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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Statesmen Sign
Closed Shop AT
RuppertBrewery

Local 229Ol, Wholesale Beer
Statesmen of Connecticut, has just
signed collective bargaining con-
tract with the Jacob Rupert Brew
cry, covering the five branches of
the company in Connecticut. The
contract provided for closed shop
for statesmen, labor; seniority
rights, job protection while mem
bers are serving i'm the Armed
Forces or i'm event of CONSUMPTION
for war work. This form of con-
tract for salaried statesmen is very
unusual
Salary adjustments were not af-
Ffected by the contract. Agreement
on pay rates was reached between
the company and the statesmen be-
fore last October and have been i'm
effect since that time.
Arthur Carroll, business agent.
and Thomas COsgrove, his associate.
have been i'm charge of the negoti-
ations with the Rupert Co. Local
229Ol also holds a contract with
the Creme Brewing Co. of New
Britain. Both contracts cover the
statesmen throughout the state. The
five districts of the Rupert con-
Germ are Stamford, Bridgeport, New
Haven, Waterbury and Hartford.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Local Blob
CiiveLiberally
To Red Cross
Contributes Over $500 To
Drive; Donates To
Blood Bank

Members of Local Blob, EIec-
trical Device Workers, who are
employed at the Arrow-Hart and
Hegeman Co., Hartford, have con-
tributed in excess of ST, 300 to the
American Red Cross, Pres. Arthur
POlOwitzer, chairman of the Red
Gross Drive Committee, announced
today. Fred LaFreniere, chairman
of the Locals Shop Committee, as
sisted POlowitzer.
Workers Of the company desig-
mated for Red Cross $500 of their
total contributions to the United War
Chest campaign last fall.
The Local also responded generously
to the appeal of the Hartford Chapter
of the Red Cross for blood donations
Anne Herlihy has done a good job as
chairman of this committee. She has
been ably assisted by Leo A. Conlon,
second vice-president of the union and
member of the Shop Committee
NEWS FROM HERO
Members of the Local have re-
ceived word that their former fell
low-worker, Angelo ]. Zangari, who
is now with the us. Air Force, has
shot down his fifth Jap plane, and
has been made sergeant.
Sergt. Zangari has fully recov-
cred from his recent wounds i'm
action in the South Pacific, and is
back i'm his position as turret gum
ner of a us. fighting plane. He
took part in recent history-making
Allied aerial assault which wiped
out the Jap convoy in the Bismarck
Sea.
Before joining the Army, Hangar
was employed at the Arrow-Hart and
Hegeman Co. He is remembered by
fellow union members as a great guy
for practical jokes"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Labor Uniting For
Legislative Action

ERIE, Pa.-Unions in northwestern
Pennsylvania formed Labor's Com
mittee for Legislative Action at a
conference here attended by $50 dele
gates from ALL. CLIO. and rail-
road unions and the international
Typographical Union.
The conference also heard from
Vice-Pres Charles Bates of the Penn
sylvania Federation of Labor that the
ALL and CLIO. state leaders were
cooperating on legislation at the
state capital of Harrisburg.
A 7-man committee to guide union
locals in the legislative battle was
established by A.F.L. and CLIO.
unions of three upper New York
cities of Binghamton, Johnson City
and Endicott.
One of the first results of the con-
ference was a radio speech by Rep.
Ed Hall, conservative congress-
man, calling for repeal of the poll
tax.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Division 28l,
Credit Union
Aids Soldiers
Suspends Collection Of
Interest On Loans To
Members In Service

The New Haven Trolley and Bus
Employees Federal Credit Union at its
annual meeting voted unanimously tc
suspend the collection of interest or
loans to members in the Armed Ser
vices. A $50 annual dividend was
voted on shares of stock at the meet
ing.
The treasurer's report showed
total assets of 81, 900. The Credit
Union has invested ST. 700 in us.
War Bonds. Loans to members total
$4,000, according to Samuel F.
Curry treasurer.
There were 18 member-borrowers
in the Services at the time of the
annual meeting. Their loans amounted
to 81, 200.
The members reelected the 1912
board of directors, who i'm turn re-
elected their officers. The officers
are: Dan Leach, president; Wilmer
ShOop, vice-president; Samuel F.
Curry, treasurer. Other board men,
bers are: Michael Costello, Louis
Cohen, William Schappa, and
Charles Dempsey.
Members of the Credit Commit
tee are: Daniel Calvin, Morris Fitz-
gibbons, and Oscar Johnson; Super
visOry Committee, DOwan Hall,
Cornelius Fitzpatrick and E. S.
Blue.
Joseph Lubbock was appointed as
siStant treasurer by the board.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
BoardSet
Up For Street
Railwaymen
WLB Panel Will Pass On
All New Contracts In
This Region

That which is proving of no
little interest to members of Street
Railway and Motor Coach Opera
tors Unions in the New England
area is the recent formation of a
panel composed of three members
of the New England War Labor
Board, whose duty is to adjudicate
some 80 agreements between street
car companies and their employees,
and which for various reasons had
been held up for several months.
Much dissatisfaction expressed by
local divisions, including those in
Worcester, Providence, Springfield
and other cities, caused the Board
at recent meeting to create panel
of three members to consider all the
facts concerning the agreements, and
to determine their eligibility in ar
irving at decisions and recommends
tons to the National War Labor
Board, which makes final declarations
on all such contracts.
Members of the special panel
include John A. Mcconnell, bust
ness agent for Providence Division
6l8, Street Railway and Motor
Coach Operators; Edward Dana,
president and general manager of
the Boston Elevated Railway, rep
resenting industry, and Father
Walter S. McCwynn, representing
the public.
The larger unions, of course, which
have been able to secure a wage of
81 cents an hour, base their claims
on settlement of the Eastern Massa-
chusetts company contract, which
covers operators in II cities and y
towns in Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, these including Fall Riv-
er, Taunton, Brockton, Quincy, Chel-
sea, Lynn, Haverhill, Lawrence,
Lowell, Melrose and Salem, and all
adjoining towns in the two states.
Under the Eastern Massachusetts
agreement, cities with less than half
the population of Worcester and
Springfield, and less than one
fourth the population of PrOvi-
dence, have been awarded a wage
rate of 81 cents an hour. Hence,
the claim advanced by representa-
tives of the 80 cities whose agree
ments have been held up, that
they are entitled to terms agreed
upon with their employers.
Much satisfaction is expressed over
creation of the panel by thousands
of members of Street Railway I'm
ions, who feel confident their contracts
some of which have been before the
W.L.B. six or more monthS-will
receive proper and efficient attention,
and awards made in the near future.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Rockbestos
Guards Join
Electricians
Local B-9O's New Rate
Schedule With Firm r
Approved By WLB

The uniformed guards at the Rock
bestos Products Corporation, New
Haven, voted unanimously to affiliate
with Local BOO, Electrical Workers
in a NLRB election held at the plant
last week.
Sen. Joseph T. Rourke, business
agent of the Local, who organized
the guards, stated today that the
Local will start bargaining for the
guards as soon as official notice
of the results of the election are
received from the Labor Board.
The War Labor Board has approved
new rate schedule agreement reached
by the union and the Rockbestos Co.,
which will be retroactive to February
l, stated Rourke.
This is the second agreement signed
by the Local and the Company since
the plant was organized following
an NLRB election last year. 1t pro-
vides for spread in rates in each
Job classification in place of single
rate minimums. The minimum rate ir
the lowest classification was 20 cents
an hour. By the new agreement, it is
now 20 to 70 cents IAN hour.
The range of rates are: first
classification, 20 to 70 cents; Sec
ond, "a to 80 cents; third 83 to
90 cents; fourth, 88 to 90 cents +;
fifth, 81 cents to $l.O2; sixth, ST
to $1.O9; seventh, $1.O7 to $l.l6
an hour. Before the plant was or
ganized the maximum hourly rate
was less than the top minimum in
the present first classification.
NOTICE FOR MEMBERS
Rourke announced that Local Boo
will hold very important meeting for
A members, 8 PM, Tuesday evening,
April g. at the Labor Temple. All
members are urged to attend for the
purpose of discussing conditions per-
tanning to the 1913 agreement with the
contractors.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
.CouncilActs
ToAyoid Politics
In Juvenile Court

( Delegates to the New Haven Cen
trail Labor Council at the last meeting
of the Council unanimously endorsed
the principle of keeping politics out
of the Juvenile Court and petltionec
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin to retair
the present judges.
The resolution passed by the Coun-
Gil sets forth:
'.WHEREAS a change in the
personnel of the present judges
of the Juvenile Court would
without question interrupt the
smooth continuity of the work
of the court and might seriously
impair the quality of service be-
ing rendered to the children of
working men and women in this
state,
s'BE 1T THEREFORE RE-
SOLVED that His Excellency,
Governor Raymond E. Baldwin,
i'm making appointments of Juve-
nile Court judges, be requested
to give his most careful cOnsid-
Grafton to the ACCESSIBILITY of
maintaining the present judges
in order that the work of this
new state agency will not be i'm
ipeded for even temporary
period, in order that the fund
of experience which the present
Judges have gained over the
period of the last Is months will
not be lost to the people of this
state, and in order that, finally,
the high-principled precedent of
divorcing all questions of pOliti-
cal or other character from the
work of the Juvenile Court, and
hence from the lives of all Con-
necticut children coming before
it, may be now established"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
l eam1SterS, $50,
Win Dairy Vote

Employees of the A. C. Peterson
Dairy, Hartford, have voted by a
ratio of 2 to l to affiliate with
Transfers Local $50, Hartford, in
collective bargaining election
held with the consent of the en-
pIoyer and employees under the
supervision of the State Board of
Arbitration and Mediation, Frank
BausOla, secretary-treasurer of the
Local told THE UNION TIMES this
week.
Negotiations for union contract
between the workers and the dairy
are now in progress, under the direc-
ton of Henry Dauphinais, business
agent in charge of milk company
organization. Herbert Miller, another
business agent of the Local has been
assisting Dauphinais in the campaign
to organize the Peterson Co.
Miller, assisted by Nick Yannone,
Bausola and Dauphinais, has Just
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
AS We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

THE Neso York Times last week
carried on page l story of how
the Natl. War Labor Board insisted
on freezing workers wages to the
outworn Little Steel formula.
Buried i'm the business section of
the same edition was a story that
Pres. Eugene G. Grace of Bethle-
hem Steel had receivd $537,724 i'm
bonus and salary and had i'm addi-
ton paid off $500, OO1 of indebted
ness to the company. No comment
UNDERGROUND LABOR in Po-
land knows how to shoot straight
from the shoulder, judging by the
following little item culled from a
recent issue of the Nazi Krakauer
Zeitung: Observation-Disclosures
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
rer Sander, 81, fell on February Z,
1913, for the Fuehrer and the
Reich"
HAROLD v. FEINMARK, presi-
dent of the New Haven Central
Labor Council and vice-president
of the Conn. Federation of Labor,
has just returned from Miami,
where he spent some time with his
wife, who has been staying in
Florida for her health. Although
it was a vacation for Harry, he
took time out to set the editor of
the Miami Herald right on the
patriotism of labor, especially Con
necticut Labor.
THE MIAMI PAPER carried an
editorial on the recent agreement
signed between Gov. Stevenson of
Texas and Texas labor to bar
strikes and work stoppages. The
paper commented that it hoped
that labor would live up to the
agreement. 1t said that Texas was
the first state to sign such a com
pact. Harry pointed out in letter
to the editor, which was published
under the heading ''Connecticut
First" that labor in this state signed
similar compact only "a hours
after Pearl Harbor, and that labor
has lived up to the terms of the
Connecticut Victory Compact.
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
400 Attend
Gu Banquet
In Hartford
Sen. Scott Honored At First
Annual Affair Held In
Hotel Bond

Approximately 400 members and
friends of the Hartford Central
Labor Union crowded into the ball
room of the Hotel Bond, to attend
the first annual banquet of the
C.L.U., and to honor it's president,
Sen. William A. Scott.
The attendance was better than ex-
pected and there were speeches by
John ]. Egan, secretary-treasurer of
the Conn. Federation of Labor
Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, and Rev.
Albert Healey of the St. Peters
Church. All speakers lauded Bill
Scott and urged labor to hold fast
to its gains while waiting out the
emergency.
Sen. Scott received a gold pencil
and pen set from the C.L.U., in APP
probation of his work. John ].
Murphy, New England regional di-
rector of the ALL, made the
presentation Murphy served as
master of ceremonies.
Among the special guests of the
evening were State Senators William
A. Mortenson, and Leon RisCaSSi,
Hartford; Joseph T. Rourke and
James P. Geelan, New Haven; Com
missioner Frank Odlum of Hartford,
counsel for the Connecticut CLIO.
A delegation of 10 members
from the Hartford Industrial
Union Council, CLIO, attended.
Patrick Ward, president of the
Hartford C.I.O., was introduced to
the audience by TOastmaster
Murphy.
Egan urged organized labor to rec
ognize the fact that many of its
rights were shelved in the interest of
the war effort, but that labor should
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
More Hat Makers
WinPayIncrease

The War Labor Board has APPROX
ed a wage increase of seven per cent
for the four remaining hat shops in
Danbury which were not covered by
the recent seven per cent wage in
crease awarded by Aaron Horvitz,
arbitrator, and approved by the
W.L.B.
The previous wage boost approval
covered a number of hat firms in
New York and the Mallory Hat Co,
Danbury. In accordance with an I'm
Outstanding between Hat Makers,
Local 10, and the employers at the
four shops which were not parties
to the arbitration proceeding, the
shops had agreed to pay their work
ers whatever increase was awarded
the Mallory Co. The seven per cent
wage increase is retroactive to June
IS, 1912, in the latest approved raise
The Mallory increase was. retroactive
to May IS, 1912.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
WagesFrOzen
While Cost OF
Living Jumps
Black Markets Due To Lack
Of Overall Rationing,
Ineffective Price
Control

WASHINCTON-BOth AL
Pres. William Green and Go
Pres. Philip Murray last week
pointed to labOr's consistent
contributions to the war and
to the lack of an integrated
war economy or the success of
any part of economic stabili-
cation other than wages.
"America is fulfilling its
pledge of become the arsenal
of democracy said Green.
I'm years time the nation
has quadrupled production of
the vital weapons of war;" The
AL, however, he said, wanted
to increase production, and he
suggested the creation of an
overall board of war planning,
such as has been indOrsed by
the Truman committee, as
urgent.
ADEQUATE TAX PROGRAM
Citing the need for an ade0uate
tax program of the Presidents z
point plan, Murray estimated that
for 1910, l94l and 1912 the war
profits of the basic steel companies.
together with the special coming
ency items, which were over and
above extravagant depreciation re-
serves, will approximate half a
billion dollars
Dramatically, the labor leaders,
testimony followed within "a hours
the shocking testimony of employees
of Carnegie-IlIinOis plant sub
sidiary of the u. S. Steel Company.
that plant officials knew that defec-
tive steel armOr plate was being
sold to U. S. armed forces and
shipped to our Allies.
Declaring tabor has a very deep
and realistic appreciation of the stakes
involved in this war for survival"
Murray told how the Go more than
two years ago enunciated the industry
council plan to achieve greater pro-
duction-a plan that was rejected. In
steel, auto, copper, lumber and mari
time industries, plans were carefully
worked out and submitted-and ig-
nored.
Recognizing the need for continuity
of work, labor wholeheartedly entered
the no-strike agreement. "The result
has been miraculous" he said, point
ing out there have been less strikes
than in England.
ATTACK WAGE FREEZING
Both leaders struck at the vir-
tual freeze of wages while cost of
living is allowed to rise. ''The.
wages of American workers cannot
be undermined without weakening
their power to produce said
Green. Sterilization of wages was
not intended and has not been
publicly announced by any gov
eminent agency as constituting a
freezing of wages" said Murray.
Because of the absence of over
all ratiOning and ineffective price
control, the people are suffering
the ravages of the black marker
said Murray. Prices ''are running
away" said Green, and ''official
statistics fail to tell the TRUTH
workers do not eat Statistics" he
said. when they go to the neigh
borhood stores they can't buy what
they need because the prices of meat,
fish and vegetables have in many in
stances gone up as much as 100%o."
Green and Murray agreed to re-
sumo efforts to end jurisdictionaI
disputes between afiliates. This
followed charges by Green that the
Clio was raiding AFL unions, and
with the assistance of the NLRB.
Murray testified there has been no
organization activity by the Clio at
the Kaiser yards in Oregon, and no
solicitation of members, but that
(COntin11ed IN PAGE TwO1
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03

completed successful negotiations for
the l943 contract between the union
and the First National Grocery Stores
in the Hartford area. Favorable in
creases have been granted by he COM
pany.
BausOla has started negotiations
for the l943 contracts between the
Local and dump truck, building
materials and mason supply house
operators. Approximately 500
workers are involved in the nego-
tiatiOns.
Yannone has opened parIeys with
the National Biscuit Company in re-
CARDS to their 1913 agreement with
the union.
BausOla and YannOne are work.
ing on the contracts with the House
hold Fuel, Burns Brothers and the
Capitol Fuel companies, Hartford
coal companies with which Local
$50 has contracts.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Ennis Will Setup
48-HOurWeekAreas


HARTFORD.-William G. Ennis,
director of the U. S. Employment
Service for Connecticut, announced
today that he has been authorized to
make decisions on the application of
the regulations on the 48 hour war
time work week, in areas outside of
the regularly established War Man
power areas, by Joseph A. Smith,
regional director of the Manpower
Commission.
Investigations determining the ne
ceSSity of applying the regulations in
specific industries will be made by
local managers of the U. S. Employ
ment Service, Mr.. Ennis said, and his
decisions would be based on their
recommendations.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
Liberaliziing
OF U.C. Law
Is Favored
Labor Committee Votes To
Up Maximum, Reduce
Waiting Period

The General Assembly Labor Com
mittee this week favorably reported
to the House of Representatives a
measure containing all but two of the
provisions of the Connecticut Fedora
ton of Labor's proposals for liberal
izing the Unemployment Compensa-
ton Act.
According to Sec.-Treas. John J..
Egan, everything the C.L.U. asked
for except the extension of the conn
pensabIe period from l8 to "a
weeks, and the inclusion of all
employers instead of those employ
ing four or more, were approved
by the Committee and are included
in the measure for consideration by
the House.
The bill asks that the maximum
amount of compensation be in
creased from $40 to $22 week;
that the waiting period be reduced
from three weeks to one week, and
that a reciprocal agreement with
other states be established with
the view to crediting periods of
employment i'm different states to-
ward the right to draw compensa-
ton in any of them. These points
were originally part of the Fedora
tion's bill.
Workers forced to quit their jobs
for reasons beyond their control, and
reasons not directly concerned with
the conditions of their employment
would not be denied the opportunity
to draw compensation benefits, ac-
cording to a proposed amendment
approved by the Labor Committee.
In this connection, the measure pro-
poses that the controversial wording
of the Act which at present stipulates
the availability of an applicant to
receive benefit payments must be for
reasons connected with his employ
ment be changer to read "either is
connected with his employment, or
is solely by reason of governmental
regulation, or statute, beyond his
control
This provision was introduced by
Sen. Joseph T. Rourke, Democrat,
New Haven, a member of the
Labor Committee, and added to
the Federation's bill during the
hearing ON the measure. 1t is aim
ed at protecting workers who lose
employment because of suspension
of transportation services, gasoline
rationing, loss of living quarters,
failure to pass final draft examina-
ton after relinquishing ones job
to enter the Armed Forces, and
other causes arising out of war
time conditions and regulations.
Several other changes of the U.C.
Law which would tend to liberalize
it have been included in the measure
reported out by the Committee.
Among these are:
Covers ''officers and crews of
a vessel ON navigable waters of
the United States"
Provides benefits payments to
students, who quit their jobs to
return to school, upon their re-
entering the labor market.
Provides benefits to Service
men returning to civilian life
afr their discharge and the
period covered by any severance
nay provided them by the Gov
eminent.
Provide benefits to aged un-
employed persons within the
period between their application
for and their receiving of Old
Age Assistance, or Survivors In
Continued on Page TWol
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03

In France the headlines read:
Forced Labor Decreed for French
Workers; Mass Shipments of Men
and Women to Germany" Help
free those slaves ship your
dollars to Germany via bombs
bought with bonds.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03

We must eliminate everything
that impedes about effort for all
out victory; we must accelerate
everything that speeds freedoms
triumph over Axis tyranny.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03
ENTERS SERVICE

President Ray Haggerty of the
Kansas City Joint Board of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Workers
Union has entered the armed services.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-04-03

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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-04-22

LONDON: A shipment of 10000
American alarm clocks will be used
to replace those worn out in Britain
since the war started, it was an
nounced by Hugh Dalton, president
Of the board Of trade, in a statement
to the house of commons after
member complained that coal min
ers were having hard time waking
up for their a. m. shifts in British
and Welsh collieries.
MANCHESTER: The little man
who pays the taxes will probably
have to dig deeper into his pockets
to find the money to help pay for
new British taxes payable under the
new United Kingdom budget, it was
indicated by statement made here
by Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of
the exchequer. Britain's total ex-
penditures last year were %, 400, O0O,-
600 pounds. The government raised
so per cent Of this sum from reve-
nue., and borrowed the remainder
except for 900, 000-pound gift from
Canada. Higher taxes on amuse-
ments loom, Wood said.