davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Jerome Davis
In Tribute To.
Walter Davis
Nationally Known Educator
Praises Career Of N. H.
Labor Leader

The following is richly de-
serued tribute to the memory of
Walter E. Dapis, Elm Lodge, No.
42C, MachinistS Union, NetO Ha-
zen, by DR.. Jerome DaUis, for
mer President of the american
Federation of Teachers, and for
a number of years delegate to
the N. III. Central Labor COun-
cil.-EditOr's Note.
Walter Davis was one of the most
sincere and devoted labor men l ever
knew He is the stuff out of which
the labor movement is built Here was
man, minus a leg and an ear and
yet he accomplished more than half
a dozen men of superb physique. List
the good causes which Walter Davis
backed and you have a record of the
finest movements in the past thirty
years in New Haven. l never knew
anyone who approached Walter Davis
for cause which would help the
common people and the labor move
ment without his being willing to lend
a hand. He was the backbone OF
Workers Education in New Haven
was on the Board of the Cooperative
Movement; he religiously supported
the Labor Forum both of the Trades
Council and in the churches. His rec
ord in politics is we'll known.
Invariably On Job
Although Walter Davis had to
work as a machinist during the day
he was invariably on the job, helping
with the labor movement at night.
He was one of the most faithful at
tendants at Trades Council meetings
of anyone in the city. Many a night,
in the midst of a blizzard, he would
get his wife to pull him on a sled to
take the street car to go down to the
Trades Council Hall, returning in the
wee small hours.
Although | was newcomer to
New Haven in 1923, Walter Davis
Immediately supported everything that
l attempted in the field of labor; and
l often felt that anything I was &C
comprising was in large measure due
to him. His death is tragic loss to
the cause of labor in the State, but
the foundation which he built lives
and goes forward. Nothing can ever
stop it. Literally hundreds of men
have been inspired by his example
and will be more effective workers
in the cause for which he gave his
life.
Let us all take renewed devotion to
the cause of labor, for which he dedi-
Gated his life.
Jerome Davis.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
ALL Longshoremen
Get Wage Increase

WASHINGTON. An agreement
for wage increases of S cents an hour
between the Intl Longshoremen's
Assn. (A.F.L.) and the New York
Shipping Assn, which serves as a
master agreement for all Atlantic
ports, was approved this week
About $4,000 workers are affected
by the National War Labor Board
decision. Rates previously were from
$1.2O to $l.40 an hour, except for
men handling explosives and damaged
cargoes. They received $40 under the
old scale and were awarded an ad-
ditional 5 cents over the general
increase.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
AFLButchersAct
.OnMeatShortage

SAN FRANCISCO-A special con-
ference of the Western Federation of
Butchers (AFL), made up of regional
presidents of the union, has
adopted APPOINT program to deal
with the meat shortage:
Retail butchers and butchers union
representatives must be made members
Of all government committee studying
the meat industry and its problems.
The artificial shortage of meat is
due to the majority of wholesalers not
killing the quotas assigned them by
the OPA, because they want higher
price ceiling.
Rationing must be established to
eliminate black market, bootlegging of
meat and violations of price ceilings.
Union butchers will not handle, cut,
or process meats of any description
unless federal, state and local inspec-
ton stamps are on them. Butchers will
be withdrawn from plants which VIC
late government regulations.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

for the duration of the war; is also
opposed to reducing the age limit
for the employment of children in
industries from 10 to Is years; and
for increasing the legal hours for wo-
men to more than 10 day and IS
a week.
Egan said the Federation will CD
pose these measures with the same
vigor as it will work for the passage
of the seven measures outlined in
The UNION TIMES last week.
In connection with proposing
the name of Hartford Alderman
Frank M. Heavey as an ALL. rep
resentative on the Regional War
Labor Board, Egan said that Con-
necticut is entitled to one ALL.
member on this Board in view of
the fact that 500 of all war con-
tracts let in New England were
awarded to Connecticut firms.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

member of CLIO. union, appeared
with Britt on the program, to answer
questions concerning his suggestion
which increased the output of blank
ing presses from 500 to 100 an hour
with considerable savings in time and
electric power.
In both plants successful Labor
Management Committees are in oper-
alton.
Jack Goodwill, president of Lo-
cal 743, is co-chairman of the
committee at the Hamilton Pro-
peller plant. Paul Azinger, factory
superintendent, is co-chairman.
Other members of the Labor Man
agement are Francis O'Mara and
James r. Hooker, representing Lo-
cal 743; and Nevin Decker assis-
tant to the plant manager, and W.
Thomas Beebe, personal manager,
representing the company.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Middletown Board
Still Holding Off

Charity Commissioner Raymond
Wilcox of Middletown has received
no official instructions from the city
Finance Board which more than three
weeks ago passed a resolution direct
ing him to send letters to the former
relief recipients asking them to make
repayments of relief grams. The reso-
luton of the Board was passed over
the sole dissenting vote of Rep. Ar
thur LaBarge, President of the AT l..
Textile Union at the Russell Manu-
featuring Co.
In spite of the strong wave of
protest stirred up by the Boards
resolution, it has taken no official
steps to rescind its action. While
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Another Anti-Union
Bill Is Introduced

HARRISBURG, PA bill which
would require labor unions to report
to the secretary of labor records Of
their membership, dues collections and
expenditures, has been introduced il
the state senate.
introduced by George Woodward
from a Philadelphia silk stocking dis.
trict, the measure would require par.
ticular details of union expenditures ii
political campaigns.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
Bricklayers,NO.6
Has l5In Service

Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers,
Local No. 6, New Haven, has a total
of IS men in the Services, according
to James DiLonardo, business agent.
They are: Howard Moriarty, Will
liam Corcoran, Henry Carney, Jr.,
Ser. Tech, Maurice Mendall, BENIN
Leonard, Serg. Joseph Saldibar,
John Ginnetti, John Ballatyne, An
thony Paneroni, Arthur CastellizJa,
Anthony Marino, Anthony Galgi, Al
bert Carlucci, all in the Army; Allen
Caswell in the "Sea Bees; Arthur
Fusco in the Marines.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
'Phony' Sales
Regulation Is
Being Blasted
N. H. Labor Paves Way By
Exposing Attempts To
Undermine Regulations

Acting against a campaign
which has been begun in Con-
necticut and other parts of the
country, the New Haven Cen
trail Labor Council, at its meet
ing Thursday, unanimously
adopted a resolution calling
upon the Rent Control Section
of OPA not to relax it's regu-
latiOns which would prevent
the evasion of rent control by
''phOny'' sales of property.
The resolution was introduced
by Harold V. Feinmark, presi-
dent of the Council.
NATIONAL MOVEMENT
A nationwide movement spOn-
sOred by certain realty owners is
afOOt to undermine the system of
rent control, and the opening
wedge is booklet printed by the
Apartment House Association of
San Francisco arguing the necessity
of higher rents. This group and its
supporters have succeeded in intro
ducing in Congress three bills
which if approved would have the
effect of raising the Nations rent
bill from 81, 200, 100000 to So
OOO, 900, 900 this year. Price Adj
ministratOr Prentiss Brown has re-
fused to bulge on permitting rents
ceilings to be raised, although he
has said nothing about the recent
amendment on the One-third down
payment.
The bills introduced in Congress
would permit rent increases, some of
them outright, others by subterfuge.
They were introduced by Reps. Fred
L. Crawford (R., Mich.), Harry E.
Sheppard 3D., CALI, and Jesse P.
Wolcott (R., Mich.).
COUNCIL RESOLUTION
The resolution of the New Haven
Council follows:
Resolved, That the New Haven
Central Labor Council, representing
the $4,000 members of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in this
city, hereby goes on record i'm Civ
ing its full support to the recent
amendment to the Maximum Rent
Regulations, which requires that
in buying a house, the purchaser
must make a One-third payment
in cash out of his own funds, and
must give three months notice be-
fore evicting tenants. Since this
provision of the regulation applies
only when the purchaser seeks to
gain possession of the property
for his own use, no hardship is i'm
posed on those who may wish to
speculate in real estate. The COun-
Gil supports the real purpose of
the regulation, which is to prevent
the evasion of rent control by
'phOny sales
BE it further Resolved, that a
copy of this resolution be sent to
Anthony +. Arpaia, Rent Control
Director for New Haven, and to the
press"
The amendment of the rent con-
troll setup requiring the one-third
down payment and the three months
eviction notice came into being after
the State O.P.A. Administrator
Chester Bowles conferred with for
mer O.P.A. Chief Leon Henderson,
in Washington in October on the de-
moralizing state in the Hartford area
that had arisen over the purchasing
of homes and forcing war workers
to move out
The Union Times carried a re-
port of this condition when the
facts were first made available by
the Hartford Civic and Economic
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

president of the Bridgeport
Motion Picture Machine Opera
tors, Local 277, who was re-
elected president of the Bridge
port C.L.U. for his eighth con-
secutive term last week.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06
MARTIN FLANAGAN,

MARTIN FLANNICAN,
recording secretary of Div. 459,
Bridgeport Bus Drivers, has been
indicted into the u. S. Army.
Flanagan is a former Demo-
cratic Alderman i'm Bridgeport.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-06

NNO0 GHOdLH5H
Ia Jdfloo . 4EVdaIT ELvLS
aztsaaaa saNvr
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
THREE DOWN-TWO TO GO

Another seIfridse Field officer hos been convict
ed Of betroyine his scored trust.
Major George A. Hartford, 3o-yeor old Detroiter
and base intelligence officer here during the regime
Of Col. WiIIiom T. CoImon hos been ordered cashier
ed from the service
While much Of the testimony in the Hartford
case unlike that in the trioIs Of Col. CoImon ond OF
Lieut.. Col Cherries G. White, wos behind closed doors
it is reasonable to suppose thot the court mortol
carefully weighed eoch Bit Of evidence provided by
q long line Of witnesses ond documentary exhibits.
UnquestionobIy the verdict. and the resuItont
sentence, ore Just.
Men Of Hortford's ik should be weeded out OF
the service ropidIy ond ruthIessIy They possess no
quofie otons for command.
Two eoses Of those exposed in the Investigation
following the unprovoked shooting Of an enlisted man
on Moy remain TO be heard. Warrant Officer Fred
LoLone is before q urt-mortioI today Moster
Seret Myron r. Collins will foce troI next week.
II will be interesting TO see how much il at oil,
rousher the court will prove TO be when the OF
Seret. CoIIins-on enlisted mon-orises.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
NEW TAX PROGRAM

Treasury Secretary Morgenthou hos expressed de-
sire 10 assist Congress in formulating the tax bill
which is to be adopted, we hope, between and
the newyeor But, according to Representative Knut
son Of Minnesota and Representative Douehton Of
North CoroIino the Treasury hos no rounded Proerom
to offer.
Having in mind whot happened when the Treos-
uy helped Congress frame the poy-osy ou-eorn tax
law, Mr.. Morgenthous lock Of plan now con not be
considered os really catastrophe.
The congressman, who have been around talking
with constituents must know thot while we toxpoyers
ore ready TO pay more thot is the way TO beot Hitler
and TOTO, we oren't prepared to stond much longer
for such onoteursh bun9Iing os thot Of lost spring.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
Q BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

loans for a total of S64 million,
there have been granted 459
loans 10 407 firms for a total Of
S18 million, 337 of them being
capital loans and l2l being
equipment leases.
Add these up and you get
1891 million worth of business
transacted. This isn't every
thing for reasons stated In item
two, above. But call il 81 bill
lon, or call il even Sis billion
and it is still less than one
weeks war production at cur
rent rates of expenditure.
POOLING PRODUCTION
Now maybe il is expecting too
much for small business to play
any larger part in this big war.
Maybe small business can't be
gcared up TO the big jobs of
mass poduction that have TO be
done. If this is the case, the
sooner it il realized the better
off everyone would be.
Back before Pearl Harbor,
there was all kinds Of excite
ment, as you'll recall, about
production by bits and pieces, y
pooling" York Plans" and the
like. Today, the SWPC report
reveals, there are just "a pools
in operation.
Congress has kicked around
the political football of small
business for all il was worth.
Every politician is for small
business, just as he is for home,
mother, Riddles, and love OF
country. In the Senate, the
Murray committee has champ
toned small business and forced
through the Smaller War Plants
Act in May, 1912. In the House
IL has been the Patman commit
tee.
The War Production Board
and its forbears have seen a sue
ceSsion of agencies and efforts
and men, ending with Brig
Gen. later just plain Mr.. Robert
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
BRtTOkS MEAN BUSINESS

it hasn't. The British fined wordf orous wonoon
it host The British fined O word-fomous women
member Of PorIioment, Lody Astor, S240 for Vioo-
tion Of rotOnin9 regulations. The Vrginoborn peer
ess merely asked friend to bring her back some
clothing when he returned from the United Stotes
by Plane
1t goes without soyne thot our most Voco woro-
member Of Congress, Mrs. Claire Luce, would not
knowingly offend against rotonine rules. lody AS
tor didn't understood either.) But Mrs Luce we're,
by conceded error, to break rule or two, would we
fine her $500 and costs2
The British mean business. Their wor isn't even
just ofross the channel. It's right OF home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
FINANCING REVENGE

The C.IO believes on the strength Of on inter
probation by its general counsel, thot its unions
legally spend their members money in effort to de-
feet congressman whose votes the CT O. does not op
prove This is to be done by operating in the pr-
onores and by spending the money against those
it disIikes nsteod OF giving it to those whom it op
proves.
This Of course, perpetuotes the evil which SO many
dislike. Workers forced to pay union dues in order
to hold their jobs must wotch their money being used
against candidates they ovOr for the benefit Of can
ddotes they oppose.
The C.LO Interpretation should be tested in the
courts II it stands, the law should be revised i'm
rediotey.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
BY PETER EDISON

Evidence piles up TO show
that more fuss has been made
over the plight of small business,
with less results. than almost
any other part of the war pro-
duction effort. The point is
forcibly brought home by the
seventh bi-monthly report of
the Smaller War Plants Corpora
ton, just released, covering the
period from June 6 to July 80.
The l00page report boils down
to one obvious fact: SWPC is
just now beginning TO get ready
10 start to commence 10 do
things.
When you stop 10 consider
that war production is now run
ming at more than Sc billion a
month, the amount of SWPC
aid TO small business can be put
in one eye. This may not be a
fair picture of the situation, be-
cause all the war business which
small business firms obtained
directly from Army and Navy
procurement services and by
direct subcontracting without
the aid of SWPC is not shown,
and is undoubtedly much larger,
Anyway, the SWPC part of it
sums up like this:
l. Five prime contracts taken
or Sis million worth of goods,
These have been broken down
into 104 contracts TO 90
firms for total Of S8.3 million.
Eighty-two of the sub-contracts
were for furniture.
2. The total number OF SUBJ
contracts SWPC has obtained it
doesn't attempt to estimate. be-
cause in the early days reports
were filed on such variety Of
bases that it is impossible 10
tabulate them accurately. In
the last four months, the total
has been 3720 sub-contracts for
a total OF 1862 million.
3. Out of 935 applications for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30

w. Johnson. Now Johnson wants
TO resign.
johnson has admittedly had
his troubles. He inherited prac-
tically no organization and had
TO build up from scratch. He has
Just about completed an organi-
zation. The last of his IA re-
gional boards of governors was
named but recently He has OBJ
tanned assurances of private
bank. trade association and
Chamber of Commerce co-opera-
ton. He has just announced a
Research Advisory Service TO
give small business men the
benefit of technical data.
SUB-CONTRACTING
On July % the Army Service
Forces put into their prime con-
tract forms uniform clause de-
handing sub-contracting to the
maximum amount possible.
After months of negotia-
tion," says the Johnson report,
IAN accord has finally been
reached with officials OF the
Maritime Commission for carry
ing out the provisions OF the
law"
Maybe the bround has been
prepared for the Smaller War
Plants Corporation TO start
growing. Maybe the next few
months will show results. II
not. maybe it's time TO try
something else, or else give up.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

she's the mother of three-a
cook book or a book of beauty
hints. Finally she decided on the
latter.
But I'm still going TO write
those other two some day she
says.
Actual writing the book was
strictly unorthodox. First thing
she did, Joan said, was to fig
ure out the chapter headings.
Then the sub-chapters. Then the
illustrations. Then, she said, she
started writing.
and no cracks. please" she
laughed, about my deciding on
the cover of the books jacket
before it was written"
First day she tried debating 10
her secretary. But thaht didn't
work SO she wrote the entire
book in longhand. The first draft
came back with a note from the
publisher. 1t was very good, the
publisher said, but il was too
short. Would she write several
thousand more words, please.
so | wrote and wrote some
more and finally the publisher
sent me the galley proofs. BY the
length of them, | thought | had
out-written Gone With the
Wind"
And then the book almost
didn't get printed. Joan said she
mailed the completed manu-
script to the publisher just three
days before fire completely de-
stroyed her Beverly Hills home.
IF the manuscript had been
burned she said, Il would
never have rewritten it,"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK

Joan said she started thinking
about the book two years ago.
She couldn't decide whether TO
write about raising children
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
BY FRSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondent

There's an old Hollywood leg
end that movie queens buy
their books by the yard TO match
their Grapes. Today we talked 10
a film queen who WROTE a
book-snd not 10 match her
Grapes
The authorcSs is Joan Bennett.
The title Of the book is How
to Be Attractive.
You don't have 20 look at Joan
Bennett twice to know that she
knows the secrets. And it's a
very nice job Of writing, too.
There's even a chapter the
men should read, How to At
tract Men" in which the star
explodes what she calls three
popular myths, Hes Just Lit
tie Boy Grown Tall All Men
Fall for Pretty Face, and
Keep En- Guessing"
Joan wrote in longhand. 1t
took her year and nine months.
Just a year longer than to have
a baby" she laughs She wanted
to title il, Beauty for Beast but
the publishers said no. They
were afraid people would think
il was an animal story.
Now that she's written book
titled, How TO Be Attractive, "
Joan says she finds it rather en-
bsrrassing. There was the time,
for instance, she went shopping
in Westwood Village with her
hair in curriers'. no makeup, and
wearing a snood and pajamas.
"A woman walked UP TO me
and said she recognized my
voice. She said she hoped TO sell
lot of copies Of my book She
was the owner of book store
down the street. | expected her
10 say, why don't you find out
yourself
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK
Joan said she started thinking
about the book two years ago.
She couldn't decide whether TO
write about raising children
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
ROAD BAR

MISSOULA, Mont. - Motor
cyclist Weir Stone and his pas
senger, Glenn Corney, sped up a
hill and collided with some
thing. They were thrown to the
road.
Stone, first to regain con-
sciousness, looked up-just as a
large black bear arose unsteadily
and wobbled off into the forest.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30

Sealed beam automobile head
lamps now are being used for
more than 80 different military
applications.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-30
YOUTH PROBLEM

SEATTLE-A. j. Browning's
bantam hens Matched five tur-
key eggs last spring.
It's proved quite upsetting.
The turkeys try 10 huddle
under the bantams' wings, and
are so big they topple over the
tiny mother hens.
But the bantam rooster crows
with exceeding pride.
Evening star., 1943-04-06

over all France. Only its executive
heads-its commanding officer and
chiefs of staff-know its component
parts. There would be too great
danger Of "leaks" If the units knew
one another. The executive heads,
in turn, are known to very few in
the London government.
Time Approaching.
The time will come, Col. Lombard
points out, when this army will have
to be armed and supplied, and
taught the advances in the arts of
war which have developed during
the years 1t has remained in hiding
It is this day to which the military
missions are looking forward. They
are keeping in touch with the most
advanced aspects of armament and
tactics.
Meanwhile, there is plenty OF
work for which the volunteers can
be trained here. The Fighting
French forces overseas need tech
nicians of all sorts. There will be
an untold number of needs when
France arises.
Il expect to see the Fighting
French volunteers increase steadily
Evening star., 1943-04-06

spend many millions Of dollars because these
programs on the NBC Network-to which WRC
belongs-attract AMERICAS BIGGEST AUDI
ENCE to hear their advertising messages. And
it is the revenue from the sale of time to these
advertisers that ALONE supports the National
Broadcasting Company-and enables it, together
with its clients, to bring you the best in entertain
ment and information, drama and music, cheer
and inspiration:
For the shows that rate radios highest awards tune
in-and stay timed into $50 on your dial!
DO YOU KNOW. Il that sixty NBC advertisers
spend oper million dollars q .Oeek to bring
standing programs of entertainment to American
listeners -. That means you sit down each day to
a$15O,OOO sbow!