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The union times., 1942-03-28
ELECTRICIANS WIN R0CkBEST0S, 301-16G
Let The Voice Of Labor Speak!
(EDITORIAL)

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has spoken. Those intrusted with supervising the job of production for the Army, the Navy and the Maritime Commission also have spoken
 They have spoken with voice.
 They have declared in clear and unmstakable lan- guage that labor is doing fine job for America that there is strike problem because there strikes, that the fortyhour week should be retained standard because does limit working hours and that there is why timeand-ahaf overtime should be paid for work in excess of forty hours week.
 They have only presented these facts the Amer public They have also stated faty that there is justification for enactng compulsory legislation restrict ing labor's rights and destroying labors standards
 Surely the views and recommendations of Com Chief and his trusted aides should convince any honest American!
 But the laborhaters in Congress and the press still continuing ubast their vicious campaign crush labor and shatter national unity.
 The enemies of labor claim support from the
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The union times., 1942-03-28
Painters Work
 On New Contract

Local 186, New Haven Painters & Decorators, will meet this week with the employers to discuss their new contract, the present one expiring April 1. The Union is asking $l1 for an 8-hour day, an increase of $1 over the present scale.
 President Ralph Marcarelli has re- signed, and Samuel Shulowsky gave Up the vice-presidency to accede to the memberships request that he fill the vacancy until the regular June cleo tion. Nothan Sinel is the new vice president.
The union times., 1942-03-28
Alert, Labor! Postal Clerks .Eagan Warns
Local 237 Secretary Says Workers Must Carry Brunt
 Of Legislative Fight

In response to request for com ment on the anti-labor bills now pend ing in Congress, James F. Eagan, secretary of Local 237, New Haven Postal Clerks Union, made the follow ing statement to THE UNION TIMES:
 "The people interested in abolish ing the 40-hour work week have be- clouded the issue. They would lead one to believe that 40 hours of work is all that is being done by each worker, while in reality many of these workers are working from 40 to 70 hours a week.
 There seems to be no legitimate reason why these workers should be asked to work in excess of 40 hours without just compensation in the way of overtime pay for services rendered after 40 hours.
 Tn the proposals submitted it is agreed that the manufacturers will re- ceive at least a return of 69o on their investment, and the fact that overtime is paid for work done in excess of 40 hours should have no bearing on this proposal.
 "The President of the United States in statement made March 17th again endorses the 40-Hour Week and over time pay for any work in excess of 40 hours and is fearful of the attacks on labor by the anti-labor groups in this country.
 "This anti-labor group seems to be very thoroughly organized in its efforts to take away from labor the benefits it has received in the last five to ten years and will eventually do so unless the workers themselves take a more active part in holding on to what they have worked SO hard to get"
The union times., 1942-03-28
Thousands Going ToMusiiciansBall

Raymond Gerosa, tenor, and Isabell M. Westcott, 1942 contest winners, are the soloists who will appear Friday evening at the Arena with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harry Berman at the third annual ball sponsored by Local 234, New Haven Federation of Musicians. Char lie Barnet, sax sensationist, and his orchestra will head the dance bands.
 Other popular bands supplying the hot and sweet music include Harry Pellegrino, who will feature last years contest winner, Miss Carmel Ahinito, as soloist; Smiling Bill Broderick; Sikorski and his Polish Mountaineers; Bud Finch; and Joe Miller's Connecticut Yankees.
 Germans program includes the first movement from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Festival at Baghdad from the Scheherazade Suite by Rimsl1y- Korsaleov; O Don Fatale from Don Carlo by Verdi with Miss Westcott, contralto, the soloist; Artists Life, a waltz by Johann Strauss; E Lucevan Le Stelle, from Tosca by Puccini, with Gerosa the soloist; Victor Herbert's Irish Rhapsody, George Drumm's Hail America and The Star Spangled Banner.
 Nicholas Roberti, chairman of the floor committee, arranged the Balls program.
The union times., 1942-03-28
Beer Sellers
 And Creno In 
Wholesale Salesmen Expect No Difficulty In Renew
 ing Contract May 1

Since complete change in man. agement has been effected at the CremO Brewing Company of New Britain, Local 229Ol, Wholesale Beer Salesmen, Union of Connecti- cut is not expecting any difficulty in its efforts to secure favorable re- newal of the present contract which expires May I.
 The Union has submitted its de- mands which call for substantial in- creases in salaries and travelling ex- pense, seniority and well-timed clause protecting salesmen who volunteer or are selected for military or civilian service during the war.
 State Organizers Arthur W. Cor roll and Thomas Cosgrove report that preliminary conference which started March 2l have proved CO., operative and informative. General Manager Oscar Brochert, former brew master, was expected to be in New Haven, Thursday evening for another conference with Carroll and COsgrOve following a meeting of the CremO board on the Unions proposals Wednesday evening.
 Union members have reported favor ably on Brochert's attitude towards unions. He is also reported to have had wide experience in previous negotiations with labor organizations.
The union times., 1942-03-28

The International Association of Machinists in New Haven this week began preparing its case against the American Tube Bending Manu- featuring Company to be presented at the National Labor Relations Board hearing to be held Thursday, April 2 in the New Haven Chamber of Commerce building at II AM. The Union charges the firm with interference in the Board election held last year and asks that the re- suits be declared null and void.
 Director Fillmore M. Herrick of the Second Region has already ruled that both Henry Ware Jones, Jr.'s letter of November 28, 1941 and speech of December 1 were "replete with sug- gestions that collective bargaining is not only unnecessary, but in certain respects as indicated undesirable from the employees point ot view and that union membership is a worthless and costly luxury" Jones is president of the Company. The letter was sent to each employe eligible to vote and the speech was made in the plant at time when one shift was coming on and another going off the day before the election.
 LAM. TO WIN-COODRICH
 Grand Lodge Representative Clark H. Goodrich, who Is handling the Unions case, was confident that the Board will find in favor of the LAM.
 An official ruling is expected this week from the N.L.R.B. authorizing
The union times., 1942-03-28
Last Minute
 Letter By Co. Proves A Dud
Workers Will Meet at Labor Temple Sunday; To Name
 Committees, Stewards

Organized labor in New Haven this week brought 600 more workers into the fold with Tuesdays decisive victory for Local B-9O, International Brotherhood of Electric a l Workers in the National Labor Relations Board election held for the employees of the Rock betsOs Products Corporation. The I.B.E.W. received 3Ol votes compared to the l66 votes for no union.
 co. LETTER IGNORED
 The Company's last minute ap- peal in second letter to each em- pIoye didn't alter the results. Once more the firms vice-president and general manager, B. H. Reeves told the men and women, Our policy in respect to wages and working conditions has always been, and will continue to be, as generous as cir cumstances permit, and any im- provement in conditions must de- pend on what the company is able to do :" He didn't mention the $75O,OOO profit made last year by the firm.
 MASS MEETINGS
 Sunday will see two mass meetings of the victorious em-
The union times., 1942-03-28
OvertimePayFor Postal Employees

An amendment calling for overtime pay for Saturday work instead of the present practise of compensatory time for postal employees is now before President Roosevelt for his sigma ture. The amendment will change the first section of Act entitled "An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes" passed in 1885.
 The agreement of the conferees on longevity pay has been passed by the Senate. Action by the House is ex- pected this week.
 Overtime pay for postal workers is now allowed only for the last three Saturdays in the year, the holiday season. The change is supported by the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, A. F. of L.. since "as- surances have been given that the law will be administered fairly and with out disadvantage to regulars or sub- stitutes."
The union times., 1942-03-28
LAM Conference
 Will Meet Here

The delegates to the Spring quarter 1y meeting of the New England Con- ference of Machinists, to be held in the New Haven Labor Temple Satur- day and Sunday, April II and F, will be welcomed by Harold V. Feinmark, president of the New Haven Central Labor Council and William Scully, president of Elm Lodge APO.
 Joseph Tone, member of 42O and labor advisor to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and Wr. William Fletcher of the Department of For eign Relations, Yale University, have been invited to speak.
 The Hotel Garde will serve as the headquarters for the delegates.
The union times., 1942-03-28

Haven Central Labor Union. and vice-president of the Con. necticut Federation of Labor. Feinmark hatly asserted that not only overtime pay after forty hours of work was at stake, as many believe.
 ANTI-NEW DEAL
 ''The poll-tax COngressmen, under the leadership of Smith of Virginia and Cox of Georgia, are not only gunning at overtime pay" he said. "They are out after all New Deal social and labor legislation, and feel that they can use the war
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The union times., 1942-03-28
Tube Bending Due
 Thursday, April 2

the settlement reached in New York on Friday, March 20 by the M.B. Manufacturing Company of New Haven and the LAM. Terms of the settlement which constituted a decisive victory for the Union were printed in last weeks issue of THE UNION TIMES.
 BOLTON co.
 Indiscriminate frings continue at the Bolton Manufacturing Company also of New Haven. Howard Mathis,
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The union times., 1942-03-28
ployes i'm the New Haven Labor

ployes i'm the New Haven Labor Temple where grievance and negotiating committees, and shop stewards will be desig- mated while further discussion on demands will be heard. Employees on the II PM. to 7 AM. and the 3 PM. to II PM. shifts will meet at l:l5 PM. with the 7 A.M.-3 PM. work CTS assembling at 3:45 PM.
 I.B.E.W. ON THE MARCH!
 Business Manager Joseph T. Rourke told his jubilant organizing
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The union times., 1942-03-28
Teamsters Dust Co. Union In NE
 Transportation

Local 443, Bridgeport & New Haven Over-the-rOad Teamsters. have busted the New England Truck Drivers "Union" from the New Ha. ven barn of the New England Transportation Company. The In. ternational Brotherhood of Team. sters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers were similarly success. full in Danbury, Waterbury and Putnam in Connecticut; and in Providence, R. I. Thus the strike called by the company union which amounted to a lockout, backfred thanks to the prompt action taken by the I.B.T. The International Association of Machinists assisted the Teamsters throughout the con. troversy.
 TEN DAY CONTROVERSY
 Settlement of the ten day contro- versy was reached in Providence this week with the assistance of R. I. Deputy State Director Joseph T. Cahir. All New England men, with one exception, returned to work. The freight transport division of the firm alone was affected. John Pisano, 443 business agent; Barney Gallopoe business agent, Local 251, Providence and Chester Fitzpatrick, Local 170 Worcester, Mass, represented the Teamsters' Union.
 The showdown on the question of representation came last week in New Haven when Harold C. Happy" Dixon, president and
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The union times., 1942-03-28
Cleveland Joins
 Production Drive

CLEVELAND-A 12-man city wide AFL-CIO labor management production committee has been ap- pointed by Mayor Frank Lausche. The committee will consolidate efforts of production committees in the plants set up under the current production drive of the War Production Board.
The union times., 1942-03-28
Important!

An urgent appeal to GH local unions IMMEDIATELY to send felegrGnls to COnnecticut's SenG- tors and Representatives., urging them to UOte against aH pending anti-IabOr legisIatiOn, has been issued by the American Fedora tiOn Of Labor. DON'T VAT for q meeting. It may be too ldte by then.
The union times., 1942-03-28
All New Deal Legislation Is
 Endangered
Special Groups More Inter- ested In Fighting Labor
 Than Axis

A warming that anti-labOr is flooding the nation, and that labor and it's friends must beat back the enemy, or see gains that took half a century to achieve wip- ed out over night, was issued here today by Harold V. Fein- mark, president of the New
The union times., 1942-03-28
Congrats!

THE UNION TIMES joins sOith labor thrOughOut Connecticut ip cOngratulating the men and sU0nsen Of Rockbestos, Local B-0O, Electricians Union, and its business manager, Joseph T. Rourke, upon q splendid Uict0ry. Welcome intO the fan,iiy Of or Rrnized LabOr!-Editor.
The union times., 1942-03-28
YALE PLEASE COPYi

Springfield, Mo.-Missouri Univer- sity has transferred its printing from non-union to union shop, following a vigorous campaign by the Allied Printing Trades Council.
The union times., 1942-03-28
LEGISLATIVE ACTION

Legislative action on workman s compensation and unemployment com pensation is the main problem con- fronting the Council at this time. The Council plans to handle its own legis- 1ative problems at the next session of the General Assembly.
 "We have received official figures from the Bureau of Labor Standards in Washington" Council Secretary Joseph T. Rourke said, (which prove that the Connecticut Workmen's Com pensation Act is 18th among the states having such laws, in commensurate returns to the worker"
 The educational committee has received assurances from Commits siOner of Education AlonzO Grace that it will be consulted before the new program for the Norwich, New Haven and Waterbury Trades Schools is put into effect.
The union times., 1942-03-28
Bldg. Trades Prepare For
 Meeting Here
State Council Will Hold Regular Quarterly Meet
 ing Sunday, April 19

The officers of the State Building Trades Council will meet Saturday in the New Haven Labor Temple to prepare for the regular quarterly of the whole Council on April 19, also in the New Haven Labor Temple.
The union times., 1942-03-28

JAMES BREWSTER
 STATE LIBRARY & COURT BLM HARTFORD CONN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-08

after spending brief vacation at her
home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Flora, Cumber-
land, were recent guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. w. Dewitt
William Rose, Braddock, Pa, spent
the weekend here with his wife at
the home of W. W. Savage
Miss Helen Dewitt, daughter of W.
w. Dewitt, had major operation at
Memorial hospital, on Tuesday.
Miss Jessie Vitez, Guard, visited
Mrs. Chris Sines, Wednesday.
Walter Wicklow returned home
Thursday after visiting his sisters,
Mrs. James Hart and Mrs. James
Mitchell, Baltimore.
Pvt Irwin Savage, Army War
Show, Louisville, KY, visited his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Savage,
for a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Warthen and
Eleanor Daley spent Saturday night
and Sunday in Terra Alta, w. Va,
with Mrs. w. F. Daley.
Mr.. and Mrs John Haenftling, Ac-
cident, visited relatives here on Fri
day
Mrs. Merrlle Shultz and daughter,
Jessie, Somerfield, Pa, visited Mrs.
W. f. Shoemaker on Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Wicklow and
children, of Terra Alta, w. Va, were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Wicklow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Frantz and
children visited at Table Rock on
Sunday.
Leonard Lyle is a patient in
Memorial hospital, Cumberland, where
he is receiving treatment for his eyes,
Mrs. Kathryn Riley is spending this
week with Misses Pearl and Sadie
Frazee, near Blooming Rose.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. limbaugh were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Steve Riley at Sand Spring.
Mrs. Helen Evans was spending
several days in Homecoming and Balti-
more with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Black, Conflu-
ence, Pa, were Sunday guests of Mr.,
and Mrs. Harry J. Black.
John Williams, Alexandria, Va, was
here for several days with his wife
and children. They moved from the
Murphy apartment to the Statler
property which they recently pur-
chased.
Miss Marjorie Weaver, Uniontown,
Pa, spent the weekend here with her
mother, Mrs Clara Weaver.
Thomas Love and Norris Fike
motored to Cumberland on Sunday,
where they got the latter's wife, who
had been a patient in Memorial hos
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pital, Cumberland, for several weeks.
Mrs. Fike is improved and able to
come home
Pvt, Harold Griffith, Chicago, ILL.,,
spent several days the past week with
his parents, Mr., and Mrs. Ernest
Griffith.
Charles Thomas, Holyoke, visited
his mother, Mrs Charles HENDERSON,
during the weekend.
Miss Bernice Friend, Washington,
D. c., visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Playford Friend during the week
end
Floyd Welch left Saturday for
Baltimore, where he is employed. His
family will move down there in sew
eral weeks.
Corp. Jack Vansickle, Fort Belvoir,
Va, visited his parents here during
the weekend.
Mrs. Frank Hudson, Sparrow's
Point is visiting her mother, Mrs. J.
Milton Fike.
George Thomas left Sunday for
Baltimore, where he is employed.
Corp. Perry Uphold, Fort Belvoir,
Va, visited his parents here during
the Weekend
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-08
Homemakers' Column
Edited by Miss Mariana Lee Long,
Home Demonstration Agent
Blitzing Food Waste in Your Pantry

Blitzing Food Waste in Your Pantry
Wage a real "blitz" attack on food
waste in your kitchen cupboards and
other storage places this autumn. As
war goes on there is greater need to
be alert against insects, mold, damp
ness, mice and all the other saboteurs
of the pantry.
One effective way to get all the
good from food is to store it well un-
I'll used. Put each type Of food in the
place it will keep best-in the right,
and correctly cared for, cupboard,
cooler, can or jar. Then check once in
a while to make sure the food is ready
for able duty when needed
Sugar and spices are doubly preci-
Gus these days. To store well, these
foods need clean, tight containers that
keep out dust, moisture, insects and
mice. Spices, coffee and tea need con
tanners tight enough to keep in priced
favors. When you open your cupboard
door and get a spicy Whit Of CHINA
mon or cloves-watch out You can
lose taste along with fragrance on the
kitchen air. Keep spices in cool
place.
The best place to store -four is in
a tight can, jar or bin-to keep out
light as well as moisture, mice bugs
and dust. Clean these containers
thoroughly before putting in new sup
plies Of -four.
Bread will stay fresh longer, keep
from molding in humid weather, il
you wrap it in moisture proof paper
and put it in the refrigerator Other
wise, put your bread in a ventilated
box. Cool home baked bread before
storing.
Cake, also, ought to be thoroughly
cooled before you put it away. 1t
needs its own well-covered box, ven
tilated if in a humid climate. Both
bread and cake containers must be
spotlessly clean to keep away mould.
They need scalding, airing and sun
ming regularly.
Crackers and crisp cookies soften
if you store them with bread or cake
To keep them in the best condition,
put these foods by themselves in
clean, air-tight tins or boxes. And if
you have cookie jar make sure it
has a tight-titting top.
According to a recent survey, Amer
lean homemakers planned to put up
over billion jars of food, or about
so percent more in this war year
than recent peacetime years. Many
homemakers this year are putting up
vegetables and fruits from their own
Victory Gardens Whether you have
large array of canned goods on hand
or only few jars, you can't afford
to lose a single jar.
Foods canned in glass need to be
stored in cool, dark place s.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-08
AVILTON

Our community was shocked to
hear of the death of Mrs. Martha
Garlitz Bittinger, which occurred at
Evansville, Ohio, on Saturday morn
ing. She was the daughter of the late
Freeman and Carrie Garltz, Of Avil-
ton. She leaves to mourn, her
husband, and mother, one brother
Lemuel, and two sisters, Mrs Silver
Ralston, and Mrs. Ellis Swauger. The
funeral was held in st. AIMS Church
on Tuesday morning, with interment
in the church cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. S. Fike spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Kimmell Fike,
of Piedmont, W. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Merrill spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs,
Orville Grove, near Beallville.
The sale held at George Groves on
Saturday was well attended. Mr.. and
Mrs. Grove contemplate moving to
Frostburg in the near future.
Dr. Mclean, of Frostburg, was
summoned to the home of H. H,
Robson, on Friday to give medical
aid to Mrs Robson, who is i'll with
Lagrippe.
Ray Fike and Lilly Dreesc were
guests at the Fike home, Sunday
evening,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Broadwater of
Piedmont were visiting his father and
uncle and family, Saturday afternoon.
James Robson spent the weekend
with his uncle, Harold Fikc.
Mrs. Asa Wilhelm and children
spent Sunday with Mrs. George
Grove.
Thomas Dick and son, Milton, of
Homecoming were callers in this sec
ton, on Sunday.
Junior Turner, of Baltimore, spent
the weekend with his mother, Mrs,
Adell Turner and family.
Mrs. Lula Lancaster Mulligan, of
Cumberland, is spending a few days
with her aunt, Mrs. Pearl Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs Gilbert Mckenzie and
daughter spent Sunday in this sec
ton.
Sunday school at 10 a, m. and
preaching at II a. m, by Rev. Higgs,
of Mt. Savage, at Cherry Grove,
Sunday morning, October H.
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Members and guests present included
Mrs. Effie Chisholm, Mrs. Ralph Fike,
Mrs. William Durham, Mrs. Ida
Frantz, Mrs. Orval WEIGH, Mrs. Har-
vey Friend and daughter, Virginia,
Mrs. Aubrey Custer and the hostess.
The next meeting will be held Novem-
Der 5, at the home of Mrs. VIM. E.
Durham.
Surprise Birthday Dinner
A surprise birthday dinner was
given for Mrs R. H. Friend, Sunday,
at the home of her son-in-Iaw and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Fike, at
Bruceton Mills, W. Va Those present
were Patty and Ronnie Fike, Mr.. and
Mrs, Houston Friend and sons, Junior
Wade and Jimmy; Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Hook and daughters, June, Jean and
Joan, Mr.. and Mrs. Gary R. Friend
and daughter, Nancy Ruth, Miss Mil
dred Friend, Miss Garnet Bird, Mr..
Richard Friend and the honoree, Mrs.
Friend.
Birth
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Glover an
nounce the birth of a daughter, Dor
othy Darlene, at the Meyersdale hos
pital, September oath. Mrs. Glover
was formerly Miss Blanche Schloss-
magic, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Schlossnagle, of Friendsville.
Personals
Mrs Edna Swauger Livengood left
on Friday for Newark, N. j., to visit
with DR.. Handley before leaving for
Syracuse, N. Y, to visit her husband,
Ward Livengood, who is stationed at
and army camp there.
Mrs. A. j. Oliver, Covington, Va, is
visiting her son-in-law and daughter,
Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Glover.
Nh and Mrs. Robert Murphy and
children visited Mr.. and Mrs Foster
Glover, Cresaptown; and Mr. and Mrs.
VIM. Murphy, Frostburg.
Mr.. and Mrs John Capel and chill
dren spent the weekend at the home
of Edward Capel, Frostburg.
c. C. Wisseman, Grantsville, visited
his, daughter, Mrs. Cleda Speicher, on
Friday.
Martin Frazee is a patient at the
Memorial hospital, Cumberland, hay
ing undergone a major operation on
Monday.
Miss Virginia Friend returned to
her home here after spending the
weekend in Baltimore.
W. E. Shoemaker is employed at
Brownsville, Pa, with the Atlantic
Refining company for this week.
Miss Viola Broadwater spent the
weekend at her home at Grantsville.
Miss Dorothy Enlow left for Cath
erman's Business School, Cumberland,