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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-04-28
Further Persecution

In Hungary, Jews were ar
rested wearing a blue "Shield
of David" on a white back
ground, instead of a "Shield of
David" on a yellow background
prescribed by government de-
cree.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1944-04-28
BETWEEN YOU
AN D MI
WASHINGTON NOTES: What
BY BORIS SINCLAIR

did British Foreign Secretary An
thOny Eden mean when he recent
ly asked U. S. Ambassador Win
ant whether the United States
would not like to take over the
Palestine Mandate? The
question was posed to Ambassa-
dor Winant i'm Eden'S office in the
presence of a third person :
We hear from Washington that
Robert r. Nathan, former head
Of the planning division of the
War Production Board, intends to
leave for Palestine early in May.
:. He is to complete an eco
nOmic survey for the American
Palestine Institute which was
started several months ago for the
purpose of getting a scientific
estimate of the absOrptive capac-
lily of Palestine - The project,
on which a staff of ten people is
now working, is expected to be
finished by the end of September.
High Washington officials
are mum concerning the pOsSibili-
ty that landowners in Palestine,
under the provisions of the Pal
estine Mandate, may not be per-
mitted by Britain to lease or sell
land to the United States Govern
ment which needs it for the oil
pipeline from Saudl-Arabia to the
Haifa terminal American
plans provided for the acquisition
of Palestine land, and American
engineers have long been studying
the section of Palestine through
which the pipeline can most
easily be laid A phOtOStat
of a rare map of Palestine taken
from MOnteSqUieu'S famous ''The
Spirit of the Laws" which was
published in France in 1869, is
now in the hands of members of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee The map, which was
submitted to the committee by
ZalmOn BeruI, shows that sixteen
centuries after the destruction of
the Jewish State, Palestine was
still considered to be connected
with no other people or tribe =
In the map of the Esprit of the
Laws" it is charted as "Judee" -
POSTWAR PROSPECTS,: The
Federation Employment Service
in New York is starting its sew
enth drive to recruit Jewish work.
ers for essential war industry =
This time the drive will be devot-
ed to the recruitment of Jewish
labor for shipyards What
may interest Jewish readers out
side of New York is the fact that
Jewish institutions are greatly
interested in adjusting Jews to
new professions which will be
helpful to them after the war :
1t is realized, of course, that the
paramount problem facing Amer
lean Jews is to keep employment
free from political, racial and re-
ligious discrimination = Should
this be accomplished, then no
drastic occupational restratifica-
ton will be necessary : Ex-
perts have come to the conclusion
that by and large, the economic
functions performed by Jews in
America now, will be needed after
the war Regardless of new
methods of industrialization, Am
erican economy will require dis
tributors, industrial workers, cler-
lcal and professional workers OF
all kinds : The Jewish grocer
may find himself displaced by the
chain, but he will perform the
same function behind the counter
of 2 chain unit -. The practice
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Baruch ReportD labor oice- Green
I eamsters Head
Favors Roosevelt
Dan Tobin Says No Other Democrat Can Be Elected
Asserts Democratic Forces Must Unite
For Victory

INDIANAPOLIS Declaring that
the war effort demands the continued
leadership of Pres. Roosevelt and the
unity of democratic forces behind him,
President Daniel J. Tobin of Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers,
is the first outstanding AFL leader
to come out for a fourth term for the
President.
''It is my opinion after travelling
through the nation and dealing
with the masses of the workers, or
ganized and unorganized, that it
would be unwise to our war effort
to displace the present head of our
government and communicating
chief of our armed forces" Tobin,
AFL 9th vice president, stated in a
telegram to Senate Majority Leader
Alben W. Barley Cd. Ky.), made
public recently. He said:
"At this time in the middle of a
war, the masses of the people still
believe that President Roosevelt is
doing all that is humanity possible to
bring about successful ending of
the war.
1T is my opinion that no other
Democrat can be elected in November
except the present head of the nation,
President Roosevelt
Disunity and discomfort among
the Democratic forces can ''bring
about the defeat of the liberal
minded men i'm the next election"
TObin warned. He called on all
liberal Democratic leaders to stop
trying to destroy unity behind the
President and to make any sac
rifice necessary in order to bring
about greater unity and better I'M
Outstanding from now on"
Stating that the workers resented
the tax law and that he too was dis
satisfied with the way in which the
labor affairs of the nation have been
handled" Tobin concluded: "But
above and beyond all, there is the nee
essity of working together as one
great body of progressive, freedom
loving Americans to the end that we
may successfully carry on the war
and speedily bring this conflict to an
end"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
NewHavenCo-o
Unionists
To Committees
Riehm, Carpenters, And
Rocheleau, Warehouse
Workers, Represent
Labor

More than 800 members of CO.
operative Consumers of New Haven
met in annual meeting to elect five
new members to the Board of
Managers for their three Coop
Markets.
With a membership of more than
1000, the total business of the society
amounted to $350,0OO in 1913. Follow
ing principles established by the
Rochdale Cooperators 100 years ago,
the New Haven Coop declared a 200
purchase refund for the year. (The
purchase refund represents the return
OF net income to members in pro-
portion to their total purchases for
the year.
In conjunction with policy OF
equitable business operation, a Labor
Committee was elected for the pur-
pose of maintaining high labor stand
ards within the Coop and for the
purpose of developing friendly rela-
tons with organized labor groups
This committee is made UP of the fol
lowing members: Herbert Rennard
member Local 100, CIO, worker ii
the Velvet Textile Mills; George
Rlehm, member of Carpenters Local
No. 70, A.F.of L.; and Howard
Walton, government inspector al
High Standard.
Theodore Rocheleau a member OF
the Warehouse Workers Union, A. F
OF l., was elected to the Board Of
Managers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Labor's Petition
For Revising
Formula Denied
War Labor Board Rejects
A.F.L.'s Plea For New
Wage Standard

WASHINGTON = The National
War Labor Board has turned down
petition by AFL members for re-
vision of the Little Steel formula and
denied further AFL requests Tor
public hearings on wage sterilization
The AFL petition, submitted to the
board declared:
''The time is now at hand when
the WLB must candidly admit the
insuficiencies of price control as
currently applied. Neither its Origi-
nal assumptions nor its subsequent
hopes that price control would eff
fectively preserve those standards
of living which are possible in time
Of war have been realized by the
WLB. Further denial of the work
ers' wartime equirites can lead only
to dissatisfaction and Illustration"
Public and industry members
Joined in voting against the AFL pc
tition, which asked the board to re-
quest President Roosevelt Ito modify
realistically the Little Steel formula.
A motion by public member
Lloyd X. Garrison that the petition
be denied without prejudice to its
being recOnsidered in the future if
events warrant was approved by an
8-4 vote, with industry dissenting.
Explaining their denial of the petit
ton, public members contended it
would be inappropriate for the board
to take up the question of the wage
sterilization policy at a time when
congress is just starting hearings on
the whole sterilization program.
AFL Sec Treas. George Meany,
labor member who presented the
board with the petition, dismissed
this argument, declaring that the sta
bilization program was always before
congress in some FORM They just
turned us down fiat, that's all" he
asserted.
Meany's motion that WLB hold
a public hearing on the petition
March 20, 80 and 81 was defeated
8-4, with public and industry mem
bers voting in the negative. His
motion to approve the AL petition
rejected "A, with labor members in
the minority and Dexter M. Kee-
ger, public member, not voting.
Meany then moved that the board
hold a public hearing with the object
of advising Congress on the wage sta
bilization program. This was defeated
8-4 with labor in the minority. Labor
members voting we're: Meany, AFL
Init. Rep Robert Watt; Van A.
Bittner and John Brophy, Go rep
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Supreme Court
Takes A Sock At
Yellow Dog Pact
Collective Bargaining Super.
sedes Individual Agree
ments, Body Rules

WASHINCTON-The U. S. SUI
preme Court took a sock at ''yel-
low dog contracts in two import
ant decisions last week that give
collective bargaining precedence
over agreements between employers
and individual workers. Y
Both rulings, of great importance
for all unions, were written by JUS
tice Robert H. Jackson for the eight
man majority. Only dissenter was
Justice Owen J. Roberts.
One ruling held that the 400
agreements between individual work
ers and the J. l. Case Co. of Rock
Island, ILL.,, must give way to collec-
tive bargaining between the company
and organized labor. The company
had refused to negotiate with the I'M
ion, which was certified by the Ma
tional War Labor Relations Board as
bargaining agent, while the individual
agreements were in effect.
The other ruling involved the
Railway Express Agency which in
1880 had entered into individual
agreements with its employees at
reduced wages. This was done to
supersede a working agreement of
1917 between the union and man.
agement. The high court reversed
decision of a Circuit Court of
Appeals that had ruled the indi-
x,:IrroT cnukrocRs sunorcodaA tho
union management agreement.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
'Sweatshoppers
On
Low Wage Rates
10000 Employers Caught
In Law Violations Last
Year, Says Walling

Despite the war and Supposedly
high wages" thousands of sweat
shoppers are still chiseling ON the
meager minimum rates set in the
Wage-Hour Act. That was revealed
in report submitted to Congress
this week by L. Metcalf Walling,
administrator of the act.
Walling pointed out that in the
past year 10000 employers were
found to have violated the law in
some respect-one-third of them
for failing to pay the rOck-bOttom
wage of 80 to 40 cents an hour
fixed by the act.
Over $17,OO0,OOO in back wages
were collected by the Wage-Hour Gi-
vision during the year and paid over
to 100000 employees. The amount
would have, been far greater, Walling
said, had more inspections of plants
been possible.
A congressional reduction of the
divisions appropriations by 20 per
cent and diversion of many inspec-
tors to special tasks for war agen-
cies forced the division to curtaiI
its checkup of violations, he ex-
planned.
What makes the situation even
worse, Walling stressed, is that six
states have passed laws which virtual
ly amount to notification of the
Wage-Hour Act.
These laws reduce to as little as
six months the time in which a work.
er may sue to collect wages legally
due him, while not similarly reducing
the period in which the butcher, baker
or landlord may sue the worker" he
said.
Since the divisions limited staff
cannot make frequent inspections,
these state laws will deprive thou
sands of workers of money due
them under the law, WalIing de-
clared.
Furthermore, such measures give
employers who fout the law an I'M
fair competitive advantage over those
who obey the law" he said.
To Offset that condition, Walling
urged higher appropriations for the
division to make possible prompt en-
forcement of the law. A stronger
force will be particularly needed in
the postwar period to stop wholesale
slashing of wages below the legal min
imum, he said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Unions Supervising
Apprenticeship

DAYTON, OHIO.-A system of
apprenticeship training for engineers,
fremen and oilers has been set up
here by two AFL operating unions,
VINO reports on the. basis of infor-
nation received from the State APP
premiership Council. An apprentice
ship committee, made up of members
of the International Union of Operat-
ing Engineers and the international
Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers,
supervise the training. No employers
are represented. An apprentices re-
ceive the same broad outline of train
ing, covering term of four years.
Included is experience on boilers,
condensers, composers, pumps, tur-
bines, engines oF various kinds, ele-
vators, refrigeration equipment, heat
ing and ventilating equipment, and
electrical motor equipment.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Nelson Suggests
Postwar Controls

War Production Board chief Don
aid Nelson said this week that war
born companies would have to be kept
out of civilian production until estab-
lished firms are also free to return to
peacetime manufacturing.
In letter to Sen. Francis Maloney
Cd. Conn.,, Nelson said, "Restric-
tons on new companies which want
to enter industry for the first time
will undoubtedly be needed until the
now critical components and materials
are in easy supply.
Certainly, so long as wartime con-
trolls are retained, materials and COM
ponents should not be allocated to
these new firms until firms already
established in the affected industries,
and which are in a position to resume
production of their former products
have received their just ALLEGATIONS"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Unemployment To
Cost $14 Billions In
Jobless Benefits :?
Many States Now Wondering About Their Unemploy
ment Compensation Reserves Depends
On Nations Economy

Unemployment Insurance bene-
fits throughout the country in the
three years Immediately following
the war may run as high as $l4 bill
lion, more than the country's entire
budget for l94l, war costs i'm
cluded, estimates based on social
security figures and postwar en-
pIoyment possibilities indicate.
Other estimates, however, run as
low as 81 billion-but even that is al
most as much as the entire us. bud
get, including preparedness expendi-
lures, for the year 1888 and is more
than any budget in the history of the
country prior to 1884.
Typical of the thinking on which
these estimates are based is a re-
port of the New York Unemploy-
ment Insurance State Advisory
Council. The report discusses three
estimates based on three possible
conditions of industrial activity in
the state after the war.
Most hopeful estimate is that
pent up demands for consumer
goods will result i'm peacetime en-
ployment of 1919 to 2O&o more
than in 1910. Another is that we
will be unable to do better than
maintain the 1910 level, and the
most pessimistic is that there will
be 1919 fewer jobs than i'm 1910.
In New York state, with about 40
of the country's population, this
means that from ~ to 21a million
persons will be receiving unemploy-
ment insurance benefits during the
first postwar year.
Roughly the same categories Of
workers are covered by unemployment
insurance in all states. Among those
excluded from its benefits are: agri-
cultural workers; domestic workers
federal, state and municipal employees
and employees of religious, charitable
and educational institutions.
Sec. of Labor Frances Perkins
recently predicted a minimum of
25,OOO,OOO job shifts and transfers
in the immediate postwar period.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Urge True Facts
Be Given Troops
By Army Chiefs
Laborites Insist Fighting
Men Get Distorted View
About Workers

An official delegation from both
the A. F. of L and C. /. o. called
upon Undersecretary of War Rob-
ert p. Patterson this week and
urged him to see that soldiers over
seas are given the truth about
what's happening ON the home
front to offset false anti-labor pro-
paganda to which they've been sub
jected.
The conference was friendly, with
out recrimination. The union spokes-
men frankly told Patterson they felt
the doughboys were getting a distort-
ed picture of conditions back home,
and that if this wasn't corrected a
dangerous division might develop be-
tween workers and soldiers, to the
detriment of the war effort.
They didn't blame the Army for
this. Most of the trouble, they said,
arose out of the false and exagger-
ated stories about strikes carried
in the American daily newspapers,
which reached the men in the
armed forces.
AS an example of how the soldiers
are being misled, they cited the inter
view given by Marine Sergeant John
R. Devereux on his return from p
months of fighting in the South Pa
cifc. The sergeant is nephew OF
Colonel James P. S. Devereux, who
commanded the marines in the stir
ring defense of Wake Island.
Devereux said that, until he
came back, he had the impression
'sthat the whole country was tied
up by Strikes" but that, to his
establishment, he found production
was going full blast. If soldiers re-
ceived ''more and straighter news, -
Devereux declared, they wouldn't
be SO badly informed.
Patterson insisted the Army
through its overseas papers and radio
broadcasts, is attempting to be fair by
giving the soldiers a digest of the
news, both good and bad
The unionists maintained, how
ever, that the digest is based on
press association reports, and too
much sensationalized material about
strikes creep in.
Patterson agreed that workers have
done a great job, but questioned
whether the War Department should
do more than give soldiers both
sides
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
New Pay Formula
Certain To Come

NEW YORK-Breakdown of the
Little Steel formula for stalling off
wage demands is almost a certainty,
the Research Institute of America
declared in a special bulletin on the
industrial outlook to its $4,000 mem
bers in business and government cir
cles.
"Labor's demands for higher pay, y
the report said, ARE already becoming
increasingly difficult to stall off
Breakthrough of the Little Steel for
mula seems inevitable. Since wages
are usually more rigid than prices,
companies will be up against mar
rover operating margins as competi-
ton drives down and labor resists a
proportional drop in wages
Since it was talking to its mem
bers, the institute could afford to be
frank and was.
Wage sterilization may be insu-
lating you from pay disputes right
now" it continued, 'but don't let a
sense of false security lull you to
sleep. There is plenty of high voltage
current under the insulation"
1t is not what people read but
what they remember that makes
them learned.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Glad To Help!

Editor, The Union Times:
want you to know how
much we appreciate your as
sistance and cooperation in
making the Infantile Paraly-
sis Drive the most successful
ever held in New Haven. The
results far exceed our expec-
tations and it was through your
splendid work and efforts that
we went sway over the top''.
The final figures will be COM
piled as soon as possible and
published in the daily press.
1t should give you great sat
isfactiOn to know your time
and efforts were so we'll spent
and | am sure the prayers of
the Infantile Paralysis victims
whom you have helped will
bring you many blessings i'm the
future.
Paul r. North
Chairman
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
AFL Plans For.
Postwar Forum

A national postwar forum will be
held by the American Federation of
Labor in the Commodore Hotel, New
York on April 1918.
The AFL announcement said out
standing leaders of labor, industry,
agriculture and the government will
be invited.
Pres. William Green said: This
forum will be the means of focusing
attention on plans to realize the pur-
pose for which we are fighting this
war;"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Marine Corps Commandant
Praises Record Of Labor

Zone reason we are running we'll
ahead of our Pacific timetable is that
production of fighting ships for the
Navy, and all the accessories that go
with them, is far ahead of schedule"
This tribute to labor's part in the
war effort comes from Lieutenant
General Alexander A. Vandegrift,
USING, Commandant of Americas
fighting Marines.
Continuing his comments on labor2s
production record, General Vande-
grift said: Generally speaking we
have great praise and few complaints
on those scores" but added that much
work remains to be done in the Pa
cific war theater.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
Largest Carpenters
Local Backs President

SAN FRANCISCO-Sh ipwrights
Local 1149, largest in the United Bro.
of Carpenters, Endorsed President
Roosevelt for reelection
Pledging support of its 10000
members to fourth term for Roose-
velt the local officially protested the
policies of the Republican party and
the "defeatist-minded program of
William Hutchinson" The locals &C
ton specifically rejected Hutchesons
attack on Roosevelt and the New
Deal, issued in February during the
carpenters general executive board
meeting at Lakeland, Fla
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
$4,000 PLANES TO ALLIES

Almost $4,000 United States planes
were sent to the air forces of the
Allies between the passage of the
Lend-LeaSe Act in March 1o41 and
Jan. l, 1914, Foreign Economic Ad-
Leo T. Crowley an
nounced. In addition more than ST.
worth of aircraft engines
and parts were also sent.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25
'TWIXT LOVE AND DUTY

PHILADELPHIA - William A.
Elliott, member of a government COM
mittee enforcing War Food Admins
tration rules among butchers, was
charged in suit filed in Federal court
here this week with overcharging re-
tailers for meat The government
seeks to recover $4,000 in damages.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25

1t is not what people read but
what they remember that makes
them learned.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25

PAINTERS Brotherhood an
nounces this week that it has H.
683 of its members in the armed
forces of the United States and
Canada.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25

BENNY'S TOBACCO ROAD:
Jack Benny, after eight years. jeIlo
and two years grape nuts, switches
next October to Pail Mall cigarets.
Variety reports that he will get
$4,000 per broadcast for three
years. On top of that American To-
bacco Co. will spend $25O,OOO
yearly to plug Benny. Total: $4,-
$4,000.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-03-25

ACTING, THEN ACTION: The
U. S. Marines who acted in ''Cune
HO!" have since been i'm the thick
of reality. Cunnery Sgt. Victor
Maghakian, technical adviser or
the picture, V-mails that his com
pany was first to land i'm the Mar.
shall Islands, first to mop up it,
island, first to raise the American
flag. And not a casualty.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15

Patronize the Cooperative in your
community-it is there to serve you!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15
AN OFFICIAL LETTER

one-half per cent of salaries to the
Retirement Fund will very likely pre-
vent an increase of salaries to the
teachers.
Some Legislators are opposed to Civ
ing aged teachers pension, they fight
and vote against any bill to appropri
ate any money from the State Treas
ury to the Teachers Retirement Fund
To keep these opponents of Teach
ers' Pension from being in an unfav-
orable spotlight in the legislature, the
attempt will be made to place a tax
on School Districts, which cannot Aaf-
ford such tax-instead of taking the
money from the State Treasury which
can afford it.
If you favor a pension for aged
teachers and are opposed to the pro
posed amendment, then have your
union appoint a committee to call on
your legislators before they go to Hell
ena and urge them to vote against
the proposed special tax on school dis
tricts.
Remember, it is our Public School
system that has made America great.
Aged teachers who have spent life
time in Public Schools are entitled
to pension.
Fraternally,
JAMES d. GRAMMAR,
President, Montana State
Federation of Labor.