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Evening star., 1946-10-13
Hotels and Unions Declare
Their Positions on Strike
Attorney for Labor
Points to Refusal
Of Arbitration
Statement OF Samuel Levine,
attorney for the unions.

SLQLGHLSHE OF SUWtuSt LCbtWSs
attorney for the unions.
If, as the spokesman for the no
tells claims, there is no economic
justification for the wage adjust
ments requested by the union, man.
agement would have had no hesi-
fancy in accepting the unions offer
10 submit the matter for decision to
an impartial board of arbitration.
The compromise suggested by the
conciliation service would have re-
suited in establishing minimum OF
$50 per week for 48 hours work for
non-tip receiving employees, such as
maids and kitchen help. The union
reluctantly agreed to accept this
compromise as means Of ayerting
a strike.
I find it difficult to believe that
the hotels are serious in their state
ment that a $50 per week minimum
wage In these infiationary times
constitutes an "exhorbitant de-
mand."
How can the hotels escape sole
responsibility for the inconvenience
caused the public as result of the
strike In light of their refusal to
accept either the conciliation serv-
ice compromise proposal or arbi-
tration?
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Hotel Strike Cancels
Many Meetings Here;
Others Transferred

Revisions In plans for numerous
meetings scheduled in Washington
hotels were made necessary by the
service employees strike.
Some meetings were transferred
to other places, others were can
: celed and in several the attitude of
wait and see" was adopted. These
will be held as scheduled If the
strike Is settled, otherwise they will
be cancelled or transferred.
Transferred to the Brookings In
stitution, 722 Jackson place NV,
is the 349th meeting of the Columbia
Historical Society, to be held at 8:15
pm. Tuesday. Originally it was
scheduled for the Mayf1ower Hotel.
A. Leftwich Sinclair, jr., Is to dis
cuss the history of the automobile
in the District. Movies, photographs
and exhibits of early automobiles
will be shown.
Cancelled were the luncheon of
the League of Republican Women
at the Mayflower Tuesday, the Ad-
vertising Club luncheon in the
Statler the same day, and the an
tiques exposition by Kenneth Ken
nedy and Co. of New York City in
the Statler Monday through Friday.
Also cancelled was the Gridiron
Club meeting at the Statler yester-
day.
In the "wait and see" category
is the joint luncheon of civic clubs
scheduled at the Mayf1ower Hotel
at 1890 pm. Thursday, with the
approaching Community Chest cam
paign slated to be the chief topic
for discussion.
This applies also to luncheon
of the Washington Forge of the
American Public Relations Associa-
tion in the Willard Hotel at 1915
pm. Monday, and to the annual
election banduet Wednesday night
at the Mayf1ower of the Federation
of Businessmens Associations.
Postponed until date to be set
was the annual Columbus Day din
ner by the Knights of Columbus
scheduled last night at the Statler.
Thomas F. Carlin, chairman, an
nounced, however, that remaining
events of the days celebration were
carried out.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Hotels
fContinued From First Page.)


the 5000 block Of Thirteenth street
NV. was charged with simple as
sault. All those involved are col
ored.
Officials Run Elevators.
The struck hotels struggled tc
provide only the most essential
services with employees remaining
on the job. Fl
All managed to maintain eleva-
tor services of a kind. This was
done by enlisting such dignitaries
as assistant managers to operate
the lifts. Even so, there was much
stair climbing.
Only the. most essential of bell
boy and porter service was provided
Not infrequently hotel executives
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Weather Report

Record Temperatures This feaf.
Highest 96, on July 90
Lowest, IL, on January 2S.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Forum to Study Resources

The Eastern Suburban Area Study
Group will hold an open forum at
8 pm. Tuesday at the Silver Spring
intermediate School to determine
the recreational, educational and
cultural resources of the Kensing-
on-Takoma-Silver Spring area.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
One Totally Injured
In C-54 Sea Lending
BY the Assoeiofed Press

HONOLULU, Oct. 11.-One man
was injured fatally yesterday when
the crew of an Army C-54 transport
crash landed at sea a mile north OF
Johnston Island, southwest of Ha-
waii, headquarters of the Pacific Di-
vision of the ATC announced. Four
other crew members escaped with
minor injuries. The big land plane
was on a test flight.
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Entered as second-class matter June Is,
l943 at the Post Office at Detroit. Mich.
Under the Act of March 3, 1879
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31
Calls On Senate To Extend OPA Another Year To Check
Price Runaway

Washington, D. C.-Sharp condem-
nation of efforts to drive anti-strike
legislation through Congress was voic-
ed by the AFL Executive Council in
session here, coupled with strong sup
port of the Kilgore resolution for a
thorough Senate study of the causes
of labor disputes.
At the same time the Council call
ed upon the Senate for extension of
the OPA for another year, but it de-
manded improvement of administra-
tion of OPA which has been "glaringly
unsatisfactory
Lashing out strongly at foes of
labor who are pressing for hasty en-
actment of anti-strike legislation "in
the spirit of vengeance" the Council
pointed to millions of members of the
AFL whose unions have negotiated
new contracts by peaceful collective
bargaining since the war ended with
out any interruption of production.
The members of these unions, the
Council declared, "are bound to re-
sent any attempt to penalize them
with drastic legislative curbs." None
of the restrictive labor measures pro-
posed in Congress, the Council as
serted after careful study, "is consti-
tutional or workable"
The "wisest course" at this time,
the Council declared, would be pass
age of the Kilgore resolution which
calls upon the Senate Education and
Labor Committee to make detailed
study of the basic causes of labor
management disputes, "and the basic
economic and other factors, including
governmental policies and decisions
affecting free collective bargaining"
eve do not see how any legislative
body can enact new laws governing
such involved and explosive matters
as labor management relations with
out having the essential information"
which such an inquiry would provide,
the Council asserted.
Careful examination of all the fac
tors involved in current labor trou-
bles, the Council emphasized, would
reveal postwar disputes are due in
part to failure of Congress and the
Government to provide for recon-
version for human needs"
The inquiry also would disclose, the
Council held, sthat labor was fully
justified" in seeking pay increases to
meet higher living costs because such
adjustments were forbidden during
the war. It lashed out sharply, also,
at governmental policies restraining
free collective bargaining" and gov
ernmental tax policies, (which have
placed industry in favored position
where it can resist the just demands
of the workers and sustain prolonged
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31

strikes without financial loss"
Regarding moves to wipe out the
OPA or to seriously curb its powers,
the Council expressed grave concern
at the "alarmingly increased pace"
in the rise in living costs.
Initiation is here. 1t is idle to talk
about preventing it" the Council de-
clared. Our problem now is to keep
it within bounds and check what
threatens to be runaway This is an
issue of direct and vital concern to
every American worker and his fam
iIy"
Under present conditions, the Coun-
ell said, it saw no other alternative
than continuation of the OPA for
another year, though it was frank to
admit it does not like "OPA or any
other form Of Government control
over the Nations economy" 1t would
vigorously oppose any permanent i'm
position of price control, the group as
serted The widespread operations of
the black market was cited specifically
as blot on the OPA record (which
must be promptely erased"
Despite its shortcomings, however,
the Council insisted that only by con-
tinuance of OPA at this time can
prices be held in check until abun-
dant supplies make it possible for the
natural forces of competition to pro-
tect the consumer"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31

All of these reasons were stated to
the conference yesterday together
with an extensive analysis of the
principle and all the details, so much
SO that the operators advised us that
they desired no further information
on welfare and asked no further ques-
tions today.
We pointed out that this fund should
be charge against the cost of pro-
duction and that it should be a pay
roll charge-in other words, that
amounts equal to seven percent of the
gross earnings of the men before de-
duction should be paid by the opera
tors into this fund to be operated by
the United Mine Workers of America.
We pointed out that no other agency
could operate the fund as efficiently
or as cheaply as the mine workers,
that it could not become a tripartite
fund and simply another bureaucratic
governmental agency with the over
head eating up a major part of the
revenue Of the fund, clogging it with
red tape and with it's awards delayed
after the manner of other government
tai agencies. In passing, | refer to the
War Labor Board, which has been as
many as $4,000 cases behind in it's
schedule
We pointed out that it is no bust
ness of the operators to supervise this
fund; that the coal industry mangled
these people and that United Mine
Workers want the right to alleviate
their agony and distress.
We pointed out that the operators
veto power on this fund rested in the
fact that at the end of each contract
period they could, if they would, dis
continue it by refusal to continue it;
that the amount of aid that could be
extended to the miners was neceSsar-
lily limited by the contractural limita-
tions of income; that the mine work
ers would be constantly on trial be-
fore the joint conferences of the in
dustry and before the public at large
as to the manner of its administra-
ton. The usage of its fund would
have to meet that criticism at the end
of every contract period in the indus
try.
The mine workers pointed out that
the money would be used only for the
express reasons given, which we are
willing to stipulate in the contract
for those purposes and for no others.
We pointed out that governmental
agencies report that practically two
million workers in America are now
covered by these funds, that in the
ladies' garment industry-nonhazard-
ous-three and one-half percent is
now paid by the manufacturers in
that industry against the payroll to
the union; that if three and one-half
percent is a reasonable amount for
the ladies' garment industry to pay,
then the suggestion that the coal in
dustry pay seven percent is ultracon-
servative; that nearly every country
in the world has such funds for it's
mine workers, including Great Brit
ain, backward Spain and more back
ward India.
Even in India they have such a
fund, and the mine workers want one
in America and feel that their right
to have it is accepted by the mapority
of the American people.
The mine workers have no inten-
tions to negotiate contract now or
fund and for such protection to the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31
Truman Urged To Make
Red Cross Reverse Stand
A ga in S t The Unions

New York City (ILNS) President
Truman has been urged by the Work
ers Defense League to call upon Basil
O'Connor, American Red Cross ma
tional chairman, ito recognize the
right of employees to organize in ac-
cordance with established government
policy" The letter, signed by Rev.
Aron S. Gilmartin, national WDL
chairman, pointed out that O,Gonnor
is directly responsible to the Presi-
dent
The Red Cross recently issued a
policy statement saying: "The chair
man feels that the Red Cross should
not be subject to unionization and con-
sequent negotiations with labor unions
on the subject Of wages, hours and
working conditions"
Answering the statements argu-
ments, Gilmartin wrote: Admitted
that some Red Cross workers must
work long hours in emergencies, there
is no reason why provisions covering
such work cannot be negotiated into a
union contract. There is also no rea-
son why a provision covering the SUBJ
ject of volunteers cannot be negotiated.
"The arguments that the Red Cross
is non-profit institution and raises
funds by voluntary subscriptions are
not valid since institutions such. as the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31
THE UNSEEN GUEST
By Ruth Taylor

Is there an unseen guest at your
table?
Have you ever seen a child who has
been Systematically starved? Have you
ever watched such a child, body wasted
away until the head seems too big to
hold upright, watched him gaze at
food with unbelieving eyes? Seen him
reach for a crust Of bread and hurried
ly devour it as though it might be
snatched from him at any moment?
There is an unseen guest at your
table
1t has stunted child's body, but
there is look of sadness and bitter
wisdom on the face that no child should
wear A wistful look as he watches
you eat A shying off from what is
bounty beyond belief-to him who has
never known what it is not to hunger.
He does not ask much---not share
of your food-just the crumbs from
your table. The unnecessary waste
from the table in the average Ameri-
can home would feed many such as he.
There is an unseen guest at your
table
Hunger is horrible thing. 1t may
kill the bodies of the children over
seas. 1t has killed hundreds of thou
sands already But more deadly still
is its effect upon the minds of those
who survive. Hunger may dwarf the
body, but it warps the mind, twisting
it, scarifying thought for life.
There is an unseen guest at your
table.
Your children, whom you cherish
and for whom you deck your table
with the best you can afford, that
they may grow strong and healthy
to vigorous manhood and womanhood
into what kind Of world will they
go?
Will they, in their time, have to face
the warped victims of hunger, grown
to twisted maturity, ready to seek
out and follow with fanatic zeal the
promises of food and loot held out to
them by the demogogues q dictators
| of the moment?
Or, will they go into world of
friends with whom they have shared
their bread in childhood? Whom they,
through you, have helped give strength
to stand alone,
Whether you know it or not, there
is an unseen guest at your table. Will
you bid him sit with you and eat?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31
Lewis Explains Health Fund
Gives Six Reasons in Statement Asking For Medical Care
Insurance, Rehabilitation Economic and Cultural Aid

Washington, D. C.-The statement
issued by John L. Lewis on the demand
of the UNIV for health and welfare
fund follows:
For weeks past the country has been
led to believe through statements of
operators and public representatives
who had little knowledge on the sub
ject that the mine workers had been
asking for royalty on coal. In truth,
the mine workers have not in all these
negotiations made such a proposal.
They did in the 1945 conference, but
the plan was rejected by the opera
tors and not pressed by the mine work
erS.
In the 1946 conference they propos-
ed the establishment of welfare fund,
asking it's acceptance in principle by
the operators, and said that the man.
ner of raising the fund and all the
details of it were negotiable ques-
tions.
The mine workers request the fund
for the following six reasons:
/. To furnish adequate and modern
medical service to the coal miners and
their dependent families with choice
of physicians, which in many areas,
particularly in the South, they do not
now have. We plan to replace the
present company doctor scourge.
2. To provide adequate hospitaliza-
tion under proper standards.
3. To provide insurance, life insur-
ance and health insurance for the min
ers, which they cannot now purchase
Life insurance now costs the mine
worker about 277 percent of what it
costs people in sedentary occupations
Obviously, he cannot purchase it at
that price. Obviously, he has no in
surance as a result and his family is
unprotected in case of death by vio-
lence in the mines or from natural
causes. This fund can provide insur-
ance on mass basis much more cheap
ly than the individual can buy it him
self, even if he is capable of buying
it, which he is not.
a. The fourth reason is rehabilita-
ton. Men who are injured and dis
abled in the mines through the loss of
limbs, blindness, or other major ply
sical injuries, need rehabilitation.
There are no facilities available to the
mine workers now and there are prob
ably living $4,000 men who have been
incapacitated from further mining
through incapacity who have received
no assistance in rehabilitation or train
ing for other vocational employment.
5. The fifth reason is economic aid
in distress or hardship cases. Fami-
lies that become impoverished because
they have not received compensation
provided by the States due to the ma
nipulation of the company doctor sys-
tenn and by reason Of testimony Of the
company doctor, which is the only med
ical testimony available because no
other doctor is permitted to attend
the victim. The mine worker cannot
secure other medical testimony to re-
fute the claims Of the company doc
tor. In consequence, his award for
total disability may be cut to as low
as 80 percent and his family becomes
impoverished. There are thousands of
such cases.
6. If any money is left in the fund,
we propose to use it for cultural and
educational work among the mine
workers.
Those are the six reasons.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31

later that does not provide for such a
mine workers. It is a condition pre-
cedent to the making of any agree
ment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31
Italian Picnic July 4th

The 18th annual picnic and outing
will be held by the Italian-American
Society at the Butler County Fair
grounds, Thursday, July 4th. The usual
large attendance is expected by the
committee
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31
AFL Council Demands Probe
OF Basic Causes Of Strikes

YWCA and YMHA have signed union
contracts. The final loyalty argument,
implying disloyalty by workers under
union contract, is nothing but straight
anti-labor bias"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-05-31

Puerto Rico has not had day in
more than forty years when the tenn
perature was above 92 or below 62.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-06
CITY 10 RENT A. 3. HALL FOR
 SKATING RINK
Parking Problem Is to Be Studied with Strict En-
 forcemeni 10 Follow

Gathered last night for theil first regular meeting in a month Juneaus City Councilmen found 2 1 big stack of bills to check over; tut not much to talk about
 Of principal interest was a pro- posal from young veteran o. B Brown who is seeking a lease or the top floor of the City-owneo A. B. Hall for use as roller rink Agreed that a rink should pro- vide healthful recreation for the Citys young folks, the Councilmen voted to authorize leasing the space to MT. Brown at the proposed rate Iof s100 per month, plus additional charge for heating Other tenants to whom the City expects to rent space in the building are: The Alaska Territorial Guard for the basement shooting range; Alaska Potters Club for basement space {; Fish and Wildlife Service for a portion of the middle floor for storage.
 The Forest Service, which lately has been occupying the lower DOT ton of the building, has moved out. It will now be up to the City to heat and maintain the building, with rentals to pay the way, Rates set for the F&WL and the ATG are $50 per month each, plus heat.
 Downtown parking came in fer mere comment and a demand that something ta done right away from Councilman Henry Sully, backed by Councilman James Larsen. May or Waino Hendrickson stated that the Police are preparing a traffic control program which he promis- ed to have ready Tor tie next meeting It was voted by the Councilmen present-Larsen, Sully Grummett, Williams and Nielsen that whatever program is adopted will be given strict enforcement Parking lots, tco, are to be policed.
 The Councilmen had their eyes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-06

turned to the Boat Harbor district bv a petition, signed by five prop ertv owners and presented by Mrs. Henry Seaberg, asking that a stand ard street with sidewalks be cut through from Harbor Way to line I'D with Scatter street instead Of the proposed narrow street some what south now laid out to join
 LID with E" street alongside the
 Juneau Diaries building. The psti- tion was locked on with some fav- or and is to be checked into.
 In the same area, Sanders Will son protested blockading of a piece of property he owns behind the Fair Building, in Lot 233. A neigh bor. Frank Harris, has built fence across his only access route, Will son complained. The Mayor and Streets Chairman Larsen promised to look into the matter today.
 In other action, the Council list ened to second reading of the new Building Code ordinance; author ized the Mayor to act, in consulta- ton with the City Attorney, on requests for 50 percent refunds of the TOW repealed City tax on auto- matic music boxes refunds of $5 each are asked On four machines) :; and voted approval of the list of judges and clerks who served the First Precinct polls at the last City Election, to be in charge at the special water franchise election, on July 23.
 The Mayor announced plans to a new City grader have been deferred until September, and a communication was received from the West Coast Wood Preserving Seattle, indicating that the 125 piling ordered by the City of Juneau would be shipped north early this month. After receipt of .he riling Boat Harbor and City Float repairs can begin.
 In non appearance at last nights Council meeting were anticipated seekers. A bit of ear rest possession drought had shown them the Councils complete lack of legal authority to impose any .ype of rent ceiling measure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-06
SAD STATE

CHICAGO, Assistant States Attorney Leo Poch, who is in charge of prosecuting criminals, stared intently at the group of suspects charged with robberies or holdups who appeared in criminal court.
 Pooh explained he was held up and robbed of $200 and he will gladly be complaining witness instead of prosecutor when the holdup men are apprehended