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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
Committee Will.
Inspect Housing

The committee on cooperative hous-
ing appointed by Harold V. Fem
mark, president of the New Haven
Central Labor Council, met this week
and agreed to recommend to the Coun-
Gil that committee visit the Cam
den N. J., development to study the
operation Of that project. 1t was also
agreed that further discussions be held
with B. M. Petit, director of the New
Haven Housing Authority on the pos
sibility of bringing a cooperative
housing project to New Haven
The Council recently approved a
resolution introduced by Sen. Joseph
7. Rourke which called for New
Haven cooperative housing project
financed by Federal funds. Members
of the committee include Sen. James
P. Geelan, chairman; William Zuck-
erman, Rourke, Scott Roston, John
Marlowe and George Rheims.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30

the New Haven Central Labor
Council executive board. Eagan
carries the good wishes of the mem.
bers of Local 237 and the Council
with him in his new work. Eagan's
letter to THE UNION TIMES fol
lows:
''Dear Brothers:
Postmaster Patrick J. Coode
has seen fit to give me a promo
ton to foreman at the main post
office which will necessitate nv
termination as an active member
of Local 237.
YOu will be notified who my
successor will be as soon as he
is appointed or elected.
Il wish to take this oppor-
tunity of expressing to you my
sincere appreciation of the splen-
did cooperation you have given
to me in the past and / do hope
the same cooperation will con-
tinue with my successor
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30

cussed with the company by the
negotiating committee in Wednes-
days conference.
Local BOO, according to Rourke,
has petitioned the National Labor Re
lations Board for an election among
the 70 journeymen electricians and
helpers in the electrical department
of the Winchester Repeating Arms
Company. This action followed a con-
ference between Rourke and Assist
ant Regional Director L. Hamilton
Garner on Friday, May p, when the
Union showed proof that it had $50
OF the men signed.
Spade work by the organizing COM
mittee of BOO continues inside the
Whitney-Blake Company with the
main drive to get under way as soon
as the Rockbestos negotiations are
completed.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
Local 215

Continued from Page One)
of the International presiding. Also
present for the Union were Frank
Spadola, president, Frank Vio1ante,
secretary-treasurer, Jerry Giavanti,
recording secretary.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
in MEMORIAM

Aperovz dead continues to he leader of
labor will By the
281 Trolley and Bus Operators Unon Haven to the State
Conference Board of his Unions the New Haven
Council of which he Corresponding the
heartedness of the and his love for
his influence who him. he continues to
be leader in all of labOr's struggles.
Sol died suddenly early last September while attending the
of Federation of Labor To
many pain losing him if it had happened ves
terday When Division 281
last published beautiful souvenir program The oman
carried the picture which printed
picture these words:
''THIS PROGRAM is DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF DIR
LATE PRESIDENT SOLOMON ALPEROyITZ"
As long remember SO his SMILE IDEALS and his long
and faithful labor continue to be leader in
eUery of the WOrd
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
CO-Ops Move For
CIOserLabOr Ties

COLUMBUS, GA plan for the
creation of local Labor-Co-operative
Councils was formulated here at the
second annual congress of the Central
States Co-operatives.
The plan, which calls for the setting
up of a Central States Labor Co.
operative Council which in turn will
set up local groups in industrial areas,
developed out of panel discussions
which stressed the necessity for closer
ties between the two movements.
The proposal received the unan-
imous and enthusiastic approval of
the $50 delegates
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
ROckbeStOS

Continued from Page One)
company has offered 20 hours pay
for employees with at least six
months service. The members also
ask for overtime pay for all Sunday
work.
These clauses were further dis
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
NEW HAVEN PRESS

! A study of the New Haven
Register and Journal Courier
coverage of the threatened sus-
pension of work by the men i'm
Div. 28l, Trolley and Bus Oper-
atOrs Union, employed by the
Connecticut Company, and of
other local labor news forced to
its attention, indicated that the
New Haven public could rely
little or none on the daily papers
to give labor's viewpoint of the
|news, or to furnish any real i'm
formation as to the activities of
organized labor i'm New Haven.
In a period of fourteen days,
the Register devoted 80 times
more space to anti-labor news
and Pegler, than that given to
neutral or pro-labor releases
from the Associated Press. This,
i the study said, was an unusually
s'pro-labor' period
During the entire months
negotiations of the TroIleymen
with the Connecticut Company,
the Register devoted almost as
much space to a story about
''VermOnt Goods Pledge Them
selves to the Life of the Party"
as to dispute which affected the
welfare of 1000 workers, their
families, and the general public.
THE UNION TIMES, a 4-page
weekly, gave AZ inches to the
dispute.
The study found THE UNION
TIMES an indispensable part of
the successful organizational
drives of the AFL, serving as a
potent means OF keeping workers
informed of the progress of their
union and their friends.
| LIKES sAS WE SEE IT,
! New Haven is fortunate in havins
a paper like THE UNION TIMES
ito cOunter-act the biased Influence n
the Jackson press" the study con
cludes.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30
Eagan Named
AS Foreman
P.O. Promotion Necessitates
His Retirement From
Union and Council

With the complete support of the
American Federation of Labor, the
Federation News Service, organ of the
National Federation of Post Office
Clerks, has issued a communique to
the membership declaring that "The
time for action is now" The organ
refers to the fight on the part of gov
eminent workers to secure the passage
of H.R. 7071 introduced in the House
by Robert Ramspeck, (D.-Ga.) which
would provide temporary increase of
$500 a year to all civilian employees of
the u. S. Government and the District
of Columbia.
EACAN APPOINTED
James F. Eagan, recently pro-
NOTED to foreman by Postmaster
Patrick ]. COOde of the New Haven
post office, has resigned as secre-
tary of Local 237, New Haven
affiliate of the Federation, and from
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30

A study of the American
Dor press made recently by
enneth Underwood, Yale stu
Pnt, puts THE U MON
INES out i'm front as zone of
he best labor weeklies now
being published"
In news cOverage, type and
mount of advertising, style
IF writing, physical makeup,
ind information given to
workers on national events
Which affect them. "THE
UNION TIMES stands much
bOve the average la b % r
Paper" the study concludes.
WE'RE JUST A BABE!
To rank SO highly among the
PatiOn's labor papers and to have
become SO widely circulated is an
Exceptional honor, the study points
put, since the year-old UNION
TIMES is but babe compared to
he other AFL papers, which aver
ge 33 years of publication.
THE UNION TIMES carries
Tenty per cent more local news
IAN the average of fifty labor
eeklies surveyed, and has been
teadiIy increasing its coverage and
Appeal since its beginning.
800 LABOR WEEKLIES
The study gathered statistics on the
htire labor press, finding that about
b20 other labor weeklies are published
n the United States. Six hundred
nd seventy-six papers are printed in
only three of which are dailies.
hbor papers have a combined cir
hlation estimated between 10 and 10
million. Half of the labor papers in
he country are AFL papers, one sixth
CIO, and a third general labor
bapers."
The paper was cited as exceptional
Rlso in its personality sketches of
|abor leaders, its "As We See 1t"
Iolumn, and its hard-hitting edi-
Forials.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-05-30

Write a letter i'm War Bonds to
your Union brothers in the Army.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
j. :. Plane DESIGNS
Change Swiftly as
War Tests Dictate
Bottle Pilots Findings
Go at Once to PIonts,
,Mortin OfficioI Soys

b. the Associated Press.
The lesson q United States bomber
pilot learns In combat over Aus
tralia's island fringe today is In the
hands OF Washington aircraft ex-
perts tomorrow, is being relayed to
the aircraft manufacturers "a hours
later, and is being adapted to new
machines by the following week.
That essential feature of the plane
production picture was detailed for
members of the Aviation Writers
Association, concluding their three
day annual meeting, when they Wis
tied the Martin bomber plant at
Middle River, Nd, yesterday. Its
exponent was Joseph Harrison, Mar
tins executive vice president.
Mr.. Harrison emphasized that there
can be nothing static about the war
time turnout of military planes, that
it is an extremely fluid process in
which operational experiences must
be and are incorporated as promptly
as possible into the planes on the
assembly line.
That is why 1t Is nonsense to
become involved in arguments over
mass production OF automobiles as
compared to what I prefer to call
quantity production Of planes" he
declared.
Automobile manufacturers could
pick out one model and go into pro-
duction on that for q year. There
was no need to make any changes
in the meantime, but whatever i'm
provements had been devised could
be put into the next years model
all In good time.
"Ip any case. what does the term
mass production mean? The auto
mobile industry used to turn out
$500, 900 cars a year. That, COM
pared to our present task of turning
out $4,000 planes in two years,
sounds like a staggering figure.
But then I can turn around and
show you a single factory capable
Of turning out in one day as many
tin cans as the automobiles pro-
duced in an entire year, simply
OCSouoC ~ 10 Oil CFCIl ulOIC SCdIlO.
ardized process.
I'VE can't afford to be too stand
ardized. If the aircraft manufac-
turers discover that a certain type
Of plane needs q specified improve
ment to operate effectively in North
Africa, for instance, they have to
60 to work on installing that i'm
afford to allow the enemy any ad-
vantage even for one hour more
than necessary"
In this connection Glen L. Mar
tin, president of the company. said
that the B-26 now adaptable to
torpedo-carrying (as shown at Mid
way, as well as medium bombing,
is up-to-date on all improvements
that have been found essential.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
Second Stain Son, Officer
In Air Force, Decorated
B, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, June 22-Joseph v.
Stains son. VASTLY. yesterday was
awarded the Order of the Red Ban
ner for his services as a colonel in
the Russian Air Force
The decoration awarded young
Stain, who still is in his 20S, was in
a long list announced en- the eve of
the first anniversary Of Germany's
invasion of the Soviet Union.
Another of Stalin's sons, Jacob, a
lieutenant, was mentioned in dis
patches last August Is for fighting
with an artillery battery until his
last round of ammunition was fired
(The Germans claimed the
capture of Jacob Stain last July
81 and the Berlin radio subse-
quently carried an interview
purportedly with him.
Vassily's citation said Stains son
had "eXcellently carried out mill
tary command projects in front line
battle with German aggressors,
showing simultaneously bravery and
valor."
This was the first disclosure thai:
Stalins second son was fighting at
the front.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
YugosIav King Leaves
CAPITAL for Few Davs

King Peter II of Yugoslavia, who
arrived here as plain Mr.. Obreno-
witch. was to leave Washington to-
day to spend "a few days in the
country" The State Department
said he would return here WedneS-
day on a state visit
The boy monarch, only 18,
reached here yesterday by plane
after a trip from London, which is
the headquarters of the Yugoslav
government = in exile, accompanied
by the governments foreign minis
ter, M. Ninchich.
Arrangements have been made
for Peter to marry Princess Alex
andra. daughter of King George II
of Greece, who was recently Presi-
dent Roosevelt's guest.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
Civilian Defense Lioison
Group to Meet Soon

A new committee of the Southeast
Neighborhood Council, set up last
week to coordinate the work of the
council with District civilian defense
organizations, will hold it's first
meeting in the next few days, B. G..
Ladd, civilian defense director for
the Southeast area, said today.
The new group was established at
the councils regular meeting last
Tuesday at the request of Wash
ington civilian mobilization officials
Robert L. Paul, 121 Twelfth street
Sc, is chairman.
Other members of the committee
are Emmett Mckenzie, the Rev.
Paul Moore, Miss Mary H. Roney,
Mrs. L. H. Armiger, Miss Alice Leigh
Byars, Miss Mary Bullick and Miss
Myrtle G. Ince.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
British Catholic Pre|ates
Urge 10-Point Program
p the Associated Press.

z, the Associated Press.
LONDON, June pa pastoral
letter signed by Cardinal Hinsley
and other high Roman Catholic
prelates of Britain yesterday urged
renewal of the Christian spirit OF
brotherhood" in a 10-point program
listing minimum conditions for
the Christian way of life"
The letter, read in all Catholic
churches in England and Wales
urged:
Il. A living wage based on suf-
ficiency for comfort and saving.
%. This should be the first charge
on industry.
"3. Determining factors are an
agreed standard of work, capacity
of industry to pay, agreed minimum
average family.
a. When the employer cannot
pay the minimum, the difference
should be made up by a wage per-
centage pool or by the state.
IS. A wife should not have to work
to insure a minimum living income.
IS. No one should have to sleep
in the living room. There should
be satisfactory sanitation and a
bathroom for each family. Slums
should be abolished.
~. A ban on commerce in birth
prevention appliances.
"8. A ban on obscene books.
80. Religious education meeting
the wishes of parents available for
all school children.
10. The enormous inequality in
distribution of wealth and control
of lives of the masses by a COM
paratively few rich people is against
the social order. There must be a
renewal of the Christian spirit of
brotherhood which the last few gen.
erations of scientific prosperity and
get rich quick have gone far to kill. B"
Evening star., 1942-06-22
Wife of Naval Officer
Hangs Self in Home

The body of Mrs. Sue F. Mason
a, ukfe of Comdr. Robert E. Mason,
U. S. NJ, was found hanging by q
bedsheet from a doorframe In her
apartment at the Marlyn, Thirty
ninth street and Cathedral avenue
NV, late yesterday, police reported
The discovery was made when
Comdr. Mason and the couples 49,
year-old son, Robert. jr, returned
from a drive. Deputy Coroner
Christopher j. Murphy, who issued
a suicide certificate, said Mrs
Mason had been in i'll health. A
note was found, but police did not
divulge it's contents.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
Germans Offer $500
For Dutch Soboteurs

B, tic Associated Press.
LONDON. June 22.-The Ger
mans have offered a -guilders
(about 81, ,700) reward for the arrest
of saboteurs who damaged electri-
cal installations in the Netherlands
Province of Utrecht last April,
Aneta. rhe Netherlands Indies news
agency, reported today.
Damage listed by the Germans. it
said. included the saving of a cable
support for a radio mast at Zeist,
the breaking of an electrical circuit
at Biltilover and the destruction
of switch boxes at Soest.
Evening star., 1942-06-22
Little Progress Made
By Japs in Closing
Gap in China Line
Campaign Appears to Have
Settled Into Bitter
See-Sow Struggle
d, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, June 22-The
Japanese effort to close the gap
between their columns driving from
either end of the strategic 450-mile
Chekiang- -Kiangsi Railway has
made no substantial progress in the
last four days and the Chinese still
hold approximately so miles of the
line, informed sources indicated
today.
The campaign, centering in East
ern KiangSi Province, appeared to
have settled into bitter see-saw
struggle after five weeks OF steady
japanese advance. The Chinese,
who have reported exacting tremen-
dous losses from the invaders at
every step, have not recorded any
japanese gains along the railway
since June l8.
Neither has the Toxic radio,
as recorded in New York, claimed
any definite gains since that
date0
Kweiki Reached.
At that time the Chinese COM
mand admitted that the east-bound
japanese columns had reached
Kweiki, southeast of Nanchang,
while the column driving west from
Chekiang Province was reported a
little west of Shanghai.
The Chinese also claimed to have
stopped the Japanese at Kwang-
feng in a southwark drive, which as
an of1shoot of the Chekiang- -Kiangsi
offensive, aimed at the southern sea-
board province of Fukien.
Chinese troops, fighting with
rocks, hand grenades and machine
guns against 10000 japanese troops
supported by planes and heavy guns,
have repulsed seven attempts of the
invaders to storm mountain pass
In a bitter struggle along the
Honan-Shansi border north Of the
Yellow River, the Chinese high
command announced yesterday.
Four Attacks in One Day.
Opening a new offensive north
of the Yellow River, the japanese
drove northward from Linhsien. in
North Honan Province 80 miles west
of the Peiping- -Hankow Railway. on
June II, the communique said, and
succeeded in driving the Chinese
back to the foothills of the Taiheng
Mountain Range.
There in a rugged pass the
Chinese hurled back three attacks
on June Is and IA and four the
next day, rolling stones down on
four attacking columns to sup
lement their concentrated machine
gun fire.
Although the Japanese suffered
heavy casualties. the fighting was
said to be continuing. The jap
anese were said to have lost 1000
men in the first day Of the fighting.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Capital Transit Bus Line
Extended in Southeast

The Capital Transit Co. was or
dered yesterday by the Public Util-
tiles Commission to extend its ca
bus line to serve the area Of Ala
bama avenue, Thirty-fourth street.
Bangor and Thirty-sixth streets and
Suitland road Sc, beginning April
10.
This followed a contest before
the commission between the transit
company and the Washington, Marl-
boro and Annapolis Motor Lines,
Inc, as to which company should
serve the area.
At the same time the Arlington
and Fairfax Motor Transportation
Co., which last July was permitted
to operate rush-hour service be-
tween Washington and Arlington
County to give service to Federal
buildings across the District boun-
dairy, was authorized to make this
q regular day service, effective i'm
mediately.
The commission also authorized
the Capital Transit Co. to extend
its bus service to the Naval Research
Laboratory from Fourth and Chesa-
peake streets S.W. to Fourth street
and Laboratory road S.W. to be ef-
fective ON completion Of a turn
around in the Naval Research
Laboratory grounds.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Kern Asks Why Flynn
Continues in Party Post

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.-Paul J.
Kern, dismissed president Of the
Municipal Civil Service Commission,
issued a statement today asking why
Edward j. Flynn. National Demo-
cratic chairman. did not resign.
Mr.. Kern has charged that Mr..
Flynn used city employees and ma
terials to pave the Belgian courtyard
of his Lake Mahopac IN. " country
home.
Bronx District Attorney Samuel
Foley said he would present the
charges to the grand jury, and Mr..
Flynn, in a statement yesterday,
asked for q full investigation and
promised he would waive immunity
to testify. Mr.. Foley announced that
Mr.. Flynn would be called at the
proper time.
Mr. Flynn said the charges were
"unmitigated lies" and termed Mr..
Kern "a cheap sniper who is piqued
by the disclosures concerning him."
Evening star., 1942-03-15

There's a big brick building just
outside the Navy Yard gate at
Delaware avenue and P street SW.
that has a job to do. 1t keeps in
repair the biggest fleet of its kind
in the country-a dry land feet,
which has nothing to do with
the Navy.
1t is the Capital Transit Co.'S
bus maintenance shop. where ma
chimes roar to keep 9l9 big vehicles
in shape for Washington traffic.
The cars compose the largest fleet
of buses in any American city
and compare with 451 carriers on
the famous Fifth avenue line in
New York.
They are hauling about 100000
people a month-approXimately so
per cent more than last year. OF
500 new vehicles on order at the
beginning of the year. the company
has obtained 54 Another 40 are
expected by the end of this month.
The other 406 that are needed may
or may not arrive-the decision will
rest with the War Production
Board.
Young Man Runs Big Job.
Keeping the fleet in repair under
such conditions is the job of A. F.
McDougald, young man who,
surprisingly enough, appears to have
no headache.
AS superintendent of automotive
maintenance he has kept in active
service a number of bus patriarchs-
many of the vehicles are II years
old. He claims it was this feat
done while maintaining safety-that
helped win for his company the l94l
maintenance competition sponsored
by the American Transit Associa-
ton.
He says that approximately 25
per cent of his buses are kept out of
service each day. Many more are
worked on, however, between the
rush hours. Once these inspections
and repairs could be done in the day.
time, but staggered Government
hours have cut this time so short
that three shifts Of mechanics, total
ing 222 men, keep six bus garages
busy "a hours a day.
Down at the main shop, where
heavy repairs and paint jobs are
done, SO mechanics are preparing
to operate a double shift.
Magic Machines.
One of the machines there is
gun which sprays steel as easily as
a hose squirts water. 1t is used to
build up parts such as crankshafts
that have been worn down and
would otherwise have to be scrapped.
TwinkNng like a huge sparkler, the
spray is handled by J. M. Varnell
Evening star., 1942-03-15

and E. L. .Leer, who say that Z
layer. of their metal is harder than
original steel parts.
Another device is the huge dyna-
nonometer. A dismounted bus en-
gine is hitched to this, after recon-
ditioning, and broken in more gently
than road conditions would permit.
At intervals strictly determined by
mileage, removable bus parts are
sent down to the shop for renova-
ton while the vehicles continue in
operation with spare requirements.
Both in the main shop and in the
six garages the lotion buses can be
thrown in the air by hydraulic
hoists for easy inspection.
Inspections occur daily, and more
vigorously at 1000, 5000 and 5000
mile intervals. Though buses are
eligible for rationed tires, Mr.. Nc
Dougald has issued a seven-page
standard prictice bulletin" of tire
care. ranging from orders not to
drive over debris to technical in
struction on brake adjustment.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
New Source Of Rubber

SALT LAKE CITY P.-More
than 100000 tons of rabbit brush,
an undeveloped source of rubber, dot
Federal grazing lands in the West,
e. R. Greenslet of the grazing serv-
ice says.
The plant has no grazing value
and its removal would help the
range. Mr.. Greenslet estimates
117,258 tons Of rubber could be pro-
duced from the shrubs tonnage. One
thing is lacking-a processing plant.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
President of Coed Unit
Of Bows Club Elected

Harry Bond has been elected pres
ident of the newly-formed COED
Club of the Boys Club, a group Or
ganized for social activities. A st.
Patrick's Day celebration at 7 pm.
tomorrow in the club rooms, Sew
enteenth and Massachusetts, avenue
Sc, will mark the official opening
of the Co-Ed Club.
Other officers ere Louise Weigand,
vice president; Bunky Benson,
treasurer, and Phoebe Miller, secre-
tary. The group is under the super
vision of August Mascara, director
of clubs and classes of the Boys
Club.
Evening star., 1942-03-15

About three -fourths OF Venezu-
elias crude oil Is refined on the
Netherlands West Indian Islands
of Curacao and Aruba.