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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Building Trades
In Agreement To
Settle Dispute
NY. Council Pact With
CLIO. Affects 1920 OF
City's ALL. Members

With Mayor F. III. LaCuardia as
a smiling OnlOOker, representa-
tives of the New York Building &
Construction Trades Council and
the Greater New York Industrial
Union Council have signed pact
creating a joint committee for vol
untary settlement of jurisdictional
disputes.
The agreement affects some 100000
workers in the construction and allied
fields and 1919 of New York City
AFL workers.
The action was hailed as ''the
first step toward greater coopera-
ton and unity between the main
labor organizations I'm the city," in
a joint statement by Howard Nc
Spedon, president of the Building
Trades Council sand Saul Mills, Sec
rotary of the Clio. Council.
The coming offensive against
Hitler and HirOhitO requires now
even greater effort and greater
unity, not only on the battlefelds,
Dut also OH tA1c HOHAc AFOHts the
agreement states.
"Organized labor in America, AFL
and Go, nationally and locally, has
many times demonstrated its ability
to work together in the cause of our
nations war effort, as we'll as in
advancing the cause of a decent way
of life for workers and all the peo-
pie of America" it continues.
Representatives of the AFL and
CLIO have served together and will
continue to work together in re-
gard to such matters as total war
mobilization, economic stabiliza-
ton, manpower, antilabor legisla-
ton and other economic and legis-
lative problems to help bring
speedy victory for our nation"
The agreement provides that the
Joint committee Shall undertake to
resolve through mediation and other
voluntary means and procedures only
those disputes, disagreements or other
problems which are voluntarily sub
mitted for its action" Efforts will
be made to have the committee meet
on a case within 48 hours after it is
submitted, it was said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
No federation OF
Unemployment
Can Be Expected
Vice-President Wallace Says
Private Industry Must
Provide Jobs

Scoring propaganda which drives
wedge between soldiers and organ
lied labor, Vice Pres. Henry A.
Wallace in a radio interview in Bos-
ton praised 1abor's remarkable con-
trbution to the war effort"
Servicemen cannot be opposed to
labor because ''mOre than 500 of
them came from the ranks of
labor" Wallace declared. Labor
has done much better than most
people realize" he pointed out.
sit has been on the line 99.864o
of the available time"
Wallace predicted slight govern
ment interference with industry in
the postwar period provided business
assumes the responsibility for main
tanning full employment.
''FuH employment is the heart of
the problem" he said, land with it
we need have no fears about main-
tanning our democratic way of life.
Private initiative will be given every
opportunity to function on its own,
but we must keep in mind that the
people will not tolerate unempIOy-
menr. They will expect and demand
full employment at good wages"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Many Employers
ReyerseStandOn
Labor Draft Law
Modern Industry" Says
! Two Thirds Now Are
Opposed To 1t

Thoughtful employers have re-
versed their views about the need
of law to draft workers.
That's revealed by Modern In
dustfy," one of the leading maya
zines of business in this country.
The publication pointed out that
over a year ago, when it polled
industrialists, two-thirds favored a
sOcalIed national service act," but
that there has been a complete
hiphOp, with twO-thirds now re-
cOrding themselves against such a
law.
"They do SO with good reason" the
magazine declared. "A national SER
vice act could not possibly help win
the war in Europe this year. 1t would
slow US down and make it harder to
beat Germany this year.
"The notion that such an act would
stop strikes is naive. No democracy
even Britain has ever succeeded in
stopping strikes merely by outlawing
them.
1T likewise naive to suppose that
national service act would brighten
Germans into quitting sooner .
They know no government has
been able to prohibit strikes sue
cessfully except with CestapO and
scores of concentration camps.
They know America would never
stoop to that
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Printers To Vote
Once Again For
Referendum
Ballot To Be Held May II;
VIII Also Elect Inter-
national Officers

Acting on petition of 120 local
unions, the International Topographic
cal Union executive council has or
dered submitted to a referendum vote
May II the question of Fertilization
with the American Federation of La
Dor, Woodruff Randolph, secretary
treasurer of the ITU, has announced.
''It has also been ordered print
ed on the ballot as a matter of
information the action of the 1914
AL convention guaranteeing COM
plete autonomy of the ITU, as pre-
viOusly agreed ON by committees
representing both bodies in Febru-
airy, l94l," MIR. Randolph said.
The ITU was suspended by the
AFL in 1889. The ITU voted last
year on the question of Fertilization
and the proposal was defeated by only
1,225 votes, after what had been
claimed as insufficient time to ac-
quaint members with the importance
of the proposal. AS a result of that
defeat Seattle Typographical Union
initiated a petition for a second bal
lot on the question of retaliation,
and Mr. Randolph's announcement of
executive council action setting date
for the referendum, is the result.
May IL is also the day of the BIZ
enniel election of the ITU, when
international officers will be elect
ed.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Unions Must File
Financial Report
By 18th Of May
Green Advises Locals To
Wait Until New Forms
Are Received

The new federal tax law requires
that labor unions, both local and in
ternational, must file financial reports
with the Bureau of Internal Revenue
each year. Reports for the year 1913
must reach the bureau before May
Is, 1914.
President William Green of the
AFL has informed all affiliated
organizations of the provisions of
the recently enacted law and
quotes in his letter the following
section:
"f) Every organization, except
as herinafter provided, exempt from
taxation under section 101 shall file
an annual return, which shall con-
tain or be verified by a written dec
laration that it is made under the
penalties of perjury, stating speci-
fically the items of gross income, re-
ceipts, and disbursements, and such
other information for the purpose Of
carrying out the provisions of this
chapter as the commissioner (of In
ternal Revenue), with the approval
of the secretary (of the Treasury,
may by regulations prescribe, and
shall keep such records, render under
oath such statements, make such other
returns, and regulations as the COM
missioner, with the approval of the
secretary, may from time to time pre-
scribe"
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
is preparing form for use of un
ions filing reports, which will be
sent out within the next month.
President Green advises union
officials to sit tight until the new
forms are received. These reports
have nothing to do with income
tax from which unions are exempt.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Whisky Buyers To
Sue For Overcharge

The Office of Price Administration
this week filed suit in Federal court
at Philadelphia for 81, 10o,76O against
the Dillinger Disti1leries of Philadel-
phia and the Sherwood Distilline
Company of Maryland. The amount
claimed represents penalties for price
chiseling on 10000 cases of rye whis-
key at $4.15 above ceiling.
At the same time, OPA officials de-
clared that purchasers of the liquor,
if they can prove they paid the over
charge, may collect $50 and costs for
each fifth bottle of such brands as
"Dillinger," Faust" "Old Horsey''
and Lord Bacon" whisky between
January and June, 1913.
Some idea of the possibilities for
litigation may be CLEANED from the
following figures: OPA charges that
the purchasers of 10000 cases were
overcharged. That makes a total OF
100000 ffths. If each of the pur-
chasers were to sue for $50, as per-
mitted under the law, the amount OF
damages would total $54, 100000. And
this figure would not include costs, tc
which the overcharged purchaser
would be entitled, as we'll as a rea-
sonable fee for counsel in each case.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
bOr-Management
Talk To Be Given

developing Labor Management
Cooperation in Wartime New Haven"
will be described by Charles c. Haas
at a meeting for citizens of all faiths,
and members of all unions, sponsored
by the Religion and Labor Council
of Greater New Haven. Mr.. Haas,
as labor-management representative
for the War Production Board, has
succeeded in improving the labor
policies of a number of plants in the
city. He will tell concretely how he
has gone about stimulating democ-
racy in those local industries. Full
discussion will follow the talk.
The meeting will be held at 80
P. M. on Wednesday, April 10Th, in
the Parish House parlor of the First
Methodist Church Corner of College
and Elm Streets).
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Teachers College
Schedules Forum

J. Raymond Walsh, Research Di-
rector, CLIO, formerly Professor of
Economics at Harvard, will address
the Citizens Forum at the New Ha7
ven State Teachers College, . Howe
Street, on Tuesday, April IL, at 800
PM. His topic is Planning for Ma
tiorlal Security, and will deal with
plans for postwar employment and
education.
The forum is sponsored by COM
mittee of citizens from New Haven,
West Haven and Hamden, and the
State Department of Education. DR..
Ellis Maxcy, personnel director of the
Southern New England Telephone
Company, will preside. Admission is
free and all interested are invited to
attend
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

DANGEROUS RESERVE"
General Vandegrift warned that
the Japs still possess real and
dangerous reserve of vicious strik-
ing power. ''Recent successes in the
Pacific" he said in comparing the
Pacific war to prize fight, shave
produced a situation that could
tempt us to throw caution to the
winds, and to sail into the foe,
failing wildly, without regard for
timing, balance, wind, or any of
the basic rules of defense. But we
must nOt-and will not-be so
blind with optimism as to commit
any such error. The enemy is by no
means exhausted"
The General predicted that sooner
or later the enemy will suddenly
straighten up and lash out with every
ounce Of his strength. "Our guard
must be up" he said. 1--WE must be
ready to fend off his blows, while we
move inside to deliver our own spe-
cial brand of haymaker"
The Marine leader indicated that
all will not be smooth sailing when
he said eff two or three of his blows
happen to catch us where they
hurt-which they may very well
dove must be strong enough to
absorb them and go right on NOV
ing in. hen / say we / mean not
only the fleet, or the Marine Corps,
or the Army. / mean the American
people,"
Faith in the outcome of the strug-
gle against the Axis was sounded by
the General when he spoke of future
Gas you watch Allied Of
fensives unfold in the future, keep in
mind the fact that we are driving
along more than single road to
gain Berlin, and more than single
road to reach Tokyo. Each of these
great campaigns is in reality a pin
GERS operation, in which the Allies
will converge from all practicable
directions. Air, land and sea power
will be geared together as never
before, in a manner calculated to
apply vast and unceasing pressure
against the forces OF Our enemies
giving them no respite from bombs,
shells, guns and bayonets until they
yield.
''But ships, planes and troops
are not, in themselves, enough. In
the past 20 months, when we Am
orleans said combined forces we
have meant more than air, land
and sea forces. And we shall mean
much in the future. All the people
of this nation make up our COM
bined forces. The total effort OF
this nation represents our COM
bined operations" the General
concluded.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Post War Housing
Is Need Of Nation
AFL Leader Says private Builders Have Utterly Failed
To Provide For People Whose Need For
Good Homes Is Greatest"

ST. LOUIS-American workers
who are winning the fight against
fascism must not come back to
slum homes after the war, the Ma
tional Public Housing Conference
declared at 2-day annual meeting
here.
Two labor speakers, Pres. R. ].
Thomas of United Auto Workers
(CIO) and Sec. Boris Shisl<in of the
AFL Housing Committee, stirred the
audience by demanding expansion OF
the low-rent housing program from its
present pigmy size to scale assur-
ing decent homes tor every family
not served by private enterprise.
Talking on "The Politics of Post
war Housing" Thomas warned that
the real estate Iobby's campaign
against public housing is, in the words
of one frank informant, a campaign
to get the (Roosevelt) adminstra-
ton"
This attack will be answered, he
said. 1--WE shall measure every can
didate by his stand on housing" Tho
mas pledged
Shishkin emphasized that private
builders have utterly failed to pro-
vide for the people whose need for
good homes is greatest. ''Only 1920
of all privately constructed homes
ever become available to families in
the lowest income third of the
population, he pointed out.
Postwar jobs, real jobs in pri-
vate employment at fair pay, is the
nations foremost requirement for
security and economic growth after
the war. An adequate public hOus-
ing program, administered by the
local housing authority of each
community, is indispensable to the
attainment of this basic postwar
goal"
The conference called for a post
war housing program at the rate of
100000 new homes a year, divided
between public and private enter
prise. The nation must build that
many if we are to avoid a serious
housing shortage and wipe out the
sluns within a reasonable time and
provide good homes for people whose
present dwellings are a national dis
grace" it said.
Another resolution congratulated
the AFL and Go for advocating
"forward-looking programs for clear
ing the slurns and rehousing slum
jewellers"
Fulton Lewis, Jr., Hearst column
iSt and radio commentator, was
roundly denounced by Sen. Allen J.
Ellender 3D., La.) and other speak
ers for his smear campaign against
low-rent housing and the Roosevelt
administration.
Pres. Roosevelt, in a message to
the conference, said that when the
war is over ''we must recognize the
fact that all American families are
entitled to good homes in good
neighbOrhOOd surroundings" Pri-
vate enterprise should do all it can,
he said, ''but wherever private en-
terprise stops there is a public re-
sponsibility to complete the job of
assuring every American family an
adequate place in which to live."
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Dining Car Workers
Endorse 4th Term

CHICAGO-Dining car cooks and
walters aren't fooled by the anti
Roosevelt propaganda.
A conference of the JOINT Council
of Dinling Car Employees (AFL),
representing 81 railroads, indorsed the
President for a fourth term and
urged denomination of Vice. Pres.
Henry A. Wallace.
The Negro dining car council COM
pared Roosevelt with Lincoln, citing
gains the Negro people made under
both administrations.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
As We See It
by
THE STAFF

IF THE U. S. Supreme Court
continues to hand down liberal de-
cisiOns, Congress will soon want to
increase the number of Supreme
Court justices, and give itself the
power to appoint the new members.
REP. BILL MILLER of Hart
ford, informs us that we were
wrong in copying an article which
listed him as voting against the
Soldier Vote Bill. He says:
''Not only did / vote for the
Creene-Lucas-Worley Bill on every
occasion when it was before tht
House, but spoke vigorously against
the sO-called States Right or Com
mittee Bill. These votes. as well as
my remarks ON the subject, are all
matter of record and are avail
able to you in the Congressional
Record" 4
HOW the activities of the hap
less Charlie Chaplin have become
hOpelessly entangled in the World
War was reported by the Las Vegas
(Nev.) ReUies0 Journal as follows.
'On the Asia continent, however,
the japanese pushed a spearhead
across the border of India for the
first time to threaten the city of
Imphal, capital of Manipur state,
and one unconfrmed report at
Calcutta said that Miss Barrys vir-
ginity was not an issue i'm the case,
and Ceisler changed the course of
his statement
SOME cold, hard figures showing
that membership in bona fide un-
ions pays big dividends were made
public this week by the A. F. of L.
in its Labor Monthly Survey"
Based on Department of Labor
findings, the figures disclosed that
union workers average 20 per cent
more in earnings than non-union
workers.
For example, i'm Minneapolis air
plane plants, the report revealed,
union assemblers earn SLIP an
hour and nOn-uniOn only 80 cents
union milling machine operators,
SLY, as against SO cents for nom
union; union truck drivers. 81
cents, and non-union 70 cents. The
report cited similar contrasts i'm
other cities.
WITH apologies to WincheIl
(and the NesO York Times should
apologize, too) a Times story was
geographically ruined to read:
''Washington-A feud between
Walter Winchell, commentator and
coiumnist, and members of Con-
gress who say he is attempting to
"emear" them reached a new stage
today when the Dies committee or
dered an investigator of Mr.. Win
chell's broad-''
Continued on Page Four)
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
Organized Plants
Lead In Production

Unionized plants lead the nation ii
record-breaking production, a tabu-
lation prepared by the War Produc-
ton Board disclosed this week.
The table listed Is establishments
that have received Army Navy e.
awards four times in row for re-
peatedly smashing schedules set by
the military agencies. In nearly two
thirds of them, the workers are or
ganized in bona fde unions.
Greatest number of the -four star
awards went to plants where the In
ternational Association of Machinists
represents the workers, the report
revealed.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
NUNS THE WORD

CHICAGO-An anti-union Dodge
aircraft engine foreman fell through
the ice while skating. A loyal men,
Der of the union hshed him out.
The foreman asked the unionst
what he could do to repay him. Moth
ing" replied the union man. Gust
keep quiet about tiff the boys down
at the union hear about this, they'll
throw me IMP
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08
labor Included In Combined Operations
Definition Is Given
By Military Leader
Gen. Vandegrift Pays Tribute To Part Workers Play In
War Efort-Coordinated Production Of Supplies,
Equipment Part Of Our Attack

Observation-Disclosures workers included in
the definition of combined operations by Lieut. Cen Alex
ander A. Vandegrift COmmandan of the Marine Corps.
In giving his definition General Vandegrft paid tribute the
part labor has played the effort "Our combined forces
air. land and power and hoefront power he said with
the latter the others useless And when refer
bned operations remember that the coordnated production
of supplies and fighting equipment for fighting
ta mart of the continuation"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

How long can Labor Unionists
expect to receive Union-made wages
if they do not buy Union-made
goods?
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

Buying Union Label goods is a
declaration of dividend on your
annual income.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-04-08

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Evening star., 1944-06-29
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Evening star., 1944-06-29
GEder 'One-Woy Suicide Title
Called Fiction by Mai. Taylor

tical experience in preparations for
the still greater landings in France.
He went to France on June Is in
the first CAT to land on a newly
constructed strip near St Mere
Eglise. For the next three days he
accompanied the 82d Airborne troops
and was with them when they cap
tured st. Sauveur.
Maj. Taylor predicted that the
missing casualties of the 82d and
101st Airborne Divisions will be con-
siderably lower when larger areas of
France are liberated. Many of the
missing men are gradually returning
to their units, he said, and others
no doubt are being cared for by
the French underground.
The German forced labor" over
did itself in strewing obstacles over
areas that no right thinking pilot
would consider for landings. ne said.
That was through lack of expert
ence and anxiety to keep from be-
ing reprimanded by German COM
manders.
A few of the gliders landed on