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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12
HebreU Ladies' Aid
 To Close Season

The Waterbury Hebrew Ladies Aid Association will hold their last regular meeting of the season on Monday afternoon, June 14th at 2::3O o'clock at the institute. Rabbi William P. Greenfield will address the group. Refreshments will be served with the following members acting as hostesses: Mrs. Jacob Jan- cher, Mrs. Joseph Fleisher, Mrs. Samuel Handler, Mrs Bernard Ruby, Mrs. Joseph Chesney, Mrs. Morris Kosersky, Mrs. Joseph Kra- SOW, Mrs. Samuel Vanderman, Mrs, Morris Gelman, Mrs. Harry Reiss, Mrs. Abraham Matzkin, Mrs. Abra- ham Sandiller, Mrs. Bernard New man, Mrs Max Krinsky.
 All members are requested to be present at this meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12
WON'T TEL LON SQUIRRELS

San Diego (UP)-Tom K. Choy, importing firm owner, has ben ar rested by federal officers on a charge of failing to take out a h. cens for the sale at $5 a bottle Of Chimes liquod in which mountain liuuor, Chinese hrbs and squirrels, entered as ingredients. Choy failed to reveal just what role the squir- rels playd in the concoction but guaranteed that his product was better than a well-known Chinese liquor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12
Garden Club To Hear
 Dr. Alton Porter

Members of the Bunker Hill Gar den club will hold an open meeting Monday evening at 8 o'colck i'll the auditorium of the Bunker Hill church. Dr. Alton Porter of the Uni versity of Connecticut staff will be the speaker. He is an associate Of Professor Wilkinson, outstanding authority on vegetable growing; The meeting will be one of special interest to victory gardeners. Fol- lowing pr. Porters address ques- tion and answer period will be held; also Chalk Talk"
 AS transportation facilities to the Bunker Hill district have improved considerably, it is expected that residents from all sections Of the city will be in attendance. All Will be welcome.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

Nearly 90 per cent of the feature pictures shown in New Zealand are from America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

MT. and Mrs. William Dubay ot Downes street have with them for a few days, their son, Private Don aid Duby of Camp Cook, Cal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

A son, Daniel O'Connell Savers, IT.. was born on June at St. Mary S Hosiptal to Dr. and Mrs. D. O. Say CTS of Eastfield Road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is holding exhibitions in cities of England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

Miss Dorothy Miller of Circular avenue and Miss Dorothy Lasky of Lawlor avenue are spending the next ten days in New York city at the Hotel t. George.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

Mrs. E. Hathaway, Mrs. Charles Mosgrove, Miss Josephine Barry are registered at the Barbizon Plaza in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

Mrs. Julius Morris and her daugh- ter, Miss Margaret Morris of Wa tertown have been visiting in New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12
Mrs. Louis L'Heureu9
 Hostess At ShouUer

Mrs. Louis L'HeureX of Donald terrace entertained at a domestic shower Thursday night for Mrs. Frank Tracy, the former Frances Welton.
 Those attending included: Mrs. Perry Crane, Mrs. Russell Gilligan, Mrs. Francis Dumshanos, Mrs. Vim cent SaukaS, Mrs. Edward Anderson, Mrs. Bruno zupkuS, Mrs. Robert Kleinert, Mrs. William Balasky, Mrs. Fred Alcott, Mrs. Margaret Welton, Mrs. Tracy and Mrs. LHeureux.
 Mrs. Robert Dubois of Circular avenue has returned from a visit to New York City.
 MT and Mrs. Harry Steiler of Prospect have been visiting in Prov idence, R. l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

MT. and Mrs. A. Barley CalkinS Of this city are registered at the Bar bizon- Plaza in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12

awrence, who has returned to the con-
 the physical handicap imposed by an rformed a remarkable feat in singing ler's Tristan und Isolde' which closed r Thomas Beecham conducted.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
CreenDenounCes
Hitler Atrocities
Against theJews

WASHINGTON = ALL. Presi-
dent William Green this week decried
the mounting atrocities perpetrated
against Jews in Europe by Hitler and
his agents and re-dedicated the A.F.L.
to a determination to bring liberation
to 1itler's victims.
''Recent disclosures by the Allied
authorities of the pitiless and cold
bIooded slaughter of hundreds of
thousands of Jews in Europe by the
Nazi butchers he said, ''give us
fresh evidence of the terrible fate
that awaits all victims of AdOlph
Hitler.'
He urged that at this season of the
year all men and women everywhere
who cherish the principles of religion
and humanity join in voicing their
complete condemnation of such Sa-
tanic cruelty.
''The American Federation OF
Labor" he said, ''now as before.
denOunces the Nazi savagery toward
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
Labor Men Named
ToN NE War Board

All unions in Connecticut. as
well as the rest of New England,
are affected by the announcement
that two representatives of organ
lied labor have been appointed to
the New England Regional Office
of the War Production Board. They
are Gail Smith, a members of the
C.I.O., who has been named Re-
gional Labor Representative; and
Harry Russell, of the ALL, ap-
pointed Associate Regional Labor
Representative. Their headquarters
are in the W.P.B. office at IL Court
ST., Boston.
Smith and Russell will be respon-
sible for field operations in the six
states comprising the New England
W.P.B. Region to put into effect the
labor policies and programs developed
by the Labor Production Division of
which Wendell Lund is director. This
procedure is in accordance with the
decentralization of W.P.B. admins
trative functions.
Prominent in ALL.
Russell is a former president of the
Metal Trade Council of Massachu-
sets, Secretary of the Springfield
Central Labor Union, a member of
the executive council of the Massa-
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
NelU Year Message
By Frances Perkins

nineteen forty-three will de-
mand toll and sacrifice from all
of us so that our American way
of life may be preserved, our
American institutions sa f e.
guarded and freedom of speech,
freedom of press, freedom of
religion, freedom of assembly
and equal justice to all be main
tanned as a noble heritage and
as a sacred trust.
''That toll and that sacrifice
will be gladly given by the work.
ers of these United States. They
will continue to carry on sue
cessfully the task of providing
the materials and weapons
needed by our Army and Navy
on many fighting fronts.
''The skill, the high efficiency
and the great speed of Americas
working men and women and
the cooperation between them
and management will do the job
and do it thoroughly for the
preservation of American lives
and homes and to contribute i'm
full measure to the ultimate and
complete victory of the United
Nations"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02

chusetts State Federation of Labor,
and for fifteen years a prominent con-
sultant and lecturer on labor rela-
ton in leading eastern universities and
colleges. For the past five years he
has been the field service representa-
tive of the U. S.. Department of
Labor's Division of Standards.
Smith was formerly a skilled me-
chanic in the turbine department in
the Lynn Plant Of the General Elec-
trio Company, where he served for Is
years, was president of the United
Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers
of America, CLIO, Local 201, and
was member of the G. E. Confer
ence Board which negotiated a ma
tional agreement between the com
pany and the national union. More
recently he has been labor consultant
with W.P.B. and its predecessor, the
Office of Production Management in
Washington.
The Regional Labor Representa-
tive will advise other members of
the W.P.B. regional staff on any
questions affecting the interest and
participation of labor in war pro-
ductiOn activities, and will serve
as channel to and from labor or
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
NETeamsters
Organize For
War Program
Officers Of Conn. Locals
Active In Establishing
Conference

Herbert A. Miller, secretary-treas-
urer of the Hartford Local $50,
Ieamsters, was elected vice-president
tor Six month term of the newly
created New England Conference of
Ieamsters when it was organized last
week in Boston.
The purpose of the New England
Conference is to promote a better
understanding of the part truck
drivers play in the wartime trans
portation and to develop closer CO.
operation of Teamster union off.
Gals with one another and the gov
eminent in this field, said Miller.
The following Transfers officials
from Connecticut served on the
Rules and Bylaws Committee that
drafted the program for the Con-
ference: Frank BausOla, Transfers
$50; Timothy Collins, Local GIT,
Waterbury; John Pisano, Local
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
Committees Now
In 19OOWar Plants

By giving labor a voice
with management in planning
production, America has tap
ped a virtual fountain of ideas
to increase war output, it was
disclosed this week by Donald
NJ. Nelson, chief of the War
Production Board.
When the W.P.B. last March
launched its drive for Iabor-man-
agement partnership on produc.
ton, many employers voiced the
fear that this was an opening wedge
for labor to take over manage
menf," Nelson pointed out. Some
workers, he added, we're fearful
that this was a scheme for ''man.
agement TO take over labor" These
worries have been proved baseless.
he emphasized.
PLAN is WORKING
I'VE knOsO, nOsU, that the homes
IOhich led US to organize this npOUe-
n'ent soere fully justified" Nelson
said. "It sUOrks-and it has been
IOOrking eUer since last March. IL
has been highly important factor
IN the tremendous production lob
'Ohich has been done in this cOun-
try during the past year,
L0bOT-EIGnGgement committees
are nOtO tunctiOning in 1000 ,O0r
plants, covering $500, 900 sUOrkers,
and they haze opened up a flood Of
valuable suggestions from employees
to boost production. Nelson said.
len such workers, who had sub
mitted particularly outstanding ideas.
were honored in Washington last
week, both at the White House, where
they were presented with medals by
President Roosevelt, and at a lunch
con, where Nelson and other govern
ment chiefs lauded their contribution.
UNIONS WIN CITATIONS
In all, So workers and MANY labor
management committees were given
citations or honorable mentions dur
ing the week for valuable ideas that
contributed to the speeding of war
production.
Railroad uniOnists were among
those given recognition. Two
honorable mentions went to
IabOr-management committee on
the Illinois Central set up by A. F.
of l.. shOpcraft unions and the
carriers. This committee did much
to eliminate waste and increase
efficiency.
Many members of the Machinists
and Electrical Workers in indus
trial plants were also singled out
for tributes, as were six labor
management committees at war
plants, in which the Machinists rep
resented the labor side.
COUNTING ON WORKERS
Nelson declared that the labor
management committee will become
more important than ever in 1913,
when production must be enormously
expanded without much of an increase
in either productive facilities or raw
materials.
1--WE are definitely counting on the
ingenuity and intelligence of employees
to help US accomplish this tremendous
program" he said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02

war;" said Vol, ''the trade unions
of America have been fighting for
democracy on every battlefront.
They have done this with the wea-
pons they have built and with their
dollars. Today, we are assisting
Great Britain, Russia and China
through the war relief Organiza-
tiOns of those countries. This is
done i'm cooperation with the
hundreds of Community and War
Chests all over the country.
"But over and above those regular
contributions which go to our fight
ing allies, there is a special program
of labor projects in Britain, Russia
and China conducted in the name of
the American Labor Movement.
''Thus, 1000 skilled workers are
being transferred from Shanghai
and other japanese occupied cities
into free China. The task is being
carried out by the Chinese Associa-
ton of Labor, which like the Amer
ican Federation of Labor is a
member of the International Fed.
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
Hartford Unionists
Are Blood Donors

A group of Hartford unionists,
headed by State Senator William
A. Scott, started off the A.F.L.'s
contribution to the Red Cross
mobile blood collection in Hart
ford by each giving a pint of
blood last week. Each contrib
utOr has reported, or will report
to his organization, and urge his
brother members to support the
blood donation effort.
Those who made contributions
are: Sen. Scott and John Rice,
representing Bricklayers, Local
1; Michael Barry, business agent
of Carpenters, Local 43; Arthur
Mackerney, business agent,
Building LabOrers, $50; Will
liam A. CrOsscup, Jr., business
agent, Painters, 48l; Herbert A.
Miller, secretary-treasurer and
Nicholas Yannone, business
agent of Transfers, $50.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
LAB0R'S VOICE IN PLANNING LIFTS OUTPUT
'ChildLabor Week
Planned For City

AS THE UNION TIMES went to
press this week, the New Haven
JOint-A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee ON
Manpower was meeting to lay plans
for ''Child Labor Week in New
Haven" for the registration of the
child care needs of women working
in industry and for prospective
working mothers.
Two objective of the week" will
be to acquaint working mothers and
mothers interested in going to work
with the existing facilities for child
care; and to prepare list of children
needing such care or who will need
such care as more mothers go into
war industries.
In line with the first objective
will be an attempt to secure sup
port for a move to retain the three
W.P.A. nursery schools as child
care centers. To this end members
of the Joint Committee will visit
first, Joseph A. Fitzgerald, super
intendent of schools i'm New Haven,
to learn if the Board of Education
plans to retain the W.P.A. centers.
After seeing Fitzgerald the COM
mitteemen will get in touch with
Mayor John w. Murphy, head of
the Finance Board in an effort to
secure funds for the operation of
the nurseries.
The Joint Committee seeks to set
I'D booths and information centers in
or near industries hiring women in
an effort to have working mothers
and others register their children.
Here women may obtain information
about the existing centers.
Manpower Conference
Plans were discussed for the
projected city-wide Man Power Con-
ference where representatives of all
interested parties will get together to
exchange information and opinions on
how to secure the maximum man
power for local war industries.
William J. Ennis, head of the Con-
necticut Office of the U. S. Employ
ment Service; Mrs. Chase Going
Woodhouse, Women's Technical Ad-
visor to the War Man Power Com
mission, and Miss Mary Hughhart of
the Service Division of W.P.A. have
endorsed the conference and have in
dicated their willingness to attend.
Three subcommittee of the
Joint Committee have been set up
to get i'm touch with people in the
different fields to determine the
existing situation, and to sound out
persons and agencies ON their
willingness to participate in joint
conference with labor.
These subcommittee are: Child
Care-Harold v. Feinmark, presi-
dent of the C.L.U.; Doris Schloss-
berg, president of Office Workers,
C.I.O.; Job Training-Carl Hoff,
Musician, Local 1884; Scott Roston,
Musicians, 486, and Harold ".
Feinmark; Man Power - Claire
Neikind, organizer of Electrical
and Machine Workers, CLIO, Will
liam Calm, C.I.O.; and David
Strauss, Office Workers, ALL.
The ALL. Committee investigat-
ing New Haven employment con-
ditiOns voted to merge with and
offer its findings and service to the
Joint-A.F.L.-C.I.O. Man Power Com
mittee.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
City Handles
Distribution
OF All Pumps
New Haven Provides For
Proper ALLEGATION OF
Defense instrument

Pres. Harold V. Feinmark, of the
New Haven Central Labor Council,
reported to the last meeting of the
Council that New Haven will be
fully protected by the proper dis
tribution of stirrup pumps alIo-
Gated by the Office of Civilian De.
tense for use in case of incendiary
bombing.
Acting on the suggestion of Ma
tional Association of Fire Fighters,
the Gle. asked Feinmark, who is
a member of the city's Defense
Council, to look into methods by
which New Ravens allotment of
stirrup pumps would be distributed
for the maximum protection of all
citizens.
He reported to the Council that
New Haven has received 5000 stirrup
pumps, the city obtaining the pumps
and the rights to distribute them.
They will be allocated to the 400
residential and 100 business air raid
sectors in the charge of the air
wardens.
DR.. Willard Uphaus, delegate of
the Teachers Union and secretary of
the National Labor and Religion
Foundation, reported that the New
Haven Council of the Foundation is
now conducting a survey of discrim-
lnatory practices against Negroes
The survey is being made with the
aid of a considerable number of Negro
volunteer workers.
The Gle. contributed five dol.
lars to the United Seamen's Service
Inc. fund to raise 100000 to
support recreation clubs and rest
homes for merchant marine
workers.
Prof. Millar Burrows of the Yale
Divinity School was seated as a
delegate of Local 2O4, American
Federation of Teachers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
HenrySchnlitt Is
NewPresiidentOf
Plumbers, 349

Henry Schmitt was elected presi-
dent, and Harry Wengolin, vice
president, of Local 349, Plumbers and
Steamhtters, New Haven, Monday
evening at the Labor Temple.
Other officers, all of whom have
served 10 years or longer in the
Offices 10 which they were re-
elected, are: Edward Dryer, record
ing secretary; Duncan Macarthur,
financial secretary; and Edmund
Meaney, treasurer.
The Local gave a party in honor
of the new and the retiring officers.
Those who retired, by declining to
stand for another term, are; F. A.
Wiley, president; John Killian, vice
president; and James H. Higgins,
business agent. No business agent
was elected. Stanley Griesing served
as chairman of the committee on ar
rangements for social hour.
Officers will be installed at the
next meeting of local which will be
held Jan. II, in the Labor Temple.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
1913 Building
ToBe In Housing

DETROIT. = Construction of big
war plants is about over, declares Sec.
Ed Thai of the Detroit Building
Trades Council (AF.L.). Construc-
ton has run ahead of equipment, man
power and transportation of raw ma
terials and prospective output of the
plants.
Building tradesmen will find some
employment in housing, which remains
an unsolved problem, he says, but
many workers will have to find Jobs
in other lines and so will the huge
construction companies for the dura-
ton.
Thai expects government decision
in few weeks after the hearing held
in Detroit Dec. IS on the unfair labor
practices of the Ford Motor Co.,
which has "the 1ousiest labor policy
of them ALL" in THAT'S opinion.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
No Time Lost In State On
Account Of Gas Shortage

Connecticut's industrial workers
who refused to be stopped in their
determination to keep war plants
operating, by the inconvenience of
having to go without gasoline because
of the recent suspension of the sale
of motor fuel, were praised by Ches-
ter Bowles, State O.PA. director this
week.
BOwIes said he and his staff were
highly gratified to find that
check-up revealed that not one war
worker was either late or absent
from his work on the day follow
ing the stoppage of sales because
they could not buy sufficient gasO-
line for their cars. Many of them
were ont of gasoline, he said, and
could have used that circumstance
as an excuse to take the Saturday
off, had they been looking for an
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
Sheet Metal
Men Ask For
25cIncrease
Joslyn, Gilrnartin Return
From international Con-
vention In Cincinnati

Local 40, Sheet Metal Workers,
have submitted to the Joint Adj
justment Board, comprised of
union and employer representa-
tives, demand for a wage increase
of Is cents an hour, according to
George A. JOslyn, business agent
of the Local. The present rate is
$l.5O per hour.
Charles McKone, secretary of the
union, was instructed at its last
meeting TO inform the employer
members of the joint board of the
demand voted upon at the meeting.
The board, which must agree unani-
mously on wage negotiations, consists
of the following members: William
B. Brown, chairman, Richard Libby,
and c. G. Bostwick, all of Hartford,
representing the employers; Ernest ].
Kunz secretary, George A. Joslyn
and Benjamin Bassell, representing
the union.
Fine Convention
Joslyn, of Local 40, and Eugene
Gilnartin, of the Railroad Local 328,
Sheetmetal Workers, returned last
week from Cincinnati where they at
tended, as delegates from their
Locals, the Convention of the Sheet
Metal Workers International Associa-
ton. Both were appointed CORES
pondents to the "Sheet Metal Work
ers Journal" which the Convention
decided to resume after a suspension
of seven years.
Pres. William Green of the AFL.
the principal speaker, told the
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
RegionalWLB
Handling For
DisputeCases
All Cities To Have Panels
Representing Labor,
Management, Public

WASHINCTON-AlI labor dis
putes taken to the National War
Labor Board will be decided i'm its
regional Offices. A sweeping two
fold decentralization plan to SIM
plify procedure for voluntary wage
and salary adjustment requests and
promising much-needed speedier
action on cases in which employers
and unions are i'm dispute, was an
nOunced this week.
All disputes which cannot be settled
by the U. S. Cancellation Service will
be referred to panels of public, man
agement and labor representatives to
be set up in all major cities. Excep-
tons will be cases of national signif-
canoe, said the board, and those in
volving major policy, which the board
may decide.
Panels will make recommendations
to one of 10 regional advisory boards
now set up and decisions of those
boards will be final, subject to certain
rights of review and appeal to be an
nounced later.
Regional directors will have
authority to make final decisions on
all wage cases where employees and
employers are agreed, when not
more than 100 employees are in
vOlved. This would care for two
thirds of all adjustment requests
now made.
ALI directors decisions may be
appealed to a tripartite regional
panel whose decisions will be final
unless panel member requests
board review or the board itself
desires to review the case.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
American Labor's Dollars
Help Freedom Everywhere

The thrilling story of how the con-
tributions of the American Labor
Movement enable the Chinese Asso-
citation of Labor to smuggle skilled
Chinese workmen out of Japanese
held territory into free China was
told last week by Matthew Woll.
Woll is President of the Labor
League for Human Right and United
Nations Relief. Members of the
ALL. from Maine to California in
cooperation with several hundred
local Community War Chests have
been making systematic contributions
to war relief.
"Since the beginning of the
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-02
Labor Realty
Names Officers

Harold V. Feinmark, president of
the New Haven Central Labor Coun-
Gil, was reelected president of The
Labor Realty Corp, at a meeting of
the board of directors last week in
the Labor Temple
John A. johnson, business agent of
Local 70, Carpenters, was elected vice
president of the Corporation to sue
coed Andrea Sacco, secretary of the
same local.
Joseph T. Rourke, business manager
of Local BOO, Electrical Workers,
was reelected secretary of the Labor
Realty Corp.