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The union times., 1943-04-10
New Bill To Put Kids On
 55-Hr.Week
Labor Committee Measure Adds Minors To Sus-
 pended Hour Law

The Labor Committee of the General Assembly went Gov. Ray mond E. Baldwin one better in re- gard to the suspension of the state hour law by adding children to the list of persons who may be worked in war factories in excess of the legal maximum of fOrty-eight hours a week.
 A bill which provides that both women and minors may be employ ed 55 hours week in manufactur- ing establishments on certification of the Labor Department, was re- ported out committee to the House of Representatives.
 This bill carries provision re- peallng any portion of Governor S Executive Order No. 2, which is in conflict with 1t.
 The measure is the latest develop ment Ill the situation that arose when Gov. Baldwin used his Wartime Pow CTS to suspend the hour-law in regard to women workers, and the Connecti- cut Manufacturers Association circu- lated bulletin informing its members that the order lifted all hourly re- sstrlctions including one day of rest in seven.
 Sen. James P. Geelan (D., New E1aven) introduced as resolution in the Senate requesting the Governor to amend his war order to embodv the following limitations: 10 hours a day, 55-hour maximum week, and one day of rest in seven. Later, Geelan introduced a measure providing for these limitations in place of the War Order, which his bill would repeal
 IhlS measure and a similar one by William A. Mortensen (R., Hart tord) were placed before the Labor Committee. The Committee, however, wrote its own measure.
The union times., 1943-04-10
WarehouseW Workers Wins Raises From $2 to s A Week

The War Labor Board has ap- proved the l943 contract between Local 2O536, Warehouse Workers and the New Haven division of the Mckesson-Robbins Co.,, granting the employees wage increases rang ing from $2 to s week.
 The contract, which was approved by the VILE. just four weeks after 1t was agreed to by the union and the company, is retroactive to Nov 1922. It also provides for fve-day 4O-hour work week; pay for six specified holidays a year and double time i'll event employees work these holidays, or Sundays.
 Harold V. Feinmark, business agent of the Local, and a committee consisting of President Frank Clancy, Recording Secretary Will liam Sause, Shop Steward Richard Buckley, and Nicholas Bekish rep resented the union in the negatia- tiOns.
 Atty. Frederic Wingersky, vice president and labor relations director and Walter Muller, vice-president represented McKesson- Robbins con- cern.
The union times., 1943-04-10
Elm City To Have Stabilization Plan

The New Haven War ManpOwer Area Committee was scheduled to meet late this week to consider a stabilizatiOn plan for the best use of labor in the war effort in this area. New Haven has not been classified by the W.M.C. as critical area.
 The area includes Greater New Haven and the nearby towns of Gull ford, Madison, Branford, Nortf Haven, Woodbridge and Orange. Ii covers the same territory as the New Haven Office of the U. s. Employ ment Service
 Mrs. Alice G. Marshall, manager of the local office of the USES, is deputy director of the area. She is assisted by committee of eight citi- zens, four of whom represent labor and four representing industry. The A.F.L. and the C.IO., each have two members on the committee.
 ''Stabilization plans in general 5 stated Mrs. Marshall,' endeavor to set up procedure 10 cut down the turnover of labor and eliminate needless shopping around for jobs by employed workers
 She explained that such plans fol low pattern which has been estab- lished by the National W.M.C. for the guidance of local committees. Each committee establishes its own pro- cedure to meet the particular needs of it's community in reference to man. power situation as it affects war work in that community.
 When an area committee works outs its stabilizatiOn setup, that plan is submitted for approval to the director of the regional area of the ManpOwer Commission. The New Haven plan will be submitted
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The union times., 1943-04-10
Local B-420
 Of Waterbury Win 5c Raise
VILE. Approves Agree. ment With Connecticut
 Light and Power Co.

To correct interplant inequalities in pay at the Connecticut Light and Power Co.,, the New England Re- gional War Labor Board has ap- proved an agreement between Lo- cal B-42O, Electrical Workers, and the company to grant an increase of five cents an hour to 539 workers at the Waterbury plant of the con- cern.
 At the same time the Board ap- proved an equal increase for 443 other employees of the company. The VILE. also allowed an increase of SIPS in daily expense money allowance, bring ing the total to $3.75 a day. The raises are retroactive to Oct. 4, 1942.
 The C. L. and P. employs total of l,7OO workers. Seven hundred of them, who are in the company's plants east of the Connecticut River, received raises before Oct. 3. l942. when President Roosevelt's Eco- homie Stabilization Order went into effect. The VILE. approved the wage and salary increases of the workers west of the river to equal ize the pay of all the company's employees.
The union times., 1943-04-10
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

RECENT CEILING prices for the wholesale meat trade have all but driven the independents to the wall. That this will result in clear field for a monopoly by the big four packers is imminent. The theory put forth, that it is easier to con. trOl the meat industry through a few large concerns instead of many small ones, has q familiar, though unpleasant ring. We can remember not so long ago that organized labor was accused of mOnopOIisl practices. However, present at. tempts to use the war emergency to form mOnOpOlies and trusts go unchallenged and in fact are actual. ly being encouraged.
 IN PASSING a bill to Iegalize child labor in Pennsylvania, the Senate said the measure was mean, to solve the child care problem by giving the kids something to dc while their mothers are away at war jobs. Can't somebody devise a means of keeping idle legislators out of mischief while their betters are fighting a war?
 A HANDY GUIDE to Truck Drivers Slang, printed by The Wis. cOnsin Teamster, runs a close sec. Ond to the language of the jitter. bugs for sheer color and unintelli. gibility. Samples follow: ''CackIe crate-pOultry transport truck; cop caller-noisy brakes; training to be an EskimO-driving with win. dOws open; museum piece-old truck; soup jOckey-waitress in all alI-night lunchroom; sweatshop- truck that's bullet-prOof with little ventilation; cowbOy-reckless driv. CT.
 PALMA WAGON is a sleeper bus; friendly .fenders-car with broken lenders that wave; white collar man-driver who handles clean merchandise; BibIe-bill book; boom wagOn-nitroglycerine truck; crash wagon-ambulan goose it-feed it in irregular spurts l Can Catch-Interstate Commerce Commission; Jesse James-police
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1943-04-10
HOusePutsDOwn Clare B. Luce s Tax-ExemptPlan

WASHINGTON. = Rep. Clare Luce's plan to cancel l942 tax liability on individual taxable in- come up to $25,OOO was shouted down i'll the House of Representa- tives. The chorus of Nos was vehe- ment and if there were any timid Ayes they were drowned out.
 Mrs. Luce was absent, but her plan was put forward by Rep. Bertrand w. Gearhart (R., Calif) shortly after Republicans formally offered the Runl skip-1942 tax plan as a substitute for H.R. 2218, the Ways and Means Committees proposal, backed by the treasury. It would offer no abatement and would withhold 209o of the workers taxable income, after deductions. This would include the victory tax.
 Organized labor's steady fight against the Ruml plan in any form apparently was having its effect in Congress despite the virtually un- precedented publicity the Ruml plan has had in the commercial press. Re jection of the Luce plan was the first action on more than score of amend ments, substitute and compromise measures.
 Rep. A. Willis Robertson (D., Va.), whose plan to waive the first 6 per cent normal and 13 per cent first bracket surtax is supported by various unions, attacked Luce's plan as an example of what Happens when those not versed in tax matters try to write tax bill"
The union times., 1943-04-10
School Workers
 Submit Contract

When the various school districts III the Capital were consolidated in 1884, basic maximum wage for Janltors was established at $1, 800 per year. Higher maximums were estab- l1Shed for the custodians and the me chanlcs, but on the whole wages were greatly curtailed. The levelling down to the new maximums was scheduled to take place through three con secutive reductions by 30%o in 1884 and 1855 and the remaining 409o in 1936.
 The 1884 and 1885 cuts were made, but the 1936 cut was forestalled by protests from the scrool workers and citizens.
 Thus, while most of the janitors ln the Hartford schools who were with the schools before 1884 were working for wages below what they formerly earned (about 309o lower on an average, some janitors claim) the janitorS hired since 1884 were limited to the $1,5O0 annual maximum.
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The union times., 1943-04-10
By ROBERT B. BICKEL

Local 556, Hartford Board of Education Employes, has submitted a wage rate schedule that would, if agreed to by the Board, restore part of the deep cuts suffered by school workers in 1884. Proposed pay increases would add $50 to $l8O annually to present salaries of the matrons, janitors, custodians, maintenance men and mechanics.
 Owing to the lack of adequate wages for school workers in face of increasing cost of living the janitorial staffs of the Hartford public schools are greatly under manned. There are 88 fulI-time janitors filling ll5 fulI-time jobs with the help of casual odd-jo men who cannot or will not take war plant work.
The union times., 1943-04-10
Board Seeks
 Pensions For Retired Men
2,OOO Will Be Affected By Contract Retroactive
 To April 1

An increase in maximum hourly rates from 87 cents to $l.lO is sought by the Con necticut State Board of the Amalgamated Association O1 Street, Electric Railways and Motor Coach EmplOyes, repre- senting some 2,OOO members employed by the Connecticut Company in six cities of the state.
 MEET WITH CONN. co.
 Samuel F. Curry, president of the State Board, and business agent of Division 281, New Haven, and a delegation of members from the Board met in New Haven this week with Richard Bennett, vice. president and general manager of the Connecticut Co.,, to discuss terms of the 1943 contract. The l942 contract between the mem- bers of the Trolley and Bus Ope- ratOrS ana tn0 IrdnSlt company expired April l.
 An important issue in the me- gOtiations is that of pensions for retired workers. The union wants grants for its retired members to supplement the Socail Security pay ments they will derive from the Federal Government. The trolley and bus operators are seeking over- time pay rates after 50 hours on all regular runs; a guarantee of eight hours for extra men; an eIeven-hour spread for swing shifts.
 In addition to Curry, the mem bers of the State Board and the locals they represent are as fol lows: New Haven, Division 28l, Pres. William McNamee, and Div. lO45, Pres. William TrainOr and William Schappa; Hartford, 425, C. Ford and John Smith, business agent; Middletown, 479, Pres. John L. Sullivan; Stamford, 443, Pres. William Mardon; Norwich, 1909, Pres. Earl Fitzgerald; and Meri- den, l63, Pres. ErcOlo Schiopucie.
The union times., 1943-04-10
Teamsters To Make Survey
 Of Manpower
Miller, Rice And Pisano On Labor-Management Com
 mittee Making Study

HARTFORD.-Manpower prob. lems in the trucking industry in the Connecticut district are being surveyed by three subcommittee of the district Labor-Management Committee of the For-Hire Truck. ing Industry, according to John F, Maerz, Hartford district manager of the Office of Defense Trans. pOrtatiOn. The subcommittee are scheduled to report their findings at meeting to be held this week.
 The three aspects of the manpower situation, which is regarded as critical in this area, will be studied from both the labor and management points of view. They are:
 CD The existing manpOwer situation and the outlook for manpOwer needs in the immedi- ate future.
 CD The transfer, under ap- prOpriate arrangements, of ex- perienced drivers from less es- sential light truck operation to essential work in heavy truck service; and
 (3) The recruitment and training of new personnel from within the area, with especial reference to the effects of se- lective service on the manpower question and the attitude of local draft boards toward the defer ment of workers pending the training of replacements.
 M. A. Savin of the Savin Express Company, New Haven, is chairman of the committee. Other members are E. w. Rice, Local 671, Hartford and New London Teamsters; Herbert A. Miller, Local 559, Hartford Team sters; John Pisano, Local 443, New Haven and Bridgeport Teamsters; O. w. Whiteside of Associated Trans port, Inc, and Edward Palmer of the Smedley Company, New Haven. The committee was formed by District Manager Maerz, who will continue active participation.
The union times., 1943-04-10
 Of Local 234 Under Arms
New Haven Musicians Have Members In The
 Services

One-fOurth of the membership of Local 234, New Haven Fedora. tiOn of Musicians, are now in the Armed Forces of the nation, ac. cOrding to Harry L. Benson, re. cording secretary of the Local.
 ''We have a total of ll3 mem. bers in the Services and they are all over the world,'' said the union official.
 Two members are now stationed at the Yale Training School, where they are playing in the newIy-or. ganized 4l8th A.A.F. band. The, are Sgt. Jack T. Reid and Sgt Anthony D. Izzo. Both are trumpet players. Glenn Miller, famous or. chestra leader, is conductor of the new band at the Yale Air School.
 The greatest number of local mu- sicians in the Forces are playing in military bands Benson said that there are 85 members i'll Army, Navy and Marine musical units.
 THREE BAND MASTERS
 Three of them are band masters. These are Chief Petty Officer Rudy Vallee, who became a member of Local 234 while law student at Yale; Sergeants Carl M. Mitchell and Norman F. Leyden. Master Sgt. Mitchell swings the baton at the Topeka (Kan.) Army Air Base. Staff Sgt. Leyden directs the 28th Air Force Band at Atlantic City. Vallee is in charge of the US. Coast Guard Band, Wilmington, Calf.
 Among the members of the New Haven Musicians in the Services are three lieutenantS Ill the Army two are chief petty officers and an ensign in the Navy.
 Twenty members are non-commis- stoned officers.
 The commissioned officers are Lieu tenants Leroy J. Ward, IT,, Otto H. Helbig and James R. Albano; Chief Petty Officers Worthington L. Hill, Valle and Ensign Harry D. Kiernan, of the Navy
 RECENT RECRUITS
 Latest members of the Local to go into the Armed Forces are: William and Andrew Acquaru1o, Radio V. Bailo, Morris Abert Bernard Spear, David s. Lipton, Harvey A. Hour witz, Robert B. Fogarty, all of New Haven; John D. Beatrice and Francis Fraser of Ansonia.
The union times., 1943-04-10
Amends FILA.
 To Encourage Home Building
Pres. Roosevelt Approves Private Construction For
 9O,OOO Dwelling Units

Approximately 9O,OOO additional dwelling units for war workers may now be financed by private builders as a result of President Roosevelt $ approval of amendments to the Ma tiOnal Housing Act, John B. Bland ford, IT,, National Housing Admin istratOr, explained this week.
 The amendments increase the Fed eral Housing Administration War Housing Mortgage Insurance Authori- zation under Title VI by $400,00O,000 and extend the F.H.A.'s authority tc insure under that title to July 1, 1914
 On March l approximately l5O,- 900 privately financed family units were still to be started under the NHA's current war housing pro- gram to meet needs created by in- migration of labor. Of these, it is estimated that about 10000 still require financing arrangements.
 REMOVES FEAR
 Because of wartime hazards and uncertainties, most private lending institutions are reluctant to finance war housing projects on an unin- sured basis, with the result that ap- proximateIy 85 per cent of all private war housing now being built is covered by Title VI insurance, MT. Blandford pointed out. The $4OO,OOO,OOO increase now ap- proved for Title VI will provide in- surance protection for apprOxi- mately the same percentage of the private units still to be financed under the prsent quota.
 Blandford emphasized that the in creased authorization relates solely tc the financing of the NH.A.'s current program. The current schedule is de- signed to take care of immigrant needs only to July 1, 1o43.
The union times., 1943-04-10
Conn. Plumbers Meeting Here

The Connecticut State Association of Plumbers and Steamhtters will meet this Saturday, April 10, and Sunday, April II, in the New Haven Labor Temple, 137 Goffe Street. The Association is meeting for its semi annual conference as the guest of Local q, Meriden Plumbers and Steamhtters.
 Louis Bray of Local 21 is presi- dent of the Conference. Because of a lack of proper meeting places and hotel accommodations in Meriden, the Meriden union found it necessary to go out of town for a meeting place for the Conference.
The union times., 1943-04-10

The Sheffield, Alabama Central Labor Union raised $36,OOO at a recent banquet by making pur- chase of a $1OO War Bond a pre- requisite for attendance. This was over and above investments of union members in the various Payroll Savings Plans in effect in practically every plant in that sec ton. The union, furthermore, as- stunned responsibility for the salary of a $l5O-a-month secretary when they discovered that the county War Savings chairman was without office assistance.
The union times., 1943-04-10
WAGE RATES UPPED

NEW ORLEANS.-The prevailing wage scale of 33c to 35c hourly in southern sugar and syrup mills has been increased to 40c following hear ings conducted by the Wage-Hour Division.
The union times., 1943-04-10

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Labor- management cooperation in- creased output in a war plant here 1500% in two years, and won for the union workers and their employer the Army Navy "E' award. THE BEST INVESTMENT in the world was given to workers for their practical ideas and suggestions WAR BONDS.
The union times., 1943-04-10

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
TIE Cnsseds are CrQmmed with KQues-Don tMiss
Houses for Sole

room cottage, city water,
toilet. $500. $500 down.
3 room cottage. Garage, lights.
$500, 500 down.
room modern car garage,
cement drive. Income, from sec
ond floor. SAB month. S2750,
$3.50 down.
8 room modern. Near Gratiot
$4,000. 81 900 down.
"a acres, 6 room tile house
Garage, henhouse, basement and
furnace. $4,000, $4,000 down.
3 acres. 6 room modern house;
garage. some fruit, lots of shade
trees on good road. This is priced
TO sell.
2l2 acres. 5 room house. Base
ment and furnace. $4,000, 500
down.
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H.,4 POULTRY

New 9X12 Administer rugs,
$49.95. New 9 X IL pads, S4.98.
New congoleum rugs all sizes
1925 up. Cotton mattresses, all
sizes $3.50. Best of felt mat
tresses, SI0.95 up. New Box
spring mattresses Sl0.95. No. /
us. Heater, S47.95. Furniture,
rugs, stoves bought. sold and ex-
changed. Tebo, Third at Dickin-
son. Phone Mt. Clemens 420-J.
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Rooms. for Housekeeping d.

Light housekeeping rooms
with garage. Near Gratiot and
Eleven Mile Quiet couple. Call
RoseVille 0669-J.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04

z rm. brick country home. 3
bedrooms, bath. 2 car garage.
II. A. Heat Stoker. 200 fl. lot.
Beautifully Handicapped. In per-
feet condition at of cost.
Vicinity Croker e. Harper.
$4,000. Approx l-3 down. A
masterpiece. Inquire 253 Crock
err, Mt. Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04

Telephone operators-with or
without telephone experience
So New street. Mt. Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
Help Wonted-Mole

2 men to work IN Rose House
Floral Avenue, Greenhouse, Mt
Clemens Mich.
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Fuel, Feed, Fertilizer Hill

Wood for sale. Ill Kibbie St.
Mt. Clemens.
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Il Rooms, for Housekeeping D-3
AS Help Wonted-MoIe

Experienced coal driver want
cd. Kaiser Fuel e. Supply, East
Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04

Furnished room, clean, COM
Portable, | block from Gratiot.
IS New St, Mt. Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04

Sunny front upper roc m.
c can and comfortable. los
South Avenue. Mount Clemens
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Special Notices
SPENCER CORSETS AND
SUPPORTS

Mrs, Elsie Killewald. 1875 S.
Broadway. Phone Mt. Clemens
1881. II no answer Phone
l93l-M.
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CATZ REALTY
Phone 800
1914 N. Gratiot. Mt. Clemens
Above Greens

Crocker Blvd. 8 rooms and
bath. Newly decorated, hard
wood floors. Easily converted
into income $4,000 Terms In
quire 263 Crocker, Mt. Clemens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04

Five room modern for sale. so
foot lot. ? blocks from Gratiot.
S. 400. RoSeville 0230.
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Farmers

We are now Matching White
Leghorns, New Hampshire
Reds. Barred Rocks and White
Rocks from blood tested flocks.
First hatch January 81. Poultry
equipment, DR.. Salsbury's
Remedies and feed priced rea-
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early. Phone 2811, Armada
Hatchery. Owners: l.. c. Hell
berg-L. j. Johnson formerly
owned by Neuhauser Hatch
eries).
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Furnished rooms for rent.
Olympia Bath House. "a Cass
avenue, Mt. Clemens. Phone 100.
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Lost and Found

Pair of eye glasses lost in East
Detroit or ST. Clair Shores. Rim
less. In case. 24658 Gratiot, East
Detroit.
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HOUSES FOR SALE

HOUSES
Brick house. 5 rooms. bath. As
f. lot, side drive, large garage.
Front on paved street. Il block
from bus line. South Of Mt.
Clemens. Good business loca-
ton. This house is so arranged
that 4 store or office may be
had.
FARMS
IT acresxon Is Mile Rd.
Wonderful opportunity. Must
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40 acres. 2l2 miles from Mt.
Clemens. Al land. New build
ings Modern brick house. A
real buy.
so acres-15 miles from Mt.
Clemens. Good land and build
ings.
Buy Victory Gardens now.
We have many choice parcels
2 to 5 acres. Close to transpor-
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Four-room modern bungalow;
like new. Phone Mt Clemens
1818-R or inquire 4 Fifth street.
Five homes from 1000 to
$4,000. One new home. Terms
or discount for cash. Leaving
city. 1861 Hupp, Van Dyke.
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Stead y, permanent, year
round employment for able
bodied women Of all ages, and
for girls Is years and over. No
experience required. You are
paid while you learn. Mount
Clemens Pottery Co.
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Farm and Dairy Products H-l0

Hay and corn for sale; also
want to buy truck. $50 Cass ave-
nue., Mt. Clemens.
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500 chick size metal brooder
with electric brooder cheap.
2420 Washington ST.. New Balti-
more.
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Sweet corn with grain stocks
for sale. $685. Hall Rd., Mt.
Clemens.