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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

THE DEATH OF David E. Fitz-
Gerald Sr. of New Haven, National
Democratic Committeeman, robs
Connecticut of its last political giant.
Such men as J. Henry Roraback, Col.
Isaac NJ. Ullman, and FITZGERALD
had passion for politics, and enjoyed
the game tremendously. The DAYS of
the political giants are going fast.
Even Jersey City's Frank Hague isn't
as strong as he once was. Power isn't
enough these days. You have to de-
clare yourself, and once ideas invade
politics, the political leader stands or
tails, depending on how accurately he
gauges the desires of the electorate.
II you doubt this, ask Jim Farley.
THE UNION TIMES appears in
a slightly changed dress this week.
In the interests of conservation, we
have been forced to eliminate some
OF the white space between each line
of type although the size of the type
remains the same.
AN APPARENTLY PARADOX
CAL SITUATION exists i'm daily
newspaper reports on the employ.
ment situation. The reader is led to
think that employers are actually
begging for labor, but if he goes
and many have gone-to the
office of the u. S. Employment
Service, he finds there a great
throng of persons looking for
work. The case i'm point is that of
the three New Haven union bust
ness agents who applied at the
office this week for part-time work
TO help the industrial effort. They
read that part-time shifts are going
to be put on i'm industries to aid
the war production effort. They
couldn't get near the interviewer
because of the crowd of applicants
for jobs.
FORTY TO FIFTY membloyed
BricklayerS haze been trying in voin
to find factory employment, REPORTS
James DiLondrdo, business agent of
Brtckloyers Local 6, NezV Haven. we
hGOe reports from reliable sources
that it is very difficult to get job
in the. better-baying industries. On the
other hand, aOe haze been told ".the
only place you can get q job is in
those places zehere they pay IS cents
an hour"
1.-THE SHORTAGE OF HELP is
only evident in shops where they
pay low wages the better pay
ing places actually have more men
than they can use-so they tell you
when you apply" states Business
Agent George A. Joslyn, of Local
40, Sheet Metal Workers. There is
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Battle Just Begun,
Pres. Green Says
(A.F.L. News Servfce)

NEW YORK CITY-AFL Pres
ident William Green hailed the Am
erican invasion of North Africa and
the Allied offensive in Libya as the
forerunner of a second front in
Europe.
Addressing a mass meeting of TO-
600 in Madison Square Garden, Mr..
Green declared:
Surely the momentum of the new
offensive cannot and will not be per-
mitted to end with the defeat of the
Axis armies on only one sector of
the worlds battlefronts. I prefer to
accept it as a battle just begun.
I'VE do not know nor can we safely
anticipate where or in what way this
Allied offensive will be extended and
carried forward. We must leave that
to the military experts of the United
Nations who are planning their
strategy on worldwide basis"
Mr.. Green, who spoke at a meeting
arranged by the Congress of Ameri-
can-Soviet Friendship, gave high
praise to the stalwart defense of the
Russian armies on the eastern front.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
S.B.L.I. Sells
First Million
In This State
Workers Have Bought Over
; 5000 Of Low Cost Life
Insurance

The first million dollars of Saw
ings Bank life Insurance in force
has been reached by the seventeen
Connecticut mutual savings banks
now offering this low-cost life i'm
surance to persons living or regu-
larry employed in Connecticut. The
amount i'm force as of October 3Ist
was $1,O13,9O.
FINE RESPONSE
The response to Savings Bank Life
Insurance in the industrial cities of
Bridgeport, Waterbury and New
Haven has been very encouraging and
the applications for ten months in
the amount of 81, 366,750 show that
wage earners are taking advantage of
securing life insurance through the
mutual savings banks. Slightly over
500 of the applications are from
people in the wage earning class. APP
proxirnately 500 of the applications
that have been received to date have
been for $1,000 of insurance or less
and the percentage of applicants who
have no previous insurance at the time
of making application still continues
to be about 1870.
The mutual savings banks iden-
tilted with the system in Connect
cut have written as much insurance
in the first ten months of opera
ton as was written by the mutual
savings banks identified with the
Massachusetts plan during their
first two years of operation.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Carpenters Are
Upheld By Court

ST. LOUIS.-The right of mem
bers of the United Brothers of Car
penters & Joiners to refuse to handle
materials not bearing the union label
was upheld in 3 decisions of the St.
Louis County Circuit Court. The
state Supreme Court had referred the
cases to the county court for final
decision.
In one of the cases the court ruled
"The enforcement of the trade rule
by the union was not inspired by
malice, nor was it for the primary
purpose of inficting injury to the
company, but was for the prime and
sole purpose of securing better terms
and conditions of employment for the
members of the union, and for that
purpose was perfectly proper and
legal"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21

School Employees
Prepare Demands

The Grievance Committee of the
newly chartered Hartford Board of
Education Non-Instructional EN-
ployes Union, Local $50, of the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees,
are preparing demands for long
overdue wage increases from the
Hartford Board of Education, ac-
cording to Owen Ferguson, presi-
dent of the new local.
FIRST in STATE
This organization is the first
A. F. L. union among Connecticut
non-instructional school workers, and
it is the result, members report, of
learning the hard way that we can't
get anywhere without a real union. !"
Janitors, maintenance men and custo-
dams had tried unsuccessfully to
secure raises to meet the rising cost
of living from the school board in
Hartford for over two years.
At the Charter meeting they voted
to affiliate with the Hartford Central
Labor Union, said Frank Morris, sec
reary of c. L. u. who was present.
There are seventy charter members
of Local $50, and after receiving the
charter last week, they lost no time
in delegating the grievance committee
to prepare demands for wage in
creases. Ali requests must be in the
hands of the School Boards Budget
Committee before January |, in order
to be considered for inclusion in the
1913 budget which goes into effect
April l, 1913.
Although new local is comprised
of manual CONSTITUTIONAL school
workers, Office employees are invited
to join.
Local $50, Hartford School En-
ployes will meet once a month. The
members set the meeting day for the
first Monday of the month.
OFFICERS ELECTED
Officers of the new local are
Owen Ferguson, president; John T.
Ratigan, vice-president; Samuel Tiller,
financial secretary; Peter Rago, rec
ording secretary; and Orrin w.
Jones, treasurer. The grievance COM
mittee is comprised of: Peter FAC
cagnino, custodians; James Sullivan
maintenance crew; John I. RAD
gan and James Curry, janitors; and
Mrs. Nora A. Mccarthy, matrons.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Senators Will
Support Anti
Poll Tax Bill.
Maloney, Danaher Assure
N. H. Council They Will
Vote Right

The New Haven Central Labor
Council has received replies from
Senators Francis Maloney and John
A. Danaher in answer to the Coun-
ellis request for support of the
tax measure, which is now
on the floor of the Senate for con-
sideration, after having been passed
in the House of Representatives.
Both Connecticut senators indicated
that they will support the bill,
which is now being INSTRUCTED by
Southern senator's. Sen. Danaher
revised the language of the Houses
version of the bill.
DANAHER LETTER
His letter follows:
"You will be interested to know
that to me was assigned the duty of
revising the language of the Pepper
Anti-Poll Tax Bill which the Judici-
airy Committee favorably reported to
the Senate on Oct. 26. Of course /
support the measure"
Sen. Maloney wrote:
''Please let me acknowledge re.
ceipt of your letter of Nov. 10.
telling me of the interest of the
members of the Central Labo,
Council of New Haven i'm the So
called Pepper-Ceyer anti-pol tax
bill.
Il am very pleased to have the
views of your members and
thank you for your letter.
Il am among those anxious tt
see ''poll taxes" abolished.''
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Bus Drivers
Hit Badly By
IS MPH Rule
Union Representatives Seek
Relief From Hardship
Created BY O.D.T.

Representatives of the Anal
gamated Association of Street Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach EN-
pIOyes of America. met in Chicago
last week and demanded that labor
agreements with transportation
companies employing bus operators
on a mileage, basis be opened to
provide relief from hardships inn
posed upon operators by the re-
cent order of the Office of Defense
transportation cutting highway
speeds to IS miles per hour.
MANY AFFECTED
Bus drivers all over the country
have been adversely affected by the
0. D. T. order which was made to
conserve rubber and gasoline. Their
incomes have been drastically cut and
their hours of employment heightened.
SUGGEST REMEDIES
The union representatives put forth
the following measures as a means of
remedying the situation:
/. Restoration of earnings to
level before the reduction in speed
and compensation for the increased
hours of work.
2. Minimum of eight hours pay
per day for six days per week.
8. Overtime at the rate of time
and one-half after eight hours on
duty and for all time on duty on
the seventh consecutive day on
duty. (The interstate bus drivers
are not covered by the time and
One-half provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act.)
4. Overtime at the rate of time
and one-half after ten consecutive
hours of spread of time on duty.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Machinists In New
Britain Win Raise

Wage increases from three to
fourteen cents an hour have been
awarded to members ofLocal l249,
Machinists, at the North and Judd
Manufacturing Co., New Britain, i'm
the settlement of six-mOnth dis
pute, said J. til. DeCantillon, Grand
Lodge |. A. nj. Representative. The
Connecticut Department of Labor
aided the union in the settlement
said DeCantillon.
FIVE GROUPS
Included in the agreement IS the
rec1assihcation of mechanics covered
by the pact into five groups instead
of Is, ending a six year contention
on that point between the company
and the union, which has held bar
gaining contracts with the firm since
1884, said DeCantillon.
Following a strike threat i'm
September, the case was taken to
Gov. Robert A. Hurley under terms
of the Victory Compact. Gov. Hur-
ley turned it over to the Depart
ment of Labor for investigation.
Jack Hayes, deputy commissioner
of labor was assigned to the case,
and he was instrumental in bring
ing it a successful conclusion for
the machinists.
BONUS ABOLISHED
The new contract calls for the
abo1ishihg of the War Bonus system
at the plant in lieu of the straight
wage increases. The increases are sub
jected to approval of the War Labor
Board under terms of the Economic
Sterilization Order.
LOCAL 1896
The 200 members of Local
1896, Machinists at the Atlantic
Wire Co.., Branford, have been re-
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
INCREASES PERMITTED

INCREASES PERMITTED
Under this procedure any increase
in the cost of living between May l
and Sept. ! would be ignored in
dealing with wages. If increases
granted since May l amounted to
Is per cent then the employees
would not be eligible for further
increases except under conditions
specified in the Presidents order.
The executive order permits in
creases in order to correct maIad-
Justments or gross inequities, sub
standard conditions and those ne
cessary to aid in the effective
prosecution of the war.
The ten regional directors of the
board, according to the policy
adopted, will have authority to pass
upon the question of wage maIad-
Justments. If the wage situation in
a given case shows the existence
of gross inequities, substandard
conditions or that wage adjustments
might help in the war effort. these
will be determined by the board
itself.
The Labor Board control covers
all wages and some salaries under
$1,000 year and applies to about
half million employers.
APPEAL PROCEDURE
Provision is made in the policy
adopted for appeals from the wage
decisions of regional directors to
regional panels consisting of rep
reSentat1ves of labor, management
and the public. In some cases appeals
will be permitted to the board itself
WAGE ADJUSTMENTS
The declaration approved speci-
hcally covers certainS industries in
which regional directors will have
authority to make wage adjustments.
Dut they will not have such authority
over industries omitted from the list
his arrangement was made in order
that the board itself may retain con-
troll over, major industries so that a
regional director in one area NAV not
upset a general wage situation in a
large industry.
Normal wage differentiaIs in a
plant or industry will not be dis
turbed under the policy. However.
the board will review cases where
wage differences are so great as tn
raise the question of whether a
manifest Injustice is being done
to one group.
The board did not adopt a general
policy covering the handling of sub
standard wages because it felt that it
had too few cases upon which to base
such policy.
REVIEWS POSSIBLE
Where management and labor
agree on wage increase, approved
by the War ManpOwer Commission.
the board, under its authority from
the President, will review the agree
ment.
The Is per cent formula is said
to mark terminal point for wage
increases of general nature. How
ever, the policy, it was said, will not
prevent upward adjustment of
wages in individual cases due to
promotions and higher job classifi-
cation IN the ordinary manner.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Electrical Workers
Break All Records

A dramatic example of how union
workers are smashing records on war
production was brought to light in a
letter of praise received by Local No.
$50 of the Electrical Workers at
Sheffield, Ala, from the Reynolds
Metals Company.
Members of the local were assigned
the job of installing huge transform
ers, rectihers and other equipment, as
we'll as 100000 pounds of cable, in
new plants to meet the company's big
program of aluminium production.
The management estimated the in
stallations would take seven and one
half months, but the unionists did the
job in five and one-half. "This extra
two months of aluminium production, :"
the company wrote, SIS equivalent to
a direct contribution of 900 war planes
to the war effort by the electrical
workers of Local No. $751;"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
NY. Painters
Give $4,000
lnDay'sWage
5000 Members Help Is
Relief Organizations
And Allied Funds

NEW YORK-More than $4,000
collected from donations of days
wages from 5000 members of Dis
trict Councils 9, Ii and % of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Decor
atOrs and Paperhangers of Amer
lea was distributed last week among
rs relief organizations. The presen-
tatiOns were made at ceremony at
tended by Representatives of the
War Relief Agencies, national and
state Federation of Labor, N. Y.
Building and Construction Trades
Council and officers and members
of the Painters Union.
RECIPIENTS
Professor H. A. Gray, impartial
chairman of the painting industry,
presented the checks. The follow
ing organizations were recipients of
20 percent of the total:
Greater N. Y. Fund, Red Cross,
USO, Army & Navy Relief, United
China Relief, Russian War Relief
and British War Relief.
The Allied War Relief received
10 percent distributed among:
Greek War Relief, Maltese War
Relief, Spanish Joint Anti-Fascist
Refugee Committee, Scandinavian
War Relief, Jugoslavian Fighters,
Czechoslovakian Relief, Free French,
Polish Labor War Relief and Italian
Anti-Fascist War Relief Organiza-
ton.
1000 in SERVICE
Home Front Relief Organizations
received 10 percent, and another 10
percent was allotted for gifts to the
LOCO New York painters in the
service.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS
AND STAMPS

Ellison So each we're supposed to con-
tain 18 razor blades a carton of
cigarets cookies, peanuts, candy and
magazine.
Nagler's suspicious were aroused
when letters came from recipients
all over the world thanking the
union for 2 packs of cigarets and
6 razor blades. Nagler wrote all IS
former employees and asked them
to send him lists of exactly what
they received. When the lists came
back, Nagler's suspicious were con-
frmed and Ellison was arrested.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Byrnes' Firm Workers
Placed Under Arrest

SPARTANBURG, S. C.-Unwar-
ranted arrests have been made of 7
AFL unionists locked out by the
Draper Corp, iron foundry whose
stock is largely owned by Stabiliza-
ton Director James F. Byrnes, a ma
tive of Spartanburg, and U. S. Judge
Wyches. A Department of Justice in
vestigation has been demanded.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Father And Son
.lnductedInArmy

Dominick Venditti, "A, and his son,
Patsy Venditti, p, members of
Local 665, Bridgeport Building
Laborers, WHO were indicted in the
Y. 5. Army last week, will enter the
service this week, according to
Gaetano Nobi1i, business agent of the
local. Domenico Granata, "a. another
member was recently indicted, bring
ing the total of the Locals COS mem
bers in the services UP to Is, said
Nobili.
The business agent said that all
members of the Bridgeport Building
Laborers union are employed and that
the supply balances the demand. About
200 of the 800 members have Jobs in
war plants.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Machinists Win
A Long Battle

CALDWELL, N. J-Both local
propeller plants of Curtiss- Wright
Corp. ended an anti-union fight when
they signed their first contract with
the Init. Assn. of Machinists.
Faced with NLRB charges of
using the draft to get rid of unionists,
the company last May agreed to put
an end to Propellercraft Inc, a COM
pany union.
The IAN subsequently won an cleo
ton and the contract was negotiated.
A one-week strike was conducted by
the union in August 1o41.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Unionists In Army Are Chiseled
Out OF Their Christmas Gifts

NEW YORK.-Members of the
Init. Ladies Garment Workers
Union believe they have discovered
a candidate for the meanest man i'm
the u. S. He is Pres. William F.
Ellison of the United Package Ser
vice Inc, who was arrested last
week on charges of using the mails
to defraud.
Ellison is charged by Exec. Mgr.
Isidor Nagler of Local 10, ILGWU,
with having cheated on the contents
of gift boxes sent former employees
of the local now in the armed forces.
The boxes for which the union paid
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Electricians Are Negotiating
New Contract With RockbestOs

The present contract expires Jan.
z and the locals Rockbestos negoti-
ating committee met Tuesday with
the management to discuss terms of
the new contract.
A membership meeting was called
for Thursday this week and another
will be held on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 8
P. M. at the Labor Temple, to discuss
the contract said Rourke.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Government Takes Over
Road That Defed Board

WASHINGTON - The Toledo
Peoria & Western Railroads contin-
ned defiance of the National War
Labor Boards Sept. q directive was
met last week by the Boards unani-
nous order that the railway should
not be returned to its owners for the
duration.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21

An increase in wages, the closed
shop and promotions based on length
of service, is sought in the new con-
tract between members of New
Haven Local, BOO, Electrical Work
ers and the Rockbestos Products
Corp. Joseph T. Rourke, business
representative of the local, said this
week.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Union Label Urged
On Christmas Gifts

Buy your Christmas gifts
now, but be sure they carry
the union label! That appeal
to workers was sounded this
week by l. M. Ornburn, Sec
retary-treasurer of the A. F.
of L. Union Label Trades
Department.
''Union label buying is the
best method to preserve free
American labor unions," Orn-
burn said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Will Use "Little
Steel" Formula

WASHINGTON d. C.-The War Labor Board has decided
that its control yardsck would based
its Little Steep principle whereby wageearners
titled increase Is per cover the rise in living
costs between Jan. l, l94l, and May 1, 1912.
The policy directive agreed upon by the labor manage
men and public members states that wages Sept are
equitable and increases above will be made
only in accordance with the Presidents executive order of
October 3.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
MODERN LADY CODIVAS

PUEBLO, Colo. = Women have
been hired as armed guards at the
U. S. Army ordnance depot here.
Many of them ride horseback while
On duty.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21
Hartford To Buy
Fighter Plane


Arthur Mackerney, Business Agent
for the Hartford Building Laborers
Union, has been selected as A. F. L.
representative on the CITY OF Hart
ford' Fighter Plane Drive.
He is contracting Hartford A. F. L.
locals and members soliciting ST
certificates of participation in the
campaign to raise $4,000 for the pur-
chase of plane for the armed forces
by the citizens of Hartford.
The WPB is now working on
plans to limit the amounts of con-
sumner goods that manufacturers,
wholesalers, and retailers may keep
on hand.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-11-21

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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-07-25
Thug Shot
Robbing
Store

A sensational hold-up occurred
at the John Hardy Shoe store, "A
Monroe avenue, at $3.50 pm.
Tuesday. which resulted In the
death OF a Negro bandit. When
the thug entered the store. Elmer
Clark. the clerk, was alone. The
man drew a gun from his pocket
and ordered Clark to give him all
the money in the place. The sum OK
1925 was taken from the cash
register and strong box.
Three customers entered the
store at this time and Clark in
vited them to be seated. The
bandit ordered Clark 10 give him
the store key and made him walk
with him outside the door. Then
he locked the customers inside
and had the clerk accompany him
along Monroe street
The manager, Bruno Cualazzi,
met the couple a short distance
from the store and sensing trou-
be followed them. AT the corner
Of Randolph and Monroe. he saw
q traffic officer. Patrolman Leslie
Bowdell. and told him the bandit
had gun and was forcing his
clerk 10 follow him. The officer
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