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The union times., 1943-04-17
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 - by ROBERT B. BICKEL

by ROBERT B. BICKEL

VOLUNTEERS OF the Aircraft Warning Service and other protec- tive services of the U. s. Citizens Defense Corps who are injured in performance of their official duties are entitled to compensation for hospital care and medical expenses, says State Welfare Commissioner Robert J. Smith, who is director oA the Emergency Welfare Services of the State Defense Council.
 THE INROADS zVomen are mak- ing in tue local industrial picture zUas 0iordly illustrated by claim for un- employment benefits recently filed by c mole obplicant m Haytord. In ex- btoining zVhy he aVas out of zVork the man said. "We both qVorked ID the SGnte factory and somebody had to be home ct night to take care of the kids. She had Semoyity rights, so I yesigned she StGyS on the job and I take care ot the children"
 THERE WAS a man who had a clOck-his name was Mathew Mears-and every day he wound that clock, for eight and twenty years.
 And then one day he found that clock an eight-day clock to be, and madder man than Mathew Mears, you would not care to see.-L0bor.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Another Sock For American Workers

NEW set of directives interpreting President Rooeves
 order of last week freezing all wages immediately be issued by the War Labor Boar by Byrnes omic Sabizaon Director by the President himself we not to have chaos in the uure Workers who have the limit of pay rise under the orer found that by organized labor show the figures the living gathered by the US Department of Labor the true situation.
 Here n Connecticut there ,cOnen ,vith fan ites 'oO makg $25 ,Ueek ess Not everv Orker or can be in facory ad euery n car tactOry is making 500 and $7O ,Ueek, as many people beIieve
 n the same week that wages frozen limitation on salaries above $25OOO removed by Congress- labor leaders going explain this the Had Congress passed stringent law high at the same time the wagereeze order issued we could begin to accept the situation But with prices rising steadiy with high salaries uncontrOed and with workers wages virtually frozen, there little ranande Their basic patriotism will anchor: war production will continue to set records; boys front will have executives permitted draw which may reach store may be making $25 week and in the name of the hght against infaion be denied $2 per raise
 WHn all the sincerity at command, that new interpretation of the Presidents order issued immedatev
 Swedish newspaper described the Associated Press m dispatch "nOnparsan with Naz tendencies" And Bluebeard, assume, nOnviolent with homicidal en dencies.
The union times., 1943-04-17

THOMAS JEFFERSON, whose birthday we observe this week, IS revered by the working people as rock and symbol of democracy. Jefferson was believer in democ- racy when it was considered radical to hold such beliefs. Like Lincoln, Jefferson is often quoted by poll. ticians and his name is exploited by ersatz democrats in search Ot personal gain or power.
 s'THE BASIS of our government, being the opinion of the people, the first object should be to keep that right" asserted Jefferson, who was a scientific philosopher as well as statesman and scholar.
 WHEN JEFFERSON wrote his immortal words, ''all men are creat- ed equaI," in the Declaration ot Independence, he meant in a state of equality of opportunity and equality of responsibility, and in times of national distress-equality of sacrifice. We wonder what he would have to say, if living today, about Congress refusal to limit salaries and incomes to $25,OOO a year, after deducting taxes, in face of frozen wages for workers?
 WOULD HE NOT BE ALARMED at the spectacle of the workers being vilified and slandered by the sspaytriots,' when these true Ameri- cans are breaking all production records and doing the bulk of the fighting and dying to ''refresh the tree of liberty?"
 VINCENT J. MURPHY, Mayor of Newark, former president of the N. J. Federation of Labor, and a member of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters, told the workers of the British Com monwealth and the occupied coun- tries of Europe, that American la bOr was doing its part to provide work for its brothers in the Armed Forces when they return to civilian life. He spoke by short-wave radio under the sponsorship of the Labor League for Human Rights.
 
 BROWNING on punitive and work or fight methods to eliminate absenteeism, a survey released by the west coast aircraft industry shows that 75% of absenteeism is caused by illness.
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 82 OUT of every 100 Americans would be willing to stay on a ration ing system after the war to help feed starving people in other coun- tries, according to recent nation wide survey made by the National Opinion Research Center, Univer- sity of Denver.
 THE NEW YORK legislature has granted $5,5OO,OOO in wage in- creases to some 45,OOO state em- ployes here after last minute pres sure on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey by the State County X Municipal Workers.
The union times., 1943-04-17
Initiation Fees Slated For Chest

NEW YORK; novel method of raising war relief funds has been de- veloped by the executive board of Lo- cal 8o, Chefs, Cooks, Pastry Cooks and Assistants Union (AFL), which will allocate all initiation fees paid during May and June to Labor's War Chest.
 The union thus combined patriotic aid with its drive for 5000 new mem bers. If the goal is reached, the con- tribution to the chest will be $10,OOO
 Pres. Arduilio Susi said the mem bership was anxious to join in the or ganizing drive not only to help the union, but to build the war chest.
The union times., 1943-04-17
ARE YOU INCLUDED?

ERE are a few of the high spots in the major activities
 of the Connecticut Defense Council See if you can find yourself in one of its many undertakings:
 More than 5000 persons served on local defense councils and their committees in the 169 communities of the state.
 z. There are TO Aircraft Warning Service observation posts in Connecticut, of which are manned on 24 hour basis.
 D. The number of air raid wardens has increased from 27,OOO in April to 4O 900 in December
 A. Almost 5000 volunteers are manning Distr;ct w.r ing Centers and local report centers in the state
 ,. Nearly 100000 persons have qualified for first aid under the Red Cross sponsored training course
 O. Approximately 5000 persons received training as auxiliary pocemen and hundreds of these are being trained in guerrilla warfare tactics the supervision of the State Police.
The union times., 1943-04-17
As We See It
Courtesy King Features

American victory in the Solomon Islands, Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commander of the marines, says The building trades workers make up the famous Sea- bees who built Henderson airfield. ''I don't know how we would have done without the Seabees,'' Van dergrift asserted.
 EIGHTEEN MILLION Uonten sUiu be ,OOrking in the US. by the end Of this year, ManpOUer Com missioner Paul Y. McNutt said in Philadelphia recently. This tOtal is 3 million more than are uUorking nO,C. Only 56 out Of 1900 ,var oc- equations are unsuitable for sUOnen, he said.
 THE STATE of Washington boasts that it has only t,OO price and ratiOning boards On ,Vhich there is no union representation. There are nO,C IA union spokes- men sitting On IO4 local boards.
 THIS HEADLINE from the Van- cOuUer Sun demonstrates how they ''clothe" their decisions in Cam ada: Decision in Union Suit to Be Handed DO,On Saturday.
 PRAISE FOR WAR planes. made by ALL. and CLIO. members. con- tinue to pour into the War Dept. from our fighting pilots on the North African front. Records have been made of the remarks of four pilots on the mrits of the planes and will be shipped back to the US. for distribution to factories.
 TAKING ISSUE with Bernard Baruch's statement that the Austin WadswOrth bill would mean in- voluntary servitude, the Ne,U York Herald Tribune argues that employ CTS are already in virtual servitude to the government. Pity the poor slave-industry- manacled to a II3 70 increase in net profits!
 PROVING THAT these soldiers are pretty rough ,Uith the girls, q story m the Indianapolis Times about 50 girls Uisiting Camp Alter bury for q party stated: ''FOLIO,Uing the dance the girls ,Oere escorted back to tO,Un by the 35th and 72nd General Hospital Ambulance Corp
 TRADE UNIONISM represents democracy in action," declared the Newark Mayor and labor leader. Our very existence is proof of the freedom of our nation dur ing the last l5O years, the constant struggle for civil and economic lib- erty and equality of the working people has brought the people of the world to the highest standard of culture and civilization the world has ever knOwn.''
The union times., 1943-04-17
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 NOT ALL is harmony in the fam fly of Rep. Clare Hoffman, anti labor congressman from Michigan. The representative received letter from his nephew, Robert Hoffman. a member of Local 2lO, United Rubber Workers, telling him how the workers feel about the Hobbs sO-calIed anti-racketeering bill. ''If the workers rights are to be kept up," Robert wrote, ''the Hobbs Bill must not go through. We urge you to vote No when the bill comes p.'' But blood is not always thicker than water, and Hoffman voted for the bill, as was expected.
 SEN. BILL SCOTT, president of the Hartford C.L.U., is a member of the committee which will give testimonial dinner to Daniel How ard, chairman of the Conn. Con- ference on Social and Labor Legis- Iation. Dinner will be held at Dwight Place Church parish house, New Haven, May l at 6:3O. The dinner will be held immediately after the seventh annual meeting of the Conference, to be held at State Teachers College, New Haven.
 A FEW DAYS ago, an office girl brought to the desk of Edqourd l.. Vm Dyke, managing editor of the Elmira (N. Y.) Sunday Telegram, q dusty aud sontezVaat Snudged photo graph Of chubby faced boy, about one year old, clad only M diaPer.
 Y found tt oJt my desk" said the girl "Whdt shall I do zeqth it2"
 The photo 7gas idenhfed only by the naHle "La7wence Costello" scra7gl- cd u pencil o,r the back of the picture. Deciding that some fond parent might a0ish return Of the picture, Mr. Fan Dyke ran the foHoq0ing item on the Telegram baby page:
 "14n mclaimed baby photograph m tue Sunday Telegram office IS that of La7vence Costello"
 The Hert day this letter arrived
 Dear SirS: sa70 yolV article about the baby photograph of Laawence Costello. Being his mother, aud aS hc Ileft for military se1vice yesterday, 7ciH you kindly for7eord to me"
 ANTI-SEMITIC propaganda has been appearing in The Bluejacket, published by the U. s. Navy at a training school in Memphis, Tenn. This guy Hitler's got nothing but funny mustache on some of our gold braids.
 ONE YEAR AGO IN The Union Times: Workers are Doing Their Full Share. This Is No Time To Drive A Wedge Into The Economic Lige Of America" Declares Gov. Robert A. Hurley In Opposing Anti-Labor Legislation; ''Tenta- tive Contract Of Local B-9O, New Haven Electrical Workers, With ROckbestos Products Corp, Calls For Is to 35 Cents Wage In- crease"; "State Plumbers Gather In TOrringtOn For Semi-Annual Con- ventiOn"; ''Local 43, Hartford Car penters Win Wage Increase And Protest Bills Against Labor"; ''New Haven Building Trades Council Elects David Sport Mccormack, President; Bridgeport Needs $500 Government Built Homes For Workers, Says Park City Chamber Of Commerce.; Bridgeport Paint CTS And Building Trade Laborers Win Wage Increases"; 'sPeter Benard Is Reelected President Of Local 277, Motion Picture Machine Operators, Bridgeport; ''New Ha- ven Barbers Ask New Price Scale s
 ALL. BUILDING trades work CTS played an important part in the
The union times., 1943-04-17
Quiz AnsVers

There are the answers to the questions on page B:
 l. Lou R. MaxOn, whose agency handles accounts of H. J. Heinz food products and other big firms. 2. It did not. 3. It was defeated. 4. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, chief of Army supply. 5. It opposes the bill. 6. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers. 7. Much larger profits. 8. Before AFL, CIO and railroad union leaders in San Francisco.
The union times., 1943-04-17

In Belgium, l4-year-olds are be- ing taken from their parents by the Nazis and indentured to Ger man foster parents" as farm Iaborers.
The union times., 1943-04-17

So far we, lover here" have had ratiOned comfort; SO far our Allies Cover there" have had unratiOned misery. Less complaint and more perfOrmance!
The union times., 1943-04-17

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Better Days Bus Riders!

Hartford, Conn, July IA - (U.P0 The Office of Defense Transporta- ton eased the critical bus trans portation situation in Connecticut today by setting higher gasoline quotas and the food situation took on a slightly brighter hue with the sole exception of fish supplies.
 Meantime, National OPA Admin istrator Prentiss M. Brown, was in vited to attend the conference of New England governors at New London Thursday or Friday to talk over the rationing situation as it applies to the six northeastern states.
 Developments of the past "A hours produced these results:
 Following a transportation con- ference at Hartford, during which the OPA and ODT were accused of lacking courage to tell the people the truth about the gasoline SUD- plies, the ODT Regional Bureau at Boston approved increas- ed gasoline quotas for bus lines to ward off a threatened Interruption of war production. Also. Governor Baldwin prepared a war emergency order suspending statute limiting standees to 40 per cent of bus seat ing capacities.
 The National OPA office permit. ted restaurant owners to use new | (COntinlled on Page 41
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Leaders Meet In Car Strike

New Bedford, Mass, July IA = UPD - Chairman Charles H. Cole of the state arbitration board met with AFL union leaders at Boston today in an effort to end street car workers strike that dis rupted transportation systems here and threatened to impede war pro- duction by about 50,000 workers in this area.
 Most workers managed to reach their jobs this morning by hitch hiking or using emergency rations of gasoline issued by rationing off, cials on order of State Opa Direc- tor Lawrence J. Brenahan.
 The 400 strikers, members of the Amalgamated Association of Street. Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America (AFL) walked out late yesterday in protest of tho use of their bus terminal by non- union drivers.
 Bus service between New Bedford and Providence. R. l., was affected as drivers for the New England Transportation Company joined the strike in sympathy with the New Bedford drivers. ,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
RommeI Said To Be Dead

London, July IA - CU.PO Tine German underground radio station Atlantic was quoted today as say ,ng that German Marshal Erwin Rommel was killed while flying to Sicily to take over command of it's defense.
 Swedish dispatches reported the broadcast said that British fighters penetrated the strong fighter form- ation escorting Rommers plane and sent 1t crashing into the sea in James.
 German General Siegfried Vest fal, two other German officers and three Italians also were killed, the broadcast said.
 One of the German officers was identified as Lieutenant Colonel kiel."
 Though there was no conflrma- tion of the report from any Allied or Axis source a dispatch from an advanced Allied base in the Med1- terranean yesterday reported that & heavily escorted enemy transport plane was shot down near Syracuse and crashed in flames.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Fortress Takes On The Nose

An American Air Base in Eng land, July IA - CU.PD - "Old Bilr' was added today to the list Of Fly ing Fortresses that bombed Ger many and came home only on a wing and a prayer.
 "Old Bill' landed on its home field with the nose blown off, one engine shot out, the top turret smashed, without brakes and eight of its eleven men wounded after a raid on northwest Germany May l5.
 When the plane landed, a flight surgeon made a quick inspection and said there is nothing there but blood and empty cartridge cases.'
 The crew that fought its way to the target and back, was decorated with two distinguished service crosses, eight silver stars and seven purple hearts.
 Technical Sergeant Albert W Haymon, Stamford, Conn, was among crew members who received both the silver star and purple heart awards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Eggs May Be Rotioned Next

Chicago, July IA - CU.PD The Mercantile Exchange, largest egg exchange in the world, said today the great increase" in civilian con- sumption of eggs soon may necessi- tate egg rationing.
 The exchange said both civilian demand and delivery have scared in the Chicago Retail market and quoted figuses for the week ending July as contrasted to last years figures for the corresponding period.
 The figures showed:
 1. Wholesale distributors deliver sd to the Chicago retail market 25 per cent more eggs.
 2. Milk distributors, who also de- liver eggs, handled better than twice" as many eggs.
 3. Chain stores, however, moved Is per cent fewer eggs.
 The Exchange said production figures, however, Jagged with only IS per cent increase in June, 1943, Wer June, 1942.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Eighth Army Driving On
 To Catonia

London, July IA. - (UP) - Brit ish military observers said today that the Eighth Army was driving northward through eastern Sicily into the Catania plain, largest flat land on the island.
 The port of Catania, second larg- est city in Sicily, lies below Mt. Etna at the northeastern corner of the plain.
 Americans on the left flank were reported to have penetrated con- siderable distance inland from their bridgehead in the Licatagela area, with one force reported striking westward along the coast toward Palma and Agrigento.
 Fall Expected
 Both the Biscari and Comiso air dromes west of Ragusa in south eastern Sicily were expected to fall into Allied hands momentarily, if they have not already been cap- tured.
 With Allied troops deep inland at some points only four and half days after landing, military observ- CTS for the first time expressed con- fidence in the outcome of the in- vasion.
 Even should the Axis counter attack in considerable force, they said, the Allies are established so well that they probably cannot be driven out.
 The concensus of military observ- CTS was:
 We are there to stay"
 Observers reported the Germans had concentrated some forces be- tween Agrigento and Licata trying to hold up American troops while a mixed German and Italian force was expected to contest strongly the Eighth Armys attack in the Catania
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
FDR Hopes To Make His BiH or Attainder Stick Without Help
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

Washington, July 14-(UP)- President Roosevelt was expected by observers today to make his bill of attainder charges against congress stick without having to go to court to support his complaint that the legislators violated the Constitution.
 The phrase, bill of attainder, might be freely defined as a bill of conviction. In this instance, MT. Roosevelt charges that congress passed such a bill by attaching to an appropriation measure rider which stipulated that three govern ment officials must be dropped from the federal payrolls not later than Nov. 15 unless they are renominated by the President and confirmed by the senate in the meantime.
 Men Involved
 The men involved are Secretary Robert Morss Lovett, of the Virgin Islands, and two federal communi- cations commission employees, Good win Watson and William E. Dodd, Jr. They were charged by the Dies committee with belonging to or ganizations deemed to be subversive. MT. Roosevelt said the rider at- tempting to remove them from gov ernment employment was unWise, discriminatory and unconstitutional.
 A good many members of congress probably will agree with MT. Roose- welt, the same argument having been advanced against the rider before the congressional adjourn ment when the senate vainly was trying to persuade the house to abandon it. MT. Roosevelt outlined in his press conference yesterday the message he intends to send to congress when it convenes Sept. IA. It will argue that the rider is, in fact, a bill of attainder under a supreme court decision holding that legislation which punishes with out judicial trial shall be so con- sidered.
 Section g, Article 1 of the Con- stitution specifically states that ''No bill of attainder or eX post facto law shall be passed
 Rep. Odln HOODS, D., Ld, olle Ol the few legislators remaining in Washington, agreed instantly with MT. Roosevelt
 There is no doubt" he told the United Press, "that the rider is un- constitutional. It provides punish ment without trial and violates the separation of powers doctrine im- plicit in the Constitution. In my opinion Sthis rider is bill of at tainder"
 MT. Roosevelt emphasized that he considered the rider an encroach- ment by the legislative branch upon the powers of the executive and judicial branches and expressed the opinion that it. therefore, was not binding upon either. He refused to say whether he would go through the motions of renominating any or all of the three men to the jobs they now hold. But it seemed more likely that he simply would ln-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
PoyChonges
 Win A PProvoI

Boston, July 14.-UP)-The New England War Labor Board today approved wage adjustments in eight plants and ordered tripartite panel hearing in the case of ninth labor dispute.
 Approval of wage adjustment pro- posalS in regard to overtime pay for holiday work and vacation com- pensation was granted to more than 400 workers at the Blackinton Mills, Inc. of North Adams.
 The board also approved sched- uled wag adjustments to "correct gross inequities" for employees at Mount Holyoke college in South Hadley. The requests for pay rises ranging from to 10 cents an hour was brought by the college.
 About l2,000 seasonal workers of the Maine packing and canning in- dustry were granted wage increases to correct substandards of living. Those affected are workers in 50 packing plants of the Maine Can- ners Association at Brunswick, Me-, and the Maine Packers Association West Pembroke. Me.
 Other adjustments include that Hart Mfg. Co.,, of Hartford, Conn.,, the Stanley Tools, New Britain, Conn; Fafnir Bearing Co.,, New Britain, Conn.,, and the Sherman Paper Products Corp, of Newton, Mass.
 At the same time, it was an- nounced that arguments in a labor dispute between the Providence Journal Publishing Co.,, and the 1n- ternational Typographical Union would be heard today before a tri- partite panel of the board.