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The union times., 1945-06-16
Jobless Benefits In Connecticut Show Big Jump
New Haven Leads With 59%0 Increase In Week
 Hartford Is Second

The total of unemployment claims, filed in Connecticut, continued to show a marked rise, for the week ending June 9, it was announced to- day by James J. Graham, Acting Ex- ecutive Director, of the Employment Security Division.
 Claims amounting to 6237 were made in the state, against 1857 for the previous week, a gain of 1880.
 New Haven led the state with l262, an increase of 59@ from the preceding week. Following this, Hartford nearly ran to the thou sand mark with 9O4, and Water bury followed with 724.
 Graham pointed out that the num- Der of persons separated from their employment and filing first claims this week tota1ed 2,228, the highest num- Der since January "A, 1942, almost back to Pearl Harbor days.
 ''All indications" Graham added, ''point to a consistent and definite upward trend in the figures for the weeks to come. Just how far it will go before a decline, will be difficult to predict, since many fac tors enter into the situation, the leading one; when will Japan final ly give up."
The union times., 1945-06-16
Error By NLRB Costs Workers Cool $795,OOO
Supreme Court Rules Board May Not Correct Mistake
 In Arithmetic

Under a 5-to-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court, 2O9 employees of the Eagle-Picher Min. ing and Smelling Company, St. Louis, are $795,OOO out of pocket. The loss represents sums actually due them, but which they will no, receive because of a National La. bor Relations Board error and the refusal of the court to permit a correction.
 The Eagle-Picher Company, a no- torious anti-union concern, was charged by the board with unfair labor practices, including the dis charge of employees for union activi- ties. The board ordered reinstatement of the workers with pay for time lost, which was figured at $5,400 instead of nearly $800,0O0
 The board sought to rectify the mis- take, but was not permitted to do so by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The case was aken to the Supreme Court, which ruled in a decision by Justice Roberts that once the board makes a finding it must stick to it, however incorrect it may be.
 In blistering dissent, Justice Mur- phy declared this was a brand-new principle of law. He suggested his be- lief that the courts were established to correct injustices, resulting from mistakes or otherwise. Justices Black, Douglas and Rut1edge agreed with Murphy.
 Approximately $8OO,OOO is due these employees" said Murphy. ''They must bear loss of nearly $795, ,OOC. On them rests the pen alty for what this court euphemis- tically calls little more than a mistake in arithmetic'.'
The union times., 1945-06-16
Teachers Boycott
 Readers Digest

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Unti1 the Readers Digest stops spreading poi son against organized labor and the friendship of the United Nations, it will be barred from the classrooms of members of Local 442, American Fed eration of Teachers (AFL).
 Ban on the monthly magazine was voted by the Palo Alto local on the basis of a report by a committee of the Natl. Council of the Teachers of English, which showed that a major ity of the articles in the Digest were planned by the editors rather than re- printed impartially from other period icals.
 Pointing out that the Digest has widespread influence in highschool classrooms, the local charged that the magazine has deliberately printed ar tic1es "discrediting labor and unions and impeding 'the unity in the US and among the United Nations that is necessary for winning the war and establishing sound peace"
The union times., 1945-06-16
Truckdriver Saves
 Lives Of Three Kids

o: L. (Tex) Fowler, member of the Intl. Bro. of Teamsters, has been given the Special Award of Honor by the Colorado Motor Carriers Assn. for saving three small children from possible freezing to death on the high way between Cheyenne and Rawlins, Wyo.
 Tex was on his regular run from Denver to Rawlins during bIiz- gard, he said, when he saw car frozen and stalled on the bleak highway. The temperature was four degrees below zero and a knife-edged wind whipped across the road. He stopped the big truck to investigate and found three children huddled in the car, blue with cold, hungry and exhausted. Their mother was huddIed around the children trying to keep them warm.
 T carried the youngsters out of the car and put them in the warm cab of my truck hooked line onto the car and with the mother steering it. I hauled them into the nearest town" Tex said.
The union times., 1945-06-16

until the Pacific War is ended have complained to War Manpower Commission that they are becoming shOrt-handed as thousands of work. CTS quit after hearing rumors that cutbacks are imminent. Many plant homogeneous have asked WING to give some kind of assur- ance to employees that their jobs will not end with or without one weeks notice or that if cutbacks do come the plant will be able to recOnvert immediately. In prac- tically every case WING has only been able to say, ''We wish we cOuld."
 Cutbacks during the past month have become so commonplace that hardly a newspaper in the country carried even line on such events as the cancellation of orders for $75,- 240,000 in plane motors at the Buffalo Chevrolet plant. The Chrys1er tank arsenal, Detroit, employing 5000, will close by the end of June. At Con- tinental Motors, Muskegon, Mich, 1000 will be out of work within the next two weeks with probability of 2,300 eventually disernp1oyed as pro- duction of Rolls Royce aircraft en- zines is stopped.
 WILLOW RUN EXAMPLE
 In the munitions industries-inc1ud- ing aircraft, shipbui1ding, basic steel,
The union times., 1945-06-16

combat vehicle, rubber, selected chem, 1cal industries and others there were o,OOO,OO0 employed on March IS. To- day there are less than 8,500,000.
 The collapse of Willow Run con- tlnues to be the symbol of the joint failure of government and industry tc plan for reconversion. The huge plant near Detroit in which the government invested $100,000,0OO will shut dowr on June. 30. At its peak Willow Rur employed 42,000 and for 12 months turned out more than ten B-24S day
 Frantic efforts to interest Henry Kaiser in taking over the plant to produce small cars or prefabri. cated housing have met with no re. spOnse. As it stands now Willow Run may be used to modify new and used B-24s for the Pacific war. However, union officials be. lieve that probably no more than 2,OOO out of the original 42,OOO workers will be retained for this job.
 After 10 months neither the gov ernment nor industry has proposed any orderly reconversion plan that will prevent unemployment and speed production of civilian goods by plants suffering from cutbacks, labor econo- mists agreed this week.
 All that is evident, they contend, is that more and more controls over in- dustry are being dropped while con- trolS over labor and wages remain as firm as they ever were.
 RELATED BACKING
 Organized labor, which has cam paigned for months for continued con- trols over both production and prices, has gradually seen its position be- latedly backed by few sections o1 the daily press.
 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other papers have become skeptica1 of the economic effect of letting big busi- ness go its own way-even before Japan is defeated-whi1e still keeping the lid on wages. The Dispatch is decidedly suspicious of WIPE Chair man J. A. Krug's announcement that business will be given a free rein'' during the reconversion period.
 "A premature removal of con- trOls would precipitate scramble for labor, tools and raw materials, 5 said the paper editorially. 'SOme manufacturers would get more than they could use, while others went without. This policy would favor the large and financially powerful, over the small and weak.''
 Echoing the longtime arguments
 (Continued on Page Two)
The union times., 1945-06-16
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

Building trades locals affiliated with the Connecticut State Build ing and Construction Trades COun- cil early this week received the minutes of the special conference of the Council held last week, and are beginning to realize the great need for the organizing drive voted by the conference. There is great future for the building trades in Connecticut, if plans to meet coming problems are carried out now. The fifty cents asked of each building tradesman amounts to penny week for a year-to be given for one time only. This is the cheapest job insurance we ever heard of. Reports indicate that a number of locals have already voted to accept the recommenda- tiOns of the conference.
 HARRY FEINMARK has left inc hospital, and is convalescing at his home at 635 Howard Avenue, New Haven. The whole state is glad that Harry will soon be, on his feet again.
 OPA Administrator Ch st r BOwles said today that penalties inn posed against violators of price, rent and rationing regulations for the first four months of l945 were over twice the 1944 figure for the same period. From January to April, l945 OPA collected over $8 million in fines and damages.
 THE New Haven Building Trades Council has endorsed Vincent P. DOoley for election as Judge of Probate, we are informed by Presi- dent James DiLOnardO.
 US. SUPREME COURT this week knocked out the Florida law that required organizers to get a license, and unions to register with the state. The Court held that the Florida law collided with the National Labor Relations Act, and was therefore invalid. The appeal in this case was taken by the Plumbers & Steamftters. A few months ago, a somewhat similar law, passed by the Texas Legisla- ture was also declared uncOnstitu- tional. When will our state legisla- lures learn?
 ONE of the nations leading management publications, ''Busi- ness Week." has come out in SUD- port of labor's contention that un- employment insurance benefits in the states are far too low to tide workers over the postwar economic let-down.
 Business Week. estimated that average benefits will amount to less than $l5 a week, and that, be-
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1945-06-16
Elections Held By
 Painters Union, l86

The annual election of officers was held by the New Haven Painters, No. 186, at the last meeting of the local. The following entire slate was unani-, mously elected:
 President, William Zuckerman; Vice President, Morris Kramer; Re cording Secretary, William P. En- right; Financial Secretary and Busi- ness Agent, Saul Kreas; Treasurer, Carl Roth; Trustees, Nathan Sine1, Maurice Hummer, and John Stru- zek; Conductor, Yale Kuritch; War den, Ellis Johnson
 Delegates to the New Haven Gen. tra1 Labor Council are Enright, Kreas, Zuckerman, Sine1, and John son. Delegates to the New Haven Building Trades Council are Kreas, Zuckerman, and Enright; and dele gates to the Conn. Painters Confer ence are Kreas and Zuckerman.
The union times., 1945-06-16

TOUCHED BY PLEDGE
 ssThe President asks me to thank you for your letter of May twenty. first embodying the resolution adopted by your associates. These expressions in memory of his la- mented predecessor are indeed a fitting tribute and the President is no less touched by the pledge Ot support which the resolution also conveys to him. He is grateful to all of you for these assurances of loyalty"
 Ellis Ranen, international rep resentative of the American Fed eration of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and Vim cent P. Dooley, Democratic candi- date for judge of probate, New Haven district, addressed the meet ing.
 Ranen thanked the Council for its help in obtaining the passage by the New Haven Board of Aldermen ot the ordinance which aflrms the right of city workers to join or form unions: He explained the special problems of city employees, and asked the Coun- cirs help in the campaign which will be undertaken to organize all ot the city's 5000 employees. Ranen also thanked the Conn. Federation ot Labor and its secretary treasurer, Harold V. Feinmark, for the assist ance it has given his organization.
 Dooley told the delegates that one of the great dangers at the present time is the fact that so large percentage of people do not support our democratic form ot government by voting in all cleo lions. Many candidates, he said, are elected by default, and the very people who failed to vote then complain that the right kind ot officials are not elected. He traced the many benefits the members of organized labor today enjoy as the results of sacrifices made fifty years ago by the pioneer members of the movement.
 The Council unanimously voted to establish committee of seven mem bers to open a drive in New Haven for the extended use of the union label on all products.
The union times., 1945-06-16

JOHN J. MURPHY. New Eng land Regional Director, who led the organizing drive which re- suited in smashing victory for the A.F.L. at Electric Boat Co.,, CrOtOn.
The union times., 1945-06-16
Daily Papers
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WASHINGTON = There has been only one authorized strike during the fiscal year that is now ending, Chairman George w. Taylor of the National War Labor Board told a House ap- prOpriatiOns subcommittee.
 Except for the strike called by the independent Mechanics Educational Society, organized labor made a perfect score in upholding the no-strike pledge.
 Taylor testified at hearing on a bill to provide funds for wartime government agencies during the next fiscal year start ing July l.
 Asked why small, unauthor- ized strikes were given magni- fled publicity in the press the WLB Chairman sarcasticalIy re- piled that he supposed it was not news that the Board had settled 10000 labor disputes since October, 1942.
The union times., 1945-06-16
|HerOism OfUniion
 Men Lauded By NavyDepartment
Seabees Right Behind Ma rines In Two Jima Inva-
 sion; Rail Worker Cited

Hardly a week goes by without stories emerging from the fighting tronts-many of them belated-about the heroism of union men.
 Among the latest is a report re- leased by the Navy Department which told of the bravery shown by uniOnists in the ranks of the Sea. bees-the navy's construction bat. taliOns-during the bloody inya- sion and capture of Two Jima from the Japs. The details have just been received from military cor respondents on the island, the navy said.
 Newspapers have carried much about the glorious job done by Yank Marines in Two Jinna, but the fact is. the navy revealed, that the Seabees played an equally i1lustrious role.
The union times., 1945-06-16
AFL Sweeps Election At Electric Boat
Council Receives
 Tru1nan's Thanks
Dooley Tells New Haven Labor That Failure To Vote In All Elections Endangers Democracy-Cty
 Employees Plan Organizing Drive

Thanks from the White House for resolution passed by the New Haven Central Labor Council shortly after death of President Roosevelt which pledged the support of ized labor President Harry S. Truman received by the Council its last meeting The resolution presented by President Vincent J. McCovern, and President Truman by Secretary John Redmond The received from the White House signed by William D. Hasset Presidents secretary. and
The union times., 1945-06-16
RIGHT BEHIND MARINE

OeaDeeS landed 30 seconds behind the Marines as they showed ashore and, besides unloading supplies under enemy fire, many of them fought shoulder to shoulder with the Ma rines."
 'They suffered heavy casualties. but Seabees all over the world" the navy declared, ''are proud of the important part played by their mates in the capture and cOnver- sion of Two Jima into an American air base"
 As typical of what the Seabees did. the navy singled out the experiences of two unionists-Terry Terwi1leger, member of Local No. 541 of the Boil ermakers, who is former shipftter at the Todd-Pacific shipyards in Seattle, and William H. Courtney, member of Local No. 2116 of the Car penters, who worked previously at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, Cali fornia.
 SPRAYED WITH BULLETS
 When TerwilIeger got ashore, he found relatively safe shelIhoIe, but he didn't stay there long. Munitions had to be unIOaded, so Terwilleger ran into the surf while Jap shells whistled about, climbed aboard landing boat, helped ram it into the beach, and get most of the ammunition off before the ship broke up and washed into the sea.
 Courtney, too, stuck to the unload ing job while bullets and mortars whirled about.
 "All you could do was curse the fact that there was no cover any, where and try to hang on," he said. Tt wasn't heroism; it was just self preservation"
 Meanwhile, the navy also disclosed that to the long list of rai1roaders who have performed courageously on fighting fronts it has added the name of David M. Sly, member of Lodge No. 676 of the Trainmen, former Soo Line employee at Enderlin, N. D.
The union times., 1945-06-16
Education Employees Plan Annual Outing

Board of Education Employees Un- ion, Local 287, A.F.L., will hold their second Annual Outing at Sea Cliff, Morris Cove, on Monday, July 2. The committee in charge of arrangements have planned a full day of sports and events followed by a dinner and en- tertainment. Prizes will be awarded and good time is assured to all who attend.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
OF REAL ESTATE

Under and by virtue OF the power and
authority duly given by judgment of
the Superior Court of New Hanover
County in that proceeding therein pend
ing entitled New Hanover County North
Carolina and c. R. Morse, City-County
Tax Collector VS.. John T. Simpson and
wife, Frances Simpson and S. E. Sell
ers," the undersigned Commissioner will
on Monday, October %. 1945 at IL o.
clock noon at the Court House door OF
New Hanover County. offer for sale and
sell at public sale to the last and high
est bidder for cash subject to confirma-
ton by the Court, the following de-
scribed property, lying and being in Cape
Fear Township:
Beginning at a post in the Souther-
ly line of Marathon Avenue said post
being also the Northeast corner of Farm
No 81, which said Farm No 81 has been
heretofore conveyed by Carolina Real
Estate Trust Company. to Thomas Hald,lk
and wife, by Deed. duly recorded in the
Registry of New Hanover County, and
said beginning corner being also 2097.
feet Westwardly along the Southerly
line of Marathon Avenue from an iron
pipe standing in said line at the North
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
OCTOBER LIQUOR
RATION DECIDED

RALEIGH. Sept. 29- R Chair
man Carl Williamson of the State
ABC board announced liquor ration
quotas to be in effect in the 25
so-called wet" counties during the
month of October. His order to
county ABC units said which was
released yesterday, said:
Coupons No. ii and AZ will be
valid any time during the month
for one quart or one fifth each,
or two pints each, of Private Stock,
Prince George. or any cane spirits
whiskey that is made available to
the counties.
Coupons No. 43 and A will be
valid at any time during the month
for one fifth each. or two pints
each of Private Stock, Prince
George, or any cane spirits whis-
key that is made available to the
counties.
All gin, imported and domestic
qualities, imported and domestic
brandies, rum cordials, fruit-flav-
ored gin and brandy, and sloe gin
will be ration free.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
180.-Legal.

west corner of Farm No. 80; and rum
ming thence Northwardly 6S degrees West
with the Southerly line of Marathon
Avenue 1896 feet thence Southwardly
80 degrees, 80 minutes West and paral-
lei with that stretch of the State High
way leading from Wilmington to Castle
Haynes, which runs Southwardly from
the point of intersection of said High
way with Marathon Avenue 1865 feet to
post thence Southwardly GO degrees
East and parallel with Marathon Avenue
1895 feet to another post, the Souther-
ly corner of said Farm No. 81; thence
Northwardly 80 degrees 30 minutes East
1905 feet to the beginning. Containing
ten acres more or less and being known
as Farm No. 80 in Marathon of the
easily Haynes Colony.
The successful bidder will be required
to deposit 10 per cent of his bid with
the Commissioner.
Dated and posted this the 14th day of
September ,1945.
CLAYTON c. HOLMES,
Commissioner
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30

Humans
the 100000 by July prob
Armys planned indicate
distributed Draft
ectedt to N next
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30

WOODS SEED GRAINS-NEW CROI
oats. Rye, Barley. Vetch, winter peas
clover etc. Woods Seed Store, 81
North Front.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-30
PRICE OF WAR

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 29-W.p)
A total of 718 LISTS outfitted and
commissioned here during the war
cost more than the total receipts
of the United States government
for any year of its history until
1913
Montana labor news., 1945-04-05
News Of Great Falls
Building Trades
Communications

communications
Minutes of the Cascade County Trades
and Labor assembly were read and filed.
From the Building and Construction
Trades department advising that we have
jurisdiction over the counties of cascade,
Teton, Chouteau, Pondera, Glacier and
Liberty. Motion made and carried that
we request jurisdiction for the counties
of Judith Basin and Toole.
Decisions of the Supreme Court for the
week ending March "a, l945, read and
filed.
Telegram from the Boise Building
Trades Council with reference to Jerry
Nottingham of Boise about whom we
made inquiry. Telegram filed.
Report Of Delegates
It was brought to the attention Of
the Council that a number Of elevators
had been installed by other than the
Elevator Constructors.
Report of Committees
The Traber committee reported meet
ing MI. TRADER and it was noted that he
had paid $40 on his account. After con-
siderable discussion a motion Nas made
and carried that the committee collect
the balance.
The committee on the building at 200
Montana labor news., 1945-04-05
News Of The Cascade
Trades Assembly

Credentials
From the Union Label League for
Mrs. Maude Baxter, Mrs. Hilda Thomp-
son, Mrs. Nellie Bross and Mrs. Laura
Mcvey. Delegates present had previously
been obligated.
The minutes of the previous meetings
were read and approved.
Communications
Excerpts from legislative report OF B..
I. Steinmetz were read and on motion
copies were ordered sent to each affili-
ated union and central council in the
state.
From the American Federation Of
Teachers urging that we write our con-
gresham urging that he support Senate
bill TIT which provides federal aid to i'm
prove educational services in the United
States and to assist needy students. On
motion request was concurred in.
From the Central council at Kalispe1,
asking for information on labor Of Cas-
cade county participating in the Cham
Der of Commerce. On motion request
I.as ordered complied with.
From the AFL, requesting the names
and titles Of local unions not affiliated
Montana labor news., 1945-04-05
THE WHY'S OF A
MEDICAL HEALTH
INSURANCE PLAN

For the interest of our readers the
following item on health and medi-
cal insurance is printed. a short
article on this subject will be printed
each week until the subject has been
covered. This is the fifth Of such
articles.
question; Is insurance an appropriate
method Of paying for medical and hos
pital services?
Answer: Yes. The costs of medical
services are an especially appropriate
field for insurance, because of the IN
even and unpredictable incidence of the
risks to which all the population is sub
ject at one time or other. For individ-
uals the risk Of heavy expenditures for
medical care is an unpredictable hazard,
but for large groups Of people it can
readily be estimated what the total ex-
penditures will be. Health insurance
spreads the risks Of meeting medical
costs, just as fire insurance spreads the
catastrophe costs of a serious fire. AS in