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Students of Magnetism Now
Learning About Electrons

Like every one else who investi-
gates the properties or the structure
Of physical things, the student Of
magnetism is brought ultimately to
working In terms not merely Of
atoms but Of the electrons within
the atom. The magnetic properties
Of the elements which are basis Of
his research are due almost entirely
to the electrons surrounding the posi-
lively charged nucleus Of each atom.
Systematic variation in the number
and arrangement Of these electrons
occurs throughout the periodic table
Of the elements, giving rise to cor
responding variations in the magnet
ic properties of the materials repre-
scented. Since the distribution Of
electrons in free atoms is reasonably
well known, the magnetic properties
Of free atoms are fairly well under
stood.
When atoms combine, however, as
In a solid element or in a chemical
SO44IPOI11OS I11S O1SAADuL1Ou u I4C
outer electrons is greatly modified,
says Technology Review. This shift
ing Of the electron pattern Of COM
bined atoms leads to a change in
the magnetic properties Of the atoms
individually and hence to special
magnetic properties for them in
combination. Many of the other
physical properties Of matter, such
as electrical conductivity, color and
thermal expansion are Influenced by
these same changes in electron con-
figuration. For this reason a study
Of the magnetic properties Of solids
can contribute to our knowledge Of
their structure. From the results Of
studies of magnetic properties the
investigator can work back in terms
of electron patterns toward reasons
for the other properties Of the SUBJ
stance.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12

attending the meeting included
Messrs. and Mesdames Clarence
Anderson, Thomas Hargrave, Rev.
and Mrs. B. N. Moore, Mesdames
Clarence Duke, Sterling Duke,
Leonard Davis, Otto Hall and Mel
son Balenger. The next meeting
will be Thursday, April 1, at the
home of Rev. and Mrs. Moore, $50
W. Central avenue.
Eta Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority met Saturday, March 6, at
the home of Soror Millicent Mar
shall, $40 Rondo avenue, with Soror
Ethel Maxwell Williams as CO.
hostess. Soror Victoria Stokes Nc
Clarkin of Chicago was guest at
the meeting. Miss Juanita Schuck
was pledge to Eta and with Miss
Vivian Vassar will be initiated in
the very near future.
The Auxiliary to Local SIG will
have it's social meeting Thursday,
March 10, at the home of Mrs.
Harry Brown, 626 St. Anthony ave-
nue., with Mrs. R. L. Allen and Mrs,
Clarence A. Anderson as co-hos-
tesseS.
St. Phillips Episcopal Young
Women's club met Friday, Febru-
airy %, at the home of Mrs. M. K,
Mcknight, $50 Fuller avenue. The
next regular meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Eunice Coins, 655 W.
Central avenue, at which time a
house number party will be held.
The Cameo Social Club will have
its monthly meeting Saturday
March Is, at the home of Mrs
Herbert F. Foster, GIG St. Anthony
avenue. The birthdays of Mr.. Her
bert Foster and Miss Marguerite
B. Tresvan will be celebrated.
The Tuesday Mite Bridge Club
met Tuesday, February %, at the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12

THE TWIN CITY BRANCH of
the National Association of Col
lege Women met Saturday evening,
March 6, at the home of Miss Mar
garet Alternately, 694 Rondo. Elec-
ton of officers was held. Mrs.
Beatrice Coleman was elected presi-
dent; Miss M. Alternately, vice
president; Mrs. Beneta A. Nellie,
secretary, and Mrs. Frances Brown,
Treasurer. Mrs. Marjorie Curry is
chairman of the program commit
tee.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Social and Personal
ST. PAUL 9
BY SUSIE @

Mrs W. Baxter Walker 9S St. Anthony hostess We'd
nesday smmonhy bridge luncheon the Twin City
Maids and Marons Bridge club beautifully appointed luncheon
coded club by Mrs O. B. Williams second
Terry third Mrs. Harold Combs first guest prize
Mrs Sydney Sater and second guest by Mrs William
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12

Hear Judge William q. HASTE,
Y. W. C. A. Tuesday, March 3d.
Adyt,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12

Godette. Other guests of the hos
tess included Mesdames Tela Burt,
Martin Brown, Earl S. Weber, Will
liam Modem and Charles Preston
Tyler. The next meeting will be
Wednesday, March IT, at the home
of Mrs. Clarence W. Wigington, 679
st. Anthony avenue.
The Misses iona and Geraldine
Langum of Minneapolis spent the
weekend in the Sanity City visit
ing their cousin, Miss Mitzi Strader,
TAT St. Anthony avenue. The Misses
Langum and Strader were dinner
guests on Sunday, March 7, of their
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Stewart, $40 W. Central ave-
nue..
The I.aissez-nous-faire Club met
Tuesday, March 2, at the home of
Mrs. Wallace Chambers, 1915 Gin
ton avenue south, Minneapolis.
First club prize was won by Mrs.
Lawrence Tarver, second by Mrs.
Olin P. Wells, a proxy, and the
BOBBY by Mrs. Chambers. Guests
of the hostess included Mrs. DIN
P. Wells and Mrs. Jessie Shepherd.
The next meeting will be Tuesday,
March 16, at the home of Mrs. Earl
A. Harris, 977 Fuller avenue.
The Mr.. and Mrs. Club of St.
James A. M. E. church met Thurs
day, March 4, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Hargrave, 96S
Iglehart avenue. Plans were made
for a Forum on marital problems to
be held at the church Sunday
March 21st, at 5 p. m. Members
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12
Social and Personal
Q MINNEAPOLIS 9

Mrs. Crystal Bird Fausett, here
for speaking engagements in the
Twin Cities, was the dinner guest
of Mrs. E. V. Marshall, 1909 Elliot
Ave-, Saturday, March Is. Mrs.
Fausett stayed during the evening
for a personal visit with a small
group.
Doll Club: Miss Gloria Gates,
North high school student, is the
new director of the Doll Club for
small girls at Phyllis Wheatley
Settlement House. The club which
meets each Wednesday afternoon
at a p. m. furnishes a play period
as well as an educational project
for girls near four, five or six years
of age. Parents may also have a
rest period while their children are
being properly supervised and
trained under the girls department
activities.
Pvt. Roosevelt Whitley, former
ly of 511 Bryant Ave. No., is in
Minneapolis visiting relatives and
friends. He is on furlough from
Aberdeen, Maryland, Proving
Ground and will leave the city
Sunday.
Edward Hayes, 22O6 Elliot Ave.
&c., who has been confined to the
Veterans hospital, is now at home
and may receive visitors.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-03-12

Mrs. Ruth Wells of Seattle,
Washington, who was called to st.
Louis, Missouri, on account of the
death of her sister, is spending
several days in the city visiting Mr..
and Mrs. George R. Manning, 943
st. Anthony avenue, before return
ing to her home.
Mr.. Harold Parker, 773 Rondo
avenue, an employee of the First
National Bank, is able to return to
work again after being at home
for several weeks with pneumonia.
3 Synthetic Products
Have Much in Common
Synthetic rubber, plastics and
wood may seem to have little in
common, yet the first two have con-
tributed to the last at time when
treated wood is being called upon
increasingly. Synthetic rubber's con-
tr1bution was entirely accidental.
During the first World war two Aus
TRAN chemists, trying to find a sat-
1sfactory substitute for natural rub
Der, inadvertently included several
wood blocks in batch being cooked
at high pressures and temperatures.
Though there is no record Of the sue
cess Of the cook, the wood blocks
came out not crushed to shreds but
compressed to hard, dense mass.
Further experimentation demon
strated that, given sufficiently high
temperatures, dry wood could be
compressed, with no sign Of rup-
ture, to dense board two to three
times as heavy as the original ma
terial and as many times as strong.
The new product, ignostone,
promptly found a number Of uses
for which hardness, density and
strength were needed.
With the spectacular advent Of the
plastics, the prediction was freely
made that wood might soon dis
appear from great many Of its
traditional uses and that the syn
thetic material would take over COM
pletely, says Technology Review
Some of the synthetic resins, how
ever, were soon discovered to be
superior adhesives, with the result
that wood, far from being supplant-
ed, could be used for many pur-
poses formerly denied it.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Transfers Seek
On
Convict Labor
Local $50, Hartford, And
GIL. To Meet With
County Authorities

The stage is set for showdown
meeting between Hartford county
prison authorities, the Conn. ede-
ration of Labor and Transfers Lo-
cal $50, on the question of the pay
ment of $50 day, plus one meal
and working clothes, by Coal COM
panies in Hartford who are using
prison labor.
Sheriff Joseph w. Harding and the
County Commissioners have agreed to
confer with Timothy M. Collins, pres
ident, and John J. Egan, secretary
treasurer of the GIL, and Frank
Bausola, Secretary-treasurer, and Her
bert A. Miller, business agent of Lo-
cal $780, The date of the meeting was
not decided at this writing.
BausOla, who is president of
Teamsters Joint-Council 81, as we'll
as an official of the Hartford Local,
sponsored resolution, passed
unanimously by the convention of
he Federation, calling upon the
proper authorities to collect stand
ard pay for all work done by county
prisoners.
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Chicago R. R. Drops
Jim Crow Policy

WASHINGTON = Applications
from Negroes for all types of jobs
will be considered by Chicago Sur
face Lines on the same basis as those
of white persons, Chairman Malcolm
Ross of the Presidents Committee on
Fair Employment Practice said this
week.
The company officially buried its
Jim Crow policy by announcing that
its first Negro platform man has been
hired and put to work. The agree
ment, negotiated by the FEPC's Chi
cago office, asserted that hiring of
qualified Negroes in all categories
would begin Immediately and pro-
vided that Negroes under IS years are
hired would be considered permanent
employees, not subject to dismissal at
the end of the war.
The FEPC acted on charges
pressed by the Chicago Civil Liberties
Committee and the National Negro
Congress.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Post Office Men
Seeking More
Overtime Pay
Fifth Vice-Pres. Addresses
Conn. Clerks Federation
at New Haven

Higher overtime pay is being sought
by the National Association of Post
Office Clerks, John Driscoll, fifth
national vice-president, told the Ex-
ecutive Board of the Conn State
Federation which met in New Haven
this week
The Federation is through legis-
Iation seeking to have new system
of bookkeeping inaugurated by the
Post Office Department which would
reduce the basic work year to 253
days from the present 800 days.
Under the present system overtime
pay is less per hour than straight
time. The proposed system would
i'm effect provide higher overtime
rate, it was explained by DriscoH.
The speaker was accompanied by
James Feeley, New London, who is
state organizer. Frank Little, past
president of Local 237, New Haven
P. o. Clerks, president of the State
Federation, was in charge of the
meeting.
Little appointed Rawley Jaynes,
Ansonia, as chairman of commit
tee to acquaint nOn-union post office
. workers with the program and adj
vantages of belonging to the Fed
Grafton.
Another subject of discussion at the
State Executive Board meeting was
Whelscher Bill which would grant
pay increases on the basis of seniority
to substitute clerks.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Alley
Petition Inks
Conn. Labor
Unionist Aroused By Latest
Move To Exploit Teen
Age Children
By Robert B. Bickel

[See Editorial "Give The Kids Il
Bredk"-ed]
Organized labor in Connect
icut was aroused this week
over the latest move by the
bowling alley interests to
break down the sixteen-year
age limit of the states labor
laws. This move was revealed
by the presentation last week
of a petition bearing some
5000 signatures of alley
patrons aking Gov. Raymond
E. Baldwin to use his war
powers to permit boys of IA
and Is to set up pins.
1t has been two years since the
operators of bowling alleys started a
campaign to break open the teen age
labor market for pin boys.
Efforts we're made to have former
Gov Robert A. Hurley and the State
Department of Labor to relax the en-
forcement of the age limit This fail
ed when the Governor backed up La
Dor Commissioner Cornelius ]. Dana
her in his insistence that no child I'M
der sixteen be employed. Gov. Baldwin
has been under constant pressure to
use his war powers to relax the law,
but to date he steadfaStly refused. He
has turned the petition over to the
War Council for study and advice.
Commissioner Danaher told The
Union Times this week that the
operators have slush fund for pay
ing fines and costs of prosecution,
when hailed into police court charg-
ed with hiring children under six
teen.
He stated that in the last two years
more than fifty-fve bowling alley men
have been prosecuted, in cases involv-
ing hundreds Of children of ages rang
ing from II to Is years.
Members of organized labor
throughout the state are concerned
over the attitude of police court judges
and prosecuting attorneys who have
sympathized with offending operators
instead of the exploited children, who
have been exposed to the moral and
physical dangers of the work. The
maximum fine is 100 on each count,
but for the most part when fines have
been imposed they have been the mini
mum Of SIS.
Pin setting is strenuous work. The
late hours of the alleys is bad envir-
onment indeed for impressionable chill
dren,
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Bridgeport Wants
Downs On Area Job
Former Congressman Is One Of Five Candidates On Civil
Service List For VINO. Director Of Park City;
Bernard Predicts Appointment

Organized labor in Bridge
port is looking forward to the
appointment of former Con.
gresham Leroy Downs, Nor.
walk, as War Manpower di.
rector for the Park City area
This is according to Peter
Bernard, president of the Cen.
trail Labor Union which has
gone unanimously on record
as favOring Downs for the
position.
Bernard was responsible for
getting the C.L.U.'s endorsement
of the former pro-labor congress-
men for the job. He has been &C
tive in behalf of Downs candi-
dacy, having contacted ALL
Pres. William Green and other
officials on the matter. The
ALL. officials approved of the
move to have Downs appointed:
Manufacturers in the area have
indicated, Bernard said, that Downs
appointment would be acceptable to
them.
The former Congressman is one
of five candidates for the position
who are on the Bridgeport Federal
Civil Service list, and whose names
have now been submitted to the
Boston Office of the Service for final
selection and recommendation for
appointment by the President.
Bernard, as president of the ALL.
central body, was called before
Bridgeport Civil Service Commission
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Baldwin Again
Refuses Probe
OF Labor Dept.
mo Ground For Com
plant, He Tells NH.
Labor Council

Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin i'm his
latest letter to New Haven Central
Labor Council on the matter of in
vestigating the State Department of
Labor decided that there is mo
grounds for legitimate complaint"
This was the third in series of
letters from the states Chief Execu-
tive regarding the investigation of five
charges made by the New Haven La
Dor Council, and requesting an inves-
t1gation of these charges by three SUI
perior court judges.
In his first letter, the Governor
stated that adequate machinery exist
ed for investigating a state department
without the appointment of superior
court judges, if there was evidence
warranting an investigation. In this
letter he refused to act but asked for
specific charges.
The Council sent another COPY
of the original resolution and set
up committee, comprised of Rob
ert Schecter, 234, Musicians; Ber-
nard Geelan, recording secretary
of Gle; and John PisanO, Local
433, Teamsters, to study the mat
ter with the view to planning fur
ther strategy in event the Governor
failed to act.
Replying to the Councils second
letter, Gov. Baldwin promised to
look into the matter discussed in the
resolution" In the meanwhile the
Executive Board of the Conn. Fede-
ration of Labor met and considered
among other things the resolution pre-
sented by George Joslyn, business
agent of Sheet Metal Workers No.
~, asking the GEL. to urge the Gov
ernor to investigate the Labor De-
partment. The Federation's Executive
Committee voted to investigate the
matter.
Baldwin stated i'm the letter to the
New Haven Council that he would
be pleased to discuss the situation
with the GELS committee.
The Elm City central body voted
to refer the Governors latest letter
to its committee on the Labor De-
partment and to let that committee
make the next move.
Gov. Baldwin's letter follows:
Il have looked into the matters re-
ferred to in the resolution which you
sent me and End that there is no
ground for legitimate complaint.
II understand that the substance
of this resolution was presented to
the convention of the Conn. Fedora
ton of Labor and by that conven-
ton referred to the Executive Com
mittee. | shall be pleased to take
those matters up with that commit
tee or its representative whenever
they care to call upon me.''
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Cleveland's Mayor
Had Labor sSuppOrt

CLEVBLAND-By rousing plural
ity of more than $4,000 votes, labor
backed Mayor Frank J. Lausche,
Democrat, was reelected here in the
heart of Sen. Robert A. Taft's strong
hold Of Republican reaction. While
only approximately 100000 voters
went to the polls in this off-year cleo
ton, shop stewards in unionized plants
had campaigned for weeks to get out
the labor vote. Although the Cleveland
Federation of Labor took no action
on the mayoralty race, ALL. building
trades leaders had added to the labor
strength behind Lausche.
Lausche's record of fighting for la
management committees in every
plant here and his present win-the-war
policies were stressed in the campaign.
He carried many new Democrats into
the city council as Republicans were
showed under by the landslide
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
New Protest On
Plan To
Draft Workers
NH. Central Labor Council
Asks Aid OF GIL. And
C.L.U.'s On Bill

Alarmed at the purpose and inn
plication of the amendment TO
the Civil Service Act proposed by
Rep. Clare BOothe Luce, Fourth
District, the New Haven Central La
Dor Council went unanimously on
record as opposing the bill, and
called upon the Conn. Federation
of Labor and all central labor un-
ions throughout the state to join in
the effort to defeat the measure.
In addition to protesting to Mrs.
Luce's on her bill the Council has pc
titioned Congressman Ranulf Compton
and B. J. Monkiewicz, and Senators
Francis T. Malenoy and John A.
Danaher to vote against the bill if it is
introduced in either house for action.
The bill would induct draft age men
for labor pool at the services of the
Army and Navy in war plants at serv-
icemen's pay.
The Bridgeport C.L.U. at its last
meeting voted to send Mrs. Luce a
letter recording its opposition to the
plan, as was reported in last week s
issue of The Union Times.
Delegates to the New Haven Cen
trail Council view Rep. Luce's propo-
sal as a step toward complete con-
scription of all labor. In the past the
CongresSWoman from the Fourth dis
trict stated fatty that she was OPP
posed CONSUMPTION of labor for war
work until the last resort
In one of her more liberal speeches
she endeared herself to some labor
unionists by calling for CONSUMPTION of
capital if labor was drafted.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
Compton Strikes
A Hysterical Note
Asks Workers To Repudiate United Labor Conference
But Forgets They Make Up The Conference
Resolutions Give The Answer

The United Labor Legislative
Conference of Greater New Haven,
which includes the ALL, C.LO.,
and railroad unions of this district,
today expressed its ''regret that
Rep. Ranulf Compton has become
historical"
"Mr. Compton," statement issued
by the Conference continued, ZAP
peals to the members of organized Ia
Dor to go over the heads of their
leaders, and repudiate the attacks of
these leaders on our Congressman. We
regret that Mr.. Compton has become
hysterical, for he knows that the New
Haven Central Labor Council, ALL,
the New Haven Industrial Union
Council, CLIO, the United Confer
ence, the Railroad Brotherhoods, and
the Connecticut Federation of labor.
ALL, have all, by unanimous votes,
condemned his actions in Congress"
'sThese organizations are all dele
gated bodies. The fact that more
e than 40 unions i'm New Haven, Wall
i ingford, and Meriden have contri-
buted funds in order that Mr..
ComptOn's anti-labor, anti-war
stand may be made clear to the pub
lie, is the best answer to this gen.
tIeman, who is now beginning to
pay for his political aims.
"The Connecticut Federation of La
Dor, at its 58th annual convention in
New Haven, attended by ESQ delegates,
told the people of New Haven what
are the true facts about Mr. Compton
in the following resolution, which was
passed without dissenting vote:
ssRESOLVED-That organized la
Dor of the Third Congressional Dis
trict, especially that section residing
in New Haven, takes notice of the
fact that our representative in Con-
gress, RanuIf Compton, distinguish
ed himself at the last session of
Congress by voting against the roll
back of prices; against the limita-
ton of salaries above $25,OOO;
against appropriation for real en-
forcement of the O.P.A. regula-
lions; whereas he voted for the no.
torious Smith-C onnally Bill, the
Hobbs so-called 'anti-racketeering
BILL and for the liquidation of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation,
which has helped thousands of
workers retain their own homes. 1t
is clear that Mr.. Compton wants the
wages of workers frozen, but has
NO objection if the salaries of peO-
ple i'm the upper brackets rise from
$25, 900 a year to 100000 year.
He wants wages frozen, but is un-
willing to have prices rolled back.
He uses the actions of John l..
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-11-13
NewHavenC. Gle.
Votes Support OF
Railroad Cause
Urges Fair Wages And
Abandonment Of Little
Steel Formula

The New Haven Central Labor
Council at its last meeting voted
unanimous support to the railroad
workers in their demand for an in
crease al wages which will enable
them to meet partially the inflated
costs of living. The resolution con-
dennis as grossly inadequate'' the
offer of four cents an hour as made
by the War Labor Board, and calls
for abandonment of the ''LittIe
Steel'' formula.
1t reads, in part:
I'VE believe that the time has come
when it is necessary for the W.L.B.
to abandon the Little Steel formula,
IN view of the fact that the cost of
living has gone far beyond the limit
set by this formula. We do not be-
l1eve that a more liberal wage policy
will lead to imitation, in view of the
fact, as shown by us. Government
statistics, that the salaries made by
management has increased as much as
from 100 to 1000 per cent.
1--WE call upon the War Labor
Board, together with Judge Vinson,
Director of Economic Sterilization,
to give thought to the fact that the
nations war effort will be increased
if workers are able to make wages
which enable them and their fami-
lies to maintain a decent standard
of living. Certainly the burden of
sacrifice for the war program should
not be borne by workers alone.
BE 1t Finally Resolved, That copies
of this resolution be sent to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt; Judge Fred
Vinson, the War Labor Board, and
to A. F. Whitney, president of the
Railway Labor Executives Assn"