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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Egan Speaks
To NY. State
Federation
Additional Details of Conn.
Convention Are Made
Public

Secretary Treasurer John ].
Egan, in releasing the program of
the Federation's 57th annual con-
vention beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8,
i'm New Haven, this week again
stressed the conventions historic
importance and its relation to the
war.
eff Hitler has his way, there
will be no more conventions Egan
wrote. s'Let us show him that labor
in this country and in this great
industrial state is determined to
win this war;"
ADDRESSES CONVENTION
Egan addressed the New York State
Federation convention in Rochester,
this week. Thomas ]. Lyons, presi-
dent of the N. Y. Federation, will,
in turn, address the Connecticut con-
vention.
Harold V. Feinmark, president
of the N. lei. Central Labor Coun-
Gil, will open the convention Tues
day morning at IL A. M. After the
invocation, Mayor John W. Murphy
will welcome the delegates to New
Haven. Daniel W. Tracy, assistant
secretary of labor, will speak the
first afternoon, the first time that
member Of this rank in the u. s.
Department of Labor has address
ed the Connecticut body. President
James ]. Clerkin will accept the
gaveI from Feinmark after the
Mayors address and make his re-
port to the delegates. Egan's re-
port will follow.
HURLEY ON THURSDAY
Governor Robert A. Hurley is ex-
pected to take the rostrum Thursday
Congressman William Fitzgerald of
Norwich is to speak either Tuesday
or Friday. Other speakers will in
c1ude Compensation Commissioner
Louis Sachs of New Haven, Perley
M. Hovey, Apprenticeship Council
E. Dent Lackey, State Defense Coun-
Gil; and William Connolly, unem-
ployment compensation commissioner
Egan again reminded the local
unions that per capita through June
80 must be paid to insure the issuance
of convention credentials.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
CentrOne On
Rent Control
Office Staff
Member of Bricklayer, No
6, Conn.,, Is Appointed
AS Inspector

John Centrone, only 80 years old,
who has been member of Local 6,
New Haven Bricklayers, Masons &
Plasterers since 1927, has been ap-
pointed inspector of the N. H. Rent
Control Office by Chester Bowles,
State OPA director. Harold V. Fem
mark, president, and Sen. Joseph T.
Rourke, secretary, of the Central
Labor Council; and Business Agent
James DiLonardo, Local E, had rec
commended Centrone to Rent Control
Director Anthony F. Arpaia.
Arpaia told The Union Times
that Centrone had already proved
himself tone of the best we've got.'
He had sent Centrone's name to
Bowles for confirmation ''because
| want a representative type of
staff" All members of the staff
MUST qualify according to civil
service specifications.
Centrone gained the necessary ex-
perience for the position while serv-
ing as foreman and assistant super
intendent on construction jobs, as an
official on mason jobs, and by esti-
mating for contractors. He has
worked for Abadessa Construction
in New Haven, Tremaglio Brothers
Waterbury; and C. F. Wooding
Wallingford.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
LAM. Membership
Now Over 100000

Observation-Disclosures of
the International Association of Ma
chlnlsts has gone way over the 100000
mark, the highest in history, and by
the end of 1912 should pass the half
million figure, Vice-President Eric
Peterson predicted this week.
Rolls are expanding at a record
rate, particularly in aircraft, Peter
son said. Most of the biggest airplane
companies are now under the Ma
chlnlStS' banner, and LAM. repre-
sentation in that field is now many
times greater than any other union,
he explained.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
OCDSeeks To
Help Trucks
In Blackouts
Suggests They Be Permitted
To Run With DINNERS,
Low Speed

WASHINGTON. d. C.-Inter-
state trucks and buses should not
be required to stop during practice
blackouts but should be permitted
to operate with dimmed lights and
at reduced speed unless an actual
or practice AFRAID alarm has been
sounded, James NJ. Lands, Director
of the Office of Civilian Defense.
said this week.
SERIOUS MISTAKE"
with war production making I'm
precedented demands upon all forms
of transportation and practice black
outs so numerous that frequently sew
eral will be encountered on one over
night trip" the Director said, "adop-
ton of arbitrary regulations which
will needlessly retard interstate motor
carriers would be serious mistake"
Since approved types of black
out driving lights are not available,
OCD recommends that during
bIackouts interstate truck and
busses-easily identified by their
Interstate Commerce Commission
license plates-be permitted to
operate with their regular lights
dimmed and at speeds not in ex-
cess of Is miles per hour.
If such carriers are loading or I'M
loading at terminals, "a few minutes
of compliance with blackout require
ments to demonstrate their prepared
ness are sufficient during test black
outs not concurrent with test air
raid alarm" the OCD advised its
field staff.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Public Asked
To CiiveViews
On Platform
Councils Political Commit
tee Holds Open Meeting
Monday at 8 P. M.

For the first time in its So years
of experience, the New Haven Cen
trail Labor Council, through its
Committee on Independent Politi-
cal Action, will hold a public meet
ing at the New Haven Labor Tenn
pie, on Monday, Aug. "a, at 8 P.
M, to obtain the recommendations
of organizations and individuals,
inside and outside of the labor
movement, on the kind of politi-
cal platform organized labor in
Connecticut should adopt for the
coming fall elections.
The platform adopted on the
basis of the hearing and of the
Committees deliberations will be
the measuring rod for the endorse.
ment of candidates. The hearing
is open to all who are interested.
ALL INVITED
All groups regardless of afiliation
are invited to send representatives
Harry E. Birney, chairman of the
New Haven Republican Town Com
mittee, and David J. Mccoy, chair
man of the New Haven Democratic
Town Committee, have been sent spe-
cial invitations. Others who have been
requested to give their views are
Judge Roscoe T. Steffen, chairman
of the N. H. Chapter, Citizens for
Victory; and Mrs. Myra w. Sturges,
president of the New Haven League
of Women Voters.
Judge Steffen, who is Professor
of Law i'm the Yale Law School,
stated that he felt confident his
organization and the Councils
Committee, which is headed by
Harold V. Feinmark, could CO.
operate on the campaign, since
both will work for candidates
whose record shows that they are
about for winning the war under
President Roosevelt's leadership.
Steffen stated that he personally
would vote for the reelection of
Gov. Robert A. Hurley. The Rail-
road Brotherhoods, through Thorn
as V. Haeckel, of New Haven, have
a similar program, and have
pledged their support.
EXTEND VOTING HOURS
Extension of voting hours on Elec-
ton Day, to 9 or 10 P. M, now is
being decided in such cities as Tor
rington, Bridgeport, Hartford, and
Waterbury. The impetus for this
change came from the New Haven
Central Labor Council, which intro
duced a petition into the New Haven
Board of Aldermen. The aldermanic
hearing on this petition, which would.
set voting hours from E A. NJ. to g
P. M, takes place Friday, Aug. 81,
at 8 P. NJ. in the aldermanic chambers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
EXPOSE "SN|EAR LABOR" DRIVE
For NeuU Voters!

You are eligible to vote in
the November elections if you
have been resident of Conn.
for one year, and of New Ha-
ven for the six months ending
Oct. IL. To be made a voter,
go to the Registrars Office,
Hall of Records, 200 Orange
ST., on THURSDAY, AUG. 27,
or on Sept. "a, 9 A. MI P.
NJ, and 3-8 P. Nj. Voters will
also be made Oct. 1917, in
elusive.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Dan Tobin GOING
To Great Britain

WASHINGTON.-The AFL Ex-
ecutve Council has appointed Vice
President Daniel J. Tobin of the
Transfers Union to serve as fraternal
delegate to the annual convention of
the British Trades Union Congress
which will be held somewhere in
Great Britain" beginning Sept. 7.
A second fraternal delegate to this
convention still remains to be named.
The British Trades Union Congress
is sending two fraternal delegates,
as usual, to the forthcoming annual
convention of the AFL which will be
held in Toronto, beginning Oct. S.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Income To Top
100 Billion Mark

The goal on which Presi-
Roosevelt a few years ago fix
ed longing eyes-a national
income of $lOO,OOO,OOO,OOO
is in sight. For the first six
months of this year a record.
breaking total of $52,O7I, OOO,-
900 was reached, the Depart
ment of Commerce reported
this week.
Business is always better in
the latter half of the year,
hence the years income should
be substantially in excess of
the 100 billion figure.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Unions Select
GIL. Delegates

Delegates to the 57th convention of
the Conn. Federation of Labor, to be
held at the Hotel Taft, New Haven,
Sept. 8-11, were elected last week as
follows:
Carpenters, No. 70, New Haven
John A. Johnson, John Dillon, limo
thy Noonan. Alternates, Louis Piazza,
George Rhiem.
Bricklayers, No. 2, Bridgeport
Michael T. Minotti.
Div. 281, Trolley & Bus Operators
Samuel F. Curry, William McNamee,
Daniel Calvin.
Electricians, BOO, New Haven
Joseph T. Rourke.
Sheet Metal Workers, No. 40:
George Joslyn and Benjamin Bassell.
Middletown Textile Workers: Ar
thur LaBarge, John J. Dykas, Melvin
Bennett, Ernest Piche and Sebastian
Rufino; alternates: Salvatore Amen
ia, Salvatore Sienna, Leon Robida
and Warren Maloney.
Middletown Bricklayers: Michael
Misenti.
Elm Lodge, No. 420, New Haven
William Lowell. Alternate, w. J.
Scully.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
10000 AT RALLY

PERTH AMBOY, N. JAIL
and Go unionists from so Middlesex
County war plants took part in a
labor management "United We
Stand" Victory Rally attended by
10000 persons.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Plumbers Union Buys
$685. 86 War Bonds

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secre-
tary-Treasurer Martin P. Durkin of
the United Association of Plumbers
and Steamhtters of the United States
and Canada has reported to President
William Green of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor that the members
OF the union had purchased $1,000, 4O3
war bonds and the local unions ST. 73,-
us, a combined total of $3,653,486.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
AsWe See 1t
by
THE STAFF

HE WIFE OF union leader,
Martin Krieps, district leader of
the AFL Boilermakers in Mime
sofa, christened the tanker Titus
vile" when it was launched re-
Gently, providing another tribute
ito the part trade union workers are
gplaying in the war against Nazism.
It's incidents like these, among
others, that make PECLER froth
Aan over the printed page, spelling
perfectly good newsprint.
! THEY ARE TELLING this story
in Londorr-or, aUe should say, 1crit-
! ing 1t. One of the american soldiers,
nozV in Northern ireland, is said to
haze zCvitteM home:
ssDear Dad-Cue$$ what
need most of all? That's right.
Send it along. Best wishes.
Your Son, Tom."
The father replied: ''Dear
Tom-NOthing ever happens
here. Write us Another letter
Anon. Jimmie was asking about
you Monday. Now we have to
say goodbye"
"BLACKIE" BORZAIN, Team
RsteYs, 433, business agent, is using his
vacGtion zChich began Friday, to Snsit
his son, Thomas, noaO in the Army
Jat Petersburg, va. We can't think
of better aOuy any proud Dad 7U1th
/ q lad in service could spend his off
time.
NOW HARVARD, we hear, is
going to give scholarships to a
group of trade unionists. We can
see the day coming when member
of organized labor won't accept a
university scholarship unless the in
Rstitution is 1000 organized, and
the letter awarding him the scholar
ship is on union watermarked
Paper, and bears the Typos label.
THE MEMBERS of the N. Ell.
Central Labor Council and its af-
HfiIiates have been invited to attend
St. Andrews Methodist Church on
Labor Sunday, Sept. 6. President
Harry Feinmark has been asked to
give a brief sermon, and has ac-
cepted. Rev. Clarence S. ("Cap')
Bremner, a member of Local AZ,
TYPOS, is associated with St. An
drew's.
MANY WILL remember the
"laboy" sermon given several years
ago by the Req. EdaOord L. Peet,
former pastor of St. AndreoV's. Mr..
Peet pointed out that Moses aVds the
! first business agent. He represented
the children of Israel in negotiations
4vith Boss Pharaoh, and zvlten Pharaoh
rejected Moses demands, Moses call
4 ed zOalkout. Pharaoh used the old
stunt of calling out the state militia
but, you 1ViH remember, he met the
4 fate of all 1Cho refuse to bargain
collectively. -.
IF YOUR LANDLORD tells you
he can't redecorate your flat or
apartment because of sspriorities, .
be polite, but tell him to go sit on
a tack. The War Production Board
has ruled that repainting and re-
decorating are considered ''mainte
nance and are therefore excluded
kfrom WPB curtailment. The only
thing you have to be careful about
Lis that the contractor uses union
painters!
= HARRY BATES, president of the
AFL's Bricklayers, and Philip Muir
Tray, representing the CIO, met in
Washington this week to set time
and place for the first meeting OF
I the peace committees of the two
organizations. Pres. William Green
however, held out little hope that
the conferences will lead to organic
unity.
''Time," he asserted, "hGs increaS-
I ed our difficulties. The problems ore
much more difficult than they aVert
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Man NOtFiined
FOrSingiingOf
Nationalist
Was Assessed $500 For
Interfering With Locals
Employment Policies

Charges by anti-labor news
papers throughout the United
States that a Providence, r. l..
local of the American Fedora
ton of Musicians had fined an
orchestra leader $500 for sing
ing the ''Star Spangled Ban
ner" without union sanction,
we're proven here this week to
be complete distortion of the
facts, and in effect, a lie.
This became known when Alex
ander Winnick, president of Local
234, New Haven Federation of
Musicians, in answering a resOlu-
ton adopted by American Legion
Post AZ of this city, made public
letter from Vincent Castronovo.
president of Local 1913, Providence
Federation of Musicians, which
gives the true facts, and shows that
the national attack on the Musi-
clans is part of a deliberate at.
tempt to smear the entire organ
lied labor movement.
HERE ARE THE FACTS!
Here are some of the facts re-
vealed by Winnick's investigation:
1. State Commander James
Artesani of the Rhode Island
American Legion, states that the
action of the Providence Musi-
clans is ''fuIly justified.
2. The orchestra leader, Don
Mario, was not fined because he
sang the ''Star Spangled Ban
ner," but because he violated the
rules of the American Federation
of Musicians. Under the Feder-
atoms rules, travelling orches-
tras, such as Don MariO's, are
restricted to playing only the
engagements for which they are
imported to a city.
This rule is strictly enforced.
in order to protect local orches-
tras, who otherwise would find
their employment greatly reduc-
ed, since they cannot compete
with travelling "name" bands.
8 Don Mario and his band
were imported to Providence to
play an engagement. He defied
the unions rules by appearing
at another concert where a regu.
lar Providence orchestra was
playing. He ,Uas fined for nak.
ing the appearance and not, be-
cause sUish thousands of others,
he sang a Uerse of the "StGr
SpGngIed Banner"
SMEAR CAMPAIGN
Il know that it is not necessary to
advise you that Mario was not fined
for singing the National Anthem"
Pres. Castronovo wrote Winnick. "He
was fined for making these personal
appearances in defiance of this Local.
You can readily understand how
the fact of the singing of the Ma
tional Anthem while Mario made his
personal appearance has been capital
lied on in order to smear the Local
and its officials. There are many other
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Increase Is Won
At Woolworth

ST. LOUIS.-The 800 workers in
the St. Louis stores of F. w. Wool
worth CO. won 100000 annual raises
in a new contract signed by three
AFL unions. Weekly raises ranged
from ST to $2.25. The new minimum
is SIS.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
Time For Driving Is
Same AS Time Worked

NEW YORK.-Time spent by an
outside employee driving an automo-
bile on business of his employer must
be considered as time worked, the
Wage-Hour Division ruled this week.
The decision was in the case of an
insurance agent.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22
AdleyExpress
Pay Hike Won
By Machinists
Contract With Elm Lodge,
No. 42O, Provides &c
Average Hourly Rise

Elm Lodge No. 20, New Haven,
International Association of Ma.
chinists, signed a closed shop agree.
ment with the Adley Express Co.
calling for average hourly wage
increases of % cents. The agree.
ment covers the machinists, help.
ers, washers and greasers in the
firms New Haven barn. Grand
Lodge Representative Alfred Hayes
represented the Lodge in the ne
gotiations.
The contract, which establishes
1-week paid vacations, has set the
following hourly scale: first class
machinists, $1.05; second class, 95
cents; helpers, 70 cents; washers and
greasers, 70 cents.
ATLANTIC WIRE
Lodge 1896, LAM, has made
progress in its negotiations with
the Atlantic Wire Co. of Branford.
The contract committee with the
assistance of Hayes recently re-
opened the wage clause of the
agreement reached last January, in
order to stabilize the wages up
wards to the prevailing scale. Mem
bers of the committee include Ed
ward Driscoll, Lodge president;
John Walsh, trustee; Rene Hotch-
kiss, vice-president; and Leonard
PiersOn, treasurer.
n special meeting of the Organ
izing Committee of Local 42O sviIl
be held at the N. III. Labor Temple
Saturday, dug. p at 4 P. M.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22

How long can Labor UniOnists
expect to receive Union-made wages
if they do not buy UniOn-made
goods?
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22

Buy Bonds on the home front
to secure freedoms victory on all
fronts.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22

432 plants of Isl automotive COM
panies make up 723o of the industry.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-22

MOD GHOdLTyH
Ia1O0 2 GHVHdI7 aJVLS
II HELSMaHa Salgvr
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-25
Christmas Eve Observances
Conducted In e. Centric

appointed with small lighted Christ
mas trees and beautiful arrange
mentS Of poinSettiaS.
Mr.. and Mrs G. r.. Hayden held
open house also, many friends both
of FL Centre. Imperial and BraWley
dropping in to ENJOY their hoSpi-
tality, Mrs. Hayden looking very
smart as she received her guests,
goWned in a two-piece frock, black
skirt and scarlet, sequin-trimmed
jacket
The big Christmas tree with
many packages at is base decorated
the living room and the table was
centered with a low bowl Of poin-
Settia blossoms centered by red
tapers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald L. Knox,
Jr., invited a few friends to join
them Christmas Eve prior to at
tending services at St Paul's.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-25
Mrs. Roosevelt
Calls on Needy
Christmas Eve

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-UPD
settling down for a Christmas that
wasn't white. Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
welt stood at a tenement door as
dusk fell on Christmas Eve, wish
ing a 21-year-old mother a merry
Christmas
The youthful Negro mother of
five told Mrs. Roosevelt her sec
ond is not walking yet, although
she is 2 years old. Her husband
said he didn't have steady work.
Mrs. Roosevelt promised to help
the poverty family.
AS she turned away from this al
ley tenement, a door at the next
home was opened by little Negro,
who told the First Lady My sis
ter-in-law is sick" Mrs. Roosevelt
still had time to wish the sick
woman a merry Christmas.
Returning to a group of 90 sing
ers, ranging from Negro children
2 years old to old people. Mrs.
Roosevelt Joined in singing familiar
carols. She said she was sorry
the Christmas tree they had had
in former years could not be lighted
this year because of the war, but,
she said Il hope the spirit of the
Christmas tree will live in your
heart. I wish you all a happy
Christmas"
Besides the 100 tenement dwell
ers attending the singing and hang
ing out of second story windows,
there we're a couple of British sail
OrS. Danny Merchant of Cardiff,
Wales, who helped eVacuate the
British army at Dunkirk, and Wal
ter Bickerton of Liverpool. Both
men were on land for the second
night. after spending eighteen
months on combat duty in the
Medite sranean. They smiled
broadly when their hostess. Miss
Fdda Mai Russell, sponsor of the
sing, introduced them to Mrs
Roosevelt.
At the end of the long Gay Mrs.
Roosevelt appeared quite as BRIGHT
as she had when she started the
day by greeting 300 children at
DARLINGTON. Va. She told the chill
dren that the President wished her
to tell them all Merry Christmas
and that he hoped the next year
would be a happier one Tor The
pconle over all the world
After a party for her office force
in the late morning, she resumed
i her visits to children at the Sal
walton Army headquarters. For the
10Th straight year she stood beside
a mammoth Christmas tree and
! handed out a check and Christmas
package to poor woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-25
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Christian Science is tne lesson
sermon subject, on Sunday, in all
Churches of Christ, Scientist. A
selection from Johns Gospel is the
Golden Text: If We love me, keep
my commandments. And l will
pray the Father, and he shall give
YOU another Comforter, that he may
abide with you for ever; even the
Spirit OF truth
Jesus sayings, as recorded IN
John, are included in the Lesson
Sermon: I'VE have heard how l
said unto you, l go away, and come
again unto you But when the
Comforter is come, whom l Will
send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which pro-
ceedeth from the Father, he shall
testify of me: I have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye can
not bear them now. Howbeit when
he. the Spirit of truth, is come, he
will guide you into all truth: for
he shall not speak of himself, but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall
he speak: and he will Shew you
things to come
Mary Baker Eddy, the author OF
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" reminds her read
elS that, "Christ'S Christianity is
the chain of scientific being read
pearing in all ages, maintaining
its obvious correspondence with the
Scriptures and uniting all periods
in the design of God" when the
Science of Christianity appears, it
will lead you into all truth. The
Sermon en- the Mount is the essence
of this Science, and the eternal life,
not the death of Jesus, is its out
come"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-25
Pioneer Observe
5O+h Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H Best for
many years residents OF Imperial
Valley, are celebrating their golden
wedding anniversary Sunday with
members of the family and friends
Joining them in observing the day.
A. L. Best, a son, is in the valley
this winter in connection with the
lettuce deal and left Wednesday
for Balboa to Join Mrs. Best and
their two children. going Sunday
to Los Angeles for the celebration.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-25
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