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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-04-22

Grobna tisina je vladala V
razkosno opremljeni spalnici,
il vseh kotov je vel sladek dru,
zine.ii mir srecne domacije.
Ramon je bedel pfi specem
otroku. Yes bled je opazoval
decka in razmisljal.
- Kako je to mogoce? Otrok,
XII tn spi, je otrok drugega, ne
znanega, zaman iskanega ljub-
cka, XII je unicil mojo sreco in
mi zagrenil zivljenje.
Ia otrok je il xiv sdokaz zlo-
Gina Representative ovira,
vecni opomin. V prestrezenem
pismu je bill jasno receno:
- Najin otrok!
To pismo je bilo sicer unice-
no, toda dokazi SO bill Sc vedno
tn. Nesrecneza Sc je polascal
obup. Ali nj ia otrok oviral od-
puscanja, kakor je oviral po-
zabljenje?
Sinovi so podobni materam,
pravi ljudski pregovor. In Ra-
mon je spoZnal V neznem dec
kOvem obrazu Helenine poteZe.
IL nedolznega specega bitja
je dihala tolika iskrenost in he
Omadezevanost, da je bila Ra-
monova vera V zlo mocno oma-
jana in da je zacel dvomiti V
moznosti zlocina in izdajstva.
All, kaj ce Sc je zmotil, kaj
&c je Helene in otroka po kri-
vem tako strogo kaznoval.
Padel je ma kolena in naslo-
nil glavo ma posteljo. Ko je pa
zopet vstal, so utihnili vsi dvo-
mi. Kazen je bila mOrda res
malo prestroga, toda pravicna.
Po prstih je odSel na drugi
konec sobe in zaCcl trezno raz-
miSljati, kaj storiti.
Milcek mu je resil zivljenje.
Nikoli vec ga ne Zapusti. Ia
vzame Sc "a zapusceno siroto in
poskrbi "a njegovo vzgojo.
Sklenil je zapustiti deckom
Pariz in preseliti Sc penhoet-
ski grad. To je bilo treba storiti
cim pref, kajti lopova, ki sta
jima Milckom komaj usla,
sta ga poznala. Vedela sta, da
je on grof de Montlaur, ki je
bill poveril nekoc svojega otro-
ka tolovaju, on, pOnosni plemic,
pa je pahnil otrocicka ma pot
zlOCinov.
&c odpotuje IL Pariza, izgu-
bita lopova sled "a MIN.
Tistega dne, ko ga je Carmen
VISA skrbeh vprasevala, kje je
bill diva dni, da ga nj bilo ma
spregled, il je odgovoril, da
ina donna otroka-sirota. GoVo-
ril je O MEM nedOlzno kot do
brotnik, XII noce obesti svojih
dobrih del ma veliki zvOn.
In ker nj Omenjal podrObno-
sti, ga Carmen in Robert nista
hotela nadlegovati vprasanj il.
Cestitala sta mu, da je nasel
plemenito razvedrilo, XII mu bO
pomagalo prenasati tezko bre-
me zivljenja.
Ramon je jima tudi povedal,
da sc namerava preseliti Pen
hoet. Carmen Sc je brz ponudi-
la, da preskrbi vse, kar DO po-
treboval ubogi otrok.
Yes zatopljen V svoje misli
Ramon nj opazil ma sestrinem
in svakovem obrazu sledov glo-
boke bolesti. Oba sta 81 priza-
devala prikriti jo.
Kruto je bilo njuno razoca-
ranje, ko nista dobila tako tez-
ko pricakovanih in "a oba tako
dragocenih pisem.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Minotti Renamed
In Bridgeport
By Bricklayers
Arthur Crump And Law
renee O'Toole Named For
Head OF Local 2

Michael MinOtti was unanimous
ly renamed business agent of Local
No. 2, Bridgeport Bricklayers, Ma.
sons and Plasterers, at the last
meeting of the Local.
Officers for the following year were
nominated as follows. Those now
holding Office are indicated by an as
terisk o.:
President: Arthur Crump*; Law
renee O'Too1e.
Vice-President: William Vars*
Joseph Sileo, B. Gentle.
Business Agent: Michael Minotti*
Deputy: John Hull
Alternate Deputy: Frank Kendell.
Recording Secretary: Will Griffin.
Treasurer: Anthony Lanese.
Sergeant-at-Arms VIM Walsh.
Trustee 6 years.: John Minotti.
Trustee (unexpired term) Walter
Wirth.
Executive Board Give to be elect
ed): Michael Minotti, Joseph Sileo /;
Arthur Crump; Anthony Lanese; Jo-
seph Grenese; Joseph Merley; and
Leo Dunno.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Eighth Air Force
Overseas Visited
By U.S.. Workers
Delegation From England
To Pay Return Visit To
This Country

WASHINGTON-Four American
workers on a tour of British war in
dustries stopped off at us. Eighth
Air Force headquarters somewhere
in England for a look at the planes
and weapons they turn out back home
in action.
The four workers are Joseph
Smith, Chrysler Corp, Detroit, a
member of the United Auto Work
ers (C.I.O.); Stanley Ceizyk, Lock-
heed Aircraft, Burbank, Calf.
Init. Assn. of Machinists (A.F.L.) /;
Otto o. Butler, Monsanto Chemical
Co., E, St. Louis, ILL.,, Chemical
Workers Union (A.F.L.); and Hugh
T. Mahoney, Bethlehem Steel Corp,
Bethlehem, Pa, United Steelwork-
ers (C.I.O.). Four British workers
selected from the same industries
will return to the u. S. with the
Americans for a similar tour.
Ceizyk, Polish-born manufacturing
engineer in the experimental division
at Lockheed, beamed as Brig.-Gen.
Robert P. Williams, commander of
an Eighth Air Force bomber divi-
sion, told him:
when our men see these Lock-
heed Lightnings coming, they throw
their hats into the air and cheer
the German pilots call these planes of
the Fork-Tailed Devils"
Shown aerial photographs of
damage done to targets at Schwein-
furt, Regensburg, Hamburg and
other German industrial cities,
Smith said these photographs prove
''that our bombadiers are aiming
at the factories and not the people
of Europe" He added: ''FrOm the
pictures I've seen I doubt if Ger
many can retool Schweinfurt's de-
during this war;"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
$4,000 Back Pay Is
Won For Machinist

Another hard-boiled corporation
has received costly lesson from the
Machinists that firing workers for
union activities doesn't pay.
Under orders from the National
Labor Relations Board and a U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, the West
ern Cartridge Company of East Al
ton, ILL.,, has agreed to reinstate Viii
liam Elliott, l. A. M. member, with
$4,000 in back pay, from the time he
was fired, in 1941, for leading an Or
ganizing drive at the plant.
This victory follows an even bigger
one reported last week in LABOR,
under which the Machinists' Union
won reinstatement plus back wage
payments ranging from $1,000 to
$4,000 for Is workers at the Reming-
ton-Rand plant in Elmira, N. Y. The
men had been fired by the company
for organizing activities.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
ManufacturersAss'n
Comes Out Against
Labor Consumption

NEW YORK-TO avoid cOmpul-
sorry drafting of labor, the National
Association of Manufacturers has
designed program for voluntary
use of manpOwer which includes the
cooperation of everybody except la
Dor.
NAM Pres. Frederick COOLIDGE
Crawford announced the program
here, declaring that the association
opposes CONSUMPTION as unAmerican"
and aims to do everything possible ito
hold fast the Stats in the man
power barrel" The MANS sudden
concern about unAmerican treatment
of labor stems from a feeling that
CONSUMPTION of labor might also in
clude CONSUMPTION of industry.
The NAM program actually isn't
so bad-it includes use of incen-
tives, periodic checkups to avoid la
Dor boarding and Overmanning. ex-
pansiOn of training and upgrading
activities, control of absenteeism by
remedying causes found in housing.
transportation, recreatiOnaI, educa-
tiOnal, shopping and child care con-
ditiOns, no discrimination against
women and minOrities and-coOp-
Grafton of all groups concerned with
production except labor.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Civilian Draft
Supposedly
State Labor
Needless Consumption Is
What We Are Fighting
Against, Council Tells
Congresswoman

Rep. Clare BOOthe Luce of
Connecticut today has on her
desk in Washington a letter
from the New Haven Central
Labor Council which asks her
to withdraw her civilian draft
bill.
Mrs. Luce's bill would give the
President the power to conscript
civilians for war work at service
men's'pay, and is opposed by or
gained labor throughout the
country. The Bridgeport Central
Labor Union, which is in Mrs.
Luce's territory, has also notified
the Congresswoman of its opposi-
ton.
Following is the letter sent to
Rep. Luce by the New Haven Cen
trail Labor Council:
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Mrs. Luce:
AT the last regular meeting of the
New Haven Central Labor Council
your civilian draft bill which is now
before the House Military Committee
was thoroughly discussed by the as
sembled delegates.
st was the unanimous vote of
the delegates that there was no JUS
tificatiOn or necessity for legislation
of this type to be applied to the
workers of this country.
while we are engaged in a IL
tanic struggle with forces through
out the world whose everdo is the
RECOMMENDATION of the worker. there
is grave possibility that some of
our misguided Representatives in
Washington, whose main contribu-
ton to the war effort to date ap-
pears to be the connection of anti
Administration trick war phrases,
are attempting to force upon the
American people the same form of
Government that our armed forces
are giving their lives to destroy.
I'VE urge you to reconsider and
withdraw your civilian draft Bill
that is now before the House Mill
tary Committee. When a greater war
effort is required from the Ameri-
can workers, Hitler's tactics will not
be necessary"
Very truly yours,
Bernard ]. Geelan, Secretary"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Electricians Win
Voluntary Moi M
AtRockbestosCo.
Three W.L.B. Rulings At
feet Nearly $500 Work
ers In Conn.

BOSTON-The New England War
Labor Board today announced issu-
ance of a directive order and rulings
in three voluntary wage adjustment
cases affecting nearly $500 Connect
cut workers.
With industry members dissent
ing, the Board ordered that a vol
untary maintenance of member
ship clause be included i'm the con-
tract between Rockbestos Products
Corp. of New Haven, and the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electro
cal Workers. Union security was the
sole issue in dispute. About 700 of
the Company's employees were in
vOlved in the dispute.
On the basis of gross inequities
and intraplant inequalities, the Board
approved a schedule of wage rate
ranges, modifying a request made by
Plastic Manufacturers Inc, Stamford,
Conn.,, and covering 336 employees. The
new pay schedule ranges from $3.50
cents per hour for women learners
up to foreman's rate of $50-$80 per
week.
A proposal submitted Jointly by
New Haven Pulp & Board Co., New
Haven, Conn.,, and United Paper
Novelty & Toy Workers Union, I'M
der which the company would pay
an attendance bonus of SIS per
month in cash or war stamps to any
of its $50 employees with perfect at
tendance during the month, was de-
MED by the Board on the ground
that such plan is contrary to wage
sterilization policy.
The Board gave its approval to a
modified schedule of minimum and
maximum wage rates requested for
the various job classifcations of
more than 1000 employees of Billings
& Spencer Co., in Hartford.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
NewHaven Asks Luce To Withdraw Bill
Insurance Lobby
Getting Dividends
Fire Insurance Firms Moving Heaven And Earth To
Avoid Anti Trust Laws, And They May
Get Away With 1t

Lobbyists who are turning heaven
and earth to induce Congress to
take insurance companies out from
under antitrust acts, and who are
reliably reported to have a war
chest of 100000 to grease the
ways, got return on their money
this week when a subcommittee of
the Senate Judiciary Committee ia
vorably reported bill they are
backing.
The measure, sponsored by Senator
Frederick Van Mugs (Dem., Ind. },
would tie the hands of the United
States Supreme Court and prevent it
from ruling on the governments pro-
secution of insurance companies
operating in Southern states.
The Department of Justice has
charged the companies with "gyp-
ping" policy-holders through vari-
GUS forms of skullduggery. An in
dictment was secured from Fed
eraI grand jury at Atlanta, but the
case was tossed out of court on a
technically by Judge E. Marvin
Underwood, placed on the bench
by President Hoover.
Underwood's ruling has been APP
pealed to the Supreme Court and II
has consented to review the case. The
lobby is driving hard to secure action
by Congress before the court can rem
der a decision. .,u
Attorney General Francis Biddle
has denounced the bill as Especial
privilege legislation of the worst
FORM" He said the measure is SO
broadly drawn that it exempts the
insurance companies from the
operation of other regulatory leg
islation, such as the Wagner Labor
Act. ~ ~
Congressman Jerry VoOrhis
Dem. Calif.) declared the only
purpose of the measure is to estaD-
Iish a monopoly, unregulated ny
any government authority.
Financial record of fire insurance
companies. submitted to the sub-com-
mittee by the Department OF JUS
tice. disclosed average annual income
ut IRE anu llldl AlN AiAoeAA ~-AA~
oanies of $1,037, 100000 for the i've
wear period ending 1889, with losses
1aid averaging 1865, 100000. Net earn
ings amounted to $186,00O,OO0 annual
1y. -
II was further revealed that the
10 largest stock fire insurance COM
panies paid dividends averaging
from 20 to Is per cent of invest
ment between 1910 and 1912, in
elusive. The records show that some
companies have paid dividends OF
20 to 80 per cent, even in the worst
wears of the depression.
The 100000 ''slush fund.-
the insurance companies have
put up to prevent judicial review
of their piratical practices by the
courts is Chicken feed" in COM
parison with the privileges they
seek to perpetuate.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Stamford Active In
Community Affairs

Indicating the extent to which
members of organized labor in SIAM
ford are participating in community
affairs is the fact that three members
of the Stamford Central Labor I'm
ion have just been recommended for
participation in civic activities.
According to Sam Pagano, secre-
tary of the Stamford C.L.U., the
name of Richard Rogers, of B-1069,
Electrical Workers has been sent to
the Postwar Planning Committee.
Steve Colosi of the Printing Press
men, has been recommended for, and
appointed to the Juvenile Delinquency
Board. This board has alread held
one meeting.
William Connolly, Unemployment
Compensation Commits sioner, has been
appointed to the Adult Education
Board upon the recommendation of
the Stamford C.L.U.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Local Medical
Groups Knitting
Health Program
Some ANA. Groups OPP
posed To Moving Doctors
Under Federal Grants

WASHINGTON = While the ma
tiOnal American Medical Assn. is
supporting u. S. Public Health
Services program to recruit doc
tors for dangerously exposed war
industry areas, state ANA. groups
are doing a acknowledgements Job
of knitting the program, it was
learned here.
1t was reported that state ANA.
groups were quietly putting pressure
on members of a Senate appropriations
subcommittee, headed by Sen. Kenneth
Mcclellan Cd. Tex) to prevent it
from restoring the $1,00O0O0 asked for
by Public Health and ditched by the
house appropriations committee.
Behind closed doors, the Senate
subcommittee heard Sen. Claude
Pepper Cd. Fla.), head of the war
time health and education subcom-
mittees, make a strong plea for res
tOratiOn of the funds. Public Health
planned to use the money to recruit
300 doctors in surplus areas to go to
war industry areas as uniformed of
fcers of Public Health and 80 pri-
vate physicians who would relocate
under a plan paying them moving
costs and $3.50 a month for three
months.
Joining with Pepper in his vigorous
support of the program before the
committee were DR.. Warren Draper,
of Public Health, and Comm. Max
well E. Lapham, an executive officer of
War Manpower Commissions Pro-
curement & Assignment Service, made
up exclusively of ANA. members
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Conversion, Key
To Prosperity
Truman Report
Senator Sees Need For Co
operation By Labor, Man
agement, Government

WASHINGTON - ''The greatest
and soundest era of prosperity that
this nation ever enjOyed' lies
ahead if government, industry and
labor tackle problems of postwar
conversion correctly. This assurance
is contained in a report issued by
the special committee investigating
the national defense program, head
ed by Sen. Harry Truman Cd. MOI
During the war we have also
learned new uses for aluminium and
magnesium, the miracle metals of the
future, plastics, and steel alloys New
processes for fabricating them have
been developed, and new precision
machinery developed and built. These
open up new vistas for the future"
If the vistas are to be reached, how
ever, government must meet the fol-
lowing problems squarely, the COM
mittee says
CD Method of contract termina-
ton; CD the advance notice which
industry can have of the termina-
tons; CD the methods for insuring
the early removal of government
property from private plants to
make them available for the produc-
ton of civilian articles; (4) the ex-
tent to which the government will
make or guarantee loans to pro-
vide business with working capital;
and 50 the conditions upon which
the government will lease or sell the
plants and facilities which had been
for the war effort.
Biggest job facing the unions will
be to adjust themselves to new in
dustrial processes developed during
the course of the war, according to
the committee. "This situation will be
especially acute in the housing indus
try" it says, where prefabrication
and the use of new materials have an
opportunity to revolutionize housing,
with the result that every worker in
the United States would have an OPP
portunity to have improved housing
for his family"
But to do this, it will be neces-
sary to revise some municipal build
ing codes and conditions under
which the building trades operate,
the report says, adding: eff pos
sible, such revision should be made
by the building trades, themselves,
SO as to protect all the rights of la
Dor, and, at the same time, to en-
q HE Them and all other IohorarS IN
have better housing"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Group Health Coop
Appoints Unioniist

NEW YORK-A second labor
member named to the board of di-
rectors of Group Health Cooperative
with the election of Pres. Joseph Sell
ly of American Communications
Assn. (C.I.O.). The other labor rep
resentative, Vice-Pres. Julius Hoch-
man of Init. Ladies Garment Work
ers Union (A.F.L.), was elected sew
eral months ago.
A growing number of A.F.L. and
C.LO unions here are seeking con-
tract provisions Incorporating the
group health plan, which pays all
doctor bills for union members and
their families in union contracts.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Christmas Bonus
Are
IssuedByW
Board Must Approve If No
Bonus Was Paid By Firm
Last Year

BOSTON-With the Christmas
season rapidly approaching, Saul Wal
len, chairman of the New England
War Labor Board, today announced
the rules under which Christmas
bonuses may be granted this year to
employees under W.L.B. jurisdiction.
In general, bonuses paid last year
may be continued without W.L.B.
approval, provided the total amount
SO paid to an employee or the per-
centage upon which the payment is
made, does not exceed the amount
or percentage of last years bonus.
Proposals to pay Christmas bonuses
in excess of those paid last year, or
where none has been paid before,
must be submitted to the War La
Dor Board for approval.
The terms under which the pay
ment of bonuses may be continued
without Board approval are contained
in the W.L.B. General Order No. 10.
The National W.L.B. has notified the
Regional Board that applications for
approval of bonuses not permissible
under General Order No. 10 shall not
be approved unless in exceptional
cases where non-payment of the bonus
would be grossly inequitable and would
result in a manifest injustice to en-
ployes involved" Neither are bonus
plan applications to be approved on
the basis of prevailing practice in the
industry or area.
Chairman Wallen pointed out
that all workers earning wages or
salaries under $4,000 per year are
under W.L.B. jurisdiction unless
they are employed in a bona fde
executive, administrative or profess
sional capacity and are not repre-
scented by a duly recognized labor
organization. Such saIaried en-
ployes are under jurisdiction of the
Treasury Department.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
North Carolina AFL
Asks Political Unity

WINSTON-SA N. Gin
move for real unity here, the A.F.L.
established a political committee to
cooperate with the CLIO. and the
Railway Brotherhoods to select 1abor's
friends and defeat its enemies"
With the local political action COM
mittees of the CT. o. and representa-
tives of the railroad unions, the Cen
trail Labor Union plans to work out
a labor-management panel for the War
Manpower Commission and postwar
policies committee, as we'll as take con-
certed labor action in local politics.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Labor Candidates
Elected In Toledo

TOLEDO - Five labor Endorsed
candidates will sit on the 7-nan City
Council here, results of the slowly
counted ballots in the November cleo
ton revealed. Proportional represen-
tation counting took more than a
week.
Vice-Pres. Tom Burke of Local II,
United Auto Workers (C.LOD, and
Arthur Jurrus ALL. member, both
were elected, along with Michael Di-
sale (D), Mayor Lloyd Roulet (R)
and Ira Bame, all Endorsed for their
past records by Labor's Joint Com
mittee for Political Action, repre-
senting ALL, CLIO. and railroad
unions. The five 1abor-in Endorsed coun-
cilmen are sufficient to elect pro-
labor mayor. The mayors election
rests with the imam council
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
Weirton Steel Co.
Made Pay $92,568

PITTSBURGH-One of the long
est litigations yet recorded growing
out of the National Labor Relations
Act came to an end here when
Weirton Steel Co. shelled out $92, 1858
to 10 former and present employees
and to the estate of the seventeenth.
Individual awards arranged from
81, 55371 to $9,471.52, depending on
when the employees we're reemployed
or found other jobs. The claims grew
out of Weirton's anti-union drive in
1o36-1o37.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
100000 Wives And
Babies Are Helped

WASHINGTON - Nearly 1O0-
600 wives and babies of enlisted men
in the four lowest pay grades of the
services were cared for under the
federal maternity and infant care pro-
gram between its adoption in April,
1913 and Nov. l, the Labor Dept
Children's Bureau announced here.
Colorado has joined in the program,
raising the total number of states in
volved to IS.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
N. H. Cigar Makers
Elect Delegates

Two additional delegates, repre-
senting Local 80, New Haven Cigar
Makers, took their places at the last
meeting of the New Haven Central
Labor Council. They are Ovila Cisse-
lin and Charles E. Roller.
Rohler, a veteran member of Local
SO, has previously been delegate to
the Council. Cisselin is a new dele
gate, and was sworn in by Pres. Har-
old V. Feinmark.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
10 to 1870 ROIlback
For Citrus Fruits

w A S H ING TO Mas Con-
gress debated subsidies the OPA an
nounced a 10 to 1870 rollback in cit
rus fruits in retail prices. The gov
eminent will buy and resell the crop
at loss according to previous an
nouncements. Oranges will average
9Hc a pound.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
W.L.B. Turns Down Paw
Request of N. L. Machinists

The New England War Labor
Board has denied the wage requests of
Lodge 144, Machinists, at the Bah
cock Printing Press Co., New London.
Some 500 workers are involved. The
lam. Lodge has requested 10-cent
per hour general increase and a Scent
per hour boost in night shift differen-
tial. The Board contended that the
present wage scale schedule was ade-
quate.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-27
FBI ARRESTS 14z22

WASHINGTON - Since Pearl
Harbor the FBI has taken into Gus
tody only 1873 aliens of enemy ma
tionality as persons potentially dan
gerouS to the security of the us. OF
that number, 3,771 are interned, Ais
were paroled, and 1,444, released.