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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
CONN. AHEAD OF AVERAGE

CONN. AHEAD OF AVERAGE
Labor Department statistics re-
veal that the increase in the Con-
necticut family's food bill is slightly
higher than the 1879 per cent rise
for the entire country. New Hav-
eners are paying 17.9 per cent
more than they did a year ago.
Bridgeport people pay 1877 Der
cent more. Food prices have been
constantly rising since the start of
the war in Europe until today they
are 40 per cent of the pre-war
periOd-which is a vastly higher
increase than wages.
Although ceiling prices and other
methods of controlling
costs have applied the brakes on
''infiatiOnary" rises in groceries.
the American families saw their
food bills go up 7.8 per cent above
the mid-May levels just preceding
the effective date of imposing cell
ing prices on about At per cent
of all foods.
On Oct. 5, this year, the Stabiliza-
ton Order froze another group of
food items, but not all those not pre-
ylous controlled" Since the price
freeze, the average family food bill
rose 1.20 by Nov. II, according to
the Labor Departments report.
Prices Up In Month
Between the October price freeze"
and Nov. II, food prices in Bridge
port have advanced 1.18o, and in New
Haven 1870.
Most of the latest increases were
in prices of fresh fruits and vege-
tables and fresh fish, which are not
under direct control of the Office
of Price Administration. These ad-
vanced by an average of 6.6% and
arc now selling 81 higher than
in May. Food prices under direct
control of the OPA advanced O.5%
over the month as quotations
moved up for a number of products
whose prices have been recently adj
justed under OPA regulations, such
as lard, canned fruits and vege-
tables and canned fish. Prices also
increased for eggs and butter, not
brought under OPA control until
Oct. S.
New Haveners have faced greater
increases than BridgeporterS in some
OF these items. Eggs increased 1870
IN Bridgeport and $50 in New
Haven. The national average was 10.
The national average change from
Oct. to Nov. II in vegetables was
$40 as against 1.z9O in Bridgeport
and $3.50 in New Haven.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
W.N.Newman
President OF
P.0.Men,D
Bridgeport Man Had Been
President Of Local For
Fifteen Years

Post Office Clerks, Local $40,
Bridgeport, are mourning the death
of President William M. Newman,
who died last week at his home, 795
Williams ST., before the fifth doctor
called could treat his case of acute
indigestion.
Newman, who was 81, and is sur
vived by his wife, a married daugh-
ter who lives in the South, and a
SON in the Navy, was president of
Local $40 for the last Is years.
He was a member of the local for
the last 20 years. He was very ac-
tive in union affairs and was re-
sponsible for persuading many
postal workers to join the ALL.
local and having the local become
an affiliate of the Conn. Federation
of Labor. Newman was a past presi-
dent of the Connecticut State Fed
Grafton of Post Office Clerks, and
served as the delegate to the con-
ventiOn of the National Federation
of Post Office Clerks in 1892.
Members of the Local we're shocked
to hear that two of the Bridgeport
physicians called refused to respond
to the stricken mans wife frantic ap-
peals for aid, because it was 5 AM
too early for them to go out. Two
other doctors were out on calls. When
the fifth physician arrived Newman
was dead. Interment was in the Zion
Hill Cemetery in Hartford last Satur-
day.
George F. Diergo, vice-president,
will serve as president of Local 795
until the regular election of officers
in April.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

CAL TINNEY, the humorist and
radio commentator gave two ex-
plantations last week on what he
thinks is wrong with Westbrook
Pegler, the labor ''calumnist.' Tin
ney said he thought Pegler's big
salary was going to his head. Tin
ney didn't say it, but it is reported
that Pegler has been paid 500, 600
year for the venom he dishes out.
Few of us will shed tears over the
governments cutting that salary to
$25 200, if it does! Calls second
explanation was this: Somebody
must have put soap in Pegler's
soup once, and Westbrook amt
got over it yet-he is still frothing
at the MOUTH
"THE DRYS are singing: Praise
the Lord and Cire Us Prohibitions -
the Brewery Yorker says.
FOR THE DURATION of the
war, all initiation fees paid to Local
PIT, Bridgeport Motion Picture
Operators, will be turned into u. S.
War Savings Bonds. This is in
accordance with the idea of Peter
Bernard, founder and president of
the local, who as president of the
Bridgeport Central Labor Union,
and as ALL. member of the War
Bond Savings Committee of Park
City, has been very active in the
promotion of the sale of Bonds.
THE TRUTH of the saying that
"heH hath no fury like Uomen
Scorned" zOGS never more evident than
in the following bold face display Gd
on the amusement page of the New
buryport (MaSs.) Daily Meas, in
aVhich aeIfe INTERPRETED literally her
husbands left my bed and board
notice:
SPECIAL NOTICE
/ did not leave John Jones'
bed and board. 1t was my bed
given me by my uncle and /
was kicked out of it and put
out, and as for my bills he never
was responsible. / was for his
and the ones l wasn't have never
been paid.
MRS. RUTH JONES
CHOWDERHEAD COHEN, king
of the finks, must have turned
green with envy when he heard of
the high-priced scabbery that went
on during the recent newspaper
drivers strike i'm New York, where
$4,000 and SIS, OOO-a-year edi.
tors and executives sold papers.
FOUR OF THE SIX women Sc.
Iected from a field of candidates
amidst great fanfare, to learn the
art of maneuvering buses over the
q routes of the C. r.. and L. Co. 8
lines i'm Bridgeport, are still strug-
Cling along with their lessons under
the tutelage of men drivers. 1t has
been two months since the com.
pany announced that it was going
to train women to run buses in
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
B.A. of Local
349 Declines
Reelection
Representative James H.
Higgins, N. H. Plumbers,
Accepts War Plant Job

Alderman James I'll. Higgins has
declined to run again as business
agent for Local $40, New Haven
Plumbers and Steamftters. Hig-
gins, who last month was elected a
state representative, told the local
at its nomination meeting that he
felt he could better serve his coun-
try i'm the present emergency as a
tOOl-maker than as a business
agent. He has accepted a job i'm a
war plant.
Higgins has been business agent
of Local $40 for the last Ii
months, having been chosen for
the position at special election to
succeed the former agent. John
Meany. Prior to the nomination he
informed the executive board of
the union that he would not be a
candidate for reelection. The
members, however, nominated him
and another member for the posi-
ton at the last meeting at which
nominees were selected.
When Higgins again declined, the
uCDdto WHICH started last year on
whether or not the local should have
a business agent, either part or full
time was resumed. 1t was decided
to dispense with. the office of business
agent for the forthcoming year.
Higgins, who is majority leader of
the Board of Aldermen, has been a
member of the Board for Is years.
He is on the Rationing Board; is the
ALL. representative on the 1920
Pay Roll Deduction War Savings
Bond Committee; on the Fair Rent
Commission; and the Charter Re-
vision Committee, all of New Haven.
He is a tool maker by trade, which
he followed for 7 years. During the
last p years he has worked as a
steamftter and stationary engineer.
John Killian, vice-president of
Local $40, was nominated without
opposition for the office of presi-
dent, now held by Fred Wiley. The
full list of officers will be published
next week. Elections will be held
Monday, Dec. %.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Spadola Will
Head BARRIERS
For 9Th Term
Officers Of N. II. Local 215
Nominated And Elected
At Special Meeting

Frank Spadola, president OF Bar
bers Local 215, New Haven, was
nominated and reelected for the
eighth consecutive term at a special
meeting of the Local in the Labor
Temple, this week. Daniel Daniels
was reelected vice-president; Frank
Violante, was again chosen as Secre-
tary-treasurer.
Other officers elected were ]. A.
Ciavante, recorder, and Patsy Ter
raccianO, guide, both elected for
their eighth term; Philip Bellucci,
guardian. Thomas Zipoli and AL
opposite, finance board, were both
reelected.
Delegates to the New Haven
Central Labor Council: SpadOla,
Emil Fappiano, opposite, Daniels
and Violante.
Pres. Spadola, who is also an execu-
tive board member of the Central
Labor Council, was present at the
meeting of the Local this week. He
had been i'll for some time and was
recently discharged from Grace Hos
pital.
Business Agent Violante an
nounced that the barber shops
which have been closing half-days
Wednesday will remain open all
day during the holiday weeks, i'm
accordance with union agreements
that specify whenever holiday oc-
ours within a week, no halliday
closing on Wednesday is observed
provided Wednesday is not the
holiday.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
WLB Wont Be
Ruined, Says
Wayne Morris
Board Member Answers
Charge That Agency Con-
spires Against Employers

NEW YORK-''A small minority
of U. S. employers are carrying on
a campaign to wreck the National
War Labor Board because they
know full well that if they could
get rid of the NWLB or emasculate
its powers through legislation, they
would be in good position to de-
stroy the unions in their plants
This blunt indictment of s'wouId-
be feudal barons'' i'm American in
dustry was delivered by Wayne
Morse, public member of the
NWLB, in a speech at the regional
war conference of the American
Bar Assn. in New York.
Answering the attacks made on the
NWLB Morse said: "Some of these
critics, especially in the ranks of in
dustry, gather together occasionally
and pass scathing resolutions, charg-
ing the board with rendering extra
legal decisions of being partial
biased in its own opinions, of usurp-
ing the powers of Congress and of
imposing the closed shop on u. S..
industry.
"A Cheap Performance
"Such beating of breasts and pound
ing of the drums of economic warfare
is rather cheap performance in time
of war, in view of the fact that the
open book record of the NWLB sim
ply does not support the charges set
forth in such resolutions"
To support this contention, Morse
pointed out the in $50 of the boards
decisions, labor, public and industry
members reached unanimous decisions.
In 1920 of the cases, the public mem
bers voted half the time with labor
and the other half with the employers.
In the other $50, the labor or indus
try groups were split.
II submit Morse asserted, ''that
the statistical results of our voting
fail to disclose any plot against
American employers, unless it is
charged that the employer men,
bers of NWLB, whose stature
towers among American employers,
are plotting against themselves"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
End Lieutenant
Commission To
V.Fierevante
Painters In Hartford Have
Is Members In Armed
Forces

Vito Fierevante, member of the
Hartford Local 481, Painters. has
been made second lieutenant in the
U. S. Army. Fierevante, who joined
the Army Jan. IA, 1941, was the first
member of the Painters Union to en-
list. He is stationed at the Army
Aviation Center, San Antonio, Texas.
There are fifteen members of
Local 48l, in the u. S. Armed
Forces. In addition to Fierevante
they are as follows. Gabriel Badol,
Stanley Ballon, Samuel Becker, C..
CaIcatena, Jr., Otto Cook, W.
Cizcnski, Chester Damn, I'll. Du-
bord, Phillip Goldman, Joseph
Myers, Ernest Nadeau, Lenard
RapapOrt, John Shevren, Joseph
Thompson.
To each member going into the
Service, the union gives wrist watch
with the name of the local engraved
upon the back, said William G.
Crosscup, Jr., business agent, of the
local.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Father, Two Sons Are Named
Officers of Plumbers Union

A father and two sons will be in
Quoted as officers of Local 70, Plumb
ers union, Hartford, Monday even
ing, Jan. 4, at the Labor Temple.
Richard Corcoran, recently elected
vice-president of the local will join
his brother John, Jr., as member
of the executive board, and his
father, John Corcoran, ST., veteran
treasurer, on the roster of officials.
The full list of officers of the
local are: Frank ]. Mccormack,
president; Richard Corcoran, vice.
president; Theodore Holman,
treasurer; John P. O'DonneII,
financial secretary and business
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Motion Picture
Operators Install

Anthony Basilicato, retiring presi-
dent of Local 273, installed his sue
cessor, Maurice w. ]. Moriarty, and
other officers of the New Haven
Motion Picture Machine Operators
Monday evening. The installation was
held at the Labor Temple.
Other officers installed are: Frank
Perry, vice-president; Ernest V. De-
Gross, recording secretary; Edwin w
Boppert, treasurer; Matthew w. Ken
nedy, business agent; Adolph JUL
member of the finance board; Mich
olas Villano and Isadore Stein, mem
bers of the Executive Board.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26

InU.S.Forces
Two More Members Of
. Motion Picture Union
Going This Week
By PETER BENARD

Motion Picture Operators, Local
277, Bridgeport, has eleven men in
the Armed Services and two more,
James Hill, operator of the Fairfield
Theatre, and John Musante, Rivoli
Theatre, are going to Hartford this
week for final physical examinations
preparatory to induction. Ten are in
the Army and one is in the Marine
Corps.
One member, Arthur P. Fensore,
son OF James Fensore, business agent
of Local iii is reported to be in the
aviation service somewhere in Eng
land. Staff Sgt. Frank 10th, former
operator of the Colonial, is now in
charge of the three theatres at Camp
Edwards, Mass.
The full list of men in the SER
vice are: Sgt. 10th; Sgt. Ralph G.
Broderick, Jr., Monroe, La; Sgt.
Frank Matera, Camp Devons, Mass.
Charles Prakas, Seattle, Wash. !;
Robert C. Lewis, Seattle, Wash. !;
Harry E. Kaplan, Athens, Ca;
George F. Antoniak, Boston, Mass. !;
Arthur P. Fensore; Francis Cor
man, ColdsborO, N. c.; Lawrence
PastOre, Jr., Camp Ham, Califor-
mia; Leslie C. Blakeslee, Jr.,
Marine Corps, Quantico, Va.
The M.P.M.O. Local gives each
inductee on entering the service a
fountain pen and pencil set. The
Local sent a SIS gift package as a
Christmas present to its men in the
service.
Private Antoniak, who is with the
3rd Signal Service Company, Boston,
is in charge of booking films for
Army camps.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Brewery Worker In
Merchant Marine

Stanley Ysoclzi, II, member of the
Bridgeport Brewery Workers, Local
40, enlisted in the Merchant Marines
last week. He is now stationed at the
Maritime Training School at Sleeps
head Bay, N. Y.
]. J. Simone1li, secretary-treasurer
Of Local 40, said that all members OF
the Bridgeport Brewery Workers
have signed up for War Savings
Bonds on the payroll deduction plan
Twelve members of the local have
contributed a pint of blood to the Red
Cross Blood Bank two or more times
said Simonelli.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26

Electricians Saw
Security In Danger

WASHINGTON, D. c. Social
Security in the United States, as
provided in the Social Security law,
is under stealthy and deadly attack,
the Electrical Workers Journal, Off
cial publication of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
charges in a vigorous editorial.
Under the heading, Goodbye So
cial Security?" the Journal says:
IF anyone quietly took Ameri-
can workers aside and told them
that the important social security
program i'm the country is en-
dangered, they would not believe it,
SO assured has labor been that this
necessary adjustment to a fuctuat-
ing economic system has come to
stay.
Strictly speaking, no one is at
lacking the social security program
from the front, but it is being done
TO death by slow torture from
assassins who come i'm by the back
door.
Take the recent vote in the United
States Senate fixing, for the wars
duration, the contributory tax at one
per cent, when the law scheduled this
tax to go to two per cent This action
of the Senate did not attract much
public attention, for it was accom-
plished with a grandiose gesture in the
direction of patriotism in order to
economic.
Basic Principle Attacked
But the action struck at the fun
damental principle of the social Sc
curity program, namely, to build up
reserves in time of prosperity in order
to pay benefits in time of adversely.
take the Inauguration of ex-
perience rating in the majority of
states. This program also is dressed
up TO look like a just measure to
encourage management to adopt
sound methods of management to
keep workers at work instead of
laying them off. But management
is not responsible today for en-
plOyment. War effort is responsible
for employment.
"The concept of experience rating
is narrow one, basing social security
upon the plant or the industry, instead
of upon the nation as a whole. EN-
ployers are now being exempt from
tax payments in the majority of
states for something they don't do.
AS a result, social insurance reserves
which should be mounting are dwind-
ling.
''Crippling War Effort
Take the action of the state en-
ployment insurance executives organ
izing themselves into a lobby to fight
and oppose the Federal government.
> These executives are fiIlfuIly Gripping
the war effort for their opposition ex-
tends to United States Employment
Service. They move under the guise
of defending democracy. They also
whoop it up for states rights.
THE faIlacy, of course, lies i'm
the fact that democracy is not a
territory but a process. 1t is no
guarantee of democracy to have
states rather than the Federal gov.
eminent control job insurance. In
deed, it might work out in reverse,
as it often has i'm the past. 1t is
inefficient to have 81 instead of one
job insurance program, and the
workers lose thereby"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Dinner Is Given
For Rudy Tata

Rudolph Tata has resigned as bust
ness agent of the Waterbury Team
sters, Local 677, after six years of
service in that capacity. Transfers
Joint Council "a gave dinner in his
honor at Fits Restaurant, State
Street, New Haven, last week. Her
bert Miller, executive-secretary of the
Hartford Local $50, presided. Twenty
business agents from various locals
attended. Miller, Matty Ruoppolo, Lo-
cal 443, and Timothy Collins, of 671,
were on the committee arranging for
the affair.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26

agent; John COrcOran, ST., record
ing secretary; John COrcOran, Jr..
John Morrison, Ralph Schaefer,
and Phillip Pandisher, members of
the executive board, of which
Richard COrcOran, as vice-pres.
Ident, is automatically the chair
man.
O'Donnell has been fnancia1-secre-
tary of the local since 1919 and bust
ness agent since 1929. Holman has
been treasurer for eight years; Cor
coran, Sr., recording secretary, for
~ years. 1t is the fourth consecutive
time that Mccormack has been
elected president.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Iron Workers Plan Affair
For Benefit of Service Men

one of the outstanding social events
held by a Connecticut union in
many years.
Speakers will include Governor
elect Raymond E. Baldwin; Mayor
John w. Murphy of New Haven,
and Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridge
port; Sen. Joseph T. Rourke, bust
ness manager of Local BOO Elec-
tricians, New Haven; and Nathan
Sherman, editor Of THE UNION
TIMES.
Not only members of Local 424,
but also their friends, and members
of other unions are invited to at
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Bus Operators In
Bridgeport Signed
Up SO% For Bonds

With more than 80 per cent of the
members of Division 459, Bridgeport
Bus Drivers, already signed up for
the purchase of War Bonds on the
Payroll Savings plan, Lester Parht,
president of the Division, is confident
that final effort this week to enroll
all workers of the Connecticut Rail-
way and Light would put the en-
ployes of the bus company on a 100
per cent basis Of the payroll deduction
plan.
Parht stated that the Connecticut
Company has employed Is more men
drivers for buses within the last two
months and still looking for more
men. -Four women drivers are still
under the tutelage of men drivers of
the company. Three more women have
been put on as learners.
The Division has sent gifts of cash
to its members in the Armed Forces.
Mention The Union Times when
shopping. and HELM LabOr's Own
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26

Iron Workers, Local 424, will
hold their first dinner dance at the
Hotel Taft, New Haven, on Satur-
day, February II, it was announced
this week by David (''Sport'') Nc
COrmack, business agent of the
Local. The affair is being held for
the benefit of the Locals men in
the service, and is expected to be
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26

100000 American workers.
number equal to Il Army divi-
siOns-have been going into war
industry every week since Pearl
Harbor.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Women Teamsters Give Blood

LOS ANGELES, Calf. - Thirty
women members of Transfers Local
$40 donated blood at the local Red
Cross Blood Donor Center, w. A.
Kellotat, secretary of the local, re-
ports. All of the donors are regularly
employed as chauffeurs by the Lander
Transit Company, which supplied a
bus to transport the group. Arrange
ments for the donation were made by
Manye Hale, union stewardess.
Even the most modest deeds are
worth more than magic phrases.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26
Jump Outstrips
Wage Limitation

Connecticut workers, who limited by the Governments
wage sterilization policy to receive pay increases up 15
1872 for food than they paid year at this time
according to the latest official figures of the u S. Department
of Labor oo.u,
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-12-26

Mention The Union Times when
shopping, and help LabOr's Own
Paper grow.
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Defense Council Group
To Meet Tomorrow

A meeting of Bethesda area chair
men and street leaders has been
called for 2:30 pm. tomorrow in the
Heiser Theater in Bethesda by Mrs.
G.. Peyton Whalen, chairman of the
women,s activities division of the
Maryland Council of Defense.
1t probably will be the last time
all area chairmen and street leaders
will be assembled because of the
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reation Center. In addition to COM
munity units participating, air raid
wardens. auxiliary police and wom-
ems auxiliaries in the Greater Wood
ridge area will be invited to join the
march.
The association voted to request
the Commissioners 10 set a hearing
date soon regarding revocation OF
a restaurant license assigned to an
establishment in the 2700 block of
Bladensburg road NE.
S. S. Symons, former president
and charter member, spoke in con-
nection with the 34th anniversary
of the association this month.
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Association Makes Plans
For Memorial Day Parade

Plans for Memorial Day parade
were formulated by the Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Association,
which met last night in the Wood
ridge Sub-branch Library Kenneth
C.. Buker, Parade Committee chair
man, announced that the line
of march would proceed at 2:30
pm. along Rhode Island avenue.
Seventeenth street and South Da-
kota avenue NE. to the Taft Rec
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gasoline rationing program. Mrs.
Whalen said. Hereafter neighbor-
hood group meetings vii, be en-
couraged as conservation measure.
Speakers will include Mrs. Aase
Skard, daughter Of the former min
lister of foreign affairs of Norway
and Mrs. A. S. Kline. who taught at
a Seventh Day Adventist school in
the Netherlands East Indies for
20 years.