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Evening star., 1946-05-20
Washington Fireman
An Inventor, Joins
Atomic Radio Forum

A Washington fireman who is an
inventor in his spare time will par
ticipate in radio discussion of the
atomic bomb May % during a pro-
gram which also will include re-
marks by Secretary of Commerce
Wallace, Chairman Mcmahon of
the Senate Atomic Energy Commit
tee, Supreme Court Justice Douglas
UN Assembly Delegate Archibald
McLeiSh and others.
The fireman is Arnold Nelson, SO,
private attached to No. Truck
Co. at 1905 Nichols avenue Sc.
Mr. Nelson came to the attention
of producers of the broadcast
through his work in developing an
air-distance indicator for planes.
He explained yesterday that the
device now is in the hands of a
manufacturer for perfection. 1t is
designed to serve as an aerial count
erpart of the automobile mileage
indicator and eliminates the neces-
sity of keeping a check on flight
time by clock to determine dis
tance Travelled.
The inventor said he tinkered with
mechanical problems when not
fighting fires but had not produced
any other new devices to date.
Mr.. Nelson is unmarried and lives
at 4402 Bowen road Sc.
The program will originate in the
Coolidge Auditorium of the Library
of Congress except for pickup from
the U. S. S. Mount Mckinley flag
ship of Vice Admiral w. H. P.
Blandy, commanding the joint
Army Navy task force for the Pa
cific atomic bomb tests.
1t will be heard over Station
WTOP here and other outlets OF
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Evening star., 1946-05-20
Library Elections Set

Election of officers will take place
at the annual meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Library Associ-
alton at Dumbarton Oaks Saturday
at 2 pm. David Haykin, president,
will report on the years activities
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Wage Control
Is Now Ended

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 NPA)
Wartime wage control machin-
cry officially ended last week
and a new body, the Wage Stab
ilization Board, was set up by
President Truman to carry on
wage stabilization activities. The
new board, like the WLB, has
on it representatives of manage
ment, labor and the public.
The WSB will deal with three
major parts of President Tru-
mans wage policy" and will
pass on wage increases where
price ceiling boosts or increased
costs to the government are at
stake.
Wage increases will be allowed
by the WSB where straight time
average hourly wage boosts are
asked to compensate for a 33%
rise in the cost of living; to ease
manpower shortages in indus
tries holding up reconversion;
to correct inequities between
plants.
The new board will have no
power to enforce decisions, but
will carry on the work of the
steel, textile and meat packing
industry panels set up originally
by the WLB to deal with wage
disputes in these industries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11

breaking services" One lam
attempt to organize the plant
was broken up when the COM
pany maneuvered a spy into
union ranks.
Last wee ks demonstration
was an orderly affair joined by
workers from industries in sur
rounding towns. Bearing pla-
cards and wearing armbands the
workers marched through At
lantic Square and past the Town
Hall behind brass bands chant
ing Settle Down and Negotiate,
Yale & Townew A meeting of
Sc AFL and CIO officials, rep
resenting. the newly-f o r m d
Stamford Combined Labor Or
CARNATIONS, announced at days
end that another general strike
might be called next week. Only
very few business establish1
ments remained open, even res
taurants and bars closing their
doors and store owners putting
sympathetic placards in their
windows.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Western Union
Strike Limited

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (LPA)
"A War Labor Board award of
pay increases of 12c per hour for
the average Western Union
worker, along with retroactive
pay awards totalling $500 each,
resulted last week in a decision
to cancel the scheduled strike of
1000 AFL members in WI
establishments outside of New
York City.
BY unanimous vote, the West
ern Union Division of the Com
mercial Telegraphers u n i o n
AFL called off the strike. Previ-
ously, a rapid poll of locals
showed an overwhelming major
ity in favor of accepting the
WLB decision, according to w.
L. Allen, international president.
All means of communication
were used by local presidents to
get word to members that the
strike was off, including radio
announcements. The unions de-
cision was made only three days
before Jan. 7 when the strike
was scheduled TO begin.
Western Union grudgingly
agreed to abide by the WLB
decision, and meetings are sched-
uled for this week to expedite
payment of the 10c per hour per
employe pay retroactive to Nov.
IA, 1943, amounting to more
than $500 per employe, and to
make effective the additional
pay increases averaging l2c per
worker per hour.
Meanwhile, Western Union
employees in New York, where
the American Communications
Association-CIO is the bargaining
agent, were less pleased with a
companion decision of the Ma
tional WLB, and continued plans
to strike on Jan. 8. In this case,
the WLB pared down a wage
award by the New York re-
gional WLB, with the result that
it machtes the 12c raise granted
in the rest of the country.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
UE Readies
Its Strike

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7
(LPA)-Efforts of the U. S.
Cancellation Service to avert
a threatened strike of more
than 100000 Go workers in
plants of General Electric,
Westinghouse and General Mo-
tors collapsed again last week
and members of the United
Electrical, Radio & Machine
Workers, the CLOS third larg-
est union, prepared to join steel
and auto in q nationwide walk
out.
The UERMWA voted 5 to l
TO strike if necessary TO obtain
a 81 a day increase, amounting
to about 30%. GE's offer of a
10% pay hike and GINS of a
13 hc-an-hour raise was reject
ed by the union, GE's being de-
scribed as grossly inadequate
to the needs of GE employees,
whose earnings have been cut
as much as 50%." James j.
Matles, UERMWA organization
director, said that acceptance
of the GE offer would only
widen the gap between the
women whose pay is low and
the skilled workers. A tool
maker would get 15c an hour,
he said, "and a woman employe
only sac. What we are asking
is a decent per hour adjustment.
Union officials indicated that if
GE and Westinghouse made the
same offer proposed by GIN the
union would reopen negotiations
even though the 13 &c is held
inadequate. u. S. Cancellation
Service chief Edgar Warren ad-
mitted that little progress had
been made in previous meet
ings, but he maintained hope
that the strike could be avoid
ed
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Bishops Fight Hunger

NEW YORK (LPA) - THE
weapon of hunger is one that no
American group wants to use
against another" declared Flea
nor Roosevelt and a group of
prominent American bishops last
week in establishing a national
committee to help feed General
Motors strikers. The strikers
have already started to cash in
their war bonds in order to eat,
the group found.
In addition to Mrs. Roosevelt,
the committee includes: Most
Rev. Bernard j. She'll, Catholic
Bishop of Chicago; Methodist
Bishop G.. Bromley Oman of
Boston: Episcopal Bishop Will
liam Scarlet, of Mo; Episcopal
Bishop Edward L. Parsons of
Ca; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of
New York; Former OPA Chief
Leon Henderson; Walter White,
of the Natl Assn for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People;
Llewellyn Ross, New Canaan,
Conn, businessman,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Union Accuses
Lumber BuronS

PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 8 -
(LPA) - The lumber baronS"
of the United States are all set
with their postwar plans to con-
J tinue to despoil the forest wealth
of the nation for their own pri-
vate gain. Proof of this is seen
by Ellery Foster of the Int'l
Woodworkers of America-CIO in
their discussions at recent
meeting of western lumber in
dustry men, government forest
ers and forest school leaders
here.
Foster cites attacks at the
meeting on the proposed Co.
lumbia River Authority, which
would enable the northwest to
plan its future growth in the
interests of the people, and the
nature of their discussions on
scientific forest management.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
AL Disputes
Trumun Plan

WASHINGTON, Jan. Z (LPA)
-AFL President William Green
last week took issues with Pres
ident Truman's assertions on
labor laws and on the state of
collective b argaining in his
State of the Nation" radio
speech.
I'VE do not agree" Green
said, with the Presidents rec
ommendation for compulsory
cooling-off and finding ma
chinery to deal with labor
management disputes. We con-
slider this cure worse than the
disease. This legislation would
be unworkable and dangerous.
1t would make wage-fixing a
permanent Government policy,
it would subject labor and man
agement to control by Govern
ment boards, it would nullify
the safeguards of the Norris
LaGuardia Act by revivin G
court injunctions against labor
and it would subject labor
unions once more to the vicious
doctrine of conspiracy.
'It is not accurate to say that
collective bargaining and volun-
tary arbitration have broken
down in major industries such
as automobiles and steel. The
plain facts are that real collec-
tive bargaining and voluntary
arbitration have never been put
into practice in these indus
tries"
The AFL head did express the
AFL's hearty endorsement of
Truman's demands for legisla-
ton to protect human needs
during reconversion. We believe
that the failure of Congress to
enact adequate full employment,
u n m p loyment compensation,
minimum wage, housing and
health insurance legislation, has
contributed in large measure to
industrial unrest. We join Presi-
dent Truman in appealing to the
American people to urge their
representative in Congress to
vote for these measures"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Patience Pays Of

HOQUIAM, Wash. CLPA) -
The highest scale in the furni-
ture industry west of the Mis-
sissippi was the reward of six
months patient negotiating for
members of Local 1413 Uphol-
Sterers' Int'l Union-AFL.
The renewed agreement eff
fective Oct. /, 1945, between the
UIU and the Northwest Furni-
ture Manufacturers, represent
ing 20 factories, increased all
classifications of workers 10c
an hour, added sc hourly to the
rates for all premium jobs and
includes two weeks paid vaca-
tions. A time and one-half holi-
day rate was set for firemen and
watchmen.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11

also seen that Truman might
name a special fact-finding
committee.
The 25 cents an hour would
amount approximately to q 80
per cent wage hike, but the best
counter-offer made so far has
been 71z cents an hour by Swift
and Armour, two of the big
four" of meat packing which also
includes Wilson and Cudahy.
President Lewis j. Clark, of the
United Packinghouse Workers,
declared that the companies can
afford the wage increase without
raising prices. Packinghouse
workers, he said, have received
no general pay raise since Pearl
Harbor and living costs have
jumped 40 per cent.
Wages Are Reduced
Because of reduction of hours
and overtime, he continued,
packinghouse wages may soon
drop to $50 and less a week. The
union will settle for an immedi-
ate 1712 -cent-an-hour raise with
the understanding that the COM
panies will negotiate the remain
der later, Clark said.
Representatives of the packers
quickly shrieked that the strike,
which Clark said would be the
first nationwide packinghouse
walkout, would create a worse
situation for retailers and con-
sumers than the worst period of
meat shortages just before ra-
tioning went into effect" Other
industry spokesmen attempted
to coerce public opinion by
broadcasting that the nations
dealers had only three days sup
would be consumed in half day
plies of meat on hand and these
if the strike came off.
Want Wage Raise
Clark declared flatly that "the
only thing that will prevent this
strike is a substantial wage In
crease"
Unexpected support came the
UPW's way when top officers of
the AFL meat cutters said they
would propose that their union,
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
& Butcher Workmen, join the
CIO in a general strike to close
down the industry unless we
get something considerably bet
ter than the 71z cents" An
Amalgamated conference will
be held in Chicago Jan. 11-12.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Jobs For Women
Is Predicted

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (LPA)
- Women workers in the years
ahead, as a result of their war
time achievements, will find it
easier to get jobs than they did
in the 1920s and 1930s, predicts
Frieda S. Miller, director of the
Women's Bureau of the Dept. of
Labor.
While there will still be en-
ployer prejudices to overcome,
the 84% of women workers who
must work to support them
selves or to meet family obliga-
tions can feel confident that
they have fighting chance to
get jobs, Miss Miller predicts in
a 1946 summary of Whats
Ahead For Women Workers"
made public last week.
BY 1850, Miss Miller SAYS,
there will be about 1900, 900
women working, and this is a
half million to a million more
than there would have been
without a war"
Service Fields Jobs
Women are least wanted in
the durable goods industries,
where a combination of en-
ployer prejudice and the nature
of the work combine to bar
most women job seekers. There
are, however, many jobs open
in the service fields. Better
wages are paid in the durable
goods industries - chemicals,
electrical equipment, and scien-
tific and professional instru-
ments are three fields where
there are large numbers of wom-
en- employed.
Even in the traditionally low
paid services industries, there
are still jobs that are well-paid
and rewarding - for example,
the Women's Bureau points to
the medical services ranging
from doctors to laboratory and
X-ray technicians, where more
trained workers are urgently
needed.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Unions Show
Solidarity

STAMFORD, Conn. (LPA)-
In demonstration of labor
solidarity unprecedented since
Pearl Harbor, organized labor
closed down all major indus
tries, including 20 factories, for
half day here last week in
general strike in support of 5000
members of the International
Association of Machinists-AFL
who have been on strike for the
past 10 weeks against the Yale
g. ToWne Lock Co.
CIO workers joined AFL
unioniSts in a parade of 10000
t through Stamford'S business
streets in protest against Yale &
Towne'S open-shop policies and
against the company's calling in
state police to break picket lines.
Even after the demonstration,
however, management rejected a
compromise plan and insisted on
returning to the open shop. The
lam went on strike on Nov. Z
following eight months of futile
negotiations in which the COM
pany demanded abrogation of a
m n nance of membership
clause which was written into
wartime contract over COM
pany objections. The firm, no.
toriouS throughout the east for
its traditional anti-labor policies,
is headed by w. Gibson Carey,
former president of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce. That his
position on the open shop is no
mere bargaining point was
proved again last week in the
statement of one of his repre-
sentatives at a meeting with
union officials. Nearly a CEN
tury of manufacturing expert
ence convinces us" he said,
''that only in an open shop can
management best attain its twin
objectives of quality production
and efficiency of production"
The company's union busting
stand was blasted by AFL and
CIO leaders and even by Stam-
ford's Mayor Moore who de-
clared in open negotiations that
"The only intimidation I've seen
is from Yale g. Towne, but be-
cause l wouldn't send police
down to crack skulls, I've been
slandered in the papers I've
stood up and said To hell with
you
lam President Harvey Brown
asserted that "The Yale &
Towne situation is glaring ex-
ample of how some employers
are taking advantage of the tax
laws to destroy hard-won union
gains and reestablish the open
shop. Yale e. ToWne evidently
can afford to wage this war
against our union because the
tax laws have been so formed
that it is protected against losses.
We don't believe Uncle Sam
should make it financially prof
liable for corporations to pro-
woke strikes and break unions"
he emphasized.
Testimony given before the
LaFollette Civil Liberties Com
mittee showed that Yale &
Towne spent large sums during
the 1905 for industrial espi-
onage, munitions and strike
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Hatch Decision Waifs

WASHINGTON (LPA) - De-
cision on the validity of the
Hatch Act must await the re-
turn of Justice jackson from his
trial of German war criminals it
was announced here last week.
The act forbids contributions
from Federal employees to poll
tical campaigns, and observers
believe the refusal of the Su-
preme Court to give a decision
may be due to an even division
of opinion. The United Federal
Workers-CIO has challenged the
act as a violation of the free
dom of speech, press and assem-
bly, guaranteed all Americans.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11

posing forces into greater
cohesion.
Spearheading the reaction
ary fight for removal of USES
from Federal control is the u. S.
Conference of Governors whose
chairman, Republican Governor
Martin, Pennsylvania, an
nounced that a committee would
meet in Washington before
Congress reconvened to map out
plans.
Belatedly House leaders now
admit, according to Rep. Clar-
. ence Cannan ID, Mo- that the
method of trying to force
through the measure by tscking
ii on as a rider to $50 billion
dollar war appropriations re-
cission bill was unfair"
To prevent a repetition of the
rider strategy-which was Wig
orously criticized by Truman
two new bills will be intro
duced, one the RECESSION meas
use, and the other to return
USES to the states. The first
will be handled by the Appro-
priations Committee, the second
by the Labor Committee.
Need Federal USES
With 100000 currently en-
ployed and with some 5,OOO,-
600 additional veterans due to
be discharged in the next few
Amonths, labor leaders empha-
size that the need for a federal
ly controlled USES will become
constantly greater.
Although asking for perma-
nent federal control, they sup
port President Truman who has
called for a government-op-
Grated USES until June, 1947.
They concur, also with Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt who declared
last week that returning this
service to the control of the
various states would make it
impossible for any coordinated
information, covering the coun-
try as a whole, to be available.
In the coming months this CO.
ordinated information Is going
to be of great value, and for
that reason alone, l am more
than grateful that the President
has had the courage and the
craftsmanship to send this veto
message"
Veterans Are Placed
Labor Secretary SchWellen-
bach, meanwhile, in a New
Years message to USES employ
es disclosed that since VI Day
the agency has placed more
than 100000 veterans in jobs,
has referred 100000 to en-
ployers and recorded the place
ment of 100000.
Symptomatic of how swiftly
the employment picture has
changed was the discovery last
week that the number of strin-
gent labor market areas in the
nation has dropped to four,
while the areas of widespread
unemployment jumped from IL
to 18 within the past month.
The stringent areas are: Wash
ington, D. c., Peoria, Ill, Hamp
ton Roads, Va, Richmond, Va.
Outstanding among the cities
where unemployment is in
creasing are: Los Angeles
(where large numbers OF Serv-
icemen are being discharged and
immigration has grown stead
ily); Altoona, Pa; Macon, Ga,
(Where closing of munitions in
dustries has disemployed thou
ChnnK-inr
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11

"If free enterprise in America
is to survive, it has got to work;
it has got to demonstrate an
ability not only to create earn
ings for the investors, but it has
got to create an ability and a
willingness to give millions of
common Americans economic
security"
Walter Reuther
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11

High wages are essential to
the movement of production to
even higher levels, with sustain
ed profits for management"
Chester Bowles, OPA Chief
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
Meat Workers Name
Their Strike Date
Truman's Action Is
ClOaked In Doubt

WASHINGTON, Jan. LPA)-A nationwide strike of
than 100000 CIO packinghouse workers is
enforce demands for 25centanhour pay sched
uled last week amidst that would seize
the 147 plants before wak-out occurred Possibility was
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
New USES Fight
Takes Shape
States Rights Again
To Be Basis OF Fight

WASHINGTON JAM (LPA-A battle royal
of the function of the u S. Employment Serv
the is slated begin the very day that Con-
reconvenes Jan a. President Trumans pocket
on Dec sharpen the issue and bring the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-11
keep Your Eye On Congress"
ACTION

AC IIUN
Write Senators and
Representatives to
vote against.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
January'18, 1916

January 49, 1916
Hon. Harry S. Truman
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
Your proposal to me in Washington last eve
ming that the wage demand Of the United Steel
workers of America-CIO be settled on the basis of
to January l. 1916, cannot, regret to say, be &C
copied by the United States Steel Corporation for
the reasons set forth below.
AS you must be aware, your proposal is almost
equivalent to granting in full the Unions revised
demand of wage increase of 1912 cents an hour,
which was advanced by Philip Murray the Pres
ident of the Union, at our collective bargaining
conference with the Union in New York a week
ago today In our opinion, there is no just basis
from any point of view for wage increase to our
steel workers of the large size you have proposed
which, if put into effect is certain to result in
great financial harm not only to this Corporation
but also to users of steel in general
AS have tried to make clear to you and other
Government officials during our conferences in
Washington over the past few days, there is
limit in the extent to which the Union wage de-
mands can be met by us. We reached that limit
when we raised our offer to the Union last Friday
from wage increase of 1917 cents an hour to
one of Is cents an hour. This would constitute
the highest single wage increase ever made by
our steel-making subsidiaries. Our offer of Is
cents was equivalent to meeting 500 of the Unions
original excessive demand of a So day general
wage increase. Our offer met 1870 of the Unions
final proposal of wage increase of 1912 cents an
hour A wage increase of Is cents an hour, such
as we offered would increase the direct labor costs
of our manufacturing subsidiaries by approx
mately S60000,000 year. That is most sub
stantal sum, and does not take into account the
higher costs we shall have to pay for purchased
goods and services, when large wage increases
generally become effective throughout American
industry as is inevitable after substantial in
crease in steel wages.