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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-16
EXPERT SERVICE DIRECTORY
AND BUYERS GUIDE
ADVERTISING DISPLAY

CARLSON ftDruS-AdYertsln- a-zlIa2x-
p0sFers. -f8Uy Brush street Telephone
Randolph e1ls.
CONV ERT your attic into an Tnc1rne. We
hnance. Smaney. Madison 1873.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-16

a GUARANTEED JOR - An makes 70
paired. civ ~ide service Licensed and
bonded Fast side Refrigeration Service.
Pfosperf fsea
LOMBARD and KelvInator Service
Fast side only" Reasonable Fs,i.
mates ienuv s2l2
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-16

A curb on advertising Of syn
1etic rubber invoked by Cam
Is Rubber Controller has
'Dcd considerable specuia-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-16
BICYCLES AND IRIeICLEs
cARPfT AM RIG oLtANING

BICYCLES AND IRIGN CHS
REBUILT bicycles. all sizes. Crosse Pie
Bicyc.e, 1901 Mack. tt. 2-423u
CARPET AND RIG CLEANING
Al Carpet and Uphol. Cleaners
Tackled down carpets cleaned on floor
furniture cleaned. mothfro0fed IN home
TRINITY 2-23f-
SERVICE RIG CLEANING Tackled q or
ctrpeNng specials. EIarar'eoe insured.
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RrfRiGER,rIoN SERVICE

AL Radio, washer repairing guaran.
'eed Workmanship Aliens Radio.
Washer " DrtNpI 56--
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RADIO SERVICE
RADIO AND WASHER SERVICE

FREE store checkup. calls. 81 idea
Housekeeping shop 50l7 Woodward
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-16

tAiNIING wall washing Decorating
can anytime. Temple 1881
WALL paper removing licensed machine
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PLUMBING. LICENSED
~ rs cleaned. 81, 2i-hour sewer serVle
Duke. UE. 2-265t. Also plumbing fixture
PIIM MIXING. SEWER SERVICE

ABBOTT Sewer Service. cleaned electri-
salIv. Results or ~ paw. DAYS, nights,
sundays N!rewood i-s222
Nil sewers sinks. drains and septic
fanks cleaned electrically Reasonab bic
N0rk guaranteed TYLER 7.7ass
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rAPER HANGING

LOOK Decorate sidewalks ceiling paper
inc' ifed 50 complete I'm. HO $3.50
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Az ACCURATE decorating rooms p
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Hearing Presages
ChangesInU

Workers forced to quit their
jobs through circumstances arising
out of wartime conditions, over
which they have no control, would
not be barred from receiving un-
employment compensation if an
amendment to the compensation
act introduced at the Legislative
hearing in Hartford by Sen. Joseph
T.. ROurke, Democrat, New Haven,
is enacted into law.
This provision was added to the
Conn. Federation of LabOr's bill
to amend the State Unemployment
Compensation Act heard by the
State Senate and House Labor Com
mittee.
1t is aimed at preventing such in
justices, suffered in the past by claim
ants, as the loss of eligibility for
U.C. payments when a worker is
forced to give up his employment,
owing to the suspension of trans
portation services, gasoline rationing,
eviction from living quarters, failure
to pass final draft examinations or
other reasons rising out of wartime
conditions over which the claimant
has no control.
All groups represented at the hear
ing agreed that the amendment should
be made part of the Unemployment
Compensation Act.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Liberalization Of
VIC. Act Expected

A number of persons appeared
at the hearing on the Workmen's
Act expecting the Conn. Fedora
ton of Labor to advocate the abol-
ishment of the waiver system. stat
ed Egan. He told them that the
GIL. never advocated the aboI-
ishing of the Waiver System, but
added: ''As soon as the Federation
finds that the system is hurting
our people we will work to have it
eliminated"
Egan said he was at a loss to
explain how ''they got the idea that
the Federation would oppose the
waiver system, unless they read big
headlines in The Union Times.'
This paper has pointed out that
waivers have increased some 400
per cent, and that the system is a
potential danger to the rights of
workers.
There was agreement on the Fed
eration's proposal to amend the Work
mems Act so as to prevent EMPLOYERS
from withdrawing from the Act or
demanding that employees withdraw
from the protection of the Act as a
stipulation for gaining employment.
There was also general agreement
to the provisions to pay funeral bene-
fits of persons dying from the injuries
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
United Labor
Backs Boeiing
Send Telegram To Roose-
welt Asking End Of
1O-Month Delay

SEATTLE.-The demand of the
Boeing aircraft workers, members of
the international Association of Ma
chinists, for an immediate decision by
the National War Labor Board on
their 10-month-old wage increase re-
quests is supported by a majority OF
ALL. and CLIO. unions in this area
A joint A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee
wired the following to Pres. ROose-
welt:
Gas the War Labor Board has
seen fit to delay the decision of
the BOeing workers request for a
reasonable wage adjustment and
therefore after 10 months has caus-
ed a situation that has created ma
tiOnal notice of the injustice being
dealt these workers through this
delayed decision, a joint committee
of Clio. and ALL. representa-
tives met and were unanimous in
their demands that the War Labor
Board Immediately render a de-
cisiOn pertaining to the aircraft
workers.
The public sentiment as expressed
in this locality feels the War Labor
Board is doing an undemocratic thing
in delaying this important decision and
thereby causing unrest, undue absent
eeism and slowing up production ir
the aircraft industry on the Pacific
coast in this critical hour of our
needs"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
UnionsP Pledge New Britain
Conservation Bus Drivers
Aid 10 Bowles Get Plaque
New Canaan Plumbers,
Steamhtters Change To
Quarterly Meetings

In order to conserve motor fuel.
Local 615, New Canaan, Plumbers
and Steamfitters, have voted to
hold quarterly meetings of the
membership and has empowered
the executive board to carry on the
business of the Local at the regular
monthly meetings.
This information was encom-
passed in letter to Chester BOwIes.
State O.P.A. director, i'm reply to
his appeal that all organizations
do all in their power to conserve
gasoline and rubber.
u he executive board will meet after
working hours" stated F. w. Mac
lntyre, secretary of the union, in a
letter to BowleS. This arrangement
Maclntyre explained, will eliminate
the necessity of the board members re-
TURNING to the meeting after going
home.
Frank Bausola, secretary-treas-
urer of Local $50, Transfers, Hart
ford, wrote Bowles as follows:
I'VE of the Transfers Union can
realize this crisis more than other
organizations because we are d.
rectly affected economically if
these supplies (Of fuel OiD do not
reach here.
Let me assure you that our organ
lzatlon wholeheartedly adopts your
program of conservation and will con-
tlnue to conserve gasoline and oil at
all times"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06

The provisions of the Connecticut
Federation of Labor's bill to 1iberalize
the Workmen's Compensation Act
that would increase benefits for physi-
cal losses due to industrial accidents
were agreed upon by all groups at
tending the legislative hearings on
the Federation's bill, Secretary-Treas-
urer John ]. Egan, told THE UNION
TIMES this week.
Opposition, however, developed
to the proposal for increasing the
maximum compensation for loss
of time. The proposed increase
from so per cent to &C 2-3 per cent
of the weekly wage with an increase
in maximum payment from $25 to
$35 a week, was also opposed.
AS was expected, the bill to set
ND a State WOrkmen's Insurance
Fund met great deal of opposi-
ton from representatives of the
insurance interests, from the Cham
Der of Commerce, and even from
the Insurance Commissioners. John
C.. Blackall, Democrat, who is
reported to be seeking reappoint-
ment.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Jim Metcalf,
Brewers, No.
4O,DiesInFall
% Workers At Schaefer
Give Pint Of Blood To
Red Cross

Injuries suffered in a fall at
union meeting proved fatal to
James Metcalf, so, member of Lo.
cal 40. Bridgeport Brewery Work.
ers. Metcaf died Feb. %, following
an emergency operation i'm
Bridgeport hospital for fractured
skull. ]. ]. Simonelli, business
agent, and Louis Taborelli, of Local
40, attended the funeral services
last week.
Metcalf had been member of the
Brewery Workers since 1887, and was
well-liked by other members because
he was full of life" said Simonelli.
Metcalf stumbled or tripped at the
American Legion Hall, after the
monthly meeting of the Local had
adjourned Sunday, February 7. Eel
low members rushed to his aid, helped
him to his feet and later saw him to
his home at 1873 Main St. He was par
tally stunned by the fall, but it was
not until Monday evening that he lost
consciousness, and was taken to the
hospital. Examination by doctors re-
vealed fractures on both sides of his
skull, and an emergency operation was
performed in an effort to save his
life. He died the following Monday
without having gained consciousness.
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Hartford0K's
ALL. Social
Security Plan
C.L.U. Committee To Work
For Passage Of This
Legislation

The Hartford Central Labor
Unions Committee on Social Leg.
islation reported at the last meet
ing of the .C.L.U. that it has made
a study of the American Fedora
ton of Labor's Social Security pro-
gram, and the committee endorses
il.
The Committee, which is COM
posed of Frank Morris, secretary
of the C.L.U.; Gus Bochman,
Bakers, No. 8; and George Wat
SON, Bricklayers, No. /, was em.
powered to act for the body when
the Social Security measure is up
for consideration i'm Congress.
Pres. William A. Green in a letter
to all Central Labor Unions in De-
cember urged ALL. members to
mobilize in support of the A.F.L.'s
social security program, which in
cluded liberalization of the National
Social Security Act to include health
insurance, to increase benefit payments
and to make them available to a
greater portion of the population. The
program calls for larger contributions
from both labor and industry in order
to build up an adequate social insur-
ance fund to afford greater security
for the aged or ailing or the unem-
ployed in case of a postwar de-
preston.
Green stated that Pres. Roose-
welt was contemplating introducing
social security legislation i'm line
with the A.F.L.'s program, and he
urged that labor organizations ap-
point committees to study the pro-
gram and to make known i'm the
most effective manner the desires
of the ALL. membership on the
subject when social security legis-
latiOn comes up i'm Congress.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
w. L. B. Panel For
N. E. Is Appointed

Four Connecticut men have been
chosen as members of the newly
created New England Regional War
Labor Board which has been set up
as part of the twO-fOld decentrali-
cation plan to simplify and speed
up the W.L.B. procedure for vol
untary wage adjustments, settle
ments of disputes between employ
ers and unions in war industries.
Alderman Frank Nj. Heavey,
Hartford, member of Local
Blob, Electrical Device Workers,
has been chosen as one of the two
ALL. members on the Board,
which is comprised of representa-.
tives of labor, industry and the
public.
The creation of the Regional Board
is the first move in the Federal gov
ernment's decentralization of the
work of the War Labor Board. The
second step is the proposed panels
in war work localities for handling
and attempting to solve all local dis
putes, involving problems of wages,
conditions and hours in their respec-
tive area.
These local panels, which we're
mentioned last week in The Union
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Support For
Red Cross Is
Urged ByAFL
Executive Board Endorses
1943 War Campaign
For $125,OOO,OOO

With the Red Cross campaign
three or four days old and goal
of $45O,OOO to be reached in New
Haven during the month of March,
it's going to mean hard work until
the close of the drive before that
goal is reached. 1t must be an all
out effort on the part of everyone,
William G.. Cleaver, chairman of
the local chapters War Fund cam
paign, said this week. The organi-
cation under MIR. Cleaver is about
as perfect as any i'm the country,
it is believed, and thousands of
workers will make thorough can
vass of the city before the end of
the month.
Wholehearted support of labor for
the campaign has been pledged by
national leaders of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations and the Rail-
road Brotherhoods.
A resolution supporting the appeal,
adopted by the A. F. of L. executive
council, was transmitted to Red Cross
National Headquarters in Washington
by President William Green. The
resolution reads:
"The Executive Council gives its
full endorsement to the 1913 War
Fund campaign of the American Red
Cross. President Roosevelt has desig-
mated March as Red Cross Month
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06

AGREE ON WAITING PERIOD
Employer representatives at the
hearing found no objection to the
provisions of the Conn.
bill:
CD To decrease the waiting
period for benefit payments from
three to one week.
CD To include all employers
in the act, which at present does
not require employers of less
than four workers to come I'M
der the Act.
CD To make reciprocal agree
ments with other States whereby
the time of employment in one
state would be credited to work
ers when taking jobs in other
states in regards to their eligi-
biIity to draw unemployment
compensation in Connecticut.
Employers representatives at the
hearing opposed the GIL. pro-
pOsals to increase the maximum
unemployment benefits from $40
to $22 a week and to increase the
period from ID to Fl
weeks.
BEERS OPPOSED
The opposition to increasing
benefit payments and frightening
the compensate period conferred
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06

Times, will be set up as soon as
the Regional Board is functioning
and as the need develops. To date
four panels are contemplated i'm
Connecticut, and Secretary reasur-
er John ]. Egan, of the Conn.
Federation of Labor, has selected
these persons, as the ALL. repre-
sentative on each of the proposed
boards: New Haven, Harold v.
Feinmark; Bridgeport, George
Doyle; Hartford, Michael Barry,
and Waterbury, Timothy Collins.
The local panels are comprised of
two members each from the public,
Employers and labor, with the
Clio. and ALL. each having one
representative.
In addition to Heavey, the other
Connecticut members of the N. E.
Regional Board are, DIR. Norman
Ware, Wesleyan College, Middle.
town, full time vice-chairman, and
E. W. Bake, Yale University, New
Haven representing the public !;
and I'll. ]. Madden, Waterbury man.
ufacturer, representing the EN-
ployers.
Saul Wallen, former regional di-
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

THE NEW HAVEN Central La
Dor Council, at its last meeting
unanimously passed resolution
asking Governor Raymond E. Bald
s0in to appoint member of or
ganized labor as State Labor Com
missioner. This is the reply sent to
the Council by the Governor:
Gentlemen:
81 hare your letter of February
- sOith a copy of resolution ex-
pressing your UiesOs concerning the
appointment of Labor Commits
siOner. 1 haze giUen it Uery careful
confederation
THAT WAS no 'sstrike'' by the
Boeing Aircraft workers out in
Seattle, despite the screaming head
lines in the daily newspapers. The
facts are that members of swing
and graveyard shifts lost no pro-
duction time. A number of day
shift workers who left the plant at
noon lost 8 IA hours, and plans
were previously made for making
up the time.
THESE 10000 workers were pro-
testing the nine-months delay by
the National War Labor Board in
adjusting aircraft wage scales to
prevailing standards, and soaring
living costs.
FORTY PER CENT OF THE
WORKERS at Boeing draw the
beginning rate of 81 IL hourly.
No new scales i'm the face of the
2O% increase i'm living costs in
Seattle and the lack of housing
and day care for children resulted
in 1880 labor turnover in 1912.
Although many thousands were
hired by Boeing, the plant ended
1912 with fewer workers than il
had at the start of the year. Some
10000 Boeing workers are MEM
bers of the International AssOcia-
ton of Machinists.
THE TEXAS House of Repre-
sentatiues, the dollhouse of anti
labor legislation, reached an ALL
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Griswold Heads Div. 11O3;
Members Have Increases
= In Family

Division No. 1903, Bus Drivers OF
New Britain, has been awarded a
bronze plaque for safe driving in 1912
by the National Safety Council. The
c. R. & L. Co., operators of the New
Britain Transit system gave the en-
ployees a banquet at Hotel Burritt,
the night men having their dinner at
noon and the day men at night, in
appreciation of their safe driving rec
ord.
Paul CriswOld has been elected
president of the Division. Other
officers chosen and installed for
l943 are: Robert Murray, vice.
president and treasurer; George
Nelson, financial and recording
secretary; Thomas Martin, senti-
mel; Philip Peterson, cOrrespon-
dent; Ed Bidwell and Francis MUIR
ply, executive board.
During the past year." Correspond
ent Peterson reported to the Amalga-
mated, business has increased to such
an extent that we have been overtaxed
in both working conditions and equip
ment. There has also been few other
increases, which in the long run might
overtax a few of the brothers, namely
a son to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wheeler J;
a son to Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Schenck !;
and a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lynch, Jr. Ed. Bidwell and Charles
Flenke were married during the year.
KEEP 'EM FLYING
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
Four Boards
For Ratio,niing
In Bridgeport
Abrahamson, Nobili, Byrne.
And Cannon Represent
The A.F.L.

A member of the ALL. is repre-
scented on each of the four newly
created War Price and RatiOning
Boards in Bridgeport which have
been set up to replace the single
board for the entire body, accord
ing to Chester BOwles, Conn. O.P.A.
chief. This is i'm line with the State
O.P.A.'s effort to decentralize ra-
tiOning procedure and speed up its
work.
by dividing the work load among
these four boards so situated to give
the West, South, East and North
ends Of the town each an office of its
own, we hope to eliminate the long
waiting lines of the past" said
Bowles.
Howard Abramson, Local l9l,
Milk and Bakery Drivers, vice.
chairman of the Read School
Board; Caetano Nobili, business
agent of Local COS, Hold Carriers
and Building LabOrers, Beardsley
School Board; and Dennis Byrnes,
business agent of Local 100, Paint
ers, and a member of the Labor
Advisory Committee to the Con-
necticut O.P.A., a member of the
Lincoln School Board; and James
Cannon, Maplewood School Board.
Each of the four boards will have
an Office manager and seven clerks,
said Bowles.
Bowles' plan, which may be ex-
tended to New Haven and Hartford,
includes an executive board composed
of five members of the original city
wide Rationing Board to have juris-
diction over the four new offices. Each
office will be operated by its own
board headed by a vice-chairman and
having at least two members who be-
long to the original board.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
CollinsNamed
ToWLBPanel
In Waterbury
ALL. Members Selected In
Hartford, Bridgeport,
N. H., Waterbury

Timothy Collins, secretary-treas-
urer of Local 677, Waterbury Team
sters, and a vice-president of the
Conn. Federation of Labor, has
been named as the ALL. member
of the proposed War Labor Board
panel for Waterbury, according to
John ]. Egan, secretary-treasurer
of the State Federation.
Egan is acting as agent for the
Federation at the behest of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in naming
ALL. members for the proposed
panels. He informed THE UNION
TIMES last week that he had sug-
gested the names of Harold V. Fem
mark, president of the New Haven
Central Labor Council, for the pro-
posed panel in New Haven; George
Doyle, financial secretary of Lodge
50, LAM, for Bridgeport; and
Michael Barry, business agent of
Local 43, Carpenters, for Hartford
The panels are part of the
N.W.L.B.'s effort to solve war in
ouStrlal LABOR problems locally, and
thus expedite the work of the Ma
tional Board, in order to keep abreast
of the cases.
Egan said that it is possible that
only four panels will be set up i'm
Connecticut. Last week he stated
that six such panels were under
consideration i'm the state. 1t is
now felt that the boards in the four
cities mentioned will care for the
States needs. Other boards may
be established if increased prob.
lens warrant them.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06
NoHeadlinesFor
ThisStrikeThreat

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Here's a
strike threat that failed to make front
pages of the local press, although
every man, woman and child in the
area is affected.
Eight Kansas City dairy distribu-
tors telegraphed an ultimatum to Sec.
of Agriculture Claude Wickard and
OPA Administrator Leon Henderson
that unless OPA raises the price of
milk they would cease distributing
milk. At least three of the concerns
are controlled by national corpor-
ations, which have enjoyed big profits.
No deadline was set by the firms,
although they asked an answer, "as
we must know what you are going to
force us to do"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-03-06

From Misses
Racketeering
Cen. Labor Council Names
Committee To Work With
CLIO, r. r. Unions To
Defeat Anti : Union
Drive In Congress

Faced by a rising tide of
anti-labOr legislation in Con-
gress, the New Haven Central
Labor Council this week set
up a special legislative COM
mittee which will make known
organized labOr's views to
COnnecticut's Congressman
and U. S. Senators, and will
work with the New Haven In
dustrial Union Council, CLIO,
and the Railroad Brother
hoods for the protection of
labOr's rights.
Appointment of the Com.
mittee by President Harold v.
Feinmark came at the same
time that it became known
that Congressman Ranulf
Compton of the New Haven
district plans to vote for the
notorious Hobbs Bill, which
would permit unfriendly
courts to cOnstrue the Iegiti.
mate activities of organized
labor as racketeering.
"CIVINC CLOSE STUDY
Rep. COmptOn's views are con-
tanned in letter sent to Richard
FELTON,, Secretary of the Religion
and Labor Council of New Haven.
His letter follows:
''This will acknowledge your
telegram of even date asking
me to vote against the Hobbs
Bill.
'This Bill is not as yet before
the House for consideration.
However, l am giving the Bill
close study and at the present
time it is my impression that no
fair-minded citizen could find
fault with a measure intended to
stop racketeering and unless the
debate shows that some other
purpose is to be attained, / shall
doubtless vote for the BilI.e
NO LAW NEEDED
National leaders of the ALL. have
repeatedly pointed out that there is
sufficient state and Federal legislation
on the statute books to penalize rack
eteers, and that to bring organized
labor under the anti-racketeering laws
opens the door to the arrest and per-
secution of labor leaders by unfriendly
prosecutors and judges. Under the
terms of the Hobbs Bill, any legiti-
mate labor dispute which adversely af-
fected interstate commerce could be in
terpreted by court to be "extortion,"
and members of the union involved
could be fined and sent to jail.
The Hobbs Bill is only one of
the measures which will be con-
sidered by the United Labor Com
mittee. Attempts to 'tfreeze" work
ers ON their jobs are opposed by
labor on the ground that there
should be no talk of freezing
until all voluntary methods have =;
been tried. Although workers
wages are virtually frozen by the
Continued on Page Two)