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La gaceta., 1943-07-30


81 Vaticano maneja las cuerdas en- la
crisis politica italiana.
Ciano fue nombrado ~embajador cerca
del Papa para preparar la "comedia" que
ell domingo provocara la dimisi6n de Mu-
ssolini.
iQuien es el senior Rafael Guariplia.
nuevo ministro de estado de la monar0ufa
italiana?
Tiene Don Rafael antiguas '~inclinacio-
mes eclesiasticas'' y quiza por este motive
Sc lie ha escogido para la cartera de rela-
clones exteriores.
FL Papado sigue mezclandose en- Ia no
Utica de Europa y America v sus mani
obras de ahora tienden a dar protpcci6n
a los fascistas y semi-fascistas i disfru-
tan de su confianza.
La Santa Sede lie dicta eondicionos
Franco, lie dicta condolences a Salazar '
ahora lie impOndra su voluntad > Ias NJ
clones midas?
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Conn. Is Low
InTurnoverOf
War Workers
u. S. Employment Survey
Shows State Far Below
National Average

HARTFORD, CONN. - Industrial
labor turnover in Connecticut is much
less than the average for the rest of
the country, according to a survey
made by the us. Employment Ser
vice. Connecticut showed a monthly
separation rate of 1870 as compared
with a national turnover rate of
8.1O9o.
The Employment Service figures
we're based on returns from 395
Connecticut manufacturing con-
Germs employing more than 400
thousand persons, and disclosed
also a monthly accession rate of
$50 prevailing in this state as
compared with national figure
of 9.l5%.
Turnover figures, which include
payroll separations for all causes, in
Guiding Selective Service losses, range
from low of 1.79o in Groton to a
high of 9.79o for Norwalk.
us. Employment Service officials
were of the opinion that the relatively
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Banks In Hartford
Ignore S.B.L.L.
BY ROBERT B. BICKEL

The Hartford Central Labor Union
at its meeting this week planned to
appoint a committee to visit local
banks with the view to finding if and
when any of them will offer Savings
Bank Life Insurance to the public.
This was indicated in CONVEX sations
between this reporter and Sen. Will
liam A. Scott, president, and Frank
Morris, of the Hartford C.L.U.
Recently l called upon the presi-
dent of the Hartford Society for
Savings, Connecticut's largest saw
ings bank, and one of the country's
Oldest institutions, TO ask if the
Society was contemplating offering
S.B.L.I. service for the cOnvneince
and benefit of workers i'm the Hart
ford area. | was told that the So
ciety was not considering S.B.L.I.
This form of low-cost, non-proft
life insurance which is offered the
public as a service by Savings banks,
has been in existence in Connecticut
for Is months. Approximately ST.
$4,000 worth of insurance is now in
force, most of it held by workers,
some who carried no insurance before.
Eighteen savings banks are now offer
ing it to members of their respective
communities.
Hartford, which is known as the
insurance capital'' of the nation,
is the only large industrial COM
munity in the state where workers
for whom S.B.L,I. was chiefly de-
signed, cannot purchase this form
of insurance. Evidence that the
people of Hartford are interested
in S.B.L.I. is manifest in the num-
erous inquiries concerning it that
have poured into the office of the
Savings Bank Life Insurance Fund
in the State Office Building, Hart
ford.
THE UNION TIMES pointed out as
early as Nov. %, 1912, that Hartford
savings banks continued to ignore
Savings Bank Life Insurance which
as of that date had sold a $1,0O0,0O0
worth of insurance in its first II
months. Last week | was sent to in
terview some responsible official of
the Society for Savings to find out
if the bank was thinking of offering
Continued on Page Three)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
AFL-CIO River
Unions Unite
To Organize
Masters Mates and Pilots
Sign Agreement With
Maritime Union

ST. LOUISA joint organizing
drive and mutual assistance agree
ment to make possible the fullest
utilization of the inland waterways
for the war effort were announced
by the river sections of the National
Organization of Masters, Mates &
Pilots (AF.L.) and the Natl Mari
time Union (C.I.OD.
Leaders of both groups hailed
it as 1.-THE first agreement of its
kind and a big step toward unity
between the ALL. and Clio. so
necessary at this time."
The agreement said i'm part:
''This program has been worked
out for the best interests of the
war effort and of both organiza-
lions. We feel that this unity will
be beneficial to all members of
both organizations, and is i'm line
with the policy of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
victory committee.
1--WE fully support the endeavors
of the Labor for Victory Committee
in trying to bring about organic unity
between the AF.L. and the CI.O
We urge all members of both unions
to give their fullest cooperation to
the organizing drive and support of
the unity program"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Bid g. Trades Seek
Draft Information

Nels Nelson, Carpenters, 1913; Fred
Fugazy, Glazers, 1874; and Louis
Russo, Building Laborers, Cos.
Pres. MinOtti was assigned the
task of investigating the status of
building tradesmen in light of the
recent order of the War Manpower
Commission to draft men working
i'm nOn-essential jobs.
II claim" declared Minotti.
''that building trade work is es-
sential war work. 1t is essential now
because construction workers are
employed on projects necessary to
produce the equipment for fight
ing men,
MinOtti stated that he will con-
fer with draft officials and man.
power authorities to determine the
direct status of building and con-
struction workers. He will release
report of his findings to The
Union Times next week.
He also urged every business
agent to attend the hearings on
state legislation of interest to labor.
MANY of the bills that will come
up for hearing will be of great i'm
portance to labor" said Minotti, "and
many of them are postwar bills
which will effect labor"
Vice-President Byrnes installed
Minotti, who in turn installed the
other officials of the Council.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Tenants Must
Out For
Themselves!
National Assn. Of Real
Estate Boards Has Inter-
esting Ideas

WASHINGTON. - Herbert Mel
son, Washington representative of the
powerful and respectable National AS
ISOLATION OF Real Estate Boards, de-
clined to commit his organization on
the three house bills which O.P.A.
experts have said would emasculate
rent control.
1--WE certainly will support legis-
lation along the line of getting O.P.A.
to recognize the need of more equity
for the property owners" he said,
adding that they were still studying
HR 993, HR 1872 and HR 149l,
however.
Told that O.P.A. said landlords
made l49o more under rent con-
troll than in two prior years, he
said, ''O.P.A. people make their
own figures to suit themselves.
They're set up to show the land
lords are making big profits"
In the next breath he criticized
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

MEN MAY wear sweaters at the
Sikorsky plant i'm Stafford, but
women may not. Fifty-three girls
were sent home by the management
last week because they reported for
work i'm sweaters. Imagine the bar
rage of anti-labor publicity if these
girls had stayed home because they
had been out ON a late party!
Plant officials sUho are disturbed
aUhen they see girls in Sweaters, OBJ
UiOusly don't have their minds on
their sUOrk. Can it be true that a
curved line is the shortest distance
between tsOO points?
THE Word "SCAB," dear to
union men on the picket line but
abhOrred by editors of the daily
press, nO,0 has the blessing of the
tastidiOus Nesc York Times. Recent
ly the Nesv York Times Magazine
crossword puzzle offered letter
space at 80-acrOss tor strike
breakers and the solution issue
calmly prints the ,Oord ''scabs.''
EXIT SOCIETY-ENTER La
Dor: Halls where Queen Marie
of Rumania was once an honOred
guest will soon resound to the brisk
walk of building craftsmen. The
Building and Construction Trades
Council of Kansas City, Mo-, pur-
chased the palatial former home
of a local society queen as new
headquarters. Consisting of $4,000
square feet i'm the style of a Wash
ington legation building, the man.
sion was purchased for 1000. In
addition to some 20 building trades
unions, the Central Labor Union
will move to the new headquarters.
JOE WHITESIDE, executive Sec
rotary of the New Haven County
Manufacturers Association, should
be interested i'm this item:
The Natl. Assn. of Manufac-
turers has agreed TO a joint enter
prise with organized labor to fur
Their the sUar effort. Representatives
of the Man,, Chamber of Com
merce, ALL, CLIO. and railroad
unions haze formed an Industrial
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Negro SAVED, Not
By Crowd

ROLLING FORK, Miss.-A re-
cent mass meeting in Sharkey County,
Miss, created history in the south.
It was held to pledge NOT to lynch
Negro.
F. A. Moore, chief of police of
Rolling Fork, was fatally shot as a
result of his arrest of Pvt. Roosevelt
Sais on charge Of creating a dis
turbance in cafe" Dying, Moore
identified the soldiers brother, Harry
Sais, as his assailant. Harry is re-
ported to have confessed Sais is be-
ing held in Kinds county Jail follow
ing the mass meeting at which his
safety was pledged.
Mississippi is the state where re-
Gently federal grand jury indicted
five persons, one a deputy sheriff, for
their part in the lynching of Negro
at Laurel.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Pegler Back,
And Editor S
Face Is Red!
Management Of Richmond
'Times-Dispatch' Returns
Westbrook To Virginia

RICHMOND, Va.-The most en-
barrassed editor in America today is
Virginius Dabney of the Richmond
TimeS-Disbatch.
Hundreds of letters from all over
the U. S. are pouring into Dabney's
office, congratulating him for having
removed Westbrook Pegler's column
from the pages of his newspaper.
But-and this is why Editor
Dabney's face is SO red-West-
brook Pegler's column is again APP
pearing in the newspaper on orders
of the anti-labOr management of
the Times-Dispatch, which is own
ed by John Stewart Bryan, one of
Virginia's wealthiest and most re-
dictionary men.
II am somewhat embarrassed.
=. 1t seems | never had jurisdic-
ton over Pegler. (MOve to
reinstate) was decision for man.
agement, Dabney wrote to George
Seldes, editor of In Fact, one of
the first TO congratulate him.
The return of Pegler to the Times
Dispatch was no surprise to its en-
ployes or to the labor movement Of
Virginia because the Bryan family,
which possesses newspaper monop-
oily here through control of the Times
Dispatch and NeaCs-Ledder, the city s
only two newspapers, has always
been an enemy of labor
The Bryan family also owns a
nOn-uniOn construction company,
the city's largest real estate firm
and is allied with the reactionary
political machine of Sen. Harry
F. Byrd.
Typical of the anti-union atti-
tude of the Bryan newspapers was
it's refusal for two years to sign a
union contract for its editorial en-
pIOyes with the American News
paper Guild. ALL. printing trades
unions here also have always found
Bryan a difficult employer.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Sheet Metal
Workers Nav
Get Increase
1920 Boost Depends On
Corresponding Boost
In Price Ceiling

The Joint Adjustment Board of
the Sheet Metal Industry, which
is comprised of representatives of
Local 40, Sheet Metal Workers,
and sheet metal contractors, has
unanimously agreed to a 1910 in
crease in wages. The increase is
subject to the approval of the Wage
Adjustment Board, Office of Price
Administration, and the W.L.B.,
with the prOvisO that price ceilings
established by the O.P.A. relating
to wages be increased accordingly.
If the increase wins governmental
approval, which is being sought
through the Building and Construc-
ton Trades Department of the
ALL, it will provide the Sheet
Metal Workers with a $1.65 hourly
wage scale.
The present hourly rate is $3.50,
and was set by the terms of the
l941 contract which expired Nov.
Z, 1912. In petitiOning the govern
mental agencies for approval of
the agreement, the ALL. sets forth
that living costs have increased at
least 229o since the 1912 contract
was signed on Nov. z, l94l.
AS reported in THE UNION TIMES
Jan. 2, the Sheet Metal Workers
voted to notify the sheet metal con-
tractors that the Local desired rs
cent per hour increase in wages. The
contractors, in turn, voted to refer
the request to the Joint Adjustment
Board.
The Joint Board met in Hartford
Jan. II, and after considerable dis
cussion adjourned for further study
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20

Michael T. Minotti was elected
president of the Bridgeport Build
ing and Construction Trades Copn-
Gil for the third consecutive time
at the Councils last meeting. Of
ficers for l943 were nominated.
elected and installed at the session.
An investigation of the draft status
of building tradesmen was de-
cided upon.
Other business at the meeting in
cluded a decision of the Council to
send Pres. Minotti and possibly other
delegates to Hartford to sit in on
all hearings of state legislation per-
tanning to labor; and to assign him
to find the draft status of building
tradesmen; full support of the Bridge
port Central Labor Unions drive to
raise through voluntary contributions
by ALL. members $3.50 each month
for the purchase of cigarettes for
American soldiers overseas.
The full list of officers and their
terms of service follow:
President: Minotti, Bricklayers.
No. 2, 3rd term.
Vice-President: Dennis p. Brynes.
Painters, 100, 3rd term.
Secretary: George Mylen, Elec-
tricians, 1873, 10th term.
Treasurer: Charles Kelley, Car
penters, lis, lst term.
Auditing Committee: Chairman
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Increase Is
Retroactive
To October |
War Labor Board Approves
Agreement Between
Unions, Employers
Commissioner

Wage increases of from Sc
to 7zc an hour and thousands
of dollars i'm back pay for
COnnecticut's union teamsters,
is the result of the National
War Labor Board approval of
the wage adjustments made by
the motor transportation in
dustry's Fair Trades Practice
Board last October, according
to John ]. Allen, secretary
treasurer of Teamsters Local
443, i'm a statement to The
Union Times this week.
ALL WILL BENEFIT
Approximately 5000 members
of Connecticut Transfers locals
received wage boosts amounting to
S cents for drivers and w cents
for operators i'm line with the agree
ment of the Board which was set
up under the Tri-State agreement
between employers and employees
organizations of the Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Rhode Island
trucking industry i'm 1889. Union
teamsters i'm all of these states
benefit by the W.L.B. action.
The increases are retroactive to
Oct. 1, 1912. Back pay is to be
paid i'm two checks; one of which
;,,cIudos tho neriod ending Decem.
Der 81, and does not include the
Victory Tax deduction, stated Allen.
A total of 10000 transfers in the
three states covered by the tri-state
compact are affected by the wage adj
iustment made last October, and re-
ported in THE UNION TINES, October
81, and just approved by the W.L.B.
NEW RATE SCHEDULE
The adjustment established the
following rates which now have
been approved by the W.L.B. and
are being paid union members
under the jurisdiction of the Fair
Trades Practice Board.
Platform men, 75c am hour; driv-
ers of truck up to five tons, Doc
an hour; over five tons, 83c an
hour: over the road drivers, Csc
an hour.
John PisanO and George Bor-
zain, business agents of Local 443,
were delegates from the local to
the Board, where they represented
the members of their union.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
A. F. Nils Roster
Is AT Au-Time High

Membership of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has gone over 6,0OO,-
600, the highest figure ever attained
by any labor organization in the
world" Secretary Treasurer George
Meany announced this week.
DueS-paying members on January
81 stood at 6, l94, 382, Meany said. This
is exclusive of several hundred thou
sand unionists who are in the armed
forces and exempt from dues pay
ments.
In January alone, the rolls took a
leap of 252,776, and for the year the
increase is 1,212,467. Since 1887, when
10 unions split from the Federation
and formed the c. l. O., the A. F. of
L. roster has more than doubled,
Meany declared.
The Federation's goal now is a.
100000 members by the end of 1o43,"
he said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
IS C0NN.'S LABOR DEPT. FALLING APART ?
5000 Conn. Teamsters Win Increase
Union Wins Victory
Ouer ulcer Gulch'

LOS ANCELES.-A.F. L.work-
ers at the Lockheed aircraft
plant have shown workers
throughout the nation how to
defeat the malnutrition forces
of ''Ulcer Culch' hot dog
stands and beaneries.
After two weeks of torrential
rains made outside eating
places almost inaccessible, the
company announced that it
would build, equip and operate
a 100000 commissary to
provide hot lunches for work
ers on all shifts.
The company's decision was
the result of conference
which representatives of Lodge
727, Init. Assn. of Machinists,
had with army and manage
ment representatives to solve
the food problem, which was
impairing production.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Bakery Profits Up
1902; Wants More

NEW YORK.-Although the net
profits of his company increased more
than 5000 from 1941 to 1912, Chair
man Faris F. Russell of the Ward
Baking Co. called for an increase in
the price Of bread in his annual re-
port Feb, 10.
The report showed that net earn
ings after all taxes were paid amount
ed to $1,241,333 in 1912 as compared
to $150,820 in 1941 Dividend pay
ments were $485 per share in 1912 as
compared to SO cents IN 1o41.
Gross receipts in 1912 were ST.
067,333 as compared to $273,820 in
1941, or an increase of $1,793,513.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Department
Considered
DemOralized
Feinmark Resolution Asks
Baldwin To Appoint
Union Man AS
Commission

Organized labor in Con-
necticut, becoming increas-
ingly aware of the fact that the
efficiency of the State Depart
ment of Labor has nOtOriOusIy
declined, is preparing to use
the full strength of its in
fluence to induce Gov. Ray
mOnd E. Baldwin not to re-
appoint Cornelius Danaher to
another fOur-year term as
Commissioner of Labor, The
Union Times learned this
week.
NO LEADERSHIP
Evidence is accommodating that
because of the lack of effective
and sympathetic direction, en-
plOyes of the Department are be-
coming demOralized, and are I'M
able TO give their best capabilities
in performing their work. While
Morgan Mooney and John Nc
DOnOugh were with the Depart
ment, they were able to keep staff
morale at a reasonably high level,
despite the indifference and the
many obstacles put in their way
from the very top of the Depart
ment. With Mooney and Melon
Ough having resigned, and with
HbnnnkV q
Ready incapacitated by illness the
Department is without genuine
leadership. AS a result, the most
efficient members of the Depart
ment are looking for jobs else
where; the activities of the State
Board of Arbitration and Mediation
are virtually nil; and the setting
up of Minimum Wage Boards has
come to dead end.
NEED LABOR MAN
In conjunction with these facts.
there is strong evidence throughout
the state of organized labor's feeling
that labor man should be appointed
Commissioner of Labor. Peter Bernard.
president of the Bridgeport Central
Labor Union, has publicly called for
such action; and Harold V. Feinmark,
president of the New Haven Central
Labor Union, today made public a
resolution he will introduce at Thurs
days meeting of the Council. The
text of the resolution follows:
Resolved, That the New Haven
Central Labor Council, composed
of fOrty-six American Federation
of Labor Unions, hereby goes on
record as calling upon Gov. Ray
mOnd +. Baldwin to appoint a
member of organized labor to the
office of Commissioner of Labor
for the next four years. The Coun-
Gil points out to the Governor that
the Department of Labor was es-
tablished to protect the interests
OF the working men and women of
this state, and it is our firm con-
victiOn that this can be done most
effectively by member of labor. A
strong, well-functiOning Depart
ment of Labor will benefit not only
the workers, but all sections of our
population.
BE 1t Also Resolved, That a
copy of this resolution be sent to
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin; and
to the press"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20
Raise Sought
By BARRIERS In
Capital City
Guardo And Parracino Are
Again Reelected By
Local No. 70

Members of Local 70, Hartford
BARRIERS, will vote Feb. % on a reso-
luton to amend the bylaws of the
Local to permit the price of haircuts
to be raised from 90 cents to IS cents
III the Hartford area. The resolution
was sponsored at the last meeting of
the Local. Officers for 1913 we're
installed at the meeting.
If the resolution goes through,
and the price of haircuts are add
vanced accordingly, it will mean a
rise in pay for the Hartford area
BARRIERS, under the terms of the
contract now existing between Lo-
cal 70 and the Master BARRIERS.
This contract calls for salary of
$28 week plus 500 commission
on all money in excess of $37 a
week.
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20

NNO0 GHOALHTH
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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20

Mention The Union Times when
shopping, and help Labor's Own
Paper grow.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-20

Sow the seeds of UictOry by buy
ing War Bonds.
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