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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
10Th Shakeup
At Institution
Boys School Reform
Called Inadequate
BY RHYS JONES
Detroit Times Lansing BaTsau


LANSING, Oct. 13-The Mich
igan Boys Vocational School is in
the midst OF a staff shakeup-
the tenth in the institutions tur-
bulent history-but 1t. Gov. Ver-
non j. Brown is pessimistic about
the results.
such measures have never
solved the problem" he declared
Saturday. "The only solution Is
to rebuild the physical plant
from the ground up, or TO break
up the institution into three
separate schools"
Browns comment followed the
discharge of five employees OF the
school on charges OF immortality,
laXity and sadistic brutality.
OFFERED TO RESIGN
In addition, Supt. John A. Swets
has offered 10 resign. His resig-
nation will be considered by the
juvenile institute commission after
IL completes an investigation of
charges that he failed TO prevent
employees under him from enticing
boys into immoral acts, brutally
beating them, and giving them
unfit food.
Such charges are an old story
at the school. The first major up
heaval al the institution came in
the 1905 when Supt. Cornelius
a. Cover decided that previous
administrators had the wrong idea
about reform schools and ripped
the bars off windows and tore
down the high brick wall that sur
rounded the property
Later. j. r.. ST. Johns won ma
tion-wlde fame by quartering the
boys in cottages" under the su-
pcrvision Of a couple who were
their cottage parents. -
BOYS RUN AWAY
But St. Johns left the school
after too many of his boy inmates
had run away and a new super
intendent, Edward NJ. Lawson.
took over.
Lawson was fired in short order
by Gov. Woodbridge n. Ferris
who thought Lawson was too Sc
we're on the boys
The seven years between 1918
and 1922 saw parade OF four
superlntendents. Then Mai. Robert
+. Marsh took over and remained
superintendent 10 years.
Pressure from reform groups, I
probate judges and welfare asso-
was continually applied
against Marsh. In 1871 Gov. Muir
ray -. NanWagoner called in
prison experts from New York and
fred Marsh after the experts
made their report. Marsh was
succeeded by Ross Tenney who
resigned under fire in 1914 and
Tenny's assistant, Swets, became
superintendent.
KELLY ORDERS CLEANUP
Gov. Kelly has ordered emer-
yency measures 10 clean up in
sanitary and unhealthful condi-
ions, and directed the department
If public instruction 10 provide the
Joys with rccrcatlonal equipment
which they never had.
Earl Macdonald. assistant
prosecutor Of Ingham County said
us office was prepared 10 issue
warrants against alleged boy beat
rs and that any citizen who
thew Of such assaults would be
derelict in his duty If he failed
o file charges.
We've just started to work
on the place" said Judge
Stephen II Clink OF Muskegon,
of the commission.
He indicated that more en-
,loyes would lOSe their iobs
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Cut Death Toll
Detroit Accidents 6 o s.
BIZ Lives in 1914

Appalled, at the Sl7 accidental
deaths during 1914 in the Detroit
area, members Of the Detroit In
dustrial Safety Couicil will meet
Friday at the Book Cadillac Hotel
TO launch an intensive safety and
health drive.
Gen. William 6. Knudsen, past
president and one of the founders
Of the council, will outline a pro-
gram worked out by 300 safety
and health experts TO reduce traf-
fic. industrial and domestic haz-
ards, Traffic fatalities for 1874
were 292 in Greater Detroit.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Tire, Foot Prints
AidBurglar Hunt
Found in Field Near
Rensacked Home

Footprints and tire marks in a
muddy field gave deputy sheriffs
their clues Saturday 10 the iden-
tity of the workman-like burglars
who In 20 minutes made friends
with a watchdog and ransacked
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold
Plein, 954l Hazelton, Redford
township, Of cash and jewelry
worth 1,200.
Plein said he believed the
thieves must have been waiting
for him 10 bundle his wife and
their 3-year-old daughter. Chris
tine. into the car for the weekly
marketing trip. They entered the
home through an unlocked con-
Meeting door from the garage and
left through a rear door with their
loot
They disturbed little save a
strong box and two dresser draw
ers containing an $500 diamond
ring, Sll3 in cash, two watches
and miscellaneous jewelry. They
carried off drawers and all, with
out waiting 10 sort out the valua-
bles.
One OF the drawers was found
in a nearby field where a trail
OF footprints ended. Tire marks
indicated getaway car had been
parked there.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
TALES WITH AssAULTER
Home Plate Weddino

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 13
QN5b-They share a love Of soft
ball so a Portland couple was
married al home plate. during q
lull, between games.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Flint Movies Victims
OF Short Chance Trick
Detroit Times Flini BureAa

FLINT, Oct. ia short change
artist whose specialt'- IS taking
victims for s. bills mulcted Helen
Long, Palace Theater cashier.
The State Theater cashier and
a restaurant cashier also lost s.
each 10 clip artist.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
FROM NOW ON IN-NO BUMPS

Army 1t. X, ii. Roof,
holder of the last plane
priority issued in Detroit,
waving good-by TO his wife
at City Airport. Air travel
now Is unrestricted.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Weekly Art Classes
Reopen at Center

The Department Of Parks and
Recreation announced Saturday
that classes in charcoal sketching,
OIL painting and water colors will
be resumed next week.
The painting class Will open
Tuesday at the Sylvia Allen
Crafts Center, $500 +. jefferson,
from / 10 9 p. m. Charcoal sketch
ing Will be taught every Friday
from 1880 10 $50 p. m. at the
Institute Of Arts, beginning
Oct l9.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Merchant Marine
lauded for War Role

WASHINGTON. Oct. IA QNS)
Throughout fhe Pacific war.
the American merchant marine
bucked savage japanese attack TO
furnish the "lfeblood" 10 the
armed forces hammering at the
gates of Tokyo
The War Shipping Administra-
tion announced today that a total
OF "a of these troop and supply
carrying freighters were knocked
out by enemy pounding. with the
listed dead nearing the 200 mark.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Detroit Police
HuMnf fStdbber
Robbery Motive Hit;
Probe MoIesfer Angle

Entering the investigation for
the first time, Detroit homicide
detectives over the weekend ad.
vanced the theory that robbery
may not have been the motive for
the fatal stabbing of Mrs. Mary
Tonetta. 40. a few doors from
her home at $50 Massachusetts,
Highland Park early Friday.
They pointed out that Mrs.
Tonetta was not carrying a hand
bag at the time she was slain and
that a coin purse containing S12
was found in a pocket Of her dress.
PURSE UNTOUCHED
1t. Charles Buckholdt and Sgt.
Delbert Raymond entered the case
In the belief that the slayer may
have been a Detroit molester of
women.
II was revealed that another
Detroit detective, William Sim
mons OF the special investigation
squad, had arrived on the scene
shortly after the victims body
was found
Simmons said he did not get a
glimpse of the slayer. but that he
had thoroughly scare he d the
neighborhood.
TALLIES WITH ASSAULTER
One witness, Charles II. Daniels
OF 4439 Tillman, a telegraph mes
senger, said he saw short, stocky
Negro run from the body
His description tailed with that
OF man who assaulted a woman
on Stanley, near Grand River,
early Saturday. robbing her OF a
$500 fur coat and a handbag con-
tanning a small amount of cash.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
PLEADS FOR CHILDREN

The former president said that
Justice demands" that the mill.
tary castles of aggreSSor nation,
be punished and their weapons de.
Stroyed.
But" he continued, "justice
p also requires that We do not
visit on the children of millions
of German and japanese the
sins of their fathers.
Measures which reduce the
economic life Of coming genera
tiOns TO low levels OF an agricuI-
turaI state are neither justice
nor good policy. That will cre-
ate giant cesspools of hate, pow
erty and conspiracy against the
world.
There il no such thing as
hard peace or a soft peace II
must be a just peace II we are
to restore justice 20 the world"
INTANGIBLE CORRUPTION
Hoover spoke of the growth Of
brutality with mass bombing and
new weapons during the war and
added that ideals of freedom had
generated. Pointing out that the
United States went into the war
under the persuasion of such ideas
a. the four freedoms and the At
Iantic Charter, he said:
Now we find hundreds OF
millions Of human beings
breathe less independence, less
liberty. less freedom from fear
than before we started on this
crusade"
Hoover attacked what he called
an intangible corruption" of
American concepts of leadership
during the last few years when II
has been "dinned into us that this
Is the century of the common
man"
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Air Priorities
10 End Tonight
Times Photo

All priorities on airplane travel
will be abandoned at midnight
Sunday.
Under the new order the traveller
need not fear being bumped. -
Once the reservation is confirmed
it Will stick 10 the destination.
Priority classifications were cut
from four 10 one on Sept. Is. Air
lines officials said they hoped 10
be back on prewar oper ito n
schedules soon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
French Count Seized
By Nazis Will Speak

Americans United for World Or
ganlzation, Inc, will sponsor an
address by Count Raoul de Luber-
sac Al $50 p. m Thursday in the
lecture hall Of the Art Institute.
Lorna Hunter. secretary. an
nounced today.
Count de- Lubersac was arrested
by the Gestapo in Paris for aiding
in the escape OF Allied fliers shot
rlntIln GAnr. L,rnrnn
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Red Marshal Arrives
In Prague for Farley

PRAGUE, Oct. 13 (UP)-Rus-
sian Marshal Ivan S. Konev, for
mer commander OF the First
Ukrainlan Army, arrived today on
visit believed connected with
German transfer questions or VIM
ter quartering.
The union times., 1945-08-04
Trades Hear Plea ToEnd Disputes On Jurisdictions
New York Told WIPE May End Building Restrictions
 By December

NEW YORK-AbOlition of juris. dictional disputes through volun. tary agreement by the building and construction trades was urged last week by President Thomas A. Mur. ray of the New York State Fed eratiOn of Labor at conference of representatives from 30 Building and Construction Trades Councils in various parts of the State.
 Murray chaired the one-day con- ference, which was arranged by the New York Building and Construction Trades Council to consider postwar problems of the industry and the es- tablishment of a statewide organiza- tion of the trades.
 President Howard McSpedon of the New York Council, revealed to the delegates that War Production Board Chief J. A. Krug had told him that all wartime restrictions on construction work might be lifted by December or January.
 McSpedon also revealed that only 1000 building trades me- chanics are now working at their
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The union times., 1945-08-04
Renewal Sought Of Norwalk Agreement

With the agreement between the International Ladies Garment Work CTS Union and the Rabhor Co.,, South Norwalk, expiring on July 31, nego- tiations for the renewal of the con tract are now being made.
 On June 29 the I.L.G.W.U. received a communication from the Rabhor management which stated "In accord ance with the provision of the agreement made on Aug. 5, 1943, by and between the undersigned and your local, we hereby give you notice that 1t is our desire to terminate this agreement on Aug. 4, 1945."
 On July 9, President Harry Wander, EOT director, sent the fol- lowing reply to the company:
 T wish to inform you that the members of our union employed by your company have chosen our union as their sole collective bargaining agency and I therefore request your company to meet with us at your earliest convenience for the purpose of negotiating a new agreement"
The union times., 1945-08-04
Act Proposes 75c Minimum,
 35-Hour Week
Rep. Patterson of California Would Amend Wage
 And Hour Law

WASHINGTON (FP) One of the new California liberals, Rep. FL lis Patterson (D., Cal.), has intro duced bill calling for amendent of the federal wage and hours law to provide 75c minimum wage and a 35 hour week.
 The bill, HR 37l9, broadens the definition of ''cOmmerce'' to in- clude all employers engaged in trade, traffic, commerce, transpOr- tatiOn or communication among the several states so as to cover thou sands now barred from federal la- bOr laws.
 Patterson's bill would prohibit child labor and bars the inclusion of tips, board, lodging or other facilities GUS tomarily furnished, in figuring wages. It calls for payment of time and a half after 35 hours unless by contract or NLRB order an agreement has been reached for employment of up to 1000 hours in any % week period or 1000 hours for g weeks.
 To attain the 75c minimum
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The union times., 1945-08-04
State Anti-Union Law No Barrier
 To A Union Shop
VILE. Says Federal Law Takes Precedence Over
 State Legislation

WASHINCTON-FP)-In a de- cisiOn of wide importance, the Natl. War Labor Board said the War La. bor Disputes act is superior to any state constitution or statute that would deny establishment of main. tenance of union membership clauses in a contract.
 Acting on petition from the attor- ney general of Florida, who asked to intervene because of an amendment to that states constitution adopted last November, the WLB denied the pe- t1tlon with industry members dissent ing.
 The Florida constitutional amend ment says ''the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or non membership in any labor union or labor organization; provided, that this clause shall not be construed to deny or abridge the right of employees by or through a labor organization or labor union to bargain collectively with their employer"
 Involved in the case are the St. Joe Paper Co.,, Port St. Joe, Fla, and three AFL unions; the IntI. Bro. of Papermakers; Intl. Bro. of Electrical Workers and the IntI. Assn. of Machinists. The WLB had granted the usual voluntary main tenance of membership clause to the 45O workers
The union times., 1945-08-04
City Employees
 Mass Meeting
 At Taft Aug. B
Citizens Advisory Board To Give Full Support To
 Municipal Workers

A preliminary meeting of the Citi- zens Advisory Board of the New Haven Joint Council of Municipal Employees, A.F.L., was held at the Hotel Taft Monday evening, in prep aration for the mass meeting of city workers to be held there on August Is. The meeting, which was highly successful produced the following results:
 l. It was clearly shown that the citizens of New Haven. once they understand the aims and aspira- tions of organized city employees, believe that the city government, as an employer representing the pub- lie, will live up to the terms of the ordinance unanimously passed by the Board of Aldermen. which pro- vides for real grievance machinery to settle any differences between city department heads or boards, and organizations representing city employees.
 /. 1t was agreed that the organ ized city employees, including the New Haven Teachers League. which is working closely with the A.F.L. city workers unions, are as inter- ested in maintaining and extending the standards of municipal service to inc public as they are in correct ing inequities in regards to wages and working conditions.
 The meeting was presided over by William Hartigan, chairman of the Joint Council, and member of Local 825, New Haven Fire Fighters Asso- ciation. The chief addresses were given by Ellis Ranen, General Or ganizer of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Elm ployees, A.F.L., with which the Fire Fighters, Local 530, Po1icemen's Union, and Local 287, Board of Edu- cation Employees are affiliated; Miss Agnes Wallace, president of the New Haven Teachers League; and Harold V. Feinmark, secretary-treasurer of the Conn. Federation or Labor.
 The organizational meeting of the Citizens Advisory Board, it was de- cided, will be held Thursday, August 9, at 7 30 P. M. at the Chamber of Commerce office.
 Others who spoke briefly were Rev. Edward J. Shea, St. Berna- dette's R. C. Church; Rev. Francis B. Barnett, All Saints Chapel; Charles J. Ducey; George Thorpe. president of Conn. Council l6, State X City A.F.L. Unions; and Nathan Sherman. The Joint COun. ell of Municipal Employees was also represented by its secretary. Harold Spang, Board of Education Employees; its treasurer, George LawlOr, who is president of the
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The union times., 1945-08-04
British Vote Cited At Full Work Hearinq
Conn. Job Insurance Cuts Vacation Pay
Building Trades
 Praise Feinn1ark On O'TooIe Choice

The Board of Business Agents of the New Haven Building Trades Council, meeting at the New Haven Labor Temple Mon- day, unanimously voted to con- graduate Harold V. Feinmark, secretary-treasurer of the Conn. Federation of Labor, upon his selection of J. Lawrence O'TooIe, Bridgeport Bricklayers, as Assis- tant Secretary of the Federation. Expressing their pleasure at the choice of building tradesman, the Board also went on record as commenting the appointment of O'Toole to the post.
 The Board also voted to in- struct Secretary Vincent J. Me- Govern, Electricians, B-9O, to congratulate Feinmark upon his recovery from his recent illness. James DiLonardo, BrickIayers, is president.
The union times., 1945-08-04
Poverty Seen As Basis Of Prejudice

WASHINGTON = (FP) Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia, who is being pushed in some quarters as the '1ib- eral Democratic spokesman of the new south," writes in Golfers that all of Dixie's ills, including the racial problem, are direct result of poverty.
 "The average American annual in come at the time of Pearl Harbor was $6O4. In the south 1t was $314. The average Negro income was consid- erably lower. No plan to cure the south of its ills will succeed which does not make that differential its first order of business" Arne11 de- c1ared.
 "The so-ca1led race question is an economic one, not social. Pay the Negro good wages for his work, give him the opportunity to learn, work and earn, give him his constitutional rights, and you have sorved this dis torted so-called race problem Only the demagogue tries to make political capital of social equality, of racial intermarriage"
The union times., 1945-08-04
Unusual Ruling Prompts Appeal ByCarmentUniion
State Department Regards Vacation Fund Benefits As Compensation For
 Loss Of Wages

Approximately 6,OOO mem. bers of the International l. a d ies Garment Workers Union and thousands of work. CTS in other industries in Con. necticut are being deprived of unemployment benefits through an unusual interpre' tation of the states unemplOy. ment compensation law which regards vacation fund benefits as compensation for loss of wages. The union made these charges at hearings before the Assistant Attorney General of Connecticut held in Hartford,
 The union was represented at the hearings by Sam Janis, ILCWU organizer in the area, and by Grace Milgram, a member of the unions Research Department. DIFFERENT IN OTHER STATES
 They reported to Assistant Alt torney General Harry Silverstone and officials of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of the Connecticut Department of Labor on the unions experience with un- employment compensation systems in other states.
 The provision of the law which is being interpreted in such a manner as to deprive workers of their first week of unemployment compensation reads: ''An indi- vidual shall be ineligible for bene. fits 1. during any week with re- spect to which the individual has received or is about to receive re- muneration in the form of /. any payment of wages"
 Workers who have received vaca- ton fund checks as provided for ln ILGWU agreements are being told that the period for which they are eligible to receive unemployment compensation will start one week later than usual.
 The union contends that its vaca- tion benefits are not compensation for loss of wages, that in no other state where the ILGWU is organized has such an interpretation been placed upon the vacation-beneht terms of its agreements and that in theory it is possible for a member of the union, working under terms of contract providing such benefits, to receive them even during a year in which he is employed B weeks.
 Acting on the theory that the benefit is compensation, the Con necticut unemployment compensa ton authorities are allowing par tial compensation, representing the amount of the difference between the vacation benefit and the full total of unemployment benefit to which the worker is entitled on the basis of his earnings.
 This interpretation is being i'm voked in cases involving all crafts and branches of the wOmen's gar ment industry. All unions in Con necticut which have written vaca ton benefits into their contracts are awaiting decision on the argu ments that have been presented by the ILCWU.
The union times., 1945-08-04
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

WE ESPECIALLY call our readers attention to two items in this weeks issue. First is the re- port on Page l of the hearing held in Washington on the ''FuII Elm ployment Bill," which is endorsed by the A.F.L. This bill, which affects every working man and his family, may be the answer to our fear that there will be 10000, ,OOO unemployed after Japan is de- feated. Read the article, and be ready to answer the labor-haters who oppose it.
 Secondly, the editorial by Harry Feinmark on Page 4, provides, in few short paragraphs, the basic reasons why organized labor is calling for the elimination of the Little Steel formula. The editorial is "must'' reading for the unions now involved in contract negOtia- tiOns.
 GOOD war news is bad stock market news. The W. Y. Times found that about 73O,OOO shares were dumped on the market in the final sixty minutes of a recent day on which rumors of Japanese peace were circulated.
 AN advertisement in the Mi0nli (Fla.) Herald recently: nWTNM Arn
The union times., 1945-08-04
Nothing Sweet In Co.'s Labor Policies

SPRECKLES, Ca1if.-A sweet time is in store for the regional War Labor Board in the dispute case of the United Sugar Workers Council (AFL) of California.
 Four big sugar companies are in- vo1ved on the other side-Spreckels, American Crystal, Holly and Union At issue are hours, overtime, holi- days, sick leave, checkoff and premium pay. At the Union firm there is an additional issue of wage differentials
 The council has locals in Spreckels and a number of other California sugar beet processing centers. Mem bership is about 5000. First step was to be recommendations to the WLB after dispute hearings by a tripartite panel.
The union times., 1945-08-04

WE WANT IT TOO
 ''The Labor party victory" he said, "must be interpreted as the outcome of the insistent demand of British workers to gain higher living standards and a greater de. gree of economic and social secur. ity. The same aspiration for a better life after the grim experi- enees of war are moving workers in our own country"
 News of the election returns sent Viscount Halifax, British ambassador to the U.sS., scurrying home to Lon don where he was expected to be re- placed almost immediately. Halifax s close association with the Neville Chamberlain appeasement policies has not made him we1l-1iked among American workers.
 The clearcut socialist victory showed the disgust of the British people with the campaign tactics used by the Conservatives who tried to evade the real bread and-butter needs of the people by talking of the red menace. Chur- chill set the tone when he charged the Labor party would introduce ''Cestapo controls'' into Britain if elected. Eden accused the Labor party, which had strongly cam-
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The union times., 1945-08-04
$25O,OOO Back Pay
 Won By Teamsters

LOS ANGELES, Ca1if.-FP)- California truck drivers, members of International Brotherhood of Team sters, will receive more than $250,000 in retroactive pay.
 Just approved by the National Trucking Commission is the Motor Truck Association contract which gives drivers an increase of Sc per hour retroactive to Jan. 1, 1o45, with a mileage rate increase for long line drivers of .0O2c per mile retroactive to April 3, 1945. Covered in the in crease are Teamster locals in Los Angeles, Santa Maria, San Bernar- dino, San Diego, Long Beach, Fl Gen. tro, Santa Barbara and Bakersfield.