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BUY WAR BONDS
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Neuv Haven ObenS
Office

The New Haven Area Committee
of the War Manpower Commission,
headed by Mrs. Alice G. Marshall,
Deputy Area Manpower Director,
opened its offices at 152 Temple
Street this week. Mrs. Marshall,
manager of the U. S. Employment
Office in this city, is serving as
head of the committee pending the
appointment of an Area Director.
Simultaneous with the opening
of offices, the full personnel of the
local Advisory Committee, appoint
ed by Joseph A. Smith, New Eng
land Regional Director of the
WING, was announced by Mrs.
Marshall.
The Committee, comprised of eight
members, four from organized labor
and four from industry, is as follows
ALL. Gas previously ANNOUNCE
ed in The Union Tines: Samuel
F. Curry, business agent of Div.
281, TrOlleymen and Bus Drivers
Union; Albert Vigneault, Local
BOO Electrical Workers.
CLIO: Patrick ]. O'NeaI, field
representative; Frank L. TrainOr,
United Steel Workers.
Industry: Thomas l. S. Boak,
works manager, Winchester Re-
peating Arms Co.; Henry w.
Jones, Jr., president and treas
urer, American Tube Bending
Co.; Elmer V. Bradley, vice
president and general manager,
Southern New England Tele-
phone Co., and Leslie Scott, pres
ident, Connecticut Metal Finish
ing Co.
This is the first full committee to
be announced in the six Connecticut
cities now designated as War Man
power Areas.
Mrs. Marshall said the committee
will meet in the near future to draw
up program for stabilizing employ
ment according to local needs. New
Haven has been placed in the Group
2 area by the National VINO,
which means this area is not, at this
time, facing a serious shortage of
manpower.
The national office of the WING.
has established the following four
point program as guide for the
duties of city area committees
II. To protect war production
from the disruption caused by
employers pirating skilled work.
ers from each other or by
workers leaving one job to seek
the higher wages offered by an
other, while at the same time
providing means by which work
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
As We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

THOSE WHO SAY Herbert
Hoover has no business talking for
the farmers don't know what they
are talking about. Hoover is a
director of one of our largest in
surance companies, and Depart
ment of Agriculture statistics show
that the Insurance companies own
more farms than any one else in
the United States.
INDUSTRIAL ABSENTEEISM is
being given quite a sUkirI in the
daily newspapers. Congressman
hare said quite a lot concerning
the subject, s0ith the NaUaI Affairs
Committee considering the enact
nent of bill to force absentees
in sOar plants to ''sUOrk or fight"
The problem sounds seriOus-and
it is. But one place ,Uhere absentee
ism is most prevalent is in the halls
of Congress itself.
ABOUT SIX MEN out of 100
are away from their jobs on the
average work day, according to the
worst case that can be made against
labor. Forty-fve congressman out
of 100 are not on the job ON an
average legislative day, and on days
when important votes ON questions
of policy are taken Is out of 100
are not present.
ABSENTEEISM AMONG CON-
GRESSMEN runs highest among the
Democratic members, and because
of it, anti-AdministratiOn IasUs stand
good chance of enactment. The Re-
publican proposal to stop Govern
nrent Departments from using the
frank for free mailing sOas put Oper
by a UOte of 2O4 to POI. On this
bill there sOere only 20 members
absent, but 10 of them sUere Dem
Ocrats, and as the measure ,Uas de-
cided strictly on party lines, they
could hare saUed the day.
CONGRESSIONAL ABSENTEE
ISM plays into the hands of the
special interest groups. Their Iegts-
LGtOrs are usually present to put
across speciaI-interest legislation,
sOhiLe prO-AdminisfrGtiOn Congress-
men are not on hand.
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Cost0fLiviing
Year Of War
Secretary Of Labor Reports
Slight Gain In Last
Month OF 1912

Living costs rose go in our first
year at war, according to Secretary
of Labor Perkins in her latest report
on the subject. "Since the outbreak of
war in Europe, the increase has been
22.1% as compared with almost $50
during the same period of World
War |" she said.
Food cost in December 1912 for
city wage earners were about the same
as in 1929 and were 1870 above 1885,
reported the Labor Secretary. They
rose 1.29o in the month ending De-
cember IS.
Figures were not made available for
Connecticut or Connecticut cities in
the report which featured the increase
in the price of living for the nation as
a whole in the one-month period end
ing December Is. The cost of living
for this period was up one-half of one
per cent.
Housefurnishings on the average re-
manned unchanged from mid-Novem-
Der to mid-December. The same held
true for clothing costs. Miscellaneous
goods and services increased 10 dur
ing the last month of year. Higher
rates for hospital rooms were reported
in several cities and a few reported
higher charges for beauty and barber
services. Fuel costs rose 10 because
of advances in coal prices.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
I DRY Legislation
Before Al States

Most of the bills are being pushed
in the fake guise of helping the war
effort" if passed, they would destroy
the last vestige of labor's freedom,
making the workers lot little better
than that imposed by Fascist states.
Significantly, many of the bills
are worded almost alike, Indicating
that, though introduced by differ
ent sOlOns, they have come from a
single source.
One of the most common of the
bills would put unions almost COM
pletely at the within of state officials.
1t would fix the qualifications of I'M
ion officers; dictate dues and initia-
ton fees; limit the uses to which
union funds may be put; require
unions to open their books to inspec-
ton by bosses, and tie them hand
and foot in other ways. Under this
measure, unions could hardly make
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
MariineUniions
Join ToStrike
BackAtPegler
ALL. And CLIO. Deny
Friction Between Military
And Civilian Seamen

SAN FRANCISCO. - Westbrook
Pegler's attempt to drive wedge
into the ranks of American seamen
has been met with a united blast
from West Coast ALL, Clio. and
Independent marine unions.
Joining together in an unprecedent-
ed unity move, the unions sent letter
to the Scripps-Howard columnist de-
nouncing a column which appeared in
the San Francisco NeaUS reporting
friction between the enlisted Navy
gun crews and the civilian mer-
chant sailors" because of alleged strik-
ing pay differences.
SHOULD PLEASE AXIS
There is a quality and pattern
to that particular column" the let
ter said, (which should be highly
pleasing to DIR. COebbels and the
men in his camp. In fact, it has all
the earmarks of having been con-
ceived at such a source.
After all, who but some Nazi or
Fascist propaganda would be inter-
ested in stirring up disunity among
the men who go to sea as trade and
the Navy Armed Guard assigned to
these same ships carrying cargo to
our far-fung United Nations fronts !?
ASK PUBLIC APOLOGY
''In the interests of public in
formation, your profession, our
profession and the debt owed our
merchant seamen dead, we feel
that this letter and your apology
should be afforded the same posi-
ton and circulation ordinarily
given your opinion"
The letter was signed by Capt. C.
F. May, president of Local 90, Ma
tional Organization of Masters, Mates
& Pilots (A.FL.); R. Meriwether,
secretary of Local 81, Marine Engi-
neers Beneficial Assn. (C.LO) !;
Harry Lundeberg, sec.-treas. of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific (A.FL.) f.;
Gene Burke Marine Cooks & Stew
ards Assn. (C.I.O); George F. B.
King, American Communications
Assn. (C.I.O); Ralph D. Rogers,
Natl Maritime Union (C.IOD; and
Vincent Malone, Marine Firemen,
Oilers, Watertenders & Wipers Assn.
(unafiliated).
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
C.L.U.SetsU p
ComnlitteeOn
Absenteeism
Hartford Labor Will Study
The Problem and Work
For Solution

The Hartford Central Labor
Union has appointed a five-man
committee to study absenteeism
and to cooperate with any COM
munity effort to deal with the prob
lem in war plants of the area.
Gregory Bardicki, field repre-
sentative of the United Hatters,
Danbury, who is assigned by the
ALL. to the W.P.B. to investigate
absenteeism, appeared before the
C.L.U. He urged cooperation be-
tween labor and management to
keep war workers on their jobs.
1t was brought out in the dis
cussion that followed that many
factors cause absenteeism, espe-
cially among women workers. These
include care of children, staying
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Strauss Heads
Office Workers

David Strauss of New Haven has
been elected president of Local 20267,
Office Workers, at a meeting held in
the Taft Hotel, New Haven. James
]. Clerkin, president of the Conn.
Fed. of Labor, was present and spoke
to the group.
Other officers elected are: Mae
Grinnell, New Haven, vice-president !;
Dorothy Olchefskie, Hartford, record
ing secretary; Peggy Murphy, Bridge
port, financial secretary; Eva Gandel-
man, New Haven, Rose Peck, Bridge
port, and Stella Cwicla, Hartford,
trustees; Marie Fabrisso, New Haven,
sergeantat-arms.
The bylaws committee is compris-
ed of the Misses Peck, Murphy and
Grinnell.
The local is mourning the death of
George Schneider, former accountant
of Local 1o1, Transfers, who died
of heart disease last Jan. q.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Middletown's
FiinanceBoard
Drops Issue
C.L.U. Receives No Reply
To Protest On Collect
ing From Relief
Recipients

The MiddletOwn Central Labor
Union has received no reply from
the City Board of Finance i'm an
swer to its protest of the Boards
action to secure repayment of
grants from former recipients of
relief in MiddletOwn.
The Finance Board voted early
i'm January to order the City Char
ity Commissioner, Raymond Wilcox,
to send letters to persons who were
on relief in the depth of the de-
preston, but who were now work
ing, asking them to repay the city.
This suggestion for raising money
for the towns Golfers, served to set
in motion a wave of indignation from
the citizens, which was reported in
The UNION TIMES Jan. q. De-
velopments in the case were reported
by this newspaper in subsequent issues.
At is January meeting the Gu.
voted to enter formal protest to the
Finance Board, but even by that time
popular protest had caused the Board
to hesitate before notifying the Char
1ty Commissioner of its resolution or
dering him to dun the poor. The reso-
luton had been introduced by Walter
c. Jones, banker and real estate oper-
ator, a member of the Board, and
passed over the sole dissenting vote
OF Rep. Arthur LaBarge, president of
the Federal Textile Union at Russell
Manufacturing Co.
NOT REPEALED
The Finance Boards action got
no further than the vote taken on
it. To date, Wilcox has received
no official notification of the action.
The general feeling in MiddIetown
is that the Board, although it has
not repealed the motion, has drop
ped and wants to forget that it ever
thought up this scheme for raising
public revenue.
C.L.U. ACTION
At its last meeting, the C.L.U. dis
cussed ways and means Of securing
donations from every ALL. member
to central cigarette fund to purchase
Raleighs for fighting servicemen.
Delegates were asked to refer the
matter back to their respective locals
for consideration and to report back
to the C.L.U.
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Briton Speaks On
BeUeridge Report

Sir Henry Bunbury, who as
sisted Sir William Beveridge in
drawing up the famous Bever-
idge Social Security Plan for
Great Britain, will be in New Ha-
ven on Monday, March I, to
speak on the significance of the
Beveridge report. Originally Sir
Henry was to lecture before Prof.
E. Wight Bakke's course. Be-
cause of the great interest in the
Beveridge plan, Prof. Bake de-
cided to open the lecture to the
general public.
1t will be given in Room 2Ol,
W. L. Hardness Hall, at 3 P. NJ,
and presents organized labor
with an unusual opportunity to
hear first-hand report on a mat
ter of primary interest to
workers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Tire
Congress To
81 Pay Boost
Members Of Local $50,
Teamsters, Hold Unique
Contract With Concern

Thirty-three members of Local
$50, Hartford Transfers, employed
at Jack, The Tire Expert Co., Hart.
ford, will receive a 81 per week
increase i'm pay as the result of an
agreement between the company
and the union, provided the W.L.B.
approves the contract. This was an
nounced by Nick Yannone, bust
ness agent of the Local, this week.
He said that both parties are ex-
pecting the government to OK.
the raise, which would be retrOac-
tive to Oct. FL, 1912.
Upon petition of the Local, the tire
company, the only concern of its kind
in Connecticut under contract with
Transfers local, agreed to open the
contract, and after negotiations the
four-dollar increase was agreed upon.
Yannone and Ray Kiecolt, union
steward at the tire company, repre-
scented the Local, and William Hickey,
president, and Charles Clark, office
manager, represented the tire concern.
The company, which sells, repairs,
and rebuilds automobile tires and bat
teries, has held contracts with Local
$50, Transfers, for the last three
years.
Unique features of the unions
agreement include: supper money
when men are obliged to work
after 6 o'clock; two weeks vacation
with pay, one to be taken i'm the
summer and the other in winter
4O-hOur week at regular time
plus time-and-half for all over 40
hours, with the guarantee of the
equivalent of so hours of work or
pay every week.
Relations between the company and
the union are good, said Yannone.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
AFL-CIOPutWage
Crisis Up ToF.D.R.
Little Steel" Formula Unworkable With
Living Costs Soaring Out of Bounds,
Leaders Say

Observation-Disclosures la
Dor has bluntly notified President
Roosevelt that unless the Govern
ment clamps the lid down on the
persistently increasing cost of liv-
ing, wages of American workers
will have to be increased accord
ingly.
The President gave A.F.L. Presi-
dent William Green and Clio.
President Philip Murray a sympa-
thetic hearing when they went be-
fore him to present their joint
views on this all-impOrtant subject.
The labor leaders told the Presi-
dent that the cost of food and other
necessities of life is soaring tout
l. of bounds They declared that
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Optimism High
After Hearing
On Labor Act
CLIO. And Other Groups
Join In Support Of Conn.
Federation's Bill

ALL. legislators and lead
ers were confident this week
that the State Labor Relations
Act, sponsored by the Conn.
Federation of Labor will be
passed at the 1913 session of
the Legislature.
Hearing on the Bill was
held i'm Hartford last week.
ut was a very good hearing
from labor's point of view,"
John ]. Egan, Secretary-Treas-
urer of the GIL, told The
Union Times.
ECAN OPTIMISTIC
Egan, who usually will venture
no opinion on the outcome of any
act before the Legislature, made
this optimistic comment:
eff one can Judge by indica-
tons of the hearing and by the
attitude of the Committee, it looks
very favorable for passage of the
Bill this year."
CLIO. spokesman at the hearing
backed the Federation's bill, and
Egan stated later that the CLIO. is
supporting the measure.
WOULD COVER 100000
A total of 100000 Connecticut
workers who are now without pro-
lection of their collective bargain
ing rights would be covered by the
Act, Egan told the committee. He
told this reporter that it shouldn't
cost more than $4,000 to admin
lister the Act.
James J. Shannon, attorney for the
GIL, presented the Bill to the
Labor Committee and explained it in
detail. The Committee seemed favor
ably impressed, said Egan, who coun-
tered the opposing arguments heard
at the hearing.
Clio. FOR 1T
Frank Odlum, counsel for the
Conn. C.I.O., and William Zeeman,
secretary-treasurer of the Hartford
Clio. Council, Joined with Samuel
Cruber of the Connecticut Confer
ence on Social and Labor Legis-
Iation in support of the C.F.L.'s
Bill at the hearing.
DOVER In OPPOSITION
William A. Dover, representing
the Hartford Chamber of Commerce,
and contending that he spoke for the
Connecticut Retail Merchants AS
ISOLATION and the Connecticut Laundry
Owners Association as we'll as cham
bers of commerce in half a dozen
Connecticut cities, offered opposition
to the measure.
Dover stated that administration
of the act would cost the state be-
tween 100000 and $250,000 a year.
Egan suggested that "if the gentle
men will look into the legislative
record of two years ago he will find
that opponents of the bill then esti-
mated it would cost between $4,000
and $4,000 to administer it"
Egan maintained that the cost
would only be a fraction of the
$4,000 to $4,000. He later told THE
UNION TINES that he estimated such
cost to be around $4,000.
ROURKE ANSWERS DOVER
Dover was answered by Sen.
Joseph T. Rourke, New Haven, in
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Panels Created
To Help Speed
Work OF Board
John Egan Appoints Fem
mark, Doyle and Barry
AS AL Representatives

War Labor Board Panels
will be created in the six Con-
necticut cities for the purpose
of speeding up the work of
the W.L.B., John ]. Egan, Sec
retary-Treasurer of Conn.
Federation of Labor, told The
Union Times this week. Egan,
acting as an agent for the Fed.
Grafton, has named the ALL.
representative to serve on
three of the panels. Each
panel or local board will be
comprised of two labor repre-
sentatives, one from the
ALL, one from the CLIO.
and two public and two EN-.
plOyer representatives.
ALL. MEMBERS
Those selected by Egan so far
include:
New Haven District: Harold v.
Feinmark, president of the New
Haven Central Labor Council.
Bridgeport: George Doyle, ffnan-
cial secretary of Lodge 80, LAM.
Hartford: Michael Barry, bust
ness agent, Local 43, Carpenters.
Members of the panel will be paid
on a per diem basis when they hear
cases, said Egan.
All ALL. members of the local
boards are subject to approval by
William Green, president of the
ALL.
TO SPEED UP WORK
The panels will attempt to solve
all local disputes involving prob
lems of wages, conditions and hours
in war production industries. Find
ings on such matters will be pass
ed up the line to the regional and
the national W.L.B. for certifica-
ton. 1t is hoped that the work of
the panels when they are set up will
enable the W.L.B. to keep abreast
of the tremendous number of cases
now piling up in the regional and
national offices. At present, Egan
said, there are 1890 cases pending
before the W.L.B.
The panels, like the national
board, will not concern themselves
with problems that fall in the prov
ince of the N.L.R.B. which deals
with collective bargaining and un-
fair labor practices.
Egan will appoint ALL. menu
bers to the other three Connecticut
W.L.B. panels as soon as the cities
have been selected.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27

wages cannot be stabilized at pres
ent levels or kept within the Little
SteeP' formula of the National War
Labor Board unless living costs
are held down.
They advised the President that
the Little STEEP formula is now out
of date and too rigid and inhexible
to protect American workers from
economic injustice.
At the same time they emphasized
that it is not the desire of the ALL.
and the CLIO. to take anv action
which would upset the Administra-
TONS sterilization program.
The labor leaders reminded the
President that the trade union move
Continued on Page Three
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27

One of the greatest floods of anti
labor bills in years has descended
upon state legislatures, it was re-
vealed this week in a roundup
compiled from reports of the De-
partment of Labor and dispatches
from correspondents of Labor.
FOrty-one state law-making bod
les are in session, and in nearly
all desperate efforts are being made
by sweatshop champions and labor
haters to put over laws cracking
down on unions and workers rights.
If anything, the drive to lynch
labor" is even more virulent in some
of the statehouses than in Congress.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Pres. McCovern
Ill In Hospital

Pres. Vincent J. McGovern of
Local BOO, Electrical Workers, is
a patient in the St. Raphaeps Hos
pital, New Haven. He was taken i'll,
suddenly, at his home, No. - Pen
dleton Street, Feb. 10, and removed
to the hospital. His condition at last
report was given as fair.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27
Teamsters, No. $50,
To Take New Office

Local $50, Hartford Transfers, will
move from present quarters at 488
Main Street to the Palace Building,
635 Main Street on or before March
/, stated Frank Bausola, secretary
treasurer of the Local, this week. In
crease in business of the union, oc-
casioned by the growth in member
ship, has made it necessary to find
larger quarters, he said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-27

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-24
Peace Will Cut
DSR a Million,
Bullock Says

The department Of street rail
ways viii suffer a S10OO,000 drop
in revenues during the fiscal year
beginning next July I should the
war end next spring the DSR
commission predicted today
In submitting lis annual reve-
nue. estimate upon-whicb the de-
partmentS yearly budget i,
established. the commission sci
S3iOOOO0O aS the predicted in
come from bus and street cal
fares. Revenues for the current
fiscal year are estimated at S35,'
600 600
LII Thea ar-AhniIld- end heiaFe-
the end of the l9l4-l5 fiscal
year" General Manager William
s Bullock said. "there will at
least he relaxation of gasoline
and tire ratiOning.
MANY persons will immedi-
HtUfy- stop riding buses and
street cars and start driving
their automobiles again. I don't
see how we could Justify the pO-
>iti0n that our revenues will
maintain their present high
. peak"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-24
Boy, 8, browns
As Dad Prepares
To Enter Navy

There will be- no Christmas cele-
bration al the home Of William j.
Troost where funeral arrange
mentS are being made for S-Tear-
old Charlie Nha drowned Eester-
day in the Detroit River.
The boy and a companion,
Thomas Mcqueen, both of the
River Terrace apartments. 77l0
East Jefferson were PLAYING on
the thin ice Mt The rivers edge not
far from the apartments when
TrooSt fen into > feet of icy
water.
trtrrr Nh
SON. superintendent OF the apart
mcntS. rushed 10 the water edge
with a ladder Two police SER
eeantS. Donald Mccain and Frank
Dlehl Whu-wrrC driving by at
tempted 10 use the ladder but the
ttlt--rst1 Ft-s5t' ~ 5rfe5trr 5Tr1rt rrTCy
were forced 10 call for harbOr-
master, boat
The harbOrmaStcr'S crow rocov-
cred the body within five minutes.
A IRE department rescue crew
rushed the boy to Receiving Hos
ptial, applying artificial rcSplra-
lIOn on route
TrOoSt ana cmploXc Of Scms
Roebuck had planned a fnaI
celebration Saturday for hiS
family before entering the navy
Monday. The boy was an only
child.