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Evening star., 1943-05-21
Avu Gardner's Mother Dies

RALEIGH, N. c., May II R.-
Mrs. j. B. Gardner, 50, mother OF
Ava Gardner Of the movies, the
former wife Of Mickey Rooney, died
in q hospital early. today after an
illness of three years.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Comdr. Berry, Press
Deputy for Navy,
Promoted 10 Captain
Outstanding Submarine
Officer Saw Service
In Marine Corps

Comdr. Robert w. Berry, United
States Navy, deputy director of pub
lie relations of the Navy Depart
ment, yesterday was promoted to
Evening star., 1943-05-21

Others die for you; the least you
can do is buy for them. Get your
War savings stamps now.
Evening star., 1943-10-06

Fascist militia and police, although
Mussolini was ready to do So Ba-
| doglio fooled Mussolini by this STRAIT
agem.
The commander in chief of the
militia, 1t. Gen. EMO Galbiati, sus-
pecting a revolt, wrote during the
Grand Council session, which he
attended. telegraphic general order
to all militia sections to remain in
their barracks and make ready for
Intervention for the Duce. The new
chief of police stopped the kilograms,
substituting another, also signed by
Galbiati. ordering complete obedi-
ence to Badoglio. In this manner a
blood bath was averted.
When the Duce was subsequently
imprisoned at Fort Braschi. near
Rome, EttOre Mutt, a former secre-
tary general of the Fascist party.
tried TO sneak into the for. to
liberate him. He was discovered
and shot by the gendarmes.
These events marked the official
! end of Fascism. But as political
and moral force, Fascism ended on
the day Mussolini pushed Italy into
the war
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AlianceD
Evening star., 1943-10-06
Takoma Park Bus Service
Restored on Two Lines

Restoration of service on the j.
and J-6 bus lines from Takoma
Park to the center of the city was
announced by officials of the Capital
Transit Co., effective November |,
at the first fall meeting of the
Citizens Association of Takoma.
d. c., Monday night.
The J-l operated from Fifth and
Dahlla streets NV. anG the J-6
from the District line and Laurel
street, becoming express service
from PetWorth to Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
Mrs. Carl v Hickman. chairman
of the Community Chest and War
Mobilization Committee. called for
volunteers for the drive, and the
association donated $50 for the
Community War Fund.
Joseph J. Cermack announced
that the Salvage Committee had
completed plans for collection of
waste paper in the Takoma area
starting next Saturday and every
second Saturday thereafter. the
proceeds to go TO the benefit of
this area
The meeting. which was presided
over by Reginald H. Fielder. was
held in the auditorium of the Ia
koma Public School, Dahlia street
and Piney Branch road NV.
Evening star., 1943-10-06

daily-and unless more is found,
there may be none left for Texas
civilians, says Ernest o. Thompson,
State railroad commissioner.
He told the American Association
of Oil Well Drilling Contractors
last night that every ship that
Evening star., 1943-10-06
Custer Of Musso|ini
Marked by Dramatic
And Comic Actions

fThis is the second OF three
articles by an Italian journalist
1Uho Was Berlin correspondent OF
MusSolini's newspaper, Popolo
dItalia. for a number OF years
and from ,Uhich position he 1Uas
able to tolloD the inside develop
mentS leading to- the ,Udr.)
Evening star., 1943-10-06

leaves our shores Is loaded to An
average of 60 per cent of its capacity
with oil. Unless more oil is found,
sooner or later tankers will be back
ing up to Texas Gulf ports to take
every barrel of gaSohne-and leave
nothing to ration"
Evening star., 1943-10-06
Countess Sforzo Denies
Husband Hos Departed

p. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 6.-Announce-
ment that Count Carlo Sforza, for
mer Italian foreign minister and an
antiFascist. already had left here
for Italy has been denied by his
wife.
Leland Rex Robinson, president Of
Evening star., 1943-10-06

the Town Hall Club, said at a club
meeting yesterday that the count
was on his way to Italy. Sforza
had been scheduled to speak at the
meeting.
Later. however. Countess Sforza
said her husband had visited Wash
lngton yesterday and would return
here before going abroad.
Evening star., 1943-10-06

It's common sense to be thrifty
War !ondS helm you to save and
help save America.
Evening star., 1943-10-06
Oil Fomine Feared
For Texos CiviIions

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 6.-Texas is
producing 100000 barrels of oil
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20

thanks to the efforts of Frank Morris,
of the Executive Board, and Henry
Couch, treasurer. Within the last three
months three locals were chartered
in the Hartford area. These are Lo-
Gals $50, Hartford School EMPLOYEES.
62S, Hartford County Workers, and
649, Labor Department Local.
Ranen told the meeting that he will
be on call to help with all organiza-
tlonal work. He stated, however, that
the organizer cannot do the whole
job and that the spade work will have
to be done by the members them
selves.
He pointed out that the various
social, professional and mutual Or
CARNATIONS of public employees have
been limited as true collective bar
gaining agencies because they have
lacked the support of the organ
lied labor movement.
Ranen impressed the members
of the State, County and Municipal
Employees with his knowledge of
the means and methods of negOtia-
tiOns between employees and adj
ministratOrs in governmental agen-
cies. He asserted that efficient gov
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20

tries, but not all in interstate COM
MERGE, have a Accent minimum as the
result of wage orders.
Charles EyansOn, executive Sec
rotary of the Connecticut Manufac-
turers Association, appeared in OPP
position of the minimum wage law
not because the association was
opposed ito the payment of 40
cents an hour wage, but on general
principles"
Herbert Wander, chairman of the
Labor Committee, asked Eyanson why
the manufacturers were concerned
with this measure, as most of them
were paying more than 40 cents an
hour. Eyanson answered that as far
as he knew there was no need of es-
tabllshing a minimum of 40 cents. He
attempted to leave the impression that
there were no workers earning less.
Under new rules laid down by the
Labor Committee, Egan was not per-
mitted to offer rebuttals to the argu-
mentS presented by those opposing
the bill.
Following the hearing he told
Mr.. Wander that EyansOn's impress
siOns that no workers were earning
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
Rent Control
Program Is
Bridgeport Central Labor
Union And Building
Trades Council Act

The Bridgeport Central Labor
Union and the Bridgeport Build
ing Trades Council unanimously
went on record at their last regu-
lar meetings as favoring retention
of O.P.A. Rent Control and urged
Connecticut legislators i'm Washing
ton to defeat the organized at
tempts of certain landlords to de-
stroy the O.P.A. program.
Action on the matter by both
bodies resulted after Dennis Byrnes,
business agent of Local 100, Paint
ers, and a member of the Labor
Advisory Board to the state O.P.A.,
urged it. Byrnes brought to the
attention of the organizations that
O.P.A. Administrator Prentiss
Brown had warned the nation that
groups are organizing to alter and
weaken the rent control program.
Byrnes asked Peter Bernard presi-
dent of the Gu, to bring the
subject to the attention of members
of that body. Bernard introduced a
resolution putting the C.L.U. solidly
behind the rent control effort, and
informing Congresswoman Clare B.
Luce and Senators Francis T. Ma
loney and John Danaher of its ac-
ton; and urging their support The
motion was forthwith passed. Tele-
grams were despatched to the legis
1ators.
Byrnes, who is vice-president of
the Building Trades Council, intro
duced a similar resolution at the
meeting of the Council His resolu-
ton was passed, and communications
were forwarded to Mrs. Luce and
Senators Maloney and Danaher.
AS previously pointed out by
The Union Times there are seven
bills i'm the national legislative hop
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
NH Aldermen
Opposed To
The Poll Tax
Board Unanimously Votes
Resolution Against Anti
Democratic Practice

The New Haven Board of Alder
men, at its March meeting, unani-
mously passed resolution introduced
by Mrs. Laura Belle Mccoy, which
condemns the poll tax, and calls upon
Connecticut's Congressman to work
for the passage of the bill which will
abolish this tax.
The text of the resolution adopted
by the Board of Aldermen follows /:
'SWhereas our Country is en-
gagged i'm an about war to save
Democracy from the fascist attacks
of the Berlin-ROme-Tokyo Axis;
and
Whereas to strengthen our fight
we need to make our own Democ-
racy at home as perfect as posi-
BILE, by ending any limitations in
it; and
'Whereas in seven southern
states Democracy today is gravely
weakened by the existence of poll
tax legislation which denies to
millions of poor workers and farm
ers, both Negro and white, the con-
stitutional right to participate i'm
elections, contrary to the intent of
he 18th Amendment to he Con-
stitution of the United States;
Wherefore be it resolved by the
New Haven Board of Aldermen
that in the interests of Democracy
and National Unity we call upon
our Senators and Congressman to
give all support to H.R. 987, which
is designed to abolish the poll tax
i'm national elections; and
''Be it Further Resolved that we
call specifically upon Congressman
Compton and Monkiewicz to sign
the petition to discharge the Rules
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives from consideration of
this measure, to the end that it
may more speedily and surely come
up for a vote.''
Congratulations to the Board, upon
passing the resolution, were extended
this week by the New Haven Con-
ference to End Discrimination Miss
Ruth Banks, chairman of the Con-
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
Why Are Minimum
Opposed?

Secretary-Treasurer John ]. Egan
of the Conn. Federation of Labor
this week told The Union Times
that he saw evidence of the nation
wide drive against labor in the
strong and well-prepared Opposi-
ton to the Federation's bill to es-
tablish a minimum hourly wage of
40 cents for Connecticut workers.
Egan, who presented the bill at
a hearing before the General As
sembly's Labor Committee, ex-
pressed amazement at the we'll
organized opposition to the meas
ure. Two years ago, he pointed out,
there was very little opposition
when the Federation had asked for
a 3O-cent an hour minimum. He
felt that that now with living costs
greatly advanced, there would be no
serious opposition to a Accent
hourly minimum.
He presented the bill on the basis
that it would be counterpart to the
national wage-hour law. The Federal
Fair Standards Act provides 80 cents
an hour minimum except in indus
tries covered by wage orders in which
case the minimum rates do not ex-
coed 40 cents an hour. Most indus
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

WHAT ARE the qualifications
for a first-class business agent?
This problem has been discussed
by many people, and recently we
listed some of these qualifications.
According to the business agents
of Local 443, Teamsters Union.
here are more of the qualities you
must have:
''YOu must be a man of piston
and ambition, and after dinner
speaker, a night OsOl, s0Ork all day,
stay up all night and appear fresh
the next day.
''YOu must be a mans man, a
ladies' man, model husband, a
tatherly father, good prOUider, a
PlutOcrat, Democrat, and RepubIi.
can, a NesO Dealer, an Old Dealer.
and a Fast Dealer, technician,
politician, mathematician, and me.
ch0nic.
"YOu must be an organizing es.
pert, good manager, a CORE.
spOndent, must attend all meetings.
funerals, visit members in hOspi.
tails and jaiIs, contact all accounts
every sis weeks, in spare time look
for nesO business, do missiOnar,
sUOrk and attend all local cOnuen.
TONS.
''YOu must be am expert driver,
talser, liar, dancer, traUeIer, bridge
player, poker hound, golf player.
diplomat, fnancier, capitalist, phil.
anthrOpist, and an authority on
Patnlisfry, chemistry, psychology.
dogs, cats, horses, blondes, bru
nettes, and red heads.'
HONORS we're equally divided
between ALL. and Clio. unions
III labOr-management committees
which submitted the months prize
winning production suggestions to
the WPB. Eighty-four workers, the
largest for any month since the
start of the War Production Drive
merit award program, we're selected
as national winners. These ideas
were chosen from suggestions OF
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
Locall9lAnd
MitcheIIDairv
In Agreement
Approval by WLB Awaited;
VIII Add $50, 600 a Year
To Workers Pay
Envelopes

Renewal of a closed shop
contract with the Mitchell
Dairy of Bridgeport for an
other year with substantial in
creases for about $50 mem
bers of Food, Beverage and
Express employees, Local 191,
International brotherhood of
Teamsters, was agreed to fol-
lowing lengthy negotiations
during the past two months,
it was announced by John p.
Kiely, President of the Team
sters local.
According to union esti-
mates the increases won of
from So. to 81 a week will
total about 100000 for the
year. Approval of the new
wage rates, retroactive to Feb
ruary LIST when the old con-
tract expired, is now awaited
from the National War Labor
Board. The demands were ap-
proved by the International
Union and the Transfers
Joint Council No. "a, and the
new wage scale was ratified by
the membership at a meeting
held March 3rd at the Work.
mans Circle Hall i'm Bridge
port.
NEGOTIATING COMMITTEES
Mitchell Dairy, leading milk dis
tributOrs in the Bridgeport area,
with branches in Stafford, New
Haven, MiddletOwn, Danbury and
NOrwalk, was represented in ne
gOtiatiOns by a committee headed
by A. W. Mitchell and p. r. SeeIey.
The unions negotiations committee
was headed by Secretary-Treasurer
Thomas F. Murphy and Pres. John
" NACAys ACOAdEU OEASHt SCENCu
as research cOnsultant for the
union.
Members of the Unions wage scale
committee in addition to Chairman
John P. Kelly were: w. S. Thorn
dixie, Henry RAIDER, David Hornstein,
Harry Edwards, Thomas Rabideau,
George Reilly, Charles Warren, Carl
Davis, Sam Prentice, Al Newell,
Leonard Kehlhofer, Percy Smith, Carl
Kaechele, William Helmerich, Harry
Dennison, Howard Abramson, Al
German, Harry LaBrecque, Ed Sor-
ocki, Charles Frybarger, Frank Reg
merry.
An indication of the cOmpIexi-
ties of milk industry operations is
shown by the fact that 20 different
cIassifcatiOns were involved i'm the
new wage scale, which is as fol-
lows:
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
Bridgeport
Takes A Slap
At Hobbs Bill
C.L.U. Donates To Red
Cross And Raises Fund
For Soldiers Smokes

Delegates to the Bridgeport Cen
trail Labor Union at their last meet
ing voted unanimously against the
passage of the Hobbs bill, and have
sent communications to Rep. Clare
b. Luce, Sen. Francis T. Maloney,
and Sen. John Danaher urging
them to vote against the measure.
Pres. Peter Bernard introduced
the resolution condemning the
Hobbs bill which has been char
acterized as an anti-racketeering
measure. cit has the backing of
Westbrook Pegler," said Bernard,
land that alone should put every
wOrkingman against it,
AS pointed out in THE UNION
TIMES February Is, the bill proposed
by Sam Hobbs (Dem., Ala), is SO
worded that a demand for increased
wages or threat to strike or peace
full picketing, could result in fines of
$4,000 and 20-year jail terms.
The measure has been put forth as
a "feeler." Sponsors admitted that, if
it passes, a flood of other anti-labor
bills will follow.
RED CROSS GETS $40
The C.L.U. endorsed the Bridge
port Chapter of the American Red
Cross drive i'm conjunction with
the nationwide Red Cross campaign.
The delegates voted to contribute
$40 from the C.L.U. and to carry
the appeal for donations back to
their locals.
Smokes FOR SOLDIERS'
The effort to raise $3.50 month
" for the purchase of cigarettes
for men in fighting service has
Melted the Gu. 1882 so far, and
the Carpenters Council has raised
more than 500 i'm its cigarette
campaign. reported Bernard.
An effort will be made to secure
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
Many Mourn
Death OF Mrs.
Peter Bernard
All Of Us Condole With
Peter On The Great Loss
He Has Suffered

Representatives of organized la
Dor in Bridgeport attended the
funeral of Mrs. Catherine Costigan
Bernard, wife of the well-known
Park City labor leader, held on
Wednesday morning. Services were
held at the Bernard home, 1886
Main ST., and at the St. Charles
Catholic Church. Burial was i'm the
St. Michael Cemetery.
Mrs. Bernard died of a heart attack
in the Bridgeport Hospital last Satur-
day. She had been in an unstable state
of health for some time. She suffered
an attack at home Friday night after
retiring and was rushed to the hos
pital where she was put under ar
oxygen tent, and where she died un-
expectedly in her sleep. Mrs. Bernard
was So years old last February IL.
Bernard has always been i'm the
forefront in every important battle
for labor and civic betterment, and
those who knew his family knew
that Mrs. Bernard was his staunch-
est supporter i'm all his efforts i'm
behalf of his fellow workers.
Several years ago, when he offered
to buy place in the country for her
health's sake, Mrs. Bernard would not
hear Of it. She said "Peter, you are
doing good job and you mustn't give
up"
The Benards were married Oct.
IL, 1900, one week after they met.
''She has been more than a wife
and mother; she was pal and COM
panion," Bernard told The Union
Times. ''She was back of me i'm
everything l did or tried to do, and
was always ready to give me every
assistance. At times she insisted on
staying at home to receive import
ant telephone calls for me.''
Besides her husband, Mrs. Bernard
is survived by three daughters: Mrs
James Sudrow and Mrs. John Bower
of this city and Mrs. Fabrian Fuentis
of Wilmington, Del; two sons, Johr
of Bridgeport and Pvt. Stephen Of
the US. Army; one brother, James
Costigan, and five grandchildren.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
BARRIERS Are
Going Into
War Plants
More Than 100 Shops Have
Z Closed Since Last July,
De Paola Says

Hundreds of Connecticut BARRIERS
are now working in war industries
and other hundreds are in the
Armed Forces, Joseph N. DePaOla,
executive secretary of the State
JOurneymen BARRIERS Association,
told The Union Times this week.
DePaola, who is barber commits
sioner of Connecticut, said that &C
cording to latest figures there are
1888 registered BARRIERS in the state
as against 1900 in peace times. Be-
fore the war there were between 200
and $500 barber shops operating in
the state. The present number is
1901.
There are still enough BARRIERS to
take care of the peoples needs, but
the customers will have put up with
the inconvenience of awaiting their
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20

derwoOd Typewriter plant, i'm Hart
ford, in favor of two nine-houl
shifts. For months this concern
has been trying to induce the Labor
Department TO permit it to extend
the hours of work for women in
order to go on the nine-hOur shifts
but had never been able to con
vince the Department that this
move was necessary to increase
production.
Officials of the Labor Department
feel that frightening the hours OF
woman employment will increase alb
senteeism, which has always beer
higher among women workers thar
among men. They foresaw an in
crease Of juvenile delinquency ir
families where mothers were. employ
ed all night; and they predicted that
opening night work to women would
tend to decrease general wage scales
Leaders and rank-and-hle members
If organized labor were surprised tc
learn that the Governor had suspend
ed all restrictions regarding the hours
of employment of women. Many OF
them felt as officials of the Depart
ment of Labor felt, that provisions
in the law covered the situation. They
said that all the Governor had to do
was to extend the defense emergency
provision of he law from 1913 to 1915
This clause permitted employment of
women in cases of proven need up to
81 hours a week.
Secretary Treasurer John Egan of
the Conn. Federation of Labor, told
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
Governors Order
On Women Is Hit

Connecticut uniOnists, especially
those i'm the State Assembly, have
protested vigorously against Gov.
Baldwin's War Order No. 2, after
it was brought to their attention
that the Connecticut Manufacture
ers Association was interpreting the
order as removing absolutely all
limits or restrictions ON the number
of hours women may be worked, :"
as well as telling its members that
women ''may be worked Sundays
with no obligation of providing one
day of rest i'm the next ensuing six
days."
Gov. Baldwin last week exercised
his wartime powers to suspend legis-
lation by removing portions of the
labor laws pertaining to the length
of the work day for women, and the
restriction on the employment of
women between 10 P. M. and f A. M.
in industries.
Officials of the Connecticut De-
partment of Labor who stated that
there was no need for the suspen-
sion of the laws governing the
hours of factory employment of
women, declared that the order
would defeat its avOwed purpose
of increasing production. They saw
a close connection between the
order and the manufacturers inter-
probation bulletin. Both were view
ed as part of the nationwide drive
against labor.
One direct result of the order
was the abandonment of the three
shift 24-hour work day at the I'm
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-20
HopeToSolve
Labor Needs
OfConnunity
Industrialists Asked To Pre-
sent Accurate Figures On
Their Requirements
By ROBERT b. BICKEL

by RObERl b. B1OhEL
How many women are there
i'm New Haven who are avail
able for full time industrial
employment and have not YET
registered for war work? This
is one of the questions facing
the New Haven Area War
ManpOwer Committee, accord.
ing to Mrs. Alice C.. Marshall.
deputy director of the area
and chairman of the Com.
mittee.
HOLDS TWO JOBS
Mrs. Marshall, manager of the
New Haven Office of the United
States Employment Service, has
been appointed by Joseph A. Smith.
New England Regional ManpOwer
director, to serve as deputy director
of the local manpower area until a
permanent director is appointed.
She handles her two full-time
jobs, by working at the USES.
mornings, and at the War Man
power Office, 152 Temple Street,
i'm the afternoon.
The Area ManpOwer Committee
met for the first time recently, and
there was fine spirit of cO-opera-
ton shown between the four repre-
sentatives of. labor and the four of
industry who make up the COM
mittee, said Mrs. Marshall.
At the first meeting, the COM
nittee moved to survey the local
manpower field with a view to
working out a program for suf-
ficient labor to keep the wheels of
the areas war industries rolling.
ACCURATE ESTIMATE"
Mrs. Marshall reported that the
first step of the committee was to ask
industrialists to present as nearly &C.
curate estimate of their employment
needs as is possible, in order to get z
true overall picture of manpower de.
mand of the area.
The deputy director said that she
thought most women with industrial.
employment backgrounds who coulG
give full time to industrial work either
were now working or looking for
work which they consider suitable.
On the other hand she felt thai
women could be utilized more effec.
lively on split or part-time shifts il
industry. Employers, as far as thi:
district is concerned, have been SLOW
to accept women for work on the spill
shifts. We still have 300 people in
terested in part-time work"
She pointed out that lot of womer
could and would be willing to worl
four hours day if such work were
made available.
A total of 2,775 applicants i'm.
Guiding 1924 women were regis.
tered for work with the USES.
according to the latest report OF
the local office of the Service. A
total of 796 applicants were re.
ferred for work, and 395 were
placed within a week.
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