis in her
Two real good sports are Bryan
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perfectly innocent pastime if the
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To Electrical
Workers No. 716
of last September. He predicted
profiteers would bitterly resist such
a “roll back” and called for an of-
President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers man an out-
right attack upon the order. He
said it came too late and claimed it
was designed to frustrate justified
wage increases for the miners and
other workers. He charged that
swollen profits of war contractors,
As Jerry Urban kissed his wife
goodbye one morning last week, he
remarked that would be the last
time that she would kiss a for,
eigner, and true to his word, when
he returned that evening he was an
American citizen. You see, Jerry is
from Czechoslovakia and has been
News Notes from
Carpenters' 213
Just you miss doing something
and someone will be the first to
sans appendix. Resting O. K., so
we hear.
A certain stereotyper has found
that a person shouldn’t smoke in
bed, especially since it is so diffi-
Four Series E War Savings
Bonds, costing a total of $300, will
supply the Navy with a balsa wood
life float, capable of sustaining 60
persons.
her seeking employment."
All out-and-out labor haters in
the House—Hoffman of Michigan,
Halleck of Indiana, Sumners of
Texas and many others—used the
bill as a text to rehash wild and
reckless charges against labor that
have filled the pages of the '“Con-
gressional Record” for months.
to any of the committeemen: Mr.
Joe Colwell, 3902 Woodleigh, P.
5656; Mr. G. H. Aldis, 3211 Beau-
champ, V. 2-2975, or Mr. L. J. Gal-
miche, 812 Milam Bldg. Mr. Gal-
miche is chairman of the commit-
tee. His home address is 2115 Des
Jardines, W. 6-7232. The commit-
tee will appreciate hearing from
anyone who can help them fill in
the incomplete list and, too—you
will be helping the brother mem-
bers in the service.
For Information Regarding
The Bond Drive
Anyone wishing information re-
garding the bond drive may call
any of the Auxiliary members as
well as the three Captains or your
reporter, who is general chairman,
ize labor.
Must Protect Labor
Union spokesmen said they would
of the local job stores about 22
years ago.
Towson K. Minor, Clarke and
Courts floorman, went social call-
ing Saturday and visited Heavin &
Hannah to see if he could lend his
moral support in getting out the
Shopping News.
Richard Wesley Lott, Heavin &
and Lois Bookman. If you don’t be-
lieve Bryan can get around, just go
out to Ripley House or Studewood
Park some time. You will enjoy
every minute with them. We need
you, Lois, in our Auxiliary.
Huge Frauds Charged
Against Contractors
At Ordnance Plant
Topeka, Kan.—Frauds that may
reach $20,000 were charged against
contractors constructing an ord-
nance plant near here in a suit filed
in Federal court here this week.
The complainant is William V.
Ryan, a former field engineer at
the plant, who alleged that false
claims for materials and labor had
been paid by the army’s finance de-
partment.
Contractors were accused of de-
stroying large quantities of mate-
rials for the purpose of permitting
unnecessary purchases from supply
concerns that worked hand-in-glove
with the contractors.
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Worth Green, Western News-
paper Union apprentice, now in the
Navy Air Corps, spent several days
in town visiting friends and rela-
tives. Worth has been stationed in
Dallas, but is now in Florida.
W. E. (BUl) Merritt, 67, a mem-
ber of No. 87 for 42 years, died Sat-
urday. Burial was in Rest Haven
cemetery, with members of the
Typographical Union serving as
pallbearers.
William E. (Billy) Carroll, skip-
per at Western Newspaper Union
until his enlistment in the Army
Air Corps, received his commission
as a Lieutenant at Moore Field,
Texas.
Robert T. Peverly, a member of
Austin (Texas) Typo Union, died
March 11 at the age of 81. Brother
he could call himself one of us. Now
he tells us that we are not living
under a democratic form of govern-
ment but a republic, and he did not
say republican, and he states that
his one great desire is to live long
enough to vote against Pappy
O’Daniel at some future date. He
will.
Boy, that must have been a great
moment over in Austin recently
when John Lee Smith jumped on
the Senate because there was not
enough of them present to form a
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The way Montgomery’s Eighth
Army has chased Rommel (over
1660 mUes), their slogan should be
“Join the Eighth Army and See the
World.”
Recently General MacArthur said
that bombers are the only answer
to holding the Japs out of Aus-
tralia. The General sat on the trial
board at Santone about 20 years
ago when Billy Mitchell was court-
martialed for contending the same
ability of the bomber ... You could
write a good moral to this one.
Fred Wallace evidently has made
connections as he had his traveling
The
Cream
Of
Houston
gaged in otherwise lawful conduct.”
Another Absurd Claim
Hobbs then made the absurd
claim that a worker may commit
robbery while hunting a job and
cannot be punished.
“No matter how much force is
used,” he declared, “robbery is a
News of Printing
Pressmen No. 71
Ladies' Auxiliary
To the Plumbers
And Steamfitters
Ladies Auxiliary No. 29 to Local
company—or better still, drop her
a card. Shee will enjoy hearing
from you.
Sally Sink has also been on our
“under the weather" list, as she has
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HIGHEST QUALITY
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roses, not to mention the rows of
gladiolus coming on. We enjoyed
green onions and fresh strawber-
ries from their garden. We had a
swell time and hope June asks us
again. I forgot to mention that
Elsie Crockard and I oversaw Ed’s
hoeing while the rest played beano.
We are glad to mention that Mike
Lang, our old friend formerly of
the Gulf chapel, is improving
again. Mike had a little setback a
few weeks ago, but as I have said
about Mike before, “you can’t keej
a good man down.” Hope to see you
at the Memorial Day services,
Mike . . . don’t forget.
Our friend and member, Mrs. Ed
Hill, has been seriously ill at Memo-
rial hospital. If you have a few
minutes to spare drop in to see her
Right in jer fuehrer’s face.”
Fred Whitehead is back home
move to Mexia, Texas. Happy land-
ings!
Mrs. Clara Harding wjll enter-
tain her nephew, Vincent Kitows,
and a few of his buddies, air cadets
from Ellington, on Easter Sunday.
Mary M. Wise.
Maj. John L. Smith of the U. S. Marines has 19 Jap planes to his
credit 'Have you at many War Bonds?
Show all our American boys that you’re doing your part on the home
front to win the war. You've done your bit; now do your best—Buy
more War Bonds.
The column starts out this week
with the announcement of a trag-
edy which befell our Cordie Carl-
ton. Her home at 7308 Bonham
At our last Auxiliary meeting we
voted to change our meeting back
are not quitting their job before it
is finished, nor should we. They
are going right on fighting, even
in some oases where they are so
badly wounded, torn and blinded
Hannah operator, has been on a
peanut butter and cracker diet since
his “better half" has been out of
the city visiting relatives.
Wayne Stiles, makeup, has been
discharged from the Army on ac-
count of old age—he’s over 38—and
is now showing at The Press.
Amos Keel, Chronicle operator,
has been released from the Union
Printers Home and is due to return
home this week.
Harry "Wagonwheels” Matthews,
operator, is a new “sit” holder at
the Gulf.
perish from this earth.” Thank you.
E. G. Da..—is.
LABOR’S ONLY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER IN HOUSTON
through taking all those vitamins I
suggested to you, Sally, you are
bound to be better or worse. Here’s
Mrs. Longnecker was given a
card and handkerchief shower the
other day, when she announced,
without reserve, her sixty-seventh
birthday. Cheers!
The son of our Sidney Chelakis
is home just now on furlough from
San Diego. Son is with the Mer-
chant Marine outfit, and sails on
Sunday for the Pacific.
Raymond, the son of our Martin
Boriski, is taking a test for the Air
Corps.
working hard on the War Loan
No. 2. The membership has been
divided into three groups. There
will be three Armies: The Red,
White, and Blue Army, with a cap-
tain in command. Mrs. Kate Dowd
in command of the Red Army, Mrs.
Geo. Jay the White Army, and
Mrs. Arthur Gross the Blue Army.
Each team, or army, will try to
sell the greater number of bonds.
The Using teams to entertain the
winning team. Your reporter is
general chairman, Mrs. Don Ken-
nard, co-chairman.
We will appreciate our L. U.
members subscribing for bonds
through the Auxiliary. After all, it
is their Auxiliary, too, and we know
they will help us make our entry
into this campaign a huge success,
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never been a bartieri)
The same L ’
attention is always
meet at the old hour of 2 p. m. in
the Y. W. C. A. Let us all come out
and try and make this meeting a
regular homecoming for those who
have been absent so long. First
Wednesday in May, so don’t forget.
We have discontinued our regu-
lar sewing days at the Y. W. C. A.
and have moved all our equipment
and material over to the U. S. O. in
the old Y. M. C. A., and anyone
wishing to sew can contact the
Navy Mothers over there for the
hours they sew. We would also like
to have more women to roll ban-
dages in the Standard Life Build-
ing, ■ Main and McKinney, Red
Cross headquarters. There is a
great need for this help and few
helpers. Do everything you can to
help win this war.
Wishing you a happy Easter.
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Helen Hayes Hits Top
In Red Cross Campaign
Nyack, N. Y.—Helen Hayes, cur-
rently starring in “Harriet,” life
story of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
scored another smash success as the
Nyack Red Cross Chapter’s 1945
War Fund drive, which she headed,
went over the top.
Heavy contributors to the drive
were Rockland County’s labor
unions, whose Red Cross gifts ran
into thousands of dollars. Two AFL
unions at Gair Cartons, Inc., a
paper box factory within the Nyack
Chapter area, presented Miss Hayes
with a check for $1,666—86 per
cent higher than the usual total for
this plant.
Accepting the contribution, Miss
Hayes said, “I belong to an AFL
union, too, you know (Actors’
Equity), and I hope we do as well
nationally as you have done here."
word printing and the name Merritt
have become almost synonymous,
and it has only been in the last few
years that Bill Merritt did not take
an active part in every progressive
move in the printing industry in
Houston as well as internationally.
Mr. Merritt was not always a
printer, but came in along with the
linotype, having been drafted from
the editorial staff to operate a lino-
type, when most printers were
leary of them. Several yean ago
he was given his “46” pin, and last
winter retired from the Post, due
to failing health. You blazed many
a trail for us, Bill Merritt, and we
shall ever be grateful to you and
may we never forget. May God
bless and keep you always.
Those who did not get to the
spend-the-day party at June Saul-
nier’s home last Friday missed a
nice, friendly, enjoyable day—noth-
ing to do but just be entertained
and fed. The party was held in cele-
bration of “Label Month,” and Mn.
Merritt gave a pretty bowl as a
prize for the one having the most
labels on their person. We left the
bowl with June, who is one of our
most label-minded members. The
Saulnier garden was beautiful and
shows lots of muscle oil on some-
joined the select circle when they
were rushed into the breach last
Thursnite and helped Hank Strie-
beck get the paper out.
Doc Miller has been on the sick
list again after being off for a
week just previous to his present
spell of illness.
Dropped in to see our friend Lay-
ton, over at The Press, and after
smoking most of a “fag” we were
told that, in some departments,
Lady Nicotine is “persona non
grati" (boy, did we go to town on
that one?).
Why does it always have to rain
on your day off? We had inten-
tions (note that word) of helping
get our Victory Garden in shape
for the bugs, who have been hun-
grily watching its progress, but you
can’t work dirt when it’s mud. If
we have as many potatoes under
ing and the workers are fully pro-
tected against arbitrary speeedups
or exploitation. Under properly
safeguarded incentive plans, work-
ers should be able to enjoy extra
earnings otherwise denied them un-
der the “freeze” order, it was
pointed out.
bers of No. 87, was one of the most
loyal friends the Auxiliary has ever
had. It was he who felt the need of
an Auxiliary to the Local, and it
was he who drew up our first by-
laws and constitution, and when-
ever wejwere in doubt of the draft-
ing of any resolution or paper of
importance we usually turned to
him for the proper wording of
same. It was he who has encour-
aged his wife in her Auxiliary work
and who has been such a help to
her in her International work,
which in itself is a big job and re-
quired lots of’fime and hard work.
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* A goad way to answer the
“knockers of labor’s efforts" is to
workers, they insisted.
Increases are also allowed under
the order in cases of reclassifica-
tion and promotion of workers,
where these do not raise produc-
tion costs. Boosts are likewise per-
mitted under “incentive plans” for
increased output.
Apparently “F. D.” added the lat-
ter provision to encourage adoption
of incentive schemes. The War
Production Board is working on
Blaylock celebrated the event by
spraining his back.
Last Tuesday (the 20th) was
Addlepated Addie’s birthday, and
Davis act swiftly and firmly to et such a program now and has been
back the cost of living to the levels consulting with leaders of organ-
sent to
But to fight and to fight when
hope"s out of sight—
Why, that’s the best game of
them all.
And though you come out of each
gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and
scarred,
Just have one more try—it’s dead
easy to die,
It’s the keep-on-living that”s
hard.’”
One hundred sixty-eight years
ago last Saturday Paul Revere
made his famous ride. It is our job
to consecrate our efforts so that
their sacrifices will not have been
made in vain.
“Deacon” Klopp and Leo Mon-
teaux visited over at The Post last
Satnite and Leo, reminiscing, said,
“This is the same crew that was on
Sorry we are losing our Lucille
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not only for the Auxiliary but for around the country shouting about Mrs. Herbert Montgomery, and will
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Ladies' Auxiliary
To Typographical
As we go to press this week our
Auxiliary members are sad over the
passing of our friend and co-organ-
izer, W. E. (Bill) Merritt, and hus-
band of one of our charter members
and International President. Words
fail to express our sympathy for
her and their daughter and sons.
Mr. Merritt, or Bill, as he was most
Annual election of officers will be
held at this time. All members are
urged to be present.
Our sincere sympathy is extended
to Mrs. R. Snapp on the passing of
her husband, Mr. Russell Snapp,
and to Mrs. J. B. Beret on the pass-
ing of her sister, Mrs. Edith Bal-
dinger.
We are sorry to hear that Mrs.
W. W. Givens is ill and wish for her
a speedy recovery.
It is good to hear that Mrs. C. L.
White, who has been very ill, is
now feeling almost well again.
Mrs. D. W. Penner recently en-
joyed the visit of her niece, Miss
Marjorie Loften, whose home is in
Brownsville, Texas. Miss Loften
visited here for a week and then
visited Mrs. Penner’s mother in
Crockett, Texas, before returning
home.
See yo uat the meeting Monday
Mrs. A. B. McGinty.
we hope you celebrated the event by
buying more bonds and singing hoping for the best.
job, so why should we hold on to a
few dollars when they are turning
loose their very lives? All they are
asking of us is to lend our money
so that they might have all the
necessary equipment to drive on to
victory. You and I cannot, and
shall not, fail them.
Reporting on the Shut-Ins
Mr. Nick Kiams has had a re-
lapse; he has been having a high
temperature and chills; there is an
infection somewhere and his lungs
have been congested. He is back in
the hospital, this time in the Meth-
odist, room 269; although at this
time he is not allowed visitors. We
are sorry to hear of this reverse in
his condition. Mrs. Joe Eberling is
back home again; her address is
1316 Jackson. Milburn Roco has
been suffering with his ears and
tonsils. Mr Roddy Reynolds is
somewhat better.
News From the Men
In the Armed Forces
Captain Henry Linza has been
home on a leave; he has been all
over the South Pacific. Captain
and Mrs. Linza will visit their son,
who is stationed at San Marcos in
the Air Corps. Cadet Gerald George
is stationed at Oklahoma City. He
will be there until June, when he
will be transferred to Kelly Field.
He will be classified either as a
Pilot, Navigator or Bombardier.
Honor Roll Continued
A. C. Wheeler, A. W. Bridges,
and Allen T. Cook, Jr.
Service Bureau for Local Union
Members in the Armed Forces
Has Been Set Up
A committee was recently ap-
pointed by the president, Mr. Leo
Jacobs, to render any needed serv-
ice to our men in the service and
to forward cigarettes to them. The
committee does not have a com-
plete or correct list of mailing ad-
dresses ; they are asking all of the
members of 716 to help them com-
plete the list. Please go by or for-
ward the addresses of the following
members to the office:
Carl Houston, Floyd Young, G.
H. Davidson, J. V. Cook, W. C.
Adams, J. L. Bennett, W. B. Hol-
der, J. P. Campbell, R. A. Mason,
J. H. Ritchel, Jr., Leon Sumner,
A. J. Weikerth, Harry Getz, George
Myrick, Glenn Wilson, J. E. Hill,
Paul McCullough, L. R. Raddy, J.
H. Braziel, Charles Chapline, H. E.
Evans.
J. B. Funchess, Max H. Jones,
B. F. Knight, L. J. Landry, Don
Leland, H. D. Linzza, R. N. Cal-
vert, H. E. Arnold, Don Dixon, A.
E. Johnson, J. A. Kilgore, H.
Schwipple, W. B. Keefover, Don
Drury, L. E. Evans, Elmo Johnson,
H. A. Ewell.
Or you may phone or send them
on wages, with flexible controls on
prices, would penalize workers, and
it demanded an end to “cowardly
appeasement” of profiteers by the
O. P. A.
“A war economy half frozen
and half free cannot endure,"
the Federation said.
Murray emphasized that the job
of workers now is to' see that Price
Administrator Prentiss M. Brown
Sure ’nough, it was: Bill Foley, Joe
Medlinka, John Maniha, Willie
Klopp, Leo Monteaux, Charley
Blaylock, and Pinky Davis (all are
well preserved, though some used
that “This country of the people, by to the regular time, and will again
the people, for the people, shall not
rather than workers’ wages,, create
the real danger of inflation.
President Roosevelt’s foes chor-
tled with glee over his order.
Among these was Mark Sullivan,
reactionary columnist. Sullivan re-
called that “F. D.” a year ago had
taken the position that wages
should never be frozen, but yet put
over the new freeze order. Sullivan
gloated that the President, in doing
so, had lost some of his most loyal
friends, without gaining any new
ones.
Ask Liberal Construction
Meanwhile, the labor chieftains
announced they would exhaust all
possiblities of the executive order
in winning wage adjustments. The
provision allowing extra wage in-
creases beyond the “Little Steel”
formula to remove “sub-standards
of living” should be liberally con-
Hello, again:
The Auxiliary members
over there when you fail to write
that letter. The way you missed
my column is the way the boys miss
their V-mail letters.
The Ladies Auxiliary has a com-
mittee at a table in the lobby to
write your bond or to sell you
stamps. Let’s do our part and buy
until it hurts so the pot will be full
of good presents (bombs and more
bombs) for H. M. H. Company.
On last Sunday our dear Brother
Bob Jennings was buried. His
death was caused by a fall from a
scaffold. He fell about 66 feet and
in a few hours passed away. We
deeply regret this accident as it
could have been prevented by
proper care on someone's part. This
loss to us is very large because we
have lost one of the finest union
men that ever lived. His life was a
symbol that all could look to as a
loyal union man. He was a member
of the apprentice committee and
will be missed there. He was noble
Output of Workers
Doubled in 40 Years
Washington, D. C.—A report is-
sued here by the National Bureau
of Economic Research reveals that
in 1939 American factories turned
out a volume of products, twice as
large'as in 1914, with a labor force
only one-fifth greater.
As further evidence of the amaz-
ing increase in labor productivity,
the report recalls that in the 40-
year period, 1899 to 1939, the num-
ber of factory jobs doubled, while
the output of these factories in-
creased fourfold. This decline in
unit labor needs was held to be the
more remarkable in view of the fact
that weekly hours of labor dropped
from an average of 66 to about 46
hours.
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl; body’s part. A lovely vegetable
garden bordered in pansies and red
P. leaders, took the view the legis- cult to get new mattresses.
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sent wife, and he rapes her. He -
cannot be prosecuted for an illegal perpetrator be a labor union
act committed while he was en-
pockets, the A. F. of L. stressed, strued by the War Labor Board to
It warned that a hard-and-fast lid r
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union no. 87
street was burned to the ground a
few days ago.
Florence Corolla was hostess to
----- ---------- ----— Lucille Frederick last Saturday at
longing for the day when the final Kelley’s, where they enjoyed a
1 stuffed crab dinner.
and generous in all his acts toward
his fellowman and gave to - all Fthey still insist on finishing the
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We have truly lost a friend. It _
uuu w zu. seems that in the past twenty-five Reverh Wasa former member of
Pappy Blaylock and’Pinky Davis years that I have been personally m °" * J ' J
interested in the printing trade, the
EV'K A.Wcekh bringhomltmjouh lest
son to show you how our boys feel
President
Urged to Curb
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high, inequitable or unfair.”
Union chiefs made it dear their
attitude toward the new order will
hinge largely on what is done to
carry out provisions calling for a
reduction in prices.
Intention Called Good
"President Roosevelt’s effort is
well-intentioned,” declared T. C.
Cashen, president of the Switch-
men’s Union and chairman of the
Railway Labor Executives’ Associa-
tion. “We hope that he succeeds in
slashing the cost of living. That’s
what every worker wants.
“We have our grave doubts,
however, that he will be able to
do so. The Administration did
not hold the line before prices
staged a runaway, and we won-
der whether it can yank them
back now.
“We have been promised before
that the cost of living would be
stabilized. It wasn’t. Prices haven’t
been frozen; they’ve hardly had
more than a light frost. Almost
every day the Office of Price Ad-
ministration grants a new increase
on some necessity of life.
Roll Back Prices
“Only a roll back of prices to last
year’s levels would mean a square
deal for the nation’s workers, on
and off the railroads. If they are
not rolled back, then the govern-
ment must make good on the wage
question. It must either cut prices
or raise wages.”
President William Green f the
A. F. of L. and President Philip
Murray of the C. I. O. echoed
Cashens views. Their fight, they
said, would be concentrated on get-
5 ting government agencies to “fish
or cut bait” on the matter of reduc-
ing prices.
Green made it clear that workers
do not want the inflation spiral to
“get out of control,” because then
“working men and women will suf-
fer most.” The Federation’s posi-
tion, he said, will be to fight for
higher pay by getting lower prices.
Would Penalise Workers
What the workers receive for
their money is more important than
the numbers of dollars in their
Hobbs Bill
Gains Okay
(Continued from Page 1)
and predicted it would be fol-
lowed by a deluge of crippling
bills.
This is the way the Associated
Press referred to the legislation:
“Sponsors of pending labor curb
legislation interpreted the vote as
presaging a hopeful future for bills
to outlaw strikes during the war, to
ban the unionization of foremen
and to require unions to file regu-
lar statements of their receipts and
expenditures.”
As a slight concession to labor,
the bill’s backers accepted an
amendment providing that it shall
not be construed as modifying or
repealing the Clayton, Norris-La-
Guardia, Railway Labor ’ or the
Wagner acts.
The amendment did not satisfy
labor spokesmen, who insisted the
bill should specifically state that no
act or conduct lawful under exist-
ing labor laws should be construed
as a violation of the Hobbs bill.
The American Federation of La-
bor declared it would withdraw op-
position to the proposal if this
amendment was inserted. In a let-
ter to members of the House, Pres-
ident William Green made it clear
that the labor movement has no
tolerance for racketeers, either in
or outside the ranks of labor.
If the object is merely to
curb racketeering practices,
Green said, that result could be
accomplished without placing
labor at the mercy of hostile
prosecuting attorneys and
judges.
Manacles on Unions
Several members insisted that
without the amendment urged by
the A. F. of L. the bill “would put
manacles on the unions.”
Congressman Emanuel Celler
(Dem., N. Y.) contended the bill
could be used to deny labor its legal
rights. “It’s an anti-labor bill; let’s
not delude ourselves,” he declared.
Congressman Grant Furlong
(Dem., Pa.) saw in the -bill “the
“forerunner of slave labor,” while
Congressman George G. Sadowski
(Dem., Mich.) viewed it “as a seri-
ous menace to labor’s rights.”
It was significant that a number
of conservative Republicans who
supported the A. F. of L. amend-
so much absenteeism.
So we are froze, but that will
not prevent us from perspiring a
little later when old Sol starts beat-
ing down. A peculiar situation, is
it not?
Sure feel sorry for so many folks
who have to pay outlandish prices
for a nice bait of fresh vegetables,
for you should just see my wife’s
Victory garden. She has nursed
those little plants until now they
are a work of art, and if the Rice
Hotel had some of our radishes,
they would have to knock the cus-
tomers down to keep them away,
and those beans seem to grow by
leaps and bounds. And with
bananas at 76 cents a dozen, she is
thinking of planting a few banana
trees.
Anybody need a flagpole painted,
just call Mike Laughlin—he does
them up in jig time and makes them
look like a flagpole should look.
If Mrs. Zeke Zehrung has missed
any of her silk stockings, her hus-
band has them out on the job,
straining paint through ’em, and he
vows that when paint is strained
that way, it is strained, brother.
Those boys out at the Houston
Shipyard must be slinging paint
high, wide and handsome, for when
you consider that finishing six
ships each month is being accom-
plished, we must all realize that
that amount of paint so fills the air
that the nearby paper mill, with its
sweet odor, is just a breeze.
When you mention Baytown to
Buck Smith, start dodging.
It's not a whole lot too early to
make a note to be sure and get that
poll tax for next year and not trust
too much to luck like was done this
year.
But in the meantime, don’t for-
get to get all of the War Bonds
that you can possibly afford and
then some more. V. L. Hughes.
V. 2-1884. Mn. R. I. Stansbury,
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Portsmouth, Va.,
the ground as we have bushes
above . . . the shortage is over.
The British Army, under Gen-
enl Anderson, have a particular
interest in driving Rommel into the
sea . . . most of them are heroes of
Dunkirk. They are anxious to re-
turn the favor. Robert Service, the
poet, must have had such men in
mind when he wrote:
"It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten
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ing, but was a disguised blow at
labor itself. When the showdown
came, however, most of these Re-
publicans voted for the bill.
Hobbs’ Fantastic Argument
Perhaps the most fantastic argu-
ment heard in the House in many a
month was made by Hobbs in op-
posing the A. F. of L. amendment,
which he described as “tricky” and
designed to take the heart out of
the bill.
The Alabaman stretched
logic to the breaking point
when he solemnly told the
House that if the bill was
amended as labor desired it
would actually legalize all sorts
of crime.
Here is a sample of the argument
that Hobbs directed at the pro-
posal:
“Suppose one is engaged in the
perfectly lawful practice of strik-
ing. He has been on strike for
months. But for that fact he would
have been at work. But he is at
home and sees a young girl coming
into his home, looking for his ab-
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hands. We hope this finds you much
improved, and when you get
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charitable causes and was always
in the lead in matters of this kind.
Bob was a good working buddy on
the job and quiet and as sociable a
man as you would want to buddy
with. We will miss him very much
and w know by his acts as a union
man that he will always be in our
memory for the things he has done
toward better ways of life. We
know that beyond that shor that
in the final judgment it can be said,
“He played the game fair and
square.” We all extend our deepest
sympathies to the family and our
sincere thoughts of their loss as
well as ours, for Bob was just one
regular guy.
Again I want to report to you an
accident that happened on our very
own job at Ellington Field. Brother
Carl N. Robinson fell from a scaf-
fold about 14 feet and fractured his
left ankle and his right heel was
bruised very bad. This is the result
of carelessnes son Brother Carl’s
part, for he did not use his better
judgment and got in a hurry and
fell. Proper precaution oh sis part
while working on the scaffold would
have prevented this fall. We regret
wvery much to have a brother hurt,
and trust that he will soon be up
and going. Brother Robinson is in
Room 218, Memorial Hospital.
San Jacinto Day has passed, and
how many of you guys went fish-
ing Let’s have those tall stories.
The writer will give war stamps
for the best tall stories this column
can report. Guess this contest will
get results: Three stamps for the
best, 2 for the next best, and one
for the next, and if you guys hurry
you will get those stamps to fill
your alubum. Let’s get in the fight
and help out—bring in those stories.
(If I don’t get some reports you
guys will have to get another re-
porter.) Rules of contest: Write on
one side and paper and not over 56
words. Expect Porter to be in with
his report, as well as Thomas. Well,
he always is in on the deal and
should report a good one.
Our meetings start at 8 p. m. All
have no excuse that they cannot get
there on time. G. E. Mueller.
”—verm NG
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