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The union times., 1946-07-27
Basic Changes Asked By Labor Are Ignored
Unions Wanted Fundamen- tai Changes To LiberaIize
 11-Year-Old Act

WASHINGTON (LPA) After months of hearings, as well as a voluminous report from a special technical staff, the House Ways and Means Committee has finally got to the legislative floor amendments in the Social Secur- ity Act.
 While unions had fought hard for fundamental changes to liberal ize and expand the eleven-year-OId measure, the Ways and Means group came up with only a few changes. Even these were limited still further when the Ways and Means Committee took the amend. ments to the House Rules Commit tee. There, threats were made that. unless the measure was still fur. ther modified, an ''Open ruleo would have been granted under which unlimited amendments could have been made from the floor. One of these threatened changes would have inserted the Townsend old age pension plan into the So- cial Security Act, and was proposed by Rep. KnutsOn (R., Minn.).
 As it reached the floor, the House bill would provide for:
 D Freezing the tax for old age and survivors insurance purposes at 1@0 of payroll for employers and em- ployes. The committee wanted the tax held to 1.5%, entrusted with 2.59o that would have been instituted under the original sliding scale of taxes.
 9 More than 100000 maritime workers would be covered under the jobless benefits section of the Social Security Act.
 3 Families of any veteran of World War III who dies within the next three years would be given the survivors insurance benefits provided under the act.
 4) The Federal government would raise from $20 to $25 the maximum amount which it would put up to match state funds for needy aged, blind, and dependent children. The committee originally had provided for an elaborate system of payments geared to the income level of each state, under which poorer states would receive more proportionate1y, for each recipient than would high-income states.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Yale AVG Starts
 Anti-Inflation Program In NH.
Urges Cooperation With Labor Liberals In Buyers
 Strike

Nearly 150 members of the Ameri- can Veterans Committee Chapter at Yale University and several of their wives who are forming an auxiliary this week launched a campaign of positive action to hold down prices and to urge Congressional action to check runaway imitation.
 In a meeting of the Yale Law School, resolutions were passed urging married students wives not to patrOnize groceries and other re- tail outlets which had hiked prices 1; urging a self-imposed personal buy ers' strike limiting purchases to the barest minimum until prices come down; pledged support of any ac- ton taken by labor and liberal groups to combat imitation with buyers strikes and urged the Pres dent to veto the ''misbegotten OPA bill slowly being miscarried from the Congressional Conference"
 A report was given by members oi the anti-inhation committee showing the results of a survey. It indicated that several campus restaurants had not raised their prices but that one which had instituted raises on certain courses, had reduced some in coopera- tion with the AVG. However, the prospect of a picket line loomed should he fail to restore all prices to their former OPA level.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Here's HOeU To KnOaU 4 Legitimate GOuge

Washington (LPA)-The next time your grocer or milkman tells you that the budget-5usting price he's asking is so high because of the removal of food subsidies when OPA died, check with this list. These are the amounts that prices should rise above ceiling prices if the amount of the gov ernment subsidy is added on. Any thing else is someone's new profit.
 Dairy Products
 Butter-13.2c a pound; Ched- dar cheese-7.5c a pound; Evapor- ated milk-1.4c for a large can.
 Beef and Veal
 Round steak-11.7c a pound; Rib roast-10.3c a pound; Chuck roast -7.8c a pound; Hamburger-8.4c a pound; Veal cutlets-6.0c a pound.
 Pork
 Chops-6.0c pound; Bacon CSC a pound Ham, sliced-8.5c a pound; Ham, whole - 5.9c a pound; Salt pork-37c a pound;
 Lamb
 Leg-3.8c a pound; Rib chops 7.2c a pound.
 Wheat four-9.7c for 10 lbs.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Congress Blocks ialSecurity Changes
Shrinking Dollar
 Saps Real Income

MINNEAPOLIS The Invest ors Syndicate, releasing the re- suits of a survey it had made this week, said that the real in- come'' of the American people in June this year was IS cents on the dollar lower than a year earlier and that ''even before the OPA went out of the picture, the average American consumer household was feeling the squeeze of infIation.'
 ''With living costs greater than a year ago." the report said, ''and cash income less, the trend obviously has been against the average consumer.
 "Wage payments in May, l946, were at the rate of 77 cents for every $l received in May, l945."
The union times., 1946-07-27
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

BANQUET for GEORGE JOS- LIN at the Hotel Taft on Aug. 3 will be a bang-up affair. Help the committee by sending in your re- servatiOns nOsO! Send them to: Conn. State Building and Construc. ton Trades Council, lS7 Coffe St., New Haven II.
 WINNER of the July drawing of the N. H. Labor Temple Mortgage Liquidation Committee drawing is George Crillo, who is employed at Mitchell's Dairy in West Haven.
 B. Carroll Reece of the COP na- tiOnal committee charges that radi- calls are ruling Washington and ac- cuses them of ''confusing the Ian- guage." The Republicans want to continue the forward march of American progress while the ad- ministration wants to take the na- tiOn back 2,OOO years, he said.
 Who's confusing the language?
 HARVARD scientists have ascer- tained that the sun is exactly 95,- 100000 miles away. An uncertified report from one scientist who did, mt use a telescope said that the 65c minimum wage legislation is about two miles farther away.
 HEADLININC the BiIbo cam. paign story, the Vicksburg (Miss. ) EUening Post printed:
 Spotlitical
 Spitlight
 On State
 THE absolutely last word in ex- planatiOn of what's been happen ing to price controls was delivered last week by Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small. Said Small, with perfectly straight face, ''I am confident that we will get as much inexpensive clothing but I can't be sure about prices"
 CLINCHINC evidence that the Truman administration has learned bitter lesson on the possibility of obtaining industrial peace thru passage of anti-strike legislation is given in the seventh report of the War Mobilization & Reconversion Director. Here are two of the sig niticant passages:
 'The attainment of peaceful in- dustrial relations does not rest with legislation. The relations between men and management are human relations.
 Claw libraries are full of stat- utes and court decisions on the conduct of married life. But no
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The union times., 1946-07-27
StereOtypers Elect
 Luft As President

At the annual meeting of the Inter national Stereotypers and Electro typers Union No. 27, the following slate of officers were elected for the coming year:
 President, George Luft, New Ha- ven; Vice-Pres., John Brannigan, Milford; Sec.-Treasurer, Frank E. Newton, Hartford; Correspondent for the National Journal, Walter Bostleman, Hartford. New Trustees and Executive Board were also elected. The Local, members heard, is in the sOundest financial position in its history.
 Founded in 1907, the local will cele- brate its 50th anniversary next year. Plans are being made to mark the event, which will be held in Hartford.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Chests Should Assist Needy During Strikes
Hunger Is Not A Weapon In r-Management
 Disputes

New York - Should community chests and social agencies give aid to strikers? This question was dis cussed in a recent article in Chan nets, magazine published by the National Publicity Council for Health and Welfare Service.
 As guide to a solution of this dilemma, the article points to "the increasingly popular viewpoint that hunger is not an ethical weapon in settling labor disputes" and quotes an advertisement that appeared recently in an Erie County, Pa., paper in which the Erie County Community Chest stated its policy on extending services of member agencies to strikers.
 To Act on Basis of Need
 "The social and welfare organiza- tions," the advertisement said, Twill continue to act on the sole basis of need. They cannot become partisan nor can they sit in judgment. Established and accepted definitions of need can neither be relaxed nor made more se- we're because the individual or family involved is or is not a party to a labor dispute. So long as any fnan- cia1 resources remain, the member agencies will continue to meet such needs as fall within their respective fields of service No other course of action could be consistent with funda- mental responsibilities to the commun- ity."
 The article in Channels cites other instances where community chests have refused to permit anti strike hysteria to blind them to the acute needs of strikers and their families. Cooperation between un- ions and agencies have been of great value in determining needs and filling them quickly.
The union times., 1946-07-27

The latest OPA compromise measure-the one on which House and Senate conferees agreed-is a poor piece of legislation which, while not quite the profiteer's dream, certainly leaves him a lot to be thankful for. (See story on Provisions, elsewhere in this is- sue.)
 It's worst feature is the killing of MAP, which three letters stand for the O.PA., formula of insuring a sup ply of low-cost clothing You can kiss goodbye the $50 suit, the 5000 slacks, the $2.O0 shirt, the $500 house dress, the $1.50 blouse, the $500 frock. (See story on subsidies elsewhere in this issue
 BEST?
 Majority Leader Alban w. Bark1ey urged the President approve the mea- sure because it was the best we could get" Aside from setting a bad pattern for passing legislation, the statement isn't true because that's what the senator said in urging the President to sign the horrendous bill he vetoed. Current proposals are some what an improvement.
 While it restores subsidies, it for bids them on food after April l, l947. Look to then for the same price spiral you saw during July.
 How much this emascu1ation of OPA will really affect the voting citi- zenry will be shown this November when the public can make known its sentiments at the polls.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Conn. AFL Asks Congress Pass
 Houses-For-All
Leaders Wire Representa- tives On Wagner-Ellen-
 der-Taft Measure

Conn. AFL Leaders threw down telegraph barrage, blanketing all legislators concerned with the pass age of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Housing Bill which would provide homes for aIL
 In wires to Representatives James P. Geelan, Joseph F. Ryter and Brent Spence Chairman of the House Banking Committee), Vincent J. Mo Govern, New Haven Central Labor Council President, said:
 s'We cannot expect to have a real housing program for all sec tions of the population until this bill becomes law. The Senate has already passed it, including the prevailing wage amendment. It is imperative that the House concur with the Senate before adjourn ment."
 WIRE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
 Wire your congressman now
 demanding that the Wagner-El-
 Iender-Taft Emergency Housing
 Bill (S. l592) be passed before
 Congress adjOurns with the Sem
 ate approved amendment calling
 for prevailing wages on all
 FILA. Projects.
 President Saul Kreas and secretary Bernard Chloride of the New Haven Building Trades Council, in wires to the same three, urged,
 'sAH organized labor is looking to you for House approval of the General Housing Bill, including the Senate-approved prevailing wage amendment. Urgently request you work for passage of this high ly important measure before ad- jOurnment."
 James O'Kane sent nine wires in the name of the Conn State Building and Construction Trades Council, of which he is secretary, urging support for the bill "as vital to the building and construction industry"
 Rep. Ryter replied that he was in complete agreement with O'Kane's views and planned to throw his sup port to the bill.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Veterans Oppose
 Seating Of Bilbo

NEW ORLEANS (FP)-A resol- ution urging Senators Allen J. FL lender and John H. Overton of Louisi- ana to vote against seating Sen. Theo- dore Bilbo of Mississippi was passed by the New Orleans chapter, Ameri- can Veterans Committee, on the ground that Bilbo got himself elected by the use of force and violence at the polls. A demand for prosecution of Bilbo was sent to Atty. Gen. Tom Clark.
The union times., 1946-07-27
Poll Tax Must Go

Washington (LPA)-The measure to abolish the poll tax ''must be brought to a vote in this session, i'm mediately after the completion of OPA legislation" Mrs. Katherine Shryver of the Natl Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax asserted this week. Although passed by the House over a year ago." she said, ''the Anti Poll Tax Bill CHR ? has been pre- vented from coming before the Sen ate for vote by the poll tax bloc"
The union times., 1946-07-27
Refined Wage

FORT WORTH, Tex. - (FP) -
 Highest wage paid in any manu- featuring industry is that won by oil refinery workers. The average week ly wage as reported in latest figures of the US. Bureau of Labor Statis- tics is $5625.
The union times., 1946-07-27
AFL Funeral Drivers

DBTROIT-(FP)-Funeral livery drivers ended one-week strike for higher wages when state mediation re- suited in $10 week raise over their old $55 rate. The strikers are mem bers of Teamsters Local 337 (AFL).
The union times., 1946-07-27
NEW BILL LITTLE IMPROVEMENT
 Do We Or Don't WeHave AnOPA?

Do have OPA don't we? That's the question house wives and shoppers answered when they look the proposals which the President has reluctantly indicated he will sign.
The union times., 1946-07-27

Mention The Union Times when shopping, and help labor's own paper grow.
The union times., 1946-07-27

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The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08
Logan Wins
Mcmillan
Writer'S
A ward

IF the recent war is not to have
been fought in vain," says Spen-
Ger Logan, author of the prize win
ming book A NEGRO'S FAITH IN
AMERICA, then America must
assume world leadership in the
cause of democracy, And democ-
racy, if it is to be real must be
more than an ideal or a theory.
1t must become a way of life for
all it's citizens..--..I am a Negro
American-----All my life I have
wanted to be an American"
A NEGRO'S FAITH IN AMER
ICA, winner of the $4,000 Mac
MILAN Centenary Award for non
fiction, is published today by The
Macmillan Company, New York.
The awards, which marked the
publishing firms centenary, were
open to American citizens serving
in any branch of the Armed Fore
es of the United Nations, and man
uscripts in competition were re-
ceived from all over the world.
Sergeant Spencer Logan was
born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in
1911. He was president of his
sophomore clas in high school, a
member of the track team, and
editor of the school paper. After
graduation, he worked for an ice
cream company to finance a year
at Rutgers University. Much of
his leisure he spent in group work
with the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08

NEW YORK, June 14-Gather-
ing dignitaries witnessed the I'M
yelling of a bronze bust of Book
er T. Washington at New York
University Thursday preparatory
to its removal to the Hall of Fame
INTO the Could Memorial Lib
rary to honor Mr.. Washington
the first member Of his race to
be so honored. Gloria Davidson
Washington, the educators 49,
year old granddaughter, drew
aside the veil, which was then pre-
sented to his daughter, Mrs. Por-
tia Washington Pittman.
In a letter to DR.. James Row.
land, director of the Hall of Fame
President Truman said:
1T gives me great pleasure to
send greetings to all who assem-
BILE at the unwilling of the bust
of Booker T Washington in the
Hall of Fame, New York Univer-
sity. He was a great American
The unwilling of the bust marks
this rise of a man from bondage
to the Hall of Fame. That rise is
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08
Bust Of Booker 7. Washinston
Unveiled before Huge Throns

in the great American tradition
of advancement by industry, pa
thence and perseverance.
Booker t. Washington has a
living monument in Tuskegee In
stitute. Now he is numbered with
the immortal Americans in the
Hall of Fame. In the years to
come, he fill be an inspiration to
every American who FORCES ahead
despite the obstacles his birth or
origin may place in his way.
1T is a privilege to join in this
tribute. We are proud to have an
American that counts this man
among its heroes.
Seven descendants of MI. Wash
inton, ranging in age from his
fifty lear old daughter, Mrs. Pitt
man, of Tuskegee, to his three
year-old great granddaughter,
Nettie Washington Douglas Of AIS
Convent Avenue, Bronx, occupied
seats of honor at the exercises.
Speakers, included DR.. Harold o
Voorhis, vice chancellor of the
university, DR.. Ralph P. Bridge
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08
TUBERCULOSIS ASSN MET
JUNE 9TH

The Annual meeting of the Ne
was held in Omaha June 6 at the
Fontenelle Hotel, according to DIR
John f. Gardiner, Associations
president.
The meeting was conducted I'm
two parts-one at 10 am for
planning the 1916 Christmas Seal
Sales, the other at II noon for
luncheon and speakers.
Theme for the meeting was re
Mobilization of the tuberculous I'M
Nebraska. Principal speakers:
DR.. Charles J. Gaul, acting med-
cal director at the Nebraska
State Hospital for the Tubercu-
lous at Kearney, and Mrs. ADJ
Westover, tuberculous consultant
on the staff of the Nebraska Dept
Of Vocational Rehabilitation I'M
Lincoln.
An important phase Of the meet
ing was the selection of new, Of
ficers and members to the Board
of Directors.
Special invitations were sent fs
members of the Board of Direct
r and Christmas Seal sale chair
men, said DR.. Gardiner, but the
general public was invited to al
tend.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08
A. v. C. TO DISCUSS
SCHOOL SYSTEM

John McAvin, chairman of the
Omaha Chapter of the American
Veterans Committee, announced
today that the subject of the 2nd
monthly Town Meeting Forum
sponsored by AVG will be: How
Can Omaha Meet the Crisis in It's
Public School System
The Forum will be held at z pm
Sunday, June 9 in the Concert
Hall at the Joslyn Memorial. Nc
Alvin said there will be no admis-
sion charge and the public is ur-
ged to come and help get to the
bottom of this vital issue. The 1st
hour will be devoted to brief spec
ches from each of the panel mem
bers and the End hour will be de-
voted to questions from the au-
dience directed at the speakers.
Bring your thoughts and quest
ions. this is your problem, your
Forum and your participation is
needed to make it successful.
The following speakers will ap-
pear:
Mrs. Elmer D. Cooper, presid-
ent Of Omaha Council Parent Tea
cher Assn; Mr.. Herbert T. White
president of Omaha Board of Ed
ucation; Mr.. Alfred c. Kennedy,
Realtor; Miss Pearl Donoho, tea
cher, Technical High School; Mr..
William Chuda, of the Douglas
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08

man, president Of Hampton Inst
tute in Virginia; DR.. Frederick III.
Patterson, president Tuskegee In
stitute and DR.. Angel. Hymns
and spirituals were sung BY the
Tuskegee Choir. Dorothy Mayncr
sang several selections.
Born in slavery in 1858, Booker
Washington worked as a janitor
at Hampton Institute to pay his
tuition and was chosen in 1881 to
organize Tuskegee. He held hon.
orary degree from Dartmouth ana
Harvard and in 1900 founded the
National Negro Business League
He became internationally famed
for his teaching Of the theory that
Negroes must gain industrial ana
agricultural knowledge rather
than enter exclusively the profess
ional and business occupations.
The Negro educator was electeG
to the Hall of Fame last year I'm
the tenth quinquennial election
Three others. Thomas Paine, Wal
ter Reed and Sidney Lanier were
chosen at the same time.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08
SOLOMON HUGHES
WINS DES MONIES
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Won Joe Louis Tournament in AS

Won Joe Louis Tournament in '45
On a rainy Memorial Dav and
the tricky Woodside Golf Course
at Des Moines, Iowa, was the
scene of the first post war Des
Moines Open Golf Tournament. a
tournament put on by the Valley
Golf Club of Des Moines since
1882. In the top spot with 100
strokes for the 81 hole tourney
was Solomon Hughes, winner of
the 1915 Joe Louis Open, who
halls from Minneapolis, Minneso-
ia. Hughes who won the third
high ranking Negro Golf Tourna-
ment in the nation, led all the way
in spite of the fact that he had
a 5 owe par Al for the first nine;
however, on the closing nine, he
scored a blazing 3 unded par 80.
His nearest competitor with III
strokes was John Estes from Des
Moines, followed by Jack Howard
of Los Angeles, Calf, the defend
ing champion. Competing among
the 35 entries was Leroy Doty,
1912 Des Moines Open Winner of
Kansas City, Mo-, Charles P. Ho-
ward, three times winner of the
Central States Golf Tournament,
1882, 1888, 1884; and Des Moines
Open Champion of 1888 and 1889.
Lonnie Thomas, Omaha, Central
States Champion of 1913.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08

you wern't.
When you have your watch fixed,
what do you think of the watch ma
ker who told you it lost only IS min
utes a day and that was good enough!
I'm tired of excusing people for be-
ing late, or rude, or for putting ex-
pediency before common loyalty. And
I'm tired Of overlooking in groups or
what would be considered I'M
o~rgiveable in individuals.
There is a phrase in Measure for
Measure that | like. What would one
do without Shapespeare? 1t is He
was ever precise in promise keeping .
I'd like to know some people like
that. | think that what this country is
in need Of is not radicalism or reaction
1t is a returning to the old copy book
slogans, dinned into our people, made
of us a strong and honest nation.
Horse trading is all right. but wood
en- nutmegs were laughed out Of bus
mess long ago. when experience, that
Of teachers, proved that they just were
not good business.
Utopia is moi only necessary, but in
evitable. 1t is just as important to be
right as to do right. There is no rea-
son why we should accept the shoddy
in life any more than in dress.
In this Sundays Herald-Tribune the
article on Americas New World Role
by Richard Coudenhoove- K alergi".
which l wish everyone could read. l
can't reprint it in full. but | quote IT.:
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-08
REV. POINTER TO DELIVER
ANNUAL SERMON

The 26th Session of the District
Conference, Sunday School; Allen
Christian Endeavor, Boys and Gil
Scouts Conventions of the Omaha
District Nebraska Conference OF
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church will be held at St. Johns
AME Church, June II, 10, and Il
Rev. L. S. Goolsby, Presiding FL
der, will be in charge of arrange
ments. Highlights of the three-day
Conference will be: Wednesday.
June 18th; the preaching of the
Annual Sermon by Rev. s. MI
Pointer, d. D of Atchinson, Kan
At 8 pm. reception and program
of local church, DR.. E. B. Child
ress, host pastor. Response by Rev
S. M. Pointer; Thursday, June IL
s pm. A great las meeting city
and district wide. Saxophone solS
Miss Patty Sportsman of Troy.
Kansas. Presentation of Boy and
Girl Scouts. Introduction of the
Colored teachers of public schools
Father Flanniean's Boys Town
Band. Committee Rev. j. IL.
Brooks, Rev. E. S. Childress, Rev
S. M. Pointer and Rev. G. l.. VIII
liams; Friday, June 14th $780,
Great evening. Close of Convent
ion. Devotion, Rev. A. Newton and
Rev. J. w. Williams. Prayer by
Rev. L. S. Goolsby.
The three fine choirs Of Omaha
st. John, Bethel and Allen Chap
Ell, will give a couple of numbers
each. DR.. j. B. Brooks, president
of the Ministerial Alliance of Oma-
ha and pastor of Allen Chapel
AME Church, will be in charge
A fine religious, educational fIIm
will be shown.
Officers are: The Ri. Rev. Noah
W. Williams, N. A. LII. D., presid-
ing Bishop; L. S. Goolsby, A. b.
d. D., Presiding Elder; Mr.. An
drey Wise, District Superintend-
ent of Sunday Schools; Miss He
len Woods, District President CT
Allen c. e. Leagues: Mrs. Kafh-
leen Woodson, pianist: and Miz
Lora Penn, Secy.