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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-08-09

|zasklepetal 2 zobmi, "...ei-ne De-
deck-ke!!"
Pol ure nato je rekel zdrav-
mix: "Gospod kadet, vi ste no.
sitelj bacilov kolere. Posljem
vas v rezervno bolnisnico " Tar
NOV :" Tako je posal kadet
Biegler, navduseni bojevnik, no.
slice bacilov kolere.
In. vozili so Sc dale.
"Budimpeste ne bono mno-
&C videli,' je dejal stotnik Sag
mar, ko so sc blizali ogrski pre-
stolici. "Zapeliejo mas pae mi
mo. Pc marsruti obstanemo ondi
dive uri." >:@
A obstali so ma vojaskem ko-
lodvoru v Budimpesti. Sagner Sc
je takoj odpravil k poveljniku
ma kolodvoru.
"Gospod major" je vprasal
stotnik Sagner, "po marsruti Sc
vozimo do Godolo. Mostvo mora
dobiti tukaj pc petnajst dek
emendolskega SRA. Ma poslednji
postal hi morale prejeti mostvo
pc petnajst dek salame, a nj do
bio nicesar."
"Brzcas tudi tukaj ne dobi-
te %nicesar," je odgovoril major
in Sc prijazno smehljal. 20 ka-
KEN narocilu "a poke il Ceske
ne vem nicesar."
"Kdaj Sc odpeljemo, gospod
major?"
"Pred vami stoji WAX S tez-
kimi t%opnistvom "a Galicijo. Cd
pravimo CAV eni uri. Ma tretjem
tiriscu stoji sanitetni vlak; Cd
pelje dvajset minut pc topni-
stvu. Ma dvanajstem thru imamo
vlak z municijo, XII Sc odpelje
deset minut pc sanitetnem VIA
ku in dvajset minut "a MIN sc
odpelie vas Wax. Ako ne DO
MANFRED kakih ~izprememb," je
dodal smehljaje.
Medtem je nadporocnik Lukas
ma povelje stotnika Sagnerja re
odredil, maj gre mostvo zugs-
weise pc kompanijah v skladi-
See pc sir. A vrnili so Sc k
svojim vagonom zopet praz-
nih rok. Namesto petnajst dek
emendolskega SRA je preiel vsak
skatlico vzigalic in razglednico.
Tudi v stabnem vagonu je "a
Vladalo kmalu nenavadno
razburjenje . Castnikl so Sc zbra-
Ii okoli stotnika Sagnerja, XII Jim
jc vznemirjen cital dolgo bro
javko brigadnega staba: dne %.
maja 1915 je Italia napove-
dala Avstro-O grski vojno. Nato
je dial Sagner zatrobiti alarm.
Ko Sc je zbralo vse mostvo, je
bilo postavljeno v cetverokot,
in stotnik Sagner je precital z
nenavadno slovesnim glasom Dr.
z~ojavno mu sporocano povelje.
Potem je sledilo obicajno
i"Dreimal hoch!" in voiska lie,
nekam potrta, zopet zasedla
Wax. Namesto petnajst dek
emendolskega SRA so imeli zdaj
ma vratu Sc vojno z Italijo.
(Dalje prihodnjit)'
GET BhllAR 6Ke1
a.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-08-09

NOVA Passed BY Canad4
ian Censor - Threatened with , an
acute shortage of coal, the Canadian
Government recently issued a decree,
requiring all former coal miners, re-
'gardless of theirs present wartime
jobs, to return to the mines. Photo
shows: nearly five miles under the
sea in Nova Scotia Pvt. J. c. McDon-
aid, on a three months'A"coal fur
lough," is back at his old mining job.1
The main shaft of this large bitumin-
Gus mine IS on the mainland, but the
lodes extend from three to five miles
out under the water.r
The union times., 1943-08-07
State Locals Prepare For GEL Convention

Connecticut A.F.L. unions were receiving credentials and preparing this week to elect delegates to the 58th Annual Convention of inc Conn. Federation of Labor to he held in Hotel Garden, New Haven. Sept. 7, 8 and 9.
 John J. Egan, secretary-treasurer of the Federation sent letters to the To- calls announcing that credentials were in the mail. He urged the unions to notify GEL. of the number of days their delegates will attend and how many nights they will require rooms in order that the Federation can ar range for proper accommodations.
 Remember: the convention will last but three days-Tuesday, We'd nesday and Thursday. Nominations will take place on Wednesday, Flee tiOns will be held on Thursday. g stated Egan.
 All resolutions must be in Tuesday night, Sept. 7. Locals submitting reso- lutlonS should make three copies.
The union times., 1943-08-07
To Two Major Films
Willkie's ''One World' And Biography of Wilson
 Are Projected

HOLLYWOOD-Two films that can help make histOry-Or mar it are soon to be started. One is Wendell Willkie's ''One World'', which 2Oth Century-Fox has bought for $25O,OOO plus part of the pro- fits. The other is a super-documen- tary on the career of Woodrow Will son, also a 2Oth-Fox project.
 These two films, if produced with conscience and intelligence, can awaken Americans to their common interests with the peoples of the world, and can crystalline popular support for the world cooperative tasks ahead.
 The films could also miss. "One World" could be brushed off as a travelog running three hours in glori- ous technicolor. Likewise, the story of Wilson and the aims and errors of the last war could be a guidepoSt to reaction instead of progress.
 A terrific responsibility rests on the men of 2Oth Century-FOx who will make these pictures. Gone WOrld' will be filmed in eight Ian. guages, including German and Ital. ian, for use as the spearhead of the
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1943-08-07
Profits Not. By
 Any Formula
Railroads, Aviation and Rubber Firms Show
 Large Increases

Wages of capital continue to soar, and there is no Little SteeT' farm ula to restrain them! The extent to which owners of industrial secur- ities are prOspering as a result of the war is disclosed by the July issue of Exchange Magazine" put out by the New York Stock Ex- change.
 Of BPS companies listed on the exchange, it was revealed, 596 paid cash dividends during the first six months of this year, as against 56O in the same period of l942, which was ''red letter" year for coupon clippers.
 Of the companies making distribu- tion of profits, III did so well that they were able to increase their pay mertS.
 The railroads paid $88,345,000 tc stockholders, compared with $67 7,321, ; GOO in the 1o42 period, a gain of 31.z per cent. The homogeneous of the carriers which hiked the wages O their stockholders are now vigorously contending that a slight increase ii the wages of employees would be in hationary.
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1943-08-07
VILE. Okays WageRisesOf Hartford Men
Teamsters, 559, Benefit At Biscuit And Glass
 Companies

Raises of five cents an hour for warehouse men and $4.4O 8 week for drivers have been approved by the Boston office of the War Labor Board for g members of Local S59, Hartford Teamsters, employed at the National Biscuit Co.,, accord ing to Nick YannOne, business agent of the Local. The increases are retroactive to March l, 1943.
 The full contract provides for a guaranteed AS hour week for drivers, with time and half pay after the 48th hour; 40 hours for inside workers, and time and half for overtime; time and half for all Saturday work; eight holidays a year with pay, double time for work on these holidays; one week paid vacation for one to five years service, and two weeks vacation for five or more years of service with the company.
 !, The VILE. has also approved a wage increase of five cents an hour for Bob Willis, driver at the Elias Glass Co.,, Hartford.
 1lC NOlIIA alt OClWCCu lllC SOlIIpdlly and the Local calls for 90 cents an hour wage which is the prevailing rate for glass company truck drivers. In side workers affiliated with the union and covered by the contract were re- /ceiving the prevailing rate and no in- ,creases were asked for them. The in- crease is retroactive to Aug. 2, 1922. Herbert Miller and Henry Dau- phinais, business agents of Local 559, together with Edwin Rice, president and business agent of Lo- cal 67l, Timothy Collins, president of CIT, Waterbury, and John Pi- sano, business agent of 433, New Haven and Bridgeport Teamsters, attended the New England Confer ence of Teamsters in Old Orchard, Me, last week.
The union times., 1943-08-07
United Conference Established In Neqv
 Haven by 3 Groups
A.FL, CLO., And R. R. Unions Join To Ensure "Win- The-War" Congress; Big Broadcast And Third District Legislative Conference Planned
 For August 26 and 28

The three major labor Organiza- tions of the Third Congressional District-the A.F.L., C.I.O., and the Railroad BrotherhoOds- today the formation of the United Labor Legislative Conference of Greater New Haven, with headquar- ters at the New Haven Labor Tenn pie.
 The announcement was issued jointly by Edward McCrone, Conn. CLIO. director; Harold V. Fein- mark, president of the New Haven Central Labor Council, A.F.L.; and William F. Donoghue, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
 Two immediate activities have been agreed upon, according to the an- nouncement. The facilities of radio station WELL have been obtained for an hours broadcast on Thursday, Aug. 26. At this time Rep. Ranulf Comp of Madison; Congressman-at-Large B. J. Monkeiwicz; and U. s. Senator John A. Danaher will be invited to discuss their voting records in the last session of Congress with representa- tives of the three labor organizations.
 ''We believe the general public has right to know what we say to our Washington representatives, and to hear their answers" the an- nOuncement continued. ''We also believe that these men want their constituents to know why. in many cases, their votes were based on a fight Roosevelt policy. Certainly the voters of this District want to hear their explanations, and we have no doubt but that our Wash ington representatives will accept our invitation"
 An impartial moderator will be asked to preside over the meeting.
 The second activity of the united labor groups, according to the an- nOuncement, will be the holding of Third Congressional Labor Legis- lative Conference, in New Haven on August 28. All unions in the Dis trict will be invited to send dele gates. The expenses of the broad cast and the Conference will be met by donations from the local unions.
 ''We are firmly cOnUinced that
 UictOry OUer the Aeis posUers can
 be sPeeded up by hGUing unit
 ed n0tiOn behind OUT COn,nlan-
 der-in-Chief and our armed
 forces. The last session Of Con-
 gress, by fighting or blocking
 eUery prOgressiUe measure pro-
 posed by the Administration sUas
 SO diSruPtive to morale On the
 home front that the sOhOIe nation
 sighed sOith relief sUhen GdjOurn-
 nlent sOGs UOted.
 Our activities are planned to do our share in making certain that the session of Congress which reconvenes in September is a 'win-the-war' ses- sion."
 Continued on Page Three)
The union times., 1943-08-07
Fascists Are Unable ToKill 'AFL Member
Mike Scambelluri, Hod Car. rier, Shot 2 Times
 And Still Lives

ALBANY, N. Y.-As a union man, Mike Scambelluri never had \any use for stoolpigeons. So when the fascists i'm Sicily tried to turn Mike into one, he defied them, was filled full of bullets, left for dead and later escaped.
 That's the estimate from his fel- low workers here of Scambelluri's heroism in the invasion of Sicily. !, They knew him as a member of lConstruction & General Labor Un- son, Local 19O, Intl. Hod Carriers Building & Common LabOrers Un- ion (AFL), and as leader in the citywide construction strike four years ago.
 Pvt. Scambelluri, one of the first paratroopers to drop on Sicily, was captured by the fascists, reports from the front lines said. Faced by an Ital- ian captain, he was asked to inform on the invasion forces, told to tell how many there were and the plans of American and British troops. Refus- ing. Scambelluri had his hands tied |behind his back.
 cit looked as if they were going to begin some rough stuff" he later told correspondents. 'I wasn't far wrong. The captain walked about \ 20 feet away from me and took his and fired at me.
 ssAu hell semed to burn inside of me and I collapsed. The captain continued firing, pouring six more shots into me as I lay there on the ground"
 Another soldier lobbed two hand lgrenades in his direction and the lforce of the explosion spun him around. Then the fascists left. Later, he crawled to tree and worked him self erect. Cutting loose his bonds on Lthe ragged edge of a tombstone, he sha1f walked and half crawled away PHe was later found by Sicilian civil Iians who ran to him crying, Peace. Peace" They helped him back to American lines.
 sSThat's just like him,'' said Otis Nuckles, business manager of his union. 'sHe was always an all right kguy. You won't find them any bet &er."
The union times., 1943-08-07
Yale Labor LIAM. Signs Given Union Interim Pact Shop By WLB At Stamford
400 Workers Protected By Check-of And Mem
 bership Clause

Yale University employees were this week awarded union security and check-off provisions in their dispute with the New Haven insti- tuition, according to terms of a di- rective order announced by the New England War Labor Board.
 About 400 university employees, members of District 50, United Mine Workers of America, are affected by the decision which provides that en- ployeS who are members of the union in good standing on Aug. 7 shall con tlnue to be members in good standing for the duration of the contract as condition of employment.
 The company was ordered to de- duct $l. per month union dues from the wages of union members who individually authorize such deduction in writing.
 Three members of the Board dis sented on the maintenance of mem bership clause and two on check-off.
 Requests for wage increases which became the subject of labor dispute between the Aspinook Corp, Jewett City, Conn, and United Textile Work CTS, Local Al, A. F. of L., were de- nled in directive order issued by the Board in settlement of the dispute. Labor members of the Board dissent ed from the majority decision.
The union times., 1943-08-07

struggle. He considers his position as an assignment.
 My purpose is to do the job as thoroughly and economically as pos sible. In this l count on the fullest CO., operation of the people and particu- larly of labor.
 LABOR'S LARGE STAKE
 Workers have a tremendous stake in the price control program. They feel the first pinch in all in- hatiOnary trends. want labor to let its hair down, to tell me the truth even when its bitter. As in the past the suggestions of all people are welcomed by the O.P.A."
 The new state director impressed me as a worthy successor to Bowles, who is now national general manager of the O.P.A. Like his predecessor, Arpaia is democratic person, a regu- lar fellow possessing the quality of getting things done and of inspiring his co-workers to do their best. He is sincere and dynamic. And, perhaps most important of all, he is sold-1OO per cent on the O.P.A. as a necessary democratic mechanism in the war program.
 Arpaia said that the most important needs confronting the O.P.A. at pre-
 (Continued on Page Two)
The union times., 1943-08-07
Plumber May
 Be Governor InNewJersey
United Labor Prevails On Democrats To Nominate
 Vincent J. Murphy

Newark, N. J.-Mayor Vincent J Murphy of Newark, who is also secre- tary of the New Jersey Federation ot Labor, has been agreed upon as the Democratic candidate for governor ir the coming elections.
 He will have the united backing of AFL, CIO and railroad unions, as we'll as that of the two most powerful political figures in New Jersey: Gov. Charles Edison and Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City.
 He was indorsed separately by Hague and Edison after delegations representing labOr-AFL, CIO and the brotherhOods-had visited both officials and demanded that Murphy be indOrsed.
 Previously, Hague had indicated a preference for former Gov. A. Harry Moore. But the labor delegation em- phatically denounced Moore for his anti-labor record while U. s. senator a few years ago.
 Labor, the commercial press in New Jersey and in New York generally agrees, will take major responsibility for the Murphy campaign. His Re publican opponent, it is expected, will be former U. s. Sen. Walter E. Edge, one-time ambassador to France and also a former governor. Edge is pretty generally known as a Hoover Re publican.
 Murphy is a member of the United Assn. of Plumbers X Steam He was 50 years old Aug. l, and started out 35 years ago as a plumbers apprentice. For l8 years he was secretary of Local A of the plumbers union, and for eight years secretary-treasurer of the state federation.
 He was elected to the city cOm- in 1887 as labOr's candi- date, polling nearly 5O,OOO votes in a field of 48 candidates. He was chosen mayor in 194l. He has two and one son, Lieut.. Vim cent J., Jr., now with the Army Air Force in Australia.
The union times., 1943-08-07
Discrimination
 Against Children
 Banned In Illinois
Legal Support For Connecticut Drive To Aid Families With Children Found In 1909 Law Which Imposes Penalties; OPA Director Anthony Arpaia
 Condemns Practice

Support for Connecticut labor's fight against the practice of landlords who bar children from their proper ties was given this week in a letter from George F. Barrett, attorney gen. eral of Illinois, informing THE UNION IIMEs that Illinois has had in force since 1909 law barring this form of discrimination.
 Harold V. Feinmark, president of the New Haven Central Labor Coun- Gil and a -yice-president of the Conn. Federation of Labor, is seeking the aid of the Council and the Federation to have similar law enacted in this state.
 Anthony F. Arpaia, Connecticut O.P.A. director, in letter to THE UNION TIMES joined the list of off, clals and unionists who have con- demned this discrimination in a sur- vey of public opinion on the subject conducted by this paper.
 Arpaia states that during the one. year period he was rent control di. rector in New Haven some landlords felt that because rents were reduced to the April l, 194l level they would tighten their responsibility by refusing to rent to families with children.
 This short-sighted view consider extremely unpatriotic, especially at a time when war is draining off the youth of this country and a new healthy generation must supplant it. declared Arpaia.
 The Illinois law reads in part as follows:
 1t shall hereafter be deemed un. lawful and opposed to public policy upon the part of any owner or agent of any dwelling house, fiat or apartment, desiring to rent, lease or let the same, to require as a condition precedent to the leasing of any dwelling house, flat or apartment, that the person or per. sons desiring SO lease such shall have at the time such applica. ton is made for the leasing or renting no children under the age of IA years residing in their families.
 Tt shall be deemed unlawful and opposed to public policy to insert ir any lease or agreement for the letting or renting of any dwelling house, fiat or apartment, condition terminating said lease if there are or shall be any such children in the family of any person holding such lease and occu- pying such dwelling house, flat or apartment, and any such contract or lease containing such provision shall be deemed opposed to public policy and entirely void as to such provision
 Any person, company, corpora. ton or association violating any of the provisions of section one of this law shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be adjudged to pay fine of not less than $50 nor more than $lOO for each and every offense."
The union times., 1943-08-07
Local 539, P. H. & P. Co. Submit Wage Questions
 To War Labor Board

Local 539, Stamford Machinists. have signed an interim agreement with the Petroleum Heat and Power Co.,, covering 200 employees. By terms of the agreement all wage matters will be determined by the War Labor Board, stated Fred Ce- derholm, LAM. organizer.
 Other matters in dispute include maintenance of membership clause with checkoff. The union is seeking to correct gross inequities in wage rates within the plant
 The local is asking starting rates of 65 cents hour for beginners on production work with a five-cent hourly raise every two months to a top minimum of 75 cents an hour; 80 to 90 cent minimum for ma- chine operators; $l to SIPS an hour for specialists; and paid vaca- tiOns.
 Agreement has been reached on top seniority for top stewards and griev- ance committeeman.
 CederhOlm stated that he is sub- mitting list of machine shops in the Bridgeport Area in which the wage rates for tool and die-makers range from $I.37 to $l.75 an hour to the Regional VILE. panel on wage findings.
 His object is to present he Board with true picture of wage rates for machinists in the Bridgeport area, and to offset move by manufacturers to play down the real wages before the Boards panel. He said that he had definite knowledge that he Board was told that toolmakers' rates in Bridge port area was $1.10 to $1.35 an hour, and that shops in the agricultural communities in Western Fairfield County as we'll as farm communities in New Haven county were included in survey of the Bridgeport area"
The union times., 1943-08-07
Arpaia Sees Job
 As an Assignment
By ROBERT B. BICKEL

Anthony Arpaia, successor to Chester Bowles as director of the Connecticut Office of Price Ad- ministration, impresses me as a person capable of handling the tough assignment given to him last week.
 Arpaia has something on the ball. His record as an attorney in the Seabury investigation of crime and politics in New York, and later as director of the rent control pro- gram for the New Haven Area tes- tify to his ability and integrity.
 "The O.P.A. is not a thing sepa- rate and apart from the people," he told me in his first interview with the press since taking office. Tt is the people; it is some of us doing something for the rest of us.
 ''Our share happens to be this particular home front problem, so necessary to winning the war and stabilizing our economy for the securing the fullest benefits of the peace."
 He pointed out that there is no heroics on the home front, and that most of the work is day by day