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The union times., 1943-05-08
When Will Labor
 Group Report Bill?

Impatient with the delaying tac- tics of General Assembly's Labor Committee in regards to reporting out favorably the State Labor Rela- tions Act bill that it has been hold ing in committee, Sen. James P. Ceelan declared today that he will take action this week to have the Senate consider the bill reported out unfavorably weeks ago.
 This measure is an exact counter part of the Conn. Federation of La bor's bill still in committee, bill which laborities have been looking forward to be reported out favorably and starred for immediate action in the House.
 ''We certainly have waited more than a reasonable length of time for the Committee to report out the bill," stated Ceelan. ''There is no use of waiting any longer, if we are going to get action on it at this ses- .siOn."
The union times., 1943-05-08
Sheet Metal Men Denied lO%Increase
Wage Adjustment Board Rejects Local 4O's Contract
 For $1.65 An Hour

The 10 per cent increase in wages of Sheet Metal Workers agreed upon earlier this year by the Joint Adjustment Board of the in- dustry, has been turned down by the Wage Adjustment Board of the U. $. Department of LObar.
 The increase, had it been approved by the federal board which reviews wage agreements in the building trades field, would have given the sheet metals workers $1.65 an hour.
 Sheet metal men now receive $l.5O an hour, by the terms of a contract between Local 40, and the contractors, signed in l941. The agreement expired Nov. z! l942.
 After some negotiation the Joint Adjustment Board, which is comprised of an equal number of representative from the Local and the contractors unanimously agreed on $1.65 an hour rate. The union had opened negotia- tions by asking for $l75 hourly rate
 Following agreement by the Con necticut board, the Building and Con- struction Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor re- quested the federal Wage Adjustment Board to approve the increase on the grounds that living costs had riser at least g per cent since the 1o42 con- tract was signed on Nov. 7, 1941.
 The board notified the AF.L. au- thorities and the Local that 1t was re- fusing to allow the increase in the fol- lowing words:
 ''After considering the evidence presented to the Wage Adjustment Board which included a cOmprehen- sive report from the War Deter minaitOn Section of the Office of the Solicitor of Labor, the W.A.B. decided unanimously to deny the adjustment requested by the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 40, Connecticut"
 (s) GEORGE B. McCAHAN,
 Executive Secretary"
 George A. Joslyn, business agent oi the Sheet Metal Workers, said that
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The union times., 1943-05-08
Ceelan Sees No Merit In Hours Bill
New Haven Senator Attacks Act Regulating Hours
 For Women

Sen. James P. Geelan declared this week that the Senate's reversal of it. self on the measure to amend the House version of the bill permitting the Governor to allow manufacturers to work women and minors $ hours a week, was victory for the Con- necticut Manufacturers Association.
 Ceelan. New Haven Democrat, who led the unsuccessful fight to provide safeguards in the form of excluding minors from the provi- siOns of the 55-hOur amendment; to provide transportation for women employed at night, and to give a day of rest each week to all work CTS, last week charged on the floor of the Senate: ''An invisible gov ernment is running the Legisla- ture."
 As proof of his contention that the industrialists are running the show in Hartford, he cited letter that the Manufacturers Association has sent to its members. The letter called the 55-hour law the most important piece of legislation and informed the mem bers that the Republicans in secret session had voted to accept the House bill, despite the anticipated Democratic effort to amend it when it first came to the Senate for consideration on April B.
 Although the Republican Sena- tors defeated Ceelan's measure to amend the bill at that time, enough Republicans sided with the Demo- crats to accept two of the amend ments when offered separately by Sen. Leon RisCassi, Hartford Democrat.
 These amendments prohibited the employment of women on shifts between l and 6 AM. unless the provided transportation, as a means of protecting women; and required that workers be given one day off in seven.
 When the bill was sent back to the House, that chamber refused to con- sider the amendments, and the Senate reversed itself.
The union times., 1943-05-08
Danaher Not Sorry He Was .Reappointed
''I've Done a Good Job And Shall Continue" He Tells
 The Union Times
By ROBERT B. BICKEL

The joy of Cornelius J. Danaher was unbounded on the day Gov ernor Baldwin sent his name to the Senate for reappOintment as State Commissioners of Labor.
 I called upon MT. Danaher to talk with the man whom the Governor had named as Labor Commissioner. I wanted to ask him a question or two about his program and whom he had in mind for Deputy Commissioner and Director of Employment Security.
 The term of the first expires, and the second has been vacant since eht Commissioner, Howard Haus- man, entered the armed service. His program is the continuation of the Department as it has been run under him. He envisions a great expansion of work in the department when the war ends.
 Danaher would make no conn., ment on his plans for appoint ments, turning the questions away with these words: ''Who is appoint ed depends a good deal on the Governor" and ''There is no rush, for my new term doesn't begin until July l.
 ''Your paper has said some things about me and my Depart ment, but I know you've got your job to do, and you have been pretty square from your point of view" The Commissioner was in a splen- did mood.
 ''Everybody's been good to mel" he exclaimed, adding, ''They've been better to me than I deserve"
 He made it quite plain that this af- ter thought did not mean he felt un- deserving of the office Indeed, MT. Danaher made no bones about creat-
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The union times., 1943-05-08
R.A.F.Flier Rebukes
 Eddie Rickenbacker

WILKESBARRE, Pa.-Edward V. Rickenbacker, Eastern Airlines presi- dent was accused of disruption by Hewitson Roberts, Australian Royal Air Force fier who fought at Singa- pore. Roberts made his charge in a speech to the Kiwanis Club sponsored by the Wyoming Valley Labor Vic tory Committee.
 Expressing a belief that complete unity was needed to win the war, Rob- erts said he regretted that "Ricken- packer does not subscribe to this be- lief" because "he is contributing tc disunity by attacks on unions"
The union times., 1943-05-08
lOc Increase Would Bring
 Rates To 97c
Ballot Results To Be Ready Friday; C. R. 6 L. Men
 Expect Same Offer

Approximately 1000 A.F.L. trolleymen, bus drivers and miscellaneous workers of the Connecticut Co.'s transit sys' tems in six cities of the state were voting as The Union Times went to press on the company's offer of a lO-cent hourly increase in wages This offer would bring the trolley and bus operators hourly rate to 97 cents.
 This offer, if accepted by the members of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Rail- ways and Motor Coach Employes, will bring to a close a month of negotiations between the State Board of Connecticut Co. workers and the company for the l943 con- tract which is effective as of April l.
 The delegates to the State Board reported the offer to their re- spective division members who work for company in Hartford, New Haven, Middletown, Stamford, Nor wich, and Meriden. It is now before the membership at large for vote. If ratified by the membership in the referendum held this Wednesday at the company's properties in each of the cities, it will be submitted to the War Labor Board for final ap- proval. Such action by the W. L. B. would give the operators wages equal to those paid transit work CTS by the Eastern Massachusetts Co.-the highest in New England with the sole exception of such wages paid in Boston.
 Negotiations between the State Board, representing the employees, and the Company were carried on through out the month of April. The Board opened its bargaining with demand for $1.10 an hour for operators. The Company offered o7 cents last week end. This was considered by the Board as the final offer of the Com pany, and the delegates reported it back to their divisions on Monday The results of tue Wednesday ballot ing will be announced this weekend They will determine if the workers are agreeable to accepting the 10 cent offer or desire to put the whole ques- tion to arbitration
 The contract between the Con- necticut Railway and Lighting Co. and the State Board of the C. R. & L. workers also expired April l. The union and the C. R. X L. Co. have also been carrying on negotia- tions throughout the month. Last years contracts between the two transit companies and their union. ized workers have an identical wage agreement. Both State Boards have been asking the same terms in their 1943 agreements.
 Six hundred members of the Amalgamated in five cities are represented by the C. L. & l.. State Board in the negotiations with the company. These towns, with their division representatives on the board, are:
 Pres. Stanley Mayhew, Norwalk ;
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The union times., 1943-05-08
Machiiniists In
 Hartford Buy BondsHeavily
Labor Management Com mittee At Hamilton Pro-
 pellers Gets Results

Labor anG management together put over the drive to increase sale of War Bonds at the Hamilton Standard Propellers Corp, East Hartford, according to Jack Good will, president of Aircraft Lodge 743, LAM, and co-chairman of the plants labor-management commit tee.
 Early reports of the drive which got under way with rally at the plant, indicate that the drive to have every member pledge Is per cent of his pay for the purchase of War Bonds, will be successful.
 Machinist's Mate George T. Rhodes, of the Coast Guards, who won the Purple Heart decoration for action in the South Pacific, and Boatswain's s Mate Warren Chatlin, who was twice torpedoed on convoy duty, spoke at the rally.
 Both heroes, who are uniOnists, described their experiences, praised labOr's part on the war program, and appealed for the fullest possi- ble support of the War Bond cam- paign. Goodwill was master of cere- monies. General Manager and Vice Pres. Sydney Stewart and Factory Manager Orvid Nelson also stressed the need for purchasing bonds.
 Paul Azinger, general superinten- dent of the plant, is co-chairman with Goodwill of the bor-Management committee. Other members of the committee are: James Hooker, past president; Francis O'Meara, and James Uccello, alternate, representing the union; L. C. Olmstead, assistant personnel director, and Jack Cutler, assistant to the superintendent, repre- senting the company.
The union times., 1943-05-08

Two weeks ago, Geelan expressed alarm at the failure of the Committee to come through with a report on the S.L.R.A. measure held in committee for almost two months. At that time Sen. Joseph T. Rourke, who like Gee Ian is a Democratic legislator from New Haven, and like Geelan is a la bor organizer, expressed alarm at the attitude of the Committee.
 Rourke who is member of the Labor Committee told The Union Times that he would take the matter up with the group with a view of getting action on the measure.
 Geelan asked Maxsim Pepin, Re publican, Senate Chairman of the Committee, when it was going to make report on the bill. The chair man said that the committee was con- sidering the act and would report soon. That was two weeks ago.
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The union times., 1943-05-08
Green Sends AFL Message To Italians
Joins In Commemorating Revival Of Italian Move
 ment Against Fascists

NEW YORK.-''The Italian peO- pie, who love freedom, and believe in the ideals of Caribaldi, Mazzini and Matteotti, can hasten the day of liberation by refusing to carry out the orders of the fascist dicta- tOrship, and by increasing the in- tensity of the civil disobedience campaign" was the message de- ivered by William Green on behalf of six million members of the American Federation of Labor to the Italian people on May l.
 President Green joined a group of distinguished Americans invited by Luigi Antonini, first Vice-President of
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The union times., 1943-05-08
Plumbers Give $15,OOO
 For Soldiers Canteen

Portland, Ore.-Tired and hungry doughboys passing through Portland will be provided with a convenient spot to rest and refresh themselves as the result of a $15,000 contribution to the Red Cross by Steam and Marine Filters Local 235, United Association of Plumbers and Steamhtters (AFL) The money will be used to erect a building in the Union Station to house a Red Cross canteen and a USO lounge.
 The lunch room, staffed by Red Cross volunteer canteen workers, will serve hot meals without charge to servicemen. The lounge will be equipped and staffed by the USO.
The union times., 1943-05-08
Court Test Of Anti-Union Law

KANSAS CITY, Kans.-The con- stitutionality of the Kansas anti-union law, passed by the Legislature here recently, will be tested in the federal courts.
 Identical suits challenging the meas ure on behalf of the Kansas City Building & Construction Trades Coun- Gil (A.F.L.) and the United Mine Workers were filed in U. s. District Court by union attorneys who claimed that application of the law would re- suit in thousands of arrests.
 The law restricts picketing and strikes, requires licenses for union business agents, and specifies that unions must file financial reports with the state.
The union times., 1943-05-08
$13,7O3 In Back
 Wages Collected

HARTFORD, Conn-Back wages in the amount of $13,7O3 were col 1ected by the Wage-Hour Division of the State Labor Department from ern- ployers found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, during March. State Labor Commissioner Cornelius J. Danaher announced today.
 This money was distributed to 235 employees, an average of $500 to each worker. Reimbursement was ordered, MT. Danaher said for failure to pay the minimum wage under the terms of the Federal law, and for failure to pay overtime after 40 hours.
The union times., 1943-05-08
AFL Entertainers Go
 Overseas With Troops

WASHINGTON.-A total of 266 entertainers in 45 units have been sent to entertain troops overseas, the Office of War Information reported in a review of overseas work of U.S.O.-Camp Shows, Inc. Practically all of these entertainers are members of A.F.L. unions.
The union times., 1943-05-08
Metal Trade
 Centers May Be Affected
Cities Listed As Critical Areas In Danger Of Los
 ing War Contracts;
 Unemployment Looms

Unless the manpOwer situa- ton is stabilized i'm COnnecti- cut cities, warned William J. Fitzgerald in an interview with The Union Times this week, there is danger that this state will lose it's metal trade industries and its work cen- ters will be transformed into ghost towns.
 Former Congressman Fitz- gerald, who is serving as act ing director of the Bridgeport Area of the War ManpOwer Commission, together with his area advisory committee, this week were preparing Bridge ports W.M.C. stabiIizatiOn plan to submit to the New England Regional Commits sion.
 MODEL PLAN
 1t will be model plan, stated Fitz- gerald. Its main purpose will be to stabilize employment conditions as quickly as possible. This is very necessary, asserted the acting direc- tor, in order to get the area out of the critical category in which it has been placed by the W. M. C. in Washington. As long as an indus- trial community is in a designated critical area, it is restricted from re- ceiving further government con- tracts and the spectre of growing unemployment looms.
 FACES DANGER
 Bridgeport, said Fitzgerald, is be- ginning to face this danger with present contracts running low. ''We must get out of the critical area if we don't want to see contracts flow outside of the state,' he declared.
 TO SET UP OWN AREA
 As result of a recent survey conducted by Fitzgerald, and his taking the matter up with the proper authorities, the towns of NOrwalk, Stamford and Danbury have been taken out of the Bridge port area.
 These communities which have not received many war contracts, have no Over-emplOyment problem and will suffer if they remain in the critical area. They are expected set up their own W. M. C. areas, each having a local director and a abOr-management committee, to work out the type of manpOwer stabilizatiOn programs best suited for themselves.
 Fitzgerald, who has been designated by the President and confirmed by the US. Senate as director of the New London W.M.C. area, pointed to the fact that four of the B critical W.M.C. areas in the United States are in Connecticut. They are Bridge port, Hartford, New Britain and Waterbury.
 One of the evils the Bridgeport area hopes to overcome through its stabilizatiOn program is that of the tremendous turnover of labor. Some plants have a record of a 06 percent turnover, he said. They have been hiring eight persons to get one on the job. This, he ex- plained, is one reason why Bridge port, with the title of labor short age, has huge crowds of workers seeking employment at different plants. It also explains why it was necessary to E"freeze" service work CTS on their jobs, he said.
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The union times., 1943-05-08
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

WITH A TAX BILL coming up. Department of Commerce statistics showing what became of that we'll. known infationary gap are inter. esting labor representatives. On April 8, 1942, O.P.A. spOkesmen. greatly concerned about wages. warned that there would be a $2l,. OOO, ,OOO, ,OOO infationary gap. But instead, there was exactly a $l, ,24O,. COG, ,OOO gap between consumer i'm come of $75, ,73O,OOO,OOO and con. sumner goods and services purchas. ed. The national income was $lO5,. 43O. .OOO, ,OOO and taxes and savings. $29, 700, ,OOO, ,OOO.
 More than $24, 1000, ,OOO, 900 sOas saDed by families and indiUiduaIs sUith income Of Orer $2,OOO. Those earning $IO,OO q year and more saved $7,882, 100000, and those $3, ,OOO and 0rer, almost $2I, ,OOO,. OOO, ,OOO. Which means only s.. OOO, ,OOO, 900 s0as saued by those making betsOeen 2,OOO and 5000,
 A STORY on the complaint to Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers that the supply of elastic tape for women's panties and girdles has been exhausted and a serious situation threatens carried the fol lowing head in the Washington Post.
The union times., 1943-05-08

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The union times., 1943-05-08
RUBBER SITUATION HAS HIT BOTTOM, WOMAN COMPLAINS

THE MEN who drove the trucks played an important part when the Fighting First'' Infantry Divi- sion took Cafsa in surprise at. tack, a report from the fighting front in Tunisia 10 the War De. pertinent discloses. Many of these truck-driving soldiers were truck drivers in civilian life. These driv. CTS pushed their trucks over AS miles of ''No Mans Land'' during night advance in pitch darkness. Enemy security detachments north of Cafsa were quickly overrun in this movement, which the report said was ''executed with effective coordination"
 UNDER NEW DEGREES for the French newspapers, the Nazis are telling editors not only what news to print, but the number of col. umns to be devoted to a certain story, the page size of the headline. kind of treatment and exact quota. tions to be used, reports the OWL.
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Evening star., 1943-09-17
Theodore HenckeIs,
Composer, Linguist
And Teacher, Dies

Theodore Henckels, 83, song writer,
linguist, former professor and re-
tired Government employe, died to-
day at his home, 1920 Twentieth
street NV.
Born in Luxembourg on August
IA 1860, Mr.. Henckels came to the
United States in 1883 after graduat-
ing from the University of Ghent
in Belgium.
He took postgraduate work at
Harvard University. and in 1888 be-
came citizen of this country. He
was a professor Of modern languages
at Cornell University, Harvard Uni
versity and Middleburg College. In
1895 while at Middleburg. he began
his first musical composition.
Composed $50 Songs.
Altogether, he composed 100 songs
during the next 40 years. He edited
these down to 43 and from this
number he took the IS which we're
to constitute his Rhapsody" This
rhapsody" expressed the story of
America from the time of the Pill
grimS to the present.
In 1908 he came to work for the
immigration Commission and later
for the Bureau of Census. When
he retired in 1884 he was an econo-
mist in the Commerce Department.
Though his early training was as
a civil engineer, he became inter-
ested in languages and was familiar
with 80 different tongues before he
retired. He spent nine years read
Evening star., 1943-09-17

luton to amendments from the
floor.
Representative Cole, Republican,
of New York wants to tack on a
rider to the resolution to inform
the world that no executive secret
agreement made between this coun-
try and other nations will be bind
ing on the United States unless
made under authority granted by
Congress
He said a good many will OBJ
ject, including myself" to the no.
amendment procedure prescribed by
the Foreign Affairs Committee.
And he added Il wouldn't
think the majority would attempt
to force the resolution through
when harmony is so important to
It,"
Meanwhile, caucus of Republic
an Senators gave informal approval
Evening star., 1943-09-17

to their party's Mackinac Island
(Mich) statement of domestic and
foreign policy in what was described
by Minority Leader McNary as an
entirely harmonious session"
While Senator McNary said he
considered that the group had
given general Endorsement of the
Mackinac declarations, Senator
Ball, Republican, of Minnesota said
he looked on the procedure as little
more than report of what had
Evening star., 1943-09-17
Italian Warships Reported
AT Two Turkish Ports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
1STANBUL, Sept. 17.-Seventeen
Italian warships, both large and
small" have entered the Turkish
port of Marmaris near the Halian
Island of Rhodes, according to the
1stanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet.
which has close contacts with the
Germans.
Another newspaper reported that
five additional ships we're at small
port nearby. but Allied naval sources
had no confirmation.
Cumhuriyet said that so far SO
Italian officers, $50 soldiers and 2O8
civilians had taken refuge in Turkey
from Rhodes,
Evening star., 1943-09-17

ing the Encyclopedia Britannica
from beginning to end. stopping to
look up every word he did not know
Services Will Be Private.
He was member of Alpha Tau
Omega Fraternity.
Mr. Henckels is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. E. R. Granger of
Detroit, Mrs r. M. Fortier of Berke-
ley, Calf, and Miss Frances Henck-
els, with whom he lived; two grand
sons, a granddaughter, and a great
grandson. His wife, Mrs. Carrie
Jordon Henckels, died in 1887.
Funeral services will be held at
GaWlers funeral home. 1856 Penn
sylvania avenue NV, and will be
private
Evening star., 1943-09-17
Fu|bright Resolution
Hits Snag al Session
OF House COP Chiefs

By the Associated Press.
Bipartisan plans TO rush the Full
bright resolution for postwar inter-
national collaboration through the
House Monday ran into a snag yes
terday at private meeting of the
House minority's high command.
The executive session was told.
those attending it said, that plan
Of strategy has been drafted to
block House action at least tenn
porarily, unless the Foreign Affairs
Committee agrees to open the reso-
Evening star., 1943-09-17

Buy War bonds today so that
you can face your fighting sons
when they come home, and say,
II did my share toward victory, too"
Evening star., 1943-09-17
Goodyear Begins Designs
For Postwar DiriqibIes
BY the Associated Press

AKRON, Ohio Sept. 1.-THE
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. will
resume peacetime manufacture of
dirigibles and already is working on
designs for airships OF 10000 900
Evening star., 1943-09-17

cubic feet-larger than any pre-
viously built, Board Chairman Paul
w. Litchfield reported today.
Evening star., 1943-09-17

been accomplished by the party's !
Postwar Advisory Committee.