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The union times., 1946-12-07
Columbians Kicked Out Of A.F.L. Hall

ATLANTA (UPA) -Setting a nationally useful precedent the Plumb CTS and Steamftters, AFL, announced that they had last week kicked out the race-hating Co1umbians. The union announced it would no longer allow them to use the union hall as meet ing place.
 Not knowing the nature of the or ganization, the union had permitted the anti Jewish and anti-Negro or ganization to lease its hall for year. Finally, when tear gas bombs were thrown through the window of the hall in which the Columbians were meeting and the property was dam aged, violating the terms of the lease, the union proceeded to put the Co., 1urnbians out.
 An argument was started by some of the Co1umbians at which point an officer of the local applied his foot to the backsides of the hastily retreating Columbians.
 Meanwhile it appeared that the ad- ministration of Gov. Ellis Arnall will not be able to revoke the charters of the Columbians and Ku Klux Klan before it gives way to the Talmadge administration, which will throw both cases out of court.
The union times., 1946-12-07
CuaranteedWage Seen Inevitable
 By NAM. Agent

CHICAGO OPA)-Big business and industry aren't going to be able to hold out forever against labor's increasing demand for guaranteed annual wage, the Employers Assn, of Chicago was told here last week.
 Not only labor but the public generally is beginning to support the proposal, said Carroll E. French, director of the industrial wage di- vision of the National Association of Manufacturers. ''The American people are not going to let us es- cape an accounting on this sub- ject," he warned.
 William c. Werner, public rela- tions manager of Proctor & Gamble soap manufacturers, said his company had worked out a guaranteed employ ment program B years ago on the basis of the simple belief that "a con- sumer uses as much soap one day as the next; why not produce as much soap one day as the next" P&G guarantees AS weeks employment but not an annual wage because workers may be transferred from one job to another within the plant at varying wage rates, he said.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Building Trades Considering No-Strike Plan
Plan Is Still In Discussion Stage, President Gray
 Says

WASHINGTON (LPA)-Now that the government is out of wage-hxing in the building trades, AFL unions in the industry and the contractors are trying to work out a program of wage stability and no-strikes for the construction field.
 Three meetings have so far been held on the subject between off, cials of the AFL Building and Con- struction Trades Dept. and the Associated General Contractors of America. The aim is to arrive at a formula for quick settlement of wage disputes without stoppages.
 So far, the plan is still in the dis cussion stage, and may not come to a head for month or more, it was explained by Richard J. Gray, presi- dent of the Building and Construction Trades Department.
 There is very nice spirit in the conferences and indications are that everything is coming along in pretty good shape" Gray said. There is a desire to accomplish something in the direction of preventing stoppages of work"
The union times., 1946-12-07

he persuades the Administration to seek special privilege and secure the aid denied other employers un- der similar conditions. He asked a court of equity to provide relief for the situation resulting from his own actions"
 But court injunctions, in violation of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, MT. Hines warned, Twill not produce coal, but, on the other hand, will add only insult to injury and set pattern that may harasS the organized labor movement for a long time"
 Citing the war record of the mem bers of the United Mine Workers, MT. Hines declared:
 ssCHAGRIN AND DISMAY"
 "Soldiers with bayonets will be greeted by the membership of the UNIV with chagrin and dismay, es- pecially in view of their enviable record of service to the Nation in the last war when l62,l37 carried bayOnets in defense of their cOun- try; when 3,345 of them made the supreme sacrifice and 1O,125 were wounded in line of duty. Ii might be added that they bought $l75,-
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SAME RESPONSIBILITY
 ''His refusal to honor the terms of a contract he negotiated with the United Mine Workers, as we'll as his desire to follow course now wide ly applauded by every explOiter of labor and every uniOn-hating em- ployer in the country, has complete ly halted the production of bitum- inous coal," MT. Hines declared. If the Government assumes respon- sibility for any industry, Mr. Hines explained, it transfers its activities from the political to the economic field, and has the same responsibili- ties and duties as any other employer. Any administrator who operates an industry and tries to hedge himself about with governmental sovereignty is merely providing a cloak for arbi- trary denial of rights of workers. He added:
 "Administrator Krug could not es- cape knowing the miners practice of refusing to work without a contract. Nor can we call that practice unrea- sonable or unbusinesslike.
 SPECIAL PRIVILEGES
 ''Instead of attempting to meet the consequences of his own policy,
The union times., 1946-12-07
New Tax Scheme Poor. Sen. Taylor Says
Gives Millions To The Millionaires, And Pennies
 To The Poor''

WASHINGTON (LPA)-The de- mand of the AFL for tax cuts to benefit the nations wage earners in stead of the proht-swollen corporations was echoed this week by Sen. Glen Taylor (D., Ldaho).
 Republican Party and U. s. Chamber of Commerce schemes for across-the-boaRd tax cuts were de- .nounced by Taylor as methods to ''give millions to the milIionaires and pennies to the poor" A 20 percent reduction in all personal income taxes has been advocated by Rep. Harold KnutsOn (R., Minn. /, who will probably be named chair man of the House Ways & Means Committee.
 Said Taylor, Under Rep. Knutson's $ 20 percent reduction proposal a mar ried man with two children who makes $3,00O a year would have his taxes cut by $2740 a year. An individual with a million dollar income would have his taxes cut $167,6 7,683."
 RAISE EXEMPTIONS
 Taylor called for a tax program that would raise the exemption level to about $3,000 for a family of four, slice the tax payments in the middle and lower income brackets and elimi. nate all excise taxes except on lux urieS.
 ''Across the board reductions ,'' Taylor asserted, ''give little or no help to the little man, but they give great bonus to the man whose bank accounts are swollen with war profits. Congress has already given a tax rebate to the rich through the repeal of the excess profits tax.
 Tt would be grossly unfair" he continued" to bestow an additional gift upon them at the expense of the wage and salary earners. There is an urgent need for tax reduction for the large majority of the population. But proposals made thus far, by the Re. publican Party and its spiritual ad- wiser, the U. s. Chamber of Com merce, offer little real hope of tax re- duction for the family in the lower income brackets"
The union times., 1946-12-07

and preventing strike benefits: D. Unemployment compensation might be cut off for strikers. The nation's $ conscience wasn't entirely bank rupt, however. The half-million miners had only to turn to an in- side page to discover that the Amer ican Humane Society had tele- graphed President Truman to please take care of the mules that work in the mines.
 THE WeIIstOn (O.) Sentinel car. ried this small ad recently:
 FOR SALE-White Spitz pup.
 pies. Call at Hot Dog Stand.
 Hamden, Ohio.
 The real significance of what the Republican election sweep means to us in terms of big business con. trol didn't fully dawn until this week. The real estate lobby is out to kill Senator Taft's chances for the l948 Presidential nomination. Taft endeared himself to the labor-hat. CTS and to big business by his work in wrecking the price control pro. gram and by advocating union-bust. ing legislation.
 But that wasn't enough. He made the mistake of jointly sponsoring the Wagner-Ellender-Taft housing
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The union times., 1946-12-07

Officers of real estate boards who have been instrumental in estab- fishing local chapters of the Ma tional Home and Property Owners Foundation state that nothing has been advocated with any intention or expectation that rentals would immediately go up by 50 percent.
 CROSS-SECTION
 Labor disagrees, and points to the record for New Haven during the 25- day suspension of rent control last July. From reliable figures obtained by The Union Times, we have taken a cross-section of 500 cases of rent increases by landlords as follows: 35% increased rent by 309o
 45% increased rent by 30 to 65% 20% increased rent more than 65%
 There were some increases up- wards of 2OO-3OO9o. These cases were in the minority. Many tenants were fearful of complaining about unwarranted rent increases because they might be evicted. However it has been estimated that the greater proportion of New Haven land- lords intended to take advantage of lack of controls on rent.
 Therefore there is every reason to expect exorbitant rent increases if controls are again lifted.
 Although the figures used here are taken from the New Haven area, there is every reason to be- Iieve that similar conditions exist elsewhere and can be applied to other industrial c1ues and towns throughout Connecticut.
 INCREASES UP 80 PERCENT
 A review of what happened in other cities within a few days after the ex- piration of the old OPA law last July, gives an indication of what can be exepected in this area if federal rent control is abolished.
 Within ten days after the end of rent control the demand for rent increases averaged 80 per- cent above OPA rents. On one day alone one municipal court held l5O eviction hearings.
 Memphis, Tenn.-Rent increases of 100 percent and more were re- ported within one hour of OPA's death.
 Cleveland Newspaper offices were deIuged with calls from ten- ants who said their rents were be- ing raised from Is to 40 percent.
 Why should landlords seek abol-
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The union times., 1946-12-07
Free Speech A Crime Because Of Coal Strike?
Law Forces Silence On Miners Friends Gov
 ernment Responsibility

Washington (LPA) = Two new blasts critical of the governments procedure in the coal mine dispute came from the AFL this week.
 One was an editorial carried in the AFL weekly news service, which charged that under the court in- junction order in the dispute, plus the ''gag" imposed by the Smith Connally Act against giving Gen cOuragement' to any strike at gov ernment-seized plants, ''the voice of labor has been arbitrarily si- lenced."
 "A veritable torrent of villihcation and abuse has been let loose against the union and its president, John L. Lewis" the AFL said. "The public has heard no reply. It has heard and it continues to hear only one side of the case.
 "CAC" LAW
 "The union and its leaders are si- lent. So must every other person in America remain silent, no matter how sympathetic he may be to the miners cause.
 ''Why this silence? The answer is not far to seek. The War Labor Disputes Act (Smith- -Connally act) specifically fOrbids any Organiza- ton or person from doing or say ing anything which may be inter- preted as encouraging a walkOut in any plant or mine seized and operated by the government. Thus free speech in the current coal case is made criminal offense."
 Because of this "gag" imposed on supporters of the miners, the AFL urged the public to suspend judgment until the officials of the United Mine Workers have the opportunity to state their side of the case"
 SHISHKIN SPEAKS
 Second statement on the subject was made by Boris Shishl1in, AFL econo- mist, in nationwide radio broadcast.
 "The responsibility for this halt in coal mining which vita11y affects every industry and every family rests squarely on the government" he said. Tt is the result of a calculated and deliberate imposition of arbitrary com pulsion upon a group of American workers who are required to do the toughest and dirtiest job in the na- tion's industry. For such work their perennial reward has been poverty, insecurity, accident and sudden death" :"
 That miners are actually paid lit- tie in comparison with coal costs to the consumer was also brought out by Shishkin. Labor costs per ton of coal are less than $2, where as the same ton sells at retail for SIP. ''So you see, the coal miner gets only about One-sixth, or l7@o, of what you pay for your coal, :" Shishkin told his radio audience.
 We will never solve the coal crisis by the unrealistic method of trying to place the blame on any particular in dividual or union," he added. "Not a single ton of coal can be mined by bayonets or court injunctions. We have to dig deeper for a basic solu- tion. We have to establish conditions which will give the coal miners, the industry and the nations consumers industrial peace and economic secur- ity."
The union times., 1946-12-07
Country Clubbers Inconvenienced

BURLINGAME, Calif. = (FP)- Officials of Burlingame's swank coun- try club, oldest in the country, think their greenskeepers shouldn't join the union because union dues would in effect constitute a wage Cut"
 As result the clubs plushy mem bers are somewhat upset-for the Landscape Golf Club & Nursery Workers Union (AFLN has set up pickets around the place. Respecting the line, teamsters have stopped deliv- ering food, laundry-and liquor.
The union times., 1946-12-07
FIRST U. S. SURVEY

FIhSI U. 3. SURVEY
 Latimer has been in charge of a guaranteed wage study, initiated last year under White House aus- pices. The survey was the first ex- haustiye one of its kind made by the government.
 His report was submitted to the advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization and RecOnversion. That board, composed of labor, management and government rep- resentatives, will pass on the rec concentrations after Latimer has completed a second and final sec! ton of his study in December.
 Latimer revealed that the known guaranteed wage plans now in effect are not numerous. Facts are available, he said, on about 200, covering large and small plants, but he declared that there are doubtless many more"
 Employees covered total only about 10000, but the number is sufficient and distributed among enough establishments of diverse size to establish the feasibility of guaranteed wage plans," Latimer declared.
 BENEFIT TO EMPLOYERS
 Among significant features of the plans, he said, are the fact that they are remarkably impervious to de- pressionS" and they are a boon not only to workers but yield benefits for employers in the way of improved labor relations, lowered labor turn over, a more efficient labor force and a higher rate of productivity"
 Latimer stressed that annual
 wage guarantees are not in
 themselves a 'spanacea" for
 the ups and downs of the eco
 homie system.
 But it is quite clear" he said, "that widespread wage guarantees can make substantial contribution to the sta Utilization of the economic system, through assuring regular income to wage earners and hence regular con sumner expenditures"
 Of particular interest was an an- alysis by Latimer showing that with only a slight change in state unem- pIOyment insurance laws, Federal tax laws and the Wage Hour Act, guaranteed wage plans could be given enormous impetus.
 In most states now, employees GOV cred by annual wage plans are denied job insurance when they are idle. Latimer would have state plans amended to remove that restriction.
 MAKE UP DIFFERENCE
 Then employers who put
 into effect annual wage guar
 antees could pay employees
 who are laid off for lack of
 work the difference between
 unemployment benefits and
 guaranteed wages.
 That would sharply reduce the cost to homogeneous of maintaining guar anteed earnings and would be no bur den to state jobless insurance funds, since most have more than adequate
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The union times., 1946-12-07
L-M Forum Will Debate LeWis Case

The Yankee Networks Con- necticut Labor-Management Fo- rum of the Air to be held We'd nesday, Dec. II at 9:3O P.M., will be devoted to a debate on the results of the trial of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers on a charge of con- tempt of court. There will be two representatives of manage ment and two of labor on the program. One of the labor rep resentatives will be Nathan Sherman, of The Union Times.
 The broadcast will be heard over Stations WICC, Bridgeport and New Haven; WONS, Hart ford; and WNLC, New London. Ralph dellaSelva is director of the forum.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Iron Workers To Negotiate Pact
 For Entire State
O'Kane, Connor To Meet With Employers In New
 Haven, December II

The two Iron Workers Unions of Connecticut, Local No. Is of Hart ford, and Local No. 424 of New Haven, have set up a joint com mittee to negotiate new contract on a statewide basis. CO-chairmen of the committee are Frank Con- nor, business representative of the Hartford local, and James O'Kane, business representative 'of the New Haven local.
 In behalf of their locals, Connor and O'Kane this week sent the following letter to the employers of Iron Work CTS in this state,
 Dear Sirs:
 "Please be advised that Local Un- ions No. IS of Hartford, Connecti- cut, and No. 424 of New Haven, Connecticut, have both voted to nego- tiate new wage agreements, which will be of mutual advantage to the entire industry.
 ''Be further advised that both Local Unions have deemed it necessary for the good of the industry, to keep uniform rates for the entire State.
 Therefore, a Joint Committee of both Local Unions has been set up to handle this matter.
 ''We heerby request a meeting with the Employers of IrOnworkers to be held at the Hotel Carde, New Haven., Conn.,, Wednesday, Decem- Der 1lth at 7:3O PM.
 Upon receipt of this letter please notify Frank Connor, 327 Trumbull Street, Hartford, Conn, or James O'Kane, PA Stratfeld Road, Bridge port, Conn.,, in order that we may know how many will be present"
The union times., 1946-12-07
Southern Drive Organizers Meet

ATLANTA (LPA) = The AFL Southern Organizing Policy Board held a special meeting here on Dec. 2-3 to review AFL successes in the South during the past six months and chart campaign strategy for the future.
 AFL Drive Director George L.. Googe reported that the campaign has gained "great momentum" In Colds boro, N. C., wage boost of 221lc per hour was won by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in a new contract with the city's electri- cal contractors. Dozens of new locals of various AFL unions have been chartered and new contracts signed bringing pay raises ranging up to 30%.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Canadian Unions Insist On Wage Reopening Clause

CANADA (ALN)-Nearly every contract won by Canadian labor as a result of its recent strike wave has a wage-reopening clause. Despite the newly-won wage hikes, the unions are preparing for bigger battles ahead. Price control is still in effect but ceil- ings have been steadily raised. Even with the strike wave settled, the War Labor Board has 4,000 wage app1i- cations before 1t.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Machinists Sue On Prevailing Wage

SAN FRANCISCO (FP) - The question of whether San Francisco municipal workers should receive wages and conditions prevailing in private industry has been thrown into the courts here with the filing of a suit against the San Francisco civil service commission by the Automotive Machinists Union.
 The suit charges that the city re- fuses to pay machinists for eight holi- days a year or to pay differential for swing and midnight shifts, as is customary in private industry.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Detroit A.F.L. Wishes Lewis Every Success

DETROIT T-(FP) "A resolution wishing Pres. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (AFL) "every success in his present controversy and pledging him our aid and support" was adopted by the Detroit & Wayne County Federation of Labor (AFL) this week.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Rent Control acts
 howHow enants Need Its Protection
Landlords Are Protected By Right To Appeal To O.P.A. For Increases Based On Hardship;
 579o Get There Increases

Rents the average Connecticut city increased by 30 65 per- from June 30 o4o the day when the OPA temporarily of existence July 25 1946 when controls re-estab
 hed according survey made by The Union Times The vey organized real and landlord groups who working have all controls abolished by the 8Oth Congress which will early in January.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Krug Responsible For Miners Strike
AFL Legislative Representative Says Actions Of In- terior Secretary "Widely Applauded By Every Ex-
 ploiter And Union Hating Employer" In Country

Full responsibility for the oppage in the binous coal indus
 due the absence of contract rests the shoulders of In tero Secretary Krug coal administrator Lewis Hnes AF legislative representative told the Nation address the Columbia Broadcasting System.
The union times., 1946-12-07
Aids And Labor Report Says
Study Initiated By White House, Says Regular Income Would Help Avoid Depressions; Tax Help To
 Management Recommended By Latimer

Is feasible guarantee annual wage American workers That subject has been debated for years This week considerable light the subject report prepared bv Murray w. Latmer outstanding economist who formerly headed the Railroad Retirement Board
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The union times., 1946-12-07

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The union times., 1946-12-07

Don't tell Westbrook Pigler, but the United States, with only 6 per cent of the worlds population, pro- duces 25 percent of the worlds goods and possesses 50 percent of the worlds wealth. This is an en- viable record, to which organized labor has made an important con- tributiOn.
The union times., 1946-12-07

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Evening star., 1946-10-20
DC. Baby Dies in Fire
Started by Children

An 8-months-old baby was burned
to death in his sleep and two fire
men were hurt late yesterday in a
fire which police say was started by
three small children playing with
matches.
Fatally burned in the fire-at 1882
Sixth street N.W.-was Lawrence
Robert Freeman, colored. Police
said the cllild's mother was away
from home.
Pvt. Harley Hemingway, 36, 4504
Bowen Road S. E., of No. 2 Engine
Company, suffered burned hands
as he and other flremen tried to
get to the second floor room where
the child's crib was located.
AS Pvt. Paul ]. Poremsky, 80, 512l
Oates street NE, of No. 10 Engine
Company. unreeled hose, he was
struck by another vehicle of his
own company. He was taken to
Emergency Hospital, where his con-
dition was not serious.
Second Precinct police said the
fire started on the second floor. Two
of the three children admitted play
ing with matches and starting the
fire, it was reported. Coroner A..
Magruder Macdonald is investigat-
ing.
only is minutes earlier another
fire had occurred at 518 M street
NV, about two blocks away, where
the top floor of a three-story brick
building was badly damaged, police
A metal garage in the rear of
1017 First street NV. which was
used as a storage for firewood was
damaged in a blaze about 8 pm.
Police said the owner, Abraham
Lamhan, stated the wood was his
winters supply,