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The union times., 1944-08-12
Workers In New EnglandCetBack
 Pay Of $43,57O
26 Employees In Connecticut Get $3743; On Child
 Labor Case

Leo A. Gleason, Regional Direc- tor of the Wage and Hour and Pub lie Contracts Divisions of the U. s. Department of Labor, today an- nounced that total restitution in payment of back wages computed during July, 1914 in New England amounted to $43,57O.lO to 89l employees.
 Of the total amount, Massachusetts firms were found to owe S23, ,3Ol.52 to 463 employees. In addition to this amount, the sum of $150.00 in liqui- dated damages was assessed against a Massachusetts firm for violations of the child labor provisions of the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act.
 The amount of restitution com puted in the other five New Eng land states is as follows: Connecti- cut, $3, ,743.7l to 26 employees; !; Maine, $2,92O.24 to POS em- pIoyees; New Hampshire, $284.42 to II employees; Vermont $2,- 33O.39 to AZ employees; Rhode Is- land, $1O,989.82 to l36 employees.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Workers Did Not Let US. Down In 9th Loan Drive
'E" Bond Sale Quota Ex- ceeded, As Were All
 Other Categories

When the Fifth War Loan drive closed, a few weeks ago, recorded sales of ''E'' bonds, purchased mainly by workers, were substanti- ally below the $3,OOO,O ,OOO,OO quota set by the Treasury Department.
 Some newspapers seized upon the deficit to indulge in a characteristic Smear" charging that workers were indifferent to the governments hnan- cial needs.
 James L. Houghteling, former Chicago investment banker and a member of the Treasury's war bond staff, denounced this attack and Of- fered to wager a $IO Stetson that the workers would come through, as they have always done. He pointed in.
 Houghteling's confidence was not misplaced, a Treasury report this week emphasized. It disclosed that the E" bond goal had been exceeded, as were all other categories.
 The Treasury set out to raise 5000, ,OOO,O but got $2O, ,63O,- 900, ,OOO-a worlds record for a financial transaction, the Treasury said.
 In the five war bond drives thus far conducted proceeds aggregated $67,OOO,OOO,OOO, or $2O, O,7OO,. OOO,OOO more than had been asked.
 Which is pretty good evidence, a Treasury official said, that America knows there's war on"
The union times., 1944-08-12
Army Citations
 Are Awarded To Three Union Men
Two Win Silver Star In Italy; One DEC. In
 England

Two more union men have won the Silver Star in Italy and a third has been awarded the Distinguished Fly ing Cross in England, the War De- paltment reports.
 Lieut.. Leon Weinstein, member of Local 6, Wholesale and Ware house Workers, New York, and Private First Class Eugene Ander- son, Asbestos Workers Local 35, AFL, Youngstown, Ohio, were awarded the Silver Star by It. Gen. Mark Clark in Italy.
 Lieut.. Weinstein won his award for gallantry leading a platoon of mecl1anized cavalry in the first wave of Yanks on Anzio and again among the advance troops entering Rome. Weinstein also gained a promotion on the field from Second to First Lieu tenant.
 Pfc. Anderson won his Silver Star when he stood erect in the face ot enemy rifles and machine guns i'll or der to direct more effective fire against group ot Naz1 soldiers try ing to inhltrate his battalion's right flank to set up machine guns. His cl- tation reads: "Pfc. Anderson not only materially aided his battery i'll re- pu1sing the enemy, he himself killed four enemy snipers with rifle fire"
 T/Sgt.- Kenneth Kuznetzeff, Brooklyn, N. Y., also member of Wholesale and Warehouse Workers Local 6, CIO, was awarded the Dis tinguished Flying Cross for ''extra- ordinary bombardment missions over enemy-Occupied European ter ritory." In addition to the DEC, he holds the Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters. He is the nephew of another distinguished fighter on the Allied team, Admiral Kuzentzoff of the Soviet Navy, who no doubt can also account for plenty of dead NaZis.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Scory Endorsed
 By Stage Unions For Reelection
John Miller Named Presi- dent Of State Association
 Shea Installs Officers

John J. Miller, business representa- tive of Local "A, New Haven Theatri- cal Stage Employees, was unanimously elected president of the Connecticut State Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion Picture Ma chine Operators at the annual meet ing of the association held last week at the New Haven Labor Temple James F. Corrigan of Waterbury was elected vice-president, and John T O'Connell, of New Haven, was re- elected secretary. All elections were unanimous.
 Thomas Shea, international repre- sentative, addressed the meeting, and installed the officers. Another meeting of the State Association will be held next week to discuss the question of contracts.
 Delegates to the meeting unani- mously endorsed Clifton Scory of the Middletown Local for reelection as a vice-president of the Connecticut Federation of Labor.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Conn. Building Trades Council Organized
Judges Heart Is
 Almost Broken!
Federal Court Jurist Defends Actions Of Coal Com panies, But Warns Them Not To Do It Again
 Consumers Victimized Again

NEW YORK-Federal Judge John Clark Knox, put on the bench by President Wilson quarter of a century ago, was called upon this week to impose sentences on 28 Penn sylvania anthracite coal companies which had virtually pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices in violation of the Sherman antitrust law, and 1t hurt him almost as much as 1t did the defendants.
 The companies, together with 20 officers, entered pleas of nolle con- tendre-which means they refused to cOntest-tO a government suit filed last January.
 After suspending sentences on the individual defendants, Judge Knox, with an apology that was almost ab- ject, imposed fines on the companies ranging from $750 to $5,OOO-a mere bagatelle compared with the tribute they had exacted from consumers, ac- cording to government attorneys.
 Even these meager penalties pulled at the heartstrings of Judge Knox, who declared in passing sentences:
 ''One might plausibly argue that the defendants, instead of being eviI-minded malefactors, were anil mated by worthy motives and ac- complished good ends.'
 Disregarding the 1act that the com panies and their officers had prac- tically admitted the government charges, Judge Knox declared he doubted that the public had been made to suffer because of the mis- deeds of the defendants"
 And then, just to make his sOlicitude utterly inexplicable to observers, Judge Knox warned the defendants that if they repeated the offenses and were again brought before his court, he would have to send them to jail.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Gains Made By Yale Employees Union

BOSTON " The New England War Labor Board today announced settlement of a dispute between Yale University and Local 142, Yale Uni versity Employees, United Construc- ton Workers of America.
 The WLB awarded the union its standard maintenance of membership clause, and directed the university to grant a three-cent per hour increase to employees on rotating shifts for jobs ordinarily performed at night and premium of five cents per hour in addition to the regulation rate for the job for regularly scheduled night work on jobs which in their nature are ordinarily performed in the day. time. A union request for overtime rates for maids and janitors on the sixth day worked in a week was denied, but Board approval was given to an hourly rate of 50 cents for maids and elevator operators
 All awards are retroactive to Feb ruary 2, 1914, the expiration date of the last contact between the parties.
The union times., 1944-08-12

ing the impracticability of attempt- ing to divorce the political from the economic realizes its obligation to work for the election of those can- didates who by their record have shown their friendliness to and their appreciation of the common man and his problems. Now there fore be it
 Resolved that the Connecticut Building Trades Council in regular meeting assembled unanimously endorse the candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt for President of these United States and of Senator Harry Truman for Vice President of these United States and be it further
 Resolved that the Connecticut Building Trades Council actively cooperate with other groups and do everything within its power to secure the election of Franklin D. Roisevelt as President and Senator Harry Truman as Vice President of these United States and be it further
 Resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to Presi- dent Roosevelt, Senator Truman, and the Press, and be it finally
 Resolved, that the delegate of the Connecticut Building Trades Council to the next annual conven- ton of the Connecticut Federation of Labor is herewith instructed to present this resolution to that Con- vention, substituting the words Conn. Fed. of Labor for he words Conn. Building Trades Council'."
The union times., 1944-08-12
Walter Winchell  Lies Do Not Pay
Especially When They Are Anti-Union Lies-$9,O ,OOO
 Damages :!

Anti-union talk doesn't pay. Ready to testify to that adage are Radio Commentator Walter Winchell and his sponsor, Jergens Lotion Co.,, who just paid the Natl Maritime Union 5000 in damages for lies Winchell peddled over the air about seamen.
 Back in l94O-in the days be- fore Wincheu recognized the merits of unionism and joined the Am erican Newspaper Cuild-WinchelI was sued by the NMU for attacking its members as sabOteurs both over the radio and in his daily column syndicated by the New York Daily Mirror. The settlement just reached applies only to the anti-uniOn lies spread by Winchell's radio broad cast. Still in the courts is the NMU's fight against Winchel and the Mirror for publication of the li- belOus statements.
 Reporting to the NMU national council on the settlement, Atty. Will liam L. Standard said: "For almost four years we have been battling through the courts, breaking new ground, step by step, in the field of libel law in so far as the rights of organized labor are concerned.
 ''Not only have we established the law in the state of New York, with respect to the rights of trade unions to bring actions due to i- bel and islander, but Mir. WincheII will no longer be able to state that no sponsor of his has suffered mo- ney damages by reason of his pulp lie statements.'
The union times., 1944-08-12
Fascist Menace Shown wnByPapers In Sedition Trial
Documents Reveal Native Organizations Wanted
 Nazism Here

WASHINGTON Sixteen weeks of testimony in the mass sedition trial here show that the danger of fascism in America was a definite and very real fact in the last several years.
 Documents from the secret files of William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt chief and one of the 20 de. fendants still before the bar of fed. eral justice, show that native Am. erican fascists were preparing to strike at the government with the help of higher-ups in Congress and friends in the U. s. army in event of Nazi and Jap victory.
 These documents also showed that Policy and his abor-hating confeder- ateS were betting on the victory of the Axis powers abroad and the Am erica First clique here at home.
 None of the higher-ups named by Policy in his plot letter of April g, 1941, have yet offered to testify in a denial of his statements linking them to the movement here.
 Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, retired pro-fascist army officer and formerly 2nd in com. mand of the U. s. army, whom Pelley expected to aid in the com. ing putsch, has not denied cores. bonding with the Silver Shirt chief. Senators Burton K. Wheeler CD. Mont and Gerald P. Nye (R.N.D.) whom Pelley said he was counting upon, have kept as far away from the courtroom here as possible.
 Policy has been shown as organ izing his Silver Shirt fascist group the day after Adolf Hitler took power with his Nazis in Germany.
 It is the uncontradicted testi. mony in this trial that PeIIey had the closest contacts with the Nazis until he went to prison on another sedition charge in 1942, and he was conact man also between the Ger. man-American Bund and various native fascist groups here.
The union times., 1944-08-12
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

WITH Jim ShanIey reported to be out of the race for Congress from the Third District, Sen. Jim Ceelan would seem to have the inside track for the nomination. Ceelan is the A.F.L.-endorsed can. didate.
 CONN. Building Trades Council meeting was whopper. The dele gates worked-and we mean worked-at setting up an organi- zatiOn, and did a good job. The man who worked the hardest was George Joslyn, who presided. Run- ming a close second was Jim O. Kane, who should have had a court stenOgrapher to help him.
 ORGANIZED labor in Conn. will watch carefully the platform of the state Republican Party, and com pare it with the Democratic state men of principles. The Democratic platform contained many blanks that labor agrees with, especially the proposal for state labor reIa- tiOns act.
 NOMINATION of Bob Hurley and Brien McMahon to head the Democratic state ticket was we'll received by Connecticut's workers. The setback given to Sen. Francis MalOney at the convention may be an indication of what will happen to Sen. John Danaher in the Mo- vember elections.
 A YOUNG army captain who was sent to Alaska in mid-winter asked on his arrival there: Glow cold does it really get?" ''When your shaving lotion freezes, then it's 30 below" he was told. "When the antiseptic solution freezes. it's 50 below. When Scotch freezes it's 65 below. And when the anti-freeze mixture for trucks and bulIdozers freezes, then you'll know it's 70 below"
 ''At what point does gasoline freezer" demanded the captain. ''At 91," he was informed. ''But don't worry about that. Because you freeze at IT."
 CONN. locals and central labor bodies are repidly electing their delegates to the State Federation convention, which opens at the Stratfield in Bridgeport on Sept. 8. As usual, Harry Feinmark will rep. resent the New Haven Central La. Dor Council. New Haven Painters. l86, will be represented by Bill Enright and Saul Kreas. The Pain. ters have instructed their delegates to support the pro-F.D.R. resOlu- ion passed by the Conn. Building Trades Council, which will be one of the high spots of the conven- ton.
 IN THE Oklahoma City Times ''After a few minutes his eyes opened, sat up and said: ''Where am I?"
 Chose eyes ought to be in Rip- ley's.)
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1944-08-12
Building Trades Of Conn.EndorseFDR
Roosevelt And Truman Unanimously Favored At Meet ing In New Haven Conn. Council To Present Same
 Resolution To Conn., Federation Convention

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was unanimously endorsed for re- election for fourth term by the Connecticut Building Trades and Construction Council, which met at New Haven Wednesday. More than sixty building trades locals were represented.
 The resolution endorsing the Presi- dent, and his running Senator Harry Truman. was presented by William Creed, business representa- tive of Local 478, Connecticut Hoist ing Engineers. The text of the reso- lution, which will be presented to the coming convention of the Conn. Fed eration of Labor by the State Build ing Trades Council, follows:
 ''Whereas the present period of time presents one of the most cri- tical periods which has confronted the working men since the incep- ton of organized labor in this country and
 ''Whereas the immediate future holds no prospect of becoming brighter unless labor by its united, aggressive and intelligent action firmly insists upon the recognition it is entitled to and a voice in the shaping of the peace and recOnver- sion plans which will SO vitally af- feet every human being and
 Whereas our economic future depends almost in its entirety upon our political efforts because any gains obtained by contractual nego- tiations could be wiped out by ad- verse legislation and labor recogniz-
The union times., 1944-08-12
No New War Taxes
 Doughton Declares

Here's cheerful news for the tax payer: There will be no further in- creases of income levies during the war, according to Congressman Bob Doughton (Dem., N. O., chairman of the House Ways and Means Com mittee, which originates all tax legis- lation.
 Doughton made his statement after the Treasury revealed that during the last fiscal year something more than 40 billion dollars had been collected, nearly double the 1o43 total.
 Individual income taxes, the Treas ury reported, reached the unprece- dented total of $18,257,177,000, or three times as much as in the pre- ceding year.
The union times., 1944-08-12
IA A.F.L. Members Died
 In Port Chicago Tragedy

SAN FRANCISCO-E1even mem bers of the Sailors Union of the Pa cihc and three of the Natl Organi- zation of Masters Mates & Pilots (both AFL) are listed among the dead in the explosion at the Port Chicago naval ammunition depot They include the chief mate, third mate and boatswain of the Liberty ship E. A. Bryan, which was com pletely destroyed.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Machinists Win At
 Big Douglas Plant

TULSA, Okla.-By winning nearly 55% of votes cast in an NLRB cleo tion, the Intl Assn. of Machinists be- came certified collective bargaining agent of workers at the big Douglas Aircraft Co. plant here.
 This is the second Douglas plant to go LAM. The first was the Doug laS-El Segundo plant at the beach near Los Angeles.
 The LAM now claims representa- tion for some 100000 aircraft work CTS, including nearly all units of Con- solidated Vultee (except the Downey plant which is represented by United Auto Workers), all units of Boeing, Lockheed, Solar and Rhor aircraft companies and nearly all units of Curtiss- Wright.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Barry And O'Kane Head State Group
Strong Organization Set Up To Grapple With Present And Post-War Problems -Vice-Presidents To
 Cover All Cities And Crafts

With virtually city and represented, the Con- nectcu Building and Construction Trades Council meeting at the New Haven Labor Temple, Wednesday, reorganized
 itself into strong funciOning body and prepared itself to attack the problems which face building trades and those which will follow in the postwar period strong slate ot ofhcers was elected, and resolutions adopted.
 Heading the State Council Michael Barry Hartford Car pertes president; James OKane, New Haven Iron Workers secretary and minimum of vce-presdents which will be increased to include representative of all cities and crafts. - ~ ' N
The union times., 1944-08-12
FARM INCOME UP

The movement to market of bum per wheat crops is credited with $13,0OO,0O0 increase in June farm cash income over the preceding month. During the month payments from the government dropped from 94 to 54 millions, the Department of Agricul- ture said.
The union times., 1944-08-12
REVOLT IMMINENT?

The Swiss Telegraph Agency, in a dispatch from the Ita1o-Swiss iron ties, said that "clandestine organiza- tions" of Italian workers whom the Nazis had deported to Germany might lat any moment" surge into revolt against their Nazi taskmasters, OWI reports.
The union times., 1944-08-12
Coffee Rule Delayed

Patrons of public eating places will have to wait another week for a cent cup of coffee The Office of Price Administration said this week the the ceiling had been postponed week because the printing of the regulation had been delayed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-01
Heroic Poland

with Sabotage, bomb ings and
wreckings"; home army which
has replaced the original forces,
trained and bivouacked in forests,
has met the invaders in pitched en-
gagements; and lately Polish defend
ers have risen up again within the
walls of Warsaw.
With more than 100000 in the
resistance forces in the homeland,
the Nazis have been compelled to
keep three fourths of million troops
immobilized in Poland, while on the
other hand much aid has been given
to the advancing Russian armies.
Moreover, there is an under
ground" government in Poland-a
Shadow state" with courts of law,
industrial and agricultural depart
ments, Parliament and 10000 civil
service workers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-01
DUT Poland has suffered terrible
- penalties, too.

DUT Poland has suffered terrible
j. penalties, too.
Approximately 100000 of her
people have been "exterminated" -
100000 of them Jews, thousands
of them Catholic priests.
Polish lads have been executed
for the crime" of belonging to the
Polish Boy Scouts.
Farms have been looted and the
buildings burned; and all cultural
institutions have been closed by the
Germans-all colleges, high schools
and professional schools.
And, of course, the Polish press
was extinguished long ago. The
services and sacrifices of the Polish
people should be gratefully remem-
bered on Sept. in all of the United
Nations.
Even more should they be remem-
bered at Dumbarton Oaks, where the
great powers are in conference, and
at the tables of the peacemakers
when the last shots of battle have
been fired.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-01

CEPTEMBER l will be the ami
~ versary of one of the most mo-
mentous and tragical days in the
thousand year history of Poland.
For it was on that date in 1889
when Poland, as the first nation to
defy the aggressions of Adolf Hit
Ter, was attacked by the Nazi hordes.
The Polish government had re
jected Hitler's proposal for a joint
attack on Soviet Russia, and so
World War II began.
Now, at the beginning of the sixth
year of the war Poland still fights on;
and the brave hearts of her patriots
are cheered by the approaching vic
tory of the Allies.
MUCH of Poland's war has not
wi been fought in Poland.
Polish soldiers refugees from
Poland and others have been
trained in Russia, in the Middle East
and in Britain.
Germans, as the Polish telegraph
agency notes, care surrendering to
Poles on every front. "
There were Poles in Africa with
Gen. Montgomery.
Monte Casino was taken by
Poles, who are helping to drive the
enemy up the Italian coasts.
Poles form a part of the Allied
armies that are fighting the great
battle of France
The Polish air force, composed of
$4,000 men in IA squadrons, is fourth
in size among the United Nations,
and Polish fiers have shot down
1,500 German planes during the war.
Likewise, the Polish navy has
kept the seas and is larger than ever,
with a cruiser, six destroyers, three
submarines, coastal vessels and
merchant marine.
And in Poland itself, where the
struggle has never ceased, Polish
guerillas have been fighting steadily