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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
Mayor OF Frisco
Cyps Streetcar
Men Of SC Raise
Carmen Hold Meeting At
4A.M. To Protest High
Handed Action

SAN FRANCISCO-The anti-la-
Dor hand of Mayor Roger ID. Lap
ham manipulated the regional War
Labor Board to keep badly
needed nickel hourly wage increase
from San Francisco's war-burdened
streetcar men, WLB labor members
charge here.
In the face of rising living costs
the Amalgamated Assn. of Street,
Electric Railway & Motor Coach
Employees asked raise to 971ac
for streetcar workers and $I.O2 for
bus drivers, an increase of Sc an
hour. Lapham vetoed this raise,
even before the board of supervis-
ors met to give it formal cOnsid-
Grafton. The mayor announced he
had worked out a compromise with
the board SO no meeting was neces-
sary-but the compromise left the
carmen out i'm the cold. The work.
ers are employed by the Municipal
Railway.
Determined to fight, the union
called all carmen to protest meet
ing, held at q a. m. on Sunday to
cause the least possible inconvenience
to the public, and to spike any at
tempts of the press and anti-labor in
terest to blow the move up into a
walloout.
One thousand drivers stayed up or
got out of bed to attend the meeting.
They unanimously voted to stick to
their no-strike pledge no matter what
Lapham did, resolving that the war
comes first. A delegation of Negroes
and other nonunion employees brought
word that Lapham was already try
ing to hire them as strikebreakers.
They had refused his offer. Applaud
ing their message of support, the union
drivers moved to put all possible
pressure on the supervisors to over
ride the mayors veto.
Under pressure from the entire
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
N. Y. Carpenters
Reject Building
Trades-CIO Pact
Question Authority Of BIT
Council To Enter Into
Agreement For Locals

The New York District Council
of Carpenters and Joiners, repre-
senting 38 local unions and 10000
skilled mechanics in the metropoli-
tan area, has entered vigorous
protest against a local AFL-CIO
''peace" pact agreed to in Mayor
LaCuardia's office last week. The
agreement calls for the adjudica-
ton of disputes by committees
from both organizations involving
affiliated locals.
Dispatching a sl1arply-worded COM
tnunication to leading ALL officials,
the Carpenters District Council ex-
pressed surprise" at the action of
the New York City Building and
Construction Trades Council and
'the so-called Industrial Council,
Go"
The joint pact between the two
groups, signed in City Hall in the
presence of newspapermen and Mayor
LaGuardia, established a joint com
mittee on industrial relations with
authority to mediate trade differences.
The Carpenters letters of protest
said the joint AFL-CIO commit
tee can serve no useful purpose
''but can only create the false inn
preston amongst the membership
of building trades unions that we
Continued on Page Two)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
Spokane Transfers
Swarm To Polls, Win

SPOKANE, Wash.-Union team
sters of Spokane fexed their political
muscles in the city election and
scored a knockout in their first
round.
Members of Locals $50 and 1874,
Init. Bro. of Transfers, marched as
one man to the polling booths to vote
for their slate: pay increase for
city fremen, a school bond issue to
build a new high school and modern
ize the grade schools and defeat OF
a charter amendment which would
take away the peoples power to vote
on pay increases for city employees.
Results of the election showed every
one of the transfers issues won by a
wide margin. Sold on political action,
the local champions are getting in
shape now for a bigger fght-aimed
at war wreckers in Congress.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
AFL Asks WLBTo Abolish WageFreeze
Letter To Murphy
On Appointments
New Haven Mayor Asked By Central Labor Council To
Establish Precedent And Appoint ALL. Members
On Basis Of Labor Representation

Mayor John W. Murphy of New
Haven has been formally requested
by the New Haven Central Labor
Council to give consideration to
the appointment of members of or
ganized labor to municipal boards
and commissions on the basis of
their membership in unions, and
not on any other basis.
Following is the text Of a letter
sent to Mayor Murphy by Council
Secretary Bernard ]. Geelan:
"My dear Mr.. Mayor:
1T has been brought to the atten-
ton of the delegates of the New
Haven Central Labor Council that
in order to receive appointment to
and serve on the various Boards and
Commissions of the City of New
Haven certain requirements and
qualifications be adhered to.
"The delegates at the last regu-
lar meeting of the Council unani-
mousIy went ON record as instruct
ing the Secretary to advise you that
it is their wish and desire to have
a member of organized labor ap-
pointed to the various Boards and
Commissions as a representative OF
organized labor and on no other
basis. The consensus of opinion
was that if precedent had to be
broken in order to comply with
this request there was no better
time than the present inasmuch
our Chief Executive is member
of organized labor.
"The Council took further action
in endorsing Richard L. Buckley, a
member of the Warehouse Workers
Union, whose address is 20o4 Chapel
Street, for an appointment to the
Board of Education. Mr.. Buckley is a
graduate of the University of Maine
and is strongly DESTROYS of receiving
an appointment to the Education
Board as a representative of organ
lied labor.
"Presider. Harold V. Feinmark
and Vice-President James P. Geelan
were also unanimously endorsed by
the Council, for appointment to the
Education Board or to any Board or
Commission where vacancy now ex-
lists or may exist in the future, as rep
resentatives of organized labor.
1--WE sincerely hope that our
recommendation will meet with
your approval and that we may con-
tinue to support you in your pres
emit and future administrations
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
Soldiers Invited
By AL To Visit
UnioniistsatWork
Would Combat Anti-Labor
Distortions Being Fed
To Servicemen

An invitation to servicemen,
drenched in anti-labor propaganda, to
visit unionists at the dynamo of the
war effort-the production lines-has
been extended by the Labor League
for Human Rights, AFL war relief
organization.
The AFL's offer came on the
heels of organized labOr's dispute
with Sec. of War Henry L. Stimson
over the biased accounts of union
activity reaching the men at the
front. Making clear that the AFL
has never disputed the honesty and
objectivity of the Army News Ser
vices news writing, the league said
that StimsOn was ignoring labOr's
chief complaint:
"This was the charge that over
emphasis Of certain types of news
constitutes biased, anti-labor propa-
ganda in spite of the fact that, taken
item by item, the accuracy of such
news series cannot be questioned"
The league asserted that ''the
CT diet of labor news seems to be
limited to strike stories plus an
occasional dribble of reports on
production records"
Suggesting that the army reverse
its usual procedure of having groups
of unionists visit army camps, the
league said: Organized labor would
like to arrange for visits of groups
of servicemen to production centers
throughout the country"
Servicemen would visit unionists
right on the production lines, at
tend union meetings, pitch into
discussions on postwar planning,
housing and reconversion prob
lens, under the AFL proposal.
While labor does not pretend that
it can match hardship for hardship
with the men of the armed forces, :"
<acquainting soldiers with the varied
war activities of unions would re-
store their confidence in the home
front and eliminate the distortions
and prejudices which form a barrier
between our armed forces and or
gained labor the league said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
REVISE LITTLE STEEL
AN EDITORIAL

Unless the Little Steel formula revised upward very
The nations and their families will
difficult make their fixed wages sky-gh prices
of food clothing, shelter and other of
Decentralization on the production lines will in.
Manpower problems will acute as more and more
workers become FESTIVE and look for
to avoid going into debt to feed their families.
THERE WILL BE GREAT DANGER THAT THE FLOW OF
GUNS, TANKS, PLANES AND OTHER WEAPONS TO OUR
FIGHTING MEN WILL SLOW DOWN-AT TIME WHEN
THEY ARE POISED FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE
Labor will stick by its pledge come what may
BUT, ALL SecTreas George Meany has
ton OF the Little Steel formula it stands
sustained production
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

for our nation. They are the core of
the democracy for which we fight and
upon whom the future of our democ-
racy depends.
Fhey must not be bled white
now and junked after the war. The
strength of our country and the
maintenance of our nation depend
I'M great part upon fulfilling our
pledges that our economy will be
stabilized.
Time is running short If we are
to fulfill our pledge, we must liqui-
date our earlier hope of rolling back
prices and, instead, proceed to bring
wages in balance with higher costs
of living"
Taking up a new angle of the
wage situation, Mr.. Meany pointed
out:
Our government has completely
failed to give the workers of our
nation the benefits of real social
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

insurance which other nations inn
mediately increased when war
broke out. That is one reason for
all the demands for severance nav.
sick leave, group insurance plans
and other costly substitutes which
some unions are demanding and
which some companies are willing
to pay since the government is pay
ing the bill plus surcharge for
commercial handling and profits.
A tar more realistic approach to
this problem would be an honest
abOvebOard pay raise to meet the
higher cost of living.''
Mr.. Meany, member of the War
Labor Board himself, was the first
witness at the public hearing. Repre-
sentativeS of the American Fedora
ton of Labor from various parts of
the country were scheduled to follow
HIM with detailed reports on wage in
equities in their areas.
Spokesman for a number of
ALL unions also were planning 10
present evidence with regard to
wage injustices under the Little
STEEP formula in various specific
trades.
The hearing will last three days
after which the panel will decide
whether to recommend further action
by the War Labor Board.
Members of the panel include Ralph
l: Seward, representing the public;
Charles R. Hook, Jr., representing
industry, and Edward ]. Volz, preSi-
dent of the Photo-Engravers Interna-
tlonal Union, representing labor.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
Profiteers' Lobby
Seeks End Of OPA
Labor Issues Sharp Warning That Lobbyists Want To
"Pull The Teeth" Out Of Prce-Control Law
Constructive Steps Recommended

Representatives of the A. F. of
L., C. /. o. and Standard Railroad
Labor Organizations joined this
week in warning against lobbyists
who are swarming over Capitol Hill
in an effort to persuade Congress
to ''pull the teeth" of the price
control law when it comes up for
renewal within few months.
The urgent warming was voiced
in a statement pur out by three
leaders of the o. P. A. Labor Policy
Committee-JuIius G. Luhrsen, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Railway
Labor Executives Association !;
Boris Shishkin, economist of the
A. F. of L., and Ray Walsh, re-
search director of the C.. /. o.
Backed up by the Railway Labor
Executives Association at meeting
in Washington, the statement was
distributed to unions all over the
country, and organized labor was
urged to rally its forces to save and
strengthen the law
III supplementary lelleT 10 TAN
unions, Luhrsen pointed out that "gi-
gantic pressures are being brought to
bear upon Congress to emasculate
price control"
''The drive is taking the form
not of open opposition, but of
efforts to make price control un.
workable and ineffective, Luhrsen
said. ga law impossible of enforce
ment is worse than no price control
at ALL"
The law is much too weak now and
is not being enforced as it should be,
the laborites stressed. To undermine it
further would be an invitation for
wholesale robbery of consumers, they
declared.
For added teeth to protect con-
sumers, the labor men demanded that
these steps be taken:
Slash price ceilings for any
industry or commodity where pro-
fits are excessive.
2-Authorize o. p. A. to make
test purchases to catch violations.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

eliminate price ceilings that
are still based on percentage
markups" or other complicated
formulas, and substitute simple
dollars and cents ceilings that
can be readily understood by con-
sumers.
Repeal the ban on 'sgrade
labelling" SO that consumers may
know what they are getting for
their money, and thus end fragrant
chiseling.
Six ceilings on individual
commodities on the basis of overall
profits of manufacturers or distrib-
utOrs, not merely the profits on the
single item.
6-Publicize the swollen war
time profits being rolled up by in
dustries under price control. 60. p.
A. has such figures, but has sup
pressed them).
Tighten up rent control.
which has been subject to ''whole-
sale evasions."
8-Double the appropriations
for enforcement, SO enough inspec-
tors can be provided to stop cheat
ing and black market operations.
9-If the congressional rider re-
quiring that administrators of price
regulations be business men is con.
tinued, then they should be barred
from formulating any rules over
an industry in which they have an
interest, or have had during the
the past two years.
1O-Finally, extend the life of
the law until at least two years after
the shooting stops.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

States has the power under the Sta
Utilization Act to correct this gross
inequity, Mr.. Meany pressed for ap-
proval by the special NWLB panel
of the AFL petition that the board
request the President:
Ito modify realistically that
portion of Executive Order No.
1928 which limits wage adjust
ments to the present limits of the
Little Steep formula.
2-To permit employers to ap-
ply these wage adjustments with
out obtaining specific approval in
each case from the National War
Labor Board.
Mr.. Meany warned that the COM
bination of wage freezing under the
Executive Order and job freezing
under War Manpower regulations
serves to destroy the traditional in
centives of the American worker at
a time when the urgent need of the
war is for more and more produc-
ton"
He charged that the acute strain
of trying to make both ends meet
is forcing many workers to reduce
their War Bond purchases and to
cash in bonds they bought previ-
ously.
Lets be honest with ourselves as
a nation" the AFl official appealed.
Our workers are soldiers of in
dustry, who have accomplished
volume and quality of production
which assures eventual defeat of the
enemy. They are workers worthy of
their hire. They are the citizens from
whose homes have come fighting men
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
New Footnote For
Anti-Union Book

SAN FRANCISCO = Signing a
closed shop contract would collide
with the precepts of the church." Ar
thur Bell, head of Mankind United
and convicted seditionist now out on
appeal, told officials of two locals of
Hotel & Restaurant Employees Init
Alliance (AFL).
Known as "The Voice." Bell said
he could not sign the contract in
force in every other hotel in the city
for the Cecil Hotel, which he bought
recently. Bell fired all employees who
were not members of Mankind United
when he took over. Nothing wrong
with that kind of closed shop, he says.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
Ohio Machinists
Back President
For Fourth Term
California RaiImen And St.
Paul ALL. Also Give
Support To F.D.R.

CLEVELAND Claiming fourth
term for the President as labor's
fight, the executive board of the Ohio
State Council of the Int. Ash. of Ma
chinists called for "the reelection of
labor's best friend, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, commander -in-chief of our
armed forces, world leader of democ-
racy and progress"
''It was the opinion of those
present that labor has benefited
more during the past 10 years
than ever in its history the coun-
ellis Quarterly Bulletin reported.
''The record shows that the chief
opposition to a fourth term comes
from those elements which have
been most consistently anti-labor."
To guarantee a progressive, Win
the-war Congress and Roosevelt's re-
election, "all of us who hold fast to
the great goals of the organized la
Dor movement must somehow find the
time and the energy to spread the
message of labor political action" the
Ohio lam urged
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
Pay Formula Seen
AS Thumbscrew"
Secretary Meany Calls For Immediate Action To Bring
Wages Back Into Balance With Higher Costs OF
Living-U.S. Figures Called "Sawdust'

Warning that the Little Steep formula has become can
economic thumbscrew the working people of
american and their families FL. Secretary Treasurer
George Meany called the Government for immediate
to bring back into balance with higher
living.
Opening the American Federation of Labors at public
hearing before special panel of the National War Labor Board
Mr. eany presented nconroverbe facts figures proving
that the cost of living has risen far per cent since
January l94 even the basis of the sawdu chart of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
As We See 1t
by
THE STAFF

U. S. SENATOR DANAHER has
been endorsed for denomination
in the coming elections by the Rail-
way Labor Executives Association.
which speaks for the standard
railroad labor organizations of the
United States. The citation reads:
Senator John A. Danaher. Re-
publican. Many years ago his father
champiOned labor laws i'm the Con-
necticut legislature, and the Sena
tor hasn't forgotten the lessons
taught him by his dad. For a first
termer, he has developed amazing
influence among his colleagues -
FROM a radio advertisement in
the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune
without COMMENT
Listen To
Alice McLane's
Fashion Talks
Today's Topic:
Rise of the One-Piece Dress
Every Friday-1O:3O am.
WHAT with the new liquor tax
es, it's practically impossible to
drown your sorrow over the new
liquor taxes.
SGT. AUGUST WOLF told of
ficers at the station hospital at
Bryan Army Air Field, Texas. that
he was reporting for a shot. Be-
fore he could explain that he had
been assigned to take a picture of
an ambulance driver for the post
newspaper, Sgt. Wolf was iabbed
in the arm with needle and vac
cinated.
A MARRIED worker with two
children must earn nearly SO per
cent more than before the war to
maintain his pre-war standard of
living, in the face of higher prices,
higher taxes and war bond pur-
chases!
That startling admission was
contained i'm a study written for the
Department of Labor's Monthly
Labor Review by Arnold TolIes of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
AS a matter of fact, the so per
cent is an understatement, since it
is based on the Bureaus claim that
living costs have risen only 23.4
per cent. Organized labor asserts
the true figure is 1875 per cent, and
that would make it necessary for
the typical married workman to
have 20 per cent more earnings
to preserve his pre-war standards,
and at the same time buy bonds
and meet sharply-increased taxes.
Tolles declared that smost fac
tory workers. have reached the
so per cent figure by toiling longer
hours, but, at the same time, he
conceded that ''the burdens of the
war have been borne by nearly all
factory employees in the form of
either a reduced scale of living or
harder work without material i'm
provement in current living"
THE FOLLOWING is from the
Pierz (Minn.) Journal, way out
west where men are men, etc.:
DOUBLE BREASTED MEN
GET NO EASTER VESTS
THE NATIONS alcohol situa-
ton is still SO difficult that produc-
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

SAN FRANCISCU-The Ca1ifor-
MIA Bro. of Locomotive Firemen &
Enginemen Endorsed Pres. Roose-
welt for a fourth term.
Resolving that 1.-THE present for
eign and national policies of this
administration have been and their
continuance will be of the greatest
benefit to the greatest NUMBER -
the state legislative board pledged
the % rail union lodges i'm CaIifor-
mia to support FDR's reelection
Fundamentally and without res
ervation."
ST. PAUL, Minn.;-Delegates from
all AFL afiliates to the St. Paul
Trades & Labor Council have voted
unanimously to back a fourth term
for Pres. Roosevelt.
SEATTLE, Naturalization of
Pres. Roosevelt to a fourth term is
needed to hurl back the gathering
forces of the enemies of labor, war
worker members of Lodge 70, Init.
Assn of Machinists, voted
The resolution also praised the
President for taking the lead "in
numerous international conferences,
most recently at Cairo and Teheran,
at which were outlined new prospects
for world peace stability and rising
living standards for ALL"
Labor and the people need Pres.
Roosevelt's understanding leadership,
both to win the war and win the
peace" it continued, calling on him
ito stand for reelection in this criti-
cal year of American and world his
tory"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
ON THE BUTTON

CHlCAGO-It's not a good union
shop if office employees are denied
union recognition, the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor decided in holding
UP commentator of the Green Duck
firm which manufactures union dues
buttons.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
"BROKEN PROMISES

BROKEN PROMISES
when worker sees his pay en-
velope frozen while the costs of
living go higher and higher and
he is forbidden to take another
job where he could earn more for
his family said the AFL spokes-
man, this condition causes bitter
ness and a deep, dangerous sense
of Injustice
Mr.. Meany insisted that the Gov
eminent had repeatedly pledged it.
self to maintain pre-war living
standards. These promises have
been broken by the failure of the
economic sterilization program, he
said. AS a consequence, he pointed
out, wage earners have suffered
loss in real income arising from
the rigid application of the Little
SteeP' formula.
Since the President of the United
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15
How About Little
Steel, For Schram?

The New York Stock Exchange
has applied to the salary sterilization
committee of the Treasury Dept. to
increase the salary of Emil Schram,
president of the exchange, from $48,-
600 to $4,000, the Wall Street Josw-
nal reports.
Schram, whose 3-year term con-
tract expires June 80. is expected to
be reappointed for an indefinite period.
It is understood that the Treasury
Dept. will approve the salary in
crease without murmur.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

The best way to obtain a fair
share of what you produce is TO
buy only from firms that are
SSfair.''
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-15

The Union Label is the big link
in labor unity.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-01-12
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Schools Open
After Closing
Due To Snow

Rural schools ut Vance county re-
opened TODAY after being closed on
Monday and Tuesday due IL cungcS-
ton oi rural highways 10y the SIN
inch Snuw that tell last Saturday
night.
Reports had been received from
most oi the whII schools. and they
reported near normal attcaoancc.
except Tor absences due TO sickness.
II was understood that buses got
through III nearly all instances. but
nj NvcOcli SChuu, d WAS reported one
vehicle broke down and delayed
children from reaching their Glasses
on line.
All white ana ya.nrcd rural schools
closed tor tine Two days. bu, all item
dcr>ou city schools ..u 81 despite the
SNOW. with exception q! Henderson
Institute. co,1rcu G.Gh >choo. scgN-
ing the city ana cu~nty.