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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-18

WHEN January fabric sales
w bring all sorts of serviceable,
pretty cottons down in price, plan
to rebuild your apron supply! You
can turn out all you need rapidly
with this simple apron pattern
which is cut with just a few easy
to-put-together pieces. 1t is pretty,
too, with it's curved shoulder
straps and gay pockets.
Pattern No. 1929 is in sizes IA. 16. 10,
20: 40. AZ. "A. Size 16 requires PA yards
32-inch material. 9 yards bias fold. 2
yards ric rae.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-18
School Outfit

HERE'S the answer to the
- school outfit or everyday out
fit you want to make your little
girl. You can expect long wear
from the gracefully shaped jump.
er-if you make it in rayon gabar-
dine, corduroy, flannel or wool
crepe. You'll have variety, too, if
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-02-18

HIGH = GRADE GUERNSEY HEIFERs
under one year and yearlings past, some
pred. Special price On four.
FRED Charlton, Iowa.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

Pres. William P. Barry of Local
"a, New Haven Stage Employees,
has been elected to head his Local
for the 18th time in period cover
ing % years. His long and varied
career as a stage employe began
back i'm 1907 when he gave up
cIerking for railroads and returned
to his home in New Haven TO seek
work around theatres.
After two years of temporary
jobs, Barry secured regular work
as property man at Polls Palace,
now Leow's Poll. Next he became
stage carpenter at the Grand Opera
House, where he remained until
fire destroyed the building i'm 1914.
He went to Shubert's as stage car
penter in 1914, and then on the
road with AL Jolson's shows from
1924 to 1926. In that year he re-
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Rent Control Program Endangered

properties with his office since Aug.
81, 1912.
(2) Arpaia cautioned all landlords
to make sure they have filled regis
tration forms with his office at 216
Crown ST., New Haven.
CD DIR. III. C. Quinlan, Meriden
dentist, was fined by Judge Joseph
Smith of the Federal Court at Hart
ford, a total of $500 in the first
Connecticut court case involving a
violation of the rent control act.
and the Office of War Information
in Hartford advised the six over
charged apartment house tenants
that they had the right to sue for
$50 damages on each single in
stance of overpayment. The land
lord was charged with securing
more than the legal rent by threat
ening to remove his property from
the rental market rather than ac-
cept legal rent.
(4) The OWL stated that under
recent regulations, property cannot be
removed from the rental market with
out good reason, and only after Sc
curing permission from the rent con-
troll office of the area wherein the
property is located.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

Continued from Page One)
Welfare Council, an organization
backed by organized labor. A wave
of home buying struck the city and
as a result war workers lost time
i'm moving and house hunting,
others left the city in disgust, while
others we're forced to buy homes
they didn't want i'm order to have
shelter.
Despite the clamor for more rents
which is motivated by the desire to
cash in on the grave shortage OF hous-
ing in war-work areas, landlords over
the country are today making greater
returns on their investments than ever
before. In most instances rents had
risen steeply before rent control went
into effect seven months ago.
O.P.A. accountants checking into
this matter i'm l3 cities, including
Bridgeport, now under rent con-
troll, found that owners OF apart
ments we're getting II per cent
greater net income under rent con-
troll than for the two preceding
years.
Reasons cited for this increase IN
profits to landlords are: CD almost
complete absence of vacancies %
better rent collections, CD failure OF
landlords to make Improvements and
deliberations formerly necessary to
attract or hold tenants. To these may
he added the reduction IN operating
expense occasioned by the dlm-out
and the fuel shortage situations, and
the tendency of many landlords to
skimp on coal under the pretext OF
helping the war effort.
New Haven Area Rent Director
Anthony Arpaia explained that
the amendment requiring payment
of one-third in cash of the pur-
chaser's own funds applies only
when the purchaser seeks to gain
possession for his own occupancy.
There is no restriction on the terms
of sales which are made for purely
investment purposes or sales OF
commercial or other types of real
property.
Other developments in the rent con-
troll field in Connecticut are: CD An
by Arpaia that approx
mately $4,000 landlords in tne area
have registered their rented residential
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Men Who Lead Labor:

turned to New Haven and ''Opened'
the Roger Sherman as stage MANA
ger, the position he now holds.
JOINS LOCAL ~
Barry joined Local "a in 1909.
Three years later, he was elected
business agent. He declined to run
for a second term. From 1918 to
1924, and again from 1886 to
1889 he served as president of the
Local. He was elected for his 18th
term i'm the l943 elections of the
union.
Barry has been delegate from
the Stage Employees Union to the
National Convention of Theatrical
Employees on eight occasions; to
the state convention 10 times, as
we'll as numerous times to the New
England District Conference of
Theatrical Employees. He served on
the Advisory Board of the New
England District Conference, and
is a past-president of the Connecti-
cut State Association of Theatrical
Employees. He served on the New
Haven Central Labor Councils
Housing Committee that pioneered
in bringing lOw-cOst public hOus-
ing to New Haven.
He first became member of
organized labor when he took out
a card in the Order of Railroad
Clerks, ALL, i'm 1908. He began
work as a railroad clerk with the
N. Y, N. III. and Hartford that
year. From 1904 to 1906 he work
ed for the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg & Potomac Railroad, out of
Richmond.
LEADING EXPERT
Barry was born in New Haven
i'm 1884. In theatrical circles
throughout the country he is
known as leading expert i'm prob
lens of stage design, lightning and
allied fields. His associates point
out that when the Yale School of
Drama was established, several of
the professors sought his advice on
knotty technical problems.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
No Change In
Gu Officers
In Bridgeport
Body Votes To Hold Public
Health Meeting On
February Tenth

Peter Bernard was nominated, elected
and installed as president of the
Bridgeport Central Labor Union for
his eighth consecutive term last week.
At the same meeting the C.L.U. took
action on holding an open meeting
February 10 in the interest Of public
health.
The C.L.U. officers for 1913, all
of whom were unanimously elected,
are as follows: President, Bernard,
president of Local 277, Motion
Picture Machine Operators; Vice
President, Robert Reichenback, of
Local lis, Carpenters; Recording
and Financial Secretary, William j.
Brennan, Local 277, M.P.M.O.;
Treasurer, Peter Brewster, Local
100, Painters; Sergeant-at-Arms,
John HI. Mcclure, Local 63, Musi-
clans.
Trustees, John ]. Durkin, Lo-
cal lis, Carpenters; Mrs. Sadie
Sullivan, Federal Union No. 2llO3,
Corset Workers; Charles Rousher,
Local l73, Sheet Metal Workers
Executive Board, Mary Zotack,
Federal Union 81 JOB, Corset Max
ers; Bernard Flanagan, Div. 459,
Bus Drivers; David Carpenette,
Local 100, Painters. All officers
except Mary Zotack were reelected.
President Bernard appointed the fol-
lowing as Chairmen of the C.L.U.
committees, giving each Chairman the
privilege of selecting up to four mem
berS to serve with him:
Organization, John Trudeau,
Local l73, Plumbers; Arbitration,
John ]. Allen, Local 443, Truck
Drivers; Label, L. C. Blakeslee,
Motion Picture Machine Operators I;
Education, Bernard Flanagan, Bus
Drivers; and Grievances, Anne
Simon, Corset Makers.
In response to request Of Health
Officer Richard O'Brien Shea, the
CL.U. voted to hold an open meeting
at Carpenters Hall the regular meet
ing place of the C.L.U., in connection
with the drive against syphilis Officials
from the State Board of Health and
the U. S. Office of Public Health will
attend The regular meeting of the
CL.U. will be cancelled for the health
meeting.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Middletown Board

Continued from Page One)
protest, to the MiddLetO.On Press,
and The Union Times.
The letter read in part:
1--WE, as a labor organization,
many of whose members have at
some time in the past been unem-
plOyed, protest your action as .
as unwarranted attack on the poor,
many of whom where forced to
accept this form of help. it is
an undemOcratic procedure for an
appointed board to issue orders to
an elected official"
The CL.U. expressed the belief
that people in supporting the creation
of the Finance Board never intended
that its members should attempt to
tell an elected official how to run his
office.
''The Finance Board has its
place in good city government, and
in its official capacities 1t will re-
ceive the full support of labor
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Woll Praises
NH Labor For
HelpToChest
Participation In War Fund
Drives Has Added To
Our Standing

President Harold V. -Feinmark
and members of the New Haven
Central Labor Council were warmly
praised for their part in enlisting
labor support and cooperation in
the Greater New Haven Community
Chest and War Fund i'm a letter
from Matthew Woll, president of
Labor League For Human Rights.
The letter, addressed to President
Feinmark, and read at the meeting OF
the Council this week, follows:
Dear Sir and Brother:
Il am writing to commend you and
your associates for the splendid job
you have done this year. despite
great number of obstacles, in CO.
operating with and supporting the
Greater New Haven Community
Chest and War Fund along the lines
of the national agreement reached
with the Community Chests and
Councils, Inc.
''Mr. Miles has written us rather
extensively on what was achieved
this year and what could have been
done had there been more ample
time. The situation that prevailed
in New Haven existed i'm a Majority
of the communities that conducted
their campaigns last fall. There
simply was not enough time be-
tween the signing of the agreement
and the campaigns to prepare
everything properly.
"You and your associates deserve
the more credit, therefore, for having
been able to do as we'll as you did do,
without edquate guidance from our
national headquarters, literature or
even word from the national and
international unions with which your
local unions are affiliated.
III am happy to say that the
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

worthy record you established this
year, and which | know you regard
as only beginning, is reflected by
our AFL organizations i'm all parts
of the country. Our local response
BILE leaders realized the importance
of doing everything they could to
mobilize all of our organizations
and members i'm support of Com
munity Chests and War Funds this
year, and as a result our standing
in all communities throughout the
country as a whole has improved
considerably.
II know that our regional direc-
tor, Mr.. Henry C. Murray, will be
happy to assist you in every way
he can.
please accept my appreciation and
congratulations for yourself and your
associates for the splendid job you
have DONE
i am, with every good wish, cor
daily and fraternally yours,
MATTHEW WOLL"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

If you want our airplane pro-
pellers to sing a song of victory,
then strike the proper note by buy
ing War Bonds.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Conference Hears
Leading Officials

Continued from Page One)
splendid community interest in the
manpower problem, and expressed
himself as being in complete sympathy
with it-"and | think much good will
come from it,
Gas every thinking Citizen
wrote Anthony F. Arpaia, New Ha-
ven Area Rent Director, i'm accept
ing the invitation, IL am vitality
interested i'm this all-impOrtant
problem and look forward eagerly
to attending the Conference and
know that with the cooperation of
all concerned, it will bring definite
and constructive results"
Gail E. Smith of the War Pro-
duction Board stated:
AS to your agenda, we find
much the Labor Production Divi-
sion of the War Production Board
is concerned with and want to be
helpful i'm developing, not only i'm
your city but throughout the entire
area"
Other persons who have accepted
invitations to attend the Conference
include:
Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, for
mer Secretary of State; E. P. Ches-
ter, director of Bureau OF Rehabili-
tation Service; Mrs. Alice Marshall,
manager of the New Haven Office
of the U. S.. Employment Service
Richard w. Howes, acting super
visor, Trade and Industrial Educa-
ton; Lauren E. Seeley, regional adj
wiser of the Engineering, Science, and
Management War Training; Miss
Adah Atwood, special assistant to
the New Haven Council of Social
Agencies; and Joseph A. Fitzgerald,
Superintendent of Schools.
PERSONNEL OF COMMITTEES
The ALL. Clio. Manpower
Committee is comprised of the fol-
lowing: A.F.L.-HarOld V. Fem
mark, president of the N. Ell. Cen
trail Labor Council; Carl Hoff, Local
234, Musicians; Bernard Ceelan,
Local 96l, Retail Sales Clerks /;
David Strauss, Local 4O4, Hotel
and Restaurant Workers, and Scott
Roston, Local 478, CoIored Musi-
clans; William Zuckerman, Paint
ers, No. 1856; and Nathan Sherman,
editor of The Union Times.
C.I.O.-Edward McCrone, sub
regional director for the clio. who
is acting in an advisory capacity {;
Miss Claire Neikind, International
Organizer for the United Electrical
and Radio Workers, chairman;
Harry O'Kleppo, Paper Toy Work
ers; David Hedley and Miss Doris
SchlOssberg, Office Workers; Mar
tin HOurihan, and Mrs. Laura Mon
tefuscO, United Electrical Workers.
A full account of the Conference
will be- published in THE UNION
TIMES next week.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

states the protest. However, any
attempt to put over a request as
that mentioned above will bring
demand from labor that the city
charter be changed and that the
Finance Board be comprised of
public elected official and stand
up and account for their actions
every two years."
The letter was sent out over the
signature of Joseph Hagel, secretary
of the Middletown Central Labor
Union.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
R. {. Lewis Dies In
Veterans Hospital

Members of Carpenters Local, No.
lis, Bridgeport, are mourning the
death of Robert c. Lewis, 81, a men,
Der for many years. Lewis died last
Wednesday at the U. S. Veterans
Hospital, Rocky Hill, where he had
been a patient for years.
Services were held Saturday at the
Albert w. Spear Funeral Home,
Bridgeport, with the Rev. Roland V.
Wells, pastor of the First Baptist
Church officiating. Burial took place
in Park Cemetery.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
c. Formula Is Not The Only Way To Get Raise In Wages

Union members are clam
Oring to- know if, after they re-
ceive the Is per cent increase,
their wages are to be frozen
for the duration. AT present,
no further relief is i'm sight to
meet the increased cost of liv-
ing, which has gone far be-
yOnd that percentage. How
ever, other ways of obtaining
further wage increases are still
available.
In some industries, particularly
war babies, Is per cent increases
over the average prevailing on Jan.
l, l04l, were granted even before
the National War Labor Board be-
came active, i'm order to draw labor
to that field. In such cases particu-
Iarly, the problem of getting fur
Their increases is complicated one.
Yet, the means by which this can
be accomplished also provides a
guide to cOnsumer-gOOds industries
where the Is per cent available
increase is rapidly being realized.
The test which the Board is most
likely to apply in such cases is
whether the company rates are below
those prevailing in the area and indus
try. If it can be established that this
is the case, the Board is likely to per-
NIT additional increases beyond the IS
per cent, even though such increases
may not be distributed in an orthodox
manner.
SPECIFIC CASE
Thus, in a recent case (Fair-
child Corporation, Jan. IA, l943) ,
the Board was confronted with just
such a problem.
Rates had been increased more
than Is per cent since Jan. L,
l94l.
Under the ruling of the Board, the
Unions request for a general wage
increase was deferred, and the parties
were directed to negotiate rates for
classihcations above new hiring rates
which the Board established.
Ii was further provided that the
resulting rates would be subject to
Board approval after the collective
bargaining process had been ex-
hausted by the parties.
In addition, new employees be-
came entitled to an increase in
the hiring rate from soc to 6Oc
per hour with an automatic in
crease to 75c by three successive
monthly increases of Sc. This. ap-
piled specifically to the lowest scale
of the labor grades.
In directing the parties to ne
gOtiate as to the other nine labor
grades involved, the Board di-
rected that the rate differential
between the successive labor grades
was i'm no case to be less than 5
cents.
STRESSES BARGAINING
Another important point established
by this case was the answer which the
Board gave to the company's conten-
ton that it could not pay the increased
wages without re-negotiation of its
government contracts. In response
the Board took the fortnight position
that such dilemma did not remove
its responsibility for eliminating mani
fest injustices and inequalities in wage
rates which seriously threatened to
impede the productive process.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18
WAGES & PRICES:
Labor Looks UptUard

Organized labor's clash with the
government over wage controls
drew disquietingly closer as the
American Federation of Labor, the
CIO and John L. Lewis United Mine
Workers made known their stand.
Conferring at the White House,
William Green, AFL president, and
Phillip Murray, Clio chief, protested
to President Roosevelt that the cost
of living was getting out of bounds"
and said that there was increasing
dissatisfaction among labor's rank
and file.
Previously, bushy-browed Lewis
had announced a demand for 81
a day pay increase in the bituminous
coal industry, effective April 1.
The impending crisis in wage con-
troll was further emphasized when
the War Labor board beset by in
creasing demands for pay increases
asked Sterilization Director James
F. Byrnes whether the Little SteeP'
wage ceiling formula should be re-
vised upward. This yardstick which
has been applied to numerous indus
tries allowed the WLB to grant wage
increases of Is per cent above the
levels of January l, 1941, and was
designed to match rising living costs
between that date and May /, 1912.
This problem was dropped in Mr..
Byrnes' lap, because any upward
wage revision would have consumer
repercussions and jeopardize the ad-
ministration's entire wage stabiliza-
ton and price pegging program.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18

WASHINGTON: Planes of the 18th
U. S. air force sank or damaged 81
Axis ships in North African waters.
ranging from light cruisers to
freighters between November and
February l, it was announced here
in a report received from Allied
headquarters in North Africa. The
report disclosed that Is ships had
been sunk, seven severely damaged,
and "a others damaged.
BETHESDA, Md: A treadmiIl on
which fighting men in the United
States can Acknowledgement through
the deserts of Libya, the jungles of
Guadalcanal or the frozen wastes of
the Arctic is being used at the navy's
medical research institute here. The
treadmin is situated in a window
less room insulated with cork walls.
Apparatus provides temperatures
ranging from the tropics to the North
Pole. Other apparatus will sirnu-
late humidity conditions in various
places where men are fighting or
may fight. The treadmill will orient
them to all battle situations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18
INCOME TAX:
March IS Still DeadLine

Neither the Ruml plan to "for-
give" all taxes on 1912 income, nor
the U. S. treasury department pro-
posal to double up collections of both
1912 and 1913 taxes will be adopted,
members of the house ways and
means committee definitely indicat-
ed.
One fact appeared certain. Forty
four million American taxpayers
will be compelled to file income tax
returns by the March Is deadline,
on the basis of 1912 income.
A pay-as-you-go withholding tax
procedure will be set up later. Most
observers predicted July as the
date. This apparently would be a
compromise measure embodying
some but not all of the Ruml pro-
posals and the treasury's recommen-
dationS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18
SOLOMONS:
NipponeSe Persistent

Only occasionally during the lat
est air-sea battle between American
forces and their Jap enemies for
control of the southern Solomons was
the curtain of official secrecy raised.
First American reports were nee
essarily noncommittal to keep use
full information from the enemy.
The Japs used a reverse Eng
fish" technique in reporting the
battle. This consisted of radio an
nouncements telling of overwhelm-
ing American naval superiority in
the Guadalcanal area, of the pres
ence of 10 American warships and
10 aircraft carriers. By employing
such fantastic figures, observers be-
ieved the Jap high command was
preparing the public back home for
bad news.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18
FARM LABOR:
Army to Help?

Many a Washington official has
lain awake nights trying to find a
solution for the critical farm labor
shortage.
Latest suggestion for relieving the
shortage is to apply a method used
by Union and Confederate armies in
the Civil war-furlough soldiers with
farm experience to help with har-
vests and other seasonal farm jobs.
Observers believed that creation of
this farm army would be undertaken
jointly by the war department aod
the War Manpower commission and
the department of agriculture. It
was estimated that 100000 soldiers
might be detailed for this needed
task.
Alternately under consideration by
top manpower authorities was a pro-
posal to utilize battaions of army
men still on military assignment for
farm work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18
NAZI TWILIGHT:
Darkened BY Russ

While the strains of Wagner's fu-
nereal Gotterdaemmerung on Berlin
radios had proclaimed to the Reich
the melancholy tidings of Nazi dis
aster at Stalingrad, this requiem
was regarded by many observers
as only a prelude to more woeful
news ahead.
For it had become increasingly
clear that the German retreat in
Russia had long since passed the
stage of an orderly withdrawal and
had reached the proportions Of a
rout in many places. Relentlessly
the Russians had built up their Of
fensive's momentum, smashing into
the Ukraine, narrowing the circle
around Rostov and threatening Hit
ler's harassed Caucasus forces with
a Black sea Dunkirk at Novoros-
sisk.
Matter-of-fact Soviet communi-
ques told the story of German re-
verses. These included the reoccu-
patton by Red troops of Zolotukhino,
only % miles above Kursk on the
Kursk-Orel railroad, thus cutting the
main Nazi supply line to the north;
the recapture of Kupyansk and with
it the control of an entire rail net
work; and the seizure of Kuschev-
skaya, below Rostov on the Rostov-
Baku railway, the biggest system in
the Caucasus.
The loss of Kuschevskaya was
particularly bitter to the Nazis. Russ
possession of this city which COM
mands a railroad spur leading to
the Black sea, threatened to isolate
huge German forces already under
attack at Novorossisk, the large
Nazi-held port on that sea. 1t had
been believed Hitler would try to
use Novorossisk for the evacuation
of his Caucasian army if Rostov
were regained by the Russians.