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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
Propose Bonus For
 World War Veterans
Representative MaFaney Seeks Extra Compensation
 for Men, Women in Armed Forces

armories would cost from S2,SO0,OOO to 43,0O0,000.
 After the war, Rep. Mahaney said, there will have to be Q large national guard or state guard, or both, an6 present facilities are wholly inadequate. The neh armor- ies are also I1eded as meeting places for veterans of the present war, he said.
 A veteran of World War I, MT. Maha1ey has been an ardent Spon- sor of veterans legislation during his seven terms in the legislature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

The following couples have filed marriage intentions at the bureau Of vital statistics, City Hall;
 George Jones, Bueks EIiH road, and Myrtle Becker. @ elshep street.
 John M. LOy, see Fast Main street. and Helen L. QuilteF, ZIG Maple slgeet.
 Josepk ". Dunn. ioJ South fAonaFd street, and Hannah Y. NayioE, 70 Walnut street.
 Everett ". Winston, io Hl1eIe street, end Oabfielle DanIS, ep5 Na11ih HHgAm NlgenA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
(gnecial to Tho Democratl

f5 (SpeClat tO The DeuaOcrat)
 State Capitol, Hartford, Jan 21-- A state bonus for men serving in the armed forces in World War II is called for in a bill filed today by Rep. Daniel J. Mahaney (D) of Waterbury. The measure calls for payment of not less than $20O nor more than $500 to each member of the military service following his discharge after the end of the war.
 Rep, Mahaney, who has served as chairman of the veterans group in the legislature for the past sev- eral sessions, said that he IS already assured of widespread support for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21

his measure. Men leaving the Serv- ice after the war, he said, will need several months to adjust them selves and the state should give them at least a moderate sum to tide them over until they are fully returned to civilian life.
 In another postwar proposal, Rep. Mahaney offered a bill pro- viding for construction of new state armorieS in New Britain, New London, Stamford, Hamden, Strat- ford and Putnam. The six new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
TREASURY BALANCE

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21

Sergeant Albert Annes, son of MT. and Mrs. Peter Annes of 173 WOlcOtt street, is stationed at the Army Ordinance Motor Base in Baltimore, Md. He work ed for several years at The Elton and Front Page fin the culinary department.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Will The Chicago
Tribune Surrender?

CHICAGO-"The only thing we
want from The Chicago Tribune is
unconditional surrender" Sen. James
E. Murray 3D., Mont.) told reporters
here prior to appearing as a speaker
at meeting sponsored by the Abra-
ham Lincoln School for workers.
The demand followed a series of
insulting questions put to Murray by
Tribune eporter-questions such as
SIS it true that you are the perfect
Roosevelt yes-man?" care you for a
fourth and fifth term for Roosevelt"
"What is your attitude toward COM
munism?"
II am sorry" Murray said, refer
ring to recent Tribune attacks on
workers at the Studebaker Corp, war
plant, ito come into a community and
find such serious situation as seems
to exist here The Chicago Tribune is
doing a great disservice by trying to
disunite the people and trying to di-
vide the nations that are fighting this
war for democracy"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Legion Establishes
Labor Committee

National Commander Warren H.
Atherton of the American Legion, who
used the last A. F. of L. convention
as a forum from which to berate la
Dor, made gesture of "appeasement'
this week when he named three I'm
ionists to newly-established national
labor relations committee of the
Legion.
Creation of the committee, with
equal labor and industry representa-
ton, was authorized by the Legion
October convention to work out pol
icies which would guide the organiza-
ton in matters dealing with indus
trial relations and postwar problems.
Laborites appointed to the COM
mittee are John F. Sullivan, fermer
general chairman of the Railway Con-
ductors on the Central Vermont,
James B. Burns, president of the A.
F. of L. Federation of Government
Employees, and Edward J. Kelley
Taftville, Conn, a member of the
A. F. of L. Railway Mail Association
All are former Legion officials.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Big Hunk Of Back
PayFOr TrOneymen

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Back pay
for almost a year at INC an hour
is coming to more than 1000 employees
of the Kansas City Public Service
Co. under decision of the Regional
War Labor Board. Total will be close
to quarter of million dollars.
The board approved a contract be-
tween the streetcar company and the
Amalgamated Assn. of Street Elec-
trio Railway Employees to which its
workers belong. The company had
agreed to a contract providing for
9Nc hourly increase, but the W.L.B.
shaved this by &C.. The new contract
also provides for vacations overtime
at time-and-a-half and a bonus of
1Oc an hour for operators who teachl
beginners. It is retroactive to Jan. L.
1913. =
This is the first agreement with
the company since 1919, when the
union was busted during a strike
IN the after-war anti-labor hysteria.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
ESQ In Stamford
WinAdjustments
By Order Of WLB
Workers Get Maintenance
And Check-of Clauses
At Petroleum Heat

BOSTON-The New England War
Labor Board today announced issu-
ance of directive order in settlement
of a labor dispute.
Petroleum Heat & Power Co.,
Stamford, Conn.,, and Information
al Assn. of Machinists, Lodge
1857, A. F. of L.. $50 employees
involved. The Board ordered inser-
ton i'm the contract between the
parties of its standard voluntary
maintenance of membership and
check-off clauses, and directed that
the contract be in effect for one
year. The Board approved a hir-
ing rate of 90 cents per hour for
men and 65 cents for women, and
a schedule of rate ranges which in
clude increases i'm some classifica-
tons, retroactive to Aug. 10, 1913.
Vacations with pay were also ap-
proved on the basis of 40 hours for
employees with a years service on
Aug. 10 and 80 hours for those with
five years service on that date. The
order provides that time and one
half shall be paid for work perform
ed on specified holidays and that the
wage provision may be reopened by
either party six months after the en-
gagement is signed.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Do You Know What
They Really Mean I?

DENVER-One of the possible
reasons why enemies of the people
were able to confuse so many people
with their subsidy ban proposals was
revealed here by the Natl. Opinion
Research Center, University of Den
yer.
Half the American people do not
know the present status of farm sub
sides and more than half are unfa
miliar with the meaning of the term
farm subsidy, a recent MORO poll
disclosed.
When asked their Interpretation of
farm subsidy, 43 out of each 100 per-
sons interviewed indicated reason
ably accurate understanding of the
term, 300 gave an incorrect or doubt
full explanation, and 37@o frankly
admitted they didn't know
Asked whether the government is
giving farmers subsidies at this time,
nearly half (49%) said Yes, while
40 said No, and AGO confessed ig-
norance. Of those persons who were
familiar with the meaning of subsi-
dies however only Go out of each 100
knew that the government is giving
subsidies.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
REAL TORS IN DRIVE TO Kill PUbL|C HOUSING
Conn. Leaders To
See War Picture

The War Department will re-
veal the inside story of Americas
fight for freedom to a group of
1900 Connecticut leaders of la
Dor, industry and the press at a
special premiere at 10 AM.
Thursday, Dec. %, at the Para
mount Theatre, New Haven, Ma
jor General Sherman Miles, Com
handing General of the First
Service Command, announced to-
day. Invitations to leaders in
these fields are now in the mails.
The picture, ''War Depart
ment Report, is completely
without precedent and will
graphically present many facts
hitherto regarded as cOnfden-
tial, General Miles told The I'm
ion Times.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Third Degree
Made Possible
By Hobbs Bill.
Old Sam Slips One In,
Hoping 1t Won't Be
Noticed

WASHINGTON = Negotiating,
labor-baiting Rep. Sam (Judge)
Hobbs Cd. Ala.) was inspired to
introduce bill which gives aid and
comfort to the third degree and
holding persons incommunicado,
by a recent District court decision
to release a Negro held for rape, it
was learned here.
In this case which Hobbs resented
the court, acting under the ruling of
the Supreme court in the McNabb
case which upheld the inadmissibil-
ity of evidence obtained by police af-
ter man is arrested and before he
is charged with crime, released the
Negro after ruling out a socalled
confession obtained in that manner.
The result is HR 5000, a bill
slipped quietly into the hopper by
Hobbs Nov. Is, specifying that mo
failure to observe the requirement
of law as to the time within which
a person under arrest must be
brought before magistrate, COM
missioner or court, shall render in
admissible any evidence that is
otherwise admissible"
The bill would nullify the SUI
preme court ruling. 1t was under
this that the Init. Union of Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers won its
widely quoted civil rights case in
DucktOwn, Tenn. There union
members were held incommunica-
do for days and, harassed and Sleep
less and hungry, finally gave phOny
confessions i'm order to get out and
let their families know they were
alive. A higher court reversed a
conviction of bombing.
Says Exec. Sec. J. G. Luhrsen of
the Railway Labor Executives Assn.
in a letter to Chairman Hatton w.
Summers of the house judiciary COM
mittee, which is hurrying hearings on
the bill with unusual dispatch:
'The statutes require that
promptly after man is arrested
he shall be produced in court by
the police. People remember
how men used to be imprisoned in
the Tower in London, or in the
Bastille in Paris-lOst men, who
could not be seen by their fami-.
lies, or by any lawyer, just hidden
away by the police. Our Bill
of Rights provided for an entirely
different method of doing bust
ness.''
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Insurance Firm
Threatens Rent
Increase OF 5O%
Metropolitan Life Co. Is
Thumbing Its Nose At
Fed. Housing Agency

WASHINGTON = Having gotten
precious W.L.B. priorities to build a
1,310-unit housing developmnt for
aircraft workers in Los Angeles, the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is
now thumbing its nose at the Natl.
Housing Agency and saying it will
raise its original rent schedules by al
most 500.
MIA. instead of telling the
landlOrd-life insurance giant where
to go, is figuratively ringing its
hands and, in the words of MIA.
spokesman, ''negOtiating'' with the
company. MIA. justifies its own
squeamishness in dealing with the
corporation by saying that appIi-
cation form which Metropolitan
signed in September, 194I, was SO
loosely wOrded that it. NAV not be
legally valid
In this form Metropolitan stated il
would charge rents suitable for air
plane workers, namely, $42 for a 81
room apartment; $54, Al rooms; 500,
5 rooms, and $68 for E rooms. Now
the company and the contractor, Star
rett Bros. and Eken Co., 63 Wall
Street, New York, announce they are
going to charge $61.27 for 81
rooms, $3.50 for Az and S rooms,
and 800 for E rooms.
Vice-Pres. Miles L. COIean of the
contracting company, who long has
been in the forefront of the fight
against public housing, is said to
be putting the heat on his old
friend, Coleman Woodbury., assist
ant administrator. Administrator
John III. BlandfOrd could not be
reached for a statement.
Such cases are usually decided
in the field, but this came to Wash
ingtOn, said an information man,
because Metropolitan takes the
position it isn't bound by MIA.
rulings" Apartments are to be
available beginning Jan. 1.
If on the basis of increased costs
MIA. allows the increases, every
private builder of housing develop
ments will be trotting in with such
demands, labor groups fear.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

SOME thieves broke into dem
tai laboratory in Norwich recently
and stole 1000 sets of false teeth.
They're probably the guys who
stole that black market steak the
week before.
ZONE ROOM furnished apart
ment to soldiers wife whose hus-
band comes in only on week ends
if willing to stay with lady nights.
8O1 Butternut.
From the abilene RepOrfer-Nesos.
HERE ARE a few facts which
Connecticut Congressman, who fa-
vor wage freezing, but are Oppos-
ed to subsidies, should remember:
The American Car and Foundry
Co. prior to 1912 averaged $4,000
profits after taxes. In 1912 it's
profits jumped to 100000. The
American Locomotive Co. jumped
from $l,462,OOO prior to 1912,
to $7,552,OOO i'm 1912. Its profits
for the first six months in 1943 are
twice as great as for 1912. The
Budd Mfg. Co. jumped from $780,
600 a year between 1886 and
1889, to $5,222,OOO in 1912. The
Bath Iron Works jumped from
$4,000 year in the period 1896
80, to $3,743,OOO in 1912. Its
profits for the first six months of
1913 are up 1920 over the 1912
profits for the same period.
JERRY KLUTTZ of the Wash
ingtOn Post has amassed some
choice red tape language supplied
by government employees in Wash
ingtOn. Here are some of the choice
bits:
''Under consideration" Never
hear of it.
''Under active consideration"
Will have a shot at finding it in
the files.
S'Concur generally Haven't
read the document and don't want
to be bound by anything say.
SIN conference" Gone out
don't know where he is.
''Kindly expedite reply" For
Gods sake, try to find the papers.
ssFile this.'' Lose it, if possible.
OPEN LETTER 10 Joe ROurke :
That's a fine letter you sent us.
Why not write regularly, and let
the boys around the state know
what you are doing and thinking?
EFFORTS being made by ''Big
Business" interests in agriculture
to arouse prejudice against labor
aren't making much Roadway
among the real tillers of the soil,
according to President James G.
Patton of the National Farmers
Union.
To prove his point, he cited the
following resolution adopted by the
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Rails Profits Hit
Another New High

Railway profits have hit another
new high, according to figures for 10
months of the year released this week
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and the Association of American
Railroads.
The total through October was ST.
188,410,005, an increase of more than
$27,000000 over the same period of
the year 1912, which broke all pre-
vious records. After payment of all
charges there remained $778,800,000,
or $69,000,000 more than last year.
Freight and passenger revenues for
October topped 1912, but there was a
slump in profit which the I. C. C..
attributed to increased taxes, heavier
expenditures for maintenance and &C
cruals for the disputed wage increases.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Coop Purchases
National Refinery

N. KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Mov-
ing to meet a probable shortage of
motor fuels next spring and summer,
the Cooperative Refinery, Associa-
ton, with headquarters here, has
agreed to purchase the Coffeyville,
Kansas, properties of National Rein
ing Company, it was announced O.
day by Howard A. Cowden, president
of the cooperative. This brings to a
total of ten the oil rehneries owned
by consumer cooperatives in the Unit
ed States and Canada. The coopera-
tives distribute more than one hun
bred million dollars worn of petro-
leum products year.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
Cornell Accused
OF Becoming A
Propaganda Mill
Publication Says 1t Advises
Farmers Not To Cooper
ate with us. Program

NEW YORK-COrneII University,
formerly one of the country's fore
most schools, is being turned into
a propaganda mill'' for the Hoov-
er-Dewey-Cannett wing of the Re-
publican Party, Facts For Farmers,
monthly publication of Farm Re-
search, charged this week.
Cornell money, it will be recalled,
was used by Publisher Frank E. Gan
nett recently to acquire ownership
of the Binghamton On. W Post,
part of a plot to keep it out of the
hands of the pro-New Deal New
York Post.
Instead of encouraging food pro-
duction, publications of the State
Agricultural College at Cornell, a
state-supported school, are being
used to discourage it, Facts For
Farmers declares. sits supposedly
scientific publications are filled
with amazing arguments for hold
ing down production" Farm Re-
search discloses.
In recent article, it continues
Dean William I. Myers of the agri-
cultural school urged farmers not
to expand production, not to coop
crate with the gvernment's war food
plans, and not to believe in the prin-
ciple of permanent abundance, agreed
upon by the United Nations confer
ence in Moscow"
1t was Farm Research which re-
Gently exposed the feed shortage
scare at Thomas E. Dewey of New
York as fake, intended to discredit
the federal food program and en-
courage congress to can subsidies.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18

Dear Nate:
1t was good to see you and the
rest of the folks last Saturday night.
Only wish | could have made it ear
lier so | could have had a longer
chat with you.
Sorry to hear that Bill Zuckerman
had such tough luck, hope he was not
burned badly. I am going TO write
to him in day or two to find out
how he is.
We have been stationed here for
the past month, Nate, and how long
we will be here, it is hard to say. 1t
is just a matter of luck and |, of
course, think it is good luck. The
132nd Battalion which was formed
long after us has gone out, and here
we are the 114th Battalion and are
still getting further training.
In the event we are still here,
Nate, / am going to ask permission
to get leave for the duration of
the special session of the Legis-
lature. From my knowledge of our
skipper, he is a right guy and
would no doubt give me the time
off if possible.
Perhaps if we are lucky, and we
can get Baldwin in the right frame
of mind, we can have a State La
Dor Relations Act put on the stat
ute books. With a national cleo
ton coming up soon and the pos
sibility of F. D. r. running, Bald
win may change his mind. He GER
tainly didn't do a damn thing to
put it over the last time.
For a Navy officer, we have a
very liberal Commander. His name
is. Earl Kaltenbach, and he has a
splendid background in engineering.
While we were stationed in Rhode
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-12-18
.NationalDriive
Supposedly
Union Times
Labor Rallies To Support
National Public Housing
Conference Against
Real Estate Boards

Because organized labor has
SO important stake in the
subject, The Union Times in
forms its readers this week
that the National Association
of Real Estate Boards has de-
clared war on public housing,
and is lobbying in Washing
ton to eliminate further gov.
eminent subsidies for public
housing construction or for
public housing projects.
This challenge is being met by
the National Public Housing
Conference, a national organiza-
ton made up of the friends of
public housing, by members of
housing authorities, and by labor.
News of the situation came to
this newspaper when building
trades unions in New Haven, APP
praised of the drive by the real
tors, unanimously showed their
determination to help fight the
realty lobby by voting donations
which will make it possible for
the National Public Housing
Conference to begin to counter
act the anti-housing propaganda
of the real estate interests.
Experts in the field of Iow-cost
public housing told The Union
Times this week that there is no
basic conflict between the realty
interests and the advocates of pub
lie housing. B. M. Petit, director
of the New Haven Housing Au-
thOrity, one of the most successful
in the United States, pointed out
that the ceiling for public housing
ends where the cellar for private
housing begins.
Nevertheless, the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards.
(NAREB) seems determined to OBJ
tain legislation in Congress which
will eliminate public housing. AS a
result, the National Public Housing
Conference (NPHC) is now raising
a national fund of $4,000 to coun-
teract the realtors move. New Eng
lands quota is $4,000 The funds will
be used to marshal support for pub
lie housing, and to inform the gen
eral public of the true facts of the
aims and accomplishments of the
public housing program.
COnnecticut's industrial cities,
particularly New Haven, are espe-
cialIy interested in the continual
ton of public housing. AuthOrita-
tive estimates of the number of
New Haven families who still live
in slums range from 1000 to H.
600. The New Haven Housing Au-
thOrity is now conducting a survey
to ascertain the exact number.
The realtors officially opened their
drive against public housing at a
War" conference recently held in
Cleveland. Perusal of the basic poll
cies adopted may we'll call for specu-
lation as to whether the title "War"
conference had to do with World
War II or with a declaration of an
open hunting season on public hous-
ing.
On the record is the following
declaration adopted in Cleveland by
NAREB:
''The public housing experiment
has proved to be mistake. 1t has
failed to relieve those in greatest
need. 1t has utterly failed in its
first objective, namely the clear
ance of slum areas. The public
housing movement as presently
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