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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
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Have One Big
Time July Is
Local 443's Dinner Dance
Includes Entertainment,
Favors For Ladies

Pelligrino's Musical Caravan
from New Haven will furnish the
music for the testimonial dinner
dance to Business Agent John
Pisano and Secy.-Treas. John
''Red'' Allen sponsored by Local
443, Bridgeport & New Haven
Teamsters Union, on Saturday eve
ming, July Is, at the Hotel Taft.
Business Agent Hartley Sailor"
Martin, fully recovered from his re-
cent operation, will be able to enjoy
himself fully at the affair, for he
reports his appetite was never better
However, he said, he never wants to
go under a similar operation again.
1t was a very painful experience.
Harry Tom1in, local favorite and
member of the American Federation
of Variety Artists, a magician, will
give his own original act as part of
the elaborate entertainment program
lined up by the Transfers. Favors
will be provided for the ladies.
THREE COMMITTEES
The event, whose success is a
foregone conclusion, has been
handled by three committees with
President Matty RuoppOlO and
Vice-President William ''Red''
Sullivan program director and as
sistant. director, respectively. The
''ad'' committee includes Louis
Zelinsky, chairman; Matty Sullivan,
Reds brother, vice-chairman; Paul
COppola and Pasquale De MaiO.
Samuel Kasowitz, chairman; Geo.
Masselli, Steven Cusch and John
OronzO comprise the ticket COM
mittee. John AmendOla, William
Slivinski, Frank Barretta, John
Cannon, Mario Scala and Emery
Scarra are the members of the well
coming committee.
Another affair being given by
Gentlemen of the Road" the name
given teamsters by Dr. Miller Nc
Clintock, Yale University, takes place
on Sunday, July 70, at Loring's Grove,
Yalesville This ones a picnic spon-
sored by The Happy -Four, members
of Local 443. The Happy Four are
John Melnick, Bristol Roy Hazard,
Richard De Dominick and Teddy
Kolowsky, all from Meriden. Admis-
sion is fifty cents and entities the pur-
chaser to five beers and free dancing.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
; Professors
Who Defended
Unions Fired
Texas Instructors Spoke
Against Anti Union, Anti
New Deal Drive

AUSTIN, Tex. - Three Texas
University instructors have been
fired because they tried to speak
up against the intensive anti-union
and anti-New Deal drive which has
been going on in this state since
Pearl Harbor.
Despite protests from labor
unions and such organizations as
the League of Women Voters, the
state board of regents voted unan-
imOusly not to reappoint ]. Fagg
Foster, Wendell Gordon and w.
N. Peach. These three attempted to
speak from the floor of an anti
labor grass roots rally in Dallas
last March %.
ANY RULE BROKEN?
Although the four instructors were
interviewed for an entire afternoon
by the regents, neither they nor the
public were told which rule or regu-
lation they had violated by exercising
the right of free speech.
After they had made their point
in statement to Dallas newspapers
the next day, the four professors
were denounced by the Dallas
Ne,Os, which had promoted the
rally. A Dallas judge, T. W. David
son, called on the regents to "clean
up Texas University's radical Geo.
Monies department"
All are in the economics depart
ment and have good scholastic rec
ords. A fight against their dismissals
was made by the Daily TexGn, student
newspaper.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
As We See It
by
THE STAFF

CONCRATS TO JOE ROURKE,
Local 90, Electricians Union, the
workers at Rockbestos, and the
Rockbestos Products Corporation,
on the signing of the union con-
tract. This was an organizing job
well done. With labor relations sta
bilized, and the employees salts
fed, all concerned can now con-
centrate on production. In this way
our country's war effort, the union,
and the Rockbestos Corporation all
benefit, sOhich is as it should be!
MANY NEW HAVENERS remem-
Der r. r. r. Brooks, gOho has inst
been appointed director of the labor
division of OPP. Brooks zvaS breSi-
dent of the Yale Teachers Union,
Local 2O4, and 1Uus dean of the Labor
College for several years.
SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE
JULY 4 PARADE: All the credit in
the world to Carpenters, Local 70;
Transfers, Local 443; and Brew
cry Workers, No. 81, who had the
largest delegations. Iron Workers,
Local 424, had tough break when
their float broke down before it
got to New Haven. The two-hour
wait at Chapel and Orchard was
inevitable, but some of the boys
took advantage of the wait by for
tifying themselves with sarsa-
parilla and cream soda. That horse
and-buggy idea. of the Transfers
was pretty neat, and the trucks
were whOppers. Harry Feinmark
and Matty Ruoppolo did a good
job representing the ALL. on the
parade committee. Remarkable
how crowded the places around
the Labor Temple were after the
parade broke up. You couldn't get
lemon soda in a hurry if your
life depended on it. Some of the
boys are talking about Labor Day
parade by the New Haven Central
Labor Council. It's good idea, if
you ask us.
ONE YEAR AGO in THE
UNION TIMES: 'sN. Ell. Labor To
Have Defense Committee; 800
C. r. & L. Bus Drivers Win Raise,
2-Wk. Vacations; Electricians
Continue Fight on Unfair Job;
British Labor Gets u. S. Help;
organizations Give Support to
Longevity -; &C. L. C. Political
Platform Voted; Carpenters, No.
70, Hold Elections; "1Oc Increase
Is Gained By Dextone Mem; ''La.
Dor Here Opposes Thurman Arnold
For Attorney General; ''U. S,
Agencies And Building Trades Sign
Epochal Agreement; ''Little Eel
low Hardest Hit In New Tax Bill
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
Feinmark Appoints
Forum Committee

The New Haven Central Labor
Councils Open. Forum Committee, as
appointed by President Harold V.
Feinnark this week, consists of F.
Brainerd Bridgman, Local 400, Am.
Fed. of State. County, and Municipal
Workers; Walter E. Davis, Elm
Lodge 420, Machinists Union; Carl G.
Hoff, Local 234, N. H. Fed. of Musi-
clans; Alexander Driessens, Local 80,
Cigar Makers Union; and Anthony
Guarneri, Local 1876, Painters Union.
The Councils open forum is an out
standing institution of the Central
Labor Council, and has brought to
New Haven some of the country's
leading men and women.
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\. H. COUNCIL NAMES Pol |TICAL COMMIT Tee
Everybody Happy
AS Rockbestos Co.
And Union Sign Up

The 800 men and women EN-
ployed by the Rockbestos Products
Corporation of New Haven this
week anticipated fat checks cover
ing increases in wages from june l
which they are to receive under the
terms of the retroactive agreement
signed this week by Business Mama
ger Joseph T. Rourke for Local
BOO, New Haven Electricians, and
by B. III. Reeves, vicc-president and
general manager, for the Corpora
ton. The agreement runs until JAM
uary 2, l943, but will continue
thereafter for six month periods
unless the Union or the manage
ment services notice of desired
changes not less than 90 days prior
to the expiration date.
NEW HOURLY RATES
New hourly minimum rates called
for in the agreement follow: Grade
10, zoe; grade No. 9, 74c; grade No.
8, 78c; No. 7, 83c; No. E, 88c; No. S,
94c; No. 4, $1.00; No. 8, $1.07. Wo-
men employees receive 10c per hour
less than men in each instance. The
starting rates are attained after a 90
day trial period and the job rate after
an additional 80. These clssifcations
were determined after study of each
job made made by the Union and the
management.
ALL SHOULD JOIN!
ssWith the contract signed"
Rourke told the Rockbestos union
members, tour job now is to sign
up the remaining minority SO that
we can be sure of a closed shop
agreement next January"
Conditions won for the first time
under the agreement are seniority &C
cording to department; full protec-
ton for union members provided by
the discrimination clause; time-and-a-
half for Sunday and designated holi-
day work, with double time for the
seventh consecutive working day in
the same worls-week. Recognized holt
days include New Years Day, Wash
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
Retail Clerks
Get Increase
AtLoganBros.
Managers Also Benefit By
Reopening Of Wage
Clause In Contract

An additional dollar week in
crease for clerks and another 10
increase in commissions on total sales
for managers has been granted this
week by Logan Brothers, Bridgeport
area grocery chain store operators,
underN the reopening of the wage
clause permitted by the one-year clos
ed shop contract. The new increases
won for the 200 odd employees of the
chain by Local 1907, Connecticut Re-
tail Sales Peoples Union, are in adj
dition to the 81 weekly increases for
clerks and the 10 increase in COM
missions for store managers gained
last September when the contract
was signed. Managers, at that time,
also received weekly wage increases
of five and six dollars.
President Dominick E. Ciaca-
lone, Jr., and Secy.-Treas. Fred A.
Almond represented the Union.
with Harry T. Logan, president,
and ]. E. Logan representing the
firm. Logan Brothers, largest re-
tail store operators in Fairfield
County, operates over 80 service
and self-service stores and markets
in Bridgeport, Milford, Danbury,
Stafford, Bethel, Shelton and
Fairfield.
MODEL CONTRACT
The contract, which expires in
September, is considered model for
cooperation between labor and man
agement throughout the Connecticut
retail field.
FURNITURE STORES NEXT
The Union is now starting to
organize all furniture stores i'm
Bridgeport. This campaign will be
followed up with an organizational
drive to sign up all sales clerks i'm
the area.
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Labor Makes
Fine Showing
InN.H.Parade
Carpenters, Teamsters, Iron
Workers, Brewers, Lead
A.F.L. Contingent

Over 1000 members of the
American Federation of Labor
marched at the head of the labor
division Saturday in New Ravens
greatest parade which was review
ed by city and state officials and
100000 other spectators along the
line of march. Thousands of other
AL members were in the parade
among the industrial cOntingents
and civilian defense units. Out
standing among the unions partici-
pating were the Carpenters, Local
No. 70, whose entire membership
turned out; Local 443, New Haven
Teamsters, represented by two
floats, horse and buggy, and two
hundred drivers with President
Matty RuOppolo at their head, and
Local 81, Brewery Workers.
Another AFL float was provided
by Local 532, Shop Iron Workers,
while the best float of the 1899
Labor Day AFL parade" that be-
longing to Local 424, Iron Workers,
unfortunately was prevented from
appearing due to an accident suffered
by the truck transporting it. The
members of Local 424, however, were
out in force.
A UNITED CITY
With over $4,000 participating in
the Victory Parade" the city and
the greater New Haven area where
many vital war plants are operating
night and day, gave notice that its
morale was tip-top and that it was
ready for any contingency and for
any amount of sacrifice The floats
plainly indicated who are the enc
mics of the American people and one
float which contrasted the condition
Of youth under a Democracy against
its slavery under Naziism proved we
also know what we are fighting for.
The sUeGther ,O0s perfect, the
turnout of record proportions, the
curbs and streets packed by crOsOds
as neUer before, labor participation
both AFL and CIO, one hundred
per cent. Everybody concerned ,OitIl
the parade preparations from Col.
Joseph 4. Marinan, chairman,
dO'On to the clerks, deserve the
gratitude and thanks of thrilled
citizenry.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
Hayes Arrives To
Direct Campaign
At High Standard

Grand Lodge Representative AL
fred Hayes of the International As
ISOLATION of Machinists arrived this
week in New Haven to devote full
time to the organization of the
5000 employees at the High Stand
ard Manufacturing Company.
Grand Lodge Representative Fred
Cederholm, who will continue to
give attention to the drive, also
reported this week that his state
ment to the press assuring the en-
plOyes that there would only be
one union, the LAM, in High
Standard, has scotched the rumor
mongers and treasured the work.
ers to such an extent that greater
display of confidence i'm the LAM.
on every shift and in all depart
ments is being evidenced.
WELL KNOWN HERE
Hayes, on his arrival, was also en-
phatic about the fact that all the
production and maintenance employees
would be in one industrial organiza-
ton under the LAM. banner. The
new organizer, who halls from Bos-
ton, Mass, is acquainted with many
New Haven machinists employed on
the New Haven R. R., since he served
as general chairman of the LAM.
members on the N. H. Road for seven
years. He came to New Haven from
Caldwell, N. J., where he helped the
LAM. win plurality over the CLIO.
in the Curtiss- Wright Corp. NL.R.B.
election
HEADQUARTERS
With Hayes arrival, the Union
will have two headquarters, the Hotel
Garde where he is residing, and the
New Haven Labor Temple. Workers
desiring information, authorizations
or books can call him at the hotel or
Labor Temple day or night. The
hotels phone number is 5-4144, the
Temples, 7-2019. The names of all
individuals and the information they
give will be kept in strictest con-
fdence.
Meetings with key men and with
shop, departmental and shift groups
Continued on Page Two)
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Will Submit
PlatfOrmtO
Membership
Feinmark Urges Organiza-
tons, individuals to Give
Views for Consideration

A Committee on Indepen-
dent Political Action, which
will draw up and submit to the
New Haven Central Labor
Council a platform upon
which organized labor will
judge candidates i'm the forth
coming fall election was unan-
imOusly voted by the Council
at its meeting Thursday.
Members of the Committee
are President Harold V. Fem
mark, chairman; Sen. Joseph
I. ROurke, business manager
of Local BOO, Electricians,
and secretary of the Council;
Frank SpadOla, president of
Local 2l5, BARRIERS Union;
Mrs. Rose Brunswick, Local
4O4, Hotel and Restaurant
Employees; and Nathan Sher-
man, editor of The Union
Times.
HOLD OPEN SESSIONS
One or more open sessions will
be held by the Committee to hear
the views of members of organized
labor and of individuals and or
CARNATIONS who wish to advise
organized labor on its platform
for the coming elections, President
Feinmark said.
Advance notice will be given.
and we hope that many will turn
out to give us the benefit of their
opinions" he stated.
SIXTH YEAR
This is the sixth successive wear
that the Council has had a COM
mittee on Independent political
action. Originally the committee
was appointed by President Fem
mark when the Central Labor
Council put on a drive to win the
Democratic nomination for State
Senator for ROurke, who was then
a member of the New Haven Board
of Aldermen. In this effort the
Council was successful, as was the
drive to elect Rourke to Office.
Since that time, similar work has
been done to help in the election
of Sen. James p. Ceelan, who is
a member of the Retail Clerks
Union, and a delegate to the
Council.
The Committee in the past has
not confined itself to local issues.
but has also taken an active stand
on state candidates and problems.
In 1888, it predicted that the Dem
Ocrats would weaken themselves
unless Labor Commissioner Joseph
M. Tone was given a place on the
state ticket, and made a direct an
peal that Tone be given recogni-
ton. This was not done, and was
one of the reasons Gov. Wilbur
Cross was defeated. With Republi-
can Governor Raymond Baldwin in
Continued on Page Two)
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Unions Offered
Wallace sSpeech


CHICAGO. = Ninety thousand
copies of Vice-President Wallace's
Century of the Common Man"
speech have been printed and dis
tributed free by the Chicago Sun,
morning daily published by Marshall
Field
The Sun also announced that it
will send the reprint, in an SPACE
leafet, in any quantity to any union
in the U. S., free of charge, and all
postal charges paid. Unions may
write to the SIM for the leahet at
400 w. Madison Street. Chicago, Ill.
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
State USO Drive
Nears Its Goal

Connecticut's United Service Or
ganization War Fund Campaign
neared its spring goal today with less
than $4,000 needed to attain the
$643,000 objective, Oliver V. Ober,
of New Haven, state chairman, said
today.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-07-11
GAS PREFERENCE

Dealers whose gasoline supply is
not sufficient to meet all consumer
demands may give preference to
cars of defense workers, trucks and
ambuIances.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-05
D SERIAL STORY
KINGS ROW
MA SERVICE. INC.

You're not gong 10 school this
year. Paris"
'Wha-at?" His eyes opened
very wide with establishment
You won't be strong enough to
start next week. and have de-
cided TO get tutor for you this
winter. You can study At home. -
oh. goodness The tone of mis-
voice dropped a little II was
mixed with dismay. School was
really not bad. He had been look
ing forward 10 seeing everybody
again.
Besides" Madame continued.
''you need study in German and
French that you don't get at
school"
oh. dear. I don't know"
I'll arrange At Aberdeen Col
lege TO get n nice young man to
come here and hear your lessons.
You can study at home. and I'm
sure you Will make better prog
ress anyway. or course you can
no on with your piano lessons II
you want to"
Paris knew that tone in his
grandmother voice. 1t WAS set
tied. lie sighed. IAN right" he
said.
II was not until Thurston st
George called on his grandmother
one warm afternoon that Paris
learned. from their conversation
the nature 81 his illness.
SO this Is your grandson :"
Massive Mr.. ST. George affected
surprise. I'D never have known
you. boy. Been sick, 1 hear"
Yes sir"
whats the matter :"
Madame interrupted hastily. I'll
seems 10 have been a spell Of
brain fever"
Hmm. That's not so good. Beer
studying too hard, sonny >"
Il don't think so. SIR
PARIS, ask Anna 10 make some
lemonade"
The talk had run TO other mat
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tiers when he returned with glasses
and a pitcher making a pleasant
tinkle of ice.
BY the way, Marie" Mr.. St
George was saying. I hear you've
lost your overseer. Know old Tom
Carr ?"
"Oh, yes. Big bushy head of
white hair? I've seen him"
Believe he'd be a good man for
you"
We'll. might talk to him"
''ren you what. I'm riding out
that way tomorrow. III send him
around. III like to see him get
good place. Surely you remember
the Cars
NEW STORY Chapter Seven 7
Don't recall them. Thurston.'
They came here from New
York state. Had some money.
Started off in big style-horses,
carriage. everything. He tried
trading in real estate. Lost II
all. Wife went crazy-shes been
in the asylum here twice, but he
keeps her AT home now and looks
after her himself. He's a good
man"
"Um-send him to see me"
I'D be a mercy ma'sm, If you
L. he "a
a graduate of Vsssar college back
there, but she's crazy as loon
now. Got dropsy, too. Fat as an
elephant
Dangerous, do you think? I
wouldn't want TO have"
"Oh. no. no! Not at all. Just
site and sings. Too fat TO move. p"
Heavens. I'll be glad il I can
help the poor man. What a life
that must be-"
The fires OF Indian summer
burned on every hill. and the nos
talgic odors of autumn filled the
air. II WAS the most stirring OF
+ all seasons in this region.
one wsrmish day a crowd of
boys swarmed down the hill after
school, shouting the relief Of their
escape from the stuffy classrooms
/ Il was Fulmer Green's gang.
I Fulmer Green had Won through to
undisputed leadership after two
years Of bullying fights and the
commission OF such minor depre-
cations as gained him the sdmirs-
ton and adherence OF his kind,
His mother. ambitious for a bet
ter standing in Kings Row since
they had moved uptown" tried
10 break Fulmers old sssoeis-
tons. So far she was unsuccess-
full
The boys swooped down the
hill and passed through the tiny
streets Of unknown.
"Looky," Fulmer Green pointed
/ Continued on Page S. Column s.
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TEST ANSWERS

Below are ths answers TO test
questions printed on the editorial
page.
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$3.50 miles. Psris-New York -
1922 milesD
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;. The seventeenth.
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3. State.
Q. Massacre Of immigrants by
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g. No.
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BY EMILY POST
Not All UNLIMITED Guests Are
Regarded A. Crashers

To have it suggested that am
aiding and abetting young people
in taking their manners too esus-
ually. is amusing! But il Is quite
plain that one mother thinks | am
too lenient and cites this specific
example:
Ny son and daughter crash
parties with their friends and think
nothing Of it. What's more, when
I brought them TO task for such
behavior, my son said that one of
their friends had read il was all
right in your newspaper column
The answer to this has a num-
Der of qualifying who's, hows and
where's. A girl or even boy who
goes to party unlimited and
makes believe that she or he has
been invited. is a crasher. and a
crasher is not approved OF whether
he is an outsider crashing in, or
whether he is an insider self-com-
placently bestowing the favor of
his presence upon not well-known
hostess. his behavior is abominable
On the other hand, nearly all
well-brought-up young people are
at some time taken TO big gen.
eral party to which they have not
been invited. by their friends who
have. Boys in particular 60 in a
group to the Browns because John
knows them well. So John ex-
plains when he arrives that he has
brought three friends.
Some people call this crashing.
but it is really not crashing and is
quite all right if they are strsng-
ers. II is crashing TO go to the
house OF one who knows him and
has deliberately left him out A
girl must not go where she has not
been invited, except as a stranger
and with a girl who is an intimate
friend Of the girl giving the party.
Il il also expected that a girl
friend who brings another girl
with her shall be accompanied BY
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with safety pin. Fasten broken
garter thus. temporarily. and you
are very likely 10 forget II later
And the pin will rip the fabric.
So sew the rent garment immedi-
stely. II you are uncertain about
it. and possibly can take It back
to the corsetiere. do that, and
promptly.
Three: Tub them. People in
the trade aver that an sstonish-
ingly big number Of women evil
IDENTIFY doesn't know that all mod
ern foundation garments are made
Of protested washable materials
Women who wouldn't dream Of
putting on soiled glove, who q
know that oil would ruin a rubber
bathing cap or shower curtain,
will wear girdles till perspiration.
body oils and dirt literally cut
and dissolve both rubber and fab
nc TO pieces.
So, wash them just as often as
you do any other intimate sp-
parel. Use tepid suds. rinse thor
oughly. roll in a towel and squeeze
Never wiring, never hang in q
sunlight or direct heat.
-Four: Give sirdles both rest
and exercise. The stuff is live
as you sorrowfully realize when
il goes dead. Have at least two
and wear them alternately. Wear
ing one endlessly. or wearing one
extremely rarely, cuts the life
time.
II you have an evening founda-
ton. and rarely dress formally
now, wear this one occasionally
under daytime frocks.
Five: All around gentleness is
important. Let the filter show you
how to get into a girdle properly,
using the flat of your fingers in
stead OF the ends. which can 60
through the fabric.
Six: Remember that a self-re-
speeding girdle fits you when you
sit or stand correotly-not when
you slump. Sliding forward in a
chair Furnishes the front of the
garment, makes it very likely to
70 long before the rest OF IL is
worn out.
Check your performance score
not your knowledge, for we all
know these things-on these half
dozen simple conservation points.
/ And check Is again six months
hence It's definitely worthwhile.