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Evening star., 1943-05-18
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
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How strong a hand do need"
writes gentleman from Mississippi,
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almost tore me apart because I re-
versed with the South cards in this
DEAL"
South dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
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II opened the bidding with one
heart. My partner responded one
no-trump (the opponents never
made bid and I then bid two
spades. Partner raised me to three
spades, and I bid for game in that
suit.
"West led low diamond, and be-
fore I was through I was down
two tricks. The way North squawked
you'd have thought I'd gone down
1000!
"Was my bidding really so bad?"
Souths bidding was not so bad as
to warrant any outburst from North,
but it is fact that the reverse
two-spade bid was a trif1e light.
The best way to decide whether a
hand is worth a reverse bid-as one
heart on the first round and two
spades as rebid-is to estimate
its probable tricks if partner has to
give a preference for the first suit
at the three-level Due considera-
tion will reveal that South's hand in
this case did not qualify. If North,
holding only a few pictures, kept
the one-heart bid open with one no.
trump (actually, North should have
responded with one spade) and then
South mentioned his spade suit,
North might be called upon to
carry the partnership to three
hearts. And South would need con-
siderable support to win nine tricks.
On that pre-analysis, South's best
opening bid was one spade, with
the heart suit reserved for a safe,
constructive rebid over any response
that North chose to make.
Yesterday you were Oswald ia
coby's partner and, with neither side
vulnerable, you held:
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The bidding:
Jacoby. schenken. You. Lightner.
A Pass CD
Answer-Pass. The theory of light
opening bids is incompatible with
giving a courtesy no-trump response
on so weak a hand, and, of course.
you are not strong enough to bid
two diamonds.
Score 100 percent for pass, so per
cent for one no-trump.
Question No. 1887.
Today you have the same hand,
and the bidding continues:
Jacoby. Schenken. You. Lightner.
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What do you bid? (Answer to-
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
"Unemployables''
To Receive Jobs

The u. S. Employment Service
of the War Manpower Commission
is planning to rehabilitate or other
wise prepare for employment work
ers who heretofore have been con-
sidered unemplOyable, because of
age, lack of citizenship or physical
disability, according to William G..
Ennis, director of the Service in
Connecticut.
Reporting on the Situation in the
State" the latest issue of the Month
1y Bulletin" published by the Con-
necticut Employment Security Divi-
sion of the U. S. Employment Service
discloses that "the normal labor sup
ply is virtually exhausted and
the Service is having to resort to
every recruiting device in order to
meet current needs"
Woman Power Low
In many areas of the state there
is now a shortage of women to fill
the manpower needs of war in
dustries.
Announces Plan
Ennis also announced plans for an
occupational adjustment service, by
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16

Is Marked By
NH Pc Clerks
Local 237 Has Fine Cele-
bration Of Its 18th
Anniversary

Members of New Haven Local
237, National Federation of Post
Office Clerks, observed the twenty
fifth anniversary of the founding
of the Local at banquet held
Saturday at the BarbOni's Lodge,
MOntOwese. Postmaster Patrick ].
COOde, guest of honor, addressed
the group. Since the group was
chartered with four members, each
being an officer, on Jan. l, 1913,
Local 237 has grown to a member
ship of l61 of the 1876 eligible
clerks in the New Haven Post Office.
The charter members and first of
hcers were: Thomas J. Collins, presi-
dent; Joseph Schmitt, recording sec
rotary; Frank Breen, fnancial-Secre-
tary, and Louis Zimmerman, SER
geant-atarms.
From the four-man nucleus,
the Local grew rapidly. In Febru-
airy, 1913, it took i'm % members.
One of whom was Paul C.. F. Mar.
tin, now Assistant Postmaster, who
had been elected president of the
rival Local of United National As
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
A.F.L. Works For
Social Security

By unanimous vote, the New
Haven Central Labor Council went
on record as supporting President
Roosevelt and the American Fedora
ton of Labor in an effort to secure
a Federal social security legislation
adequate for the protection of
workers i'm the emergency of the
postwar period and afterwards.
In response to a letter from Will
liam Green, president of the ALL,
the New Haven C.L.C. at its last
meeting voted to use its influence in
support of liberalization of the Social
Security law and to set up a COM
mittee to work toward this end.
Adequate System
An adequate System of national
social insurance" stated Pres. Green,
would go a long way to accomplish
two of the freedoms of the Atlantic
Characterization from want and
freedom from fear. Nothing is more
devastating than lack of income to
purchase the necessities of life. The
dole brings a decentralization of self
dependent citizens that nothing can
undo"
Briefly. the ALL. Social Insur-
ance Program calls for CD Exten-
sion of old-age insurance to en-
plOyes now exempt, and to eligible
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16

workers permanently disabled; (2)
uniform and more adequate unem-
plOyment benefits under a national
system for all workers of the nation,
with a uniform duration of 20
weeks and a scale in accordance
with the size of family of the an
employed worker; CD maintenance
of the rights of enlisted persons
in the Social Security; 60 setting
up disqualification benefits for
workers covered by old age and sur-
vivOrs' insurance; (5) a national
employment service to provide the
widest possible assistance i'm helping
workers to have satisfactory jobs
and employers to have satisfactory
personnel.
The Toronto convention of the
AL. declared that this is our frst
step in postwar planning and that
legislation for that purpose is our
paramount legislative objective" wrote
Green.
I'VE need the cooperation of every
organization and every union affiliat-
ed with the A.FL. to secure legis1a-
ton to accomplish, these purposes.
Inadequate social security might put
at least half of our population on the
dole-a situation under which demo-
cratic institutions would be menaced."
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Walter Davis
IsDead
ActiveCareer
Was vitality Interested In
Labor Education, Co.
operative Movement

Walter E. Davis, treasurer of Elm
Lodge 42O, Machinists, and one of
the most active members of or
gained labor in the New Haven
area, died Saturday in ST. Raphael
Hospital, after an illness of several
months. He was 50 years old. Davis
was buried Monday afternoon in
the Hamden Plains Cemetery. Rev.
J. George Butler, pastor of the
Summerfeld Methodist Church,
New Haven, of which Davis had
been member, was in charge of
the services, held at Camerlin and
Rees Home.
Members of organized labor attend
ing his funeral included Harold V.
Felnmark, president of the New Ha-
ven Central Labor Council; William
J. Scully, past-president of Elm Lodge
William Zuckerman, business agent of
Painters, 1856; Nathan Sherman, edi-
tor of The UNION TIMES; DR.. Will
lard Uphaus, Teachers Union, 2O4,
and Rev. Hughburt H. Landram, CO.
chairman Of the Religion and Labor
Center of Greater New Haven.
Davis served as treasurer of Elm
Lodge, 42O, Machinists, for the last
10 years and had been active i'm
the affairs of the union since join
ing in 1906. He was a delegate
from the Machinists to the New Ha-
ven Central Labor Council for
more than a quarter of a century.
At the time of his death he was
chairman of the Forum Committee
of the Council and a member of
the board of trustees for the last
twenty-five years.
His activities and interest in behalf
of working people extended to fields
other than his union and the C.L.C.
Davis was a Socialist and at the time
of his death was chairman of the
Labor Party of Connecticut which is
the state branch of the Socialist Party
of the United States. This is the party
of Norman Thomas, several times
Socialist Presidential Candidate.
He was a member of the group
of citizens that organized the CO.
operative Consumers of New Ha-
ven, Inc, i'm 1885. He was chairman
of the organizational committee
and served as a director and vice.
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
City Meeting
On Manpower
Is Scheduled
New Haven A.F.L.-C.I.O.
Committee Asks All
Groups to Conference

The City-Wide Conference on
Manpower, sponsored by the New
Haven Joint A.F.L.-C.LO. Commit
tee on Manpower, will be held Jan.
80, at the Hotel Taft at 2 PM,
according to plans formulated at the
committee meeting this week.
Judge Roscoe Steffen, professor of
law at Yale, will be invited to serve
as moderator at the conference, which
is being called to gather information,
exchange ideas and formulate a def
mite program for the fullest utiliza-
ton of New Haven labor for work
in local war production industry.
Invitations Sent Out
TO this end invitations will be
sent out to representatives of the
Manufacturers Association, Labor
Unions, Social Service Agencies,
the War Manpower Commission,
the State Employment Service,
Housing Authorities, and Negro
groups.
Endorsed by Ennis
The Conference has the endorse
ment of William G. Ennis, director
of the U. S. Employment Service in
Connecticut and Acting War Man
power director of the state, and other
interested officials with whom it has
conferred in the past.
After meeting with Ennis last week,
the Committee felt that the pro-
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16

which it is hoped to place thousands
of the states residents now considered
in productive jobs.
This service will work closely
with Edward p. Chester of the De-
partment of Education in a physi-
cal rehabilitation program of even
wider scope than in the past.
Plan Working Now
According to Ennis, this new state
wide plan, which has already been
tried in Bridgeport with excellent re-
suits, will include personal study of
individual problems and consultation
with public and private social agencies.
s'UnemplOyables" Hired
"A group of so so-calIed un-
placeable applicants were selected
recently from the active files in
Bridgeport field office of the EN-
ployment Service" Ennis explain
ed. ''Of this group Is answered
our request for a new interview
two of them had secured jobs and
the remaining % were found to be
unempIoyable because of some
physical defect. These have already
been examined and are now lin pro-
cess of rehabilitation and will soon
be placed
Edward P. Chester, head of the
Rehabilitation Division of the State
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Wins Election
NearP egler's Home

Rolling up a 100000 vote in
a N.L.R.B. election at the Gilbert
and Bennett Manufacturing Com
pany, Georgetown, employees of the
concern won a smashing victory,
last week. This plant, where con-
ditions have been deplorable for
long time, is not far from the
residence of Westbrook ,Pegler.
Under the leadership of James ].
Clerkin, president of the Conn. Fed
Grafton of Labor, and an organizer
for the ALL, a tWo-year effort to
bring union organization to the Gil
bert and Bennett Co., which was
intensified in the last four months,
resulted in the workers choosing the
ALL. as their exclusive bargaining
agency at the N.LR.B. election. No
other organization was involved A
Federal local will be set up.
CIerkin stated that the applica-
ton for local charter, which has
been signed by number of the
workers for some time, will be for
warded to national headquarters in
the near future. An effort is now
being made to enroll all workers
in the new union.
Commenting on the results of the
election, John J. Egan, secretary
treasurer of the Conn Fed. of Labor,
said that the workers have won more
than an ordinary victory indicated in
the more than two-to-one result of
the election. This victory looms larger
when one considered, he said, that the
company owns the houses in which
the workers live and dominate their
community to the extent that they
couldn't hire a hall in which to hold
meetings. Working conditions at the
plant have been reported to Egan as
being very bad.
Paul Connory, attorney for the
company and an important pOliti-
cal figure in South NOrwalk, OPP
posed Clerkin in the attempt to
organize the Gilbert and Bennett
workers. COnnory's brother owns
and operates the company towns
general store, said Clerkin.
On the eve of the election some O.
the workers, remembering what came
of previous attempts to organize the
plant before the New Deal was put
into effect, and others, fearing the
wrath of their landlord, faced some
serious doubts as to the outcome.
Their doubts were shared by some OF
the leaders of organized labor who
were close to the case and interested
in it because they knew just what the
workers of the company were u
against both in the shop and at home.
''The results of this election are
surprisingly good and gratifying, -
exclaimed Clerkin.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
McNutt Attacks
Sen. Bailey's Lies

Senator Josiah w. Bailey (Dem.,
N. CO., spokesman for sweatshop
interests in his state, tried this week
to revive the old fake that unions
are forcing construction workers to
pay excessive dues and initiation fees
but was promptly slapped down" by
Paul V. McNutt, manpower chief.
Bailey wrote a letter to McNutt
in which he smeared closed shop con-
tracts negotiated between unions and
contractors on government projects
with such epithets as "extortion T..
coercion damnable imposition"
''Old Stuff
The North Carolinian added the
SANDER that the dues and fees collected
by unions ''fatten the pocketbooks of
the collectors and the treasury of the
organizations"
He demanded that McNutt crack
down on the unions, but the man
power chief, in reply, came out with
a strong defense of labor organiza-
tons.
McNutt Finds Union OK.
McNutt said there may have been
a few abuses, but that these have
been cleaned up when called to the
attention of the proper union Of
ficials.
II find that, generally speaking,
local and International labor or
CARNATIONS restrict their fees and
dues to reasonable and frequently
nominal sums which cannot prop
erIy be regarded as in excess of a
fair contribution which the worker
should make to an organization
devoted to his interests" the man.
power chieftain declared.
McNutt added that responsible
labor leaders" have been most CO.
operative" in correcting excuses
wherever they existed, and he CON
tended that st would be unfair to
condemn the labor movement because
of occasional abuses"
Bailey's Bias Proved
Significantly, Bailey proved his
bias by releasing to the press only
part of McNutt's letter, but all of
his own. He omitted entirely the
manpower chiefs defense of the
''co-operative attitude of union
officials, and McNutt's request for
facts from Bailey's constituents.
This suppression drew the ire of the
manpower chief, who released the full
correspondence and at a press con-
ference sharply rebued Bailey for
failing to give fair picture" of his
position.
Il don't like excerpts from letters"
McNutt said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Carpenters In Army,
Navy Are Promoted

Three members of the Carpen-
tiers District Council of Bridgeport
who enlisted i'm the U. S. Armed
Forces within the last five months
have been promoted, according to
word received by Harold Barker,
business agent of the council.
Joseph Hendricks, who enlisted
in the u. S. Army Engineers las
August, is now staff sergeant i'm
his company overseas. E. B. Luz
kacsy has been made a Chief Car
penter's Mate, and T. ]. Kane, a
Carpenters Mate, first class. Both
enlisted i'm the Seabees i'm October.
Sgt. Hendricks and Seaman Kane
are members of Local lis; and
Mate Lukacsy is a member of Local
647.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16

einmark Named
For Seventh Term

Pres. Harold V. Feinmark was
unanimously nominated for his
seventh consecutive term as head
of the New Haven Central Labor
Council to which he has served as a
delegate for the last 20 years.
August Striby of New Haven Bak-
cry Workers, Local ii, was named
to run for his twenty-eighth term
as misunderstanding and treasurer
of the Council.
Sen. Joseph T. Rourke, business
agent of Local BOO, Electrical Work
ers, was nominated for the vice
presidency of the Council At present
Rourke is recording secretary. Bernard
Geelan, delegate from Retail Clerks,
96l, who has been serving as acting
secretary, was nominated to fill that
position.
Other officers nominated are:
Trustees, five to be elected
George Riehm, Carpenters, 70;
Scott Roston, Colored Musicians,
486; Frank Carr, Trolleymen, Div.
28l; John PisanO, Transfers, 443;
and Carl Hoff, Musicians, 234.
Executive Board, four to be
elected Bridgeman, State
County and Municipal Employees,
400; Frank Spadola, 2l5; Sen.
James Ceelan, Retail Clerks, DOL;
William Zuckerman, Painters, 1876;
Alfred Murphy, Machinists, 42O;
and Samuel F. Curry, Division 28l,
TrOlleymen.
The officers will be elected at the
next meeting of the GIG. Thursday,
January Fl.
Musicians Delegates Approved
Names of five delegates from the
New Haven Federation of Musicians
were submitted by Local 234. All were
approved by the council and one who
is newly elected, Thomas R. FitzSim-
mons will be seated when he presents
himself. The other delegates of Local
234 are: Robert Schecter, Alexander
Winnick, Nicholas Roberti and Carl
G. Hoff. Alternates: William Win
nick and Harry l.. Benson.
The Council endorsed the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
and urged each delegate to ask the
members of his local to contribute to
the utmost to the campaign of the
March Of Dimes" and thus honor
President Roosevelt in connection
with the celebration of his 61st birth
day anniversary, January 80, by rails
ing money for the fight against in
fantile paralysis.
DIR. Jerome Davis, of the Teach
ers Union, formerly of Yale, and
now doing Y. nj. C.. A. work for war
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
AS We See 1t
BY
THE STAFF

AN EDITORIAL writer i'm
the New Haven Journal
Courier believes that one of
the reasons for ''absenteeism'
is that workers are making
high wages. Following this
line of thinking, we can only
conclude that the chief reason
the man who wrote the editor
ial works six days a week is
that he is underpaid.
UNION MEMBERS can drive
their cars to and from union meet
ings without fear of breakdown
under OPA regulations eliminating
all pleasure driving in II Eastern
states, Director Charles F. Phillips
of the automobile supply rationing
division, informs us.
UNION MEETINGS, he said, fall
,Oithin the category of meetings
directly related to the occupation
or profession of the OsUner or per-
son using the rehicle,'' set forth in
the OPA order, and is Therefore
permitted as personal necessity
driuing.''
WHEN CHAIRMAN Gessner Nc
Convey of the Alabama Democratic
Committee let it be known that Ala
bamans would not contribute any,
thing to the next national Demo-
cratic campaign fund because the
President was ramming the Negro
question down the Threats of south
erners, some of the unions got
busy. First result became known
today when Sen. Lister Hill 3D.,
Ala.), prO-Administration and gen.
orally progressive member of the
southern delegation, majority whip
in the Senate, got letter.
1T VAS FROM the Mine, Mill
& SneIter Workers Red Ore COun-
Gil tBessemer, AIa., and it con-
tanned a check for $567. 1t ,Oas
contributed by 900 people, said the
letter, all of sOhom ,Oere in favor
of the Presidents stand against
discrimination. They ,Oanted the
money to go to the Democratic
National Committee.
NEODESHA, KAN., is haqlmg
labor troubles, too. This ad appeared
recently in the Daily Sun there ::
"Wanted-youtg lady for office qUork.
One 90h0 cannot qualify mentally or
physically for 1Vork at the Parsons
ordnance plant or the local telephone
office"
TWO CONNECTICUT cities,
Middletown and Torrington, were
designated this week by the War
Manpower Commission as ''Iabor
surplus areas. This means that
in these cities, ''an possible effort
should be made to renew contracts,
place new contracts, and locate
new production facilities" Bridge
port, Hartford, New Britain, and
Waterbury were designated as
Labor shortage areas"
POSTAL AUTHORITIES, aetna
as SbokeSmen for Dan Cupid, urge
that Valentines for our armed forces
abroad be in the mails not later than
Jan. Is. Special effort qmH be made
to effect delivery for St. Valentines
Day, Feb. IA.
| CONTINUED on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Device Workers
Help Blood Bank

More than IS members of Local
B-1013, Electrical Device Workers
Hartford, each contributed a pint OF
blood to the Blood Bank Mobile Unit
of the Hartford Chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross, last week, stated Miss
Ann Herlihy, chairman of the locals
committee arranging for the members
contributions.
Miss Herlihy said that the 'Electri-
cal Device Workers, whose member
ship consists of employees of the
Arrow-Hart & Hegeman Co., are
giving their blood at the rate of five
donations a day. The response OF
union members to the appeal for blood
has been quite satisfactory, she said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
More Bricklayers
Enter Armed Service

Two members of Local 2, Bridge
port Bricklayers, have entered the
Armed Services, Michael Minotti,
business agent of the local, stated
this week. Leo Driscoll, SO, Ansonia,
a member for the last IS years, en-
listed in the Seabees. Anthony J.
Minotti, 418 Center Street, Bridge
port, brother of the business agent,
was indicted in the Army last week.
Minotti, who is 81, has been a mem
Der of Local 2 for the last IA years.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Corp. St. Pierre Visits
Hartford Electricians

Corp Tech. Eugene St. Pierre,
former secretary, and charter mem
Der of Local B-1013, Electrical De
vice Workers, Hartford, spent a TO-
day furlough visiting his parents and
members of the union in Hartford
last week. ST. Pierre entered Tho
Army last April. He is stationed at
Mitchell Field, L. I.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Brewers, No. 81,
Elect Officers

Frank Driend was elected presi-
dent, and Thomas ]. Mann was elect
ed vice-president of Local 81, New
Haven Brewery Workers, at the last
meeting of the local, held in the Labor
Temple.
Other officers are: Fernand Knob
loch, corresponding and record
lng-secretary, for the fourth term
Theodore Buechler, financial secre-
tary, for the tenth term; and Hans
Maurer, treasurer, for the tenth term.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Officers InstalledBy
Plumbers, No. 349

Officers of New Haven Plumbers,
Local 349, were installed Monday
evening at an annual installation meet
ing held in the Labor Temple.
The officers are Henry Schmitt,
president; Harry Wengolin, vice
president; Edward Dwyer, recording
secretary; Duncan Macarthur, finan-
cial secretary; and Edmund Meany,
treasurer.